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"text": "TiddlyWiki incorporates code from these fine OpenSource projects:\n\n* [[The Stanford Javascript Crypto Library|http://bitwiseshiftleft.github.io/sjcl/]]\n* [[The Jasmine JavaScript Test Framework|http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/]]\n* [[Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallagher|http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/]]\n\nAnd media from these projects:\n\n* World flag icons from [[Wikipedia|http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_flags_by_country]]\n"
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"text": "TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston, (jeremy [at] jermolene [dot] com)\n\nCopyright © Jeremy Ruston 2004-2007\nCopyright © UnaMesa Association 2007-2014\n\nRedistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,\nare permitted provided that the following conditions are met:\n\nRedistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this\nlist of conditions and the following disclaimer.\n\nRedistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this\nlist of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other\nmaterials provided with the distribution.\n\nNeither the name of the UnaMesa Association nor the names of its contributors may be\nused to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific\nprior written permission.\n\nTHIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 'AS IS' AND ANY\nEXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES\nOF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT\nSHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,\nINCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED\nTO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR\nBUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN\nCONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN\nANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH\nDAMAGE.\n"
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"title": "$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Hint",
"text": "Enter or leave full-screen mode"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Import/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Import/Caption",
"text": "import"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Import/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Import/Hint",
"text": "Import files"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Info/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Info/Caption",
"text": "info"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Info/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Info/Hint",
"text": "Show information for this tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Home/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Home/Caption",
"text": "home"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Home/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Home/Hint",
"text": "Open the default tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Language/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Language/Caption",
"text": "language"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Language/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Language/Hint",
"text": "Choose the user interface language"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption",
"text": "more"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint",
"text": "More actions"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Caption",
"text": "new here"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Hint",
"text": "Create a new tiddler tagged with this one"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Caption",
"text": "new journal"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Hint",
"text": "Create a new journal tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Caption",
"text": "new journal here"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Hint",
"text": "Create a new journal tiddler tagged with this one"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Caption",
"text": "new tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Hint",
"text": "Create a new tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Caption",
"text": "permalink"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Hint",
"text": "Set browser address bar to a direct link to this tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Caption",
"text": "permaview"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Hint",
"text": "Set browser address bar to a direct link to all the tiddlers in this story"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Caption",
"text": "refresh"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Hint",
"text": "Perform a full refresh of the wiki"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Save/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Save/Caption",
"text": "save"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Save/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Save/Hint",
"text": "Save this tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Caption",
"text": "save changes"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Hint",
"text": "Save changes"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Caption",
"text": "storyview"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Hint",
"text": "Choose the story visualisation"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Caption",
"text": "hide sidebar"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Hint",
"text": "Hide sidebar"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Caption",
"text": "show sidebar"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Hint",
"text": "Show sidebar"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Caption",
"text": "tag manager"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Hint",
"text": "Open tag manager"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Caption",
"text": "theme"
},
"$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Hint",
"text": "Choose the display theme"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Caption",
"text": "Advanced"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Hint",
"text": "Internal information about this TiddlyWiki"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Caption",
"text": "Appearance"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Hint",
"text": "Ways to customise the appearance of your TiddlyWiki."
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/AnimDuration/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/AnimDuration/Prompt",
"text": "Animation duration:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Caption",
"text": "Basics"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/BottomHint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/BottomHint",
"text": "Use [[double square brackets]] for titles with spaces. Or you can choose to <$button set=\"$:/DefaultTiddlers\" setTo=\"[list[$:/StoryList]]\">retain story ordering</$button>"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/Prompt",
"text": "Default tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/TopHint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/DefaultTiddlers/TopHint",
"text": "Choose which tiddlers are displayed at startup:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Language/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Language/Prompt",
"text": "Hello! Current language:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/NewJournal/Title/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/NewJournal/Title/Prompt",
"text": "Title of new journal tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/NewJournal/Tags/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/NewJournal/Tags/Prompt",
"text": "Tags for new journal tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/OverriddenShadowTiddlers/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/OverriddenShadowTiddlers/Prompt",
"text": "Number of overridden shadow tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/ShadowTiddlers/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/ShadowTiddlers/Prompt",
"text": "Number of shadow tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Subtitle/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Subtitle/Prompt",
"text": "Subtitle:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/SystemTiddlers/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/SystemTiddlers/Prompt",
"text": "Number of system tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Tags/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Tags/Prompt",
"text": "Number of tags:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Tiddlers/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Tiddlers/Prompt",
"text": "Number of tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Title/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Title/Prompt",
"text": "Title of this ~TiddlyWiki:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Username/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Username/Prompt",
"text": "Username for signing edits:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Version/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Version/Prompt",
"text": "~TiddlyWiki version:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Caption",
"text": "Editor Types"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Editor/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Editor/Caption",
"text": "Editor"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Hint",
"text": "These tiddlers determine which editor is used to edit specific tiddler types."
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Type/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Type/Caption",
"text": "Type"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Caption",
"text": "Info"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Hint",
"text": "Information about this TiddlyWiki"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/LoadedModules/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/LoadedModules/Caption",
"text": "Loaded Modules"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/LoadedModules/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/LoadedModules/Hint",
"text": "These are the currently loaded tiddler modules linked to their source tiddlers. Any italicised modules lack a source tiddler, typically because they were setup during the boot process."
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Caption",
"text": "Palette"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Clone/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Clone/Caption",
"text": "clone"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Clone/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Clone/Prompt",
"text": "It is recommended that you clone this shadow palette before editing it"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Prompt/Modified": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Prompt/Modified",
"text": "This shadow palette has been modified"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Prompt",
"text": "Editing"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Reset/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/Reset/Caption",
"text": "reset"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/HideEditor/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/HideEditor/Caption",
"text": "hide editor"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Prompt",
"text": "Current palette:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/ShowEditor/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/ShowEditor/Caption",
"text": "show editor"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Caption",
"text": "Plugins"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Caption",
"text": "disable"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Hint",
"text": "Disable this plugin when reloading page"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disabled/Status": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disabled/Status",
"text": "(disabled)"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Empty/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Empty/Hint",
"text": "None"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Caption",
"text": "enable"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Hint",
"text": "Enable this plugin when reloading page"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Language/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Language/Prompt",
"text": "Languages"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Plugin/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Plugin/Prompt",
"text": "Plugins"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Theme/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Theme/Prompt",
"text": "Themes"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/Caption",
"text": "Saving"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/Heading",
"text": "Saving"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Advanced/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Advanced/Heading",
"text": "Advanced Settings"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/BackupDir": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/BackupDir",
"text": "Backup Directory"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Backups": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Backups",
"text": "Backups"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Description",
"text": "These settings are only used when saving to http://tiddlyspot.com or a compatible remote server"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Filename": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Filename",
"text": "Upload Filename"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Heading",
"text": "~TiddlySpot"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Hint",
"text": "//The server URL defaults to `http://<wikiname>.tiddlyspot.com/store.cgi` and can be changed to use a custom server address//"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Password": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/Password",
"text": "Password"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/ServerURL": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/ServerURL",
"text": "Server URL"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/UploadDir": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/UploadDir",
"text": "Upload Directory"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/UserName": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/TiddlySpot/UserName",
"text": "Wiki Name"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Caption",
"text": "Autosave"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Disabled/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Disabled/Description",
"text": "Do not save changes automatically"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Enabled/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Enabled/Description",
"text": "Save changes automatically"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Hint",
"text": "Automatically save changes during editing"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/Caption",
"text": "Settings"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/Hint",
"text": "These settings let you customise the behaviour of TiddlyWiki."
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Caption",
"text": "Navigation Address Bar"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Hint",
"text": "Behaviour of the browser address bar when navigating to a tiddler:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/No/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/No/Description",
"text": "Do not update the address bar"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Permalink/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Permalink/Description",
"text": "Include the target tiddler"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Permaview/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Permaview/Description",
"text": "Include the target tiddler and the current story sequence"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Caption",
"text": "Navigation History"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Hint",
"text": "Update browser history when navigating to a tiddler:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/No/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/No/Description",
"text": "Do not update history"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Yes/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Yes/Description",
"text": "Update history"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Caption",
"text": "Toolbar Buttons"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Hint",
"text": "Default toolbar button appearance:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Icons/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Icons/Description",
"text": "Include icon"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Text/Description": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Text/Description",
"text": "Include text"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/Caption",
"text": "Story View"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/Prompt",
"text": "Current view:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/Caption",
"text": "Theme"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/Prompt",
"text": "Current theme:"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields/Caption",
"text": "Tiddler Fields"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields/Hint",
"text": "This is the full set of TiddlerFields in use in this wiki (including system tiddlers but excluding shadow tiddlers)."
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Caption",
"text": "Toolbars"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Caption",
"text": "Edit Toolbar"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Hint",
"text": "Choose which buttons are displayed for tiddlers in edit mode"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Hint",
"text": "Select which toolbar buttons are displayed"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Caption",
"text": "Page Toolbar"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Hint",
"text": "Choose which buttons are displayed on the main page toolbar "
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Caption",
"text": "View Toolbar"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Hint",
"text": "Choose which buttons are displayed for tiddlers in view mode"
},
"$:/language/ControlPanel/Tools/Download/Full/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ControlPanel/Tools/Download/Full/Caption",
"text": "Download full wiki"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/1": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/1",
"text": "st"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/2": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/2",
"text": "nd"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/3": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/3",
"text": "rd"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/4": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/4",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/5": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/5",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/6": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/6",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/7": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/7",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/8": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/8",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/9": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/9",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/10": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/10",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/11": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/11",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/12": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/12",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/13": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/13",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/14": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/14",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/15": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/15",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/16": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/16",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/17": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/17",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/18": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/18",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/19": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/19",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/20": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/20",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/21": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/21",
"text": "st"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/22": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/22",
"text": "nd"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/23": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/23",
"text": "rd"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/25",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/26": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/26",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/27": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/27",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/28": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/28",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/29": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/29",
"text": "th"
},
"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/30": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/30",
"text": "th"
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"$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/31": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/DaySuffix/31",
"text": "st"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Day/0",
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},
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},
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Day/2",
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},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Day/3": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Day/3",
"text": "Wednesday"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Day/4": {
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},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Day/5": {
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},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Day/6": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Day/6",
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},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/1": {
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},
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/2",
"text": "February"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/3": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/3",
"text": "March"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/4": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/4",
"text": "April"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/5": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/5",
"text": "May"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/6": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/6",
"text": "June"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/7": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/7",
"text": "July"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/8": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/8",
"text": "August"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/9": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/9",
"text": "September"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/10": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/10",
"text": "October"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/11": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/11",
"text": "November"
},
"$:/language/Date/Long/Month/12": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Long/Month/12",
"text": "December"
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"$:/language/Date/Period/am": {
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"text": "am"
},
"$:/language/Date/Period/pm": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Period/pm",
"text": "pm"
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Day/0",
"text": "Sun"
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Day/1",
"text": "Mon"
},
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"text": "Wed"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Day/4": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Day/4",
"text": "Thu"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Day/5": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Day/5",
"text": "Fri"
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Day/6",
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},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/1": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/1",
"text": "Jan"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/2": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/2",
"text": "Feb"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/3": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/3",
"text": "Mar"
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"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/4": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/4",
"text": "Apr"
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"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/5": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/5",
"text": "May"
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"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/6": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/6",
"text": "Jun"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/7": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/7",
"text": "Jul"
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"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/8": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/8",
"text": "Aug"
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"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/9": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/9",
"text": "Sep"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/10": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/10",
"text": "Oct"
},
"$:/language/Date/Short/Month/11": {
"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/11",
"text": "Nov"
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"title": "$:/language/Date/Short/Month/12",
"text": "Dec"
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"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Days": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Days",
"text": "<<period>> days from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Hours": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Hours",
"text": "<<period>> hours from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Minutes": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Minutes",
"text": "<<period>> minutes from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Months": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Months",
"text": "<<period>> months from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Second": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Second",
"text": "1 second from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Seconds": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Seconds",
"text": "<<period>> seconds from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Years": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Future/Years",
"text": "<<period>> years from now"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Days": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Days",
"text": "<<period>> days ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Hours": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Hours",
"text": "<<period>> hours ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Minutes": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Minutes",
"text": "<<period>> minutes ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Months": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Months",
"text": "<<period>> months ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Second": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Second",
"text": "1 second ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Seconds": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Seconds",
"text": "<<period>> seconds ago"
},
"$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Years": {
"title": "$:/language/RelativeDate/Past/Years",
"text": "<<period>> years ago"
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/animation": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/animation",
"text": "Animations that may be used with the RevealWidget."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/command": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/command",
"text": "Commands that can be executed under Node.js."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/config": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/config",
"text": "Data to be inserted into `$tw.config`."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/filteroperator": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/filteroperator",
"text": "Individual filter operator methods."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/global": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/global",
"text": "Global data to be inserted into `$tw`."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/isfilteroperator": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/isfilteroperator",
"text": "Operands for the ''is'' filter operator."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/macro": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/macro",
"text": "JavaScript macro definitions."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/parser": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/parser",
"text": "Parsers for different content types."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/saver": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/saver",
"text": "Savers handle different methods for saving files from the browser."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/startup": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/startup",
"text": "Startup functions."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/storyview": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/storyview",
"text": "Story views customise the animation and behaviour of list widgets."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlerdeserializer": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlerdeserializer",
"text": "Converts different content types into tiddlers."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlerfield": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlerfield",
"text": "Defines the behaviour of an individual tiddler field."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlermethod": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/tiddlermethod",
"text": "Adds methods to the `$tw.Tiddler` prototype."
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"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/upgrader": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/upgrader",
"text": "Applies upgrade processing to tiddlers during an upgrade/import."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/utils": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/utils",
"text": "Adds methods to `$tw.utils`."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/utils-node": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/utils-node",
"text": "Adds Node.js-specific methods to `$tw.utils`."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/widget": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/widget",
"text": "Widgets encapsulate DOM rendering and refreshing."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/wikimethod": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/wikimethod",
"text": "Adds methods to `$tw.Wiki`."
},
"$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/wikirule": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/wikirule",
"text": "Individual parser rules for the main WikiText parser."
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-background",
"text": "Alert background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-border",
"text": "Alert border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-highlight": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-highlight",
"text": "Alert highlight"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-muted-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/alert-muted-foreground",
"text": "Alert muted foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/background",
"text": "General background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/blockquote-bar": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/blockquote-bar",
"text": "Blockquote bar"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dirty-indicator": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dirty-indicator",
"text": "Unsaved changes indicator"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-background",
"text": "Code background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-border",
"text": "Code border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/code-foreground",
"text": "Code foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/download-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/download-background",
"text": "Download button background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/download-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/download-foreground",
"text": "Download button foreground"
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"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dragger-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dragger-background",
"text": "Dragger background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dragger-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dragger-foreground",
"text": "Dragger foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropdown-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropdown-background",
"text": "Dropdown background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropdown-border": {
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"text": "Dropdown border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropdown-tab-background-selected": {
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"text": "Dropdown tab background for selected tabs"
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropdown-tab-background",
"text": "Dropdown tab background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/dropzone-background": {
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"text": "Dropzone background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-background-hover": {
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"text": "External link background hover"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-background-visited": {
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"text": "External link background visited"
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"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-background",
"text": "External link background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-foreground-hover": {
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"text": "External link foreground hover"
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-foreground-visited",
"text": "External link foreground visited"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/external-link-foreground": {
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"text": "External link foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/foreground",
"text": "General foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/message-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/message-background",
"text": "Message box background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/message-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/message-border",
"text": "Message box border"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/message-foreground",
"text": "Message box foreground"
},
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"text": "Modal backdrop"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-background",
"text": "Modal background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-border",
"text": "Modal border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-footer-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-footer-background",
"text": "Modal footer background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-footer-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-footer-border",
"text": "Modal footer border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-header-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/modal-header-border",
"text": "Modal header border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/muted-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/muted-foreground",
"text": "General muted foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/notification-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/notification-background",
"text": "Notification background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/notification-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/notification-border",
"text": "Notification border"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/page-background",
"text": "Page background"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/pre-background",
"text": "Preformatted code background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/pre-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/pre-border",
"text": "Preformatted code border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/primary": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/primary",
"text": "General primary"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-button-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-button-foreground",
"text": "Sidebar button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-controls-foreground-hover": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-controls-foreground-hover",
"text": "Sidebar controls foreground hover"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-controls-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-controls-foreground",
"text": "Sidebar controls foreground"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-foreground-shadow",
"text": "Sidebar foreground shadow"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-foreground",
"text": "Sidebar foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-muted-foreground-hover": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-muted-foreground-hover",
"text": "Sidebar muted foreground hover"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-muted-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-muted-foreground",
"text": "Sidebar muted foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-background-selected": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-background-selected",
"text": "Sidebar tab background for selected tabs"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-background",
"text": "Sidebar tab background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-border-selected": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-border-selected",
"text": "Sidebar tab border for selected tabs"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-border",
"text": "Sidebar tab border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-divider": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-divider",
"text": "Sidebar tab divider"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-foreground-selected": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/sidebar-tab-foreground-selected",
"text": "Sidebar tab foreground for selected tabs"
},
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"text": "Sidebar tab foreground"
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"text": "Sidebar tiddler link foreground hover"
},
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"text": "Sidebar tiddler link foreground"
},
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"text": "Static alert foreground"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-background-selected",
"text": "Tab background for selected tabs"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-background",
"text": "Tab background"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-border-selected",
"text": "Tab border for selected tabs"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-border",
"text": "Tab border"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-divider",
"text": "Tab divider"
},
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-foreground-selected",
"text": "Tab foreground for selected tabs"
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tab-foreground",
"text": "Tab foreground"
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/table-border",
"text": "Table border"
},
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"text": "Table footer background"
},
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"text": "Table header background"
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"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tag-background",
"text": "Tag background"
},
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"text": "Tag foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-background",
"text": "Tiddler background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-border",
"text": "Tiddler border"
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"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground-hover": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground-hover",
"text": "Tiddler controls foreground hover"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground-selected": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground-selected",
"text": "Tiddler controls foreground for selected controls"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-controls-foreground",
"text": "Tiddler controls foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-background",
"text": "Tiddler editor background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-border-image": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-border-image",
"text": "Tiddler editor border image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-border",
"text": "Tiddler editor border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-fields-even": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-fields-even",
"text": "Tiddler editor background for even fields"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-fields-odd": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-editor-fields-odd",
"text": "Tiddler editor background for odd fields"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-background",
"text": "Tiddler info panel background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-border": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-border",
"text": "Tiddler info panel border"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-tab-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-info-tab-background",
"text": "Tiddler info panel tab background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-link-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-link-background",
"text": "Tiddler link background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-link-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-link-foreground",
"text": "Tiddler link foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-subtitle-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-subtitle-foreground",
"text": "Tiddler subtitle foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-title-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/tiddler-title-foreground",
"text": "Tiddler title foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-new-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-new-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'new tiddler' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-options-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-options-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'options' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-save-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-save-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'save' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-info-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-info-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'info' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-edit-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-edit-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'edit' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-close-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-close-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'close' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-delete-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-delete-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'delete' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-cancel-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-cancel-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'cancel' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-done-button": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/toolbar-done-button",
"text": "Toolbar 'done' button foreground"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/untagged-background": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/untagged-background",
"text": "Untagged pill background"
},
"$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/very-muted-foreground": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/very-muted-foreground",
"text": "Very muted foreground"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/External/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/External/Hint",
"text": "This is an external tiddler stored outside of the main TiddlyWiki file. You can edit the tags and fields but cannot directly edit the content itself"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Hint",
"text": "Use [[wiki text|http://tiddlywiki.com/static/WikiText.html]] to add formatting, images, and dynamic features"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Placeholder": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Placeholder",
"text": "Type the text for this tiddler"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Preview/Button/Hide": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Preview/Button/Hide",
"text": "hide preview"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Preview/Button/Show": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Preview/Button/Show",
"text": "show preview"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Caption",
"text": "remove field"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Hint",
"text": "Remove field"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Button": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Button",
"text": "add"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Name/Placeholder": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Name/Placeholder",
"text": "field name"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Prompt",
"text": "Add a new field:"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Value/Placeholder": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Value/Placeholder",
"text": "field value"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Shadow/Warning": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Shadow/Warning",
"text": "This is a shadow tiddler. Any changes will override the default version"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Shadow/OverriddenWarning": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Shadow/OverriddenWarning",
"text": "This is a modified shadow tiddler. You can revert to the default version by deleting this tiddler"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Add/Button": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Add/Button",
"text": "add"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Add/Placeholder": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Add/Placeholder",
"text": "tag name"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Caption",
"text": "tag list"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Hint",
"text": "Show tag list"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Caption",
"text": "content type list"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Hint",
"text": "Show content type list"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Caption",
"text": "delete content type"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Hint",
"text": "Delete content type"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Placeholder": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Placeholder",
"text": "content type"
},
"$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Prompt",
"text": "Type:"
},
"$:/language/Exporters/StaticRiver": {
"title": "$:/language/Exporters/StaticRiver",
"text": "River of tiddlers as static HTML file"
},
"$:/language/Exporters/JsonFile": {
"title": "$:/language/Exporters/JsonFile",
"text": "JSON tiddlers file"
},
"$:/language/Exporters/CsvFile": {
"title": "$:/language/Exporters/CsvFile",
"text": "CSV tiddlers file"
},
"$:/language/Exporters/TidFile": {
"title": "$:/language/Exporters/TidFile",
"text": "Single tiddler \".tid\" file"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/_canonical_uri": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/_canonical_uri",
"text": "The full URI of an external image tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/bag": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/bag",
"text": "The name of the bag from which a tiddler came"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/caption",
"text": "The text to be displayed on a tab or button"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/color": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/color",
"text": "The CSS color value associated with a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/component": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/component",
"text": "The name of the component responsible for an [[alert tiddler|AlertMechanism]]"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/current-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/current-tiddler",
"text": "Used to cache the top tiddler in a [[history list|HistoryMechanism]]"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/created": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/created",
"text": "The date a tiddler was created"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/creator": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/creator",
"text": "The name of the person who created a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/dependents": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/dependents",
"text": "For a plugin, lists the dependent plugin titles"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/description": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/description",
"text": "The descriptive text for a plugin, or a modal dialogue"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/draft.of": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/draft.of",
"text": "For draft tiddlers, contains the title of the tiddler of which this is a draft"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/draft.title": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/draft.title",
"text": "For draft tiddlers, contains the proposed new title of the tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/footer": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/footer",
"text": "The footer text for a wizard"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/hack-to-give-us-something-to-compare-against": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/hack-to-give-us-something-to-compare-against",
"text": "A temporary storage field used in [[$:/core/templates/static.content]]"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/icon": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/icon",
"text": "The title of the tiddler containing the icon associated with a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/library": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/library",
"text": "If set to \"yes\" indicates that a tiddler should be saved as a JavaScript library"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/list": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/list",
"text": "An ordered list of tiddler titles associated with a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/list-before": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/list-before",
"text": "If set, the title of a tiddler before which this tiddler should be added to the ordered list of tiddler titles, or at the start of the list if this field is present but empty"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/list-after": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/list-after",
"text": "If set, the title of the tiddler after which this tiddler should be added to the ordered list of tiddler titles"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/modified": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/modified",
"text": "The date and time at which a tiddler was last modified"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/modifier": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/modifier",
"text": "The tiddler title associated with the person who last modified a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/name": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/name",
"text": "The human readable name associated with a plugin tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/plugin-priority": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/plugin-priority",
"text": "A numerical value indicating the priority of a plugin tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/plugin-type": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/plugin-type",
"text": "The type of plugin in a plugin tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/revision": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/revision",
"text": "The revision of the tiddler held at the server"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/released": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/released",
"text": "Date of a TiddlyWiki release"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/source": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/source",
"text": "The source URL associated with a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/subtitle": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/subtitle",
"text": "The subtitle text for a wizard"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/tags": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/tags",
"text": "A list of tags associated with a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/text": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/text",
"text": "The body text of a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/title": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/title",
"text": "The unique name of a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/type": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/type",
"text": "The content type of a tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Fields/version": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Fields/version",
"text": "Version information for a plugin"
},
"$:/language/Filters/AllTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/AllTiddlers",
"text": "All tiddlers except system tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/RecentSystemTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/RecentSystemTiddlers",
"text": "Recently modified tiddlers, including system tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/RecentTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/RecentTiddlers",
"text": "Recently modified tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/AllTags": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/AllTags",
"text": "All tags except system tags"
},
"$:/language/Filters/Missing": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/Missing",
"text": "Missing tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/Drafts": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/Drafts",
"text": "Draft tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/Orphans": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/Orphans",
"text": "Orphan tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/SystemTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/SystemTiddlers",
"text": "System tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/ShadowTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/ShadowTiddlers",
"text": "Shadow tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/OverriddenShadowTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/OverriddenShadowTiddlers",
"text": "Overridden shadow tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Filters/SystemTags": {
"title": "$:/language/Filters/SystemTags",
"text": "System tags"
},
"GettingStarted": {
"title": "GettingStarted",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/\nWelcome to ~TiddlyWiki and the ~TiddlyWiki community\n\nBefore you start storing important information in ~TiddlyWiki it is important to make sure that you can reliably save changes. See http://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted for details\n\n!! Set up this ~TiddlyWiki\n\n|<$link to=\"$:/SiteTitle\"><<lingo Title/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/SiteTitle\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/SiteSubtitle\"><<lingo Subtitle/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/SiteSubtitle\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/DefaultTiddlers\"><<lingo DefaultTiddlers/Prompt>></$link> |<<lingo DefaultTiddlers/TopHint>><br> <$edit-text tag=\"textarea\" tiddler=\"$:/DefaultTiddlers\"/><br>//<<lingo DefaultTiddlers/BottomHint>>// |\n\nSee the [[control panel|$:/ControlPanel]] for more options.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/build": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/build",
"description": "Automatically run configured commands",
"text": "Build the specified build targets for the current wiki. If no build targets are specified then all available targets will be built.\n\n```\n--build <target> [<target> ...]\n```\n\nBuild targets are defined in the `tiddlywiki.info` file of a wiki folder.\n\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/clearpassword": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/clearpassword",
"description": "Clear a password for subsequent crypto operations",
"text": "Clear the password for subsequent crypto operations\n\n```\n--clearpassword\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/default": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/default",
"text": "\\define commandTitle()\n$:/language/Help/$(command)$\n\\end\n```\nusage: tiddlywiki [<wikifolder>] [--<command> [<args>...]...]\n```\n\nAvailable commands:\n\n<ul>\n<$list filter=\"[commands[]sort[title]]\" variable=\"command\">\n<li><$link to=<<commandTitle>>><$macrocall $name=\"command\" $type=\"text/plain\" $output=\"text/plain\"/></$link>: <$transclude tiddler=<<commandTitle>> field=\"description\"/></li>\n</$list>\n</ul>\n\nTo get detailed help on a command:\n\n```\ntiddlywiki --help <command>\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/editions": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/editions",
"description": "Lists the available editions of TiddlyWiki",
"text": "Lists the names and descriptions of the available editions. You can create a new wiki of a specified edition with the `--init` command.\n\n```\n--editions\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/help": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/help",
"description": "Display help for TiddlyWiki commands",
"text": "Displays help text for a command:\n\n```\n--help [<command>]\n```\n\nIf the command name is omitted then a list of available commands is displayed.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/init": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/init",
"description": "Initialise a new wiki folder",
"text": "Initialise an empty [[WikiFolder|WikiFolders]] with a copy of the specified edition.\n\n```\n--init <edition> [<edition> ...]\n```\n\nFor example:\n\n```\ntiddlywiki ./MyWikiFolder --init empty\n```\n\nNote:\n\n* The wiki folder directory will be created if necessary\n* The \"edition\" defaults to ''empty''\n* The init command will fail if the wiki folder is not empty\n* The init command removes any `includeWikis` definitions in the edition's `tiddlywiki.info` file\n* When multiple editions are specified, editions initialised later will overwrite any files shared with earlier editions (so, the final `tiddlywiki.info` file will be copied from the last edition)\n* `--editions` returns a list of available editions\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/load": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/load",
"description": "Load tiddlers from a file",
"text": "Load tiddlers from 2.x.x TiddlyWiki files (`.html`), `.tiddler`, `.tid`, `.json` or other files \n\n```\n--load <filepath>\n```\n\nTo load tiddlers from an encrypted TiddlyWiki file you should first specify the password with the PasswordCommand. For example:\n\n```\ntiddlywiki ./MyWiki --password pa55w0rd --load my_encrypted_wiki.html\n```\n\nNote that TiddlyWiki will not load an older version of an already loaded plugin.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/makelibrary": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/makelibrary",
"description": "Construct library plugin required by upgrade process",
"text": "Constructs the `$:/UpgradeLibrary` tiddler for the upgrade process.\n\nThe upgrade library is formatted as an ordinary plugin tiddler with the plugin type `library`. It contains a copy of each of the plugins, themes and language packs available within the TiddlyWiki5 repository.\n\nThis command is intended for internal use; it is only relevant to users constructing a custom upgrade procedure.\n\n```\n--makelibrary <title>\n```\n\nThe title argument defaults to `$:/UpgradeLibrary`.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/notfound": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/notfound",
"text": "No such help item"
},
"$:/language/Help/output": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/output",
"description": "Set the base output directory for subsequent commands",
"text": "Sets the base output directory for subsequent commands. The default output directory is the `output` subdirectory of the edition directory.\n\n```\n--output <pathname>\n```\n\nIf the specified pathname is relative then it is resolved relative to the current working directory. For example `--output .` sets the output directory to the current working directory.\n\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/password": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/password",
"description": "Set a password for subsequent crypto operations",
"text": "Set a password for subsequent crypto operations\n\n```\n--password <password>\n```\n\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/rendertiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/rendertiddler",
"description": "Render an individual tiddler as a specified ContentType",
"text": "Render an individual tiddler as a specified ContentType, defaults to `text/html` and save it to the specified filename:\n\n```\n--rendertiddler <title> <filename> [<type>]\n```\n\nBy default, the filename is resolved relative to the `output` subdirectory of the edition directory. The `--output` command can be used to direct output to a different directory.\n\nAny missing directories in the path to the filename are automatically created.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/rendertiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/rendertiddlers",
"description": "Render tiddlers matching a filter to a specified ContentType",
"text": "Render a set of tiddlers matching a filter to separate files of a specified ContentType (defaults to `text/html`) and extension (defaults to `.html`).\n\n```\n--rendertiddlers <filter> <template> <pathname> [<type>] [<extension>]\n```\n\nFor example:\n\n```\n--rendertiddlers [!is[system]] $:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html ./static text/plain\n```\n\nBy default, the pathname is resolved relative to the `output` subdirectory of the edition directory. The `--output` command can be used to direct output to a different directory.\n\nAny files in the target directory are deleted. The target directory is recursively created if it is missing.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/savetiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/savetiddler",
"description": "Saves a raw tiddler to a file",
"text": "Saves an individual tiddler in its raw text or binary format to the specified filename. \n\n```\n--savetiddler <title> <filename>\n```\n\nBy default, the filename is resolved relative to the `output` subdirectory of the edition directory. The `--output` command can be used to direct output to a different directory.\n\nAny missing directories in the path to the filename are automatically created.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/savetiddlers": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/savetiddlers",
"description": "Saves a group of raw tiddlers to a directory",
"text": "Saves a group of tiddlers in their raw text or binary format to the specified directory. \n\n```\n--savetiddlers <filter> <pathname>\n```\n\nBy default, the pathname is resolved relative to the `output` subdirectory of the edition directory. The `--output` command can be used to direct output to a different directory.\n\nAny missing directories in the pathname are automatically created.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/server": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/server",
"description": "Provides an HTTP server interface to TiddlyWiki",
"text": "The server built in to TiddlyWiki5 is very simple. Although compatible with TiddlyWeb it doesn't support many of the features needed for robust Internet-facing usage.\n\nAt the root, it serves a rendering of a specified tiddler. Away from the root, it serves individual tiddlers encoded in JSON, and supports the basic HTTP operations for `GET`, `PUT` and `DELETE`.\n\n```\n--server <port> <roottiddler> <rendertype> <servetype> <username> <password> <host> <pathprefix>\n```\n\nThe parameters are:\n\n* ''port'' - port number to serve from (defaults to \"8080\")\n* ''roottiddler'' - the tiddler to serve at the root (defaults to \"$:/core/save/all\") \n* ''rendertype'' - the content type to which the root tiddler should be rendered (defaults to \"text/plain\")\n* ''servetype'' - the content type with which the root tiddler should be served (defaults to \"text/html\")\n* ''username'' - the default username for signing edits\n* ''password'' - optional password for basic authentication\n* ''host'' - optional hostname to serve from (defaults to \"127.0.0.1\" aka \"localhost\")\n* ''pathprefix'' - optional prefix for paths\n\nIf the password parameter is specified then the browser will prompt the user for the username and password. Note that the password is transmitted in plain text so this implementation isn't suitable for general use.\n\nFor example:\n\n```\n--server 8080 $:/core/save/all text/plain text/html MyUserName passw0rd\n```\n\nThe username and password can be specified as empty strings if you need to set the hostname or pathprefix and don't want to require a password:\n\n```\n--server 8080 $:/core/save/all text/plain text/html \"\" \"\" 192.168.0.245\n```\n\nTo run multiple TiddlyWiki servers at the same time you'll need to put each one on a different port.\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/setfield": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/setfield",
"description": "Prepares external tiddlers for use",
"text": "//Note that this command is experimental and may change or be replaced before being finalised//\n\nSets the specified field of a group of tiddlers to the result of wikifying a template tiddler with the `currentTiddler` variable set to the tiddler.\n\n```\n--setfield <filter> <fieldname> <templatetitle> <rendertype>\n```\n\nThe parameters are:\n\n* ''filter'' - filter identifying the tiddlers to be affected\n* ''fieldname'' - the field to modify (defaults to \"text\")\n* ''templatetitle'' - the tiddler to wikify into the specified field. If blank or missing then the specified field is deleted\n* ''type'' - the text type to render (defaults to \"text/plain\"; \"text/html\" can be used to include HTML tags)\n\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/unpackplugin": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/unpackplugin",
"description": "Unpack the payload tiddlers from a plugin",
"text": "Extract the payload tiddlers from a plugin, creating them as ordinary tiddlers:\n\n```\n--unpackplugin <title>\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/verbose": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/verbose",
"description": "Triggers verbose output mode",
"text": "Triggers verbose output, useful for debugging \n\n```\n--verbose\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Help/version": {
"title": "$:/language/Help/version",
"description": "Displays the version number of TiddlyWiki",
"text": "Displays the version number of TiddlyWiki.\n\n```\n--version\n```\n"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Cancel/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Cancel/Caption",
"text": "Cancel"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Hint",
"text": "These tiddlers are ready to import:"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Import/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Import/Caption",
"text": "Import"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Select/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Select/Caption",
"text": "Select"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Status/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Status/Caption",
"text": "Status"
},
"$:/language/Import/Listing/Title/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Listing/Title/Caption",
"text": "Title"
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Suppressed/Incompatible": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Suppressed/Incompatible",
"text": "Blocked incompatible or obsolete plugin "
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Suppressed/Version": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Suppressed/Version",
"text": "Blocked plugin (due to incoming <<incoming>> being older than existing <<existing>>)"
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Upgraded": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/Plugins/Upgraded",
"text": "Upgraded plugin from <<incoming>> to <<upgraded>>"
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/State/Suppressed": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/State/Suppressed",
"text": "Blocked temporary state tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/System/Suppressed": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/System/Suppressed",
"text": "Blocked system tiddler"
},
"$:/language/Import/Upgrader/ThemeTweaks/Created": {
"title": "$:/language/Import/Upgrader/ThemeTweaks/Created",
"text": "Migrated theme tweak from <$text text=<<from>>/>"
},
"$:/language/BinaryWarning/Prompt": {
"title": "$:/language/BinaryWarning/Prompt",
"text": "This tiddler contains binary data"
},
"$:/language/ClassicWarning/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/ClassicWarning/Hint",
"text": "This tiddler is written in TiddlyWiki Classic wiki text format, which is not fully compatible with TiddlyWiki version 5. See http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Upgrading.html for more details. "
},
"$:/language/ClassicWarning/Upgrade/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/ClassicWarning/Upgrade/Caption",
"text": "upgrade"
},
"$:/language/CloseAll/Button": {
"title": "$:/language/CloseAll/Button",
"text": "close all"
},
"$:/language/ConfirmCancelTiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/ConfirmCancelTiddler",
"text": "Do you wish to discard changes to the tiddler \"<$text text=<<title>>/>\"?"
},
"$:/language/ConfirmDeleteTiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/ConfirmDeleteTiddler",
"text": "Do you wish to delete the tiddler \"<$text text=<<title>>/>\"?"
},
"$:/language/ConfirmOverwriteTiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/ConfirmOverwriteTiddler",
"text": "Do you wish to overwrite the tiddler \"<$text text=<<title>>/>\"?"
},
"$:/language/ConfirmEditShadowTiddler": {
"title": "$:/language/ConfirmEditShadowTiddler",
"text": "You are about to edit a ShadowTiddler. Any changes will override the default system making future upgrades non-trivial. Are you sure you want to edit \"<$text text=<<title>>/>\"?"
},
"$:/language/DefaultNewTiddlerTitle": {
"title": "$:/language/DefaultNewTiddlerTitle",
"text": "New Tiddler"
},
"$:/language/DropMessage": {
"title": "$:/language/DropMessage",
"text": "Drop here (or click escape to cancel)"
},
"$:/language/Encryption/ConfirmClearPassword": {
"title": "$:/language/Encryption/ConfirmClearPassword",
"text": "Do you wish to clear the password? This will remove the encryption applied when saving this wiki"
},
"$:/language/Encryption/PromptSetPassword": {
"title": "$:/language/Encryption/PromptSetPassword",
"text": "Set a new password for this TiddlyWiki"
},
"$:/language/InvalidFieldName": {
"title": "$:/language/InvalidFieldName",
"text": "Illegal characters in field name \"<$text text=<<fieldName>>/>\". Fields can only contain lowercase letters, digits and the characters underscore (`_`), hyphen (`-`) and period (`.`)"
},
"$:/language/MissingTiddler/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/MissingTiddler/Hint",
"text": "Missing tiddler \"<$text text=<<currentTiddler>>/>\" - click {{$:/core/images/edit-button}} to create"
},
"$:/language/RecentChanges/DateFormat": {
"title": "$:/language/RecentChanges/DateFormat",
"text": "DDth MMM YYYY"
},
"$:/language/SystemTiddler/Tooltip": {
"title": "$:/language/SystemTiddler/Tooltip",
"text": "This is a system tiddler"
},
"$:/language/TagManager/Colour/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TagManager/Colour/Heading",
"text": "Colour"
},
"$:/language/TagManager/Icon/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TagManager/Icon/Heading",
"text": "Icon"
},
"$:/language/TagManager/Info/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TagManager/Info/Heading",
"text": "Info"
},
"$:/language/TagManager/Tag/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TagManager/Tag/Heading",
"text": "Tag"
},
"$:/language/UnsavedChangesWarning": {
"title": "$:/language/UnsavedChangesWarning",
"text": "You have unsaved changes in TiddlyWiki"
},
"$:/language/Modals/Download": {
"title": "$:/language/Modals/Download",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"subtitle": "Download changes",
"footer": "<$button message=\"tm-close-tiddler\">Close</$button>",
"help": "http://tiddlywiki.com/static/DownloadingChanges.html",
"text": "Your browser only supports manual saving.\n\nTo save your modified wiki, right click on the download link below and select \"Download file\" or \"Save file\", and then choose the folder and filename.\n\n//You can marginally speed things up by clicking the link with the control key (Windows) or the options/alt key (Mac OS X). You will not be prompted for the folder or filename, but your browser is likely to give it an unrecognisable name -- you may need to rename the file to include an `.html` extension before you can do anything useful with it.//\n\nOn smartphones that do not allow files to be downloaded you can instead bookmark the link, and then sync your bookmarks to a desktop computer from where the wiki can be saved normally.\n"
},
"$:/language/Modals/SaveInstructions": {
"title": "$:/language/Modals/SaveInstructions",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"subtitle": "Save your work",
"footer": "<$button message=\"tm-close-tiddler\">Close</$button>",
"help": "http://tiddlywiki.com/static/SavingChanges.html",
"text": "Your changes to this wiki need to be saved as a ~TiddlyWiki HTML file.\n\n!!! Desktop browsers\n\n# Select ''Save As'' from the ''File'' menu\n# Choose a filename and location\n#* Some browsers also require you to explicitly specify the file saving format as ''Webpage, HTML only'' or similar\n# Close this tab\n\n!!! Smartphone browsers\n\n# Create a bookmark to this page\n#* If you've got iCloud or Google Sync set up then the bookmark will automatically sync to your desktop where you can open it and save it as above\n# Close this tab\n\n//If you open the bookmark again in Mobile Safari you will see this message again. If you want to go ahead and use the file, just click the ''close'' button below//\n"
},
"$:/config/NewJournal/Title": {
"title": "$:/config/NewJournal/Title",
"text": "DDth MMM YYYY"
},
"$:/config/NewJournal/Tags": {
"title": "$:/config/NewJournal/Tags",
"text": "Journal"
},
"$:/language/Notifications/Save/Done": {
"title": "$:/language/Notifications/Save/Done",
"text": "Saved wiki"
},
"$:/language/Notifications/Save/Starting": {
"title": "$:/language/Notifications/Save/Starting",
"text": "Starting to save wiki"
},
"$:/language/Search/DefaultResults/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/DefaultResults/Caption",
"text": "List"
},
"$:/language/Search/Filter/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Filter/Caption",
"text": "Filter"
},
"$:/language/Search/Filter/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Filter/Hint",
"text": "Search via a [[filter expression|http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Filters.html]]"
},
"$:/language/Search/Filter/Matches": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Filter/Matches",
"text": "//<small><<resultCount>> matches</small>//"
},
"$:/language/Search/Matches": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Matches",
"text": "//<small><<resultCount>> matches</small>//"
},
"$:/language/Search/Shadows/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Shadows/Caption",
"text": "Shadows"
},
"$:/language/Search/Shadows/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Shadows/Hint",
"text": "Search for shadow tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Search/Shadows/Matches": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Shadows/Matches",
"text": "//<small><<resultCount>> matches</small>//"
},
"$:/language/Search/Standard/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Standard/Caption",
"text": "Standard"
},
"$:/language/Search/Standard/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Standard/Hint",
"text": "Search for standard tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Search/Standard/Matches": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/Standard/Matches",
"text": "//<small><<resultCount>> matches</small>//"
},
"$:/language/Search/System/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/System/Caption",
"text": "System"
},
"$:/language/Search/System/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/System/Hint",
"text": "Search for system tiddlers"
},
"$:/language/Search/System/Matches": {
"title": "$:/language/Search/System/Matches",
"text": "//<small><<resultCount>> matches</small>//"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/All/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/All/Caption",
"text": "All"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Contents/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Contents/Caption",
"text": "Contents"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Drafts/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Drafts/Caption",
"text": "Drafts"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Missing/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Missing/Caption",
"text": "Missing"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/More/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/More/Caption",
"text": "More"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Open/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Open/Caption",
"text": "Open"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Orphans/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Orphans/Caption",
"text": "Orphans"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Recent/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Recent/Caption",
"text": "Recent"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Shadows/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Shadows/Caption",
"text": "Shadows"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/System/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/System/Caption",
"text": "System"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Tags/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Tags/Caption",
"text": "Tags"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Tags/Untagged/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Tags/Untagged/Caption",
"text": "untagged"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Tools/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Tools/Caption",
"text": "Tools"
},
"$:/language/SideBar/Types/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/SideBar/Types/Caption",
"text": "Types"
},
"$:/SiteSubtitle": {
"title": "$:/SiteSubtitle",
"text": "a non-linear personal web notebook"
},
"$:/SiteTitle": {
"title": "$:/SiteTitle",
"text": "My ~TiddlyWiki"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/Caption",
"text": "Advanced"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Empty/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Empty/Hint",
"text": "none"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Heading",
"text": "Plugin Details"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/Hint",
"text": "This plugin contains the following shadow tiddlers:"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Heading": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Heading",
"text": "Shadow Status"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/NotShadow/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/NotShadow/Hint",
"text": "The tiddler <$link to=<<infoTiddler>>><$text text=<<infoTiddler>>/></$link> is not a shadow tiddler"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Shadow/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Shadow/Hint",
"text": "The tiddler <$link to=<<infoTiddler>>><$text text=<<infoTiddler>>/></$link> is a shadow tiddler"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Shadow/Source": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/Shadow/Source",
"text": "It is defined in the plugin <$link to=<<pluginTiddler>>><$text text=<<pluginTiddler>>/></$link>"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/OverriddenShadow/Hint": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/OverriddenShadow/Hint",
"text": "It is overridden by an ordinary tiddler"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Fields/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Fields/Caption",
"text": "Fields"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/List/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/List/Caption",
"text": "List"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/List/Empty": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/List/Empty",
"text": "This tiddler does not have a list"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Listed/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Listed/Caption",
"text": "Listed"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Listed/Empty": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Listed/Empty",
"text": "This tiddler is not listed by any others"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/References/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/References/Caption",
"text": "References"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/References/Empty": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/References/Empty",
"text": "No tiddlers link to this one"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tagging/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tagging/Caption",
"text": "Tagging"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tagging/Empty": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tagging/Empty",
"text": "No tiddlers are tagged with this one"
},
"$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tools/Caption": {
"title": "$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tools/Caption",
"text": "Tools"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/application/javascript": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/application/javascript",
"description": "JavaScript code",
"name": "application/javascript",
"group": "Developer"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/application/json": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/application/json",
"description": "JSON data",
"name": "application/json",
"group": "Developer"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/application/x-tiddler-dictionary": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"description": "Data dictionary",
"name": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"group": "Developer"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/image/gif": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/image/gif",
"description": "GIF image",
"name": "image/gif",
"group": "Image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/image/jpeg": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/image/jpeg",
"description": "JPEG image",
"name": "image/jpeg",
"group": "Image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/image/png": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/image/png",
"description": "PNG image",
"name": "image/png",
"group": "Image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/image/svg+xml": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/image/svg+xml",
"description": "Structured Vector Graphics image",
"name": "image/svg+xml",
"group": "Image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/image/x-icon": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/image/x-icon",
"description": "ICO format icon file",
"name": "image/x-icon",
"group": "Image"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/text/css": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/text/css",
"description": "Static stylesheet",
"name": "text/css",
"group": "Developer"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/text/html": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/text/html",
"description": "HTML markup",
"name": "text/html",
"group": "Text"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/text/plain": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/text/plain",
"description": "Plain text",
"name": "text/plain",
"group": "Text"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/text/vnd.tiddlywiki": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"description": "TiddlyWiki 5",
"name": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"group": "Text"
},
"$:/language/Docs/Types/text/x-tiddlywiki": {
"title": "$:/language/Docs/Types/text/x-tiddlywiki",
"description": "TiddlyWiki Classic",
"name": "text/x-tiddlywiki",
"group": "Text"
},
"$:/languages/en-GB/icon": {
"title": "$:/languages/en-GB/icon",
"type": "image/svg+xml",
"text": "<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 60 30\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\">\n<clipPath id=\"t\">\n\t<path d=\"M30,15 h30 v15 z v15 h-30 z h-30 v-15 z v-15 h30 z\"/>\n</clipPath>\n<path d=\"M0,0 v30 h60 v-30 z\" fill=\"#00247d\"/>\n<path d=\"M0,0 L60,30 M60,0 L0,30\" stroke=\"#fff\" stroke-width=\"6\"/>\n<path d=\"M0,0 L60,30 M60,0 L0,30\" clip-path=\"url(#t)\" stroke=\"#cf142b\" stroke-width=\"4\"/>\n<path d=\"M30,0 v30 M0,15 h60\" stroke=\"#fff\" stroke-width=\"10\"/>\n<path d=\"M30,0 v30 M0,15 h60\" stroke=\"#cf142b\" stroke-width=\"6\"/>\n</svg>\n"
},
"$:/languages/en-GB": {
"title": "$:/languages/en-GB",
"name": "en-GB",
"description": "English (British)",
"author": "JeremyRuston",
"core-version": ">=5.0.0\"",
"text": "Stub pseudo-plugin for the default language"
},
"$:/core/modules/commander.js": {
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/commands/savetiddlers.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: command\n\nCommand to save several tiddlers to a folder of files\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\");\n\nexports.info = {\n\tname: \"savetiddlers\",\n\tsynchronous: true\n};\n\nvar Command = function(params,commander,callback) {\n\tthis.params = params;\n\tthis.commander = commander;\n\tthis.callback = callback;\n};\n\nCommand.prototype.execute = function() {\n\tif(this.params.length < 1) {\n\t\treturn \"Missing filename\";\n\t}\n\tvar self = this,\n\t\tfs = require(\"fs\"),\n\t\tpath = require(\"path\"),\n\t\twiki = this.commander.wiki,\n\t\tfilter = this.params[0],\n\t\tpathname = path.resolve(this.commander.outputPath,this.params[1]),\n\t\ttiddlers = wiki.filterTiddlers(filter);\n\t$tw.utils.deleteDirectory(pathname);\n\t$tw.utils.createDirectory(pathname);\n\t$tw.utils.each(tiddlers,function(title) {\n\t\tvar tiddler = self.commander.wiki.getTiddler(title),\n\t\t\ttype = tiddler.fields.type || \"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\",\n\t\t\tcontentTypeInfo = $tw.config.contentTypeInfo[type] || {encoding: \"utf8\"},\n\t\t\tfilename = path.resolve(pathname,encodeURIComponent(title));\n\t\tfs.writeFileSync(filename,tiddler.fields.text,contentTypeInfo.encoding);\n\t});\n\treturn null;\n};\n\nexports.Command = Command;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/commands/server.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: command\n\nServe tiddlers over http\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nif(!$tw.browser) {\n\tvar util = require(\"util\"),\n\t\tfs = require(\"fs\"),\n\t\turl = require(\"url\"),\n\t\tpath = require(\"path\"),\n\t\thttp = require(\"http\");\n}\n\nexports.info = {\n\tname: \"server\",\n\tsynchronous: true\n};\n\n/*\nA simple HTTP server with regexp-based routes\n*/\nfunction SimpleServer(options) {\n\tthis.routes = options.routes || [];\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\tthis.variables = options.variables || {};\n}\n\nSimpleServer.prototype.set = function(obj) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t$tw.utils.each(obj,function(value,name) {\n\t\tself.variables[name] = value;\n\t});\n};\n\nSimpleServer.prototype.get = function(name) {\n\treturn this.variables[name];\n};\n\nSimpleServer.prototype.addRoute = function(route) 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\"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\";\n\t\t\t\tresponse.writeHead(200, {\"Content-Type\": \"application/json\"});\n\t\t\t\tresponse.end(JSON.stringify(tiddlerFields),\"utf8\");\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tresponse.writeHead(404);\n\t\t\t\tresponse.end();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t});\n};\n\nCommand.prototype.execute = function() {\n\tif(!$tw.boot.wikiTiddlersPath) {\n\t\t$tw.utils.warning(\"Warning: Wiki folder '\" + $tw.boot.wikiPath + \"' does not exist or is missing a tiddlywiki.info file\");\n\t}\n\tvar port = this.params[0] || \"8080\",\n\t\trootTiddler = this.params[1] || \"$:/core/save/all\",\n\t\trenderType = this.params[2] || \"text/plain\",\n\t\tserveType = this.params[3] || \"text/html\",\n\t\tusername = this.params[4],\n\t\tpassword = this.params[5],\n\t\thost = this.params[6] || \"127.0.0.1\",\n\t\tpathprefix = this.params[7];\n\tthis.server.set({\n\t\trootTiddler: rootTiddler,\n\t\trenderType: renderType,\n\t\tserveType: serveType,\n\t\tusername: username,\n\t\tpassword: password,\n\t\tpathprefix: pathprefix\n\t});\n\tthis.server.listen(port,host);\n\tconsole.log(\"Serving on \" + host + \":\" + port);\n\tconsole.log(\"(press ctrl-C to exit)\");\n\treturn null;\n};\n\nexports.Command = Command;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/commands/unpackplugin.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: command\n\nCommand to extract the shadow tiddlers from within a plugin\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.info = {\n\tname: \"unpackplugin\",\n\tsynchronous: true\n};\n\nvar Command = function(params,commander,callback) {\n\tthis.params = params;\n\tthis.commander = commander;\n\tthis.callback = callback;\n};\n\nCommand.prototype.execute = function() {\n\tif(this.params.length < 1) {\n\t\treturn \"Missing plugin name\";\n\t}\n\tvar self = this,\n\t\ttitle = this.params[0],\n\t\tpluginData = this.commander.wiki.getTiddlerData(title);\n\tif(!pluginData) {\n\t\treturn \"Plugin '\" + title + \"' not found\";\n\t}\n\t$tw.utils.each(pluginData.tiddlers,function(tiddler) {\n\t\tself.commander.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler));\n\t});\n\treturn null;\n};\n\nexports.Command = Command;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/dash.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki text inline rule for dashes. For example:\n\n```\nThis is an en-dash: --\n\nThis is an em-dash: ---\n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"dash\";\nexports.types = {inline: true};\n\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n\t// Regexp to match\n\tthis.matchRegExp = /-{2,3}(?!-)/mg;\n};\n\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Move past the match\n\tthis.parser.pos = this.matchRegExp.lastIndex;\n\tvar dash = this.match[0].length === 2 ? \"–\" : \"—\";\n\treturn [{\n\t\ttype: \"entity\",\n\t\tentity: dash\n\t}];\n};\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/emphasis/bold.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki text inline rule for emphasis - bold. For example:\n\n```\n\tThis is ''bold'' text\n```\n\nThis wikiparser can be modified using the rules eg:\n\n```\n\\rules except bold \n\\rules only bold \n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"bold\";\nexports.types = {inline: true};\n\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n\t// Regexp to match\n\tthis.matchRegExp = /''/mg;\n};\n\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Move past the match\n\tthis.parser.pos = this.matchRegExp.lastIndex;\n\n\t// Parse the run including the terminator\n\tvar tree = this.parser.parseInlineRun(/''/mg,{eatTerminator: true});\n\n\t// Return the classed span\n\treturn [{\n\t\ttype: \"element\",\n\t\ttag: \"strong\",\n\t\tchildren: tree\n\t}];\n};\n\n})();",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/emphasis/italic.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki text inline rule for emphasis - italic. For example:\n\n```\n\tThis is //italic// text\n```\n\nThis wikiparser can be modified using the rules eg:\n\n```\n\\rules except italic\n\\rules only italic\n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"italic\";\nexports.types = {inline: true};\n\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n\t// Regexp to match\n\tthis.matchRegExp = /\\/\\//mg;\n};\n\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Move past the match\n\tthis.parser.pos = this.matchRegExp.lastIndex;\n\n\t// Parse the run including the terminator\n\tvar tree = this.parser.parseInlineRun(/\\/\\//mg,{eatTerminator: true});\n\n\t// Return the classed span\n\treturn [{\n\t\ttype: \"element\",\n\t\ttag: \"em\",\n\t\tchildren: tree\n\t}];\n};\n\n})();",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/image.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki text inline rule for embedding images. For example:\n\n```\n[img[http://tiddlywiki.com/fractalveg.jpg]]\n[img width=23 height=24 [http://tiddlywiki.com/fractalveg.jpg]]\n[img width={{!!width}} height={{!!height}} [http://tiddlywiki.com/fractalveg.jpg]]\n[img[Description of image|http://tiddlywiki.com/fractalveg.jpg]]\n[img[TiddlerTitle]]\n[img[Description of image|TiddlerTitle]]\n```\n\nGenerates the `<$image>` widget.\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"image\";\nexports.types = {inline: true};\n\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n};\n\nexports.findNextMatch = function(startPos) {\n\t// Find the next tag\n\tthis.nextImage = this.findNextImage(this.parser.source,startPos);\n\treturn this.nextImage ? this.nextImage.start : undefined;\n};\n\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Move past the match\n\tthis.parser.pos = this.nextImage.end;\n\tvar node = {\n\t\ttype: \"image\",\n\t\tattributes: this.nextImage.attributes\n\t};\n\treturn [node];\n};\n\n/*\nFind the next image from the current position\n*/\nexports.findNextImage = function(source,pos) {\n\t// A regexp for finding candidate HTML tags\n\tvar reLookahead = /(\\[img)/g;\n\t// Find the next candidate\n\treLookahead.lastIndex = pos;\n\tvar match = reLookahead.exec(source);\n\twhile(match) {\n\t\t// Try to parse the candidate as a tag\n\t\tvar tag = this.parseImage(source,match.index);\n\t\t// Return success\n\t\tif(tag) {\n\t\t\treturn tag;\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Look for the next match\n\t\treLookahead.lastIndex = match.index + 1;\n\t\tmatch = reLookahead.exec(source);\n\t}\n\t// Failed\n\treturn null;\n};\n\n/*\nLook for an image at the specified position. Returns null if not found, otherwise returns {type: \"image\", attributes: [], isSelfClosing:, start:, end:,}\n*/\nexports.parseImage = function(source,pos) {\n\tvar token,\n\t\tnode = {\n\t\t\ttype: \"image\",\n\t\t\tstart: pos,\n\t\t\tattributes: {}\n\t\t};\n\t// Skip whitespace\n\tpos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(source,pos);\n\t// Look for the `[img`\n\ttoken = $tw.utils.parseTokenString(source,pos,\"[img\");\n\tif(!token) {\n\t\treturn null;\n\t}\n\tpos = token.end;\n\t// Skip whitespace\n\tpos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(source,pos);\n\t// Process attributes\n\tif(source.charAt(pos) !== \"[\") {\n\t\tvar attribute = $tw.utils.parseAttribute(source,pos);\n\t\twhile(attribute) {\n\t\t\tnode.attributes[attribute.name] = attribute;\n\t\t\tpos = attribute.end;\n\t\t\tpos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(source,pos);\n\t\t\tif(source.charAt(pos) !== \"[\") {\n\t\t\t\t// Get the next attribute\n\t\t\t\tattribute = $tw.utils.parseAttribute(source,pos);\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tattribute = null;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Skip whitespace\n\tpos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(source,pos);\n\t// Look for the `[` after the attributes\n\ttoken = $tw.utils.parseTokenString(source,pos,\"[\");\n\tif(!token) {\n\t\treturn null;\n\t}\n\tpos = token.end;\n\t// Skip whitespace\n\tpos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(source,pos);\n\t// Get the source up to the terminating `]]`\n\ttoken = $tw.utils.parseTokenRegExp(source,pos,/(?:([^|\\]]*?)\\|)?([^\\]]+?)\\]\\]/g);\n\tif(!token) {\n\t\treturn null;\n\t}\n\tpos = token.end;\n\tif(token.match[1]) {\n\t\tnode.attributes.tooltip = {type: \"string\", value: token.match[1].trim()};\n\t}\n\tnode.attributes.source = {type: \"string\", value: (token.match[2] || \"\").trim()};\n\t// Update the end position\n\tnode.end = pos;\n\treturn node;\n};\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/list.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki text block rule for lists. For example:\n\n```\n* This is an unordered list\n* It has two items\n\n# This is a numbered list\n## With a subitem\n# And a third item\n\n; This is a term that is being defined\n: This is the definition of that term\n```\n\nNote that lists can be nested arbitrarily:\n\n```\n#** One\n#* Two\n#** Three\n#**** Four\n#**# Five\n#**## Six\n## Seven\n### Eight\n## Nine\n```\n\nA CSS class can be applied to a list item as follows:\n\n```\n* List item one\n*.active List item two has the class `active`\n* List item three\n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"list\";\nexports.types = {block: true};\n\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n\t// Regexp to match\n\tthis.matchRegExp = /([\\*#;:>]+)/mg;\n};\n\nvar listTypes = {\n\t\"*\": {listTag: \"ul\", itemTag: \"li\"},\n\t\"#\": {listTag: \"ol\", itemTag: \"li\"},\n\t\";\": {listTag: \"dl\", itemTag: \"dt\"},\n\t\":\": {listTag: \"dl\", itemTag: \"dd\"},\n\t\">\": {listTag: \"blockquote\", itemTag: \"p\"}\n};\n\n/*\nParse the most recent match\n*/\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Array of parse tree nodes for the previous row of the list\n\tvar listStack = [];\n\t// Cycle through the items in the list\n\twhile(true) {\n\t\t// Match the list marker\n\t\tvar reMatch = /([\\*#;:>]+)/mg;\n\t\treMatch.lastIndex = this.parser.pos;\n\t\tvar match = reMatch.exec(this.parser.source);\n\t\tif(!match || match.index !== this.parser.pos) {\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Check whether the list type of the top level matches\n\t\tvar listInfo = listTypes[match[0].charAt(0)];\n\t\tif(listStack.length > 0 && listStack[0].tag !== listInfo.listTag) {\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Move past the list marker\n\t\tthis.parser.pos = match.index + match[0].length;\n\t\t// Walk through the list markers for the current row\n\t\tfor(var t=0; t<match[0].length; t++) {\n\t\t\tlistInfo = listTypes[match[0].charAt(t)];\n\t\t\t// Remove any stacked up element if we can't re-use it because the list type doesn't match\n\t\t\tif(listStack.length > t && listStack[t].tag !== listInfo.listTag) {\n\t\t\t\tlistStack.splice(t,listStack.length - t);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// Construct the list element or reuse the previous one at this level\n\t\t\tif(listStack.length <= t) {\n\t\t\t\tvar listElement = {type: \"element\", tag: listInfo.listTag, children: [\n\t\t\t\t\t{type: \"element\", tag: listInfo.itemTag, children: []}\n\t\t\t\t]};\n\t\t\t\t// Link this list element into the last child item of the parent list item\n\t\t\t\tif(t) {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar prevListItem = listStack[t-1].children[listStack[t-1].children.length-1];\n\t\t\t\t\tprevListItem.children.push(listElement);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t// Save this element in the stack\n\t\t\t\tlistStack[t] = listElement;\n\t\t\t} else if(t === (match[0].length - 1)) {\n\t\t\t\tlistStack[t].children.push({type: \"element\", tag: listInfo.itemTag, children: []});\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\tif(listStack.length > match[0].length) {\n\t\t\tlistStack.splice(match[0].length,listStack.length - match[0].length);\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Process the body of the list item into the last list item\n\t\tvar lastListChildren = listStack[listStack.length-1].children,\n\t\t\tlastListItem = lastListChildren[lastListChildren.length-1],\n\t\t\tclasses = this.parser.parseClasses();\n\t\tthis.parser.skipWhitespace({treatNewlinesAsNonWhitespace: true});\n\t\tvar tree = this.parser.parseInlineRun(/(\\r?\\n)/mg);\n\t\tlastListItem.children.push.apply(lastListItem.children,tree);\n\t\tif(classes.length > 0) {\n\t\t\t$tw.utils.addClassToParseTreeNode(lastListItem,classes.join(\" \"));\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Consume any whitespace following the list item\n\t\tthis.parser.skipWhitespace();\n\t}\n\t// Return the root element of the list\n\treturn [listStack[0]];\n};\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/macrodef.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikirule\n\nWiki pragma rule for macro definitions\n\n```\n\\define name(param:defaultvalue,param2:defaultvalue)\ndefinition text, including $param$ markers\n\\end\n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nexports.name = \"macrodef\";\nexports.types = {pragma: true};\n\n/*\nInstantiate parse rule\n*/\nexports.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n\t// Regexp to match\n\tthis.matchRegExp = /^\\\\define\\s+([^(\\s]+)\\(\\s*([^)]*)\\)(\\s*\\r?\\n)?/mg;\n};\n\n/*\nParse the most recent match\n*/\nexports.parse = function() {\n\t// Move past the macro name and parameters\n\tthis.parser.pos = this.matchRegExp.lastIndex;\n\t// Parse the parameters\n\tvar paramString = this.match[2],\n\t\tparams = [];\n\tif(paramString !== \"\") {\n\t\tvar reParam = /\\s*([A-Za-z0-9\\-_]+)(?:\\s*:\\s*(?:\"\"\"([\\s\\S]*?)\"\"\"|\"([^\"]*)\"|'([^']*)'|\\[\\[([^\\]]*)\\]\\]|([^\"'\\s]+)))?/mg,\n\t\t\tparamMatch = reParam.exec(paramString);\n\t\twhile(paramMatch) {\n\t\t\t// Save the parameter details\n\t\t\tvar paramInfo = {name: paramMatch[1]},\n\t\t\t\tdefaultValue = paramMatch[2] || paramMatch[3] || paramMatch[4] || paramMatch[5] || paramMatch[6];\n\t\t\tif(defaultValue) {\n\t\t\t\tparamInfo[\"default\"] = defaultValue;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tparams.push(paramInfo);\n\t\t\t// Look for the next parameter\n\t\t\tparamMatch = reParam.exec(paramString);\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Is this a multiline definition?\n\tvar reEnd;\n\tif(this.match[3]) {\n\t\t// If so, the end of the body is marked with \\end\n\t\treEnd = /(\\r?\\n\\\\end[^\\S\\n\\r]*(?:$|\\r?\\n))/mg;\n\t} else {\n\t\t// Otherwise, the end of the definition is marked by the end of the line\n\t\treEnd = /(\\r?\\n)/mg;\n\t\t// Move past any whitespace\n\t\tthis.parser.pos = $tw.utils.skipWhiteSpace(this.parser.source,this.parser.pos);\n\t}\n\t// Find the end of the definition\n\treEnd.lastIndex = this.parser.pos;\n\tvar text,\n\t\tendMatch = reEnd.exec(this.parser.source);\n\tif(endMatch) {\n\t\ttext = this.parser.source.substring(this.parser.pos,endMatch.index);\n\t\tthis.parser.pos = endMatch.index + endMatch[0].length;\n\t} else {\n\t\t// We didn't find the end of the definition, so we'll make it blank\n\t\ttext = \"\";\n\t}\n\t// Save the macro definition\n\treturn [{\n\t\ttype: \"macrodef\",\n\t\tname: this.match[1],\n\t\tparams: params,\n\t\ttext: text\n\t}];\n};\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/wikiparser.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: parser\n\nThe wiki text parser processes blocks of source text into a parse tree.\n\nThe parse tree is made up of nested arrays of these JavaScript objects:\n\n\t{type: \"element\", tag: <string>, attributes: {}, children: []} - an HTML element\n\t{type: \"text\", text: <string>} - a text node\n\t{type: \"entity\", value: <string>} - an entity\n\t{type: \"raw\", html: <string>} - raw HTML\n\nAttributes are stored as hashmaps of the following objects:\n\n\t{type: \"string\", value: <string>} - literal string\n\t{type: \"indirect\", textReference: <textReference>} - indirect through a text reference\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar WikiParser = function(type,text,options) {\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\t// Initialise the classes if we don't have them already\n\tif(!this.pragmaRuleClasses) {\n\t\tWikiParser.prototype.pragmaRuleClasses = $tw.modules.createClassesFromModules(\"wikirule\",\"pragma\",$tw.WikiRuleBase);\n\t}\n\tif(!this.blockRuleClasses) {\n\t\tWikiParser.prototype.blockRuleClasses = $tw.modules.createClassesFromModules(\"wikirule\",\"block\",$tw.WikiRuleBase);\n\t}\n\tif(!this.inlineRuleClasses) {\n\t\tWikiParser.prototype.inlineRuleClasses = $tw.modules.createClassesFromModules(\"wikirule\",\"inline\",$tw.WikiRuleBase);\n\t}\n\t// Save the parse text\n\tthis.type = type || \"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\";\n\tthis.source = text || \"\";\n\tthis.sourceLength = this.source.length;\n\t// Set current parse position\n\tthis.pos = 0;\n\t// Instantiate the pragma parse rules\n\tthis.pragmaRules = this.instantiateRules(this.pragmaRuleClasses,\"pragma\",0);\n\t// Instantiate the parser block and inline rules\n\tthis.blockRules = this.instantiateRules(this.blockRuleClasses,\"block\",0);\n\tthis.inlineRules = this.instantiateRules(this.inlineRuleClasses,\"inline\",0);\n\t// Parse any pragmas\n\tthis.tree = this.parsePragmas();\n\t// Parse the text into inline runs or blocks\n\tif(options.parseAsInline) {\n\t\tthis.tree.push.apply(this.tree,this.parseInlineRun());\n\t} else {\n\t\tthis.tree.push.apply(this.tree,this.parseBlocks());\n\t}\n\t// Return the parse tree\n};\n\n/*\nInstantiate an array of parse rules\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.instantiateRules = function(classes,type,startPos) {\n\tvar rulesInfo = [],\n\t\tself = this;\n\t$tw.utils.each(classes,function(RuleClass) {\n\t\t// Instantiate the rule\n\t\tvar rule = new RuleClass(self);\n\t\trule.is = {};\n\t\trule.is[type] = true;\n\t\trule.init(self);\n\t\tvar matchIndex = rule.findNextMatch(startPos);\n\t\tif(matchIndex !== undefined) {\n\t\t\trulesInfo.push({\n\t\t\t\trule: rule,\n\t\t\t\tmatchIndex: matchIndex\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t}\n\t});\n\treturn rulesInfo;\n};\n\n/*\nSkip any whitespace at the current position. Options are:\n\ttreatNewlinesAsNonWhitespace: true if newlines are NOT to be treated as whitespace\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.skipWhitespace = function(options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\tvar whitespaceRegExp = options.treatNewlinesAsNonWhitespace ? /([^\\S\\n]+)/mg : /(\\s+)/mg;\n\twhitespaceRegExp.lastIndex = this.pos;\n\tvar whitespaceMatch = whitespaceRegExp.exec(this.source);\n\tif(whitespaceMatch && whitespaceMatch.index === this.pos) {\n\t\tthis.pos = whitespaceRegExp.lastIndex;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nGet the next match out of an array of parse rule instances\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.findNextMatch = function(rules,startPos) {\n\t// Find the best matching rule by finding the closest match position\n\tvar matchingRule,\n\t\tmatchingRulePos = this.sourceLength;\n\t// Step through each rule\n\tfor(var t=0; t<rules.length; t++) {\n\t\tvar ruleInfo = rules[t];\n\t\t// Ask the rule to get the next match if we've moved past the current one\n\t\tif(ruleInfo.matchIndex !== undefined && ruleInfo.matchIndex < startPos) {\n\t\t\truleInfo.matchIndex = ruleInfo.rule.findNextMatch(startPos);\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Adopt this match if it's closer than the current best match\n\t\tif(ruleInfo.matchIndex !== undefined && ruleInfo.matchIndex <= matchingRulePos) {\n\t\t\tmatchingRule = ruleInfo;\n\t\t\tmatchingRulePos = ruleInfo.matchIndex;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn matchingRule;\n};\n\n/*\nParse any pragmas at the beginning of a block of parse text\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.parsePragmas = function() {\n\tvar tree = [];\n\twhile(true) {\n\t\t// Skip whitespace\n\t\tthis.skipWhitespace();\n\t\t// Check for the end of the text\n\t\tif(this.pos >= this.sourceLength) {\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Check if we've arrived at a pragma rule match\n\t\tvar nextMatch = this.findNextMatch(this.pragmaRules,this.pos);\n\t\t// If not, just exit\n\t\tif(!nextMatch || nextMatch.matchIndex !== this.pos) {\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Process the pragma rule\n\t\ttree.push.apply(tree,nextMatch.rule.parse());\n\t}\n\treturn tree;\n};\n\n/*\nParse a block from the current position\n\tterminatorRegExpString: optional regular expression string that identifies the end of plain paragraphs. Must not include capturing parenthesis\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.parseBlock = function(terminatorRegExpString) {\n\tvar terminatorRegExp = terminatorRegExpString ? new RegExp(\"(\" + terminatorRegExpString + \"|\\\\r?\\\\n\\\\r?\\\\n)\",\"mg\") : /(\\r?\\n\\r?\\n)/mg;\n\tthis.skipWhitespace();\n\tif(this.pos >= this.sourceLength) {\n\t\treturn [];\n\t}\n\t// Look for a block rule that applies at the current position\n\tvar nextMatch = this.findNextMatch(this.blockRules,this.pos);\n\tif(nextMatch && nextMatch.matchIndex === this.pos) {\n\t\treturn nextMatch.rule.parse();\n\t}\n\t// Treat it as a paragraph if we didn't find a block rule\n\treturn [{type: \"element\", tag: \"p\", children: this.parseInlineRun(terminatorRegExp)}];\n};\n\n/*\nParse a series of blocks of text until a terminating regexp is encountered or the end of the text\n\tterminatorRegExpString: terminating regular expression\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.parseBlocks = function(terminatorRegExpString) {\n\tif(terminatorRegExpString) {\n\t\treturn this.parseBlocksTerminated(terminatorRegExpString);\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.parseBlocksUnterminated();\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nParse a block from the current position to the end of the text\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.parseBlocksUnterminated = function() {\n\tvar tree = [];\n\twhile(this.pos < this.sourceLength) {\n\t\ttree.push.apply(tree,this.parseBlock());\n\t}\n\treturn tree;\n};\n\n/*\nParse blocks of text until a terminating regexp is encountered\n*/\nWikiParser.prototype.parseBlocksTerminated = function(terminatorRegExpString) {\n\tvar terminatorRegExp = new RegExp(\"(\" + terminatorRegExpString + \")\",\"mg\"),\n\t\ttree = [];\n\t// Skip any whitespace\n\tthis.skipWhitespace();\n\t// Check if we've got the end marker\n\tterminatorRegExp.lastIndex = this.pos;\n\tvar match = terminatorRegExp.exec(this.source);\n\t// Parse the text into blocks\n\twhile(this.pos < this.sourceLength && !(match && match.index === this.pos)) {\n\t\tvar blocks = 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/wikirulebase.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: global\n\nBase class for wiki parser rules\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\nThis constructor is always overridden with a blank constructor, and so shouldn't be used\n*/\nvar WikiRuleBase = function() {\n};\n\n/*\nTo be overridden by individual rules\n*/\nWikiRuleBase.prototype.init = function(parser) {\n\tthis.parser = parser;\n};\n\n/*\nDefault implementation of findNextMatch uses RegExp matching\n*/\nWikiRuleBase.prototype.findNextMatch = function(startPos) {\n\tthis.matchRegExp.lastIndex = startPos;\n\tthis.match = this.matchRegExp.exec(this.parser.source);\n\treturn this.match ? this.match.index : undefined;\n};\n\nexports.WikiRuleBase = WikiRuleBase;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/pluginswitcher.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: global\n\nManages switching plugins for themes and languages.\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\noptions:\nwiki: wiki store to be used\npluginType: type of plugin to be switched\ncontrollerTitle: title of tiddler used to control switching of this resource\ndefaultPlugins: array of default plugins to be used if nominated plugin isn't found\n*/\nfunction PluginSwitcher(options) {\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\tthis.pluginType = options.pluginType;\n\tthis.controllerTitle = options.controllerTitle;\n\tthis.defaultPlugins = options.defaultPlugins || [];\n\t// Switch to the current plugin\n\tthis.switchPlugins();\n\t// Listen for changes to the selected plugin\n\tvar self = this;\n\tthis.wiki.addEventListener(\"change\",function(changes) {\n\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(changes,self.controllerTitle)) {\n\t\t\tself.switchPlugins();\n\t\t}\n\t});\n}\n\nPluginSwitcher.prototype.switchPlugins = function() {\n\t// Get the name of the current theme\n\tvar selectedPluginTitle = this.wiki.getTiddlerText(this.controllerTitle);\n\t// If it doesn't exist, then fallback to one of the default themes\n\tvar index = 0;\n\twhile(!this.wiki.getTiddler(selectedPluginTitle) && index < this.defaultPlugins.length) {\n\t\tselectedPluginTitle = this.defaultPlugins[index++];\n\t}\n\t// Accumulate the titles of the plugins that we need to load\n\tvar plugins = [],\n\t\tself = this,\n\t\taccumulatePlugin = function(title) {\n\t\t\tvar tiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(title);\n\t\t\tif(tiddler && tiddler.isPlugin() && plugins.indexOf(title) === -1) {\n\t\t\t\tplugins.push(title);\n\t\t\t\tvar pluginInfo = JSON.parse(self.wiki.getTiddlerText(title)),\n\t\t\t\t\tdependents = $tw.utils.parseStringArray(tiddler.fields.dependents || \"\");\n\t\t\t\t$tw.utils.each(dependents,function(title) {\n\t\t\t\t\taccumulatePlugin(title);\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t};\n\taccumulatePlugin(selectedPluginTitle);\n\t// Unregister any existing theme tiddlers\n\tvar unregisteredTiddlers = $tw.wiki.unregisterPluginTiddlers(this.pluginType);\n\t// Register any new theme tiddlers\n\tvar registeredTiddlers = $tw.wiki.registerPluginTiddlers(this.pluginType,plugins);\n\t// Unpack the current theme tiddlers\n\t$tw.wiki.unpackPluginTiddlers();\n};\n\nexports.PluginSwitcher = PluginSwitcher;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/saver-handler.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: global\n\nThe saver handler tracks changes to the store and handles saving the entire wiki via saver modules.\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\nInstantiate the saver handler with the following options:\nwiki: wiki to be synced\ndirtyTracking: true if dirty tracking should be performed\n*/\nfunction SaverHandler(options) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\tthis.dirtyTracking = options.dirtyTracking;\n\tthis.pendingAutoSave = false;\n\t// Make a logger\n\tthis.logger = new $tw.utils.Logger(\"saver-handler\");\n\t// Initialise our savers\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\tthis.initSavers();\n\t}\n\t// Only do dirty tracking if required\n\tif($tw.browser && this.dirtyTracking) {\n\t\t// Compile the dirty tiddler filter\n\t\tthis.filterFn = this.wiki.compileFilter(this.wiki.getTiddlerText(this.titleSyncFilter));\n\t\t// Count of changes that have not yet been saved\n\t\tthis.numChanges = 0;\n\t\t// Listen out for changes to tiddlers\n\t\tthis.wiki.addEventListener(\"change\",function(changes) {\n\t\t\t// Filter the changes so that we only count changes to tiddlers that we care about\n\t\t\tvar filteredChanges = self.filterFn.call(self.wiki,function(callback) {\n\t\t\t\t$tw.utils.each(changes,function(change,title) {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar tiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(title);\n\t\t\t\t\tcallback(tiddler,title);\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t// Adjust the number of changes\n\t\t\tself.numChanges += filteredChanges.length;\n\t\t\tself.updateDirtyStatus();\n\t\t\t// Do any autosave if one is pending and there's no more change events\n\t\t\tif(self.pendingAutoSave && self.wiki.getSizeOfTiddlerEventQueue() === 0) {\n\t\t\t\t// Check if we're dirty\n\t\t\t\tif(self.numChanges > 0) {\n\t\t\t\t\tself.saveWiki({\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmethod: \"autosave\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdownloadType: \"text/plain\"\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tself.pendingAutoSave = false;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen for the autosave event\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-auto-save-wiki\",function(event) {\n\t\t\t// Do the autosave unless there are outstanding tiddler change events\n\t\t\tif(self.wiki.getSizeOfTiddlerEventQueue() === 0) {\n\t\t\t\t// Check if we're dirty\n\t\t\t\tif(self.numChanges > 0) {\n\t\t\t\t\tself.saveWiki({\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmethod: \"autosave\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdownloadType: \"text/plain\"\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t// Otherwise put ourselves in the \"pending autosave\" state and wait for the change event before we do the autosave\n\t\t\t\tself.pendingAutoSave = true;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Set up our beforeunload handler\n\t\twindow.addEventListener(\"beforeunload\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tvar confirmationMessage;\n\t\t\tif(self.isDirty()) {\n\t\t\t\tconfirmationMessage = $tw.language.getString(\"UnsavedChangesWarning\");\n\t\t\t\tevent.returnValue = confirmationMessage; // Gecko\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn confirmationMessage;\n\t\t});\n\t}\n\t// Install the save action handlers\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-save-wiki\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tself.saveWiki({\n\t\t\t\ttemplate: event.param,\n\t\t\t\tdownloadType: \"text/plain\",\n\t\t\t\tvariables: event.paramObject\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-download-file\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tself.saveWiki({\n\t\t\t\tmethod: \"download\",\n\t\t\t\ttemplate: event.param,\n\t\t\t\tdownloadType: \"text/plain\",\n\t\t\t\tvariables: event.paramObject\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t}\n}\n\nSaverHandler.prototype.titleSyncFilter = \"$:/config/SaverFilter\";\nSaverHandler.prototype.titleAutoSave = \"$:/config/AutoSave\";\nSaverHandler.prototype.titleSavedNotification = \"$:/language/Notifications/Save/Done\";\n\n/*\nSelect the appropriate saver modules and set them up\n*/\nSaverHandler.prototype.initSavers = function(moduleType) {\n\tmoduleType = moduleType || \"saver\";\n\t// Instantiate the available savers\n\tthis.savers = [];\n\tvar self = this;\n\t$tw.modules.forEachModuleOfType(moduleType,function(title,module) {\n\t\tif(module.canSave(self)) {\n\t\t\tself.savers.push(module.create(self.wiki));\n\t\t}\n\t});\n\t// Sort the savers into priority order\n\tthis.savers.sort(function(a,b) {\n\t\tif(a.info.priority < b.info.priority) {\n\t\t\treturn -1;\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\tif(a.info.priority > b.info.priority) {\n\t\t\t\treturn +1;\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\treturn 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t});\n};\n\n/*\nSave the wiki contents. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/startup/story.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: startup\n\nLoad core modules\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n// Export name and synchronous status\nexports.name = \"story\";\nexports.after = [\"startup\"];\nexports.synchronous = true;\n\n// Default story and history lists\nvar DEFAULT_STORY_TITLE = \"$:/StoryList\";\nvar DEFAULT_HISTORY_TITLE = \"$:/HistoryList\";\n\n// Default tiddlers\nvar DEFAULT_TIDDLERS_TITLE = \"$:/DefaultTiddlers\";\n\n// Config\nvar CONFIG_UPDATE_ADDRESS_BAR = \"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar\"; // Can be \"no\", \"permalink\", \"permaview\"\nvar CONFIG_UPDATE_HISTORY = \"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory\"; // Can be \"yes\" or \"no\"\n\nexports.startup = function() {\n\t// Open startup tiddlers\n\topenStartupTiddlers();\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\t// Set up location hash update\n\t\t$tw.wiki.addEventListener(\"change\",function(changes) {\n\t\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(changes,DEFAULT_STORY_TITLE) || $tw.utils.hop(changes,DEFAULT_HISTORY_TITLE)) {\n\t\t\t\tupdateLocationHash({\n\t\t\t\t\tupdateAddressBar: $tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(CONFIG_UPDATE_ADDRESS_BAR,\"permaview\").trim(),\n\t\t\t\t\tupdateHistory: $tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(CONFIG_UPDATE_HISTORY,\"no\").trim()\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen for changes to the browser location hash\n\t\twindow.addEventListener(\"hashchange\",function() {\n\t\t\tvar hash = $tw.utils.getLocationHash();\n\t\t\tif(hash !== $tw.locationHash) {\n\t\t\t\t$tw.locationHash = hash;\n\t\t\t\topenStartupTiddlers({defaultToCurrentStory: true});\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t},false);\n\t\t// Listen for the tm-browser-refresh message\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-browser-refresh\",function(event) {\n\t\t\twindow.location.reload(true);\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen for the tm-home message\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-home\",function(event) {\n\t\t\twindow.location.hash = \"\";\n\t\t\tvar storyFilter = $tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(DEFAULT_TIDDLERS_TITLE),\n\t\t\t\tstoryList = $tw.wiki.filterTiddlers(storyFilter);\n\t\t\t//invoke any hooks that might change the default story list\n\t\t\tstoryList = $tw.hooks.invokeHook(\"th-opening-default-tiddlers-list\",storyList);\n\t\t\t$tw.wiki.addTiddler({title: DEFAULT_STORY_TITLE, text: \"\", list: storyList},$tw.wiki.getModificationFields());\n\t\t\tif(storyList[0]) {\n\t\t\t\t$tw.wiki.addToHistory(storyList[0]);\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen for the tm-permalink message\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-permalink\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tupdateLocationHash({\n\t\t\t\tupdateAddressBar: \"permalink\",\n\t\t\t\tupdateHistory: $tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(CONFIG_UPDATE_HISTORY,\"no\").trim(),\n\t\t\t\ttargetTiddler: event.param || event.tiddlerTitle\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen for the tm-permaview message\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-permaview\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tupdateLocationHash({\n\t\t\t\tupdateAddressBar: \"permaview\",\n\t\t\t\tupdateHistory: $tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(CONFIG_UPDATE_HISTORY,\"no\").trim(),\n\t\t\t\ttargetTiddler: event.param || event.tiddlerTitle\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nProcess the location hash to open the specified tiddlers. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/storyviews/classic.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: storyview\n\nViews the story as a linear sequence\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar easing = \"cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1)\"; // From http://easings.net/#easeInOutCubic\n\nvar ClassicStoryView = function(listWidget) {\n\tthis.listWidget = listWidget;\n};\n\nClassicStoryView.prototype.navigateTo = function(historyInfo) {\n\tvar listElementIndex = this.listWidget.findListItem(0,historyInfo.title);\n\tif(listElementIndex === undefined) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\tvar listItemWidget = this.listWidget.children[listElementIndex],\n\t\ttargetElement = listItemWidget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Scroll the node into view\n\tthis.listWidget.dispatchEvent({type: \"tm-scroll\", target: targetElement});\n};\n\nClassicStoryView.prototype.insert = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode(),\n\t\tduration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Get the current height of the tiddler\n\tvar computedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(targetElement),\n\t\tcurrMarginBottom = parseInt(computedStyle.marginBottom,10),\n\t\tcurrMarginTop = parseInt(computedStyle.marginTop,10),\n\t\tcurrHeight = targetElement.offsetHeight + currMarginTop;\n\t// Reset the margin once the transition is over\n\tsetTimeout(function() {\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t\t{marginBottom: \"\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t},duration);\n\t// Set up the initial position of the element\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: (-currHeight) + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(targetElement);\n\t// Transition to the final position\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: \"opacity \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"margin-bottom \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing},\n\t\t{marginBottom: currMarginBottom + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1.0\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\nClassicStoryView.prototype.remove = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode(),\n\t\tduration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration(),\n\t\tremoveElement = function() {\n\t\t\twidget.removeChildDomNodes();\n\t\t};\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\tremoveElement();\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Get the current height of the tiddler\n\tvar currWidth = targetElement.offsetWidth,\n\t\tcomputedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(targetElement),\n\t\tcurrMarginBottom = parseInt(computedStyle.marginBottom,10),\n\t\tcurrMarginTop = parseInt(computedStyle.marginTop,10),\n\t\tcurrHeight = targetElement.offsetHeight + currMarginTop;\n\t// Remove the dom nodes of the widget at the end of the transition\n\tsetTimeout(removeElement,duration);\n\t// Animate the closure\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px)\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: currMarginBottom + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1.0\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(targetElement);\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"opacity \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"margin-bottom \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing},\n\t\t{transform: \"translateX(-\" + currWidth + \"px)\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: (-currHeight) + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\nexports.classic = ClassicStoryView;\n\n})();",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/storyviews/pop.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: storyview\n\nAnimates list insertions and removals\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar PopStoryView = function(listWidget) {\n\tthis.listWidget = listWidget;\n};\n\nPopStoryView.prototype.navigateTo = function(historyInfo) {\n\tvar listElementIndex = this.listWidget.findListItem(0,historyInfo.title);\n\tif(listElementIndex === undefined) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\tvar listItemWidget = this.listWidget.children[listElementIndex],\n\t\ttargetElement = listItemWidget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Scroll the node into view\n\tthis.listWidget.dispatchEvent({type: \"tm-scroll\", target: targetElement});\n};\n\nPopStoryView.prototype.insert = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode(),\n\t\tduration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Reset once the transition is over\n\tsetTimeout(function() {\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t\t{transform: \"none\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t},duration);\n\t// Set up the initial position of the element\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"scale(2)\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(targetElement);\n\t// Transition to the final position\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"opacity \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"scale(1)\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1.0\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\nPopStoryView.prototype.remove = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode(),\n\t\tduration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration(),\n\t\tremoveElement = function() {\n\t\t\tif(targetElement.parentNode) {\n\t\t\t\twidget.removeChildDomNodes();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t};\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\tremoveElement();\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Remove the element at the end of the transition\n\tsetTimeout(removeElement,duration);\n\t// Animate the closure\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"scale(1)\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1.0\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(targetElement);\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"opacity \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"scale(0.1)\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\nexports.pop = PopStoryView;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/storyviews/zoomin.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: storyview\n\nZooms between individual tiddlers\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar easing = \"cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1)\"; // From http://easings.net/#easeInOutCubic\n\nvar ZoominListView = function(listWidget) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\tthis.listWidget = listWidget;\n\t// Get the index of the tiddler that is at the top of the history\n\tvar history = this.listWidget.wiki.getTiddlerData(this.listWidget.historyTitle,[]),\n\t\ttargetTiddler;\n\tif(history.length > 0) {\n\t\ttargetTiddler = history[history.length-1].title;\n\t}\n\t// Make all the tiddlers position absolute, and hide all but the top (or first) one\n\t$tw.utils.each(this.listWidget.children,function(itemWidget,index) {\n\t\tvar domNode = itemWidget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\t\tif(!(domNode instanceof Element)) {\n\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t}\n\t\tif(targetTiddler !== itemWidget.parseTreeNode.itemTitle || (!targetTiddler && index)) {\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.display = \"none\";\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\tself.currentTiddlerDomNode = domNode;\n\t\t}\n\t\t$tw.utils.addClass(domNode,\"tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler\");\n\t});\n};\n\nZoominListView.prototype.navigateTo = function(historyInfo) {\n\tvar duration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration(),\n\t\tlistElementIndex = this.listWidget.findListItem(0,historyInfo.title);\n\tif(listElementIndex === undefined) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\tvar listItemWidget = this.listWidget.children[listElementIndex],\n\t\ttargetElement = listItemWidget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Make the new tiddler be position absolute and visible so that we can measure it\n\t$tw.utils.addClass(targetElement,\"tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler\");\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{display: \"block\"},\n\t\t{transformOrigin: \"0 0\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px) translateY(0px) scale(1)\"},\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"}\n\t]);\n\t// Get the position of the source node, or use the centre of the window as the source position\n\tvar sourceBounds = historyInfo.fromPageRect || {\n\t\t\tleft: window.innerWidth/2 - 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targetBounds.left - (sourceBounds.left - targetBounds.left) * scale;\n\t\ty = zoomBounds.top - targetBounds.top - (sourceBounds.top - targetBounds.top) * scale;\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(prevCurrentTiddler,[\n\t\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", opacity \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing},\n\t\t\t{opacity: \"0.0\"},\n\t\t\t{transformOrigin: \"0 0\"},\n\t\t\t{transform: \"translateX(\" + x + \"px) translateY(\" + y + \"px) scale(\" + scale + \")\"},\n\t\t\t{zIndex: \"0\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t\t// Hide the tiddler when the transition has finished\n\t\tsetTimeout(function() {\n\t\t\tif(self.currentTiddlerDomNode !== prevCurrentTiddler) {\n\t\t\t\tprevCurrentTiddler.style.display = \"none\";\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t},duration);\n\t}\n\t// Scroll the target into view\n//\t$tw.pageScroller.scrollIntoView(targetElement);\n};\n\n/*\nFind the first child DOM node of a widget that has the class \"tc-title\"\n*/\nfunction findTitleDomNode(widget,targetClass) {\n\ttargetClass = targetClass || \"tc-title\";\n\tvar domNode = widget.findFirstDomNode();\n\tif(domNode && domNode.querySelector) {\n\t\treturn domNode.querySelector(\".\" + targetClass);\n\t}\n\treturn null;\n}\n\nZoominListView.prototype.insert = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Make the newly inserted node position absolute and hidden\n\t$tw.utils.addClass(targetElement,\"tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler\");\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{display: \"none\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\nZoominListView.prototype.remove = function(widget) {\n\tvar targetElement = widget.findFirstDomNode(),\n\t\tduration = $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration(),\n\t\tremoveElement = function() {\n\t\t\twidget.removeChildDomNodes();\n\t\t};\n\t// Abandon if the list entry isn't a DOM element (it might be a text node)\n\tif(!(targetElement instanceof Element)) {\n\t\tremoveElement();\n\t\treturn;\n\t}\n\t// Set up the tiddler that is being closed\n\t$tw.utils.addClass(targetElement,\"tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler\");\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{display: \"block\"},\n\t\t{transformOrigin: \"50% 50%\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px) translateY(0px) scale(1)\"},\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{zIndex: \"0\"}\n\t]);\n\t// We'll move back to the previous or next element in the story\n\tvar toWidget = widget.previousSibling();\n\tif(!toWidget) {\n\t\ttoWidget = widget.nextSibling();\n\t}\n\tvar toWidgetDomNode = toWidget && toWidget.findFirstDomNode();\n\t// Set up the tiddler we're moving back in\n\tif(toWidgetDomNode) {\n\t\t$tw.utils.addClass(toWidgetDomNode,\"tc-storyview-zoomin-tiddler\");\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(toWidgetDomNode,[\n\t\t\t{display: \"block\"},\n\t\t\t{transformOrigin: \"50% 50%\"},\n\t\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px) translateY(0px) scale(10)\"},\n\t\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", opacity \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing},\n\t\t\t{opacity: \"0\"},\n\t\t\t{zIndex: \"500\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t\tthis.currentTiddlerDomNode = toWidgetDomNode;\n\t}\n\t// Animate them both\n\t// Force layout\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(this.listWidget.parentDomNode);\n\t// First, the tiddler we're closing\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(targetElement,[\n\t\t{transformOrigin: \"50% 50%\"},\n\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px) translateY(0px) scale(0.1)\"},\n\t\t{transition: $tw.utils.roundTripPropertyName(\"transform\") + \" \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing + \", opacity \" + duration + \"ms \" + easing},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0\"},\n\t\t{zIndex: \"0\"}\n\t]);\n\tsetTimeout(removeElement,duration);\n\t// Now the tiddler we're going back to\n\tif(toWidgetDomNode) {\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(toWidgetDomNode,[\n\t\t\t{transform: \"translateX(0px) translateY(0px) scale(1)\"},\n\t\t\t{opacity: \"1\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t}\n\treturn true; // Indicate that we'll delete the DOM node\n};\n\nexports.zoomin = ZoominListView;\n\n})();",
"title": "$:/core/modules/storyviews/zoomin.js",
"type": "application/javascript",
"module-type": "storyview"
},
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/syncer.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: global\n\nThe syncer tracks changes to the store. If a syncadaptor is used then individual tiddlers are synchronised through it. If there is no syncadaptor then the entire wiki is saved via saver modules.\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\nInstantiate the syncer with the following options:\nsyncadaptor: reference to syncadaptor to be used\nwiki: wiki to be synced\n*/\nfunction Syncer(options) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\tthis.syncadaptor = options.syncadaptor;\n\t// Make a logger\n\tthis.logger = new $tw.utils.Logger(\"syncer\" + ($tw.browser ? \"-browser\" : \"\") + ($tw.node ? \"-server\" : \"\"));\n\t// Compile the dirty tiddler filter\n\tthis.filterFn = this.wiki.compileFilter(this.wiki.getTiddlerText(this.titleSyncFilter));\n\t// Record information for known tiddlers\n\tthis.readTiddlerInfo();\n\t// Tasks are {type: \"load\"/\"save\"/\"delete\", title:, queueTime:, lastModificationTime:}\n\tthis.taskQueue = {}; // Hashmap of tasks yet to be performed\n\tthis.taskInProgress = {}; // Hash of tasks in progress\n\tthis.taskTimerId = null; // Timer for task dispatch\n\tthis.pollTimerId = null; // Timer for polling server\n\t// Listen out for changes to tiddlers\n\tthis.wiki.addEventListener(\"change\",function(changes) {\n\t\tself.syncToServer(changes);\n\t});\n\t// Browser event handlers\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\t// Set up our beforeunload handler\n\t\twindow.addEventListener(\"beforeunload\",function(event) {\n\t\t\tvar confirmationMessage;\n\t\t\tif(self.isDirty()) {\n\t\t\t\tconfirmationMessage = $tw.language.getString(\"UnsavedChangesWarning\");\n\t\t\t\tevent.returnValue = confirmationMessage; // Gecko\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn confirmationMessage;\n\t\t});\n\t\t// Listen out for login/logout/refresh events in the browser\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-login\",function() {\n\t\t\tself.handleLoginEvent();\n\t\t});\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-logout\",function() {\n\t\t\tself.handleLogoutEvent();\n\t\t});\n\t\t$tw.rootWidget.addEventListener(\"tm-server-refresh\",function() {\n\t\t\tself.handleRefreshEvent();\n\t\t});\n\t}\n\t// Listen out for lazyLoad events\n\tthis.wiki.addEventListener(\"lazyLoad\",function(title) {\n\t\tself.handleLazyLoadEvent(title);\n\t});\n\t// Get the login status\n\tthis.getStatus(function(err,isLoggedIn) {\n\t\t// Do a sync from the server\n\t\tself.syncFromServer();\n\t});\n}\n\n/*\nConstants\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.titleIsLoggedIn = \"$:/status/IsLoggedIn\";\nSyncer.prototype.titleUserName = \"$:/status/UserName\";\nSyncer.prototype.titleSyncFilter = \"$:/config/SyncFilter\";\nSyncer.prototype.titleSavedNotification = \"$:/language/Notifications/Save/Done\";\nSyncer.prototype.taskTimerInterval = 1 * 1000; // Interval for sync timer\nSyncer.prototype.throttleInterval = 1 * 1000; // Defer saving tiddlers if they've changed in the last 1s...\nSyncer.prototype.fallbackInterval = 10 * 1000; // Unless the task is older than 10s\nSyncer.prototype.pollTimerInterval = 60 * 1000; // Interval for polling for changes from the adaptor\n\n\n/*\nRead (or re-read) the latest tiddler info from the store\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.readTiddlerInfo = function() {\n\t// Hashmap by title of {revision:,changeCount:,adaptorInfo:}\n\tthis.tiddlerInfo = {};\n\t// Record information for known tiddlers\n\tvar self = this,\n\t\ttiddlers = this.filterFn.call(this.wiki);\n\t$tw.utils.each(tiddlers,function(title) {\n\t\tvar tiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(title);\n\t\tself.tiddlerInfo[title] = {\n\t\t\trevision: tiddler.fields.revision,\n\t\t\tadaptorInfo: self.syncadaptor && self.syncadaptor.getTiddlerInfo(tiddler),\n\t\t\tchangeCount: self.wiki.getChangeCount(title)\n\t\t};\n\t});\n};\n\n/*\nChecks whether the wiki is dirty (ie the window shouldn't be closed)\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.isDirty = function() {\n\treturn (this.numTasksInQueue() > 0) || (this.numTasksInProgress() > 0);\n};\n\n/*\nUpdate the document body with the class \"tc-dirty\" if the wiki has unsaved/unsynced changes\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.updateDirtyStatus = function() {\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\t$tw.utils.toggleClass(document.body,\"tc-dirty\",this.isDirty());\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nSave an incoming tiddler in the store, and updates the associated tiddlerInfo\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.storeTiddler = function(tiddlerFields) {\n\t// Save the tiddler\n\tvar tiddler = new $tw.Tiddler(this.wiki.getTiddler(tiddlerFields.title),tiddlerFields);\n\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(tiddler);\n\t// Save the tiddler revision and changeCount details\n\tthis.tiddlerInfo[tiddlerFields.title] = {\n\t\trevision: tiddlerFields.revision,\n\t\tadaptorInfo: this.syncadaptor.getTiddlerInfo(tiddler),\n\t\tchangeCount: this.wiki.getChangeCount(tiddlerFields.title)\n\t};\n};\n\nSyncer.prototype.getStatus = function(callback) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Check if the adaptor supports getStatus()\n\tif(this.syncadaptor && this.syncadaptor.getStatus) {\n\t\t// Mark us as not logged in\n\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler({title: this.titleIsLoggedIn,text: \"no\"});\n\t\t// Get login status\n\t\tthis.syncadaptor.getStatus(function(err,isLoggedIn,username) {\n\t\t\tif(err) {\n\t\t\t\tself.logger.alert(err);\n\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// Set the various status tiddlers\n\t\t\tself.wiki.addTiddler({title: self.titleIsLoggedIn,text: isLoggedIn ? \"yes\" : \"no\"});\n\t\t\tif(isLoggedIn) {\n\t\t\t\tself.wiki.addTiddler({title: self.titleUserName,text: username || \"\"});\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tself.wiki.deleteTiddler(self.titleUserName);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// Invoke the callback\n\t\t\tif(callback) {\n\t\t\t\tcallback(err,isLoggedIn,username);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t} else {\n\t\tcallback(null,true,\"UNAUTHENTICATED\");\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nSynchronise from the server by reading the skinny tiddler list and queuing up loads for any tiddlers that we don't already have up to date\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.syncFromServer = function() {\n\tif(this.syncadaptor && this.syncadaptor.getSkinnyTiddlers) {\n\t\tthis.logger.log(\"Retrieving skinny tiddler list\");\n\t\tvar self = this;\n\t\tif(this.pollTimerId) {\n\t\t\tclearTimeout(this.pollTimerId);\n\t\t\tthis.pollTimerId = null;\n\t\t}\n\t\tthis.syncadaptor.getSkinnyTiddlers(function(err,tiddlers) {\n\t\t\t// Trigger the next sync\n\t\t\tself.pollTimerId = setTimeout(function() {\n\t\t\t\tself.pollTimerId = null;\n\t\t\t\tself.syncFromServer.call(self);\n\t\t\t},self.pollTimerInterval);\n\t\t\t// Check for errors\n\t\t\tif(err) {\n\t\t\t\tself.logger.alert(\"Error retrieving skinny tiddler list:\",err);\n\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// Process each incoming tiddler\n\t\t\tfor(var t=0; t<tiddlers.length; t++) {\n\t\t\t\t// Get the incoming tiddler fields, and the existing tiddler\n\t\t\t\tvar tiddlerFields = tiddlers[t],\n\t\t\t\t\tincomingRevision = tiddlerFields.revision + \"\",\n\t\t\t\t\ttiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(tiddlerFields.title),\n\t\t\t\t\ttiddlerInfo = self.tiddlerInfo[tiddlerFields.title],\n\t\t\t\t\tcurrRevision = tiddlerInfo ? tiddlerInfo.revision : null;\n\t\t\t\t// Ignore the incoming tiddler if it's the same as the revision we've already got\n\t\t\t\tif(currRevision !== incomingRevision) {\n\t\t\t\t\t// Do a full load if we've already got a fat version of the tiddler\n\t\t\t\t\tif(tiddler && tiddler.fields.text !== undefined) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// Do a full load of this tiddler\n\t\t\t\t\t\tself.enqueueSyncTask({\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttype: \"load\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttitle: tiddlerFields.title\n\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t// Load the skinny version of the tiddler\n\t\t\t\t\t\tself.storeTiddler(tiddlerFields);\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nSynchronise a set of changes to the server\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.syncToServer = function(changes) {\n\tvar self = this,\n\t\tnow = Date.now(),\n\t\tfilteredChanges = this.filterFn.call(this.wiki,function(callback) {\n\t\t\t$tw.utils.each(changes,function(change,title) {\n\t\t\t\tvar tiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(title);\n\t\t\t\tcallback(tiddler,title);\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t$tw.utils.each(changes,function(change,title,object) {\n\t\t// Process the change if it is a deletion of a tiddler we're already syncing, or is on the filtered change list\n\t\tif((change.deleted && $tw.utils.hop(self.tiddlerInfo,title)) || filteredChanges.indexOf(title) !== -1) {\n\t\t\t// Queue a task to sync this tiddler\n\t\t\tself.enqueueSyncTask({\n\t\t\t\ttype: change.deleted ? \"delete\" : \"save\",\n\t\t\t\ttitle: title\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t}\n\t});\n};\n\n/*\nLazily load a skinny tiddler if we can\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.handleLazyLoadEvent = function(title) {\n\t// Queue up a sync task to load this tiddler\n\tthis.enqueueSyncTask({\n\t\ttype: \"load\",\n\t\ttitle: title\n\t});\n};\n\n/*\nDispay a password prompt and allow the user to login\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.handleLoginEvent = function() {\n\tvar self = this;\n\tthis.getStatus(function(err,isLoggedIn,username) {\n\t\tif(!isLoggedIn) {\n\t\t\t$tw.passwordPrompt.createPrompt({\n\t\t\t\tserviceName: \"Login to TiddlySpace\",\n\t\t\t\tcallback: function(data) {\n\t\t\t\t\tself.login(data.username,data.password,function(err,isLoggedIn) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tself.syncFromServer();\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\treturn true; // Get rid of the password prompt\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t}\n\t});\n};\n\n/*\nAttempt to login to TiddlyWeb.\n\tusername: username\n\tpassword: password\n\tcallback: invoked with arguments (err,isLoggedIn)\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.login = function(username,password,callback) {\n\tthis.logger.log(\"Attempting to login as\",username);\n\tvar self = this;\n\tif(this.syncadaptor.login) {\n\t\tthis.syncadaptor.login(username,password,function(err) {\n\t\t\tif(err) {\n\t\t\t\treturn callback(err);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tself.getStatus(function(err,isLoggedIn,username) {\n\t\t\t\tif(callback) {\n\t\t\t\t\tcallback(null,isLoggedIn);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t} else {\n\t\tcallback(null,true);\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nAttempt to log out of TiddlyWeb\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.handleLogoutEvent = function() {\n\tthis.logger.log(\"Attempting to logout\");\n\tvar self = this;\n\tif(this.syncadaptor.logout) {\n\t\tthis.syncadaptor.logout(function(err) {\n\t\t\tif(err) {\n\t\t\t\tself.logger.alert(err);\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tself.getStatus();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nImmediately refresh from the server\n*/\nSyncer.prototype.handleRefreshEvent = function() {\n\tthis.syncFromServer();\n};\n\n/*\nQueue up a sync task. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/utils/dom/animations/slide.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: animation\n\nA simple slide animation that varies the height of the element\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nfunction slideOpen(domNode,options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\tvar duration = options.duration || $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration();\n\t// Get the current height of the domNode\n\tvar computedStyle = window.getComputedStyle(domNode),\n\t\tcurrMarginBottom = parseInt(computedStyle.marginBottom,10),\n\t\tcurrMarginTop = parseInt(computedStyle.marginTop,10),\n\t\tcurrPaddingBottom = parseInt(computedStyle.paddingBottom,10),\n\t\tcurrPaddingTop = parseInt(computedStyle.paddingTop,10),\n\t\tcurrHeight = domNode.offsetHeight;\n\t// Reset the margin once the transition is over\n\tsetTimeout(function() {\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t\t{marginBottom: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{marginTop: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{paddingBottom: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{paddingTop: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{height: \"auto\"},\n\t\t\t{opacity: \"\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t\tif(options.callback) {\n\t\t\toptions.callback();\n\t\t}\n\t},duration);\n\t// Set up the initial position of the element\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t{marginTop: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{paddingTop: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{paddingBottom: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{height: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(domNode);\n\t// Transition to the final position\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t{transition: \"margin-top \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"margin-bottom \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"padding-top \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"padding-bottom \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"opacity \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: currMarginBottom + \"px\"},\n\t\t{marginTop: currMarginTop + \"px\"},\n\t\t{paddingBottom: currPaddingBottom + \"px\"},\n\t\t{paddingTop: currPaddingTop + \"px\"},\n\t\t{height: currHeight + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1\"}\n\t]);\n}\n\nfunction slideClosed(domNode,options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\tvar duration = options.duration || $tw.utils.getAnimationDuration(),\n\t\tcurrHeight = domNode.offsetHeight;\n\t// Clear the properties we've set when the animation is over\n\tsetTimeout(function() {\n\t\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t\t{transition: \"none\"},\n\t\t\t{marginBottom: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{marginTop: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{paddingBottom: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{paddingTop: \"\"},\n\t\t\t{height: \"auto\"},\n\t\t\t{opacity: \"\"}\n\t\t]);\n\t\tif(options.callback) {\n\t\t\toptions.callback();\n\t\t}\n\t},duration);\n\t// Set up the initial position of the element\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t{height: currHeight + \"px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"1\"}\n\t]);\n\t$tw.utils.forceLayout(domNode);\n\t// Transition to the final position\n\t$tw.utils.setStyle(domNode,[\n\t\t{transition: \"margin-top \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"margin-bottom \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"padding-top \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"padding-bottom \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out, \" +\n\t\t\t\t\t\"opacity \" + duration + \"ms ease-in-out\"},\n\t\t{marginTop: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{marginBottom: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{paddingTop: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{paddingBottom: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{height: \"0px\"},\n\t\t{opacity: \"0\"}\n\t]);\n}\n\nexports.slide = {\n\topen: slideOpen,\n\tclose: slideClosed\n};\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/utils/dom/animator.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: utils\n\nOrchestrates animations and transitions\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nfunction Animator() {\n\t// Get the registered animation modules\n\tthis.animations = {};\n\t$tw.modules.applyMethods(\"animation\",this.animations);\n}\n\nAnimator.prototype.perform = function(type,domNode,options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\t// Find an animation that can handle this type\n\tvar chosenAnimation;\n\t$tw.utils.each(this.animations,function(animation,name) {\n\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(animation,type)) {\n\t\t\tchosenAnimation = animation[type];\n\t\t}\n\t});\n\tif(!chosenAnimation) {\n\t\tchosenAnimation = function(domNode,options) {\n\t\t\tif(options.callback) {\n\t\t\t\toptions.callback();\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t};\n\t}\n\t// Call the animation\n\tchosenAnimation(domNode,options);\n};\n\nexports.Animator = Animator;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/utils/dom/browser.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: utils\n\nBrowser feature detection\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\nSet style properties of an element\n\telement: dom node\n\tstyles: ordered array of {name: value} pairs\n*/\nexports.setStyle = function(element,styles) {\n\tif(element.nodeType === 1) { // Element.ELEMENT_NODE\n\t\tfor(var t=0; t<styles.length; t++) {\n\t\t\tfor(var styleName in styles[t]) {\n\t\t\t\telement.style[$tw.utils.convertStyleNameToPropertyName(styleName)] = styles[t][styleName];\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nConverts a standard CSS property name into the local browser-specific equivalent. 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"text": "// (c) Dean McNamee <dean@gmail.com>, 2012.\n//\n// https://github.com/deanm/css-color-parser-js\n//\n// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy\n// of this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to\n// deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the\n// rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or\n// sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is\n// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:\n//\n// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in\n// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.\n//\n// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR\n// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,\n// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE\n// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER\n// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING\n// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS\n// IN THE SOFTWARE.\n\n// http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/\nvar kCSSColorTable = {\n \"transparent\": [0,0,0,0], \"aliceblue\": [240,248,255,1],\n \"antiquewhite\": [250,235,215,1], \"aqua\": [0,255,255,1],\n \"aquamarine\": [127,255,212,1], \"azure\": [240,255,255,1],\n \"beige\": [245,245,220,1], \"bisque\": [255,228,196,1],\n \"black\": [0,0,0,1], \"blanchedalmond\": [255,235,205,1],\n \"blue\": [0,0,255,1], \"blueviolet\": [138,43,226,1],\n \"brown\": [165,42,42,1], \"burlywood\": [222,184,135,1],\n \"cadetblue\": [95,158,160,1], \"chartreuse\": [127,255,0,1],\n \"chocolate\": [210,105,30,1], \"coral\": [255,127,80,1],\n \"cornflowerblue\": [100,149,237,1], \"cornsilk\": [255,248,220,1],\n \"crimson\": [220,20,60,1], \"cyan\": 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/edit-binary.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEdit-binary widget; placeholder for editing binary tiddlers\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar BINARY_WARNING_MESSAGE = \"$:/core/ui/BinaryWarning\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar EditBinaryWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nEditBinaryWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nEditBinaryWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Save the parent dom node\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute our attributes\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\t// Execute our logic\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nEditBinaryWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets([{\n\t\ttype: \"transclude\",\n\t\tattributes: {\n\t\t\ttiddler: {type: \"string\", value: BINARY_WARNING_MESSAGE}\n\t\t}\n\t}]);\n};\n\n/*\nRefresh by refreshing our child widget\n*/\nEditBinaryWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\n};\n\nexports[\"edit-binary\"] = EditBinaryWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/edit-bitmap.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEdit-bitmap widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n// Default image sizes\nvar DEFAULT_IMAGE_WIDTH = 300,\n\tDEFAULT_IMAGE_HEIGHT = 185;\n\n// Configuration tiddlers\nvar LINE_WIDTH_TITLE = \"$:/config/BitmapEditor/LineWidth\",\n\tLINE_COLOUR_TITLE = \"$:/config/BitmapEditor/Colour\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar EditBitmapWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nEditBitmapWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nEditBitmapWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Save the parent dom node\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute our 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dataURL.indexOf(\":\"),\n\t\t\tposSemiColon = dataURL.indexOf(\";\"),\n\t\t\tposComma = dataURL.indexOf(\",\"),\n\t\t\ttype = dataURL.substring(posColon+1,posSemiColon),\n\t\t\ttext = dataURL.substring(posComma+1);\n\t\tvar update = {type: type, text: text};\n\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,update));\n\t}\n};\n\nexports[\"edit-bitmap\"] = EditBitmapWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/edit-text.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEdit-text widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar DEFAULT_MIN_TEXT_AREA_HEIGHT = \"100px\"; // Minimum height of textareas in pixels\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar EditTextWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nEditTextWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nEditTextWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Save the parent dom node\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute our attributes\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\t// Execute our logic\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Create our element\n\tvar editInfo = this.getEditInfo();\n\tvar domNode = 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/edit.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEdit widget is a meta-widget chooses the appropriate actual editting widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar EditWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nEditWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nEditWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n// Mappings from content type to editor type are stored in tiddlers with this prefix\nvar EDITOR_MAPPING_PREFIX = \"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/\";\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nEditWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.editTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.editField = this.getAttribute(\"field\",\"text\");\n\tthis.editIndex = this.getAttribute(\"index\");\n\tthis.editClass = this.getAttribute(\"class\");\n\tthis.editPlaceholder = this.getAttribute(\"placeholder\");\n\t// Choose the appropriate edit widget\n\tthis.editorType = this.getEditorType();\n\t// Make the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets([{\n\t\ttype: \"edit-\" + this.editorType,\n\t\tattributes: {\n\t\t\ttiddler: {type: \"string\", value: this.editTitle},\n\t\t\tfield: {type: \"string\", value: this.editField},\n\t\t\tindex: {type: \"string\", value: this.editIndex},\n\t\t\t\"class\": {type: \"string\", value: this.editClass},\n\t\t\t\"placeholder\": {type: \"string\", value: this.editPlaceholder}\n\t\t}\n\t}]);\n};\n\nEditWidget.prototype.getEditorType = function() {\n\t// Get the content type of the thing we're editing\n\tvar type;\n\tif(this.editField === \"text\") {\n\t\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.editTitle);\n\t\tif(tiddler) {\n\t\t\ttype = tiddler.fields.type;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\ttype = type || \"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\";\n\tvar editorType = this.wiki.getTiddlerText(EDITOR_MAPPING_PREFIX + type);\n\tif(!editorType) {\n\t\tvar typeInfo = $tw.config.contentTypeInfo[type];\n\t\tif(typeInfo && typeInfo.encoding === \"base64\") {\n\t\t\teditorType = \"binary\";\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\teditorType = \"text\";\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn editorType;\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nEditWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\t// Refresh if an attribute has changed, or the type associated with the target tiddler has changed\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler || changedAttributes.field || changedAttributes.index || (changedTiddlers[this.editTitle] && this.getEditorType() !== this.editorType)) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.edit = EditWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/element.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nElement widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar ElementWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nElementWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nElementWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Neuter blacklisted elements\n\tvar tag = this.parseTreeNode.tag;\n\tif($tw.config.htmlUnsafeElements.indexOf(tag) !== -1) {\n\t\ttag = \"safe-\" + tag;\n\t}\n\tvar domNode = this.document.createElementNS(this.namespace,tag);\n\tthis.assignAttributes(domNode,{excludeEventAttributes: true});\n\tparent.insertBefore(domNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.renderChildren(domNode,null);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(domNode);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nElementWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Select the namespace for the tag\n\tvar tagNamespaces = {\n\t\t\tsvg: \"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\",\n\t\t\tmath: \"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\",\n\t\t\tbody: \"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"\n\t\t};\n\tthis.namespace = tagNamespaces[this.parseTreeNode.tag];\n\tif(this.namespace) {\n\t\tthis.setVariable(\"namespace\",this.namespace);\n\t} else {\n\t\tthis.namespace = this.getVariable(\"namespace\",{defaultValue: \"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"});\n\t}\n\t// Make the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nElementWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes(),\n\t\thasChangedAttributes = $tw.utils.count(changedAttributes) > 0;\n\tif(hasChangedAttributes) {\n\t\t// Update our attributes\n\t\tthis.assignAttributes(this.domNodes[0],{excludeEventAttributes: true});\n\t}\n\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers) || hasChangedAttributes;\n};\n\nexports.element = ElementWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/encrypt.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEncrypt widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar EncryptWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nEncryptWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nEncryptWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tvar textNode = this.document.createTextNode(this.encryptedText);\n\tparent.insertBefore(textNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(textNode);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nEncryptWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get parameters from our attributes\n\tthis.filter = this.getAttribute(\"filter\",\"[!is[system]]\");\n\t// Encrypt the filtered tiddlers\n\tvar tiddlers = this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.filter),\n\t\tjson = {},\n\t\tself = this;\n\t$tw.utils.each(tiddlers,function(title) {\n\t\tvar tiddler = self.wiki.getTiddler(title),\n\t\t\tjsonTiddler = {};\n\t\tfor(var f in tiddler.fields) {\n\t\t\tjsonTiddler[f] = tiddler.getFieldString(f);\n\t\t}\n\t\tjson[title] = jsonTiddler;\n\t});\n\tthis.encryptedText = $tw.utils.htmlEncode($tw.crypto.encrypt(JSON.stringify(json)));\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nEncryptWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\t// We don't need to worry about refreshing because the encrypt widget isn't for interactive use\n\treturn false;\n};\n\nexports.encrypt = EncryptWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/fieldmangler.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nField mangler widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar FieldManglerWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n\tthis.addEventListeners([\n\t\t{type: \"tm-remove-field\", handler: \"handleRemoveFieldEvent\"},\n\t\t{type: \"tm-add-field\", handler: \"handleAddFieldEvent\"},\n\t\t{type: \"tm-remove-tag\", handler: \"handleRemoveTagEvent\"},\n\t\t{type: \"tm-add-tag\", handler: \"handleAddTagEvent\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.mangleTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.handleRemoveFieldEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.mangleTitle),\n\t\tdeletion = {};\n\tdeletion[event.param] = undefined;\n\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,deletion));\n\treturn true;\n};\n\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.handleAddFieldEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.mangleTitle),\n\t\taddition = this.wiki.getModificationFields(),\n\t\thadInvalidFieldName = false,\n\t\taddField = function(name,value) {\n\t\t\tvar trimmedName = name.toLowerCase().trim();\n\t\t\tif(!$tw.utils.isValidFieldName(trimmedName)) {\n\t\t\t\tif(!hadInvalidFieldName) {\n\t\t\t\t\talert($tw.language.getString(\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"InvalidFieldName\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t{variables:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t{fieldName: trimmedName}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t));\n\t\t\t\t\thadInvalidFieldName = true;\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tif(!value && tiddler) {\n\t\t\t\t\tvalue = tiddler.fields[trimmedName];\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\taddition[trimmedName] = value || \"\";\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t};\n\taddition.title = this.mangleTitle;\n\tif(typeof event.param === \"string\") {\n\t\taddField(event.param,\"\");\n\t}\n\tif(typeof event.paramObject === \"object\") {\n\t\tfor(var name in event.paramObject) {\n\t\t\taddField(name,event.paramObject[name]);\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,addition));\n\treturn true;\n};\n\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.handleRemoveTagEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.mangleTitle);\n\tif(tiddler && tiddler.fields.tags) {\n\t\tvar p = tiddler.fields.tags.indexOf(event.param);\n\t\tif(p !== -1) {\n\t\t\tvar modification = this.wiki.getModificationFields();\n\t\t\tmodification.tags = (tiddler.fields.tags || []).slice(0);\n\t\t\tmodification.tags.splice(p,1);\n\t\t\tif(modification.tags.length === 0) {\n\t\t\t\tmodification.tags = undefined;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,modification));\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn true;\n};\n\nFieldManglerWidget.prototype.handleAddTagEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.mangleTitle);\n\tif(tiddler && typeof event.param === \"string\") {\n\t\tvar tag = event.param.trim();\n\t\tif(tag !== \"\") {\n\t\t\tvar modification = this.wiki.getModificationFields();\n\t\t\tmodification.tags = (tiddler.fields.tags || []).slice(0);\n\t\t\t$tw.utils.pushTop(modification.tags,tag);\n\t\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,modification));\t\t\t\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn true;\n};\n\nexports.fieldmangler = FieldManglerWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/fields.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nFields widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar FieldsWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nFieldsWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nFieldsWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tvar textNode = this.document.createTextNode(this.text);\n\tparent.insertBefore(textNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(textNode);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nFieldsWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get parameters from our attributes\n\tthis.tiddlerTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.template = this.getAttribute(\"template\");\n\tthis.exclude = this.getAttribute(\"exclude\");\n\tthis.stripTitlePrefix = this.getAttribute(\"stripTitlePrefix\",\"no\") === \"yes\";\n\t// Get the value to display\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.tiddlerTitle);\n\t// Get the exclusion list\n\tvar exclude;\n\tif(this.exclude) {\n\t\texclude = this.exclude.split(\" \");\n\t} else {\n\t\texclude = [\"text\"]; \n\t}\n\t// Compose the template\n\tvar text = [];\n\tif(this.template && tiddler) {\n\t\tvar fields = [];\n\t\tfor(var fieldName in tiddler.fields) {\n\t\t\tif(exclude.indexOf(fieldName) === -1) {\n\t\t\t\tfields.push(fieldName);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\tfields.sort();\n\t\tfor(var f=0; f<fields.length; f++) {\n\t\t\tfieldName = fields[f];\n\t\t\tif(exclude.indexOf(fieldName) === -1) {\n\t\t\t\tvar row = this.template,\n\t\t\t\t\tvalue = tiddler.getFieldString(fieldName);\n\t\t\t\tif(this.stripTitlePrefix && fieldName === \"title\") {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar reStrip = /^\\{[^\\}]+\\}(.+)/mg,\n\t\t\t\t\t\treMatch = reStrip.exec(value);\n\t\t\t\t\tif(reMatch) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvalue = reMatch[1];\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\trow = row.replace(\"$name$\",fieldName);\n\t\t\t\trow = row.replace(\"$value$\",value);\n\t\t\t\trow = row.replace(\"$encoded_value$\",$tw.utils.htmlEncode(value));\n\t\t\t\ttext.push(row);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\tthis.text = text.join(\"\");\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nFieldsWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler || changedAttributes.template || changedAttributes.exclude || changedAttributes.stripTitlePrefix || changedTiddlers[this.tiddlerTitle]) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn false;\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.fields = FieldsWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/image.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nThe image widget displays an image referenced with an external URI or with a local tiddler title.\n\n```\n<$image src=\"TiddlerTitle\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" class=\"classnames\">\n```\n\nThe image source can be the title of an existing tiddler or the URL of an external image.\n\nExternal images always generate an HTML `<img>` tag.\n\nTiddlers that have a _canonical_uri field generate an HTML `<img>` tag with the src attribute containing the URI.\n\nTiddlers that contain image data generate an HTML `<img>` tag with the src attribute containing a base64 representation of the image.\n\nTiddlers that contain wikitext could be rendered to a DIV of the usual size of a tiddler, and then transformed to the size requested.\n\nThe width and height attributes are interpreted as a number of pixels, and do not need to include the \"px\" suffix.\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar ImageWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nImageWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nImageWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Create element\n\t// Determine what type of image it is\n\tvar tag = \"img\", src = \"\",\n\t\ttiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.imageSource);\n\tif(!tiddler) {\n\t\t// The source isn't the title of a tiddler, so we'll assume it's a URL\n\t\tsrc = this.imageSource;\n\t} else {\n\t\t// Check if it is an image tiddler\n\t\tif(this.wiki.isImageTiddler(this.imageSource)) {\n\t\t\tvar type = tiddler.fields.type,\n\t\t\t\ttext = tiddler.fields.text,\n\t\t\t\t_canonical_uri = tiddler.fields._canonical_uri;\n\t\t\t// If the tiddler has body text then it doesn't need to be lazily loaded\n\t\t\tif(text) {\n\t\t\t\t// Render the appropriate element for the image type\n\t\t\t\tswitch(type) {\n\t\t\t\t\tcase \"application/pdf\":\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttag = \"embed\";\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = \"data:application/pdf;base64,\" + text;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t\tcase \"image/svg+xml\":\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = \"data:image/svg+xml,\" + encodeURIComponent(text);\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t\tdefault:\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = \"data:\" + type + \";base64,\" + text;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} else if(_canonical_uri) {\n\t\t\t\tswitch(type) {\n\t\t\t\t\tcase \"application/pdf\":\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttag = \"embed\";\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = _canonical_uri;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t\tcase \"image/svg+xml\":\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = _canonical_uri;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t\tdefault:\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc = _canonical_uri;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\t\t\t}\t\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Create the element and assign the attributes\n\tvar domNode = this.document.createElement(tag);\n\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"src\",src);\n\tif(this.imageClass) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"class\",this.imageClass);\t\t\n\t}\n\tif(this.imageWidth) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"width\",this.imageWidth);\n\t}\n\tif(this.imageHeight) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"height\",this.imageHeight);\n\t}\n\tif(this.imageTooltip) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"title\",this.imageTooltip);\t\t\n\t}\n\tif(this.imageAlt) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"alt\",this.imageAlt);\t\t\n\t}\n\t// Insert element\n\tparent.insertBefore(domNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(domNode);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nImageWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.imageSource = this.getAttribute(\"source\");\n\tthis.imageWidth = this.getAttribute(\"width\");\n\tthis.imageHeight = this.getAttribute(\"height\");\n\tthis.imageClass = this.getAttribute(\"class\");\n\tthis.imageTooltip = this.getAttribute(\"tooltip\");\n\tthis.imageAlt = this.getAttribute(\"alt\");\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nImageWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.source || changedAttributes.width || changedAttributes.height || changedAttributes[\"class\"] || changedAttributes.tooltip || changedTiddlers[this.imageSource]) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn false;\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.image = ImageWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/importvariables.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nImport variable definitions from other tiddlers\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar ImportVariablesWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nImportVariablesWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nImportVariablesWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nImportVariablesWidget.prototype.execute = function(tiddlerList) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.filter = this.getAttribute(\"filter\");\n\t// Compute the filter\n\tthis.tiddlerList = tiddlerList || this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.filter,this);\n\t// Accumulate the <$set> widgets from each tiddler\n\tvar widgetStackStart,widgetStackEnd;\n\tfunction addWidgetNode(widgetNode) {\n\t\tif(widgetNode) {\n\t\t\tif(!widgetStackStart && !widgetStackEnd) {\n\t\t\t\twidgetStackStart = widgetNode;\n\t\t\t\twidgetStackEnd = widgetNode;\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\twidgetStackEnd.children = [widgetNode];\n\t\t\t\twidgetStackEnd = widgetNode;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t$tw.utils.each(this.tiddlerList,function(title) {\n\t\tvar parser = self.wiki.parseTiddler(title);\n\t\tif(parser) {\n\t\t\tvar parseTreeNode = parser.tree[0];\n\t\t\twhile(parseTreeNode && parseTreeNode.type === \"set\") {\n\t\t\t\taddWidgetNode({\n\t\t\t\t\ttype: \"set\",\n\t\t\t\t\tattributes: parseTreeNode.attributes,\n\t\t\t\t\tparams: parseTreeNode.params\n\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\tparseTreeNode = parseTreeNode.children[0];\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t} \n\t});\n\t// Add our own children to the end of the pile\n\tvar parseTreeNodes;\n\tif(widgetStackStart && widgetStackEnd) {\n\t\tparseTreeNodes = [widgetStackStart];\n\t\twidgetStackEnd.children = this.parseTreeNode.children;\n\t} else {\n\t\tparseTreeNodes = this.parseTreeNode.children;\n\t}\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets(parseTreeNodes);\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nImportVariablesWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\t// Recompute our attributes and the filter list\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes(),\n\t\ttiddlerList = this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.getAttribute(\"filter\"),this);\n\t// Refresh if the filter has changed, or the list of tiddlers has changed, or any of the tiddlers in the list has changed\n\tfunction haveListedTiddlersChanged() {\n\t\tvar changed = false;\n\t\ttiddlerList.forEach(function(title) {\n\t\t\tif(changedTiddlers[title]) {\n\t\t\t\tchanged = true;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t});\n\t\treturn changed;\n\t}\n\tif(changedAttributes.filter || !$tw.utils.isArrayEqual(this.tiddlerList,tiddlerList) || haveListedTiddlersChanged()) {\n\t\t// Compute the filter\n\t\tthis.removeChildDomNodes();\n\t\tthis.execute(tiddlerList);\n\t\tthis.renderChildren(this.parentDomNode,this.findNextSiblingDomNode());\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.importvariables = ImportVariablesWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/keyboard.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nKeyboard shortcut widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar KeyboardWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nKeyboardWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nKeyboardWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\t// Remember parent\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute attributes and execute state\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Create element\n\tvar domNode = this.document.createElement(\"div\");\n\t// Assign classes\n\tvar classes = (this[\"class\"] || \"\").split(\" \");\n\tclasses.push(\"tc-keyboard\");\n\tdomNode.className = classes.join(\" \");\n\t// Add a keyboard event handler\n\tdomNode.addEventListener(\"keydown\",function (event) {\n\t\tif($tw.utils.checkKeyDescriptor(event,self.keyInfo)) {\n\t\t\tself.dispatchMessage(event);\n\t\t\tevent.preventDefault();\n\t\t\tevent.stopPropagation();\n\t\t\treturn true;\n\t\t}\n\t\treturn false;\n\t},false);\n\t// Insert element\n\tparent.insertBefore(domNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.renderChildren(domNode,null);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(domNode);\n};\n\nKeyboardWidget.prototype.dispatchMessage = function(event) {\n\tthis.dispatchEvent({type: this.message, param: this.param, tiddlerTitle: this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\")});\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nKeyboardWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get attributes\n\tthis.message = this.getAttribute(\"message\");\n\tthis.param = this.getAttribute(\"param\");\n\tthis.key = this.getAttribute(\"key\");\n\tthis.keyInfo = $tw.utils.parseKeyDescriptor(this.key);\n\tthis[\"class\"] = this.getAttribute(\"class\");\n\t// Make child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nKeyboardWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.message || changedAttributes.param || changedAttributes.key || changedAttributes[\"class\"]) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t}\n\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\n};\n\nexports.keyboard = KeyboardWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/linkcatcher.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nLinkcatcher widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar LinkCatcherWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n\tthis.addEventListeners([\n\t\t{type: \"tm-navigate\", handler: \"handleNavigateEvent\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nLinkCatcherWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nLinkCatcherWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nLinkCatcherWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.catchTo = this.getAttribute(\"to\");\n\tthis.catchMessage = this.getAttribute(\"message\");\n\tthis.catchSet = this.getAttribute(\"set\");\n\tthis.catchSetTo = this.getAttribute(\"setTo\");\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nLinkCatcherWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.to || changedAttributes.message || changedAttributes.set || changedAttributes.setTo) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nHandle a tm-navigate event\n*/\nLinkCatcherWidget.prototype.handleNavigateEvent = function(event) {\n\tif(this.catchTo) {\n\t\tthis.wiki.setTextReference(this.catchTo,event.navigateTo,this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\t}\n\tif(this.catchMessage && this.parentWidget) {\n\t\tthis.parentWidget.dispatchEvent({\n\t\t\ttype: this.catchMessage,\n\t\t\tparam: event.navigateTo,\n\t\t\tnavigateTo: event.navigateTo\n\t\t});\n\t}\n\tif(this.catchSet) {\n\t\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.catchSet);\n\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,{title: this.catchSet, text: this.catchSetTo}));\n\t}\n\treturn false;\n};\n\nexports.linkcatcher = LinkCatcherWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/list.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nList and list item widgets\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\n/*\nThe list widget creates list element sub-widgets that reach back into the list widget for their configuration\n*/\n\nvar ListWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\t// Initialise the storyviews if they've not been done already\n\tif(!this.storyViews) {\n\t\tListWidget.prototype.storyViews = {};\n\t\t$tw.modules.applyMethods(\"storyview\",this.storyViews);\n\t}\n\t// Main initialisation inherited from widget.js\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nListWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nListWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n\t// Construct the storyview\n\tvar StoryView = this.storyViews[this.storyViewName];\n\tif(StoryView && !this.document.isTiddlyWikiFakeDom) {\n\t\tthis.storyview = new StoryView(this);\n\t} else {\n\t\tthis.storyview = null;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nListWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our attributes\n\tthis.template = this.getAttribute(\"template\");\n\tthis.editTemplate = this.getAttribute(\"editTemplate\");\n\tthis.variableName = this.getAttribute(\"variable\",\"currentTiddler\");\n\tthis.storyViewName = this.getAttribute(\"storyview\");\n\tthis.historyTitle = this.getAttribute(\"history\");\n\t// Compose the list elements\n\tthis.list = this.getTiddlerList();\n\tvar members = [],\n\t\tself = this;\n\t// Check for an empty list\n\tif(this.list.length === 0) {\n\t\tmembers = this.getEmptyMessage();\n\t} else {\n\t\t$tw.utils.each(this.list,function(title,index) {\n\t\t\tmembers.push(self.makeItemTemplate(title));\n\t\t});\n\t}\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets(members);\n\t// Clear the last history\n\tthis.history = [];\n};\n\nListWidget.prototype.getTiddlerList = function() {\n\tvar defaultFilter = \"[!is[system]sort[title]]\";\n\treturn this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.getAttribute(\"filter\",defaultFilter),this);\n};\n\nListWidget.prototype.getEmptyMessage = function() {\n\tvar emptyMessage = this.getAttribute(\"emptyMessage\",\"\"),\n\t\tparser = this.wiki.parseText(\"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\",emptyMessage,{parseAsInline: true});\n\tif(parser) {\n\t\treturn parser.tree;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn [];\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCompose the template for a list item\n*/\nListWidget.prototype.makeItemTemplate = function(title) {\n\t// Check if the tiddler is a draft\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(title),\n\t\tisDraft = tiddler && tiddler.hasField(\"draft.of\"),\n\t\ttemplate = this.template,\n\t\ttemplateTree;\n\tif(isDraft && this.editTemplate) {\n\t\ttemplate = this.editTemplate;\n\t}\n\t// Compose the transclusion of the template\n\tif(template) {\n\t\ttemplateTree = [{type: \"transclude\", attributes: {tiddler: {type: \"string\", value: template}}}];\n\t} else {\n\t\tif(this.parseTreeNode.children && this.parseTreeNode.children.length > 0) {\n\t\t\ttemplateTree = this.parseTreeNode.children;\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t// Default template is a link to the title\n\t\t\ttemplateTree = [{type: \"element\", tag: this.parseTreeNode.isBlock ? \"div\" : \"span\", children: [{type: \"link\", attributes: {to: {type: \"string\", value: title}}, children: [\n\t\t\t\t\t{type: \"text\", text: title}\n\t\t\t]}]}];\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Return the list item\n\treturn {type: \"listitem\", itemTitle: title, variableName: this.variableName, children: templateTree};\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/macrocall.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nMacrocall widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar MacroCallWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nMacroCallWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nMacroCallWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nMacroCallWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get the parse type if specified\n\tthis.parseType = this.getAttribute(\"$type\",\"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\");\n\tthis.renderOutput = this.getAttribute(\"$output\",\"text/html\");\n\t// Merge together the parameters specified in the parse tree with the specified attributes\n\tvar params = this.parseTreeNode.params ? this.parseTreeNode.params.slice(0) : [];\n\t$tw.utils.each(this.attributes,function(attribute,name) {\n\t\tif(name.charAt(0) !== \"$\") {\n\t\t\tparams.push({name: name, value: attribute});\t\t\t\n\t\t}\n\t});\n\t// Get the macro value\n\tvar text = this.getVariable(this.parseTreeNode.name || this.getAttribute(\"$name\"),{params: params}),\n\t\tparseTreeNodes;\n\t// Are we rendering to HTML?\n\tif(this.renderOutput === \"text/html\") {\n\t\t// If so we'll return the parsed macro\n\t\tvar parser = this.wiki.parseText(this.parseType,text,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t{parseAsInline: !this.parseTreeNode.isBlock});\n\t\tparseTreeNodes = parser ? parser.tree : [];\n\t} else {\n\t\t// Otherwise, we'll render the text\n\t\tvar plainText = this.wiki.renderText(\"text/plain\",this.parseType,text,{parentWidget: this});\n\t\tparseTreeNodes = [{type: \"text\", text: plainText}];\n\t}\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets(parseTreeNodes);\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nMacroCallWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif($tw.utils.count(changedAttributes) > 0) {\n\t\t// Rerender ourselves\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.macrocall = MacroCallWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/password.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nPassword widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar PasswordWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nPasswordWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nPasswordWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\t// Save the parent dom node\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute our attributes\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\t// Execute our logic\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Get the current password\n\tvar password = $tw.browser ? $tw.utils.getPassword(this.passwordName) || \"\" : \"\";\n\t// Create our element\n\tvar domNode = this.document.createElement(\"input\");\n\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"type\",\"password\");\n\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"value\",password);\n\t// Add a click event handler\n\t$tw.utils.addEventListeners(domNode,[\n\t\t{name: \"change\", handlerObject: this, handlerMethod: \"handleChangeEvent\"}\n\t]);\n\t// Insert the label into the DOM and render any children\n\tparent.insertBefore(domNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.renderChildren(domNode,null);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(domNode);\n};\n\nPasswordWidget.prototype.handleChangeEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar password = this.domNodes[0].value;\n\treturn $tw.utils.savePassword(this.passwordName,password);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nPasswordWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get the parameters from the attributes\n\tthis.passwordName = this.getAttribute(\"name\",\"\");\n\t// Make the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nPasswordWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.name) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.password = PasswordWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/radio.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nRadio widget\n\nWill set a field to the selected value:\n\n```\n\t<$radio field=\"myfield\" value=\"check 1\">one</$radio>\n\t<$radio field=\"myfield\" value=\"check 2\">two</$radio>\n\t<$radio field=\"myfield\" value=\"check 3\">three</$radio>\n```\n\n|Parameter |Description |h\n|tiddler |Name of the tiddler in which the field should be set. Defaults to current tiddler |\n|field |The name of the field to be set |\n|value |The value to set |\n|class |Optional class name(s) |\n\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar RadioWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nRadioWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nRadioWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\t// Save the parent dom node\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\t// Compute our attributes\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\t// Execute our logic\n\tthis.execute();\n\t// Create our elements\n\tthis.labelDomNode = this.document.createElement(\"label\");\n\tthis.labelDomNode.setAttribute(\"class\",this.radioClass);\n\tthis.inputDomNode = this.document.createElement(\"input\");\n\tthis.inputDomNode.setAttribute(\"type\",\"radio\");\n\tif(this.getValue() == this.radioValue) {\n\t\tthis.inputDomNode.setAttribute(\"checked\",\"true\");\n\t}\n\tthis.labelDomNode.appendChild(this.inputDomNode);\n\tthis.spanDomNode = this.document.createElement(\"span\");\n\tthis.labelDomNode.appendChild(this.spanDomNode);\n\t// Add a click event handler\n\t$tw.utils.addEventListeners(this.inputDomNode,[\n\t\t{name: \"change\", handlerObject: this, handlerMethod: \"handleChangeEvent\"}\n\t]);\n\t// Insert the label into the DOM and render any children\n\tparent.insertBefore(this.labelDomNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.renderChildren(this.spanDomNode,null);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(this.labelDomNode);\n};\n\nRadioWidget.prototype.getValue = function() {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.radioTitle);\n\treturn tiddler && tiddler.getFieldString(this.radioField);\n};\n\nRadioWidget.prototype.setValue = function() {\n\tif(this.radioField) {\n\t\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.radioTitle),\n\t\t\taddition = {};\n\t\taddition[this.radioField] = this.radioValue;\n\t\tthis.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler({title: this.radioTitle},tiddler,addition,this.wiki.getModificationFields()));\n\t}\n};\n\nRadioWidget.prototype.handleChangeEvent = function(event) {\n\tif(this.inputDomNode.checked) {\n\t\tthis.setValue();\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nRadioWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get the parameters from the attributes\n\tthis.radioTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.radioField = this.getAttribute(\"field\",\"text\");\n\tthis.radioValue = this.getAttribute(\"value\");\n\tthis.radioClass = this.getAttribute(\"class\",\"\");\n\tif(this.radioClass !== \"\") {\n\t\tthis.radioClass += \" \";\n\t}\n\tthis.radioClass += \"tc-radio\";\n\t// Make the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nRadioWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler || changedAttributes.field || changedAttributes.value || changedAttributes[\"class\"]) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\tvar refreshed = false;\n\t\tif(changedTiddlers[this.radioTitle]) {\n\t\t\tthis.inputDomNode.checked = this.getValue() === this.radioValue;\n\t\t\trefreshed = true;\n\t\t}\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers) || refreshed;\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.radio = RadioWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/raw.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nRaw widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar RawWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nRawWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nRawWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.execute();\n\tvar div = this.document.createElement(\"div\");\n\tdiv.innerHTML=this.parseTreeNode.html;\n\tparent.insertBefore(div,nextSibling);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(div);\t\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nRawWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nRawWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\treturn false;\n};\n\nexports.raw = RawWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/reveal.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nReveal widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar RevealWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nRevealWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nRevealWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tvar domNode = this.document.createElement(this.parseTreeNode.isBlock ? \"div\" : \"span\");\n\tvar classes = this[\"class\"].split(\" \") || [];\n\tclasses.push(\"tc-reveal\");\n\tdomNode.className = classes.join(\" \");\n\tparent.insertBefore(domNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.renderChildren(domNode,null);\n\tif(!domNode.isTiddlyWikiFakeDom && this.type === \"popup\" && this.isOpen) {\n\t\tthis.positionPopup(domNode);\n\t\t$tw.utils.addClass(domNode,\"tc-popup\"); // Make sure that clicks don't dismiss popups within the revealed content\n\t}\n\tif(!this.isOpen) {\n\t\tdomNode.setAttribute(\"hidden\",\"true\");\n\t}\n\tthis.domNodes.push(domNode);\n};\n\nRevealWidget.prototype.positionPopup = function(domNode) {\n\tdomNode.style.position = \"absolute\";\n\tdomNode.style.zIndex = \"1000\";\n\tswitch(this.position) {\n\t\tcase \"left\":\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = (this.popup.left - domNode.offsetWidth) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = this.popup.top + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"above\":\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = this.popup.left + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = (this.popup.top - domNode.offsetHeight) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"aboveright\":\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = (this.popup.left + this.popup.width) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = (this.popup.top + this.popup.height - domNode.offsetHeight) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"right\":\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = (this.popup.left + this.popup.width) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = this.popup.top + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"belowleft\":\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = (this.popup.left + this.popup.width - domNode.offsetWidth) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = (this.popup.top + this.popup.height) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tdefault: // Below\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.left = this.popup.left + \"px\";\n\t\t\tdomNode.style.top = (this.popup.top + this.popup.height) + \"px\";\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nRevealWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.state = this.getAttribute(\"state\");\n\tthis.type = this.getAttribute(\"type\");\n\tthis.text = this.getAttribute(\"text\");\n\tthis.position = this.getAttribute(\"position\");\n\tthis[\"class\"] = this.getAttribute(\"class\",\"\");\n\tthis[\"default\"] = this.getAttribute(\"default\",\"\");\n\tthis.animate = this.getAttribute(\"animate\",\"no\");\n\tthis.retain = this.getAttribute(\"retain\",\"no\");\n\tthis.openAnimation = this.animate === \"no\" ? undefined : \"open\";\n\tthis.closeAnimation = this.animate === \"no\" ? undefined : \"close\";\n\t// Compute the title of the state tiddler and read it\n\tthis.stateTitle = this.state;\n\tthis.readState();\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tvar childNodes = this.isOpen ? this.parseTreeNode.children : [];\n\tthis.hasChildNodes = this.isOpen;\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets(childNodes);\n};\n\n/*\nRead the state tiddler\n*/\nRevealWidget.prototype.readState = function() {\n\t// Read the information from the state tiddler\n\tvar state = this.stateTitle ? this.wiki.getTextReference(this.stateTitle,this[\"default\"],this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\")) : this[\"default\"];\n\tswitch(this.type) {\n\t\tcase \"popup\":\n\t\t\tthis.readPopupState(state);\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"match\":\n\t\t\tthis.readMatchState(state);\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"nomatch\":\n\t\t\tthis.readMatchState(state);\n\t\t\tthis.isOpen = !this.isOpen;\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t}\n};\n\nRevealWidget.prototype.readMatchState = function(state) {\n\tthis.isOpen = state === this.text;\n};\n\nRevealWidget.prototype.readPopupState = function(state) {\n\tvar popupLocationRegExp = /^\\((-?[0-9\\.E]+),(-?[0-9\\.E]+),(-?[0-9\\.E]+),(-?[0-9\\.E]+)\\)$/,\n\t\tmatch = popupLocationRegExp.exec(state);\n\t// Check if the state matches the location regexp\n\tif(match) {\n\t\t// If so, we're open\n\t\tthis.isOpen = true;\n\t\t// Get the location\n\t\tthis.popup = {\n\t\t\tleft: parseFloat(match[1]),\n\t\t\ttop: parseFloat(match[2]),\n\t\t\twidth: parseFloat(match[3]),\n\t\t\theight: parseFloat(match[4])\n\t\t};\n\t} else {\n\t\t// If not, we're closed\n\t\tthis.isOpen = false;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/scrollable.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nScrollable widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar ScrollableWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n\tthis.scaleFactor = 1;\n\tthis.addEventListeners([\n\t\t{type: \"tm-scroll\", handler: \"handleScrollEvent\"}\n\t]);\n\tif($tw.browser) {\n\t\tthis.requestAnimationFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.mozRequestAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\tfunction(callback) {\n\t\t\t\treturn window.setTimeout(callback, 1000/60);\n\t\t\t};\n\t\tthis.cancelAnimationFrame = window.cancelAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.webkitCancelAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.webkitCancelRequestAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.mozCancelAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\twindow.mozCancelRequestAnimationFrame ||\n\t\t\tfunction(id) {\n\t\t\t\twindow.clearTimeout(id);\n\t\t\t};\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nScrollableWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\nScrollableWidget.prototype.cancelScroll = function() {\n\tif(this.idRequestFrame) {\n\t\tthis.cancelAnimationFrame.call(window,this.idRequestFrame);\n\t\tthis.idRequestFrame = null;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nHandle a scroll event\n*/\nScrollableWidget.prototype.handleScrollEvent = function(event) {\n\t// Pass the scroll event through if our offsetsize is larger than our scrollsize\n\tif(this.outerDomNode.scrollWidth <= this.outerDomNode.offsetWidth && this.outerDomNode.scrollHeight <= this.outerDomNode.offsetHeight && this.fallthrough === \"yes\") {\n\t\treturn true;\n\t}\n\tthis.scrollIntoView(event.target);\n\treturn false; 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/select.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nSelect widget:\n\n```\n<$select tiddler=\"MyTiddler\" field=\"text\">\n<$list filter=\"[tag[chapter]]\">\n<option value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<$view field=\"description\"/>\n</option>\n</$list>\n</$select>\n```\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar SelectWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n\tthis.setSelectValue();\n\t$tw.utils.addEventListeners(this.getSelectDomNode(),[\n\t\t{name: \"change\", handlerObject: this, handlerMethod: \"handleChangeEvent\"}\n\t]);\n};\n\n/*\nHandle a change event\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.handleChangeEvent = function(event) {\n\tvar value = this.getSelectDomNode().value;\n\tthis.wiki.setText(this.selectTitle,this.selectField,this.selectIndex,value);\n};\n\n/*\nIf necessary, set the value of the select element to the current value\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.setSelectValue = function() {\n\tvar value = this.selectDefault;\n\t// Get the value\n\tif(this.selectIndex) {\n\t\tvalue = this.wiki.extractTiddlerDataItem(this.selectTitle,this.selectIndex);\n\t} else {\n\t\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.selectTitle);\n\t\tif(tiddler) {\n\t\t\tif(this.selectField === \"text\") {\n\t\t\t\t// Calling getTiddlerText() triggers lazy loading of skinny tiddlers\n\t\t\t\tvalue = this.wiki.getTiddlerText(this.selectTitle);\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(tiddler.fields,this.selectField)) {\n\t\t\t\t\tvalue = tiddler.getFieldString(this.selectField);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t} else {\n\t\t\tif(this.selectField === \"title\") {\n\t\t\t\tvalue = this.selectTitle;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Assign it to the select element if it's different than the current value\n\tvar domNode = this.getSelectDomNode();\n\tif(domNode.value !== value) {\n\t\tdomNode.value = value;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nGet the DOM node of the select element\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.getSelectDomNode = function() {\n\treturn this.children[0].domNodes[0];\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.selectTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.selectField = this.getAttribute(\"field\",\"text\");\n\tthis.selectIndex = this.getAttribute(\"index\");\n\tthis.selectClass = this.getAttribute(\"class\");\n\tthis.selectDefault = this.getAttribute(\"default\");\n\t// Make the child widgets\n\tvar selectNode = {\n\t\ttype: \"element\",\n\t\ttag: \"select\",\n\t\tchildren: this.parseTreeNode.children\n\t};\n\tif(this.selectClass) {\n\t\t$tw.utils.addAttributeToParseTreeNode(selectNode,\"class\",this.selectClass);\n\t}\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets([selectNode]);\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nSelectWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\t// If we're using a different tiddler/field/index then completely refresh ourselves\n\tif(changedAttributes.selectTitle || changedAttributes.selectField || changedAttributes.selectIndex) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t// If the target tiddler value has changed, just update setting and refresh the children\n\t} else {\n\t\tif(changedTiddlers[this.selectTitle]) {\n\t\t\tthis.setSelectValue();\n\t\t} \n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.select = SelectWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/set.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nSet variable widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar SetWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nSetWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nSetWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nSetWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.setName = this.getAttribute(\"name\",\"currentTiddler\");\n\tthis.setFilter = this.getAttribute(\"filter\");\n\tthis.setValue = this.getAttribute(\"value\");\n\tthis.setEmptyValue = this.getAttribute(\"emptyValue\");\n\t// Set context variable\n\tvar value = this.setValue;\n\tif(this.setFilter) {\n\t\tvar results = this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.setFilter,this);\n\t\tif(!this.setValue) {\n\t\t\tvalue = $tw.utils.stringifyList(results);\n\t\t}\n\t\tif(results.length === 0 && this.setEmptyValue !== undefined) {\n\t\t\tvalue = this.setEmptyValue;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\tthis.setVariable(this.setName,value,this.parseTreeNode.params);\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nSetWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.name || changedAttributes.filter || changedAttributes.value || changedAttributes.emptyValue) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.setvariable = SetWidget;\nexports.set = SetWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/text.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nText node widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar TextNodeWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nTextNodeWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nTextNodeWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tvar text = this.getAttribute(\"text\",this.parseTreeNode.text || \"\");\n\ttext = text.replace(/\\r/mg,\"\");\n\tvar textNode = this.document.createTextNode(text);\n\tparent.insertBefore(textNode,nextSibling);\n\tthis.domNodes.push(textNode);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nTextNodeWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Nothing to do for a text node\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nTextNodeWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.text) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn false;\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.text = TextNodeWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/tiddler.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nTiddler widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar TiddlerWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\tthis.tiddlerState = this.computeTiddlerState();\n\tthis.setVariable(\"currentTiddler\",this.tiddlerState.currentTiddler);\n\tthis.setVariable(\"missingTiddlerClass\",this.tiddlerState.missingTiddlerClass);\n\tthis.setVariable(\"shadowTiddlerClass\",this.tiddlerState.shadowTiddlerClass);\n\tthis.setVariable(\"systemTiddlerClass\",this.tiddlerState.systemTiddlerClass);\n\tthis.setVariable(\"tiddlerTagClasses\",this.tiddlerState.tiddlerTagClasses);\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the tiddler state flags\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype.computeTiddlerState = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.tiddlerTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\t// Compute the state\n\tvar state = {\n\t\tcurrentTiddler: this.tiddlerTitle || \"\",\n\t\tmissingTiddlerClass: (this.wiki.tiddlerExists(this.tiddlerTitle) || this.wiki.isShadowTiddler(this.tiddlerTitle)) ? \"tc-tiddler-exists\" : \"tc-tiddler-missing\",\n\t\tshadowTiddlerClass: this.wiki.isShadowTiddler(this.tiddlerTitle) ? \"tc-tiddler-shadow\" : \"\",\n\t\tsystemTiddlerClass: this.wiki.isSystemTiddler(this.tiddlerTitle) ? \"tc-tiddler-system\" : \"\",\n\t\ttiddlerTagClasses: this.getTagClasses()\n\t};\n\t// Compute a simple hash to make it easier to detect changes\n\tstate.hash = state.currentTiddler + state.missingTiddlerClass + state.shadowTiddlerClass + state.systemTiddlerClass + state.tiddlerTagClasses;\n\treturn state;\n};\n\n/*\nCreate a string of CSS classes derived from the tags of the current tiddler\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype.getTagClasses = function() {\n\tvar tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.tiddlerTitle);\n\tif(tiddler) {\n\t\tvar tags = [];\n\t\t$tw.utils.each(tiddler.fields.tags,function(tag) {\n\t\t\ttags.push(\"tc-tagged-\" + encodeURIComponent(tag));\n\t\t});\n\t\treturn tags.join(\" \");\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn \"\";\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nTiddlerWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes(),\n\t\tnewTiddlerState = this.computeTiddlerState();\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler || newTiddlerState.hash !== this.tiddlerState.hash) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.tiddler = TiddlerWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nTransclude widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar TranscludeWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nTranscludeWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nTranscludeWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nTranscludeWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get our parameters\n\tthis.transcludeTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.transcludeSubTiddler = this.getAttribute(\"subtiddler\");\n\tthis.transcludeField = this.getAttribute(\"field\");\n\tthis.transcludeIndex = this.getAttribute(\"index\");\n\tthis.transcludeMode = this.getAttribute(\"mode\");\n\t// Parse the text reference\n\tvar parseAsInline = !this.parseTreeNode.isBlock;\n\tif(this.transcludeMode === \"inline\") {\n\t\tparseAsInline = true;\n\t} else if(this.transcludeMode === \"block\") {\n\t\tparseAsInline = false;\n\t}\n\tvar parser = this.wiki.parseTextReference(\n\t\t\t\t\t\tthis.transcludeTitle,\n\t\t\t\t\t\tthis.transcludeField,\n\t\t\t\t\t\tthis.transcludeIndex,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparseAsInline: parseAsInline,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsubTiddler: this.transcludeSubTiddler\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}),\n\t\tparseTreeNodes = parser ? parser.tree : this.parseTreeNode.children;\n\t// Set context variables for recursion detection\n\tvar recursionMarker = this.makeRecursionMarker();\n\tthis.setVariable(\"transclusion\",recursionMarker);\n\t// Check for recursion\n\tif(parser) {\n\t\tif(this.parentWidget && this.parentWidget.hasVariable(\"transclusion\",recursionMarker)) {\n\t\t\tparseTreeNodes = [{type: \"element\", tag: \"span\", attributes: {\n\t\t\t\t\"class\": {type: \"string\", value: \"tc-error\"}\n\t\t\t}, children: [\n\t\t\t\t{type: \"text\", text: \"Recursive transclusion error in transclude widget\"}\n\t\t\t]}];\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t// Construct the child widgets\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets(parseTreeNodes);\n};\n\n/*\nCompose a string comprising the title, field and/or index to identify this transclusion for recursion detection\n*/\nTranscludeWidget.prototype.makeRecursionMarker = function() {\n\tvar output = [];\n\toutput.push(\"{\");\n\toutput.push(this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\",{defaultValue: \"\"}));\n\toutput.push(\"|\");\n\toutput.push(this.transcludeTitle || \"\");\n\toutput.push(\"|\");\n\toutput.push(this.transcludeField || \"\");\n\toutput.push(\"|\");\n\toutput.push(this.transcludeIndex || \"\");\n\toutput.push(\"|\");\n\toutput.push(this.transcludeSubTiddler || \"\");\n\toutput.push(\"}\");\n\treturn output.join(\"\");\n};\n\n/*\nSelectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering\n*/\nTranscludeWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {\n\tvar changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();\n\tif(changedAttributes.tiddler || changedAttributes.field || changedAttributes.index || changedTiddlers[this.transcludeTitle]) {\n\t\tthis.refreshSelf();\n\t\treturn true;\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn this.refreshChildren(changedTiddlers);\t\t\n\t}\n};\n\nexports.transclude = TranscludeWidget;\n\n})();\n",
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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/view.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nView widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar Widget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\").widget;\n\nvar ViewWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n};\n\n/*\nInherit from the base widget class\n*/\nViewWidget.prototype = new Widget();\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nViewWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.computeAttributes();\n\tthis.execute();\n\tif(this.text) {\n\t\tvar textNode = this.document.createTextNode(this.text);\n\t\tparent.insertBefore(textNode,nextSibling);\n\t\tthis.domNodes.push(textNode);\n\t} else {\n\t\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n\t\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nViewWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\t// Get parameters from our attributes\n\tthis.viewTitle = this.getAttribute(\"tiddler\",this.getVariable(\"currentTiddler\"));\n\tthis.viewSubtiddler = this.getAttribute(\"subtiddler\");\n\tthis.viewField = this.getAttribute(\"field\",\"text\");\n\tthis.viewIndex = this.getAttribute(\"index\");\n\tthis.viewFormat = this.getAttribute(\"format\",\"text\");\n\tthis.viewTemplate = this.getAttribute(\"template\",\"\");\n\tswitch(this.viewFormat) {\n\t\tcase \"htmlwikified\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsHtmlWikified();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"htmlencoded\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsHtmlEncoded();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"urlencoded\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsUrlEncoded();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"doubleurlencoded\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsDoubleUrlEncoded();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"date\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsDate(this.viewTemplate);\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"relativedate\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsRelativeDate();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"stripcomments\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsStrippedComments();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tcase \"jsencoded\":\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsJsEncoded();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t\tdefault: // \"text\"\n\t\t\tthis.text = this.getValueAsText();\n\t\t\tbreak;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nThe various formatter functions are baked into this widget for the moment. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nWidget base class\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\n/*\nCreate a widget object for a parse tree node\n\tparseTreeNode: reference to the parse tree node to be rendered\n\toptions: see below\nOptions include:\n\twiki: mandatory reference to wiki associated with this render tree\n\tparentWidget: optional reference to a parent renderer node for the context chain\n\tdocument: optional document object to use instead of global document\n*/\nvar Widget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\tif(arguments.length > 0) {\n\t\tthis.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nInitialise widget properties. These steps are pulled out of the constructor so that we can reuse them in subclasses\n*/\nWidget.prototype.initialise = function(parseTreeNode,options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\t// Save widget info\n\tthis.parseTreeNode = parseTreeNode;\n\tthis.wiki = options.wiki;\n\tthis.parentWidget = options.parentWidget;\n\tthis.variablesConstructor = function() {};\n\tthis.variablesConstructor.prototype = this.parentWidget ? this.parentWidget.variables : {};\n\tthis.variables = new this.variablesConstructor();\n\tthis.document = options.document;\n\tthis.attributes = {};\n\tthis.children = [];\n\tthis.domNodes = [];\n\tthis.eventListeners = {};\n\t// Hashmap of the widget classes\n\tif(!this.widgetClasses) {\n\t\tWidget.prototype.widgetClasses = $tw.modules.applyMethods(\"widget\");\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nRender this widget into the DOM\n*/\nWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {\n\tthis.parentDomNode = parent;\n\tthis.execute();\n\tthis.renderChildren(parent,nextSibling);\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the internal state of the widget\n*/\nWidget.prototype.execute = function() {\n\tthis.makeChildWidgets();\n};\n\n/*\nSet the value of a context variable\nname: name of the variable\nvalue: value of the variable\nparams: array of {name:, default:} for each parameter\n*/\nWidget.prototype.setVariable = function(name,value,params) {\n\tthis.variables[name] = {value: value, params: params};\n};\n\n/*\nGet the prevailing value of a context variable\nname: name of variable\noptions: see below\nOptions include\nparams: array of {name:, value:} for each parameter\ndefaultValue: default value if the variable is not defined\n*/\nWidget.prototype.getVariable = function(name,options) {\n\toptions = options || {};\n\tvar actualParams = options.params || [],\n\t\tparentWidget = this.parentWidget;\n\t// Check for the variable defined in the parent widget (or an ancestor in the prototype chain)\n\tif(parentWidget && name in parentWidget.variables) {\n\t\tvar variable = parentWidget.variables[name],\n\t\t\tvalue = variable.value;\n\t\t// Substitute any parameters specified in the definition\n\t\tvalue = this.substituteVariableParameters(value,variable.params,actualParams);\n\t\tvalue = this.substituteVariableReferences(value);\n\t\treturn value;\n\t}\n\t// If the variable doesn't exist in the parent widget then look for a macro module\n\treturn this.evaluateMacroModule(name,actualParams,options.defaultValue);\n};\n\nWidget.prototype.substituteVariableParameters = function(text,formalParams,actualParams) {\n\tif(formalParams) {\n\t\tvar nextAnonParameter = 0, // Next candidate anonymous parameter in macro call\n\t\t\tparamInfo, paramValue;\n\t\t// Step through each of the parameters in the macro definition\n\t\tfor(var p=0; p<formalParams.length; p++) {\n\t\t\t// Check if we've got a macro call parameter with the same name\n\t\t\tparamInfo = formalParams[p];\n\t\t\tparamValue = undefined;\n\t\t\tfor(var m=0; m<actualParams.length; m++) {\n\t\t\t\tif(actualParams[m].name === paramInfo.name) {\n\t\t\t\t\tparamValue = actualParams[m].value;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// If not, use the next available anonymous macro call parameter\n\t\t\twhile(nextAnonParameter < actualParams.length && actualParams[nextAnonParameter].name) {\n\t\t\t\tnextAnonParameter++;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tif(paramValue === undefined && nextAnonParameter < actualParams.length) {\n\t\t\t\tparamValue = actualParams[nextAnonParameter++].value;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t// If we've still not got a value, use the default, if any\n\t\t\tparamValue = paramValue || paramInfo[\"default\"] || \"\";\n\t\t\t// Replace any instances of this parameter\n\t\t\ttext = text.replace(new RegExp(\"\\\\$\" + $tw.utils.escapeRegExp(paramInfo.name) + \"\\\\$\",\"mg\"),paramValue);\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\treturn text;\n};\n\nWidget.prototype.substituteVariableReferences = function(text) {\n\tvar self = this;\n\treturn (text || \"\").replace(/\\$\\(([^\\)\\$]+)\\)\\$/g,function(match,p1,offset,string) {\n\t\treturn self.getVariable(p1,{defaultValue: \"\"});\n\t});\n};\n\nWidget.prototype.evaluateMacroModule = function(name,actualParams,defaultValue) {\n\tif($tw.utils.hop($tw.macros,name)) {\n\t\tvar macro = $tw.macros[name],\n\t\t\targs = [];\n\t\tif(macro.params.length > 0) {\n\t\t\tvar nextAnonParameter = 0, // Next candidate anonymous parameter in macro call\n\t\t\t\tparamInfo, paramValue;\n\t\t\t// Step through each of the parameters in the macro definition\n\t\t\tfor(var p=0; p<macro.params.length; p++) {\n\t\t\t\t// Check if we've got a macro call parameter with the same name\n\t\t\t\tparamInfo = macro.params[p];\n\t\t\t\tparamValue = undefined;\n\t\t\t\tfor(var m=0; m<actualParams.length; m++) {\n\t\t\t\t\tif(actualParams[m].name === paramInfo.name) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tparamValue = actualParams[m].value;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t// If not, use the next available anonymous macro call parameter\n\t\t\t\twhile(nextAnonParameter < actualParams.length && actualParams[nextAnonParameter].name) {\n\t\t\t\t\tnextAnonParameter++;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif(paramValue === undefined && nextAnonParameter < actualParams.length) {\n\t\t\t\t\tparamValue = actualParams[nextAnonParameter++].value;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t// If we've still not got a value, use the default, if any\n\t\t\t\tparamValue = paramValue || paramInfo[\"default\"] || \"\";\n\t\t\t\t// Save the parameter\n\t\t\t\targs.push(paramValue);\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\telse for(var i=0; i<actualParams.length; ++i) {\n\t\t\targs.push(actualParams[i].value);\n\t\t}\n\t\treturn macro.run.apply(this,args).toString();\n\t} else {\n\t\treturn defaultValue;\n\t}\n};\n\n/*\nCheck whether a given context variable value exists in the parent chain\n*/\nWidget.prototype.hasVariable = function(name,value) {\n\tvar node = this;\n\twhile(node) {\n\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(node.variables,name) && node.variables[name].value === value) {\n\t\t\treturn true;\n\t\t}\n\t\tnode = node.parentWidget;\n\t}\n\treturn false;\n};\n\n/*\nConstruct a qualifying string based on a hash of concatenating the values of a given variable in the parent chain\n*/\nWidget.prototype.getStateQualifier = function(name) {\n\tname = name || \"transclusion\";\n\tvar output = [],\n\t\tnode = this;\n\twhile(node && node.parentWidget) {\n\t\tif($tw.utils.hop(node.parentWidget.variables,name)) {\n\t\t\toutput.push(node.getVariable(name));\n\t\t}\n\t\tnode = node.parentWidget;\n\t}\n\treturn $tw.utils.hashString(output.join(\"\"));\n};\n\n/*\nCompute the current values of the attributes of the widget. 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"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/wiki.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: wikimethod\n\nExtension methods for the $tw.Wiki object\n\nAdds the following properties to the wiki object:\n\n* `eventListeners` is a hashmap by type of arrays of listener functions\n* `changedTiddlers` is a hashmap describing changes to named tiddlers since wiki change events were last dispatched. Each entry is a hashmap containing two fields:\n\tmodified: true/false\n\tdeleted: true/false\n* `changeCount` is a hashmap by tiddler title containing a numerical index that starts at zero and is incremented each time a tiddler is created changed or deleted\n* `caches` is a hashmap by tiddler title containing a further hashmap of named cache objects. 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title : [title];\n\t// Add a new record to the top of the history stack\n\tvar historyList = this.getTiddlerData(historyTitle,[]);\n\t$tw.utils.each(titles,function(title) {\n\t\thistoryList.push({title: title, fromPageRect: fromPageRect});\n\t});\n\tthis.setTiddlerData(historyTitle,historyList,{\"current-tiddler\": titles[titles.length-1]});\n};\n\n/*\nInvoke the available upgrader modules\ntitles: array of tiddler titles to be processed\ntiddlers: hashmap by title of tiddler fields of pending import tiddlers. 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"title": "$:/core/modules/wiki.js",
"type": "application/javascript",
"module-type": "wikimethod"
},
"$:/palettes/Blanca": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Blanca",
"name": "Blanca",
"description": "A clean white palette to let you focus",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #ffffff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #66cccc\ndownload-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333333\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #999999\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #ffffff\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #7897f3\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #ccc\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,255,255, 0.8)\nsidebar-foreground: #acacac\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: #ffffff\nsidebar-tab-background: <<colour tab-background>>\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: <<colour tab-border-selected>>\nsidebar-tab-border: <<colour tab-border>>\nsidebar-tab-divider: <<colour tab-divider>>\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: <<colour tab-foreground>>\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #7897f3\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: #fffffffff\ntab-background: #eeeeee\ntab-border-selected: #cccccc\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #ffeedd\ntag-foreground: #000\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: #eee\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #888888\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #ff9900\ntoolbar-new-button:\ntoolbar-options-button:\ntoolbar-save-button:\ntoolbar-info-button:\ntoolbar-edit-button:\ntoolbar-close-button:\ntoolbar-delete-button:\ntoolbar-cancel-button:\ntoolbar-done-button:\nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/palettes/Blue": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Blue",
"name": "Blue",
"description": "A blue theme",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #fff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #34c734\ndownload-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333353\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #999999\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #ddddff\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #5778d8\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #ffffff\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,255,255, 0.8)\nsidebar-foreground: #acacac\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: <<colour page-background>>\nsidebar-tab-background: <<colour tab-background>>\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: <<colour tab-border-selected>>\nsidebar-tab-border: <<colour tab-border>>\nsidebar-tab-divider: <<colour tab-divider>>\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: <<colour tab-foreground>>\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #5959c0\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: <<colour background>>\ntab-background: #ccccdd\ntab-border-selected: #ccccdd\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #eeeeff\ntag-foreground: #000\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #666666\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #ffffff\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #ffffff\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #5959c0\ntoolbar-new-button: #5eb95e\ntoolbar-options-button: rgb(128, 88, 165)\ntoolbar-save-button: #0e90d2\ntoolbar-info-button: #0e90d2\ntoolbar-edit-button: rgb(243, 123, 29)\ntoolbar-close-button: #dd514c\ntoolbar-delete-button: #dd514c\ntoolbar-cancel-button: rgb(243, 123, 29)\ntoolbar-done-button: #5eb95e\nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/palettes/Muted": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Muted",
"name": "Muted",
"description": "Bright tiddlers on a muted background",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #ffffff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #34c734\ndownload-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333333\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #bbb\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #6f6f70\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #29a6ee\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #c2c1c2\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,255,255,0)\nsidebar-foreground: #d3d2d4\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: #6f6f70\nsidebar-tab-background: #666667\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: #999\nsidebar-tab-border: #515151\nsidebar-tab-divider: #999\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: #999\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #d1d0d2\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: #ffffff\ntab-background: #d8d8d8\ntab-border-selected: #d8d8d8\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #d5ad34\ntag-foreground: #ffffff\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #888888\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #182955\ntoolbar-new-button: \ntoolbar-options-button: \ntoolbar-save-button: \ntoolbar-info-button: \ntoolbar-edit-button: \ntoolbar-close-button: \ntoolbar-delete-button: \ntoolbar-cancel-button: \ntoolbar-done-button: \nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/palettes/Contrast": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Contrast",
"name": "Contrast",
"description": "High contrast and unambiguous",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #ffffff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #34c734\ndownload-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333333\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #999999\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #000000\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #5778d8\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #ffffff\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,0,0, 0.5)\nsidebar-foreground: #ffffff\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: #ececec\nsidebar-tab-background: <<colour tab-background>>\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: <<colour tab-border-selected>>\nsidebar-tab-border: <<colour tab-border>>\nsidebar-tab-divider: <<colour tab-divider>>\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: <<colour tab-foreground>>\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #999999\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: #ffffff\ntab-background: #d8d8d8\ntab-border-selected: #d8d8d8\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #d5ad34\ntag-foreground: #ffffff\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #888888\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #182955\ntoolbar-new-button:\ntoolbar-options-button:\ntoolbar-save-button:\ntoolbar-info-button:\ntoolbar-edit-button:\ntoolbar-close-button:\ntoolbar-delete-button:\ntoolbar-cancel-button:\ntoolbar-done-button:\nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/palettes/Rocker": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Rocker",
"name": "Rocker",
"description": "A dark theme",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #ffffff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #34c734\ndownload-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333333\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #999999\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #000\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #cc0000\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #ffffff\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,255,255, 0.0)\nsidebar-foreground: #acacac\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: #000\nsidebar-tab-background: <<colour tab-background>>\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: <<colour tab-border-selected>>\nsidebar-tab-border: <<colour tab-border>>\nsidebar-tab-divider: <<colour tab-divider>>\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: <<colour tab-foreground>>\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #ffbb99\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #cc0000\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: #ffffff\ntab-background: #d8d8d8\ntab-border-selected: #d8d8d8\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #ffbb99\ntag-foreground: #000\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #888888\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #cc0000\ntoolbar-new-button:\ntoolbar-options-button:\ntoolbar-save-button:\ntoolbar-info-button:\ntoolbar-edit-button:\ntoolbar-close-button:\ntoolbar-delete-button:\ntoolbar-cancel-button:\ntoolbar-done-button:\nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/palettes/Vanilla": {
"title": "$:/palettes/Vanilla",
"name": "Vanilla",
"description": "Pale and unobtrusive",
"tags": "$:/tags/Palette",
"type": "application/x-tiddler-dictionary",
"text": "alert-background: #ffe476\nalert-border: #b99e2f\nalert-highlight: #881122\nalert-muted-foreground: #b99e2f\nbackground: #ffffff\nblockquote-bar: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ncode-background: #f7f7f9\ncode-border: #e1e1e8\ncode-foreground: #dd1144\ndirty-indicator: #ff0000\ndownload-background: #34c734\ndownload-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndragger-background: <<colour foreground>>\ndragger-foreground: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-background: <<colour background>>\ndropdown-border: <<colour muted-foreground>>\ndropdown-tab-background-selected: #fff\ndropdown-tab-background: #ececec\ndropzone-background: rgba(0,200,0,0.7)\nexternal-link-background-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-background-visited: inherit\nexternal-link-background: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-hover: inherit\nexternal-link-foreground-visited: #0000aa\nexternal-link-foreground: #0000ee\nforeground: #333333\nmessage-background: #ecf2ff\nmessage-border: #cfd6e6\nmessage-foreground: #547599\nmodal-backdrop: <<colour foreground>>\nmodal-background: <<colour background>>\nmodal-border: #999999\nmodal-footer-background: #f5f5f5\nmodal-footer-border: #dddddd\nmodal-header-border: #eeeeee\nmuted-foreground: #bbb\nnotification-background: #ffffdd\nnotification-border: #999999\npage-background: #ececec\npre-background: #f5f5f5\npre-border: #cccccc\nprimary: #5778d8\nsidebar-button-foreground: <<colour foreground>>\nsidebar-controls-foreground-hover: #000000\nsidebar-controls-foreground: #aaaaaa\nsidebar-foreground-shadow: rgba(255,255,255, 0.8)\nsidebar-foreground: #acacac\nsidebar-muted-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-muted-foreground: #c0c0c0\nsidebar-tab-background-selected: #ececec\nsidebar-tab-background: <<colour tab-background>>\nsidebar-tab-border-selected: <<colour tab-border-selected>>\nsidebar-tab-border: <<colour tab-border>>\nsidebar-tab-divider: #e4e4e4\nsidebar-tab-foreground-selected: \nsidebar-tab-foreground: <<colour tab-foreground>>\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground-hover: #444444\nsidebar-tiddler-link-foreground: #999999\nstatic-alert-foreground: #aaaaaa\ntab-background-selected: #ffffff\ntab-background: #d8d8d8\ntab-border-selected: #d8d8d8\ntab-border: #cccccc\ntab-divider: #d8d8d8\ntab-foreground-selected: <<colour tab-foreground>>\ntab-foreground: #666666\ntable-border: #dddddd\ntable-footer-background: #a8a8a8\ntable-header-background: #f0f0f0\ntag-background: #ec6\ntag-foreground: #ffffff\ntiddler-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-border: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-controls-foreground-hover: #888888\ntiddler-controls-foreground-selected: #444444\ntiddler-controls-foreground: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-editor-border-image: #ffffff\ntiddler-editor-border: #cccccc\ntiddler-editor-fields-even: #e0e8e0\ntiddler-editor-fields-odd: #f0f4f0\ntiddler-info-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-info-border: #dddddd\ntiddler-info-tab-background: #f8f8f8\ntiddler-link-background: <<colour background>>\ntiddler-link-foreground: <<colour primary>>\ntiddler-subtitle-foreground: #c0c0c0\ntiddler-title-foreground: #182955\ntoolbar-new-button:\ntoolbar-options-button:\ntoolbar-save-button:\ntoolbar-info-button:\ntoolbar-edit-button:\ntoolbar-close-button:\ntoolbar-delete-button:\ntoolbar-cancel-button:\ntoolbar-done-button:\nuntagged-background: #999999\nvery-muted-foreground: #888888\n"
},
"$:/core/readme": {
"title": "$:/core/readme",
"text": "This plugin contains TiddlyWiki's core components, comprising:\n\n* JavaScript code modules\n* Icons\n* Templates needed to create TiddlyWiki's user interface\n* British English (''en-GB'') translations of the localisable strings used by the core\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/MOTW.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/MOTW.html",
"text": "\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline entity\n<!-- The following comment is called a MOTW comment and is necessary for the TiddlyIE Internet Explorer extension -->\n<!-- saved from url=(0021)http://tiddlywiki.com --> "
},
"$:/core/templates/alltiddlers.template.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/alltiddlers.template.html",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki-html",
"text": "<!-- This template is provided for backwards compatibility with older versions of TiddlyWiki -->\n\n<$set name=\"exportFilter\" value=\"[!is[system]sort[title]]\">\n\n{{$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver}}\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/canonical-uri-external-image": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/canonical-uri-external-image",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used to assign the ''_canonical_uri'' field to external images.\n\nChange the `./images/` part to a different base URI. The URI can be relative or absolute.\n\n-->\n./images/<$view field=\"title\" format=\"doubleurlencoded\"/>"
},
"$:/core/templates/css-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/css-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving CSS tiddlers as a style tag with data attributes representing the tiddler fields.\n\n-->`<style`<$fields template=' data-tiddler-$name$=\"$encoded_value$\"'></$fields>` type=\"text/css\">`<$view field=\"text\" format=\"text\" />`</style>`"
},
"$:/core/templates/exporters/CsvFile": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/exporters/CsvFile",
"tags": "$:/tags/Exporter",
"description": "{{$:/language/Exporters/CsvFile}}",
"extension": ".csv",
"text": "\\define renderContent()\n<$text text=<<csvtiddlers filter:\"\"\"$(exportFilter)$\"\"\" format:\"quoted-comma-sep\">>/>\n\\end\n<<renderContent>>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/exporters/JsonFile": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/exporters/JsonFile",
"tags": "$:/tags/Exporter",
"description": "{{$:/language/Exporters/JsonFile}}",
"extension": ".json",
"text": "\\define renderContent()\n<$text text=<<jsontiddlers filter:\"\"\"$(exportFilter)$\"\"\">>/>\n\\end\n<<renderContent>>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver",
"tags": "$:/tags/Exporter",
"description": "{{$:/language/Exporters/StaticRiver}}",
"extension": ".html",
"text": "\\define tv-wikilink-template() #$uri_encoded$\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-icons() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-text() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-class() tc-btn-invisible\n\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline\n<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"TiddlyWiki\" />\n<meta name=\"tiddlywiki-version\" content=\"{{$:/core/templates/version}}\" />\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no\">\n<link id=\"faviconLink\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\">\n<title>{{$:/core/wiki/title}}</title>\n<div id=\"styleArea\">\n{{$:/boot/boot.css||$:/core/templates/css-tiddler}}\n</div>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\n{{$:/core/ui/PageStylesheet||$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler}}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body class=\"tc-body\">\n{{$:/StaticBanner||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}\n<section class=\"tc-story-river\">\n{{$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver/Content||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}\n</section>\n</body>\n</html>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver/Content": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/exporters/StaticRiver/Content",
"text": "\\define renderContent()\n{{{ $(exportFilter)$ ||$:/core/templates/static-tiddler}}}\n\\end\n<$importvariables filter=\"[[$:/core/ui/PageMacros]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Macro]!has[draft.of]]\">\n<<renderContent>>\n</$importvariables>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/exporters/TidFile": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/exporters/TidFile",
"tags": "$:/tags/Exporter",
"description": "{{$:/language/Exporters/TidFile}}",
"extension": ".tid",
"text": "\\define renderContent()\n{{{ $(exportFilter)$ +[limit[1]] ||$:/core/templates/tid-tiddler}}}\n\\end\n<$importvariables filter=\"[[$:/core/ui/PageMacros]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Macro]!has[draft.of]]\"><<renderContent>></$importvariables>"
},
"$:/core/templates/html-div-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/html-div-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving tiddlers as an HTML DIV tag with attributes representing the tiddler fields.\n\n-->`<div`<$fields template=' $name$=\"$encoded_value$\"'></$fields>`>\n<pre>`<$view field=\"text\" format=\"htmlencoded\" />`</pre>\n</div>`\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/html-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/html-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving tiddlers as raw HTML\n\n--><$view field=\"text\" format=\"htmlwikified\" />"
},
"$:/core/templates/javascript-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/javascript-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving JavaScript tiddlers as a script tag with data attributes representing the tiddler fields.\n\n-->`<script`<$fields template=' data-tiddler-$name$=\"$encoded_value$\"'></$fields>` type=\"text/javascript\">`<$view field=\"text\" format=\"text\" />`</script>`"
},
"$:/core/templates/module-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/module-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving JavaScript tiddlers as a script tag with data attributes representing the tiddler fields. The body of the tiddler is wrapped in a call to the `$tw.modules.define` function in order to define the body of the tiddler as a module\n\n-->`<script`<$fields template=' data-tiddler-$name$=\"$encoded_value$\"'></$fields>` type=\"text/javascript\" data-module=\"yes\">$tw.modules.define(\"`<$view field=\"title\" format=\"jsencoded\" />`\",\"`<$view field=\"module-type\" format=\"jsencoded\" />`\",function(module,exports,require) {`<$view field=\"text\" format=\"text\" />`});\n</script>`"
},
"$:/core/templates/plain-text-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/plain-text-tiddler",
"text": "<$view field=\"text\" format=\"text\" />"
},
"$:/core/save/all": {
"title": "$:/core/save/all",
"text": "\\define saveTiddlerFilter()\n[is[tiddler]] -[prefix[$:/state/popup/]] -[[$:/HistoryList]] -[[$:/boot/boot.css]] -[type[application/javascript]library[yes]] -[[$:/boot/boot.js]] -[[$:/boot/bootprefix.js]] +[sort[title]]\n\\end\n{{$:/core/templates/tiddlywiki5.html}}\n"
},
"$:/core/save/empty": {
"title": "$:/core/save/empty",
"text": "\\define saveTiddlerFilter()\n[is[system]] -[prefix[$:/state/popup/]] -[[$:/boot/boot.css]] -[type[application/javascript]library[yes]] -[[$:/boot/boot.js]] -[[$:/boot/bootprefix.js]] +[sort[title]]\n\\end\n{{$:/core/templates/tiddlywiki5.html}}\n"
},
"$:/core/save/lazy-images": {
"title": "$:/core/save/lazy-images",
"text": "\\define saveTiddlerFilter()\n[is[tiddler]] -[prefix[$:/state/popup/]] -[[$:/HistoryList]] -[[$:/boot/boot.css]] -[type[application/javascript]library[yes]] -[[$:/boot/boot.js]] -[[$:/boot/bootprefix.js]] -[!is[system]is[image]] +[sort[title]] \n\\end\n{{$:/core/templates/tiddlywiki5.html}}\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/split-recipe": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/split-recipe",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[!is[system]]\">\ntiddler: <$view field=\"title\" format=\"urlencoded\"/>.tid\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/static-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static-tiddler",
"text": "<a name=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate\"/>\n</a>"
},
"$:/core/templates/static.area": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static.area",
"text": "<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\n{{$:/core/templates/static.content||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\nThis file contains an encrypted ~TiddlyWiki. Enable ~JavaScript and enter the decryption password when prompted.\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/static.content": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static.content",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"text": "<!-- For Google, and people without JavaScript-->\nThis [[TiddlyWiki|http://tiddlywiki.com]] contains the following tiddlers:\n\n<ul>\n<$list filter=<<saveTiddlerFilter>>>\n<li><$view field=\"title\" format=\"text\"></$view></li>\n</$list>\n</ul>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/static.template.css": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static.template.css",
"text": "{{$:/boot/boot.css||$:/core/templates/plain-text-tiddler}}\n\n{{$:/core/ui/PageStylesheet||$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler}}\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/static.template.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static.template.html",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki-html",
"text": "\\define tv-wikilink-template() static/$uri_doubleencoded$.html\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-icons() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-text() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-class() tc-btn-invisible\n\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline\n<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"TiddlyWiki\" />\n<meta name=\"tiddlywiki-version\" content=\"{{$:/core/templates/version}}\" />\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no\">\n<link id=\"faviconLink\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\">\n<title>{{$:/core/wiki/title}}</title>\n<div id=\"styleArea\">\n{{$:/boot/boot.css||$:/core/templates/css-tiddler}}\n</div>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\n{{$:/core/ui/PageStylesheet||$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler}}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body class=\"tc-body\">\n{{$:/StaticBanner||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}\n{{$:/core/ui/PageTemplate||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}\n</body>\n</html>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/static.tiddler.html",
"text": "\\define tv-wikilink-template() $uri_doubleencoded$.html\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-icons() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-text() no\n\\define tv-config-toolbar-class() tc-btn-invisible\n`<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"TiddlyWiki\" />\n<meta name=\"tiddlywiki-version\" content=\"`{{$:/core/templates/version}}`\" />\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no\">\n<link id=\"faviconLink\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\">\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"static.css\">\n<title>`{{$:/core/wiki/title}}`</title>\n</head>\n<body class=\"tc-body\">\n`{{$:/StaticBanner||$:/core/templates/html-tiddler}}`\n<section class=\"tc-story-river\">\n`<$importvariables filter=\"[[$:/core/ui/PageMacros]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Macro]!has[draft.of]]\">\n<$view tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate\" format=\"htmlwikified\"/>\n</$importvariables>`\n</section>\n</body>\n</html>\n`"
},
"$:/core/templates/store.area.template.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/store.area.template.html",
"text": "<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\n`<div id=\"storeArea\" style=\"display:none;\">`\n<$list filter=<<saveTiddlerFilter>> template=\"$:/core/templates/html-div-tiddler\"/>\n`</div>`\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\n`<!--~~ Encrypted tiddlers ~~-->`\n`<pre id=\"encryptedStoreArea\" type=\"text/plain\" style=\"display:none;\">`\n<$encrypt filter=<<saveTiddlerFilter>>/>\n`</pre>`\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/templates/tid-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/tid-tiddler",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving tiddlers in TiddlyWeb *.tid format\n\n--><$fields exclude='text bag' template='$name$: $value$\n'></$fields>`\n`<$view field=\"text\" format=\"text\" />"
},
"$:/core/templates/tiddler-metadata": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/tiddler-metadata",
"text": "<!--\n\nThis template is used for saving tiddler metadata *.meta files\n\n--><$fields exclude='text bag' template='$name$: $value$\n'></$fields>"
},
"$:/core/templates/tiddlywiki5.html": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/tiddlywiki5.html",
"text": "\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline\n<!doctype html>\n{{$:/core/templates/MOTW.html}}<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge\" />\t\t<!-- Force IE standards mode for Intranet and HTA - should be the first meta -->\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"application-name\" content=\"TiddlyWiki\" />\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"TiddlyWiki\" />\n<meta name=\"tiddlywiki-version\" content=\"{{$:/core/templates/version}}\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\" />\n<meta name=\"apple-mobile-web-app-capable\" content=\"yes\" />\n<meta name=\"apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style\" content=\"black-translucent\" />\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no\" />\n<meta name=\"copyright\" content=\"{{$:/core/copyright.txt}}\" />\n<link id=\"faviconLink\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\">\n<title>{{$:/core/wiki/title}}</title>\n<!--~~ This is a Tiddlywiki file. The points of interest in the file are marked with this pattern ~~-->\n\n<!--~~ Raw markup ~~-->\n{{{ [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/core/wiki/rawmarkup]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/RawMarkup]] ||$:/core/templates/plain-text-tiddler}}}\n</head>\n<body class=\"tc-body\">\n<!--~~ Static styles ~~-->\n<div id=\"styleArea\">\n{{$:/boot/boot.css||$:/core/templates/css-tiddler}}\n</div>\n<!--~~ Static content for Google and browsers without JavaScript ~~-->\n<noscript>\n<div id=\"splashArea\">\n{{$:/core/templates/static.area}}\n</div>\n</noscript>\n<!--~~ Ordinary tiddlers ~~-->\n{{$:/core/templates/store.area.template.html}}\n<!--~~ Library modules ~~-->\n<div id=\"libraryModules\" style=\"display:none;\">\n{{{ [is[system]type[application/javascript]library[yes]] ||$:/core/templates/javascript-tiddler}}}\n</div>\n<!--~~ Boot kernel prologue ~~-->\n<div id=\"bootKernelPrefix\" style=\"display:none;\">\n{{ $:/boot/bootprefix.js ||$:/core/templates/javascript-tiddler}}\n</div>\n<!--~~ Boot kernel ~~-->\n<div id=\"bootKernel\" style=\"display:none;\">\n{{ $:/boot/boot.js ||$:/core/templates/javascript-tiddler}}\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n"
},
"$:/core/templates/version": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/version",
"text": "<<version>>"
},
"$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler",
"text": "<$transclude />"
},
"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Filter": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Filter",
"tags": "$:/tags/AdvancedSearch",
"caption": "{{$:/language/Search/Filter/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Search/\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\">\n\n<<lingo Filter/Hint>>\n\n<div class=\"tc-search tc-advanced-search\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"search\" tag=\"input\"/>\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/filterDropdown\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$button>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" $field=\"text\" $value=\"\"/>\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$button>\n<$macrocall $name=\"exportButton\" exportFilter={{$:/temp/advancedsearch}} lingoBase=\"$:/language/Buttons/ExportTiddlers/\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown-wrapper\">\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/filterDropdown\">> type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" default=\"\">\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown tc-edit-type-dropdown\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Filter]]\"><$link to={{!!filter}}><$transclude field=\"description\"/></$link>\n</$list>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n</$linkcatcher>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$set name=\"resultCount\" value=\"\"\"<$count filter={{$:/temp/advancedsearch}}/>\"\"\">\n<div class=\"tc-search-results\">\n<<lingo Filter/Matches>>\n<$list filter={{$:/temp/advancedsearch}} template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n</div>\n</$set>\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Shadows": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Shadows",
"tags": "$:/tags/AdvancedSearch",
"caption": "{{$:/language/Search/Shadows/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Search/\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\">\n\n<<lingo Shadows/Hint>>\n\n<div class=\"tc-search\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"search\" tag=\"input\"/>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" $field=\"text\" $value=\"\"/>\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n</$linkcatcher>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n\n<$set name=\"resultCount\" value=\"\"\"<$count filter=\"[all[shadows]search{$:/temp/advancedsearch}] -[[$:/temp/advancedsearch]]\"/>\"\"\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-search-results\">\n\n<<lingo Shadows/Matches>>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows]search{$:/temp/advancedsearch}sort[title]limit[250]] -[[$:/temp/advancedsearch]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n\n</div>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"match\" text=\"\">\n\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Standard": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Standard",
"tags": "$:/tags/AdvancedSearch",
"caption": "{{$:/language/Search/Standard/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Search/\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\">\n\n<<lingo Standard/Hint>>\n\n<div class=\"tc-search\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"search\" tag=\"input\"/>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" $field=\"text\" $value=\"\"/>\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n</$linkcatcher>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$set name=\"searchTiddler\" value=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]butfirst[]limit[1]]\" emptyMessage=\"\"\"\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]]\">\n<$transclude/>\n</$list>\n\"\"\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"tabs\" tabsList=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]]\" default={{$:/config/SearchResults/Default}}/>\n</$list>\n</$set>\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/System": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/System",
"tags": "$:/tags/AdvancedSearch",
"caption": "{{$:/language/Search/System/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Search/\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\">\n\n<<lingo System/Hint>>\n\n<div class=\"tc-search\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"search\" tag=\"input\"/>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" $field=\"text\" $value=\"\"/>\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n</$linkcatcher>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n\n<$set name=\"resultCount\" value=\"\"\"<$count filter=\"[is[system]search{$:/temp/advancedsearch}] -[[$:/temp/advancedsearch]]\"/>\"\"\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-search-results\">\n\n<<lingo System/Matches>>\n\n<$list filter=\"[is[system]search{$:/temp/advancedsearch}sort[title]limit[250]] -[[$:/temp/advancedsearch]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n\n</div>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" type=\"match\" text=\"\">\n\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/AdvancedSearch": {
"title": "$:/AdvancedSearch",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-advanced-search\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/AdvancedSearch]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/System\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/AlertTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/AlertTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-alert\">\n<div class=\"tc-alert-toolbar\">\n<$button message=\"tm-delete-tiddler\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/delete-button}}</$button>\n</div>\n<div class=\"tc-alert-subtitle\">\n<$view field=\"component\"/> - <$view field=\"modified\" format=\"date\" template=\"0hh:0mm:0ss DD MM YYYY\"/> <$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"!!count\" text=\"\"><span class=\"tc-alert-highlight\">(count: <$view field=\"count\"/>)</span></$reveal>\n</div>\n<div class=\"tc-alert-body\">\n\n<$transclude/>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/BinaryWarning": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/BinaryWarning",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/BinaryWarning/\n<div class=\"tc-binary-warning\">\n\n<<lingo Prompt>>\n\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Advanced": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Advanced",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Info",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Advanced/Hint}}\n\n<div class=\"tc-control-panel\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel/Advanced]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Appearance": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Appearance/Hint}}\n\n<div class=\"tc-control-panel\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Theme\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Basics": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Basics",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Info",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/\n\n\\define show-filter-count(filter)\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" $value=\"\"\"$filter$\"\"\"/>\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/state/tab--1498284803\" $value=\"$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Filter\"/>\n<$action-navigate $to=\"$:/AdvancedSearch\"/>\n''<$count filter=\"\"\"$filter$\"\"\"/>''\n{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}}\n</$button>\n\\end\n\n|<<lingo Version/Prompt>> |''<<version>>'' |\n|<$link to=\"$:/SiteTitle\"><<lingo Title/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/SiteTitle\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/SiteSubtitle\"><<lingo Subtitle/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/SiteSubtitle\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/status/UserName\"><<lingo Username/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/status/UserName\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/config/AnimationDuration\"><<lingo AnimDuration/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/config/AnimationDuration\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/DefaultTiddlers\"><<lingo DefaultTiddlers/Prompt>></$link> |<<lingo DefaultTiddlers/TopHint>><br> <$edit-text tag=\"textarea\" tiddler=\"$:/DefaultTiddlers\"/><br>//<<lingo DefaultTiddlers/BottomHint>>// |\n|<$link to=\"$:/config/NewJournal/Title\"><<lingo NewJournal/Title/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/config/NewJournal/Title\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<$link to=\"$:/config/NewJournal/Tags\"><<lingo NewJournal/Tags/Prompt>></$link> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/config/NewJournal/Tags\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<<lingo Language/Prompt>> |{{$:/snippets/minilanguageswitcher}} |\n|<<lingo Tiddlers/Prompt>> |<<show-filter-count \"[!is[system]sort[title]]\">> |\n|<<lingo Tags/Prompt>> |<<show-filter-count \"[tags[]sort[title]]\">> |\n|<<lingo SystemTiddlers/Prompt>> |<<show-filter-count \"[is[system]sort[title]]\">> |\n|<<lingo ShadowTiddlers/Prompt>> |<<show-filter-count \"[all[shadows]sort[title]]\">> |\n|<<lingo OverriddenShadowTiddlers/Prompt>> |<<show-filter-count \"[is[tiddler]is[shadow]sort[title]]\">> |\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/EditorTypes": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/EditorTypes",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Advanced",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/EditorTypes/\n\n<<lingo Hint>>\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><<lingo Type/Caption>></th>\n<th><<lingo Editor/Caption>></th>\n</tr>\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]prefix[$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/]sort[title]]\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<$link>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]removeprefix[$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/]]\">\n<$text text={{!!title}}/>\n</$list>\n</$link>\n</td>\n<td>\n<$view field=\"text\"/>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</$list>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Info": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Info",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Info/Hint}}\n\n<div class=\"tc-control-panel\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel/Info]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Basics\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/LoadedModules": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/LoadedModules",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Advanced",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/LoadedModules/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/\n<<lingo LoadedModules/Hint>>\n\n{{$:/snippets/modules}}\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Palette": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Palette",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/\n\n{{$:/snippets/paletteswitcher}}\n\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/state/ShowPaletteEditor\" text=\"yes\">\n\n<$button set=\"$:/state/ShowPaletteEditor\" setTo=\"yes\"><<lingo ShowEditor/Caption>></$button>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/state/ShowPaletteEditor\" text=\"yes\">\n\n<$button set=\"$:/state/ShowPaletteEditor\" setTo=\"no\"><<lingo HideEditor/Caption>></$button>\n{{$:/snippets/paletteeditor}}\n\n</$reveal>\n\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Plugins": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Plugins",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/\n\\define popup-state-macro()\n$(qualified-state)$-$(currentTiddler)$\n\\end\n\\define tabs-state-macro()\n$(popup-state)$-$(pluginInfoType)$\n\\end\n\\define plugin-icon-title()\n$(currentTiddler)$/icon\n\\end\n\\define plugin-disable-title()\n$:/config/Plugins/Disabled/$(currentTiddler)$\n\\end\n\\define plugin-table-body(type,disabledMessage)\n<div class=\"tc-plugin-info-chunk\">\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<popup-state>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" set=<<popup-state>> setTo=\"yes\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<popup-state>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" set=<<popup-state>> setTo=\"no\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n<div class=\"tc-plugin-info-chunk\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> subtiddler=<<plugin-icon-title>>>\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/images/plugin-generic-$type$\"/>\n</$transclude>\n</div>\n<div class=\"tc-plugin-info-chunk\">\n<div>\n''<$view field=\"description\"><$view field=\"title\"/></$view>'' $disabledMessage$\n</div>\n<div>\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</div>\n<div>\n<$view field=\"version\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n\\end\n\\define plugin-table(type)\n<$set name=\"qualified-state\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/plugin-info\">>>\n<$list filter=\"[!has[draft.of]plugin-type[$type$]sort[description]]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo \"Empty/Hint\">>>\n<$set name=\"popup-state\" value=<<popup-state-macro>>>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<plugin-disable-title>> text=\"yes\">\n<$link to={{!!title}} class=\"tc-plugin-info\">\n<<plugin-table-body type:\"$type$\">>\n</$link>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<plugin-disable-title>> text=\"yes\">\n<$link to={{!!title}} class=\"tc-plugin-info tc-plugin-info-disabled\">\n<<plugin-table-body type:\"$type$\" disabledMessage:\"<$macrocall $name='lingo' title='Disabled/Status'/>\">>\n</$link>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" text=\"yes\" state=<<popup-state>>>\n<div class=\"tc-plugin-info-dropdown\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]] -[[$:/core]]\">\n<div style=\"float:right;\">\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<plugin-disable-title>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button set=<<plugin-disable-title>> setTo=\"yes\" tooltip={{$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Disable/Caption}}>\n<<lingo Disable/Caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<plugin-disable-title>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button set=<<plugin-disable-title>> setTo=\"no\" tooltip={{$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/ControlPanel/Plugins/Enable/Caption}}>\n<<lingo Enable/Caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n</$list>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" state=\"!!list\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"tabs\" state=<<tabs-state-macro>> tabsList={{!!list}} default=\"readme\" template=\"$:/core/ui/PluginInfo\"/>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" text=\"\" state=\"!!list\">\nNo information provided\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</$set>\n</$list>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n! <<lingo Plugin/Prompt>>\n\n<<plugin-table plugin>>\n\n! <<lingo Theme/Prompt>>\n\n<<plugin-table theme>>\n\n! <<lingo Language/Prompt>>\n\n<<plugin-table language>>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Saving": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Saving",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Saving/\n\\define backupURL()\nhttp://$(userName)$.tiddlyspot.com/backup/\n\\end\n\\define backupLink()\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/UploadName\" text=\"\">\n<$set name=\"userName\" value={{$:/UploadName}}>\n<a href=<<backupURL>>><$macrocall $name=\"backupURL\" $type=\"text/plain\" $output=\"text/plain\"/></a>\n</$set>\n</$reveal>\n\\end\n! <<lingo TiddlySpot/Heading>>\n\n<<lingo TiddlySpot/Description>>\n\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/UserName>> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/UploadName\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/Password>> |<$password name=\"upload\"/> |\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/Backups>> |<<backupLink>> |\n\n''<<lingo TiddlySpot/Advanced/Heading>>''\n\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/ServerURL>> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/UploadURL\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/Filename>> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/UploadFilename\" default=\"index.html\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/UploadDir>> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/UploadDir\" default=\".\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n|<<lingo TiddlySpot/BackupDir>> |<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/UploadBackupDir\" default=\".\" tag=\"input\"/> |\n\n<<lingo TiddlySpot/Hint>>\n\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Settings",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/AutoSave/\n\n<$link to=\"$:/config/AutoSave\"><<lingo Hint>></$link>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/AutoSave\" value=\"yes\"> <<lingo Enabled/Description>> </$radio>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/AutoSave\" value=\"no\"> <<lingo Disabled/Description>> </$radio>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Settings",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationAddressBar/\n\n<$link to=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar\"><<lingo Hint>></$link>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar\" value=\"permaview\"> <<lingo Permaview/Description>> </$radio>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar\" value=\"permalink\"> <<lingo Permalink/Description>> </$radio>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar\" value=\"no\"> <<lingo No/Description>> </$radio>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Settings",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/NavigationHistory/\n<$link to=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory\"><<lingo Hint>></$link>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory\" value=\"yes\"> <<lingo Yes/Description>> </$radio>\n\n<$radio tiddler=\"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory\" value=\"no\"> <<lingo No/Description>> </$radio>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Settings",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/ToolbarButtons/\n<<lingo Hint>>\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=\"$:/config/Toolbar/Icons\" field=\"text\" checked=\"yes\" unchecked=\"no\" default=\"yes\"> <$link to=\"$:/config/Toolbar/Icons\"><<lingo Icons/Description>></$link> </$checkbox>\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=\"$:/config/Toolbar/Text\" field=\"text\" checked=\"yes\" unchecked=\"no\" default=\"no\"> <$link to=\"$:/config/Toolbar/Text\"><<lingo Text/Description>></$link> </$checkbox>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Settings/\n\n<<lingo Hint>>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel/Settings]]\">\n\n<div style=\"border-top:1px solid #eee;\">\n\n!! <$link><$transclude field=\"caption\"/></$link>\n\n<$transclude/>\n\n</div>\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/StoryView": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/StoryView",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/snippets/viewswitcher}}\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Theme": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Theme",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/snippets/themeswitcher}}\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Advanced",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/TiddlerFields/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/\n\n<<lingo TiddlerFields/Hint>>\n\n{{$:/snippets/allfields}}"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Toolbars",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/EditToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n\n{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/EditToolbar/Hint}}\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/EditToolbar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=<<config-title>> field=\"text\" checked=\"show\" unchecked=\"hide\" default=\"show\"/> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"caption\"/> <i class=\"tc-muted\">-- <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"description\"/></i>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Toolbars",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n\n{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/PageControls/Hint}}\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageControls]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=<<config-title>> field=\"text\" checked=\"show\" unchecked=\"hide\" default=\"show\"/> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"caption\"/> <i class=\"tc-muted\">-- <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"description\"/></i>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Toolbars",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n\n{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar/Hint}}\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewToolbar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=<<config-title>> field=\"text\" checked=\"show\" unchecked=\"hide\" default=\"show\"/> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"caption\"/> <i class=\"tc-muted\">-- <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"description\"/></i>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Caption}}",
"text": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Toolbars/Hint}}\n\n<div class=\"tc-control-panel\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel/Toolbars]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Toolbars/ViewToolbar\" \"$:/state/tabs/controlpanel/toolbars\" \"tc-vertical\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/ControlPanel": {
"title": "$:/ControlPanel",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-control-panel\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ControlPanel]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Info\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList",
"tags": "$:/tags/SearchResults",
"caption": "{{$:/language/Search/DefaultResults/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define searchResultList()\n<$set name=\"resultCount\" value=\"\"\"<$count filter=\"[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}]\"/>\"\"\">\n\n{{$:/language/Search/Matches}}\n\n</$set>\n\n//<small>Title matches:</small>//\n\n<$list filter=\"[!is[system]search:title{$(searchTiddler)$}sort[title]limit[250]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n\n//<small>All matches:</small>//\n\n<$list filter=\"[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}sort[title]limit[250]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n\\end\n<<searchResultList>>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/body": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/body",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/EditTemplate/Body/\n<$list filter=\"[is[current]has[_canonical_uri]]\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-message-box\">\n\n<<lingo External/Hint>>\n\n<a href={{!!_canonical_uri}}><$text text={{!!_canonical_uri}}/></a>\n\n<$edit-text field=\"_canonical_uri\" class=\"tc-edit-fields\"></$edit-text>\n\n</div>\n\n</$list>\n\n<$list filter=\"[is[current]!has[_canonical_uri]]\">\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/showeditpreview\" type=\"match\" text=\"yes\">\n\n<em class=\"tc-edit\"><<lingo Hint>></em> <$button type=\"set\" set=\"$:/state/showeditpreview\" setTo=\"no\"><<lingo Preview/Button/Hide>></$button>\n\n<div class=\"tc-tiddler-preview\">\n<div class=\"tc-tiddler-preview-preview\">\n\n<$transclude />\n\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"tc-tiddler-preview-edit\">\n<$edit field=\"text\" class=\"tc-edit-texteditor\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Placeholder}}/>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/showeditpreview\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"yes\">\n\n<em class=\"tc-edit\"><<lingo Hint>></em> <$button type=\"set\" set=\"$:/state/showeditpreview\" setTo=\"yes\"><<lingo Preview/Button/Show>></$button>\n<$edit field=\"text\" class=\"tc-edit-texteditor\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Body/Placeholder}}/>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/controls": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/controls",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define config-title()\n$:/config/EditToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<div class=\"tc-tiddler-title tc-tiddler-edit-title\">\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n<span class=\"tc-tiddler-controls tc-titlebar\"><$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/EditToolbar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\"><$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<config-title>> text=\"hide\"><$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/></$reveal></$list></span>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"></div>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/EditTemplate/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/$(currentField)$\n\\end\n\n\\define config-filter()\n[[hide]] -[title{$(config-title)$}]\n\\end\n\n\\define new-field(name,value)\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" default=\"\"\"$name$\"\"\">\n<$button>\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-add-field\" $name$=\"\"\"$value$\"\"\"/>\n<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler=\"$:/temp/newfieldname\"/>\n<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler=\"$:/temp/newfieldvalue\"/>\n<<lingo Fields/Add/Button>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" text=\"\" default=\"\"\"$name$\"\"\">\n<$button>\n<<lingo Fields/Add/Button>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n\\end\n\n<div class=\"tc-edit-fields\">\n<table class=\"tc-edit-fields\">\n<tbody>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]fields[]] +[sort[title]]\" variable=\"currentField\">\n<$list filter=<<config-filter>> variable=\"temp\">\n<tr class=\"tc-edit-field\">\n<td class=\"tc-edit-field-name\">\n<$text text=<<currentField>>/>:</td>\n<td class=\"tc-edit-field-value\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field=<<currentField>> placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Value/Placeholder}}/>\n</td>\n<td class=\"tc-edit-field-remove\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\" tooltip={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Field/Remove/Caption}}>\n<$action-deletefield $field=<<currentField>>/>\n{{$:/core/images/delete-button}}\n</$button>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</$list>\n</$list>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n\n<$fieldmangler>\n<div class=\"tc-edit-field-add\">\n<em class=\"tc-edit\">\n<<lingo Fields/Add/Prompt>>\n</em>\n<span class=\"tc-edit-field-add-name\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/newfieldname\" tag=\"input\" default=\"\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Name/Placeholder}} class=\"tc-edit-texteditor\"/>\n</span>\n<span class=\"tc-edit-field-add-value\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/newfieldvalue\" tag=\"input\" default=\"\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Fields/Add/Value/Placeholder}} class=\"tc-edit-texteditor\"/>\n</span>\n<span class=\"tc-edit-field-add-button\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"new-field\" name={{$:/temp/newfieldname}} value={{$:/temp/newfieldvalue}}/>\n</span>\n</div>\n</$fieldmangler>\n\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/shadow": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/shadow",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/EditTemplate/Shadow/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]get[draft.of]is[shadow]!is[tiddler]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-message-box\">\n\n<<lingo Warning>>\n\n</div>\n</$list>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]get[draft.of]is[shadow]is[tiddler]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-message-box\">\n\n<<lingo OverriddenWarning>>\n\n</div>\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/tags": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/tags",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/EditTemplate/\n\\define tag-styles()\nbackground-color:$(backgroundColor)$;\n\\end\n<div class=\"tc-edit-tags\">\n<$fieldmangler>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]tags[]sort[title]]\" storyview=\"pop\"><$set name=\"backgroundColor\" value={{!!color}}><span style=<<tag-styles>> class=\"tc-tag-label\">\n<$view field=\"title\" format=\"text\" />\n<$button message=\"tm-remove-tag\" param={{!!title}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-remove-tag-button\">×</$button></span>\n</$set>\n</$list>\n\n<div class=\"tc-edit-add-tag\">\n<span class=\"tc-add-tag-name\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/NewTagName\" tag=\"input\" default=\"\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Add/Placeholder}} focusPopup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tags-auto-complete\">> class=\"tc-edit-texteditor tc-popup-handle\"/>\n</span> <$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tags-auto-complete\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" tooltip={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Tags/Dropdown/Caption}}>{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}</$button> <span class=\"tc-add-tag-button\">\n<$button message=\"tm-add-tag\" param={{$:/temp/NewTagName}} set=\"$:/temp/NewTagName\" setTo=\"\" class=\"\">\n<<lingo Tags/Add/Button>>\n</$button>\n</span>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown-wrapper\">\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tags-auto-complete\">> type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" default=\"\">\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown\">\n<$linkcatcher set=\"$:/temp/NewTagName\" setTo=\"\" message=\"tm-add-tag\">\n<$list filter=\"[!is[shadow]tags[]search{$:/temp/NewTagName}sort[title]]\">\n<$link>\n<$set name=\"backgroundColor\" value={{!!color}}>\n<span style=<<tag-styles>> class=\"tc-tag-label\">\n<$view field=\"title\" format=\"text\"/>\n</span>\n</$set>\n</$link>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n</$fieldmangler>\n</div>"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/title": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/title",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "<$edit-text field=\"draft.title\" class=\"tc-titlebar tc-edit-texteditor\" focus=\"true\"/>"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/type": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/type",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/EditTemplate/\n<div class=\"tc-type-selector\"><$fieldmangler>\n<em class=\"tc-edit\"><<lingo Type/Prompt>></em> <$edit-text field=\"type\" tag=\"input\" default=\"\" placeholder={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Placeholder}} focusPopup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/type-dropdown\">> class=\"tc-edit-typeeditor tc-popup-handle\"/> <$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/type-dropdown\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" tooltip={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Dropdown/Caption}}>{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}</$button> <$button message=\"tm-remove-field\" param=\"type\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-icon\" tooltip={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/EditTemplate/Type/Delete/Caption}}>{{$:/core/images/delete-button}}</$button>\n</$fieldmangler></div>\n\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown-wrapper\">\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/type-dropdown\">> type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" default=\"\">\n<div class=\"tc-block-dropdown tc-edit-type-dropdown\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"!!type\">\n<$list filter='[all[shadows+tiddlers]prefix[$:/language/Docs/Types/]each[group]sort[group]]'>\n<div class=\"tc-dropdown-item\">\n<$text text={{!!group}}/>\n</div>\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]prefix[$:/language/Docs/Types/]group{!!group}] +[sort[description]]\"><$link to={{!!name}}><$view field=\"description\"/> (<$view field=\"name\"/>)</$link>\n</$list>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</div>"
},
"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define frame-classes()\ntc-tiddler-frame tc-tiddler-edit-frame $(missingTiddlerClass)$ $(shadowTiddlerClass)$ $(systemTiddlerClass)$\n\\end\n<div class=<<frame-classes>>>\n<$set name=\"storyTiddler\" value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<$keyboard key=\"escape\" message=\"tm-cancel-tiddler\">\n<$keyboard key=\"ctrl+enter\" message=\"tm-save-tiddler\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/EditTemplate]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/>\n</$list>\n</$keyboard>\n</$keyboard>\n</$set>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/cancel": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/cancel",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/cancel-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Cancel/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Cancel/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-cancel-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Cancel/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Cancel/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/cancel-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Cancel/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/delete": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/delete",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/delete-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Delete/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Delete/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-delete-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Delete/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Delete/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/delete-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Delete/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/save": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/save",
"tags": "$:/tags/EditToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/done-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Save/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Save/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-save-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Save/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Save/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/done-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Save/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/Filters/AllTags": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/AllTags",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[tags[]!is[system]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/AllTags}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/AllTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/AllTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[!is[system]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/AllTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/Drafts": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/Drafts",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[has[draft.of]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/Drafts}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/Missing": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/Missing",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[all[missing]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/Missing}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/Orphans": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/Orphans",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[all[orphans]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/Orphans}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/OverriddenShadowTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/OverriddenShadowTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[is[shadow]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/OverriddenShadowTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/RecentSystemTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/RecentSystemTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[has[modified]!sort[modified]limit[50]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/RecentSystemTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/RecentTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/RecentTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[!is[system]has[modified]!sort[modified]limit[50]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/RecentTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/ShadowTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/ShadowTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[all[shadows]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/ShadowTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/SystemTags": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/SystemTags",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[all[shadows+tiddlers]tags[]is[system]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/SystemTags}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/Filters/SystemTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/core/Filters/SystemTiddlers",
"tags": "$:/tags/Filter",
"filter": "[is[system]sort[title]]",
"description": "{{$:/language/Filters/SystemTiddlers}}",
"text": ""
},
"$:/core/ui/ImportListing": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ImportListing",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Import/\n\\define messageField()\nmessage-$(payloadTiddler)$\n\\end\n\\define selectionField()\nselection-$(payloadTiddler)$\n\\end\n\\define previewPopupState()\n$(currentTiddler)$!!popup-$(payloadTiddler)$\n\\end\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>\n<<lingo Listing/Select/Caption>>\n</th>\n<th>\n<<lingo Listing/Title/Caption>>\n</th>\n<th>\n<<lingo Listing/Status/Caption>>\n</th>\n</tr>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]plugintiddlers[]sort[title]]\" variable=\"payloadTiddler\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<$checkbox field=<<selectionField>> checked=\"checked\" unchecked=\"unchecked\" default=\"checked\"/>\n</td>\n<td>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<previewPopupState>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" set=<<previewPopupState>> setTo=\"yes\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}} <$text text=<<payloadTiddler>>/>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<previewPopupState>> text=\"yes\">\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" set=<<previewPopupState>> setTo=\"no\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}} <$text text=<<payloadTiddler>>/>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</td>\n<td>\n<$view field=<<messageField>>/>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\n<$reveal type=\"match\" text=\"yes\" state=<<previewPopupState>>>\n<$transclude subtiddler=<<payloadTiddler>> mode=\"block\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</$list>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-menu-list-item\">\n<$link to={{!!title}}>\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$link>\n</div>"
},
"$:/core/ui/MissingTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MissingTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-tiddler-missing\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/missing\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-missing-tiddler-label\">\n<$view field=\"title\" format=\"text\" />\n</$button>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/missing\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n<hr>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]backlinks[]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/All": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/All",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/All/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[!is[system]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Drafts": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Drafts",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Drafts/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[has[draft.of]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Missing": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Missing",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Missing/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[all[missing]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/MissingTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Orphans": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Orphans",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Orphans/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[all[orphans]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Recent": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Recent",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Recent/Caption}}",
"text": "<$macrocall $name=\"timeline\" format={{$:/language/RecentChanges/DateFormat}}/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Shadows": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Shadows",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Shadows/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[all[shadows]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/System": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/System",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/System/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[is[system]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Tags": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Tags",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Tags/Caption}}",
"text": "<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-class\" value=\"\">\n\n{{$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager}}\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n<$list filter=\"[tags[]!is[system]sort[title]]\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/TagTemplate\"/> <small class=\"tc-menu-list-count\"><$count filter=\"[all[current]tagging[]]\"/></small>\n\n</$list>\n\n<hr class=\"tc-untagged-separator\">\n\n{{$:/core/ui/UntaggedTemplate}} <small class=\"tc-menu-list-count\"><$count filter=\"[untagged[]!is[system]] -[tags[]]\"/></small>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Types": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Types",
"tags": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Types/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[!is[system]has[type]each[type]sort[type]] -[type[text/vnd.tiddlywiki]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-menu-list-item\">\n<$view field=\"type\"/>\n<$list filter=\"[type{!!type}!is[system]sort[title]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-menu-list-subitem\">\n<$link to={{!!title}}><$view field=\"title\"/></$link>\n</div>\n</$list>\n</div>\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/advanced-search": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/advanced-search",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button to=\"$:/AdvancedSearch\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-all": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-all",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/close-all-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/CloseAll/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/CloseAll/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-close-all-tiddlers\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseAll/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseAll/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/close-all-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseAll/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/control-panel": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/control-panel",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/options-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/ControlPanel/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/ControlPanel/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button to=\"$:/ControlPanel\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/ControlPanel/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/ControlPanel/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/options-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/ControlPanel/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/encryption": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/encryption",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/locked-padlock}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/Hint}}",
"text": "<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\n<$button message=\"tm-clear-password\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/ClearPassword/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/ClearPassword/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/locked-padlock}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/ClearPassword/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/isEncrypted\" text=\"yes\">\n<$button message=\"tm-set-password\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/SetPassword/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/SetPassword/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/unlocked-padlock}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Encryption/SetPassword/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-page": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-page",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/export-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/ExportPage/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/ExportPage/Hint}}",
"text": "<$macrocall $name=\"exportButton\" exportFilter=\"[!is[system]sort[title]]\" lingoBase=\"$:/language/Buttons/ExportPage/\"/>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/full-screen": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/full-screen",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/full-screen-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-full-screen\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/full-screen-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/FullScreen/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/home": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/home",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/home-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Home/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Home/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-home\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Home/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Home/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/home-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Home/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/import": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/import",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/import-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Hint}}",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-file-input-wrapper\">\n<$button tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/import-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n<$browse tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Import/Hint}}/>\n</div>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/language": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/language",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/globe}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Language/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Language/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define flag-title()\n$(languagePluginTitle)$/icon\n\\end\n<span class=\"tc-popup-keep\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/language\">> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Language/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Language/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-image-button\">\n<$set name=\"languagePluginTitle\" value={{$:/language}}>\n<$image source=<<flag-title>>/>\n</$set>\n</span>\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Language/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</span>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/language\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down tc-drop-down-language-chooser\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/language\">\n<$list filter=\"[[$:/languages/en-GB]] [plugin-type[language]sort[description]]\">\n<$link>\n<span class=\"tc-drop-down-bullet\">\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/language\" text=<<currentTiddler>>>\n•\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/language\" text=<<currentTiddler>>>\n \n</$reveal>\n</span>\n<span class=\"tc-image-button\">\n<$set name=\"languagePluginTitle\" value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<$transclude subtiddler=<<flag-title>>>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]field:title[$:/languages/en-GB]]\">\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/languages/en-GB/icon\"/>\n</$list>\n</$transclude>\n</$set>\n</span>\n<$view field=\"description\">\n<$view field=\"name\">\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$view>\n</$view>\n</$link>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}} {{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define config-title()\n$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/more\">> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/more\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-class\" value=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageControls]!has[draft.of]] -[[$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<config-title>> text=\"hide\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</div>\n\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/new-journal-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define journalButton()\n<$button tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" title=<<now \"$(journalTitleTemplate)$\">> tags=\"$(journalTags)$\"/>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/new-journal-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournal/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n\\end\n<$set name=\"journalTitleTemplate\" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Title}}>\n<$set name=\"journalTags\" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Tags}}>\n<<journalButton>>\n</$set></$set>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/new-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/new-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/NewTiddler/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/refresh": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/refresh",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/refresh-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-browser-refresh\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/refresh-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Refresh/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/save-wiki": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/save-wiki",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/save-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-save-wiki\" param={{$:/config/SaveWikiButton/Template}} tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<span class=\"tc-dirty-indicator\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/save-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/SaveWiki/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</span>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/storyview": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/storyview",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/storyview-classic}} {{$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define icon()\n$:/core/images/storyview-$(storyview)$\n\\end\n<span class=\"tc-popup-keep\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/storyview\">> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n<$set name=\"storyview\" value={{$:/view}}>\n<$transclude tiddler=<<icon>>/>\n</$set>\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/StoryView/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</span>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/storyview\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/view\">\n<$list filter=\"[storyviews[]]\" variable=\"storyview\">\n<$link to=<<storyview>>>\n<span class=\"tc-drop-down-bullet\">\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/view\" text=<<storyview>>>\n•\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/view\" text=<<storyview>>>\n \n</$reveal>\n</span>\n<$transclude tiddler=<<icon>>/>\n<$text text=<<storyview>>/></$link>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/tag-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button to=\"$:/TagManager\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/tag-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/TagManager/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/theme": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/theme",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/theme-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Hint}}",
"text": "<span class=\"tc-popup-keep\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/theme\">> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/theme-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Theme/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</span>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/theme\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/theme\">\n<$list filter=\"[plugin-type[theme]sort[title]]\" variable=\"themeTitle\">\n<$link to=<<themeTitle>>>\n<span class=\"tc-drop-down-bullet\">\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=\"$:/theme\" text=<<themeTitle>>>\n•\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=\"$:/theme\" text=<<themeTitle>>>\n \n</$reveal>\n</span>\n<$view tiddler=<<themeTitle>> field=\"name\"/>\n</$link>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/pagecontrols": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/pagecontrols",
"text": "\\define config-title()\n$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<div class=\"tc-page-controls\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageControls]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<config-title>> text=\"hide\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> mode=\"inline\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</$list>\n</div>\n\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageStylesheet": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageStylesheet",
"text": "<$importvariables filter=\"[[$:/core/ui/PageMacros]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Macro]!has[draft.of]]\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Stylesheet]!has[draft.of]]\">\n<$transclude mode=\"block\"/>\n</$list>\n\n</$importvariables>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/alerts": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/alerts",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-alerts\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Alert]!has[draft.of]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/AlertTemplate\" storyview=\"pop\"/>\n\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/sidebar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/sidebar",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"text": "<$scrollable fallthrough=\"no\" class=\"tc-sidebar-scrollable\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-sidebar-header\">\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/sidebar\" type=\"match\" text=\"yes\" default=\"yes\" retain=\"yes\">\n\n<h1 class=\"tc-site-title\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/SiteTitle\" mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</h1>\n\n<div class=\"tc-site-subtitle\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/SiteSubtitle\" mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</div>\n\n{{||$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/pagecontrols}}\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/SideBarLists\" mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n</div>\n\n</$scrollable>"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/story": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/story",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"text": "<section class=\"tc-story-river\">\n\n<section class=\"story-backdrop\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/AboveStory]!has[draft.of]]\">\n\n<$transclude/>\n\n</$list>\n\n</section>\n\n<$list filter=\"[list[$:/StoryList]]\" history=\"$:/HistoryList\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate\" editTemplate=\"$:/core/ui/EditTemplate\" storyview={{$:/view}} />\n\n<section class=\"story-frontdrop\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/BelowStory]!has[draft.of]]\">\n\n<$transclude/>\n\n</$list>\n\n</section>\n\n</section>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/topleftbar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/topleftbar",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"text": "<span class=\"tc-topbar tc-topbar-left\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/TopLeftBar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</$list>\n\n</span>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/toprightbar": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/toprightbar",
"tags": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"text": "<span class=\"tc-topbar tc-topbar-right\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/TopRightBar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> mode=\"inline\"/>\n\n</$list>\n\n</span>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PageTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PageTemplate",
"text": "\\define containerClasses()\ntc-page-container tc-page-view-$(themeTitle)$ tc-language-$(languageTitle)$\n\\end\n\n<$importvariables filter=\"[[$:/core/ui/PageMacros]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Macro]!has[draft.of]]\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value={{$:/config/Toolbar/Icons}}>\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value={{$:/config/Toolbar/Text}}>\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-class\" value=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n\n<$set name=\"themeTitle\" value={{$:/view}}>\n\n<$set name=\"currentTiddler\" value={{$:/language}}>\n\n<$set name=\"languageTitle\" value={{!!name}}>\n\n<$set name=\"currentTiddler\" value=\"\">\n\n<div class=<<containerClasses>>>\n\n<$navigator story=\"$:/StoryList\" history=\"$:/HistoryList\">\n\n<$dropzone>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageTemplate]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$dropzone>\n\n</$navigator>\n\n</div>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$importvariables>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/PluginInfo": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/PluginInfo",
"text": "\\define localised-info-tiddler-title()\n$(currentTiddler)$/$(languageTitle)$/$(currentTab)$\n\\end\n\\define info-tiddler-title()\n$(currentTiddler)$/$(currentTab)$\n\\end\n<$transclude tiddler=<<localised-info-tiddler-title>> mode=\"block\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> subtiddler=<<localised-info-tiddler-title>> mode=\"block\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> subtiddler=<<info-tiddler-title>> mode=\"block\">\nNo ''\"<$text text=<<currentTab>>/>\"'' found\n</$transclude>\n</$transclude>\n</$transclude>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SearchResults": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SearchResults",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-search-results\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]butfirst[]limit[1]]\" emptyMessage=\"\"\"\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]]\">\n<$transclude mode=\"block\"/>\n</$list>\n\"\"\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"tabs\" tabsList=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SearchResults]!has[draft.of]]\" default={{$:/config/SearchResults/Default}}/>\n</$list>\n\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SideBar/More": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SideBar/More",
"tags": "$:/tags/SideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/More/Caption}}",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-more-sidebar\">\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/MoreSideBar]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Tags\" \"$:/state/tab/moresidebar\" \"tc-vertical\">>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SideBar/Open": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SideBar/Open",
"tags": "$:/tags/SideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Open/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/CloseAll/\n<$list filter=\"[list[$:/StoryList]]\" history=\"$:/HistoryList\" storyview=\"pop\">\n\n<$button message=\"tm-close-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Caption}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini\">×</$button> <$link to={{!!title}}><$view field=\"title\"/></$link>\n\n</$list>\n\n<$button message=\"tm-close-all-tiddlers\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-mini\"><<lingo Button>></$button>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SideBar/Recent": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SideBar/Recent",
"tags": "$:/tags/SideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Recent/Caption}}",
"text": "<$macrocall $name=\"timeline\" format={{$:/language/RecentChanges/DateFormat}}/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SideBar/Tools": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SideBar/Tools",
"tags": "$:/tags/SideBar",
"caption": "{{$:/language/SideBar/Tools/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n\n<<lingo Basics/Version/Prompt>> <<version>>\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-class\" value=\"\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageControls]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;\">\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=<<config-title>> field=\"text\" checked=\"show\" unchecked=\"hide\" default=\"show\"/> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/> <i class=\"tc-muted\"><$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"description\"/></i>\n\n</div>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/SideBarLists": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/SideBarLists",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-sidebar-lists\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-search\">\n<$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/search\" type=\"search\" tag=\"input\"/>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/search\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$button tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Caption}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/advancedsearch\" text={{$:/temp/search}}/>\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/search\" text=\"\"/>\n<$action-navigate $to=\"$:/AdvancedSearch\"/>\n{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}}\n</$button>\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-setfield $tiddler=\"$:/temp/search\" text=\"\" />\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/search\" type=\"match\" text=\"\">\n<$button to=\"$:/AdvancedSearch\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/AdvancedSearch/Caption}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/advanced-search-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/search\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n\n<$set name=\"searchTiddler\" value=\"$:/temp/search\">\n{{$:/core/ui/SearchResults}}\n</$set>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n<$reveal state=\"$:/temp/search\" type=\"match\" text=\"\">\n\n<<tabs \"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SideBar]!has[draft.of]]\" \"$:/core/ui/SideBar/Open\" \"$:/state/tab/sidebar\">>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/TagManager": {
"title": "$:/TagManager",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TagManager/\n\\define iconEditorTab(type)\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]is[image]] [all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Image]] -[type[application/pdf]] +[sort[title]] +[$type$is[system]]\">\n<$link to={{!!title}}>\n<$transclude/> <$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$link>\n</$list>\n\\end\n\\define iconEditor(title)\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down-wrapper\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/icon/$title$\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\">{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}</$button>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/icon/$title$\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"belowleft\" text=\"\" default=\"\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$title$!!icon\">\n<<iconEditorTab type:\"!\">>\n<hr/>\n<<iconEditorTab type:\"\">>\n</$linkcatcher>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n\\end\n\\define qualifyTitle(title)\n$title$$(currentTiddler)$\n\\end\n\\define toggleButton(state)\n<$reveal state=\"$state$\" type=\"match\" text=\"closed\" default=\"closed\">\n<$button set=\"$state$\" setTo=\"open\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n{{$:/core/images/info-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal state=\"$state$\" type=\"match\" text=\"open\" default=\"closed\">\n<$button set=\"$state$\" setTo=\"closed\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-btn-dropdown\" selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n{{$:/core/images/info-button}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n\\end\n<table class=\"tc-tag-manager-table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><<lingo Colour/Heading>></th>\n<th class=\"tc-tag-manager-tag\"><<lingo Tag/Heading>></th>\n<th><<lingo Icon/Heading>></th>\n<th><<lingo Info/Heading>></th>\n</tr>\n<$list filter=\"[tags[]!is[system]sort[title]]\">\n<tr>\n<td><$edit-text field=\"color\" tag=\"input\" type=\"color\"/></td>\n<td><$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/TagTemplate\"/></td>\n<td>\n<$macrocall $name=\"iconEditor\" title={{!!title}}/>\n</td>\n<td>\n<$macrocall $name=\"toggleButton\" state=<<qualifyTitle \"$:/state/tag-manager/\">> /> \n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>\n<$reveal state=<<qualifyTitle \"$:/state/tag-manager/\">> type=\"match\" text=\"open\" default=\"\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td><<lingo Colour/Heading>></td><td><$edit-text field=\"color\" tag=\"input\" type=\"text\" size=\"9\"/></td></tr>\n<tr><td><<lingo Icon/Heading>></td><td><$edit-text field=\"icon\" tag=\"input\" size=\"45\"/></td></tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</$reveal>\n</td>\n<td></td>\n<td></td>\n</tr>\n</$list>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TagTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TagTemplate",
"text": "\\define tag-styles()\nbackground-color:$(backgroundColor)$;\nfill:$(foregroundColor)$;\ncolor:$(foregroundColor)$;\n\\end\n\n\\define tag-body-inner(colour,fallbackTarget,colourA,colourB)\n<$set name=\"foregroundColor\" value=<<contrastcolour target:\"\"\"$colour$\"\"\" fallbackTarget:\"\"\"$fallbackTarget$\"\"\" colourA:\"\"\"$colourA$\"\"\" colourB:\"\"\"$colourB$\"\"\">>>\n<$set name=\"backgroundColor\" value=\"\"\"$colour$\"\"\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tag\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-tag-label\" style=<<tag-styles>>>\n<$transclude tiddler={{!!icon}}/> <$view field=\"title\" format=\"text\" />\n</$button>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tag\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\"><div class=\"tc-drop-down\"><$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n<hr>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]tagging[]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define tag-body(colour,palette)\n<span class=\"tc-tag-list-item\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"tag-body-inner\" colour=\"\"\"$colour$\"\"\" fallbackTarget={{$palette$##tag-background}} colourA={{$palette$##foreground}} colourB={{$palette$##background}}/>\n</span>\n\\end\n\n<$macrocall $name=\"tag-body\" colour={{!!color}} palette={{$:/palette}}/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerFieldTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerFieldTemplate",
"text": "<tr class=\"tc-view-field\">\n<td class=\"tc-view-field-name\">\n<$text text=<<listItem>>/>\n</td>\n<td class=\"tc-view-field-value\">\n<$view field=<<listItem>>/>\n</td>\n</tr>"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerFields": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerFields",
"text": "<table class=\"tc-view-field-table\">\n<tbody>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]fields[]sort[title]] -text\" template=\"$:/core/ui/TiddlerFieldTemplate\" variable=\"listItem\"/>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo/Advanced",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]has[plugin-type]]\">\n\n! <<lingo Heading>>\n\n<<lingo Hint>>\n<ul>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]plugintiddlers[]sort[title]]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo Empty/Hint>>>\n<li>\n<$link to={{!!title}}>\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$link>\n</li>\n</$list>\n</ul>\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo/Advanced",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo/\n<$set name=\"infoTiddler\" value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n\n''<<lingo Heading>>''\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]!is[shadow]]\">\n\n<<lingo NotShadow/Hint>>\n\n</$list>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]is[shadow]]\">\n\n<<lingo Shadow/Hint>>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]shadowsource[]]\">\n\n<$set name=\"pluginTiddler\" value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<<lingo Shadow/Source>>\n</$set>\n\n</$list>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]is[shadow]is[tiddler]]\">\n\n<<lingo OverriddenShadow/Hint>>\n\n</$list>\n\n\n</$list>\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/Caption}}",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/TiddlerInfo/Advanced]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/>\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Fields/Caption}}",
"text": "<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/TiddlerFields\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/List": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/List",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/List/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n<$list filter=\"[list{!!title}]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo List/Empty>> template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Listed": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Listed",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Listed/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]listed[]!is[system]]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo Listed/Empty>> template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/References": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/References",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/References/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]backlinks[]sort[title]]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo References/Empty>> template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\">\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tagging": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tagging",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tagging/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]tagging[]]\" emptyMessage=<<lingo Tagging/Empty>> template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tools": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tools",
"tags": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"caption": "{{$:/language/TiddlerInfo/Tools/Caption}}",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/TiddlerInfo/\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-class\" value=\"\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewToolbar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n\n<$checkbox tiddler=<<config-title>> field=\"text\" checked=\"show\" unchecked=\"hide\" default=\"show\"/> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/> <i class=\"tc-muted\"><$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>> field=\"description\"/></i>\n\n</$list>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo",
"text": "<$macrocall $name=\"tabs\" tabsList=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/TiddlerInfo]!has[draft.of]]\" default={{$:/config/TiddlerInfo/Default}}/>"
},
"$:/core/ui/TopBar/menu": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/TopBar/menu",
"tags": "$:/tags/TopRightBar",
"text": "<$reveal state=\"$:/state/sidebar\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"no\">\n<$button set=\"$:/state/sidebar\" setTo=\"no\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/HideSideBar/Caption}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">{{$:/core/images/chevron-right}}</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/sidebar\" type=\"match\" text=\"no\">\n<$button set=\"$:/state/sidebar\" setTo=\"yes\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/ShowSideBar/Caption}} class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">{{$:/core/images/chevron-left}}</$button>\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/UntaggedTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/UntaggedTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/SideBar/\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tag\">> class=\"tc-btn-invisible tc-untagged-label tc-tag-label\">\n<<lingo Tags/Untagged/Caption>>\n</$button>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tag\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$list filter=\"[untagged[]!is[system]] -[tags[]] +[sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate\"/>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-tiddler-body\">\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]!has[plugin-type]!field:hide-body[yes]]\">\n\n<$transclude>\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/language/MissingTiddler/Hint\"/>\n\n</$transclude>\n\n</$list>\n\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/classic": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/classic",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate $:/tags/EditTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ClassicWarning/\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]type[text/x-tiddlywiki]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-message-box\">\n\n<<lingo Hint>>\n\n<$button set=\"!!type\" setTo=\"text/vnd.tiddlywiki\"><<lingo Upgrade/Caption>></$button>\n\n</div>\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/import": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/import",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/Import/\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]field:plugin-type[import]]\">\n\n<div class=\"tc-import\">\n\n<<lingo Listing/Hint>>\n\n{{||$:/core/ui/ImportListing}}\n\n<$button message=\"tm-delete-tiddler\" param=<<currentTiddler>>><<lingo Listing/Cancel/Caption>></$button>\n<$button message=\"tm-perform-import\" param=<<currentTiddler>>><<lingo Listing/Import/Caption>></$button>\n\n</div>\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/plugin": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/plugin",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "<$list filter=\"[all[current]has[plugin-type]] -[all[current]field:plugin-type[import]]\">\n\n{{||$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo}}\n\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-subtitle\">\n<$link to={{!!modifier}}>\n<$view field=\"modifier\"/>\n</$link> <$view field=\"modified\" format=\"relativedate\"/>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "<div class=\"tc-tags-wrapper\"><$list filter=\"[all[current]tags[]sort[title]]\" template=\"$:/core/ui/TagTemplate\" storyview=\"pop\"/></div>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"text": "\\define title-styles()\nfill:$(foregroundColor)$;\n\\end\n\\define config-title()\n$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<div class=\"tc-tiddler-title\">\n<div class=\"tc-titlebar\">\n<span class=\"tc-tiddler-controls\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewToolbar]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\"><$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<config-title>> text=\"hide\"><$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/></$reveal></$list>\n</span>\n<$set name=\"foregroundColor\" value={{!!color}}>\n<span class=\"tc-tiddler-title-icon\" style=<<title-styles>>>\n<$transclude tiddler={{!!icon}}/>\n</span>\n</$set>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]removeprefix[$:/]]\">\n<h2 class=\"tc-title\" title={{$:/language/SystemTiddler/Tooltip}}>\n<span class=\"tc-system-title-prefix\">$:/</span><$text text=<<currentTiddler>>/>\n</h2>\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]!prefix[$:/]]\">\n<h2 class=\"tc-title\">\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</h2>\n</$list>\n</div>\n\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\" default=\"\" state=<<tiddlerInfoState>> class=\"tc-tiddler-info tc-popup-handle\" animate=\"yes\" retain=\"yes\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo\"/>\n\n</$reveal>\n</div>"
},
"$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate",
"text": "\\define frame-classes()\ntc-tiddler-frame tc-tiddler-view-frame $(missingTiddlerClass)$ $(shadowTiddlerClass)$ $(systemTiddlerClass)$ $(tiddlerTagClasses)$\n\\end\n<$set name=\"storyTiddler\" value=<<currentTiddler>>><$set name=\"tiddlerInfoState\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/tiddler-info\">>><$tiddler tiddler=<<currentTiddler>>><div class=<<frame-classes>>><$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewTemplate]!has[draft.of]]\" variable=\"listItem\"><$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/></$list>\n</div>\n</$tiddler></$set></$set>\n"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/clone-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" param=<<currentTiddler>> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/clone-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Clone/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-others": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-others",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/close-others-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/CloseOthers/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/CloseOthers/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-close-other-tiddlers\" param=<<currentTiddler>> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseOthers/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseOthers/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/close-others-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/CloseOthers/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/close": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/close",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/close-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-close-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/close-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Close/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/edit-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-edit-tiddler\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/edit-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-tiddler",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/export-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/ExportTiddler/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/ExportTiddler/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define makeExportFilter()\n[[$(currentTiddler)$]]\n\\end\n<$macrocall $name=\"exportButton\" exportFilter=<<makeExportFilter>> lingoBase=\"$:/language/Buttons/ExportTiddler/\" baseFilename=<<currentTiddler>>/>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/info": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/info",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/info-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Info/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Info/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button popup=<<tiddlerInfoState>> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Info/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Info/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/info-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Info/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}} {{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define config-title()\n$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$(listItem)$\n\\end\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/more\">> tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/More/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button><$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/more\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-icons\" value=\"yes\">\n<$set name=\"tv-config-toolbar-text\" value=\"yes\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewToolbar]!has[draft.of]] -[[$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<config-title>> text=\"hide\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/>\n</$reveal>\n</$list>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n</div>\n</$reveal>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-here": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-here",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/new-here-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define newHereButtonTags()\n[[$(currentTiddler)$]]\n\\end\n\\define newHereButton()\n<$button tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" tags=<<newHereButtonTags>>/>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/new-here-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/NewHere/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n\\end\n<<newHereButton>>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/new-journal-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Hint}}",
"text": "\\define journalButtonTags()\n[[$(currentTiddlerTag)$]] $(journalTags)$\n\\end\n\\define journalButton()\n<$button tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" title=<<now \"$(journalTitleTemplate)$\">> tags=<<journalButtonTags>>/>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/new-journal-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/NewJournalHere/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n\\end\n<$set name=\"journalTitleTemplate\" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Title}}>\n<$set name=\"journalTags\" value={{$:/config/NewJournal/Tags}}>\n<$set name=\"currentTiddlerTag\" value=<<currentTiddler>>>\n<<journalButton>>\n</$set></$set></$set>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/permalink": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/permalink",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/permalink-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-permalink\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/permalink-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Permalink/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview": {
"title": "$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview",
"tags": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar $:/tags/PageControls",
"caption": "{{$:/core/images/permaview-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Caption}}",
"description": "{{$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Hint}}",
"text": "<$button message=\"tm-permaview\" tooltip={{$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Hint}} aria-label={{$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/permaview-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$:/language/Buttons/Permaview/Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>"
},
"$:/DefaultTiddlers": {
"title": "$:/DefaultTiddlers",
"text": "GettingStarted\n"
},
"$:/temp/advancedsearch": {
"title": "$:/temp/advancedsearch",
"text": ""
},
"$:/snippets/allfields": {
"title": "$:/snippets/allfields",
"text": "\\define renderfield(title)\n<tr class=\"tc-view-field\"><td class=\"tc-view-field-name\">''$title$'':</td><td class=\"tc-view-field-value\">//{{$:/language/Docs/Fields/$title$}}//</td></tr>\n\\end\n<table class=\"tc-view-field-table\"><tbody><$list filter=\"[fields[]sort[title]]\" variable=\"listItem\"><$macrocall $name=\"renderfield\" title=<<listItem>>/></$list>\n</tbody></table>\n"
},
"$:/config/AnimationDuration": {
"title": "$:/config/AnimationDuration",
"text": "400"
},
"$:/config/AutoSave": {
"title": "$:/config/AutoSave",
"text": "yes"
},
"$:/config/BitmapEditor/Colour": {
"title": "$:/config/BitmapEditor/Colour",
"text": "#ff0"
},
"$:/config/BitmapEditor/LineWidth": {
"title": "$:/config/BitmapEditor/LineWidth",
"text": "3"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/title": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/title",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/tags": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/tags",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/text": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/text",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/creator": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/creator",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/created": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/created",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/modified": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/modified",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/modifier": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/modifier",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/type": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/type",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/draft.title": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/draft.title",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/draft.of": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/draft.of",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/revision": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/revision",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/bag": {
"title": "$:/config/EditTemplateFields/Visibility/bag",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/gif": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/gif",
"text": "bitmap"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/jpeg": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/jpeg",
"text": "bitmap"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/jpg": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/jpg",
"text": "bitmap"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/png": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/png",
"text": "bitmap"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/x-icon": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/image/x-icon",
"text": "bitmap"
},
"$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/text/vnd.tiddlywiki": {
"title": "$:/config/EditorTypeMappings/text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"text": "text"
},
"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar": {
"title": "$:/config/Navigation/UpdateAddressBar",
"text": "no"
},
"$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory": {
"title": "$:/config/Navigation/UpdateHistory",
"text": "no"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/advanced-search": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/advanced-search",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-all": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-all",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/encryption": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/encryption",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-page": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-page",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/full-screen": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/full-screen",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/home": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/home",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/refresh": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/refresh",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/import": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/import",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/language": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/language",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/storyview": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/storyview",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/theme": {
"title": "$:/config/PageControlButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/theme",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/SaveWikiButton/Template": {
"title": "$:/config/SaveWikiButton/Template",
"text": "$:/core/save/all"
},
"$:/config/SaverFilter": {
"title": "$:/config/SaverFilter",
"text": "[all[]] -[[$:/HistoryList]] -[[$:/StoryList]] -[[$:/Import]] -[[$:/isEncrypted]] -[[$:/UploadName]] -[prefix[$:/state]] -[prefix[$:/temp]]"
},
"$:/config/SearchResults/Default": {
"title": "$:/config/SearchResults/Default",
"text": "$:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList"
},
"$:/config/SyncFilter": {
"title": "$:/config/SyncFilter",
"text": "[is[tiddler]] -[[$:/HistoryList]] -[[$:/StoryList]] -[[$:/Import]] -[[$:/isEncrypted]] -[prefix[$:/status]] -[prefix[$:/state]] -[prefix[$:/temp]]"
},
"$:/config/TiddlerInfo/Default": {
"title": "$:/config/TiddlerInfo/Default",
"text": "$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields"
},
"$:/config/Toolbar/Icons": {
"title": "$:/config/Toolbar/Icons",
"text": "yes"
},
"$:/config/Toolbar/Text": {
"title": "$:/config/Toolbar/Text",
"text": "no"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-others": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-others",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-tiddler": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-tiddler",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/info": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/info",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions",
"text": "show"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-here": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-here",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permalink": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permalink",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview": {
"title": "$:/config/ViewToolbarButtons/Visibility/$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview",
"text": "hide"
},
"$:/snippets/currpalettepreview": {
"title": "$:/snippets/currpalettepreview",
"text": "\\define swatchStyle()\nbackground-color: $(swatchColour)$;\n\\end\n\\define swatch(colour)\n<$set name=\"swatchColour\" value={{##$colour$}}>\n<div class=\"tc-swatch\" style=<<swatchStyle>>/>\n</$set>\n\\end\n<div class=\"tc-swatches-horiz\">\n<<swatch foreground>>\n<<swatch background>>\n<<swatch muted-foreground>>\n<<swatch primary>>\n<<swatch page-background>>\n<<swatch tab-background>>\n<<swatch tiddler-info-background>>\n</div>\n"
},
"$:/snippets/download-wiki-button": {
"title": "$:/snippets/download-wiki-button",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Tools/Download/\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-big-green\">\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-download-file\" $param=\"$:/core/save/all\" filename=\"index.html\"/>\n<<lingo Full/Caption>> {{$:/core/images/save-button}}\n</$button>"
},
"$:/language": {
"title": "$:/language",
"text": "$:/languages/en-GB"
},
"$:/snippets/languageswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/languageswitcher",
"text": "{{$:/language/ControlPanel/Basics/Language/Prompt}} <$select tiddler=\"$:/language\">\n<$list filter=\"[[$:/languages/en-GB]] [plugin-type[language]sort[description]]\">\n<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field=\"description\"><$view field=\"name\"><$view field=\"title\"/></$view></$view></option>\n</$list>\n</$select>"
},
"$:/core/macros/CSS": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/CSS",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define colour(name)\n<$transclude tiddler={{$:/palette}} index=\"$name$\"><$transclude tiddler=\"$:/palettes/Vanilla\" index=\"$name$\"/></$transclude>\n\\end\n\n\\define color(name)\n<<colour $name$>>\n\\end\n\n\\define box-shadow(shadow)\n``\n -webkit-box-shadow: $shadow$;\n -moz-box-shadow: $shadow$;\n box-shadow: $shadow$;\n``\n\\end\n\n\\define filter(filter)\n``\n -webkit-filter: $filter$;\n -moz-filter: $filter$;\n filter: $filter$;\n``\n\\end\n\n\\define transition(transition)\n``\n -webkit-transition: $transition$;\n -moz-transition: $transition$;\n transition: $transition$;\n``\n\\end\n\n\\define transform-origin(origin)\n``\n -webkit-transform-origin: $origin$;\n -moz-transform-origin: $origin$;\n transform-origin: $origin$;\n``\n\\end\n\n\\define background-linear-gradient(gradient)\n``\nbackground-image: linear-gradient($gradient$);\nbackground-image: -o-linear-gradient($gradient$);\nbackground-image: -moz-linear-gradient($gradient$);\nbackground-image: -webkit-linear-gradient($gradient$);\nbackground-image: -ms-linear-gradient($gradient$);\n``\n\\end\n\n\\define datauri(title)\n<$macrocall $name=\"makedatauri\" type={{$title$!!type}} text={{$title$}}/>\n\\end\n\n\\define if-sidebar(text)\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/sidebar\" type=\"match\" text=\"yes\" default=\"yes\">$text$</$reveal>\n\\end\n\n\\define if-no-sidebar(text)\n<$reveal state=\"$:/state/sidebar\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"yes\" default=\"yes\">$text$</$reveal>\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/export": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/export",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define exportButtonFilename(baseFilename)\n$baseFilename$$(extension)$\n\\end\n\n\\define exportButton(exportFilter:\"[!is[system]sort[title]]\",lingoBase,baseFilename:\"tiddlers\")\n<span class=\"tc-popup-keep\">\n<$button popup=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/export\">> tooltip={{$lingoBase$Hint}} aria-label={{$lingoBase$Caption}} class=<<tv-config-toolbar-class>> selectedClass=\"tc-selected\">\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-icons>prefix[yes]]\">\n{{$:/core/images/export-button}}\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"[<tv-config-toolbar-text>prefix[yes]]\">\n<span class=\"tc-btn-text\"><$text text={{$lingoBase$Caption}}/></span>\n</$list>\n</$button>\n</span>\n<$reveal state=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/export\">> type=\"popup\" position=\"below\" animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tc-drop-down\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Exporter]]\">\n<$set name=\"extension\" value={{!!extension}}>\n<$button class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n<$action-sendmessage $message=\"tm-download-file\" $param=<<currentTiddler>> exportFilter=\"\"\"$exportFilter$\"\"\" filename=<<exportButtonFilename \"\"\"$baseFilename$\"\"\">>/>\n<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler=<<qualify \"$:/state/popup/export\">>/>\n<$transclude field=\"description\"/>\n</$button>\n</$set>\n</$list>\n</div>\n</$reveal>\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/lingo": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/lingo",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define lingo-base()\n$:/language/\n\\end\n\n\\define lingo(title)\n{{$(lingo-base)$$title$}}\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/list": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/list",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define list-links(filter,type:\"ul\",subtype:\"li\",class:\"\")\n<$type$ class=\"$class$\">\n<$list filter=\"$filter$\">\n<$subtype$>\n<$link to={{!!title}}>\n<$transclude field=\"caption\">\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$transclude>\n</$link>\n</$subtype$>\n</$list>\n</$type$>\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/tabs": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/tabs",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define tabs(tabsList,default,state:\"$:/state/tab\",class,template)\n<div class=\"tc-tab-set $class$\">\n<div class=\"tc-tab-buttons $class$\">\n<$list filter=\"$tabsList$\" variable=\"currentTab\">\n<$button set=<<qualify \"$state$\">> setTo=<<currentTab>> default=\"$default$\" selectedClass=\"tc-tab-selected\">\n<$transclude tiddler=<<currentTab>> field=\"caption\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"currentTab\" $type=\"text/plain\" $output=\"text/plain\"/>\n</$transclude>\n</$button>\n</$list>\n</div><div class=\"tc-tab-divider $class$\"/><div class=\"tc-tab-content $class$\">\n<$list filter=\"$tabsList$\" variable=\"currentTab\">\n\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<qualify \"$state$\">> text=<<currentTab>> default=\"$default$\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$template$\" mode=\"block\">\n\n<$transclude tiddler=<<currentTab>> mode=\"block\"/>\n\n</$transclude>\n\n</$reveal>\n\n</$list>\n</div>\n</div>\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/tag": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/tag",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define tag(tag)\n{{$tag$||$:/core/ui/TagTemplate}}\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/timeline": {
"created": "20141212105914482",
"modified": "20141212110330815",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"title": "$:/core/macros/timeline",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"text": "\\define timeline-title()\n<!-- Override this macro with a global macro \n of the same name if you need to change \n how titles are displayed on the timeline \n -->\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n\\end\n\\define timeline(limit:\"100\",format:\"DDth MMM YYYY\",subfilter:\"\",dateField:\"modified\")\n<div class=\"tc-timeline\">\n<$list filter=\"[!is[system]$subfilter$has[$dateField$]!sort[$dateField$]limit[$limit$]eachday[$dateField$]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-menu-list-item\">\n<$view field=\"$dateField$\" format=\"date\" template=\"$format$\"/>\n<$list filter=\"[sameday{!!$dateField$}!is[system]$subfilter$!sort[$dateField$]]\">\n<div class=\"tc-menu-list-subitem\">\n<$link to={{!!title}}>\n<<timeline-title>>\n</$link>\n</div>\n</$list>\n</div>\n</$list>\n</div>\n\\end\n"
},
"$:/core/macros/toc": {
"title": "$:/core/macros/toc",
"tags": "$:/tags/Macro",
"text": "\\define toc-caption()\n<$set name=\"tv-wikilinks\" value=\"no\">\n<$transclude field=\"caption\">\n<$view field=\"title\"/>\n</$transclude>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-body(rootTag,tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<ol class=\"tc-toc\">\n<$list filter=\"\"\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$tag$]!has[draft.of]$sort$]\"\"\">\n<$set name=\"toc-item-class\" filter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\" value=\"toc-item-selected\" emptyValue=\"toc-item\">\n<li class=<<toc-item-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]toc-link[no]]\" emptyMessage=\"<$link><$view field='caption'><$view field='title'/></$view></$link>\">\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$list>\n<$list filter=\"\"\"[all[current]] -[[$rootTag$]]\"\"\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-body\" rootTag=\"\"\"$rootTag$\"\"\" tag=<<currentTiddler>> sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\"/>\n</$list>\n</li>\n</$set>\n</$list>\n</ol>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<<toc-body rootTag:\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" tag:\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" sort:\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter:\"\"\"itemClassFilter\"\"\">>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-linked-expandable-body(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<$set name=\"toc-state\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/toc/$tag$-$(currentTiddler)$\">>>\n<$set name=\"toc-item-class\" filter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\" value=\"toc-item-selected\" emptyValue=\"toc-item\">\n<li class=<<toc-item-class>>>\n<$link>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"open\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"close\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$link>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-expandable\" tag=<<currentTiddler>> sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</li>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-unlinked-expandable-body(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<$set name=\"toc-state\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/toc/$tag$-$(currentTiddler)$\">>>\n<$set name=\"toc-item-class\" filter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\" value=\"toc-item-selected\" emptyValue=\"toc-item\">\n<li class=<<toc-item-class>>>\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"open\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}}\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"close\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-expandable\" tag=<<currentTiddler>> sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</li>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-expandable(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<ol class=\"tc-toc toc-expandable\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$tag$]!has[draft.of]$sort$]\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]toc-link[no]]\" emptyMessage=\"<<toc-linked-expandable-body tag:'$tag$' sort:'$sort$' itemClassFilter:'$itemClassFilter$'>>\">\n<<toc-unlinked-expandable-body tag:\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" sort:\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter:\"\"\"itemClassFilter\"\"\">>\n</$list>\n</$list>\n</ol>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-linked-selective-expandable-body(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<$set name=\"toc-state\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/toc/$tag$-$(currentTiddler)$\">>>\n<$set name=\"toc-item-class\" filter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\" value=\"toc-item-selected\" emptyValue=\"toc-item\">\n<li class=<<toc-item-class>>>\n<$link>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]tagging[]limit[1]]\" variable=\"ignore\" emptyMessage=\"<$button class='tc-btn-invisible'>{{$:/core/images/blank}}</$button>\">\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"open\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"close\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</$list>\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$link>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-selective-expandable\" tag=<<currentTiddler>> sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</li>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-unlinked-selective-expandable-body(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<$set name=\"toc-state\" value=<<qualify \"$:/state/toc/$tag$-$(currentTiddler)$\">>>\n<$set name=\"toc-item-class\" filter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\" value=\"toc-item-selected\" emptyValue=\"toc-item\">\n<li class=<<toc-item-class>>>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]tagging[]limit[1]]\" variable=\"ignore\" emptyMessage=\"<$button class='tc-btn-invisible'>{{$:/core/images/blank}}</$button> <$view field='caption'><$view field='title'/></$view>\">\n<$reveal type=\"nomatch\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"open\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/right-arrow}}\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$button set=<<toc-state>> setTo=\"close\" class=\"tc-btn-invisible\">\n{{$:/core/images/down-arrow}}\n<<toc-caption>>\n</$button>\n</$reveal>\n</$list>\n<$reveal type=\"match\" state=<<toc-state>> text=\"open\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"\"\"toc-selective-expandable\"\"\" tag=<<currentTiddler>> sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\"/>\n</$reveal>\n</li>\n</$set>\n</$set>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-selective-expandable(tag,sort:\"\",itemClassFilter)\n<ol class=\"tc-toc toc-selective-expandable\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$tag$]!has[draft.of]$sort$]\">\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]toc-link[no]]\" variable=\"ignore\" emptyMessage=\"<<toc-linked-selective-expandable-body tag:'$tag$' sort:'$sort$' itemClassFilter:'$itemClassFilter$'>>\">\n<<toc-unlinked-selective-expandable-body tag:\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" sort:\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter:\"\"\"$itemClassFilter$\"\"\">>\n</$list>\n</$list>\n</ol>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-tabbed-selected-item-filter(selectedTiddler)\n[all[current]field:title{$selectedTiddler$}]\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-tabbed-external-nav(tag,sort:\"\",selectedTiddler:\"$:/temp/toc/selectedTiddler\",unselectedText,missingText,template:\"\")\n<$tiddler tiddler={{$selectedTiddler$}}>\n<div class=\"tc-tabbed-table-of-contents\">\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$selectedTiddler$\">\n<div class=\"tc-table-of-contents\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-selective-expandable\" tag=\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" itemClassFilter=<<toc-tabbed-selected-item-filter selectedTiddler:\"\"\"$selectedTiddler$\"\"\">>/>\n</div>\n</$linkcatcher>\n<div class=\"tc-tabbed-table-of-contents-content\">\n<$reveal state=\"\"\"$selectedTiddler$\"\"\" type=\"nomatch\" text=\"\">\n<$transclude mode=\"block\" tiddler=\"$template$\">\n<h1><$transclude field=\"caption\"><$view field=\"title\"/></$transclude></h1>\n<$transclude mode=\"block\">$missingText$</$transclude>\n</$transclude>\n</$reveal>\n<$reveal state=\"\"\"$selectedTiddler$\"\"\" type=\"match\" text=\"\">\n$unselectedText$\n</$reveal>\n</div>\n</div>\n</$tiddler>\n\\end\n\n\\define toc-tabbed-internal-nav(tag,sort:\"\",selectedTiddler:\"$:/temp/toc/selectedTiddler\",unselectedText,missingText,template:\"\")\n<$linkcatcher to=\"\"\"$selectedTiddler$\"\"\">\n<$macrocall $name=\"toc-tabbed-external-nav\" tag=\"\"\"$tag$\"\"\" sort=\"\"\"$sort$\"\"\" selectedTiddler=\"\"\"$selectedTiddler$\"\"\" unselectedText=\"\"\"$unselectedText$\"\"\" missingText=\"\"\"$missingText$\"\"\" template=\"\"\"$template$\"\"\"/>\n</$linkcatcher>\n\\end\n\n"
},
"$:/snippets/minilanguageswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/minilanguageswitcher",
"text": "<$select tiddler=\"$:/language\">\n<$list filter=\"[[$:/languages/en-GB]] [plugin-type[language]sort[title]]\">\n<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field=\"description\"><$view field=\"name\"><$view field=\"title\"/></$view></$view></option>\n</$list>\n</$select>"
},
"$:/snippets/minithemeswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/minithemeswitcher",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/\n<<lingo Prompt>> <$select tiddler=\"$:/theme\">\n<$list filter=\"[plugin-type[theme]sort[title]]\">\n<option value=<<currentTiddler>>><$view field=\"name\"><$view field=\"title\"/></$view></option>\n</$list>\n</$select>"
},
"$:/snippets/modules": {
"title": "$:/snippets/modules",
"text": "\\define describeModuleType(type)\n{{$:/language/Docs/ModuleTypes/$type$}}\n\\end\n<$list filter=\"[moduletypes[]]\">\n\n!! <$macrocall $name=\"currentTiddler\" $type=\"text/plain\" $output=\"text/plain\"/>\n\n<$macrocall $name=\"describeModuleType\" type=<<currentTiddler>>/>\n\n<ul><$list filter=\"[all[current]modules[]]\"><li><$link><<currentTiddler>></$link>\n</li>\n</$list>\n</ul>\n</$list>\n"
},
"$:/palette": {
"title": "$:/palette",
"text": "$:/palettes/Vanilla"
},
"$:/snippets/paletteeditor": {
"title": "$:/snippets/paletteeditor",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/Editor/\n\\define describePaletteColour(colour)\n{{$:/language/Docs/PaletteColours/$colour$}}\n\\end\n<$set name=\"currentTiddler\" value={{$:/palette}}>\n\n<<lingo Prompt>> <$link to={{$:/palette}}><$macrocall $name=\"currentTiddler\" $output=\"text/plain\"/></$link>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]is[shadow]is[tiddler]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<<lingo Prompt/Modified>>\n<$button message=\"tm-delete-tiddler\" param={{$:/palette}}><<lingo Reset/Caption>></$button>\n</$list>\n\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]is[shadow]!is[tiddler]]\" variable=\"listItem\">\n<<lingo Clone/Prompt>>\n</$list>\n\n<$button message=\"tm-new-tiddler\" param={{$:/palette}}><<lingo Clone/Caption>></$button>\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<$list filter=\"[all[current]indexes[]]\" variable=\"colourName\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n''<$macrocall $name=\"describePaletteColour\" colour=<<colourName>>/>''<br/>\n<$macrocall $name=\"colourName\" $output=\"text/plain\"/>\n</td>\n<td>\n<$edit-text index=<<colourName>> tag=\"input\"/>\n<br>\n<$edit-text index=<<colourName>> type=\"color\" tag=\"input\"/>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</$list>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/snippets/palettepreview": {
"title": "$:/snippets/palettepreview",
"text": "<$set name=\"currentTiddler\" value={{$:/palette}}>\n<$transclude tiddler=\"$:/snippets/currpalettepreview\"/>\n</$set>\n"
},
"$:/snippets/paletteswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/paletteswitcher",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Palette/\n<<lingo Prompt>> <$view tiddler={{$:/palette}} field=\"name\"/>\n\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/palette\">\n<div class=\"tc-chooser\"><$list filter=\"[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/Palette]sort[description]]\"><div class=\"tc-chooser-item\"><$link to={{!!title}}><div><$reveal state=\"$:/palette\" type=\"match\" text={{!!title}}>•</$reveal><$reveal state=\"$:/palette\" type=\"nomatch\" text={{!!title}}> </$reveal> ''<$view field=\"name\" format=\"text\"/>'' - <$view field=\"description\" format=\"text\"/></div><$transclude tiddler=\"$:/snippets/currpalettepreview\"/></$link></div>\n</$list>\n</div>\n</$linkcatcher>"
},
"$:/temp/search": {
"title": "$:/temp/search",
"text": ""
},
"$:/tags/AdvancedSearch": {
"title": "$:/tags/AdvancedSearch",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Standard]] [[$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/System]] [[$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Shadows]] [[$:/core/ui/AdvancedSearch/Filter]]"
},
"$:/tags/ControlPanel": {
"title": "$:/tags/ControlPanel",
"list": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Info $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Appearance $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Saving $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Plugins $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Tools $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Internals"
},
"$:/tags/ControlPanel/Info": {
"title": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Info",
"list": "$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Basics $:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Advanced"
},
"$:/tags/EditTemplate": {
"title": "$:/tags/EditTemplate",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/controls]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/title]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/tags]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/shadow]] [[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/classic]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/body]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/type]] [[$:/core/ui/EditTemplate/fields]]"
},
"$:/tags/EditToolbar": {
"title": "$:/tags/EditToolbar",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/Buttons/delete]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/cancel]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/save]]"
},
"$:/tags/MoreSideBar": {
"title": "$:/tags/MoreSideBar",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/All]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Recent]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Tags]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Missing]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Drafts]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Orphans]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Types]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/System]] [[$:/core/ui/MoreSideBar/Shadows]]",
"text": ""
},
"$:/tags/PageControls": {
"title": "$:/tags/PageControls",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/Buttons/home]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-all]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-tiddler]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/import]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-page]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/control-panel]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/advanced-search]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/tag-manager]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/language]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/theme]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/storyview]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/encryption]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/full-screen]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/save-wiki]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/refresh]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-page-actions]]"
},
"$:/tags/PageTemplate": {
"title": "$:/tags/PageTemplate",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/sidebar]] [[$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/story]] [[$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/alerts]] [[$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/topleftbar]] [[$:/core/ui/PageTemplate/toprightbar]]",
"text": ""
},
"$:/tags/SideBar": {
"title": "$:/tags/SideBar",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/SideBar/Open]] [[$:/core/ui/SideBar/Recent]] [[$:/core/ui/SideBar/Tools]] [[$:/core/ui/SideBar/More]]",
"text": ""
},
"$:/tags/TiddlerInfo": {
"title": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tools]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/References]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tagging]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/List]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Listed]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields]]",
"text": ""
},
"$:/tags/TiddlerInfo/Advanced": {
"title": "$:/tags/TiddlerInfo/Advanced",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/ShadowInfo]] [[$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced/PluginInfo]]"
},
"$:/tags/ViewTemplate": {
"title": "$:/tags/ViewTemplate",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title]] [[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle]] [[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags]] [[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/classic]] [[$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body]]"
},
"$:/tags/ViewToolbar": {
"title": "$:/tags/ViewToolbar",
"list": "[[$:/core/ui/Buttons/more-tiddler-actions]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/info]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-here]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/clone]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/export-tiddler]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/edit]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/permalink]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/permaview]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/close-others]] [[$:/core/ui/Buttons/close]]"
},
"$:/snippets/themeswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/themeswitcher",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/Theme/\n<<lingo Prompt>> <$view tiddler={{$:/theme}} field=\"name\"/>\n\n<$linkcatcher to=\"$:/theme\">\n<$list filter=\"[plugin-type[theme]sort[title]]\"><div><$reveal state=\"$:/theme\" type=\"match\" text={{!!title}}>•</$reveal><$reveal state=\"$:/theme\" type=\"nomatch\" text={{!!title}}> </$reveal> <$link to={{!!title}}>''<$view field=\"name\" format=\"text\"/>'' <$view field=\"description\" format=\"text\"/></$link></div>\n</$list>\n</$linkcatcher>"
},
"$:/core/wiki/title": {
"title": "$:/core/wiki/title",
"type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
"text": "{{$:/SiteTitle}} --- {{$:/SiteSubtitle}}"
},
"$:/view": {
"title": "$:/view",
"text": "classic"
},
"$:/snippets/viewswitcher": {
"title": "$:/snippets/viewswitcher",
"text": "\\define lingo-base() $:/language/ControlPanel/StoryView/\n<<lingo Prompt>> <$select tiddler=\"$:/view\">\n<$list filter=\"[storyviews[]]\">\n<option><$view field=\"title\"/></option>\n</$list>\n</$select>"
}
}
}
<div class="tw-sidebar-lists">
<div class="tw-search">
<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/search" type="search" tag="input"/>
<$reveal state="$:/temp/search" type="nomatch" text="">
<$linkcatcher to="$:/temp/search">
<$link to="" class="btn-invisible">{{$:/core/images/close-button}}</$link>
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</$reveal>
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"text": "This widget looks for a word inside a tiddler and shows the result with the searched word highlighted with some of its context. \n\n!Installation \nThe easiest way is to just grab the plugin. It contents the basic tiddlers needed. Just drag and drop the following link into your own wiki: \n\n\n::[[$:/plugins/danielo/contextPlugin]]\n\n!Usage\n\nAfter installing the plugin you will have a new tab in [[$:/AdvancedSearch]] called [[Context Search]]. If you want this functionality in other places you will have to edit the desired tiddler yourself adding the ''context widget''. For more details about using the widget see the section below.\n\n!!Using the widget\n\nThe very basic usage of the widget is the following:\n\n```\n<$context term=\"lorem\"/>\n```\nWhich will render as:\n<$context term=\"lorem\"/>\n\nThe widgets will search inside the current tiddler by default. Because that you see the same content twice here. This example is not very useful. Other more meaningful would be:\n\n```\n<$list filter=\"[search{$:/temp/advancedsearch}sort[title]limit[250]]\">\n{{!!title||$:/core/ui/ListItemTemplate}}\n<$context term={{$:/temp/advancedsearch}}/>\n</$list>\n```\n\nThat will search for tiddlers containing the text specified in [[$:/temp/advancedsearch]] and will display a link to the matching tiddlers plus a preview of the matching content. Something very similar is used in [[Context Search]]. Below you can find a complete list of parameters and their default values.\n\n|! parameter |! description | !default |\n| term | The term you want to search ||\n| searchTerm | An alias for the previous one ||\n| tiddler | The tiddler's name to look into | current tiddler |\n| length | Number of context characters to show | 50 |\n| before | Number of characters before the matched term to show | the value of the length parameter |\n| after | Number of characters after the matched term to show | the value of the length parameter |\n| maxMatches | maximun number of matched elements to show. Incrementing this can cause several performance issues | 10 |\n| element | Node element to create. This element will contain the results of the search. If you want to style it its class is `tw-context` | `<pre>` |\n| matchClass | The css class to assign to the matched terms in the results. This is used to highlight the results | matched |\n\n!Customizing the output\nThere are not many ways to customize the output of this widget. You can specify ''what type of node you want to create'' to wrap the results (div,span...). The default is `<pre>`. This container is created with the class `tw-context` so you can easily apply styles to it. Something similar happens to the ''highlighted'' words. You can specify the name of the class to assign to it and also you can apply styles to that class.\n\nA very basic example of customization could be:\n\n# Create a tiddler, for example [[$/plugins/danielo/context/css]]\n# Paste the following text or any css rule you want: \"\"\"\n\n<pre>\n.matched{background-color:yellow}\n.tw-context {\n border:1px solid blue;\n word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;}\n</pre>\n\"\"\"\n# Tag it with `$:/tags/stylesheet`\n# Save the tiddler\n\n!Live example\nHere is a transclusion of [[Context Search]] so you can see the plugin in action:\n\n{{Context Search}}",
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"text": "<span title=\"Encrypt/Decrypt tiddler\"><$transclude tiddler=\"$:/plugins/danielo/encryptTiddler/openPopup\"/>\n</span><$encryptTiddler passwordTiddler=\"$:/temp/password\"><$reveal state=\"$:/state/encrypt\" type=\"match\" text={{!!title}} animate=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"tw-block-dropdown tw-crypt-dropdown\">\n<span class=\"tw-password-field\"><$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/temp/password\" tag=\"input\" type=\"password\" default=\"\" placeholder=\"password\" class=\"tw-edit-texteditor\"/></span>\n<span class=\"tw-crypt-button\"> <$list filter=\"[is[current]!has[encrypted]]\"> <$button message=\"tw-encrypt-tiddler\" set=\"$:/state/encrypt\" setTo=\"\" class=\"\">Encrypt</$button></$list><$list filter=\"[is[current]has[encrypted]]\"> <$button message=\"tw-decrypt-tiddler\" set=\"$:/state/encrypt\" setTo=\"\" class=\"\">Decrypt</$button></$list></span>\n</div>\n</$reveal></$encryptTiddler>",
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"text": "<$reveal state=\"$:/state/encrypt\" type=\"nomatch\" text={{!!title}} animate=\"no\"><$button set=\"$:/state/encrypt\" setTo={{!!title}} class=\"btn-invisible\">{{$:/plugins/danielo/encryptTiddler/unlocked}}</$button></$reveal><$reveal state=\"$:/state/encrypt\" type=\"match\" text={{!!title}} animate=\"no\"><$button set=\"$:/state/encrypt\" setTo=\"\" class=\"btn-invisible\">{{$:/plugins/danielo/encryptTiddler/unlocked}}</$button></$reveal>",
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"modified": "20140422024102379",
"modifier": "danielo",
"text": "/*\\\ntitle: $:/core/modules/widgets/keyboard-snippets.js\ntype: application/javascript\nmodule-type: widget\n\nEdit-text widget\n\n\\*/\n(function(){\n\n/*jslint node: true, browser: true */\n/*global $tw: false */\n\"use strict\";\n\nvar EditTextWidget = require(\"$:/core/modules/widgets/edit-text.js\")[\"edit-text\"];\n\n/*\nThe edit-text widget calls this method just after inserting its dom nodes\n*/\nEditTextWidget.prototype.postRender = function() {\n\tvar self = this;\n\tvar domNode = self.domNodes[0];\n\tthis.KEYMAP = this.wiki.getTiddlerData(\"$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYMAP\");\n\tthis.KEYBINDINGS = this.parseKeyBindings(this.wiki.getTiddlerData(\"$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYBINDINGS\"));\n\t$tw.utils.addEventListeners(domNode,[\n\t\t{name: \"keydown\", handlerObject: this, handlerMethod: \"insertAtCursor\"}\n\t]);\n\n\n};\n\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.createKeySnippet = function(preTag,postTag){\n if(typeof arguments[0] == \"object\")\n {\n\t var result = arguments[0];\n\t if(result.hasOwnProperty(\"length\")) return {regExp:result, length:result[0][\"replace\"].length};\n\t if(result.pre && result.post) result.length=result.pre.length;\n\t return result;\n }\n\t\n\treturn {pre:preTag, post:postTag, length:preTag.length };\n};\n\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.getKeyName = function (keyCode){\n return this.KEYMAP[keyCode];\n};\n\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.parseKeyBindings = function (keyCombinations){\nvar keybindings={}; \nif (keyCombinations) {\n\tfor(var comb in keyCombinations){\n\t\tkeybindings[comb.toLowerCase()]=this.createKeySnippet(keyCombinations[comb]);\n\t}\n\treturn keybindings;\n}\n\n keybindings={\n\n\t\t \"ctrl+b\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"''\",\"''\"), //b -- bold\n\t\t \"ctrl+i\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"//\",\"//\"), //i --italics\n\t\t \"ctrl+o\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"\\n#\",\" \"), //o -- Ordered list\n\t\t \"ctrl+u\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"__\",\"__\"), //u -- understrike list\n\t\t \"ctrl+k\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"\\n```\\n\",\"```\"), //k -- code\n\t\t \"ctrl+s\" : this.createKeySnippet(\",,\",\",,\"), //s -- subscript\n\t\t \"ctrl+l\" : this.createKeySnippet(\"\\n*\",\" \"), //l -- list\n\t\t \"ctrl+right_arrow\" : {moveto:\"|\"}\n\t\t};\n\treturn keybindings;\n\t\t\n\n};\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.composeKeyCombo = function (event){\nvar keyCombo=\"\";\n if(event.ctrlKey)keyCombo+=\"ctrl+\";\n if(event.shiftKey)keyCombo+=\"shift+\";\n\t\t\tif(event.altKey)keyCombo+=\"alt+\";\n\t\t\tkeyCombo+=this.getKeyName(event.keyCode);\n\nreturn keyCombo;\n\n};\n\n\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.insertAtCursor = function (event) {\n var snippet , myField=this.domNodes[0];\n\n if(snippet=this.KEYBINDINGS[this.composeKeyCombo(event)] )\n //para evitar sobreescribir otros eventos solo reaccionamos ante combinaciones que\n //estén en nuestro map de KEYBINDINGS\n {\n\tvar reacted=false;\n //Internet explorer\n if (document.selection) {\n myField.focus();\n var sel = document.selection.createRange();\n sel.text = snippet;\n }\n //MOZILLA and others\n else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') {\n var selection = this.getSelection(myField);\n if( snippet.hasOwnProperty(\"moveto\") ){\n\t\t\t\t\tvar move = selection.followingText.indexOf(snippet.moveto);\n\t\t\t\t\tif(move >=0){ \n\t\t\t\t\t\treacted=true; //only stop default if we have to move\n\t\t\t\t\t\tthis.moveSelection(myField,selection,move+1);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}else{\n\t\t\t\t\treacted=true;\n\t\t\t\t\tmyField.value = selection.previousText\n\t\t\t\t\t\t+ this.applyTag(snippet,selection.text)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t+ selection.followingText;\n\t\t\t\t\tthis.moveSelection(myField,selection,snippet.length);\n\t\t\t\t}\n } else {\n myField.value += snippet;\n }\n\tif (reacted){ event.preventDefault(); event.stopPropagation();}\n\t\n this.saveChanges(this.domNodes[0].value);\n }\n\t\n};\n\n/*selection { object } domNode {dom object} \nlength{number} number of characters to move the selection */\nEditTextWidget.prototype.moveSelection = function(domNode,selection,length){\ndomNode.selectionStart = selection.start + length;\ndomNode.selectionEnd = selection.start + length + selection.text.length;\n};\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.getSelection = function(domNode){\nvar selStarts=domNode.selectionStart; var selEnds=domNode.selectionEnd;\nreturn {\n\t\tstart:selStarts,\n\t\tend:selEnds,\n\t\ttext:domNode.value.substring(selStarts,selEnds),\n\t\tpreviousText:domNode.value.substring(0, selStarts),\n\t\tfollowingText:domNode.value.substring(selEnds, domNode.value.length)\n\t\t};\n};\n\nEditTextWidget.prototype.applyTag = function(tag,text){\n\tif(tag.hasOwnProperty(\"multiline\")){\n\t\tvar elements = text.split(\"\\n\");\n\t\tfor(var i in elements) \n\t\t\tif(elements[i].length > 1 || elements.length < 2)\n\t\t\t\telements[i]=tag.pre+elements[i]+tag.post;\n\t\t\t\n\t\ttext=elements.join(\"\\n\");\n\t}else if (tag.hasOwnProperty(\"regExp\")){\n\t\tvar regExps = tag.regExp;\n\t\tfor(var i in regExps){\n\t\t\tvar regExp = new RegExp(regExps[i].exp,regExps[i].modificators);\n\t\t\ttext = text.replace(regExp,regExps[i].replace);\n\t\t}\n\t}\t\n\telse{\n\t\ttext=tag.pre+text+tag.post;\n\t}\n\t\n\treturn text;\n\t\n};\n\n})();",
"type": "application/javascript",
"title": "$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/keyboard-snippets.js",
"tags": "plugin",
"module-type": "widget",
"creator": "danielo",
"created": "20140418153435777"
},
"$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYBINDINGS": {
"modified": "20140422000833962",
"modifier": "danielo",
"text": "{ \n \"ctrl+b\" : { \"pre\":\"''\", \"post\":\"''\"}, \n \"ctrl+i\" : { \"pre\":\"//\", \"post\":\"//\"},\n \"ctrl+o\" : { \"pre\":\"#\", \"post\":\" \", \"multiline\":\"true\"},\n \"ctrl+l\" : { \"pre\":\"*\", \"post\":\" \",\"multiline\":\"true\"},\n \"ctrl+m\" : { \"pre\":\"<<\", \"post\":\">>\"},\n \"ctrl+u\" : { \"pre\":\"__\", \"post\":\"__\"}, \n \"ctrl+k\" : { \"pre\":\"\\n```\\n\", \"post\":\"```\"}, \n \"ctrl+s\" : { \"pre\":\",,\", \"post\":\",,\"},\n \"ctrl+alt+t\" : { \"pre\":\"{{\", \"post\":\"}}\"},\n \"ctrl+alt+l\" : { \"pre\":\"[[\", \"post\":\"]]\"},\n \"alt+h\" : { \"pre\":\"|! \", \"post\":\" |\"},\n \"alt+s\" : { \"pre\":\"~~\", \"post\":\"~~\"},\n \"alt+w\" : { \"pre\":\"<$\", \"post\":\"/>\"},\n \"alt+z\" : { \"pre\":\"{{!!\", \"post\":\"}}\"},\n \"ctrl+right_arrow\" : { \"moveto\" : \"|\"},\n \"alt+t\" : [ {\"exp\":\"^\", \"modificators\":\"gm\", \"replace\":\"| \"},{\"exp\":\" +\", \"modificators\":\"g\", \"replace\":\" | \"},{\"exp\":\"$\", \"modificators\":\"gm\", \"replace\":\" |\"}]\n\n}",
"type": "application/json",
"title": "$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYBINDINGS",
"tags": "plugin",
"creator": "danielo",
"created": "20140419050820052"
},
"$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYCODES": {
"modified": "20140418180839226",
"modifier": "danielo",
"text": "{\n \"backspace\" : \"8\",\n \"tab\" : \"9\",\n \"enter\" : \"13\",\n \"shift\" : \"16\",\n \"ctrl\" : \"17\",\n \"alt\" : \"18\",\n \"pause_break\" : \"19\",\n \"caps_lock\" : \"20\",\n \"escape\" : \"27\",\n \"page_up\" : \"33\",\n \"page down\" : \"34\",\n \"end\" : \"35\",\n \"home\" : \"36\",\n \"left_arrow\" : \"37\",\n \"up_arrow\" : \"38\",\n \"right_arrow\" : \"39\",\n \"down_arrow\" : \"40\",\n \"insert\" : \"45\",\n \"delete\" : \"46\",\n \"0\" : \"48\",\n \"1\" : \"49\",\n \"2\" : \"50\",\n \"3\" : \"51\",\n \"4\" : \"52\",\n \"5\" : \"53\",\n \"6\" : \"54\",\n \"7\" : \"55\",\n \"8\" : \"56\",\n \"9\" : \"57\",\n \"a\" : \"65\",\n \"b\" : \"66\",\n \"c\" : \"67\",\n \"d\" : \"68\",\n \"e\" : \"69\",\n \"f\" : \"70\",\n \"g\" : \"71\",\n \"h\" : \"72\",\n \"i\" : \"73\",\n \"j\" : \"74\",\n \"k\" : \"75\",\n \"l\" : \"76\",\n \"m\" : \"77\",\n \"n\" : \"78\",\n \"o\" : \"79\",\n \"p\" : \"80\",\n \"q\" : \"81\",\n \"r\" : \"82\",\n \"s\" : \"83\",\n \"t\" : \"84\",\n \"u\" : \"85\",\n \"v\" : \"86\",\n \"w\" : \"87\",\n \"x\" : \"88\",\n \"y\" : \"89\",\n \"z\" : \"90\",\n \"left_window key\" : \"91\",\n \"right_window key\" : \"92\",\n \"select_key\" : \"93\",\n \"numpad 0\" : \"96\",\n \"numpad 1\" : \"97\",\n \"numpad 2\" : \"98\",\n \"numpad 3\" : \"99\",\n \"numpad 4\" : \"100\",\n \"numpad 5\" : \"101\",\n \"numpad 6\" : \"102\",\n \"numpad 7\" : \"103\",\n \"numpad 8\" : \"104\",\n \"numpad 9\" : \"105\",\n \"multiply\" : \"106\",\n \"add\" : \"107\",\n \"subtract\" : \"109\",\n \"decimal point\" : \"110\",\n \"divide\" : \"111\",\n \"f1\" : \"112\",\n \"f2\" : \"113\",\n \"f3\" : \"114\",\n \"f4\" : \"115\",\n \"f5\" : \"116\",\n \"f6\" : \"117\",\n \"f7\" : \"118\",\n \"f8\" : \"119\",\n \"f9\" : \"120\",\n \"f10\" : \"121\",\n \"f11\" : \"122\",\n \"f12\" : \"123\",\n \"num_lock\" : \"144\",\n \"scroll_lock\" : \"145\",\n \"semi_colon\" : \"186\",\n \"equal_sign\" : \"187\",\n \"comma\" : \"188\",\n \"dash\" : \"189\",\n \"period\" : \"190\",\n \"forward_slash\" : \"191\",\n \"grave_accent\" : \"192\",\n \"open_bracket\" : \"219\",\n \"backslash\" : \"220\",\n \"closebracket\" : \"221\",\n \"single_quote\" : \"222\"\n }",
"type": "application/json",
"title": "$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYCODES",
"tags": "plugin",
"created": "20140418175933770"
},
"$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYMAP": {
"modified": "20140418184001124",
"modifier": "danielo",
"text": "{\"8\":\"backspace\",\"9\":\"tab\",\"13\":\"enter\",\"16\":\"shift\",\"17\":\"ctrl\",\"18\":\"alt\",\"19\":\"pause_break\",\"20\":\"caps_lock\",\"27\":\"escape\",\"33\":\"page_up\",\"34\":\"page down\",\"35\":\"end\",\"36\":\"home\",\"37\":\"left_arrow\",\"38\":\"up_arrow\",\"39\":\"right_arrow\",\"40\":\"down_arrow\",\"45\":\"insert\",\"46\":\"delete\",\"48\":\"0\",\"49\":\"1\",\"50\":\"2\",\"51\":\"3\",\"52\":\"4\",\"53\":\"5\",\"54\":\"6\",\"55\":\"7\",\"56\":\"8\",\"57\":\"9\",\"65\":\"a\",\"66\":\"b\",\"67\":\"c\",\"68\":\"d\",\"69\":\"e\",\"70\":\"f\",\"71\":\"g\",\"72\":\"h\",\"73\":\"i\",\"74\":\"j\",\"75\":\"k\",\"76\":\"l\",\"77\":\"m\",\"78\":\"n\",\"79\":\"o\",\"80\":\"p\",\"81\":\"q\",\"82\":\"r\",\"83\":\"s\",\"84\":\"t\",\"85\":\"u\",\"86\":\"v\",\"87\":\"w\",\"88\":\"x\",\"89\":\"y\",\"90\":\"z\",\"91\":\"left_window key\",\"92\":\"right_window key\",\"93\":\"select_key\",\"96\":\"numpad 0\",\"97\":\"numpad 1\",\"98\":\"numpad 2\",\"99\":\"numpad 3\",\"100\":\"numpad 4\",\"101\":\"numpad 5\",\"102\":\"numpad 6\",\"103\":\"numpad 7\",\"104\":\"numpad 8\",\"105\":\"numpad 9\",\"106\":\"multiply\",\"107\":\"add\",\"109\":\"subtract\",\"110\":\"decimal point\",\"111\":\"divide\",\"112\":\"f1\",\"113\":\"f2\",\"114\":\"f3\",\"115\":\"f4\",\"116\":\"f5\",\"117\":\"f6\",\"118\":\"f7\",\"119\":\"f8\",\"120\":\"f9\",\"121\":\"f10\",\"122\":\"f11\",\"123\":\"f12\",\"144\":\"num_lock\",\"145\":\"scroll_lock\",\"186\":\"semi_colon\",\"187\":\"equal_sign\",\"188\":\"comma\",\"189\":\"dash\",\"190\":\"period\",\"191\":\"forward_slash\",\"192\":\"grave_accent\",\"219\":\"open_bracket\",\"220\":\"backslash\",\"221\":\"closebracket\",\"222\":\"single_quote\"}",
"type": "application/json",
"title": "$:/plugins/danielo/keyboardSnippets/KEYMAP",
"tags": "plugin",
"created": "20140418183742933"
}
}
}
/*\
title: $:/plugins/skeeve/listselect.js
type: application/javascript
module-type: widget
listselect widget
Will set a field to the selected value:
```
<$listselect field="myfield" filter="filter..."/>
```
|Parameter |Description |h
|tiddler |Name of the tiddler in which the field should be set. Defaults to current tiddler |
|field |The name of the field to be set |
|filter |A filter expression which should give the list of possible values |
|label |The name of a field in the currentTiddler which holds the label of the option. Default "title" |
|value |The name of a field in the currentTiddler which holds the value of the option. Default "title" |
|labelvalue |defines the character (or string) which seperates label and value |
|valuelabel |defines the character (or string) which seperates value and label |
|class |Optional class name(s) |
\*/
(function(){
/*jslint node: true, browser: true */
/*global $tw: false */
"use strict";
var Widget = require("$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js").widget;
var ListselectWidget = function(parseTreeNode,options) {
this.initialise(parseTreeNode,options);
};
/*
Inherit from the base widget class
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype = new Widget();
/*
Render this widget into the DOM
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.render = function(parent,nextSibling) {
// Save the parent dom node
this.parentDomNode = parent;
// Compute our attributes
this.computeAttributes();
// Execute our logic
this.execute();
// Create our elements
this.inputDomNode = this.document.createElement("select");
this.optionlist = this.getOptionList();
this.newOptions();
// Add a click event handler
$tw.utils.addEventListeners(this.inputDomNode,[
{name: "change", handlerObject: this, handlerMethod: "handleChangeEvent"}
]);
// Insert into the DOM and render any children
parent.insertBefore(this.inputDomNode,nextSibling);
this.renderChildren(this.inputDomNode,null);
this.domNodes.push(this.inputDomNode);
};
/*
Compute the internal state of the widget
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.execute = function() {
// Get the parameters from the attributes
this.selectTitle = this.getAttribute("tiddler",this.getVariable("currentTiddler"));
this.selectField = this.getAttribute("field");
this.selectLabel = this.getAttribute("label");
this.selectValue = this.getAttribute("value");
this.selectLVSep = this.getAttribute("labelvalue");
this.selectVLSep = this.getAttribute("valuelabel");
this.selectedIndex = null;
this.getOptionLabel = function(title) {
return title;
};
this.getOptionValue = function(title) {
return title;
};
if(this.selectLabel || this.selectValue) {
if(this.selectLabel && this.selectLabel !== "title") {
this.getOptionLabel = function(title) {
var tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(title);
return tiddler && tiddler.getFieldString(this.selectLabel) || title;
};
}
if(this.selectValue && this.selectValue !== "title") {
this.getOptionValue = function(title) {
var tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(title);
return tiddler && tiddler.getFieldString(this.selectValue) || title;
};
}
}
else if(this.selectLVSep) {
this.getOptionLabel = function(title) {
return (title.split(this.selectLVSep,2))[0];
};
this.getOptionValue = function(title) {
return (title.split(this.selectLVSep,2))[1];
};
}
else if(this.selevtVLSep) {
this.getOptionLabel = function(title) {
return (title.split(this.selevtVLSep,2))[1];
};
this.getOptionValue = function(title) {
return (title.split(this.selevtVLSep,2))[0];
};
}
this.selectClass = this.getAttribute("class","");
if(this.selectClass !== "") {
this.selectClass += " ";
}
this.selectClass += "tw-listselect";
// Compose the list elements
this.selectOptions = this.getOptionList();
// this.makeChildWidgets();
};
/*
Create the list of options
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.newOptions = function() {
for( var i = 0 ; i < this.optionlist.label.length ; ++i) {
var option = this.document.createElement("option");
option.setAttribute("value",this.optionlist.value[i]);
var optiontext = this.document.createTextNode(this.optionlist.label[i]);
option.appendChild(optiontext);
this.inputDomNode.options[i] = option;
}
this.inputDomNode.options.length = this.optionlist.label.length;
this.setSelectedIndex(this.getValue());
};
/*
Find the first option, matching the current value - or create an option
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.setSelectedIndex = function(val) {
var i = this.optionlist.value.indexOf(val);
if(i < 0) {
i = this.optionlist.label.length;
var option = this.document.createElement("option");
option.setAttribute("value",val);
var optiontext = this.document.createTextNode(val);
option.appendChild(optiontext);
this.inputDomNode.options[i]= option;
}
this.selectedIndex = i;
this.inputDomNode.selectedIndex = i;
};
/*
get our list of options
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.getOptionList = function() {
//console.log("ListselectWidget.prototype.getOptionList");
var defaultFilter = "[!is[system]sort[title]]";
var tiddlers = this.wiki.filterTiddlers(this.getAttribute("filter",defaultFilter),this.getVariable("currentTiddler"));
var optionlist = { label:[""], value:[""] };
for( var i = 0 ; i < tiddlers.length ; ++i) {
optionlist.label.push(this.getOptionLabel(tiddlers[i]));
optionlist.value.push(this.getOptionValue(tiddlers[i]));
}
return optionlist;
};
/*
retrieve the current value
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.getValue = function() {
var tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.selectTitle);
return tiddler && tiddler.getFieldString(this.selectField) || "";
};
/*
set the current value
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.setValue = function(val) {
if(this.selectField) {
var tiddler = this.wiki.getTiddler(this.selectTitle),
addition = {};
addition[this.selectField] = val;
this.wiki.addTiddler(new $tw.Tiddler(tiddler,addition));
}
};
/*
set the newly selected value
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.handleChangeEvent = function(event) {
this.selectedIndex = event.target.selectedIndex;
this.setValue(event.target.value);
};
/*
Selectively refreshes the widget if needed. Returns true if the widget or any of its children needed re-rendering
*/
ListselectWidget.prototype.refresh = function(changedTiddlers) {
var changedAttributes = this.computeAttributes();
if(changedAttributes.tiddler || changedAttributes.field || changedAttributes.filter
|| changedAttributes.label || changedAttributes.value
|| changedAttributes.labelvalue || changedAttributes.valuelabel
|| changedAttributes["class"]) {
this.refreshSelf();
return true;
} else {
// did the list of options change?
var newoptionlist = this.getOptionList();
identical:
if (newoptionlist.label.length === this.optionlist.label.length) {
// same length, compare elements
for(var i=0 ; i < newoptionlist.label.length ; ++i) {
if(newoptionlist.label[i] !== this.optionlist.label[i]) break identical;
if(newoptionlist.value[i] !== this.optionlist.value[i]) break identical;
}
// so both lists are identical. But what about the value?
var currentValue = this.getValue();
if( this.selectedIndex > this.optionlist.value.length || currentValue != this.optionlist.value[this.selectedIndex] ) {
this.setSelectedIndex(currentValue);
}
return true
}
// The list changed - create a new one.
this.optionlist = newoptionlist;
this.newOptions();
return true;
}
};
exports.listselect = ListselectWidget;
})();
''w/ extra-biblical texts''
$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Saving
body .dirtree, body .dirtree ul {
list-style-type: none;
background-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAAQABAAAAIbRI6ppo3sGoxp0mNvpjt290nXMlblc2JpECoFADs=);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body .dirtree ul {
margin-left: 16px;
}
body .dirtree li {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 16px 0 18px;
background-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAAQABAAAAISjI+py+0Po5wM2IszoLz7DwYFADs=);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
line-height: 1.5;
}
body .dirtree li:last-child {
background-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAAQABAAAAIaRI6ppo3sGoxp0mNvpjuCD4Zid5XmiabqWQAAOw==);
background-color: #fff;
}
/*COLUMNS*/
.twocolumns { display:block;
column-count:2;
-moz-column-count:2;
-webkit-column-count:2;}
.threecolumns { display:block;
column-count:3;
-moz-column-count:3;
-webkit-column-count:3;}
{
"tiddlers": {
"$:/info/browser": {
"title": "$:/info/browser",
"text": "yes"
},
"$:/info/node": {
"title": "$:/info/node",
"text": "no"
}
}
}
$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla
{
"tiddlers": {
"$:/themes/giffmex/blue/styles": {
"title": "$:/themes/giffmex/blue/styles",
"tags": "[[$:/tags/stylesheet]]",
"text": "html body.tw-body { \nfont-size:14px;\nline-height:20px; \nbackground-color:#ddddff;\n}\n\nhtml .tw-sidebar-lists a.tw-tiddlylink {\ncolor: #5959c0;\n}\n\nhtml .tw-page-controls {background-color:#ddddff;\npadding:8px;}\n\nhtml .title {\n\tcolor: #5959c0;\n}\n\nhtml .tw-tab-buttons button {\n\tbackground-color: #ccccdd;\n}\n\nhtml .tw-tab-buttons button.tw-tab-selected {\n\tbackground-color: #ddddff;\n\tborder-bottom: 1px solid #ddddff;\n}\n\nhtml .tw-tag-label {\nfont-weight:normal;\n\tpadding: 4px 6px;\n\tcolor: #000000;\n\ttext-shadow: none;\n\tbackground-color: #eeeeff;\n}\n\nhtml h1 {\n font-size: 1.5em;\n margin: 0.67em 0;\npadding-top:1em;}\n\n\nhtml table th {padding:10px;vertical-align:top;} \nhtml table td {padding:10px;vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff;}\nhtml table th {color: #000;background-color:#eee;font-weight:normal;}\nhtml table th {border-color:#000;}\nhtml table td {border-color:#000;}\nhtml table {border-color:#000;}\n\nhtml .btn-mini {\n\tcolor: #c0c0c0;\n}\n"
}
}
}
{
"tiddlers": {
"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/nighttime/base": {
"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/nighttime/base",
"tags": "[[$:/tags/stylesheet]]",
"text": "\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline macrodef macrocallinline\n\nhtml body.tw-body {\n\tbackground-color: #5C5D8E;\n}\n"
}
}
}
{
"tiddlers": {
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"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/readonly/styles.tid",
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"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/ltbg.jpg"
},
"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/styles.tid": {
"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/styles.tid",
"tags": "[[$:/tags/Stylesheet]]",
"text": "\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline macrodef macrocallinline\n\n/*\nPlaceholder for a more thorough refinement of Snow White\n*/\n\n@font-face {\n font-family: \"Arvo\";\n font-style: normal;\n font-weight: 400;\n src: local(\"Arvo\"), url(<<datauri \"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/arvo.woff\">>) format(\"woff\");\n}\n\nhtml body, .tc-sidebar-scrollable-backdrop {\n\tfont-family: \"Arvo\", \"Times\";\n background: url(<<datauri \"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/ltbg.jpg\">>);\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls svg {\n <<filter \"drop-shadow(1px 1px 2px rgba(255,255,255,0.9))\">>\n}\n"
},
"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/themetweaks": {
"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/starlight/themetweaks",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "Star Tweaks",
"text": "Demo of a control panel tab dynamically loaded with a theme.\n"
}
}
}
{
"tiddlers": {
"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/themetweaks": {
"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/themetweaks",
"tags": "$:/tags/ControlPanel/Appearance",
"caption": "Theme Tweaks",
"text": "You can tweak certain aspects of the ''Vanilla'' theme.\n\n! Settings\n\n* [[Font family|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/settings/fontfamily]]: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/settings/fontfamily\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n\n! Sizes\n\n* [[Font size|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/fontsize]]: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/fontsize\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Line height|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/lineheight]]: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/lineheight\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Font size for tiddler body|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodyfontsize]]: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodyfontsize\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Line height for tiddler body|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodylineheight]]: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodylineheight\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Story left position|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyleft]] //(the distance between the left of the screen and the left margin of the story river or tiddler area)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyleft\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Story top position|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storytop]] //(the distance between the top of the screen and the top margin of the story river or tiddler area)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storytop\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Story right|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyright]] //(the distance between the left side of the screen and the left margin of the sidebar area)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyright\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Story width|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storywidth]] //(the width of the story river or tiddler area)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storywidth\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Tiddler width|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/tiddlerwidth]] //(the width of individual tiddlers -- used for zoomin storyview)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/tiddlerwidth\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n* [[Sidebar breakpoint|$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint]] //(the minimum width for the sidebar to be displayed alongside the story river)//: <$edit-text tiddler=\"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint\" default=\"\" tag=\"input\"/>\n"
},
"$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/base": {
"title": "$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/base",
"tags": "[[$:/tags/Stylesheet]]",
"text": "\\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline macrodef macrocallinline\n/*\n** Start with the normalize CSS reset, and then belay some of its effects\n*/\n\n{{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/reset}}\n\n*, input[type=\"search\"] {\n\tbox-sizing: border-box;\n\t-moz-box-sizing: border-box;\n\t-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;\n}\n\nhtml button {\n\tline-height: 1.2;\n}\n\n/*\n** Basic element styles\n*/\n\nhtml {\n\tfont-family: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/settings/fontfamily}};\n\ttext-rendering: optimizeLegibility; /* Enables kerning and ligatures etc. */\t\n}\n\nhtml:-webkit-full-screen {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour page-background>>;\n}\n\nbody.tc-body {\n\tfont-size: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/fontsize}};\n\tline-height: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/lineheight}};\n\tcolor: <<colour foreground>>;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour page-background>>;\n\tword-wrap: break-word;\n}\n\nh1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {\n\tline-height: 1.2;\n\tfont-weight: 300;\n}\n\npre {\n\tdisplay: block;\n\tpadding: 14px;\n\tmargin-top: 1em;\n\tmargin-bottom: 1em;\n\tword-break: normal;\n\tword-wrap: break-word;\n\twhite-space: pre;\n\twhite-space: pre-wrap;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour pre-background>>;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour pre-border>>;\n\tpadding: 0 3px 2px;\n\tborder-radius: 3px;\n}\n\ncode {\n\tcolor: <<colour code-foreground>>;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour code-background>>;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour code-border>>;\n white-space: pre-wrap;\n\tpadding: 0 3px 2px;\n\tborder-radius: 3px;\n}\n\nblockquote {\n\tborder-left: 5px solid <<colour blockquote-bar>>;\n\tmargin-left: 25px;\n\tpadding-left: 10px;\n}\n\ndl dt {\n\tfont-weight: bold;\n\tmargin-top: 6px;\n}\n\n.tc-muted {\n\tcolor: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n/*\nMarkdown likes putting code elements inside pre elements\n*/\npre > code {\n\tpadding: 0;\n\tborder: none;\n\tbackground-color: inherit;\n\tcolor: inherit;\n}\n\ntable {\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour table-border>>;\n\twidth: auto;\n\tmax-width: 100%;\n\tcaption-side: bottom;\n\tmargin-top: 1em;\n\tmargin-bottom: 1em;\n}\n\ntable th, table td {\n\tpadding: 0 7px 0 7px;\n\tborder-top: 1px solid <<colour table-border>>;\n\tborder-left: 1px solid <<colour table-border>>;\n}\n\ntable thead tr td, table th {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour table-header-background>>;\n\tfont-weight: bold;\n}\n\ntable tfoot tr td {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour table-footer-background>>;\n}\n\n.tc-csv-table {\n\twhite-space: nowrap;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame img,\n.tc-tiddler-frame svg,\n.tc-tiddler-frame canvas,\n.tc-tiddler-frame embed,\n.tc-tiddler-frame iframe {\n\tmax-width: 100%;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-body > embed,\n.tc-tiddler-body > iframe {\n\twidth: 100%;\n\theight: 600px;\n}\n\n/*\n** Links\n*/\n\nbutton.tc-tiddlylink,\na.tc-tiddlylink {\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n\tfont-weight: normal;\n\tcolor: <<colour tiddler-link-foreground>>;\n\t-webkit-user-select: inherit; /* Otherwise the draggable attribute 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<<colour external-link-background-hover>>;\n}\n\n/*\n** Drag and drop styles\n*/\n\n.tc-tiddler-dragger {\n\tposition: relative;\n\tz-index: -10000;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-dragger-inner {\n\tposition: absolute;\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tpadding: 8px 20px;\n\tfont-size: 16.9px;\n\tfont-weight: bold;\n\tline-height: 20px;\n\tcolor: <<colour dragger-foreground>>;\n\ttext-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);\n\twhite-space: nowrap;\n\tvertical-align: baseline;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour dragger-background>>;\n\tborder-radius: 20px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-dragger-cover {\n\tposition: absolute;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour page-background>>;\n}\n\n.tc-dropzone {\n\tposition: relative;\n}\n\n.tc-dropzone.tc-dragover:before {\n\tz-index: 10000;\n\tdisplay: block;\n\tposition: absolute;\n\tposition: -webkit-sticky;\n\tposition: -moz-sticky;\n\tposition: -o-sticky;\n\tposition: -ms-sticky;\n\tposition: sticky;\n\ttop: 0;\n\tleft: 0;\n\tright: 0;\n\tbackground: <<colour dropzone-background>>;\n\ttext-align: center;\n\tcontent: \"<<lingo DropMessage>>\";\n}\n\n/*\n** Buttons\n*/\n\nbutton svg, button img {\n\tvertical-align: middle;\n}\n\n.tc-btn-invisible {\n\tpadding: 0;\n\tmargin: 0;\n\tbackground: none;\n\tborder: none;\n}\n\n.tc-btn-icon svg {\n\theight: 1em;\n\twidth: 1em;\n\tfill: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-btn-text {\n\tpadding: 0;\n\tmargin: 0;\n}\n\n.tc-btn-big-green {\n\tpadding: 8px;\n\tmargin: 4px 8px 4px 8px;\n\tbackground: <<colour download-background>>;\n\tcolor: <<colour download-foreground>>;\n\tfill: <<colour download-foreground>>;\n\tborder: none;\n\tfont-size: 1.2em;\n\tline-height: 1.4em;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-lists input {\n\tcolor: <<colour foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-lists button {\n\tcolor: <<colour sidebar-button-foreground>>;\n\tfill: <<colour sidebar-button-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-lists button.tc-btn-mini {\n\tcolor: <<colour sidebar-muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-lists button.tc-btn-mini:hover {\n\tcolor: <<colour sidebar-muted-foreground-hover>>;\n}\n\nbutton svg.tc-image-button, button .tc-image-button img {\n\theight: 1em;\n\twidth: 1em;\n}\n\n/*\n** Tags and missing tiddlers\n*/\n\n.tc-tag-list-item {\n\tposition: relative;\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tmargin-right: 7px;\n}\n\n.tc-tags-wrapper {\n\tmargin: 4px 0 14px 0;\n}\n\n.tc-missing-tiddler-label {\n\tfont-style: italic;\n\tfont-weight: normal;\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tfont-size: 11.844px;\n\tline-height: 14px;\n\twhite-space: nowrap;\n\tvertical-align: baseline;\n}\n\nbutton.tc-tag-label, span.tc-tag-label {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\tpadding: 0.16em 0.7em;\n\tfont-size: 0.9em;\n\tfont-weight: 300;\n\tline-height: 1.2em;\n\tcolor: <<colour tag-foreground>>;\n\twhite-space: nowrap;\n\tvertical-align: baseline;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tag-background>>;\n\tborder-radius: 1em;\n}\n\n.tc-untagged-separator {\n\twidth: 10em;\n\tleft: 0;\n\tmargin-left: 0;\n\tborder: 0;\n\theight: 1px;\n\tbackground: <<colour tab-divider>>;\n}\n\nbutton.tc-untagged-label {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour untagged-background>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tag-label svg, .tc-tag-label img {\n\theight: 1em;\n\twidth: 1em;\n\tfill: <<colour tag-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tag-manager-table .tc-tag-label {\n\twhite-space: normal;\n}\n\n.tc-tag-manager-tag {\n\twidth: 100%;\n}\n\n/*\n** Page layout\n*/\n\n.tc-topbar {\n\tposition: fixed;\n\tz-index: 1200;\n}\n\n.tc-topbar-left {\n\tleft: 29px;\n\ttop: 5px;\n}\n\n.tc-topbar-right {\n\ttop: 5px;\n\tright: 29px;\n}\n\n.tc-topbar button {\n\tpadding: 8px;\n}\n\n.tc-topbar svg {\n\tfill: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-topbar button:hover svg {\n\tfill: <<colour foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-header {\n\tcolor: <<colour sidebar-foreground>>;\n\tfill: <<colour sidebar-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-header .tc-title a.tc-tiddlylink-resolves {\n\tfont-weight: 300;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-header .tc-sidebar-lists p {\n\tmargin-top: 3px;\n\tmargin-bottom: 3px;\n}\n\n.tc-sidebar-header .tc-missing-tiddler-label {\n\tcolor: <<colour sidebar-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-advanced-search input {\n\twidth: 60%;\n}\n\n.tc-search a svg {\n\twidth: 1.2em;\n\theight: 1.2em;\n\tvertical-align: middle;\n}\n\n.tc-search-results {\n\tpadding-top: 14px;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls {\n\tmargin-top: 14px;\n\tfont-size: 1.5em;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls button {\n\tmargin-right: 0.5em;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls a.tc-tiddlylink:hover {\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls img {\n\twidth: 1em;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls svg,\n.tc-search svg {\n\tfill: <<colour sidebar-controls-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls button:hover svg, .tc-page-controls a:hover svg,\n.tc-search button:hover svg, .tc-search a:hover svg {\n\tfill: <<colour sidebar-controls-foreground-hover>>;\n}\n\n.tc-menu-list-item {\n\twhite-space: nowrap;\n}\n\n.tc-menu-list-count {\n\tfont-weight: bold;\n}\n\n.tc-menu-list-subitem {\n\tpadding-left: 7px;\n}\n\n.tc-story-river {\n\tposition: relative;\n}\n\n@media (max-width: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint}}) {\n\n\t.tc-sidebar-header {\n\t\tpadding: 14px;\n\t\tmin-height: 32px;\n\t\tmargin-top: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storytop}};\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-story-river {\n\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\tpadding: 0;\n\t}\n}\n\n@media (min-width: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint}}) {\n\n\t.tc-message-box {\n\t\tmargin: 21px -21px 21px -21px;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-sidebar-scrollable {\n\t\tposition: fixed;\n\t\ttop: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storytop}};\n\t\tleft: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyright}};\n\t\tbottom: 0;\n\t\tright: 0;\n\t\toverflow-y: auto;\n\t\toverflow-x: auto;\n\t\t-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;\n\t\tmargin: 0 0 0 -42px;\n\t\tpadding: 71px 0 28px 42px;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-story-river {\n\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\tleft: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storyleft}};\n\t\ttop: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storytop}};\n\t\twidth: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/storywidth}};\n\t\tpadding: 42px 42px 42px 42px;\n\t}\n\n<<if-no-sidebar \"\n\n\t.tc-story-river {\n\t\twidth: auto;\n\t}\n\n\">>\n\n}\n\n@media print {\n\n\tbody.tc-body {\n\t\tbackground-color: transparent;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-sidebar-header, .tc-topbar {\n\t\tdisplay: none;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-story-river {\n\t\tmargin: 0;\n\t\tpadding: 0;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-story-river .tc-tiddler-frame {\n\t\tmargin: 0;\n\t\tborder: none;\n\t\tpadding: 28px;\n\t}\n}\n\n/*\n** Tiddler styles\n*/\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame {\n\tmargin-bottom: 28px;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tiddler-background>>;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-border>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-info {\n\tpadding: 14px 42px 14px 42px;\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tiddler-info-background>>;\n\tborder-top: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-info-border>>;\n\tborder-bottom: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-info-border>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-info p {\n\tmargin-top: 3px;\n\tmargin-bottom: 3px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-info .tc-tab-buttons button.tc-tab-selected {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tiddler-info-tab-background>>;\n\tborder-bottom: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-info-tab-background>>;\n}\n\n.tc-view-field-table {\n\twidth: 100%;\n}\n\n.tc-view-field-name {\n\twidth: 1%; /* Makes this column be as narrow as possible */\n\ttext-align: right;\n\tfont-style: italic;\n\tfont-weight: 200;\n}\n\n.tc-view-field-value {\n}\n\n@media (max-width: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint}}) {\n\t.tc-tiddler-frame {\n\t\tpadding: 14px 14px 14px 14px;\n\t}\n\n\t.tc-tiddler-info {\n\t\tmargin: 0 -14px 0 -14px;\n\t}\n}\n\n@media (min-width: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/sidebarbreakpoint}}) {\n\t.tc-tiddler-frame {\n\t\tpadding: 28px 42px 42px 42px;\n\t\twidth: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/tiddlerwidth}};\n\t\tborder-radius: 2px;\n\t}\n\n<<if-no-sidebar \"\n\n\t.tc-tiddler-frame {\n\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t}\n\n\">>\n\n\t.tc-tiddler-info {\n\t\tmargin: 0 -42px 0 -42px;\n\t}\n}\n\n.tc-site-title,\n.tc-titlebar {\n\tfont-weight: 300;\n\tfont-size: 2.35em;\n\tline-height: 1.2em;\n\tcolor: <<colour tiddler-title-foreground>>;\n\tmargin: 0;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-title-icon {\n\tvertical-align: middle;\n}\n\n.tc-system-title-prefix {\n\tcolor: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-titlebar h2 {\n\tfont-size: 1em;\n\tdisplay: inline;\n}\n\n.tc-titlebar img {\n\theight: 1em;\n}\n\n.tc-subtitle {\n\tfont-size: 0.9em;\n\tcolor: <<colour tiddler-subtitle-foreground>>;\n\tfont-weight: 300;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-missing .tc-title {\n font-style: italic;\n font-weight: normal;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame .tc-tiddler-controls {\n\tfloat: right;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls .tc-drop-down {\n\tfont-size: 0.6em;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls .tc-drop-down .tc-drop-down {\n\tfont-size: 1em;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls > span > button {\n\tvertical-align: baseline;\n\tmargin-left:5px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg, .tc-tiddler-controls button img {\n\theight: 0.75em;\n\tfill: <<colour tiddler-controls-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button.tc-selected svg {\n\tfill: <<colour tiddler-controls-foreground-selected>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button.tc-btn-invisible:hover svg {\n\tfill: <<colour tiddler-controls-foreground-hover>>;\n}\n\n@media print {\n\t.tc-tiddler-controls {\n\t\tdisplay: none;\n\t}\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-help { /* Help prompts within tiddler template */\n\tcolor: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n\tmargin-top: 14px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-help a.tc-tiddlylink {\n\tcolor: <<colour very-muted-foreground>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame input.tc-edit-texteditor, .tc-tiddler-frame textarea.tc-edit-texteditor {\n\twidth: 100%;\n\tpadding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-editor-border>>;\n\tline-height: 1.3em;\n\t-webkit-appearance: none;\n\tmargin: 4px 0 4px 0;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame .tc-binary-warning {\n\twidth: 100%;\n\theight: 5em;\n\ttext-align: center;\n\tpadding: 3em 3em 6em 3em;\n\tbackground: <<colour alert-background>>;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour alert-border>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame input.tc-edit-texteditor {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tiddler-editor-background>>;\n}\n\ncanvas.tc-edit-bitmapeditor {\n\tborder: 6px solid <<colour tiddler-editor-border-image>>;\n\tcursor: crosshair;\n\t-moz-user-select: none;\n\t-webkit-user-select: none;\n\t-ms-user-select: none;\n\tmargin-top: 6px;\n\tmargin-bottom: 6px;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-bitmapeditor-width {\n\tdisplay: block;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-bitmapeditor-height {\n\tdisplay: block;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-frame .tc-tiddler-body {\n\tfont-size: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodyfontsize}};\n\tline-height: {{$:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/metrics/bodylineheight}};\n}\n\n.tc-titlebar, .tc-tiddler-edit-title {\n\toverflow: hidden; /* https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/282 */\n}\n\n/*\n** Toolbar buttons\n*/\n\n.tc-page-controls svg.tc-image-new-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-new-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls svg.tc-image-options-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-options-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-page-controls svg.tc-image-save-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-save-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-info-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-info-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-edit-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-edit-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-close-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-close-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-delete-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-delete-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-cancel-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-cancel-button>>;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-controls button svg.tc-image-done-button {\n fill: <<colour toolbar-done-button>>;\n}\n\n/*\n** Tiddler edit mode\n*/\n\n.tc-tiddler-edit-frame em.tc-edit {\n\tcolor: <<colour muted-foreground>>;\n\tfont-style: normal;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-type-dropdown a.tc-tiddlylink-missing {\n\tfont-style: normal;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-tags {\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-editor-border>>;\n\tpadding: 4px 8px 4px 8px;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-add-tag {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-add-tag .tc-add-tag-name input {\n\twidth: 50%;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-tags .tc-tag-label {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-tags-list {\n\tmargin: 14px 0 14px 0;\n}\n\n.tc-remove-tag-button {\n\tpadding-left: 4px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-preview {\n\toverflow: auto;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-preview-preview {\n\tfloat: right;\n\twidth: 48%;\n\tborder: 1px solid <<colour tiddler-editor-border>>;\n\tmargin: 4px 3px 3px 3px;\n\tpadding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;\n}\n\n.tc-tiddler-preview-edit {\n\twidth: 48%;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-fields {\n\twidth: 100%;\n}\n\n\n.tc-edit-fields table, .tc-edit-fields tr, .tc-edit-fields td {\n\tborder: none;\n\tpadding: 4px;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-fields > tbody > .tc-edit-field:nth-child(odd) {\n\tbackground-color: <<colour tiddler-editor-fields-odd>>;\n}\n\n.tc-edit-fields > tbody > 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<a href=#C131V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C132V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C133V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C134V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C135V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C136V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C137V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C138V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C139V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C1310V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C1311V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C1312V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C1313V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C1314V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C1315V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C1316V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C1317V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C1318V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C1319V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C1320V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C1321V1>Chapter 21</a>
<a href=#C1322V1>Chapter 22</a>
<a href=#C1323V1>Chapter 23</a>
<a href=#C1324V1>Chapter 24</a>
<a href=#C1325V1>Chapter 25</a>
<a href=#C1326V1>Chapter 26</a>
<a href=#C1327V1>Chapter 27</a>
<a href=#C1328V1>Chapter 28</a>
<a href=#C1329V1>Chapter 29</a>
<p>
<a name="C131V1" id="C131V1">1:1</a> Adam, Seth, Enosh, <a name="C131V2"
id="C131V2">1:2</a> Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, <a name="C131V3" id="C131V3">1:3</a>
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, <a name="C131V4" id="C131V4">1:4</a> Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. <a name="C131V5" id="C131V5">1:5</a> The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
<a name="C131V6" id="C131V6">1:6</a> The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath,
and Togarmah. <a name="C131V7" id="C131V7">1:7</a> The sons of Javan: Elishah,
and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. <a name="C131V8" id="C131V8">1:8</a> The
sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. <a name="C131V9" id="C131V9">1:9</a>
The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca.
The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. <a name="C131V10" id="C131V10">1:10</a>
Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the
earth. <a name="C131V11" id="C131V11">1:11</a> Mizraim became the father of
Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, <a name="C131V12" id="C131V12">1:12</a>
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and
Caphtorim. <a name="C131V13" id="C131V13">1:13</a> Canaan became the father of
Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, <a name="C131V14" id="C131V14">1:14</a> and the
Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, <a name="C131V15" id="C131V15">1:15</a>
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, <a name="C131V16" id="C131V16">1:16</a>
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. <a name="C131V17"
id="C131V17">1:17</a> The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad,
and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. <a
name="C131V18" id="C131V18">1:18</a> Arpachshad became the father of Shelah,
and Shelah became the father of Eber. <a name="C131V19" id="C131V19">1:19</a>
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days
the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. <a name="C131V20"
id="C131V20">1:20</a> Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, <a name="C131V21" id="C131V21">1:21</a> and Hadoram,
and Uzal, and Diklah, <a name="C131V22" id="C131V22">1:22</a> and Ebal, and
Abimael, and Sheba, <a name="C131V23" id="C131V23">1:23</a> and Ophir, and
Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. <a name="C131V24"
id="C131V24">1:24</a> Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, <a name="C131V25" id="C131V25">1:25</a>
Eber, Peleg, Reu, <a name="C131V26" id="C131V26">1:26</a> Serug, Nahor, Terah,
<a name="C131V27" id="C131V27">1:27</a> Avram (the same is Avraham). <a
name="C131V28" id="C131V28">1:28</a> The sons of Avraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
<a name="C131V29" id="C131V29">1:29</a> These are their generations: the
firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, <a
name="C131V30" id="C131V30">1:30</a> Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and
Tema, <a name="C131V31" id="C131V31">1:31</a> Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
These are the sons of Ishmael. <a name="C131V32" id="C131V32">1:32</a> The
sons of Keturah, Avraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and
Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and
Dedan. <a name="C131V33" id="C131V33">1:33</a> The sons of Midian: Ephah, and
Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of
Keturah. <a name="C131V34" id="C131V34">1:34</a> Avraham became the father of
Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Yisrael. <a name="C131V35" id="C131V35">1:35</a>
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. <a
name="C131V36" id="C131V36">1:36</a> The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar,
Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. <a name="C131V37" id="C131V37">1:37</a>
The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. <a name="C131V38"
id="C131V38">1:38</a> The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and
Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. <a name="C131V39" id="C131V39">1:39</a>
The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. <a
name="C131V40" id="C131V40">1:40</a> The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath,
and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. <a
name="C131V41" id="C131V41">1:41</a> The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of
Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. <a name="C131V42"
id="C131V42">1:42</a> The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons
of Dishan: Uz, and Aran. <a name="C131V43" id="C131V43">1:43</a> Now these are
the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any king
over the children of Yisrael: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his
city was Dinhabah. <a name="C131V44" id="C131V44">1:44</a> Bela died, and
Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. <a name="C131V45"
id="C131V45">1:45</a> Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites
reigned in his place. <a name="C131V46" id="C131V46">1:46</a> Husham died, and
Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in
his place; and the name of his city was Avith. <a name="C131V47" id="C131V47">1:47</a>
Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. <a name="C131V48"
id="C131V48">1:48</a> Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River
reigned in his place. <a name="C131V49" id="C131V49">1:49</a> Shaul died, and
Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. <a name="C131V50"
id="C131V50">1:50</a> Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and
the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. <a name="C131V51" id="C131V51">1:51</a>
Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief
Jetheth, <a name="C131V52" id="C131V52">1:52</a> chief Oholibamah, chief Elah,
chief Pinon, <a name="C131V53" id="C131V53">1:53</a> chief Kenaz, chief Teman,
chief Mibzar, <a name="C131V54" id="C131V54">1:54</a> chief Magdiel, chief
Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
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<a name="C132V1" id="C132V1">2:1</a> These are the sons of Yisrael: Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, and Yehudah, Issachar, and Zebulun, <a name="C132V2" id="C132V2">2:2</a>
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. <a name="C132V3"
id="C132V3">2:3</a> The sons of Yehudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three
were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Yehudah's
firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him. <a
name="C132V4" id="C132V4">2:4</a> Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and
Zerah. All the sons of Yehudah were five. <a name="C132V5" id="C132V5">2:5</a>
The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. <a name="C132V6" id="C132V6">2:6</a> The
sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of
them in all. <a name="C132V7" id="C132V7">2:7</a> The sons of Carmi: Achar,
the troubler of Yisrael, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. <a
name="C132V8" id="C132V8">2:8</a> The sons of Ethan: Azariah. <a name="C132V9"
id="C132V9">2:9</a> The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him:
Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. <a name="C132V10" id="C132V10">2:10</a> Ram
became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of
Nahshon, prince of the children of Yehudah; <a name="C132V11" id="C132V11">2:11</a>
and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of
Boaz, <a name="C132V12" id="C132V12">2:12</a> and Boaz became the father of
Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; <a name="C132V13" id="C132V13">2:13</a>
and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the
second, and Shimea the third, <a name="C132V14" id="C132V14">2:14</a> Nethanel
the fourth, Raddai the fifth, <a name="C132V15" id="C132V15">2:15</a> Ozem the
sixth, David the seventh; <a name="C132V16" id="C132V16">2:16</a> and their
sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab,
and Asahel, three. <a name="C132V17" id="C132V17">2:17</a> Abigail bore Amasa;
and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. <a name="C132V18"
id="C132V18">2:18</a> Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of <i>children</i>
of Azubah <i>his</i> wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons:
Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. <a name="C132V19" id="C132V19">2:19</a> Azubah
died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. <a name="C132V20"
id="C132V20">2:20</a> Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the
father of Bezalel. <a name="C132V21" id="C132V21">2:21</a> Afterward Hezron
went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took <i>as
wife</i> when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. <a
name="C132V22" id="C132V22">2:22</a> Segub became the father of Jair, who had
twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. <a name="C132V23" id="C132V23">2:23</a>
Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its
villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father
of Gilead. <a name="C132V24" id="C132V24">2:24</a> After that Hezron was dead
in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father
of Tekoa. <a name="C132V25" id="C132V25">2:25</a> The sons of Jerahmeel the
firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem,
Ahijah. <a name="C132V26" id="C132V26">2:26</a> Jerahmeel had another wife,
whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. <a name="C132V27"
id="C132V27">2:27</a> The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz,
and Jamin, and Eker. <a name="C132V28" id="C132V28">2:28</a> The sons of Onam
were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. <a
name="C132V29" id="C132V29">2:29</a> The name of the wife of Abishur was
Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid. <a name="C132V30" id="C132V30">2:30</a>
The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children. <a
name="C132V31" id="C132V31">2:31</a> The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of
Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. <a name="C132V32" id="C132V32">2:32</a>
The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether
died without children. <a name="C132V33" id="C132V33">2:33</a> The sons of
Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. <a
name="C132V34" id="C132V34">2:34</a> Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters.
Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. <a name="C132V35"
id="C132V35">2:35</a> Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as
wife; and she bore him Attai. <a name="C132V36" id="C132V36">2:36</a> Attai
became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, <a
name="C132V37" id="C132V37">2:37</a> and Zabad became the father of Ephlal,
and Ephlal became the father of Obed, <a name="C132V38" id="C132V38">2:38</a>
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
<a name="C132V39" id="C132V39">2:39</a> and Azariah became the father of
Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, <a name="C132V40" id="C132V40">2:40</a>
and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of
Shallum, <a name="C132V41" id="C132V41">2:41</a> and Shallum became the father
of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. <a name="C132V42"
id="C132V42">2:42</a> The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha
his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the
father of Hebron. <a name="C132V43" id="C132V43">2:43</a> The sons of Hebron:
Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. <a name="C132V44" id="C132V44">2:44</a>
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became
the father of Shammai. <a name="C132V45" id="C132V45">2:45</a> The son of
Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. <a name="C132V46"
id="C132V46">2:46</a> Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and
Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. <a name="C132V47" id="C132V47">2:47</a>
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah,
and Shaaph. <a name="C132V48" id="C132V48">2:48</a> Maacah, Caleb's concubine,
bore Sheber and Tirhanah. <a name="C132V49" id="C132V49">2:49</a> She bore
also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the
father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. <a name="C132V50"
id="C132V50">2:50</a> These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the
firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, <a
name="C132V51" id="C132V51">2:51</a> Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the
father of Beth Gader. <a name="C132V52" id="C132V52">2:52</a> Shobal the
father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. <a
name="C132V53" id="C132V53">2:53</a> The families of Kiriath Jearim: The
Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of
them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. <a name="C132V54" id="C132V54">2:54</a>
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and
half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. <a name="C132V55" id="C132V55">2:55</a>
The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the
Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath,
the father of the house of Rechab.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C133V1" id="C133V1">3:1</a> Now these were the sons of David, who
were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; <a
name="C133V2" id="C133V2">3:2</a> the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the
daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of
Haggith; <a name="C133V3" id="C133V3">3:3</a> the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital;
the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: <a name="C133V4" id="C133V4">3:4</a> six
were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six
months. In Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years; <a name="C133V5"
id="C133V5">3:5</a> and these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shimea, and
Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
<a name="C133V6" id="C133V6">3:6</a> and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
<a name="C133V7" id="C133V7">3:7</a> and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, <a
name="C133V8" id="C133V8">3:8</a> and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet,
nine. <a name="C133V9" id="C133V9">3:9</a> All these were the sons of David,
besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. <a
name="C133V10" id="C133V10">3:10</a> Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his
son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, <a name="C133V11" id="C133V11">3:11</a>
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, <a name="C133V12" id="C133V12">3:12</a>
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, <a name="C133V13"
id="C133V13">3:13</a> Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, <a
name="C133V14" id="C133V14">3:14</a> Amon his son, Josiah his son. <a
name="C133V15" id="C133V15">3:15</a> The sons of Josiah: the firstborn
Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. <a
name="C133V16" id="C133V16">3:16</a> The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son,
Zedekiah his son. <a name="C133V17" id="C133V17">3:17</a> The sons of
Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, <a name="C133V18" id="C133V18">3:18</a>
and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and
Nedabiah. <a name="C133V19" id="C133V19">3:19</a> The sons of Pedaiah:
Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah;
and Shelomith was their sister; <a name="C133V20" id="C133V20">3:20</a> and
Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed, five. <a
name="C133V21" id="C133V21">3:21</a> The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and
Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah,
the sons of Shecaniah. <a name="C133V22" id="C133V22">3:22</a> The sons of
Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah,
and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. <a name="C133V23" id="C133V23">3:23</a> The
sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. <a name="C133V24"
id="C133V24">3:24</a> The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and
Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C134V1" id="C134V1">4:1</a> The sons of Yehudah: Perez, Hezron, and
Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. <a name="C134V2" id="C134V2">4:2</a> Reaiah the
son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of
Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. <a name="C134V3"
id="C134V3">4:3</a> These were <i>the sons of</i> the father of Etam:
Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was
Hazzelelponi; <a name="C134V4" id="C134V4">4:4</a> and Penuel the father of
Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the
firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. <a name="C134V5" id="C134V5">4:5</a>
Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. <a name="C134V6"
id="C134V6">4:6</a> Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. <a name="C134V7" id="C134V7">4:7</a>
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. <a name="C134V8" id="C134V8">4:8</a>
Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel
the son of Harum. <a name="C134V9" id="C134V9">4:9</a> Jabez was more
honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying,
Because I bore him with sorrow. <a name="C134V10" id="C134V10">4:10</a> Jabez
called on the Elohim of Yisrael, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed,
and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you
would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! Elohim granted him that
which he requested. <a name="C134V11" id="C134V11">4:11</a> Chelub the brother
of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. <a
name="C134V12" id="C134V12">4:12</a> Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha,
and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of
Recah. <a name="C134V13" id="C134V13">4:13</a> The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and
Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. <a name="C134V14" id="C134V14">4:14</a>
Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of
Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. <a name="C134V15"
id="C134V15">4:15</a> The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and
Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. <a name="C134V16" id="C134V16">4:16</a>
The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. <a
name="C134V17" id="C134V17">4:17</a> The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and
Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father
of Eshtemoa. <a name="C134V18" id="C134V18">4:18</a> His wife the Jewess bore
Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the
father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh,
whom Mered took. <a name="C134V19" id="C134V19">4:19</a> The sons of the wife
of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and
Eshtemoa the Maacathite. <a name="C134V20" id="C134V20">4:20</a> The sons of
Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth,
and Ben Zoheth. <a name="C134V21" id="C134V21">4:21</a> The sons of Shelah the
son of Yehudah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah,
and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house
of Ashbea; <a name="C134V22" id="C134V22">4:22</a> and Jokim, and the men of
Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem.
The records are ancient. <a name="C134V23" id="C134V23">4:23</a> These were
the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived
with the king for his work. <a name="C134V24" id="C134V24">4:24</a> The sons
of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; <a name="C134V25"
id="C134V25">4:25</a> Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. <a
name="C134V26" id="C134V26">4:26</a> The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son,
Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. <a name="C134V27" id="C134V27">4:27</a> Shimei
had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many
children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of
Yehudah. <a name="C134V28" id="C134V28">4:28</a> They lived at Beersheba, and
Moladah, and Hazarshual, <a name="C134V29" id="C134V29">4:29</a> and at
Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, <a name="C134V30" id="C134V30">4:30</a> and
at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, <a name="C134V31" id="C134V31">4:31</a>
and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim.
These were their cities to the reign of David. <a name="C134V32" id="C134V32">4:32</a>
Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five
cities; <a name="C134V33" id="C134V33">4:33</a> and all their villages that
were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and
they have their genealogy. <a name="C134V34" id="C134V34">4:34</a> Meshobab,
and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, <a name="C134V35" id="C134V35">4:35</a>
and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of
Asiel, <a name="C134V36" id="C134V36">4:36</a> and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and
Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, <a
name="C134V37" id="C134V37">4:37</a> and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of
Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-- <a
name="C134V38" id="C134V38">4:38</a> these mentioned by name were princes in
their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly. <a
name="C134V39" id="C134V39">4:39</a> They went to the entrance of Gedor, even
to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. <a
name="C134V40" id="C134V40">4:40</a> They found fat pasture and good, and the
land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before
were of Ham. <a name="C134V41" id="C134V41">4:41</a> These written by name
came in the days of Hezekiah king of Yehudah, and struck their tents, and
the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day,
and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their
flocks. <a name="C134V42" id="C134V42">4:42</a> Some of them, even of the sons
of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains
Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. <a
name="C134V43" id="C134V43">4:43</a> They struck the remnant of the Amalekites
who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C135V1" id="C135V1">5:1</a> The sons of Reuben the firstborn of
Yisrael (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's
couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Yisrael;
and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. <a
name="C135V2" id="C135V2">5:2</a> For Yehudah prevailed above his brothers, and
of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:) <a name="C135V3"
id="C135V3">5:3</a> the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael: Hanoch, and
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. <a name="C135V4" id="C135V4">5:4</a> The sons of
Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, <a name="C135V5"
id="C135V5">5:5</a> Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, <a
name="C135V6" id="C135V6">5:6</a> Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king
of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. <a
name="C135V7" id="C135V7">5:7</a> His brothers by their families, when the
genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and
Zechariah, <a name="C135V8" id="C135V8">5:8</a> and Bela the son of Azaz, the
son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal
Meon: <a name="C135V9" id="C135V9">5:9</a> and eastward he lived even to the
entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their
livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. <a name="C135V10" id="C135V10">5:10</a>
In the days of Sha'ul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their
hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the <i>land</i> east of
Gilead. <a name="C135V11" id="C135V11">5:11</a> The sons of Gad lived over
against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: <a name="C135V12" id="C135V12">5:12</a>
Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
<a name="C135V13" id="C135V13">5:13</a> Their brothers of their fathers'
houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia,
and Eber, seven. <a name="C135V14" id="C135V14">5:14</a> These were the sons
of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son
of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; <a
name="C135V15" id="C135V15">5:15</a> Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni,
chief of their fathers' houses. <a name="C135V16" id="C135V16">5:16</a> They
lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of
Sharon, as far as their borders. <a name="C135V17" id="C135V17">5:17</a> All
these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Yehudah,
and in the days of Jeroboam king of Yisrael. <a name="C135V18" id="C135V18">5:18</a>
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of
valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow,
and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty,
that were able to go forth to war. <a name="C135V19" id="C135V19">5:19</a>
They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. <a
name="C135V20" id="C135V20">5:20</a> They were helped against them, and the
Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for
they cried to Elohim in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because
they put their trust in him. <a name="C135V21" id="C135V21">5:21</a> They took
away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two
hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one
hundred thousand. <a name="C135V22" id="C135V22">5:22</a> For there fell many
slain, because the war was of Elohim. They lived in their place until the
captivity. <a name="C135V23" id="C135V23">5:23</a> The children of the
half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to
Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon. <a name="C135V24" id="C135V24">5:24</a>
These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and
Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of
valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. <a name="C135V25"
id="C135V25">5:25</a> They trespassed against the Elohim of their fathers, and
played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom Elohim
destroyed before them. <a name="C135V26" id="C135V26">5:26</a> The Elohim of
Yisrael stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of
Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought
them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this
day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C136V1" id="C136V1">6:1</a> The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari. <a name="C136V2" id="C136V2">6:2</a> The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar,
and Hebron, and Uzziel. <a name="C136V3" id="C136V3">6:3</a> The children of
Amram: Aharon, and Moshe, and Miriam. The sons of Aharon: Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. <a name="C136V4" id="C136V4">6:4</a> Eleazar became the
father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, <a name="C136V5"
id="C136V5">6:5</a> and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became
the father of Uzzi, <a name="C136V6" id="C136V6">6:6</a> and Uzzi became the
father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth, <a
name="C136V7" id="C136V7">6:7</a> Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and
Amariah became the father of Ahitub, <a name="C136V8" id="C136V8">6:8</a> and
Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz,
<a name="C136V9" id="C136V9">6:9</a> and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah,
and Azariah became the father of Johanan, <a name="C136V10" id="C136V10">6:10</a>
and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the
priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Yerushalayim), <a
name="C136V11" id="C136V11">6:11</a> and Azariah became the father of Amariah,
and Amariah became the father of Ahitub, <a name="C136V12" id="C136V12">6:12</a>
and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of
Shallum, <a name="C136V13" id="C136V13">6:13</a> and Shallum became the father
of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, <a name="C136V14"
id="C136V14">6:14</a> and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah
became the father of Jehozadak; <a name="C136V15" id="C136V15">6:15</a>
Jehozadak went <i>into captivity</i>, when Yahweh carried away Yehudah and
Yerushalayim by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. <a name="C136V16" id="C136V16">6:16</a>
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. <a name="C136V17" id="C136V17">6:17</a>
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. <a
name="C136V18" id="C136V18">6:18</a> The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar,
and Hebron, and Uzziel. <a name="C136V19" id="C136V19">6:19</a> The sons of
Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according
to their fathers' <i>houses</i>. <a name="C136V20" id="C136V20">6:20</a> Of
Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, <a name="C136V21"
id="C136V21">6:21</a> Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai
his son. <a name="C136V22" id="C136V22">6:22</a> The sons of Kohath: Amminadab
his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, <a name="C136V23" id="C136V23">6:23</a>
Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, <a name="C136V24"
id="C136V24">6:24</a> Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and
Shaul his son. <a name="C136V25" id="C136V25">6:25</a> The sons of Elkanah:
Amasai, and Ahimoth. <a name="C136V26" id="C136V26">6:26</a> As for Elkanah,
the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, <a name="C136V27"
id="C136V27">6:27</a> Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. <a
name="C136V28" id="C136V28">6:28</a> The sons of Samuel: the firstborn <i>Joel</i>,
and the second Abijah. <a name="C136V29" id="C136V29">6:29</a> The sons of
Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, <a
name="C136V30" id="C136V30">6:30</a> Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah
his son. <a name="C136V31" id="C136V31">6:31</a> These are they whom David set
over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had
rest. <a name="C136V32" id="C136V32">6:32</a> They ministered with song before
the tent of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built the house of
Yahweh in Yerushalayim: and they waited on their office according to their
order. <a name="C136V33" id="C136V33">6:33</a> These are those who waited, and
their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of
Joel, the son of Samuel, <a name="C136V34" id="C136V34">6:34</a> the son of
Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, <a
name="C136V35" id="C136V35">6:35</a> the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the
son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, <a name="C136V36" id="C136V36">6:36</a> the
son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
<a name="C136V37" id="C136V37">6:37</a> the son of Tahath, the son of Assir,
the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, <a name="C136V38" id="C136V38">6:38</a>
the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Yisrael.
<a name="C136V39" id="C136V39">6:39</a> His brother Asaph, who stood on his
right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, <a
name="C136V40" id="C136V40">6:40</a> the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah,
the son of Malchijah, <a name="C136V41" id="C136V41">6:41</a> the son of
Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, <a name="C136V42" id="C136V42">6:42</a>
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, <a name="C136V43"
id="C136V43">6:43</a> the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of
Levi. <a name="C136V44" id="C136V44">6:44</a> On the left hand their brothers
the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of
Malluch, <a name="C136V45" id="C136V45">6:45</a> the son of Hashabiah, the son
of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, <a name="C136V46" id="C136V46">6:46</a> the
son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, <a name="C136V47" id="C136V47">6:47</a>
the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. <a
name="C136V48" id="C136V48">6:48</a> Their brothers the Levites were appointed
for all the service of the tent of the house of Elohim. <a name="C136V49"
id="C136V49">6:49</a> But Aharon and his sons offered on the altar of burnt
offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy
place, and to make atonement for Yisrael, according to all that Moshe the
servant of Elohim had commanded. <a name="C136V50" id="C136V50">6:50</a> These
are the sons of Aharon: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
<a name="C136V51" id="C136V51">6:51</a> Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah
his son, <a name="C136V52" id="C136V52">6:52</a> Meraioth his son, Amariah his
son, Ahitub his son, <a name="C136V53" id="C136V53">6:53</a> Zadok his son,
Ahimaaz his son. <a name="C136V54" id="C136V54">6:54</a> Now these are their
dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the
sons of Aharon, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the <i>first</i>
lot), <a name="C136V55" id="C136V55">6:55</a> to them they gave Hebron in the
land of Yehudah, and its suburbs around it; <a name="C136V56" id="C136V56">6:56</a>
but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son
of Jephunneh. <a name="C136V57" id="C136V57">6:57</a> To the sons of Aharon
they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and
Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, <a name="C136V58" id="C136V58">6:58</a>
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, <a name="C136V59"
id="C136V59">6:59</a> and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its
suburbs; <a name="C136V60" id="C136V60">6:60</a> and out of the tribe of
Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and
Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were
thirteen cities. <a name="C136V61" id="C136V61">6:61</a> To the rest of the
sons of Kohath <i>were given</i> by lot, out of the family of the tribe,
out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. <a name="C136V62"
id="C136V62">6:62</a> To the sons of Gershom, according to their families,
out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of
the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,
thirteen cities. <a name="C136V63" id="C136V63">6:63</a> To the sons of Merari
<i>were given</i> by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
twelve cities. <a name="C136V64" id="C136V64">6:64</a> The children of Yisrael
gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. <a name="C136V65"
id="C136V65">6:65</a> They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of
Yehudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the
tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by
name. <a name="C136V66" id="C136V66">6:66</a> Some of the families of the sons
of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. <a
name="C136V67" id="C136V67">6:67</a> They gave to them the cities of refuge,
Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with
its suburbs, <a name="C136V68" id="C136V68">6:68</a> and Jokmeam with its
suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs, <a name="C136V69" id="C136V69">6:69</a>
and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; <a
name="C136V70" id="C136V70">6:70</a> and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the
family of the sons of Kohath. <a name="C136V71" id="C136V71">6:71</a> To the
sons of Gershom <i>were given</i>, out of the family of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its
suburbs; <a name="C136V72" id="C136V72">6:72</a> and out of the tribe of
Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, <a
name="C136V73" id="C136V73">6:73</a> and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem
with its suburbs; <a name="C136V74" id="C136V74">6:74</a> and out of the tribe
of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, <a
name="C136V75" id="C136V75">6:75</a> and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob
with its suburbs; <a name="C136V76" id="C136V76">6:76</a> and out of the tribe
of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its
suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. <a name="C136V77" id="C136V77">6:77</a>
To the rest of <i>the Levites</i>, the sons of Merari, <i>were given</i>,
out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its
suburbs; <a name="C136V78" id="C136V78">6:78</a> and beyond the Jordan at
Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, <i>were given them</i>, out of
the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah
with its suburbs, <a name="C136V79" id="C136V79">6:79</a> and Kedemoth with
its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; <a name="C136V80" id="C136V80">6:80</a>
and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and
Mahanaim with its suburbs, <a name="C136V81" id="C136V81">6:81</a> and Heshbon
with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C137V1" id="C137V1">7:1</a> Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah,
Jashub, and Shimron, four. <a name="C137V2" id="C137V2">7:2</a> The sons of
Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel,
heads of their fathers' houses, <i>to wit</i>, of Tola; mighty men of
valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was
twenty-two thousand six hundred. <a name="C137V3" id="C137V3">7:3</a> The sons
of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel,
Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. <a name="C137V4" id="C137V4">7:4</a>
With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands
of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and
sons. <a name="C137V5" id="C137V5">7:5</a> Their brothers among all the
families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy,
were eighty-seven thousand. <a name="C137V6" id="C137V6">7:6</a> <i>The sons
of</i> Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. <a name="C137V7"
id="C137V7">7:7</a> The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and
Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor;
and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. <a
name="C137V8" id="C137V8">7:8</a> The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and
Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth,
and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. <a name="C137V9" id="C137V9">7:9</a>
They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their
fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. <a
name="C137V10" id="C137V10">7:10</a> The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of
Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and
Tarshish, and Ahishahar. <a name="C137V11" id="C137V11">7:11</a> All these
were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' <i>houses</i>,
mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to
go forth in the army for war. <a name="C137V12" id="C137V12">7:12</a> Shuppim
also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher. <a name="C137V13"
id="C137V13">7:13</a> The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer,
and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. <a name="C137V14" id="C137V14">7:14</a> The
sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore
Machir the father of Gilead: <a name="C137V15" id="C137V15">7:15</a> and
Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah;
and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
<a name="C137V16" id="C137V16">7:16</a> Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son,
and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his
sons were Ulam and Rakem. <a name="C137V17" id="C137V17">7:17</a> The sons of
Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh. <a name="C137V18" id="C137V18">7:18</a> His sister Hammolecheth bore
Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah. <a name="C137V19" id="C137V19">7:19</a> The
sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. <a
name="C137V20" id="C137V20">7:20</a> The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered
his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, <a
name="C137V21" id="C137V21">7:21</a> and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son,
and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land
killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. <a
name="C137V22" id="C137V22">7:22</a> Ephraim their father mourned many days,
and his brothers came to comfort him. <a name="C137V23" id="C137V23">7:23</a>
He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named
him Beriah, because it went evil with his house. <a name="C137V24" id="C137V24">7:24</a>
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper,
and Uzzen Sheerah. <a name="C137V25" id="C137V25">7:25</a> Rephah was his son,
and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, <a name="C137V26"
id="C137V26">7:26</a> Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, <a
name="C137V27" id="C137V27">7:27</a> Nun his son, Joshua his son. <a
name="C137V28" id="C137V28">7:28</a> Their possessions and habitations were
Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its
towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; <a name="C137V29"
id="C137V29">7:29</a> and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth
Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and
its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Yisrael. <a
name="C137V30" id="C137V30">7:30</a> The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and
Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. <a name="C137V31" id="C137V31">7:31</a>
The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
<a name="C137V32" id="C137V32">7:32</a> Heber became the father of Japhlet,
and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. <a name="C137V33" id="C137V33">7:33</a>
The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the
children of Japhlet. <a name="C137V34" id="C137V34">7:34</a> The sons of
Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. <a name="C137V35" id="C137V35">7:35</a>
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. <a
name="C137V36" id="C137V36">7:36</a> The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher,
and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, <a name="C137V37" id="C137V37">7:37</a> Bezer,
and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. <a name="C137V38"
id="C137V38">7:38</a> The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. <a
name="C137V39" id="C137V39">7:39</a> The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and
Rizia. <a name="C137V40" id="C137V40">7:40</a> All these were the children of
Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief
of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in
war was twenty-six thousand men.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C138V1" id="C138V1">8:1</a> Benjamin became the father of Bela his
firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, <a name="C138V2"
id="C138V2">8:2</a> Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. <a name="C138V3"
id="C138V3">8:3</a> Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, <a
name="C138V4" id="C138V4">8:4</a> and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, <a
name="C138V5" id="C138V5">8:5</a> and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. <a
name="C138V6" id="C138V6">8:6</a> These are the sons of Ehud: these are the
heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> of the inhabitants of Geba, and they
carried them captive to Manahath: <a name="C138V7" id="C138V7">8:7</a> and
Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the
father of Uzza and Ahihud. <a name="C138V8" id="C138V8">8:8</a> Shaharaim
became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them
away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. <a name="C138V9" id="C138V9">8:9</a> He
became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and
Malcam, <a name="C138V10" id="C138V10">8:10</a> and Jeuz, and Shachia, and
Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>. <a
name="C138V11" id="C138V11">8:11</a> Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub
and Elpaal. <a name="C138V12" id="C138V12">8:12</a> The sons of Elpaal: Eber,
and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; <a
name="C138V13" id="C138V13">8:13</a> and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of
fathers' <i>houses</i> of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight
the inhabitants of Gath; <a name="C138V14" id="C138V14">8:14</a> and Ahio,
Shashak, and Jeremoth, <a name="C138V15" id="C138V15">8:15</a> and Zebadiah,
and Arad, and Eder, <a name="C138V16" id="C138V16">8:16</a> and Michael, and
Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah, <a name="C138V17" id="C138V17">8:17</a>
and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber, <a name="C138V18"
id="C138V18">8:18</a> and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of
Elpaal, <a name="C138V19" id="C138V19">8:19</a> and Jakim, and Zichri, and
Zabdi, <a name="C138V20" id="C138V20">8:20</a> and Elienai, and Zillethai, and
Eliel, <a name="C138V21" id="C138V21">8:21</a> and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and
Shimrath, the sons of Shimei, <a name="C138V22" id="C138V22">8:22</a> and
Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel, <a name="C138V23" id="C138V23">8:23</a> and
Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan, <a name="C138V24" id="C138V24">8:24</a> and
Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah, <a name="C138V25" id="C138V25">8:25</a>
and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak, <a name="C138V26" id="C138V26">8:26</a>
and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah, <a name="C138V27" id="C138V27">8:27</a>
and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham. <a
name="C138V28" id="C138V28">8:28</a> These were heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>
throughout their generations, chief men: these lived in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C138V29" id="C138V29">8:29</a> In Gibeon there lived the father of
Gibeon, <i>Jeiel</i>, whose wife's name was Maacah; <a name="C138V30"
id="C138V30">8:30</a> and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and
Baal, and Nadab, <a name="C138V31" id="C138V31">8:31</a> and Gedor, and Ahio,
and Zecher. <a name="C138V32" id="C138V32">8:32</a> Mikloth became the father
of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Yerushalayim, over against
their brothers. <a name="C138V33" id="C138V33">8:33</a> Ner became the father
of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul; and Sha'ul became the father of
Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. <a name="C138V34"
id="C138V34">8:34</a> The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal
became the father of Micah. <a name="C138V35" id="C138V35">8:35</a> The sons
of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz. <a name="C138V36"
id="C138V36">8:36</a> Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah
became the father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became
the father of Moza. <a name="C138V37" id="C138V37">8:37</a> Moza became the
father of Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. <a
name="C138V38" id="C138V38">8:38</a> Azel had six sons, whose names are these:
Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All
these were the sons of Azel. <a name="C138V39" id="C138V39">8:39</a> The sons
of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet
the third. <a name="C138V40" id="C138V40">8:40</a> The sons of Ulam were
mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one
hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C139V1" id="C139V1">9:1</a> So all Yisrael were reckoned by
genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Yisrael: and Yehudah was carried away captive to Babylon for their
disobedience. <a name="C139V2" id="C139V2">9:2</a> Now the first inhabitants
who lived in their possessions in their cities were Yisrael, the priests,
the Levites, and the Nethinim. <a name="C139V3" id="C139V3">9:3</a> In
Yerushalayim lived of the children of Yehudah, and of the children of Benjamin,
and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh: <a name="C139V4" id="C139V4">9:4</a>
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of
Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Yehudah. <a name="C139V5" id="C139V5">9:5</a>
Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. <a name="C139V6"
id="C139V6">9:6</a> Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six
hundred ninety. <a name="C139V7" id="C139V7">9:7</a> Of the sons of Benjamin:
Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah, <a
name="C139V8" id="C139V8">9:8</a> and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the
son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the
son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; <a name="C139V9" id="C139V9">9:9</a> and
their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six.
All these men were heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> by their fathers'
houses. <a name="C139V10" id="C139V10">9:10</a> Of the priests: Jedaiah, and
Jehoiarib, Jachin, <a name="C139V11" id="C139V11">9:11</a> and Azariah the son
of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth,
the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of Elohim; <a name="C139V12"
id="C139V12">9:12</a> and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the
son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the
son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; <a
name="C139V13" id="C139V13">9:13</a> and their brothers, heads of their
fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the
work of the service of the house of Elohim. <a name="C139V14" id="C139V14">9:14</a>
Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son
of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; <a name="C139V15" id="C139V15">9:15</a>
and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son
of Zichri, the son of Asaph, <a name="C139V16" id="C139V16">9:16</a> and
Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and
Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of
the Netophathites. <a name="C139V17" id="C139V17">9:17</a> The porters:
Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum
was the chief), <a name="C139V18" id="C139V18">9:18</a> who hitherto <i>waited</i>
in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the
children of Levi. <a name="C139V19" id="C139V19">9:19</a> Shallum the son of
Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his
father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers
of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of
Yahweh, keepers of the entry. <a name="C139V20" id="C139V20">9:20</a> Phinehas
the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, <i>and</i> Yahweh was
with him. <a name="C139V21" id="C139V21">9:21</a> Zechariah the son of
Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C139V22"
id="C139V22">9:22</a> All these who were chosen to be porters in the
thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy
in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their
office of trust. <a name="C139V23" id="C139V23">9:23</a> So they and their
children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the
house of the tent, by wards. <a name="C139V24" id="C139V24">9:24</a> On the
four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. <a
name="C139V25" id="C139V25">9:25</a> Their brothers, in their villages, were
to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them: <a
name="C139V26" id="C139V26">9:26</a> for the four chief porters, who were
Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over
the treasuries in the house of Elohim. <a name="C139V27" id="C139V27">9:27</a>
They lodged around the house of Elohim, because that duty was on them; and to
them pertained its opening morning by morning. <a name="C139V28" id="C139V28">9:28</a>
Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for by count
were these brought in and by count were these taken out. <a name="C139V29"
id="C139V29">9:29</a> Some of them also were appointed over the furniture,
and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and
the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. <a
name="C139V30" id="C139V30">9:30</a> Some of the sons of the priests prepared
the confection of the spices. <a name="C139V31" id="C139V31">9:31</a>
Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the
Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
<a name="C139V32" id="C139V32">9:32</a> Some of their brothers, of the sons of
the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Shabbat. <a
name="C139V33" id="C139V33">9:33</a> These are the singers, heads of fathers'
<i>houses</i> of the Levites, <i>who lived</i> in the chambers <i>and were</i>
free <i>from other service</i>; for they were employed in their work day
and night. <a name="C139V34" id="C139V34">9:34</a> These were heads of
fathers' <i>houses</i> of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief
men: these lived at Yerushalayim. <a name="C139V35" id="C139V35">9:35</a> In
Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was
Maacah: <a name="C139V36" id="C139V36">9:36</a> and his firstborn son Abdon,
and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, <a name="C139V37" id="C139V37">9:37</a>
and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. <a name="C139V38" id="C139V38">9:38</a>
Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers
in Yerushalayim, over against their brothers. <a name="C139V39" id="C139V39">9:39</a>
Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Sha'ul; and
Sha'ul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and
Eshbaal. <a name="C139V40" id="C139V40">9:40</a> The son of Jonathan was Merib
Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah. <a name="C139V41" id="C139V41">9:41</a>
The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, <i>and Ahaz</i>. <a
name="C139V42" id="C139V42">9:42</a> Ahaz became the father of Jarah; and
Jarah became the father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri
became the father of Moza; <a name="C139V43" id="C139V43">9:43</a> and Moza
became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel
his son. <a name="C139V44" id="C139V44">9:44</a> Azel had six sons, whose
names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah,
and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1310V1" id="C1310V1">10:1</a> Now the Philistines fought against
Yisrael: and the men of Yisrael fled from before the Philistines, and fell
down slain on Mount Gilboa. <a name="C1310V2" id="C1310V2">10:2</a> The
Philistines followed hard after Sha'ul and after his sons; and the
Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of
Sha'ul. <a name="C1310V3" id="C1310V3">10:3</a> The battle went sore against
Sha'ul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the
archers. <a name="C1310V4" id="C1310V4">10:4</a> Then said Sha'ul to his armor
bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these
uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he
was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword, and fell on it. <a
name="C1310V5" id="C1310V5">10:5</a> When his armor bearer saw that Sha'ul was
dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. <a name="C1310V6" id="C1310V6">10:6</a>
So Sha'ul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together. <a
name="C1310V7" id="C1310V7">10:7</a> When all the men of Yisrael who were in
the valley saw that they fled, and that Sha'ul and his sons were dead, they
forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in
them. <a name="C1310V8" id="C1310V8">10:8</a> It happened on the next day,
when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Sha'ul and his
sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <a name="C1310V9" id="C1310V9">10:9</a> They
stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of
the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the
people. <a name="C1310V10" id="C1310V10">10:10</a> They put his armor in the
house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. <a
name="C1310V11" id="C1310V11">10:11</a> When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that
the Philistines had done to Sha'ul, <a name="C1310V12" id="C1310V12">10:12</a>
all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Sha'ul, and the bodies
of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the
oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. <a name="C1310V13" id="C1310V13">10:13</a>
So Sha'ul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because
of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked
counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire <i>thereby</i>, <a
name="C1310V14" id="C1310V14">10:14</a> and didn't inquire of Yahweh:
therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1311V1" id="C1311V1">11:1</a> Then all Yisrael gathered themselves to
David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. <a
name="C1311V2" id="C1311V2">11:2</a> In times past, even when Sha'ul was king,
it was you who led out and brought in Yisrael: and Yahweh your Elohim said to
you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisrael, and you shall be prince
over my people Yisrael. <a name="C1311V3" id="C1311V3">11:3</a> So all the
elders of Yisrael came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant
with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over
Yisrael, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel. <a name="C1311V4"
id="C1311V4">11:4</a> David and all Yisrael went to Yerushalayim (the same is
Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. <a
name="C1311V5" id="C1311V5">11:5</a> The inhabitants of Jebus said to David,
You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of
Zion; the same is the city of David. <a name="C1311V6" id="C1311V6">11:6</a>
David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and
captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief. <a
name="C1311V7" id="C1311V7">11:7</a> David lived in the stronghold; therefore
they called it the city of David. <a name="C1311V8" id="C1311V8">11:8</a> He
built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the
rest of the city. <a name="C1311V9" id="C1311V9">11:9</a> David grew greater
and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him. <a name="C1311V10"
id="C1311V10">11:10</a> Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David
had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with
all Yisrael, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning
Yisrael. <a name="C1311V11" id="C1311V11">11:11</a> This is the number of the
mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief
of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed
them at one time. <a name="C1311V12" id="C1311V12">11:12</a> After him was
Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
<a name="C1311V13" id="C1311V13">11:13</a> He was with David at Pasdammim, and
there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a
plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines. <a name="C1311V14" id="C1311V14">11:14</a> They stood in the
midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh
saved them by a great victory. <a name="C1311V15" id="C1311V15">11:15</a>
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the
cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the
valley of Rephaim. <a name="C1311V16" id="C1311V16">11:16</a> David was then
in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in
Bethlehem. <a name="C1311V17" id="C1311V17">11:17</a> David longed, and said,
Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which
is by the gate! <a name="C1311V18" id="C1311V18">11:18</a> The three broke
through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of
Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but
David would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh, <a name="C1311V19"
id="C1311V19">11:19</a> and said, My Elohim forbid it me, that I should do
this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in
jeopardy? for with <i>the jeopardy of</i> their lives they brought it.
Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. <a
name="C1311V20" id="C1311V20">11:20</a> Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was
chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and
killed them, and had a name among the three. <a name="C1311V21" id="C1311V21">11:21</a>
Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their
captain: however he didn't attain to the <i>first</i> three. <a
name="C1311V22" id="C1311V22">11:22</a> Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son
of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two
<i>sons of</i> Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the
midst of a pit in time of snow. <a name="C1311V23" id="C1311V23">11:23</a> He
killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the
Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him
with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed
him with his own spear. <a name="C1311V24" id="C1311V24">11:24</a> These
things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three
mighty men. <a name="C1311V25" id="C1311V25">11:25</a> Behold, he was more
honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the <i>first</i> three:
and David set him over his guard. <a name="C1311V26" id="C1311V26">11:26</a>
Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem, <a name="C1311V27" id="C1311V27">11:27</a> Shammoth
the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, <a name="C1311V28" id="C1311V28">11:28</a>
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, <a
name="C1311V29" id="C1311V29">11:29</a> Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
Ahohite, <a name="C1311V30" id="C1311V30">11:30</a> Maharai the Netophathite,
Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, <a name="C1311V31" id="C1311V31">11:31</a>
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the
Pirathonite, <a name="C1311V32" id="C1311V32">11:32</a> Hurai of the brooks of
Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, <a name="C1311V33" id="C1311V33">11:33</a>
Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, <a name="C1311V34"
id="C1311V34">11:34</a> the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of
Shagee the Hararite, <a name="C1311V35" id="C1311V35">11:35</a> Ahiam the son
of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, <a name="C1311V36" id="C1311V36">11:36</a>
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, <a name="C1311V37" id="C1311V37">11:37</a>
Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, <a name="C1311V38" id="C1311V38">11:38</a>
Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, <a name="C1311V39"
id="C1311V39">11:39</a> Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor
bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, <a name="C1311V40" id="C1311V40">11:40</a>
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, <a name="C1311V41" id="C1311V41">11:41</a>
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, <a name="C1311V42" id="C1311V42">11:42</a>
Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and
thirty with him, <a name="C1311V43" id="C1311V43">11:43</a> Hanan the son of
Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, <a name="C1311V44" id="C1311V44">11:44</a>
Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
<a name="C1311V45" id="C1311V45">11:45</a> Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha
his brother, the Tizite, <a name="C1311V46" id="C1311V46">11:46</a> Eliel the
Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the
Moabite, <a name="C1311V47" id="C1311V47">11:47</a> Eliel, and Obed, and
Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1312V1" id="C1312V1">12:1</a> Now these are those who came to David
to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Sha'ul the son of
Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. <a
name="C1312V2" id="C1312V2">12:2</a> They were armed with bows, and could use
both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows
from the bow: they were of Sha'ul's brothers of Benjamin. <a name="C1312V3"
id="C1312V3">12:3</a> The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah
the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah,
and Jehu the Anathothite, <a name="C1312V4" id="C1312V4">12:4</a> and Ishmaiah
the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and
Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite, <a
name="C1312V5" id="C1312V5">12:5</a> Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and
Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite, <a name="C1312V6" id="C1312V6">12:6</a>
Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the
Korahites, <a name="C1312V7" id="C1312V7">12:7</a> and Joelah, and Zebadiah,
the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. <a name="C1312V8" id="C1312V8">12:8</a> Of the
Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the
wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle
shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were
as swift as the roes on the mountains; <a name="C1312V9" id="C1312V9">12:9</a>
Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, <a name="C1312V10"
id="C1312V10">12:10</a> Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, <a
name="C1312V11" id="C1312V11">12:11</a> Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, <a
name="C1312V12" id="C1312V12">12:12</a> Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
<a name="C1312V13" id="C1312V13">12:13</a> Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the
eleventh. <a name="C1312V14" id="C1312V14">12:14</a> These of the sons of Gad
were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and
the greatest to one thousand. <a name="C1312V15" id="C1312V15">12:15</a> These
are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had
overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys,
both toward the east, and toward the west. <a name="C1312V16" id="C1312V16">12:16</a>
There came of the children of Benjamin and Yehudah to the stronghold to
David. <a name="C1312V17" id="C1312V17">12:17</a> David went out to meet them,
and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart
shall be knit to you; but if <i>you be come</i> to betray me to my
adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the Elohim of our fathers
look thereon, and rebuke it. <a name="C1312V18" id="C1312V18">12:18</a> Then
the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, <i>and he said</i>,
"We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace,
peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your Elohim helps you."
Then David received them, and made them captains of the band. <a
name="C1312V19" id="C1312V19">12:19</a> Of Manasseh also there fell away some
to David, when he came with the Philistines against Sha'ul to battle: but
they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away
after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Sha'ul to the
jeopardy of our heads. <a name="C1312V20" id="C1312V20">12:20</a> As he went
to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael,
and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands
who were of Manasseh. <a name="C1312V21" id="C1312V21">12:21</a> They helped
David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor,
and were captains in the army. <a name="C1312V22" id="C1312V22">12:22</a> For
from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great
army, like the army of Elohim. <a name="C1312V23" id="C1312V23">12:23</a> These
are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to
David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Sha'ul to him, according to the word
of Yahweh. <a name="C1312V24" id="C1312V24">12:24</a> The children of Yehudah
who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for
war. <a name="C1312V25" id="C1312V25">12:25</a> Of the children of Simeon,
mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. <a
name="C1312V26" id="C1312V26">12:26</a> Of the children of Levi four thousand
and six hundred. <a name="C1312V27" id="C1312V27">12:27</a> Jehoiada was the
leader of <i>the house of</i> Aharon; and with him were three thousand and
seven hundred, <a name="C1312V28" id="C1312V28">12:28</a> and Zadok, a young
man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains. <a
name="C1312V29" id="C1312V29">12:29</a> Of the children of Benjamin, the
brothers of Sha'ul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them
had kept their allegiance to the house of Sha'ul. <a name="C1312V30"
id="C1312V30">12:30</a> Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight
hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. <a
name="C1312V31" id="C1312V31">12:31</a> Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen
thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king. <a
name="C1312V32" id="C1312V32">12:32</a> Of the children of Issachar, men who
had understanding of the times, to know what Yisrael ought to do, the heads
of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their
commandment. <a name="C1312V33" id="C1312V33">12:33</a> Of Zebulun, such as
were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with
all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order <i>the
battle array, and were</i> not of double heart. <a name="C1312V34"
id="C1312V34">12:34</a> Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them
with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. <a name="C1312V35" id="C1312V35">12:35</a>
Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand
six hundred. <a name="C1312V36" id="C1312V36">12:36</a> Of Asher, such as were
able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, forty
thousand. <a name="C1312V37" id="C1312V37">12:37</a> On the other side of the
Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one
hundred twenty thousand. <a name="C1312V38" id="C1312V38">12:38</a> All these
being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect
heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Yisrael: and all the rest also
of Yisrael were of one heart to make David king. <a name="C1312V39"
id="C1312V39">12:39</a> They were there with David three days, eating and
drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them. <a
name="C1312V40" id="C1312V40">12:40</a> Moreover those who were near to them,
<i>even</i> as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on
donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of
figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and cattle, and sheep in
abundance: for there was joy in Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1313V1" id="C1313V1">13:1</a> David consulted with the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. <a name="C1313V2"
id="C1313V2">13:2</a> David said to all the assembly of Yisrael, If it seem
good to you, and if it be of Yahweh our Elohim, let us send abroad everywhere
to our brothers who are left in all the land of Yisrael, with whom the
priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may
gather themselves to us; <a name="C1313V3" id="C1313V3">13:3</a> and let us
bring again the ark of our Elohim to us: for we didn't seek it in the days of
Sha'ul. <a name="C1313V4" id="C1313V4">13:4</a> All the assembly said that they
would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. <a
name="C1313V5" id="C1313V5">13:5</a> So David assembled all Yisrael together,
from the Shihor <i>the brook</i> of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath,
to bring the ark of Elohim from Kiriath Jearim. <a name="C1313V6" id="C1313V6">13:6</a>
David went up, and all Yisrael, to Baalah, <i>that is</i>, to Kiriath
Jearim, which belonged to Yehudah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim
Yahweh that sits <i>above</i> the cherubim, that is called by the Name. <a
name="C1313V7" id="C1313V7">13:7</a> They carried the ark of Elohim on a new
cart, <i>and brought it</i> out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and
Ahio drove the cart. <a name="C1313V8" id="C1313V8">13:8</a> David and all
Yisrael played before Elohim with all their might, even with songs, and with
harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with
cymbals, and with trumpets. <a name="C1313V9" id="C1313V9">13:9</a> When they
came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the
ark; for the oxen stumbled. <a name="C1313V10" id="C1313V10">13:10</a> The
anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he
put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before Elohim. <a
name="C1313V11" id="C1313V11">13:11</a> David was displeased, because Yahweh
had broken forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this
day. <a name="C1313V12" id="C1313V12">13:12</a> David was afraid of Elohim that
day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of Elohim home to me? <a name="C1313V13"
id="C1313V13">13:13</a> So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of
David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. <a
name="C1313V14" id="C1313V14">13:14</a> The ark of Elohim remained with the
family of Obed-Edom in his house three months: and Yahweh blessed the
house of Obed-Edom, and all that he had.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1314V1" id="C1314V1">14:1</a> Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to
David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
<a name="C1314V2" id="C1314V2">14:2</a> David perceived that Yahweh had
established him king over Yisrael; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for
his people Yisrael's sake. <a name="C1314V3" id="C1314V3">14:3</a> David took
more wives at Yerushalayim; and David became the father of more sons and
daughters. <a name="C1314V4" id="C1314V4">14:4</a> These are the names of the
children whom he had in Yerushalayim: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and
Solomon, <a name="C1314V5" id="C1314V5">14:5</a> and Ibhar, and Elishua, and
Elpelet, <a name="C1314V6" id="C1314V6">14:6</a> and Nogah, and Nepheg, and
Japhia, <a name="C1314V7" id="C1314V7">14:7</a> and Elishama, and Beeliada,
and Eliphelet. <a name="C1314V8" id="C1314V8">14:8</a> When the Philistines
heard that David was anointed king over all Yisrael, all the Philistines
went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
<a name="C1314V9" id="C1314V9">14:9</a> Now the Philistines had come and made
a raid in the valley of Rephaim. <a name="C1314V10" id="C1314V10">14:10</a>
David inquired of Elohim, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and
will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will
deliver them into your hand. <a name="C1314V11" id="C1314V11">14:11</a> So
they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and David said,
Elohim has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore
they called the name of that place Baal Perazim. <a name="C1314V12"
id="C1314V12">14:12</a> They left their gods there; and David gave
commandment, and they were burned with fire. <a name="C1314V13" id="C1314V13">14:13</a>
The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley. <a name="C1314V14"
id="C1314V14">14:14</a> David inquired again of Elohim; and Elohim said to him,
You shall not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them over
against the mulberry trees. <a name="C1314V15" id="C1314V15">14:15</a> It
shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry
trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for Elohim is gone out before
you to strike the army of the Philistines. <a name="C1314V16" id="C1314V16">14:16</a>
David did as Elohim commanded him: and they struck the army of the
Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. <a name="C1314V17" id="C1314V17">14:17</a>
The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of
him on all nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1315V1" id="C1315V1">15:1</a> <i>David</i> made him houses in the
city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of Elohim, and pitched for
it a tent. <a name="C1315V2" id="C1315V2">15:2</a> Then David said, None ought
to carry the ark of Elohim but the Levites: for them has Yahweh chosen to
carry the ark of Elohim, and to minister to him forever. <a name="C1315V3"
id="C1315V3">15:3</a> David assembled all Yisrael at Yerushalayim, to bring up
the ark of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it. <a
name="C1315V4" id="C1315V4">15:4</a> David gathered together the sons of
Aharon, and the Levites: <a name="C1315V5" id="C1315V5">15:5</a> of the sons of
Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty; <a
name="C1315V6" id="C1315V6">15:6</a> of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief,
and his brothers two hundred twenty; <a name="C1315V7" id="C1315V7">15:7</a>
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred
thirty; <a name="C1315V8" id="C1315V8">15:8</a> of the sons of Elizaphan,
Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred; <a name="C1315V9"
id="C1315V9">15:9</a> of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his
brothers eighty; <a name="C1315V10" id="C1315V10">15:10</a> of the sons of
Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve. <a
name="C1315V11" id="C1315V11">15:11</a> David called for Zadok and Abiathar
the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah,
and Eliel, and Amminadab, <a name="C1315V12" id="C1315V12">15:12</a> and said
to them, You are the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the Levites:
sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the
ark of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to <i>the place</i> that I have prepared
for it. <a name="C1315V13" id="C1315V13">15:13</a> For because you didn't
carry it at the first, Yahweh our Elohim made a breach on us, because we
didn't seek him according to the ordinance. <a name="C1315V14" id="C1315V14">15:14</a>
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark
of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C1315V15" id="C1315V15">15:15</a> The
children of the Levites bore the ark of Elohim on their shoulders with the
poles thereon, as Moshe commanded according to the word of Yahweh. <a
name="C1315V16" id="C1315V16">15:16</a> David spoke to the chief of the
Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music,
stringed instruments and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up
the voice with joy. <a name="C1315V17" id="C1315V17">15:17</a> So the Levites
appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of
Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of
Kushaiah; <a name="C1315V18" id="C1315V18">15:18</a> and with them their
brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and
Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the
doorkeepers. <a name="C1315V19" id="C1315V19">15:19</a> So the singers, Heman,
Asaph, and Ethan, <i>were appointed</i> with cymbals of brass to sound
aloud; <a name="C1315V20" id="C1315V20">15:20</a> and Zechariah, and Aziel,
and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and
Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth; <a name="C1315V21"
id="C1315V21">15:21</a> and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed
lyre, to lead. <a name="C1315V22" id="C1315V22">15:22</a> Chenaniah, chief of
the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he
was skillful. <a name="C1315V23" id="C1315V23">15:23</a> Berechiah and Elkanah
were doorkeepers for the ark. <a name="C1315V24" id="C1315V24">15:24</a>
Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and
Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of
Elohim: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. <a
name="C1315V25" id="C1315V25">15:25</a> So David, and the elders of Yisrael,
and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. <a name="C1315V26"
id="C1315V26">15:26</a> It happened, when Elohim helped the Levites who bore
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and
seven rams. <a name="C1315V27" id="C1315V27">15:27</a> David was clothed with
a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the
singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song <i>with</i> the singers: and
David had on him an ephod of linen. <a name="C1315V28" id="C1315V28">15:28</a>
Thus all Yisrael brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with
shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with
cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. <a
name="C1315V29" id="C1315V29">15:29</a> It happened, as the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of
Sha'ul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and
she despised him in her heart.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1316V1" id="C1316V1">16:1</a> They brought in the ark of Elohim, and
set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Elohim. <a name="C1316V2"
id="C1316V2">16:2</a> When David had made an end of offering the burnt
offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of
Yahweh. <a name="C1316V3" id="C1316V3">16:3</a> He dealt to everyone of
Yisrael, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion <i>of
flesh</i>, and a cake of raisins. <a name="C1316V4" id="C1316V4">16:4</a> He
appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and
to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: <a
name="C1316V5" id="C1316V5">16:5</a> Asaph the chief, and second to him
Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab,
and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with
harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; <a name="C1316V6" id="C1316V6">16:6</a>
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the
ark of the covenant of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1316V7" id="C1316V7">16:7</a> Then on that day David first ordained
to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V8" id="C1316V8">16:8</a> Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Call on his name.
</dd>
<dd>
Make his doings known among the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V9" id="C1316V9">16:9</a> Sing to him.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises to him.
</dd>
<dd>
Tell of all his marvelous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V10" id="C1316V10">16:10</a> Glory in his holy name.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V11" id="C1316V11">16:11</a> Seek you Yahweh and his strength.
</dt>
<dd>
Seek his face forever more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V12" id="C1316V12">16:12</a> Remember his marvelous works that
he has done,
</dt>
<dd>
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V13" id="C1316V13">16:13</a> you seed of Yisrael his servant,
</dt>
<dd>
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V14" id="C1316V14">16:14</a> He is Yahweh our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
His judgments are in all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V15" id="C1316V15">16:15</a> Remember his covenant forever,
</dt>
<dd>
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1316V16" id="C1316V16">16:16</a> <i>the covenant</i> which he made
with Avraham,
</dd>
<dd>
his oath to Isaac.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V17" id="C1316V17">16:17</a> He confirmed the same to Jacob
for a statute,
</dt>
<dd>
and to Yisrael for an everlasting covenant,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V18" id="C1316V18">16:18</a> saying, I will you give the land
of Canaan,
</dt>
<dd>
The lot of your inheritance,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1316V19" id="C1316V19">16:19</a> when you were but a few men in
number,
</dd>
<dd>
yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V20" id="C1316V20">16:20</a> They went about from nation to
nation,
</dt>
<dd>
from one kingdom to another people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V21" id="C1316V21">16:21</a> He allowed no man to do them
wrong.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V22" id="C1316V22">16:22</a> <i>saying</i>, Don't touch my
anointed ones!
</dt>
<dd>
Do my prophets no harm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V23" id="C1316V23">16:23</a> Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
</dt>
<dd>
Display his salvation from day to day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V24" id="C1316V24">16:24</a> Declare his glory among the
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V25" id="C1316V25">16:25</a> For great is Yahweh, and greatly
to be praised.
</dt>
<dd>
He also is to be feared above all gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V26" id="C1316V26">16:26</a> For all the gods of the peoples
are idols,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh made the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V27" id="C1316V27">16:27</a> Honor and majesty are before him.
</dt>
<dd>
Strength and gladness are in his place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V28" id="C1316V28">16:28</a> Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives
of the peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V29" id="C1316V29">16:29</a> Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due
to his name.
</dt>
<dd>
Bring an offering, and come before him.
</dd>
<dd>
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V30" id="C1316V30">16:30</a> Tremble before him, all the
earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The world also is established that it can't be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V31" id="C1316V31">16:31</a> Let the heavens be glad,
</dt>
<dd>
and let the earth rejoice!
</dd>
<dd>
Let them say among the nations, Yahweh reigns.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V32" id="C1316V32">16:32</a> Let the sea roar, and its
fullness!
</dt>
<dd>
Let the field exult, and all that is therein!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V33" id="C1316V33">16:33</a> Then the trees of the forest will
sing for joy before Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for he comes to judge the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V34" id="C1316V34">16:34</a> Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he
is good,
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V35" id="C1316V35">16:35</a> Say, Save us, Elohim of our
salvation!
</dt>
<dd>
Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
</dd>
<dd>
to give thanks to your holy name,
</dd>
<dd>
to triumph in your praise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1316V36" id="C1316V36">16:36</a> Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
from everlasting even to everlasting.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1316V37" id="C1316V37">16:37</a> So he left there, before the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark
continually, as every day's work required; <a name="C1316V38" id="C1316V38">16:38</a>
and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of
Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers; <a name="C1316V39" id="C1316V39">16:39</a>
and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent of
Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon, <a name="C1316V40" id="C1316V40">16:40</a>
to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering
continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in
the Torah of Yahweh, which he commanded to Yisrael; <a name="C1316V41"
id="C1316V41">16:41</a> and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who
were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because
his loving kindness endures forever; <a name="C1316V42" id="C1316V42">16:42</a>
and with them Heman and Jeduthun <i>with</i> trumpets and cymbals for
those that should sound aloud, and <i>with</i> instruments for the songs
of Elohim; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. <a name="C1316V43"
id="C1316V43">16:43</a> All the people departed every man to his house: and
David returned to bless his house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1317V1" id="C1317V1">17:1</a> It happened, when David lived in his
house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house
of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh <i>dwells</i> under
curtains. <a name="C1317V2" id="C1317V2">17:2</a> Nathan said to David, Do all
that is in your heart; for Elohim is with you. <a name="C1317V3" id="C1317V3">17:3</a>
It happened the same night, that the word of Elohim came to Nathan, saying,
<a name="C1317V4" id="C1317V4">17:4</a> Go and tell David my servant, Thus
says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in: <a name="C1317V5"
id="C1317V5">17:5</a> for I have not lived in a house since the day that I
brought up Yisrael, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from
<i>one</i> tent <i>to another</i>. <a name="C1317V6" id="C1317V6">17:6</a> In
all places in which I have walked with all Yisrael, spoke I a word with any
of the judges of Yisrael, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people,
saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? <a name="C1317V7"
id="C1317V7">17:7</a> Now therefore thus you shall tell my servant David,
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following
the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Yisrael: <a name="C1317V8"
id="C1317V8">17:8</a> and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and
have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. <a name="C1317V9"
id="C1317V9">17:9</a> I will appoint a place for my people Yisrael, and will
plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the
first, <a name="C1317V10" id="C1317V10">17:10</a> and <i>as</i> from the day
that I commanded judges to be over my people Yisrael; and I will subdue all
your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. <a
name="C1317V11" id="C1317V11">17:11</a> It shall happen, when your days are
fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up
your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his
kingdom. <a name="C1317V12" id="C1317V12">17:12</a> He shall build me a house,
and I will establish his throne forever. <a name="C1317V13" id="C1317V13">17:13</a>
I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my
loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
<a name="C1317V14" id="C1317V14">17:14</a> but I will settle him in my house
and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever. <a
name="C1317V15" id="C1317V15">17:15</a> According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David. <a
name="C1317V16" id="C1317V16">17:16</a> Then David the king went in, and sat
before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh Elohim, and what is my house,
that you have brought me thus far? <a name="C1317V17" id="C1317V17">17:17</a>
This was a small thing in your eyes, Elohim; but you have spoken of your
servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according
to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh Elohim. <a name="C1317V18"
id="C1317V18">17:18</a> What can David <i>say</i> yet more to you concerning
the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant. <a
name="C1317V19" id="C1317V19">17:19</a> Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and
according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make
known all <i>these</i> great things. <a name="C1317V20" id="C1317V20">17:20</a>
Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any Elohim besides you,
according to all that we have heard with our ears. <a name="C1317V21"
id="C1317V21">17:21</a> What one nation in the earth is like your people
Yisrael, whom Elohim went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a
name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your
people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? <a name="C1317V22" id="C1317V22">17:22</a>
For your people Yisrael did you make your own people forever; and you,
Yahweh, became their Elohim. <a name="C1317V23" id="C1317V23">17:23</a> Now,
Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and
concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
<a name="C1317V24" id="C1317V24">17:24</a> Let your name be established and
magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies is the Elohim of Yisrael, even a
Elohim to Yisrael: and the house of David your servant is established before
you. <a name="C1317V25" id="C1317V25">17:25</a> For you, my Elohim, have revealed
to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your
servant found <i>in his heart</i> to pray before you. <a name="C1317V26"
id="C1317V26">17:26</a> Now, Yahweh, you are Elohim, and have promised this
good thing to your servant: <a name="C1317V27" id="C1317V27">17:27</a> and now
it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may
continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is
blessed forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1318V1" id="C1318V1">18:1</a> After this it happened, that David
struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out
of the hand of the Philistines. <a name="C1318V2" id="C1318V2">18:2</a> He
struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought
tribute. <a name="C1318V3" id="C1318V3">18:3</a> David struck Hadadezer king
of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river
Euphrates. <a name="C1318V4" id="C1318V4">18:4</a> David took from him one
thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand
footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them
for one hundred chariots. <a name="C1318V5" id="C1318V5">18:5</a> When the
Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of
the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. <a name="C1318V6" id="C1318V6">18:6</a>
Then David put <i>garrisons</i> in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians
became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to
David wherever he went. <a name="C1318V7" id="C1318V7">18:7</a> David took the
shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them
to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1318V8" id="C1318V8">18:8</a> From Tibhath and from
Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon
made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. <a
name="C1318V9" id="C1318V9">18:9</a> When Tou king of Hamath heard that David
had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, <a name="C1318V10"
id="C1318V10">18:10</a> he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him,
and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him;
(for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and <i>he had with him</i> all manner
of vessels of gold and silver and brass. <a name="C1318V11" id="C1318V11">18:11</a>
These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold
that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and
from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. <a
name="C1318V12" id="C1318V12">18:12</a> Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah
struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. <a
name="C1318V13" id="C1318V13">18:13</a> He put garrisons in Edom; and all the
Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever
he went. <a name="C1318V14" id="C1318V14">18:14</a> David reigned over all
Yisrael; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people. <a
name="C1318V15" id="C1318V15">18:15</a> Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the
army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; <a name="C1318V16"
id="C1318V16">18:16</a> and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son
of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; <a name="C1318V17"
id="C1318V17">18:17</a> and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the
king.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1319V1" id="C1319V1">19:1</a> It happened after this, that Nahash
the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
<a name="C1319V2" id="C1319V2">19:2</a> David said, I will show kindness to
Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So
David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's
servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort
him. <a name="C1319V3" id="C1319V3">19:3</a> But the princes of the children
of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in
that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to
search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? <a name="C1319V4"
id="C1319V4">19:4</a> So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and
cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent
them away. <a name="C1319V5" id="C1319V5">19:5</a> Then there went certain
persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for
the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your
beards are grown, and then return. <a name="C1319V6" id="C1319V6">19:6</a>
When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to
David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver
to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of
Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. <a name="C1319V7" id="C1319V7">19:7</a> So they
hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his
people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon
gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. <a
name="C1319V8" id="C1319V8">19:8</a> When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and
all the army of the mighty men. <a name="C1319V9" id="C1319V9">19:9</a> The
children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the
city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. <a
name="C1319V10" id="C1319V10">19:10</a> Now when Joab saw that the battle was
set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of
Yisrael, and put them in array against the Syrians. <a name="C1319V11"
id="C1319V11">19:11</a> The rest of the people he committed into the hand of
Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children
of Ammon. <a name="C1319V12" id="C1319V12">19:12</a> He said, If the Syrians
are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of
Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. <a name="C1319V13"
id="C1319V13">19:13</a> Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our
people, and for the cities of our Elohim: and Yahweh do that which seems him
good. <a name="C1319V14" id="C1319V14">19:14</a> So Joab and the people who
were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled
before him. <a name="C1319V15" id="C1319V15">19:15</a> When the children of
Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his
brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1319V16" id="C1319V16">19:16</a> When the Syrians saw that they were
defeated by Yisrael, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who
were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer
at their head. <a name="C1319V17" id="C1319V17">19:17</a> It was told David;
and he gathered all Yisrael together, and passed over the Jordan, and came
on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put
the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. <a
name="C1319V18" id="C1319V18">19:18</a> The Syrians fled before Yisrael; and
David killed of the Syrians <i>the men of</i> seven thousand chariots, and
forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the army. <a
name="C1319V19" id="C1319V19">19:19</a> When the servants of Hadadezer saw
that they were defeated by Yisrael, they made peace with David, and served
him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1320V1" id="C1320V1">20:1</a> It happened, at the time of the return
of the year, at the time when kings go out <i>to battle</i>, that Joab led
forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came
and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Yerushalayim. Joab struck Rabbah,
and overthrew it. <a name="C1320V2" id="C1320V2">20:2</a> David took the crown
of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,
and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and
he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. <a name="C1320V3"
id="C1320V3">20:3</a> He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut
<i>them</i> with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to
all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned
to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1320V4" id="C1320V4">20:4</a> It happened after this,
that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the
Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
<a name="C1320V5" id="C1320V5">20:5</a> There was again war with the
Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. <a
name="C1320V6" id="C1320V6">20:6</a> There was again war at Gath, where there
was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six
<i>on each hand</i>, and six <i>on each foot</i>; and he also was born to
the giant. <a name="C1320V7" id="C1320V7">20:7</a> When he defied Yisrael,
Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him. <a name="C1320V8"
id="C1320V8">20:8</a> These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1321V1" id="C1321V1">21:1</a> Satan stood up against Yisrael, and
moved David to number Yisrael. <a name="C1321V2" id="C1321V2">21:2</a> David
said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Yisrael from
Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
<a name="C1321V3" id="C1321V3">21:3</a> Joab said, Yahweh make his people a
hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all
my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a
cause of guilt to Yisrael? <a name="C1321V4" id="C1321V4">21:4</a> Nevertheless
the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went
throughout all Yisrael, and came to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1321V5" id="C1321V5">21:5</a>
Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of
Yisrael were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in
Yehudah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. <a
name="C1321V6" id="C1321V6">21:6</a> But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin
among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. <a name="C1321V7"
id="C1321V7">21:7</a> Elohim was displeased with this thing; therefore he
struck Yisrael. <a name="C1321V8" id="C1321V8">21:8</a> David said to Elohim, I
have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I
beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. <a
name="C1321V9" id="C1321V9">21:9</a> Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer,
saying, <a name="C1321V10" id="C1321V10">21:10</a> Go and speak to David,
saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose one of them,
that I may do it to you. <a name="C1321V11" id="C1321V11">21:11</a> So Gad
came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take your choice: <a
name="C1321V12" id="C1321V12">21:12</a> either three years of famine; or three
months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies
overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in
the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of
Yisrael. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent
me. <a name="C1321V13" id="C1321V13">21:13</a> David said to Gad, I am in
distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are
his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. <a name="C1321V14"
id="C1321V14">21:14</a> So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Yisrael; and there
fell of Yisrael seventy thousand men. <a name="C1321V15" id="C1321V15">21:15</a>
Elohim sent an angel to Yerushalayim to destroy it: and as he was about to
destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the
destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh
was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a name="C1321V16"
id="C1321V16">21:16</a> David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of
Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his
hand stretched out over Yerushalayim. Then David and the elders, clothed in
sackcloth, fell on their faces. <a name="C1321V17" id="C1321V17">21:17</a>
David said to Elohim, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It
is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what
have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my Elohim, be against me, and
against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should
be plagued. <a name="C1321V18" id="C1321V18">21:18</a> Then the angel of
Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an
altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a
name="C1321V19" id="C1321V19">21:19</a> David went up at the saying of Gad,
which he spoke in the name of Yahweh. <a name="C1321V20" id="C1321V20">21:20</a>
Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him
hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. <a name="C1321V21" id="C1321V21">21:21</a>
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the
threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
<a name="C1321V22" id="C1321V22">21:22</a> Then David said to Ornan, Give me
the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to
Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be
stopped from afflicting the people. <a name="C1321V23" id="C1321V23">21:23</a>
Ornan said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do that
which is good in his eyes: behold, I give <i>you</i> the oxen for burnt
offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the
meal offering; I give it all. <a name="C1321V24" id="C1321V24">21:24</a> King
David said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full
price: for I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a
burnt offering without cost. <a name="C1321V25" id="C1321V25">21:25</a> So
David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
<a name="C1321V26" id="C1321V26">21:26</a> David built there an altar to
Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on
Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt
offering. <a name="C1321V27" id="C1321V27">21:27</a> Yahweh commanded the
angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath. <a name="C1321V28"
id="C1321V28">21:28</a> At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had
answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he
sacrificed there. <a name="C1321V29" id="C1321V29">21:29</a> For the tent of
Yahweh, which Moshe made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt
offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. <a name="C1321V30"
id="C1321V30">21:30</a> But David couldn't go before it to inquire of Elohim;
for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1322V1" id="C1322V1">22:1</a> Then David said, This is the house of
Yahweh Elohim, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Yisrael. <a
name="C1322V2" id="C1322V2">22:2</a> David commanded to gather together the
foreigners who were in the land of Yisrael; and he set masons to cut worked
stones to build the house of Elohim. <a name="C1322V3" id="C1322V3">22:3</a>
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates,
and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; <a
name="C1322V4" id="C1322V4">22:4</a> and cedar trees without number: for the
Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. <a
name="C1322V5" id="C1322V5">22:5</a> David said, Solomon my son is young and
tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly
magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will
therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his
death. <a name="C1322V6" id="C1322V6">22:6</a> Then he called for Solomon his
son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a
name="C1322V7" id="C1322V7">22:7</a> David said to Solomon his son, As for me,
it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my Elohim. <a
name="C1322V8" id="C1322V8">22:8</a> But the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you
shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on
the earth in my sight. <a name="C1322V9" id="C1322V9">22:9</a> Behold, a son
shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest
from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will
give peace and quietness to Yisrael in his days: <a name="C1322V10"
id="C1322V10">22:10</a> he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be
my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom over Yisrael for ever. <a name="C1322V11" id="C1322V11">22:11</a> Now,
my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh
your Elohim, as he has spoken concerning you. <a name="C1322V12" id="C1322V12">22:12</a>
May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of
Yisrael; that so you may keep the Torah of Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C1322V13"
id="C1322V13">22:13</a> Then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the
statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moshe concerning Yisrael. Be
strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. <a
name="C1322V14" id="C1322V14">22:14</a> Now, behold, in my affliction I have
prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and
one million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for
it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add
to them. <a name="C1322V15" id="C1322V15">22:15</a> There are also workmen
with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all
kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: <a name="C1322V16"
id="C1322V16">22:16</a> of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the
iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you. <a
name="C1322V17" id="C1322V17">22:17</a> David also commanded all the princes
of Yisrael to help Solomon his son, <i>saying</i>, <a name="C1322V18"
id="C1322V18">22:18</a> Isn't Yahweh your Elohim with you? Hasn't he given you
rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into
my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people. <a
name="C1322V19" id="C1322V19">22:19</a> Now set your heart and your soul to
seek after Yahweh your Elohim; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of
Yahweh Elohim, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy
vessels of Elohim, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1323V1" id="C1323V1">23:1</a> Now David was old and full of days;
and he made Solomon his son king over Yisrael. <a name="C1323V2" id="C1323V2">23:2</a>
He gathered together all the princes of Yisrael, with the priests and the
Levites. <a name="C1323V3" id="C1323V3">23:3</a> The Levites were numbered
from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by
man, was thirty-eight thousand. <a name="C1323V4" id="C1323V4">23:4</a> Of
these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of
Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges; <a name="C1323V5"
id="C1323V5">23:5</a> and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand
praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, <i>said David</i>, for
giving praise. <a name="C1323V6" id="C1323V6">23:6</a> David divided them into
divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <a
name="C1323V7" id="C1323V7">23:7</a> Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. <a
name="C1323V8" id="C1323V8">23:8</a> The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and
Zetham, and Joel, three. <a name="C1323V9" id="C1323V9">23:9</a> The sons of
Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of
the fathers' <i>houses</i> of Ladan. <a name="C1323V10" id="C1323V10">23:10</a>
The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were
the sons of Shimei. <a name="C1323V11" id="C1323V11">23:11</a> Jahath was the
chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons;
therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning. <a name="C1323V12"
id="C1323V12">23:12</a> The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel, four. <a name="C1323V13" id="C1323V13">23:13</a> The sons of Amram:
Aharon and Moshe; and Aharon was separated, that he should sanctify the most
holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to
minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. <a name="C1323V14"
id="C1323V14">23:14</a> But as for Moshe the man of Elohim, his sons were named
among the tribe of Levi. <a name="C1323V15" id="C1323V15">23:15</a> The sons
of Moshe: Gershom and Eliezer. <a name="C1323V16" id="C1323V16">23:16</a> The
sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. <a name="C1323V17" id="C1323V17">23:17</a>
The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other
sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. <a name="C1323V18" id="C1323V18">23:18</a>
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. <a name="C1323V19" id="C1323V19">23:19</a>
The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the
third, and Jekameam the fourth. <a name="C1323V20" id="C1323V20">23:20</a> The
sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. <a name="C1323V21"
id="C1323V21">23:21</a> The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of
Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. <a name="C1323V22" id="C1323V22">23:22</a> Eleazar
died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of
Kish took them <i>to wife</i>. <a name="C1323V23" id="C1323V23">23:23</a> The
sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. <a name="C1323V24"
id="C1323V24">23:24</a> These were the sons of Levi after their fathers'
houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those who were counted
individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for
the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward. <a
name="C1323V25" id="C1323V25">23:25</a> For David said, Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Yerushalayim forever:
<a name="C1323V26" id="C1323V26">23:26</a> and also the Levites shall no more
have need to carry the tent and all its vessels for its service. <a
name="C1323V27" id="C1323V27">23:27</a> For by the last words of David the
sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. <a
name="C1323V28" id="C1323V28">23:28</a> For their office was to wait on the
sons of Aharon for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and
in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of
the service of the house of Elohim; <a name="C1323V29" id="C1323V29">23:29</a>
for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering,
whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of
that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; <a
name="C1323V30" id="C1323V30">23:30</a> and to stand every morning to thank
and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening; <a name="C1323V31"
id="C1323V31">23:31</a> and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the
Shabbats, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to
the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh; <a name="C1323V32"
id="C1323V32">23:32</a> and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of
Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aharon
their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1324V1" id="C1324V1">24:1</a> These were the divisions of the sons
of Aharon. The sons of Aharon: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. <a
name="C1324V2" id="C1324V2">24:2</a> But Nadab and Abihu died before their
father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the
priest's office. <a name="C1324V3" id="C1324V3">24:3</a> David with Zadok of
the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them
according to their ordering in their service. <a name="C1324V4" id="C1324V4">24:4</a>
There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of
Ithamar; and <i>thus</i> were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there
were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar,
according to their fathers' houses, eight. <a name="C1324V5" id="C1324V5">24:5</a>
Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes
of the sanctuary, and princes of Elohim, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of
the sons of Ithamar. <a name="C1324V6" id="C1324V6">24:6</a> Shemaiah the son
of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence
of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son
of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the priests
and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one
taken for Ithamar. <a name="C1324V7" id="C1324V7">24:7</a> Now the first lot
came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, <a name="C1324V8" id="C1324V8">24:8</a>
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, <a name="C1324V9" id="C1324V9">24:9</a>
the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, <a name="C1324V10" id="C1324V10">24:10</a>
the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, <a name="C1324V11" id="C1324V11">24:11</a>
the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, <a name="C1324V12" id="C1324V12">24:12</a>
the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, <a name="C1324V13"
id="C1324V13">24:13</a> the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to
Jeshebeab, <a name="C1324V14" id="C1324V14">24:14</a> the fifteenth to Bilgah,
the sixteenth to Immer, <a name="C1324V15" id="C1324V15">24:15</a> the
seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, <a name="C1324V16"
id="C1324V16">24:16</a> the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to
Jehezkel, <a name="C1324V17" id="C1324V17">24:17</a> the twenty-first to
Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, <a name="C1324V18" id="C1324V18">24:18</a>
the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. <a name="C1324V19"
id="C1324V19">24:19</a> This was the ordering of them in their service, to
come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance <i>given</i> to
them by Aharon their father, as Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, had commanded
him. <a name="C1324V20" id="C1324V20">24:20</a> Of the rest of the sons of
Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. <a
name="C1324V21" id="C1324V21">24:21</a> Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah,
Isshiah the chief. <a name="C1324V22" id="C1324V22">24:22</a> Of the
Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. <a name="C1324V23"
id="C1324V23">24:23</a> The sons <i>of Hebron</i>: Jeriah <i>the chief</i>,
Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. <a
name="C1324V24" id="C1324V24">24:24</a> The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons
of Micah, Shamir. <a name="C1324V25" id="C1324V25">24:25</a> The brother of
Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. <a name="C1324V26"
id="C1324V26">24:26</a> The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of
Jaaziah: Beno. <a name="C1324V27" id="C1324V27">24:27</a> The sons of Merari:
of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. <a name="C1324V28"
id="C1324V28">24:28</a> Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. <a name="C1324V29"
id="C1324V29">24:29</a> Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. <a
name="C1324V30" id="C1324V30">24:30</a> The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder,
and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers'
houses. <a name="C1324V31" id="C1324V31">24:31</a> These likewise cast lots
even as their brothers the sons of Aharon in the presence of David the
king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the chief
even as those of his younger brother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1325V1" id="C1325V1">25:1</a> Moreover, David and the captains of
the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of
Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with stringed
instruments, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work
according to their service was: <a name="C1325V2" id="C1325V2">25:2</a> of the
sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons
of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the
king. <a name="C1325V3" id="C1325V3">25:3</a> Of Jeduthun; the sons of
Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah,
six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who
prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh. <a name="C1325V4" id="C1325V4">25:4</a>
Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and
Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer,
Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. <a name="C1325V5" id="C1325V5">25:5</a>
All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of Elohim, to
lift up the horn. Elohim gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. <a
name="C1325V6" id="C1325V6">25:6</a> All these were under the hands of their
father for song in the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed
instruments, and harps, for the service of the house of Elohim; Asaph,
Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king. <a name="C1325V7"
id="C1325V7">25:7</a> The number of them, with their brothers who were
instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two
hundred eighty-eight. <a name="C1325V8" id="C1325V8">25:8</a> They cast lots
for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher
as the scholar. <a name="C1325V9" id="C1325V9">25:9</a> Now the first lot came
forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and
sons were twelve: <a name="C1325V10" id="C1325V10">25:10</a> the third to
Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V11" id="C1325V11">25:11</a>
the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V12"
id="C1325V12">25:12</a> the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve: <a name="C1325V13" id="C1325V13">25:13</a> the sixth to Bukkiah, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V14" id="C1325V14">25:14</a> the
seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V15"
id="C1325V15">25:15</a> the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve: <a name="C1325V16" id="C1325V16">25:16</a> the ninth to Mattaniah, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V17" id="C1325V17">25:17</a> the
tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V18"
id="C1325V18">25:18</a> the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers,
twelve: <a name="C1325V19" id="C1325V19">25:19</a> the twelfth to Hashabiah,
his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V20" id="C1325V20">25:20</a>
for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a
name="C1325V21" id="C1325V21">25:21</a> for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V22" id="C1325V22">25:22</a> for
the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a
name="C1325V23" id="C1325V23">25:23</a> for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V24" id="C1325V24">25:24</a> for
the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a
name="C1325V25" id="C1325V25">25:25</a> for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons
and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V26" id="C1325V26">25:26</a> for the
nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V27"
id="C1325V27">25:27</a> for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V28" id="C1325V28">25:28</a> for the one and
twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V29"
id="C1325V29">25:29</a> for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and
his brothers, twelve: <a name="C1325V30" id="C1325V30">25:30</a> for the three
and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve: <a
name="C1325V31" id="C1325V31">25:31</a> for the four and twentieth to
Romamtiezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1326V1" id="C1326V1">26:1</a> For the divisions of the doorkeepers:
of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. <a
name="C1326V2" id="C1326V2">26:2</a> Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the
firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, <a
name="C1326V3" id="C1326V3">26:3</a> Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth,
Eliehoenai the seventh. <a name="C1326V4" id="C1326V4">26:4</a> Obed-Edom had
sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and
Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, <a name="C1326V5" id="C1326V5">26:5</a>
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for Elohim
blessed him. <a name="C1326V6" id="C1326V6">26:6</a> Also to Shemaiah his son
were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were
mighty men of valor. <a name="C1326V7" id="C1326V7">26:7</a> The sons of
Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were
valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. <a name="C1326V8" id="C1326V8">26:8</a> All
these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their
brothers, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. <a
name="C1326V9" id="C1326V9">26:9</a> Meshelemiah had sons and brothers,
valiant men, eighteen. <a name="C1326V10" id="C1326V10">26:10</a> Also Hosah,
of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was
not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief), <a name="C1326V11"
id="C1326V11">26:11</a> Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah
the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. <a
name="C1326V12" id="C1326V12">26:12</a> Of these were the divisions of the
doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to
minister in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1326V13" id="C1326V13">26:13</a>
They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their
fathers' houses, for every gate. <a name="C1326V14" id="C1326V14">26:14</a>
The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise
counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. <a name="C1326V15"
id="C1326V15">26:15</a> To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the
storehouse. <a name="C1326V16" id="C1326V16">26:16</a> To Shuppim and Hosah
westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch
against watch. <a name="C1326V17" id="C1326V17">26:17</a> Eastward were six
Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the
storehouse two and two. <a name="C1326V18" id="C1326V18">26:18</a> For Parbar
westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. <a name="C1326V19"
id="C1326V19">26:19</a> These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the
sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. <a name="C1326V20"
id="C1326V20">26:20</a> Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the
house of Elohim, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. <a
name="C1326V21" id="C1326V21">26:21</a> The sons of Ladan, the sons of the
Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. <a name="C1326V22" id="C1326V22">26:22</a>
The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of
the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1326V23" id="C1326V23">26:23</a> Of the
Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: <a
name="C1326V24" id="C1326V24">26:24</a> and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the
son of Moshe, was ruler over the treasures. <a name="C1326V25" id="C1326V25">26:25</a>
His brothers: of Eliezer <i>came</i> Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his
son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. <a
name="C1326V26" id="C1326V26">26:26</a> This Shelomoth and his brothers were
over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and
the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>, the captains over thousands and
hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. <a name="C1326V27"
id="C1326V27">26:27</a> Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to
repair the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1326V28" id="C1326V28">26:28</a> All
that Samuel the seer, and Sha'ul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner,
and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated
anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers. <a
name="C1326V29" id="C1326V29">26:29</a> Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his
sons were for the outward business over Yisrael, for officers and judges.
<a name="C1326V30" id="C1326V30">26:30</a> Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and
his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight
of Yisrael beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and
for the service of the king. <a name="C1326V31" id="C1326V31">26:31</a> Of the
Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to
their generations by fathers' <i>houses</i>. In the fortieth year of the
reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them
mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead. <a name="C1326V32" id="C1326V32">26:32</a>
His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of
fathers' <i>houses</i>, whom king David made overseers over the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for
every matter pertaining to Elohim, and for the affairs of the king.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1327V1" id="C1327V1">27:1</a> Now the children of Yisrael after their
number, the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> and the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of
the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the
months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand. <a
name="C1327V2" id="C1327V2">27:2</a> Over the first division for the first
month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V3" id="C1327V3">27:3</a> <i>He was</i> of
the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the
first month. <a name="C1327V4" id="C1327V4">27:4</a> Over the division of the
second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the
ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V5"
id="C1327V5">27:5</a> The third captain of the army for the third month was
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V6" id="C1327V6">27:6</a> This is that
Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and <i>of</i>
his division was Ammizabad his son. <a name="C1327V7" id="C1327V7">27:7</a>
The fourth <i>captain</i> for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of
Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four
thousand. <a name="C1327V8" id="C1327V8">27:8</a> The fifth captain for this
fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V9" id="C1327V9">27:9</a> The sixth <i>captain</i>
for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V10" id="C1327V10">27:10</a>
The seventh <i>captain</i> for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite,
of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
<a name="C1327V11" id="C1327V11">27:11</a> The eighth <i>captain</i> for the
eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V12" id="C1327V12">27:12</a>
The ninth <i>captain</i> for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite,
of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. <a
name="C1327V13" id="C1327V13">27:13</a> The tenth <i>captain</i> for the tenth
month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division
were Twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V14" id="C1327V14">27:14</a> The
eleventh <i>captain</i> for the eleventh month was Benaiah the
Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V15" id="C1327V15">27:15</a> The twelfth
<i>captain</i> for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of
Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. <a name="C1327V16"
id="C1327V16">27:16</a> Furthermore over the tribes of Yisrael: of the
Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites,
Shephatiah the son of Maacah: <a name="C1327V17" id="C1327V17">27:17</a> of
Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aharon, Zadok: <a name="C1327V18"
id="C1327V18">27:18</a> of Yehudah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of
Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: <a name="C1327V19" id="C1327V19">27:19</a>
of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of
Azriel: <a name="C1327V20" id="C1327V20">27:20</a> of the children of Ephraim,
Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of
Pedaiah: <a name="C1327V21" id="C1327V21">27:21</a> of the half-tribe of
Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the
son of Abner: <a name="C1327V22" id="C1327V22">27:22</a> of Dan, Azarel the
son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Yisrael. <a
name="C1327V23" id="C1327V23">27:23</a> But David didn't take the number of
them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would
increase Yisrael like the stars of the sky. <a name="C1327V24" id="C1327V24">27:24</a>
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came
wrath for this on Yisrael; neither was the number put into the account in
the chronicles of king David. <a name="C1327V25" id="C1327V25">27:25</a> Over
the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures
in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was
Jonathan the son of Uzziah: <a name="C1327V26" id="C1327V26">27:26</a> Over
those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the
son of Chelub: <a name="C1327V27" id="C1327V27">27:27</a> and over the
vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards
for the winecellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite: <a name="C1327V28" id="C1327V28">27:28</a>
and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland
was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash: <a
name="C1327V29" id="C1327V29">27:29</a> and over the herds that fed in Sharon
was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was
Shaphat the son of Adlai: <a name="C1327V30" id="C1327V30">27:30</a> and over
the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the
Meronothite: and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. <a name="C1327V31"
id="C1327V31">27:31</a> All these were the rulers of the substance which was
king David's. <a name="C1327V32" id="C1327V32">27:32</a> Also Jonathan,
David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and
Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons: <a name="C1327V33"
id="C1327V33">27:33</a> Ahithophel was the king's counselor: and Hushai the
Archite was the king's friend: <a name="C1327V34" id="C1327V34">27:34</a> and
after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the
captain of the king's army was Joab.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1328V1" id="C1328V1">28:1</a> David assembled all the princes of
Yisrael, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who
served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the
captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and
possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty
men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1328V2"
id="C1328V2">28:2</a> Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said,
Hear me, my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to
build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and for the
footstool of our Elohim; and I had made ready for the building. <a
name="C1328V3" id="C1328V3">28:3</a> But Elohim said to me, You shall not build a
house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood. <a
name="C1328V4" id="C1328V4">28:4</a> However Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, chose
me out of all the house of my father to be king over Yisrael forever: for
he has chosen Yehudah to be prince; and in the house of Yehudah, the house of
my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make
me king over all Yisrael; <a name="C1328V5" id="C1328V5">28:5</a> Of all my
sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to
sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Yisrael. <a name="C1328V6"
id="C1328V6">28:6</a> He said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my
house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his
father. <a name="C1328V7" id="C1328V7">28:7</a> I will establish his kingdom
forever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my ordinances, as at
this day. <a name="C1328V8" id="C1328V8">28:8</a> Now therefore, in the sight
of all Yisrael, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the audience of our Elohim,
observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your Elohim; that you may
possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children
after you forever. <a name="C1328V9" id="C1328V9">28:9</a> You, Solomon my
son, know the Elohim of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and
with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all
the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of
you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. <a name="C1328V10"
id="C1328V10">28:10</a> Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a
house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. <a name="C1328V11" id="C1328V11">28:11</a>
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch <i>of the
temple</i>, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the upper
rooms of it, and of the inner chambers of it, and of the place of the
mercy seat; <a name="C1328V12" id="C1328V12">28:12</a> and the pattern of all
that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of Yahweh, and for
all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of Elohim, and for
the treasuries of the dedicated things; <a name="C1328V13" id="C1328V13">28:13</a>
also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the
work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of
service in the house of Yahweh; <a name="C1328V14" id="C1328V14">28:14</a> of
gold by weight for the <i>vessels of</i> gold, for all vessels of every
kind of service; <i>of silver</i> for all the vessels of silver by weight,
for all vessels of every kind of service; <a name="C1328V15" id="C1328V15">28:15</a>
by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by
weight for every lampstand and for its lamps; and for the lampstands of
silver, <i>silver</i> by weight for <i>every</i> lampstand and for its
lamps, according to the use of every lampstand; <a name="C1328V16"
id="C1328V16">28:16</a> and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread,
for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; <a name="C1328V17"
id="C1328V17">28:17</a> and the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure
gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the
silver bowls by weight for every bowl; <a name="C1328V18" id="C1328V18">28:18</a>
and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the
pattern of the chariot, <i>even</i> the cherubim, that spread out <i>their
wings</i>, and covered the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. <a name="C1328V19"
id="C1328V19">28:19</a> All this, <i>said David</i>, have I been made to
understand in writing from the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this
pattern. <a name="C1328V20" id="C1328V20">28:20</a> David said to Solomon his
son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be
dismayed; for Yahweh Elohim, even my Elohim, is with you; he will not fail you,
nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh
is finished. <a name="C1328V21" id="C1328V21">28:21</a> Behold, there are the
divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house
of Elohim: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing
man who has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all
the people will be entirely at your command.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1329V1" id="C1329V1">29:1</a> David the king said to all the
assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone Elohim has chosen, is yet young and
tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for
Yahweh Elohim. <a name="C1329V2" id="C1329V2">29:2</a> Now I have prepared with
all my might for the house of my Elohim the gold for the <i>things of</i>
gold, and the silver for the <i>things of</i> silver, and the brass for
the <i>things of</i> brass, the iron for the <i>things of</i> iron, and
wood for the <i>things of</i> wood; onyx stones, and <i>stones</i> to be
set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all manner of
precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. <a name="C1329V3" id="C1329V3">29:3</a>
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my Elohim,
seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to
the house of my Elohim, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy
house, <a name="C1329V4" id="C1329V4">29:4</a> even three thousand talents of
gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver,
with which to overlay the walls of the houses; <a name="C1329V5" id="C1329V5">29:5</a>
of gold for the <i>things of</i> gold, and of silver for the <i>things of</i>
silver, and for all manner of work <i>to be made</i> by the hands of
artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to
Yahweh? <a name="C1329V6" id="C1329V6">29:6</a> Then the princes of the
fathers' <i>houses</i>, and the princes of the tribes of Yisrael, and the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's
work, offered willingly; <a name="C1329V7" id="C1329V7">29:7</a> and they gave
for the service of the house of Elohim of gold five thousand talents and ten
thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen
thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents. <a name="C1329V8"
id="C1329V8">29:8</a> They with whom <i>precious</i> stones were found gave
them to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the
Gershonite. <a name="C1329V9" id="C1329V9">29:9</a> Then the people rejoiced,
because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered
willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. <a
name="C1329V10" id="C1329V10">29:10</a> Therefore David blessed Yahweh before
all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael our father, forever and ever. <a name="C1329V11" id="C1329V11">29:11</a>
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and
the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours.
Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. <a
name="C1329V12" id="C1329V12">29:12</a> Both riches and honor come of you, and
you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your
hand to make great, and to give strength to all. <a name="C1329V13"
id="C1329V13">29:13</a> Now therefore, our Elohim, we thank you, and praise
your glorious name. <a name="C1329V14" id="C1329V14">29:14</a> But who am I,
and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as
this? For all things come of you, and of your own have we given you. <a
name="C1329V15" id="C1329V15">29:15</a> For we are strangers before you, and
foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a
shadow, and there is no abiding. <a name="C1329V16" id="C1329V16">29:16</a>
Yahweh our Elohim, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house
for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own. <a
name="C1329V17" id="C1329V17">29:17</a> I know also, my Elohim, that you try the
heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of
my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen
with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you. <a
name="C1329V18" id="C1329V18">29:18</a> Yahweh, the Elohim of Avraham, of Isaac,
and of Yisrael, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the
thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you; <a
name="C1329V19" id="C1329V19">29:19</a> and give to Solomon my son a perfect
heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and
to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made
provision. <a name="C1329V20" id="C1329V20">29:20</a> David said to all the
assembly, Now bless Yahweh your Elohim. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves
before Yahweh and the king. <a name="C1329V21" id="C1329V21">29:21</a> They
sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on
the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams,
and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in
abundance for all Yisrael, <a name="C1329V22" id="C1329V22">29:22</a> and ate
and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon
the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be
prince, and Zadok to be priest. <a name="C1329V23" id="C1329V23">29:23</a>
Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his
father, and prospered; and all Yisrael obeyed him. <a name="C1329V24"
id="C1329V24">29:24</a> All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the
sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king. <a
name="C1329V25" id="C1329V25">29:25</a> Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly
in the sight of all Yisrael, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had
not been on any king before him in Yisrael. <a name="C1329V26" id="C1329V26">29:26</a>
Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Yisrael. <a name="C1329V27"
id="C1329V27">29:27</a> The time that he reigned over Yisrael was forty
years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three <i>years</i>
reigned he in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1329V28" id="C1329V28">29:28</a> He died in
a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son
reigned in his place. <a name="C1329V29" id="C1329V29">29:29</a> Now the acts
of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history
of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the
history of Gad the seer, <a name="C1329V30" id="C1329V30">29:30</a> with all
his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over
Yisrael, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
</p>
</html>
<html>
<a href=#C461V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C462V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C463V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C464V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C465V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C466V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C467V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C468V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C469V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4610V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4611V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4612V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4613V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4614V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4615V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4616V1>Chapter 16</a>
<p>
<a name="C461V1" id="C461V1">1:1</a> Paul, called to be an apostle of Yeshua
Messiah through the will of Elohim, and our brother Sosthenes, <a name="C461V2"
id="C461V2">1:2</a> to the assembly of Elohim which is at Corinth; those who
are sanctified in Messiah Yeshua, called to be saints, with all who call on
the name of our Lord Yeshua Messiah in every place, both theirs and ours: <a
name="C461V3" id="C461V3">1:3</a> Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father
and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C461V4" id="C461V4">1:4</a> I always thank my Elohim concerning you, for
the grace of Elohim which was given you in Messiah Yeshua; <a name="C461V5"
id="C461V5">1:5</a> that in everything you were enriched in him, in all
speech and all knowledge; <a name="C461V6" id="C461V6">1:6</a> even as the
testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you: <a name="C461V7" id="C461V7">1:7</a>
so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord
Yeshua Messiah; <a name="C461V8" id="C461V8">1:8</a> who will also confirm you
until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C461V9" id="C461V9">1:9</a> Elohim is faithful, through whom you were
called into the fellowship of his Son, Yeshua Messiah, our Lord. <a
name="C461V10" id="C461V10">1:10</a> Now I beg you, <a href="#N461">brothers,</a>
through the name of our Lord, Yeshua Messiah, that you all speak the same
thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected
together in the same mind and in the same judgment. <a name="C461V11"
id="C461V11">1:11</a> For it has been reported to me concerning you, my
brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are
contentions among you. <a name="C461V12" id="C461V12">1:12</a> Now I mean
this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow
Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Messiah."
<a name="C461V13" id="C461V13">1:13</a> Is Messiah divided? Was Paul crucified
for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? <a name="C461V14"
id="C461V14">1:14</a> I thank Elohim that I baptized none of you, except
Crispus and Gaius, <a name="C461V15" id="C461V15">1:15</a> so that no one
should say that I had baptized you into my own name. <a name="C461V16"
id="C461V16">1:16</a> (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides
them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.) <a name="C461V17"
id="C461V17">1:17</a> For Messiah sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Messiah wouldn't be
made void. <a name="C461V18" id="C461V18">1:18</a> For the word of the cross
is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the
power of Elohim. <a name="C461V19" id="C461V19">1:19</a> For it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
</dt>
<dd>
I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."<sup><a
href="#N462">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C461V20" id="C461V20">1:20</a> Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't Elohim made foolish the
wisdom of this world? <a name="C461V21" id="C461V21">1:21</a> For seeing that
in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through its wisdom didn't know Elohim, it was
Elohim's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those
who believe. <a name="C461V22" id="C461V22">1:22</a> For Jews ask for signs,
Greeks seek after wisdom, <a name="C461V23" id="C461V23">1:23</a> but we
preach Messiah crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to
Greeks, <a name="C461V24" id="C461V24">1:24</a> but to those who are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Messiah is the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim. <a
name="C461V25" id="C461V25">1:25</a> Because the foolishness of Elohim is wiser
than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men. <a name="C461V26"
id="C461V26">1:26</a> For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are
wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; <a
name="C461V27" id="C461V27">1:27</a> but Elohim chose the foolish things of the
world that he might put to shame those who are wise. Elohim chose the weak
things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are
strong; <a name="C461V28" id="C461V28">1:28</a> and Elohim chose the lowly things
of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are
not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: <a name="C461V29"
id="C461V29">1:29</a> that no flesh should boast before Elohim. <a name="C461V30"
id="C461V30">1:30</a> But of him, you are in Messiah Yeshua, who was made to
us wisdom from Elohim, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
<a name="C461V31" id="C461V31">1:31</a> that, according as it is written,
"He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."<sup><a href="#N463">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C462V1" id="C462V1">2:1</a> When I came to you, brothers, I didn't
come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the
testimony of Elohim. <a name="C462V2" id="C462V2">2:2</a> For I determined not to
know anything among you, except Yeshua Messiah, and him crucified. <a
name="C462V3" id="C462V3">2:3</a> I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in
much trembling. <a name="C462V4" id="C462V4">2:4</a> My speech and my
preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power, <a name="C462V5" id="C462V5">2:5</a>
that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
Elohim. <a name="C462V6" id="C462V6">2:6</a> We speak wisdom, however, among
those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the
rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. <a name="C462V7" id="C462V7">2:7</a>
But we speak Elohim's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden,
which Elohim foreordained before the worlds for our glory, <a name="C462V8"
id="C462V8">2:8</a> which none of the rulers of this world has known. For
had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. <a
name="C462V9" id="C462V9">2:9</a> But as it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear,
</dt>
<dd>
which didn't enter into the heart of man,
</dd>
<dt>
these Elohim has prepared for those who love him."<sup><a href="#N464">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C462V10" id="C462V10">2:10</a> But to us, Elohim revealed them through
the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of
Elohim. <a name="C462V11" id="C462V11">2:11</a> For who among men knows the
things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so,
no one knows the things of Elohim, except Elohim's Spirit. <a name="C462V12"
id="C462V12">2:12</a> But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit which is from Elohim, that we might know the things that were freely
given to us by Elohim. <a name="C462V13" id="C462V13">2:13</a> Which things also
we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. <a
name="C462V14" id="C462V14">2:14</a> Now the natural man doesn't receive the
things of Elohim's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. <a name="C462V15" id="C462V15">2:15</a>
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by
no one. <a name="C462V16" id="C462V16">2:16</a> "For who has known the
mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"<sup><a href="#N465">*</a></sup>
But we have Messiah's mind.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C463V1" id="C463V1">3:1</a> Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to
spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Messiah. <a name="C463V2"
id="C463V2">3:2</a> I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet
ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, <a name="C463V3" id="C463V3">3:3</a>
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and
factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of
men? <a name="C463V4" id="C463V4">3:4</a> For when one says, "I follow
Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
<a name="C463V5" id="C463V5">3:5</a> Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but
servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? <a
name="C463V6" id="C463V6">3:6</a> I planted. Apollos watered. But Elohim gave the
increase. <a name="C463V7" id="C463V7">3:7</a> So then neither he who plants
is anything, nor he who waters, but Elohim who gives the increase. <a
name="C463V8" id="C463V8">3:8</a> Now he who plants and he who waters are the
same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. <a
name="C463V9" id="C463V9">3:9</a> For we are Elohim's fellow workers. You are
Elohim's farming, Elohim's building. <a name="C463V10" id="C463V10">3:10</a>
According to the grace of Elohim which was given to me, as a wise master
builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be
careful how he builds on it. <a name="C463V11" id="C463V11">3:11</a> For no
one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is
Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C463V12" id="C463V12">3:12</a> But if anyone builds on
the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; <a
name="C463V13" id="C463V13">3:13</a> each man's work will be revealed. For the
Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself
will test what sort of work each man's work is. <a name="C463V14" id="C463V14">3:14</a>
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
<a name="C463V15" id="C463V15">3:15</a> If any man's work is burned, he will
suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C463V16" id="C463V16">3:16</a> Don't you know that you are a temple
of Elohim, and that Elohim's Spirit lives in you? <a name="C463V17" id="C463V17">3:17</a>
If anyone destroys the temple of Elohim, Elohim will destroy him; for Elohim's
temple is holy, which you are. <a name="C463V18" id="C463V18">3:18</a> Let no
one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this
world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. <a name="C463V19"
id="C463V19">3:19</a> For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Elohim.
For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."<sup><a
href="#N466">*</a></sup> <a name="C463V20" id="C463V20">3:20</a> And again,
"The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."<sup><a
href="#N467">*</a></sup> <a name="C463V21" id="C463V21">3:21</a> Therefore let
no one boast in men. For all things are yours, <a name="C463V22" id="C463V22">3:22</a>
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or
things present, or things to come. All are yours, <a name="C463V23"
id="C463V23">3:23</a> and you are Messiah's, and Messiah is Elohim's.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C464V1" id="C464V1">4:1</a> So let a man think of us as Messiah's
servants, and stewards of Elohim's mysteries. <a name="C464V2" id="C464V2">4:2</a>
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
<a name="C464V3" id="C464V3">4:3</a> But with me it is a very small thing that
I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own
self. <a name="C464V4" id="C464V4">4:4</a> For I know nothing against myself.
Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. <a
name="C464V5" id="C464V5">4:5</a> Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get
his praise from Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C464V6" id="C464V6">4:6</a> Now these things, brothers, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you
might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of
you be puffed up against one another. <a name="C464V7" id="C464V7">4:7</a> For
who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But
if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? <a
name="C464V8" id="C464V8">4:8</a> You are already filled. You have already
become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you
did reign, that we also might reign with you. <a name="C464V9" id="C464V9">4:9</a>
For, I think that Elohim has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like
men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to
angels and men. <a name="C464V10" id="C464V10">4:10</a> We are fools for
Messiah's sake, but you are wise in Messiah. We are weak, but you are
strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. <a name="C464V11" id="C464V11">4:11</a>
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and
have no certain dwelling place. <a name="C464V12" id="C464V12">4:12</a> We
toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being
persecuted, we endure. <a name="C464V13" id="C464V13">4:13</a> Being defamed,
we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by
all, even until now. <a name="C464V14" id="C464V14">4:14</a> I don't write
these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. <a
name="C464V15" id="C464V15">4:15</a> For though you have ten thousand tutors
in Messiah, yet not many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father
through the Good News. <a name="C464V16" id="C464V16">4:16</a> I beg you
therefore, be imitators of me. <a name="C464V17" id="C464V17">4:17</a> Because
of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child
in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Messiah, even as I
teach everywhere in every assembly. <a name="C464V18" id="C464V18">4:18</a>
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. <a name="C464V19"
id="C464V19">4:19</a> But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is
willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the
power. <a name="C464V20" id="C464V20">4:20</a> For the Kingdom of Elohim is not
in word, but in power. <a name="C464V21" id="C464V21">4:21</a> What do you
want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of
gentleness?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C465V1" id="C465V1">5:1</a> It is actually reported that there is
sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even
named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife. <a name="C465V2"
id="C465V2">5:2</a> You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who
had done this deed might be removed from among you. <a name="C465V3"
id="C465V3">5:3</a> For I most certainly, as being absent in body but
present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who
has done this thing. <a name="C465V4" id="C465V4">5:4</a> In the name of our
Lord Yeshua Messiah, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the
power of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, <a name="C465V5" id="C465V5">5:5</a> are to
deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C465V6" id="C465V6">5:6</a> Your boasting is not good. Don't you know
that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? <a name="C465V7" id="C465V7">5:7</a>
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are
unleavened. For indeed Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our
place. <a name="C465V8" id="C465V8">5:8</a> Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. <a name="C465V9" id="C465V9">5:9</a>
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; <a
name="C465V10" id="C465V10">5:10</a> yet not at all meaning with the sexual
sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. <a name="C465V11"
id="C465V11">5:11</a> But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with
anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an
idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat
with such a person. <a name="C465V12" id="C465V12">5:12</a> For what have I to
do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are
within? <a name="C465V13" id="C465V13">5:13</a> But those who are outside, Elohim
judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."<sup><a
href="#N468">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C466V1" id="C466V1">6:1</a> Dare any of you, having a matter against
his neighbor, go to Torah before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
<a name="C466V2" id="C466V2">6:2</a> Don't you know that the saints will judge
the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge
the smallest matters? <a name="C466V3" id="C466V3">6:3</a> Don't you know that
we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? <a
name="C466V4" id="C466V4">6:4</a> If then, you have to judge things pertaining
to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the
assembly? <a name="C466V5" id="C466V5">6:5</a> I say this to move you to
shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide
between his brothers? <a name="C466V6" id="C466V6">6:6</a> But brother goes to
Torah with brother, and that before unbelievers! <a name="C466V7" id="C466V7">6:7</a>
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits
one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
<a name="C466V8" id="C466V8">6:8</a> No, but you yourselves do wrong, and
defraud, and that against your brothers. <a name="C466V9" id="C466V9">6:9</a>
Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of
Elohim? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, <a name="C466V10"
id="C466V10">6:10</a> nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of Elohim. <a
name="C466V11" id="C466V11">6:11</a> Such were some of you, but you were
washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the
Lord Yeshua, and in the Spirit of our Elohim. <a name="C466V12" id="C466V12">6:12</a>
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are
expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be
brought under the power of anything. <a name="C466V13" id="C466V13">6:13</a>
"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but Elohim will
bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual
immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. <a name="C466V14"
id="C466V14">6:14</a> Now Elohim raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up
by his power. <a name="C466V15" id="C466V15">6:15</a> Don't you know that your
bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah, and
make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! <a name="C466V16"
id="C466V16">6:16</a> Or don't you know that he who is joined to a
prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will
become one flesh."<sup><a href="#N469">*</a></sup> <a name="C466V17"
id="C466V17">6:17</a> But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. <a
name="C466V18" id="C466V18">6:18</a> Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin
that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual
immorality sins against his own body. <a name="C466V19" id="C466V19">6:19</a>
Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is
in you, which you have from Elohim? You are not your own, <a name="C466V20"
id="C466V20">6:20</a> for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify
Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are Elohim's.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C467V1" id="C467V1">7:1</a> Now concerning the things about which you
wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. <a name="C467V2"
id="C467V2">7:2</a> But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have
his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. <a name="C467V3"
id="C467V3">7:3</a> Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed
her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. <a name="C467V4" id="C467V4">7:4</a>
The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband.
Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but
the wife. <a name="C467V5" id="C467V5">7:5</a> Don't deprive one another,
unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to
fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt
you because of your lack of self-control.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C467V6" id="C467V6">7:6</a> But this I say by way of concession, not
of commandment. <a name="C467V7" id="C467V7">7:7</a> Yet I wish that all men
were like me. However each man has his own gift from Elohim, one of this
kind, and another of that kind. <a name="C467V8" id="C467V8">7:8</a> But I say
to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as
I am. <a name="C467V9" id="C467V9">7:9</a> But if they don't have
self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn. <a
name="C467V10" id="C467V10">7:10</a> But to the married I command--not I, but
the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband <a name="C467V11" id="C467V11">7:11</a>
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to
her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C467V12" id="C467V12">7:12</a> But to the rest I--not the Lord--say,
if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with
him, let him not leave her. <a name="C467V13" id="C467V13">7:13</a> The woman
who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let
her not leave her husband. <a name="C467V14" id="C467V14">7:14</a> For the
unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is
sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but
now they are holy. <a name="C467V15" id="C467V15">7:15</a> Yet if the
unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is
not under bondage in such cases, but Elohim has called us in peace. <a
name="C467V16" id="C467V16">7:16</a> For how do you know, wife, whether you
will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save
your wife? <a name="C467V17" id="C467V17">7:17</a> Only, as the Lord has
distributed to each man, as Elohim has called each, so let him walk. So I
command in all the assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C467V18" id="C467V18">7:18</a> Was anyone called having been
circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in
uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. <a name="C467V19" id="C467V19">7:19</a>
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of
the commandments of Elohim. <a name="C467V20" id="C467V20">7:20</a> Let each man
stay in that calling in which he was called. <a name="C467V21" id="C467V21">7:21</a>
Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you
get an opportunity to become free, use it. <a name="C467V22" id="C467V22">7:22</a>
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free
man. Likewise he who was called being free is Messiah's bondservant. <a
name="C467V23" id="C467V23">7:23</a> You were bought with a price. Don't
become bondservants of men. <a name="C467V24" id="C467V24">7:24</a> Brothers,
let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition
with Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C467V25" id="C467V25">7:25</a> Now concerning virgins, I have no
commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained
mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. <a name="C467V26" id="C467V26">7:26</a>
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us,
that it is good for a man to be as he is. <a name="C467V27" id="C467V27">7:27</a>
Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife?
Don't seek a wife. <a name="C467V28" id="C467V28">7:28</a> But if you marry,
you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such
will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. <a name="C467V29"
id="C467V29">7:29</a> But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from
now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; <a
name="C467V30" id="C467V30">7:30</a> and those who weep, as though they didn't
weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who
buy, as though they didn't possess; <a name="C467V31" id="C467V31">7:31</a>
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode
of this world passes away. <a name="C467V32" id="C467V32">7:32</a> But I
desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned
for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; <a name="C467V33"
id="C467V33">7:33</a> but he who is married is concerned about the things of
the world, how he may please his wife. <a name="C467V34" id="C467V34">7:34</a>
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in
body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the
world--how she may please her husband. <a name="C467V35" id="C467V35">7:35</a>
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that
which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without
distraction. <a name="C467V36" id="C467V36">7:36</a> But if any man thinks
that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the
flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He
doesn't sin. Let them marry. <a name="C467V37" id="C467V37">7:37</a> But he
who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over
his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. <a name="C467V38"
id="C467V38">7:38</a> So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage
does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better. <a
name="C467V39" id="C467V39">7:39</a> A wife is bound by Torah for as long as her
husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to
whoever she desires, only in the Lord. <a name="C467V40" id="C467V40">7:40</a>
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think
that I also have Elohim's Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C468V1" id="C468V1">8:1</a> Now concerning things sacrificed to
idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love
builds up. <a name="C468V2" id="C468V2">8:2</a> But if anyone thinks that he
knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. <a name="C468V3"
id="C468V3">8:3</a> But if anyone loves Elohim, the same is known by him. <a
name="C468V4" id="C468V4">8:4</a> Therefore concerning the eating of things
sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and
that there is no other Elohim but one. <a name="C468V5" id="C468V5">8:5</a> For
though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the
heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
<a name="C468V6" id="C468V6">8:6</a> yet to us there is one Elohim, the Father,
of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Yeshua Messiah,
through whom are all things, and we live through him. <a name="C468V7"
id="C468V7">8:7</a> However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with
consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an
idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. <a name="C468V8"
id="C468V8">8:8</a> But food will not commend us to Elohim. For neither, if we
don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. <a
name="C468V9" id="C468V9">8:9</a> But be careful that by no means does this
liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. <a name="C468V10"
id="C468V10">8:10</a> For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an
idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat
things sacrificed to idols? <a name="C468V11" id="C468V11">8:11</a> And
through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose
sake Messiah died. <a name="C468V12" id="C468V12">8:12</a> Thus, sinning
against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you
sin against Messiah. <a name="C468V13" id="C468V13">8:13</a> Therefore, if food
causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't
cause my brother to stumble.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C469V1" id="C469V1">9:1</a> Am I not free? Am I not an apostle?
Haven't I seen Yeshua Messiah, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord? <a
name="C469V2" id="C469V2">9:2</a> If to others I am not an apostle, yet at
least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. <a
name="C469V3" id="C469V3">9:3</a> My defense to those who examine me is this.
<a name="C469V4" id="C469V4">9:4</a> Have we no right to eat and to drink? <a
name="C469V5" id="C469V5">9:5</a> Have we no right to take along a wife who is
a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the
Lord, and Cephas? <a name="C469V6" id="C469V6">9:6</a> Or have only Barnabas
and I no right to not work? <a name="C469V7" id="C469V7">9:7</a> What soldier
ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of
its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?
<a name="C469V8" id="C469V8">9:8</a> Do I speak these things according to the
ways of men? Or doesn't the Torah also say the same thing? <a name="C469V9"
id="C469V9">9:9</a> For it is written in the Torah of Moshe, "You shall
not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain."<sup><a href="#N4610">*</a></sup>
Is it for the oxen that Elohim cares, <a name="C469V10" id="C469V10">9:10</a> or
does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake,
because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope
should partake of his hope. <a name="C469V11" id="C469V11">9:11</a> If we
sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly
things? <a name="C469V12" id="C469V12">9:12</a> If others partake of this
right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right,
but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of
Messiah. <a name="C469V13" id="C469V13">9:13</a> Don't you know that those who
serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those
who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? <a name="C469V14"
id="C469V14">9:14</a> Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the
Good News should live from the Good News. <a name="C469V15" id="C469V15">9:15</a>
But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that
it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone
should make my boasting void. <a name="C469V16" id="C469V16">9:16</a> For if I
preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid
on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. <a name="C469V17"
id="C469V17">9:17</a> For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But
if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. <a
name="C469V18" id="C469V18">9:18</a> What then is my reward? That, when I
preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Messiah without
charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. <a name="C469V19"
id="C469V19">9:19</a> For though I was free from all, I brought myself under
bondage to all, that I might gain the more. <a name="C469V20" id="C469V20">9:20</a>
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are
under the Torah, as under the Torah, that I might gain those who are under the
Torah; <a name="C469V21" id="C469V21">9:21</a> to those who are without Torah, as
without Torah (not being without Torah toward Elohim, but under Torah toward
Messiah), that I might win those who are without Torah. <a name="C469V22"
id="C469V22">9:22</a> To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the
weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save
some. <a name="C469V23" id="C469V23">9:23</a> Now I do this for the sake of
the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. <a name="C469V24"
id="C469V24">9:24</a> Don't you know that those who run in a race all run,
but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. <a
name="C469V25" id="C469V25">9:25</a> Every man who strives in the games
exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a
corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. <a name="C469V26" id="C469V26">9:26</a>
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not
beating the air, <a name="C469V27" id="C469V27">9:27</a> but I beat my body
and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to
others, I myself should be rejected.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4610V1" id="C4610V1">10:1</a> Now I would not have you ignorant,
brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea; <a name="C4610V2" id="C4610V2">10:2</a> and were all baptized
into Moshe in the cloud and in the sea; <a name="C4610V3" id="C4610V3">10:3</a>
and all ate the same spiritual food; <a name="C4610V4" id="C4610V4">10:4</a>
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock
that followed them, and the rock was Messiah. <a name="C4610V5" id="C4610V5">10:5</a>
However with most of them, Elohim was not well pleased, for they were
overthrown in the wilderness. <a name="C4610V6" id="C4610V6">10:6</a> Now
these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after
evil things, as they also lusted. <a name="C4610V7" id="C4610V7">10:7</a>
Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."<sup><a
href="#N4611">*</a></sup> <a name="C4610V8" id="C4610V8">10:8</a> Neither let us
commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day
twenty-three thousand fell. <a name="C4610V9" id="C4610V9">10:9</a> Neither
let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the
serpents. <a name="C4610V10" id="C4610V10">10:10</a> Neither grumble, as some
of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. <a name="C4610V11"
id="C4610V11">10:11</a> Now all these things happened to them by way of
example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the
ages have come. <a name="C4610V12" id="C4610V12">10:12</a> Therefore let him
who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4610V13" id="C4610V13">10:13</a> No temptation has taken you except
what is common to man. Elohim is faithful, who will not allow you to be
tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make
the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. <a name="C4610V14"
id="C4610V14">10:14</a> Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. <a
name="C4610V15" id="C4610V15">10:15</a> I speak as to wise men. Judge what I
say. <a name="C4610V16" id="C4610V16">10:16</a> The cup of blessing which we
bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Messiah? The bread which we
break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Messiah? <a name="C4610V17"
id="C4610V17">10:17</a> Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are
many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread. <a
name="C4610V18" id="C4610V18">10:18</a> Consider Yisrael according to the
flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4610V19" id="C4610V19">10:19</a> What am I saying then? That a thing
sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? <a
name="C4610V20" id="C4610V20">10:20</a> But I say that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to Elohim, and I don't
desire that you would have fellowship with demons. <a name="C4610V21"
id="C4610V21">10:21</a> You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup
of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the
table of demons. <a name="C4610V22" id="C4610V22">10:22</a> Or do we provoke
the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? <a name="C4610V23" id="C4610V23">10:23</a>
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are
profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things
build up. <a name="C4610V24" id="C4610V24">10:24</a> Let no one seek his own,
but each one his neighbor's good. <a name="C4610V25" id="C4610V25">10:25</a>
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake
of conscience, <a name="C4610V26" id="C4610V26">10:26</a> for "the earth
is the Lord's, and its fullness."<sup><a href="#N4612">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4610V27" id="C4610V27">10:27</a> But if one of those who don't believe
invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set
before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. <a
name="C4610V28" id="C4610V28">10:28</a> But if anyone says to you, "This
was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told
you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's,
and all its fullness." <a name="C4610V29" id="C4610V29">10:29</a>
Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my
liberty judged by another conscience? <a name="C4610V30" id="C4610V30">10:30</a>
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I
give thanks? <a name="C4610V31" id="C4610V31">10:31</a> Whether therefore you
eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of Elohim. <a
name="C4610V32" id="C4610V32">10:32</a> Give no occasions for stumbling,
either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of Elohim; <a name="C4610V33"
id="C4610V33">10:33</a> even as I also please all men in all things, not
seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4611V1" id="C4611V1">11:1</a> Be imitators of me, even as I also am
of Messiah. <a name="C4611V2" id="C4611V2">11:2</a> Now I praise you, brothers,
that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as
I delivered them to you. <a name="C4611V3" id="C4611V3">11:3</a> But I would
have you know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of the
woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim. <a name="C4611V4" id="C4611V4">11:4</a>
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his
head. <a name="C4611V5" id="C4611V5">11:5</a> But every woman praying or
prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and
the same thing as if she were shaved. <a name="C4611V6" id="C4611V6">11:6</a>
For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is
shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. <a
name="C4611V7" id="C4611V7">11:7</a> For a man indeed ought not to have his
head covered, because he is the image and glory of Elohim, but the woman is
the glory of the man. <a name="C4611V8" id="C4611V8">11:8</a> For man is not
from woman, but woman from man; <a name="C4611V9" id="C4611V9">11:9</a> for
neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. <a
name="C4611V10" id="C4611V10">11:10</a> For this cause the woman ought to have
authority on her head, because of the angels.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4611V11" id="C4611V11">11:11</a> Nevertheless, neither is the woman
independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
<a name="C4611V12" id="C4611V12">11:12</a> For as woman came from man, so a
man also comes through a woman; but all things are from Elohim. <a
name="C4611V13" id="C4611V13">11:13</a> Judge for yourselves. Is it
appropriate that a woman pray to Elohim unveiled? <a name="C4611V14" id="C4611V14">11:14</a>
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a
dishonor to him? <a name="C4611V15" id="C4611V15">11:15</a> But if a woman has
long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a
covering. <a name="C4611V16" id="C4611V16">11:16</a> But if any man seems to
be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do Elohim's assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4611V17" id="C4611V17">11:17</a> But in giving you this command, I
don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the
worse. <a name="C4611V18" id="C4611V18">11:18</a> For first of all, when you
come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and
I partly believe it. <a name="C4611V19" id="C4611V19">11:19</a> For there also
must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed
among you. <a name="C4611V20" id="C4611V20">11:20</a> When therefore you
assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. <a
name="C4611V21" id="C4611V21">11:21</a> For in your eating each one takes his
own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. <a name="C4611V22"
id="C4611V22">11:22</a> What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in?
Or do you despise Elohim's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have?
What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4611V23" id="C4611V23">11:23</a> For I received from the Lord that
which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Yeshua on the night in which
he was betrayed took bread. <a name="C4611V24" id="C4611V24">11:24</a> When he
had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body,
which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me." <a name="C4611V25"
id="C4611V25">11:25</a> In the same way he also took the cup, after supper,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink, in memory of me." <a name="C4611V26" id="C4611V26">11:26</a>
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
Lord's death until he comes. <a name="C4611V27" id="C4611V27">11:27</a>
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner
unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
<a name="C4611V28" id="C4611V28">11:28</a> But let a man examine himself, and
so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. <a name="C4611V29"
id="C4611V29">11:29</a> For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner
eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's
body. <a name="C4611V30" id="C4611V30">11:30</a> For this cause many among you
are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. <a name="C4611V31" id="C4611V31">11:31</a>
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. <a name="C4611V32"
id="C4611V32">11:32</a> But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord,
that we may not be condemned with the world. <a name="C4611V33" id="C4611V33">11:33</a>
Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for
another. <a name="C4611V34" id="C4611V34">11:34</a> But if anyone is hungry,
let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I
will set in order whenever I come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4612V1" id="C4612V1">12:1</a> Now concerning spiritual things,
brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant. <a name="C4612V2" id="C4612V2">12:2</a>
You know that when you were <a href="#N4613">heathen</a>, you were led away
to those mute idols, however you might be led. <a name="C4612V3" id="C4612V3">12:3</a>
Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by Elohim's Spirit says,
"Yeshua is accursed." No one can say, "Yeshua is Lord,"
but by the Holy Spirit. <a name="C4612V4" id="C4612V4">12:4</a> Now there are
various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4612V5" id="C4612V5">12:5</a> There are various kinds of service,
and the same Lord. <a name="C4612V6" id="C4612V6">12:6</a> There are various
kinds of workings, but the same Elohim, who works all things in all. <a
name="C4612V7" id="C4612V7">12:7</a> But to each one is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. <a name="C4612V8"
id="C4612V8">12:8</a> For to one is given through the Spirit the word of
wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same
Spirit; <a name="C4612V9" id="C4612V9">12:9</a> to another faith, by the same
Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit; <a
name="C4612V10" id="C4612V10">12:10</a> and to another workings of miracles;
and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another
different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of
languages. <a name="C4612V11" id="C4612V11">12:11</a> But the one and the same
Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he
desires.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4612V12" id="C4612V12">12:12</a> For as the body is one, and has
many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body;
so also is Messiah. <a name="C4612V13" id="C4612V13">12:13</a> For in one
Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit. <a name="C4612V14"
id="C4612V14">12:14</a> For the body is not one member, but many. <a
name="C4612V15" id="C4612V15">12:15</a> If the foot would say, "Because
I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not
part of the body. <a name="C4612V16" id="C4612V16">12:16</a> If the ear would
say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's
not therefore not part of the body. <a name="C4612V17" id="C4612V17">12:17</a>
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole
were hearing, where would the smelling be? <a name="C4612V18" id="C4612V18">12:18</a>
But now Elohim has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he
desired. <a name="C4612V19" id="C4612V19">12:19</a> If they were all one
member, where would the body be? <a name="C4612V20" id="C4612V20">12:20</a>
But now they are many members, but one body. <a name="C4612V21" id="C4612V21">12:21</a>
The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again
the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." <a name="C4612V22"
id="C4612V22">12:22</a> No, much rather, those members of the body which
seem to be weaker are necessary. <a name="C4612V23" id="C4612V23">12:23</a>
Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we
bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant
propriety; <a name="C4612V24" id="C4612V24">12:24</a> whereas our presentable
parts have no such need. But Elohim composed the body together, giving more
abundant honor to the inferior part, <a name="C4612V25" id="C4612V25">12:25</a>
that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should
have the same care for one another. <a name="C4612V26" id="C4612V26">12:26</a>
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one
member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4612V27" id="C4612V27">12:27</a> Now you are the body of Messiah, and
members individually. <a name="C4612V28" id="C4612V28">12:28</a> Elohim has set
some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,
then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and
various kinds of languages. <a name="C4612V29" id="C4612V29">12:29</a> Are all
apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? <a
name="C4612V30" id="C4612V30">12:30</a> Do all have gifts of healings? Do all
speak with various languages? Do all interpret? <a name="C4612V31"
id="C4612V31">12:31</a> But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I
show a most excellent way to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4613V1" id="C4613V1">13:1</a> If I speak with the languages of men
and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a
clanging cymbal. <a name="C4613V2" id="C4613V2">13:2</a> If I have the gift of
prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. <a
name="C4613V3" id="C4613V3">13:3</a> If I dole out all my goods to feed the
poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits
me nothing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4613V4" id="C4613V4">13:4</a> Love is patient and is kind; love
doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, <a name="C4613V5" id="C4613V5">13:5</a>
doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not
provoked, takes no account of evil; <a name="C4613V6" id="C4613V6">13:6</a>
doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; <a
name="C4613V7" id="C4613V7">13:7</a> bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things. <a name="C4613V8" id="C4613V8">13:8</a>
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away
with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is
knowledge, it will be done away with. <a name="C4613V9" id="C4613V9">13:9</a>
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; <a name="C4613V10" id="C4613V10">13:10</a>
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will
be done away with. <a name="C4613V11" id="C4613V11">13:11</a> When I was a
child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now
that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. <a name="C4613V12"
id="C4613V12">13:12</a> For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to
face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also
fully known. <a name="C4613V13" id="C4613V13">13:13</a> But now faith, hope,
and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4614V1" id="C4614V1">14:1</a> Follow after love, and earnestly
desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. <a
name="C4614V2" id="C4614V2">14:2</a> For he who speaks in another language
speaks not to men, but to Elohim; for no one understands; but in the Spirit
he speaks mysteries. <a name="C4614V3" id="C4614V3">14:3</a> But he who
prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and
consolation. <a name="C4614V4" id="C4614V4">14:4</a> He who speaks in another
language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly. <a
name="C4614V5" id="C4614V5">14:5</a> Now I desire to have you all speak with
other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who
prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets,
that the assembly may be built up.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4614V6" id="C4614V6">14:6</a> But now, <a href="#N4614">brothers,</a>
if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you,
unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of
prophesying, or of teaching? <a name="C4614V7" id="C4614V7">14:7</a> Even
things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't
give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or
harped? <a name="C4614V8" id="C4614V8">14:8</a> For if the trumpet gave an
uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war? <a name="C4614V9"
id="C4614V9">14:9</a> So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words
easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be
speaking into the air. <a name="C4614V10" id="C4614V10">14:10</a> There are,
it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is
without meaning. <a name="C4614V11" id="C4614V11">14:11</a> If then I don't
know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner,
and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. <a name="C4614V12" id="C4614V12">14:12</a>
So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may
abound to the building up of the assembly. <a name="C4614V13" id="C4614V13">14:13</a>
Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may
interpret. <a name="C4614V14" id="C4614V14">14:14</a> For if I pray in another
language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4614V15" id="C4614V15">14:15</a> What is it then? I will pray with
the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with
the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. <a name="C4614V16"
id="C4614V16">14:16</a> Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he
who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your
giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say? <a name="C4614V17"
id="C4614V17">14:17</a> For you most certainly give thanks well, but the
other person is not built up. <a name="C4614V18" id="C4614V18">14:18</a> I
thank my Elohim, I speak with other languages more than you all. <a
name="C4614V19" id="C4614V19">14:19</a> However in the assembly I would rather
speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also,
than ten thousand words in another language.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4614V20" id="C4614V20">14:20</a> Brothers, don't be children in
thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. <a
name="C4614V21" id="C4614V21">14:21</a> In the Torah it is written, "By men
of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this
people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."<sup><a
href="#N4615">*</a></sup> <a name="C4614V22" id="C4614V22">14:22</a> Therefore
other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the
unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to
those who believe. <a name="C4614V23" id="C4614V23">14:23</a> If therefore the
whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages,
and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are
crazy? <a name="C4614V24" id="C4614V24">14:24</a> But if all prophesy, and
someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he
is judged by all. <a name="C4614V25" id="C4614V25">14:25</a> And thus the
secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and
worship Elohim, declaring that Elohim is among you indeed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4614V26" id="C4614V26">14:26</a> What is it then, brothers? When you
come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a
revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be
done to build each other up. <a name="C4614V27" id="C4614V27">14:27</a> If any
man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and
in turn; and let one interpret. <a name="C4614V28" id="C4614V28">14:28</a> But
if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let
him speak to himself, and to Elohim. <a name="C4614V29" id="C4614V29">14:29</a>
Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern. <a
name="C4614V30" id="C4614V30">14:30</a> But if a revelation is made to another
sitting by, let the first keep silent. <a name="C4614V31" id="C4614V31">14:31</a>
For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be
exhorted. <a name="C4614V32" id="C4614V32">14:32</a> The spirits of the
prophets are subject to the prophets, <a name="C4614V33" id="C4614V33">14:33</a>
for Elohim is not a Elohim of confusion, but of peace.
</p>
<p>
As in all the assemblies of the saints, <a name="C4614V34" id="C4614V34">14:34</a>
let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been
permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the Torah
also says. <a name="C4614V35" id="C4614V35">14:35</a> If they desire to learn
anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for
a woman to chatter in the assembly. <a name="C4614V36" id="C4614V36">14:36</a>
What? Was it from you that the word of Elohim went out? Or did it come to you
alone? <a name="C4614V37" id="C4614V37">14:37</a> If any man thinks himself to
be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to
you, that they are the commandment of the Lord. <a name="C4614V38"
id="C4614V38">14:38</a> But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant. <a
name="C4614V39" id="C4614V39">14:39</a> Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly
to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages. <a
name="C4614V40" id="C4614V40">14:40</a> Let all things be done decently and in
order.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4615V1" id="C4615V1">15:1</a> Now I declare to you, brothers, the
Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you
also stand, <a name="C4615V2" id="C4615V2">15:2</a> by which also you are
saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you
believed in vain. <a name="C4615V3" id="C4615V3">15:3</a> For I delivered to
you first of all that which I also received: that Messiah died for our sins
according to the Scriptures, <a name="C4615V4" id="C4615V4">15:4</a> that he
was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures, <a name="C4615V5" id="C4615V5">15:5</a> and that he appeared to
Cephas, then to the twelve. <a name="C4615V6" id="C4615V6">15:6</a> Then he
appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until
now, but some have also fallen asleep. <a name="C4615V7" id="C4615V7">15:7</a>
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, <a name="C4615V8"
id="C4615V8">15:8</a> and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong
time, he appeared to me also. <a name="C4615V9" id="C4615V9">15:9</a> For I am
the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the assembly of Elohim. <a name="C4615V10" id="C4615V10">15:10</a>
But by the grace of Elohim I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me
was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the
grace of Elohim which was with me. <a name="C4615V11" id="C4615V11">15:11</a>
Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4615V12" id="C4615V12">15:12</a> Now if Messiah is preached, that he
has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no
resurrection of the dead? <a name="C4615V13" id="C4615V13">15:13</a> But if
there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Messiah been raised. <a
name="C4615V14" id="C4615V14">15:14</a> If Messiah has not been raised, then
our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. <a name="C4615V15"
id="C4615V15">15:15</a> Yes, we are found false witnesses of Elohim, because we
testified about Elohim that he raised up Messiah, whom he didn't raise up, if
it is so that the dead are not raised. <a name="C4615V16" id="C4615V16">15:16</a>
For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Messiah been raised. <a
name="C4615V17" id="C4615V17">15:17</a> If Messiah has not been raised, your
faith is vain; you are still in your sins. <a name="C4615V18" id="C4615V18">15:18</a>
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished. <a
name="C4615V19" id="C4615V19">15:19</a> If we have only hoped in Messiah in
this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4615V20" id="C4615V20">15:20</a> But now Messiah has been raised from
the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. <a
name="C4615V21" id="C4615V21">15:21</a> For since death came by man, the
resurrection of the dead also came by man. <a name="C4615V22" id="C4615V22">15:22</a>
For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all will be made alive. <a
name="C4615V23" id="C4615V23">15:23</a> But each in his own order: Messiah the
first fruits, then those who are Messiah's, at his coming. <a name="C4615V24"
id="C4615V24">15:24</a> Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the
Kingdom to Elohim, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and
all authority and power. <a name="C4615V25" id="C4615V25">15:25</a> For he
must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. <a
name="C4615V26" id="C4615V26">15:26</a> The last enemy that will be abolished
is death. <a name="C4615V27" id="C4615V27">15:27</a> For, "He put all
things in subjection under his feet."<sup><a href="#N4616">*</a></sup>
But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is
evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. <a
name="C4615V28" id="C4615V28">15:28</a> When all things have been subjected to
him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all
things to him, that Elohim may be all in all. <a name="C4615V29" id="C4615V29">15:29</a>
Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead
aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead? <a
name="C4615V30" id="C4615V30">15:30</a> Why do we also stand in jeopardy every
hour? <a name="C4615V31" id="C4615V31">15:31</a> I affirm, by the boasting in
you which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord, I die daily. <a name="C4615V32"
id="C4615V32">15:32</a> If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human
purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let
us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."<sup><a href="#N4617">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4615V33" id="C4615V33">15:33</a> Don't be deceived! "Evil
companionships corrupt good morals." <a name="C4615V34" id="C4615V34">15:34</a>
Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of Elohim. I
say this to your shame. <a name="C4615V35" id="C4615V35">15:35</a> But someone
will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind
of body do they come?" <a name="C4615V36" id="C4615V36">15:36</a> You
foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
<a name="C4615V37" id="C4615V37">15:37</a> That which you sow, you don't sow
the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other
kind. <a name="C4615V38" id="C4615V38">15:38</a> But Elohim gives it a body even
as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. <a name="C4615V39"
id="C4615V39">15:39</a> All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one
flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of
birds. <a name="C4615V40" id="C4615V40">15:40</a> There are also celestial
bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs
from that of the terrestrial. <a name="C4615V41" id="C4615V41">15:41</a> There
is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of
the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. <a
name="C4615V42" id="C4615V42">15:42</a> So also is the resurrection of the
dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. <a
name="C4615V43" id="C4615V43">15:43</a> It is sown in dishonor; it is raised
in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. <a name="C4615V44"
id="C4615V44">15:44</a> It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4615V45" id="C4615V45">15:45</a> So also it is written, "The
first man, Adam, became a living soul."<sup><a href="#N4618">*</a></sup>
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. <a name="C4615V46" id="C4615V46">15:46</a>
However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural,
then that which is spiritual. <a name="C4615V47" id="C4615V47">15:47</a> The
first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. <a name="C4615V48" id="C4615V48">15:48</a> As is the one made of dust,
such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are
they also that are heavenly. <a name="C4615V49" id="C4615V49">15:49</a> As we
have borne the image of those made of dust, <a href="#N4619">let's</a> also
bear the image of the heavenly. <a name="C4615V50" id="C4615V50">15:50</a> Now
I say this, <a href="#N4620">brothers,</a> that flesh and blood can't
inherit the Kingdom of Elohim; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4615V51" id="C4615V51">15:51</a> Behold, I tell you a mystery. We
will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, <a name="C4615V52"
id="C4615V52">15:52</a> in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we will be changed. <a name="C4615V53" id="C4615V53">15:53</a>
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality. <a name="C4615V54" id="C4615V54">15:54</a> But when this
corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put
on immortality, then what is written will happen:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Death is swallowed up in victory."<sup><a href="#N4621">*</a></sup>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C4615V55" id="C4615V55">15:55</a> "Death, where is your sting?
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="#N4622">Hades</a>, where is your victory?"<sup><a href="#N4623">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4615V56" id="C4615V56">15:56</a> The sting of death is sin, and the
power of sin is the Torah. <a name="C4615V57" id="C4615V57">15:57</a> But thanks
be to Elohim, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C4615V58" id="C4615V58">15:58</a> Therefore, my beloved brothers, be
steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you
know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V1" id="C4616V1">16:1</a> Now concerning the collection for the
saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise. <a
name="C4616V2" id="C4616V2">16:2</a> On the first day of the week, let each
one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I
come. <a name="C4616V3" id="C4616V3">16:3</a> When I arrive, I will send
whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Yerushalayim.
<a name="C4616V4" id="C4616V4">16:4</a> If it is appropriate for me to go
also, they will go with me. <a name="C4616V5" id="C4616V5">16:5</a> But I will
come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through
Macedonia. <a name="C4616V6" id="C4616V6">16:6</a> But with you it may be that
I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I
go. <a name="C4616V7" id="C4616V7">16:7</a> For I do not wish to see you now
in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits. <a
name="C4616V8" id="C4616V8">16:8</a> But I will stay at Ephesus until
Pentecost, <a name="C4616V9" id="C4616V9">16:9</a> for a great and effective
door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. <a name="C4616V10"
id="C4616V10">16:10</a> Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you
without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. <a
name="C4616V11" id="C4616V11">16:11</a> Therefore let no one despise him. But
set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I
expect him with the brothers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V12" id="C4616V12">16:12</a> Now concerning Apollos, the
brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was
not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an
opportunity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V13" id="C4616V13">16:13</a> Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be
courageous! Be strong! <a name="C4616V14" id="C4616V14">16:14</a> Let all that
you do be done in love.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V15" id="C4616V15">16:15</a> Now I beg you, brothers (you know
the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that
they have set themselves to serve the saints), <a name="C4616V16" id="C4616V16">16:16</a>
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the
work and labors. <a name="C4616V17" id="C4616V17">16:17</a> I rejoice at the
coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking
on your part, they supplied. <a name="C4616V18" id="C4616V18">16:18</a> For
they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are
like that.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V19" id="C4616V19">16:19</a> The assemblies of Asia greet you.
Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the
assembly that is in their house. <a name="C4616V20" id="C4616V20">16:20</a>
All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4616V21" id="C4616V21">16:21</a> This greeting is by me, Paul, with
my own hand. <a name="C4616V22" id="C4616V22">16:22</a> If any man doesn't
love the Lord Yeshua Messiah, let him be <a href="#N4624">accursed</a>. <a
href="#N4625">Come, Lord!</a> <a name="C4616V23" id="C4616V23">16:23</a> The
grace of the Lord Yeshua Messiah be with you. <a name="C4616V24" id="C4616V24">16:24</a>
My love to all of you in Messiah Yeshua. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N461" id="N461">[1]</a> <a href="#C461V10">back to 1:10</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N462" id="N462">[2]</a> <a href="#C461V19">back to 1:19</a> Isaiah
29:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N463" id="N463">[3]</a> <a href="#C461V31">back to 1:31</a> Jeremiah
9:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N464" id="N464">[4]</a> <a href="#C462V9">back to 2:9</a> Isaiah 64:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N465" id="N465">[5]</a> <a href="#C462V16">back to 2:16</a> Isaiah
40:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N466" id="N466">[6]</a> <a href="#C463V19">back to 3:19</a> Job 5:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N467" id="N467">[7]</a> <a href="#C463V20">back to 3:20</a> Psalm 94:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N468" id="N468">[8]</a> <a href="#C465V13">back to 5:13</a> Deuteronomy
17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N469" id="N469">[9]</a> <a href="#C466V16">back to 6:16</a> Genesis
2:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4610" id="N4610">[10]</a> <a href="#C469V9">back to 9:9</a>
Deuteronomy 25:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4611" id="N4611">[11]</a> <a href="#C4610V7">back to 10:7</a> Exodus
32:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4612" id="N4612">[12]</a> <a href="#C4610V26">back to 10:26</a> Psalm
24:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4613" id="N4613">[13]</a> <a href="#C4612V2">back to 12:2</a> or
Gentiles
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4614" id="N4614">[14]</a> <a href="#C4614V6">back to 14:6</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4615" id="N4615">[15]</a> <a href="#C4614V21">back to 14:21</a> Isaiah
28:11-12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4616" id="N4616">[16]</a> <a href="#C4615V27">back to 15:27</a> Psalm
8:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4617" id="N4617">[17]</a> <a href="#C4615V32">back to 15:32</a> Isaiah
22:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4618" id="N4618">[18]</a> <a href="#C4615V45">back to 15:45</a>
Genesis 2:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4619" id="N4619">[19]</a> <a href="#C4615V49">back to 15:49</a> NU, TR
read "we will" instead of "let's"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4620" id="N4620">[20]</a> <a href="#C4615V50">back to 15:50</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4621" id="N4621">[21]</a> <a href="#C4615V54">back to 15:54</a> Isaiah
25:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4622" id="N4622">[22]</a> <a href="#C4615V55">back to 15:55</a> or,
Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4623" id="N4623">[23]</a> <a href="#C4615V55">back to 15:55</a> Hosea
13:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4624" id="N4624">[24]</a> <a href="#C4616V22">back to 16:22</a> Greek:
anathema.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4625" id="N4625">[25]</a> <a href="#C4616V22">back to 16:22</a>
Aramaic: Maranatha!
</p>
</html>
<html>
<a href=#C621V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C622V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C623V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C624V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C625V1>Chapter 05</a>
<p>
<a name="C621V1" id="C621V1">1:1</a> That which was from the beginning, that
which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we
saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life <a name="C621V2"
id="C621V2">1:2</a> (and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and
testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was revealed to us); <a name="C621V3" id="C621V3">1:3</a> that
which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have
fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with
his Son, Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C621V4" id="C621V4">1:4</a> And we write these
things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C621V5" id="C621V5">1:5</a> This is the message which we have heard
from him and announce to you, that Elohim is light, and in him is no darkness
at all. <a name="C621V6" id="C621V6">1:6</a> If we say that we have fellowship
with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth. <a
name="C621V7" id="C621V7">1:7</a> But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Yeshua Messiah,
his Son, cleanses us from all sin. <a name="C621V8" id="C621V8">1:8</a> If we
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
<a name="C621V9" id="C621V9">1:9</a> If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. <a name="C621V10" id="C621V10">1:10</a> If we say that we
haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V1" id="C622V1">2:1</a> My little children, I write these things
to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a <a href="#N621">Counselor</a>
with the Father, Yeshua Messiah, the righteous. <a name="C622V2" id="C622V2">2:2</a>
And he is the <a href="#N622">atoning sacrifice</a> for our sins, and not
for ours only, but also for the whole world. <a name="C622V3" id="C622V3">2:3</a>
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. <a
name="C622V4" id="C622V4">2:4</a> One who says, "I know him," and
doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him. <a
name="C622V5" id="C622V5">2:5</a> But whoever keeps his word, Elohim's love has
most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in
him: <a name="C622V6" id="C622V6">2:6</a> he who says he remains in him ought
himself also to walk just like he walked.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V7" id="C622V7">2:7</a> Brothers, I write no new commandment to
you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old
commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. <a name="C622V8"
id="C622V8">2:8</a> Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true
in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true
light already shines. <a name="C622V9" id="C622V9">2:9</a> He who says he is
in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. <a
name="C622V10" id="C622V10">2:10</a> He who loves his brother remains in the
light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. <a name="C622V11"
id="C622V11">2:11</a> But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and
walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the
darkness has blinded his eyes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V12" id="C622V12">2:12</a> I write to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V13" id="C622V13">2:13</a> I write to you, fathers, because you
know him who is from the beginning.
</p>
<p>
I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
</p>
<p>
I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V14" id="C622V14">2:14</a> I have written to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
</p>
<p>
I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of
Elohim remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V15" id="C622V15">2:15</a> Don't love the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love
isn't in him. <a name="C622V16" id="C622V16">2:16</a> For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,
isn't the Father's, but is the world's. <a name="C622V17" id="C622V17">2:17</a>
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does Elohim's will
remains forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V18" id="C622V18">2:18</a> Little children, these are the end
times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many
antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour. <a
name="C622V19" id="C622V19">2:19</a> They went out from us, but they didn't
belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued
with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them
belong to us. <a name="C622V20" id="C622V20">2:20</a> You have an anointing
from the Holy One, and you know the truth. <a name="C622V21" id="C622V21">2:21</a>
I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because
you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <a name="C622V22" id="C622V22">2:22</a>
Who is the liar but he who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? This is the
Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. <a name="C622V23"
id="C622V23">2:23</a> Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the
Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C622V24" id="C622V24">2:24</a> Therefore, as for you, let that remain
in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from
the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the
Father. <a name="C622V25" id="C622V25">2:25</a> This is the promise which he
promised us, the eternal life. <a name="C622V26" id="C622V26">2:26</a> These
things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
<a name="C622V27" id="C622V27">2:27</a> As for you, the anointing which you
received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach
you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true,
and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him. <a
name="C622V28" id="C622V28">2:28</a> Now, little children, remain in him, that
when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at
his coming. <a name="C622V29" id="C622V29">2:29</a> If you know that he is
righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C623V1" id="C623V1">3:1</a> Behold, how great a love the Father has
bestowed on us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this cause
the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. <a name="C623V2"
id="C623V2">3:2</a> Beloved, now we are children of Elohim, and it is not yet
revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will
be like him; for we will see him just as he is. <a name="C623V3" id="C623V3">3:3</a>
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is
pure. <a name="C623V4" id="C623V4">3:4</a> Everyone who sins also commits
lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. <a name="C623V5" id="C623V5">3:5</a> You know
that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. <a
name="C623V6" id="C623V6">3:6</a> Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever
sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C623V7" id="C623V7">3:7</a> Little children, let no one lead you
astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
<a name="C623V8" id="C623V8">3:8</a> He who sins is of the devil, for the
devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of Elohim was
revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. <a name="C623V9"
id="C623V9">3:9</a> Whoever is born of Elohim doesn't commit sin, because his
seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of Elohim. <a
name="C623V10" id="C623V10">3:10</a> In this the children of Elohim are revealed,
and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of
Elohim, neither is he who doesn't love his brother. <a name="C623V11" id="C623V11">3:11</a>
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should
love one another; <a name="C623V12" id="C623V12">3:12</a> unlike Cain, who was
of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his
works were evil, and his brother's righteous. <a name="C623V13" id="C623V13">3:13</a>
Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. <a name="C623V14"
id="C623V14">3:14</a> We know that we have passed out of death into life,
because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in
death. <a name="C623V15" id="C623V15">3:15</a> Whoever hates his brother is a
murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C623V16" id="C623V16">3:16</a> By this we know love, because he laid
down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
<a name="C623V17" id="C623V17">3:17</a> But whoever has the world's goods, and
sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him,
how does the love of Elohim remain in him? <a name="C623V18" id="C623V18">3:18</a>
My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue
only, but in deed and truth. <a name="C623V19" id="C623V19">3:19</a> And by
this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
<a name="C623V20" id="C623V20">3:20</a> because if our heart condemns us, Elohim
is greater than our heart, and knows all things. <a name="C623V21" id="C623V21">3:21</a>
Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward Elohim; <a
name="C623V22" id="C623V22">3:22</a> and whatever we ask, we receive from him,
because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in
his sight. <a name="C623V23" id="C623V23">3:23</a> This is his commandment,
that we should believe in the name of his Son, Yeshua Messiah, and love one
another, even as he commanded. <a name="C623V24" id="C623V24">3:24</a> He who
keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that
he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C624V1" id="C624V1">4:1</a> Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but
test the spirits, whether they are of Elohim, because many false prophets
have gone out into the world. <a name="C624V2" id="C624V2">4:2</a> By this you
know the Spirit of Elohim: every spirit who confesses that Yeshua Messiah has
come in the flesh is of Elohim, <a name="C624V3" id="C624V3">4:3</a> and every
spirit who doesn't confess that Yeshua Messiah has come in the flesh is not
of Elohim, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of whom you have heard
that it comes. Now it is in the world already. <a name="C624V4" id="C624V4">4:4</a>
You are of Elohim, little children, and have overcome them; because greater
is he who is in you than he who is in the world. <a name="C624V5" id="C624V5">4:5</a>
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world
hears them. <a name="C624V6" id="C624V6">4:6</a> We are of Elohim. He who knows
Elohim listens to us. He who is not of Elohim doesn't listen to us. By this we
know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C624V7" id="C624V7">4:7</a> Beloved, let us love one another, for
love is of Elohim; and everyone who loves is born of Elohim, and knows Elohim. <a
name="C624V8" id="C624V8">4:8</a> He who doesn't love doesn't know Elohim, for
Elohim is love. <a name="C624V9" id="C624V9">4:9</a> By this Elohim's love was
revealed in us, that Elohim has sent his one and only Son into the world that
we might live through him. <a name="C624V10" id="C624V10">4:10</a> In this is
love, not that we loved Elohim, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the
<a href="#N623">atoning sacrifice</a> for our sins. <a name="C624V11"
id="C624V11">4:11</a> Beloved, if Elohim loved us in this way, we also ought to
love one another. <a name="C624V12" id="C624V12">4:12</a> No one has seen Elohim
at any time. If we love one another, Elohim remains in us, and his love has
been perfected in us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C624V13" id="C624V13">4:13</a> By this we know that we remain in him
and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. <a name="C624V14"
id="C624V14">4:14</a> We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the
Son as the Savior of the world. <a name="C624V15" id="C624V15">4:15</a>
Whoever confesses that Yeshua is the Son of Elohim, Elohim remains in him, and he
in Elohim. <a name="C624V16" id="C624V16">4:16</a> We know and have believed the
love which Elohim has for us. Elohim is love, and he who remains in love remains
in Elohim, and Elohim remains in him. <a name="C624V17" id="C624V17">4:17</a> In
this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world. <a
name="C624V18" id="C624V18">4:18</a> There is no fear in love; but perfect
love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made
perfect in love. <a name="C624V19" id="C624V19">4:19</a> We love Him, because
he first loved us. <a name="C624V20" id="C624V20">4:20</a> If a man says,
"I love Elohim," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who
doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love Elohim whom he has
not seen? <a name="C624V21" id="C624V21">4:21</a> This commandment we have
from him, that he who loves Elohim should also love his brother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C625V1" id="C625V1">5:1</a> Whoever believes that Yeshua is the Messiah
is born of Elohim. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born
of him. <a name="C625V2" id="C625V2">5:2</a> By this we know that we love the
children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and keep his commandments. <a name="C625V3"
id="C625V3">5:3</a> For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep his
commandments. His commandments are not grievous. <a name="C625V4" id="C625V4">5:4</a>
For whatever is born of Elohim overcomes the world. This is the victory that
has overcome the world: your faith. <a name="C625V5" id="C625V5">5:5</a> Who
is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Yeshua is the Son
of Elohim? <a name="C625V6" id="C625V6">5:6</a> This is he who came by water and
blood, Yeshua Messiah; not with the water only, but with the water and the
blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. <a
name="C625V7" id="C625V7">5:7</a> For there are three who testify<sup><a
href="#N624">*</a></sup>: <a name="C625V8" id="C625V8">5:8</a> the Spirit, the
water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. <a name="C625V9" id="C625V9">5:9</a>
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of Elohim is greater; for this
is Elohim's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. <a
name="C625V10" id="C625V10">5:10</a> He who believes in the Son of Elohim has the
testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe Elohim has made him a liar,
because he has not believed in the testimony that Elohim has given concerning
his Son. <a name="C625V11" id="C625V11">5:11</a> The testimony is this, that
Elohim gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. <a name="C625V12"
id="C625V12">5:12</a> He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have
Elohim's Son doesn't have the life. <a name="C625V13" id="C625V13">5:13</a> These
things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of Elohim,
that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to
believe in the name of the Son of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C625V14" id="C625V14">5:14</a> This is the boldness which we have
toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to
us. <a name="C625V15" id="C625V15">5:15</a> And if we know that he listens to
us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have
asked of him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C625V16" id="C625V16">5:16</a> If anyone sees his brother sinning a
sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and Elohim will give him life for
those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I
don't say that he should make a request concerning this. <a name="C625V17"
id="C625V17">5:17</a> All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not
leading to death. <a name="C625V18" id="C625V18">5:18</a> We know that whoever
is born of Elohim doesn't sin, but he who was born of Elohim keeps himself, and
the evil one doesn't touch him. <a name="C625V19" id="C625V19">5:19</a> We
know that we are of Elohim, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil
one. <a name="C625V20" id="C625V20">5:20</a> We know that the Son of Elohim has
come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and
we are in him who is true, in his Son Yeshua Messiah. This is the true Elohim,
and eternal life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C625V21" id="C625V21">5:21</a> Little children, keep yourselves from
idols.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N621" id="N621">[1]</a> <a href="#C622V1">back to 2:1</a> Greek
Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N622" id="N622">[2]</a> <a href="#C622V2">back to 2:2</a> "atoning
sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing,
propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice
that turns away Elohim's wrath because of our sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N623" id="N623">[3]</a> <a href="#C624V10">back to 4:10</a> "atoning
sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing,
propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice
that turns away Elohim's wrath because of our sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N624" id="N624">[4]</a> <a href="#C625V7">back to 5:7</a> Only a few
recent manuscripts add "in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth"
</p>
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THE FIRST BOOK OF MACHABEES
These books are so called, because they contain the history of the
people of Elohim under the command of Judas Machabeus and his brethren: and
he, as some will have it, was surnamed Machabeus, from carrying in his
ensigns, or standards, those words of Exodus 15.11, Who is like to thee
among the strong, O Lord: in which the initial letters, in the Hebrew,
are M. C. B. E. I. It is not known who is the author of these books. But
as to their authority, though they are not received by the Jews, saith
St. Augustine, (lib. 18, De Civ. Dei, c. 36,) they are received by the
church: who, in settling her canon of the scriptures, chose rather to be
directed by the tradition she had received from the apostles of Christ,
than by that of the scribes and Pharisees. And as the church has
declared these two Books canonical, even in two general councils, viz.,
Florence and Trent, there can be no doubt of their authenticity.
1 Machabees Chapter 1
The reign of Alexander and his successors: Antiochus rifles and profanes
the temple of Elohim: and persecutes unto death all that will not forsake
the Torah of Elohim, and the religion of their fathers.
1:1. Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip the
Macedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming out of the land of
Cethim, had overthrown Darius, king of the Persians and Medes:
1:2. He fought many battles, and took the strong holds of all, and slew
the kings of the earth:
1:3. And he went through even to the ends of the earth: and took the
spoils of many nations: and the earth was quiet before him.
1:4. And he gathered a power, and a very strong army: and his heart was
exalted and lifted up:
1:5. And he subdued countries of nations, and princes; and they became
tributaries to him.
1:6. And after these things, he fell down upon his bed, and knew that he
should die.
1:7. And he called his servants, the nobles that were brought up with
him from his youth: and he divided his kingdom among them, while he was
yet alive.
Divided his kingdom, etc... This is otherwise related by Q. Curtius;
though he acknowledges that divers were of that opinion, and that it had
been delivered by some authors, lib. 10. But here we find from the
sacred text, that he was in error.
1:8. And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.
1:9. And his servants made themselves kings, every one in his place:
1:10. And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their
sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth.
1:11. And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the
Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome:
and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of
the Greeks.
Antiochus the Illustrius... Epiphanes, the younger son of Antiochus the
Great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew
Demetrius, son of his elder brother Seleucus Philopater.-Ibid. Of the
kingdom of the Greeks... Counting, not from the beginning of the reign
of Alexander, but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator.
1:12. In those days there went out of Yisrael wicked men, and they
persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens
that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils
have befallen us.
1:13. And the word seemed good in their eyes.
1:14. And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the
king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the
heathens.
1:15. And they built a place of excercise in Yerushalayim, according to the
laws of the nations:
1:16. And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy
covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do
evil:
1:17. And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a
mind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two
kingdoms.
1:18. And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots,
and elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships:
1:19. And he made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt; but Ptolemee was
afraid at his presence and fled, and many were wounded unto death.
1:20. And he took the strong cities in the land of Egypt: and he took
the spoils of the land of Egypt.
1:21. And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and forty-
third year, he returned and went up against Yisrael.
1:22. And he went up to Yerushalayim, with a great multitude.
1:23. And he proudly entered into the sanctuary, and took away the
golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,
and the table of proposition, and the pouring vessels, and the vials,
and the little mortars of gold, and the veil, and the crowns, and the
golden ornament that was before the temple: and he broke them all in
pieces.
1:24. And he took the silver and gold, and the precious vessels: and he
took the hidden treasures, which he found: and when he had taken all
away, he departed into his own country.
1:25. And he made a great slaughter of men, and spoke very proudly.
1:26. And there was great mourning in Yisrael, and in every place where
they were:
1:27. And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and the
young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.
1:28. Every bridegroom took up lamentation: and the bride that sat in
the marriage bed, mourned:
1:29. And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the
house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
1:30. And after two full years, the king sent the chief collector of his
tributes to the cities of Juda, and he came to Yerushalayim with a great
multitude.
The chief collector, etc... Apollonius.
1:31. And he spoke to them peaceable words in deceit; and they believed
him.
1:32. And he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it with a great
slaughter, and destroyed much people in Yisrael.
1:33. And he took the spoils of the city, and burnt it with fire, and
threw down the houses thereof, and the walls thereof round about:
1:34. And they took the women captive, and the children, and the
cattle they possessed.
1:35. And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, and
with strong towers, and made it a fortress for them:
The city of David... That is, the castle of Sion.
1:36. And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they
fortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour and victuals,
and gathered together the spoils of Yerushalayim;
1:37. And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.
1:38. And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an
evil devil in Yisrael.
An evil devil... That is, an adversary watching constantly to do harm,
as the evil spirit is always watching and seeking whom he may devour.
1:39. And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and
defiled the holy place.
1:40. And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim fled away by reason of them and
the city was made the habitation of strangers, and she became a stranger
to her own seed, and her children forsook her.
1:41. Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days
were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were
brought to nothing.
1:42. Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her
excellency was turned into mourning.
1:43. And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people
should be one: and every one should leave his own Torah.
1:44. And all nations consented, according to the word of king
Antiochus.
1:45 And many of Yisrael consented to his service, and they sacrificed to
idols, and profaned the sabbath.
1:46. And the king sent letters by the hands of messengers to Yerushalayim,
and to all the cities of Juda; that they should follow the Torah of the
nations of the earth.
1:47. And should forbid holocausts and sacrifices, and atonements to be
made in the temple of Elohim.
1:48. And should prohibit the sabbath, and the festival days to be
celebrated.
1:49. And he commanded the holy places to be profaned, and the holy
people of Yisrael.
1:50. And he commanded altars to be built, and temples, and idols, and
swine's flesh to be immolated, and unclean beasts,
1:51. And that they should leave their children uncircumcised, and let
their souls be defiled with all uncleannesses, and abominations, to the
end that they should forget the Torah, and should change all the
justifications of Elohim.
1:52. And that whosoever would not do according to the word of king
Antiochus, should be put to death.
1:53. According to all these words he wrote to his whole kingdom: and he
appointed rulers over the people that should force them to do these
things.
1:54. And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.
1:55. Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken
the Torah of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:
1:56. And they drove away the people of Yisrael into lurking holes, and
into the secret places of fugitives.
1:57. On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and
forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of
desolation upon the altar of Elohim, and they built altars throughout all
the cities of Juda round about:
The abominable idol, etc... Viz., the statue of Jupiter Olympius.
1:58. And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses
and in the streets. 1:59. And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire
the books of the Torah of Elohim:
1:60. And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord
were found, and whosoever observed the Torah of the Lord, they put to
death, according to the edict of the king.
1:61. Thus by their power did they deal with the people of Yisrael, that
were found in the cities month after month.
1:62. And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed
upon the altar of the idol that was over against the altar of Elohim.
1:63. Now the women that circumcised their children were slain according
to the commandment of king Antiochus,
1:64. And they hanged the children about their neck in all their houses:
and those that had circumcised them, they put to death.
1:65. And many of the people of Yisrael determined with themselves, that
they would not eat unclean things: and they chose rather to die, than to
be defiled with unclean meats:
1:66. And they would not break the holy Torah of Elohim and they were put to
death:
1:67. And there was very great wrath upon the people.
1 Machabees Chapter 2.
The zeal and success of Mathathias. His exhortation to his sons at his
death.
2:1. In those days arose Mathathias, the son of John, the son of Simeon,
a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Yerushalayim, and he abode in the
mountain of Modin:
2:2. And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddis:
2:3. And Simon, who was surnamed Thasi;
2:4. And Judas, who was called Machabeus;
2:5. And Eleazar, who was surnamed Abaron; and Jonathan, who was
surnamed Apphus.
2:6. These saw the evils that were done in the people of Juda, and in
Yerushalayim.
2:7. And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the
ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there,
when it is given into the hands of the enemies?
2:8. The holy places are come into the hands of strangers her temple is
become as a man without honour.
2:9. The vessels of her glory are carried away captive; her old men are
murdered in the streets, and her young men are fallen by the sword of
the enemies.
2:10. What nation hath not inherited her kingdom, and gotten of her
spoils?
2:11. All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a
slave.
2:12. And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid
waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them.
2:13. To what end then should we live any longer?
2:14. And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered
themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.
2:15. And they that were sent from king Antiochus, came thither, to
compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to
burn incense, and to depart from the Torah of Elohim.
2:16. And many of the people of Yisrael consented and came to them: but
Mathathias and his sons stood firm.
2:17. And they that were sent from Antiochus, answering, said to
Mathathias: Thou art a ruler, and an honourable, and great man in this
city, and adorned with sons, and brethren.
2:18. Therefore, come thou first, and obey the king's commandment, as
all nations have done, and the men of Juda, and they that remain in
Yerushalayim: and thou, and thy sons shall be in the number of the king's
friends, and enriched with gold, and silver, and many presents. 2:19.
Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all
nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service
of the Torah of his fathers, and consent to his commandments:
2:20. I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the Torah of our fathers.
2:21. Elohim be merciful unto us: it is not profitable for us to forsake
the Torah, and the justices of Elohim:
2:22. We will not hearken to the words of king Antiochus, neither will
we sacrifice and transgress the commandments of our Torah, to go another
way.
2:23. Now as he left off speaking these words, there came a certain Jew
in the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city
of Modin, according to the king's commandment.
2:24. And Mathathias saw, and was grieved, and his reins trembled, and
his wrath was kindled according to the judgment of the Torah, and running
upon him he slew him upon the altar:
2:25. Moreover the man whom king Antiochus had sent, who compelled them
to sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar,
2:26. And shewed zeal for the Torah, as Phinees did by Zamri, the son of
Salomi.
2:27. And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying:
Every one that hath zeal for the Torah, and maintaineth the testament, let
him follow me.
2:28. So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they
had in the city.
2:29. Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into
the desert,
2:30. And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives,
and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.
2:31. And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in
Yerushalayim, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the
king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the
wilderness, and that many were gone after them.
2:32. And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against
them on the sabbath day.
2:33. And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do
according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live.
2:34. And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the
king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.
2:35. And they made haste to give them battle.
2:36. But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them,
nor stopped up the secret places,
2:37. Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth
shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.
2:38. So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with
their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a
thousand persons.
2:39. And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for
them exceedingly.
2:40. And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our
brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives,
and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.
2:41. And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up
against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and
we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret
places.
2:42. Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the
stoutest of Yisrael, every one that had a good will for the Torah.
The Assideans... A set of men that led a religious life; and were
zealous for the Torah and worship of Elohim.
2:43. And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them,
and were a support to them.
2:44. And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath,
and the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the
nations for safety.
2:45. And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw
down the altars:
2:46. And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the
confines of Yisrael that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.
2:47. And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work
prospered in their hands:
2:48. And they recovered the Torah out of the hands of the nations, and
out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the
sinner.
They yielded not the horn, etc... That is, they suffered not the power
of Antiochus, that man of sin, to abolish the Torah and religion of Elohim.
2:49. Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to
his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time
of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:
2:50. Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the Torah, and give
your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
2:51. And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have
done in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an
everlasting name.
2:52. Was not Avraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reputed
to him unto justice?
2:53. Joseph, in the time of his distress, kept the commandment, and he
was made lord of Egypt.
2:54. Phinees, our father, by being fervent in the zeal of Elohim, received
the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
2:55. Yeshua, whilst he fulfilled the word, was made ruler in Yisrael.
Yeshua... That is, Josue.
2:56. Caleb, for bearing witness before the congregation, received an
inheritance.
2:57. David, by his mercy, obtained the throne of an everlasting
kingdom.
2:58. Elias, while he is full of zeal for the Torah, was taken up into
heaven.
2:59. Ananias and Azarias and Misael, by believing, were delivered out
of the flame.
2:60. Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out of the mouth of the
lions.
2:61. And thus consider, through all generations: that none that trust
in him, fail in strength.
2:62. And fear not the words of a sinful man, for his glory is dung and
worms:
2:63. Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because
he is returned into his earth and his thought is come to nothing.
2:64. You, therefore, my sons, take courage, and behave manfully in the
Torah: for by it you shall be glorious.
2:65. And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel:
give ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you.
2:66. And Judas Machabeus, who is valiant and strong from his youth up,
let him be the leader of your army, and he shall manage the war of the
people.
2:67. And you shall take to you all that observe the Torah: and revenge ye
the wrong of your people.
2:68. Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the precepts
of the Torah.
2:69. And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers.
2:70. And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried
by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Yisrael
mourned for him with great mourning.
1 Machabees Chapter 3
Judas Machabeus succeeds his father, and overthrows Apollonius and
Seron. A great army is sent against him out of Syria. He prepares his
people for battle by fasting and prayer.
3:1. Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead.
3:2. And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined
themselves to his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle
of Yisrael.
3:3. And he got his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a
giant, and girt his warlike armour about him in battles, and protected
the camp with his sword.
3:4. In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for
his prey.
3:5. And he pursued the wicked and sought them out, and them that
troubled his people he burnt with fire:
3:6. And his enemies were driven away for fear of him, and all the
workers of iniquity were troubled: and salvation prospered in his hand.
3:7. And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob glad with his works, and
his memory is blessed for ever.
3:8. And he went through the cities of Juda, and destroyed the wicked
out of them, and turned away wrath from Yisrael.
3:9. And he was renowned even to the utmost part of the earth, and he
gathered them that were perishing.
3:10. And Apollonius gathered together the Gentiles, and a numerous and
great army from Shomron, to make war against Yisrael.
3:11. And Judas understood it, and went forth to meet him: and he
overthrew him, and killed him: and many fell down slain, and the rest
fled away.
3:12. And he took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius,
and fought with it all his lifetime.
3:13. And Seron, captain of the army of Syria, heard that Judas had
assembled a company of the faithful, and a congregation with him,
3:14. And he said I will get me a name, and will be glorified in the
kingdom, and will overthrow Judas, and those that are with him, that
have despised the edict of the king.
3:15. And he made himself ready; and the host of the wicked went up with
him, strong succours, to be revenged of the children of Yisrael.
3:16. And they approached even as far as Bethoron: and Judas went forth
to meet him, with a small company.
3:17. But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to
Judas: How shall we, being few, be able to fight against so great a
multitude, and so strong, and we are ready to faint with fasting today?
3:18. And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the
hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the Elohim of
heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:
3:19. For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but
strength cometh from heaven.
3:20. They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride,
to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.
3:21. But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:
3:22. And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as
for you, fear them not.
3:23. And as soon as he had made an end of speaking, he rushed suddenly
upon them: and Seron, and his host were overthrown before him:
3:24. And he pursued him by the descent of Bethoron, even to the plain,
and there fell of them eight hundred men, and the rest fled into the
land of the Philistines.
3:25. And the fear of Judas, and of his brethren, and the dread of them,
fell upon all the nations round about them.
3:26. And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the battles
of Judas.
3:27. Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his
mind: and he sent, and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an
exceeding strong army.
3:28. And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a
year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.
3:29. And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that
the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and
the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the
laws of old times:
3:30. And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for
charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he
had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.
3:31. And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into
Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
3:32. And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal to oversee the
affairs of the kingdom from the river Euphrates even to the river of
Egypt:
3:33. And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he came again.
3:34. And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he
gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning
the inhabitants of Judea, and Yerushalayim.
3:35. And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root
out the strength of Yisrael, and the remnant of Yerushalayim, and to take
away the memory of them from that place.
3:36. And that he should settle strangers, to dwell in all their coasts,
and divide their land by lot.
3:37. So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went
forth from Antioch, the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and
forty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went
through the higher countries.
3:38. Then Lysias chose Ptolemee, the son of Dorymenus, and Nicanor, and
Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends.
3:39. And he sent with them forty thousand men, and seven thousand
horsemen: to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, according to
the king's orders.
3:40. So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched
near Emmaus, in the plain country.
3:41. And the merchants of the countries heard the fame of them: and
they took silver and gold in abundance, and servants: and they came into
the camp, to buy the children of Yisrael for slaves: and there were
joined to them the forces of Syria, and of the land of the strangers.
3:42. And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils were multiplied, and
that the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders
the king had given to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them.
3:43. And they said, every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the low
condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our
sanctuary.
3:44. And the assembly was gathered, that they might be ready for
battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.
3:45. Now Yerushalayim was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was
none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden
down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the
habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the
pipe and harp ceased there.
3:46. And they assembled together, and came to Maspha, over against
Yerushalayim: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Yisrael.
3:47. And they fasted that day, and put on haircloth, and put ashes upon
their heads: and they rent their garments:
3:48. And they laid open the books of the Torah, in which the Gentiles
searched for the likeness of their idols:
3:49. And they brought the priestly ornaments, and the first fruits and
tithes, and stirred up the Nazarites that had fulfilled their days:
3:50. And they cried with a loud voice toward heaven, saying: What shall
we do with these, and whither shall we carry them?
3:51. For thy holies are trodden down, and are profaned, and thy priests
are in mourning, and are brought low.
3:52. And behold the nations are come together against us, to destroy
us: thou knowest what they intend against us.
3:53. How shall we be able to stand before their face, unless thou, O
Elohim, help us?
3:64. Then they sounded with trumpets, and cried out with a loud voice.
3:66. And after this, Judas appointed captains over the people, over
thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.
3:66. And he said to them that were building houses, or had betrothed
wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, that they should
return every man to his house, according to the Torah.
3:67. So they removed the camp, and pitched on the south side of Emmaus.
3:68. And Judas said: Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be ready
against the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are
assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary.
3:59. For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils of
our nation, and of the holies:
3:60. Nevertheless, as it shall be the will of Elohim in heaven, so be it
done.
1 Machabees Chapter 4
Judas routs the king's army. Gorgias flies before him. Lysias comes
against him with a great army, but is defeated. Judas cleanses the
temple, sets up a new altar, and fortifies the sanctuary.
4:1. Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best
horsemen; and they removed out of the camp by night.
4:2. That they might come upon the camp of the Jews and strike them
suddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides.
4:3. And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to
attack the king's forces that were in Emmaus.
4:4. For as yet the army was dispersed from the camp
The army was dispersed... That is, in different divisions, not
altogether encamped.
4:5. And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man;
and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from
us.
4:6. And when it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three
thousand men only, who neither had armour nor swords:
Who neither had armour nor swords... Such as they wished for.
4:7. And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that it was strong, and the
men in breastplates, and the horsemen round about them, and these were
trained up to war.
4:8. And Judas said to the men that were with him: Fear ye not their
multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.
4:9. Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when
Pharaoh pursued them with a great army.
4:10. And now let us cry to heaven, and the Lord will have mercy on us,
and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this
army before our face this day:
4:11. And all nations shall know that there is one that redeemeth and
delivereth Yisrael.
4:12. And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming
against them.
4:13. And they went out of the camp to battle, and they that were with
Judas sounded the trumpet.
4:14. And they joined battle: and the Gentiles were routed, and fled
into the plain.
4:15. But all the hindmost of them fell by the sword and they pursued
them as far as Gezeron, and even to the plains of Idumea, and of Azotus,
and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the number of three thousand
men.
4:16. And Judas returned again with his army that followed him.
4:17. And he said to the people: Be not greedy of the spoils; for there
is war before us:
4:18. And Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain: but stand ye
now against our enemies, and overthrow them, and you shall take the
spoils afterwards with safety.
4:19. And as Judas was speaking these words, behold part of them
appeared, looking forth from the mountain.
4:20. And Gorgias saw that his men were put to flight, and that they had
set fire to the camp: for the smoke that was seen declared what was
done.
4:21. And when they had seen this, they were seized with great fear,
seeing at the same time Judas and his army in the plain ready to fight.
4:22. So they all fled away into the land of the strangers.
4:23. And Judas returned to take the spoils of the camp, and they got
much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great
riches.
4:24. And returning home, they sung a hymn, and blessed Elohim in heaven,
because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
4:25. So Yisrael had a great deliverance that day.
4:26 And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that
had happened.
4:27. And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged:
because things had not succeeded in Yisrael according to his mind, and as
the king had commanded.
4:28. So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore
thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue
them.
4:29. And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and
Judas met them with ten thousand men.
4:30. And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said:
Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Yisrael, who didst break the violence of
the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the
camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Sha'ul, and of
his armour bearer.
4:31. Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Yisrael, and let them
be confounded in their host and their horsemen. 32 Strike them with
fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them
quake at their own destruction.
4:33. Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all
that know thy name praise thee with hymns.
4:34. And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five
thousand men.
4:35. And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold
the Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die
manfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come
again into Judea with greater numbers.
4:36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are
discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair
them.
4:37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount
Sion.
4:38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and
the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or
on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
4:39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put
ashes on their heads:
4:40. And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded
with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
4:41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the
castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,
4:42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the
Torah of Elohim.
4:43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that
had been defiled into an unclean place.
4:44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been
profaned, what he should do with it.
4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it
should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so
they threw it down.
4:46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a
convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer
concerning them.
4:47. Then they took whole stones, according to the Torah and built a new
altar, according to the former:
4:48. And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within
the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.
4:49. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick,
and the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple.
4:50. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that
were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.
4:51. And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and
finished all the works that they had begun to make.
4:52. And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of
the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and
forty-eighth year.
4:53. And they offered sacrifice, according to the Torah, upon the new
altar of holocausts which they had made.
4:54. According to the time, and according to the day wherein the
heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with
canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.
4:55. And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed
up to heaven, him that had prospered them.
4:56. And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they
offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise.
4:57. And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and
escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged
doors upon them.
4:58. And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the
reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.
4:59. And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Yisrael decreed,
that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season
from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the
month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.
4:60. They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and
strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come,
and tread it down, as they did before.
4:61. And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it,
to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.
1 Machabees Chapter 5
Judas and his brethren attack the enemies of their country, and deliver
them that were distressed. Josephus and Azarius, attempting contrary to
order to fight against their enemies, are defeated.
5:1. Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the
altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were
exceeding angry.
5:2. And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among
them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.
5:3. Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them
that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about,
and he made a great slaughter of them.
5:4. And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a
snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in
the way.
5:5. And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and
devoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire, and
all that were in them.
5:6. Then he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a
mighty power, and much people, and Timotheus was their captain:
5:7. And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited in
their sight, and he smote them:
5:8. And he took the city of Gazer and her towns, and returned into
Judea.
5:9. And the Gentiles that were in Galaad, assembled themselves together
against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them: and
they fled into the fortress of Datheman.
5:10. And they sent letters to Judas, and his brethren, saying: The
heathens that are round about are gathered together against us to
destroy us:
5:11. And they are preparing to come, and to take the fortress into
which we are fled: and Timotheus is the captain of their host.
5:12. Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of
us are slain.
5:13. And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed:
and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives,
and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men.
5:14. And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came
other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related
according to these words:
5:15. Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were
assembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in
order to consume us.
5:16. Now when Judas and the people heard these words, a great assembly
met together to consider what they should do for their brethren that
were in trouble, and were assaulted by them.
5:17. And Judas said to Simon, his brother: Choose thee men, and go, and
deliver thy brethren in Galilee: and I, and my brother Jonathan, will go
into the country of Galaad:
5:18. And he left Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of
the people, with the remnant of the army in Judea, to keep it:
5:19. And he commanded them, saying: Take ye the charge of this people;
but make no war against the heathens, till we return.
5:20. Now three thousand men were allotted to Simon, to go into Galilee:
and eight thousand to Judas, to go into the land of Galaad.
5:21. And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the
heathens: and the heathens were discomfited before his face, and he
pursued them even to the gate of Ptolemais.
5:22. And there fell of the heathens almost three thousand men, and he
took the spoils of them.
5:23. And he took with him those that were in Galilee and in Arbatis,
with their wives, and children, and all that they had, and he brought
them into Judea with great joy.
5:24. And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan, his brother, passed over the
Jordan, and went three days' journey through the desert.
5:25. And the Nabutheans met them, and received them in a peaceable
manner, and told them all that happened to their brethren in the land of
Galaad,
5:26. And that many of them were shut up in Barasa, and in Bosor, and in
Alima, and in Casphor, and in Mageth, and in Carnaim; all these strong
and great cities.
5:27. Yea, and that they were kept shut up in the rest of the cities of
Galaad, and that they had appointed to bring their army on the morrow
near to these cities, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one
day.
5:28. Then Judas and his army suddenly turned their march into the
desert, to Bosor, and took the city: and he slew every male by the edge
of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt it with fire.
5:29. And they removed from thence by night, and went till they came to
the fortress.
5:30. And it came to pass that early in the morning, when they lifted up
their eyes, behold there were people without number, carrying ladders
and engines to take the fortress, and assault them.
5:31. And Judas saw that the fight was begun, and the cry of the battle
went up to heaven like a trumpet, and a great cry out of the city:
5:32. And he said to his host: Fight ye today for your brethren.
5:33. And he came with three companies behind them, and they sounded
their trumpets, and cried out in prayer.
5:34. And the host of Timotheus understood that it was Machabeus, and
they fled away before his face and they made a great slaughter of them,
and there fell of them in that day almost eight thousand men.
5:35. And Judas turned aside to Maspha, and assaulted, and took it, and
he slew every male thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it
with fire.
5:36. From thence he marched, and took Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor,
and the rest of the cities of Galaad.
5:37. But after this Timotheus gathered another army, and camped over
against Raphon, beyond the torrent.
5:38. And Judas sent men to view the army: and they brought him word,
saying: All the nations, that are round about us, are assembled unto him
an army exceeding great:
5:39. And they have hired the Arabians to help them, and they have
pitched their tents beyond the torrent, ready to come to fight against
thee. And Judas went to meet them.
5:40. And Timotheus said to the captains of his army: When Judas and his
army come near the torrent of water, if he pass over unto us first, we
shall not be able to withstand him: for he will certainly prevail over
us.
5:41. But if he be afraid to pass over, and camp on the other side of
the river, we will pass over to them, and shall prevail against him.
5:42. Now when Judas came near the torrent of water, he set the scribes
of the people by the torrent, and commanded them, saying: Suffer no man
to stay behind: but let all come to the battle.
5:43. And he passed over to them first, and all the people after him,
and all the heathens were discomfited before them, and they threw away
their weapons, and fled to the temple that was in Carnaim.
5:44. And he took that city, and the temple he burnt with fire, with all
things that were therein: and Carnaim was subdued, and could not stand
against the face of Judas.
5:45. And Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the
land of Galaad, from the least even to the greatest, and their wives and
children, and an army exceeding great, to come into the land of Juda.
5:46. And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city, situate
in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it
on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of
it.
5:47. And they that were in the city shut themselves in, and stopped up
the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,
5:48. Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our own country,
and no man shall hurt you; we will only pass through on foot. But they
would not open to them.
5:49. Then Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the camp, that
they should make an assault, every man in the place where he was.
5:50. And the men of the army drew near, and he assaulted that city all
the day, and all the night; and the city was delivered into his hands:
5:51. And they slew every male with the edge of the sword, and he razed
the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through all the city
over them that were slain.
5:52. Then they passed over the Jordan to the great plain that is over
against Bethsan.
5:53. And Judas gathered together the hindmost, and he exhorted the
people, all the way through, till they came into the land of Juda.
5:54. And they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, and offered
holocausts, because not one of them was slain, till they had returned in
peace.
5:55. Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan were in the land of
Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais,
5:56. Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the
soldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought,
5:57. And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight
against the Gentiles that are round about us.
5:58. And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went
towards Jamnia.
5:59. And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them battle.
5:60. And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued unto
the borders of Judea: and there fell on that day, of the people of
Yisrael, about two thousand men, and there was a great overthrow of the
people:
5:61. Because they did not hearken to Judas and his brethren, thinking
that they should do manfully.
5:62. But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was
brought to Yisrael.
5:63. And the men of Juda were magnified exceedingly in the sight of all
Yisrael, and of all the nations where their name was heard.
5:64. And the people assembled to them with joyful acclamations.
5:65. Then Judas and his brethren went forth and attacked the children
of Esau, in the land towards the south, and he took Chebron and her
towns: and he burnt the walls thereof, and the towers all round it.
5:66. And he removed his camp to go into the land of the aliens, and he
went through Shomron.
5:67. In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do
manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.
5:68. And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he
threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with
fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land
of Juda.
1 Machabees Chapter 6
The fruitless repentance and death of Antiochus. His son comes against
Judas with a formidable army. He besieges Sion: but at last makes peace
with the Jews.
6:1. Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he
heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and
abounding in silver and gold,
6:2. And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of
gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of
Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.
6:3. So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he
was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the
city.
6:4. And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from
thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.
6:5. And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how the
armies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight:
6:6. And that Lysias went with a very great power, and was put to flight
before the face of the Jews, and that they were grown strong by the
armour, and power, and store of spoils which they had gotten out of the
camps which they had destroyed:
6:7. And that they had thrown down the abomination which he had set up
upon the altar in Yerushalayim, and that they had compassed about the
sanctuary with high walls as before, and Bethsura also, his city.
6:8. And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, that he was
struck with fear, and exceedingly moved: and he laid himself down upon
his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not fallen out to him
as he imagined.
6:9. And he remained there many days: for great grief came more and more
upon him, and he made account that he should die.
6:10. And he called for all his friends, and said to them: Sleep is gone
from my eyes, and I am fallen away, and my heart is cast down for
anxiety:
6:11. And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and
into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and
beloved in my power!
6:12. But now I remember the evils that I did in Yerushalayim, from whence
also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it,
and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause.
6:13. I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me:
and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land.
6:14. Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent
over all his kingdom.
6:15. And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he
should go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the
kingdom.
6:16. So king Antiochus died there in the year one hundred and forty-
nine.
6:17. And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up
Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he
called his name Eupator.
6:18. Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round
about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and
to strengthen the Gentiles.
6:19. And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the
people, to besiege them.
6:20. And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred
and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.
6:21. And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Yisrael
joined themselves unto them.
6:22. And they went to the king, and said: How long dost thou delay to
execute judgment, and to revenge our brethren?
6:23. We determined to serve thy father, and to do according to his
orders, and obey his edicts:
6:24. And for this they of our nation are alienated from us, and have
slain as many of us as they could find, and have spoiled our
inheritances.
6:25. Neither have they put forth their hand against us only, but also
against all our borders.
6:26. And behold they have approached this day to the castle of
Yerushalayim to take it, and they have fortified the strong hold of
Bethsura:
6:27. And unless thou speedily prevent them, they will do greater things
than these, and thou shalt not be able to subdue them.
6:28. Now when the king heard this, he was angry: and he called together
all his friends, and the captains of his army, and them that were over
the horsemen.
6:29. There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of
the sea, hired troops.
6:30. And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and
twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants trained to battle.
6:31. And they went through Idumea, and approached to Bethsura, and
fought many days, and they made engines: but they sallied forth, and
burnt them with fire, and fought manfully.
But they sallied forth... That is, the citizens of Bethsura sallied
forth and burnt them, that is, burnt the engines of the besiegers.
6:32. And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to
Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp.
6:33. And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march
on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made
themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets:
6:34. And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries,
to provoke them to fight.
6:35. And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by
every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of
brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen
for every beast.
6:36. These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there:
and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.
These before the time... That is, these were ready for every occasion.
6:37. And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers which covered
every one of them: and engines upon them, and upon every one thirty-two
valiant men, who fought from above: and an Indian to rule the beast.
6:38. And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that
side, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten
them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.
6:39. Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the
mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire.
6:40. And part of the king's army was distinguished by the high
mountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on
warily and orderly.
6:41. And all the inhabitants of the land were moved at the noise of
their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of
the armour, for the army was exceeding great and strong.
6:42. And Judas and his army drew near for battle: and there fell of the
king's army six hundred men.
6:43. And Eleazar, the son of Saura, saw one of the beasts harnessed
with the king's harness: and it was higher than the other beasts; and it
seemed to him that the king was on it:
6:44. And he exposed himself to deliver his people, and to get himself
an everlasting name.
6:45. And he ran up to it boldly in the midst of the legion, killing on
the right hand, and on the left, and they fell by him on this side and
that side.
6:46. And he went between the feet of the elephant, and put himself
under it: and slew it, and it fell to the ground upon him, and he died
there.
6:47. Then they seeing the strength of the king and the fierceness of
his army, turned away from them.
6:48. But the king's army went up against them to Yerushalayim: and the
king's army pitched their tents against Judea and Mount Sion.
6:49. And he made peace with them that were in Bethsura: and they came
forth out of the city, because they had no victuals, being shut up
there, for it was the year of rest to the land.
6:50. And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep
it.
6:51. And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he
set up there battering slings, and engines, and instruments to cast
fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot
arrows, and slings.
6:52. And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought
for many days.
6:53. But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh
year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the
nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up.
6:54. And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine
had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own
place.
6:55. Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king Antiochus while he lived
had appointed to bring up his son, Antiochus, and to reign,
6:56. Was returned from Persia, and Media, with the army that went with
him and that he sought to take upon him the affairs of the kingdom:
6:57. Wherefore he made haste to go, and say to the king and to the
captains of the army: We decay daily, and our provision of victuals is
small, and the place that we lay siege to is strong, and it lieth upon
us to take order for the affairs of the kingdom.
6:58. Now, therefore, let us come to an agreement with these men, and
make peace with them and with all their nation.
6:59. And let us covenant with them, that they may live according to
their own laws, as before. For because of our despising their laws, they
have been provoked, and have done all these things.
6:60. And the proposal was acceptable in the sight of the king, and of
the princes: and he sent to them to make peace: and they accepted of it.
6:61. And the king and the princes swore to them: and they came out of
the strong hold.
6:62. Then the king entered into Mount Sion, and saw the strength of the
place: and he quickly broke the oath that he had taken, and gave
commandment to throw down the wall round about.
6:63. And he departed in haste and returned to Antioch, where he found
Philip master of the city: and he fought against him, and took the city.
1 Machabees Chapter 7
Demetrius is made king, and sends Bacchides and Alcimus the priest into
Judea, and after them Nicanor, who is slain by Judas with all his army.
7:1. In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of
Seleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with few men into
a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
7:2. And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of
his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring
them unto him.
7:3. And when he knew it, he said: Let me not see their face.
7:4. So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his
kingdom:
7:5. And there came to him the wicked and ungodly men of Yisrael: and
Alcimus was at the head of them, who desired to be made high priest.
7:6. And they accused the people to the king, saying: Judas and his
brethren have destroyed all thy friends, and he hath driven us out of
our land.
7:7. Now, therefore, send some men whom thou trustest, and let him go,
and see all the havoc he hath made amongst us, and in the king's lands:
and let him punish all his friends and their helpers.
7:8. Then the king chose Bacchides, one of his friends, that ruled
beyond the great river in the kingdom, and was faithful to the king: and
he sent him,
7:9. To see the havoc that Judas had made: and the wicked Alcimus he
made high priest, and commanded him to take revenge upon the children of
Yisrael.
7:10. And they arose, and came with a great army into the land of Juda:
and they sent messengers, and spoke to Judas and his brethren with
peaceable words, deceitfully.
7:11. But they gave no heed to their words: for they saw that they were
come with a great army.
7:12. Then there assembled to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of the
scribes, to require things that are just:
7:13. And first the Assideans, that were among the children of Yisrael,
and they sought peace of them.
7:14. For they said: One that is a priest of the seed of Aharon is come,
he will not deceive us.
7:15. And he spoke to them peaceably: and he swore to them, saying: We
will do you no harm, nor your friends.
7:16. And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew
them in one day, according to the word that is written: 7:17. The flesh
of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about
Yerushalayim, and there was none to bury them.
7:18. Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said:
There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the
covenant, and the oath which they made.
7:19. And Bacchides removed the camp from Yerushalayim, and pitched in
Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from
him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.
7:20. Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops
to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king. 7:21. But Alcimus did
what he could to maintain his chief priesthood.
7:22. And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got
the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Yisrael.
7:23. And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus, and they that were with
him, did to the children of Yisrael, much more than the Gentiles.
7:24. And he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took
vengeance upon the men that had revolted, and they ceased to go forth
any more into the country.
7:25. And Alcimus saw that Judas and they that were with him, prevailed:
and he knew that he could not stand against them, and he went back to
the king, and accused them of many crimes.
7:26. And the king sent Nicanor, one of his principal lords, who was a
great enemy to Yisrael: and he commanded him to destroy the people.
7:27. And Nicanor came to Yerushalayim with a great army, and he sent to
Judas and to his brethren deceitfully, with friendly words,
7:28. Saying: Let there be no fighting between me and you: I will come
with a few men, to see your faces with peace.
7:29. And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably: and
the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by force.
7:30. And the thing was known to Judas that he was come to him with
deceit: and he was much afraid of him, and would not see his face any
more.
7:31. And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered: and he went out
to fight against Judas, near Capharsalama.
7:32. And there fell of Nicanor's army almost five thousand men, and
they fled into the city of David.
7:33. And after this Nicanor went up into mount Sion: and some of the
priests and the people came out to salute him peaceably, and to shew him
the holocausts that were offered for the king.
7:34. But he mocked and despised them, and abused them: and he spoke
proudly,
7:35. And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas and his army be delivered
into my hands, as soon as ever I return in peace, I will burn this
house. And he went out in a great rage.
7:36. And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar
and the temple: and weeping, they said:
7:37. Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called
upon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for
thy people.
7:38. Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the
sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continne any
longer.
7:39. Then Nicanor went out from Yerushalayim, and encamped near to
Bethoron: and an army of Syria joined him.
7:40. But Judas pitched in Adarsa with three thousand men: and Judas
prayed, and said:
7:41. O Lord, when they that were sent by king Sennacherib blasphemed
thee, an angel went out, and slew of them a hundred and eighty-five
thousand:
7:42. Even so destroy this army in our sight today and let the rest know
that he hath spoken ill against thy sanctuary: and judge thou him
according to his wickedness.
7:43. And the armies joined battle on the thirteenth day of the month,
Adar: and the army of Nicanor was defeated, and he himself was first
slain in the battle.
7:44. And when his army saw that Nicanor was slain they threw away their
weapons, and fled:
7:45. And they pursued after them one day's journey from Adazer, even
till ye come to Gazara, and they sounded the trumpets after them with
signals.
7:46. And they went forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and
they pushed them with the horns, and they turned again to them, and they
were all slain with the sword, and there was not left of them so much as
one.
7:47. And they took the spoils of them for a booty, and they cut off
Nicanor's head, and his right hand, which he had proudly stretched out,
and they brought it, and hung it up over against Yerushalayim.
7:48. And the people rejoiced exceedingly, and they spent that day with
great joy.
7:49. And he ordained that this day should be kept every year, being the
thirteenth of the month of Adar.
7:50. And the land of Juda was quiet for a short time.
1 Machabees Chapter 8
Judas hears of the great character of the Romans: he makes a league with
them.
8:1. Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful
and strong, and willingly agree to all things that are requested of
them: and that whosoever have come to them, they have made amity with
them, and that they are mighty in power.
8:2. And they heard of their battles, and their noble acts which they
had done in Galatia, how they had conquered them, and brought them under
tribute:
They heard, etc... What is here set down of the history and character of
the ancient Romans, is not an assertion, or affirmation of the sacred
writer: but only a relation of what Judas had heard of them.
8:3. And how great things they had done in the land of Spain, and that
they had brought under their power the mines of silver and of gold that
are there, and had gotten possession of all the place by their counsel
and patience:
8:4. And had conquered places that were very far off from them, and
kings that came against them from the ends of the earth, and had
overthrown them with great slaughter: and the rest pay them tribute
every year.
8:5. And that they had defeated in battle Philip and Perses the king of
the Ceteans, and the rest that had borne arms against them, and had
conquered them:
Ceteans... That is, the Macedonians.
8:6. And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia, who went to fight
against them, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and
chariots, and a very great army, was routed by them.
8:7. And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and
they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that
he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,
8:8. And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the
Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken
from them, they gave to king Eumenes.
Eumenes... King of Pergamus.
8:9. And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy
them: and they had knowledge thereof,
8:10. And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and
many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their
children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land,
and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto
this day.
8:11. And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted
them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.
8:12. But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept
amity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far off:
for all that heard their name, were afraid of them.
8:13. That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and
whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly
exalted.
8:14. And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to
be magnified thereby.
8:15. And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted
daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the
people, that they might do the things that were right:
8:16. And that they committed their government to one man every year, to
rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy
nor jealousy amongst them.
To one man... There were two consuls: but one only ruled at one time,
each in his day.-Ibid. No envy, etc... So Judas had heard: and it was so
far true, with regard to the ancient Romans, that as yet no envy or
jealousy had divided them into such open factions and civil wars, as
they afterwards experienced in the time of Marius and Sylla, etc.
8:17. So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and
Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of
amity and confederacy with them:
8:18. And that they might take off from them the yoke of the Grecians,
for they saw that they oppressed the kingdom of Yisrael with servitude.
8:19. And they went to Rome, a very long journey, and they entered into
the senate house, and said:
8:20. Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the people of the Jews,
have sent us to you to make alliance and peace with you, and that we may
be registered your confederates and friends.
8:21. And the proposal was pleasing in their sight.
8:22. And this is the copy of the writing that they wrote back again,
graven in tables of brass, and sent to Yerushalayim, that it might be with
them there for a memorial of the peace, and alliance. 8:23. GOOD
SUCCESS BE TO THE ROMANS, and to the people of the Jews by sea, and by
land, for ever: and far be the sword and enemy from them.
8:24. But if there come first any war upon the Romans, or any of their
confederates, in all their dominions:
8:25. The nation of the Jews shall help them according as the time shall
direct, with all their heart:
8:26. Neither shall they give them, whilst they are fighting, or furnish
them with wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to
the Romans: and they shall obey their orders, without taking any thing
of them.
8:27. In like manner also if war shall come first upon the nation of the
Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the
time shall permit them:
8:28. And there shall not be given to them that come to their aid,
either wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the
Romans: and they shall observe their orders without deceit.
8:29. According to these articles did the Romans covenant with the
people of the Jews.
8:30. And, if after this, one party or the other shall have a mind to
add to these articles, or take away any thing, they may do it at their
pleasure: and whatsoever they shall add, or take away, shall be
ratified.
8:31. Moreover, concerning the evils that Demetrius, the king, hath done
against them, we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou made thy
yoke heavy upon our friends and allies, the Jews.
8:32. If, therefore, they come again to us complaining of thee, we will
do them justice, and will make war against thee by sea and land.
1 Machabees Chapter 9
Bacchides is sent again into Judea: Judas fights against him with eight
hundred men and is slain. Jonathan succeeds him and revenges the murder
of his brother John. He fights against Bacchides. Alcimus dies
miserably. Bacchides besieges Bethbessen. He is forced to raise the
siege and leave the country.
9:1. In the mean time, when Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army
were fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea;
and the right wing of his army with them.
9:2. And they took the road that leadeth to Galgal, and they camped in
Masaloth, which is in Arabella: and they made themselves masters of it,
and slew many people.
9:3. In the first month of the hundred and fifty-second year they
brought the army to Yerushalayim:
9:4. And they arose and went to Berea, with twenty thousand men, and two
thousand horsemen.
9:5. Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen
men with him:
9:6. And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and
they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of
the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.
9:7. And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed
upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather
them together, and he was discouraged.
9:8. Then he said to them that remained: Let us arise, and go against
our enemies, if we may be able to fight against them.
9:9. But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall not be able, but let us
save our lives now, and return to our brethren, and then we will fight
against them: for we are but few.
9:10. Then Judas said: Elohim forbid we should do this thing, and flee away
from them: but if our time be come, let us die manfully for our
brethren, and let us not stain our glory.
9:11. And the army removed out of the camp, and they stood over against
them: and the horsemen were divided into two troops, and the slingers,
and the archers, went before the army, and they that were in the front
were all men of valour.
9:12. And Bacchides was in the right wing, and the legion drew near on
two sides, and they sounded the trumpets:
9:13. And they also that were on Judas's side, even they also cried out,
and the earth shook at the noise of the armies: and the battle was
fought from morning even unto the evening.
9:14. And Judas perceived that the stronger part of the army of
Bacchides was on the right side, and all the stout of heart came
together with him:
9:15. And the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued them
even to the mount Azotus.
9:16. And they that were in the left wing saw that the right wing was
discomfited, and they followed after Judas, and them that were with him,
at their back:
9:17. And the battle was hard fought, and there fell many wounded of the
one side and of the other.
9:18. And Judas was slain, and the rest fled away.
9:19. And Jonathan and Simon took Judas, their brother, and buried him
in the sepulchre of their fathers, in the city of Modin.
9:20. And all the people of Yisrael bewailed him with great lamentation,
and they mourned for him many days.
9:21. And said: How is the mighty man fallen, that saved the people of
Yisrael!
9:22. But the rest of the words of the wars of Judas, and of the noble
acts that he did, and of his greatness, are not written: for they were
very many.
9:23. And it came to pass, after the death of Judas, that the wicked
began to put forth their heads in all the confines of Yisrael, and all
the workers of iniquity rose up.
9:24. In those days there was a very great famine, and they and all
their country yielded to Bacchides.
9:25. And Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of the
country:
9:26. And they sought out, and made diligent search after the friends of
Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance of them, and
abused them.
9:27. And there was a great tribulation in Yisrael, such as was not since
the day, that there was no prophet seen in Yisrael.
9:28. And all the friends of Judas came together, and said to Jonathan:
9:29. Since thy brother Judas died there is not a man like him to go
forth against our enemies, Bacchides, and them that are the enemies of
our nation.
9:30. Now, therefore, we have chosen thee this day to be our prince, and
captain, in his stead, to fight our battles.
9:31. So Jonathan took upon him the government at that time, and rose up
in the place of Judas, his brother,
9:32. And Bacchides had knowledge of it, and sought to kill him.
9:33. And Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, knew it, and all that were
with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by
the water of the lake Asphar,
9:34. And Bacchides understood it, and he came himself, with all his
army, over the Jordan, on the sabbath day.
9:35. And Jonathan sent his brother, a captain of the people, to desire
the Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage,
which was copious.
9:36. And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took
John, and all that he had, and went away with them.
9:37. After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the
children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride
out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with
great pomp.
9:38. And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they
went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.
9:39. And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and
great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and
his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and
many weapons.
9:40. And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in
ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled
into the mountains, and they took all their spoils:
9:41. And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their
musical instruments into lamentation.
9:42. And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they
returned to the bank of the Jordan.
9:43. And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the
bank of the Jordan, with a great power.
9:44. And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against
our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before.
9:45. For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on
this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there
is no place for us to turn aside.
9:46. Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from
the hand of your enemies. And they joined battle.
9:47. And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he
turned away from him backwards.
9:48. And Jonathan, and they that were with him, leapt into the Jordan,
and swam over the Jordan to them.
9:49. And there fell of Bacchides' side that day a thousand men: and
they returned to Yerushalayim,
9:50. And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in
Jericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata,
and Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars.
9:51. And he placed garrisons in them, that they might wage war against
Yisrael:
9:52. And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gazara, and the castle,
and set garrisons in them, and provisions of victuals:
9:53. And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages,
and put them in the castle in Yerushalayim in custody.
9:54. Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month,
Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be
thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began
to destroy. 9:55. At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were
hindered, and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so
that he could no more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house.
9:56. And Alcimus died at that time in great torment.
9:57. And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead: and he returned to the
king, and the land was quiet for two years.
9:58. And all the wicked held a council, saying: Behold Jonathan, and
they that are with him, dwell at ease and without fear: now, therefore,
let us bring Bacchides hither, and he shall take them all in one night.
9:59. So they went, and gave him counsel.
9:60. And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly
letters to his adherents that were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and
them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known
to them.
9:61. And he apprehended of the men of the country, that were the
principal authors of the mischief, fifty men, and he slew them.
9:62. And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, retired into
Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches
thereof, and they fortified it.
9:63. And when Bacchides knew it, he gathered together all his
multitude: and sent word to them that were of Judea.
9:64. And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it
many days, and made engines.
9:65. But Jonathan left his brother, Simon, in the city and went forth
into the country, and came with a number of men,
9:66. And struck Odares, and his brethren, and the children of Phaseron,
in their tents, and he began to slay, and to increase in forces.
9:67. But Simon, and they that were with him, sallied out of the city,
and burnt the engines,
9:68. And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them:
and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise
was in vain.
9:69. And he was angry with the wicked men that had given him counsel to
come into their country, and he slew many of them: and he purposed to
return with the rest into their country.
9:70. And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and he sent ambassadors to him
to make peace with him, and to restore to him the prisoners.
9:71. And he accepted it willingly, and did according to his words, and
swore that he would do him no harm all the days of his life.
9:72. And he restored to him the prisoners which he before had taken out
of the land of Juda: and he returned, and went away into his own
country, and he came no more into their borders.
9:73. So the sword ceased from Yisrael: and Jonathan dwelt in Machmas,
and Jonathan began there to judge the people, and he destroyed the
wicked out of Yisrael.
1 Machabees Chapter 10
Alexander Bales sets himself up for king: both he and Demetrius seek to
make Jonathan their friend. Alexander kills Demetrius in battle, and
honours Jonathan. His victory over Apollonius.
10:1. Now in the hundred and sixtieth year, Alexander, the son of
Antiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, came up and took Ptolemais, and
they received him, and he reigned there.
10:2. And king Demetrius heard of it, and gathered together an exceeding
great army, and went forth against him to fight.
10:3. And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan, with peaceable words, to
magnify him.
10:4. For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make
one with Alexander against us.
10:5. For he will remember all the evils that we have done against him,
and against his brother, and against his nation.
10:6. And he gave him authority to gather together a army, and to make
arms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were
in the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him.
10:7. And Jonathan came to Yerushalayim, and read the letters in the
hearing of all the people, and of them that were in the castle.
10:8. And they were struck with great fear, because they heard that the
king had given him authority to gather together an army.
10:9. And the hostages were delivered to Jonathan, and he restored them
to their parents.
10:10. And Jonathan dwelt in Yerushalayim, and began to build, and to
repair the city.
10:11. And he ordered workmen to build the walls, and mount Sion round
about with square stones for fortification: and so they did.
10:12. Then the strangers that were in the strong holds, which Bacchides
had built, fled away.
10:13. And every man left his place, and departed into his own country:
10:14. Only in Bethsura there remained some of them, that had forsaken
the Torah, and the commandments of Elohim: for this was a place of refuge for
them.
10:15. And king Alexander heard of the promises that Demetrius had made
Jonathan: and they told him of the battles, and the worthy acts that he
and his brethren had done, and the labours that they had endured.
10:16. And he said: Shall we find such another man? now, therefore, we
will make him our friend and our confederate.
10:17. So he wrote a letter, and sent it to him according to these
words, saying:
10:18. King Alexander to his brother, Jonathan, greetings.
10:19. We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and
fit to be our friend:
10:20. Now therefore, we make thee this day high priest of thy nation,
and that thou be called the king's friend, (and he sent him a purple
robe, and a crown of gold) and that thou be of one mind with us in our
affairs, and keep friendship with us.
10:21. Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in the seventh month, in
the year one hundred and threescore, at the feast day of the
tabernacles: and he gathered together an army, and made a great number
of arms.
10:22. And Demetrius heard these words, and was exceeding sorry, and
said:
10:23. What is this that we have done, that Alexander hath prevented us
to gain the friendship of the Jews to strengthen himself?
10:24. I also will write to them words of request, and offer dignities,
and gifts: that they may be with me to aid me.
10:25. And he wrote to them in these words: King Demetrius to the nation
of the Jews, greeting.
10:26. Whereas you have kept covenant with us, and have continued in our
friendship, and have not joined with our enemies, we have heard of it,
and are glad.
10:27. Wherefore now continue still to keep fidelity towards us, and we
will reward you with good things, for what you have done in our behalf.
10:28. And we will remit to you many charges, and will give you gifts.
10:29. And now I free you, and all the Jews, from tributes, and I
release you from the customs of salt, and remit the crowns, and the
thirds of the seed:
10:30. And the half of the fruit of trees, which is my share, I leave to
you from this day forward, so that it shall not be taken of the land of
Juda, and of the three cities that are added thereto out of Shomron and
Galilee, from this day forth, and for ever:
10:31. And let Yerushalayim be holy and free, with the borders thereof: and
let the tenths, and tributes be for itself.
10:32. I yield up also the power of the castle that is in Yerushalayim, and
I give it to the high priest, to place therein such men as he shall
choose, to keep it.
10:33. And every soul of the Jews that hath been carried captive from
the land of Juda in all my kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all be
discharged from tributes, even of their cattle.
10:34. And I will that all the feasts, and the sabbaths, and the new
moons, and the days appointed, and three days before the solemn day, and
three days after the solemn day, be all days of immunity and freedom,
for all the Jews that are in my kingdom:
10:35. And no man shall have power to do any thing against them, or to
molest any of them, in any cause.
10:36. And let there be enrolled in the king's army to the number of
thirty thousand of the Jews: and allowance shall be made them, as is due
to all the king's forces and certain of them shall be appointed to be in
the fortresses of the great king:
10:37. And some of them shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom,
that are of trust, and let the governors be taken from among themselves,
and let them walk in their own laws, as the king hath commanded in the
land of Juda.
10:38. And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country
of Shomron, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under
one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:
10:39. Ptolemais and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the
holy places that are in Yerushalayim, for the necessary charges of the holy
things.
10:40. And I give every year fifteen thousand sickles of silver out of
the king's accounts, of what belongs to me:
10:41. And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the
years before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the
works of the house.
10:42. Moreover, the five thousand sickles of silver, which they
received from the account of the holy places, every year, shall also
belong to the priests that execute the ministry.
10:43. And whosoever shall flee into the temple that is in Yerushalayim,
and in all the borders thereof, being indebted to the king for any
matter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they have in my
kingdom, let them have it free.
10:44. For the building also, or repairing the works of the holy places,
the charges shall be given out of the king's revenues:
10:45. For the building also of the walls of Yerushalayim, and the
fortifying thereof round about, the charges shall be given out of the
king's account, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.
10:46. Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no
credit to them, nor received them because they remembered the great evil
that he had done in Yisrael, for he had afflicted them exceedingly.
10:47. And their inclinations were towards Alexander, because he had
been the chief promoter of peace in their regard, and him they always
helped.
10:48. And king Alexander gathered together a great army, and moved his
camp near to Demetrius.
10:49. And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Demetrius fled
away, and Alexander pursued after him, and pressed them close.
10:50. And the battle was hard fought, till the sun went down: and
Demetrius was slain that day.
10:51. And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt, with
words to this effect, saying:
Ptolemee... Surnamed Philometer.
10:52. Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the
throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have
overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country,
10:53. And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have
been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:
10:54. Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give
me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in Torah, and I will
give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.
10:55. And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou
didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of
their kingdom.
10:56. And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at
Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as
thou hast said.
10:57. So Ptolemee went out of Egypt, with Cleopatra his daughter, and
he came to Ptolemais, in the hundred and sixty-second year.
10:58. And king Alexander met him, and he gave him his daughter,
Cleopatra: and he celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory,
after the manner of kings.
10:59. And king Alexander wrote to Jonathan, that he should come and
meet him.
10:60. And he went honourably to Ptolemais, and he met there the two
kings, and he gave them much silver, and gold, and presents: and he
found favour in their sight.
10:61. And some pestilent men of Yisrael, men of a wicked life, assembled
themselves against him, to accuse him: and the king gave no heed to
them.
10:62. And he commanded that Jonathan's garments should he taken off,
and that he shonld be clothed with purple: and they did so. And the king
made him sit by himself.
10:63. And he said to his princes: Go out with him into the midst of the
city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any
matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.
10:64. So when his accusers saw his glory proclaimed, and him clothed
with purple, they all fled away.
10:65. And the king magnified him, and enrolled him amongst his chief
friends, and made him governor, and partaker of his dominion.
10:66. And Jonathan returned into Yerushalayim with peace and joy.
10:67. In the year one hundred and sixty-five, Demetrius, the son of
Demetrius, came from Crete into the land of his fathers.
10:68. And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and
returned to Antioch.
10:69. And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor
of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia:
and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,
10:70. Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and
reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountuins.
10:71. Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us
into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the
strength of war.
10:72. Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say
that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice
been put to flight in their own land:
10:73. And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great
an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to
flee to?
10:74. Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in
his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Yerushalayim, and
Simon, his brother, met him to help him.
10:75. And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of
the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid
siege to it.
10:76. And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates
to him: so Jonathan took Joppe.
10:77. And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen,
and a great army.
10:78. And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and
immediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number
of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to
Azotus, and they joined battle.
10:79. And Apollonius left privately in the camp a thousand horsemen
behind them.
10:80. And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they
surrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till
evening.
10:81. But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and
so their horses were fatigued.
10:82. Then Simon drew forth his army, and attacked the legion: for the
horsemen were wearied: and they were discomfited by him, and fled.
10:83. And they that were scattered about the plain fled into Azotus,
and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, there to save themselves.
10:84. But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and the cities that were round
about it, and took the spoils of them and the temple of Dagon: and all
them that were fled into it, he burnt with fire.
10:85. So they that were slain by the sword, with them that were burnt,
were almost eight thousand men.
10:86. And Jonathan, removed his army from thence and camped against
Ascalon: and they went out of the city to meet him with great honour.
10:87. And Jonathan returned into Yerushalayim with his people, having many
spoils.
10:88. And it came to pass, when Alexander, the king heard these words,
that he honoured Jonathan yet more.
10:89. And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the custom is, to be given
to such as are of the royal blood. And he gave him Accaron, and all the
borders thereof, in possession.
1 Machabees Chapter 11
Ptolemee invades the kingdom of Alexander: the latter is slain: and the
former dies soon after. Demetrius honours Jonathan, and is rescued by
the Jews from his own subjects in Antioch. Antiochus the younger favours
Jonathan. His exploits in divers places.
11:1. And the king of Egypt gathered together an army, like the sand
that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships: and he sought to get the
kingdom of Alexander by deceit, and join it to his own kingdom.
11:2. And he went out into Syria with peaceable words and they opened to
him the cities, and met him: for king Alexander had ordered them to go
forth to meet him, because he was his father in Torah.
11:3. Now when Ptolemee entered into the cities, he put garrisons of
soldiers in every city.
11:4. And when he came near to Azotns, they shewed him the temple of
Dagon that was burnt with fire, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof,
that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad, and the
graves of them that were slain in the battle, which they had made near
the way.
11:5. And they told the king that Jonathan had done these things, to
make him odious: but the king held his peace.
11:6. And Jonathan came to meet the king at Joppe with glory, and they
saluted one another, and they lodged there.
11:7. And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river, called
Eleutherus: and he returned into Yerushalayim.
11:8. And king Ptolemee got the dominion of the cities by the sea side,
even to Seleucia, and he devised evil designs against Alexander.
11:9. And he sent ambassadors to Demetrius, saying: Come, let us make a
league between us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath,
and thou shalt reign in the kingdom of thy father.
11:10. For I repent that I have given him my daughter: for he hath
sought to kill me.
11:11. And he slandered him, because he coveted his kingdom,
11:12. And he took away his daughter, and gave her to Demetrius, and
alienated himself from Alexander, and his enmities were made manifest.
11:13. And Ptolemee entered into Antioch, and set two crowns upon his
head, that of Egypt, and that of Asia.
11:14. Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that time: because they that
were in those places had rebelled.
11:15. And when Alexander heard of it, he came to give him battle: and
king Ptolemee brought forth his army, and met him with a strong power,
and put him to flight.
11:16. And Alexander fled into Arabia, there to be protected: and king
Ptolemee was exalted.
11:17. And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head, and sent it to
Ptolemee.
11:18. And king Ptolemee died the third day after: and they that were in
the strong holds were destroyed by them that were within the camp.
11:19. And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and sixty-seventh year.
11:20. In those days Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea,
to take the castle that was in Yerushalayim: and they made many engines of
war against it.
11:21. Then some wicked men that hated their own nation, went away to
king Demetrius, and told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle.
11:22. And when he heard it, he was angry: and forthwith he came to
Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle,
but should come to him in haste, and speak to him.
11:23. But when Jonathan heard this, he bade them besiege it still: and
he chose some of the ancients of Yisrael, and of the priests, and put
himself in danger.
11:24. And he took gold, and silver, and raiment, and many other
presents, and went to the king to Ptolemais and he found favour in his
sight.
11:25. And certain wicked men of his nation made complaints against him.
11:26. And the king treated him as his predecessors had done before: and
he exalted him in the sight of all his friends.
11:27. And he confirmed him in the high priesthood and all the honours
he had before, and he made him the chief of his friends.
11:28. And Jonathan requested of the king that he would make Judea free
from tribute, and the three governments, and Shomron, and the confines
thereof: and he promised him three hundred talents.
11:29. And the king consented: and he wrote letters to Jonathan of all
these things, to this effect.
11:30. King Demetrius to his brother, Jonathan, and to the nation of the
Jews, greeting.
11:31. We send you here a copy of the letter which we have written to
Lasthenes, our parent, concerning you, that you might know it.
11:32. King Demetrius to Lasthenes, his parent, greetings.
11:33. We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are
our friends, and keep the things that are just with us, for their good
will which they bear towards us.
11:34. We have ratified, therefore, unto them all the borders of Judea,
and the three cities, Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha, which are added to
Judea, out of Shomron, and all their confines, to be set apart to all
them that sacrifice in Yerushalayim, instead of the payments which the king
received of them every year, and for the fruits of the land, and of the
trees.
Apherema... is found only in the Greek version.
11:35. And as for other things that belonged to us of the tithes, and of
the tributes, from this time we discharge them of them: the saltpans
also, and the crowns that were presented to us.
11:36. We give all to them, and nothing hereof shall be revoked from
this time forth and for ever.
11:37. Now, therefore, see that thou make a copy of these things, and
let it be given to Jonathan, and set upon the holy mountain, in a
conspicuous place.
11:38. And king Demetrius, seeing that the land was quiet before him,
and nothing resisted him, sent away all his forces, every man to his own
place, except the foreign army, which he had drawn together from the
islands of the nations: so all the troops of his fathers hated him.
11:39. Now there was one Tryphon who had been of Alexander's party
before: who seeing that all the army murmured against Demetrius, went to
Emalchuel, the Arabian, who brought up Antiochus, the son of Alexander:
11:40. And he pressed him much to deliver him to him, that he might be
king in his father's place: and he told him all that Demetrius had done,
and how his soldiers hated him. And he remained there many days.
11:41. And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, desiring that he would cast
out them that were in the castle in Yerushalayim, and those that were in
the strong holds: because they fought against Yisrael.
11:42. And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I will not only do this
for thee, and for thy people, but I will greatly honour thee, and thy
nation, when opportunity shall serve.
11:43. Now, therefore, thou shalt do well if thou send me men to help
me: for all my army is gone from me.
11:44. And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and
they came to the king, and the king was very glad of their coming.
11:45. And they that were of the city assembled themselves together, to
the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have killed
the king.
11:46. And the king fled into the palace: and they of the city kept the
passages of the city, and began to fight.
11:47. And the king called the Jews to his assistance: and they came to
him all at once, and they all dispersed themselves through the city.
11:48. And they slew in that day a hundred thousand men, and they set
fire to the city, and got many spoils that day, and delivered the king.
11:49. And they that were of the city saw that the Jews had got the city
as they would: and they were discouraged in their mind, and cried to the
king, making supplication, and saying:
1:50. Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us, and the
city.
11:51. And they threw down their arms, and made peace, and the Jews were
glorified in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in
his realm, and were renowned throughout the kingdom, and returned to
Yerushalayim with many spoils.
11:52. So king Demetrius sat in the throne of his kingdom: and the land
was quiet before him.
11:53. And he falsified all whatsoever he had said, and alienated
himself from Jonathan, and did not reward him according to the benefits
he had received from him, but gave him great trouble.
11:54. And after this Tryphon returned, and with him Antiochus, the
young boy, who was made king, and put on the diadem.
11:55. And there assembled unto him all the hands which Demetrius had
sent away, and they fought against Demetrius who turned his back and
fled.
11:56. And Tryphon took the elephants, and made himself master of
Antioch. 11:57. And young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying: I
confirm thee in the high priesthood, and I appoint thee ruler over the
four cities, and to be one of the king's friends.
11:58. And he sent him vessels of gold for his service, and he gave him
leave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to wear a
golden buckle:
11:59. And he made his brother, Simon, governor, from the borders of
Tyre even to the confines of Egypt.
11:60. Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond
the river, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to
help him, and he came to Ascalon, and they met him hononrably out of the
city.
11:61. And he went from thence to Gaza: and they that were in Gaza shut
him out: and he besieged it, and burnt all the suburbs round about, and
took the spoils.
11:62. And the men of Gaza made supplication to Jonathan, and he gave
them the right hand: and he took their sons for hostages, and sent them
to Yerushalayim: and he went through the country, as far as Damascus.
11:63. And Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come
treacherously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great army,
purposing to remove him from the affairs of the kingdom.
11:64. And he went against them: but left his brother, Simon, in the
country.
11:65. And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days,
and shut them up.
11:66. And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and
he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison
in it.
11:67. And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and
before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.
11:68. And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and
they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against
them.
11:69. And they that lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined
battle.
11:70. And all that were on Jonathan's side fled, and none was left of
them, but Mathathias, the son of Absalom, and Judas, the son of Calphi,
chief captain of the army.
11:71. And Jonathan rent his garments, and cast earth upon his head, and
prayed.
11:72. And Jonathan turned again to them to battle, and he put them to
flight, and they fought.
11:73. And they of his part that fled saw this, and they turned again to
him, and they all with him pursued the enemies, even to Cades, to their
own camp, and they came even thither.
11:74. And there fell of the aliens in that day three thousand men: and
Jonathan returned to Jernsalem.
1 Machabees Chapter 12
Jonathan renews his league with the Romans and Lacedemonians. The forces
of Demetrius flee away from him. He is deceived and made prisoner by
Tryphon.
12:1. And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and he chose certain
men, and sent them to Rome, to confirm and to renew the amity with them:
12:2. And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places,
according to the same form.
12:3. And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and
said: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent
us to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.
12:4. And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to
conduct them into the land of Juda with peace. 12:5. And this is a copy
of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:
12:6. Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the
priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their
brethren, greeting.
12:7. There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from
Arius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren,
as the copy here underwritten doth specify.
12:8. And Onias received the ambassador with honour and received the
letters, wherein there was mention made of the alliance, and amity.
12:9. We, though we needed none of these things having for our comfort
the holy books that are in our hands,
12:10. Chose rather to send to you to renew the brotherhood and
friendship, lest we should become stranger to you altogether: for there
is a long time passed since you sent to us.
12:11. We, therefore, at all times without ceasing, both in our
festivals, and other days wherein it is convenient, remember you in the
sacrifices that we offer, and in our observances, as it is meet and
becoming to remember brethren.
12:12. And we rejoice at yonr glory.
12:13. But we have had many troubles and wars on every side; and the
kings that are round about us have fought against us.
12:14. But we would not be troublesome to you, nor to the rest of our
allies and friends, in these wars.
12:15. For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and
our enemies are humbled.
12:16. We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and
Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew
with them the former amity and alliance.
12:17. And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you, and
to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.
12:18. And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto.
12:19. And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias:
12:20. Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest, greeting.
12:21. It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews,
that they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Avraham.
12:22. And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write
to us of your prosperity.
12:23. And we also have written back to you, That our cattle, and our
possessions, are yours: and yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded
that these things should be told you.
12:24. Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again
with a greater army than before to fight against him.
12:25. So he went out from Yerushalayim, and met them in the land of Amath:
for he gave them no time to enter into his country.
12:26. And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back, and
brought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night.
12:27. And when the sun was set, Jonathan commanded his men to watch,
and to be in arms all night long ready to fight, and he set sentinels
round about the camp.
12:28. And the enemies heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for
battle: and they were struck with fear and dread in their heart: and
they kindled fires in their camp.
12:29. But Jonathan, and they that were with him, knew it not till the
morning: for they saw the lights burning.
12:30. And Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they
had passed the river Eleutherus.
12:31. And Jonathan turned upon the Arabians, that are called Zabadeans:
and he defeated them, and took the spoils of them.
12:32. And he went forward, and came to Damascus, and passed through all
that country.
12:33. Simon also went forth, and came as far as Ascalon, and the
neighbouring fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe, and took
possession of it,
12:34. (For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them that
took part with Demetrius) and he put a garrison there to keep it.
12:35. And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the
people; and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea,
12:36. And to build up walls in Yerushalayim, and raise a mount between the
castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might have
no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell.
12:37. And they came together to build up the city: for the wall that
was upon the brook, towards the east, was broken down, and he repaired
that which is called Caphetetha:
12:38. And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up
gates and bars.
12:39. Now when Tryphon had conceived a design to make himself king of
Asia and to take the crown, and to stretch out his hand against king
Antiochus:
12:40. Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight
against him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him. So he rose up
and came to Bethsan.
12:41. And Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men chosen
for battle, and came to Bethsan.
12:42. Now when Tryphon saw that Jonathan came with a great army, he
durst not stretch forth his hand against him.
12:43. But received him with honour, and commended him to all his
friends, and gave him presents: and he commanded his troops to obey him,
as himself.
12:44. And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people,
whereas we have no war?
12:45. Now, therefore, send them back to their own houses: and choose
thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and
I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the
army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for
this is the cause of my coming.
12:46. And Jonathan believed him, and did as he said: and sent away his
army, and they departed into the land of Juda:
12:47. But he kept with him three thousand men: of whom he sent two
thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.
12:48. Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais
shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that came in with
him they slew with the sword.
12:49. Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the
great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company.
12:50. But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were
with him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out
ready for battle.
12:51. Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for
their lives, returned back.
12:52. Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they
bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and
Yisrael mourned with great lamentation.
12:53. Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to
destroy them. For they said:
12:54. They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us
make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men.
1 Machabees Chapter 13
Simon is made captain general in the room of his brother. Jonathan is
slain by Tryphon. Simon is favoured by Demetrius: he taketh Gaza, and
the castle of Yerushalayim.
13:1. Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great
army to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it.
13:2. And seeing that the people was in dread and in fear, he went up to
Yerushalayim, and assembled the people,
13:3. And exhorted them, saying: You know what great battles I and my
brethren, and the house of my father, have fought for the laws, and the
sanctuary, and the distresses that we have seen:
13:4. By reason whereof all my brethren have lost their lives for
Yisrael's sake, and I am left alone.
13:5. And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of trouble:
for I am not better than my brethren.
13:6. I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children,
and wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out
of mere malice.
13:7. And the spirit of the people was enkindled as soon as they heard
these words:
13:8. And they answered with a loud voice, saying: Thou art our leader
in the place of Judas, and Jonathan, thy brother:
13:9. Fight thou our battles, and we will do whatsoever thou shalt say
to us.
13:10. So gathering together all the men of war, he made haste to finish
all the walls of Yerushalayim, and he fortified it round about.
13:11. And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absalom, and with him a new
army, into Joppe, and he cast out them that were in it, and himself
remained there.
13:12. And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a great army, to invade
the land of Juda, and Jonathan was with him in custody.
13:13. But Simon pitched in Addus, over against the plain.
13:14. And when Tryphon understood that Simon was risen up in the place
of his brother, Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with him, he
sent messengers to him,
13:15. Saying: We have detained thy brother, Jonathan, for the money
that he owed in the king's account, by reason of the affairs which he
had the management of.
13:16. But now send a hundred talents of silver, and his two sons for
hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and
we will release him.
13:17. Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him; nevertheless, he
ordered the money and the children to be sent, lest he should bring upon
himself a great hatred of the people of Yisrael, who might have said:
13:18. Because he sent not the money and the children therefore is he
lost.
13:19. So he sent the children and the hundred talents and he lied, and
did not let Jonathan go.
13:20. And after this, Tryphon entered within the country, to destroy
it: and they went about by the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and
his army marched to every place whithersoever they went.
Simon and his army marched to every place whithersoever they went...
That is, whithersoever Tryphon and his horsemen went in order to oppose
them.
13:21. And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon,
that he should make haste to come through the desert, and send them
victuals.
13:22. And Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night; but
there fell a very great snow, and he came not into the country of
Galaad.
13:23. And when he approached to Bascama, he slew Jonathan and his sons
there.
13:24. And Tryphon returned, and went into his own country.
13:25. And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan, his brother, and
buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.
13:26. And all Yisrael bewailed him with great lamentation: and they
mourned for him many days.
13:27. And Simon built over the sepulchre of his father and of his
brethren, a building lofty to the sight, of polished stone, behind and
before:
13:28. And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his
father, and his mother, and his four brethren:
13:29. And round about these he set great pillars; and upon the pillars,
arms, for a perpetual memory; and by the arms, ships carved, which might
be seen by all that sailed on the sea.
13:30. This is the sepulchre that he made in Modin, even unto this day.
13:31. But Tryphon, when he was upon a journey with the young king,
Antiochus, treacherously slew him.
13:32. And he reigned in his place, and put on the crown of Asia: and
brought great evils upon the land.
13:33. And Simon built up the strong holds of Judea, fortifying them
with high towers, and great walls, and gates and bars: and he stored up
victuals in the fortresses.
13:34. And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end that
he should grant an immunity to the land; for all that Tryphon did, was
to spoil.
13:35. And king Demetrius, in answer to this request, wrote a letter in
this manner:
13:36. King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest, and friend of kings,
and to the ancients, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
13:37. The golden crown, and the palm, which you sent, we have received:
and we are ready to make a firm peace with you, and to write to the
king's chief officers to release you the things that we have released.
13:38. For all that we have decreed in your favour shall stand in force.
The strong holds that you have built, shall be your own.
13:39. And as for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we
forgive it: and the crown which you owed: and if any other thing were
taxed in Yerushalayim, now let it not be taxed.
13:40. And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be
enrolled, and let there be peace between us.
13:41. In the year one hundred and seventy, the yoke of the Gentiles was
taken off from Yisrael.
13:42. And the people of Yisrael began to write in the instruments, and
public records, The first year under Simon, the high priest, the great
captain, and prince of the Jews.
13:43. In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and
he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and
took it.
13:44. And they that were within the engine leapt into the city: and
there was a great uproar in the city.
13:45. And they that were in the city went up, with their wives and
children, upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a
loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.
13:46. And they said: Deal not with us according to our evil deeds, but
according to thy mercy.
13:47. And Simon being moved, did not destroy them but yet he cast them
out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein there had been idols,
and then he entered into it with hymns, blessing the Lord:
13:48. And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men
that should observe the Torah: and he fortified it, and made it his
habitation.
13:49. But they that were in the castle of Yerushalayim were hindered from
going out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and
they were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through
famine.
13:50. And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them: and
he cast them out from thence and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses.
13:51. And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the
second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with
thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and
psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was
destroyed out of Yisrael.
13:52. And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with
gladness.
13:53. And he fortified the mountain of the temple that was near the
castle, and he dwelt there himself, and they that were with him.
13:54. And Simon saw that John, his son, was a valiant man for war: and
he made him captain of all the forces: and he dwelt in Gazara.
1 Machabees Chapter 14
Demetrius is taken by the king of Persia. Judea flourishes under the
government of Simon.
14:1. In the year one hundred and seventy-two king Demetrius assembled
his army, and went into Media to get him succours to fight against
Tryphon.
14:2. And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius
was entered within his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take
him alive, and bring him to him.
14:3. And he went, and defeated the army of Demetrius: and took him, and
brought him to Arsaces, and he put him into custody.
14:4. And all the land of Juda was at rest all the days of Simon, and he
sought the good of his nation: and his power, and his glory pleased them
well all his days.
14:5. And with all his glory he took Joppe for a haven, and made an
entrance to the isles of the sea.
14:6. And he enlarged the bounds of his nation, and made himself master
of the country.
14:7. And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the
dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away
all uncleanness out of it, and there was none that resisted him.
14:8. And every man tilled his land with peace, and the land of Juda
yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit.
14:9. The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of
the good things of the land, and the youug men put on them glory, and
the robes of war.
14:10. And he provided victuals for the cities, and he appointed that
they should be furnished with ammunition, so that the fame of his glory
was renowned even to the end of the earth.
14:11. He made peace in the land, and Yisrael rejoiced with great joy.
14:12. And every man sat under his vine, and under his fig tree: and
there was none to make them afraid.
14:13. There was none left in the land to fight against them: kings were
discomfited in those days.
14:14. And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought
low, and he sought the Torah, and took away every unjust and wicked man.
14:15. He glorified the sanctuary, and multiplied the vessels of the
holy places.
14:16. And it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was
dead: and they were very sorry.
14:17. But when they heard that Simon, his brother, was made high priest
in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the cities
therein:
14:18. They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and
alliance which they had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his brethren.
14:19. And they were read before the assembly in Yerushalayim. And this is
the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent.
14:20. The princes and the cities of the Spartans, to Simon, the high
priest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the people
of the Jews, their brethren, greeting.
14:21. The ambassadors that were sent to our people, have told us of
your glory, and honour, and joy: and we rejoiced at their coming.
14:22. And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the
people, in this manner: Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater,
the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the
former friendship with us.
14:23. And it pleased the people to receive the men honourably, and to
put a copy of their words in the public records, to be a memorial to the
people of the Spartans. And we have written a copy of them to Simon, the
high priest.
14:24. And after this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield
of gold, of the weight of a thousand pounds, to confirm the league with
them. And when the people of Rome had heard
14:25. These words, they said: What thanks shall we give to Simon, and
his sons:
14:26. For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight
the enemies of Yisrael from them: and they decreed him liberty, and
registered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount Sion.
14:27. And this is a copy of the writing. The eighteenth day of the
month Elul, in the year one hundred and seventy-two, being the third
year under Simon, the high priest, at Asaramel,
14:28. In a great assembly of the priests, and of the people, and the
princes of the nation, and the ancients of the country, these things
were notified: Forasmuch as there have often been wars in our country,
14:29. And Simon, the son of Mathathias, of the children of Jarib, and
his brethren, have put themselves in danger, and resisted the enemies of
their nation, for the maintenance of their holy places, and the Torah: and
have raised their nation to great glory.
14:30. And Jonathan gathered together his nation, and was made their
high priest, and he was laid to his people.
14:31. And their enemies desired to tread down and destroy their
country, and to stretch forth their hands against their holy places.
14:32. Then Simon resisted and fought for his nation, and laid out much
of his money, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them
wages.
14:33. And he fortified the cities of Judea and Bethsura that lieth in
the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies was before: and he
placed there a garrison of Jews.
14:34. And he fortified Joppe, which lieth by the sea: and Gazara, which
bordereth upon Azotus, wherein the enemies dwelt before, and he placed
Jews here: and furnished them with all things convenient for their
reparation.
14:35. And the people seeing the acts of Simon, and to what glory he
meant to bring his nation, made him their prince and high priest,
because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith
which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to
advance his people.
14:36. And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the
heathens were taken away out of their country, and they also that were
in the city of David, in Yerushalayim, in the castle, out of which they
issued forth, and profaned all places round about the sanctuary, and did
much evil to purity.
14:37. And he placed therein Jews for the defence of the country, and of
the city, and he raised up the walls of Yerushalayim.
14:38. And king Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood.
14:39. According to these things he made him his friend, and glorified
him with great glory.
14:40. For he had heard that the Romans had called the Jews their
friends, and confederates, and brethren, and that they had received
Simon's ambassadors with honour:
14:41. And that the Jews, and their priests, had consented that he
should be their prince and high priest for ever, till there should arise
a faithful prophet:
14:42. And that he should be chief over them, and that he should have
the charge of the sanctuary, and that he should appoint rulers over
their works, and over the country, and over the armour, and over the
strong holds;
14:43. And that he should have care of the holy places; and that he
should be obeyed by all, and that all the writings in the country should
be made in his name; and that he should be clothed with purple and gold:
14:44. And that it should not be lawful for any of the people, or of the
priests, to disannul any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to
call together an assembly in the country without him: or to be clothed
with purple, or to wear a buckle of gold.
14:45. And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall make void any of these
things, shall be punished.
14:46. And it pleased all the people to establish Simon, and to do
according to these words.
14:47. And Simon accepted thereof, and was well pleased to execute the
office of the high priesthood, and to be captain, and prince of the
nation of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief over all.
14:48. And they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of
brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the
sanctuary, in a conspicuous place:
14:49. And that a copy thereof should be put in the treasury, that
Simon, and his sons, may have it.
1 Machabees Chapter 15
Antiochus son of Demetrius honours Simon. The Romans write to divers
nations in favour of the Jews. Antiochus quarrels with Simon, and sends
troops to annoy him.
15:1. And king Antiochus, the son of Demetrius, sent letters from the
isles of the sea to Simon, the priest, and prince of the nation of the
Jews, and to all the people:
15:2. And the contents were these: King Antiochus to Simon, the high
priest, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
15:3. Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our
fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it
to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built
ships of war.
15:4. And I design to go through the country, that I may take revenge of
them that have destroyed our country, and that have made many cities
desolate in my realm.
15:5. Now, therefore, I confirm unto thee all the oblations which all
the kings before me remitted to thee, and what other gifts soever they
remitted to thee:
15:6. And I give thee leave to coin thy own money in thy country:
15:7. And let Yerushalayim be holy and free, and all the armour that hath
been made, and the fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou
keepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee.
15:8. And all that is due to the king, and what should be the king's
hereafter, from this present and for ever, is forgiven thee.
15:9. And when we shall have recovered our kingdom, we will glorify
thee, and thy nation, and the temple, with great glory, so that your
glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.
15:10. In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus entered into
the land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that
few were left with Tryphon.
15:11. And king Antiochus pursued after him, and he fled along by the
sea coast and came to Dora.
15:12. For he perceived that evils were gathered together upon him, and
his troops had forsaken him.
15:13. And Antiochus camped above Dora with a hundred and twenty
thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen:
15:14. And he invested the city, and the ships drew near by sea: and
they annoyed the city by land, and by sea, and suffered none to come in,
or to go out.
15:15. And Numenius, and they that had been with him, came from the city
of Rome, having letters written to the kings, and countries, the
contents whereof were these:
15:16. Lucius, the consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemee, greeting.
Ptolemee... Surnamed Physeon, brother and successor to Philometer.
15:17. The ambassadors of the Jews, our friends, came to us, to renew
the former friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon, the high
priest, and the people of the Jews.
15:18. And they brought also a shield of gold of a thousand pounds.
15:19. It hath seemed good therefore to us, to write to the kings and
countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them,
their cities, or countries: and that they should give no aid to them
that fight against them.
15:20. And it hath seemed good to us to receive the shield of them.
15:21. If, therefore, any pestilent men are fled out of their country to
you, deliver them to Simon, the high priest, that he may punish them
according to their Torah.
15:22. These same things were written to king Demetrius, and to Attalus,
and to Ariarathes, and to Arsaces,
Attalus, etc... Attalus was king of Pergamus; Ariarathes was king of
Cappadocia; and Arsaces was king of the Parthians.
15:23. And to all the countries: and to Lampsacus and to the Spartans,
and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and
Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus,
and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus, and
Cyrene.
15:24. And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon, the high priest, and to
the people of the Jews.
15:25. But king Antiochus moved his camp to Dora the second time,
assaulting it continually, and making engines: and he shut up Tryphon,
that he could not go out.
15:26. And Simon sent to him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver
also, and gold, and abundance of furniture.
15:27. And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that he
had made with him before, and alienated himself from him.
15:28. And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to treat with
him, saying: You hold Joppe and Gazara, and the castle that is in
Yerushalayim, which are cities of my kingdom:
15:29. Their borders you have wasted, and you have made great havoc in
the land, and have got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.
15:30. Now, therefore, deliver up the cities that you have taken, and
the tributes of the places whereof you have gotten the dominion without
the borders of Judea.
15:31. But if not, give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and
for the havoc that you have made, and the tributes of the cities, other
five hundred talents: or else we will come and fight against you.
15:32. So Athenobius, the king's friend came to Yerushalayim, and saw the
glory of Simon and his magnificence in gold, and silver, and his great
equipage, and he was astonished, and told him the king's words.
15:33. And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken
other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the
inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed
by our enemies.
15:34. But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.
15:35. And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did
great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give
a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.
15:36. But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these
words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the
king was exceeding angry.
15:37. And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.
15:38. And the king appointed Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and
gave him an army of footmen and horsemen.
15:39. And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and he
commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the city,
and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after
Tryphon.
15:40. And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people,
and to ravage Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and
to build Gedor.
15:41. And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue
forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had
commanded him.
1 Machabees Chapter 16
The sons of Simon defeat the troops of Antiochus. Simon with two of his
sons are treacherously murdered by Ptolemee his son in Torah.
16:1. Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what
Cendebeus had done against their people.
John... He was afterwards surnamed Hircanus, and succeeded his father in
both his dignities of high priest and prince. He conquered the Edomites,
and obliged them to a conformity with the Jews in religion; and
destroyed the schismatical temple of the Samaritans.
16:2. And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to
them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the
enemies of Yisrael from our youth even to this day: and things have
prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Yisrael
oftentimes.
16:3. And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and
go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.
16:4. Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and
horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in
Modin.
16:5. And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold
a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there
was a running river between them.
16:6. And he and his people pitched their camp over against them, and he
saw that the people were afraid to go over the river, so he went over
first: then the men seeing him, passed over after him.
He... Viz., John.
16:7. And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of
the footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.
16:8. And they sounded the holy trumpets: and Cendebeus and his army
were put to flight: and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest
fled into the strong hold.
16:9. At that time, Judas, John's brother, was wounded: but John pursued
after them, till he came to Cedron, which he had built:
Cedron... Otherwise called Gedon, the city that Cendebeus was
fortifying.
16:10. And they fled even to the towers that were in the fields of
Azotus, and he burnt them with fire. And there fell of them two thousand
men, and he returned into Judea in peace.
16:11. Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was appointed captain in the
plain of Jericho, and he had abundance of silver and gold.
16:12. For he was son in Torah of the high priest.
16:13. And his heart was lifted up, and he designed to make himself
master of the country, and he purposed treachery against Simon and his
sons, to destroy them.
16:14. Now Simon, as he was going through the cities that were in the
country of Judea, and taking care for the good ordering of them, went
down to Jericho, he and Mathathias and Judas, his sons, in the year one
hundred and seventy-seven, the eleventh month: the same is the month
Sabath.
16:15. And the son of Abobus received them deceitfully into a little
fortress, that is called Doch, which he had built: and he made them a
great feast, and hid men there.
16:16. And when Simon and his sons had drunk plentifully, Ptolemee and
his men rose up, and took their weapons, and entered into the banqueting
place, and slew him, and his two sons, and some of his servants.
16:17. And he committed a great treachery in Yisrael, and rendered evil
for good.
16:18. And Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king that he
should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the
country, and their cities, and tributes.
16:19. And he sent others to Gazara to kill John: and to the tribunes he
sent letters to come to him, and that he would give them silver, and
gold, and gifts.
16:20. And he sent others to take Yerushalayim, and the mountain of the
temple.
16:21. Now one running before, told John in Gazara, that his father and
his brethren were slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also.
16:22. But when he heard it, he was exceedingly afraid: and he
apprehended the men that came to kill him, and he put them to death: for
he knew that they sought to make him away.
16:23. And as concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars, and
the worthy deeds, which he bravely achieved, and the building of the
walls, which he made, and the things that he did:
16:24. Behold, these are written in the book of the days of his
priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father.
<html>
<a href=#C601V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C602V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C603V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C604V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C605V1>Chapter 05</a>
<p>
<a name="C601V1" id="C601V1">1:1</a> Peter, an apostle of Yeshua Messiah, to the
chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, <a name="C601V2" id="C601V2">1:2</a>
according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, in sanctification of the
Spirit, that you may obey Yeshua Messiah and be sprinkled with his blood:
Grace to you and peace be multiplied. <a name="C601V3" id="C601V3">1:3</a>
Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, who according to
his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Yeshua Messiah from the dead, <a name="C601V4" id="C601V4">1:4</a>
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away,
reserved in Heaven for you, <a name="C601V5" id="C601V5">1:5</a> who by the
power of Elohim are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time. <a name="C601V6" id="C601V6">1:6</a> Wherein you
greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been
put to grief in various trials, <a name="C601V7" id="C601V7">1:7</a> that the
proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even
though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and
honor at the revelation of Yeshua Messiah-- <a name="C601V8" id="C601V8">1:8</a>
whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet
believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory-- <a
name="C601V9" id="C601V9">1:9</a> receiving the result of your faith, the
salvation of your souls. <a name="C601V10" id="C601V10">1:10</a> Concerning
this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that would come to you, <a name="C601V11" id="C601V11">1:11</a>
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Messiah, which was in
them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Messiah, and the
glories that would follow them. <a name="C601V12" id="C601V12">1:12</a> To
them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered
these things, which now have been announced to you through those who
preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven;
which things angels desire to look into.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C601V13" id="C601V13">1:13</a> Therefore, <a href="#N601">prepare your
minds for action,</a> be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that
will be brought to you at the revelation of Yeshua Messiah-- <a name="C601V14"
id="C601V14">1:14</a> as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves
according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, <a name="C601V15"
id="C601V15">1:15</a> but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves
also be holy in all of your behavior; <a name="C601V16" id="C601V16">1:16</a>
because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."<sup><a
href="#N602">*</a></sup> <a name="C601V17" id="C601V17">1:17</a> If you call on
him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each
man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent
fear: <a name="C601V18" id="C601V18">1:18</a> knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of
life handed down from your fathers, <a name="C601V19" id="C601V19">1:19</a>
but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of
Messiah; <a name="C601V20" id="C601V20">1:20</a> who was foreknown indeed
before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times
for your sake, <a name="C601V21" id="C601V21">1:21</a> who through him are
believers in Elohim, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so
that your faith and hope might be in Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C601V22" id="C601V22">1:22</a> Seeing you have purified your souls in
your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly
affection, love one another from the heart fervently: <a name="C601V23"
id="C601V23">1:23</a> having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible, through the word of Elohim, which lives and remains
forever. <a name="C601V24" id="C601V24">1:24</a> For,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"All flesh is like grass,
</dt>
<dd>
and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass.
</dd>
<dt>
The grass withers, and its flower falls;
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C601V25" id="C601V25">1:25</a> but the Lord's word endures forever."<sup><a
href="#N603">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C602V1" id="C602V1">2:1</a> Putting away therefore all wickedness,
all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, <a name="C602V2"
id="C602V2">2:2</a> as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word,
that you may grow thereby, <a name="C602V3" id="C602V3">2:3</a> if indeed you
have tasted that the Lord is gracious: <a name="C602V4" id="C602V4">2:4</a>
coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim,
precious. <a name="C602V5" id="C602V5">2:5</a> You also, as living stones, are
built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Elohim through Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C602V6" id="C602V6">2:6</a> Because it is contained in Scripture,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
</dt>
<dd>
He who believes in him will not be disappointed."<sup><a href="#N604">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C602V7" id="C602V7">2:7</a> For you who believe therefore is the
honor, but for those who are disobedient,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The stone which the builders rejected,
</dt>
<dd>
has become the chief cornerstone,"<sup><a href="#N605">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C602V8" id="C602V8">2:8</a> and,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."<sup><a
href="#N606">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were
appointed. <a name="C602V9" id="C602V9">2:9</a> But you are a chosen race, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for Elohim's own possession, that
you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into
his marvelous light: <a name="C602V10" id="C602V10">2:10</a> who in time past
were no people, but now are Elohim's people, who had not obtained mercy, but
now have obtained mercy. <a name="C602V11" id="C602V11">2:11</a> Beloved, I
beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which
war against the soul; <a name="C602V12" id="C602V12">2:12</a> having good
behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as
evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify Elohim in
the day of visitation. <a name="C602V13" id="C602V13">2:13</a> Therefore
subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether
to the king, as supreme; <a name="C602V14" id="C602V14">2:14</a> or to
governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to
those who do well. <a name="C602V15" id="C602V15">2:15</a> For this is the
will of Elohim, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of
foolish men: <a name="C602V16" id="C602V16">2:16</a> as free, and not using
your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C602V17" id="C602V17">2:17</a> Honor all men. Love the brotherhood.
Fear Elohim. Honor the king. <a name="C602V18" id="C602V18">2:18</a> Servants, be
in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and
gentle, but also to the wicked. <a name="C602V19" id="C602V19">2:19</a> For it
is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of
conscience toward Elohim. <a name="C602V20" id="C602V20">2:20</a> For what glory
is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do
well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with Elohim. <a
name="C602V21" id="C602V21">2:21</a> For to this you were called, because
Messiah also suffered for us, leaving <a href="#N607">you</a> an example,
that you should follow his steps, <a name="C602V22" id="C602V22">2:22</a> who
did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."<sup><a
href="#N608">*</a></sup> <a name="C602V23" id="C602V23">2:23</a> Who, when he
was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but
committed himself to him who judges righteously; <a name="C602V24" id="C602V24">2:24</a>
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having
died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were
healed. <a name="C602V25" id="C602V25">2:25</a> For you were going astray like
sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and <a href="#N609">Overseer</a>
of your souls.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C603V1" id="C603V1">3:1</a> In like manner, wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may
be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; <a name="C603V2"
id="C603V2">3:2</a> seeing your pure behavior in fear. <a name="C603V3"
id="C603V3">3:3</a> Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of
braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine
clothing; <a name="C603V4" id="C603V4">3:4</a> but in the hidden person of the
heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which
is in the sight of Elohim very precious. <a name="C603V5" id="C603V5">3:5</a> For
this is how the holy women before, who hoped in Elohim also adorned
themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: <a name="C603V6"
id="C603V6">3:6</a> as Sarah obeyed Avraham, calling him lord, whose
children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any
terror.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C603V7" id="C603V7">3:7</a> You husbands, in like manner, live with
your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the
weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your
prayers may not be hindered.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C603V8" id="C603V8">3:8</a> Finally, be all like-minded,
compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, <a name="C603V9"
id="C603V9">3:9</a> not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling;
but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may
inherit a blessing. <a name="C603V10" id="C603V10">3:10</a> For,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"He who would love life,
</dt>
<dd>
and see good days,
</dd>
<dt>
let him keep his tongue from evil,
</dt>
<dd>
and his lips from speaking deceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C603V11" id="C603V11">3:11</a> Let him turn away from evil, and do
good.
</dt>
<dd>
Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C603V12" id="C603V12">3:12</a> For the eyes of the Lord are on the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and his ears open to their prayer;
</dd>
<dd>
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."<sup><a
href="#N6010">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C603V13" id="C603V13">3:13</a> Now who is he who will harm you, if
you become imitators of that which is good? <a name="C603V14" id="C603V14">3:14</a>
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed.
"Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."<sup><a
href="#N6011">*</a></sup> <a name="C603V15" id="C603V15">3:15</a> But sanctify
the Lord Elohim in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to
everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with
humility and fear: <a name="C603V16" id="C603V16">3:16</a> having a good
conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be
disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Messiah. <a name="C603V17"
id="C603V17">3:17</a> For it is better, if it is Elohim's will, that you suffer
for doing well than for doing evil. <a name="C603V18" id="C603V18">3:18</a>
Because Messiah also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the
unrighteous, that he might bring you to Elohim; being put to death in the
flesh, but made alive in the spirit; <a name="C603V19" id="C603V19">3:19</a>
in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, <a
name="C603V20" id="C603V20">3:20</a> who before were disobedient, when Elohim
waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In
it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. <a name="C603V21"
id="C603V21">3:21</a> This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not
the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward Elohim, through the resurrection of Yeshua Messiah, <a
name="C603V22" id="C603V22">3:22</a> who is at the right hand of Elohim, having
gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C604V1" id="C604V1">4:1</a> Forasmuch then as Messiah suffered for us
in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has
suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; <a name="C604V2" id="C604V2">4:2</a>
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the
lusts of men, but for the will of Elohim. <a name="C604V3" id="C604V3">4:3</a>
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the
Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies,
carousings, and abominable idolatries. <a name="C604V4" id="C604V4">4:4</a>
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess
of riot, blaspheming: <a name="C604V5" id="C604V5">4:5</a> who will give
account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. <a
name="C604V6" id="C604V6">4:6</a> For to this end the Good News was preached
even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh,
but live as to Elohim in the spirit. <a name="C604V7" id="C604V7">4:7</a> But the
end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled,
and sober in prayer. <a name="C604V8" id="C604V8">4:8</a> And above all things
be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of
sins. <a name="C604V9" id="C604V9">4:9</a> Be hospitable to one another
without grumbling. <a name="C604V10" id="C604V10">4:10</a> As each has
received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the
grace of Elohim in its various forms. <a name="C604V11" id="C604V11">4:11</a> If
anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of Elohim. If anyone
serves, let it be as of the strength which Elohim supplies, that in all
things Elohim may be glorified through Yeshua Messiah, to whom belong the glory
and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C604V12" id="C604V12">4:12</a> Beloved, don't be astonished at the
fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange
thing happened to you. <a name="C604V13" id="C604V13">4:13</a> But because you
are partakers of Messiah's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of
his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. <a name="C604V14"
id="C604V14">4:14</a> If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, you are
blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of Elohim rests on you. On their
part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. <a name="C604V15"
id="C604V15">4:15</a> For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief,
or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters. <a name="C604V16"
id="C604V16">4:16</a> But if one of you suffers for being a Messiahian, let
him not be ashamed; but let him glorify Elohim in this matter. <a name="C604V17"
id="C604V17">4:17</a> For the time has come for judgment to begin with the
household of Elohim. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those
who don't obey the Good News of Elohim? <a name="C604V18" id="C604V18">4:18</a>
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the
ungodly and the sinner?"<sup><a href="#N6012">*</a></sup> <a
name="C604V19" id="C604V19">4:19</a> Therefore let them also who suffer
according to the will of Elohim in doing good entrust their souls to him, as
to a faithful Creator.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C605V1" id="C605V1">5:1</a> I exhort the elders among you, as a
fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Messiah, and who will also
share in the glory that will be revealed. <a name="C605V2" id="C605V2">5:2</a>
Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, exercising the oversight,
not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but
willingly; <a name="C605V3" id="C605V3">5:3</a> neither as lording it over
those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock. <a
name="C605V4" id="C605V4">5:4</a> When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you
will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C605V5" id="C605V5">5:5</a> Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to
the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject
yourselves to one another; for "Elohim resists the proud, but gives
grace to the humble."<sup><a href="#N6013">*</a></sup> <a name="C605V6"
id="C605V6">5:6</a> Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
Elohim, that he may exalt you in due time; <a name="C605V7" id="C605V7">5:7</a>
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C605V8" id="C605V8">5:8</a> Be sober and self-controlled. Be
watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour. <a name="C605V9" id="C605V9">5:9</a> Withstand him
steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world
are undergoing the same sufferings. <a name="C605V10" id="C605V10">5:10</a>
But may the Elohim of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by
Messiah Yeshua, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish,
strengthen, and settle you. <a name="C605V11" id="C605V11">5:11</a> To him be
the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C605V12" id="C605V12">5:12</a> Through Silvanus, our faithful
brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and
testifying that this is the true grace of Elohim in which you stand. <a
name="C605V13" id="C605V13">5:13</a> She who is in Babylon, chosen together
with you, greets you; and so does Mark, my son. <a name="C605V14" id="C605V14">5:14</a>
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in
Messiah Yeshua. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N601" id="N601">[1]</a> <a href="#C601V13">back to 1:13</a> literally,
"gird up the waist of your mind"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N602" id="N602">[2]</a> <a href="#C601V16">back to 1:16</a> Leviticus
11:44-45
</p>
<p>
<a name="N603" id="N603">[3]</a> <a href="#C601V25">back to 1:25</a> Isaiah
40:6-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N604" id="N604">[4]</a> <a href="#C602V6">back to 2:6</a> Isaiah 28:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N605" id="N605">[5]</a> <a href="#C602V7">back to 2:7</a> Psalm 118:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N606" id="N606">[6]</a> <a href="#C602V8">back to 2:8</a> Isaiah 8:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N607" id="N607">[7]</a> <a href="#C602V21">back to 2:21</a> TR reads
"us" instead of "you"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N608" id="N608">[8]</a> <a href="#C602V22">back to 2:22</a> Isaiah 53:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N609" id="N609">[9]</a> <a href="#C602V25">back to 2:25</a> "Overseer"
is from the Greek episkopon, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian,
or superintendent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6010" id="N6010">[10]</a> <a href="#C603V12">back to 3:12</a> Psalm
34:12-16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6011" id="N6011">[11]</a> <a href="#C603V14">back to 3:14</a> Isaiah
8:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6012" id="N6012">[12]</a> <a href="#C604V18">back to 4:18</a> Proverbs
11:31
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6013" id="N6013">[13]</a> <a href="#C605V5">back to 5:5</a> Proverbs
3:34
</p>
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<a href=#C521V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C522V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C523V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C524V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C525V1>Chapter 05</a>
<p>
<a name="C521V1" id="C521V1">1:1</a> Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the
assembly of the Thessalonians in Elohim the Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah:
Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C521V2" id="C521V2">1:2</a> We always give thanks to Elohim for all of
you, mentioning you in our prayers, <a name="C521V3" id="C521V3">1:3</a>
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and
patience of hope in our Lord Yeshua Messiah, before our Elohim and Father. <a
name="C521V4" id="C521V4">1:4</a> We know, <a href="#N521">brothers</a> loved by
Elohim, that you are chosen, <a name="C521V5" id="C521V5">1:5</a> and that our
Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed
ourselves to be among you for your sake. <a name="C521V6" id="C521V6">1:6</a>
You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in
much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, <a name="C521V7" id="C521V7">1:7</a>
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in
Achaia. <a name="C521V8" id="C521V8">1:8</a> For from you the word of the Lord
has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every
place your faith toward Elohim has gone out; so that we need not to say
anything. <a name="C521V9" id="C521V9">1:9</a> For they themselves report
concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned
to Elohim from idols, to serve a living and true Elohim, <a name="C521V10"
id="C521V10">1:10</a> and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised
from the dead--Yeshua, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C522V1" id="C522V1">2:1</a> For you yourselves know, brothers, our
visit to you wasn't in vain, <a name="C522V2" id="C522V2">2:2</a> but having
suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we
grew bold in our Elohim to tell you the Good News of Elohim in much conflict. <a
name="C522V3" id="C522V3">2:3</a> For our exhortation is not of error, nor of
uncleanness, nor in deception. <a name="C522V4" id="C522V4">2:4</a> But even
as we have been approved by Elohim to be entrusted with the Good News, so we
speak; not as pleasing men, but Elohim, who tests our hearts. <a name="C522V5"
id="C522V5">2:5</a> For neither were we at any time found using words of
flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (Elohim is witness), <a
name="C522V6" id="C522V6">2:6</a> nor seeking glory from men (neither from you
nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of
Messiah. <a name="C522V7" id="C522V7">2:7</a> But we were gentle among you,
like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C522V8" id="C522V8">2:8</a> Even so, affectionately longing for you,
we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of Elohim only, but
also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. <a name="C522V9"
id="C522V9">2:9</a> For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for
working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to
you the Good News of Elohim. <a name="C522V10" id="C522V10">2:10</a> You are
witnesses with Elohim, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved
ourselves toward you who believe. <a name="C522V11" id="C522V11">2:11</a> As
you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a
father does his own children, <a name="C522V12" id="C522V12">2:12</a> to the
end that you should walk worthily of Elohim, who calls you into his own
Kingdom and glory. <a name="C522V13" id="C522V13">2:13</a> For this cause we
also thank Elohim without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word
of the message of Elohim, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it
is in truth, the word of Elohim, which also works in you who believe. <a
name="C522V14" id="C522V14">2:14</a> For you, brothers, became imitators of
the assemblies of Elohim which are in Judea in Messiah Yeshua; for you also
suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from
the Jews; <a name="C522V15" id="C522V15">2:15</a> who killed both the Lord
Yeshua and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please Elohim, and
are contrary to all men; <a name="C522V16" id="C522V16">2:16</a> forbidding us
to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins
always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C522V17" id="C522V17">2:17</a> But we, brothers, being bereaved of
you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to
see your face with great desire, <a name="C522V18" id="C522V18">2:18</a>
because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again--but
Satan hindered us. <a name="C522V19" id="C522V19">2:19</a> For what is our
hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord
Yeshua<sup><a href="#N522">*</a></sup> at his coming? <a name="C522V20"
id="C522V20">2:20</a> For you are our glory and our joy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C523V1" id="C523V1">3:1</a> Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any
longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, <a
name="C523V2" id="C523V2">3:2</a> and sent Timothy, our brother and Elohim's
servant in the Good News of Messiah, to establish you, and to comfort you
concerning your faith; <a name="C523V3" id="C523V3">3:3</a> that no one be
moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this
task. <a name="C523V4" id="C523V4">3:4</a> For most certainly, when we were
with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as
it happened, and you know. <a name="C523V5" id="C523V5">3:5</a> For this cause
I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your
faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our
labor would have been in vain. <a name="C523V6" id="C523V6">3:6</a> But when
Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your
faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to
see us, even as we also long to see you; <a name="C523V7" id="C523V7">3:7</a>
for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress
and affliction through your faith. <a name="C523V8" id="C523V8">3:8</a> For
now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. <a name="C523V9" id="C523V9">3:9</a>
For what thanksgiving can we render again to Elohim for you, for all the joy
with which we rejoice for your sakes before our Elohim; <a name="C523V10"
id="C523V10">3:10</a> night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your
face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? <a name="C523V11"
id="C523V11">3:11</a> Now may our Elohim and Father himself, and our Lord Yeshua
Messiah, direct our way to you; <a name="C523V12" id="C523V12">3:12</a> and the
Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and
toward all men, even as we also do toward you, <a name="C523V13" id="C523V13">3:13</a>
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our
Elohim and Father, at the coming of our Lord Yeshua with all his saints.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C524V1" id="C524V1">4:1</a> Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort
you in the Lord Yeshua, that as you received from us how you ought to walk
and to please Elohim, that you abound more and more. <a name="C524V2" id="C524V2">4:2</a>
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Yeshua. <a
name="C524V3" id="C524V3">4:3</a> For this is the will of Elohim: your
sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, <a name="C524V4"
id="C524V4">4:4</a> that each one of you know how to possess himself of his
own vessel in sanctification and honor, <a name="C524V5" id="C524V5">4:5</a>
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know Elohim; <a
name="C524V6" id="C524V6">4:6</a> that no one should take advantage of and
wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger
in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. <a
name="C524V7" id="C524V7">4:7</a> For Elohim called us not for uncleanness, but
in sanctification. <a name="C524V8" id="C524V8">4:8</a> Therefore he who
rejects this doesn't reject man, but Elohim, who has also given his Holy
Spirit to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C524V9" id="C524V9">4:9</a> But concerning brotherly love, you have
no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by Elohim to
love one another, <a name="C524V10" id="C524V10">4:10</a> for indeed you do it
toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you,
brothers, that you abound more and more; <a name="C524V11" id="C524V11">4:11</a>
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your
own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
<a name="C524V12" id="C524V12">4:12</a> that you may walk properly toward
those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C524V13" id="C524V13">4:13</a> But we don't want you to be ignorant,
brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't
grieve like the rest, who have no hope. <a name="C524V14" id="C524V14">4:14</a>
For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so Elohim will bring
with him those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua. <a name="C524V15" id="C524V15">4:15</a>
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who
are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have
fallen asleep. <a name="C524V16" id="C524V16">4:16</a> For the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with Elohim's trumpet. The dead in Messiah will rise first, <a name="C524V17"
id="C524V17">4:17</a> then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will
be with the Lord forever. <a name="C524V18" id="C524V18">4:18</a> Therefore
comfort one another with these words.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C525V1" id="C525V1">5:1</a> But concerning the times and the seasons,
brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. <a name="C525V2"
id="C525V2">5:2</a> For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord
comes like a thief in the night. <a name="C525V3" id="C525V3">5:3</a> For when
they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction
will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in
no way escape. <a name="C525V4" id="C525V4">5:4</a> But you, brothers, aren't
in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. <a name="C525V5"
id="C525V5">5:5</a> You are all children of light, and children of the day.
We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, <a name="C525V6" id="C525V6">5:6</a>
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. <a
name="C525V7" id="C525V7">5:7</a> For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and
those who are drunk are drunk in the night. <a name="C525V8" id="C525V8">5:8</a>
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
<a name="C525V9" id="C525V9">5:9</a> For Elohim didn't appoint us to wrath, but
to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Yeshua Messiah, <a
name="C525V10" id="C525V10">5:10</a> who died for us, that, whether we wake or
sleep, we should live together with him. <a name="C525V11" id="C525V11">5:11</a>
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also
do. <a name="C525V12" id="C525V12">5:12</a> But we beg you, brothers, to know
those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
<a name="C525V13" id="C525V13">5:13</a> and to respect and honor them in love
for their work's sake.
</p>
<p>
Be at peace among yourselves. <a name="C525V14" id="C525V14">5:14</a> We
exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted,
support the weak, be patient toward all. <a name="C525V15" id="C525V15">5:15</a>
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after
that which is good, for one another, and for all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C525V16" id="C525V16">5:16</a> Rejoice always. <a name="C525V17"
id="C525V17">5:17</a> Pray without ceasing. <a name="C525V18" id="C525V18">5:18</a>
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of Elohim in Messiah Yeshua
toward you. <a name="C525V19" id="C525V19">5:19</a> Don't quench the Spirit.
<a name="C525V20" id="C525V20">5:20</a> Don't despise prophesies. <a
name="C525V21" id="C525V21">5:21</a> Test all things, and hold firmly that
which is good. <a name="C525V22" id="C525V22">5:22</a> Abstain from every form
of evil.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C525V23" id="C525V23">5:23</a> May the Elohim of peace himself sanctify
you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved
blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C525V24" id="C525V24">5:24</a> He who calls you is faithful, who will
also do it. <a name="C525V25" id="C525V25">5:25</a> Brothers, pray for us. <a
name="C525V26" id="C525V26">5:26</a> Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
<a name="C525V27" id="C525V27">5:27</a> I solemnly command you by the Lord
that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C525V28" id="C525V28">5:28</a> The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be
with you. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N521" id="N521">[1]</a> <a href="#C521V4">back to 1:4</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N522" id="N522">[2]</a> <a href="#C522V19">back to 2:19</a> TR adds
"Messiah"
</p>
</html>
<html>
<a href=#C541V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C542V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C543V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C544V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C545V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C546V1>Chapter 06</a>
<p>
<a name="C541V1" id="C541V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua
according to the commandment of Elohim our Savior, and Messiah Yeshua our hope;
<a name="C541V2" id="C541V2">1:2</a> to Timothy, my true child in faith:
Grace, mercy, and peace, from Elohim our Father and Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C541V3" id="C541V3">1:3</a> As I urged you when I was going into
Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach
a different doctrine, <a name="C541V4" id="C541V4">1:4</a> neither to pay
attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather
than Elohim's stewardship, which is in faith-- <a name="C541V5" id="C541V5">1:5</a>
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good
conscience and unfeigned faith; <a name="C541V6" id="C541V6">1:6</a> from
which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain
talking; <a name="C541V7" id="C541V7">1:7</a> desiring to be teachers of the
Torah, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they
strongly affirm. <a name="C541V8" id="C541V8">1:8</a> But we know that the Torah
is good, if a man uses it lawfully, <a name="C541V9" id="C541V9">1:9</a> as
knowing this, that Torah is not made for a righteous man, but for the
lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and
profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers, <a name="C541V10" id="C541V10">1:10</a> for the sexually immoral,
for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any
other thing contrary to the sound doctrine; <a name="C541V11" id="C541V11">1:11</a>
according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed Elohim, which was
committed to my trust. <a name="C541V12" id="C541V12">1:12</a> And I thank him
who enabled me, Messiah Yeshua our Lord, because he counted me faithful,
appointing me to service; <a name="C541V13" id="C541V13">1:13</a> although I
was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained
mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. <a name="C541V14" id="C541V14">1:14</a>
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in
Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C541V15" id="C541V15">1:15</a> The saying is faithful
and worthy of all acceptance, that Messiah Yeshua came into the world to
save sinners; of whom I am chief. <a name="C541V16" id="C541V16">1:16</a>
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Yeshua Messiah
might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to
believe in him for eternal life. <a name="C541V17" id="C541V17">1:17</a> Now
to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to Elohim who alone is wise, be
honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C541V18" id="C541V18">1:18</a> This instruction I commit to you, my
child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that
by them you may wage the good warfare; <a name="C541V19" id="C541V19">1:19</a>
holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a
shipwreck concerning the faith; <a name="C541V20" id="C541V20">1:20</a> of
whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they
might be taught not to blaspheme.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C542V1" id="C542V1">2:1</a> I exhort therefore, first of all, that
petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all
men: <a name="C542V2" id="C542V2">2:2</a> for kings and all who are in high
places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and
reverence. <a name="C542V3" id="C542V3">2:3</a> For this is good and
acceptable in the sight of Elohim our Savior; <a name="C542V4" id="C542V4">2:4</a>
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the
truth. <a name="C542V5" id="C542V5">2:5</a> For there is one Elohim, and one
mediator between Elohim and men, the man Messiah Yeshua, <a name="C542V6"
id="C542V6">2:6</a> who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in
its own times; <a name="C542V7" id="C542V7">2:7</a> to which I was appointed a
preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Messiah, not lying), a
teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C542V8" id="C542V8">2:8</a> I desire therefore that the men in every
place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. <a
name="C542V9" id="C542V9">2:9</a> In the same way, that women also adorn
themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with
braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; <a name="C542V10"
id="C542V10">2:10</a> but (which becomes women professing godliness) with
good works. <a name="C542V11" id="C542V11">2:11</a> Let a woman learn in
quietness with all subjection. <a name="C542V12" id="C542V12">2:12</a> But I
don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but
to be in quietness. <a name="C542V13" id="C542V13">2:13</a> For Adam was first
formed, then Chavah. <a name="C542V14" id="C542V14">2:14</a> Adam wasn't
deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; <a
name="C542V15" id="C542V15">2:15</a> but she will be saved through her
childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with
sobriety.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C543V1" id="C543V1">3:1</a> This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks
the office of an <a href="#N541">overseer</a>, he desires a good work. <a
name="C543V2" id="C543V2">3:2</a> The overseer therefore must be without
reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest,
hospitable, good at teaching; <a name="C543V3" id="C543V3">3:3</a> not a
drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome,
not covetous; <a name="C543V4" id="C543V4">3:4</a> one who rules his own house
well, having children in subjection with all reverence; <a name="C543V5"
id="C543V5">3:5</a> (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house,
how will he take care of the assembly of Elohim?) <a name="C543V6" id="C543V6">3:6</a>
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation
as the devil. <a name="C543V7" id="C543V7">3:7</a> Moreover he must have good
testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and
the snare of the devil.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C543V8" id="C543V8">3:8</a> <a href="#N542">Servants</a>, in the same
way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not
greedy for money; <a name="C543V9" id="C543V9">3:9</a> holding the mystery of
the faith in a pure conscience. <a name="C543V10" id="C543V10">3:10</a> Let
them also first be tested; then let them <a href="#N543">serve</a> if they
are blameless. <a name="C543V11" id="C543V11">3:11</a> Their wives in the same
way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
<a name="C543V12" id="C543V12">3:12</a> Let <a href="#N544">servants</a> be
husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. <a
name="C543V13" id="C543V13">3:13</a> For those who have <a href="#N545">served
well</a> gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the
faith which is in Messiah Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C543V14" id="C543V14">3:14</a> These things I write to you, hoping to
come to you shortly; <a name="C543V15" id="C543V15">3:15</a> but if I wait
long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of
Elohim, which is the assembly of the living Elohim, the pillar and ground of the
truth. <a name="C543V16" id="C543V16">3:16</a> Without controversy, the
mystery of godliness is great:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Elohim was revealed in the flesh,
</dt>
<dd>
justified in the spirit,
</dd>
<dd>
seen by angels,
</dd>
<dd>
preached among the nations,
</dd>
<dd>
believed on in the world,
</dd>
<dd>
and received up in glory.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C544V1" id="C544V1">4:1</a> But the Spirit says expressly that in
later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to
seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, <a name="C544V2" id="C544V2">4:2</a>
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own
conscience as with a hot iron; <a name="C544V3" id="C544V3">4:3</a> forbidding
marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which Elohim created to be
received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. <a
name="C544V4" id="C544V4">4:4</a> For every creature of Elohim is good, and
nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. <a
name="C544V5" id="C544V5">4:5</a> For it is sanctified through the word of Elohim
and prayer. <a name="C544V6" id="C544V6">4:6</a> If you instruct the brothers
of these things, you will be a good servant of Messiah Yeshua, nourished in
the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
<a name="C544V7" id="C544V7">4:7</a> But refuse profane and old wives' fables.
Exercise yourself toward godliness. <a name="C544V8" id="C544V8">4:8</a> For
bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things,
having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
<a name="C544V9" id="C544V9">4:9</a> This saying is faithful and worthy of all
acceptance. <a name="C544V10" id="C544V10">4:10</a> For to this end we both
labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living
Elohim, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. <a
name="C544V11" id="C544V11">4:11</a> Command and teach these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C544V12" id="C544V12">4:12</a> Let no man despise your youth; but be
an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in
spirit, in faith, and in purity. <a name="C544V13" id="C544V13">4:13</a> Until
I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching. <a
name="C544V14" id="C544V14">4:14</a> Don't neglect the gift that is in you,
which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the
elders. <a name="C544V15" id="C544V15">4:15</a> Be diligent in these things.
Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
<a name="C544V16" id="C544V16">4:16</a> Pay attention to yourself, and to your
teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both
yourself and those who hear you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C545V1" id="C545V1">5:1</a> Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him
as a father; the younger men as brothers; <a name="C545V2" id="C545V2">5:2</a>
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. <a
name="C545V3" id="C545V3">5:3</a> Honor widows who are widows indeed. <a
name="C545V4" id="C545V4">5:4</a> But if any widow has children or
grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own
family, and to repay their parents, for this is<sup><a href="#N546">*</a></sup>
acceptable in the sight of Elohim. <a name="C545V5" id="C545V5">5:5</a> Now she
who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on Elohim, and
continues in petitions and prayers night and day. <a name="C545V6" id="C545V6">5:6</a>
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. <a
name="C545V7" id="C545V7">5:7</a> Also command these things, that they may be
without reproach. <a name="C545V8" id="C545V8">5:8</a> But if anyone doesn't
provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the
faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. <a name="C545V9" id="C545V9">5:9</a>
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the
wife of one man, <a name="C545V10" id="C545V10">5:10</a> being approved by
good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to
strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the
afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C545V11" id="C545V11">5:11</a> But refuse younger widows, for when
they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry; <a
name="C545V12" id="C545V12">5:12</a> having condemnation, because they have
rejected their first pledge. <a name="C545V13" id="C545V13">5:13</a> Besides,
they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only
idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
<a name="C545V14" id="C545V14">5:14</a> I desire therefore that the younger
widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to
the adversary for reviling. <a name="C545V15" id="C545V15">5:15</a> For
already some have turned aside after Satan. <a name="C545V16" id="C545V16">5:16</a>
If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and
don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are
widows indeed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C545V17" id="C545V17">5:17</a> Let the elders who rule well be
counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and
in teaching. <a name="C545V18" id="C545V18">5:18</a> For the Scripture says,
"You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain."<sup><a
href="#N547">*</a></sup> And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."<sup><a
href="#N548">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C545V19" id="C545V19">5:19</a> Don't receive an accusation against an
elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses. <a name="C545V20"
id="C545V20">5:20</a> Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the
rest also may be in fear. <a name="C545V21" id="C545V21">5:21</a> I command
you in the sight of Elohim, and Messiah Yeshua, and the chosen angels, that you
observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. <a
name="C545V22" id="C545V22">5:22</a> Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a
participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure. <a name="C545V23"
id="C545V23">5:23</a> Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little
wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C545V24" id="C545V24">5:24</a> Some men's sins are evident, preceding
them to judgment, and some also follow later. <a name="C545V25" id="C545V25">5:25</a>
In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that
are otherwise can't be hidden.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V1" id="C546V1">6:1</a> Let as many as are bondservants under the
yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of Elohim and
the doctrine not be blasphemed. <a name="C546V2" id="C546V2">6:2</a> Those who
have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are
brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the
benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V3" id="C546V3">6:3</a> If anyone teaches a different doctrine,
and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Yeshua Messiah,
and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, <a name="C546V4"
id="C546V4">6:4</a> he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with
arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife,
reviling, evil suspicions, <a name="C546V5" id="C546V5">6:5</a> constant
friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who
suppose that godliness is a means of gain. <a href="#N549">Withdraw yourself
from such.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V6" id="C546V6">6:6</a> But godliness with contentment is great
gain. <a name="C546V7" id="C546V7">6:7</a> For we brought nothing into the
world, and we certainly can't carry anything out. <a name="C546V8" id="C546V8">6:8</a>
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. <a name="C546V9"
id="C546V9">6:9</a> But those who are determined to be rich fall into a
temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown
men in ruin and destruction. <a name="C546V10" id="C546V10">6:10</a> For the
love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray
from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V11" id="C546V11">6:11</a> But you, man of Elohim, flee these
things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
and gentleness. <a name="C546V12" id="C546V12">6:12</a> Fight the good fight
of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you
confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. <a
name="C546V13" id="C546V13">6:13</a> I command you before Elohim, who gives life
to all things, and before Messiah Yeshua, who before Pontius Pilate
testified the good confession, <a name="C546V14" id="C546V14">6:14</a> that
you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of
our Lord Yeshua Messiah; <a name="C546V15" id="C546V15">6:15</a> which in its
own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of
kings, and Lord of lords; <a name="C546V16" id="C546V16">6:16</a> who alone
has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen,
nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V17" id="C546V17">6:17</a> Charge those who are rich in this
present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the
uncertainty of riches, but on the living Elohim, who richly provides us with
everything to enjoy; <a name="C546V18" id="C546V18">6:18</a> that they do
good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute,
willing to communicate; <a name="C546V19" id="C546V19">6:19</a> laying up in
store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they
may lay hold of eternal life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C546V20" id="C546V20">6:20</a> Timothy, guard that which is committed
to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the
knowledge which is falsely so called; <a name="C546V21" id="C546V21">6:21</a>
which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.
Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N541" id="N541">[1]</a> <a href="#C543V1">back to 3:1</a> or,
superintendents, or bishops
</p>
<p>
<a name="N542" id="N542">[2]</a> <a href="#C543V8">back to 3:8</a> or, Deacons.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N543" id="N543">[3]</a> <a href="#C543V10">back to 3:10</a> or, serve
as deacons
</p>
<p>
<a name="N544" id="N544">[4]</a> <a href="#C543V12">back to 3:12</a> or, deacons
</p>
<p>
<a name="N545" id="N545">[5]</a> <a href="#C543V13">back to 3:13</a> or, served
well as deacons
</p>
<p>
<a name="N546" id="N546">[6]</a> <a href="#C545V4">back to 5:4</a> TR adds
"good and"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N547" id="N547">[7]</a> <a href="#C545V18">back to 5:18</a> Deuteronomy
25:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N548" id="N548">[8]</a> <a href="#C545V18">back to 5:18</a> Luke 10:7;
Leviticus 19:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N549" id="N549">[9]</a> <a href="#C546V5">back to 6:5</a> NU omits
"Withdraw yourself from such."
</p>
</html>
<p>
<a name="C111V1" id="C111V1">1:1</a> Now king David was old and stricken in
years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. <a
name="C111V2" id="C111V2">1:2</a> Therefore his servants said to him, Let
there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand
before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my
lord the king may keep warm. <a name="C111V3" id="C111V3">1:3</a> So they
sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Yisrael,
and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. <a
name="C111V4" id="C111V4">1:4</a> The young lady was very beautiful; and she
cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her
intimately. <a name="C111V5" id="C111V5">1:5</a> Then Adonijah the son of
Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him
chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. <a name="C111V6"
id="C111V6">1:6</a> His father had not displeased him at any time in saying,
Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born
after Absalom. <a name="C111V7" id="C111V7">1:7</a> He conferred with Joab the
son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah
helped him. <a name="C111V8" id="C111V8">1:8</a> But Zadok the priest, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei,
and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. <a
name="C111V9" id="C111V9">1:9</a> Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and
fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called
all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Yehudah, the king's
servants: <a name="C111V10" id="C111V10">1:10</a> but Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call. <a
name="C111V11" id="C111V11">1:11</a> Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother
of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith
reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it? <a name="C111V12" id="C111V12">1:12</a>
Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your
own life, and the life of your son Solomon. <a name="C111V13" id="C111V13">1:13</a>
Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king,
swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign? <a
name="C111V14" id="C111V14">1:14</a> Behold, while you yet talk there with the
king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words. <a
name="C111V15" id="C111V15">1:15</a> Bathsheba went in to the king into the
chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was
ministering to the king. <a name="C111V16" id="C111V16">1:16</a> Bathsheba
bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you? <a
name="C111V17" id="C111V17">1:17</a> She said to him, My lord, you swore by
Yahweh your Elohim to your handmaid, <i>saying</i>, Assuredly Solomon your
son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. <a name="C111V18"
id="C111V18">1:18</a> Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the
king, don't know it: <a name="C111V19" id="C111V19">1:19</a> and he has slain
cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of
the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but
he hasn't called Solomon your servant. <a name="C111V20" id="C111V20">1:20</a>
You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Yisrael are on you, that you should
tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. <a
name="C111V21" id="C111V21">1:21</a> Otherwise it will happen, when my lord
the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be
counted offenders. <a name="C111V22" id="C111V22">1:22</a> Behold, while she
yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. <a name="C111V23"
id="C111V23">1:23</a> They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the
prophet. When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the
king with his face to the ground. <a name="C111V24" id="C111V24">1:24</a>
Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit on my throne? <a name="C111V25" id="C111V25">1:25</a> For he
is gone down this day, and has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in
abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the
army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking
before him, and say, <i>Long</i> live king Adonijah. <a name="C111V26"
id="C111V26">1:26</a> But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and
Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant
Solomon. <a name="C111V27" id="C111V27">1:27</a> Is this thing done by my lord
the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the
throne of my lord the king after him? <a name="C111V28" id="C111V28">1:28</a>
Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. She came into the king's
presence, and stood before the king. <a name="C111V29" id="C111V29">1:29</a>
The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of
all adversity, <a name="C111V30" id="C111V30">1:30</a> most certainly as I
swore to you by Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, saying, Assuredly Solomon your
son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most
certainly so will I do this day. <a name="C111V31" id="C111V31">1:31</a> Then
Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king,
and said, Let my lord king David live forever. <a name="C111V32" id="C111V32">1:32</a>
King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came before the king. <a name="C111V33"
id="C111V33">1:33</a> The king said to them, Take with you the servants of
your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him
down to Gihon: <a name="C111V34" id="C111V34">1:34</a> and let Zadok the
priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Yisrael; and blow
you the trumpet, and say, <i>Long</i> live king Solomon. <a name="C111V35"
id="C111V35">1:35</a> Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come
and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have
appointed him to be prince over Yisrael and over Yehudah. <a name="C111V36"
id="C111V36">1:36</a> Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and
said, Amen: Yahweh, the Elohim of my lord the king, say so <i>too</i>. <a
name="C111V37" id="C111V37">1:37</a> As Yahweh has been with my lord the king,
even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of
my lord king David. <a name="C111V38" id="C111V38">1:38</a> So Zadok the
priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on
king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. <a name="C111V39" id="C111V39">1:39</a>
Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed
Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, <i>Long</i> live
king Solomon. <a name="C111V40" id="C111V40">1:40</a> All the people came up
after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy,
so that the earth shook with the sound of them. <a name="C111V41" id="C111V41">1:41</a>
Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an
end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is
this noise of the city being in an uproar? <a name="C111V42" id="C111V42">1:42</a>
While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came:
and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.
<a name="C111V43" id="C111V43">1:43</a> Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most
certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king: <a name="C111V44"
id="C111V44">1:44</a> and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites
and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;
<a name="C111V45" id="C111V45">1:45</a> and Zadok the priest and Nathan the
prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from there
rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have
heard. <a name="C111V46" id="C111V46">1:46</a> Also Solomon sits on the throne
of the kingdom. <a name="C111V47" id="C111V47">1:47</a> Moreover the king's
servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your Elohim make the name
of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your
throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed. <a name="C111V48" id="C111V48">1:48</a>
Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, who has
given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it. <a
name="C111V49" id="C111V49">1:49</a> All the guests of Adonijah were afraid,
and rose up, and went every man his way. <a name="C111V50" id="C111V50">1:50</a>
Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught
hold on the horns of the altar. <a name="C111V51" id="C111V51">1:51</a> It was
told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he
has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to
me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword. <a name="C111V52"
id="C111V52">1:52</a> Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man,
there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be
found in him, he shall die. <a name="C111V53" id="C111V53">1:53</a> So king
Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and did
obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C112V1" id="C112V1">2:1</a> Now the days of David drew near that he
should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, <a name="C112V2"
id="C112V2">2:2</a> I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong
therefore, and show yourself a man; <a name="C112V3" id="C112V3">2:3</a> and
keep the instruction of Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in his ways, to keep his
statutes, <i>and</i> his commandments, and his ordinances, and his
testimonies, according to that which is written in the Torah of Moshe, that
you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. <a
name="C112V4" id="C112V4">2:4</a> That Yahweh may establish his word which he
spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to
walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,
there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Yisrael. <a
name="C112V5" id="C112V5">2:5</a> Moreover you know also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of
Yisrael, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he
killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on
his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
<a name="C112V6" id="C112V6">2:6</a> Do therefore according to your wisdom,
and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace. <a name="C112V7"
id="C112V7">2:7</a> But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the
Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they
came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. <a name="C112V8" id="C112V8">2:8</a>
Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of
Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to
Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by
Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword. <a name="C112V9"
id="C112V9">2:9</a> Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a
wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall
bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood. <a name="C112V10" id="C112V10">2:10</a>
David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. <a
name="C112V11" id="C112V11">2:11</a> The days that David reigned over Yisrael
were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years
reigned he in Yerushalayim. <a name="C112V12" id="C112V12">2:12</a> Solomon sat
on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established
greatly. <a name="C112V13" id="C112V13">2:13</a> Then Adonijah the son of
Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you
peaceably? He said, Peaceably. <a name="C112V14" id="C112V14">2:14</a> He said
moreover, I have somewhat to tell you. She said, Say on. <a name="C112V15"
id="C112V15">2:15</a> He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that
all Yisrael set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the kingdom
is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
<a name="C112V16" id="C112V16">2:16</a> Now I ask one petition of you; don't
deny me. She said to him, Say on. <a name="C112V17" id="C112V17">2:17</a> He
said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you
'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife." <a
name="C112V18" id="C112V18">2:18</a> Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for
you to the king. <a name="C112V19" id="C112V19">2:19</a> Bathsheba therefore
went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to
meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused
a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
<a name="C112V20" id="C112V20">2:20</a> Then she said, I ask one small
petition of you; don't deny me. The king said to her, Ask on, my mother;
for I will not deny you. <a name="C112V21" id="C112V21">2:21</a> She said, Let
Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife. <a
name="C112V22" id="C112V22">2:22</a> King Solomon answered his mother, Why do
you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also;
for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and
for Joab the son of Zeruiah. <a name="C112V23" id="C112V23">2:23</a> Then king
Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, Elohim do so to me, and more also, if
Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. <a name="C112V24"
id="C112V24">2:24</a> Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me,
and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house,
as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day. <a
name="C112V25" id="C112V25">2:25</a> King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died. <a name="C112V26" id="C112V26">2:26</a>
To Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to your own
fields; for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you
to death, because you bear the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my
father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was
afflicted. <a name="C112V27" id="C112V27">2:27</a> So Solomon thrust out
Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. <a
name="C112V28" id="C112V28">2:28</a> The news came to Joab; for Joab had
turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to
the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. <a
name="C112V29" id="C112V29">2:29</a> It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to
the Tent of Yahweh, and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. <a name="C112V30"
id="C112V30">2:30</a> Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him,
Thus says the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. Benaiah
brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered
me. <a name="C112V31" id="C112V31">2:31</a> The king said to him, Do as he has
said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood,
which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. <a
name="C112V32" id="C112V32">2:32</a> Yahweh will return his blood on his own
head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and
killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, <i>to wit</i>,
Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Yisrael, and Amasa the son of
Jether, captain of the army of Yehudah. <a name="C112V33" id="C112V33">2:33</a>
So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his
seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his
throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh. <a name="C112V34"
id="C112V34">2:34</a> Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on
him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
<a name="C112V35" id="C112V35">2:35</a> The king put Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada in his room over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king put
in the room of Abiathar. <a name="C112V36" id="C112V36">2:36</a> The king sent
and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build yourself a house in
Yerushalayim, and dwell there, and don't go forth from there any where. <a
name="C112V37" id="C112V37">2:37</a> For on the day you go out, and pass over
the brook Kidron, know you for certain that you shall surely die: your
blood shall be on your own head. <a name="C112V38" id="C112V38">2:38</a>
Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said,
so will your servant do. Shimei lived in Yerushalayim many days. <a
name="C112V39" id="C112V39">2:39</a> It happened at the end of three years,
that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king
of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. <a
name="C112V40" id="C112V40">2:40</a> Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and
went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought
his servants from Gath. <a name="C112V41" id="C112V41">2:41</a> It was told
Solomon that Shimei had gone from Yerushalayim to Gath, and was come again.
<a name="C112V42" id="C112V42">2:42</a> The king sent and called for Shimei,
and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you,
saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any
where, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have
heard is good. <a name="C112V43" id="C112V43">2:43</a> Why then have you not
kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you
with? <a name="C112V44" id="C112V44">2:44</a> The king said moreover to
Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you
did to David my father: therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on
your own head. <a name="C112V45" id="C112V45">2:45</a> But king Solomon shall
be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yahweh
forever. <a name="C112V46" id="C112V46">2:46</a> So the king commanded Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died.
The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C113V1" id="C113V1">3:1</a> Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of
David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house
of Yahweh, and the wall of Yerushalayim all around. <a name="C113V2" id="C113V2">3:2</a>
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house
built for the name of Yahweh until those days. <a name="C113V3" id="C113V3">3:3</a>
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. <a name="C113V4" id="C113V4">3:4</a>
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high
place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar. <a
name="C113V5" id="C113V5">3:5</a> In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night; and Elohim said, Ask what I shall give you. <a name="C113V6"
id="C113V6">3:6</a> Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my
father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth,
and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have
kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to
sit on his throne, as it is this day. <a name="C113V7" id="C113V7">3:7</a>
Now, Yahweh my Elohim, you have made your servant king instead of David my
father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go out or come
in. <a name="C113V8" id="C113V8">3:8</a> Your servant is in the midst of your
people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor
counted for multitude. <a name="C113V9" id="C113V9">3:9</a> Give your servant
therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern
between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people? <a
name="C113V10" id="C113V10">3:10</a> The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon
had asked this thing. <a name="C113V11" id="C113V11">3:11</a> Elohim said to him,
Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long
life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of
your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern
justice; <a name="C113V12" id="C113V12">3:12</a> behold, I have done according
to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart;
so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall
any arise like you. <a name="C113V13" id="C113V13">3:13</a> I have also given
you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there
shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days. <a name="C113V14"
id="C113V14">3:14</a> If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and
my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your
days. <a name="C113V15" id="C113V15">3:15</a> Solomon awoke; and behold, it
was a dream: and he came to Yerushalayim, and stood before the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace
offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. <a name="C113V16" id="C113V16">3:16</a>
Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood
before him. <a name="C113V17" id="C113V17">3:17</a> The one woman said, Oh, my
lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child
with her in the house. <a name="C113V18" id="C113V18">3:18</a> It happened the
third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and
we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two
in the house. <a name="C113V19" id="C113V19">3:19</a> This woman's child died
in the night, because she lay on it. <a name="C113V20" id="C113V20">3:20</a>
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid
slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. <a
name="C113V21" id="C113V21">3:21</a> When I rose in the morning to give my
child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the
morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore. <a name="C113V22" id="C113V22">3:22</a>
The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your
son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son.
Thus they spoke before the king. <a name="C113V23" id="C113V23">3:23</a> Then
said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the
dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the
living. <a name="C113V24" id="C113V24">3:24</a> The king said, Get me a sword.
They brought a sword before the king. <a name="C113V25" id="C113V25">3:25</a>
The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one,
and half to the other. <a name="C113V26" id="C113V26">3:26</a> Then spoke the
woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over
her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no
way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours;
divide it. <a name="C113V27" id="C113V27">3:27</a> Then the king answered,
Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is its mother. <a
name="C113V28" id="C113V28">3:28</a> All Yisrael heard of the judgment which
the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the
wisdom of Elohim was in him, to do justice.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C114V1" id="C114V1">4:1</a> King Solomon was king over all Yisrael. <a
name="C114V2" id="C114V2">4:2</a> These were the princes whom he had: Azariah
the son of Zadok, the priest; <a name="C114V3" id="C114V3">4:3</a> Elihoreph
and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud,
the recorder; <a name="C114V4" id="C114V4">4:4</a> and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; <a
name="C114V5" id="C114V5">4:5</a> and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the
officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, <i>and</i> the
king's friend; <a name="C114V6" id="C114V6">4:6</a> and Ahishar was over the
household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced
labor. <a name="C114V7" id="C114V7">4:7</a> Solomon had twelve officers over
all Yisrael, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had
to make provision for a month in the year. <a name="C114V8" id="C114V8">4:8</a>
These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; <a
name="C114V9" id="C114V9">4:9</a> Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; <a name="C114V10" id="C114V10">4:10</a> Ben
Hesed, in Arubboth (to him <i>pertained</i> Socoh, and all the land of
Hepher); <a name="C114V11" id="C114V11">4:11</a> Ben Abinadab, in all the
height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife); <a
name="C114V12" id="C114V12">4:12</a> Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and
Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel,
from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; <a name="C114V13"
id="C114V13">4:13</a> Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him <i>pertained</i>
the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; <i>even</i> to
him <i>pertained</i> the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great
cities with walls and bronze bars); <a name="C114V14" id="C114V14">4:14</a>
Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; <a name="C114V15" id="C114V15">4:15</a>
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as
wife); <a name="C114V16" id="C114V16">4:16</a> Baana the son of Hushai, in
Asher and Bealoth; <a name="C114V17" id="C114V17">4:17</a> Jehoshaphat the son
of Paruah, in Issachar; <a name="C114V18" id="C114V18">4:18</a> Shimei the son
of Ela, in Benjamin; <a name="C114V19" id="C114V19">4:19</a> Geber the son of
Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and
of Og king of Bashan; and <i>he was</i> the only officer who was in the
land. <a name="C114V20" id="C114V20">4:20</a> Yehudah and Yisrael were many as
the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making
merry. <a name="C114V21" id="C114V21">4:21</a> Solomon ruled over all the
kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border
of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his
life. <a name="C114V22" id="C114V22">4:22</a> Solomon's provision for one day
was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, <a
name="C114V23" id="C114V23">4:23</a> ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head
of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and
gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. <a name="C114V24" id="C114V24">4:24</a>
For he had dominion over all <i>the region</i> on this side the River,
from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and
he had peace on all sides around him. <a name="C114V25" id="C114V25">4:25</a>
Yehudah and Yisrael lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig
tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. <a name="C114V26"
id="C114V26">4:26</a> Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. <a name="C114V27" id="C114V27">4:27</a>
Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to
king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
<a name="C114V28" id="C114V28">4:28</a> Barley also and straw for the horses
and swift steeds brought they to the place where <i>the officers</i> were,
every man according to his duty. <a name="C114V29" id="C114V29">4:29</a> Elohim
gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great
understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. <a name="C114V30"
id="C114V30">4:30</a> Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. <a name="C114V31"
id="C114V31">4:31</a> For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the
Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his
fame was in all the nations all around. <a name="C114V32" id="C114V32">4:32</a>
He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. <a
name="C114V33" id="C114V33">4:33</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is
in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also
of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. <a
name="C114V34" id="C114V34">4:34</a> There came of all peoples to hear the
wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his
wisdom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C115V1" id="C115V1">5:1</a> Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to
Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of
his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. <a name="C115V2" id="C115V2">5:2</a>
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, <a name="C115V3" id="C115V3">5:3</a> You know
how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh
his Elohim for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put
them under the soles of his feet. <a name="C115V4" id="C115V4">5:4</a> But now
Yahweh my Elohim has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary,
nor evil occurrence. <a name="C115V5" id="C115V5">5:5</a> Behold, I purpose to
build a house for the name of Yahweh my Elohim, as Yahweh spoke to David my
father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your room, he
shall build the house for my name. <a name="C115V6" id="C115V6">5:6</a> Now
therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my
servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you hire for your
servants according to all that you shall say: for you know that there is
not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians. <a
name="C115V7" id="C115V7">5:7</a> It happened, when Hiram heard the words of
Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day,
who has given to David a wise son over this great people. <a name="C115V8"
id="C115V8">5:8</a> Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard <i>the
message</i> which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire
concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. <a name="C115V9"
id="C115V9">5:9</a> My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the
sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you
shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall
receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my
household. <a name="C115V10" id="C115V10">5:10</a> So Hiram gave Solomon
timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. <a
name="C115V11" id="C115V11">5:11</a> Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand
measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure
oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. <a name="C115V12" id="C115V12">5:12</a>
Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace
between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. <a
name="C115V13" id="C115V13">5:13</a> King Solomon raised a levy out of all
Yisrael; and the levy was thirty thousand men. <a name="C115V14" id="C115V14">5:14</a>
He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they
were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men
subject to forced labor. <a name="C115V15" id="C115V15">5:15</a> Solomon had
seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone
cutters in the mountains; <a name="C115V16" id="C115V16">5:16</a> besides
Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three
hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. <a
name="C115V17" id="C115V17">5:17</a> The king commanded, and they cut out
great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with
worked stone. <a name="C115V18" id="C115V18">5:18</a> Solomon's builders and
Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the
timber and the stones to build the house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C116V1" id="C116V1">6:1</a> It happened in the four hundred and
eightieth year after the children of Yisrael were come out of the land of
Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Yisrael, in the month
Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C116V2" id="C116V2">6:2</a> The house which king Solomon
built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty <i>cubits</i>,
and its height thirty cubits. <a name="C116V3" id="C116V3">6:3</a> The porch
before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to
the breadth of the house; <i>and</i> ten cubits was its breadth before the
house. <a name="C116V4" id="C116V4">6:4</a> For the house he made windows of
fixed lattice work. <a name="C116V5" id="C116V5">6:5</a> Against the wall of
the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all
around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side chambers
all around. <a name="C116V6" id="C116V6">6:6</a> The nethermost story was five
cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven
cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets <i>in the wall</i> of the
house all around, that <i>the beams</i> should not have hold in the walls
of the house. <a name="C116V7" id="C116V7">6:7</a> The house, when it was in
building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was
neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it
was in building. <a name="C116V8" id="C116V8">6:8</a> The door for the middle
side chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by
winding stairs into the middle <i>story</i>, and out of the middle into
the third. <a name="C116V9" id="C116V9">6:9</a> So he built the house, and
finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. <a
name="C116V10" id="C116V10">6:10</a> He built the stories against all the
house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of
cedar. <a name="C116V11" id="C116V11">6:11</a> The word of Yahweh came to
Solomon, saying, <a name="C116V12" id="C116V12">6:12</a> Concerning this house
which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my
ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I
establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. <a
name="C116V13" id="C116V13">6:13</a> I will dwell among the children of
Yisrael, and will not forsake my people Yisrael. <a name="C116V14" id="C116V14">6:14</a>
So Solomon built the house, and finished it. <a name="C116V15" id="C116V15">6:15</a>
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the
floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the
inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of
fir. <a name="C116V16" id="C116V16">6:16</a> He built twenty cubits on the
hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls
<i>of the ceiling</i>: he built <i>them</i> for it within, for an oracle,
even for the most holy place. <a name="C116V17" id="C116V17">6:17</a> The
house, that is, the temple before <i>the oracle</i>, was forty cubits <i>long</i>.
<a name="C116V18" id="C116V18">6:18</a> There was cedar on the house within,
carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
<a name="C116V19" id="C116V19">6:19</a> He prepared an oracle in the midst of
the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. <a
name="C116V20" id="C116V20">6:20</a> Within the oracle was <i>a space of</i>
twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits
in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar
with cedar. <a name="C116V21" id="C116V21">6:21</a> So Solomon overlaid the
house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the
oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. <a name="C116V22" id="C116V22">6:22</a>
The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished:
also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. <a
name="C116V23" id="C116V23">6:23</a> In the oracle he made two cherubim of
olive wood, each ten cubits high. <a name="C116V24" id="C116V24">6:24</a> Five
cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of
the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part
of the other were ten cubits. <a name="C116V25" id="C116V25">6:25</a> The
other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one
form. <a name="C116V26" id="C116V26">6:26</a> The height of the one cherub was
ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. <a name="C116V27" id="C116V27">6:27</a>
He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim
were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall,
and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings
touched one another in the midst of the house. <a name="C116V28" id="C116V28">6:28</a>
He overlaid the cherubim with gold. <a name="C116V29" id="C116V29">6:29</a> He
carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim
and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside. <a name="C116V30"
id="C116V30">6:30</a> The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside
and outside. <a name="C116V31" id="C116V31">6:31</a> For the entrance of the
oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel <i>and</i> door posts were
a fifth part <i>of the wall</i>. <a name="C116V32" id="C116V32">6:32</a> So <i>he
made</i> two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and
he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees. <a name="C116V33"
id="C116V33">6:33</a> So also made he for the entrance of the temple door
posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part <i>of the wall</i>; <a
name="C116V34" id="C116V34">6:34</a> and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves
of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were
folding. <a name="C116V35" id="C116V35">6:35</a> He carved <i>thereon</i>
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold
fitted on the engraved work. <a name="C116V36" id="C116V36">6:36</a> He built
the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar
beams. <a name="C116V37" id="C116V37">6:37</a> In the fourth year was the
foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv. <a name="C116V38"
id="C116V38">6:38</a> In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and
according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C117V1" id="C117V1">7:1</a> Solomon was building his own house
thirteen years, and he finished all his house. <a name="C117V2" id="C117V2">7:2</a>
For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one
hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty
cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. <a
name="C117V3" id="C117V3">7:3</a> It was covered with cedar above over the
forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. <a
name="C117V4" id="C117V4">7:4</a> There were beams in three rows, and window
was over against window in three ranks. <a name="C117V5" id="C117V5">7:5</a>
All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over
against window in three ranks. <a name="C117V6" id="C117V6">7:6</a> He made
the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty
cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
<a name="C117V7" id="C117V7">7:7</a> He made the porch of the throne where he
was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar
from floor to floor. <a name="C117V8" id="C117V8">7:8</a> His house where he
was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He
made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife),
like this porch. <a name="C117V9" id="C117V9">7:9</a> All these were of costly
stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside
and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside
to the great court. <a name="C117V10" id="C117V10">7:10</a> The foundation was
of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of
eight cubits. <a name="C117V11" id="C117V11">7:11</a> Above were costly
stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. <a
name="C117V12" id="C117V12">7:12</a> The great court around had three courses
of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the
house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. <a name="C117V13" id="C117V13">7:13</a>
King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. <a name="C117V14" id="C117V14">7:14</a>
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a
man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and
understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king
Solomon, and performed all his work. <a name="C117V15" id="C117V15">7:15</a>
For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece:
and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about. <a name="C117V16"
id="C117V16">7:16</a> He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the
tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and
the height of the other capital was five cubits. <a name="C117V17" id="C117V17">7:17</a>
There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital,
and seven for the other capital. <a name="C117V18" id="C117V18">7:18</a> So he
made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to
cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for
the other capital. <a name="C117V19" id="C117V19">7:19</a> The capitals that
were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four
cubits. <a name="C117V20" id="C117V20">7:20</a> There were capitals above also
on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and
the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows around on the other capital. <a
name="C117V21" id="C117V21">7:21</a> He set up the pillars at the porch of the
temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he
set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. <a name="C117V22"
id="C117V22">7:22</a> On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the
work of the pillars finished. <a name="C117V23" id="C117V23">7:23</a> He made
the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and its
height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. <a
name="C117V24" id="C117V24">7:24</a> Under its brim around there were buds
which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds were in
two rows, cast when it was cast. <a name="C117V25" id="C117V25">7:25</a> It
stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking
toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking
toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder
parts were inward. <a name="C117V26" id="C117V26">7:26</a> It was a
handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like
the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. <a name="C117V27"
id="C117V27">7:27</a> He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the
length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its
height. <a name="C117V28" id="C117V28">7:28</a> The work of the bases was on
this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; <a
name="C117V29" id="C117V29">7:29</a> and on the panels that were between the
ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a
pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging
work. <a name="C117V30" id="C117V30">7:30</a> Every base had four bronze
wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath
the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. <a
name="C117V31" id="C117V31">7:31</a> The mouth of it within the capital and
above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a
cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels
were foursquare, not round. <a name="C117V32" id="C117V32">7:32</a> The four
wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the
base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. <a
name="C117V33" id="C117V33">7:33</a> The work of the wheels was like the work
of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and
their naves, were all molten. <a name="C117V34" id="C117V34">7:34</a> There
were four supports at the four corners of each base: its supports were of
the base itself. <a name="C117V35" id="C117V35">7:35</a> In the top of the
base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the
base its stays and its panels were of the same. <a name="C117V36" id="C117V36">7:36</a>
On the plates of its stays, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim,
lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all
around. <a name="C117V37" id="C117V37">7:37</a> After this manner he made the
ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. <a
name="C117V38" id="C117V38">7:38</a> He made ten basins of brass: one basin
contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of
the ten bases one basin. <a name="C117V39" id="C117V39">7:39</a> He set the
bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of
the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward,
toward the south. <a name="C117V40" id="C117V40">7:40</a> Hiram made the
basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all
the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh: <a
name="C117V41" id="C117V41">7:41</a> the two pillars, and the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to
cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
<a name="C117V42" id="C117V42">7:42</a> and the four hundred pomegranates for
the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the
two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; <a name="C117V43"
id="C117V43">7:43</a> and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; <a
name="C117V44" id="C117V44">7:44</a> and the one sea, and the twelve oxen
under the sea; <a name="C117V45" id="C117V45">7:45</a> and the pots, and the
shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king
Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass. <a name="C117V46"
id="C117V46">7:46</a> In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. <a name="C117V47" id="C117V47">7:47</a>
Solomon left all the vessels <i>unweighed</i>, because they were exceeding
many: the weight of the brass could not be found out. <a name="C117V48"
id="C117V48">7:48</a> Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of
Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of
gold; <a name="C117V49" id="C117V49">7:49</a> and the lampstands, five on the
right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; <a name="C117V50" id="C117V50">7:50</a>
and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the
fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner
house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, <i>to wit</i>,
of the temple, of gold. <a name="C117V51" id="C117V51">7:51</a> Thus all the
work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon
brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, <i>even</i>
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries
of the house of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C118V1" id="C118V1">8:1</a> Then Solomon assembled the elders of
Yisrael, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
of the children of Yisrael, to king Solomon in Yerushalayim, to bring up the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. <a
name="C118V2" id="C118V2">8:2</a> All the men of Yisrael assembled themselves
to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh
month. <a name="C118V3" id="C118V3">8:3</a> All the elders of Yisrael came, and
the priests took up the ark. <a name="C118V4" id="C118V4">8:4</a> They brought
up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels
that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring
up. <a name="C118V5" id="C118V5">8:5</a> King Solomon and all the congregation
of Yisrael, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark,
sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for
multitude. <a name="C118V6" id="C118V6">8:6</a> The priests brought in the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to
the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. <a name="C118V7"
id="C118V7">8:7</a> For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. <a
name="C118V8" id="C118V8">8:8</a> The poles were so long that the ends of the
poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not
seen outside: and there they are to this day. <a name="C118V9" id="C118V9">8:9</a>
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moshe put
there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Yisrael,
when they came out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C118V10" id="C118V10">8:10</a>
It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that
the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, <a name="C118V11" id="C118V11">8:11</a>
so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud;
for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. <a name="C118V12"
id="C118V12">8:12</a> Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness. <a name="C118V13" id="C118V13">8:13</a> I have
surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in
forever. <a name="C118V14" id="C118V14">8:14</a> The king turned his face
about, and blessed all the assembly of Yisrael: and all the assembly of
Yisrael stood. <a name="C118V15" id="C118V15">8:15</a> He said, Blessed be
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, who spoke with his mouth to David your father,
and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying, <a name="C118V16" id="C118V16">8:16</a>
Since the day that I brought forth my people Yisrael out of Egypt, I chose
no city out of all the tribes of Yisrael to build a house, that my name
might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Yisrael. <a
name="C118V17" id="C118V17">8:17</a> Now it was in the heart of David my
father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a
name="C118V18" id="C118V18">8:18</a> But Yahweh said to David my father,
Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well
that it was in your heart: <a name="C118V19" id="C118V19">8:19</a>
nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come
forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name. <a
name="C118V20" id="C118V20">8:20</a> Yahweh has established his word that he
spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the
throne of Yisrael, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the
name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C118V21" id="C118V21">8:21</a>
There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh,
which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of
Egypt. <a name="C118V22" id="C118V22">8:22</a> Solomon stood before the altar
of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Yisrael, and spread forth
his hands toward heaven; <a name="C118V23" id="C118V23">8:23</a> and he said,
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, there is no Elohim like you, in heaven above, or
on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your
servants, who walk before you with all their heart; <a name="C118V24"
id="C118V24">8:24</a> who have kept with your servant David my father that
which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have
fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. <a name="C118V25" id="C118V25">8:25</a>
Now therefore, Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, keep with your servant David my
father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you
a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Yisrael, if only your children
take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me. <a
name="C118V26" id="C118V26">8:26</a> Now therefore, Elohim of Yisrael, Please let
your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. <a
name="C118V27" id="C118V27">8:27</a> But will Elohim in very deed dwell on the
earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how
much less this house that I have built! <a name="C118V28" id="C118V28">8:28</a>
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication,
Yahweh my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant
prays before you this day; <a name="C118V29" id="C118V29">8:29</a> that your
eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of
which you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which
your servant shall pray toward this place. <a name="C118V30" id="C118V30">8:30</a>
Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Yisrael,
when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling
place; and when you hear, forgive. <a name="C118V31" id="C118V31">8:31</a> If
a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to
swear, and he come <i>and</i> swear before your altar in this house; <a
name="C118V32" id="C118V32">8:32</a> then hear you in heaven, and do, and
judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own
head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness. <a name="C118V33" id="C118V33">8:33</a> When your people Yisrael
are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if
they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make
supplication to you in this house: <a name="C118V34" id="C118V34">8:34</a>
then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Yisrael, and
bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. <a
name="C118V35" id="C118V35">8:35</a> When the sky is shut up, and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this
place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict
them: <a name="C118V36" id="C118V36">8:36</a> then hear in heaven, and forgive
the sin of your servants, and of your people Yisrael, when you teach them
the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which
you have given to your people for an inheritance. <a name="C118V37"
id="C118V37">8:37</a> If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, if there is blight <i>or</i> mildew, locust <i>or</i>
caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatever plague, whatever sickness there be; <a name="C118V38" id="C118V38">8:38</a>
whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, <i>or</i> by all your
people Yisrael, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and
spread forth his hands toward this house: <a name="C118V39" id="C118V39">8:39</a>
then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render
to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you,
even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) <a name="C118V40"
id="C118V40">8:40</a> that they may fear you all the days that they live in
the land which you gave to our fathers. <a name="C118V41" id="C118V41">8:41</a>
Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisrael, when
he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake <a name="C118V42"
id="C118V42">8:42</a> (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your
mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray
toward this house; <a name="C118V43" id="C118V43">8:43</a> hear in heaven,
your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to
you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear
you, as does your people Yisrael, and that they may know that this house
which I have built is called by my name. <a name="C118V44" id="C118V44">8:44</a>
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you
shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have
chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; <a
name="C118V45" id="C118V45">8:45</a> then hear in heaven their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause. <a name="C118V46" id="C118V46">8:46</a>
If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are
angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them
away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; <a name="C118V47"
id="C118V47">8:47</a> yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where
they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in
the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; <a name="C118V48" id="C118V48">8:48</a>
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the
land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward
their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have
chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: <a name="C118V49"
id="C118V49">8:49</a> then hear you their prayer and their supplication in
heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; <a name="C118V50"
id="C118V50">8:50</a> and forgive your people who have sinned against you,
and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you;
and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they
may have compassion on them <a name="C118V51" id="C118V51">8:51</a> (for they
are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of
Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); <a name="C118V52" id="C118V52">8:52</a>
that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the
supplication of your people Yisrael, to listen to them whenever they cry to
you. <a name="C118V53" id="C118V53">8:53</a> For you did separate them from
among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke
by Moshe your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C118V54" id="C118V54">8:54</a> It was so, that when Solomon
had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he
arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his
hands spread forth toward heaven. <a name="C118V55" id="C118V55">8:55</a> He
stood, and blessed all the assembly of Yisrael with a loud voice, saying,
<a name="C118V56" id="C118V56">8:56</a> Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest
to his people Yisrael, according to all that he promised: there has not
failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moshe his
servant. <a name="C118V57" id="C118V57">8:57</a> Yahweh our Elohim be with us, as
he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us; <a
name="C118V58" id="C118V58">8:58</a> that he may incline our hearts to him, to
walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and
his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. <a name="C118V59" id="C118V59">8:59</a>
Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be
near to Yahweh our Elohim day and night, that he maintain the cause of his
servant, and the cause of his people Yisrael, as every day shall require;
<a name="C118V60" id="C118V60">8:60</a> that all the peoples of the earth may
know that Yahweh, he is Elohim; there is none else. <a name="C118V61" id="C118V61">8:61</a>
Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our Elohim, to walk in his
statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. <a name="C118V62"
id="C118V62">8:62</a> The king, and all Yisrael with him, offered sacrifice
before Yahweh. <a name="C118V63" id="C118V63">8:63</a> Solomon offered for the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty
thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the
king and all the children of Yisrael dedicated the house of Yahweh. <a
name="C118V64" id="C118V64">8:64</a> The same day did the king make the middle
of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he
offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the
peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too
little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat
of the peace offerings. <a name="C118V65" id="C118V65">8:65</a> So Solomon
held the feast at that time, and all Yisrael with him, a great assembly,
from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our Elohim,
seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. <a name="C118V66" id="C118V66">8:66</a>
On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and
went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that
Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Yisrael his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C119V1" id="C119V1">9:1</a> It happened, when Solomon had finished
the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all
Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, <a name="C119V2" id="C119V2">9:2</a>
that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him
at Gibeon. <a name="C119V3" id="C119V3">9:3</a> Yahweh said to him, I have
heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I
have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there
forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. <a
name="C119V4" id="C119V4">9:4</a> As for you, if you will walk before me, as
David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and
my ordinances; <a name="C119V5" id="C119V5">9:5</a> then I will establish the
throne of your kingdom over Yisrael forever, according as I promised to
David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of
Yisrael. <a name="C119V6" id="C119V6">9:6</a> But if you shall turn away from
following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my
statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods,
and worship them; <a name="C119V7" id="C119V7">9:7</a> then will I cut off
Yisrael out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I
have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Yisrael shall
be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. <a name="C119V8" id="C119V8">9:8</a>
Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be
astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus
to this land, and to this house? <a name="C119V9" id="C119V9">9:9</a> and they
shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their Elohim, who brought forth
their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and
worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this
evil on them. <a name="C119V10" id="C119V10">9:10</a> It happened at the end
of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of
Yahweh and the king's house <a name="C119V11" id="C119V11">9:11</a> (now Hiram
the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and
with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram
twenty cities in the land of Galilee. <a name="C119V12" id="C119V12">9:12</a>
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him;
and they didn't please him. <a name="C119V13" id="C119V13">9:13</a> He said,
What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He called them
the land of Cabul to this day. <a name="C119V14" id="C119V14">9:14</a> Hiram
sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold. <a name="C119V15"
id="C119V15">9:15</a> This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon
raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and
the wall of Yerushalayim, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. <a name="C119V16"
id="C119V16">9:16</a> Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer,
and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city,
and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife. <a name="C119V17"
id="C119V17">9:17</a> Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower, <a
name="C119V18" id="C119V18">9:18</a> and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness,
in the land, <a name="C119V19" id="C119V19">9:19</a> and all the storage
cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities
for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure
in Yerushalayim, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. <a
name="C119V20" id="C119V20">9:20</a> As for all the people who were left of
the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, who were not of the children of Yisrael; <a name="C119V21"
id="C119V21">9:21</a> their children who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Yisrael were not able utterly to destroy, of them did
Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. <a name="C119V22"
id="C119V22">9:22</a> But of the children of Yisrael did Solomon make no
bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his
princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
<a name="C119V23" id="C119V23">9:23</a> These were the chief officers who were
over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who
labored in the work. <a name="C119V24" id="C119V24">9:24</a> But Pharaoh's
daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which <i>Solomon</i>
had built for her: then did he build Millo. <a name="C119V25" id="C119V25">9:25</a>
Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings
on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, <i>on
the altar</i> that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house. <a
name="C119V26" id="C119V26">9:26</a> King Solomon made a navy of ships in
Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the <a href="#N111">Red
Sea</a>, in the land of Edom. <a name="C119V27" id="C119V27">9:27</a> Hiram
sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with
the servants of Solomon. <a name="C119V28" id="C119V28">9:28</a> They came to
Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and
brought it to king Solomon.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N111" id="N111">[1]</a> <a href="#C119V26">back to 9:26</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1110V1" id="C1110V1">10:1</a> When the queen of Sheba heard of the
fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with
hard questions. <a name="C1110V2" id="C1110V2">10:2</a> She came to Yerushalayim
with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold,
and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him
of all that was in her heart. <a name="C1110V3" id="C1110V3">10:3</a> Solomon
told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king
which he didn't tell her. <a name="C1110V4" id="C1110V4">10:4</a> When the
queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he
had built, <a name="C1110V5" id="C1110V5">10:5</a> and the food of his table,
and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to
the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her. <a name="C1110V6"
id="C1110V6">10:6</a> She said to the king, It was a true report that I
heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. <a name="C1110V7"
id="C1110V7">10:7</a> However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and
my eyes had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and
prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. <a name="C1110V8" id="C1110V8">10:8</a>
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually
before you, <i>and</i> who hear your wisdom. <a name="C1110V9" id="C1110V9">10:9</a>
Blessed be Yahweh your Elohim, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne
of Yisrael: because Yahweh loved Yisrael forever, therefore made he you
king, to do justice and righteousness. <a name="C1110V10" id="C1110V10">10:10</a>
She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very
great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of
spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. <a
name="C1110V11" id="C1110V11">10:11</a> The navy also of Hiram, that brought
gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and
precious stones. <a name="C1110V12" id="C1110V12">10:12</a> The king made of
the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house,
harps also and stringed instruments for the singers: there came no such
almug trees, nor were seen, to this day. <a name="C1110V13" id="C1110V13">10:13</a>
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she
asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she
turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. <a name="C1110V14"
id="C1110V14">10:14</a> Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one
year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold, <a name="C1110V15"
id="C1110V15">10:15</a> besides <i>that which</i> the traders <i>brought</i>,
and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed
people, and of the governors of the country. <a name="C1110V16" id="C1110V16">10:16</a>
King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred <i>shekels</i>
of gold went to one buckler. <a name="C1110V17" id="C1110V17">10:17</a> <i>he
made</i> three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to
one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
<a name="C1110V18" id="C1110V18">10:18</a> Moreover the king made a great
throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. <a name="C1110V19"
id="C1110V19">10:19</a> There were six steps to the throne, and the top of
the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the
place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. <a
name="C1110V20" id="C1110V20">10:20</a> Twelve lions stood there on the one
side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in
any kingdom. <a name="C1110V21" id="C1110V21">10:21</a> All king Solomon's
drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the
forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing
accounted of in the days of Solomon. <a name="C1110V22" id="C1110V22">10:22</a>
For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once
every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver,
ivory, and apes, and peacocks. <a name="C1110V23" id="C1110V23">10:23</a> So
king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
<a name="C1110V24" id="C1110V24">10:24</a> All the earth sought the presence
of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which Elohim had put in his heart. <a
name="C1110V25" id="C1110V25">10:25</a> They brought every man his tribute,
vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. <a name="C1110V26"
id="C1110V26">10:26</a> Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and
he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1110V27" id="C1110V27">10:27</a> The king made silver to be in
Yerushalayim as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that
are in the lowland, for abundance. <a name="C1110V28" id="C1110V28">10:28</a>
The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's
merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. <a name="C1110V29"
id="C1110V29">10:29</a> A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six
hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and
so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they
bring them out by their means.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1111V1" id="C1111V1">11:1</a> Now king Solomon loved many foreign
women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; <a name="C1111V2" id="C1111V2">11:2</a>
of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Yisrael, You
shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely
they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these
in love. <a name="C1111V3" id="C1111V3">11:3</a> He had seven hundred wives,
princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his
heart. <a name="C1111V4" id="C1111V4">11:4</a> For it happened, when Solomon
was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his
heart was not perfect with Yahweh his Elohim, as was the heart of David his
father. <a name="C1111V5" id="C1111V5">11:5</a> For Solomon went after
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination
of the Ammonites. <a name="C1111V6" id="C1111V6">11:6</a> Solomon did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh,
as did David his father. <a name="C1111V7" id="C1111V7">11:7</a> Then did
Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the
mountain that is before Yerushalayim, and for Molech the abomination of the
children of Ammon. <a name="C1111V8" id="C1111V8">11:8</a> So did he for all
his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. <a
name="C1111V9" id="C1111V9">11:9</a> Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because
his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, who had appeared
to him twice, <a name="C1111V10" id="C1111V10">11:10</a> and had commanded him
concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he
didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded. <a name="C1111V11" id="C1111V11">11:11</a>
Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you
have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I
will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
<a name="C1111V12" id="C1111V12">11:12</a> Notwithstanding in your days I will
not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the
hand of your son. <a name="C1111V13" id="C1111V13">11:13</a> However I will
not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for
David my servant's sake, and for Yerushalayim's sake which I have chosen. <a
name="C1111V14" id="C1111V14">11:14</a> Yahweh raised up an adversary to
Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom. <a
name="C1111V15" id="C1111V15">11:15</a> For it happened, when David was in
Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and
had struck every male in Edom <a name="C1111V16" id="C1111V16">11:16</a> (for
Joab and all Yisrael remained there six months, until he had cut off every
male in Edom); <a name="C1111V17" id="C1111V17">11:17</a> that Hadad fled, he
and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt,
Hadad being yet a little child. <a name="C1111V18" id="C1111V18">11:18</a>
They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them
out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave
him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land. <a name="C1111V19"
id="C1111V19">11:19</a> Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so
that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
Tahpenes the queen. <a name="C1111V20" id="C1111V20">11:20</a> The sister of
Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's
house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh. <a
name="C1111V21" id="C1111V21">11:21</a> When Hadad heard in Egypt that David
slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead,
Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country. <a
name="C1111V22" id="C1111V22">11:22</a> Then Pharaoh said to him, But what
have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?
He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart. <a name="C1111V23"
id="C1111V23">11:23</a> Elohim raised up <i>another</i> adversary to him, Rezon
the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. <a
name="C1111V24" id="C1111V24">11:24</a> He gathered men to him, and became
captain over a troop, when David killed them <i>of Zobah</i>: and they
went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus. <a
name="C1111V25" id="C1111V25">11:25</a> He was an adversary to Yisrael all the
days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad <i>did</i>: and he
abhorred Yisrael, and reigned over Syria. <a name="C1111V26" id="C1111V26">11:26</a>
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon,
whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand
against the king. <a name="C1111V27" id="C1111V27">11:27</a> This was the
reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo,
and repaired the breach of the city of David his father. <a name="C1111V28"
id="C1111V28">11:28</a> The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and
Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in
charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph. <a name="C1111V29"
id="C1111V29">11:29</a> It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of
Yerushalayim, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now
<i>Ahijah</i> had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone
in the field. <a name="C1111V30" id="C1111V30">11:30</a> Ahijah laid hold of
the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces. <a
name="C1111V31" id="C1111V31">11:31</a> He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces;
for thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Behold, I will tear the kingdom
out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you <a
name="C1111V32" id="C1111V32">11:32</a> (but he shall have one tribe, for my
servant David's sake and for Yerushalayim's sake, the city which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael); <a name="C1111V33" id="C1111V33">11:33</a>
because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of
the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that
which is right in my eyes, and <i>to keep</i> my statutes and my
ordinances, as did David his father. <a name="C1111V34" id="C1111V34">11:34</a>
However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make
him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I
chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes; <a name="C1111V35"
id="C1111V35">11:35</a> but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand,
and will give it to you, even ten tribes. <a name="C1111V36" id="C1111V36">11:36</a>
To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp
always before me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen me to put my
name there. <a name="C1111V37" id="C1111V37">11:37</a> I will take you, and
you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king
over Yisrael. <a name="C1111V38" id="C1111V38">11:38</a> It shall be, if you
will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do
that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a
sure house, as I built for David, and will give Yisrael to you. <a
name="C1111V39" id="C1111V39">11:39</a> I will for this afflict the seed of
David, but not forever. <a name="C1111V40" id="C1111V40">11:40</a> Solomon
sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into
Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of
Solomon. <a name="C1111V41" id="C1111V41">11:41</a> Now the rest of the acts
of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in
the book of the acts of Solomon? <a name="C1111V42" id="C1111V42">11:42</a>
The time that Solomon reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisrael was forty
years. <a name="C1111V43" id="C1111V43">11:43</a> Solomon slept with his
fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his
son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1112V1" id="C1112V1">12:1</a> Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all
Yisrael were come to Shechem to make him king. <a name="C1112V2" id="C1112V2">12:2</a>
It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in
Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam
lived in Egypt, <a name="C1112V3" id="C1112V3">12:3</a> and they sent and
called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Yisrael came, and spoke
to Rehoboam, saying, <a name="C1112V4" id="C1112V4">12:4</a> Your father made
our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your
father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve
you. <a name="C1112V5" id="C1112V5">12:5</a> He said to them, Depart yet for
three days, then come again to me. The people departed. <a name="C1112V6"
id="C1112V6">12:6</a> King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
give you me to return answer to this people? <a name="C1112V7" id="C1112V7">12:7</a>
They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people this
day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them,
then they will be your servants forever. <a name="C1112V8" id="C1112V8">12:8</a>
But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and
took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood
before him. <a name="C1112V9" id="C1112V9">12:9</a> He said to them, What
counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have
spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us
lighter? <a name="C1112V10" id="C1112V10">12:10</a> The young men who had
grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you shall tell this people
who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it
lighter to us; thus you shall speak to them, My little finger is thicker
than my father's waist. <a name="C1112V11" id="C1112V11">12:11</a> Now whereas
my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my
father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
<a name="C1112V12" id="C1112V12">12:12</a> So Jeroboam and all the people came
to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the
third day. <a name="C1112V13" id="C1112V13">12:13</a> The king answered the
people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had
given him, <a name="C1112V14" id="C1112V14">12:14</a> and spoke to them after
the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but
I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions. <a name="C1112V15" id="C1112V15">12:15</a> So the
king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of
Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. <a name="C1112V16" id="C1112V16">12:16</a>
When all Yisrael saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people
answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, Yisrael: now see to your
own house, David. So Yisrael departed to their tents. <a name="C1112V17"
id="C1112V17">12:17</a> But as for the children of Yisrael who lived in the
cities of Yehudah, Rehoboam reigned over them. <a name="C1112V18" id="C1112V18">12:18</a>
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced
labor; and all Yisrael stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made
speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1112V19"
id="C1112V19">12:19</a> So Yisrael rebelled against the house of David to
this day. <a name="C1112V20" id="C1112V20">12:20</a> It happened, when all
Yisrael heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to
the congregation, and made him king over all Yisrael: there was none who
followed the house of David, but the tribe of Yehudah only. <a name="C1112V21"
id="C1112V21">12:21</a> When Rehoboam was come to Yerushalayim, he assembled
all the house of Yehudah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty
thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of
Yisrael, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. <a
name="C1112V22" id="C1112V22">12:22</a> But the word of Elohim came to Shemaiah
the man of Elohim, saying, <a name="C1112V23" id="C1112V23">12:23</a> Speak to
Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Yehudah, and to all the house of Yehudah
and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, <a name="C1112V24"
id="C1112V24">12:24</a> Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight
against your brothers the children of Yisrael: return every man to his
house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh,
and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh. <a
name="C1112V25" id="C1112V25">12:25</a> Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the
hill country of Ephraim, and lived therein; and he went out from there,
and built Penuel. <a name="C1112V26" id="C1112V26">12:26</a> Jeroboam said in
his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of David: <a
name="C1112V27" id="C1112V27">12:27</a> if this people go up to offer
sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Yerushalayim, then will the heart of
this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Yehudah; and
they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Yehudah. <a name="C1112V28"
id="C1112V28">12:28</a> Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves
of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to
Yerushalayim: see your gods, Yisrael, which brought you up out of the land of
Egypt. <a name="C1112V29" id="C1112V29">12:29</a> He set the one in Bethel,
and the other put he in Dan. <a name="C1112V30" id="C1112V30">12:30</a> This
thing became a sin; for the people went <i>to worship</i> before the one,
even to Dan. <a name="C1112V31" id="C1112V31">12:31</a> He made houses of high
places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the
sons of Levi. <a name="C1112V32" id="C1112V32">12:32</a> Jeroboam ordained a
feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the
feast that is in Yehudah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the
priests of the high places that he had made. <a name="C1112V33" id="C1112V33">12:33</a>
He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day
in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own
heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Yisrael, and went up to
the altar, to burn incense.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1113V1" id="C1113V1">13:1</a> Behold, there came a man of Elohim out of
Yehudah by the word of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the
altar to burn incense. <a name="C1113V2" id="C1113V2">13:2</a> He cried
against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, altar, altar, thus says
Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name;
and on you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn
incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you. <a name="C1113V3"
id="C1113V3">13:3</a> He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign
which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes
that are on it shall be poured out. <a name="C1113V4" id="C1113V4">13:4</a> It
happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of Elohim, which he cried
against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the
altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth against him,
dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him. <a name="C1113V5"
id="C1113V5">13:5</a> The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from
the altar, according to the sign which the man of Elohim had given by the
word of Yahweh. <a name="C1113V6" id="C1113V6">13:6</a> The king answered the
man of Elohim, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh your Elohim, and pray for me,
that my hand may be restored me again. The man of Elohim entreated Yahweh,
and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
<a name="C1113V7" id="C1113V7">13:7</a> The king said to the man of Elohim, Come
home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward. <a
name="C1113V8" id="C1113V8">13:8</a> The man of Elohim said to the king, If you
will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I
eat bread nor drink water in this place; <a name="C1113V9" id="C1113V9">13:9</a>
for so was it commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no
bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came. <a
name="C1113V10" id="C1113V10">13:10</a> So he went another way, and didn't
return by the way that he came to Bethel. <a name="C1113V11" id="C1113V11">13:11</a>
Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and
told him all the works that the man of Elohim had done that day in Bethel:
the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their
father. <a name="C1113V12" id="C1113V12">13:12</a> Their father said to them,
Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of Elohim went,
who came from Yehudah. <a name="C1113V13" id="C1113V13">13:13</a> He said to his
sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode
thereon. <a name="C1113V14" id="C1113V14">13:14</a> He went after the man of
Elohim, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the
man of Elohim who came from Yehudah? He said, I am. <a name="C1113V15" id="C1113V15">13:15</a>
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread. <a name="C1113V16"
id="C1113V16">13:16</a> He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with
you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place: <a
name="C1113V17" id="C1113V17">13:17</a> for it was said to me by the word of
Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go
by the way that you came. <a name="C1113V18" id="C1113V18">13:18</a> He said
to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the
word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he
may eat bread and drink water. <i>But</i> he lied to him. <a name="C1113V19"
id="C1113V19">13:19</a> So he went back with him, and ate bread in his
house, and drank water. <a name="C1113V20" id="C1113V20">13:20</a> It
happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the
prophet who brought him back; <a name="C1113V21" id="C1113V21">13:21</a> and
he cried to the man of Elohim who came from Yehudah, saying, Thus says Yahweh,
Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not
kept the commandment which Yahweh your Elohim commanded you, <a name="C1113V22"
id="C1113V22">13:22</a> but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water
in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water;
your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers. <a name="C1113V23"
id="C1113V23">13:23</a> It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he
had drunk, that he saddled for him the donkey, <i>to wit</i>, for the
prophet whom he had brought back. <a name="C1113V24" id="C1113V24">13:24</a>
When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: and his body
was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the lion also stood by
the body. <a name="C1113V25" id="C1113V25">13:25</a> Behold, men passed by,
and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and
they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. <a
name="C1113V26" id="C1113V26">13:26</a> When the prophet who brought him back
from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of Elohim, who was
disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to
the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke to him. <a name="C1113V27" id="C1113V27">13:27</a> He
spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They saddled it. <a
name="C1113V28" id="C1113V28">13:28</a> He went and found his body cast in the
way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not
eaten the body, nor torn the donkey. <a name="C1113V29" id="C1113V29">13:29</a>
The prophet took up the body of the man of Elohim, and laid it on the donkey,
and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn,
and to bury him. <a name="C1113V30" id="C1113V30">13:30</a> He laid his body
in his own grave; and they mourned over him, <i>saying</i>, Alas, my
brother! <a name="C1113V31" id="C1113V31">13:31</a> It happened, after he had
buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury
me in the tomb in which the man of Elohim is buried; lay my bones beside his
bones. <a name="C1113V32" id="C1113V32">13:32</a> For the saying which he
cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all
the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Shomron, shall
surely happen. <a name="C1113V33" id="C1113V33">13:33</a> After this thing
Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made again from among all
the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places. <a name="C1113V34"
id="C1113V34">13:34</a> This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even
to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1114V1" id="C1114V1">14:1</a> At that time Abijah the son of
Jeroboam fell sick. <a name="C1114V2" id="C1114V2">14:2</a> Jeroboam said to
his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be
the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
<a name="C1114V3" id="C1114V3">14:3</a> Take with you ten loaves, and cakes,
and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of
the child. <a name="C1114V4" id="C1114V4">14:4</a> Jeroboam's wife did so, and
arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah
could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. <a name="C1114V5"
id="C1114V5">14:5</a> Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus
you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign
herself to be another woman. <a name="C1114V6" id="C1114V6">14:6</a> It was
so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door,
that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be
another? for I am sent to you with heavy news. <a name="C1114V7" id="C1114V7">14:7</a>
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: Because I exalted
you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Yisrael, <a
name="C1114V8" id="C1114V8">14:8</a> and tore the kingdom away from the house
of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David,
who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do
that only which was right in my eyes, <a name="C1114V9" id="C1114V9">14:9</a>
but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made
you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast
me behind your back: <a name="C1114V10" id="C1114V10">14:10</a> therefore,
behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from
Jeroboam everyone who <a href="#N112">urinates on a wall,</a> him who is
shut up and him who is left at large in Yisrael, and will utterly sweep
away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it be all
gone. <a name="C1114V11" id="C1114V11">14:11</a> Him who dies of Jeroboam in
the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds
of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it. <a name="C1114V12" id="C1114V12">14:12</a>
Arise you therefore, get you to your house: <i>and</i> when your feet
enter into the city, the child shall die. <a name="C1114V13" id="C1114V13">14:13</a>
All Yisrael shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam
shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing
toward Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, in the house of Jeroboam. <a
name="C1114V14" id="C1114V14">14:14</a> Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a
king over Yisrael, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now. <a name="C1114V15" id="C1114V15">14:15</a> For Yahweh will
strike Yisrael, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up
Yisrael out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will
scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim,
provoking Yahweh to anger. <a name="C1114V16" id="C1114V16">14:16</a> He will
give Yisrael up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and
with which he has made Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1114V17" id="C1114V17">14:17</a>
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: <i>and</i> as she
came to the threshold of the house, the child died. <a name="C1114V18"
id="C1114V18">14:18</a> All Yisrael buried him, and mourned for him,
according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the
prophet. <a name="C1114V19" id="C1114V19">14:19</a> The rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1114V20"
id="C1114V20">14:20</a> The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty
years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his
place. <a name="C1114V21" id="C1114V21">14:21</a> Rehoboam the son of Solomon
reigned in Yehudah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which Yahweh had
chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, to put his name there: and his
mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. <a name="C1114V22" id="C1114V22">14:22</a>
Yehudah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked
him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their
fathers had done. <a name="C1114V23" id="C1114V23">14:23</a> For they also
built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and
under every green tree; <a name="C1114V24" id="C1114V24">14:24</a> and there
were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of
Yisrael. <a name="C1114V25" id="C1114V25">14:25</a> It happened in the fifth
year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Yerushalayim; <a name="C1114V26" id="C1114V26">14:26</a> and he took away the
treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house;
he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which
Solomon had made. <a name="C1114V27" id="C1114V27">14:27</a> King Rehoboam
made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of
the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. <a
name="C1114V28" id="C1114V28">14:28</a> It was so, that as often as the king
went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back
into the guard chamber. <a name="C1114V29" id="C1114V29">14:29</a> Now the
rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1114V30"
id="C1114V30">14:30</a> There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually. <a name="C1114V31" id="C1114V31">14:31</a> Rehoboam slept with
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his
mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his
place.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N112" id="N112">[2]</a> <a href="#C1114V10">back to 14:10</a> or,
male
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1115V1" id="C1115V1">15:1</a> Now in the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Yehudah. <a name="C1115V2"
id="C1115V2">15:2</a> Three years reigned he in Yerushalayim: and his mother's
name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <a name="C1115V3" id="C1115V3">15:3</a>
He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and
his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his Elohim, as the heart of David his
father. <a name="C1115V4" id="C1115V4">15:4</a> Nevertheless for David's sake
did Yahweh his Elohim give him a lamp in Yerushalayim, to set up his son after
him, and to establish Yerushalayim; <a name="C1115V5" id="C1115V5">15:5</a>
because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't
turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life,
except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. <a name="C1115V6" id="C1115V6">15:6</a>
Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
<a name="C1115V7" id="C1115V7">15:7</a> The rest of the acts of Abijam, and
all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yehudah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. <a name="C1115V8"
id="C1115V8">15:8</a> Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1115V9"
id="C1115V9">15:9</a> In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Yisrael began
Asa to reign over Yehudah. <a name="C1115V10" id="C1115V10">15:10</a> Forty-one
years reigned he in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Maacah the
daughter of Abishalom. <a name="C1115V11" id="C1115V11">15:11</a> Asa did that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father. <a
name="C1115V12" id="C1115V12">15:12</a> He put away the sodomites out of the
land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. <a name="C1115V13"
id="C1115V13">15:13</a> Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen,
because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down
her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. <a name="C1115V14" id="C1115V14">15:14</a>
But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was
perfect with Yahweh all his days. <a name="C1115V15" id="C1115V15">15:15</a>
He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had
dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold,
and vessels. <a name="C1115V16" id="C1115V16">15:16</a> There was war between
Asa and Baasha king of Yisrael all their days. <a name="C1115V17" id="C1115V17">15:17</a>
Baasha king of Yisrael went up against Yehudah, and built Ramah, that he
might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Yehudah. <a
name="C1115V18" id="C1115V18">15:18</a> Then Asa took all the silver and the
gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the
treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his
servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the
son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, <a
name="C1115V19" id="C1115V19">15:19</a> <i>There is</i> a league between me
and you, between my father and your father: behold, I have sent to you a
present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of
Yisrael, that he may depart from me. <a name="C1115V20" id="C1115V20">15:20</a>
Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies
against the cities of Yisrael, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth
Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. <a name="C1115V21"
id="C1115V21">15:21</a> It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left
off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. <a name="C1115V22" id="C1115V22">15:22</a>
Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Yehudah; none was exempted: and
they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha
had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. <a
name="C1115V23" id="C1115V23">15:23</a> Now the rest of all the acts of Asa,
and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. <a
name="C1115V24" id="C1115V24">15:24</a> Asa slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat
his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1115V25" id="C1115V25">15:25</a> Nadab
the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Yisrael in the second year of Asa
king of Yehudah; and he reigned over Yisrael two years. <a name="C1115V26"
id="C1115V26">15:26</a> He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made
Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1115V27" id="C1115V27">15:27</a> Baasha the son of
Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck
him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all
Yisrael were laying siege to Gibbethon. <a name="C1115V28" id="C1115V28">15:28</a>
Even in the third year of Asa king of Yehudah did Baasha kill him, and
reigned in his place. <a name="C1115V29" id="C1115V29">15:29</a> It happened
that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he
didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him;
according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah
the Shilonite; <a name="C1115V30" id="C1115V30">15:30</a> for the sins of
Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Yisrael to sin, because of
his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to
anger. <a name="C1115V31" id="C1115V31">15:31</a> Now the rest of the acts of
Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1115V32" id="C1115V32">15:32</a>
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Yisrael all their days. <a
name="C1115V33" id="C1115V33">15:33</a> In the third year of Asa king of Yehudah
began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Yisrael in Tirzah, <i>and
reigned</i> twenty-four years. <a name="C1115V34" id="C1115V34">15:34</a> He
did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Yisrael to sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1116V1" id="C1116V1">16:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the
son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, <a name="C1116V2" id="C1116V2">16:2</a>
Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people
Yisrael, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my
people Yisrael to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; <a
name="C1116V3" id="C1116V3">16:3</a> behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha
and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat. <a name="C1116V4" id="C1116V4">16:4</a> Him who dies of Baasha
in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies of his in the field shall
the birds of the sky eat. <a name="C1116V5" id="C1116V5">16:5</a> Now the rest
of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1116V6"
id="C1116V6">16:6</a> Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1116V7" id="C1116V7">16:7</a>
Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh
against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that
he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of
his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
<a name="C1116V8" id="C1116V8">16:8</a> In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king
of Yehudah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Yisrael in Tirzah, <i>and
reigned</i> two years. <a name="C1116V9" id="C1116V9">16:9</a> His servant
Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in
Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the
household in Tirzah: <a name="C1116V10" id="C1116V10">16:10</a> and Zimri went
in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king
of Yehudah, and reigned in his place. <a name="C1116V11" id="C1116V11">16:11</a>
It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that
he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single one <a
href="#N113">who urinates on a wall,</a> neither of his relatives, nor of
his friends. <a name="C1116V12" id="C1116V12">16:12</a> Thus Zimri destroyed
all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke
against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, <a name="C1116V13" id="C1116V13">16:13</a>
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they
sinned, and with which they made Yisrael to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the Elohim
of Yisrael, to anger with their vanities. <a name="C1116V14" id="C1116V14">16:14</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1116V15"
id="C1116V15">16:15</a> In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Yehudah did
Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against
Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. <a name="C1116V16" id="C1116V16">16:16</a>
The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also
struck the king: therefore all Yisrael made Omri, the captain of the army,
king over Yisrael that day in the camp. <a name="C1116V17" id="C1116V17">16:17</a>
Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Yisrael with him, and they besieged
Tirzah. <a name="C1116V18" id="C1116V18">16:18</a> It happened, when Zimri saw
that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house,
and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, <a name="C1116V19"
id="C1116V19">16:19</a> for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was
evil in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his
sin which he did, to make Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1116V20" id="C1116V20">16:20</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did, aren't
they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a
name="C1116V21" id="C1116V21">16:21</a> Then were the people of Yisrael divided
into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to
make him king; and half followed Omri. <a name="C1116V22" id="C1116V22">16:22</a>
But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed
Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. <a name="C1116V23"
id="C1116V23">16:23</a> In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Yehudah began
Omri to reign over Yisrael, <i>and reigned</i> twelve years: six years
reigned he in Tirzah. <a name="C1116V24" id="C1116V24">16:24</a> He bought the
hill Shomron of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the
hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of
Shemer, the owner of the hill, Shomron. <a name="C1116V25" id="C1116V25">16:25</a>
Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly
above all who were before him. <a name="C1116V26" id="C1116V26">16:26</a> For
he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins
with which he made Yisrael to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to
anger with their vanities. <a name="C1116V27" id="C1116V27">16:27</a> Now the
rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael?
<a name="C1116V28" id="C1116V28">16:28</a> So Omri slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Shomron; and Ahab his son reigned in his place. <a
name="C1116V29" id="C1116V29">16:29</a> In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king
of Yehudah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Yisrael: and Ahab the son
of Omri reigned over Yisrael in Shomron twenty-two years. <a name="C1116V30"
id="C1116V30">16:30</a> Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh above all that were before him. <a name="C1116V31"
id="C1116V31">16:31</a> It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him
to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served
Baal, and worshiped him. <a name="C1116V32" id="C1116V32">16:32</a> He reared
up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Shomron.
<a name="C1116V33" id="C1116V33">16:33</a> Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did
yet more to provoke Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to anger than all the kings
of Yisrael who were before him. <a name="C1116V34" id="C1116V34">16:34</a> In
his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid its foundation with
the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of
his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by
Joshua the son of Nun.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N113" id="N113">[3]</a> <a href="#C1116V11">back to 16:11</a> or,
male
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1117V1" id="C1117V1">17:1</a> Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the
foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, lives,
before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
according to my word. <a name="C1117V2" id="C1117V2">17:2</a> The word of
Yahweh came to him, saying, <a name="C1117V3" id="C1117V3">17:3</a> Get you
hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that
is before the Jordan. <a name="C1117V4" id="C1117V4">17:4</a> It shall be,
that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed
you there. <a name="C1117V5" id="C1117V5">17:5</a> So he went and did
according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook
Cherith, that is before the Jordan. <a name="C1117V6" id="C1117V6">17:6</a>
The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh
in the evening; and he drank of the brook. <a name="C1117V7" id="C1117V7">17:7</a>
It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no
rain in the land. <a name="C1117V8" id="C1117V8">17:8</a> The word of Yahweh
came to him, saying, <a name="C1117V9" id="C1117V9">17:9</a> Arise, get you to
Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have
commanded a widow there to sustain you. <a name="C1117V10" id="C1117V10">17:10</a>
So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the
city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her,
and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. <a
name="C1117V11" id="C1117V11">17:11</a> As she was going to get it, he called
to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. <a
name="C1117V12" id="C1117V12">17:12</a> She said, As Yahweh your Elohim lives, I
don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in
the jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake
it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. <a name="C1117V13"
id="C1117V13">17:13</a> Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as
you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth
to me, and afterward make for you and for your son. <a name="C1117V14"
id="C1117V14">17:14</a> For thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, The jar of
meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day
that Yahweh sends rain on the earth. <a name="C1117V15" id="C1117V15">17:15</a>
She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and
her house, ate <i>many</i> days. <a name="C1117V16" id="C1117V16">17:16</a>
The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according
to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah. <a name="C1117V17"
id="C1117V17">17:17</a> It happened after these things, that the son of the
woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore,
that there was no breath left in him. <a name="C1117V18" id="C1117V18">17:18</a>
She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of Elohim? You have
come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son! <a name="C1117V19"
id="C1117V19">17:19</a> He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of
her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid
him on his own bed. <a name="C1117V20" id="C1117V20">17:20</a> He cried to
Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my Elohim, have you also brought evil on the widow
with whom I sojourn, by killing her son? <a name="C1117V21" id="C1117V21">17:21</a>
He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and
said, Yahweh my Elohim, please let this child's soul come into him again. <a
name="C1117V22" id="C1117V22">17:22</a> Yahweh listened to the voice of
Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. <a
name="C1117V23" id="C1117V23">17:23</a> Elijah took the child, and brought him
down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother;
and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives. <a name="C1117V24" id="C1117V24">17:24</a>
The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of Elohim, and that
the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1118V1" id="C1118V1">18:1</a> It happened after many days, that the
word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show
yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth. <a name="C1118V2"
id="C1118V2">18:2</a> Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was
sore in Shomron. <a name="C1118V3" id="C1118V3">18:3</a> Ahab called Obadiah,
who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly: <a
name="C1118V4" id="C1118V4">18:4</a> for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the
prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them
by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) <a name="C1118V5"
id="C1118V5">18:5</a> Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the
springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass
and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals. <a
name="C1118V6" id="C1118V6">18:6</a> So they divided the land between them to
pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another
way by himself. <a name="C1118V7" id="C1118V7">18:7</a> As Obadiah was in the
way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and
said, Is it you, my lord Elijah? <a name="C1118V8" id="C1118V8">18:8</a> He
answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah <i>is here</i>.
<a name="C1118V9" id="C1118V9">18:9</a> He said, Wherein have I sinned, that
you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? <a
name="C1118V10" id="C1118V10">18:10</a> As Yahweh your Elohim lives, there is no
nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they
said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they
didn't find you. <a name="C1118V11" id="C1118V11">18:11</a> Now you say, Go,
tell your lord, Behold, Elijah <i>is here</i>. <a name="C1118V12" id="C1118V12">18:12</a>
It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh
will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and
he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my
youth. <a name="C1118V13" id="C1118V13">18:13</a> Wasn't it told my lord what
I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred
men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
water? <a name="C1118V14" id="C1118V14">18:14</a> Now you say, Go, tell your
lord, Behold, Elijah <i>is here</i>; and he will kill me. <a name="C1118V15"
id="C1118V15">18:15</a> Elijah said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom
I stand, I will surely show myself to him today. <a name="C1118V16"
id="C1118V16">18:16</a> So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab
went to meet Elijah. <a name="C1118V17" id="C1118V17">18:17</a> It happened,
when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of
Yisrael? <a name="C1118V18" id="C1118V18">18:18</a> He answered, I have not
troubled Yisrael; but you, and your father's house, in that you have
forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals. <a
name="C1118V19" id="C1118V19">18:19</a> Now therefore send, and gather to me
all Yisrael to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty,
and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
<a name="C1118V20" id="C1118V20">18:20</a> So Ahab sent to all the children of
Yisrael, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. <a
name="C1118V21" id="C1118V21">18:21</a> Elijah came near to all the people,
and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh
is Elohim, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people
answered him not a word. <a name="C1118V22" id="C1118V22">18:22</a> Then
Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of
Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. <a name="C1118V23"
id="C1118V23">18:23</a> Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them
choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the
wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it
on the wood, and put no fire under. <a name="C1118V24" id="C1118V24">18:24</a>
You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh;
and the Elohim who answers by fire, let him be Elohim."
</p>
<p>
All the people answered, "It is well said." <a name="C1118V25"
id="C1118V25">18:25</a> Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose
one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on
the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1118V26" id="C1118V26">18:26</a> They took the bull which was given
them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning
even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any
who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made. <a name="C1118V27"
id="C1118V27">18:27</a> It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and
said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone
aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be
awakened. <a name="C1118V28" id="C1118V28">18:28</a> They cried aloud, and cut
themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood
gushed out on them. <a name="C1118V29" id="C1118V29">18:29</a> It was so, when
midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of
the <i>evening</i> offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to
answer, nor any who regarded. <a name="C1118V30" id="C1118V30">18:30</a>
Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came
near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down. <a
name="C1118V31" id="C1118V31">18:31</a> Elijah took twelve stones, according
to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of
Yahweh came, saying, Yisrael shall be your name. <a name="C1118V32"
id="C1118V32">18:32</a> With the stones he built an altar in the name of
Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain
two measures of seed. <a name="C1118V33" id="C1118V33">18:33</a> He put the
wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He
said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on
the wood. <a name="C1118V34" id="C1118V34">18:34</a> He said, Do it the second
time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and
they did it the third time. <a name="C1118V35" id="C1118V35">18:35</a> The
water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. <a
name="C1118V36" id="C1118V36">18:36</a> It happened at the time of the
offering of the <i>evening</i> offering, that Elijah the prophet came
near, and said, Yahweh, the Elohim of Avraham, of Isaac, and of Yisrael, let
it be known this day that you are Elohim in Yisrael, and that I am your
servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. <a
name="C1118V37" id="C1118V37">18:37</a> Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this
people may know that you, Yahweh, are Elohim, and <i>that</i> you have turned
their heart back again. <a name="C1118V38" id="C1118V38">18:38</a> Then the
fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and
the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
<a name="C1118V39" id="C1118V39">18:39</a> When all the people saw it, they
fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he is Elohim; Yahweh, he is Elohim.
<a name="C1118V40" id="C1118V40">18:40</a> and Elijah said to them, Take the
prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah
brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. <a
name="C1118V41" id="C1118V41">18:41</a> Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat
and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. <a name="C1118V42"
id="C1118V42">18:42</a> So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up
to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his
face between his knees. <a name="C1118V43" id="C1118V43">18:43</a> He said to
his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and
said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. <a name="C1118V44"
id="C1118V44">18:44</a> It happened at the seventh time, that he said,
"Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea."
He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready <i>your chariot</i>, and get you
down, that the rain not stop you. <a name="C1118V45" id="C1118V45">18:45</a>
It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and
wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel: <a
name="C1118V46" id="C1118V46">18:46</a> and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah;
and he girded up his waist, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of
Jezreel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1119V1" id="C1119V1">19:1</a> Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. <a
name="C1119V2" id="C1119V2">19:2</a> Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah,
saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life
as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. <a name="C1119V3"
id="C1119V3">19:3</a> When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and
came to Beersheba, which belongs to Yehudah, and left his servant there. <a
name="C1119V4" id="C1119V4">19:4</a> But he himself went a day's journey into
the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he
requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O
Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. <a
name="C1119V5" id="C1119V5">19:5</a> He lay down and slept under a juniper
tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. <a
name="C1119V6" id="C1119V6">19:6</a> He looked, and behold, there was at his
head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, and
laid him down again. <a name="C1119V7" id="C1119V7">19:7</a> The angel of
Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and
eat, because the journey is too great for you. <a name="C1119V8" id="C1119V8">19:8</a>
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty
days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of Elohim. <a name="C1119V9" id="C1119V9">19:9</a>
He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh
came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah? <a
name="C1119V10" id="C1119V10">19:10</a> He said, I have been very jealous for
Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies; for the children of Yisrael have forsaken your
covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword:
and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. <a
name="C1119V11" id="C1119V11">19:11</a> He said, Go forth, and stand on the
mountain before Yahweh. Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong
wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but
Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh
was not in the earthquake: <a name="C1119V12" id="C1119V12">19:12</a> and
after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the
fire a still small voice. <a name="C1119V13" id="C1119V13">19:13</a> It was
so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went
out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to
him, and said, What are you doing here, Elijah? <a name="C1119V14"
id="C1119V14">19:14</a> He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the
Elohim of Armies; for the children of Yisrael have forsaken your covenant,
thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I,
even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. <a
name="C1119V15" id="C1119V15">19:15</a> Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your
way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint
Hazael to be king over Syria; <a name="C1119V16" id="C1119V16">19:16</a> and
you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Yisrael; and you
shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in
your room. <a name="C1119V17" id="C1119V17">19:17</a> It shall happen, that he
who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes
from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill. <a name="C1119V18" id="C1119V18">19:18</a>
Yet will I leave <i>me</i> seven thousand in Yisrael, all the knees which
have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him. <a
name="C1119V19" id="C1119V19">19:19</a> So he departed there, and found Elisha
the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke <i>of oxen</i>
before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and
cast his mantle on him. <a name="C1119V20" id="C1119V20">19:20</a> He left the
oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father
and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again;
for what have I done to you? <a name="C1119V21" id="C1119V21">19:21</a> He
returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them,
and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the
people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered
to him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1120V1" id="C1120V1">20:1</a> Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered
all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and
horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Shomron, and fought
against it. <a name="C1120V2" id="C1120V2">20:2</a> He sent messengers to Ahab
king of Yisrael, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad, <a
name="C1120V3" id="C1120V3">20:3</a> Your silver and your gold is mine; your
wives also and your children, even the best, are mine. <a name="C1120V4"
id="C1120V4">20:4</a> The king of Yisrael answered, It is according to your
saying, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have. <a name="C1120V5"
id="C1120V5">20:5</a> The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben
Hadad, saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me your
silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; <a name="C1120V6"
id="C1120V6">20:6</a> but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this
time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants;
and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it
in their hand, and take it away. <a name="C1120V7" id="C1120V7">20:7</a> Then
the king of Yisrael called all the elders of the land, and said, Please
notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and
for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny
him. <a name="C1120V8" id="C1120V8">20:8</a> All the elders and all the people
said to him, Don't you listen, neither consent. <a name="C1120V9" id="C1120V9">20:9</a>
Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king,
All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this
thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
<a name="C1120V10" id="C1120V10">20:10</a> Ben Hadad sent to him, and said,
The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Shomron shall suffice
for handfuls for all the people who follow me. <a name="C1120V11" id="C1120V11">20:11</a>
The king of Yisrael answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds on <i>his
armor</i> boast himself as he who puts it off. <a name="C1120V12" id="C1120V12">20:12</a>
It happened, when <i>Ben Hadad</i> heard this message, as he was drinking,
he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Set <i>yourselves
in array</i>. They set <i>themselves in array</i> against the city. <a
name="C1120V13" id="C1120V13">20:13</a> Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab
king of Yisrael, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great
multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C1120V14" id="C1120V14">20:14</a> Ahab
said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young men of the princes
of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered,
You. <a name="C1120V15" id="C1120V15">20:15</a> Then he mustered the young men
of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two:
and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of
Yisrael, being seven thousand. <a name="C1120V16" id="C1120V16">20:16</a> They
went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the
pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. <a
name="C1120V17" id="C1120V17">20:17</a> The young men of the princes of the
provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him,
saying, There are men come out from Shomron. <a name="C1120V18" id="C1120V18">20:18</a>
He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether
they are come out for war, taken them alive. <a name="C1120V19" id="C1120V19">20:19</a>
So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the
provinces, and the army which followed them. <a name="C1120V20" id="C1120V20">20:20</a>
They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Yisrael pursued
them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. <a
name="C1120V21" id="C1120V21">20:21</a> The king of Yisrael went out, and
struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great
slaughter. <a name="C1120V22" id="C1120V22">20:22</a> The prophet came near to
the king of Yisrael, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark,
and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will
come up against you. <a name="C1120V23" id="C1120V23">20:23</a> The servants
of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is a god of the hills;
therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the
plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. <a name="C1120V24"
id="C1120V24">20:24</a> Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of
his place, and put captains in their room; <a name="C1120V25" id="C1120V25">20:25</a>
and number you an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse,
and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and
surely we shall be stronger than they. He listened to their voice, and did
so. <a name="C1120V26" id="C1120V26">20:26</a> It happened at the return of
the year, that Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to
fight against Yisrael. <a name="C1120V27" id="C1120V27">20:27</a> The children
of Yisrael were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them: and
the children of Yisrael encamped before them like two little flocks of
kids; but the Syrians filled the country. <a name="C1120V28" id="C1120V28">20:28</a>
A man of Elohim came near and spoke to the king of Yisrael, and said, Thus
says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, Yahweh is a god of the hills,
but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this
great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C1120V29" id="C1120V29">20:29</a> They encamped one over against the
other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was
joined; and the children of Yisrael killed of the Syrians one hundred
thousand footmen in one day. <a name="C1120V30" id="C1120V30">20:30</a> But
the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven
thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into
an inner chamber. <a name="C1120V31" id="C1120V31">20:31</a> His servants said
to him, See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Yisrael are
merciful kings: let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our bodies, and
ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Yisrael: peradventure he will
save your life. <a name="C1120V32" id="C1120V32">20:32</a> So they girded
sackcloth on their bodies, and <i>put</i> ropes on their heads, and came
to the king of Yisrael, and said, Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let
me live. He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. <a name="C1120V33"
id="C1120V33">20:33</a> Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to
catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad.
Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him; and he
caused him to come up into the chariot. <a name="C1120V34" id="C1120V34">20:34</a>
<i>Ben Hadad</i> said to him, The cities which my father took from your
father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as
my father made in Shomron. I, <i>said Ahab</i>, will let you go with this
covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go. <a name="C1120V35"
id="C1120V35">20:35</a> A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to
his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to
strike him. <a name="C1120V36" id="C1120V36">20:36</a> Then said he to him,
Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you
are departed from me, a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed
from him, a lion found him, and killed him. <a name="C1120V37" id="C1120V37">20:37</a>
Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him,
smiting and wounding him. <a name="C1120V38" id="C1120V38">20:38</a> So the
prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised
himself with his headband over his eyes. <a name="C1120V39" id="C1120V39">20:39</a>
As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant
went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and
brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be
missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a
talent of silver. <a name="C1120V40" id="C1120V40">20:40</a> As your servant
was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Yisrael said to him, So
your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it. <a name="C1120V41"
id="C1120V41">20:41</a> He hurried, and took the headband away from his
eyes; and the king of Yisrael discerned him that he was of the prophets. <a
name="C1120V42" id="C1120V42">20:42</a> He said to him, Thus says Yahweh,
Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to
destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people
for his people. <a name="C1120V43" id="C1120V43">20:43</a> The king of Yisrael
went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Shomron.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1121V1" id="C1121V1">21:1</a> It happened after these things, that
Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the
palace of Ahab king of Shomron. <a name="C1121V2" id="C1121V2">21:2</a> Ahab
spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a
garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for
it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to you, I will give you
its worth in money. <a name="C1121V3" id="C1121V3">21:3</a> Naboth said to
Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my
fathers to you. <a name="C1121V4" id="C1121V4">21:4</a> Ahab came into his
house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had
spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my
fathers. He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would
eat no bread. <a name="C1121V5" id="C1121V5">21:5</a> But Jezebel his wife
came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no
bread? <a name="C1121V6" id="C1121V6">21:6</a> He said to her, Because I spoke
to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for
money; or else, if it please you, I will give you <i>another</i> vineyard
for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard. <a name="C1121V7"
id="C1121V7">21:7</a> Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the
kingdom of Yisrael? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I
will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. <a name="C1121V8"
id="C1121V8">21:8</a> So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them
with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who
were in his city, <i>and</i> who lived with Naboth. <a name="C1121V9"
id="C1121V9">21:9</a> She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and
set Naboth on high among the people: <a name="C1121V10" id="C1121V10">21:10</a>
and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against
him, saying, You did curse Elohim and the king. Then carry him out, and stone
him to death. <a name="C1121V11" id="C1121V11">21:11</a> The men of his city,
even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had
sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had
sent to them. <a name="C1121V12" id="C1121V12">21:12</a> They proclaimed a
fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. <a name="C1121V13" id="C1121V13">21:13</a>
The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base
fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of
the people, saying, Naboth did curse Elohim and the king. Then they carried
him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. <a
name="C1121V14" id="C1121V14">21:14</a> Then they sent to Jezebel, saying,
Naboth is stoned, and is dead. <a name="C1121V15" id="C1121V15">21:15</a> It
happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that
Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not
alive, but dead. <a name="C1121V16" id="C1121V16">21:16</a> It happened, when
Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. <a
name="C1121V17" id="C1121V17">21:17</a> The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, <a name="C1121V18" id="C1121V18">21:18</a> Arise, go down to
meet Ahab king of Yisrael, who dwells in Shomron: behold, he is in the
vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to take possession of it. <a
name="C1121V19" id="C1121V19">21:19</a> You shall speak to him, saying, Thus
says Yahweh, Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to
him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked the blood of
Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours. <a name="C1121V20" id="C1121V20">21:20</a>
Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have
found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the
sight of Yahweh. <a name="C1121V21" id="C1121V21">21:21</a> Behold, I will
bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from
Ahab everyone <a href="#N114">who urinates against a wall,</a> and him who
is shut up and him who is left at large in Yisrael: <a name="C1121V22"
id="C1121V22">21:22</a> and I will make your house like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah
for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have
made Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1121V23" id="C1121V23">21:23</a> Of Jezebel also
spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of
Jezreel. <a name="C1121V24" id="C1121V24">21:24</a> Him who dies of Ahab in
the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds
of the sky eat. <a name="C1121V25" id="C1121V25">21:25</a> (But there was none
like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. <a name="C1121V26" id="C1121V26">21:26</a>
He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the
Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Yisrael.) <a
name="C1121V27" id="C1121V27">21:27</a> It happened, when Ahab heard those
words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and
fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. <a name="C1121V28" id="C1121V28">21:28</a>
The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, <a name="C1121V29"
id="C1121V29">21:29</a> See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because
he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but
in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N114" id="N114">[4]</a> <a href="#C1121V21">back to 21:21</a> or,
male
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1122V1" id="C1122V1">22:1</a> They continued three years without war
between Syria and Yisrael. <a name="C1122V2" id="C1122V2">22:2</a> It happened
in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Yehudah came down to the
king of Yisrael. <a name="C1122V3" id="C1122V3">22:3</a> The king of Yisrael
said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we
are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
<a name="C1122V4" id="C1122V4">22:4</a> He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go
with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of
Yisrael, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your
horses. <a name="C1122V5" id="C1122V5">22:5</a> Jehoshaphat said to the king
of Yisrael, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh. <a name="C1122V6"
id="C1122V6">22:6</a> Then the king of Yisrael gathered the prophets
together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against
Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for the
Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. <a name="C1122V7" id="C1122V7">22:7</a>
But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that
we may inquire of him? <a name="C1122V8" id="C1122V8">22:8</a> The king of
Yisrael said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of
Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy
good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king
say so." <a name="C1122V9" id="C1122V9">22:9</a> Then the king of Yisrael
called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah. <a
name="C1122V10" id="C1122V10">22:10</a> Now the king of Yisrael and Jehoshaphat
the king of Yehudah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes,
in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Shomron; and all the
prophets were prophesying before them. <a name="C1122V11" id="C1122V11">22:11</a>
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed. <a
name="C1122V12" id="C1122V12">22:12</a> All the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it
into the hand of the king. <a name="C1122V13" id="C1122V13">22:13</a> The
messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the
words of the prophets <i>declare</i> good to the king with one mouth:
please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak you good.
<a name="C1122V14" id="C1122V14">22:14</a> Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what
Yahweh says to me, that will I speak. <a name="C1122V15" id="C1122V15">22:15</a>
When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go
to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up
and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king. <a
name="C1122V16" id="C1122V16">22:16</a> The king said to him, How many times
shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name
of Yahweh? <a name="C1122V17" id="C1122V17">22:17</a> He said, I saw all
Yisrael scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and
Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house
in peace. <a name="C1122V18" id="C1122V18">22:18</a> The king of Yisrael said
to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good
concerning me, but evil? <a name="C1122V19" id="C1122V19">22:19</a> <i>Micaiah</i>
said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his
throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and
on his left. <a name="C1122V20" id="C1122V20">22:20</a> Yahweh said, 'Who
shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said
on this manner; and another said on that manner. <a name="C1122V21"
id="C1122V21">22:21</a> There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh,
and said, 'I will entice him.' <a name="C1122V22" id="C1122V22">22:22</a>
Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him,
and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.' <a name="C1122V23" id="C1122V23">22:23</a>
Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all
these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you." <a
name="C1122V24" id="C1122V24">22:24</a> Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the
Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you? <a name="C1122V25" id="C1122V25">22:25</a>
Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an
inner chamber to hide yourself. <a name="C1122V26" id="C1122V26">22:26</a> The
king of Yisrael said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor
of the city, and to Joash the king's son; <a name="C1122V27" id="C1122V27">22:27</a>
and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him
with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in
peace. <a name="C1122V28" id="C1122V28">22:28</a> Micaiah said, If you return
at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples,
all of you. <a name="C1122V29" id="C1122V29">22:29</a> So the king of Yisrael
and Jehoshaphat the king of Yehudah went up to Ramoth Gilead. <a
name="C1122V30" id="C1122V30">22:30</a> The king of Yisrael said to
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you
on your robes. The king of Yisrael disguised himself, and went into the
battle. <a name="C1122V31" id="C1122V31">22:31</a> Now the king of Syria had
commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither
with small nor great, save only with the king of Yisrael. <a name="C1122V32"
id="C1122V32">22:32</a> It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Yisrael; and they
turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. <a
name="C1122V33" id="C1122V33">22:33</a> It happened, when the captains of the
chariots saw that it was not the king of Yisrael, that they turned back
from pursuing him. <a name="C1122V34" id="C1122V34">22:34</a> A certain man
drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Yisrael between the
joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn
your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded. <a
name="C1122V35" id="C1122V35">22:35</a> The battle increased that day: and the
king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even;
and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. <a
name="C1122V36" id="C1122V36">22:36</a> There went a cry throughout the army
about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every
man to his country. <a name="C1122V37" id="C1122V37">22:37</a> So the king
died, and was brought to Shomron; and they buried the king in Shomron. <a
name="C1122V38" id="C1122V38">22:38</a> They washed the chariot by the pool of
Shomron; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed
themselves <i>there</i>); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
<a name="C1122V39" id="C1122V39">22:39</a> Now the rest of the acts of Ahab,
and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the
cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1122V40" id="C1122V40">22:40</a> So Ahab slept
with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. <a
name="C1122V41" id="C1122V41">22:41</a> Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to
reign over Yehudah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Yisrael. <a
name="C1122V42" id="C1122V42">22:42</a> Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old
when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Yerushalayim. His
mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. <a name="C1122V43"
id="C1122V43">22:43</a> He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He
didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of
Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. <a name="C1122V44"
id="C1122V44">22:44</a> Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Yisrael. <a
name="C1122V45" id="C1122V45">22:45</a> Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a
name="C1122V46" id="C1122V46">22:46</a> The remnant of the sodomites, that
remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. <a
name="C1122V47" id="C1122V47">22:47</a> There was no king in Edom: a deputy
was king. <a name="C1122V48" id="C1122V48">22:48</a> Jehoshaphat made ships of
Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were
broken at Ezion Geber. <a name="C1122V49" id="C1122V49">22:49</a> Then said
Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your
servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. <a name="C1122V50"
id="C1122V50">22:50</a> Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned
in his place. <a name="C1122V51" id="C1122V51">22:51</a> Ahaziah the son of
Ahab began to reign over Yisrael in Shomron in the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Yehudah, and he reigned two years over Yisrael. <a
name="C1122V52" id="C1122V52">22:52</a> He did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of
his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made
Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1122V53" id="C1122V53">22:53</a> He served Baal, and
worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, according
to all that his father had done.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C091V1" id="C091V1">1:1</a> Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim
Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son
of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an
Ephraimite: <a name="C091V2" id="C091V2">1:2</a> and he had two wives; the
name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah
had children, but Hannah had no children. <a name="C091V3" id="C091V3">1:3</a>
This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to
sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. <a name="C091V4" id="C091V4">1:4</a>
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife,
and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: <a name="C091V5" id="C091V5">1:5</a>
but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh
had shut up her womb. <a name="C091V6" id="C091V6">1:6</a> Her rival provoked
her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. <a
name="C091V7" id="C091V7">1:7</a> <i>as</i> he did so year by year, when she
went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept,
and did not eat. <a name="C091V8" id="C091V8">1:8</a> Elkanah her husband said
to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart
grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons? <a name="C091V9" id="C091V9">1:9</a>
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had
drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the
temple of Yahweh. <a name="C091V10" id="C091V10">1:10</a> She was in
bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore. <a name="C091V11"
id="C091V11">1:11</a> She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you
will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and
not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I
will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor
come on his head. <a name="C091V12" id="C091V12">1:12</a> It happened, as she
continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth. <a name="C091V13"
id="C091V13">1:13</a> Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips
moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been
drunken. <a name="C091V14" id="C091V14">1:14</a> Eli said to her, How long
will you be drunken? put away your wine from you. <a name="C091V15"
id="C091V15">1:15</a> Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured
out my soul before Yahweh. <a name="C091V16" id="C091V16">1:16</a> Don't count
your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint
and my provocation have I spoken hitherto. <a name="C091V17" id="C091V17">1:17</a>
Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the Elohim of Yisrael grant your petition
that you have asked of him. <a name="C091V18" id="C091V18">1:18</a> She said,
Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and
ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more. <a name="C091V19"
id="C091V19">1:19</a> They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped
before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah
knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. <a name="C091V20" id="C091V20">1:20</a>
It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore
a son; and she named him Samuel, <i>saying</i>, Because I have asked him
of Yahweh. <a name="C091V21" id="C091V21">1:21</a> The man Elkanah, and all
his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
<a name="C091V22" id="C091V22">1:22</a> But Hannah didn't go up; for she said
to her husband, <i>I will not go up</i> until the child be weaned; and
then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide
forever. <a name="C091V23" id="C091V23">1:23</a> Elkanah her husband said to
her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh
establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she
weaned him. <a name="C091V24" id="C091V24">1:24</a> When she had weaned him,
she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a
bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the
child was young. <a name="C091V25" id="C091V25">1:25</a> They killed the bull,
and brought the child to Eli. <a name="C091V26" id="C091V26">1:26</a> She
said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood
by you here, praying to Yahweh. <a name="C091V27" id="C091V27">1:27</a> For
this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of
him: <a name="C091V28" id="C091V28">1:28</a> therefore also I have granted him
to Yahweh; as long as he lives he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped
Yahweh there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C092V1" id="C092V1">2:1</a> Hannah prayed, and said:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
My heart exults in Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
My horn is exalted in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies,
</dt>
<dd>
because I rejoice in your salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V2" id="C092V2">2:2</a> There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
For there is no one besides you,
</dd>
<dd>
nor is there any rock like our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V3" id="C092V3">2:3</a> Talk no more so exceeding proudly.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth,
</dd>
<dd>
For Yahweh is a Elohim of knowledge.
</dd>
<dd>
By him actions are weighed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V4" id="C092V4">2:4</a> The bows of the mighty men are broken.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V5" id="C092V5">2:5</a> Those who were full have hired
themselves out for bread.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who were hungry have ceased <i>to hunger</i>.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, the barren has borne seven.
</dt>
<dd>
She who has many children languishes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V6" id="C092V6">2:6</a> Yahweh kills, and makes alive.
</dt>
<dd>
He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V7" id="C092V7">2:7</a> Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich.
</dt>
<dd>
He brings low, he also lifts up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V8" id="C092V8">2:8</a> He raises up the poor out of the dust.
</dt>
<dd>
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill,
</dd>
<dd>
To make them sit with princes,
</dd>
<dd>
and inherit the throne of glory,
</dd>
<dd>
for the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's.
</dd>
<dd>
He has set the world on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V9" id="C092V9">2:9</a> He will keep the feet of his holy ones,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;
</dd>
<dd>
for no man shall prevail by strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C092V10" id="C092V10">2:10</a> Those who strive with Yahweh shall
be broken to pieces.
</dt>
<dd>
He will thunder against them in the sky.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
He will give strength to his king,
</dd>
<dd>
and exalt the horn of his anointed.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C092V11" id="C092V11">2:11</a> Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.
The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest. <a name="C092V12"
id="C092V12">2:12</a> Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know
Yahweh. <a name="C092V13" id="C092V13">2:13</a> The custom of the priests with
the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant
came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
<a name="C092V14" id="C092V14">2:14</a> and he struck it into the pan, or
kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took
therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. <a
name="C092V15" id="C092V15">2:15</a> Yes, before they burnt the fat, the
priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to
roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
<a name="C092V16" id="C092V16">2:16</a> If the man said to him, They will
surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires;
then he would say, No, but you shall give it to me now: and if not, I will
take it by force. <a name="C092V17" id="C092V17">2:17</a> The sin of the young
men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of
Yahweh. <a name="C092V18" id="C092V18">2:18</a> But Samuel ministered before
Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. <a name="C092V19"
id="C092V19">2:19</a> Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and
brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to
offer the yearly sacrifice. <a name="C092V20" id="C092V20">2:20</a> Eli
blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman
for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
<a name="C092V21" id="C092V21">2:21</a> Yahweh visited Hannah, and she
conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew
before Yahweh. <a name="C092V22" id="C092V22">2:22</a> Now Eli was very old;
and he heard all that his sons did to all Yisrael, and how that they lay
with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C092V23" id="C092V23">2:23</a> He said to them, Why do you such things?
for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people. <a name="C092V24"
id="C092V24">2:24</a> No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you
make Yahweh's people to disobey. <a name="C092V25" id="C092V25">2:25</a> If
one man sin against another, Elohim shall judge him; but if a man sin against
Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to
the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them. <a
name="C092V26" id="C092V26">2:26</a> The child Samuel grew on, and increased
in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men. <a name="C092V27" id="C092V27">2:27</a>
There came a man of Elohim to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I
reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt <i>in
bondage</i> to Pharaoh's house? <a name="C092V28" id="C092V28">2:28</a> and
did I choose him out of all the tribes of Yisrael to be my priest, to go up
to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give
to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Yisrael
made by fire? <a name="C092V29" id="C092V29">2:29</a> Why kick you at my
sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in <i>my</i>
habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the
best of all the offerings of Yisrael my people? <a name="C092V30" id="C092V30">2:30</a>
Therefore Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, says, I said indeed that your house,
and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now
Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and
those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. <a name="C092V31" id="C092V31">2:31</a>
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your
father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house. <a
name="C092V32" id="C092V32">2:32</a> You shall see the affliction of <i>my</i>
habitation, in all the wealth which <i>Elohim</i> shall give Yisrael; and
there shall not be an old man in your house forever. <a name="C092V33"
id="C092V33">2:33</a> The man of yours, <i>whom</i> I shall not cut off from
my altar, <i>shall be</i> to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart;
and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
<a name="C092V34" id="C092V34">2:34</a> This shall be the sign to you, that
shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall
die both of them. <a name="C092V35" id="C092V35">2:35</a> I will raise me up a
faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and
in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my
anointed forever. <a name="C092V36" id="C092V36">2:36</a> It shall happen,
that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for
a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into
one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C093V1" id="C093V1">3:1</a> The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh
before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no
frequent vision. <a name="C093V2" id="C093V2">3:2</a> It happened at that
time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow
dim, so that he could not see), <a name="C093V3" id="C093V3">3:3</a> and the
lamp of Elohim hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down <i>to sleep</i>,
in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of Elohim was; <a name="C093V4" id="C093V4">3:4</a>
that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I. <a name="C093V5" id="C093V5">3:5</a>
He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't
call; lie down again. He went and lay down. <a name="C093V6" id="C093V6">3:6</a>
Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said,
Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down
again. <a name="C093V7" id="C093V7">3:7</a> Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh,
neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him. <a name="C093V8"
id="C093V8">3:8</a> Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that
Yahweh had called the child. <a name="C093V9" id="C093V9">3:9</a> Therefore
Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that
you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and
lay down in his place. <a name="C093V10" id="C093V10">3:10</a> Yahweh came,
and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said,
Speak; for your servant hears. <a name="C093V11" id="C093V11">3:11</a> Yahweh
said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Yisrael, at which both the
ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle. <a name="C093V12" id="C093V12">3:12</a>
In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning
his house, from the beginning even to the end. <a name="C093V13" id="C093V13">3:13</a>
For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity
which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he
didn't restrain them. <a name="C093V14" id="C093V14">3:14</a> Therefore I have
sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be
expiated with sacrifice nor offering forever. <a name="C093V15" id="C093V15">3:15</a>
Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh.
Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. <a name="C093V16" id="C093V16">3:16</a>
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here am I. <a
name="C093V17" id="C093V17">3:17</a> He said, "What is the thing that <i>Yahweh</i>
has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. Elohim do so to you, and
more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to
you." <a name="C093V18" id="C093V18">3:18</a> Samuel told him every whit,
and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him
good. <a name="C093V19" id="C093V19">3:19</a> Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with
him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. <a name="C093V20"
id="C093V20">3:20</a> All Yisrael from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel
was established to be a prophet of Yahweh. <a name="C093V21" id="C093V21">3:21</a>
Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in
Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C094V1" id="C094V1">4:1</a> The word of Samuel came to all Yisrael.
Now Yisrael went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside
Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. <a name="C094V2" id="C094V2">4:2</a>
The Philistines put themselves in array against Yisrael: and when they
joined battle, Yisrael was struck before the Philistines; and they killed
of the army in the field about four thousand men. <a name="C094V3" id="C094V3">4:3</a>
When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Yisrael said, Why
has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and
save us out of the hand of our enemies. <a name="C094V4" id="C094V4">4:4</a>
So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits <i>above</i> the cherubim: and the
two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the
covenant of Elohim. <a name="C094V5" id="C094V5">4:5</a> When the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Yisrael shouted with a great
shout, so that the earth rang again. <a name="C094V6" id="C094V6">4:6</a> When
the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the
noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that
the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp. <a name="C094V7" id="C094V7">4:7</a>
The Philistines were afraid, for they said, Elohim is come into the camp.
They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore. <a
name="C094V8" id="C094V8">4:8</a> Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the
hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians
with all manner of plagues in the wilderness. <a name="C094V9" id="C094V9">4:9</a>
Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not
be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like
men, and fight. <a name="C094V10" id="C094V10">4:10</a> The Philistines
fought, and Yisrael was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and
there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Yisrael thirty thousand
footmen. <a name="C094V11" id="C094V11">4:11</a> The ark of Elohim was taken; and
the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. <a name="C094V12"
id="C094V12">4:12</a> There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came
to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
<a name="C094V13" id="C094V13">4:13</a> When he came, behold, Eli was sitting
on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of
Elohim. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
<a name="C094V14" id="C094V14">4:14</a> When Eli heard the noise of the
crying, he said, What means the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and
came and told Eli. <a name="C094V15" id="C094V15">4:15</a> Now Eli was
ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.
<a name="C094V16" id="C094V16">4:16</a> The man said to Eli, I am he who came
out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the
matter, my son? <a name="C094V17" id="C094V17">4:17</a> He who brought the
news answered, Yisrael is fled before the Philistines, and there has been
also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni
and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of Elohim is taken. <a name="C094V18"
id="C094V18">4:18</a> It happened, when he made mention of the ark of Elohim,
that <i>Eli</i> fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate;
and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had
judged Yisrael forty years. <a name="C094V19" id="C094V19">4:19</a> His
daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and
when she heard the news that the ark of Elohim was taken, and that her
father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought
forth; for her pains came on her. <a name="C094V20" id="C094V20">4:20</a>
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't
be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer,
neither did she regard it. <a name="C094V21" id="C094V21">4:21</a> She named
the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Yisrael; because the
ark of Elohim was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. <a
name="C094V22" id="C094V22">4:22</a> She said, The glory is departed from
Yisrael; for the ark of Elohim is taken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C095V1" id="C095V1">5:1</a> Now the Philistines had taken the ark of
Elohim, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. <a name="C095V2" id="C095V2">5:2</a>
The Philistines took the ark of Elohim, and brought it into the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon. <a name="C095V3" id="C095V3">5:3</a> When they of
Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face
to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in
his place again. <a name="C095V4" id="C095V4">5:4</a> When they arose early on
the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground
before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his
hands <i>lay</i> cut off on the threshold; only <i>the stump of</i> Dagon
was left to him. <a name="C095V5" id="C095V5">5:5</a> Therefore neither the
priests of Dagon, nor any who come into Dagon's house, tread on the
threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day. <a name="C095V6" id="C095V6">5:6</a>
But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them,
and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders. <a name="C095V7"
id="C095V7">5:7</a> When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said,
The ark of the Elohim of Yisrael shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore
on us, and on Dagon our god. <a name="C095V8" id="C095V8">5:8</a> They sent
therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said,
What shall we do with the ark of the Elohim of Yisrael? They answered, Let the
ark of the Elohim of Yisrael be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of
the Elohim of Yisrael <i>there</i>. <a name="C095V9" id="C095V9">5:9</a> It was
so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against
the city with a very great confusion: and he struck the men of the city,
both small and great; and tumors broke out on them. <a name="C095V10"
id="C095V10">5:10</a> So they sent the ark of Elohim to Ekron. It happened, as
the ark of Elohim came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They
have brought about the ark of the Elohim of Yisrael to us, to kill us and our
people. <a name="C095V11" id="C095V11">5:11</a> They sent therefore and
gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send
away the ark of the Elohim of Yisrael, and let it go again to its own place,
that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion
throughout all the city; the hand of Elohim was very heavy there. <a
name="C095V12" id="C095V12">5:12</a> The men who didn't die were struck with
the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C096V1" id="C096V1">6:1</a> The ark of Yahweh was in the country of
the Philistines seven months. <a name="C096V2" id="C096V2">6:2</a> The
Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What
shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to
its place."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C096V3" id="C096V3">6:3</a> They said, "If you send away the ark
of the Elohim of Yisrael, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a
trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you
why his hand is not removed from you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C096V4" id="C096V4">6:4</a> Then they said, "What shall be the
trespass offering which we shall return to him?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, <i>according to</i>
the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all,
and on your lords. <a name="C096V5" id="C096V5">6:5</a> Therefore you shall
make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and
you shall give glory to the Elohim of Yisrael: peradventure he will lighten
his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. <a
name="C096V6" id="C096V6">6:6</a> Why then do you harden your hearts, as the
Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked
wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
<a name="C096V7" id="C096V7">6:7</a> Now therefore take and prepare yourselves
a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie
the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; <a name="C096V8"
id="C096V8">6:8</a> and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and
put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a
coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go. <a name="C096V9"
id="C096V9">6:9</a> Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to
Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that
happened to us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C096V10" id="C096V10">6:10</a> The men did so, and took two milk
cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; <a
name="C096V11" id="C096V11">6:11</a> and they put the ark of Yahweh on the
cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
<a name="C096V12" id="C096V12">6:12</a> The cows took the straight way by the
way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and
didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the
Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh. <a name="C096V13"
id="C096V13">6:13</a> They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest
in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and
rejoiced to see it. <a name="C096V14" id="C096V14">6:14</a> The cart came into
the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a
great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows
for a burnt offering to Yahweh. <a name="C096V15" id="C096V15">6:15</a> The
Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in
which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the
men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the
same day to Yahweh. <a name="C096V16" id="C096V16">6:16</a> When the five
lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
<a name="C096V17" id="C096V17">6:17</a> These are the golden tumors which the
Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one,
for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; <a
name="C096V18" id="C096V18">6:18</a> and the golden mice, according to the
number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords,
both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone,
whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, <i>which stone remains</i> to
this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. <a name="C096V19" id="C096V19">6:19</a>
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark
of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the
people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great
slaughter. <a name="C096V20" id="C096V20">6:20</a> The men of Beth Shemesh
said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy Elohim? and to whom shall
he go up from us? <a name="C096V21" id="C096V21">6:21</a> They sent messengers
to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought
back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C097V1" id="C097V1">7:1</a> The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and
fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in
the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh. <a
name="C097V2" id="C097V2">7:2</a> It happened, from the day that the ark abode
in Kiriath Jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and
all the house of Yisrael lamented after Yahweh. <a name="C097V3" id="C097V3">7:3</a>
Samuel spoke to all the house of Yisrael, saying, If you do return to
Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the
Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him
only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. <a
name="C097V4" id="C097V4">7:4</a> Then the children of Yisrael did put away the
Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only. <a name="C097V5" id="C097V5">7:5</a>
Samuel said, "Gather all Yisrael to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to
Yahweh." <a name="C097V6" id="C097V6">7:6</a> They gathered together to
Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on
that day, and said there, "We have sinned against Yahweh."
Samuel judged the children of Yisrael in Mizpah. <a name="C097V7" id="C097V7">7:7</a>
When the Philistines heard that the children of Yisrael were gathered
together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Yisrael.
When the children of Yisrael heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
<a name="C097V8" id="C097V8">7:8</a> The children of Yisrael said to Samuel,
"Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our Elohim for us, that he will save us
out of the hand of the Philistines." <a name="C097V9" id="C097V9">7:9</a>
Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to
Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Yisrael; and Yahweh answered him. <a
name="C097V10" id="C097V10">7:10</a> As Samuel was offering up the burnt
offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Yisrael; but Yahweh
thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and
confused them; and they were struck down before Yisrael. <a name="C097V11"
id="C097V11">7:11</a> The men of Yisrael went out of Mizpah, and pursued the
Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar. <a
name="C097V12" id="C097V12">7:12</a> Then Samuel took a stone, and set it
between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto
has Yahweh helped us. <a name="C097V13" id="C097V13">7:13</a> So the
Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of
Yisrael: and the hand of Yahweh was against the Philistines all the days of
Samuel. <a name="C097V14" id="C097V14">7:14</a> The cities which the
Philistines had taken from Yisrael were restored to Yisrael, from Ekron even
to Gath; and its border did Yisrael deliver out of the hand of the
Philistines. There was peace between Yisrael and the Amorites. <a
name="C097V15" id="C097V15">7:15</a> Samuel judged Yisrael all the days of his
life. <a name="C097V16" id="C097V16">7:16</a> He went from year to year in
circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Yisrael in all
those places. <a name="C097V17" id="C097V17">7:17</a> His return was to Ramah,
for there was his house; and there he judged Yisrael: and he built there an
altar to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C098V1" id="C098V1">8:1</a> It happened, when Samuel was old, that he
made his sons judges over Yisrael. <a name="C098V2" id="C098V2">8:2</a> Now the
name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they
were judges in Beersheba. <a name="C098V3" id="C098V3">8:3</a> His sons didn't
walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and
perverted justice. <a name="C098V4" id="C098V4">8:4</a> Then all the elders of
Yisrael gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah; <a
name="C098V5" id="C098V5">8:5</a> and they said to him, Behold, you are old,
and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like
all the nations. <a name="C098V6" id="C098V6">8:6</a> But the thing displeased
Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to
Yahweh. <a name="C098V7" id="C098V7">8:7</a> Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to
the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not
rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over
them. <a name="C098V8" id="C098V8">8:8</a> According to all the works which
they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to
this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they
also to you. <a name="C098V9" id="C098V9">8:9</a> Now therefore listen to
their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show
them the manner of the king who shall reign over them. <a name="C098V10"
id="C098V10">8:10</a> Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who
asked of him a king. <a name="C098V11" id="C098V11">8:11</a> He said, This
will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your
sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen;
and they shall run before his chariots; <a name="C098V12" id="C098V12">8:12</a>
and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of
fifties; and <i>he will set some</i> to plow his ground, and to reap his
harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his
chariots. <a name="C098V13" id="C098V13">8:13</a> He will take your daughters
to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. <a name="C098V14"
id="C098V14">8:14</a> He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. <a
name="C098V15" id="C098V15">8:15</a> He will take the tenth of your seed, and
of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. <a
name="C098V16" id="C098V16">8:16</a> He will take your male servants, and your
female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them
to his work. <a name="C098V17" id="C098V17">8:17</a> He will take the tenth of
your flocks: and you shall be his servants. <a name="C098V18" id="C098V18">8:18</a>
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have
chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day. <a name="C098V19"
id="C098V19">8:19</a> But the people refused to listen to the voice of
Samuel; and they said, No: but we will have a king over us, <a name="C098V20"
id="C098V20">8:20</a> that we also may be like all the nations, and that our
king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. <a
name="C098V21" id="C098V21">8:21</a> Samuel heard all the words of the people,
and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh. <a name="C098V22" id="C098V22">8:22</a>
Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel
said to the men of Yisrael, Go you every man to his city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C099V1" id="C099V1">9:1</a> Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose
name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath,
the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. <a
name="C099V2" id="C099V2">9:2</a> He had a son, whose name was Sha'ul, an
impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Yisrael a
better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than
any of the people. <a name="C099V3" id="C099V3">9:3</a> The donkeys of Kish,
Sha'ul's father, were lost. Kish said to Sha'ul his son, Take now one of the
servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys. <a name="C099V4" id="C099V4">9:4</a>
He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land
of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land
of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land
of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them. <a name="C099V5" id="C099V5">9:5</a>
When they had come to the land of Zuph, Sha'ul said to his servant who was
with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the
donkeys, and be anxious for us. <a name="C099V6" id="C099V6">9:6</a> He said
to him, See now, there is in this city a man of Elohim, and he is a man who
is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go
there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
<a name="C099V7" id="C099V7">9:7</a> Then said Sha'ul to his servant, But,
behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in
our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of Elohim: what
have we? <a name="C099V8" id="C099V8">9:8</a> The servant answered Sha'ul again,
and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver:
that will I give to the man of Elohim, to tell us our way. <a name="C099V9"
id="C099V9">9:9</a> (In earlier times in Yisrael, when a man went to inquire
of Elohim, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now
called a prophet was before called a Seer.) <a name="C099V10" id="C099V10">9:10</a>
Then said Sha'ul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to
the city where the man of Elohim was. <a name="C099V11" id="C099V11">9:11</a> As
they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to
draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? <a name="C099V12" id="C099V12">9:12</a>
They answered them, and said, He is; behold, <i>he is</i> before you: make
haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a
sacrifice today in the high place: <a name="C099V13" id="C099V13">9:13</a> as
soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before
he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he
come, because he does bless the sacrifice; <i>and</i> afterwards they eat
who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find
him. <a name="C099V14" id="C099V14">9:14</a> They went up to the city; <i>and</i>
as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go
up to the high place. <a name="C099V15" id="C099V15">9:15</a> Now Yahweh had
revealed to Samuel a day before Sha'ul came, saying, <a name="C099V16"
id="C099V16">9:16</a> Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of
the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people
Yisrael; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines:
for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me. <a
name="C099V17" id="C099V17">9:17</a> When Samuel saw Sha'ul, Yahweh said to him,
Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority
over my people. <a name="C099V18" id="C099V18">9:18</a> Then Sha'ul drew near to
Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, Please, where the seer's house is.
<a name="C099V19" id="C099V19">9:19</a> Samuel answered Sha'ul, and said, I am
the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me
today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is
in your heart. <a name="C099V20" id="C099V20">9:20</a> As for your donkeys who
were lost three days ago, don't set your mind on them; for they are found.
For whom is all that is desirable in Yisrael? Is it not for you, and for
all your father's house? <a name="C099V21" id="C099V21">9:21</a> Sha'ul
answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Yisrael?
and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why
then speak you to me after this manner? <a name="C099V22" id="C099V22">9:22</a>
Samuel took Sha'ul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room,
and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were
about thirty persons. <a name="C099V23" id="C099V23">9:23</a> Samuel said to
the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set
it by you. <a name="C099V24" id="C099V24">9:24</a> The cook took up the thigh,
and that which was on it, and set it before Sha'ul. <i>Samuel</i> said,
Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because
to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited
the people. So Sha'ul ate with Samuel that day. <a name="C099V25" id="C099V25">9:25</a>
When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with
Sha'ul on the housetop. <a name="C099V26" id="C099V26">9:26</a> They arose
early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to
Sha'ul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Sha'ul arose,
and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad. <a name="C099V27"
id="C099V27">9:27</a> As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel
said to Sha'ul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but
stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0910V1" id="C0910V1">10:1</a> Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and
poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has
anointed you to be prince over his inheritance? <a name="C0910V2" id="C0910V2">10:2</a>
When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by
Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell
you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and behold, your father
has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What
shall I do for my son? <a name="C0910V3" id="C0910V3">10:3</a> Then you shall
go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and
there shall meet you there three men going up to Elohim to Bethel, one
carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and
another carrying a bottle of wine: <a name="C0910V4" id="C0910V4">10:4</a> and
they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall
receive of their hand. <a name="C0910V5" id="C0910V5">10:5</a> After that you
shall come to the hill of Elohim, where is the garrison of the Philistines:
and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall
meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery,
and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be
prophesying: <a name="C0910V6" id="C0910V6">10:6</a> and the Spirit of Yahweh
will come mightily on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be
turned into another man. <a name="C0910V7" id="C0910V7">10:7</a> Let it be,
when these signs are come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve you;
for Elohim is with you. <a name="C0910V8" id="C0910V8">10:8</a> You shall go down
before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt
offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: you shall wait
seven days, until I come to you, and show you what you shall do. <a
name="C0910V9" id="C0910V9">10:9</a> It was so, that when he had turned his
back to go from Samuel, Elohim gave him another heart: and all those signs
happened that day. <a name="C0910V10" id="C0910V10">10:10</a> When they came
there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of
Elohim came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them. <a name="C0910V11"
id="C0910V11">10:11</a> It happened, when all who knew him before saw that,
behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to
another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Sha'ul also among
the prophets? <a name="C0910V12" id="C0910V12">10:12</a> One of the same place
answered, Who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Sha'ul also
among the prophets? <a name="C0910V13" id="C0910V13">10:13</a> When he had
made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. <a name="C0910V14"
id="C0910V14">10:14</a> Sha'ul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where
went you? He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not
found, we came to Samuel. <a name="C0910V15" id="C0910V15">10:15</a> Sha'ul's
uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you. <a name="C0910V16"
id="C0910V16">10:16</a> Sha'ul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the
donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which
Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him. <a name="C0910V17" id="C0910V17">10:17</a>
Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah; <a name="C0910V18"
id="C0910V18">10:18</a> and he said to the children of Yisrael, Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, I brought up Yisrael out of Egypt, and I
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all
the kingdoms that oppressed you: <a name="C0910V19" id="C0910V19">10:19</a>
but you have this day rejected your Elohim, who himself saves you out of all
your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, <i>No</i>,
but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by
your tribes, and by your thousands. <a name="C0910V20" id="C0910V20">10:20</a>
So Samuel brought all the tribes of Yisrael near, and the tribe of Benjamin
was taken. <a name="C0910V21" id="C0910V21">10:21</a> He brought the tribe of
Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken;
and Sha'ul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not
be found. <a name="C0910V22" id="C0910V22">10:22</a> Therefore they asked of
Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold,
he has hid himself among the baggage. <a name="C0910V23" id="C0910V23">10:23</a>
They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was
higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. <a
name="C0910V24" id="C0910V24">10:24</a> Samuel said to all the people, "You
see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the
people?"
</p>
<p>
All the people shouted, and said, <i>Long</i> live the king. <a
name="C0910V25" id="C0910V25">10:25</a> Then Samuel told the people the manner
of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh.
Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. <a name="C0910V26"
id="C0910V26">10:26</a> Sha'ul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there
went with him the army, whose hearts Elohim had touched. <a name="C0910V27"
id="C0910V27">10:27</a> But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this
man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held
his peace.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0911V1" id="C0911V1">11:1</a> Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and
encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash,
Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you. <a name="C0911V2" id="C0911V2">11:2</a>
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with
you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach
on all Yisrael. <a name="C0911V3" id="C0911V3">11:3</a> The elders of Jabesh
said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers to
all the borders of Yisrael; and then, if there be none to save us, we will
come out to you. <a name="C0911V4" id="C0911V4">11:4</a> Then came the
messengers to Gibeah of Sha'ul, and spoke these words in the ears of the
people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept. <a name="C0911V5"
id="C0911V5">11:5</a> Behold, Sha'ul came following the oxen out of the field;
and Sha'ul said, What ails the people that they weep? They told him the
words of the men of Jabesh. <a name="C0911V6" id="C0911V6">11:6</a> The Spirit
of Elohim came mightily on Sha'ul when he heard those words, and his anger was
kindled greatly. <a name="C0911V7" id="C0911V7">11:7</a> He took a yoke of
oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of
Yisrael by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after
Sha'ul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of
Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man. <a name="C0911V8"
id="C0911V8">11:8</a> He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Yisrael
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Yehudah thirty thousand. <a
name="C0911V9" id="C0911V9">11:9</a> They said to the messengers who came,
Thus you shall tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the
sun is hot, you shall have deliverance. The messengers came and told the
men of Jabesh; and they were glad. <a name="C0911V10" id="C0911V10">11:10</a>
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and
you shall do with us all that seems good to you. <a name="C0911V11"
id="C0911V11">11:11</a> It was so on the next day, that Sha'ul put the people
in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the
morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it
happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them
were left together. <a name="C0911V12" id="C0911V12">11:12</a> The people said
to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Sha'ul reign over us? bring the men,
that we may put them to death. <a name="C0911V13" id="C0911V13">11:13</a> Sha'ul
said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has
worked deliverance in Yisrael. <a name="C0911V14" id="C0911V14">11:14</a> Then
said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the
kingdom there. <a name="C0911V15" id="C0911V15">11:15</a> All the people went
to Gilgal; and there they made Sha'ul king before Yahweh in Gilgal; and
there they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there
Sha'ul and all the men of Yisrael rejoiced greatly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0912V1" id="C0912V1">12:1</a> Samuel said to all Yisrael, Behold, I
have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a
king over you. <a name="C0912V2" id="C0912V2">12:2</a> Now, behold, the king
walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are
with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day. <a
name="C0912V3" id="C0912V3">12:3</a> Here I am: witness against me before
Yahweh, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey
have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose
hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore
it you. <a name="C0912V4" id="C0912V4">12:4</a> They said, You have not
defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any
man's hand. <a name="C0912V5" id="C0912V5">12:5</a> He said to them, Yahweh is
witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have
not found anything in my hand. They said, He is witness. <a name="C0912V6"
id="C0912V6">12:6</a> Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed
Moshe and Aharon, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of
Egypt. <a name="C0912V7" id="C0912V7">12:7</a> Now therefore stand still, that
I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of
Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers. <a name="C0912V8" id="C0912V8">12:8</a>
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then
Yahweh sent Moshe and Aharon, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt,
and made them to dwell in this place. <a name="C0912V9" id="C0912V9">12:9</a>
But they forgot Yahweh their Elohim; and he sold them into the hand of
Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought
against them. <a name="C0912V10" id="C0912V10">12:10</a> They cried to Yahweh,
and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served
the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our
enemies, and we will serve you. <a name="C0912V11" id="C0912V11">12:11</a>
Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered
you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in
safety. <a name="C0912V12" id="C0912V12">12:12</a> When you saw that Nahash
the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No,
but a king shall reign over us; when Yahweh your Elohim was your king. <a
name="C0912V13" id="C0912V13">12:13</a> Now therefore see the king whom you
have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a
king over you. <a name="C0912V14" id="C0912V14">12:14</a> If you will fear
Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the
commandment of Yahweh, and both you and also the king who reigns over you
are followers of Yahweh your Elohim, <i>well</i>: <a name="C0912V15" id="C0912V15">12:15</a>
but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the
commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it
was against your fathers. <a name="C0912V16" id="C0912V16">12:16</a> Now
therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do
before your eyes. <a name="C0912V17" id="C0912V17">12:17</a> Isn't it wheat
harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain;
and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have
done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king. <a name="C0912V18"
id="C0912V18">12:18</a> So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder
and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel. <a
name="C0912V19" id="C0912V19">12:19</a> All the people said to Samuel, Pray
for your servants to Yahweh your Elohim, that we not die; for we have added
to all our sins <i>this</i> evil, to ask us a king. <a name="C0912V20"
id="C0912V20">12:20</a> Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid;
you have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following
Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart: <a name="C0912V21" id="C0912V21">12:21</a>
and don't turn aside; for <i>then would you go</i> after vain things which
can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain. <a name="C0912V22" id="C0912V22">12:22</a>
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because
it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself. <a name="C0912V23"
id="C0912V23">12:23</a> Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should
sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in
the good and the right way. <a name="C0912V24" id="C0912V24">12:24</a> Only
fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how
great things he has done for you. <a name="C0912V25" id="C0912V25">12:25</a>
But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and
your king."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0913V1" id="C0913V1">13:1</a> Sha'ul was <i>forty</i> years old when
he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Yisrael, <a
name="C0913V2" id="C0913V2">13:2</a> Sha'ul chose him three thousand men of
Yisrael, of which two thousand were with Sha'ul in Michmash and in the Mount
of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and
the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. <a name="C0913V3"
id="C0913V3">13:3</a> Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that
was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Sha'ul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. <a name="C0913V4"
id="C0913V4">13:4</a> All Yisrael heard say that Sha'ul had struck the garrison
of the Philistines, and also that Yisrael was had in abomination with the
Philistines. The people were gathered together after Sha'ul to Gilgal. <a
name="C0913V5" id="C0913V5">13:5</a> The Philistines assembled themselves
together to fight with Yisrael, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand
horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude:
and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. <a
name="C0913V6" id="C0913V6">13:6</a> When the men of Yisrael saw that they were
in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide
themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in
pits. <a name="C0913V7" id="C0913V7">13:7</a> Now some of the Hebrews had gone
over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Sha'ul, he was yet
in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. <a name="C0913V8"
id="C0913V8">13:8</a> He stayed seven days, according to the set time that
Samuel <i>had appointed</i>: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the
people were scattered from him. <a name="C0913V9" id="C0913V9">13:9</a> Sha'ul
said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings. He
offered the burnt offering. <a name="C0913V10" id="C0913V10">13:10</a> It came
to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering,
behold, Samuel came; and Sha'ul went out to meet him, that he might greet
him. <a name="C0913V11" id="C0913V11">13:11</a> Samuel said, What have you
done? Sha'ul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and
that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines
assembled themselves together at Michmash; <a name="C0913V12" id="C0913V12">13:12</a>
therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and
I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and
offered the burnt offering. <a name="C0913V13" id="C0913V13">13:13</a> Samuel
said to Sha'ul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment
of Yahweh your Elohim, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have
established your kingdom on Yisrael forever. <a name="C0913V14" id="C0913V14">13:14</a>
But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after
his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people,
because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you. <a name="C0913V15"
id="C0913V15">13:15</a> Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah
of Benjamin. Sha'ul numbered the people who were present with him, about six
hundred men. <a name="C0913V16" id="C0913V16">13:16</a> Sha'ul, and Jonathan his
son, and the people who were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin:
but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. <a name="C0913V17" id="C0913V17">13:17</a>
The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies:
one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
<a name="C0913V18" id="C0913V18">13:18</a> and another company turned the way
to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks
down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. <a name="C0913V19"
id="C0913V19">13:19</a> Now there was no smith found throughout all the land
of Yisrael; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or
spears: <a name="C0913V20" id="C0913V20">13:20</a> but all the Israelites went
down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe,
and sickle; <a name="C0913V21" id="C0913V21">13:21</a> yet they had a file for
the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes,
and to set the goads. <a name="C0913V22" id="C0913V22">13:22</a> So it came to
pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in
the hand of any of the people who were with Sha'ul and Jonathan: but with
Sha'ul and with Jonathan his son was there found. <a name="C0913V23"
id="C0913V23">13:23</a> The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass
of Michmash.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0914V1" id="C0914V1">14:1</a> Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan
the son of Sha'ul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us
go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he
didn't tell his father. <a name="C0914V2" id="C0914V2">14:2</a> Sha'ul abode in
the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in
Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men; <a
name="C0914V3" id="C0914V3">14:3</a> and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's
brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in
Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
<a name="C0914V4" id="C0914V4">14:4</a> Between the passes, by which Jonathan
sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on
the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one
was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. <a name="C0914V5" id="C0914V5">14:5</a>
The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on
the south in front of Geba. <a name="C0914V6" id="C0914V6">14:6</a> Jonathan
said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us;
for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few. <a
name="C0914V7" id="C0914V7">14:7</a> His armor bearer said to him, Do all that
is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
<a name="C0914V8" id="C0914V8">14:8</a> Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will
pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them. <a
name="C0914V9" id="C0914V9">14:9</a> If they say thus to us, Wait until we
come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to
them. <a name="C0914V10" id="C0914V10">14:10</a> But if they say thus, Come up
to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand:
and this shall be the sign to us. <a name="C0914V11" id="C0914V11">14:11</a>
Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and
the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes
where they had hid themselves. <a name="C0914V12" id="C0914V12">14:12</a> The
men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come
up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer,
Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Yisrael.
<a name="C0914V13" id="C0914V13">14:13</a> Jonathan climbed up on his hands
and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before
Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him. <a name="C0914V14"
id="C0914V14">14:14</a> That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor
bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's
length in an acre of land. <a name="C0914V15" id="C0914V15">14:15</a> There
was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the
garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so
there was an exceeding great trembling. <a name="C0914V16" id="C0914V16">14:16</a>
The watchmen of Sha'ul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the
multitude melted away, and they went <i>here</i> and there. <a
name="C0914V17" id="C0914V17">14:17</a> Then said Sha'ul to the people who were
with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered,
behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there. <a name="C0914V18"
id="C0914V18">14:18</a> Sha'ul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of Elohim. For
the ark of Elohim was <i>there</i> at that time with the children of Yisrael.
<a name="C0914V19" id="C0914V19">14:19</a> It happened, while Sha'ul talked to
the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went
on and increased: and Sha'ul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand. <a
name="C0914V20" id="C0914V20">14:20</a> Sha'ul and all the people who were with
him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every
man's sword was against his fellow, <i>and there was</i> a very great
confusion. <a name="C0914V21" id="C0914V21">14:21</a> Now the Hebrews who were
with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp,
<i>from the country</i> all around, even they also <i>turned</i> to be
with the Israelites who were with Sha'ul and Jonathan. <a name="C0914V22"
id="C0914V22">14:22</a> Likewise all the men of Yisrael who had hid
themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the
Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
<a name="C0914V23" id="C0914V23">14:23</a> So Yahweh saved Yisrael that day:
and the battle passed over by Beth Aven. <a name="C0914V24" id="C0914V24">14:24</a>
The men of Yisrael were distressed that day; for Sha'ul had adjured the
people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening,
and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food. <a
name="C0914V25" id="C0914V25">14:25</a> All the people came into the forest;
and there was honey on the ground. <a name="C0914V26" id="C0914V26">14:26</a>
When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no
man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath. <a
name="C0914V27" id="C0914V27">14:27</a> But Jonathan didn't hear when his
father commanded the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end
of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put
his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. <a name="C0914V28"
id="C0914V28">14:28</a> Then answered one of the people, and said, Your
father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the
man who eats food this day. The people were faint. <a name="C0914V29"
id="C0914V29">14:29</a> Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land.
Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little
of this honey. <a name="C0914V30" id="C0914V30">14:30</a> How much more, if
haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies
which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the
Philistines. <a name="C0914V31" id="C0914V31">14:31</a> They struck of the
Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
<a name="C0914V32" id="C0914V32">14:32</a> and the people flew on the spoil,
and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and
the people ate them with the blood. <a name="C0914V33" id="C0914V33">14:33</a>
Then they told Sha'ul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yahweh, in
that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll
a great stone to me this day. <a name="C0914V34" id="C0914V34">14:34</a> Sha'ul
said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here
every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat;
and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with the blood. All the people
brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there. <a
name="C0914V35" id="C0914V35">14:35</a> Sha'ul built an altar to Yahweh: the
same was the first altar that he built to Yahweh. <a name="C0914V36"
id="C0914V36">14:36</a> Sha'ul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by
night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not
leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said
the priest, Let us draw near here to Elohim. <a name="C0914V37" id="C0914V37">14:37</a>
Sha'ul asked counsel of Elohim, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you
deliver them into the hand of Yisrael? But he didn't answer him that day.
<a name="C0914V38" id="C0914V38">14:38</a> Sha'ul said, Draw near here, all you
chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this
day. <a name="C0914V39" id="C0914V39">14:39</a> For, as Yahweh lives, who
saves Yisrael, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But
there was not a man among all the people who answered him. <a name="C0914V40"
id="C0914V40">14:40</a> Then said he to all Yisrael, Be you on one side, and
I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Sha'ul,
Do what seems good to you. <a name="C0914V41" id="C0914V41">14:41</a>
Therefore Sha'ul said to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Show the right. Jonathan
and Sha'ul were taken <i>by lot</i>; but the people escaped. <a name="C0914V42"
id="C0914V42">14:42</a> Sha'ul said, Cast <i>lots</i> between me and Jonathan
my son. Jonathan was taken. <a name="C0914V43" id="C0914V43">14:43</a> Then
Sha'ul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and
said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that
was in my hand; and behold, I must die. <a name="C0914V44" id="C0914V44">14:44</a>
Sha'ul said, Elohim do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan. <a
name="C0914V45" id="C0914V45">14:45</a> The people said to Sha'ul, Shall
Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Yisrael? Far from it:
as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground;
for he has worked with Elohim this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that
he didn't die. <a name="C0914V46" id="C0914V46">14:46</a> Then Sha'ul went up
from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own
place. <a name="C0914V47" id="C0914V47">14:47</a> Now when Sha'ul had taken the
kingdom over Yisrael, he fought against all his enemies on every side,
against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and
against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he
turned himself, he put <i>them</i> to the worse. <a name="C0914V48"
id="C0914V48">14:48</a> He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and
delivered Yisrael out of the hands of those who despoiled them. <a
name="C0914V49" id="C0914V49">14:49</a> Now the sons of Sha'ul were Jonathan,
and Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these:
the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: <a
name="C0914V50" id="C0914V50">14:50</a> and the name of Sha'ul's wife was
Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was
Abner the son of Ner, Sha'ul's uncle. <a name="C0914V51" id="C0914V51">14:51</a>
Kish was the father of Sha'ul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of
Abiel. <a name="C0914V52" id="C0914V52">14:52</a> There was sore war against
the Philistines all the days of Sha'ul: and when Sha'ul saw any mighty man, or
any valiant man, he took him to him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0915V1" id="C0915V1">15:1</a> Samuel said to Sha'ul, Yahweh sent me to
anoint you to be king over his people, over Yisrael: now therefore listen
you to the voice of the words of Yahweh. <a name="C0915V2" id="C0915V2">15:2</a>
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek did to Yisrael,
how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
<a name="C0915V3" id="C0915V3">15:3</a> Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly
destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and
woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. <a name="C0915V4"
id="C0915V4">15:4</a> Sha'ul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Yehudah. <a
name="C0915V5" id="C0915V5">15:5</a> Sha'ul came to the city of Amalek, and laid
wait in the valley. <a name="C0915V6" id="C0915V6">15:6</a> Sha'ul said to the
Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I
destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of
Yisrael, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among
the Amalekites. <a name="C0915V7" id="C0915V7">15:7</a> Sha'ul struck the
Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt. <a
name="C0915V8" id="C0915V8">15:8</a> He took Agag the king of the Amalekites
alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. <a
name="C0915V9" id="C0915V9">15:9</a> But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and
the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the
lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but
everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. <a
name="C0915V10" id="C0915V10">15:10</a> Then came the word of Yahweh to
Samuel, saying, <a name="C0915V11" id="C0915V11">15:11</a> It grieves me that
I have set up Sha'ul to be king; for he is turned back from following me,
and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to
Yahweh all night. <a name="C0915V12" id="C0915V12">15:12</a> Samuel rose early
to meet Sha'ul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Sha'ul came to
Carmel, and behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on,
and went down to Gilgal. <a name="C0915V13" id="C0915V13">15:13</a> Samuel
came to Sha'ul; and Sha'ul said to him, Blessed are you by Yahweh: I have
performed the commandment of Yahweh. <a name="C0915V14" id="C0915V14">15:14</a>
Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and
the lowing of the cattle which I hear? <a name="C0915V15" id="C0915V15">15:15</a>
Sha'ul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people
spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh
your Elohim; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. <a name="C0915V16"
id="C0915V16">15:16</a> Then Samuel said to Sha'ul, Stay, and I will tell you
what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on. <a
name="C0915V17" id="C0915V17">15:17</a> Samuel said, "Though you were
little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of
Yisrael? Yahweh anointed you king over Yisrael; <a name="C0915V18" id="C0915V18">15:18</a>
and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the
sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
<a name="C0915V19" id="C0915V19">15:19</a> Why then didn't you obey the voice
of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh?" <a name="C0915V20" id="C0915V20">15:20</a> Sha'ul said to
Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way
which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have
utterly destroyed the Amalekites. <a name="C0915V21" id="C0915V21">15:21</a>
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the
devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim in Gilgal. <a name="C0915V22"
id="C0915V22">15:22</a> Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. <a
name="C0915V23" id="C0915V23">15:23</a> For rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have
rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king. <a
name="C0915V24" id="C0915V24">15:24</a> Sha'ul said to Samuel, I have sinned;
for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because
I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. <a name="C0915V25" id="C0915V25">15:25</a>
Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may
worship Yahweh. <a name="C0915V26" id="C0915V26">15:26</a> Samuel said to
Sha'ul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of
Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Yisrael. <a
name="C0915V27" id="C0915V27">15:27</a> As Samuel turned about to go away, <i>Sha'ul</i>
laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore. <a name="C0915V28"
id="C0915V28">15:28</a> Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of
Yisrael from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is
better than you. <a name="C0915V29" id="C0915V29">15:29</a> Also the Strength
of Yisrael will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should
repent. <a name="C0915V30" id="C0915V30">15:30</a> Then he said, I have
sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and
before Yisrael, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your Elohim.
<a name="C0915V31" id="C0915V31">15:31</a> So Samuel turned again after Sha'ul;
and Sha'ul worshiped Yahweh. <a name="C0915V32" id="C0915V32">15:32</a> Then
said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. Agag
came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
<a name="C0915V33" id="C0915V33">15:33</a> Samuel said, As your sword has made
women childless, so your mother will be childless among women. Samuel cut
Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal. <a name="C0915V34" id="C0915V34">15:34</a>
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Sha'ul went up to his house to Gibeah of
Sha'ul. <a name="C0915V35" id="C0915V35">15:35</a> Samuel came no more to see
Sha'ul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Sha'ul: and Yahweh
grieved that he had made Sha'ul king over Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0916V1" id="C0916V1">16:1</a> Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will
you mourn for Sha'ul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over
Yisrael? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the
Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons. <a name="C0916V2"
id="C0916V2">16:2</a> Samuel said, How can I go? if Sha'ul hear it, he will
kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to Yahweh. <a name="C0916V3" id="C0916V3">16:3</a> Call Jesse to the
sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to
me him whom I name to you. <a name="C0916V4" id="C0916V4">16:4</a> Samuel did
that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city
came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably? <a name="C0916V5"
id="C0916V5">16:5</a> He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. <a name="C0916V6"
id="C0916V6">16:6</a> It happened, when they had come, that he looked at
Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him. <a name="C0916V7"
id="C0916V7">16:7</a> But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his
face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for <i>Yahweh
sees</i> not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but
Yahweh looks at the heart." <a name="C0916V8" id="C0916V8">16:8</a> Then
Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither
has Yahweh chosen this. <a name="C0916V9" id="C0916V9">16:9</a> Then Jesse
made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this. <a
name="C0916V10" id="C0916V10">16:10</a> Jesse made seven of his sons to pass
before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these. <a
name="C0916V11" id="C0916V11">16:11</a> Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all
your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is
keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not
sit down until he come here. <a name="C0916V12" id="C0916V12">16:12</a> He
sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful
face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is
he. <a name="C0916V13" id="C0916V13">16:13</a> Then Samuel took the horn of
oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of
Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up,
and went to Ramah. <a name="C0916V14" id="C0916V14">16:14</a> Now the Spirit
of Yahweh departed from Sha'ul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
<a name="C0916V15" id="C0916V15">16:15</a> Sha'ul's servants said to him, See
now, an evil spirit from Elohim troubles you. <a name="C0916V16" id="C0916V16">16:16</a>
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a
man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall happen, when the
evil spirit from Elohim is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you
shall be well. <a name="C0916V17" id="C0916V17">16:17</a> Sha'ul said to his
servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me. <a
name="C0916V18" id="C0916V18">16:18</a> Then answered one of the young men,
and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is
skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and
prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him. <a
name="C0916V19" id="C0916V19">16:19</a> Therefore Sha'ul sent messengers to
Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep. <a
name="C0916V20" id="C0916V20">16:20</a> Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread,
and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Sha'ul.
<a name="C0916V21" id="C0916V21">16:21</a> David came to Sha'ul, and stood
before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer. <a
name="C0916V22" id="C0916V22">16:22</a> Sha'ul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let
David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight. <a name="C0916V23"
id="C0916V23">16:23</a> It happened, when the <i>evil</i> spirit from Elohim
was on Sha'ul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Sha'ul
was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0917V1" id="C0917V1">17:1</a> Now the Philistines gathered together
their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which
belongs to Yehudah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
<a name="C0917V2" id="C0917V2">17:2</a> Sha'ul and the men of Yisrael were
gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle
in array against the Philistines. <a name="C0917V3" id="C0917V3">17:3</a> The
Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Yisrael stood on the
mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. <a
name="C0917V4" id="C0917V4">17:4</a> There went out a champion out of the camp
of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits
and a span. <a name="C0917V5" id="C0917V5">17:5</a> He had a helmet of brass
on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the
coat was five thousand shekels of brass. <a name="C0917V6" id="C0917V6">17:6</a>
He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his
shoulders. <a name="C0917V7" id="C0917V7">17:7</a> The staff of his spear was
like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head <i>weighed</i> six hundred
shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him. <a name="C0917V8"
id="C0917V8">17:8</a> He stood and cried to the armies of Yisrael, and said
to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a
Philistine, and you servants to Sha'ul? choose a man for you, and let him
come down to me. <a name="C0917V9" id="C0917V9">17:9</a> If he be able to
fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I
prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and
serve us. <a name="C0917V10" id="C0917V10">17:10</a> The Philistine said, I
defy the armies of Yisrael this day; give me a man, that we may fight
together. <a name="C0917V11" id="C0917V11">17:11</a> When Sha'ul and all Yisrael
heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly
afraid. <a name="C0917V12" id="C0917V12">17:12</a> Now David was the son of
that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Yehudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight
sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Sha'ul, stricken <i>in years</i>
among men. <a name="C0917V13" id="C0917V13">17:13</a> The three eldest sons of
Jesse had gone after Sha'ul to the battle: and the names of his three sons
who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab,
and the third Shammah. <a name="C0917V14" id="C0917V14">17:14</a> David was
the youngest; and the three eldest followed Sha'ul. <a name="C0917V15"
id="C0917V15">17:15</a> Now David went back and forth from Sha'ul to feed his
father's sheep at Bethlehem. <a name="C0917V16" id="C0917V16">17:16</a> The
Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty
days. <a name="C0917V17" id="C0917V17">17:17</a> Jesse said to David his son,
Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten
loaves, and carry <i>them</i> quickly to the camp to your brothers; <a
name="C0917V18" id="C0917V18">17:18</a> and bring these ten cheeses to the
captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take their
pledge. <a name="C0917V19" id="C0917V19">17:19</a> Now Sha'ul, and they, and all
the men of Yisrael, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the
Philistines. <a name="C0917V20" id="C0917V20">17:20</a> David rose up early in
the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as
Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the
army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle. <a
name="C0917V21" id="C0917V21">17:21</a> Yisrael and the Philistines put the
battle in array, army against army. <a name="C0917V22" id="C0917V22">17:22</a>
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran
to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. <a name="C0917V23"
id="C0917V23">17:23</a> As he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the
Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
<a name="C0917V24" id="C0917V24">17:24</a> All the men of Yisrael, when they
saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. <a name="C0917V25"
id="C0917V25">17:25</a> The men of Yisrael said, Have you seen this man who
is come up? surely to defy Yisrael is he come up: and it shall be, that the
man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will
give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Yisrael. <a
name="C0917V26" id="C0917V26">17:26</a> David spoke to the men who stood by
him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and
takes away the reproach from Yisrael? for who is this uncircumcised
Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living Elohim? <a
name="C0917V27" id="C0917V27">17:27</a> The people answered him after this
manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man who kills him. <a
name="C0917V28" id="C0917V28">17:28</a> Eliab his eldest brother heard when he
spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he
said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep
in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart;
for you have come down that you might see the battle. <a name="C0917V29"
id="C0917V29">17:29</a> David said, What have I now done? Is there not a
cause? <a name="C0917V30" id="C0917V30">17:30</a> He turned away from him
toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered
him again after the former manner. <a name="C0917V31" id="C0917V31">17:31</a>
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before
Sha'ul; and he sent for him. <a name="C0917V32" id="C0917V32">17:32</a> David
said to Sha'ul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go
and fight with this Philistine. <a name="C0917V33" id="C0917V33">17:33</a>
Sha'ul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his
youth. <a name="C0917V34" id="C0917V34">17:34</a> David said to Sha'ul, Your
servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a
bear, and took a lamb out of the flock, <a name="C0917V35" id="C0917V35">17:35</a>
I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of his mouth;
and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him,
and killed him. <a name="C0917V36" id="C0917V36">17:36</a> Your servant struck
both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as
one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living Elohim. <a
name="C0917V37" id="C0917V37">17:37</a> David said, Yahweh who delivered me
out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will
deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Sha'ul said to David, Go, and
Yahweh shall be with you. <a name="C0917V38" id="C0917V38">17:38</a> Sha'ul clad
David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass on his head, and he
clad him with a coat of mail. <a name="C0917V39" id="C0917V39">17:39</a> David
girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go; for he had not
proved it. David said to Sha'ul, I can't go with these; for I have not
proved them. David put them off him. <a name="C0917V40" id="C0917V40">17:40</a>
He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the
brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his
wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
<a name="C0917V41" id="C0917V41">17:41</a> The Philistine came on and drew
near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him. <a
name="C0917V42" id="C0917V42">17:42</a> When the Philistine looked about, and
saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal
of a fair face. <a name="C0917V43" id="C0917V43">17:43</a> The Philistine said
to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? The Philistine
cursed David by his gods. <a name="C0917V44" id="C0917V44">17:44</a> The
Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the
birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field. <a name="C0917V45"
id="C0917V45">17:45</a> Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me
with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in
the name of Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of the armies of Yisrael, whom you
have defied. <a name="C0917V46" id="C0917V46">17:46</a> This day will Yahweh
deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from
off you; and I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines
this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth;
that all the earth may know that there is a Elohim in Yisrael, <a name="C0917V47"
id="C0917V47">17:47</a> and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh
doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will
give you into our hand. <a name="C0917V48" id="C0917V48">17:48</a> It
happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David,
that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. <a
name="C0917V49" id="C0917V49">17:49</a> David put his hand in his bag, and
took there a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his
forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to
the earth. <a name="C0917V50" id="C0917V50">17:50</a> So David prevailed over
the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine,
and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. <a
name="C0917V51" id="C0917V51">17:51</a> Then David ran, and stood over the
Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed
him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their
champion was dead, they fled. <a name="C0917V52" id="C0917V52">17:52</a> The
men of Yisrael and of Yehudah arose, and shouted, and pursued the
Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded
of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to
Ekron. <a name="C0917V53" id="C0917V53">17:53</a> The children of Yisrael
returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their
camp. <a name="C0917V54" id="C0917V54">17:54</a> David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to Yerushalayim; but he put his armor in his tent.
<a name="C0917V55" id="C0917V55">17:55</a> When Sha'ul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner,
whose son is this youth? Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't
tell. <a name="C0917V56" id="C0917V56">17:56</a> The king said, "Inquire
whose son the young man is!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0917V57" id="C0917V57">17:57</a> As David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Sha'ul
with the head of the Philistine in his hand. <a name="C0917V58" id="C0917V58">17:58</a>
Sha'ul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David answered, I am
the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0918V1" id="C0918V1">18:1</a> It happened, when he had made an end
of speaking to Sha'ul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of
David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. <a name="C0918V2" id="C0918V2">18:2</a>
Sha'ul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's
house. <a name="C0918V3" id="C0918V3">18:3</a> Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. <a name="C0918V4" id="C0918V4">18:4</a>
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to
David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his
sash. <a name="C0918V5" id="C0918V5">18:5</a> David went out wherever Sha'ul
sent him, <i>and</i> behaved himself wisely: and Sha'ul set him over the men
of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the
sight of Sha'ul's servants. <a name="C0918V6" id="C0918V6">18:6</a> It happened
as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
that the women came out of all the cities of Yisrael, singing and dancing,
to meet king Sha'ul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of
music. <a name="C0918V7" id="C0918V7">18:7</a> The women sang one to another
as they played, and said, Sha'ul has slain his thousands, David his ten
thousands. <a name="C0918V8" id="C0918V8">18:8</a> Sha'ul was very angry, and
this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he
have more but the kingdom? <a name="C0918V9" id="C0918V9">18:9</a> Sha'ul eyed
David from that day and forward. <a name="C0918V10" id="C0918V10">18:10</a> It
happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from Elohim came mightily on
Sha'ul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with
his hand, as he did day by day. Sha'ul had his spear in his hand; <a
name="C0918V11" id="C0918V11">18:11</a> and Sha'ul cast the spear; for he said,
I will strike David even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence
twice. <a name="C0918V12" id="C0918V12">18:12</a> Sha'ul was afraid of David,
because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Sha'ul. <a name="C0918V13"
id="C0918V13">18:13</a> Therefore Sha'ul removed him from him, and made him
his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the
people. <a name="C0918V14" id="C0918V14">18:14</a> David behaved himself
wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him. <a name="C0918V15"
id="C0918V15">18:15</a> When Sha'ul saw that he behaved himself very wisely,
he stood in awe of him. <a name="C0918V16" id="C0918V16">18:16</a> But all
Yisrael and Yehudah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. <a
name="C0918V17" id="C0918V17">18:17</a> Sha'ul said to David, Behold, my elder
daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and
fight Yahweh's battles. For Sha'ul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but
let the hand of the Philistines be on him. <a name="C0918V18" id="C0918V18">18:18</a>
David said to Sha'ul, Who am I, and what is my life, <i>or</i> my father's
family in Yisrael, that I should be son-in-law to the king? <a name="C0918V19"
id="C0918V19">18:19</a> But it happened at the time when Merab, Sha'ul's
daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel
the Meholathite as wife. <a name="C0918V20" id="C0918V20">18:20</a> Michal,
Sha'ul's daughter, loved David: and they told Sha'ul, and the thing pleased
him. <a name="C0918V21" id="C0918V21">18:21</a> Sha'ul said, I will give her to
him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines
may be against him. Therefore Sha'ul said to David, You shall this day be my
son-in-law a second time. <a name="C0918V22" id="C0918V22">18:22</a> Sha'ul
commanded his servants, <i>saying</i>, Commune with David secretly, and
say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you:
now therefore be the king's son-in-law. <a name="C0918V23" id="C0918V23">18:23</a>
Sha'ul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, Seems
it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a
poor man, and lightly esteemed? <a name="C0918V24" id="C0918V24">18:24</a> The
servants of Sha'ul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. <a
name="C0918V25" id="C0918V25">18:25</a> Sha'ul said, Thus you shall tell David,
The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines,
to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Sha'ul thought to make David fall
by the hand of the Philistines. <a name="C0918V26" id="C0918V26">18:26</a>
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the
king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; <a name="C0918V27" id="C0918V27">18:27</a>
and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines
two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in
full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Sha'ul gave
him Michal his daughter as wife. <a name="C0918V28" id="C0918V28">18:28</a>
Sha'ul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Sha'ul's daughter,
loved him. <a name="C0918V29" id="C0918V29">18:29</a> Sha'ul was yet the more
afraid of David; and Sha'ul was David's enemy continually. <a name="C0918V30"
id="C0918V30">18:30</a> Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and
it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more
wisely than all the servants of Sha'ul; so that his name was much set by.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0919V1" id="C0919V1">19:1</a> Sha'ul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to
all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Sha'ul's son,
delighted much in David. <a name="C0919V2" id="C0919V2">19:2</a> Jonathan told
David, saying, Sha'ul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please
take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide
yourself: <a name="C0919V3" id="C0919V3">19:3</a> and I will go out and stand
beside my father in the field where you are, and I will commune with my
father of you; and if I see anything, I will tell you. <a name="C0919V4"
id="C0919V4">19:4</a> Jonathan spoke good of David to Sha'ul his father, and
said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been
very good toward you: <a name="C0919V5" id="C0919V5">19:5</a> for he put his
life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great
victory for all Yisrael: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin
against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause? <a name="C0919V6"
id="C0919V6">19:6</a> Sha'ul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Sha'ul
swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death. <a name="C0919V7"
id="C0919V7">19:7</a> Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all
those things. Jonathan brought David to Sha'ul, and he was in his presence,
as before. <a name="C0919V8" id="C0919V8">19:8</a> There was war again: and
David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a
great slaughter; and they fled before him. <a name="C0919V9" id="C0919V9">19:9</a>
An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Sha'ul, as he sat in his house with his
spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. <a name="C0919V10"
id="C0919V10">19:10</a> Sha'ul sought to strike David even to the wall with
the spear; but he slipped away out of Sha'ul's presence, and he struck the
spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. <a
name="C0919V11" id="C0919V11">19:11</a> Sha'ul sent messengers to David's house,
to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife,
told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will
be slain. <a name="C0919V12" id="C0919V12">19:12</a> So Michal let David down
through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. <a name="C0919V13"
id="C0919V13">19:13</a> Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed,
and put a pillow of goats' <i>hair</i> at its head, and covered it with
the clothes. <a name="C0919V14" id="C0919V14">19:14</a> When Sha'ul sent
messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. <a name="C0919V15"
id="C0919V15">19:15</a> Sha'ul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring
him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him. <a name="C0919V16" id="C0919V16">19:16</a>
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the
pillow of goats' <i>hair</i> at its head. <a name="C0919V17" id="C0919V17">19:17</a>
Sha'ul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go,
so that he is escaped? Michal answered Sha'ul, He said to me, Let me go; why
should I kill you? <a name="C0919V18" id="C0919V18">19:18</a> Now David fled,
and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Sha'ul had
done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. <a name="C0919V19"
id="C0919V19">19:19</a> It was told Sha'ul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth
in Ramah. <a name="C0919V20" id="C0919V20">19:20</a> Sha'ul sent messengers to
take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and
Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of Elohim came on the
messengers of Sha'ul, and they also prophesied. <a name="C0919V21" id="C0919V21">19:21</a>
When it was told Sha'ul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied.
Sha'ul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. <a
name="C0919V22" id="C0919V22">19:22</a> Then went he also to Ramah, and came
to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel
and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. <a name="C0919V23"
id="C0919V23">19:23</a> He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of
Elohim came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to
Naioth in Ramah. <a name="C0919V24" id="C0919V24">19:24</a> He also stripped
off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked
all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Sha'ul also
among the prophets?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V1" id="C0920V1">20:1</a> David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and
came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my
iniquity?" and "What is my sin before your father, that he seeks
my life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V2" id="C0920V2">20:2</a> He said to him, "Far from it; you
shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but
that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from
me? It is not so."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V3" id="C0920V3">20:3</a> David swore moreover, and said, "Your
father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says,
'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh
lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V4" id="C0920V4">20:4</a> Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever
your soul desires, I will even do it for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V5" id="C0920V5">20:5</a> David said to Jonathan, "Behold,
tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but
let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at
evening. <a name="C0920V6" id="C0920V6">20:6</a> If your father miss me at
all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to
Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the
family.' <a name="C0920V7" id="C0920V7">20:7</a> If he says, 'It is well;'
your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is
determined by him. <a name="C0920V8" id="C0920V8">20:8</a> Therefore deal
kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a
covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me
yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V9" id="C0920V9">20:9</a> Jonathan said, "Far be it from
you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to
come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V10" id="C0920V10">20:10</a> Then said David to Jonathan, "Who
shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V11" id="C0920V11">20:11</a> Jonathan said to David, "Come,
and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field.
<a name="C0920V12" id="C0920V12">20:12</a> Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh,
the Elohim of Yisrael, <i>be witness</i>: when I have sounded my father about
this time tomorrow, <i>or</i> the third day, behold, if there be good
toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you? <a
name="C0920V13" id="C0920V13">20:13</a> Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more
also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to
you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you,
as he has been with my father. <a name="C0920V14" id="C0920V14">20:14</a> You
shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh,
that I not die; <a name="C0920V15" id="C0920V15">20:15</a> but also you shall
not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has
cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth."
<a name="C0920V16" id="C0920V16">20:16</a> So Jonathan made a covenant with
the house of David, <i>saying</i>, Yahweh will require it at the hand of
David's enemies. <a name="C0920V17" id="C0920V17">20:17</a> Jonathan caused
David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as
he loved his own soul. <a name="C0920V18" id="C0920V18">20:18</a> Then
Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed,
because your seat will be empty. <a name="C0920V19" id="C0920V19">20:19</a>
When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to
the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and
shall remain by the stone Ezel. <a name="C0920V20" id="C0920V20">20:20</a> I
will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark. <a
name="C0920V21" id="C0920V21">20:21</a> Behold, I will send the boy, <i>saying</i>,
Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this
side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt,
as Yahweh lives. <a name="C0920V22" id="C0920V22">20:22</a> But if I say thus
to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for Yahweh has
sent you away. <a name="C0920V23" id="C0920V23">20:23</a> As touching the
matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and
me forever. <a name="C0920V24" id="C0920V24">20:24</a> So David hid himself in
the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat
food. <a name="C0920V25" id="C0920V25">20:25</a> The king sat on his seat, as
at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and
Abner sat by Sha'ul's side: but David's place was empty. <a name="C0920V26"
id="C0920V26">20:26</a> Nevertheless Sha'ul didn't say anything that day: for
he thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is
not clean. <a name="C0920V27" id="C0920V27">20:27</a> It happened on the next
day after the new moon, <i>which was</i> the second <i>day</i>, that
David's place was empty: and Sha'ul said to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't
the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today? <a
name="C0920V28" id="C0920V28">20:28</a> Jonathan answered Sha'ul, David
earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem: <a name="C0920V29"
id="C0920V29">20:29</a> and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a
sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me <i>to be there</i>:
and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you,
and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table. <a
name="C0920V30" id="C0920V30">20:30</a> Then Sha'ul's anger was kindled against
Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman,
don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and
to the shame of your mother's nakedness? <a name="C0920V31" id="C0920V31">20:31</a>
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be
established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for
he shall surely die.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V32" id="C0920V32">20:32</a> Jonathan answered Sha'ul his father,
and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0920V33" id="C0920V33">20:33</a> Sha'ul cast his spear at him to
strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put
David to death. <a name="C0920V34" id="C0920V34">20:34</a> So Jonathan arose
from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the
month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him
shame. <a name="C0920V35" id="C0920V35">20:35</a> It happened in the morning,
that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David,
and a little boy with him. <a name="C0920V36" id="C0920V36">20:36</a> He said
to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As the boy ran, he
shot an arrow beyond him. <a name="C0920V37" id="C0920V37">20:37</a> When the
boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan
cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow beyond you? <a name="C0920V38"
id="C0920V38">20:38</a> Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't
delay! Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. <a
name="C0920V39" id="C0920V39">20:39</a> But the boy didn't know anything: only
Jonathan and David knew the matter. <a name="C0920V40" id="C0920V40">20:40</a>
Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to
the city. <a name="C0920V41" id="C0920V41">20:41</a> As soon as the boy was
gone, David arose out of <i>a place</i> toward the South, and fell on his
face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one
another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. <a name="C0920V42"
id="C0920V42">20:42</a> Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have
sworn both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me
and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0921V1" id="C0921V1">21:1</a> Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech
the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him,
Why are you alone, and no man with you? <a name="C0921V2" id="C0921V2">21:2</a>
David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business,
and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I
send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young
men to such and such a place. <a name="C0921V3" id="C0921V3">21:3</a> Now
therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my
hand, or whatever there is present. <a name="C0921V4" id="C0921V4">21:4</a>
The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my
hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves
from women. <a name="C0921V5" id="C0921V5">21:5</a> David answered the priest,
and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three
days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it
was but a common journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be
holy? <a name="C0921V6" id="C0921V6">21:6</a> So the priest gave him holy <i>bread</i>;
for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from
before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. <a
name="C0921V7" id="C0921V7">21:7</a> Now a certain man of the servants of Sha'ul
was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the
Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Sha'ul. <a name="C0921V8"
id="C0921V8">21:8</a> David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your
hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons
with me, because the king's business required haste. <a name="C0921V9"
id="C0921V9">21:9</a> The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine,
whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a
cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no
other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it to
me. <a name="C0921V10" id="C0921V10">21:10</a> David arose, and fled that day
for fear of Sha'ul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. <a name="C0921V11"
id="C0921V11">21:11</a> The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this
David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in
dances, saying, 'Sha'ul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
<a name="C0921V12" id="C0921V12">21:12</a> David laid up these words in his
heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. <a name="C0921V13"
id="C0921V13">21:13</a> He changed his behavior before them, and feigned
himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and
let his spittle fall down on his beard. <a name="C0921V14" id="C0921V14">21:14</a>
Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; why then
have you brought him to me? <a name="C0921V15" id="C0921V15">21:15</a> Do I
lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my
presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0922V1" id="C0922V1">22:1</a> David therefore departed there, and
escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's
house heard it, they went down there to him. <a name="C0922V2" id="C0922V2">22:2</a>
Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone
who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain
over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. <a name="C0922V3"
id="C0922V3">22:3</a> David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the
king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, <i>and be</i>
with you, until I know what Elohim will do for me. <a name="C0922V4" id="C0922V4">22:4</a>
He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with him all the
while that David was in the stronghold. <a name="C0922V5" id="C0922V5">22:5</a>
The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and
get you into the land of Yehudah. Then David departed, and came into the
forest of Hereth. <a name="C0922V6" id="C0922V6">22:6</a> Sha'ul heard that
David was discovered, and the men who were with him: now Sha'ul was sitting
in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand,
and all his servants were standing about him. <a name="C0922V7" id="C0922V7">22:7</a>
Sha'ul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites;
will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he
make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, <a
name="C0922V8" id="C0922V8">22:8</a> that all of you have conspired against
me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with
the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or
discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie
in wait, as at this day? <a name="C0922V9" id="C0922V9">22:9</a> Then answered
Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Sha'ul, and said, I saw the
son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. <a
name="C0922V10" id="C0922V10">22:10</a> He inquired of Yahweh for him, and
gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. <a
name="C0922V11" id="C0922V11">22:11</a> Then the king sent to call Ahimelech
the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who
were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. <a name="C0922V12"
id="C0922V12">22:12</a> Sha'ul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered,
Here I am, my lord. <a name="C0922V13" id="C0922V13">22:13</a> Sha'ul said to
him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that
you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of Elohim for him,
that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? <a
name="C0922V14" id="C0922V14">22:14</a> Then Ahimelech answered the king, and
said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the
king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in
your house? <a name="C0922V15" id="C0922V15">22:15</a> Have I today begun to
inquire of Elohim for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute
anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your
servant knows nothing of all this, less or more. <a name="C0922V16"
id="C0922V16">22:16</a> The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you,
and all your father's house. <a name="C0922V17" id="C0922V17">22:17</a> The
king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of
Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that
he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king
wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. <a
name="C0922V18" id="C0922V18">22:18</a> The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and
fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests,
and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. <a
name="C0922V19" id="C0922V19">22:19</a> Nob, the city of the priests, struck
he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing
babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. <a
name="C0922V20" id="C0922V20">22:20</a> One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son
of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. <a name="C0922V21"
id="C0922V21">22:21</a> Abiathar told David that Sha'ul had slain Yahweh's
priests. <a name="C0922V22" id="C0922V22">22:22</a> David said to Abiathar, I
knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely
tell Sha'ul: I have occasioned <i>the death</i> of all the persons of your
father's house. <a name="C0922V23" id="C0922V23">22:23</a> Abide you with me,
don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life: for with me you
shall be in safeguard.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0923V1" id="C0923V1">23:1</a> They told David, saying, Behold, the
Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing
floors. <a name="C0923V2" id="C0923V2">23:2</a> Therefore David inquired of
Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to
David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah. <a name="C0923V3"
id="C0923V3">23:3</a> David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in
Yehudah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the
Philistines? <a name="C0923V4" id="C0923V4">23:4</a> Then David inquired of
Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah;
for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand. <a name="C0923V5"
id="C0923V5">23:5</a> David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a
great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. <a name="C0923V6"
id="C0923V6">23:6</a> It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled
to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. <a
name="C0923V7" id="C0923V7">23:7</a> It was told Sha'ul that David was come to
Keilah. Sha'ul said, Elohim has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in,
by entering into a town that has gates and bars. <a name="C0923V8" id="C0923V8">23:8</a>
Sha'ul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege
David and his men. <a name="C0923V9" id="C0923V9">23:9</a> David knew that
Sha'ul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the
priest, Bring here the ephod. <a name="C0923V10" id="C0923V10">23:10</a> Then
said David, O Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, your servant has surely heard
that Sha'ul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. <a
name="C0923V11" id="C0923V11">23:11</a> Will the men of Keilah deliver me up
into his hand? will Sha'ul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come
down. <a name="C0923V12" id="C0923V12">23:12</a> Then said David, Will the men
of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Sha'ul? Yahweh said,
They will deliver you up. <a name="C0923V13" id="C0923V13">23:13</a> Then
David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of
Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Sha'ul that David was
escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. <a name="C0923V14"
id="C0923V14">23:14</a> David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds,
and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Sha'ul sought
him every day, but Elohim didn't deliver him into his hand. <a name="C0923V15"
id="C0923V15">23:15</a> David saw that Sha'ul had come out to seek his life:
and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. <a name="C0923V16"
id="C0923V16">23:16</a> Jonathan, Sha'ul's son, arose, and went to David into
the wood, and strengthened his hand in Elohim. <a name="C0923V17" id="C0923V17">23:17</a>
He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Sha'ul my father shall not
find you; and you shall be king over Yisrael, and I shall be next to you;
and that also Sha'ul my father knows. <a name="C0923V18" id="C0923V18">23:18</a>
They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and
Jonathan went to his house. <a name="C0923V19" id="C0923V19">23:19</a> Then
came up the Ziphites to Sha'ul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself
with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is
on the south of the desert? <a name="C0923V20" id="C0923V20">23:20</a> Now
therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to
come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
<a name="C0923V21" id="C0923V21">23:21</a> Sha'ul said, Blessed be you of
Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me. <a name="C0923V22" id="C0923V22">23:22</a>
Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt
is, <i>and</i> who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals
very subtly. <a name="C0923V23" id="C0923V23">23:23</a> See therefore, and
take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come
you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall
happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the
thousands of Yehudah. <a name="C0923V24" id="C0923V24">23:24</a> They arose, and
went to Ziph before Sha'ul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of
Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. <a name="C0923V25"
id="C0923V25">23:25</a> Sha'ul and his men went to seek him. When David was
told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When
Sha'ul heard <i>that</i>, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
<a name="C0923V26" id="C0923V26">23:26</a> Sha'ul went on this side of the
mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David
made haste to get away for fear of Sha'ul; for Sha'ul and his men surrounded
David and his men to take them. <a name="C0923V27" id="C0923V27">23:27</a> But
there came a messenger to Sha'ul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the
Philistines have made a raid on the land. <a name="C0923V28" id="C0923V28">23:28</a>
So Sha'ul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the
Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth. <a
name="C0923V29" id="C0923V29">23:29</a> David went up from there, and lived in
the strongholds of En Gedi.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0924V1" id="C0924V1">24:1</a> It happened, when Sha'ul was returned
from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold,
David is in the wilderness of En Gedi. <a name="C0924V2" id="C0924V2">24:2</a>
Then Sha'ul took three thousand chosen men out of all Yisrael, and went to
seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. <a name="C0924V3"
id="C0924V3">24:3</a> He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was
a cave; and Sha'ul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were
abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. <a name="C0924V4" id="C0924V4">24:4</a>
The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you,
Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him
as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of
Sha'ul's robe secretly. <a name="C0924V5" id="C0924V5">24:5</a> It happened
afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Sha'ul's
skirt. <a name="C0924V6" id="C0924V6">24:6</a> He said to his men, Yahweh
forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put
forth my hand against him, seeing he is Yahweh's anointed. <a name="C0924V7"
id="C0924V7">24:7</a> So David checked his men with these words, and didn't
allow them to rise against Sha'ul. Sha'ul rose up out of the cave, and went on
his way. <a name="C0924V8" id="C0924V8">24:8</a> David also arose afterward,
and went out of the cave, and cried after Sha'ul, saying, My lord the king.
When Sha'ul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and
did obeisance. <a name="C0924V9" id="C0924V9">24:9</a> David said to Sha'ul, Why
listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt? <a
name="C0924V10" id="C0924V10">24:10</a> Behold, this day your eyes have seen
how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some
bade me kill you; but <i>my eye</i> spared you; and I said, I will not put
forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed. <a
name="C0924V11" id="C0924V11">24:11</a> Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see
the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your
robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor
disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you
hunt after my life to take it. <a name="C0924V12" id="C0924V12">24:12</a>
Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand
shall not be on you. <a name="C0924V13" id="C0924V13">24:13</a> As says the
proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my
hand shall not be on you. <a name="C0924V14" id="C0924V14">24:14</a> After
whom is the king of Yisrael come out? after whom do you pursue? after a
dead dog, after a flea. <a name="C0924V15" id="C0924V15">24:15</a> Yahweh
therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and
plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand. <a name="C0924V16"
id="C0924V16">24:16</a> It came to pass, when David had made an end of
speaking these words to Sha'ul, that Sha'ul said, Is this your voice, my son
David? Sha'ul lifted up his voice, and wept. <a name="C0924V17" id="C0924V17">24:17</a>
He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to
me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil. <a name="C0924V18" id="C0924V18">24:18</a>
You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because
when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me. <a
name="C0924V19" id="C0924V19">24:19</a> For if a man finds his enemy, will he
let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that
which you have done to me this day. <a name="C0924V20" id="C0924V20">24:20</a>
Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of
Yisrael shall be established in your hand. <a name="C0924V21" id="C0924V21">24:21</a>
Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed
after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
<a name="C0924V22" id="C0924V22">24:22</a> David swore to Sha'ul. Sha'ul went
home; but David and his men got them up to the stronghold.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0925V1" id="C0925V1">25:1</a> Samuel died; and all Yisrael gathered
themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at
Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a
name="C0925V2" id="C0925V2">25:2</a> There was a man in Maon, whose
possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in
Carmel. <a name="C0925V3" id="C0925V3">25:3</a> Now the name of the man was
Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good
understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil
in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. <a name="C0925V4" id="C0925V4">25:4</a>
David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. <a
name="C0925V5" id="C0925V5">25:5</a> David sent ten young men, and David said
to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my
name: <a name="C0925V6" id="C0925V6">25:6</a> and thus you shell tell him who
lives <i>in prosperity</i>, Peace be to you, and peace be to your house,
and peace be to all that you have. <a name="C0925V7" id="C0925V7">25:7</a> Now
I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us,
and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all
the while they were in Carmel. <a name="C0925V8" id="C0925V8">25:8</a> Ask
your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the young men find
favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes
to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David. <a name="C0925V9"
id="C0925V9">25:9</a> When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal
according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. <a
name="C0925V10" id="C0925V10">25:10</a> Nabal answered David's servants, and
said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants
who break away from their masters these days. <a name="C0925V11" id="C0925V11">25:11</a>
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed
for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
<a name="C0925V12" id="C0925V12">25:12</a> So David's young men turned on
their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these
words. <a name="C0925V13" id="C0925V13">25:13</a> David said to his men, Gird
you on every man his sword. They girded on every man his sword; and David
also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred
men; and two hundred abode by the baggage. <a name="C0925V14" id="C0925V14">25:14</a>
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David
sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed
at them. <a name="C0925V15" id="C0925V15">25:15</a> But the men were very good
to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we
went with them, when we were in the fields: <a name="C0925V16" id="C0925V16">25:16</a>
they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were
with them keeping the sheep. <a name="C0925V17" id="C0925V17">25:17</a> Now
therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined
against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless
fellow that one can't speak to him. <a name="C0925V18" id="C0925V18">25:18</a>
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of
wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain,
and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and
laid them on donkeys. <a name="C0925V19" id="C0925V19">25:19</a> She said to
her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't
tell her husband, Nabal. <a name="C0925V20" id="C0925V20">25:20</a> It was so,
as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain,
that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them. <a
name="C0925V21" id="C0925V21">25:21</a> Now David had said, Surely in vain
have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing
was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for
good. <a name="C0925V22" id="C0925V22">25:22</a> Elohim do so to the enemies of
David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning
light so much as one <a href="#N091">who urinates on a wall.</a> <a
name="C0925V23" id="C0925V23">25:23</a> When Abigail saw David, she hurried,
and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground. <a name="C0925V24" id="C0925V24">25:24</a> She fell at
his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let
your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid. <a
name="C0925V25" id="C0925V25">25:25</a> Please don't let my lord regard this
worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his
name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men
of my lord, whom you did send. <a name="C0925V26" id="C0925V26">25:26</a> Now
therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh
has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with
your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to
my lord, be as Nabal. <a name="C0925V27" id="C0925V27">25:27</a> Now this
present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the
young men who follow my lord. <a name="C0925V28" id="C0925V28">25:28</a>
Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will certainly
make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh;
and evil shall not be found in you all your days. <a name="C0925V29"
id="C0925V29">25:29</a> Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek
your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life
with Yahweh your Elohim; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling
out, as from the hollow of a sling. <a name="C0925V30" id="C0925V30">25:30</a>
It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord according to
all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed
you prince over Yisrael, <a name="C0925V31" id="C0925V31">25:31</a> that this
shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you
have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When
Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid. <a
name="C0925V32" id="C0925V32">25:32</a> David said to Abigail, Blessed be
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, who sent you this day to meet me: <a
name="C0925V33" id="C0925V33">25:33</a> and blessed be your discretion, and
blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from
avenging myself with my own hand. <a name="C0925V34" id="C0925V34">25:34</a>
For in very deed, as Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, lives, who has withheld me
from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there
wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one <a
href="#N092">who urinates on a wall.</a> <a name="C0925V35" id="C0925V35">25:35</a>
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said
to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have listened to your
voice, and have accepted your person. <a name="C0925V36" id="C0925V36">25:36</a>
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the
feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very
drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning
light. <a name="C0925V37" id="C0925V37">25:37</a> It happened in the morning,
when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things,
and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. <a name="C0925V38"
id="C0925V38">25:38</a> It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck
Nabal, so that he died. <a name="C0925V39" id="C0925V39">25:39</a> When David
heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the
cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant
from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own
head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
<a name="C0925V40" id="C0925V40">25:40</a> When the servants of David were
come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to
you, to take you to him as wife. <a name="C0925V41" id="C0925V41">25:41</a>
She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold,
your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. <a
name="C0925V42" id="C0925V42">25:42</a> Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode
on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after
the messengers of David, and became his wife. <a name="C0925V43" id="C0925V43">25:43</a>
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his
wives. <a name="C0925V44" id="C0925V44">25:44</a> Now Sha'ul had given Michal
his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N091" id="N091">[1]</a> <a href="#C0925V22">back to 25:22</a> or, male.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N092" id="N092">[2]</a> <a href="#C0925V34">back to 25:34</a> or, male.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0926V1" id="C0926V1">26:1</a> The Ziphites came to Sha'ul to Gibeah,
saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is
before the desert? <a name="C0926V2" id="C0926V2">26:2</a> Then Sha'ul arose,
and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men
of Yisrael with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. <a
name="C0926V3" id="C0926V3">26:3</a> Sha'ul encamped in the hill of Hachilah,
which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness,
and he saw that Sha'ul came after him into the wilderness. <a name="C0926V4"
id="C0926V4">26:4</a> David therefore sent out spies, and understood that
Sha'ul was come of a certainty. <a name="C0926V5" id="C0926V5">26:5</a> David
arose, and came to the place where Sha'ul had encamped; and David saw the
place where Sha'ul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army:
and Sha'ul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped
around him. <a name="C0926V6" id="C0926V6">26:6</a> Then answered David and
said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother
to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Sha'ul to the camp? Abishai
said, I will go down with you. <a name="C0926V7" id="C0926V7">26:7</a> So
David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Sha'ul lay
sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the
ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him. <a
name="C0926V8" id="C0926V8">26:8</a> Then said Abishai to David, Elohim has
delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let
me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not
strike him the second time. <a name="C0926V9" id="C0926V9">26:9</a> David said
to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against
Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless? <a name="C0926V10" id="C0926V10">26:10</a>
David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come
to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. <a name="C0926V11"
id="C0926V11">26:11</a> Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand
against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his
head, and the jar of water, and let us go. <a name="C0926V12" id="C0926V12">26:12</a>
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Sha'ul's head; and they
got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for
they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.
<a name="C0926V13" id="C0926V13">26:13</a> Then David went over to the other
side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being
between them; <a name="C0926V14" id="C0926V14">26:14</a> and David cried to
the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Don't you answer, Abner?
Then Abner answered, Who are you who cries to the king? <a name="C0926V15"
id="C0926V15">26:15</a> David said to Abner, Aren't you a <i>valiant</i>
man? and who is like you in Yisrael? why then have you not kept watch over
your lord, the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the
king your lord. <a name="C0926V16" id="C0926V16">26:16</a> This thing isn't
good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because
you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where
the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head. <a
name="C0926V17" id="C0926V17">26:17</a> Sha'ul knew David's voice, and said, Is
this your voice, my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O
king. <a name="C0926V18" id="C0926V18">26:18</a> He said, Why does my lord
pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my
hand? <a name="C0926V19" id="C0926V19">26:19</a> Now therefore, please let my
lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has
stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the
children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out
this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve
other gods. <a name="C0926V20" id="C0926V20">26:20</a> Now therefore, don't
let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the
king of Yisrael is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a
partridge in the mountains. <a name="C0926V21" id="C0926V21">26:21</a> Then
said Sha'ul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you
harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have
played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. <a name="C0926V22" id="C0926V22">26:22</a>
David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men
come over and get it. <a name="C0926V23" id="C0926V23">26:23</a> Yahweh will
render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh
delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against
Yahweh's anointed. <a name="C0926V24" id="C0926V24">26:24</a> Behold, as your
life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in
the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression. <a
name="C0926V25" id="C0926V25">26:25</a> Then Sha'ul said to David, Blessed be
you, my son David: you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail.
So David went his way, and Sha'ul returned to his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0927V1" id="C0927V1">27:1</a> David said in his heart, I shall now
perish one day by the hand of Sha'ul: there is nothing better for me than
that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Sha'ul will
despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Yisrael: so shall
I escape out of his hand. <a name="C0927V2" id="C0927V2">27:2</a> David arose,
and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish
the son of Maoch, king of Gath. <a name="C0927V3" id="C0927V3">27:3</a> David
lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household,
even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the
Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. <a name="C0927V4" id="C0927V4">27:4</a> It was told
Sha'ul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. <a
name="C0927V5" id="C0927V5">27:5</a> David said to Achish, If now I have found
favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the
country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the
royal city with you? <a name="C0927V6" id="C0927V6">27:6</a> Then Achish gave
him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Yehudah to this
day. <a name="C0927V7" id="C0927V7">27:7</a> The number of the days that David
lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
<a name="C0927V8" id="C0927V8">27:8</a> David and his men went up, and made a
raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those <i>nations</i>
were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even
to the land of Egypt. <a name="C0927V9" id="C0927V9">27:9</a> David struck the
land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and
the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he
returned, and came to Achish. <a name="C0927V10" id="C0927V10">27:10</a>
Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David said, Against
the South of Yehudah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and
against the South of the Kenites. <a name="C0927V11" id="C0927V11">27:11</a>
David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying,
Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his
manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines. <a
name="C0927V12" id="C0927V12">27:12</a> Achish believed David, saying, He has
made his people Yisrael utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my
servant forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0928V1" id="C0928V1">28:1</a> It happened in those days, that the
Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with
Yisrael. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out
with me in the army, you and your men. <a name="C0928V2" id="C0928V2">28:2</a>
David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant will do.
Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you keeper of my head for
ever. <a name="C0928V3" id="C0928V3">28:3</a> Now Samuel was dead, and all
Yisrael had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.
Sha'ul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of
the land. <a name="C0928V4" id="C0928V4">28:4</a> The Philistines gathered
themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Sha'ul gathered
all Yisrael together, and they encamped in Gilboa. <a name="C0928V5"
id="C0928V5">28:5</a> When Sha'ul saw the army of the Philistines, he was
afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. <a name="C0928V6" id="C0928V6">28:6</a>
When Sha'ul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams,
nor by Urim, nor by prophets. <a name="C0928V7" id="C0928V7">28:7</a> Then
said Sha'ul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that
I may go to her, and inquire of her. His servants said to him, Behold,
there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor. <a name="C0928V8"
id="C0928V8">28:8</a> Sha'ul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and
went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever
I shall name to you. <a name="C0928V9" id="C0928V9">28:9</a> The woman said to
him, Behold, you know what Sha'ul has done, how he has cut off those who
have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you
a snare for my life, to cause me to die? <a name="C0928V10" id="C0928V10">28:10</a>
Sha'ul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, there shall no
punishment happen to you for this thing. <a name="C0928V11" id="C0928V11">28:11</a>
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? He said, Bring me up
Samuel. <a name="C0928V12" id="C0928V12">28:12</a> When the woman saw Samuel,
she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Sha'ul, saying, Why have
you deceived me? for you are Sha'ul. <a name="C0928V13" id="C0928V13">28:13</a>
The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said
to Sha'ul, I see a god coming up out of the earth. <a name="C0928V14"
id="C0928V14">28:14</a> He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old
man comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Sha'ul perceived that it was
Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance. <a
name="C0928V15" id="C0928V15">28:15</a> Samuel said to Sha'ul, Why have you
disquieted me, to bring me up? Sha'ul answered, I am sore distressed; for
the Philistines make war against me, and Elohim is departed from me, and
answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have
called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do. <a name="C0928V16"
id="C0928V16">28:16</a> Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing
Yahweh is departed from you, and is become your adversary? <a name="C0928V17"
id="C0928V17">28:17</a> Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and
Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your
neighbor, even to David. <a name="C0928V18" id="C0928V18">28:18</a> Because
you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath
on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day. <a
name="C0928V19" id="C0928V19">28:19</a> Moreover Yahweh will deliver Yisrael
also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your
sons will be with me: Yahweh will deliver the army of Yisrael also into the
hand of the Philistines. <a name="C0928V20" id="C0928V20">28:20</a> Then Sha'ul
fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid,
because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he
had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. <a name="C0928V21"
id="C0928V21">28:21</a> The woman came to Sha'ul, and saw that he was sore
troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your
voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words
which you spoke to me. <a name="C0928V22" id="C0928V22">28:22</a> Now
therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me
set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength,
when you go on your way. <a name="C0928V23" id="C0928V23">28:23</a> But he
refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the
woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from
the earth, and sat on the bed. <a name="C0928V24" id="C0928V24">28:24</a> The
woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, and killed it;
and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread of it:
<a name="C0928V25" id="C0928V25">28:25</a> and she brought it before Sha'ul, and
before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that
night.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0929V1" id="C0929V1">29:1</a> Now the Philistines gathered together
all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which
is in Jezreel. <a name="C0929V2" id="C0929V2">29:2</a> The lords of the
Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men
passed on in the rearward with Achish. <a name="C0929V3" id="C0929V3">29:3</a>
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What <i>do</i> these Hebrews <i>here</i>?
Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the
servant of Sha'ul the king of Yisrael, who has been with me these days, or <i>rather</i>
these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away <i>to me</i>
to this day? <a name="C0929V4" id="C0929V4">29:4</a> But the princes of the
Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said
to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you
have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the
battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this <i>fellow</i>
reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these
men? <a name="C0929V5" id="C0929V5">29:5</a> Is not this David, of whom they
sang one to another in dances, saying, Sha'ul has slain his thousands, David
his ten thousands? <a name="C0929V6" id="C0929V6">29:6</a> Then Achish called
David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your
going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for
I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this
day: nevertheless the lords don't favor you. <a name="C0929V7" id="C0929V7">29:7</a>
Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of
the Philistines. <a name="C0929V8" id="C0929V8">29:8</a> David said to Achish,
But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant so long as I
have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the
enemies of my lord the king? <a name="C0929V9" id="C0929V9">29:9</a> Achish
answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of Elohim:
notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go
up with us to the battle. <a name="C0929V10" id="C0929V10">29:10</a> Therefore
now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have
come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have
light, depart. <a name="C0929V11" id="C0929V11">29:11</a> So David rose up
early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land
of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0930V1" id="C0930V1">30:1</a> It happened, when David and his men
were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid
on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with
fire, <a name="C0930V2" id="C0930V2">30:2</a> and had taken captive the women
<i>and all</i> who were therein, both small and great: they didn't kill
any, but carried them off, and went their way. <a name="C0930V3" id="C0930V3">30:3</a>
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire;
and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
<a name="C0930V4" id="C0930V4">30:4</a> Then David and the people who were
with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to
weep. <a name="C0930V5" id="C0930V5">30:5</a> David's two wives were taken
captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite. <a name="C0930V6" id="C0930V6">30:6</a> David was greatly
distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all
the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but
David strengthened himself in Yahweh his Elohim. <a name="C0930V7" id="C0930V7">30:7</a>
David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Please bring me
here the ephod. Abiathar brought there the ephod to David. <a name="C0930V8"
id="C0930V8">30:8</a> David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after
this troop, shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for you shall
surely overtake <i>them</i>, and shall without fail recover <i>all</i>. <a
name="C0930V9" id="C0930V9">30:9</a> So David went, he and the six hundred men
who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left
behind stayed. <a name="C0930V10" id="C0930V10">30:10</a> But David pursued,
he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint
that they couldn't go over the brook Besor. <a name="C0930V11" id="C0930V11">30:11</a>
They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave
him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. <a name="C0930V12"
id="C0930V12">30:12</a> They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two
clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him;
for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three
nights. <a name="C0930V13" id="C0930V13">30:13</a> David said to him, To whom
belong you? and whence are you? He said, I am a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I
fell sick. <a name="C0930V14" id="C0930V14">30:14</a> We made a raid on the
South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Yehudah, and on the
South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. <a name="C0930V15"
id="C0930V15">30:15</a> David said to him, Will you bring me down to this
troop? He said, Swear to me by Elohim, that you will neither kill me, nor
deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to
this troop. <a name="C0930V16" id="C0930V16">30:16</a> When he had brought him
down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and
drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken
out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Yehudah. <a
name="C0930V17" id="C0930V17">30:17</a> David struck them from the twilight
even to the evening of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped,
except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled. <a
name="C0930V18" id="C0930V18">30:18</a> David recovered all that the
Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives. <a name="C0930V19"
id="C0930V19">30:19</a> There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor
great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they
had taken to them: David brought back all. <a name="C0930V20" id="C0930V20">30:20</a>
David took all the flocks and the herds, <i>which</i> they drove before
those <i>other</i> livestock, and said, This is David's spoil. <a
name="C0930V21" id="C0930V21">30:21</a> David came to the two hundred men, who
were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to
abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet
the people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he
greeted them. <a name="C0930V22" id="C0930V22">30:22</a> Then answered all the
wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, and said,
Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the
spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his
children, that he may lead them away, and depart. <a name="C0930V23"
id="C0930V23">30:23</a> Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers,
with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and
delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. <a name="C0930V24"
id="C0930V24">30:24</a> Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his
share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by
the baggage: they shall share alike. <a name="C0930V25" id="C0930V25">30:25</a>
It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an
ordinance for Yisrael to this day. <a name="C0930V26" id="C0930V26">30:26</a>
When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Yehudah,
even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the
enemies of Yahweh: <a name="C0930V27" id="C0930V27">30:27</a> To those who
were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those
who were in Jattir, <a name="C0930V28" id="C0930V28">30:28</a> and to those
who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who
were in Eshtemoa, <a name="C0930V29" id="C0930V29">30:29</a> and to those who
were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites,
and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites, <a name="C0930V30"
id="C0930V30">30:30</a> and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who
were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach, <a name="C0930V31"
id="C0930V31">30:31</a> and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the
places where David himself and his men used to stay.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0931V1" id="C0931V1">31:1</a> Now the Philistines fought against
Yisrael: and the men of Yisrael fled from before the Philistines, and fell
down slain on Mount Gilboa. <a name="C0931V2" id="C0931V2">31:2</a> The
Philistines followed hard on Sha'ul and on his sons; and the Philistines
killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Sha'ul. <a
name="C0931V3" id="C0931V3">31:3</a> The battle went sore against Sha'ul, and
the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the
archers. <a name="C0931V4" id="C0931V4">31:4</a> Then said Sha'ul to his armor
bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these
uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor
bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword,
and fell on it. <a name="C0931V5" id="C0931V5">31:5</a> When his armor bearer
saw that Sha'ul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
<a name="C0931V6" id="C0931V6">31:6</a> So Sha'ul died, and his three sons, and
his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together. <a name="C0931V7"
id="C0931V7">31:7</a> When the men of Yisrael who were on the other side of
the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of
Yisrael fled, and that Sha'ul and his sons were dead, they forsook the
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. <a
name="C0931V8" id="C0931V8">31:8</a> It happened on the next day, when the
Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Sha'ul and his three
sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <a name="C0931V9" id="C0931V9">31:9</a> They cut
off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the
Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and
to the people. <a name="C0931V10" id="C0931V10">31:10</a> They put his armor
in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of
Beth Shan. <a name="C0931V11" id="C0931V11">31:11</a> When the inhabitants of
Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to
Sha'ul, <a name="C0931V12" id="C0931V12">31:12</a> all the valiant men arose,
and went all night, and took the body of Sha'ul and the bodies of his sons
from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
<a name="C0931V13" id="C0931V13">31:13</a> They took their bones, and buried
them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C141V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C142V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C143V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C144V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C145V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C146V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C147V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C148V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C149V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C1410V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C1411V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C1412V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C1413V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C1414V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C1415V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C1416V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C1417V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C1418V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C1419V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C1420V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C1421V1>Chapter 21</a>
<a href=#C1422V1>Chapter 22</a>
<a href=#C1423V1>Chapter 23</a>
<a href=#C1424V1>Chapter 24</a>
<a href=#C1425V1>Chapter 25</a>
<a href=#C1426V1>Chapter 26</a>
<a href=#C1427V1>Chapter 27</a>
<a href=#C1428V1>Chapter 28</a>
<a href=#C1429V1>Chapter 29</a>
<a href=#C1430V1>Chapter 30</a><br />
<a href=#C1431V1>Chapter 31</a>
<a href=#C1432V1>Chapter 32</a>
<a href=#C1433V1>Chapter 33</a>
<a href=#C1434V1>Chapter 34</a>
<a href=#C1435V1>Chapter 35</a>
<a href=#C1436V1>Chapter 36</a>
<p>
<a name="C141V1" id="C141V1">1:1</a> Solomon the son of David was strengthened
in his kingdom, and Yahweh his Elohim was with him, and magnified him
exceedingly. <a name="C141V2" id="C141V2">1:2</a> Solomon spoke to all Yisrael,
to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to
every prince in all Yisrael, the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>. <a
name="C141V3" id="C141V3">1:3</a> So Solomon, and all the assembly with him,
went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the Tent of
Meeting of Elohim, which Moshe the servant of Yahweh had made in the
wilderness. <a name="C141V4" id="C141V4">1:4</a> But David had brought the ark
of Elohim up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it;
for he had pitched a tent for it at Yerushalayim. <a name="C141V5" id="C141V5">1:5</a>
Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
had made, was there before the tent of Yahweh: and Solomon and the
assembly were seeking counsel there. <a name="C141V6" id="C141V6">1:6</a>
Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the
Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it. <a
name="C141V7" id="C141V7">1:7</a> In that night Elohim appeared to Solomon, and
said to him, "Ask what I shall give you." <a name="C141V8"
id="C141V8">1:8</a> Solomon said to Elohim, You have shown great loving
kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place. <a
name="C141V9" id="C141V9">1:9</a> Now, Yahweh Elohim, let your promise to David
my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the
dust of the earth in multitude. <a name="C141V10" id="C141V10">1:10</a> Give
me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this
people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great? <a
name="C141V11" id="C141V11">1:11</a> Elohim said to Solomon, Because this was in
your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life
of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked
wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom
I have made you king: <a name="C141V12" id="C141V12">1:12</a> wisdom and
knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and
honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you;
neither shall there any after you have the like. <a name="C141V13" id="C141V13">1:13</a>
So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the
Tent of Meeting, to Yerushalayim; and he reigned over Yisrael. <a name="C141V14"
id="C141V14">1:14</a> Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one
thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he
placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim. <a
name="C141V15" id="C141V15">1:15</a> The king made silver and gold to be in
Yerushalayim as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that
are in the lowland, for abundance. <a name="C141V16" id="C141V16">1:16</a> The
horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the
king's merchants purchased them from Kue. <a name="C141V17" id="C141V17">1:17</a>
They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces
of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of
the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their
means.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C142V1" id="C142V1">2:1</a> Now Solomon purposed to build a house for
the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. <a name="C142V2" id="C142V2">2:2</a>
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty
thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand
and six hundred to oversee them. <a name="C142V3" id="C142V3">2:3</a> Solomon
sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father,
and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, <i>even so
deal with me</i>. <a name="C142V4" id="C142V4">2:4</a> Behold, I am about to
build a house for the name of Yahweh my Elohim, to dedicate it to him, and to
burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread,
and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Shabbats, and on
the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our Elohim. This is <i>an
ordinance</i> forever to Yisrael. <a name="C142V5" id="C142V5">2:5</a> The
house which I build is great; for great is our Elohim above all gods. <a
name="C142V6" id="C142V6">2:6</a> But who is able to build him a house, seeing
heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I
should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him? <a
name="C142V7" id="C142V7">2:7</a> Now therefore send me a man skillful to work
in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave <i>all manner of</i>
engravings, <i>to be</i> with the skillful men who are with me in Yehudah
and in Yerushalayim, whom David my father did provide. <a name="C142V8"
id="C142V8">2:8</a> Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees,
out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in
Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, <a
name="C142V9" id="C142V9">2:9</a> even to prepare me timber in abundance; for
the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. <a
name="C142V10" id="C142V10">2:10</a> Behold, I will give to your servants, the
cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and
twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and
twenty thousand baths of oil. <a name="C142V11" id="C142V11">2:11</a> Then
Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,
"Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them."
<a name="C142V12" id="C142V12">2:12</a> Huram continued, "Blessed be
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, that made heaven and earth, who has given to
David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that
should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. <a
name="C142V13" id="C142V13">2:13</a> Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed
with understanding, of Huram my father's, <a name="C142V14" id="C142V14">2:14</a>
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of
Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in
stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in
crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any
device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men,
and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. <a name="C142V15"
id="C142V15">2:15</a> Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and
the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants: <a
name="C142V16" id="C142V16">2:16</a> and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as
much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to
Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Yerushalayim." <a name="C142V17"
id="C142V17">2:17</a> Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the
land of Yisrael, after the numbering with which David his father had
numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six
hundred. <a name="C142V18" id="C142V18">2:18</a> He set seventy thousand of
them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the
mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at
work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C143V1" id="C143V1">3:1</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of
Yahweh at Yerushalayim on Mount Moriah, where <i>Yahweh</i> appeared to David
his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in
the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a name="C143V2" id="C143V2">3:2</a>
He began to build in the second <i>day</i> of the second month, in the
fourth year of his reign. <a name="C143V3" id="C143V3">3:3</a> Now these are
the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of Elohim.
The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits. <a name="C143V4" id="C143V4">3:4</a> The porch that was
before <i>the house</i>, its length, according to the breadth of the
house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he
overlaid it within with pure gold. <a name="C143V5" id="C143V5">3:5</a> The
greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. <a name="C143V6"
id="C143V6">3:6</a> He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
and the gold was gold of Parvaim. <a name="C143V7" id="C143V7">3:7</a> He
overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its
doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. <a name="C143V8"
id="C143V8">3:8</a> He made the most holy house: its length, according to
the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty
cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred
talents. <a name="C143V9" id="C143V9">3:9</a> The weight of the nails was
fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold. <a
name="C143V10" id="C143V10">3:10</a> In the most holy house he made two
cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold. <a name="C143V11"
id="C143V11">3:11</a> The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the
wing of the one <i>cherub</i> was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the
house; and the other wing was <i>likewise</i> five cubits, reaching to the
wing of the other cherub. <a name="C143V12" id="C143V12">3:12</a> The wing of
the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and
the other wing was five cubits <i>also</i>, joining to the wing of the
other cherub. <a name="C143V13" id="C143V13">3:13</a> The wings of these
cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their
feet, and their faces were toward the house. <a name="C143V14" id="C143V14">3:14</a>
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and
ornamented it with cherubim. <a name="C143V15" id="C143V15">3:15</a> Also he
made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the
capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. <a
name="C143V16" id="C143V16">3:16</a> He made chains in the oracle, and put <i>them</i>
on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put
them on the chains. <a name="C143V17" id="C143V17">3:17</a> He set up the
pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the
left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name
of that on the left Boaz.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C144V1" id="C144V1">4:1</a> Then he made an altar of brass, twenty
cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its
height. <a name="C144V2" id="C144V2">4:2</a> Also he made the molten sea of
ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and its height was five
cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. <a name="C144V3" id="C144V3">4:3</a>
Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits,
encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. <a
name="C144V4" id="C144V4">4:4</a> It stood on twelve oxen, three looking
toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking
toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. <a name="C144V5"
id="C144V5">4:5</a> It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like
the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three
thousand baths. <a name="C144V6" id="C144V6">4:6</a> He made also ten basins,
and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them;
such things as belonged to the burnt offering they washed in them; but the
sea was for the priests to wash in. <a name="C144V7" id="C144V7">4:7</a> He
made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning
them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on
the left. <a name="C144V8" id="C144V8">4:8</a> He made also ten tables, and
placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left.
He made one hundred basins of gold. <a name="C144V9" id="C144V9">4:9</a>
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and
doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. <a
name="C144V10" id="C144V10">4:10</a> He set the sea on the right side <i>of
the house</i> eastward, toward the south. <a name="C144V11" id="C144V11">4:11</a>
Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end
of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of Elohim: <a
name="C144V12" id="C144V12">4:12</a> the two pillars, and the bowls, and the
two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to
cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
<a name="C144V13" id="C144V13">4:13</a> and the four hundred pomegranates for
the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the
two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. <a name="C144V14"
id="C144V14">4:14</a> He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the
bases; <a name="C144V15" id="C144V15">4:15</a> one sea, and the twelve oxen
under it. <a name="C144V16" id="C144V16">4:16</a> The pots also, and the
shovels, and the forks, and all its vessels, did Huram his father make for
king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass. <a name="C144V17"
id="C144V17">4:17</a> In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. <a name="C144V18" id="C144V18">4:18</a>
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of
the brass could not be found out. <a name="C144V19" id="C144V19">4:19</a>
Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Elohim, the golden
altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; <a name="C144V20"
id="C144V20">4:20</a> and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according
to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; <a name="C144V21"
id="C144V21">4:21</a> and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of
gold, and that perfect gold; <a name="C144V22" id="C144V22">4:22</a> and the
snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold:
and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy
place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C145V1" id="C145V1">5:1</a> Thus all the work that Solomon did for
the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David
his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the
vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Elohim. <a name="C145V2"
id="C145V2">5:2</a> Then Solomon assembled the elders of Yisrael, and all the
heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the
children of Yisrael, to Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. <a name="C145V3" id="C145V3">5:3</a>
And all the men of Yisrael assembled themselves to the king at the feast,
which was <i>in</i> the seventh month. <a name="C145V4" id="C145V4">5:4</a>
All the elders of Yisrael came: and the Levites took up the ark; <a
name="C145V5" id="C145V5">5:5</a> and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of
Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the
priests the Levites bring up. <a name="C145V6" id="C145V6">5:6</a> King
Solomon and all the congregation of Yisrael, that were assembled to him,
were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be
counted nor numbered for multitude. <a name="C145V7" id="C145V7">5:7</a> The
priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into
the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of
the cherubim. <a name="C145V8" id="C145V8">5:8</a> For the cherubim spread
forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the
ark and its poles above. <a name="C145V9" id="C145V9">5:9</a> The poles were
so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the
oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day. <a
name="C145V10" id="C145V10">5:10</a> There was nothing in the ark save the two
tables which Moshe put <i>there</i> at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant
with the children of Yisrael, when they came out of Egypt. <a name="C145V11"
id="C145V11">5:11</a> It happened, when the priests were come out of the
holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified
themselves, and did not keep their divisions; <a name="C145V12" id="C145V12">5:12</a>
also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman,
Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with
cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the
altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
<a name="C145V13" id="C145V13">5:13</a> it happened, when the trumpeters and
singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and
thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and
cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, <i>saying</i>, For
he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house
was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh, <a name="C145V14"
id="C145V14">5:14</a> so that the priests could not stand to minister by
reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C146V1" id="C146V1">6:1</a> Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that
he would dwell in the thick darkness. <a name="C146V2" id="C146V2">6:2</a> But
I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in
forever. <a name="C146V3" id="C146V3">6:3</a> The king turned his face, and
blessed all the assembly of Yisrael: and all the assembly of Yisrael stood.
<a name="C146V4" id="C146V4">6:4</a> He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his
hands fulfilled it, saying, <a name="C146V5" id="C146V5">6:5</a> Since the day
that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city
out of all the tribes of Yisrael to build a house in, that my name might be
there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Yisrael: <a
name="C146V6" id="C146V6">6:6</a> but I have chosen Yerushalayim, that my name
might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Yisrael. <a
name="C146V7" id="C146V7">6:7</a> Now it was in the heart of David my father
to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C146V8"
id="C146V8">6:8</a> But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in
your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your
heart: <a name="C146V9" id="C146V9">6:9</a> nevertheless you shall not build
the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall
build the house for my name. <a name="C146V10" id="C146V10">6:10</a> Yahweh
has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of
David my father, and sit on the throne of Yisrael, as Yahweh promised, and
have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a
name="C146V11" id="C146V11">6:11</a> There have I set the ark, in which is the
covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C146V12" id="C146V12">6:12</a> He stood before the altar of Yahweh in
the presence of all the assembly of Yisrael, and spread forth his hands <a
name="C146V13" id="C146V13">6:13</a> (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold,
five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had
set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on
his knees before all the assembly of Yisrael, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven;) <a name="C146V14" id="C146V14">6:14</a> and he said, Yahweh,
the Elohim of Yisrael, there is no Elohim like you, in heaven, or on earth; who
keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you
with all their heart; <a name="C146V15" id="C146V15">6:15</a> who have kept
with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you
spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this
day. <a name="C146V16" id="C146V16">6:16</a> Now therefore, Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, keep with your servant David my father that which you have
promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on
the throne of Yisrael, if only your children take heed to their way, to
walk in my Torah as you have walked before me. <a name="C146V17" id="C146V17">6:17</a>
Now therefore, Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, let your word be verified, which
you spoke to your servant David. <a name="C146V18" id="C146V18">6:18</a> But
will Elohim indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven
of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
<a name="C146V19" id="C146V19">6:19</a> Yet have you respect to the prayer of
your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my Elohim, to listen to the cry
and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; <a name="C146V20"
id="C146V20">6:20</a> that your eyes may be open toward this house day and
night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your
name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this
place. <a name="C146V21" id="C146V21">6:21</a> Listen to the petitions of your
servant, and of your people Yisrael, when they shall pray toward this
place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you
hear, forgive. <a name="C146V22" id="C146V22">6:22</a> If a man sin against
his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he
comes and swears before your altar in this house; <a name="C146V23"
id="C146V23">6:23</a> then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your
servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own
head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness. <a name="C146V24" id="C146V24">6:24</a> If your people Yisrael
be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and
shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication
before you in this house; <a name="C146V25" id="C146V25">6:25</a> then hear
from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Yisrael, and bring them
again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. <a
name="C146V26" id="C146V26">6:26</a> When the sky is shut up, and there is no
rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this
place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict
them: <a name="C146V27" id="C146V27">6:27</a> then hear in heaven, and forgive
the sin of your servants, and of your people Yisrael, when you teach them
the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which
you have given to your people for an inheritance. <a name="C146V28"
id="C146V28">6:28</a> If there be in the land famine, if there be
pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their
enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or
whatever sickness there be; <a name="C146V29" id="C146V29">6:29</a> whatever
prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Yisrael,
who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall
spread forth his hands toward this house: <a name="C146V30" id="C146V30">6:30</a>
then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to
every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even
you only, know the hearts of the children of men;) <a name="C146V31"
id="C146V31">6:31</a> that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long
as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. <a name="C146V32"
id="C146V32">6:32</a> Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your
people Yisrael, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's
sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall
come and pray toward this house: <a name="C146V33" id="C146V33">6:33</a> then
hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all
that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may
know your name, and fear you, as does your people Yisrael, and that they
may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. <a
name="C146V34" id="C146V34">6:34</a> If your people go out to battle against
their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you
toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built
for your name; <a name="C146V35" id="C146V35">6:35</a> then hear from heaven
their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. <a
name="C146V36" id="C146V36">6:36</a> If they sin against you (for there is no
man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the
enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; <a
name="C146V37" id="C146V37">6:37</a> yet if they shall repent themselves in
the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make
supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have
sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; <a name="C146V38"
id="C146V38">6:38</a> if they return to you with all their heart and with
all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried
them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers,
and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have
built for your name: <a name="C146V39" id="C146V39">6:39</a> then hear from
heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions,
and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against
you. <a name="C146V40" id="C146V40">6:40</a> Now, my Elohim, let, I beg you, your
eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made
in this place. <a name="C146V41" id="C146V41">6:41</a> Now therefore arise,
Yahweh Elohim, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength:
let your priests, Yahweh Elohim, be clothed with salvation, and let your
saints rejoice in goodness. <a name="C146V42" id="C146V42">6:42</a> Yahweh
Elohim, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember <i>your</i>
loving kindnesses to David your servant.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C147V1" id="C147V1">7:1</a> Now when Solomon had made an end of
praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering
and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. <a
name="C147V2" id="C147V2">7:2</a> The priests could not enter into the house
of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house. <a
name="C147V3" id="C147V3">7:3</a> All the children of Yisrael looked on, when
the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they
bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and
worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, <i>saying</i>, For he is good; for
his loving kindness endures for ever. <a name="C147V4" id="C147V4">7:4</a>
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh. <a
name="C147V5" id="C147V5">7:5</a> King Solomon offered a sacrifice of
twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of Elohim. <a
name="C147V6" id="C147V6">7:6</a> The priests stood, according to their
offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David
the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness
endures for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests
sounded trumpets before them; and all Yisrael stood. <a name="C147V7"
id="C147V7">7:7</a> Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that
was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings,
and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon
had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal
offering, and the fat. <a name="C147V8" id="C147V8">7:8</a> So Solomon held
the feast at that time seven days, and all Yisrael with him, a very great
assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. <a name="C147V9"
id="C147V9">7:9</a> On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they
kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. <a
name="C147V10" id="C147V10">7:10</a> On the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of
heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and
to Yisrael his people. <a name="C147V11" id="C147V11">7:11</a> Thus Solomon
finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully
completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of
Yahweh, and in his own house. <a name="C147V12" id="C147V12">7:12</a> Yahweh
appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer,
and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. <a
name="C147V13" id="C147V13">7:13</a> If I shut up the sky so that there is no
rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people; <a name="C147V14" id="C147V14">7:14</a> if my
people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. <a
name="C147V15" id="C147V15">7:15</a> Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears
attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. <a name="C147V16"
id="C147V16">7:16</a> For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that
my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually. <a name="C147V17" id="C147V17">7:17</a> As for you, if you will
walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I
have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; <a
name="C147V18" id="C147V18">7:18</a> then I will establish the throne of your
kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There
shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Yisrael. <a name="C147V19" id="C147V19">7:19</a>
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I
have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
<a name="C147V20" id="C147V20">7:20</a> then will I pluck them up by the roots
out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made
holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a
proverb and a byword among all peoples. <a name="C147V21" id="C147V21">7:21</a>
This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be
astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to
this house? <a name="C147V22" id="C147V22">7:22</a> They shall answer, Because
they abandoned Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers, who brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them,
and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C148V1" id="C148V1">8:1</a> It happened at the end of twenty years,
in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house, <a
name="C148V2" id="C148V2">8:2</a> that the cities which Huram had given to
Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Yisrael to dwell
there. <a name="C148V3" id="C148V3">8:3</a> Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and
prevailed against it. <a name="C148V4" id="C148V4">8:4</a> He built Tadmor in
the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath. <a
name="C148V5" id="C148V5">8:5</a> Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth
Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; <a
name="C148V6" id="C148V6">8:6</a> and Baalath, and all the storage cities that
Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his
horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in
Yerushalayim, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. <a
name="C148V7" id="C148V7">8:7</a> As for all the people who were left of the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, who were not of Yisrael; <a name="C148V8" id="C148V8">8:8</a> of
their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of
Yisrael didn't consume, of them did Solomon conscripted forced labor to
this day. <a name="C148V9" id="C148V9">8:9</a> But of the children of Yisrael
did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and
chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. <a
name="C148V10" id="C148V10">8:10</a> These were the chief officers of king
Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people. <a name="C148V11"
id="C148V11">8:11</a> Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife
shall not dwell in the house of David king of Yisrael, because the places
where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy. <a name="C148V12" id="C148V12">8:12</a>
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh,
which he had built before the porch, <a name="C148V13" id="C148V13">8:13</a>
even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the
commandment of Moshe, on the Shabbats, and on the new moons, and on the
set feasts, three times in the year, <i>even</i> in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. <a
name="C148V14" id="C148V14">8:14</a> He appointed, according to the ordinance
of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and
the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the
priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their
divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of Elohim commanded. <a
name="C148V15" id="C148V15">8:15</a> They didn't depart from the commandment
of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or
concerning the treasures. <a name="C148V16" id="C148V16">8:16</a> Now all the
work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of
Yahweh, and until it was finished. <i>So</i> the house of Yahweh was
completed. <a name="C148V17" id="C148V17">8:17</a> Then went Solomon to Ezion
Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. <a name="C148V18"
id="C148V18">8:18</a> Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of
the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of
gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C149V1" id="C149V1">9:1</a> When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame
of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Yerushalayim,
with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in
abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she
talked with him of all that was in her heart. <a name="C149V2" id="C149V2">9:2</a>
Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hid from
Solomon which he didn't tell her. <a name="C149V3" id="C149V3">9:3</a> When
the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he
had built, <a name="C149V4" id="C149V4">9:4</a> and the food of his table, and
the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent
by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in
her. <a name="C149V5" id="C149V5">9:5</a> She said to the king, It was a true
report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. <a
name="C149V6" id="C149V6">9:6</a> However I didn't believe their words, until
I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of
your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. <a
name="C149V7" id="C149V7">9:7</a> Happy are your men, and happy are these your
servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. <a
name="C149V8" id="C149V8">9:8</a> Blessed be Yahweh your Elohim, who delighted in
you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your Elohim: because
your Elohim loved Yisrael, to establish them forever, therefore made he you
king over them, to do justice and righteousness. <a name="C149V9" id="C149V9">9:9</a>
She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in
great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as
the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. <a name="C149V10" id="C149V10">9:10</a>
The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold
from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. <a name="C149V11"
id="C149V11">9:11</a> The king made of the algum trees terraces for the
house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and stringed
instruments for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in
the land of Yehudah. <a name="C149V12" id="C149V12">9:12</a> King Solomon gave
to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that
which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own
land, she and her servants. <a name="C149V13" id="C149V13">9:13</a> Now the
weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and
sixty-six talents of gold, <a name="C149V14" id="C149V14">9:14</a> besides
that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia
and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. <a
name="C149V15" id="C149V15">9:15</a> King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of
beaten gold; six hundred <i>shekels</i> of beaten gold went to one
buckler. <a name="C149V16" id="C149V16">9:16</a> <i>he made</i> three hundred
shields of beaten gold; three hundred <i>shekels</i> of gold went to one
shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. <a
name="C149V17" id="C149V17">9:17</a> Moreover the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. <a name="C149V18" id="C149V18">9:18</a>
And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which
were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the
seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. <a name="C149V19" id="C149V19">9:19</a>
Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six
steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom. <a name="C149V20"
id="C149V20">9:20</a> All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. <a name="C149V21"
id="C149V21">9:21</a> For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the
servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish,
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. <a name="C149V22"
id="C149V22">9:22</a> So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom. <a name="C149V23" id="C149V23">9:23</a> All the kings of
the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which Elohim
had put in his heart. <a name="C149V24" id="C149V24">9:24</a> They brought
every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. <a
name="C149V25" id="C149V25">9:25</a> Solomon had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in
the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim. <a name="C149V26"
id="C149V26">9:26</a> He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the
land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. <a name="C149V27"
id="C149V27">9:27</a> The king made silver to be in Yerushalayim as stones, and
he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for
abundance. <a name="C149V28" id="C149V28">9:28</a> They brought horses for
Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands. <a name="C149V29" id="C149V29">9:29</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written
in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the
Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son
of Nebat? <a name="C149V30" id="C149V30">9:30</a> Solomon reigned in Yerushalayim
over all Yisrael forty years. <a name="C149V31" id="C149V31">9:31</a> Solomon
slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father:
and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1410V1" id="C1410V1">10:1</a> Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all
Yisrael were come to Shechem to make him king. <a name="C1410V2" id="C1410V2">10:2</a>
It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in
Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam
returned out of Egypt. <a name="C1410V3" id="C1410V3">10:3</a> They sent and
called him; and Jeroboam and all Yisrael came, and they spoke to Rehoboam,
saying, <a name="C1410V4" id="C1410V4">10:4</a> Your father made our yoke
grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and
his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. <a
name="C1410V5" id="C1410V5">10:5</a> He said to them, Come again to me after
three days. The people departed. <a name="C1410V6" id="C1410V6">10:6</a> King
Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his
father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return
answer to this people? <a name="C1410V7" id="C1410V7">10:7</a> They spoke to
him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak
good words to them, then they will be your servants forever. <a
name="C1410V8" id="C1410V8">10:8</a> But he forsook the counsel of the old men
which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had
grown up with him, who stood before him. <a name="C1410V9" id="C1410V9">10:9</a>
He said to them, What counsel give you, that we may return answer to this
people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did
put on us lighter? <a name="C1410V10" id="C1410V10">10:10</a> The young men
who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you shall tell the
people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make
you it lighter to us; thus you shall say to them, My little finger is
thicker than my father's waist. <a name="C1410V11" id="C1410V11">10:11</a> Now
whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke:
my father chastised you with whips, but I <i>will chastise you</i> with
scorpions. <a name="C1410V12" id="C1410V12">10:12</a> So Jeroboam and all the
people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to
me again the third day. <a name="C1410V13" id="C1410V13">10:13</a> The king
answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old
men, <a name="C1410V14" id="C1410V14">10:14</a> and spoke to them after the
counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I
will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I <i>will
chastise you</i> with scorpions. <a name="C1410V15" id="C1410V15">10:15</a> So
the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of Elohim,
that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. <a name="C1410V16" id="C1410V16">10:16</a>
When all Yisrael saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people
answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, Yisrael: now see
to your own house, David. So all Yisrael departed to their tents. <a
name="C1410V17" id="C1410V17">10:17</a> But as for the children of Yisrael who
lived in the cities of Yehudah, Rehoboam reigned over them. <a name="C1410V18"
id="C1410V18">10:18</a> Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the
men subject to forced labor; and the children of Yisrael stoned him to
death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot,
to flee to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1410V19" id="C1410V19">10:19</a> So Yisrael
rebelled against the house of David to this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1411V1" id="C1411V1">11:1</a> When Rehoboam was come to Yerushalayim,
he assembled the house of Yehudah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand
chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Yisrael, to bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam. <a name="C1411V2" id="C1411V2">11:2</a> But the
word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of Elohim, saying, <a name="C1411V3"
id="C1411V3">11:3</a> Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Yehudah,
and to all Yisrael in Yehudah and Benjamin, saying, <a name="C1411V4" id="C1411V4">11:4</a>
Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers:
return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened
to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam. <a
name="C1411V5" id="C1411V5">11:5</a> Rehoboam lived in Yerushalayim, and built
cities for defense in Yehudah. <a name="C1411V6" id="C1411V6">11:6</a> He built
Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, <a name="C1411V7" id="C1411V7">11:7</a> Beth
Zur, and Soco, and Adullam, <a name="C1411V8" id="C1411V8">11:8</a> and Gath,
and Mareshah, and Ziph, <a name="C1411V9" id="C1411V9">11:9</a> and Adoraim,
and Lachish, and Azekah, <a name="C1411V10" id="C1411V10">11:10</a> and Zorah,
and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Yehudah and in Benjamin, fortified
cities. <a name="C1411V11" id="C1411V11">11:11</a> He fortified the
strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and
wine. <a name="C1411V12" id="C1411V12">11:12</a> In every city <i>he put</i>
shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Yehudah and Benjamin
belonged to him. <a name="C1411V13" id="C1411V13">11:13</a> The priests and
the Levites who were in all Yisrael resorted to him out of all their
border. <a name="C1411V14" id="C1411V14">11:14</a> For the Levites left their
suburbs and their possession, and came to Yehudah and Yerushalayim: for
Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the
priest's office to Yahweh; <a name="C1411V15" id="C1411V15">11:15</a> and he
appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for
the calves which he had made. <a name="C1411V16" id="C1411V16">11:16</a> After
them, out of all the tribes of Yisrael, such as set their hearts to seek
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, came to Yerushalayim to sacrifice to Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers. <a name="C1411V17" id="C1411V17">11:17</a> So they
strengthened the kingdom of Yehudah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon
strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and
Solomon. <a name="C1411V18" id="C1411V18">11:18</a> Rehoboam took him a wife,
Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, <i>and of</i> Abihail
the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; <a name="C1411V19" id="C1411V19">11:19</a>
and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. <a name="C1411V20"
id="C1411V20">11:20</a> After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom;
and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. <a
name="C1411V21" id="C1411V21">11:21</a> Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of
Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen
wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons
and sixty daughters.) <a name="C1411V22" id="C1411V22">11:22</a> Rehoboam
appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, <i>even</i> the prince
among his brothers; for <i>he was minded</i> to make him king. <a
name="C1411V23" id="C1411V23">11:23</a> He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all
his sons throughout all the lands of Yehudah and Benjamin, to every
fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought <i>for them</i>
many wives.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1412V1" id="C1412V1">12:1</a> It happened, when the kingdom of
Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the Torah of
Yahweh, and all Yisrael with him. <a name="C1412V2" id="C1412V2">12:2</a> It
happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Yerushalayim, because they had trespassed against Yahweh, <a
name="C1412V3" id="C1412V3">12:3</a> with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty
thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of
Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <a name="C1412V4"
id="C1412V4">12:4</a> He took the fortified cities which pertained to Yehudah,
and came to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1412V5" id="C1412V5">12:5</a> Now Shemaiah
the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Yehudah, who were
gathered together to Yerushalayim because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus
says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the
hand of Shishak. <a name="C1412V6" id="C1412V6">12:6</a> Then the princes of
Yisrael and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is
righteous. <a name="C1412V7" id="C1412V7">12:7</a> When Yahweh saw that they
humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have
humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some
deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Yerushalayim by the hand
of Shishak. <a name="C1412V8" id="C1412V8">12:8</a> Nevertheless they shall be
his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the
kingdoms of the countries. <a name="C1412V9" id="C1412V9">12:9</a> So Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Yerushalayim, and took away the treasures of
the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all
away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. <a
name="C1412V10" id="C1412V10">12:10</a> King Rehoboam made in their place
shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the
guard, who kept the door of the king's house. <a name="C1412V11" id="C1412V11">12:11</a>
It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the
guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. <a
name="C1412V12" id="C1412V12">12:12</a> When he humbled himself, the wrath of
Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover
in Yehudah there were good things <i>found</i>. <a name="C1412V13" id="C1412V13">12:13</a>
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Yerushalayim, and reigned: for
Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all
the tribes of Yisrael, to put his name there: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess. <a name="C1412V14" id="C1412V14">12:14</a> He did that
which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh. <a
name="C1412V15" id="C1412V15">12:15</a> Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and
last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of
Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. <a name="C1412V16" id="C1412V16">12:16</a>
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and
Abijah his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1413V1" id="C1413V1">13:1</a> In the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Yehudah. <a name="C1413V2" id="C1413V2">13:2</a>
Three years reigned he in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Micaiah the
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. <a
name="C1413V3" id="C1413V3">13:3</a> Abijah joined battle with an army of
valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam
set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen
men, who were mighty men of valor. <a name="C1413V4" id="C1413V4">13:4</a>
Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Yisrael: <a name="C1413V5"
id="C1413V5">13:5</a> Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael,
gave the kingdom over Yisrael to David forever, even to him and to his sons
by a covenant of salt? <a name="C1413V6" id="C1413V6">13:6</a> Yet Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and
rebelled against his lord. <a name="C1413V7" id="C1413V7">13:7</a> There were
gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves
against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. <a name="C1413V8" id="C1413V8">13:8</a>
Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons
of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden
calves which Jeroboam made you for gods. <a name="C1413V9" id="C1413V9">13:9</a>
Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aharon, and the
Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of <i>other</i>
lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and
seven rams, the same may be a priest of <i>those who are</i> no gods. <a
name="C1413V10" id="C1413V10">13:10</a> But as for us, Yahweh is our Elohim, and
we have not forsaken him; and <i>we have</i> priests ministering to
Yahweh, the sons of Aharon, and the Levites in their work: <a name="C1413V11"
id="C1413V11">13:11</a> and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every
evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also <i>set they</i>
in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to
burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our Elohim; but you
have forsaken him. <a name="C1413V12" id="C1413V12">13:12</a> Behold, Elohim is
with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound
an alarm against you. Children of Yisrael, don't you fight against Yahweh,
the Elohim of your fathers; for you shall not prosper. <a name="C1413V13"
id="C1413V13">13:13</a> But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind
them: so they were before Yehudah, and the ambush was behind them. <a
name="C1413V14" id="C1413V14">13:14</a> When Yehudah looked back, behold, the
battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the
priests sounded with the trumpets. <a name="C1413V15" id="C1413V15">13:15</a>
Then the men of Yehudah gave a shout: and as the men of Yehudah shouted, it
happened, that Elohim struck Jeroboam and all Yisrael before Abijah and Yehudah.
<a name="C1413V16" id="C1413V16">13:16</a> The children of Yisrael fled before
Yehudah; and Elohim delivered them into their hand. <a name="C1413V17" id="C1413V17">13:17</a>
Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell
down slain of Yisrael five hundred thousand chosen men. <a name="C1413V18"
id="C1413V18">13:18</a> Thus the children of Yisrael were brought under at
that time, and the children of Yehudah prevailed, because they relied on
Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers. <a name="C1413V19" id="C1413V19">13:19</a>
Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its
towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns. <a
name="C1413V20" id="C1413V20">13:20</a> Neither did Jeroboam recover strength
again in the days of Abijah: and Yahweh struck him, and he died. <a
name="C1413V21" id="C1413V21">13:21</a> But Abijah grew mighty, and took to
himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and
sixteen daughters. <a name="C1413V22" id="C1413V22">13:22</a> The rest of the
acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the
commentary of the prophet Iddo.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1414V1" id="C1414V1">14:1</a> So Abijah slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his
place. In his days the land was quiet ten years. <a name="C1414V2" id="C1414V2">14:2</a>
Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his Elohim: <a
name="C1414V3" id="C1414V3">14:3</a> for he took away the foreign altars, and
the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, <a
name="C1414V4" id="C1414V4">14:4</a> and commanded Yehudah to seek Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers, and to do the Torah and the commandment. <a
name="C1414V5" id="C1414V5">14:5</a> Also he took away out of all the cities
of Yehudah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet
before him. <a name="C1414V6" id="C1414V6">14:6</a> He built fortified cities
in Yehudah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years,
because Yahweh had given him rest. <a name="C1414V7" id="C1414V7">14:7</a> For
he said to Yehudah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls,
and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have
sought Yahweh our Elohim; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on
every side. So they built and prospered. <a name="C1414V8" id="C1414V8">14:8</a>
Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Yehudah three hundred
thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two
hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor. <a
name="C1414V9" id="C1414V9">14:9</a> There came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots;
and he came to Mareshah. <a name="C1414V10" id="C1414V10">14:10</a> Then Asa
went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of
Zephathah at Mareshah. <a name="C1414V11" id="C1414V11">14:11</a> Asa cried to
Yahweh his Elohim, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help,
between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our Elohim;
for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude.
Yahweh, you are our Elohim; don't let man prevail against you. <a
name="C1414V12" id="C1414V12">14:12</a> So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before
Asa, and before Yehudah; and the Ethiopians fled. <a name="C1414V13"
id="C1414V13">14:13</a> Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to
Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not
recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his
army; and they carried away very much booty. <a name="C1414V14" id="C1414V14">14:14</a>
They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on
them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
<a name="C1414V15" id="C1414V15">14:15</a> They struck also the tents of
livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned
to Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1415V1" id="C1415V1">15:1</a> The Spirit of Elohim came on Azariah the
son of Oded: <a name="C1415V2" id="C1415V2">15:2</a> and he went out to meet
Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Benjamin: Yahweh
is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found
of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. <a name="C1415V3"
id="C1415V3">15:3</a> Now for a long season Yisrael was without the true Elohim,
and without a teaching priest, and without Torah: <a name="C1415V4" id="C1415V4">15:4</a>
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, and
sought him, he was found of them. <a name="C1415V5" id="C1415V5">15:5</a> In
those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came
in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. <a
name="C1415V6" id="C1415V6">15:6</a> They were broken in pieces, nation
against nation, and city against city; for Elohim troubled them with all
adversity. <a name="C1415V7" id="C1415V7">15:7</a> But be you strong, and
don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded. <a
name="C1415V8" id="C1415V8">15:8</a> When Asa heard these words, and the
prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the
abominations out of all the land of Yehudah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed
the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. <a name="C1415V9"
id="C1415V9">15:9</a> He gathered all Yehudah and Benjamin, and those who
sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for
they fell to him out of Yisrael in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his
Elohim was with him. <a name="C1415V10" id="C1415V10">15:10</a> So they gathered
themselves together at Yerushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year
of the reign of Asa. <a name="C1415V11" id="C1415V11">15:11</a> They
sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought,
seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep. <a name="C1415V12"
id="C1415V12">15:12</a> They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; <a
name="C1415V13" id="C1415V13">15:13</a> and that whoever would not seek
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, should be put to death, whether small or great,
whether man or woman. <a name="C1415V14" id="C1415V14">15:14</a> They swore to
Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with
cornets. <a name="C1415V15" id="C1415V15">15:15</a> All Yehudah rejoiced at the
oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their
whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all
around. <a name="C1415V16" id="C1415V16">15:16</a> Also Maacah, the mother of
Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an
abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust
of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. <a name="C1415V17" id="C1415V17">15:17</a>
But the high places were not taken away out of Yisrael: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect all his days. <a name="C1415V18" id="C1415V18">15:18</a>
He brought into the house of Elohim the things that his father had dedicated,
and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. <a
name="C1415V19" id="C1415V19">15:19</a> There was no more war to the five and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1416V1" id="C1416V1">16:1</a> In the six and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa, Baasha king of Yisrael went up against Yehudah, and built
Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of
Yehudah. <a name="C1416V2" id="C1416V2">16:2</a> Then Asa brought out silver and
gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house,
and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, <a
name="C1416V3" id="C1416V3">16:3</a> <i>There is</i> a league between me and
you, as <i>there was</i> between my father and your father: behold, I have
sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of
Yisrael, that he may depart from me. <a name="C1416V4" id="C1416V4">16:4</a>
Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies
against the cities of Yisrael; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel
Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. <a name="C1416V5" id="C1416V5">16:5</a>
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and
let his work cease. <a name="C1416V6" id="C1416V6">16:6</a> Then Asa the king
took all Yehudah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber,
with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah. <a
name="C1416V7" id="C1416V7">16:7</a> At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa
king of Yehudah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of
Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your Elohim, therefore is the army of
the king of Syria escaped out of your hand. <a name="C1416V8" id="C1416V8">16:8</a>
Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and
horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered
them into your hand. <a name="C1416V9" id="C1416V9">16:9</a> For the eyes of
Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you
have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars. <a
name="C1416V10" id="C1416V10">16:10</a> Then Asa was angry with the seer, and
put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this
thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. <a name="C1416V11"
id="C1416V11">16:11</a> Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Yehudah and Yisrael. <a
name="C1416V12" id="C1416V12">16:12</a> In the thirty-ninth year of his reign
Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
disease he didn't seek Yahweh, but to the physicians. <a name="C1416V13"
id="C1416V13">16:13</a> Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
fortieth year of his reign. <a name="C1416V14" id="C1416V14">16:14</a> They
buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city
of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and
various kinds <i>of spices</i> prepared by the perfumers' art: and they
made a very great burning for him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1417V1" id="C1417V1">17:1</a> Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his
place, and strengthened himself against Yisrael. <a name="C1417V2" id="C1417V2">17:2</a>
He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and set garrisons
in the land of Yehudah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father
had taken. <a name="C1417V3" id="C1417V3">17:3</a> Yahweh was with
Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and
didn't seek the Baals, <a name="C1417V4" id="C1417V4">17:4</a> but sought to
the Elohim of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the
doings of Yisrael. <a name="C1417V5" id="C1417V5">17:5</a> Therefore Yahweh
established the kingdom in his hand; and all Yehudah brought to Jehoshaphat
tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance. <a name="C1417V6"
id="C1417V6">17:6</a> His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and
furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Yehudah. <a
name="C1417V7" id="C1417V7">17:7</a> Also in the third year of his reign he
sent his princes, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel,
and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Yehudah; <a name="C1417V8" id="C1417V8">17:8</a>
and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and
Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and
Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
<a name="C1417V9" id="C1417V9">17:9</a> They taught in Yehudah, having the book
of the Torah of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the
cities of Yehudah, and taught among the people. <a name="C1417V10" id="C1417V10">17:10</a>
The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around
Yehudah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. <a name="C1417V11"
id="C1417V11">17:11</a> Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat
presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks,
seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
hundred male goats. <a name="C1417V12" id="C1417V12">17:12</a> Jehoshaphat
grew great exceedingly; and he built in Yehudah castles and cities of store.
<a name="C1417V13" id="C1417V13">17:13</a> He had many works in the cities of
Yehudah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1417V14"
id="C1417V14">17:14</a> This was the numbering of them according to their
fathers' houses: Of Yehudah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain,
and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand; <a name="C1417V15"
id="C1417V15">17:15</a> and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him
two hundred eighty thousand; <a name="C1417V16" id="C1417V16">17:16</a> and
next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to
Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. <a
name="C1417V17" id="C1417V17">17:17</a> Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of
valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; <a
name="C1417V18" id="C1417V18">17:18</a> and next to him Jehozabad and with him
one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war. <a name="C1417V19"
id="C1417V19">17:19</a> These were those who waited on the king, besides
those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Yehudah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1418V1" id="C1418V1">18:1</a> Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor
in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab. <a name="C1418V2" id="C1418V2">18:2</a>
After certain years he went down to Ahab to Shomron. Ahab killed sheep and
cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and
moved him to go up <i>with him</i> to Ramoth Gilead. <a name="C1418V3"
id="C1418V3">18:3</a> Ahab king of Yisrael said to Jehoshaphat king of Yehudah,
Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead? He answered him, I am as you are,
and my people as your people; and <i>we will be</i> with you in the war.
<a name="C1418V4" id="C1418V4">18:4</a> Jehoshaphat said to the king of
Yisrael, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh. <a name="C1418V5"
id="C1418V5">18:5</a> Then the king of Yisrael gathered the prophets
together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead
to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for Elohim will deliver it
into the hand of the king. <a name="C1418V6" id="C1418V6">18:6</a> But
Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we
may inquire of him? <a name="C1418V7" id="C1418V7">18:7</a> The king of Yisrael
said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of
Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but
always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, Don't
let the king say so. <a name="C1418V8" id="C1418V8">18:8</a> Then the king of
Yisrael called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
<a name="C1418V9" id="C1418V9">18:9</a> Now the king of Yisrael and Jehoshaphat
the king of Yehudah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they
were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Shomron; and
all the prophets were prophesying before them. <a name="C1418V10" id="C1418V10">18:10</a>
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they be consumed. <a
name="C1418V11" id="C1418V11">18:11</a> All the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it
into the hand of the king. <a name="C1418V12" id="C1418V12">18:12</a> The
messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words
of the prophets <i>declare</i> good to the king with one mouth: let your
word therefore, Please be like one of theirs, and speak you good. <a
name="C1418V13" id="C1418V13">18:13</a> Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my
Elohim says, that will I speak. <a name="C1418V14" id="C1418V14">18:14</a> When
he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to
Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? He said, Go up, and prosper;
and they shall be delivered into your hand. <a name="C1418V15" id="C1418V15">18:15</a>
The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to
me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? <a name="C1418V16"
id="C1418V16">18:16</a> He said, I saw all Yisrael scattered on the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no
master; let them return every man to his house in peace. <a name="C1418V17"
id="C1418V17">18:17</a> The king of Yisrael said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I
tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? <a
name="C1418V18" id="C1418V18">18:18</a> <i>Micaiah</i> said, "Therefore
hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all
the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. <a
name="C1418V19" id="C1418V19">18:19</a> Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab
king of Yisrael, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke
saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. <a
name="C1418V20" id="C1418V20">18:20</a> There came forth a spirit, and stood
before Yahweh, and said, 'I will entice him.' Yahweh said to him, 'How?'
<a name="C1418V21" id="C1418V21">18:21</a> He said, 'I will go forth, and will
be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall
entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.' <a name="C1418V22"
id="C1418V22">18:22</a> Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit
in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning
you." <a name="C1418V23" id="C1418V23">18:23</a> Then Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way
went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you? <a name="C1418V24"
id="C1418V24">18:24</a> Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day,
when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. <a name="C1418V25"
id="C1418V25">18:25</a> The king of Yisrael said, Take Micaiah, and carry him
back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; <a
name="C1418V26" id="C1418V26">18:26</a> and say, Thus says the king, Put this
fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water
of affliction, until I return in peace. <a name="C1418V27" id="C1418V27">18:27</a>
Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.
He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you. <a name="C1418V28" id="C1418V28">18:28</a>
So the king of Yisrael and Jehoshaphat the king of Yehudah went up to Ramoth
Gilead. <a name="C1418V29" id="C1418V29">18:29</a> The king of Yisrael said to
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you
on your robes. So the king of Yisrael disguised himself; and they went into
the battle. <a name="C1418V30" id="C1418V30">18:30</a> Now the king of Syria
had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with
small nor great, save only with the king of Yisrael. <a name="C1418V31"
id="C1418V31">18:31</a> It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Yisrael. Therefore they
turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh
helped him; and Elohim moved them <i>to depart</i> from him. <a name="C1418V32"
id="C1418V32">18:32</a> It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw
that it was not the king of Yisrael, that they turned back from pursuing
him. <a name="C1418V33" id="C1418V33">18:33</a> A certain man drew his bow at
a venture, and struck the king of Yisrael between the joints of the armor.
Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry
me out of the army; for I am sore wounded. <a name="C1418V34" id="C1418V34">18:34</a>
The battle increased that day: however the king of Yisrael stayed himself
up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; and about the time
of the going down of the sun he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1419V1" id="C1419V1">19:1</a> Jehoshaphat the king of Yehudah returned
to his house in peace to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1419V2" id="C1419V2">19:2</a>
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king
Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh?
for this thing wrath is on you from before Yahweh. <a name="C1419V3"
id="C1419V3">19:3</a> Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in
that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your
heart to seek Elohim. <a name="C1419V4" id="C1419V4">19:4</a> Jehoshaphat lived
at Yerushalayim: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the
hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the Elohim of their
fathers. <a name="C1419V5" id="C1419V5">19:5</a> He set judges in the land
throughout all the fortified cities of Yehudah, city by city, <a name="C1419V6"
id="C1419V6">19:6</a> and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you
don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and <i>he is</i> with you in the
judgment. <a name="C1419V7" id="C1419V7">19:7</a> Now therefore let the fear
of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with
Yahweh our Elohim, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes. <a
name="C1419V8" id="C1419V8">19:8</a> Moreover in Yerushalayim did Jehoshaphat set
of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
of Yisrael, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They
returned to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1419V9" id="C1419V9">19:9</a> He commanded
them, saying, Thus you shall do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and
with a perfect heart. <a name="C1419V10" id="C1419V10">19:10</a> Whenever any
controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their
cities, between blood and blood, between Torah and commandment, statutes and
ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh,
and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not
be guilty. <a name="C1419V11" id="C1419V11">19:11</a> Behold, Amariah the
chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of
Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Yehudah, in all the king's matters: also
the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be
with the good.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1420V1" id="C1420V1">20:1</a> It happened after this, that the
children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the
Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. <a name="C1420V2" id="C1420V2">20:2</a>
Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes a great
multitude against you from beyond the sea from Syria; and behold, they are
in Hazazon Tamar (the same is En Gedi). <a name="C1420V3" id="C1420V3">20:3</a>
Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahweh; and he proclaimed a
fast throughout all Yehudah. <a name="C1420V4" id="C1420V4">20:4</a> Yehudah
gathered themselves together, to seek <i>help</i> of Yahweh: even out of
all the cities of Yehudah they came to seek Yahweh. <a name="C1420V5"
id="C1420V5">20:5</a> Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Yehudah and
Yerushalayim, in the house of Yahweh, before the new court; <a name="C1420V6"
id="C1420V6">20:6</a> and he said, Yahweh, the Elohim of our fathers, aren't
you Elohim in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the
nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to
withstand you. <a name="C1420V7" id="C1420V7">20:7</a> Did not you, our Elohim,
drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Yisrael, and give
it to the seed of Avraham your friend forever? <a name="C1420V8" id="C1420V8">20:8</a>
They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name,
saying, <a name="C1420V9" id="C1420V9">20:9</a> If evil come on us, the sword,
judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and
before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our
affliction, and you will hear and save. <a name="C1420V10" id="C1420V10">20:10</a>
Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would
not let Yisrael invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they
turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them; <a name="C1420V11"
id="C1420V11">20:11</a> behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out
of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. <a name="C1420V12"
id="C1420V12">20:12</a> Our Elohim, will you not judge them? for we have no
might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we
what to do: but our eyes are on you. <a name="C1420V13" id="C1420V13">20:13</a>
All Yehudah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and
their children. <a name="C1420V14" id="C1420V14">20:14</a> Then on Jahaziel
the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of
Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in
the midst of the assembly; <a name="C1420V15" id="C1420V15">20:15</a> and he
said, Listen you, all Yehudah, and you inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and you
king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Don't be afraid you, neither be
dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours,
but Elohim's. <a name="C1420V16" id="C1420V16">20:16</a> Tomorrow go you down
against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall
find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. <a
name="C1420V17" id="C1420V17">20:17</a> You shall not need to fight in this <i>battle</i>:
set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you,
O Yehudah and Yerushalayim; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed: tomorrow go out
against them: for Yahweh is with you. <a name="C1420V18" id="C1420V18">20:18</a>
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Yehudah and
the inhabitants of Yerushalayim fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.
<a name="C1420V19" id="C1420V19">20:19</a> The Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, with an exceeding loud voice. <a name="C1420V20"
id="C1420V20">20:20</a> They rose early in the morning, and went forth into
the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and
said, Hear me, Yehudah, and you inhabitants of Yerushalayim: believe in Yahweh
your Elohim, so you shall be established; believe his prophets, so you shall
prosper. <a name="C1420V21" id="C1420V21">20:21</a> When he had taken counsel
with the people, he appointed those who should sing to Yahweh, and give
praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give
thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever. <a name="C1420V22"
id="C1420V22">20:22</a> When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set
ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had
come against Yehudah; and they were struck. <a name="C1420V23" id="C1420V23">20:23</a>
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of
Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an
end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another. <a
name="C1420V24" id="C1420V24">20:24</a> When Yehudah came to the place
overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they
were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. <a
name="C1420V25" id="C1420V25">20:25</a> When Jehoshaphat and his people came
to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches
and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for
themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in
taking the spoil, it was so much. <a name="C1420V26" id="C1420V26">20:26</a>
On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for
there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The
valley of Beracah to this day. <a name="C1420V27" id="C1420V27">20:27</a> Then
they returned, every man of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and Jehoshaphat in the
forefront of them, to go again to Yerushalayim with joy; for Yahweh had made
them to rejoice over their enemies. <a name="C1420V28" id="C1420V28">20:28</a>
They came to Yerushalayim with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets to
the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1420V29" id="C1420V29">20:29</a> The fear of
Elohim was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh
fought against the enemies of Yisrael. <a name="C1420V30" id="C1420V30">20:30</a>
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his Elohim gave him rest all
around. <a name="C1420V31" id="C1420V31">20:31</a> Jehoshaphat reigned over
Yehudah: he was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty-five years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Azubah the
daughter of Shilhi. <a name="C1420V32" id="C1420V32">20:32</a> He walked in
the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which
was right in the eyes of Yahweh. <a name="C1420V33" id="C1420V33">20:33</a>
However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people
set their hearts to the Elohim of their fathers. <a name="C1420V34" id="C1420V34">20:34</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are
written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the
book of the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1420V35" id="C1420V35">20:35</a> After
this did Jehoshaphat king of Yehudah join himself with Ahaziah king of
Yisrael; the same did very wickedly: <a name="C1420V36" id="C1420V36">20:36</a>
and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they
made the ships in Ezion Geber. <a name="C1420V37" id="C1420V37">20:37</a> Then
Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat,
saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has
destroyed your works. The ships were broken, so that they were not able to
go to Tarshish.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1421V1" id="C1421V1">21:1</a> Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son
reigned in his place. <a name="C1421V2" id="C1421V2">21:2</a> He had brothers,
the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah,
and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king
of Yisrael. <a name="C1421V3" id="C1421V3">21:3</a> Their father gave them
great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with
fortified cities in Yehudah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he
was the firstborn. <a name="C1421V4" id="C1421V4">21:4</a> Now when Jehoram
was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself,
he killed all his brothers with the sword, and various also of the princes
of Yisrael. <a name="C1421V5" id="C1421V5">21:5</a> Jehoram was thirty-two
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.
<a name="C1421V6" id="C1421V6">21:6</a> He walked in the way of the kings of
Yisrael, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife:
and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. <a name="C1421V7"
id="C1421V7">21:7</a> However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David,
because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to
give a lamp to him and to his children always. <a name="C1421V8" id="C1421V8">21:8</a>
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah, and made a king
over themselves. <a name="C1421V9" id="C1421V9">21:9</a> Then Jehoram passed
over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by
night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains
of the chariots. <a name="C1421V10" id="C1421V10">21:10</a> So Edom revolted
from under the hand of Yehudah to this day: then did Libnah revolt at the
same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the Elohim of
his fathers. <a name="C1421V11" id="C1421V11">21:11</a> Moreover he made high
places in the mountains of Yehudah, and made the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to
play the prostitute, and led Yehudah astray. <a name="C1421V12" id="C1421V12">21:12</a>
There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of David your father, Because you have not walked in the
ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Yehudah, <a
name="C1421V13" id="C1421V13">21:13</a> but have walked in the way of the
kings of Yisrael, and have made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to
play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain
your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself: <a
name="C1421V14" id="C1421V14">21:14</a> behold, Yahweh will strike with a
great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your
substance; <a name="C1421V15" id="C1421V15">21:15</a> and you shall have great
sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason
of the sickness, day by day. <a name="C1421V16" id="C1421V16">21:16</a> Yahweh
stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the
Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians: <a name="C1421V17" id="C1421V17">21:17</a>
and they came up against Yehudah, and broke into it, and carried away all
the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and
his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the
youngest of his sons. <a name="C1421V18" id="C1421V18">21:18</a> After all
this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. <a
name="C1421V19" id="C1421V19">21:19</a> It happened, in process of time, at
the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness,
and he died of sore diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the
burning of his fathers. <a name="C1421V20" id="C1421V20">21:20</a> Thirty-two
years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim eight
years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the
city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1422V1" id="C1422V1">22:1</a> The inhabitants of Yerushalayim made
Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place; for the band of men who came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son
of Jehoram king of Yehudah reigned. <a name="C1422V2" id="C1422V2">22:2</a>
Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one
year in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of
Omri. <a name="C1422V3" id="C1422V3">22:3</a> He also walked in the ways of
the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. <a
name="C1422V4" id="C1422V4">22:4</a> He did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after
the death of his father, to his destruction. <a name="C1422V5" id="C1422V5">22:5</a>
He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab
king of Yisrael to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and
the Syrians wounded Joram. <a name="C1422V6" id="C1422V6">22:6</a> He returned
to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah,
when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram
king of Yehudah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because
he was sick. <a name="C1422V7" id="C1422V7">22:7</a> Now the destruction of
Ahaziah was of Elohim, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he
went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had
anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. <a name="C1422V8" id="C1422V8">22:8</a>
It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that
he found the princes of Yehudah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah,
ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them. <a name="C1422V9" id="C1422V9">22:9</a>
He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Shomron), and
they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they
said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.
The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom. <a name="C1422V10"
id="C1422V10">22:10</a> Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her
son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of
Yehudah. <a name="C1422V11" id="C1422V11">22:11</a> But Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away
from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in
the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from
Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him. <a name="C1422V12" id="C1422V12">22:12</a>
He was with them hid in the house of Elohim six years: and Athaliah reigned
over the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1423V1" id="C1423V1">23:1</a> In the seventh year Jehoiada
strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son
of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into
covenant with him. <a name="C1423V2" id="C1423V2">23:2</a> They went about in
Yehudah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Yehudah, and the
heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> of Yisrael, and they came to Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1423V3" id="C1423V3">23:3</a> All the assembly made a covenant with the
king in the house of Elohim. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall
reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. <a name="C1423V4"
id="C1423V4">23:4</a> This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of
you, who come in on the Shabbat, of the priests and of the Levites, shall
be porters of the thresholds; <a name="C1423V5" id="C1423V5">23:5</a> and a
third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of
the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C1423V6" id="C1423V6">23:6</a> But let none come into the
house of Yahweh, save the priests, and those who minister of the Levites;
they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the
instruction of Yahweh. <a name="C1423V7" id="C1423V7">23:7</a> The Levites
shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and
whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and be you with the king
when he comes in, and when he goes out. <a name="C1423V8" id="C1423V8">23:8</a>
So the Levites and all Yehudah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest
commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on
the Shabbat; with those who were to go out on the Shabbat; for Jehoiada
the priest didn't dismiss the shift. <a name="C1423V9" id="C1423V9">23:9</a>
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and
bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house
of Elohim. <a name="C1423V10" id="C1423V10">23:10</a> He set all the people,
every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to
the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the
king. <a name="C1423V11" id="C1423V11">23:11</a> Then they brought out the
king's son, and put the crown on him, and <i>gave him</i> the testimony,
and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said,
<i>Long</i> live the king. <a name="C1423V12" id="C1423V12">23:12</a> When
Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she
came to the people into the house of Yahweh: <a name="C1423V13" id="C1423V13">23:13</a>
and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance,
and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the
land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also <i>played</i> on
instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore
her clothes, and said, Treason! treason! <a name="C1423V14" id="C1423V14">23:14</a>
Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over
the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever
follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't
kill her in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1423V15" id="C1423V15">23:15</a> So
they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to
the king's house: and they killed her there. <a name="C1423V16" id="C1423V16">23:16</a>
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the
king, that they should be Yahweh's people. <a name="C1423V17" id="C1423V17">23:17</a>
All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his
altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars. <a name="C1423V18" id="C1423V18">23:18</a> Jehoiada
appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the
priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to
offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the Torah of Moshe,
with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. <a
name="C1423V19" id="C1423V19">23:19</a> He set the porters at the gates of the
house of Yahweh, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
<a name="C1423V20" id="C1423V20">23:20</a> He took the captains of hundreds,
and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the
land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came
through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne
of the kingdom. <a name="C1423V21" id="C1423V21">23:21</a> So all the people
of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with
the sword.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1424V1" id="C1424V1">24:1</a> Joash was seven years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's
name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. <a name="C1424V2" id="C1424V2">24:2</a> Joash
did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada
the priest. <a name="C1424V3" id="C1424V3">24:3</a> Jehoiada took for him two
wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C1424V4"
id="C1424V4">24:4</a> It happened after this, that Joash was minded to
restore the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1424V5" id="C1424V5">24:5</a> He
gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to
the cities of Yehudah, and gather of all Yisrael money to repair the house of
your Elohim from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter. However
the Levites didn't hurry. <a name="C1424V6" id="C1424V6">24:6</a> The king
called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why haven't you required
of the Levites to bring in out of Yehudah and out of Yerushalayim the tax of
Moshe the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Yisrael, for the tent
of the testimony? <a name="C1424V7" id="C1424V7">24:7</a> For the sons of
Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of Elohim; and also all
the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
<a name="C1424V8" id="C1424V8">24:8</a> So the king commanded, and they made a
chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh. <a
name="C1424V9" id="C1424V9">24:9</a> They made a proclamation through Yehudah
and Yerushalayim, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moshe the servant of
Elohim laid on Yisrael in the wilderness. <a name="C1424V10" id="C1424V10">24:10</a>
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into
the chest, until they had made an end. <a name="C1424V11" id="C1424V11">24:11</a>
It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by
the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the
king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest,
and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day,
and gathered money in abundance. <a name="C1424V12" id="C1424V12">24:12</a>
The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of
the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the
house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the
house of Yahweh. <a name="C1424V13" id="C1424V13">24:13</a> So the workmen
worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they
set up the house of Elohim in its state, and strengthened it. <a name="C1424V14"
id="C1424V14">24:14</a> When they had made an end, they brought the rest of
the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the
house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and
spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in
the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada. <a name="C1424V15"
id="C1424V15">24:15</a> But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he
died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died. <a name="C1424V16"
id="C1424V16">24:16</a> They buried him in the city of David among the
kings, because he had done good in Yisrael, and toward Elohim and his house.
<a name="C1424V17" id="C1424V17">24:17</a> Now after the death of Jehoiada
came the princes of Yehudah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king
listened to them. <a name="C1424V18" id="C1424V18">24:18</a> They forsook the
house of Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the
idols: and wrath came on Yehudah and Yerushalayim for this their guiltiness. <a
name="C1424V19" id="C1424V19">24:19</a> Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring
them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not
give ear. <a name="C1424V20" id="C1424V20">24:20</a> The Spirit of Elohim came on
Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people,
and said to them, Thus says Elohim, Why disobey you the commandments of
Yahweh, so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he
has also forsaken you. <a name="C1424V21" id="C1424V21">24:21</a> They
conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of
the king in the court of the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1424V22" id="C1424V22">24:22</a>
Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father
had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, Yahweh look on
it, and require it. <a name="C1424V23" id="C1424V23">24:23</a> It happened at
the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and
they came to Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and destroyed all the princes of the
people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king
of Damascus. <a name="C1424V24" id="C1424V24">24:24</a> For the army of the
Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very
great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the Elohim of
their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash. <a name="C1424V25"
id="C1424V25">24:25</a> When they were departed for him (for they left him
very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the
sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and
they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the
tombs of the kings. <a name="C1424V26" id="C1424V26">24:26</a> These are those
who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and
Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. <a name="C1424V27" id="C1424V27">24:27</a>
Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens <i>laid</i> on
him, and the rebuilding of the house of Elohim, behold, they are written in
the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his
place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1425V1" id="C1425V1">25:1</a> Amaziah was twenty-five years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1425V2" id="C1425V2">25:2</a>
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect
heart. <a name="C1425V3" id="C1425V3">25:3</a> Now it happened, when the
kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed
the king his father. <a name="C1425V4" id="C1425V4">25:4</a> But he didn't put
their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the
Torah in the book of Moshe, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall
not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers;
but every man shall die for his own sin. <a name="C1425V5" id="C1425V5">25:5</a>
Moreover Amaziah gathered Yehudah together, and ordered them according to
their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds, even all Yehudah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty
years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men,
able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. <a name="C1425V6"
id="C1425V6">25:6</a> He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor
out of Yisrael for one hundred talents of silver. <a name="C1425V7" id="C1425V7">25:7</a>
But there came a man of Elohim to him, saying, O king, don't let the army of
Yisrael go with you; for Yahweh is not with Yisrael, <i>to wit</i>, with all
the children of Ephraim. <a name="C1425V8" id="C1425V8">25:8</a> But if you
will go, do <i>valiantly</i>, be strong for the battle: Elohim will cast you
down before the enemy; for Elohim has power to help, and to cast down. <a
name="C1425V9" id="C1425V9">25:9</a> Amaziah said to the man of Elohim, But what
shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of
Yisrael? The man of Elohim answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than
this. <a name="C1425V10" id="C1425V10">25:10</a> Then Amaziah separated them,
<i>to wit</i>, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home
again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Yehudah, and they
returned home in fierce anger. <a name="C1425V11" id="C1425V11">25:11</a>
Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of
Salt, and struck of the children of Seir ten thousand. <a name="C1425V12"
id="C1425V12">25:12</a> <i>other</i> ten thousand did the children of Yehudah
carry away alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them
down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces. <a
name="C1425V13" id="C1425V13">25:13</a> But the men of the army whom Amaziah
sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities
of Yehudah, from Shomron even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three
thousand, and took much spoil. <a name="C1425V14" id="C1425V14">25:14</a> Now
it happened, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the
Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them
up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense
to them. <a name="C1425V15" id="C1425V15">25:15</a> Therefore the anger of
Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said
to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not
delivered their own people out of your hand? <a name="C1425V16" id="C1425V16">25:16</a>
It happened, as he talked with him, that <i>the king</i> said to him, Have
we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down?
Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that Elohim has determined to
destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my
counsel. <a name="C1425V17" id="C1425V17">25:17</a> Then Amaziah king of Yehudah
took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king
of Yisrael, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. <a
name="C1425V18" id="C1425V18">25:18</a> Joash king of Yisrael sent to Amaziah
king of Yehudah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar
that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and
there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle. <a name="C1425V19" id="C1425V19">25:19</a> You say, Behold, you have
struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why
should you meddle to <i>your</i> hurt, that you should fall, even you, and
Yehudah with you? <a name="C1425V20" id="C1425V20">25:20</a> But Amaziah would
not hear; for it was of Elohim, that he might deliver them into the hand <i>of
their enemies</i>, because they had sought after the gods of Edom. <a
name="C1425V21" id="C1425V21">25:21</a> So Joash king of Yisrael went up; and
he and Amaziah king of Yehudah looked one another in the face at Beth
Shemesh, which belongs to Yehudah. <a name="C1425V22" id="C1425V22">25:22</a>
Yehudah was defeated by Yisrael; and they fled every man to his tent. <a
name="C1425V23" id="C1425V23">25:23</a> Joash king of Yisrael took Amaziah king
of Yehudah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and
brought him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the
gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. <a name="C1425V24"
id="C1425V24">25:24</a> <i>He took</i> all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of Elohim with Obed-Edom, and the
treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Shomron.
<a name="C1425V25" id="C1425V25">25:25</a> Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Yehudah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Yisrael
fifteen years. <a name="C1425V26" id="C1425V26">25:26</a> Now the rest of the
acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in the book
of the kings of Yehudah and Yisrael? <a name="C1425V27" id="C1425V27">25:27</a>
Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Yahweh they
made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lachish: but
they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. <a name="C1425V28"
id="C1425V28">25:28</a> They brought him on horses, and buried him with his
fathers in the city of Yehudah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1426V1" id="C1426V1">26:1</a> All the people of Yehudah took Uzziah,
who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father
Amaziah. <a name="C1426V2" id="C1426V2">26:2</a> He built Eloth, and restored
it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers. <a name="C1426V3"
id="C1426V3">26:3</a> Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign;
and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was
Jechiliah, of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1426V4" id="C1426V4">26:4</a> He did that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father
Amaziah had done. <a name="C1426V5" id="C1426V5">26:5</a> He set himself to
seek Elohim in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of
Elohim: and as long as he sought Yahweh, Elohim made him to prosper. <a
name="C1426V6" id="C1426V6">26:6</a> He went forth and warred against the
Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and
the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in <i>the country of</i> Ashdod,
and among the Philistines. <a name="C1426V7" id="C1426V7">26:7</a> Elohim helped
him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur
Baal, and the Meunim. <a name="C1426V8" id="C1426V8">26:8</a> The Ammonites
gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of
Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong. <a name="C1426V9" id="C1426V9">26:9</a>
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Yerushalayim at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning <i>of the wall</i>, and fortified them. <a
name="C1426V10" id="C1426V10">26:10</a> He built towers in the wilderness, and
dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and
in the plain: <i>and he had</i> farmers and vineyard keepers in the
mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming. <a
name="C1426V11" id="C1426V11">26:11</a> Moreover Uzziah had an army of
fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of
their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under
the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. <a name="C1426V12"
id="C1426V12">26:12</a> The whole number of the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>,
even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred. <a
name="C1426V13" id="C1426V13">26:13</a> Under their hand was an army, three
hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with
mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. <a name="C1426V14"
id="C1426V14">26:14</a> Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army,
shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones
for slinging. <a name="C1426V15" id="C1426V15">26:15</a> He made in Yerushalayim
engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the
battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread
far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong. <a
name="C1426V16" id="C1426V16">26:16</a> But when he was strong, his heart was
lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his
Elohim; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of
incense. <a name="C1426V17" id="C1426V17">26:17</a> Azariah the priest went in
after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men: <a
name="C1426V18" id="C1426V18">26:18</a> and they withstood Uzziah the king,
and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to
Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aharon, who are consecrated to burn
incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall
it be for your honor from Yahweh Elohim. <a name="C1426V19" id="C1426V19">26:19</a>
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense;
and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his
forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of
incense. <a name="C1426V20" id="C1426V20">26:20</a> Azariah the chief priest,
and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his
forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried
also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him. <a name="C1426V21" id="C1426V21">26:21</a>
Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a
separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of
Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people
of the land. <a name="C1426V22" id="C1426V22">26:22</a> Now the rest of the
acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
write. <a name="C1426V23" id="C1426V23">26:23</a> So Uzziah slept with his
fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which
belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son
reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1427V1" id="C1427V1">27:1</a> Jotham was twenty-five years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. <a name="C1427V2"
id="C1427V2">27:2</a> He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter
into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly. <a name="C1427V3"
id="C1427V3">27:3</a> He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on
the wall of Ophel he built much. <a name="C1427V4" id="C1427V4">27:4</a>
Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Yehudah, and in the forests
he built castles and towers. <a name="C1427V5" id="C1427V5">27:5</a> He fought
also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them.
The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of
silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So
much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and
in the third. <a name="C1427V6" id="C1427V6">27:6</a> So Jotham became mighty,
because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his Elohim. <a name="C1427V7"
id="C1427V7">27:7</a> Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars,
and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael
and Yehudah. <a name="C1427V8" id="C1427V8">27:8</a> He was five and twenty
years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim.
<a name="C1427V9" id="C1427V9">27:9</a> Jotham slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1428V1" id="C1428V1">28:1</a> Ahaz was twenty years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and he didn't
do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father; <a
name="C1428V2" id="C1428V2">28:2</a> but he walked in the ways of the kings of
Yisrael, and made also molten images for the Baals. <a name="C1428V3"
id="C1428V3">28:3</a> Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations
of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C1428V4" id="C1428V4">28:4</a> He sacrificed and burnt incense in the
high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. <a name="C1428V5"
id="C1428V5">28:5</a> Therefore Yahweh his Elohim delivered him into the hand
of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great
multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered
into the hand of the king of Yisrael, who struck him with a great
slaughter. <a name="C1428V6" id="C1428V6">28:6</a> For Pekah the son of
Remaliah killed in Yehudah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of
them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the Elohim of their
fathers. <a name="C1428V7" id="C1428V7">28:7</a> Zichri, a mighty man of
Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the
house, and Elkanah who was next to the king. <a name="C1428V8" id="C1428V8">28:8</a>
The children of Yisrael carried away captive of their brothers two hundred
thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from
them, and brought the spoil to Shomron. <a name="C1428V9" id="C1428V9">28:9</a>
But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to
meet the army that came to Shomron, and said to them, Behold, because
Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, was angry with Yehudah, he has delivered
them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached
up to heaven. <a name="C1428V10" id="C1428V10">28:10</a> Now you purpose to
keep under the children of Yehudah and Yerushalayim for bondservants and
bondmaids to you: <i>but</i> aren't there even with you trespasses of your
own against Yahweh your Elohim? <a name="C1428V11" id="C1428V11">28:11</a> Now
hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive
of your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you. <a
name="C1428V12" id="C1428V12">28:12</a> Then certain of the heads of the
children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of
Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war, <a name="C1428V13"
id="C1428V13">28:13</a> and said to them, You shall not bring in the
captives here: for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass
against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass
is great, and there is fierce wrath against Yisrael. <a name="C1428V14"
id="C1428V14">28:14</a> So the armed men left the captives and the spoil
before the princes and all the assembly. <a name="C1428V15" id="C1428V15">28:15</a>
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives,
and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed
them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them,
and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to
Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to
Shomron. <a name="C1428V16" id="C1428V16">28:16</a> At that time did king Ahaz
send to the kings of Assyria to help him. <a name="C1428V17" id="C1428V17">28:17</a>
For again the Edomites had come and struck Yehudah, and carried away
captives. <a name="C1428V18" id="C1428V18">28:18</a> The Philistines also had
invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Yehudah, and had
taken Beth Shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns,
and Timnah with its towns, Gimzo also and its towns: and they lived there.
<a name="C1428V19" id="C1428V19">28:19</a> For Yahweh brought Yehudah low
because of Ahaz king of Yisrael; for he had dealt wantonly in Yehudah, and
trespassed severely against Yahweh. <a name="C1428V20" id="C1428V20">28:20</a>
Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but
didn't strengthen him. <a name="C1428V21" id="C1428V21">28:21</a> For Ahaz
took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of
the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it
didn't help him. <a name="C1428V22" id="C1428V22">28:22</a> In the time of his
distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz. <a
name="C1428V23" id="C1428V23">28:23</a> For he sacrificed to the gods of
Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of
Syria helped them, <i>therefore</i> will I sacrifice to them, that they
may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Yisrael. <a
name="C1428V24" id="C1428V24">28:24</a> Ahaz gathered together the vessels of
the house of Elohim, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of Elohim, and
shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every
corner of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1428V25" id="C1428V25">28:25</a> In every city
of Yehudah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked
to anger Yahweh, the Elohim of his fathers. <a name="C1428V26" id="C1428V26">28:26</a>
Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Yehudah and Yisrael. <a name="C1428V27"
id="C1428V27">28:27</a> Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city, even in Yerushalayim; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of
the kings of Yisrael: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1429V1" id="C1429V1">29:1</a> Hezekiah began to reign when he was
twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and
his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. <a name="C1429V2"
id="C1429V2">29:2</a> He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
according to all that David his father had done. <a name="C1429V3" id="C1429V3">29:3</a>
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of
the house of Yahweh, and repaired them. <a name="C1429V4" id="C1429V4">29:4</a>
He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into
the broad place on the east, <a name="C1429V5" id="C1429V5">29:5</a> and said
to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the
house of Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness
out of the holy place. <a name="C1429V6" id="C1429V6">29:6</a> For our fathers
have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our
Elohim, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the
habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs. <a name="C1429V7" id="C1429V7">29:7</a>
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and
have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to
the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C1429V8" id="C1429V8">29:8</a> Therefore the wrath
of Yahweh was on Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and he has delivered them to be
tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see
with your eyes. <a name="C1429V9" id="C1429V9">29:9</a> For, behold, our
fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our
wives are in captivity for this. <a name="C1429V10" id="C1429V10">29:10</a>
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael,
that his fierce anger may turn away from us. <a name="C1429V11" id="C1429V11">29:11</a>
My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before
him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn
incense. <a name="C1429V12" id="C1429V12">29:12</a> Then the Levites arose,
Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the
Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah
the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and
Eden the son of Joah; <a name="C1429V13" id="C1429V13">29:13</a> and of the
sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah
and Mattaniah; <a name="C1429V14" id="C1429V14">29:14</a> and of the sons of
Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and
Uzziel. <a name="C1429V15" id="C1429V15">29:15</a> They gathered their
brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the
commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C1429V16" id="C1429V16">29:16</a> The priests went in to the
inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the
house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook
Kidron. <a name="C1429V17" id="C1429V17">29:17</a> Now they began on the first
<i>day</i> of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the
month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of
Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they
made an end. <a name="C1429V18" id="C1429V18">29:18</a> Then they went in to
Hezekiah the king within <i>the palace</i>, and said, We have cleansed all
the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its
vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels. <a
name="C1429V19" id="C1429V19">29:19</a> Moreover all the vessels, which king
Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and
sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh. <a
name="C1429V20" id="C1429V20">29:20</a> Then Hezekiah the king arose early,
and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.
<a name="C1429V21" id="C1429V21">29:21</a> They brought seven bulls, and seven
rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Yehudah. He commanded the priests the
sons of Aharon to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. <a name="C1429V22"
id="C1429V22">29:22</a> So they killed the bulls, and the priests received
the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and
sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and
sprinkled the blood on the altar. <a name="C1429V23" id="C1429V23">29:23</a>
They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and
the assembly; and they laid their hands on them: <a name="C1429V24"
id="C1429V24">29:24</a> and the priests killed them, and they made a sin
offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Yisrael;
for the king commanded <i>that</i> the burnt offering and the sin offering
<i>should be made</i> for all Yisrael. <a name="C1429V25" id="C1429V25">29:25</a>
He set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with stringed
instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of
Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of
Yahweh by his prophets. <a name="C1429V26" id="C1429V26">29:26</a> The Levites
stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. <a
name="C1429V27" id="C1429V27">29:27</a> Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt
offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh
began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king
of Yisrael. <a name="C1429V28" id="C1429V28">29:28</a> All the assembly
worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this <i>continued</i>
until the burnt offering was finished. <a name="C1429V29" id="C1429V29">29:29</a>
When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present
with him bowed themselves and worshiped. <a name="C1429V30" id="C1429V30">29:30</a>
Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They
sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped. <a
name="C1429V31" id="C1429V31">29:31</a> Then Hezekiah answered, Now you have
consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank
offerings into the house of Yahweh. The assembly brought in sacrifices and
thank offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart <i>brought</i>
burnt offerings. <a name="C1429V32" id="C1429V32">29:32</a> The number of the
burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred
rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to
Yahweh. <a name="C1429V33" id="C1429V33">29:33</a> The consecrated things were
six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep. <a name="C1429V34"
id="C1429V34">29:34</a> But the priests were too few, so that they could not
flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped
them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified
themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify
themselves than the priests. <a name="C1429V35" id="C1429V35">29:35</a> Also
the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the
service of the house of Yahweh was set in order. <a name="C1429V36"
id="C1429V36">29:36</a> Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of
that which Elohim had prepared for the people: for the thing was done
suddenly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1430V1" id="C1430V1">30:1</a> Hezekiah sent to all Yisrael and Yehudah,
and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to
the house of Yahweh at Yerushalayim, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the Elohim
of Yisrael. <a name="C1430V2" id="C1430V2">30:2</a> For the king had taken
counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Yerushalayim, to keep the
Passover in the second month. <a name="C1430V3" id="C1430V3">30:3</a> For they
could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified
themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered
themselves together to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1430V4" id="C1430V4">30:4</a> The
thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. <a
name="C1430V5" id="C1430V5">30:5</a> So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Yisrael, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they
should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, at
Yerushalayim: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is
written. <a name="C1430V6" id="C1430V6">30:6</a> So the posts went with the
letters from the king and his princes throughout all Yisrael and Yehudah, and
according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Yisrael,
turn again to Yahweh, the Elohim of Avraham, Isaac, and Yisrael, that he may
return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the
kings of Assyria. <a name="C1430V7" id="C1430V7">30:7</a> Don't be you like
your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
<a name="C1430V8" id="C1430V8">30:8</a> Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your
fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his
sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your Elohim,
that his fierce anger may turn away from you. <a name="C1430V9" id="C1430V9">30:9</a>
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall
find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again
into this land: for Yahweh your Elohim is gracious and merciful, and will not
turn away his face from you, if you return to him. <a name="C1430V10"
id="C1430V10">30:10</a> So the posts passed from city to city through the
country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them,
and mocked them. <a name="C1430V11" id="C1430V11">30:11</a> Nevertheless
certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and
came to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1430V12" id="C1430V12">30:12</a> Also on Yehudah
came the hand of Elohim to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the
king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh. <a name="C1430V13" id="C1430V13">30:13</a>
There assembled at Yerushalayim much people to keep the feast of unleavened
bread in the second month, a very great assembly. <a name="C1430V14"
id="C1430V14">30:14</a> They arose and took away the altars that were in
Yerushalayim, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them
into the brook Kidron. <a name="C1430V15" id="C1430V15">30:15</a> Then they
killed the Passover on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of the second month: and
the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and
brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1430V16"
id="C1430V16">30:16</a> They stood in their place after their order,
according to the Torah of Moshe the man of Elohim: the priests sprinkled the
blood <i>which they received</i> of the hand of the Levites. <a
name="C1430V17" id="C1430V17">30:17</a> For there were many in the assembly
who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of
killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to
Yahweh. <a name="C1430V18" id="C1430V18">30:18</a> For a multitude of the
people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not
cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is
written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon
everyone <a name="C1430V19" id="C1430V19">30:19</a> who sets his heart to seek
Elohim, Yahweh, the Elohim of his fathers, though not <i>cleansed</i> according
to the purification of the sanctuary. <a name="C1430V20" id="C1430V20">30:20</a>
Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. <a name="C1430V21"
id="C1430V21">30:21</a> The children of Yisrael who were present at Yerushalayim
kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the
Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, <i>singing</i> with
loud instruments to Yahweh. <a name="C1430V22" id="C1430V22">30:22</a>
Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding
<i>in the service</i> of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the
seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession
to Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers. <a name="C1430V23" id="C1430V23">30:23</a>
The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept <i>other</i>
seven days with gladness. <a name="C1430V24" id="C1430V24">30:24</a> For
Hezekiah king of Yehudah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand
bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a
thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests
sanctified themselves. <a name="C1430V25" id="C1430V25">30:25</a> All the
assembly of Yehudah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly
who came out of Yisrael, and the foreigners who came out of the land of
Yisrael, and who lived in Yehudah, rejoiced. <a name="C1430V26" id="C1430V26">30:26</a>
So there was great joy in Yerushalayim; for since the time of Solomon the son
of David king of Yisrael there was not the like in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1430V27" id="C1430V27">30:27</a> Then the priests the Levites arose and
blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to
his holy habitation, even to heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1431V1" id="C1431V1">31:1</a> Now when all this was finished, all
Yisrael who were present went out to the cities of Yehudah, and broke in
pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high
places and the altars out of all Yehudah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of
Yisrael returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. <a
name="C1431V2" id="C1431V2">31:2</a> Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the
priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his
service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for
peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the
gates of the camp of Yahweh. <a name="C1431V3" id="C1431V3">31:3</a> <i>He
appointed</i> also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt
offerings, <i>to wit</i>, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and
the burnt offerings for the Shabbats, and for the new moons, and for the
set feasts, as it is written in the Torah of Yahweh. <a name="C1431V4"
id="C1431V4">31:4</a> Moreover he commanded the people who lived in
Yerushalayim to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
might give themselves to the Torah of Yahweh. <a name="C1431V5" id="C1431V5">31:5</a>
As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Yisrael gave in
abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of
all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in
abundantly. <a name="C1431V6" id="C1431V6">31:6</a> The children of Yisrael and
Yehudah, who lived in the cities of Yehudah, they also brought in the tithe of
cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated
to Yahweh their Elohim, and laid them by heaps. <a name="C1431V7" id="C1431V7">31:7</a>
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month. <a name="C1431V8" id="C1431V8">31:8</a>
When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh,
and his people Yisrael. <a name="C1431V9" id="C1431V9">31:9</a> Then Hezekiah
questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. <a
name="C1431V10" id="C1431V10">31:10</a> Azariah the chief priest, of the house
of Zadok, answered him and said, Since <i>the people</i> began to bring
the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and
have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is
left is this great store. <a name="C1431V11" id="C1431V11">31:11</a> Then
Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; and they
prepared them. <a name="C1431V12" id="C1431V12">31:12</a> They brought in the
offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over
them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second. <a
name="C1431V13" id="C1431V13">31:13</a> Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and
Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his
brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of
the house of Elohim. <a name="C1431V14" id="C1431V14">31:14</a> Kore the son of
Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east <i>gate</i>, was over the
freewill offerings of Elohim, to distribute the offerings of Yahweh, and the
most holy things. <a name="C1431V15" id="C1431V15">31:15</a> Under him were
Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in
the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their
brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small: <a
name="C1431V16" id="C1431V16">31:16</a> besides those who were reckoned by
genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who
entered into the house of Yahweh, as the duty of every day required, for
their service in their offices according to their divisions; <a
name="C1431V17" id="C1431V17">31:17</a> and those who were reckoned by
genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from
twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions; <a
name="C1431V18" id="C1431V18">31:18</a> and those who were reckoned by
genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their
daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they
sanctified themselves in holiness. <a name="C1431V19" id="C1431V19">31:19</a>
Also for the sons of Aharon the priests, who were in the fields of the
suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned
by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all
who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites. <a name="C1431V20"
id="C1431V20">31:20</a> Hezekiah did so throughout all Yehudah; and he worked
that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his Elohim. <a
name="C1431V21" id="C1431V21">31:21</a> In every work that he began in the
service of the house of Elohim, and in the Torah, and in the commandments, to
seek his Elohim, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1432V1" id="C1432V1">32:1</a> After these things, and this
faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Yehudah,
and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for
himself. <a name="C1432V2" id="C1432V2">32:2</a> When Hezekiah saw that
Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Yerushalayim,
<a name="C1432V3" id="C1432V3">32:3</a> he took counsel with his princes and
his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the
city; and they helped him. <a name="C1432V4" id="C1432V4">32:4</a> So there
was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the springs, and
the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should
the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? <a name="C1432V5" id="C1432V5">32:5</a>
He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and
raised <i>it</i> up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and
strengthened Millo <i>in</i> the city of David, and made weapons and
shields in abundance. <a name="C1432V6" id="C1432V6">32:6</a> He set captains
of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad
place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, <a
name="C1432V7" id="C1432V7">32:7</a> Be strong and of good courage, don't be
afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who
is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him: <a name="C1432V8"
id="C1432V8">32:8</a> with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our
Elohim to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on
the words of Hezekiah king of Yehudah. <a name="C1432V9" id="C1432V9">32:9</a>
After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Yerushalayim,
(now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king
of Yehudah, and to all Yehudah who were at Yerushalayim, saying, <a name="C1432V10"
id="C1432V10">32:10</a> Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do
you trust, that you abide the siege in Yerushalayim? <a name="C1432V11"
id="C1432V11">32:11</a> Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to
die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our Elohim will deliver us out of
the hand of the king of Assyria? <a name="C1432V12" id="C1432V12">32:12</a>
Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and
commanded Yehudah and Yerushalayim, saying, You shall worship before one altar,
and on it you shall burn incense? <a name="C1432V13" id="C1432V13">32:13</a>
Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the
lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to
deliver their land out of my hand? <a name="C1432V14" id="C1432V14">32:14</a>
Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your Elohim
should be able to deliver you out of my hand? <a name="C1432V15" id="C1432V15">32:15</a>
Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this
manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was
able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my
fathers: how much less shall your Elohim deliver you out of my hand? <a
name="C1432V16" id="C1432V16">32:16</a> His servants spoke yet more against
Yahweh Elohim, and against his servant Hezekiah. <a name="C1432V17" id="C1432V17">32:17</a>
He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, and to speak
against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have
not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the Elohim of Hezekiah
not deliver his people out of my hand. <a name="C1432V18" id="C1432V18">32:18</a>
They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of
Yerushalayim who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them;
that they might take the city. <a name="C1432V19" id="C1432V19">32:19</a> They
spoke of the Elohim of Yerushalayim, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth,
which are the work of men's hands. <a name="C1432V20" id="C1432V20">32:20</a>
Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because
of this, and cried to heaven. <a name="C1432V21" id="C1432V21">32:21</a>
Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the
leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned
with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his
god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the
sword. <a name="C1432V22" id="C1432V22">32:22</a> Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah
and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim from the hand of Sennacherib the king of
Assyria, and from the hand of all <i>others</i>, and guided them on every
side. <a name="C1432V23" id="C1432V23">32:23</a> Many brought gifts to Yahweh
to Yerushalayim, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Yehudah; so that he
was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. <a name="C1432V24"
id="C1432V24">32:24</a> In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and
he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. <a
name="C1432V25" id="C1432V25">32:25</a> But Hezekiah didn't render again
according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up:
therefore there was wrath on him, and on Yehudah and Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1432V26" id="C1432V26">32:26</a> Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled
himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of
Hezekiah. <a name="C1432V27" id="C1432V27">32:27</a> Hezekiah had exceeding
much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for
gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for
all manner of goodly vessels; <a name="C1432V28" id="C1432V28">32:28</a>
storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and
stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds. <a name="C1432V29"
id="C1432V29">32:29</a> Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of
flocks and herds in abundance; for Elohim had given him very much substance.
<a name="C1432V30" id="C1432V30">32:30</a> This same Hezekiah also stopped the
upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the
west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works. <a
name="C1432V31" id="C1432V31">32:31</a> However in <i>the business of</i> the
ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the
wonder that was done in the land, Elohim left him, to try him, that he might
know all that was in his heart. <a name="C1432V32" id="C1432V32">32:32</a> Now
the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are
written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book
of the kings of Yehudah and Yisrael. <a name="C1432V33" id="C1432V33">32:33</a>
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the
tombs of the sons of David: and all Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim
did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1433V1" id="C1433V1">33:1</a> Manasseh was twelve years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1433V2" id="C1433V2">33:2</a> He did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out
before the children of Yisrael. <a name="C1433V3" id="C1433V3">33:3</a> For he
built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and
he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all
the army of the sky, and served them. <a name="C1433V4" id="C1433V4">33:4</a>
He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Yerushalayim
shall my name be forever. <a name="C1433V5" id="C1433V5">33:5</a> He built
altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C1433V6" id="C1433V6">33:6</a> He also made his children to
pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced
sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with
those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in
the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. <a name="C1433V7" id="C1433V7">33:7</a>
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of
Elohim, of which Elohim said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and
in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, will I
put my name forever: <a name="C1433V8" id="C1433V8">33:8</a> neither will I
any more remove the foot of Yisrael from off the land which I have
appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I
have commanded them, even all the Torah and the statutes and the ordinances
<i>given</i> by Moshe. <a name="C1433V9" id="C1433V9">33:9</a> Manasseh
seduced Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so that they did evil more
than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Yisrael.
<a name="C1433V10" id="C1433V10">33:10</a> Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to
his people; but they gave no heed. <a name="C1433V11" id="C1433V11">33:11</a>
Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and
carried him to Babylon. <a name="C1433V12" id="C1433V12">33:12</a> When he was
in distress, he begged Yahweh his Elohim, and humbled himself greatly before
the Elohim of his fathers. <a name="C1433V13" id="C1433V13">33:13</a> He prayed
to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and
brought him again to Yerushalayim into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that
Yahweh he was Elohim. <a name="C1433V14" id="C1433V14">33:14</a> Now after this
he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in
the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel
<i>with it</i>, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put
valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Yehudah. <a name="C1433V15"
id="C1433V15">33:15</a> He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of
the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain
of the house of Yahweh, and in Yerushalayim, and cast them out of the city.
<a name="C1433V16" id="C1433V16">33:16</a> He built up the altar of Yahweh,
and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and
commanded Yehudah to serve Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C1433V17"
id="C1433V17">33:17</a> Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high
places, but only to Yahweh their Elohim. <a name="C1433V18" id="C1433V18">33:18</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his Elohim, and the
words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Yisrael. <a
name="C1433V19" id="C1433V19">33:19</a> His prayer also, and how <i>Elohim</i>
was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in
which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved
images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history
of Hozai. <a name="C1433V20" id="C1433V20">33:20</a> So Manasseh slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son
reigned in his place. <a name="C1433V21" id="C1433V21">33:21</a> Amon was
twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1433V22" id="C1433V22">33:22</a> He did that which was
evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon
sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made,
and served them. <a name="C1433V23" id="C1433V23">33:23</a> He didn't humble
himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but
this same Amon trespassed more and more. <a name="C1433V24" id="C1433V24">33:24</a>
His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
<a name="C1433V25" id="C1433V25">33:25</a> But the people of the land killed
all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land
made Josiah his son king in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1434V1" id="C1434V1">34:1</a> Josiah was eight years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1434V2" id="C1434V2">34:2</a> He did that which was right in the eyes
of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn
aside to the right hand or to the left. <a name="C1434V3" id="C1434V3">34:3</a>
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to
seek after the Elohim of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began
to purge Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherim, and
the engraved images, and the molten images. <a name="C1434V4" id="C1434V4">34:4</a>
They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense
altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the
engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust
of them, and strewed it on the graves <i>of those</i> who had sacrificed
to them. <a name="C1434V5" id="C1434V5">34:5</a> He burnt the bones of the
priests on their altars, and purged Yehudah and Yerushalayim. <a name="C1434V6"
id="C1434V6">34:6</a> <i>So did he</i> in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim
and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. <a name="C1434V7"
id="C1434V7">34:7</a> He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the
engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars
throughout all the land of Yisrael, and returned to Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1434V8" id="C1434V8">34:8</a> Now in the eighteenth year of his reign,
when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz
the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his Elohim. <a name="C1434V9"
id="C1434V9">34:9</a> They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered
the money that was brought into the house of Elohim, which the Levites, the
keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and
Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Yisrael, and of all Yehudah and Benjamin,
and of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1434V10" id="C1434V10">34:10</a>
They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of
the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahweh
gave it to mend and repair the house; <a name="C1434V11" id="C1434V11">34:11</a>
even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone,
and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings
of Yehudah had destroyed. <a name="C1434V12" id="C1434V12">34:12</a> The men did
the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah,
the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the
sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and <i>others of</i> the
Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music. <a name="C1434V13"
id="C1434V13">34:13</a> Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set
forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the
Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters. <a name="C1434V14"
id="C1434V14">34:14</a> When they brought out the money that was brought
into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the Torah of
Yahweh <i>given</i> by Moshe. <a name="C1434V15" id="C1434V15">34:15</a>
Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the Torah in
the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. <a
name="C1434V16" id="C1434V16">34:16</a> Shaphan carried the book to the king,
and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed
to your servants, they are doing. <a name="C1434V17" id="C1434V17">34:17</a>
They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahweh, and
have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the
workmen. <a name="C1434V18" id="C1434V18">34:18</a> Shaphan the scribe told
the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read
therein before the king. <a name="C1434V19" id="C1434V19">34:19</a> It
happened, when the king had heard the words of the Torah, that he tore his
clothes. <a name="C1434V20" id="C1434V20">34:20</a> The king commanded
Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and
Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, <a name="C1434V21"
id="C1434V21">34:21</a> Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who
are left in Yisrael and in Yehudah, concerning the words of the book that is
found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because
our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that
is written in this book. <a name="C1434V22" id="C1434V22">34:22</a> So
Hilkiah, and they whom the king <i>had commanded</i>, went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah,
keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second
quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect. <a name="C1434V23"
id="C1434V23">34:23</a> She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael: Tell you the man who sent you to me, <a name="C1434V24" id="C1434V24">34:24</a>
Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its
inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they
have read before the king of Yehudah. <a name="C1434V25" id="C1434V25">34:25</a>
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that
they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands;
therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be
quenched. <a name="C1434V26" id="C1434V26">34:26</a> But to the king of Yehudah,
who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: As touching the words which you have heard, <a
name="C1434V27" id="C1434V27">34:27</a> because your heart was tender, and you
did humble yourself before Elohim, when you heard his words against this
place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me,
and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,
says Yahweh. <a name="C1434V28" id="C1434V28">34:28</a> Behold, I will gather
you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace,
neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place,
and on its inhabitants. They brought back word to the king. <a
name="C1434V29" id="C1434V29">34:29</a> Then the king sent and gathered
together all the elders of Yehudah and Yerushalayim. <a name="C1434V30"
id="C1434V30">34:30</a> The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the
men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and the priests, and the
Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their
ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house
of Yahweh. <a name="C1434V31" id="C1434V31">34:31</a> The king stood in his
place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to
keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his
heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that
were written in this book. <a name="C1434V32" id="C1434V32">34:32</a> He
caused all who were found in Yerushalayim and Benjamin to stand <i>to it</i>.
The inhabitants of Yerushalayim did according to the covenant of Elohim, the Elohim
of their fathers. <a name="C1434V33" id="C1434V33">34:33</a> Josiah took away
all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the
children of Yisrael, and made all who were found in Yisrael to serve, even
to serve Yahweh their Elohim. All his days they didn't depart from following
Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1435V1" id="C1435V1">35:1</a> Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in
Yerushalayim: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of
the first month. <a name="C1435V2" id="C1435V2">35:2</a> He set the priests in
their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh.
<a name="C1435V3" id="C1435V3">35:3</a> He said to the Levites who taught all
Yisrael, who were holy to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Yisrael did build; there shall no more be
a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your Elohim, and his people
Yisrael. <a name="C1435V4" id="C1435V4">35:4</a> Prepare yourselves after your
fathers' houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king
of Yisrael, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. <a name="C1435V5"
id="C1435V5">35:5</a> Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of
the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and <i>let
there be for each</i> a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites. <a
name="C1435V6" id="C1435V6">35:6</a> Kill the Passover, and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of
Yahweh by Moshe. <a name="C1435V7" id="C1435V7">35:7</a> Josiah gave to the
children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the
Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty
thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king's substance. <a
name="C1435V8" id="C1435V8">35:8</a> His princes gave for a freewill offering
to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah
and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of Elohim, gave to the priests for the
Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred <i>small livestock</i>,
and three hundred head of cattle. <a name="C1435V9" id="C1435V9">35:9</a>
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and
Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the
Passover offerings five thousand <i>small livestock</i>, and five hundred
head of cattle. <a name="C1435V10" id="C1435V10">35:10</a> So the service was
prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their
divisions, according to the king's commandment. <a name="C1435V11"
id="C1435V11">35:11</a> They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled
<i>the blood which they received</i> of their hand, and the Levites flayed
them. <a name="C1435V12" id="C1435V12">35:12</a> They removed the burnt
offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the
fathers' houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it
is written in the book of Moshe. So did they with the cattle. <a
name="C1435V13" id="C1435V13">35:13</a> They roasted the Passover with fire
according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots,
and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children
of the people. <a name="C1435V14" id="C1435V14">35:14</a> Afterward they
prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons
of Aharon <i>were busied</i> in offering the burnt offerings and the fat
until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aharon. <a name="C1435V15" id="C1435V15">35:15</a> The
singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer;
and the porters were at every gate: they didn't need to depart from their
service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them. <a name="C1435V16"
id="C1435V16">35:16</a> So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same
day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of
Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah. <a name="C1435V17"
id="C1435V17">35:17</a> The children of Yisrael who were present kept the
Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. <a
name="C1435V18" id="C1435V18">35:18</a> There was no Passover like that kept
in Yisrael from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the
kings of Yisrael keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and
the Levites, and all Yehudah and Yisrael who were present, and the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1435V19" id="C1435V19">35:19</a> In the
eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept. <a
name="C1435V20" id="C1435V20">35:20</a> After all this, when Josiah had
prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against
Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. <a
name="C1435V21" id="C1435V21">35:21</a> But he sent ambassadors to him,
saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Yehudah? <i>I come</i> not
against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and Elohim
has commanded me to make haste: forbear you from <i>meddling with</i> Elohim,
who is with me, that he not destroy you. <a name="C1435V22" id="C1435V22">35:22</a>
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of
Neco from the mouth of Elohim, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. <a
name="C1435V23" id="C1435V23">35:23</a> The archers shot at king Josiah; and
the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. <a
name="C1435V24" id="C1435V24">35:24</a> So his servants took him out of the
chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to
Yerushalayim; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All
Yehudah and Yerushalayim mourned for Josiah. <a name="C1435V25" id="C1435V25">35:25</a>
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women
spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an
ordinance in Yisrael: and behold, they are written in the lamentations. <a
name="C1435V26" id="C1435V26">35:26</a> Now the rest of the acts of Josiah,
and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the Torah of
Yahweh, <a name="C1435V27" id="C1435V27">35:27</a> and his acts, first and
last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael and
Yehudah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1436V1" id="C1436V1">36:1</a> Then the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1436V2" id="C1436V2">36:2</a> Joahaz was twenty-three
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1436V3" id="C1436V3">36:3</a> The king of Egypt deposed
him at Yerushalayim, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a
talent of gold. <a name="C1436V4" id="C1436V4">36:4</a> The king of Egypt made
Eliakim his brother king over Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and changed his name to
Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. <a
name="C1436V5" id="C1436V5">36:5</a> Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and he did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his Elohim. <a name="C1436V6"
id="C1436V6">36:6</a> Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. <a name="C1436V7"
id="C1436V7">36:7</a> Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the
house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. <a
name="C1436V8" id="C1436V8">36:8</a> Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim,
and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael and Yehudah: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1436V9" id="C1436V9">36:9</a>
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
three months and ten days in Yerushalayim: and he did that which was evil in
the sight of Yahweh. <a name="C1436V10" id="C1436V10">36:10</a> At the return
of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the
goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king
over Yehudah and Yerushalayim. <a name="C1436V11" id="C1436V11">36:11</a> Zedekiah
was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven
years in Yerushalayim: <a name="C1436V12" id="C1436V12">36:12</a> and he did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his Elohim; he didn't humble himself
before Jeremiah the prophet <i>speaking</i> from the mouth of Yahweh. <a
name="C1436V13" id="C1436V13">36:13</a> He also rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim: but he stiffened his neck,
and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a
name="C1436V14" id="C1436V14">36:14</a> Moreover all the chiefs of the
priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the
abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which
he had made holy in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1436V15" id="C1436V15">36:15</a>
Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising
up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his
dwelling place: <a name="C1436V16" id="C1436V16">36:16</a> but they mocked the
messengers of Elohim, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets,
until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no
remedy. <a name="C1436V17" id="C1436V17">36:17</a> Therefore he brought on
them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword
in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or
virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. <a
name="C1436V18" id="C1436V18">36:18</a> All the vessels of the house of Elohim,
great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the
treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to
Babylon. <a name="C1436V19" id="C1436V19">36:19</a> They burnt the house of
Elohim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burnt all its palaces with
fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it. <a name="C1436V20"
id="C1436V20">36:20</a> He carried those who had escaped from the sword away
to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of
the kingdom of Persia: <a name="C1436V21" id="C1436V21">36:21</a> to fulfill
the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed
its Shabbats: <i>for</i> as long as it lay desolate it kept Shabbat, to
fulfill seventy years. <a name="C1436V22" id="C1436V22">36:22</a> Now in the
first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and <i>put it</i> also in writing, saying, <a name="C1436V23" id="C1436V23">36:23</a>
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh,
the Elohim of heaven, given me; and he has commanded me to build him a house
in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah. Whoever there is among you of all his
people, Yahweh his Elohim be with him, and let him go up.
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<a href=#C471V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C472V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C473V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C474V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C475V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C476V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C477V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C478V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C479V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4710V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4711V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4712V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4713V1>Chapter 13</a>
<p>
<a name="C471V1" id="C471V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua through
the will of Elohim, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of Elohim which is
at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: <a
name="C471V2" id="C471V2">1:2</a> Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father
and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C471V3" id="C471V3">1:3</a> Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Lord
Yeshua Messiah, the Father of mercies and Elohim of all comfort; <a name="C471V4"
id="C471V4">1:4</a> who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be
able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim. <a name="C471V5" id="C471V5">1:5</a>
For as the sufferings of Messiah abound to us, even so our comfort also
abounds through Messiah. <a name="C471V6" id="C471V6">1:6</a> But if we are
afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it
is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the
same sufferings which we also suffer. <a name="C471V7" id="C471V7">1:7</a> Our
hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the
sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. <a name="C471V8" id="C471V8">1:8</a>
For we don't desire to have you uninformed, <a href="#N471">brothers,</a>
concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were
weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even
of life. <a name="C471V9" id="C471V9">1:9</a> Yes, we ourselves have had the
sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in Elohim who raises the dead, <a name="C471V10" id="C471V10">1:10</a> who
delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have
set our hope that he will also still deliver us; <a name="C471V11" id="C471V11">1:11</a>
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for
the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many
persons on your behalf. <a name="C471V12" id="C471V12">1:12</a> For our
boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and
sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of Elohim we behaved
ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. <a name="C471V13"
id="C471V13">1:13</a> For we write no other things to you, than what you
read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end; <a
name="C471V14" id="C471V14">1:14</a> as also you acknowledged us in part, that
we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord
Yeshua. <a name="C471V15" id="C471V15">1:15</a> In this confidence, I was
determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit; <a
name="C471V16" id="C471V16">1:16</a> and by you to pass into Macedonia, and
again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my
journey to Judea. <a name="C471V17" id="C471V17">1:17</a> When I therefore was
thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I
purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes,
yes" and the "No, no?" <a name="C471V18" id="C471V18">1:18</a>
But as Elohim is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
<a name="C471V19" id="C471V19">1:19</a> For the Son of Elohim, Yeshua Messiah, who
was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes
and no," but in him is "Yes." <a name="C471V20" id="C471V20">1:20</a>
For however many are the promises of Elohim, in him is the "Yes."
Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of Elohim
through us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C471V21" id="C471V21">1:21</a> Now he who establishes us with you in
Messiah, and anointed us, is Elohim; <a name="C471V22" id="C471V22">1:22</a> who
also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
<a name="C471V23" id="C471V23">1:23</a> But I call Elohim for a witness to my
soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you. <a name="C471V24"
id="C471V24">1:24</a> Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are
fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C472V1" id="C472V1">2:1</a> But I determined this for myself, that I
would not come to you again in sorrow. <a name="C472V2" id="C472V2">2:2</a>
For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made
sorry by me? <a name="C472V3" id="C472V3">2:3</a> And I wrote this very thing
to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I
ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be
shared by all of you. <a name="C472V4" id="C472V4">2:4</a> For out of much
affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that
you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so
abundantly for you. <a name="C472V5" id="C472V5">2:5</a> But if any has caused
sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too
heavily) to you all. <a name="C472V6" id="C472V6">2:6</a> Sufficient to such a
one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; <a name="C472V7"
id="C472V7">2:7</a> so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him
and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with
his excessive sorrow. <a name="C472V8" id="C472V8">2:8</a> Therefore I beg you
to confirm your love toward him. <a name="C472V9" id="C472V9">2:9</a> For to
this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are
obedient in all things. <a name="C472V10" id="C472V10">2:10</a> Now I also
forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven
anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of
Messiah, <a name="C472V11" id="C472V11">2:11</a> that no advantage may be
gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C472V12" id="C472V12">2:12</a> Now when I came to Troas for the Good
News of Messiah, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, <a
name="C472V13" id="C472V13">2:13</a> I had no relief for my spirit, because I
didn't find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out
into Macedonia. <a name="C472V14" id="C472V14">2:14</a> Now thanks be to Elohim,
who always leads us in triumph in Messiah, and reveals through us the sweet
aroma of his knowledge in every place. <a name="C472V15" id="C472V15">2:15</a>
For we are a sweet aroma of Messiah to Elohim, in those who are saved, and in
those who perish; <a name="C472V16" id="C472V16">2:16</a> to the one a stench
from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is
sufficient for these things? <a name="C472V17" id="C472V17">2:17</a> For we
are not as so many, peddling the word of Elohim. But as of sincerity, but as
of Elohim, in the sight of Elohim, we speak in Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C473V1" id="C473V1">3:1</a> Are we beginning again to commend
ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or
from you? <a name="C473V2" id="C473V2">3:2</a> You are our letter, written in
our hearts, known and read by all men; <a name="C473V3" id="C473V3">3:3</a>
being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not
with ink, but with the Spirit of the living Elohim; not in tablets of stone,
but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. <a name="C473V4" id="C473V4">3:4</a>
Such confidence we have through Messiah toward Elohim; <a name="C473V5" id="C473V5">3:5</a>
not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from
ourselves; but our sufficiency is from Elohim; <a name="C473V6" id="C473V6">3:6</a>
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the
letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life. <a name="C473V7" id="C473V7">3:7</a> But if the service of death,
written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of
Yisrael could not look steadfastly on the face of Moshe for the glory of
his face; which was passing away: <a name="C473V8" id="C473V8">3:8</a> won't
service of the Spirit be with much more glory? <a name="C473V9" id="C473V9">3:9</a>
For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness
exceeds much more in glory. <a name="C473V10" id="C473V10">3:10</a> For most
certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in
this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses. <a name="C473V11"
id="C473V11">3:11</a> For if that which passes away was with glory, much
more that which remains is in glory.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C473V12" id="C473V12">3:12</a> Having therefore such a hope, we use
great boldness of speech, <a name="C473V13" id="C473V13">3:13</a> and not as
Moshe, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Yisrael wouldn't
look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away. <a name="C473V14"
id="C473V14">3:14</a> But their minds were hardened, for until this very day
at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in
Messiah it passes away. <a name="C473V15" id="C473V15">3:15</a> But to this
day, when Moshe is read, a veil lies on their heart. <a name="C473V16"
id="C473V16">3:16</a> But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken
away. <a name="C473V17" id="C473V17">3:17</a> Now the Lord is the Spirit and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. <a name="C473V18"
id="C473V18">3:18</a> But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C474V1" id="C474V1">4:1</a> Therefore seeing we have this ministry,
even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint. <a name="C474V2" id="C474V2">4:2</a>
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in
craftiness, nor handling the word of Elohim deceitfully; but by the
manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience
in the sight of Elohim. <a name="C474V3" id="C474V3">4:3</a> Even if our Good
News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; <a name="C474V4" id="C474V4">4:4</a>
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving,
that the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image
of Elohim, should not dawn on them. <a name="C474V5" id="C474V5">4:5</a> For we
don't preach ourselves, but Messiah Yeshua as Lord, and ourselves as your
servants for Yeshua' sake; <a name="C474V6" id="C474V6">4:6</a> seeing it is
Elohim who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"<sup><a
href="#N472">*</a></sup> who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of Elohim in the face of Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C474V7" id="C474V7">4:7</a> But we have this treasure in clay
vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of Elohim, and not
from ourselves. <a name="C474V8" id="C474V8">4:8</a> We are pressed on every
side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; <a name="C474V9"
id="C474V9">4:9</a> pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not
destroyed; <a name="C474V10" id="C474V10">4:10</a> always carrying in the body
the putting to death of the Lord Yeshua, that the life of Yeshua may also be
revealed in our body. <a name="C474V11" id="C474V11">4:11</a> For we who live
are always delivered to death for Yeshua' sake, that the life also of Yeshua
may be revealed in our mortal flesh. <a name="C474V12" id="C474V12">4:12</a>
So then death works in us, but life in you. <a name="C474V13" id="C474V13">4:13</a>
But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written,
"I believed, and therefore I spoke."<sup><a href="#N473">*</a></sup>
We also believe, and therefore also we speak; <a name="C474V14" id="C474V14">4:14</a>
knowing that he who raised the Lord Yeshua will raise us also with Yeshua,
and will present us with you. <a name="C474V15" id="C474V15">4:15</a> For all
things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the
many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of Elohim. <a
name="C474V16" id="C474V16">4:16</a> Therefore we don't faint, but though our
outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. <a
name="C474V17" id="C474V17">4:17</a> For our light affliction, which is for
the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of
glory; <a name="C474V18" id="C474V18">4:18</a> while we don't look at the
things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the
things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are
eternal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C475V1" id="C475V1">5:1</a> For we know that if the earthly house of
our tent is dissolved, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with
hands, eternal, in the heavens. <a name="C475V2" id="C475V2">5:2</a> For most
certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation
which is from heaven; <a name="C475V3" id="C475V3">5:3</a> if so be that being
clothed we will not be found naked. <a name="C475V4" id="C475V4">5:4</a> For
indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we
desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is
mortal may be swallowed up by life. <a name="C475V5" id="C475V5">5:5</a> Now
he who made us for this very thing is Elohim, who also gave to us the down
payment of the Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C475V6" id="C475V6">5:6</a> Therefore, we are always confident and
know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
<a name="C475V7" id="C475V7">5:7</a> for we walk by faith, not by sight. <a
name="C475V8" id="C475V8">5:8</a> We are of good courage, I say, and are
willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the
Lord. <a name="C475V9" id="C475V9">5:9</a> Therefore also we make it our aim,
whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. <a name="C475V10"
id="C475V10">5:10</a> For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat
of Messiah; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to
what he has done, whether good or bad. <a name="C475V11" id="C475V11">5:11</a>
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are
revealed to Elohim; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
<a name="C475V12" id="C475V12">5:12</a> For we are not commending ourselves to
you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf,
that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and
not in heart. <a name="C475V13" id="C475V13">5:13</a> For if we are beside
ourselves, it is for Elohim. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. <a
name="C475V14" id="C475V14">5:14</a> For the love of Messiah constrains us;
because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. <a
name="C475V15" id="C475V15">5:15</a> He died for all, that those who live
should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died
and rose again. <a name="C475V16" id="C475V16">5:16</a> Therefore we know no
one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Messiah after
the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. <a name="C475V17" id="C475V17">5:17</a>
Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things
have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. <a name="C475V18"
id="C475V18">5:18</a> But all things are of Elohim, who reconciled us to
himself through Yeshua Messiah, and gave to us the ministry of
reconciliation; <a name="C475V19" id="C475V19">5:19</a> namely, that Elohim was
in Messiah reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their
trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. <a
name="C475V20" id="C475V20">5:20</a> We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of
Messiah, as though Elohim were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of
Messiah, be reconciled to Elohim. <a name="C475V21" id="C475V21">5:21</a> For him
who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might
become the righteousness of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C476V1" id="C476V1">6:1</a> Working together, we entreat also that
you not receive the grace of Elohim in vain, <a name="C476V2" id="C476V2">6:2</a>
for he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"At an acceptable time I listened to you,
</dt>
<dt>
in a day of salvation I helped you."<sup><a href="#N474">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
<a name="C476V3" id="C476V3">6:3</a> We give no occasion of stumbling in
anything, that our service may not be blamed, <a name="C476V4" id="C476V4">6:4</a>
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of Elohim, in great
endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, <a name="C476V5"
id="C476V5">6:5</a> in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in
watchings, in fastings; <a name="C476V6" id="C476V6">6:6</a> in pureness, in
knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
<a name="C476V7" id="C476V7">6:7</a> in the word of truth, in the power of
Elohim; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, <a
name="C476V8" id="C476V8">6:8</a> by glory and dishonor, by evil report and
good report; as deceivers, and yet true; <a name="C476V9" id="C476V9">6:9</a>
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as
punished, and not killed; <a name="C476V10" id="C476V10">6:10</a> as
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
nothing, and yet possessing all things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C476V11" id="C476V11">6:11</a> Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians.
Our heart is enlarged. <a name="C476V12" id="C476V12">6:12</a> You are not
restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. <a
name="C476V13" id="C476V13">6:13</a> Now in return, I speak as to my children,
you also be open wide. <a name="C476V14" id="C476V14">6:14</a> Don't be
unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness
and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a name="C476V15"
id="C476V15">6:15</a> What agreement has Messiah with Belial? Or what portion
has a believer with an unbeliever? <a name="C476V16" id="C476V16">6:16</a>
What agreement has a temple of Elohim with idols? For you are a temple of the
living Elohim. Even as Elohim said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in
them; and I will be their Elohim, and they will be my people."<sup><a
href="#N475">*</a></sup> <a name="C476V17" id="C476V17">6:17</a> Therefore,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"'Come out from among them,
</dt>
<dd>
and be separate,' says the Lord.
</dd>
<dt>
'Touch no unclean thing.
</dt>
<dd>
I will receive you.<sup><a href="#N476">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C476V18" id="C476V18">6:18</a> I will be to you a Father.
</dt>
<dd>
You will be to me sons and daughters,'
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
says the Lord Almighty."<sup><a href="#N477">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C477V1" id="C477V1">7:1</a> Having therefore these promises, beloved,
let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of Elohim. <a name="C477V2" id="C477V2">7:2</a>
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took
advantage of no one. <a name="C477V3" id="C477V3">7:3</a> I say this not to
condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die
together and live together. <a name="C477V4" id="C477V4">7:4</a> Great is my
boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am
filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction. <a
name="C477V5" id="C477V5">7:5</a> For even when we had come into Macedonia,
our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings
were outside. Fear was inside. <a name="C477V6" id="C477V6">7:6</a>
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, Elohim, comforted us by the coming
of Titus; <a name="C477V7" id="C477V7">7:7</a> and not by his coming only, but
also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us
of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced
still more.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C477V8" id="C477V8">7:8</a> For though I made you sorry with my
letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my
letter made you sorry, though just for a while. <a name="C477V9" id="C477V9">7:9</a>
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry
to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might
suffer loss by us in nothing. <a name="C477V10" id="C477V10">7:10</a> For
godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But
the sorrow of the world works death. <a name="C477V11" id="C477V11">7:11</a>
For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what
earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear,
longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to
be pure in the matter. <a name="C477V12" id="C477V12">7:12</a> So although I
wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his
cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be
revealed in you in the sight of Elohim. <a name="C477V13" id="C477V13">7:13</a>
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more
exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by
you all. <a name="C477V14" id="C477V14">7:14</a> For if in anything I have
boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all
things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was
found to be truth. <a name="C477V15" id="C477V15">7:15</a> His affection is
more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how
with fear and trembling you received him. <a name="C477V16" id="C477V16">7:16</a>
I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C478V1" id="C478V1">8:1</a> Moreover, brothers, we make known to you
the grace of Elohim which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; <a
name="C478V2" id="C478V2">8:2</a> how that in much proof of affliction the
abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of
their liberality. <a name="C478V3" id="C478V3">8:3</a> For according to their
power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own
accord, <a name="C478V4" id="C478V4">8:4</a> begging us with much entreaty to
receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints. <a
name="C478V5" id="C478V5">8:5</a> This was not as we had hoped, but first they
gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of Elohim. <a
name="C478V6" id="C478V6">8:6</a> So we urged Titus, that as he made a
beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace. <a
name="C478V7" id="C478V7">8:7</a> But as you abound in everything, in faith,
utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that
you also abound in this grace. <a name="C478V8" id="C478V8">8:8</a> I speak
not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of
others the sincerity also of your love. <a name="C478V9" id="C478V9">8:9</a>
For you know the grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, that, though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might
become rich. <a name="C478V10" id="C478V10">8:10</a> I give a judgment in
this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year
ago, not only to do, but also to be willing. <a name="C478V11" id="C478V11">8:11</a>
But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be
willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability. <a
name="C478V12" id="C478V12">8:12</a> For if the readiness is there, it is
acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't
have. <a name="C478V13" id="C478V13">8:13</a> For this is not that others may
be eased and you distressed, <a name="C478V14" id="C478V14">8:14</a> but for
equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that
their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be
equality. <a name="C478V15" id="C478V15">8:15</a> As it is written, "He
who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no
lack."<sup><a href="#N478">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C478V16" id="C478V16">8:16</a> But thanks be to Elohim, who puts the
same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. <a name="C478V17"
id="C478V17">8:17</a> For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being
himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. <a name="C478V18"
id="C478V18">8:18</a> We have sent together with him the brother whose
praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies. <a
name="C478V19" id="C478V19">8:19</a> Not only so, but who was also appointed
by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us
to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. <a
name="C478V20" id="C478V20">8:20</a> We are avoiding this, that any man should
blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. <a
name="C478V21" id="C478V21">8:21</a> Having regard for honorable things, not
only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. <a
name="C478V22" id="C478V22">8:22</a> We have sent with them our brother, whom
we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more
earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. <a
name="C478V23" id="C478V23">8:23</a> As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow
worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the
assemblies, the glory of Messiah. <a name="C478V24" id="C478V24">8:24</a>
Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies,
and of our boasting on your behalf.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C479V1" id="C479V1">9:1</a> It is indeed unnecessary for me to write
to you concerning the service to the saints, <a name="C479V2" id="C479V2">9:2</a>
for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of
Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has
stirred up very many of them. <a name="C479V3" id="C479V3">9:3</a> But I have
sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in
this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, <a name="C479V4"
id="C479V4">9:4</a> so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any
of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be
disappointed in this confident boasting. <a name="C479V5" id="C479V5">9:5</a>
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would
go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you
promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity,
and not of greediness. <a name="C479V6" id="C479V6">9:6</a> Remember this: he
who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will
also reap bountifully. <a name="C479V7" id="C479V7">9:7</a> Let each man give
according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under
compulsion; for Elohim loves a cheerful giver. <a name="C479V8" id="C479V8">9:8</a>
And Elohim is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having
all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. <a
name="C479V9" id="C479V9">9:9</a> As it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
His righteousness remains forever."<sup><a href="#N479">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C479V10" id="C479V10">9:10</a> Now may he who supplies seed to the
sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and
increase the fruits of your righteousness; <a name="C479V11" id="C479V11">9:11</a>
you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us
thanksgiving to Elohim. <a name="C479V12" id="C479V12">9:12</a> For this service
of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints,
but abounds also through many givings of thanks to Elohim; <a name="C479V13"
id="C479V13">9:13</a> seeing that through the proof given by this service,
they glorify Elohim for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of
Messiah, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; <a
name="C479V14" id="C479V14">9:14</a> while they themselves also, with
supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding
grace of Elohim in you. <a name="C479V15" id="C479V15">9:15</a> Now thanks be to
Elohim for his unspeakable gift!
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4710V1" id="C4710V1">10:1</a> Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the
humility and gentleness of Messiah; I who in your presence am lowly among
you, but being absent am of good courage toward you. <a name="C4710V2"
id="C4710V2">10:2</a> Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show
courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some,
who consider us to be walking according to the flesh. <a name="C4710V3"
id="C4710V3">10:3</a> For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war
according to the flesh; <a name="C4710V4" id="C4710V4">10:4</a> for the
weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before Elohim to the
throwing down of strongholds, <a name="C4710V5" id="C4710V5">10:5</a> throwing
down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the
knowledge of Elohim, and bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Messiah; <a name="C4710V6" id="C4710V6">10:6</a> and being in
readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made
full. <a name="C4710V7" id="C4710V7">10:7</a> Do you look at things only as
they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is
Messiah's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is
Messiah's, so also we are Messiah's. <a name="C4710V8" id="C4710V8">10:8</a> For
though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which
the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will
not be disappointed, <a name="C4710V9" id="C4710V9">10:9</a> that I may not
seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. <a name="C4710V10"
id="C4710V10">10:10</a> For, "His letters," they say, "are
weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is
despised." <a name="C4710V11" id="C4710V11">10:11</a> Let such a person
consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent,
such are we also in deed when we are present. <a name="C4710V12" id="C4710V12">10:12</a>
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who
commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without
understanding. <a name="C4710V13" id="C4710V13">10:13</a> But we will not
boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which Elohim
appointed to us, which reach even to you. <a name="C4710V14" id="C4710V14">10:14</a>
For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you.
For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Messiah, <a
name="C4710V15" id="C4710V15">10:15</a> not boasting beyond proper limits in
other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be
abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, <a name="C4710V16"
id="C4710V16">10:16</a> so as to preach the Good News even to the parts
beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. <a
name="C4710V17" id="C4710V17">10:17</a> But "he who boasts, let him boast
in the Lord."<sup><a href="#N4710">*</a></sup> <a name="C4710V18"
id="C4710V18">10:18</a> For it isn't he who commends himself who is
approved, but whom the Lord commends.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4711V1" id="C4711V1">11:1</a> I wish that you would bear with me in
a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. <a name="C4711V2"
id="C4711V2">11:2</a> For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I
married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to
Messiah. <a name="C4711V3" id="C4711V3">11:3</a> But I am afraid that somehow,
as the serpent deceived Chavah in his craftiness, so your minds might be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah. <a name="C4711V4" id="C4711V4">11:4</a>
For if he who comes preaches another Yeshua, whom we did not preach, or if
you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different
"good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well
enough. <a name="C4711V5" id="C4711V5">11:5</a> For I reckon that I am not at
all behind the very best apostles. <a name="C4711V6" id="C4711V6">11:6</a> But
though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No,
in every way we have been revealed to you in all things. <a name="C4711V7"
id="C4711V7">11:7</a> Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you
might be exalted, because I preached to you Elohim's Good News free of
charge? <a name="C4711V8" id="C4711V8">11:8</a> I robbed other assemblies,
taking wages from them that I might serve you. <a name="C4711V9" id="C4711V9">11:9</a>
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone,
for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of
my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I
will continue to do so. <a name="C4711V10" id="C4711V10">11:10</a> As the
truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the
regions of Achaia. <a name="C4711V11" id="C4711V11">11:11</a> Why? Because I
don't love you? Elohim knows. <a name="C4711V12" id="C4711V12">11:12</a> But what
I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an
occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. <a
name="C4711V13" id="C4711V13">11:13</a> For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers, masquerading as Messiah's apostles. <a name="C4711V14"
id="C4711V14">11:14</a> And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an
angel of light. <a name="C4711V15" id="C4711V15">11:15</a> It is no great
thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of
righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4711V16" id="C4711V16">11:16</a> I say again, let no one think me
foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a
little. <a name="C4711V17" id="C4711V17">11:17</a> That which I speak, I don't
speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of
boasting. <a name="C4711V18" id="C4711V18">11:18</a> Seeing that many boast
after the flesh, I will also boast. <a name="C4711V19" id="C4711V19">11:19</a>
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. <a name="C4711V20"
id="C4711V20">11:20</a> For you bear with a man, if he brings you into
bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself,
if he strikes you on the face. <a name="C4711V21" id="C4711V21">11:21</a> I
speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any
is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. <a name="C4711V22"
id="C4711V22">11:22</a> Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So
am I. Are they the seed of Avraham? So am I. <a name="C4711V23" id="C4711V23">11:23</a>
Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so;
in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above
measure, in deaths often. <a name="C4711V24" id="C4711V24">11:24</a> Five
times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. <a name="C4711V25"
id="C4711V25">11:25</a> Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was
stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in
the deep. <a name="C4711V26" id="C4711V26">11:26</a> I have been in travels
often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen,
perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness,
perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; <a name="C4711V27"
id="C4711V27">11:27</a> in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger
and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4711V28" id="C4711V28">11:28</a> Besides those things that are
outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the
assemblies. <a name="C4711V29" id="C4711V29">11:29</a> Who is weak, and I am
not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation? <a
name="C4711V30" id="C4711V30">11:30</a> If I must boast, I will boast of the
things that concern my weakness. <a name="C4711V31" id="C4711V31">11:31</a>
The Elohim and Father of the Lord Yeshua Messiah, he who is blessed
forevermore, knows that I don't lie. <a name="C4711V32" id="C4711V32">11:32</a>
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the
Damascenes desiring to arrest me. <a name="C4711V33" id="C4711V33">11:33</a>
Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his
hands.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4712V1" id="C4712V1">12:1</a> It is doubtless not profitable for me
to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. <a
name="C4712V2" id="C4712V2">12:2</a> I know a man in Messiah, fourteen years
ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I
don't know; Elohim knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. <a
name="C4712V3" id="C4712V3">12:3</a> I know such a man (whether in the body,
or outside of the body, I don't know; Elohim knows), <a name="C4712V4"
id="C4712V4">12:4</a> how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. <a
name="C4712V5" id="C4712V5">12:5</a> On behalf of such a one I will boast, but
on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. <a name="C4712V6"
id="C4712V6">12:6</a> For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish;
for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more
of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me. <a name="C4712V7"
id="C4712V7">12:7</a> By reason of the exceeding greatness of the
revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to
me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should
not be exalted excessively. <a name="C4712V8" id="C4712V8">12:8</a> Concerning
this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. <a
name="C4712V9" id="C4712V9">12:9</a> He has said to me, "My grace is
sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most
gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of
Messiah may rest on me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4712V10" id="C4712V10">12:10</a> Therefore I take pleasure in
weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses,
for Messiah's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. <a name="C4712V11"
id="C4712V11">12:11</a> I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me,
for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior
to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. <a name="C4712V12"
id="C4712V12">12:12</a> Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you
in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works. <a name="C4712V13"
id="C4712V13">12:13</a> For what is there in which you were made inferior to
the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to
you? Forgive me this wrong.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4712V14" id="C4712V14">12:14</a> Behold, this is the third time I am
ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not
your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the
parents, but the parents for the children. <a name="C4712V15" id="C4712V15">12:15</a>
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more
abundantly, am I loved the less? <a name="C4712V16" id="C4712V16">12:16</a>
But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you
with deception. <a name="C4712V17" id="C4712V17">12:17</a> Did I take
advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you? <a
name="C4712V18" id="C4712V18">12:18</a> I exhorted Titus, and I sent the
brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in
the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps? <a name="C4712V19"
id="C4712V19">12:19</a> Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves
to you? In the sight of Elohim we speak in Messiah. But all things, beloved,
are for your edifying. <a name="C4712V20" id="C4712V20">12:20</a> For I am
afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want
to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any
means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions,
slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; <a name="C4712V21" id="C4712V21">12:21</a>
that again when I come my Elohim would humble me before you, and I would
mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of
the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they
committed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4713V1" id="C4713V1">13:1</a> This is the third time I am coming to
you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established."<sup><a href="#N4711">*</a></sup> <a name="C4713V2"
id="C4713V2">13:2</a> I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as
when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those
who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I
will not spare; <a name="C4713V3" id="C4713V3">13:3</a> seeing that you seek a
proof of Messiah who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is
powerful in you. <a name="C4713V4" id="C4713V4">13:4</a> For he was crucified
through weakness, yet he lives through the power of Elohim. For we also are
weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of Elohim toward
you. <a name="C4713V5" id="C4713V5">13:5</a> Test your own selves, whether you
are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own
selves, that Yeshua Messiah is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
<a name="C4713V6" id="C4713V6">13:6</a> But I hope that you will know that we
aren't disqualified.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4713V7" id="C4713V7">13:7</a> Now I pray to Elohim that you do no evil;
not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is
honorable, though we are as reprobate. <a name="C4713V8" id="C4713V8">13:8</a>
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. <a name="C4713V9"
id="C4713V9">13:9</a> For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong.
And this we also pray for, even your perfecting. <a name="C4713V10"
id="C4713V10">13:10</a> For this cause I write these things while absent,
that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which
the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4713V11" id="C4713V11">13:11</a> Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be
perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the Elohim
of love and peace will be with you. <a name="C4713V12" id="C4713V12">13:12</a>
Greet one another with a holy kiss. <a name="C4713V13" id="C4713V13">13:13</a>
All the saints greet you. <a name="C4713V14" id="C4713V14">13:14</a> The grace
of the Lord Yeshua Messiah, the love of Elohim, and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
</p>
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<p>
Notes:
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<p>
<a name="N471" id="N471">[1]</a> <a href="#C471V8">back to 1:8</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N472" id="N472">[2]</a> <a href="#C474V6">back to 4:6</a> Genesis 1:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N473" id="N473">[3]</a> <a href="#C474V13">back to 4:13</a> Psalm
116:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N474" id="N474">[4]</a> <a href="#C476V2">back to 6:2</a> Isaiah 49:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N475" id="N475">[5]</a> <a href="#C476V16">back to 6:16</a> Leviticus
26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N476" id="N476">[6]</a> <a href="#C476V17">back to 6:17</a> Isaiah
52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41
</p>
<p>
<a name="N477" id="N477">[7]</a> <a href="#C476V18">back to 6:18</a> 2 Samuel
7:14; 7:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N478" id="N478">[8]</a> <a href="#C478V15">back to 8:15</a> Exodus 16:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N479" id="N479">[9]</a> <a href="#C479V9">back to 9:9</a> Psalm 112:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4710" id="N4710">[10]</a> <a href="#C4710V17">back to 10:17</a>
Jeremiah 9:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4711" id="N4711">[11]</a> <a href="#C4713V1">back to 13:1</a>
Deuteronomy 19:15
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<p>
<a name="C631V1" id="C631V1">1:1</a> The elder, to the chosen lady and her
children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who
know the truth; <a name="C631V2" id="C631V2">1:2</a> for the truth's sake,
which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: <a name="C631V3"
id="C631V3">1:3</a> Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from Elohim the
Father, and from the Lord Yeshua Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth
and love.
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<p>
<a name="C631V4" id="C631V4">1:4</a> I rejoice greatly that I have found some
of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the
Father. <a name="C631V5" id="C631V5">1:5</a> Now I beg you, dear lady, not as
though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the
beginning, that we love one another. <a name="C631V6" id="C631V6">1:6</a> This
is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the
commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in
it. <a name="C631V7" id="C631V7">1:7</a> For many deceivers have gone out into
the world, those who don't confess that Yeshua Messiah came in the flesh.
This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. <a name="C631V8" id="C631V8">1:8</a>
Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have
accomplished, but that we receive a full reward. <a name="C631V9" id="C631V9">1:9</a>
Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Messiah, doesn't
have Elohim. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and
the Son. <a name="C631V10" id="C631V10">1:10</a> If anyone comes to you, and
doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't
welcome him, <a name="C631V11" id="C631V11">1:11</a> for he who welcomes him
participates in his evil works.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C631V12" id="C631V12">1:12</a> Having many things to write to you, I
don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to
speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. <a name="C631V13"
id="C631V13">1:13</a> The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF MACHABEES
This second book of MACHABEES is not a continuation of the history
contained in the first: nor does is come down so low as the first does:
but relates many of the same facts more at large, and adds other
remarkable particulars, omitted in the first book, relating to the state
of the Jews, as well before as under the persecution of ANTIOCHUS. The
author, who is not the same with that of the first book, has given (as
we learn from chap. 2.20, etc.) a short abstract of what JASON of Cyrene
had written in the five volumes, concerning JUDAS and his brethren. He
wrote in Greek, and begins with two letters, sent by the Jews of
Yerushalayim to their brethren in Egypt.
2 Machabees Chapter 1
Letters of the Jews of Yerushalayim to them that were in Egypt. They give
thanks for their delivery from Antiochus: and exhort their brethren to
keep the feast of the dedication of the altar, and of the miraculous
fire.
1:1. To the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt; the brethren,
the Jews that are in Yerushalayim, and in the land of Judea, send health
and good peace.
1:2. May Elohim be gracious to you, and remember his covenant that he made
with Avraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants:
1:3. And give you all a heart to worship him, and to do his will with a
great heart, and a willing mind.
1:4. May he open your heart in his Torah, and in his commandments, and
send you peace.
1:5. May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never
forsake you in the evil time.
1:6. And now here we are praying for you.
1:7. When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we
Jews wrote to you in the trouble and violence that came upon us in those
years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the
kingdom.
1:8. They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the
Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and
lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
1:9. And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu.
Scenopegia... Viz., the Encenia, or feast of the dedication of the
altar, called here Scenopegia, or feast of tabernacles, from being
celebrated with the like solemnity.
1:10. In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at
Yerushalayim, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the
preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests,
and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.
1:11. Having been delivered by Elohim out of great dangers, we give him
great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.
Such a king... Viz., Antiochus Sidetes, who began to make war upon the
Jews, whilst Simon was yet alive. 1 Mac. 15.39. And afterwards besieged
Yerushalayim under John Hircanus. So that the Judas here mentioned, ver.
10, is not Judas Machabeus, who was dead long before the year 188 of the
kingdom of the Greeks, for he died in the year 146 of that epoch, (see
above 1 Mac. chap. 2., ver. 70, also the note on chap. 1, ver. 2,) but
either Judas the eldest son of John Hircanus, or Judas the Essene,
renowned for the gift of prophecy, who flourished about that time.
1:12. For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia, that have fought
against us, and the holy city.
1:13. For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very
great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the
counsel of the priests of Nanea.
Nanea... A Persian goddess, which some have taken for Diana, others for
Venus.
1:14. For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he
would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the
title of a dowry.
1:15. And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a
small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the
temple,
1:16. When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the
temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with
him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw
them forth.
1:17. Blessed be Elohim in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked.
1:18. Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the
temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought
it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of
Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias
offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built.
1:19. For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that then
were worshippers of Elohim, took privately the fire from the altar, and hid
it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there they
kept it safe, so that the place was unknown to all men.
Persia... Babylonia, called here Persia, from being afterwards a part of
the Persian empire.
1:20. But when many years had passed, and it pleased Elohim that Nehemias
should be sent by the king of Persia, he sent some of the posterity of
those priests that had hid it, to seek for the fire: and as they told
us, they found no fire, but thick water.
1:21. Then he bade them draw it up, and bring it to him: and the priest,
Nehemias, commanded the sacrifices that were laid on, to be sprinkled
with the same water, both the wood, and the things that were laid upon
it.
1:22. And when this was done, and the time came that the sun shone out,
which before was in a cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that all
wondered.
1:23. And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was
consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.
1:24. And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord Elohim,
Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone
art the good king,
1:25. Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and
eternal, who deliverest Yisrael from all evil, who didst choose the
fathers, and didst sanctify them:
1:26. Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Yisrael, and preserve thy
own portion, and sanctify it.
1:27. Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves
to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that
the Gentiles may know that thou art our Elohim.
1:28. Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with
pride.
1:29. Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moshe hath spoken.
1:30. And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was consumed.
1:31 .And when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemias commanded the water
that was left to be poured out upon the great stones.
1:32. Which being done, there was kindled a flame from them: but it was
consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
1:33. And when this matter became public, it was told to the king of
Persia, that in the place where the priests that were led away, had hid
the fire, there appeared water, with which Nehemias and they that were
with him had purified the sacrifices.
1:34. And the king considering, and diligently examining the matter,
made a temple for it, that he might prove what had happened.
A temple... That is, an enclosure, or a wall round about the place where
the fire was hid, to separate it from profane uses, to the end that it
might be respected as a holy place.
1:35. And when he had proved it, he gave the priests many goods, and
divers presents, and he took and distributed them to them with his own
hand.
1:36. And Nehemias called this place Nephthar, which is interpreted
purification. But many call it Nephi.
2 Machabees Chapter 2
A continuation of the second letter. Of Jeremias' hiding the ark at the
time of the captivity. The author's preface.
2:1. Now it is found in the descriptions of Jeremias, the prophet, that
he commanded them that went into captivity, to take the fire, as it hath
been signified, and how he gave charge to them that were carried away
into captivity.
The descriptions... That is, the records or memoirs of Jeremias, a work
that is now lost.
2:2. And how he gave them the Torah, that they should not forget the
commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds,
seeing the idols of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of them.
2:3. And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they would
not remove the Torah from their heart.
2:4. It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being
warned by Elohim, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should
accompany him, till he came forth to the mountain where Moshe went up,
and saw the inheritance of Elohim.
2:5. And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he
carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of
incense, and so stopped the door.
2:6 .Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but
they could not find it.
2:7. And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place
shall be unknown, till Elohim gather together the congregation of the
people, and receive them to mercy.
2:8. And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the
Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to
Moshe, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be
sanctified to the great Elohim.
2:9. For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise man,
he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing of the
temple.
2:10. And as Moshe prayed to the Lord, and fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the holocaust: so Solomon also prayed, and fire came down
from heaven and consumed the holocaust.
2:11. And Moshe said: Because the sin offering was not eaten, it was
consumed.
2:12. So Solomon also celebrated the dedication eight days.
2:13. And these same things were set down in the memoirs, and
commentaries of Nehemias: and how he made a library, and gathered
together out of the countries, the books both of the prophets, and of
David, and the epistles of the kings, and concerning the holy gifts.
2:14. And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things as
were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession.
2:15. Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch them
to you.
2:16. As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have
written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.
The purification... That is, the feast of the purifying or cleansing of
the temple.
2:17. And we hope that Elohim, who hath delivered his people, and hath
rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood,
and the sanctuary,
2:18. As he promised in the Torah, will shortly have mercy upon us, and
will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy
place.
2:19. For he hath delivered us out of great perils, and hath cleansed
the place.
2:20. Now as concerning Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the
purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar:
2:21. As also the wars against Antiochus, the Illustrious, and his son,
Eupator:
2:22. And the manifestations that came from heaven to them, that behaved
themselves manfully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being but a few
they made themselves masters of the whole country, and put to flight the
barbarous multitude:
2:23. And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world, and
delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the Lord
with all clemency shewing mercy to them.
2:24. And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason,
of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book.
2:25. For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that
they find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because
of the multitude of the matter,
2:26. We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that
it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more
easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit.
2:27. And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking this work of abridging,
we have taken in hand no easy task; yea, rather a business full of
watching and sweat.
No easy task, etc... The spirit of Elohim, that assists the sacred penmen,
does not exempt them from labour in seeking out the matter which they
are to treat of, and the order and manner in which they are to deliver
it. So St. Luke writ the gospel having diligently attained to all
things. Luke 1. ver. 3.
2:28. But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of
others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.
2:29. Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and
as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.
2:30. For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the
whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit
things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of us.
2:31. For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in
order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of
the author of a history:
2:32. But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of
things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.
2:33. Here then we will begin the narration: let this be enough by way
of a preface: for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to
be short in the story itself.
2 Machabees Chapter 3
Heliodorus is sent by king Seleucus to take away the treasures deposited
in the temple. He is struck by Elohim, and healed by the prayers of the
high priest.
3:1. Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the
laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias, the
high priest and the hatred his soul had of evil,
3:2. It came to pass that even the kings themselves and the princes
esteemed the place worthy of the highest honour, and glorified the
temple with very great gifts:
3:3. So that Seleucus, king of Asia, allowed out of his revenues all the
charges belonging to the ministry of the sacrifices.
Seleucus... Son of Antiochus the Great, and elder brother of Antiochus
Epiphanes.
3:4. But one Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who was appointed overseer
of the temple, strove in opposition to the high priest, to bring about
some unjust thing in the city.
3:5. And when he could not overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius, the
son of Tharseas, who at that time was governor of Celesyria, and
Phenicia:
3:6. And told him, that the treasury in Yerushalayim was full of immense
sums of money, and the common store was infinite, which did not belong
to the account of the sacrifices: and that it was possible to bring all
into the king's hands.
3:7. Now when Apollonius had given the king notice concerning the money
that he was told of, he called for Heliodorus, who had the charge over
his affairs, and sent him with commission to bring him the foresaid
money.
3:8. So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey, under a colour of
visiting the cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but indeed to fulfil the
king's purpose.
3:9. And when he was come to Yerushalayim, and had been courteously
received in the city by the high priest, he told him what information
had been given concerning the money: and declared the cause for which he
was come: and asked if these things were so indeed.
3:10. Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and
provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless:
3:11. And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given
intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great
dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two
hundred of gold.
3:12. But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple
which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and
holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.
3:13. But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king,
said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.
3:14. So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order
this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.
3:15. And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their
priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the Torah
concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe,
for them that had deposited them.
3:16. Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded
in heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour, declared the
inward sorrow of his mind.
3:17. For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body,
that it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his
heart.
3:18. Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying
and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into
contempt.
3:19. And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came
together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came
forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of
the windows.
3:20. And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication.
3:21. For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high
priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.
3:22. And these indeed called upon almighty Elohim, to preserve the things
that had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had
committed them.
3:23. But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself
being present in the same place with his guard about the treasury.
3:24. But the spirit of the Almighty Elohim gave a great evidence of his
presence, so that all that had presumed to obey him, falling down by the
power of Elohim, were struck with fainting and dread.
3:25. For there appeared to them a horse, with a terrible rider upon
him, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck
Heliodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have
armour of gold.
3:26. Moreover there appeared two other young men, beautiful and strong,
bright and glorious, and in comely apparel: who stood by him, on either
side, and scourged him without ceasing with many stripes.
3:27. And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up,
covered with great darkness, and having put him into a litter, they
carried him out.
3:28. So he that came with many servants, and all his guard, into the
aforesaid treasury, was carried out, no one being able to help him, the
manifest power of Elohim being known.
3:29. And he indeed, by the power of Elohim, lay speechless, and without
all hope of recovery.
3:30. But they praised the Lord, because he had glorified his place: and
the temple, that a little before was full of fear and trouble, when the
Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.
3:31. Then some of the friends of Heliodorus forthwith begged of Onias,
that he would call upon the Most High to grant him his life, who was
ready to give up the ghost.
3:32. So the high priest, considering that the king might perhaps
suspect that some mischief had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews,
offered a sacrifice of health for the recovery of the man.
3:33. And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the
same clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to Onias
the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life.
3:34. And thou having been scourged by Elohim, declare unto all men the
great works and the power of Elohim. And having spoken thus, they appeared
no more.
3:35. So Heliodorus, after he had offered a sacrifice to Elohim, and made
great vows to him, that had granted him life, and given thanks to Onias,
taking his troops with him, returned to the king.
3:36. And he testified to all men the works of the great Elohim, which he
had seen with his own eyes.
3:37. And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be
sent yet once more to Yerushalayim, he said:
3:38. If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy king dom, send him
thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape:
for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of Elohim.
3:39. For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visiter and
protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come
to do evil to it.
3:40. And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the
treasury, fell out in this manner.
2 Machabees Chapter 4
Onias has recourse to the king. The ambition and wickedness of Jason and
Menelaus. Onias is treacherously murdered.
4:1. But Simon, of whom we spoke before, who was the betrayer of the
money, and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited
Heliodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils:
4:2. And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided
for the city, and defended his nation, and was zealous for the Torah of
Elohim.
4:3. But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were
committed by some of Simon's friends:
4:4. Onias, considering the danger of this contention, and that
Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyia, and Phenicia, was
outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king,
4:5. Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but with view to the common
good of all the people.
4:6. For he saw that, except the king took care, it was impossible that
matters should be settled in peace, or that Simon would cease from his
folly.
4:7. But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the
Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of
Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood:
4:8. And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents
of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents.
4:9. Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he might
have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for youth,
and to entitle them that were at Yerushalayim, Antiochians.
4:10. Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into
his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the
fashion of the heathens.
4:11. And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special
favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the
father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and
alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and
brought in fashions that were perverse.
4:12. For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place
of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.
4:13. Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of
heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of
wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and no priest.
4:14. Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices
of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices,
hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance
thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.
4:15. And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed
the Grecian glories for the best:
4:16. For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and
followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to
be like them, who were their enemies and murderers.
4:17. For acting wickedly against the laws of Elohim doth not pass
unpunished: but this the time following will declare.
4:18. Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre,
the king being present,
4:19. The wicked Jason sent from Yerushalayim sinful men, to carry three
hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the
bearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices,
because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges.
4:20. So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice of
Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the
making of galleys.
4:21. Now when Apollonius, the son of Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to
treat with the nobles of king Philometor, and Antiochus understood that
he was wholly excluded from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his
own interest, he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from thence to
Yerushalayim.
4:22. Where he was received in a magnificent manner by Jason, and the
city, and came in with torch lights, and with praises, and from thence
he returned with his army into Phenicia.
4:23. Three years afterwards Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the
aforesaid Simon, to carry money to the king, and to bring answers from
him concerning certain necessary affairs.
4:24. But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the
appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by
offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
4:25. So having received the king's mandate, he returned, bringing
nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel
tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.
4:26. Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself
undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.
4:27. So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had
promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of
the castle, called for it.
4:28. For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they
were both called before the king.
4:29. And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his
brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians.
4:30. When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus,
and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to
Antiochus, the king's concubine.
4:31. The king, therefore, went in all haste to appease them, leaving
Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy.
4:32. Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time,
having stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to
Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring
cities:
4:33. Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him,
keeping himself in a safe place at Antioch, beside Daphne.
4:34. Whereupon Menelaus coming to Andronicus, desired him to kill
Onias. And he went to Onias, and gave him his right hand with an oath,
and (though he were suspected by him) persuaded him to come forth out of
the sanctuary, and immediately slew him, without any regard to justice.
4:35. For which cause not only the Jews, but also the other nations,
conceived indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of so
great a man.
4:36. And when the king was come back from the places of Cilicia, the
Jews that were at Antioch, and also the Greeks, went to him: complaining
of the unjust murder of Onias.
4:37. Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his mind for Onias, and being
moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of the
deceased.
4:38. And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be
stripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and
that in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against
Onias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord repaying
him his deserved punishment.
4:39. Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the
temple, by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread
abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a
great quantity of gold being already carried away.
4:40. Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds
being filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and
began to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both
in age and in madness.
4:41. But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up
stones, some strong clubs, and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus.
4:42. And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground,
but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself,
they slew him beside the treasury.
4:43. Now concerning these matters, an accusation was laid against
Menelaus.
4:44. And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the
ancients to plead the cause before him.
4:45. But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much
money to persuade the king to favour him.
Ptolemee... The son of Dorymenus, a favourite of the king.
4:46. So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as
it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:
4:47. So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him
of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their
cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were
condemned to death.
4:48. Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the
people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.
4:49. Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were
very liberal towards their burial.
4:50. And so through the covetousness of them that were in power,
Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying
of the citizens.
2 Machabees Chapter 5
Wonderful signs are seen in the air. Jason's wickedness and end.
Antiochus takes Yerushalayim, and plunders the temple.
5:1. At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into
Egypt.
5:2. And it came to pass, that through the whole city of Yerushalayim, for
the space of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in
gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.
5:3. And horses set in order by ranks, running one against another, with
the shakings of shields, and a multitude of men in helmets, with drawn
swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden armour, and of
harnesses of all sorts.
5:4. Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.
5:5. Now when there was gone forth a false rumour as though Antiochus
had been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men,
suddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to the
wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the castle.
5:6. But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that
prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they
had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.
5:7. Yet he did not get the principality, but received confusion at the
end, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country of
the Ammonites.
5:8. At the last, having been shut up by Aretas, the king of the
Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated
by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his
country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:
5:9. And he that had driven many out of their country perished in a
strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have
refuge there:
5:10. But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth
both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being
partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.
5:11. Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews
would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a
furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
5:12. And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came
in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.
5:13. Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women
and children, and killing of virgins and infants.
5:14. And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore
thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.
5:15. But this was not enough, he presumed also to enter into the
temple, the most holy in all the world Menelaus, that traitor to the
laws, and to his country, being his guide.
5:16. And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given
by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place,
he unworthily handled and profaned them.
5:17. Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that Elohim was
angry for a while, because of the sins of the inhabitants of the city:
and therefore this contempt had happened to the place:
5:18. Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus,
who was sent by king Seleucus to rob the treasury, so this man also, as
soon as he had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his
presumption.
5:19. But Elohim did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the
place for the people's sake.
5:20. And, therefore, the place also itself was made partaker of the
evils of the people: but afterwards shall communicate in the good things
thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of Almighty Elohim, shall be
exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.
5:21. So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and
eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking
through pride that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea
passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
5:22. He left also governors to afflict the people: at Yerushalayim,
Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that
set him there:
5:23. And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy
hand upon the citizens than the rest.
5:24. And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful
prince, Apollonius, with an army of two and twenty thousand men,
commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the
women and the younger sort.
5:25. Who, when he was come to Yerushalayim, pretending peace, rested till
the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he
commanded his men to take arms.
5:26. And he slew all that were come forth to flee: and running through
the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude.
5:27. But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into
a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains
with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might
not be partakers of the pollution.
Was the tenth... That is, he had nine others in his company.
2 Machabees Chapter 6
Antiochus commands the Torah to be abolished, sets up an idol in the
temple, and persecutes the faithful. The martyrdom of Eleazar.
6:1. But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to
compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of Elohim:
6:2. And to defile the temple that was in Yerushalayim, and to call it the
temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis,
according as they were that inhabited the place.
That in Gazarim... Viz., the temple of the Samaritans. And as they were
originally strangers, the name of Hospitalis (which signifies of or
belonging to strangers) was applicable to the idol set up in their
temple.
6:3. And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all.
6:4. For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles:
and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their
accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful.
6:5. The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were
forbidden by the laws.
6:6. And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the
fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a
Jew.
6:7. But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to
the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were
compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.
6:8. And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the
Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act
in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice:
6:9. And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the
Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.
6:10. For two women were accused to have circumcised their children:
whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants
hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.
6:11. And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were
keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were
burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with
their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.
Philip... The governor of Yerushalayim.
6:12. Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not
shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that
happened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of
our nation.
6:13. For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered
to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.
6:14. For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently
expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them
in the fulness of their sins:)
6:15. Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to
their height, and then take vengeance on us.
6:16. And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though
he chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not.
6:17. But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers.
And now we must come to the narration.
6:18. Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years,
and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat
swine's flesh.
6:19. But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life,
went forward voluntarily to the torment.
6:20. And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently
bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of
life.
6:21. But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old
friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh
might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make
as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the
sacrifice:
Wicked pity... Their pity was wicked, inasmuch as it suggested that
wicked proposal of saving his life by dissimulation.
6:22. That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the
sake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy.
6:23. But he began to consider the dignity of his age, and his ancient
years, and the inbred honour of his grey head, and his good life and
conversation from a child; and he answered without delay, according to
the ordinances of the holy Torah made by Elohim, saying, that he would rather
be sent into the other world.
6:24. For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby
many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and
ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:
6:25. And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a
corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain
and a curse upon my old age.
6:26. For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the
punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty
neither alive nor dead.
6:27. Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew
myself worthy of my old age:
6:28. And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a
ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most
venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith
carried to execution.
6:29. And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild,
were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought
were uttered out of arrogancy.
6:30. But when he was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned: and
said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly that
whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grievous pains in
body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear
thee.
6:31. Thus did this man die, leaving not only to young men, but also to
the whole nation, the memory of his death, for an example of virtue and
fortitude.
2 Machabees Chapter 7
The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.
7:1. It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their
mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh
against the Torah, for which end they were tormented with whips and
scourges.
7:2. But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou
ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the
laws of Elohim, received from our fathers.
7:3. Then the king being angry, commanded fryingpans and brazen caldrons
to be made hot: which forthwith being heated,
7:4. He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had spoken first:
and the skin of his head being drawn off, to chop off also the
extremities of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren and his
mother looking on.
7:6. And when he was now maimed in all parts, he commanded him, being
yet alive, to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the fryingpan:
and while he was suffering therein long torments, the rest, together
with the mother, exhorted one another to die manfully,
7:6. Saying: The Lord Elohim will look upon the truth, and will take
pleasure in us, as Moshe declared in the profession of the canticle; And
in his servants he will take pleasure.
7:7. So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the next
to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of
his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he were
punished throughout the whole body in every limb. 7:8. But he answered
in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in
the next place, received the torments of the first:
7:9. And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most
wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the
world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of
eternal life.
7:10. After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was
required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched
out his hands:
7:11. And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the
laws of Elohim I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again
from him.
7:12. So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the
young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing.
7:13. And after he was thus dead, they tormented the fourth in the like
manner.
7:14. And when he was now ready to die, he spoke thus: It is better,
being put to death by men, to look for hope from Elohim, to be raised up
again by him; for, as to thee, thou shalt have no resurrection unto
life.
7:15. And when they had brought the fifth, they tormented him. But he,
looking upon the king, 7:16. Said: Whereas thou hast power among men
though thou art corruptible, thou dost what thou wilt but think not that
our nation is forsaken by Elohim.
7:17. But stay patiently a while, and thou shalt see his great power, in
what manner he will torment thee and thy seed.
7:18. After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke
thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for
ourselves, having sinned against our Elohim, and things worthy of
admiration are done to us:
7:19. But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou
hast attempted to fight against Elohim.
7:20. Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be
remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of
one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in
Elohim:
7:21. And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language,
being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's
thought,
7:22. She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I
neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the
limbs of every one of you.
7:23. But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and
that found out the origin of all, he will restore to you again, in his
mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise yourselves for the sake
of his laws.
7:24. Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the
voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only
exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would
make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of
his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things
necessary.
7:25. But when the young man was not moved with these things, the king
called the mother, and counselled her to deal with the young man to save
his life.
7:26. And when he had exhorted her with many words she promised that she
would counsel her son.
7:27. So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said
in her own language: My son have pity upon me, that bore thee nine
months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee,
and brought thee up unto this age.
7:28. I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that
is in them, and consider that Elohim made them out of nothing, and mankind
also:
7:29. So thou shalt not fear this tormentor, but being made a worthy
partner with thy brethren, receive death, that in that mercy I may
receive thee again with thy brethren.
7:30. While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For
whom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the
commandment of the Torah which was given us by Moshe.
7:31. But thou that hast been the author of all mischief against the
Hebrews, shalt not escape the hand of Elohim.
7:32. For we suffer thus for our sins.
7:33. And though the Lord, our Elohim, is angry with us a little while, for
our chastisement and correction, yet he will be reconciled again to his
servants.
7:34. But thou, O wicked, and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted
up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his
servants.
7:35. For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the Almighty Elohim,
who beholdeth all things.
7:36. For my brethren having now undergone a short pain, are under the
covenant of eternal life: but thou, by the judgment of Elohim, shalt
receive just punishment for thy pride.
7:37. But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws
of our fathers: calling upon Elohim to be speedily merciful to our nation,
and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is
Elohim.
7:38. But in me, and in my brethren, the wrath of the Almighty, which
hath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease.
7:39. Then the king being incensed with anger, raged against him more
cruelly than all the rest, taking it grievously that he was mocked.
7:40. So this man also died undefiled, wholly trusting in the Lord.
7:41. And last of all, after the sons, the mother also was consumed.
7:42. But now there is enough said of the sacrifices and of the
excessive cruelties.
2 Machabees Chapter 8
Judas Machabeus gathering an army gains divers victories.
8:1. But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with him, went privately
into the towns: and calling together their kinsmen and friends, and
taking unto them such as continued in the Jews' religion, they assembled
six thousand men.
8:2. And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon his people
that was trodden down by all and would have pity on the temple, that was
defiled by the wicked:
8:3. That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed, that
was ready to be made even with the ground, and would hear the voice of
the blood that cried to him:
8:4. That he would remember also the most unjust deaths of innocent
children, and the blasphemies offered to his name, and would shew his
indignation on this occasion.
8:5. Now when Machabeus had gathered a multitude, he could not be
withstood by the heathens: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into
mercy.
8:6. So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire,
and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small
slaughter of the enemies:
8:7. And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and
the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.
8:8. Then Philip seeing that the man gained ground by little and little,
and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with him, wrote
to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send aid to the
king's affairs.
Philip seeing, etc... The governor of Yerushalayim found himself unable to
contend with Judas, especially after the victories he had obtained over
Apollonius and Seron. 1 Mac. 3.
8:9. And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son of Patroclus, one of
his special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men
of different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining
also with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in
matters of war.
Twenty thousand... The whole number of the forces sent at that time into
Judea, was 40,000 footmen, and 7000 horsemen, 1 Mac. 3.30. But only
20,000 are here taken notice of, because there were no more with Nicanor
at the time of the battle.
8:10. And Nicanor purposed to raise for the king the tribute of two
thousand talents, that was to be given to the Romans, by making so much
money of the captive Jews:
8:11. Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities upon the sea coast, to
invite men together to buy up the Jewish slaves, promising that they
should have ninety slaves for one talent, not reflecting on the
vengeance which was to follow him from the Almighty.
8:12. Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the
Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.
8:13. And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of Elohim,
fled away.
8:14. Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord,
that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them
before he came near them:
8:15. And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made
with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that
was invoked upon them.
8:16. But Machabeus calling together seven thousand that were with him,
exhorted them not to be reconciled to the enemies, nor to fear the
multitude of the enemies who came wrongfully against them, but to fight
manfully:
Seven thousand... In the Greek it is six thousand. But then three
thousand of them had no arms. 1 Mac. 4.6.
8:17. Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the
holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had
been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the
fathers.
8:18. For, said he, they trust in their weapons, and in their boldness:
but we trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly destroy
both them that come against us, and the whole world.
8:19. Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had
received from Elohim: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-five
thousand had been destroyed.
8:20. And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in
Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the
point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a
hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven,
and for this they received many favours.
Galatians... That is, the Gauls, who having ravaged Italy and Greece,
poured themselves in upon Asia, in immense multitudes, where also they
founded the kingdom of Galatia or Gallo Graecia.
8:21. With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even to
die for the laws and their country.
8:22. So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his
army; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen
hundred men.
8:23. And after the holy book had been read to them by Esdras, and he
had given them for a watchword, The help of Elohim: himself leading the
first band, he joined battle with Nicanor:
8:24. And the Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand
men: and having wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army,
they obliged them to fly.
Above nine thousand... Viz., including the three thousand slain in the
pursuit.
8:25. And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they
pursued them on every side.
8:26. But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the
sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.
8:27. But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils,
they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that
day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.
8:28. Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and
the orphans, and the widows, and the rest they took for themselves and
their servants.
8:29. When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication,
they besought the merciful Lord, to be reconciled to his servants unto
the end.
8:30. Moreover, they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with
Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, and they made
themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst
them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless,
and the widows; yea, and the aged also.
8:31. And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they
laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils
they carried to Yerushalayim:
8:32. They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man,
who had many ways afflicted the Jews.
8:33. And when they kept the feast of the victory at Yerushalayim, they
burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken
refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his
impieties:
8:34. But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a
thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews,
8:35. Being, through the help of the Lord, brought down by them, of whom
he had made no account, laying aside his garment of glory, fleeing
through the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered
very unhappy by the destruction of his army.
Laying aside his garment of glory... That is, his splendid apparel,
which he wore through ostentation; he now throws it off, lest he should
be known on his flight.
8:36. And he that had promised to levy the tribute for the Romans, by
the means of the captives of Yerushalayim, now professed that the Jews had
Elohim for their protector, and therefore they could not be hurt, because
they followed the laws appointed by him.
2 Machabees Chapter 9
The wretched end, and fruitless repentance of king Antiochus.
9:1. At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour out of Persia.
9:2. For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted
to rob the temple, and to oppress the city, but the multitude running
together to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus
being put to flight, returned with disgrace.
Persepolis... Otherwise called Elymais.
9:3. Now when he was come about Ecbatana, he received the news of what
had happened to Nicanor and Timotheus.
9:4. And swelling with anger, he thought to revenge upon the Jews the
injury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he
commanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey, the
judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so proudly,
that he would come to Yerushalayim, and make it a common burying place of
the Jews.
9:5. But the Lord, the Elohim of Yisrael, that seeth all things, struck him
with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended
these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter
torments of the inner parts.
9:6. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of
others with many and new torments, albeit he by no means ceased from his
malice.
9:7. Moreover, being filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage
against the Jews, and commanding the matter to be hastened, it happened
as he was going with violence, that he fell from the chariot, so that
his limbs were much pained by a grievous bruising of the body.
9:8. Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the
sea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights of
the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was
carried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of Elohim in
himself:
9:9. So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he
lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his
smell was noisome to the army.
9:10. And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the
stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable
stench.
9:11. And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to
come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of
Elohim, his pains increasing every moment.
9:12. And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke
thus: It is just to be subject to Elohim, and that a mortal man should not
equal himself to Elohim.
9:13. Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like
to obtain mercy.
Of whom he was not like to obtain mercy... Because his repentance was
not for the offence committed against Elohim: but barely on account of his
present sufferings.
9:14. And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with
the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to
make free:
9:15. And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so
much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and
wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now
promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.
9:16. The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to
adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow
out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.
9:17. Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through
every place of the earth, and declare the power of Elohim.
9:18. But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of Elohim was come
upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a
supplication, a letter in these words:
9:19. To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler,
wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness.
9:20. If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you
to your mind, we give very great thanks.
9:21. As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning
out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I
thought it necessary to take care for the common good:
9:22. Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the
sickness.
9:23. But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army
into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him:
9:24. To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall
out, or any bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the
countries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be
troubled.
9:25. Moreover, considering that neighbouring princes, and borderers,
wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event, I have
appointed my son, Antiochus, king, whom I often recommended to many of
you, when I went into the higher provinces: and I have written to him
what I have joined here below.
9:26. I pray you, therefore, and request of you, that, remembering
favours both public and private, you will every man of you continue to
be faithful to me and to my son.
9:27. For I trust that he will behave with moderation and humanity, and
following my intentions, will be gracious unto you.
9:28. Thus the murderer and blasphemer being grievously struck, as
himself had treated others, died a miserable death in a strange country,
among the mountains.
9:29. But Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body:
and out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee
Philometor.
2 Machabees Chapter 10
The purification of the temple and city. Other exploits of Judas. His
victory over Timotheus.
10:1. But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of
the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again.
10:2. But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the
streets, as also the temples of the idols.
10:3. And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and
taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two
years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.
10:4. And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying
prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils;
but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him
more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.
10:5. Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the
strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the
five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu.
10:6. And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast
of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the
feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens
like wild beasts.
10:7. Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms,
for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.
10:8. And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the
nation of the Jews should keep those days every year.
10:9. And this was the end of Antiochus, that was called the
Illustrious.
10:10. But now we will repeat the acts of Eupator, the son of that
wicked Antiochus, abridging the account of the evils that happened in
the wars.
10:11. For when he was come to the crown, he appointed over the affairs
of his realm one Lysias, general of the army of Phenicia and Syria.
10:12. For Ptolemee, that was called Macer, was determined to be
strictly just to the Jews and especially by reason of the wrong that had
been done them, and to deal peaceably with them. 10:13. But being
accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being oftentimes called
traitor, because he had left Cyprus, which Philometor had committed to
him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also
from him, he put an end to his life by poison.
10:14. But Gorgias, who was governor of the holds, taking with him the
strangers, often fought against the Jews.
10:15. And the Jews that occupied the most commodious holds, received
those that were driven out of Yerushalayim, and attempted to make war.
The Jews, etc... He speaks of them that had fallen from their religion,
and were enemies of their country, who joining with the Idumeans or
Edomites, kept possession of the strong holds, and from thence annoyed
their countrymen.
10:16. Then they that were with Machabeus, beseeching the Lord by
prayers to be their helper, made a strong attack upon the strong holds
of the Idumeans:
10:17. And assaulting them with great force, won the holds, killed them
that came in the way, and slew altogether no fewer than twenty thousand.
10:18. And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all
manner of provision to sustain a siege,
10:19. Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zacheus, and them that were
with them, in sufficient number to besiege them, and departed to those
expeditions which urged more.
10:20. Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were
persuaded for the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and
taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape.
10:21. But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the
rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their
brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape. 10:22. So he
put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers.
10:23. And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand,
he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds.
10:24. But Timotheus, who before had been overcome by the Jews, having
called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen
out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.
10:26. But Machabeus, and they that were with him, when he drew near,
prayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads, and girding their
loins with haircloth,
10:26. And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar, besought him to be
merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary
to their adversaries, as the Torah saith.
10:27. And so after prayer taking their arms, they went forth further
from the city, and when they were come very near the enemies they
rested.
10:28. But as soon as the sun was risen both sides joined battle: the
one part having, with their valour, the Lord for a surety of victory,
and success: but the other side making their rage their leader in
battle.
10:29. But when they were in the heat of the engagement, there appeared
to the enemies from heaven five men upon horses, comely, with golden
bridles, conducting the Jews:
10:30. Two of them took Machabeus between them, and covered him on every
side with their arms, and kept him safe; but cast darts and fireballs
against the enemy, so that they fell down, being both confounded with
blindness, and filled with trouble.
10:31. And there were slain twenty thousand five hundred, and six
hundred horsemen.
10:32. But Timotheus fled into Gazara, a strong hold where Chereas was
governor.
10:33. Then Machabeus, and they that were with him cheerfully laid siege
to the fortress four days.
10:34. But they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place,
blasphemed exceedingly, and cast forth abominable words.
10:35. But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that
were with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds, because of the blasphemy,
approached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce
courage, got up upon it:
10:36. Moreover, others also getting up after them, went to set fire to
the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive.
10:37. And having for two days together pillaged and sacked the
fortress, they killed Timotheus, who was found hid in a certain place:
they slew also his brother Chereas, and Apollophanes.
Timotheus... This man, who was killed at the taking of Gazara, is
different from that Timotheus who is mentioned in the fifth chapter of
the first book of Machabees, and of whom there is mention in the
following chapter.
10:38. And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and
thanksgiving, who had done great things in Yisrael, and given them the
victory.
2 Machabees Chapter 11
Lysias is overthrown by Judas. He sues for peace.
11:1. A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieutenant, and cousin,
and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased
with what had happened,
11:2. Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen,
and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a
habitation of the Gentiles:
11:3. And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the
Gentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:
11:4. Never considering the power of Elohim, but puffed up in mind, and
trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his
horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
11:5. So he came into Judea, and approaching to Bethsura, which was in a
narrow place, the space of five furlongs from Yerushalayim, he laid siege
to that fortress.
11:6. But when Machabeus, and they that were with him, understood that
the strong holds were besieged, they and all the people besought the
Lord with lamentations and tears, that he would send a good angel to
save Yisrael.
11:7. Then Machabeus himself first taking his arms, exhorted the rest to
expose themselves together with him, to the danger, and to succour their
brethren.
11:8. And when they were going forth together with a willing mind, there
appeared at Yerushalayim a horseman going before them in white clothing,
with golden armour, shaking a spear.
11:9. Then they all together blessed the merciful Lord, and took great
courage: being ready to break through not only men, but also the
fiercest beasts, and walls of iron.
11:10. So they went on courageously, having a helper from heaven, and
the Lord, who shewed mercy to them.
11:11. And rushing violently upon the enemy, like lions, they slew of
them eleven thousand footmen, and one thousand six hundred horsemen:
11:12. And put all the rest to flight; and many of them being wounded,
escaped naked: Yea, and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and
escaped.
11:13. And as he was a man of understanding, considering with himself
the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be
overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty Elohim, he sent
to them:
11:14. And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and
that he would persuade the king to be their friend.
11:15. Then Machabeus consented to the request of Lysias, providing for
the common good in all things; and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to Lysias,
concerning the Jews, the king allowed of.
11:16. For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this
effect: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, greeting.
11:17. John, and Abesalom, who were sent from you, delivering your
writings, requested that I would accomplish those things which were
signified by them. 11:18. Therefore whatsoever things could be reported
to the king, I have represented to him: and he hath granted as much as
the matter permitted.
11:19. If, therefore, you will keep yourselves loyal in affairs,
hereafter also I will endeavour to be a means of your good.
11:20. But as concerning other particulars, I have given orders by word
both to these, and to them that are sent by me, to commune with you.
11:21. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the four
and twentieth day of the month of Dioscorus.
In the year 148... Viz., according to the computation followed by the
Greeks; which was different from that of the Hebrews, followed by the
writer of the first book of Machabees. However, by this date, as well as
by other circumstances, it appears that the expedition of Lysias,
mentioned in this chapter, is different from that which is recorded, 1
Mac. 6.
11:22. But the king's letter contained these words King Antiochus to
Lysias, his brother, greeting.
11:23. Our father being translated amongst the gods we are desirous that
they that are in our realm should live quietly, and apply themselves
diligently to their own concerns.
11:24. And we have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father to
turn to the rites of the Greeks but that they would keep to their own
manner of living and therefore that they request us to allow them to
live after their own laws.
11:25. Wherefore being desirous that this nation also should be at rest,
we have ordained and decreed, that the temple should be restored to
them, and that they may live according to the custom of their ancestors.
11:26. Thou shalt do well, therefore, to send to them, and grant them
peace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and
look to their own affairs.
11:27. But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King
Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews,
greeting.
11:28. If you are well, you are as we desire: we ourselves also are
well.
11:29. Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to your
countrymen, that are with us.
11:30. We grant, therefore, a safe conduct to all that come and go,
until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,
11:31. That the Jews may use their own kind of meats, and their own
laws, as before: and that none of them any manner of ways be molested
for things which have been done by ignorance.
11:32. And we have sent also Menelaus to speak to you.
11:33. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the
fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.
11:34. The Romans also sent them a letter, to this effect: Quintus
Memmius, and Titus Manilius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of
the Jews, greeting.
11:35. Whatsoever Lysias, the king's cousin, hath granted to you, we
also have granted.
11:36. But touching such things as he thought should be referred to the
king, after you have diligently conferred among yourselves, send some
one forthwith, that we may decree as it is convenient for you: for we
are going to Antioch.
11:37. And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what
mind you are.
11:38. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the
fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.
2 Machabees Chapter 12
The Jews are still molested by their neighbours. Judas gains divers
victories over them. He orders sacrifice and prayers for the dead.
12:1. When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the
Jews gave themselves to husbandry.
12:2. But they that were behind, viz. Timotheus, and Apollonius, the son
of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor, the
governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be
quiet.
12:3. The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness: they
desired the Jews, who dwelt among them, to go with their wives and
children into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no
enmity to them.
12:4. Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree
of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were
gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of
them.
12:5. But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen,
he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon
Elohim, the just judge,
12:6. He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven
on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that
escaped from the fire.
12:7. And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as
if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.
12:8. But when he understood that the men of Jamnia also designed to do
in like manner to the Jews that dwelt among them,
12:9. He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set the haven on
fire, with the ships, so that the light of the fire was seen at
Yerushalayim, two hundred and forty furlongs off.
12:10. And when they were now gone from thence nine furlongs, and were
marching towards Timotheus, five thousand footmen, and five hundred
horsemen of the Arabians, set upon them.
12:11. And after a hard fight, in which, by the help of Elohim, they got
the victory, the rest of the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas for
peace, promising to give him pastures, and to assist him in other
things.
12:12. And Judas thinking that they might be profitable indeed in many
things, promised them peace, and after having joined hands, they
departed to their tents.
12:13. He also laid siege to a certain strong city, encompassed with
bridges and walls, and inhabited by multitudes of different nations, the
name of which is Casphin.
12:14. But they that were within it, trusting in the strength of the
walls, and the provision of victuals, behaved in a more negligent
manner, and provoked Judas with railing and blaspheming, and uttering
such words as were not to be spoken.
12:15. But Machabeus calling upon the great Lord of the world, who
without any rams or engines of war threw down the walls of Jericho, in
the time of Josue, fiercely assaulted the walls.
Rams... That is, engines for battering walls, etc., which were used in
sieges in those times.
12:16. And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an
unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining, of two furlongs broad,
seemed to run with the blood of the slain.
12:17. From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and
came to Characa, to the Jews that are called Tubianites.
12:18. But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for
before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very
strong garrison in a certain hold:
12:19. But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were captains with Machabeus,
slew them that were left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of ten
thousand men.
12:20. And Machabeus having set in order about him six thousand men, and
divided them by bands, went forth against Timotheus, who had with him a
hundred and twenty thousand footmen, aad two thousand five hundred
horsemen.
12:21. Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent
the women and children, and the other baggage, before him into a
fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable, and hard to come at,
by reason of the straitness of the places.
12:22. But when the first band of Judas came in sight, the enemies were
struck with fear, by the presence of Elohim, who seeth all things, and they
were put to flight one from another, so that they were often thrown down
by their own companions, and wounded with the strokes of their own
swords.
12:23. But Judas pursued them close, punishing the profane, of whom he
slew thirty thousand men.
12:24. And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of
Dositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let
him go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many of
the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived.
12:25. And when he had given his faith that he would restore them
according to the agreement, they let him go without hurt, for the saving
of their brethren.
12:26. Then Judas went away to Carnion, where he slew five and twenty
thousand persons.
12:27. And after he had put to flight and destroyed these, he removed
his army to Ephron, a strong city, wherein there dwelt a multitude of
divers nations: and stout young men standing upon the walls, made a
vigorous resistance: and in this place there were many engines of war,
and a provision of darts.
12:28. But when they had invocated the Almighty, who with his power
breaketh the strength of the enemies, they took the city: and slew five
and twenty thousand of them that were within.
12:29. From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred
furlongs from Yerushalayim.
Scythopolis... Formerly called Bethsan.
12:30. But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that
they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their
adversity they had treated them with humanity:
12:31. They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to
their nation, and so they came to Yerushalayim, the feast of the weeks
being at hand.
12:32. And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor of
Idumea.
12:33. And he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred
horsemen.
12:34. And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the
Jews were slain.
12:35. But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Bacenor's band, a valiant man,
took hold of Gorgias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain
horseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut off his shoulder: and
so Gorgias escaped to Maresa.
12:36. But when they that were with Esdrin had fought long, and were
weary, Judas called upon the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the
battle:
12:37. Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a loud
voice, he put Gorgias's soldiers to flight.
12:38. So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city
Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves
according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place.
12:39. And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away
the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen,
in the sepulchres of their fathers.
12:40. And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries
of the idols of Jamnia, which the Torah forbiddeth to the Jews: so that
all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.
Of the donaries, etc... That is, of the votive offerings, which had been
hung up in the temples of the idols, which they had taken away when they
burnt the port of Jamnia, ver. 9., contrary to the prohibition of the
Torah, Deut. 7.25.
12:41. Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had
discovered the things that were hidden.
12:42. And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that
the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most
valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch
as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of
those that were slain.
12:43. And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver
to Yerushalayim for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead,
thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection.
12:44. (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise
again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)
12:45. And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with
godliness, had great grace laid up for them.
With godliness... Judas hoped that these men who died fighting for the
cause of Elohim and religion, might find mercy: either because they might
be excused from mortal sin by ignorance; or might have repented of their
sin, at least at their death.
12:46. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the
dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead...
Here is an evident and undeniable proof of the practice of praying for
the dead under the old Torah, which was then strictly observed by the
Jews, and consequently could not be introduced at that time by Judas,
their chief and high priest, if it had not been always their custom.
2 Machabees Chapter 13
Antiochus and Lysias again invade Judea. Menelaus is put to death. The
king's great army is worsted twice. The peace is renewed.
13:1. In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that
Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea,
13:2. And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs
of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five
thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots.
A hundred and ten thousand, etc... The difference between the numbers
here set down, and those recorded, 1 Mac. 4, is easily accounted for; if
we consider that such armies as these are liable to be at one time more
numerous than at another; either by sending away large detachments, or
being diminished by sickness; or increased by receiving fresh supplies
of troops, according to different exigencies or occurrences.
13:3. Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great
deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country,
but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.
13:4. But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the
sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the
evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be
apprehended and put to death in the same place.
13:5. Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a
heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.
13:6. From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down
into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.
13:7. And by such a Torah it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of
the Torah, was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.
13:8. And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins
against the altar of Elohim, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was
condemned to die in ashes.
13:9. But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself
worse to the Jews than his father was.
13:10. Which when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon
the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would
help them:
13:11. Because they were afraid to be deprived of the Torah, and of their
country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the
people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in
subjection to blasphemous nations.
13:12. So when they had all done this together, and had craved mercy of
the Lord with weeping and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for
three days continually, Judas exhorted them to make themselves ready.
13:13. But he, with the ancients, determined before the king should
bring his army into Judea, and make himself master of the city, to go
out, and to commit the event of the thing to the judgment of the Lord.
13:14. So committing all to Elohim, the Creator of the world, and having
exhorted his people to fight manfully, and to stand up even to death for
the laws, the temple, the city, their country, and citizens: he placed
his army about Modin.
13:15. And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of Elohim,
with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king's quarter by
night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of the
elephants, with them that had been upon him,
13:16. And having filled the camp of the enemies with exceeding great
fear and tumult, they went off with good success.
13:17. Now this was done at the break of day, by the protection and help
of the Lord.
13:18. But the king having taken a taste of the hardiness of the Jews,
attempted to take the strong places by policy:
13:19. And he marched with his army to Bethsura, which was a strong hold
of the Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he lost his men.
13:20. Now Judas sent necessaries to them that were within
13:21. But Rhodocus, one of the Jews' army, disclosed the secrets to the
enemies, so he was sought out, and taken up, and put in prison.
13:22. Again the king treated with them that were in Bethsura: gave his
right hand: took theirs: and went away.
13:23. He fought with Judas: and was overcome. And when he understood
that Philip, who had been left over the affairs, had rebelled at
Antioch, he was in a consternation of mind, and intreating the Jews, and
yielding to them, he swore to all things that seemed reasonable, and,
being reconciled, offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and left
gifts.
13:24. He embraced Machabeus, and made him governor and prince from
Ptolemais unto the Gerrenians.
13:25. But when he was come to Ptolemais, the men of that city were much
displeased with the conditions of the peace, being angry for fear they
should break the covenant.
13:26. Then Lysias went up to the judgment seat, and set forth the
reason, and appeased the people, and returned to Antioch: and thus
matters went with regard to the king's coming and his return.
2 Machabees Chapter 14
Demetrius challenges the kingdom. Alcimus applies to him to be made high
priest: Nicanor is sent into Judea: his dealings with Judas: his
threats. The history of Razias.
14:1. But after the space of three years Judas, and they that were with
him, understood that Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, was come up with a
great power, and a navy by the haven of Tripolis, to places proper for
his purpose,
14:2. And had made himself master of the countries against Antiochus,
and his general, Lysias.
14:3. Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest, but had wilfully
defiled himself in the time of mingling with the heathens, seeing that
there was no safety for him, nor access to the altar,
Now Alcimus, who had been chief priest... This Alcimus was of the stock
of Aharon, but for his apostasy here mentioned was incapable of the high
priesthood, but king Antiochus Eupator appointed him in place of the
high priest, (see above, 1 Mac. chap. 7., ver. 9,) as Menelaus had been
before him, set up by Antiochus, (above chap. 4.,)yet neither of them
were truly high priests; for the true high priesthood was amongst the
Machabees, who were also of the stock of Aharon, and had strictly held
their religion, and were ordained according to the rites commanded in
the Torah of Moshe.-Ibid. Mingling... with the heathens; that is, in their
idolatrous worship.
14:4. Came to king Demetrius in the year one hundred and fifty,
presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and besides these, some
boughs that seemed to belong to the temple. And that day indeed he held
his peace.
14:5. But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being
called to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon, and
what were their counsels,
14:6. He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called
Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise
seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace.
14:7. For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the
high priesthood) am now come hither:
14:8. Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in
the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all
our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men.
14:9. Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take
care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according
to thy humanity which is known to all men.
14:10. For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state
should be quiet.
14:11. Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the
king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against
him.
14:12. And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants,
governor into Judea:
14:13. Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all
them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the
great temple.
14:14. Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to
Nicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to
be the welfare of their affairs.
14:15. Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the nations
were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made
supplication to him who chose his people to keep them for ever, and who
protected his portion by evident signs.
14:16. Then at the commandment of their captain, they forthwith removed
from the place where they were, and went to the town of Dessau, to meet
them.
14:17. Now Simon, the brother of Judas, had joined battle with Nicanor:
but was frightened with the sudden coming of the adversaries.
14:18. Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the valour of Judas's companions,
and the greatness of courage, with which they fought for their country,
was afraid to try the matter by the sword.
14:19. Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotius and Matthias before
to present and receive the right hands.
14:20. And when there had been a consultation thereupon, and the captain
had acquainted the multitude with it, they were all of one mind to
consent to covenants.
14:21. So they appointed a day upon which they might comne together by
themselves: and seats were brought out, and set for each one.
14:22. But Judas ordered armed men to be ready in convenient places,
lest some mischief might be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they
made an agreeable conference.
14:23. And Nicanor abode in Yerushalayim, and did no wrong, but sent away
the flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together.
14:24. And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well
affected to the man.
14:25. And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he
married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common.
14:26. But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the
covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to
the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor
to the kingdom, his successor.
14:27. Then the king, being in a rage, and provoked with this man's
wicked accusation, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly
displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him
nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.
14:28. When this was known, Nicanor was in a consternation, and took it
grievously that he should make void the articles that were agreed upon,
having received no injury from the man.
14:29. But because he could not oppose the king, he watched an
opportunity to comply with the orders.
14:30. But when Machabeus perceived that Nicanor was more stern to him,
and that when they met together as usual he behaved himself in a rough
manner; and was sensible that this rough behaviour came not of good, he
gathered together a few of his men, and hid himself from Nicanor.
14:31. But he finding himself notably prevented by the man, came to the
great and holy temple: and commanded the priests that were offering the
accustomed sacrifices, to deliver him the man.
14:32. And when they swore unto him, that they knew not where the man
was whom he sought, he stretched out his hand to the temple,
14:33. And swore, saying: Unless you deliver Judas prisoner to me, I
will lay this temple of Elohim even with the ground, and will beat down the
altar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus.
14:34. And when he had spoken thus, he departed. But the priests
stretching forth their hands to heaven, called upon him that was ever
the defender of their nation, saying in this manner:
14:35. Thou, O Lord of all things, who wantest nothing, wast pleased
that the temple of thy habitation should be amongst us.
14:36. Therefore now, O Lord, the holy of all holies, keep this house
for ever undefiled, which was lately cleansed.
14:37. Now Razias, one of the ancients of Yerushalayim, was accused to
Nicanor, a man that was a lover of the city, and of good report, who for
his kindness was called the father of the Jews.
14:38. This man, for a long time, had held fast his purpose of keeping
himself pure in the Jews' religion, and was ready to expose his body and
life, that he might persevere therein.
14:39. So Nicanor being willing to declare the hatred that he bore the
Jews, sent five hundred soldiers to take him.
14:40. For he thought by ensnaring him to hurt the Jews very much.
14:41. Now as the multitude sought to rush into his house, and to break
open the door, and to set fire to it, when he was ready to be taken, he
struck himself with his sword:
He struck himself, etc... St. Augustine, (Epist. 61, ad Dulcitium, et
lib. 2, cap. 23, ad Epist. 2, Gaud.) discussing this fact of Razias,
says, that the holy scripture relates it, but doth not praise it, as to
be admired or imitated, and that either it was not well done by him, or
at least not proper in this time of grace.
14:42. Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the
wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.
14:43. But whereas through haste he missed of giving a sure wound, and
the crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and
manfully threw himself down to the crowd:
14:44. But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the midst
of the neck.
He came upon the midst of the neck... Venit per mediam cervicem. In the
Greek it is keneona, which signifies a void place, where there is no
building.
14:45. And as he had yet breath in him, being inflamed in mind, he
arose: and while his blood ran down with a great stream, and he was
grievously wounded, he ran through the crowd:
14:46. And standing upon a steep rock, when he was now almost without
blood, grasping his bowels, with both hands he cast them upon the
throng, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit, to restore these to
him again: and so he departed this life.
2 Machabees Chapter 15
Judas encouraged by a vision gains a glorious victory over Nicanor. The
conclusion.
15:1. But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in the places of
Shomron, he purposed to set upon him with all violence, on the sabbath
day.
15:2. And when the Jews that were constrained to follow him, said: Do
not act so fiercely and barbarously, but give honour to the day that is
sanctified: and reverence him that beholdeth all things:
15:3. That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven, that
had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.
15:4. And when they answered: There is the living Lord himself in
heaven, the mighty One, that commanded the seventh day to be kept.
15:5. Then he said: And I am mighty upon the earth, and I command to
take arms, and to do the king's business. Nevertheless he prevailed not
to accomplish his design.
15:6. So Nicanor being puffed up with exceeding great pride, thought to
set up a public monument of his victory over Judas.
15:7. But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that Elohim would help them.
15:8. And he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the nations,
but to remember the help they had before received from heaven, and now
to hope for victory from the Almighty.
15:9. And speaking to them out of the Torah, and the prophets, and withal
putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them
more cheerful:
15:10. Then after he had encouraged them, he shewed withal the falsehood
of the Gentiles, and their breach of oaths.
15:11. So he armed every one of them, not with defence of shield and
spear, but with very good speeches, and exhortations, and told them a
dream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all.
15:12. Now the vision was in this manner. Onias, who had been high
priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his
manners, and graceful in speech, and who from a child was exercised in
virtues holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews:
15:13. After this there appeared also another man, admirable for age,
and glory, and environed with great beauty and majesty:
15:14. Then Onias answering, said: This is a lover of his brethren, and
of the people of Yisrael: this is he that prayeth much for the people,
and for all the holy city, Jeremias, the prophet of Elohim.
15:15. Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth his right hand, and gave to
Judas a sword of gold, saying:
15:16. Take this holy sword, a gift from Elohim, wherewith thou shalt
overthrow the adversaries of my people Yisrael.
15:17. Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very
good, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of
the young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully:
that valour might decide the matter, because the holy city, and the
temple were in danger.
15:18. For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for
their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was
for the holiness of the temple.
15:19. And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for
them that were to be engaged in battle.
15:20. And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the
enemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the
horsemen ranged in convenient places,
15:21. Machabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the divers
preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretching out
his hands to heaven, called upon the Lord, that worketh wonders, who
giveth victory to them that are worthy, not according to the power of
their arms, but according as it seemeth good to him.
15:22. And in his prayer he said after this manner: Thou, O Lord, who
didst send thy angel in the time of Ezechias, king of Juda, and didst
kill a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the army of Sennacherib:
15:23. Send now also, O Lord of heaven, thy good angel before us, for
the fear and dread of the greatness of thy arm,
15:24. That they may be afraid, who come with blasphemy against thy holy
people. And thus he concluded his prayer.
15:25. But Nicanor, and they that were with him came forward, with
trumpets and songs.
15:26. But Judas, and they that were with him, encountered them, calling
upon Elohim by prayers:
15:27. So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their
hearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly
cheered with the presence of Elohim.
15:28. And when the battle was over, and they were returning with joy,
they understood that Nicanor was slain in his armour.
15:29. Then making a shout, and a great noise, they blessed the Almighty
Lord in their own language.
15:30. And Judas, who was altogether ready, in body and mind, to die for
his countrymen, commanded that Nicanor's head, and his hand, with the
shoulder, should be cut off, and carried to Yerushalayim.
15:31. And when he was come thither, having called together his
countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that
were in the castle,
15:32. And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which
he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the
Almighty Elohim,
15:33. He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should
be cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious
man to be hanged up over against the temple.
15:34. Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that
hath kept his own place undefiled.
15:35. And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it
might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of Elohim.
15:36. And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this
day pass without solemnity:
15:37. But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called
in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day.
15:38. So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from
that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make
an end of my narration.
15:39. Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is
what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.
If not so perfectly, etc... This is not said with regard to the truth of
the narration; but with regard to the style and manner of writing: which
in the sacred penmen is not always the most accurate. See St. Paul, 2
Cor. 11.6.
15:40. For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but
pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the
speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers.
But here it shall be ended.
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<a href=#C611V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C612V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C613V1>Chapter 03</a>
<p>
<a name="C611V1" id="C611V1">1:1</a> Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of
Yeshua Messiah, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in
the righteousness of our Elohim and Savior, Yeshua Messiah: <a name="C611V2"
id="C611V2">1:2</a> Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of
Elohim and of Yeshua our Lord, <a name="C611V3" id="C611V3">1:3</a> seeing that
his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and
virtue; <a name="C611V4" id="C611V4">1:4</a> by which he has granted to us his
precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is
in the world by lust. <a name="C611V5" id="C611V5">1:5</a> Yes, and for this
very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; <a name="C611V6" id="C611V6">1:6</a>
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in
patience godliness; <a name="C611V7" id="C611V7">1:7</a> and in godliness
brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. <a name="C611V8"
id="C611V8">1:8</a> For if these things are yours and abound, they make you
to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua Messiah.
<a name="C611V9" id="C611V9">1:9</a> For he who lacks these things is blind,
seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old
sins. <a name="C611V10" id="C611V10">1:10</a> Therefore, <a href="#N611">brothers,</a>
be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do
these things, you will never stumble. <a name="C611V11" id="C611V11">1:11</a>
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal
Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C611V12" id="C611V12">1:12</a> Therefore I will not be negligent to
remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in
the present truth. <a name="C611V13" id="C611V13">1:13</a> I think it right,
as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you; <a
name="C611V14" id="C611V14">1:14</a> knowing that the putting off of my tent
comes swiftly, even as our Lord Yeshua Messiah made clear to me. <a
name="C611V15" id="C611V15">1:15</a> Yes, I will make every effort that you
may always be able to remember these things even after my departure. <a
name="C611V16" id="C611V16">1:16</a> For we did not follow cunningly devised
fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Yeshua
Messiah, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. <a name="C611V17" id="C611V17">1:17</a>
For he received from Elohim the Father honor and glory, when the voice came
to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased."<sup><a href="#N612">*</a></sup> <a name="C611V18"
id="C611V18">1:18</a> We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were
with him on the holy mountain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C611V19" id="C611V19">1:19</a> We have the more sure word of
prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark
place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts: <a
name="C611V20" id="C611V20">1:20</a> knowing this first, that no prophecy of
Scripture is of private interpretation. <a name="C611V21" id="C611V21">1:21</a>
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of Elohim spoke,
being moved by the Holy Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C612V1" id="C612V1">2:1</a> But false prophets also arose among the
people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring
in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing
on themselves swift destruction. <a name="C612V2" id="C612V2">2:2</a> Many
will follow their <a href="#N613">immoral</a> ways, and as a result, the way
of the truth will be maligned. <a name="C612V3" id="C612V3">2:3</a> In
covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence
now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber. <a
name="C612V4" id="C612V4">2:4</a> For if Elohim didn't spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them down to <a href="#N614">Tartarus</a>, and committed
them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; <a name="C612V5"
id="C612V5">2:5</a> and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah
with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on
the world of the ungodly; <a name="C612V6" id="C612V6">2:6</a> and turning the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction,
having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; <a name="C612V7"
id="C612V7">2:7</a> and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by
the lustful life of the wicked <a name="C612V8" id="C612V8">2:8</a> (for that
righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul
from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): <a name="C612V9"
id="C612V9">2:9</a> the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of
temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of
judgment; <a name="C612V10" id="C612V10">2:10</a> but chiefly those who walk
after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring,
self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; <a
name="C612V11" id="C612V11">2:11</a> whereas angels, though greater in might
and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. <a
name="C612V12" id="C612V12">2:12</a> But these, as unreasoning creatures, born
natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about
which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, <a
name="C612V13" id="C612V13">2:13</a> receiving the wages of unrighteousness;
people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes,
reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; <a name="C612V14"
id="C612V14">2:14</a> having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from
sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children
of cursing; <a name="C612V15" id="C612V15">2:15</a> forsaking the right way,
they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who
loved the wages of wrong-doing; <a name="C612V16" id="C612V16">2:16</a> but he
was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's
voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. <a name="C612V17" id="C612V17">2:17</a>
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the
blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. <a name="C612V18" id="C612V18">2:18</a>
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts
of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those
who live in error; <a name="C612V19" id="C612V19">2:19</a> promising them
liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man
is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C612V20" id="C612V20">2:20</a> For if, after they have escaped the
defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua
Messiah, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has
become worse for them than the first. <a name="C612V21" id="C612V21">2:21</a>
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy
commandment delivered to them. <a name="C612V22" id="C612V22">2:22</a> But it
has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to
his own vomit again,"<sup><a href="#N615">*</a></sup> and "the sow
that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C613V1" id="C613V1">3:1</a> This is now, beloved, the second letter
that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere
mind by reminding you; <a name="C613V2" id="C613V2">3:2</a> that you should
remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the
commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: <a name="C613V3"
id="C613V3">3:3</a> knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will
come, walking after their own lusts, <a name="C613V4" id="C613V4">3:4</a> and
saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that
the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation." <a name="C613V5" id="C613V5">3:5</a> For this
they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth
formed out of water and amid water, by the word of Elohim; <a name="C613V6"
id="C613V6">3:6</a> by which means the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished. <a name="C613V7" id="C613V7">3:7</a> But the heavens
that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for
fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of
ungodly men. <a name="C613V8" id="C613V8">3:8</a> But don't forget this one
thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. <a name="C613V9" id="C613V9">3:9</a> The Lord is
not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient
with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance. <a name="C613V10" id="C613V10">3:10</a> But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away
with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat,
and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. <a
name="C613V11" id="C613V11">3:11</a> Therefore since all these things will be
destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living
and godliness, <a name="C613V12" id="C613V12">3:12</a> looking for and
earnestly desiring the coming of the day of Elohim, which will cause the
burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent
heat? <a name="C613V13" id="C613V13">3:13</a> But, according to his promise,
we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C613V14" id="C613V14">3:14</a> Therefore, beloved, seeing that you
look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish
and blameless in his sight. <a name="C613V15" id="C613V15">3:15</a> Regard the
patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also,
according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; <a name="C613V16"
id="C613V16">3:16</a> as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of
these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other
Scriptures, to their own destruction. <a name="C613V17" id="C613V17">3:17</a>
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest
being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own
steadfastness. <a name="C613V18" id="C613V18">3:18</a> But grow in the grace
and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua Messiah. To him be the glory
both now and forever. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N611" id="N611">[1]</a> <a href="#C611V10">back to 1:10</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N612" id="N612">[2]</a> <a href="#C611V17">back to 1:17</a> Matthew
17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35
</p>
<p>
<a name="N613" id="N613">[3]</a> <a href="#C612V2">back to 2:2</a> TR reads
"destructive" instead of "immoral"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N614" id="N614">[4]</a> <a href="#C612V4">back to 2:4</a> Tartarus is
another name for Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N615" id="N615">[5]</a> <a href="#C612V22">back to 2:22</a> Proverbs
26:11
</p>
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<a href=#C531V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C532V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C533V1>Chapter 03</a>
<p>
<a name="C531V1" id="C531V1">1:1</a> Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the
assembly of the Thessalonians in Elohim our Father, and the Lord Yeshua
Messiah: <a name="C531V2" id="C531V2">1:2</a> Grace to you and peace from Elohim
our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C531V3" id="C531V3">1:3</a> We are bound to always give thanks to Elohim
for you, <a href="#N531">brothers,</a> even as it is appropriate, because
your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you
towards one another abounds; <a name="C531V4" id="C531V4">1:4</a> so that we
ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of Elohim for your patience and
faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. <a
name="C531V5" id="C531V5">1:5</a> This is an obvious sign of the righteous
judgment of Elohim, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom
of Elohim, for which you also suffer. <a name="C531V6" id="C531V6">1:6</a> Since
it is a righteous thing with Elohim to repay affliction to those who afflict
you, <a name="C531V7" id="C531V7">1:7</a> and to give relief to you who are
afflicted with us, when the Lord Yeshua is revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels in flaming fire, <a name="C531V8" id="C531V8">1:8</a> giving
vengeance to those who don't know Elohim, and to those who don't obey the
Good News of our Lord Yeshua, <a name="C531V9" id="C531V9">1:9</a> who will pay
the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the
glory of his might, <a name="C531V10" id="C531V10">1:10</a> when he comes to
be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have
believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C531V11" id="C531V11">1:11</a> To this end we also pray always for
you, that our Elohim may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every
desire of goodness and work of faith, with power; <a name="C531V12"
id="C531V12">1:12</a> that the name of our Lord Yeshua<sup><a href="#N532">*</a></sup>
may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our Elohim
and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C532V1" id="C532V1">2:1</a> Now, brothers, concerning the coming of
our Lord Yeshua Messiah, and our gathering together to him, we ask you <a
name="C532V2" id="C532V2">2:2</a> not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor
yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us,
saying that the day of Messiah had come. <a name="C532V3" id="C532V3">2:3</a>
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the
departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
destruction, <a name="C532V4" id="C532V4">2:4</a> he who opposes and exalts
himself against all that is called Elohim or that is worshiped; so that he
sits as Elohim in the temple of Elohim, setting himself up as Elohim. <a name="C532V5"
id="C532V5">2:5</a> Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I
told you these things? <a name="C532V6" id="C532V6">2:6</a> Now you know what
is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
<a name="C532V7" id="C532V7">2:7</a> For the mystery of lawlessness already
works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the
way. <a name="C532V8" id="C532V8">2:8</a> Then the lawless one will be
revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and
destroy by the manifestation of his coming; <a name="C532V9" id="C532V9">2:9</a>
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders, <a name="C532V10" id="C532V10">2:10</a> and with
all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they
didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. <a
name="C532V11" id="C532V11">2:11</a> Because of this, Elohim sends them a working
of error, that they should believe a lie; <a name="C532V12" id="C532V12">2:12</a>
that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness. <a name="C532V13" id="C532V13">2:13</a> But we
are bound to always give thanks to Elohim for you, brothers loved by the
Lord, because Elohim chose you from the beginning for salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; <a name="C532V14"
id="C532V14">2:14</a> to which he called you through our Good News, for the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C532V15" id="C532V15">2:15</a>
So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were
taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C532V16" id="C532V16">2:16</a> Now our Lord Yeshua Messiah himself, and
Elohim our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope
through grace, <a name="C532V17" id="C532V17">2:17</a> comfort your hearts and
establish you in every good work and word.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C533V1" id="C533V1">3:1</a> Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the
word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with
you; <a name="C533V2" id="C533V2">3:2</a> and that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith. <a name="C533V3" id="C533V3">3:3</a>
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the
evil one. <a name="C533V4" id="C533V4">3:4</a> We have confidence in the Lord
concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command. <a
name="C533V5" id="C533V5">3:5</a> May the Lord direct your hearts into the
love of Elohim, and into the patience of Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C533V6" id="C533V6">3:6</a> Now we command you, brothers, in the name
of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother
who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received
from us. <a name="C533V7" id="C533V7">3:7</a> For you know how you ought to
imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you, <a
name="C533V8" id="C533V8">3:8</a> neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand
without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that
we might not burden any of you; <a name="C533V9" id="C533V9">3:9</a> not
because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you,
that you should imitate us. <a name="C533V10" id="C533V10">3:10</a> For even
when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not
work, neither let him eat." <a name="C533V11" id="C533V11">3:11</a> For
we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all,
but are busybodies. <a name="C533V12" id="C533V12">3:12</a> Now those who are
that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Yeshua Messiah, that with
quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C533V13" id="C533V13">3:13</a> But you, brothers, don't be weary in
doing well. <a name="C533V14" id="C533V14">3:14</a> If any man doesn't obey
our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him,
to the end that he may be ashamed. <a name="C533V15" id="C533V15">3:15</a>
Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C533V16" id="C533V16">3:16</a> Now may the Lord of peace himself give
you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C533V17" id="C533V17">3:17</a> The greeting of me, Paul, with my own
hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write. <a
name="C533V18" id="C533V18">3:18</a> The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be
with you all. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N531" id="N531">[1]</a> <a href="#C531V3">back to 1:3</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N532" id="N532">[2]</a> <a href="#C531V12">back to 1:12</a> TR adds
"Messiah"
</p>
</html>
<html>
<a href=#C551V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C552V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C553V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C554V1>Chapter 04</a>
<p>
<a name="C551V1" id="C551V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Yeshua Messiah through
the will of Elohim, according to the promise of the life which is in Messiah
Yeshua, <a name="C551V2" id="C551V2">1:2</a> to Timothy, my beloved child:
Grace, mercy, and peace, from Elohim the Father and Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C551V3" id="C551V3">1:3</a> I thank Elohim, whom I serve as my
forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you
in my petitions, night and day <a name="C551V4" id="C551V4">1:4</a> longing to
see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; <a
name="C551V5" id="C551V5">1:5</a> having been reminded of the unfeigned faith
that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your
mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C551V6" id="C551V6">1:6</a> For this cause, I remind you that you
should stir up the gift of Elohim which is in you through the laying on of my
hands. <a name="C551V7" id="C551V7">1:7</a> For Elohim didn't give us a spirit of
fear, but of power, love, and self-control. <a name="C551V8" id="C551V8">1:8</a>
Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his
prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of
Elohim, <a name="C551V9" id="C551V9">1:9</a> who saved us and called us with a
holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose
and grace, which was given to us in Messiah Yeshua before times eternal, <a
name="C551V10" id="C551V10">1:10</a> but has now been revealed by the
appearing of our Savior, Messiah Yeshua, who abolished death, and brought
life and immortality to light through the Good News. <a name="C551V11"
id="C551V11">1:11</a> For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle,
and a teacher of the Gentiles. <a name="C551V12" id="C551V12">1:12</a> For
this cause I also suffer these things.
</p>
<p>
Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am
persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him
against that day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C551V13" id="C551V13">1:13</a> Hold the pattern of sound words which
you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Messiah Yeshua. <a
name="C551V14" id="C551V14">1:14</a> That good thing which was committed to
you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C551V15" id="C551V15">1:15</a> This you know, that all who are in
Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. <a
name="C551V16" id="C551V16">1:16</a> May the Lord grant mercy to the house of
Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
<a name="C551V17" id="C551V17">1:17</a> but when he was in Rome, he sought me
diligently, and found me <a name="C551V18" id="C551V18">1:18</a> (the Lord
grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things
he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C552V1" id="C552V1">2:1</a> You therefore, my child, be strengthened
in the grace that is in Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C552V2" id="C552V2">2:2</a> The
things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same
to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. <a name="C552V3"
id="C552V3">2:3</a> You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of
Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C552V4" id="C552V4">2:4</a> No soldier on duty
entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who
enrolled him as a soldier. <a name="C552V5" id="C552V5">2:5</a> Also, if
anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by
the rules. <a name="C552V6" id="C552V6">2:6</a> The farmers who labor must be
the first to get a share of the crops. <a name="C552V7" id="C552V7">2:7</a>
Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all
things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C552V8" id="C552V8">2:8</a> Remember Yeshua Messiah, risen from the
dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News, <a name="C552V9"
id="C552V9">2:9</a> in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a
criminal. But Elohim's word isn't chained. <a name="C552V10" id="C552V10">2:10</a>
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also
may obtain the salvation which is in Messiah Yeshua with eternal glory. <a
name="C552V11" id="C552V11">2:11</a> This saying is faithful:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For if we died with him,
</dt>
<dd>
we will also live with him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C552V12" id="C552V12">2:12</a> If we endure,
</dt>
<dd>
we will also reign with him.
</dd>
<dt>
If we deny him,
</dt>
<dd>
he also will deny us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C552V13" id="C552V13">2:13</a> If we are faithless,
</dt>
<dd>
he remains faithful.
</dd>
<dd>
He can't deny himself."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C552V14" id="C552V14">2:14</a> Remind them of these things, charging
them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no
profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C552V15" id="C552V15">2:15</a> Give diligence to present yourself
approved by Elohim, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly
handling the Word of Truth. <a name="C552V16" id="C552V16">2:16</a> But shun
empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness, <a
name="C552V17" id="C552V17">2:17</a> and their word will consume like
gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; <a name="C552V18" id="C552V18">2:18</a>
men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is
already past, and overthrowing the faith of some. <a name="C552V19"
id="C552V19">2:19</a> However Elohim's firm foundation stands, having this
seal, "The Lord knows those who are his,"<sup><a href="#N551">*</a></sup>
and, "Let every one who names the name of <a href="#N552">the Lord</a>
depart from unrighteousness." <a name="C552V20" id="C552V20">2:20</a> Now
in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but
also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor. <a
name="C552V21" id="C552V21">2:21</a> If anyone therefore purges himself from
these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the
master's use, prepared for every good work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C552V22" id="C552V22">2:22</a> Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue
righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out
of a pure heart. <a name="C552V23" id="C552V23">2:23</a> But refuse foolish
and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. <a
name="C552V24" id="C552V24">2:24</a> The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but
be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, <a name="C552V25" id="C552V25">2:25</a>
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps Elohim may give them
repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, <a name="C552V26"
id="C552V26">2:26</a> and they may recover themselves out of the devil's
snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C553V1" id="C553V1">3:1</a> But know this, that in the last days,
grievous times will come. <a name="C553V2" id="C553V2">3:2</a> For men will be
lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, <a name="C553V3" id="C553V3">3:3</a>
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control,
fierce, no lovers of good, <a name="C553V4" id="C553V4">3:4</a> traitors,
headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim; <a
name="C553V5" id="C553V5">3:5</a> holding a form of godliness, but having
denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. <a name="C553V6"
id="C553V6">3:6</a> For of these are those who creep into houses, and take
captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
<a name="C553V7" id="C553V7">3:7</a> always learning, and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth. <a name="C553V8" id="C553V8">3:8</a> Even as
Jannes and Jambres opposed Moshe, so do these also oppose the truth; men
corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. <a name="C553V9" id="C553V9">3:9</a>
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all
men, as theirs also came to be. <a name="C553V10" id="C553V10">3:10</a> But
you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love,
steadfastness, <a name="C553V11" id="C553V11">3:11</a> persecutions, and
sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and
Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered
me. <a name="C553V12" id="C553V12">3:12</a> Yes, and all who desire to live
godly in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution. <a name="C553V13" id="C553V13">3:13</a>
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being
deceived. <a name="C553V14" id="C553V14">3:14</a> But you remain in the things
which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you
have learned them. <a name="C553V15" id="C553V15">3:15</a> From infancy, you
have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for
salvation through faith, which is in Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C553V16"
id="C553V16">3:16</a> Every writing <a href="#N553">inspired by Elohim</a> is
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction
which is in righteousness, <a name="C553V17" id="C553V17">3:17</a> that the
man of Elohim may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C554V1" id="C554V1">4:1</a> I command you therefore before Elohim and
the Lord Yeshua Messiah, who will judge the living and the dead at his
appearing and his Kingdom: <a name="C554V2" id="C554V2">4:2</a> preach the
word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort,
with all patience and teaching. <a name="C554V3" id="C554V3">4:3</a> For the
time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but,
having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own
lusts; <a name="C554V4" id="C554V4">4:4</a> and will turn away their ears from
the truth, and turn aside to fables. <a name="C554V5" id="C554V5">4:5</a> But
you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist,
and fulfill your ministry.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C554V6" id="C554V6">4:6</a> For I am already being offered, and the
time of my departure has come. <a name="C554V7" id="C554V7">4:7</a> I have
fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
<a name="C554V8" id="C554V8">4:8</a> From now on, there is stored up for me
the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give
to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have
loved his appearing. <a name="C554V9" id="C554V9">4:9</a> Be diligent to come
to me soon, <a name="C554V10" id="C554V10">4:10</a> for Demas left me, having
loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia,
and Titus to Dalmatia. <a name="C554V11" id="C554V11">4:11</a> Only Luke is
with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for
service. <a name="C554V12" id="C554V12">4:12</a> But I sent Tychicus to
Ephesus. <a name="C554V13" id="C554V13">4:13</a> Bring the cloak that I left
at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the
parchments. <a name="C554V14" id="C554V14">4:14</a> Alexander, the
coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his
works, <a name="C554V15" id="C554V15">4:15</a> of whom you also must beware;
for he greatly opposed our words.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C554V16" id="C554V16">4:16</a> At my first defense, no one came to
help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. <a name="C554V17"
id="C554V17">4:17</a> But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that
through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the
Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. <a
name="C554V18" id="C554V18">4:18</a> And the Lord will deliver me from every
evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the
glory forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C554V19" id="C554V19">4:19</a> Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house
of Onesiphorus. <a name="C554V20" id="C554V20">4:20</a> Erastus remained at
Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. <a name="C554V21" id="C554V21">4:21</a>
Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens,
Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers. <a name="C554V22" id="C554V22">4:22</a>
The Lord Yeshua Messiah be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N551" id="N551">[1]</a> <a href="#C552V19">back to 2:19</a> Numbers
16:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N552" id="N552">[2]</a> <a href="#C552V19">back to 2:19</a> TR reads
"Messiah" instead of "the Lord"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N553" id="N553">[3]</a> <a href="#C553V16">back to 3:16</a> literally,
Elohim-breathed
</p>
</html>
<p>
<a name="C121V1" id="C121V1">1:1</a> Moab rebelled against Yisrael after the
death of Ahab. <a name="C121V2" id="C121V2">1:2</a> Ahaziah fell down through
the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Shomron, and was sick: and he
sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of
Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness. <a name="C121V3" id="C121V3">1:3</a>
But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet
the messengers of the king of Shomron, and tell them, Is it because there
is no Elohim in Yisrael, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of
Ekron? <a name="C121V4" id="C121V4">1:4</a> Now therefore thus says Yahweh,
You shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall
surely die. Elijah departed. <a name="C121V5" id="C121V5">1:5</a> The
messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have
returned? <a name="C121V6" id="C121V6">1:6</a> They said to him, There came up
a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you,
and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Is it because there is no Elohim in Yisrael,
that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore you
shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely
die. <a name="C121V7" id="C121V7">1:7</a> He said to them, What manner of man
was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words? <a name="C121V8"
id="C121V8">1:8</a> They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a
belt of leather about his waist. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. <a
name="C121V9" id="C121V9">1:9</a> Then <i>the king</i> sent to him a captain
of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and behold, he was sitting on
the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of Elohim, the king has said, Come
down. <a name="C121V10" id="C121V10">1:10</a> Elijah answered to the captain
of fifty, If I be a man of Elohim, let fire come down from the sky, and
consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him
and his fifty. <a name="C121V11" id="C121V11">1:11</a> Again he sent to him
another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, man of Elohim, thus
has the king said, Come down quickly. <a name="C121V12" id="C121V12">1:12</a>
Elijah answered them, If I be a man of Elohim, let fire come down from the
sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of Elohim came down from the
sky, and consumed him and his fifty. <a name="C121V13" id="C121V13">1:13</a>
Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third
captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah,
and begged him, and said to him, man of Elohim, please let my life, and the
life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight. <a
name="C121V14" id="C121V14">1:14</a> Behold, fire came down from the sky, and
consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let
my life be precious in your sight. <a name="C121V15" id="C121V15">1:15</a> The
angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: don't be afraid of him.
He arose, and went down with him to the king. <a name="C121V16" id="C121V16">1:16</a>
He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent messengers to
inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no Elohim in
Yisrael to inquire of his word? therefore you shall not come down from the
bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. <a name="C121V17" id="C121V17">1:17</a>
So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken.
Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son
of Jehoshaphat king of Yehudah; because he had no son. <a name="C121V18"
id="C121V18">1:18</a> Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C122V1" id="C122V1">2:1</a> It happened, when Yahweh would take up
Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal. <a name="C122V2" id="C122V2">2:2</a> Elijah said to Elisha, Please
wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh
lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to
Bethel. <a name="C122V3" id="C122V3">2:3</a> The sons of the prophets who were
at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that
Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C122V4" id="C122V4">2:4</a> Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait
here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as
your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. <a
name="C122V5" id="C122V5">2:5</a> The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho
came near to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will
take away your master from your head today?"
</p>
<p>
He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C122V6" id="C122V6">2:6</a> Elijah said to him, "Please wait
here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan."
</p>
<p>
He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave
you." They two went on. <a name="C122V7" id="C122V7">2:7</a> Fifty men of
the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar off: and
they two stood by the Jordan. <a name="C122V8" id="C122V8">2:8</a> Elijah took
his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were
divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground. <a
name="C122V9" id="C122V9">2:9</a> It happened, when they had gone over, that
Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from
you. Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me. <a
name="C122V10" id="C122V10">2:10</a> He said, You have asked a hard thing: <i>nevertheless</i>,
if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not,
it shall not be so. <a name="C122V11" id="C122V11">2:11</a> It happened, as
they still went on, and talked, that behold, <i>there appeared</i> a
chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and
Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. <a name="C122V12" id="C122V12">2:12</a>
Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisrael
and its horsemen! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes,
and tore them in two pieces. <a name="C122V13" id="C122V13">2:13</a> He took
up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood
by the bank of the Jordan. <a name="C122V14" id="C122V14">2:14</a> He took the
mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said,
Where is Yahweh, the Elohim of Elijah? and when he also had struck the
waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over. <a
name="C122V15" id="C122V15">2:15</a> When the sons of the prophets who were at
Jericho over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does
rest on Elisha. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground
before him. <a name="C122V16" id="C122V16">2:16</a> They said to him, See now,
there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you,
and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast
him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send. <a
name="C122V17" id="C122V17">2:17</a> When they urged him until he was ashamed,
he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days,
but didn't find him. <a name="C122V18" id="C122V18">2:18</a> They came back to
him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell
you, 'Don't go?'" <a name="C122V19" id="C122V19">2:19</a> The men of the
city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is
pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.
<a name="C122V20" id="C122V20">2:20</a> He said, Bring me a new jar, and put
salt therein. They brought it to him. <a name="C122V21" id="C122V21">2:21</a>
He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and
said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be
from there any more death or miscarrying. <a name="C122V22" id="C122V22">2:22</a>
So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha
which he spoke. <a name="C122V23" id="C122V23">2:23</a> He went up from there
to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the
city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you
baldhead. <a name="C122V24" id="C122V24">2:24</a> He looked behind him and saw
them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of
the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths. <a name="C122V25" id="C122V25">2:25</a>
He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Shomron.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C123V1" id="C123V1">3:1</a> Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to
reign over Yisrael in Shomron in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Yehudah, and reigned twelve years. <a name="C123V2" id="C123V2">3:2</a> He did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and
like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had
made. <a name="C123V3" id="C123V3">3:3</a> Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin; he didn't
depart from it. <a name="C123V4" id="C123V4">3:4</a> Now Mesha king of Moab
was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Yisrael the wool of one
hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. <a name="C123V5"
id="C123V5">3:5</a> But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
Moab rebelled against the king of Yisrael. <a name="C123V6" id="C123V6">3:6</a>
King Jehoram went out of Shomron at that time, and mustered all Yisrael. <a
name="C123V7" id="C123V7">3:7</a> He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of
Yehudah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with
me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my
people as your people, my horses as your horses. <a name="C123V8" id="C123V8">3:8</a>
He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way of the wilderness
of Edom. <a name="C123V9" id="C123V9">3:9</a> So the king of Yisrael went, and
the king of Yehudah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven
days' journey: and there was no water for the army, nor for the animals
that followed them. <a name="C123V10" id="C123V10">3:10</a> The king of Yisrael
said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Moab. <a name="C123V11" id="C123V11">3:11</a> But
Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may
inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of Yisrael's servants answered,
Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of
Elijah. <a name="C123V12" id="C123V12">3:12</a> Jehoshaphat said, The word of
Yahweh is with him. So the king of Yisrael and Jehoshaphat and the king of
Edom went down to him. <a name="C123V13" id="C123V13">3:13</a> Elisha said to
the king of Yisrael, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of
your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Yisrael said
to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Moab. <a name="C123V14" id="C123V14">3:14</a> Elisha
said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not
that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Yehudah, I would not
look toward you, nor see you. <a name="C123V15" id="C123V15">3:15</a> But now
bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand
of Yahweh came on him. <a name="C123V16" id="C123V16">3:16</a> He said, Thus
says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches. <a name="C123V17" id="C123V17">3:17</a>
For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain;
yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you shall drink, both you
and your livestock and your animals. <a name="C123V18" id="C123V18">3:18</a>
This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the
Moabites into your hand. <a name="C123V19" id="C123V19">3:19</a> You shall
strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every
good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land
with stones. <a name="C123V20" id="C123V20">3:20</a> It happened in the
morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there came
water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. <a
name="C123V21" id="C123V21">3:21</a> Now when all the Moabites heard that the
kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves
together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the
border. <a name="C123V22" id="C123V22">3:22</a> They rose up early in the
morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water
over against them as red as blood: <a name="C123V23" id="C123V23">3:23</a> and
they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have
struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. <a
name="C123V24" id="C123V24">3:24</a> When they came to the camp of Yisrael, the
Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them;
and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites. <a name="C123V25"
id="C123V25">3:25</a> They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of
land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth
<i>only</i> they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went
about it, and struck it. <a name="C123V26" id="C123V26">3:26</a> When the king
of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven
hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they
could not. <a name="C123V27" id="C123V27">3:27</a> Then he took his eldest son
who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering
on the wall. There was great wrath against Yisrael: and they departed from
him, and returned to their own land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C124V1" id="C124V1">4:1</a> Now there cried a certain woman of the
wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my
husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the
creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants. <a
name="C124V2" id="C124V2">4:2</a> Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you?
tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing
in the house, except a pot of oil. <a name="C124V3" id="C124V3">4:3</a> Then
he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty
vessels; borrow not a few. <a name="C124V4" id="C124V4">4:4</a> You shall go
in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those
vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full. <a name="C124V5"
id="C124V5">4:5</a> So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on
her sons; they brought <i>the vessels</i> to her, and she poured out. <a
name="C124V6" id="C124V6">4:6</a> It happened, when the vessels were full,
that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There
isn't another vessel. The oil stayed. <a name="C124V7" id="C124V7">4:7</a>
Then she came and told the man of Elohim. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay
your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest. <a name="C124V8" id="C124V8">4:8</a>
It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a great
woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as
he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. <a name="C124V9" id="C124V9">4:9</a>
She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of
Elohim, that passes by us continually. <a name="C124V10" id="C124V10">4:10</a>
Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him
there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be,
when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there. <a name="C124V11"
id="C124V11">4:11</a> It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned
into the chamber and lay there. <a name="C124V12" id="C124V12">4:12</a> He
said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her,
she stood before him. <a name="C124V13" id="C124V13">4:13</a> He said to him,
Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care;
what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the army? She answered, I dwell among my own people. <a
name="C124V14" id="C124V14">4:14</a> He said, What then is to be done for her?
Gehazi answered, Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old. <a
name="C124V15" id="C124V15">4:15</a> He said, Call her. When he had called
her, she stood in the door. <a name="C124V16" id="C124V16">4:16</a> He said,
At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She
said, No, my lord, you man of Elohim, do not lie to your handmaid. <a
name="C124V17" id="C124V17">4:17</a> The woman conceived, and bore a son at
that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her. <a
name="C124V18" id="C124V18">4:18</a> When the child was grown, it fell on a
day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. <a name="C124V19"
id="C124V19">4:19</a> He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to
his servant, Carry him to his mother. <a name="C124V20" id="C124V20">4:20</a>
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees
until noon, and then died. <a name="C124V21" id="C124V21">4:21</a> She went up
and laid him on the bed of the man of Elohim, and shut <i>the door</i> on
him, and went out. <a name="C124V22" id="C124V22">4:22</a> She called to her
husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the
donkeys, that I may run to the man of Elohim, and come again. <a name="C124V23"
id="C124V23">4:23</a> He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither
new moon nor Shabbat. She said, It shall be well. <a name="C124V24"
id="C124V24">4:24</a> Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you. <a
name="C124V25" id="C124V25">4:25</a> So she went, and came to the man of Elohim
to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of Elohim saw her afar off, that
he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite: <a
name="C124V26" id="C124V26">4:26</a> please run now to meet her, and ask her,
Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the
child? She answered, It is well. <a name="C124V27" id="C124V27">4:27</a> When
she came to the man of Elohim to the hill, she caught hold of his feet.
Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of Elohim said, Let her
alone: for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me,
and has not told me. <a name="C124V28" id="C124V28">4:28</a> Then she said,
Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me? <a
name="C124V29" id="C124V29">4:29</a> Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your
waist, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any
man, Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again:
and lay my staff on the face of the child. <a name="C124V30" id="C124V30">4:30</a>
The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I
will not leave you. He arose, and followed her. <a name="C124V31" id="C124V31">4:31</a>
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child;
but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet
him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened. <a name="C124V32"
id="C124V32">4:32</a> When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child
was dead, and laid on his bed. <a name="C124V33" id="C124V33">4:33</a> He went
in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh. <a
name="C124V34" id="C124V34">4:34</a> He went up, and lay on the child, and put
his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his
hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew
warm. <a name="C124V35" id="C124V35">4:35</a> Then he returned, and walked in
the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him:
and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. <a
name="C124V36" id="C124V36">4:36</a> He called Gehazi, and said, Call this
Shunammite. So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take
up your son. <a name="C124V37" id="C124V37">4:37</a> Then she went in, and
fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her
son, and went out. <a name="C124V38" id="C124V38">4:38</a> Elisha came again
to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets
were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot,
and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. <a name="C124V39" id="C124V39">4:39</a>
One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and
gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the
pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them. <a name="C124V40" id="C124V40">4:40</a>
So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of
the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of Elohim, there is death in the
pot. They could not eat of it. <a name="C124V41" id="C124V41">4:41</a> But he
said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for
the people, that they may eat. There was no harm in the pot. <a
name="C124V42" id="C124V42">4:42</a> There came a man from Baal Shalishah, and
brought the man of Elohim bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley,
and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, that
they may eat. <a name="C124V43" id="C124V43">4:43</a> His servant said, What,
should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that
they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
<a name="C124V44" id="C124V44">4:44</a> So he set it before them, and they
ate, and left of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C125V1" id="C125V1">5:1</a> Now Naaman, captain of the army of the
king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by
him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor,
<i>but he was</i> a leper. <a name="C125V2" id="C125V2">5:2</a> The Syrians
had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of
Yisrael a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife. <a name="C125V3"
id="C125V3">5:3</a> She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with
the prophet who is in Shomron! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
<a name="C125V4" id="C125V4">5:4</a> One went in, and told his lord, saying,
Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Yisrael. <a name="C125V5"
id="C125V5">5:5</a> The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter
to the king of Yisrael. He departed, and took with him ten talents of
silver, and six thousand <i>pieces</i> of gold, and ten changes of
clothing. <a name="C125V6" id="C125V6">5:6</a> He brought the letter to the
king of Yisrael, saying, Now when this letter is come to you, behold, I
have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may recover him of his
leprosy. <a name="C125V7" id="C125V7">5:7</a> It happened, when the king of
Yisrael had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I Elohim,
to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man
of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel
against me. <a name="C125V8" id="C125V8">5:8</a> It was so, when Elisha the
man of Elohim heard that the king of Yisrael had torn his clothes, that he
sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now
to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Yisrael. <a name="C125V9"
id="C125V9">5:9</a> So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots,
and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. <a name="C125V10" id="C125V10">5:10</a>
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven
times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean. <a
name="C125V11" id="C125V11">5:11</a> But Naaman was angry, and went away, and
said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and
call on the name of Yahweh his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place, and
recover the leper. <a name="C125V12" id="C125V12">5:12</a> Aren't Abanah and
Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Yisrael? may
I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. <a
name="C125V13" id="C125V13">5:13</a> His servants came near, and spoke to him,
and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing,
wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says to you,
Wash, and be clean? <a name="C125V14" id="C125V14">5:14</a> Then went he down,
and dipped <i>himself</i> seven times in the Jordan, according to the
saying of the man of Elohim; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a
little child, and he was clean. <a name="C125V15" id="C125V15">5:15</a> He
returned to the man of Elohim, he and all his company, and came, and stood
before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no Elohim in all the
earth, but in Yisrael: now therefore, please take a present from your
servant. <a name="C125V16" id="C125V16">5:16</a> But he said, As Yahweh lives,
before whom I stand, I will receive none. He urged him to take it; but he
refused. <a name="C125V17" id="C125V17">5:17</a> Naaman said, If not, yet,
please let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for
your servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to
other gods, but to Yahweh. <a name="C125V18" id="C125V18">5:18</a> In this
thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of
Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the
house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon
your servant in this thing. <a name="C125V19" id="C125V19">5:19</a> He said to
him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way. <a name="C125V20"
id="C125V20">5:20</a> But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of Elohim, said,
Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at
his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him,
and take somewhat of him. <a name="C125V21" id="C125V21">5:21</a> So Gehazi
followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted
from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? <a name="C125V22"
id="C125V22">5:22</a> He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying,
Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two
young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of
silver, and two changes of clothing. <a name="C125V23" id="C125V23">5:23</a>
Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two
talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them
on two of his servants; and they bore them before him. <a name="C125V24"
id="C125V24">5:24</a> When he came to the hill, he took them from their
hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they
departed. <a name="C125V25" id="C125V25">5:25</a> But he went in, and stood
before his master. Elisha said to him, Whence come you, Gehazi? He said,
Your servant went no where. <a name="C125V26" id="C125V26">5:26</a> He said to
him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to
meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and
olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and
female servants? <a name="C125V27" id="C125V27">5:27</a> The leprosy therefore
of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from
his presence a leper <i>as white</i> as snow.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C126V1" id="C126V1">6:1</a> The sons of the prophets said to Elisha,
See now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us. <a
name="C126V2" id="C126V2">6:2</a> Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and
take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we
may dwell. He answered, Go you. <a name="C126V3" id="C126V3">6:3</a> One said,
Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
<a name="C126V4" id="C126V4">6:4</a> So he went with them. When they came to
the Jordan, they cut down wood. <a name="C126V5" id="C126V5">6:5</a> But as
one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried,
and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed. <a name="C126V6" id="C126V6">6:6</a>
The man of Elohim asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the
place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. <a
name="C126V7" id="C126V7">6:7</a> He said, "Take it." So he put out
his hand and took it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C126V8" id="C126V8">6:8</a> Now the king of Syria was warring against
Yisrael; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a
place shall be my camp. <a name="C126V9" id="C126V9">6:9</a> The man of Elohim
sent to the king of Yisrael, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place;
for there the Syrians are coming down. <a name="C126V10" id="C126V10">6:10</a>
The king of Yisrael sent to the place which the man of Elohim told him and
warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice. <a
name="C126V11" id="C126V11">6:11</a> The heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them,
Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Yisrael? <a name="C126V12"
id="C126V12">6:12</a> One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but
Elisha, the prophet who is in Yisrael, tells the king of Yisrael the words
that you speak in your bedchamber. <a name="C126V13" id="C126V13">6:13</a> He
said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. It was told
him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. <a name="C126V14" id="C126V14">6:14</a>
Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great army: and they
came by night, and surrounded the city. <a name="C126V15" id="C126V15">6:15</a>
When the servant of the man of Elohim was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant
said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? <a name="C126V16" id="C126V16">6:16</a>
He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than
those who are with them. <a name="C126V17" id="C126V17">6:17</a> Elisha
prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh
opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was
full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha. <a name="C126V18"
id="C126V18">6:18</a> When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh,
and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with
blindness according to the word of Elisha. <a name="C126V19" id="C126V19">6:19</a>
Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow
me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Shomron.
<a name="C126V20" id="C126V20">6:20</a> It happened, when they were come into
Shomron, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they
may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in
the midst of Shomron. <a name="C126V21" id="C126V21">6:21</a> The king of
Yisrael said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them?
shall I strike them? <a name="C126V22" id="C126V22">6:22</a> He answered, You
shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive
with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that
they may eat and drink, and go to their master. <a name="C126V23" id="C126V23">6:23</a>
He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk,
he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came
no more into the land of Yisrael. <a name="C126V24" id="C126V24">6:24</a> It
happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army,
and went up, and besieged Shomron. <a name="C126V25" id="C126V25">6:25</a>
There was a great famine in Shomron: and behold, they besieged it, until a
donkey's head was sold for eighty <i>pieces</i> of silver, and the fourth
part of a kab of dove's dung for five <i>pieces</i> of silver. <a
name="C126V26" id="C126V26">6:26</a> As the king of Yisrael was passing by on
the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. <a
name="C126V27" id="C126V27">6:27</a> He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you,
whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the
winepress? <a name="C126V28" id="C126V28">6:28</a> The king said to her, What
ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may
eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. <a name="C126V29" id="C126V29">6:29</a>
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give
your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son. <a name="C126V30"
id="C126V30">6:30</a> It happened, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and
the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh. <a
name="C126V31" id="C126V31">6:31</a> Then he said, Elohim do so to me, and more
also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this
day. <a name="C126V32" id="C126V32">6:32</a> But Elisha was sitting in his
house, and the elders were sitting with him; and <i>the king</i> sent a
man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the
elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head?
behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast
against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him? <a
name="C126V33" id="C126V33">6:33</a> While he was yet talking with them,
behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is
of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C127V1" id="C127V1">7:1</a> Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh:
thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour
be <i>sold</i> for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in
the gate of Shomron. <a name="C127V2" id="C127V2">7:2</a> Then the captain on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of Elohim, and said, Behold, if
Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said,
Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it. <a
name="C127V3" id="C127V3">7:3</a> Now there were four leprous men at the
entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until
we die? <a name="C127V4" id="C127V4">7:4</a> If we say, We will enter into the
city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we
sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the
army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they
kill us, we shall but die. <a name="C127V5" id="C127V5">7:5</a> They rose up
in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come
to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man
there. <a name="C127V6" id="C127V6">7:6</a> For the Lord had made the army of
the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the
noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of
Yisrael has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of
the Egyptians, to come on us. <a name="C127V7" id="C127V7">7:7</a> Therefore
they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their
horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their
life. <a name="C127V8" id="C127V8">7:8</a> When these lepers came to the
outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink,
and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and
they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and
went and hid it. <a name="C127V9" id="C127V9">7:9</a> Then they said one to
another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we
hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will
overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.
<a name="C127V10" id="C127V10">7:10</a> So they came and called to the porter
of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but
the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were. <a
name="C127V11" id="C127V11">7:11</a> He called the porters; and they told it
to the king's household within. <a name="C127V12" id="C127V12">7:12</a> The
king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you
what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore
are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying,
When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the
city. <a name="C127V13" id="C127V13">7:13</a> One of his servants answered,
Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the
city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisrael who are left in it;
behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisrael who are consumed); and let
us send and see. <a name="C127V14" id="C127V14">7:14</a> They took therefore
two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians,
saying, Go and see. <a name="C127V15" id="C127V15">7:15</a> They went after
them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way was full of garments and
vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers
returned, and told the king. <a name="C127V16" id="C127V16">7:16</a> The
people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of
fine flour was <i>sold</i> for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
shekel, according to the word of Yahweh. <a name="C127V17" id="C127V17">7:17</a>
The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of
the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man
of Elohim had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. <a name="C127V18"
id="C127V18">7:18</a> It happened, as the man of Elohim had spoken to the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour
for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Shomron; <a
name="C127V19" id="C127V19">7:19</a> and that captain answered the man of Elohim,
and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such
a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but
shall not eat of it: <a name="C127V20" id="C127V20">7:20</a> it happened even
so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C128V1" id="C128V1">8:1</a> Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose
son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household,
and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine;
and it shall also come on the land seven years. <a name="C128V2" id="C128V2">8:2</a>
The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of Elohim; and she
went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines
seven years. <a name="C128V3" id="C128V3">8:3</a> It happened at the seven
years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines:
and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land. <a
name="C128V4" id="C128V4">8:4</a> Now the king was talking with Gehazi the
servant of the man of Elohim, saying, Please tell me all the great things
that Elisha has done. <a name="C128V5" id="C128V5">8:5</a> It happened, as he
was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that
behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king
for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the
woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. <a name="C128V6"
id="C128V6">8:6</a> When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and
all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even
until now. <a name="C128V7" id="C128V7">8:7</a> Elisha came to Damascus; and
Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man
of Elohim is come here. <a name="C128V8" id="C128V8">8:8</a> The king said to
Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of Elohim, and
inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness? <a
name="C128V9" id="C128V9">8:9</a> So Hazael went to meet him, and took a
present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels'
burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Your son Benhadad king of
Syria has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness? <a
name="C128V10" id="C128V10">8:10</a> Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You
shall surely recover; however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely
die. <a name="C128V11" id="C128V11">8:11</a> He settled his gaze steadfastly
<i>on him</i>, until he was ashamed: and the man of Elohim wept. <a
name="C128V12" id="C128V12">8:12</a> Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He
answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of
Yisrael: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will
you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and
rip up their women with child. <a name="C128V13" id="C128V13">8:13</a> Hazael
said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this
great thing? Elisha answered, Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king
over Syria. <a name="C128V14" id="C128V14">8:14</a> Then he departed from
Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to you?
He answered, He told me that you would surely recover. <a name="C128V15"
id="C128V15">8:15</a> It happened on the next day, that he took the
coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he
died: and Hazael reigned in his place. <a name="C128V16" id="C128V16">8:16</a>
In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Yisrael, Jehoshaphat
being then king of Yehudah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Yehudah
began to reign. <a name="C128V17" id="C128V17">8:17</a> Thirty-two years old
was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C128V18" id="C128V18">8:18</a> He walked in the way of the kings of
Yisrael, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife;
and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. <a name="C128V19"
id="C128V19">8:19</a> However Yahweh would not destroy Yehudah, for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children
always. <a name="C128V20" id="C128V20">8:20</a> In his days Edom revolted from
under the hand of Yehudah, and made a king over themselves. <a name="C128V21"
id="C128V21">8:21</a> Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots
with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded
him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
<a name="C128V22" id="C128V22">8:22</a> So Edom revolted from under the hand
of Yehudah to this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time. <a
name="C128V23" id="C128V23">8:23</a> The rest of the acts of Joram, and all
that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yehudah? <a name="C128V24" id="C128V24">8:24</a> Joram slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah
his son reigned in his place. <a name="C128V25" id="C128V25">8:25</a> In the
twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Yisrael did Ahaziah the son
of Jehoram king of Yehudah begin to reign. <a name="C128V26" id="C128V26">8:26</a>
Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned
one year in Yerushalayim. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri
king of Yisrael. <a name="C128V27" id="C128V27">8:27</a> He walked in the way
of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
<a name="C128V28" id="C128V28">8:28</a> He went with Joram the son of Ahab to
war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded
Joram. <a name="C128V29" id="C128V29">8:29</a> King Joram returned to be
healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah,
when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Yehudah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because
he was sick.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C129V1" id="C129V1">9:1</a> Elisha the prophet called one of the sons
of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your waist, and take this vial
of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. <a name="C129V2" id="C129V2">9:2</a>
When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of
Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and
carry him to an inner chamber. <a name="C129V3" id="C129V3">9:3</a> Then take
the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I
have anointed you king over Yisrael. Then open the door, and flee, and
don't wait. <a name="C129V4" id="C129V4">9:4</a> So the young man, even the
young man the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. <a name="C129V5" id="C129V5">9:5</a>
When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and he said,
I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said,
To you, O captain. <a name="C129V6" id="C129V6">9:6</a> He arose, and went
into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus
says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, I have anointed you king over the people
of Yahweh, even over Yisrael. <a name="C129V7" id="C129V7">9:7</a> You shall
strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my
servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the
hand of Jezebel. <a name="C129V8" id="C129V8">9:8</a> For the whole house of
Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab everyone <a href="#N121">who
urinates against a wall,</a> and him who is shut up and him who is left at
large in Yisrael. <a name="C129V9" id="C129V9">9:9</a> I will make the house of
Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of
Baasha the son of Ahijah. <a name="C129V10" id="C129V10">9:10</a> The dogs
shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to
bury her. He opened the door, and fled. <a name="C129V11" id="C129V11">9:11</a>
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is
all well? why came this mad fellow to you? He said to them, You know the
man and what his talk was. <a name="C129V12" id="C129V12">9:12</a> They said,
It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Yisrael. <a name="C129V13"
id="C129V13">9:13</a> Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and
put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying,
Jehu is king. <a name="C129V14" id="C129V14">9:14</a> So Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was
keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Yisrael, because of Hazael king of Syria;
<a name="C129V15" id="C129V15">9:15</a> but king Joram was returned to be
healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he
fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, then
let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.
<a name="C129V16" id="C129V16">9:16</a> So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to
Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Yehudah was come down to see
Joram. <a name="C129V17" id="C129V17">9:17</a> Now the watchman was standing
on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and
said, I see a company. Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them,
and let him say, Is it peace? <a name="C129V18" id="C129V18">9:18</a> So there
went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it
peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. The
watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming
back. <a name="C129V19" id="C129V19">9:19</a> Then he sent out a second on
horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace?
Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. <a
name="C129V20" id="C129V20">9:20</a> The watchman told, saying, He came even
to them, and isn't coming back: and the driving is like the driving of
Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously. <a name="C129V21" id="C129V21">9:21</a>
Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. Joram king of Yisrael
and Ahaziah king of Yehudah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out
to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. <a
name="C129V22" id="C129V22">9:22</a> It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he
said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the
prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? <a
name="C129V23" id="C129V23">9:23</a> Joram turned his hands, and fled, and
said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah. <a name="C129V24" id="C129V24">9:24</a>
Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his
arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his
chariot. <a name="C129V25" id="C129V25">9:25</a> Then said <i>Jehu</i> to
Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of
Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and you rode together
after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him: <a name="C129V26"
id="C129V26">9:26</a> Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and
the blood of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat,
says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat <i>of ground</i>,
according to the word of Yahweh. <a name="C129V27" id="C129V27">9:27</a> But
when Ahaziah the king of Yehudah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden
house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot:
<i>and they struck him</i> at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He
fled to Megiddo, and died there. <a name="C129V28" id="C129V28">9:28</a> His
servants carried him in a chariot to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his tomb
with his fathers in the city of David. <a name="C129V29" id="C129V29">9:29</a>
In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over
Yehudah. <a name="C129V30" id="C129V30">9:30</a> When Jehu was come to Jezreel,
Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and
looked out at the window. <a name="C129V31" id="C129V31">9:31</a> As Jehu
entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's
murderer? <a name="C129V32" id="C129V32">9:32</a> He lifted up his face to the
window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two or
three eunuchs. <a name="C129V33" id="C129V33">9:33</a> He said, Throw her
down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the
wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot. <a name="C129V34"
id="C129V34">9:34</a> When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said,
See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
<a name="C129V35" id="C129V35">9:35</a> They went to bury her; but they found
no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
<a name="C129V36" id="C129V36">9:36</a> Therefore they came back, and told
him. He said, This is the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat
the flesh of Jezebel; <a name="C129V37" id="C129V37">9:37</a> and the body of
Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of
Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N121" id="N121">[1]</a> <a href="#C129V8">back to 9:8</a> or, male
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1210V1" id="C1210V1">10:1</a> Now Ahab had seventy sons in Shomron.
Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Shomron, to the rulers of Jezreel, even
the elders, and to those who brought up <i>the sons of</i> Ahab, saying,
<a name="C1210V2" id="C1210V2">10:2</a> Now as soon as this letter comes to
you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you
chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor; <a name="C1210V3"
id="C1210V3">10:3</a> look you out the best and meet of your master's sons,
and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. <a
name="C1210V4" id="C1210V4">10:4</a> But they were exceedingly afraid, and
said, Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we
stand? <a name="C1210V5" id="C1210V5">10:5</a> He who was over the household,
and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up <i>the
children</i>, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all
that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: you do that which is
good in your eyes. <a name="C1210V6" id="C1210V6">10:6</a> Then he wrote a
letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you
will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and
come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being
seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
<a name="C1210V7" id="C1210V7">10:7</a> It happened, when the letter came to
them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy
persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
<a name="C1210V8" id="C1210V8">10:8</a> There came a messenger, and told him,
saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you
them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning. <a
name="C1210V9" id="C1210V9">10:9</a> It happened in the morning, that he went
out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I
conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these? <a
name="C1210V10" id="C1210V10">10:10</a> Know now that there shall fall to the
earth nothing of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the
house of Ahab: for Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant
Elijah. <a name="C1210V11" id="C1210V11">10:11</a> So Jehu struck all that
remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his
familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. <a
name="C1210V12" id="C1210V12">10:12</a> He arose and departed, and went to
Shomron. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds in the way, <a
name="C1210V13" id="C1210V13">10:13</a> Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah
king of Yehudah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers
of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the
children of the queen. <a name="C1210V14" id="C1210V14">10:14</a> He said,
Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the
shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them. <a
name="C1210V15" id="C1210V15">10:15</a> When he was departed there, he lighted
on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and
said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?
Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. He gave him his
hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. <a name="C1210V16"
id="C1210V16">10:16</a> He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.
So they made him ride in his chariot. <a name="C1210V17" id="C1210V17">10:17</a>
When he came to Shomron, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Shomron,
until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he
spoke to Elijah. <a name="C1210V18" id="C1210V18">10:18</a> Jehu gathered all
the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu
will serve him much. <a name="C1210V19" id="C1210V19">10:19</a> Now therefore
call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his
priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice <i>to do</i> to
Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in
subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. <a
name="C1210V20" id="C1210V20">10:20</a> Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly
for Baal. They proclaimed it. <a name="C1210V21" id="C1210V21">10:21</a> Jehu
sent through all Yisrael: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that
there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of
Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. <a
name="C1210V22" id="C1210V22">10:22</a> He said to him who was over the
vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought
them forth vestments. <a name="C1210V23" id="C1210V23">10:23</a> Jehu went,
and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said to
the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none
of the servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only. <a
name="C1210V24" id="C1210V24">10:24</a> They went in to offer sacrifices and
burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said,
If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, <i>he who lets him
go</i>, his life shall be for the life of him. <a name="C1210V25" id="C1210V25">10:25</a>
It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering,
that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let
none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the
guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of
Baal. <a name="C1210V26" id="C1210V26">10:26</a> They brought forth the
pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. <a name="C1210V27"
id="C1210V27">10:27</a> They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down
the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. <a name="C1210V28"
id="C1210V28">10:28</a> Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Yisrael. <a
name="C1210V29" id="C1210V29">10:29</a> However from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin, Jehu didn't depart from
after them, <i>to wit</i>, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that
were in Dan. <a name="C1210V30" id="C1210V30">10:30</a> Yahweh said to Jehu,
Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, <i>and</i>
have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your
sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Yisrael. <a
name="C1210V31" id="C1210V31">10:31</a> But Jehu took no heed to walk in the
Torah of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, with all his heart: he didn't depart
from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Yisrael to sin. <a
name="C1210V32" id="C1210V32">10:32</a> In those days Yahweh began to cut off
from Yisrael: and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Yisrael; <a
name="C1210V33" id="C1210V33">10:33</a> from the Jordan eastward, all the land
of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from
Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. <a
name="C1210V34" id="C1210V34">10:34</a> Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and
all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1210V35" id="C1210V35">10:35</a>
Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomron. Jehoahaz his
son reigned in his place. <a name="C1210V36" id="C1210V36">10:36</a> The time
that Jehu reigned over Yisrael in Shomron was twenty-eight years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1211V1" id="C1211V1">11:1</a> Now when Athaliah the mother of
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed
royal. <a name="C1211V2" id="C1211V2">11:2</a> But Jehosheba, the daughter of
king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole
him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his
nurse, <i>and put them</i> in the bedchamber; and they hid him from
Athaliah, so that he was not slain; <a name="C1211V3" id="C1211V3">11:3</a> He
was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over
the land. <a name="C1211V4" id="C1211V4">11:4</a> In the seventh year Jehoiada
sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the
guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and
showed them the king's son. <a name="C1211V5" id="C1211V5">11:5</a> He
commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part
of you, who come in on the Shabbat, shall be keepers of the watch of the
king's house; <a name="C1211V6" id="C1211V6">11:6</a> A third part shall be at
the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so you shall
keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. <a name="C1211V7" id="C1211V7">11:7</a>
The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Shabbat, shall keep
the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king. <a name="C1211V8" id="C1211V8">11:8</a>
You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and
he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king
when he goes out, and when he comes in. <a name="C1211V9" id="C1211V9">11:9</a>
The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest
commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on
the Shabbat, with those who were to go out on the Shabbat, and came to
Jehoiada the priest. <a name="C1211V10" id="C1211V10">11:10</a> The priest
delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had
been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1211V11"
id="C1211V11">11:11</a> The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house,
along by the altar and the house, around the king. <a name="C1211V12"
id="C1211V12">11:12</a> Then he brought out the king's son, and put the
crown on him, and <i>gave him</i> the testimony; and they made him king,
and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, <i>Long</i> live
the king. <a name="C1211V13" id="C1211V13">11:13</a> When Athaliah heard the
noise of the guard <i>and of</i> the people, she came to the people into
the house of Yahweh: <a name="C1211V14" id="C1211V14">11:14</a> and she
looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and
the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried,
Treason! treason! <a name="C1211V15" id="C1211V15">11:15</a> Jehoiada the
priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and
said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her
kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the
house of Yahweh. <a name="C1211V16" id="C1211V16">11:16</a> So they made way
for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house:
and there was she slain. <a name="C1211V17" id="C1211V17">11:17</a> Jehoiada
made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they
should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people. <a
name="C1211V18" id="C1211V18">11:18</a> All the people of the land went to the
house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in
pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1211V19"
id="C1211V19">11:19</a> He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the
king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings. <a
name="C1211V20" id="C1211V20">11:20</a> So all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword
at the king's house. <a name="C1211V21" id="C1211V21">11:21</a> Jehoash was
seven years old when he began to reign.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1212V1" id="C1212V1">12:1</a> In the seventh year of Jehu began
Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. <a name="C1212V2" id="C1212V2">12:2</a>
Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in
which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. <a name="C1212V3" id="C1212V3">12:3</a>
However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places. <a name="C1212V4" id="C1212V4">12:4</a>
Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things that is
brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the
persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into
any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, <a name="C1212V5"
id="C1212V5">12:5</a> let the priests take it to them, every man from his
acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever
any breach shall be found. <a name="C1212V6" id="C1212V6">12:6</a> But it was
so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had
not repaired the breaches of the house. <a name="C1212V7" id="C1212V7">12:7</a>
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the <i>other</i>
priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair the breaches of the house?
now therefore take no <i>more</i> money from your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house. <a name="C1212V8" id="C1212V8">12:8</a>
The priests consented that they should take no <i>more</i> money from the
people, neither repair the breaches of the house. <a name="C1212V9"
id="C1212V9">12:9</a> But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole
in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes
into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put
therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh. <a
name="C1212V10" id="C1212V10">12:10</a> It was so, when they saw that there
was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest
came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in
the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1212V11" id="C1212V11">12:11</a> They gave the
money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who
had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the
carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh, <a
name="C1212V12" id="C1212V12">12:12</a> and to the masons and the stone
cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the
house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
<a name="C1212V13" id="C1212V13">12:13</a> But there were not made for the
house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house
of Yahweh; <a name="C1212V14" id="C1212V14">12:14</a> for they gave that to
those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahweh. <a
name="C1212V15" id="C1212V15">12:15</a> Moreover they didn't demand an
accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give
to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. <a name="C1212V16"
id="C1212V16">12:16</a> The money for the trespass offerings, and the money
for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was
the priests'. <a name="C1212V17" id="C1212V17">12:17</a> Then Hazael king of
Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his
face to go up to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1212V18" id="C1212V18">12:18</a> Jehoash
king of Yehudah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and
Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Yehudah, had dedicated, and his own holy
things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of
Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and
he went away from Yerushalayim. <a name="C1212V19" id="C1212V19">12:19</a> Now
the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1212V20"
id="C1212V20">12:20</a> His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and
struck Joash at the house of Millo, <i>on the way</i> that goes down to
Silla. <a name="C1212V21" id="C1212V21">12:21</a> For Jozacar the son of
Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and
he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and
Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1213V1" id="C1213V1">13:1</a> In the three and twentieth year of
Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Yehudah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to
reign over Yisrael in Shomron, <i>and reigned</i> seventeen years. <a
name="C1213V2" id="C1213V2">13:2</a> He did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which
he made Yisrael to sin; he didn't depart from it. <a name="C1213V3" id="C1213V3">13:3</a>
The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Yisrael, and he delivered them into
the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of
Hazael, continually. <a name="C1213V4" id="C1213V4">13:4</a> Jehoahaz begged
Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Yisrael,
how that the king of Syria oppressed them. <a name="C1213V5" id="C1213V5">13:5</a>
(Yahweh gave Yisrael a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of
the Syrians; and the children of Yisrael lived in their tents as before. <a
name="C1213V6" id="C1213V6">13:6</a> Nevertheless they didn't depart from the
sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Yisrael to sin, but
walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Shomron.) <a
name="C1213V7" id="C1213V7">13:7</a> For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the
people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen;
for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in
threshing. <a name="C1213V8" id="C1213V8">13:8</a> Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren't they written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1213V9" id="C1213V9">13:9</a>
Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomron: and Joash
his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1213V10" id="C1213V10">13:10</a> In
the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Yehudah began Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz to reign over Yisrael in Shomron, <i>and reigned</i> sixteen
years. <a name="C1213V11" id="C1213V11">13:11</a> He did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin; but he walked therein. <a
name="C1213V12" id="C1213V12">13:12</a> Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and
all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king
of Yehudah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Yisrael? <a name="C1213V13" id="C1213V13">13:13</a> Joash slept with his
fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: and Joash was buried in Shomron
with the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1213V14" id="C1213V14">13:14</a> Now
Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the
king of Yisrael came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father,
my father, the chariots of Yisrael and its horsemen! <a name="C1213V15"
id="C1213V15">13:15</a> Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took
to him bow and arrows. <a name="C1213V16" id="C1213V16">13:16</a> He said to
the king of Yisrael, Put your hand on the bow; and he put his hand <i>on it</i>.
Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. <a name="C1213V17" id="C1213V17">13:17</a>
He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said,
Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of
victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you
have consumed them. <a name="C1213V18" id="C1213V18">13:18</a> He said, Take
the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king of Yisrael, Smite on the
ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed. <a name="C1213V19" id="C1213V19">13:19</a>
The man of Elohim was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five
or six times: then had you struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas
now you shall strike Syria but thrice. <a name="C1213V20" id="C1213V20">13:20</a>
Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded
the land at the coming in of the year. <a name="C1213V21" id="C1213V21">13:21</a>
It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band;
and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. <a
name="C1213V22" id="C1213V22">13:22</a> Hazael king of Syria oppressed Yisrael
all the days of Jehoahaz. <a name="C1213V23" id="C1213V23">13:23</a> But
Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect
to them, because of his covenant with Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would
not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. <a
name="C1213V24" id="C1213V24">13:24</a> Hazael king of Syria died; and
Benhadad his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1213V25" id="C1213V25">13:25</a>
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son
of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his
father by war. Three times did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities
of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1214V1" id="C1214V1">14:1</a> In the second year of Joash son of
Joahaz king of Yisrael began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Yehudah to
reign. <a name="C1214V2" id="C1214V2">14:2</a> He was twenty-five years old
when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and
his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1214V3" id="C1214V3">14:3</a>
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his
father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done. <a
name="C1214V4" id="C1214V4">14:4</a> However the high places were not taken
away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. <a
name="C1214V5" id="C1214V5">14:5</a> It happened, as soon as the kingdom was
established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the
king his father: <a name="C1214V6" id="C1214V6">14:6</a> but the children of
the murderers he didn't put to death; according to that which is written
in the book of the Torah of Moshe, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers
shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. <a
name="C1214V7" id="C1214V7">14:7</a> He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt
ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this
day. <a name="C1214V8" id="C1214V8">14:8</a> Then Amaziah sent messengers to
Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Yisrael, saying, Come,
let us look one another in the face. <a name="C1214V9" id="C1214V9">14:9</a>
Jehoash the king of Yisrael sent to Amaziah king of Yehudah, saying, The
thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying,
Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal
that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. <a name="C1214V10"
id="C1214V10">14:10</a> You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has
lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle
to <i>your</i> hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Yehudah with you?
<a name="C1214V11" id="C1214V11">14:11</a> But Amaziah would not hear. So
Jehoash king of Yisrael went up; and he and Amaziah king of Yehudah looked
one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Yehudah. <a
name="C1214V12" id="C1214V12">14:12</a> Yehudah was defeated by Yisrael; and they
fled every man to his tent. <a name="C1214V13" id="C1214V13">14:13</a> Jehoash
king of Yisrael took Amaziah king of Yehudah, the son of Jehoash the son of
Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall
of Yerushalayim from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred
cubits. <a name="C1214V14" id="C1214V14">14:14</a> He took all the gold and
silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in
the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to
Shomron. <a name="C1214V15" id="C1214V15">14:15</a> Now the rest of the acts
of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah
king of Yehudah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1214V16" id="C1214V16">14:16</a> Jehoash slept with
his fathers, and was buried in Shomron with the kings of Yisrael; and
Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1214V17" id="C1214V17">14:17</a>
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Yehudah lived after the death of Jehoash
son of Jehoahaz king of Yisrael fifteen years. <a name="C1214V18" id="C1214V18">14:18</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1214V19" id="C1214V19">14:19</a>
They made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lachish:
but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. <a name="C1214V20"
id="C1214V20">14:20</a> They brought him on horses; and he was buried at
Yerushalayim with his fathers in the city of David. <a name="C1214V21"
id="C1214V21">14:21</a> All the people of Yehudah took Azariah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. <a
name="C1214V22" id="C1214V22">14:22</a> He built Elath, and restored it to
Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers. <a name="C1214V23"
id="C1214V23">14:23</a> In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Yehudah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Yisrael began to reign in
Shomron, <i>and reigned</i> forty-one years. <a name="C1214V24" id="C1214V24">14:24</a>
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from
all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to
sin. <a name="C1214V25" id="C1214V25">14:25</a> He restored the border of
Yisrael from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to
the word of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, which he spoke by his servant Jonah
the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. <a name="C1214V26"
id="C1214V26">14:26</a> For Yahweh saw the affliction of Yisrael, that it was
very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was
there any helper for Yisrael. <a name="C1214V27" id="C1214V27">14:27</a> Yahweh
didn't say that he would blot out the name of Yisrael from under the sky;
but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. <a
name="C1214V28" id="C1214V28">14:28</a> Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, <i>which had belonged</i> to Yehudah, for Yisrael,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael?
<a name="C1214V29" id="C1214V29">14:29</a> Jeroboam slept with his fathers,
even with the kings of Yisrael; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1215V1" id="C1215V1">15:1</a> In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam
king of Yisrael began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Yehudah to reign. <a
name="C1215V2" id="C1215V2">15:2</a> Sixteen years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name
was Jecoliah of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1215V3" id="C1215V3">15:3</a> He did that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father
Amaziah had done. <a name="C1215V4" id="C1215V4">15:4</a> However the high
places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense
in the high places. <a name="C1215V5" id="C1215V5">15:5</a> Yahweh struck the
king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a
separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the
people of the land. <a name="C1215V6" id="C1215V6">15:6</a> Now the rest of
the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1215V7" id="C1215V7">15:7</a>
Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place. <a name="C1215V8"
id="C1215V8">15:8</a> In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Yehudah did
Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Yisrael in Shomron six months. <a
name="C1215V9" id="C1215V9">15:9</a> He did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, as his fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin. <a
name="C1215V10" id="C1215V10">15:10</a> Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired
against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned
in his place. <a name="C1215V11" id="C1215V11">15:11</a> Now the rest of the
acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1215V12" id="C1215V12">15:12</a> This was
the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Yisrael. So it came to pass. <a
name="C1215V13" id="C1215V13">15:13</a> Shallum the son of Jabesh began to
reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Yehudah; and he
reigned the space of a month in Shomron. <a name="C1215V14" id="C1215V14">15:14</a>
Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Shomron, and
struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Shomron, and killed him, and reigned
in his place. <a name="C1215V15" id="C1215V15">15:15</a> Now the rest of the
acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael. <a
name="C1215V16" id="C1215V16">15:16</a> Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all
who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn't open
to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with
child he ripped up. <a name="C1215V17" id="C1215V17">15:17</a> In the nine and
thirtieth year of Azariah king of Yehudah began Menahem the son of Gadi to
reign over Yisrael, <i>and reigned</i> ten years in Shomron. <a
name="C1215V18" id="C1215V18">15:18</a> He did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1215V19"
id="C1215V19">15:19</a> There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria;
and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might
be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. <a name="C1215V20"
id="C1215V20">15:20</a> Menahem exacted the money of Yisrael, even of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there
in the land. <a name="C1215V21" id="C1215V21">15:21</a> Now the rest of the
acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael? <a name="C1215V22" id="C1215V22">15:22</a>
Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
<a name="C1215V23" id="C1215V23">15:23</a> In the fiftieth year of Azariah
king of Yehudah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Yisrael in
Shomron, <i>and reigned</i> two years. <a name="C1215V24" id="C1215V24">15:24</a>
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin.
<a name="C1215V25" id="C1215V25">15:25</a> Pekah the son of Remaliah, his
captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Shomron, in the castle
of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place. <a
name="C1215V26" id="C1215V26">15:26</a> Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah,
and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1215V27" id="C1215V27">15:27</a>
In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Yehudah Pekah the son of
Remaliah began to reign over Yisrael in Shomron, <i>and reigned</i> twenty
years. <a name="C1215V28" id="C1215V28">15:28</a> He did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, with which he made Yisrael to sin. <a name="C1215V29" id="C1215V29">15:29</a>
In the days of Pekah king of Yisrael came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria,
and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor,
and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them
captive to Assyria. <a name="C1215V30" id="C1215V30">15:30</a> Hoshea the son
of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck
him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of
Jotham the son of Uzziah. <a name="C1215V31" id="C1215V31">15:31</a> Now the
rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisrael. <a name="C1215V32"
id="C1215V32">15:32</a> In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king
of Yisrael began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Yehudah to reign. <a
name="C1215V33" id="C1215V33">15:33</a> He was twenty-five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. <a name="C1215V34"
id="C1215V34">15:34</a> He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh;
he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. <a name="C1215V35"
id="C1215V35">15:35</a> However the high places were not taken away: the
people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built
the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1215V36" id="C1215V36">15:36</a>
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a
name="C1215V37" id="C1215V37">15:37</a> In those days Yahweh began to send
against Yehudah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. <a
name="C1215V38" id="C1215V38">15:38</a> Jotham slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1216V1" id="C1216V1">16:1</a> In the seventeenth year of Pekah the
son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Yehudah began to reign. <a
name="C1216V2" id="C1216V2">16:2</a> Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began
to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and he didn't do that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his Elohim, like David his father. <a
name="C1216V3" id="C1216V3">16:3</a> But he walked in the way of the kings of
Yisrael, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children
of Yisrael. <a name="C1216V4" id="C1216V4">16:4</a> He sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
<a name="C1216V5" id="C1216V5">16:5</a> Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son
of Remaliah king of Yisrael came up to Yerushalayim to war: and they besieged
Ahaz, but could not overcome him. <a name="C1216V6" id="C1216V6">16:6</a> At
that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews
from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.
<a name="C1216V7" id="C1216V7">16:7</a> So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath
Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son: come up,
and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of
the king of Yisrael, who rise up against me. <a name="C1216V8" id="C1216V8">16:8</a>
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and
in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the
king of Assyria. <a name="C1216V9" id="C1216V9">16:9</a> The king of Assyria
listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and
took it, and carried <i>the people of</i> it captive to Kir, and killed
Rezin. <a name="C1216V10" id="C1216V10">16:10</a> King Ahaz went to Damascus
to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at
Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the
altar, and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. <a name="C1216V11"
id="C1216V11">16:11</a> Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all
that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it
against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. <a name="C1216V12" id="C1216V12">16:12</a>
When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king
drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. <a name="C1216V13" id="C1216V13">16:13</a>
He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink
offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar. <a
name="C1216V14" id="C1216V14">16:14</a> The bronze altar, which was before
Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar
and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. <a
name="C1216V15" id="C1216V15">16:15</a> King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the
evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal
offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their
meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood
of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the bronze
altar shall be for me to inquire by. <a name="C1216V16" id="C1216V16">16:16</a>
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. <a
name="C1216V17" id="C1216V17">16:17</a> King Ahaz cut off the panels of the
bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off
the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. <a
name="C1216V18" id="C1216V18">16:18</a> The covered way for the Shabbat that
they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to
the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria. <a name="C1216V19"
id="C1216V19">16:19</a> Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
<a name="C1216V20" id="C1216V20">16:20</a> Ahaz slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1217V1" id="C1217V1">17:1</a> In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of
Yehudah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Shomron over Yisrael, <i>and
reigned</i> nine years. <a name="C1217V2" id="C1217V2">17:2</a> He did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Yisrael who
were before him. <a name="C1217V3" id="C1217V3">17:3</a> Against him came up
Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought
him tribute. <a name="C1217V4" id="C1217V4">17:4</a> The king of Assyria found
conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and
offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. <a
name="C1217V5" id="C1217V5">17:5</a> Then the king of Assyria came up
throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three
years. <a name="C1217V6" id="C1217V6">17:6</a> In the ninth year of Hoshea the
king of Assyria took Shomron, and carried Yisrael away to Assyria, and
placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes. <a name="C1217V7" id="C1217V7">17:7</a> It was so,
because the children of Yisrael had sinned against Yahweh their Elohim, who
brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, <a name="C1217V8" id="C1217V8">17:8</a>
and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from
before the children of Yisrael, and of the kings of Yisrael, which they
made. <a name="C1217V9" id="C1217V9">17:9</a> The children of Yisrael did
secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their Elohim: and they
built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen
to the fortified city; <a name="C1217V10" id="C1217V10">17:10</a> and they set
them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green
tree; <a name="C1217V11" id="C1217V11">17:11</a> and there they burnt incense
in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before
them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; <a
name="C1217V12" id="C1217V12">17:12</a> and they served idols, of which Yahweh
had said to them, You shall not do this thing. <a name="C1217V13" id="C1217V13">17:13</a>
Yet Yahweh testified to Yisrael, and to Yehudah, by every prophet, and every
seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and
my statutes, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and
which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. <a name="C1217V14"
id="C1217V14">17:14</a> Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened
their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh
their Elohim. <a name="C1217V15" id="C1217V15">17:15</a> They rejected his
statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his
testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and
became vain, and <i>went</i> after the nations that were around them,
concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like
them. <a name="C1217V16" id="C1217V16">17:16</a> They forsook all the
commandments of Yahweh their Elohim, and made them molten images, even two
calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and
served Baal. <a name="C1217V17" id="C1217V17">17:17</a> They caused their sons
and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. <a name="C1217V18" id="C1217V18">17:18</a>
Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Yisrael, and removed them out of his
sight: there was none left but the tribe of Yehudah only. <a name="C1217V19"
id="C1217V19">17:19</a> Also Yehudah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh
their Elohim, but walked in the statutes of Yisrael which they made. <a
name="C1217V20" id="C1217V20">17:20</a> Yahweh rejected all the seed of
Yisrael, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight. <a name="C1217V21" id="C1217V21">17:21</a>
For he tore Yisrael from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son
of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Yisrael from following Yahweh, and made
them sin a great sin. <a name="C1217V22" id="C1217V22">17:22</a> The children
of Yisrael walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn't
depart from them; <a name="C1217V23" id="C1217V23">17:23</a> until Yahweh
removed Yisrael out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the
prophets. So Yisrael was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to
this day. <a name="C1217V24" id="C1217V24">17:24</a> The king of Assyria
brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath
and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Shomron instead of the
children of Yisrael; and they possessed Shomron, and lived in the cities of
it. <a name="C1217V25" id="C1217V25">17:25</a> So it was, at the beginning of
their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent
lions among them, which killed some of them. <a name="C1217V26" id="C1217V26">17:26</a>
Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you
have carried away, and placed in the cities of Shomron, don't know the Torah
of the god of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and
behold, they kill them, because they don't know the Torah of the god of the
land. <a name="C1217V27" id="C1217V27">17:27</a> Then the king of Assyria
commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from
there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the Torah of
the god of the land. <a name="C1217V28" id="C1217V28">17:28</a> So one of the
priests whom they had carried away from Shomron came and lived in Bethel,
and taught them how they should fear Yahweh. <a name="C1217V29" id="C1217V29">17:29</a>
However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of
the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their
cities in which they lived. <a name="C1217V30" id="C1217V30">17:30</a> The men
of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the
men of Hamath made Ashima, <a name="C1217V31" id="C1217V31">17:31</a> and the
Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children
in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. <a
name="C1217V32" id="C1217V32">17:32</a> So they feared Yahweh, and made to
them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for
them in the houses of the high places. <a name="C1217V33" id="C1217V33">17:33</a>
They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the
nations from among whom they had been carried away. <a name="C1217V34"
id="C1217V34">17:34</a> To this day they do after the former manner: they
don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the Torah or after the commandment which Yahweh
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Yisrael; <a name="C1217V35"
id="C1217V35">17:35</a> with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded
them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: <a name="C1217V36" id="C1217V36">17:36</a>
but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power
and with an outstretched arm, him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow
yourselves, and to him you shall sacrifice: <a name="C1217V37" id="C1217V37">17:37</a>
and the statutes and the ordinances, and the Torah and the commandment,
which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore; and you shall
not fear other gods: <a name="C1217V38" id="C1217V38">17:38</a> and the
covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; neither shall you
fear other gods: <a name="C1217V39" id="C1217V39">17:39</a> but you shall fear
Yahweh your Elohim; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your
enemies. <a name="C1217V40" id="C1217V40">17:40</a> However they did not
listen, but they did after their former manner. <a name="C1217V41"
id="C1217V41">17:41</a> So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their
engraved images; their children likewise, and their children's children,
as did their fathers, so do they to this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1218V1" id="C1218V1">18:1</a> Now it happened in the third year of
Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisrael, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of
Yehudah began to reign. <a name="C1218V2" id="C1218V2">18:2</a> He was
twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine
years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of
Zechariah. <a name="C1218V3" id="C1218V3">18:3</a> He did that which was right
in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. <a
name="C1218V4" id="C1218V4">18:4</a> He removed the high places, and broke the
pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze
serpent that Moshe had made; for to those days the children of Yisrael did
burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. <a name="C1218V5" id="C1218V5">18:5</a>
He trusted in Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael; so that after him was none like
him among all the kings of Yehudah, nor <i>among them</i> that were before
him. <a name="C1218V6" id="C1218V6">18:6</a> For he joined with Yahweh; he
didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh
commanded Moshe. <a name="C1218V7" id="C1218V7">18:7</a> Yahweh was with him;
wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and didn't serve him. <a name="C1218V8" id="C1218V8">18:8</a> He
struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fortified city. <a name="C1218V9" id="C1218V9">18:9</a> It
happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisrael, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria
came up against Shomron, and besieged it. <a name="C1218V10" id="C1218V10">18:10</a>
At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah,
which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Yisrael, Shomron was taken. <a
name="C1218V11" id="C1218V11">18:11</a> The king of Assyria carried Yisrael
away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of
Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, <a name="C1218V12" id="C1218V12">18:12</a>
because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their Elohim, but transgressed
his covenant, even all that Moshe the servant of Yahweh commanded, and
would not hear it, nor do it. <a name="C1218V13" id="C1218V13">18:13</a> Now
in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria
come up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and took them. <a
name="C1218V14" id="C1218V14">18:14</a> Hezekiah king of Yehudah sent to the
king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that
which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah
king of Yehudah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
<a name="C1218V15" id="C1218V15">18:15</a> Hezekiah gave <i>him</i> all the
silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the
king's house. <a name="C1218V16" id="C1218V16">18:16</a> At that time did
Hezekiah cut off <i>the gold from</i> the doors of the temple of Yahweh,
and <i>from</i> the pillars which Hezekiah king of Yehudah had overlaid, and
gave it to the king of Assyria. <a name="C1218V17" id="C1218V17">18:17</a> The
king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to
king Hezekiah with a great army to Yerushalayim. They went up and came to
Yerushalayim. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of
the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. <a
name="C1218V18" id="C1218V18">18:18</a> When they had called to the king,
there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the
household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
<a name="C1218V19" id="C1218V19">18:19</a> Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now
to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this in which you trust? <a name="C1218V20" id="C1218V20">18:20</a>
You say (but they are but vain words), <i>There is</i> counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled
against me? <a name="C1218V21" id="C1218V21">18:21</a> Now, behold, you trust
on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean,
it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to
all who trust on him. <a name="C1218V22" id="C1218V22">18:22</a> But if you
tell me, We trust in Yahweh our Elohim; isn't that he whose high places and
whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to
Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim? <a
name="C1218V23" id="C1218V23">18:23</a> Now therefore, Please give pledges to
my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if
you are able on your part to set riders on them. <a name="C1218V24"
id="C1218V24">18:24</a> How then can you turn away the face of one captain
of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen? <a name="C1218V25" id="C1218V25">18:25</a> Am I now
come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to
me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. <a name="C1218V26" id="C1218V26">18:26</a>
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, to Rabshakeh,
Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand
it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the
people who are on the wall. <a name="C1218V27" id="C1218V27">18:27</a> But
Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you,
to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to
eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? <a name="C1218V28"
id="C1218V28">18:28</a> Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great
king, the king of Assyria. <a name="C1218V29" id="C1218V29">18:29</a> Thus
says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to
deliver you out of his hand: <a name="C1218V30" id="C1218V30">18:30</a>
neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely
deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria. <a name="C1218V31" id="C1218V31">18:31</a> Don't listen to Hezekiah:
for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out
to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and
everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; <a name="C1218V32" id="C1218V32">18:32</a>
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of
grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees
and of honey, that you may live, and not die: and don't listen to
Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. <a
name="C1218V33" id="C1218V33">18:33</a> Has any of the gods of the nations
ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? <a
name="C1218V34" id="C1218V34">18:34</a> Where are the gods of Hamath, and of
Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they
delivered Shomron out of my hand? <a name="C1218V35" id="C1218V35">18:35</a>
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered
their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Yerushalayim out of
my hand? <a name="C1218V36" id="C1218V36">18:36</a> But the people held their
peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was,
saying, Don't answer him. <a name="C1218V37" id="C1218V37">18:37</a> Then came
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their
clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1219V1" id="C1219V1">19:1</a> It happened, when king Hezekiah heard
it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1219V2" id="C1219V2">19:2</a> He sent
Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders
of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of
Amoz. <a name="C1219V3" id="C1219V3">19:3</a> They said to him, Thus says
Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection;
for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth. <a name="C1219V4" id="C1219V4">19:4</a> It may be Yahweh your Elohim will
hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has
sent to defy the living Elohim, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your
Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
<a name="C1219V5" id="C1219V5">19:5</a> So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah. <a name="C1219V6" id="C1219V6">19:6</a> Isaiah said to them, Thus
you shall tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words
that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. <a name="C1219V7" id="C1219V7">19:7</a> Behold, I will put a
spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. <a name="C1219V8"
id="C1219V8">19:8</a> So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. <a name="C1219V9" id="C1219V9">19:9</a> When he heard say of Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against you, he sent
messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, <a name="C1219V10" id="C1219V10">19:10</a>
Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Yehudah, saying, Don't let your Elohim
in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be given into
the hand of the king of Assyria. <a name="C1219V11" id="C1219V11">19:11</a>
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands,
by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered? <a name="C1219V12"
id="C1219V12">19:12</a> Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which
my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children
of Eden that were in Telassar? <a name="C1219V13" id="C1219V13">19:13</a>
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? <a name="C1219V14" id="C1219V14">19:14</a>
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it;
and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.
<a name="C1219V15" id="C1219V15">19:15</a> Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and
said, Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, who sit <i>above</i> the cherubim, you
are the Elohim, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have
made heaven and earth. <a name="C1219V16" id="C1219V16">19:16</a> Incline your
ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words
of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living Elohim. <a
name="C1219V17" id="C1219V17">19:17</a> Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of
Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, <a name="C1219V18"
id="C1219V18">19:18</a> and have cast their gods into the fire; for they
were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they
have destroyed them. <a name="C1219V19" id="C1219V19">19:19</a> Now therefore,
Yahweh our Elohim, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are Elohim alone. <a
name="C1219V20" id="C1219V20">19:20</a> Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Whereas you have
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard <i>you</i>.
<a name="C1219V21" id="C1219V21">19:21</a> This is the word that Yahweh has
spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and
ridiculed you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head at you. <a
name="C1219V22" id="C1219V22">19:22</a> Whom have you defied and blasphemed?
and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on
high? <i>even</i> against the Holy One of Yisrael. <a name="C1219V23"
id="C1219V23">19:23</a> By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and
have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the
tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into
his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. <a
name="C1219V24" id="C1219V24">19:24</a> I have dug and drunk strange waters,
and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. <a
name="C1219V25" id="C1219V25">19:25</a> Haven't you heard how I have done it
long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass,
that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
<a name="C1219V26" id="C1219V26">19:26</a> Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of
the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as
grain blasted before it is grown up. <a name="C1219V27" id="C1219V27">19:27</a>
But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and
your raging against me. <a name="C1219V28" id="C1219V28">19:28</a> Because of
your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my
ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your
lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. <a
name="C1219V29" id="C1219V29">19:29</a> This shall be the sign to you: You
shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year
that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. <a name="C1219V30" id="C1219V30">19:30</a>
The remnant that has escaped of the house of Yehudah shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward. <a name="C1219V31" id="C1219V31">19:31</a>
For out of Yerushalayim shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those
who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform this. <a name="C1219V32"
id="C1219V32">19:32</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither
shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. <a
name="C1219V33" id="C1219V33">19:33</a> By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. <a
name="C1219V34" id="C1219V34">19:34</a> For I will defend this city to save
it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. <a name="C1219V35"
id="C1219V35">19:35</a> It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh
went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred
eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold,
these were all dead bodies. <a name="C1219V36" id="C1219V36">19:36</a> So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at
Nineveh. <a name="C1219V37" id="C1219V37">19:37</a> It happened, as he was
worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer
struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar
Haddon his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1220V1" id="C1220V1">20:1</a> In those days was Hezekiah sick to
death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him,
Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not
live. <a name="C1220V2" id="C1220V2">20:2</a> Then he turned his face to the
wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, <a name="C1220V3" id="C1220V3">20:3</a>
Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and
with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.
Hezekiah wept sore. <a name="C1220V4" id="C1220V4">20:4</a> It happened,
before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word
of Yahweh came to him, saying, <a name="C1220V5" id="C1220V5">20:5</a> Turn
back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim
of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears:
behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C1220V6" id="C1220V6">20:6</a> I will add to your days
fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the
king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my
servant David's sake. <a name="C1220V7" id="C1220V7">20:7</a> Isaiah said,
Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
<a name="C1220V8" id="C1220V8">20:8</a> Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be
the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of
Yahweh the third day? <a name="C1220V9" id="C1220V9">20:9</a> Isaiah said,
This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing
that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten
steps? <a name="C1220V10" id="C1220V10">20:10</a> Hezekiah answered, It is a
light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow
return backward ten steps. <a name="C1220V11" id="C1220V11">20:11</a> Isaiah
the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward,
by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. <a name="C1220V12" id="C1220V12">20:12</a>
At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been
sick. <a name="C1220V13" id="C1220V13">20:13</a> Hezekiah listened to them,
and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the
gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor,
and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house,
nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them. <a name="C1220V14"
id="C1220V14">20:14</a> Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and
said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you?
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. <a
name="C1220V15" id="C1220V15">20:15</a> He said, What have they seen in your
house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. <a name="C1220V16"
id="C1220V16">20:16</a> Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh. <a
name="C1220V17" id="C1220V17">20:17</a> Behold, the days come, that all that
is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to
this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
<a name="C1220V18" id="C1220V18">20:18</a> Of your sons who shall issue from
you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. <a name="C1220V19" id="C1220V19">20:19</a>
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have
spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my
days? <a name="C1220V20" id="C1220V20">20:20</a> Now the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit,
and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1220V21" id="C1220V21">20:21</a>
Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his
place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1221V1" id="C1221V1">21:1</a> Manasseh was twelve years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Hephzibah. <a name="C1221V2" id="C1221V2">21:2</a> He did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the
nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Yisrael. <a name="C1221V3"
id="C1221V3">21:3</a> For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an
Asherah, as did Ahab king of Yisrael, and worshiped all the army of the
sky, and served them. <a name="C1221V4" id="C1221V4">21:4</a> He built altars
in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Yerushalayim will I put my
name. <a name="C1221V5" id="C1221V5">21:5</a> He built altars for all the army
of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1221V6"
id="C1221V6">21:6</a> He made his son to pass through the fire, and
practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had
familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of
Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. <a name="C1221V7" id="C1221V7">21:7</a> He
set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which
Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, will I put
my name forever; <a name="C1221V8" id="C1221V8">21:8</a> neither will I cause
the feet of Yisrael to wander any more out of the land which I gave their
fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have
commanded them, and according to all the Torah that my servant Moshe
commanded them. <a name="C1221V9" id="C1221V9">21:9</a> But they didn't
listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did
the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C1221V10" id="C1221V10">21:10</a> Yahweh spoke by his servants the
prophets, saying, <a name="C1221V11" id="C1221V11">21:11</a> Because Manasseh
king of Yehudah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all
that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Yehudah also to sin
with his idols; <a name="C1221V12" id="C1221V12">21:12</a> therefore thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Behold, I bring such evil on Yerushalayim and
Yehudah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. <a
name="C1221V13" id="C1221V13">21:13</a> I will stretch over Yerushalayim the line
of Shomron, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe
Yerushalayim as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. <a
name="C1221V14" id="C1221V14">21:14</a> I will cast off the remnant of my
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they
shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; <a name="C1221V15"
id="C1221V15">21:15</a> because they have done that which is evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
forth out of Egypt, even to this day. <a name="C1221V16" id="C1221V16">21:16</a>
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled
Yerushalayim from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made
Yehudah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. <a
name="C1221V17" id="C1221V17">21:17</a> Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh,
and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1221V18"
id="C1221V18">21:18</a> Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son
reigned in his place. <a name="C1221V19" id="C1221V19">21:19</a> Amon was
twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in
Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of
Jotbah. <a name="C1221V20" id="C1221V20">21:20</a> He did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father. <a name="C1221V21"
id="C1221V21">21:21</a> He walked in all the way that his father walked in,
and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: <a
name="C1221V22" id="C1221V22">21:22</a> and he forsook Yahweh, the Elohim of his
fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh. <a name="C1221V23" id="C1221V23">21:23</a>
The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in
his own house. <a name="C1221V24" id="C1221V24">21:24</a> But the people of
the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the
people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. <a name="C1221V25"
id="C1221V25">21:25</a> Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
<a name="C1221V26" id="C1221V26">21:26</a> He was buried in his tomb in the
garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1222V1" id="C1222V1">22:1</a> Josiah was eight years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. <a
name="C1222V2" id="C1222V2">22:2</a> He did that which was right in the eyes
of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn
aside to the right hand or to the left. <a name="C1222V3" id="C1222V3">22:3</a>
It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent
Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house
of Yahweh, saying, <a name="C1222V4" id="C1222V4">22:4</a> Go up to Hilkiah
the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house
of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:
<a name="C1222V5" id="C1222V5">22:5</a> and let them deliver it into the hand
of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them
give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the
breaches of the house, <a name="C1222V6" id="C1222V6">22:6</a> to the
carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber
and cut stone to repair the house. <a name="C1222V7" id="C1222V7">22:7</a>
However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully. <a name="C1222V8"
id="C1222V8">22:8</a> Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I
have found the book of the Torah in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered
the book to Shaphan, and he read it. <a name="C1222V9" id="C1222V9">22:9</a>
Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and
said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the
house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the
oversight of the house of Yahweh. <a name="C1222V10" id="C1222V10">22:10</a>
Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered
me a book. Shaphan read it before the king. <a name="C1222V11" id="C1222V11">22:11</a>
It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the Torah,
that he tore his clothes. <a name="C1222V12" id="C1222V12">22:12</a> The king
commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor
the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant,
saying, <a name="C1222V13" id="C1222V13">22:13</a> Go you, inquire of Yahweh
for me, and for the people, and for all Yehudah, concerning the words of
this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this
book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us. <a
name="C1222V14" id="C1222V14">22:14</a> So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and
Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife
of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe
(now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter); and they talked with
her. <a name="C1222V15" id="C1222V15">22:15</a> She said to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: Tell you the man who sent you to me, <a
name="C1222V16" id="C1222V16">22:16</a> Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring
evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book
which the king of Yehudah has read. <a name="C1222V17" id="C1222V17">22:17</a>
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that
they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore
my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be
quenched. <a name="C1222V18" id="C1222V18">22:18</a> But to the king of Yehudah,
who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: As touching the words which you have heard, <a
name="C1222V19" id="C1222V19">22:19</a> because your heart was tender, and you
did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against
this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a
desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I
also have heard you, says Yahweh. <a name="C1222V20" id="C1222V20">22:20</a>
Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be
gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil
which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1223V1" id="C1223V1">23:1</a> The king sent, and they gathered to
him all the elders of Yehudah and of Yerushalayim. <a name="C1223V2" id="C1223V2">23:2</a>
The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Yehudah and all
the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the priests, and the prophets,
and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all
the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C1223V3" id="C1223V3">23:3</a> The king stood by the pillar,
and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all <i>his</i>
heart, and all <i>his</i> soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that
were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant. <a
name="C1223V4" id="C1223V4">23:4</a> The king commanded Hilkiah the high
priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the
threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky,
and he burned them outside of Yerushalayim in the fields of the Kidron, and
carried the ashes of them to Bethel. <a name="C1223V5" id="C1223V5">23:5</a>
He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Yehudah had ordained
to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yehudah, and in the
places around Yerushalayim; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the
sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
<a name="C1223V6" id="C1223V6">23:6</a> He brought out the Asherah from the
house of Yahweh, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it
at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves
of the common people. <a name="C1223V7" id="C1223V7">23:7</a> He broke down
the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the
women wove hangings for the Asherah. <a name="C1223V8" id="C1223V8">23:8</a>
He brought all the priests out of the cities of Yehudah, and defiled the
high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba;
and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance
of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left
hand at the gate of the city. <a name="C1223V9" id="C1223V9">23:9</a>
Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of
Yahweh in Yerushalayim, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
<a name="C1223V10" id="C1223V10">23:10</a> He defiled Topheth, which is in the
valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. <a name="C1223V11" id="C1223V11">23:11</a>
He took away the horses that the kings of Yehudah had given to the sun, at
the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan Melech the
officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with
fire. <a name="C1223V12" id="C1223V12">23:12</a> The altars that were on the
roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and
the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of
Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat <i>them</i> down from there, and
cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. <a name="C1223V13" id="C1223V13">23:13</a>
The high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand
of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Yisrael had built
for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the
abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the king defile. <a name="C1223V14" id="C1223V14">23:14</a> He
broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their
places with the bones of men. <a name="C1223V15" id="C1223V15">23:15</a>
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Yisrael to sin, had made, even that altar and
the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to
dust, and burned the Asherah. <a name="C1223V16" id="C1223V16">23:16</a> As
Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain;
and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the
altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of
Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. <a name="C1223V17" id="C1223V17">23:17</a>
Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of the city told
him, It is the tomb of the man of Elohim, who came from Yehudah, and proclaimed
these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel. <a
name="C1223V18" id="C1223V18">23:18</a> He said, Let him be; let no man move
his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who
came out of Shomron. <a name="C1223V19" id="C1223V19">23:19</a> All the houses
also of the high places that were in the cities of Shomron, which the
kings of Yisrael had made to provoke <i>Yahweh</i> to anger, Josiah took
away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in
Bethel. <a name="C1223V20" id="C1223V20">23:20</a> He killed all the priests
of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones
on them; and he returned to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1223V21" id="C1223V21">23:21</a>
The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh
your Elohim, as it is written in this book of the covenant. <a name="C1223V22"
id="C1223V22">23:22</a> Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the
days of the judges who judged Yisrael, nor in all the days of the kings of
Yisrael, nor of the kings of Yehudah; <a name="C1223V23" id="C1223V23">23:23</a>
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh
in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1223V24" id="C1223V24">23:24</a> Moreover those who
had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols,
and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yehudah and in
Yerushalayim, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the Torah
which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house
of Yahweh. <a name="C1223V25" id="C1223V25">23:25</a> Like him was there no
king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his
soul, and with all his might, according to all the Torah of Moshe; neither
after him arose there any like him. <a name="C1223V26" id="C1223V26">23:26</a>
Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great
wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Yehudah, because of all the
provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. <a name="C1223V27"
id="C1223V27">23:27</a> Yahweh said, I will remove Yehudah also out of my
sight, as I have removed Yisrael, and I will cast off this city which I
have chosen, even Yerushalayim, and the house of which I said, My name shall
be there. <a name="C1223V28" id="C1223V28">23:28</a> Now the rest of the acts
of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1223V29" id="C1223V29">23:29</a>
In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and <i>Pharaoh
Necoh</i> killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. <a name="C1223V30"
id="C1223V30">23:30</a> His servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own tomb. The
people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and
made him king in his father's place. <a name="C1223V31" id="C1223V31">23:31</a>
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
three months in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter
of Jeremiah of Libnah. <a name="C1223V32" id="C1223V32">23:32</a> He did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers
had done. <a name="C1223V33" id="C1223V33">23:33</a> Pharaoh Necoh put him in
bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in
Yerushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver,
and a talent of gold. <a name="C1223V34" id="C1223V34">23:34</a> Pharaoh Necoh
made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and
changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to
Egypt, and died there. <a name="C1223V35" id="C1223V35">23:35</a> Jehoiakim
gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the
money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and
the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation,
to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. <a name="C1223V36" id="C1223V36">23:36</a>
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter
of Pedaiah of Rumah. <a name="C1223V37" id="C1223V37">23:37</a> He did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers
had done.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1224V1" id="C1224V1">24:1</a> In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him. <a name="C1224V2" id="C1224V2">24:2</a>
Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians,
and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent
them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which
he spoke by his servants the prophets. <a name="C1224V3" id="C1224V3">24:3</a>
Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Yehudah, to remove them out
of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, <a
name="C1224V4" id="C1224V4">24:4</a> and also for the innocent blood that he
shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not
pardon. <a name="C1224V5" id="C1224V5">24:5</a> Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? <a name="C1224V6" id="C1224V6">24:6</a> So
Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
place. <a name="C1224V7" id="C1224V7">24:7</a> The king of Egypt didn't come
again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from
the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king
of Egypt. <a name="C1224V8" id="C1224V8">24:8</a> Jehoiachin was eighteen
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Yerushalayim three
months: and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1224V9" id="C1224V9">24:9</a> He did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. <a
name="C1224V10" id="C1224V10">24:10</a> At that time the servants of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Yerushalayim, and the city was
besieged. <a name="C1224V11" id="C1224V11">24:11</a> Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; <a
name="C1224V12" id="C1224V12">24:12</a> and Jehoiachin the king of Yehudah went
out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth
year of his reign. <a name="C1224V13" id="C1224V13">24:13</a> He carried out
there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the
king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon
king of Yisrael had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said. <a
name="C1224V14" id="C1224V14">24:14</a> He carried away all Yerushalayim, and all
the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives,
and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort
of the people of the land. <a name="C1224V15" id="C1224V15">24:15</a> He
carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's
wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into
captivity from Yerushalayim to Babylon. <a name="C1224V16" id="C1224V16">24:16</a>
All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the
smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the
king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. <a name="C1224V17" id="C1224V17">24:17</a>
The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, <i>Jehoiachin's</i> father's brother,
king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. <a name="C1224V18"
id="C1224V18">24:18</a> Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. <a name="C1224V19" id="C1224V19">24:19</a>
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done. <a name="C1224V20" id="C1224V20">24:20</a> For through the
anger of Yahweh did it happen in Yerushalayim and Yehudah, until he had cast
them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1225V1" id="C1225V1">25:1</a> It happened in the ninth year of his
reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Yerushalayim, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around
it. <a name="C1225V2" id="C1225V2">25:2</a> So the city was besieged to the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah. <a name="C1225V3" id="C1225V3">25:3</a> On the
ninth day of the <i>fourth</i> month the famine was sore in the city, so
that there was no bread for the people of the land. <a name="C1225V4"
id="C1225V4">25:4</a> Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of
war <i>fled</i> by night by the way of the gate between the two walls,
which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city
around it); and <i>the king</i> went by the way of the Arabah. <a
name="C1225V5" id="C1225V5">25:5</a> But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his
army was scattered from him. <a name="C1225V6" id="C1225V6">25:6</a> Then they
took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and
they gave judgment on him. <a name="C1225V7" id="C1225V7">25:7</a> They killed
the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah,
and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. <a name="C1225V8"
id="C1225V8">25:8</a> Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the
month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king
of Babylon, to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1225V9" id="C1225V9">25:9</a> He burnt the
house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Yerushalayim,
even every great house, burnt he with fire. <a name="C1225V10" id="C1225V10">25:10</a>
All the army of the Chaldeans, who were <i>with</i> the captain of the
guard, broke down the walls around Yerushalayim. <a name="C1225V11" id="C1225V11">25:11</a>
The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell
away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude,
did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive. <a
name="C1225V12" id="C1225V12">25:12</a> But the captain of the guard left of
the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. <a name="C1225V13"
id="C1225V13">25:13</a> The pillars of brass that were in the house of
Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh,
did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon. <a name="C1225V14" id="C1225V14">25:14</a> The pots, and the shovels,
and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which
they ministered, took they away. <a name="C1225V15" id="C1225V15">25:15</a>
The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that
which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. <a
name="C1225V16" id="C1225V16">25:16</a> The two pillars, the one sea, and the
bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all
these vessels was without weight. <a name="C1225V17" id="C1225V17">25:17</a>
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass
was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network
and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these
had the second pillar with network. <a name="C1225V18" id="C1225V18">25:18</a>
The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: <a name="C1225V19"
id="C1225V19">25:19</a> and out of the city he took an officer who was set
over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who
were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who
mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land,
who were found in the city. <a name="C1225V20" id="C1225V20">25:20</a>
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Riblah. <a name="C1225V21" id="C1225V21">25:21</a> The king
of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Yehudah was carried away captive out of his land. <a name="C1225V22"
id="C1225V22">25:22</a> As for the people who were left in the land of
Yehudah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he
made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. <a
name="C1225V23" id="C1225V23">25:23</a> Now when all the captains of the
forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they
and their men. <a name="C1225V24" id="C1225V24">25:24</a> Gedaliah swore to
them and to their men, and said to them, Don't be afraid because of the
servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and it shall be well with you. <a name="C1225V25" id="C1225V25">25:25</a>
But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and
struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were
with him at Mizpah. <a name="C1225V26" id="C1225V26">25:26</a> All the people,
both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to
Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. <a name="C1225V27" id="C1225V27">25:27</a>
It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Yehudah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to
reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Yehudah out of prison; <a
name="C1225V28" id="C1225V28">25:28</a> and he spoke kindly to him, and set
his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, <a
name="C1225V29" id="C1225V29">25:29</a> and changed his prison garments. <i>Jehoiachin</i>
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: <a name="C1225V30"
id="C1225V30">25:30</a> and for his allowance, there was a continual
allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his
life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C101V1" id="C101V1">1:1</a> It happened after the death of Sha'ul, when
David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had
abode two days in Ziklag; <a name="C101V2" id="C101V2">1:2</a> it happened on
the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Sha'ul, with his
clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David,
that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. <a name="C101V3" id="C101V3">1:3</a>
David said to him, From whence come you? He said to him, Out of the camp
of Yisrael am I escaped. <a name="C101V4" id="C101V4">1:4</a> David said to
him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled
from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Sha'ul
and Jonathan his son are dead also. <a name="C101V5" id="C101V5">1:5</a> David
said to the young man who told him, How know you that Sha'ul and Jonathan
his son are dead? <a name="C101V6" id="C101V6">1:6</a> The young man who told
him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Sha'ul was
leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed
hard after him. <a name="C101V7" id="C101V7">1:7</a> When he looked behind
him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, Here am I. <a name="C101V8"
id="C101V8">1:8</a> He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an
Amalekite. <a name="C101V9" id="C101V9">1:9</a> He said to me, Stand, I pray
you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my
life is yet whole in me. <a name="C101V10" id="C101V10">1:10</a> So I stood
beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live
after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and
the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.
<a name="C101V11" id="C101V11">1:11</a> Then David took hold on his clothes,
and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him: <a name="C101V12"
id="C101V12">1:12</a> and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for
Sha'ul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the
house of Yisrael; because they were fallen by the sword. <a name="C101V13"
id="C101V13">1:13</a> David said to the young man who told him, Whence are
you? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite. <a
name="C101V14" id="C101V14">1:14</a> David said to him, How were you not
afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed? <a name="C101V15"
id="C101V15">1:15</a> David called one of the young men, and said, Go near,
and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died. <a name="C101V16" id="C101V16">1:16</a>
David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has
testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C101V17" id="C101V17">1:17</a> David lamented with this lamentation
over Sha'ul and over Jonathan his son <a name="C101V18" id="C101V18">1:18</a>
(and he bade them teach the children of Yehudah <i>the song of</i> the bow:
behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C101V19" id="C101V19">1:19</a> Your glory, Yisrael, is slain on your
high places!
</dt>
<dd>
How the mighty have fallen!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V20" id="C101V20">1:20</a> Don't tell it in Gath.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon,
</dd>
<dt>
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
</dt>
<dd>
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V21" id="C101V21">1:21</a> You mountains of Gilboa,
</dt>
<dd>
let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings;
</dd>
<dd>
For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away,
</dd>
<dd>
The shield of Sha'ul was not anointed with oil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V22" id="C101V22">1:22</a> From the blood of the slain,
</dt>
<dd>
from the fat of the mighty,
</dd>
<dd>
Jonathan's bow didn't turn back.
</dd>
<dd>
Sha'ul's sword didn't return empty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V23" id="C101V23">1:23</a> Sha'ul and Jonathan were lovely and
pleasant in their lives.
</dt>
<dd>
In their death, they were not divided.
</dd>
<dt>
They were swifter than eagles.
</dt>
<dd>
They were stronger than lions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V24" id="C101V24">1:24</a> You daughters of Yisrael, weep over
Sha'ul,
</dt>
<dd>
who clothed you in scarlet delicately,
</dd>
<dd>
who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V25" id="C101V25">1:25</a> How are the mighty fallen in the
midst of the battle!
</dt>
<dd>
Jonathan is slain on your high places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V26" id="C101V26">1:26</a> I am distressed for you, my brother
Jonathan.
</dt>
<dd>
You have been very pleasant to me.
</dd>
<dd>
Your love to me was wonderful,
</dd>
<dd>
passing the love of women.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C101V27" id="C101V27">1:27</a> How are the mighty fallen,
</dt>
<dd>
and the weapons of war perished!
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C102V1" id="C102V1">2:1</a> It happened after this, that David
inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Yehudah?
Yahweh said to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To
Hebron. <a name="C102V2" id="C102V2">2:2</a> So David went up there, and his
two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal
the Carmelite. <a name="C102V3" id="C102V3">2:3</a> His men who were with him
did David bring up, every man with his household: and they lived in the
cities of Hebron. <a name="C102V4" id="C102V4">2:4</a> The men of Yehudah came,
and there they anointed David king over the house of Yehudah. They told
David, saying, The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Sha'ul. <a
name="C102V5" id="C102V5">2:5</a> David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh
Gilead, and said to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown
this kindness to your lord, even to Sha'ul, and have buried him. <a
name="C102V6" id="C102V6">2:6</a> Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to
you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because you have done this
thing. <a name="C102V7" id="C102V7">2:7</a> Now therefore let your hands be
strong, and be you valiant; for Sha'ul your lord is dead, and also the house
of Yehudah have anointed me king over them. <a name="C102V8" id="C102V8">2:8</a>
Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Sha'ul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the
son of Sha'ul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; <a name="C102V9" id="C102V9">2:9</a>
and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over
Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Yisrael. <a
name="C102V10" id="C102V10">2:10</a> Ishbosheth, Sha'ul's son, was forty years
old when he began to reign over Yisrael, and he reigned two years. But the
house of Yehudah followed David. <a name="C102V11" id="C102V11">2:11</a> The
time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Yehudah was seven years
and six months. <a name="C102V12" id="C102V12">2:12</a> Abner the son of Ner,
and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Sha'ul, went out from Mahanaim to
Gibeon. <a name="C102V13" id="C102V13">2:13</a> Joab the son of Zeruiah, and
the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and
they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the
other side of the pool. <a name="C102V14" id="C102V14">2:14</a> Abner said to
Joab, Please let the young men arise and play before us. Joab said, Let
them arise. <a name="C102V15" id="C102V15">2:15</a> Then they arose and went
over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Sha'ul,
and twelve of the servants of David. <a name="C102V16" id="C102V16">2:16</a>
They caught everyone his fellow by the head, and <i>thrust</i> his sword
in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was
called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon. <a name="C102V17" id="C102V17">2:17</a>
The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of
Yisrael, before the servants of David. <a name="C102V18" id="C102V18">2:18</a>
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and
Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle. <a name="C102V19" id="C102V19">2:19</a>
Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand
nor to the left from following Abner. <a name="C102V20" id="C102V20">2:20</a>
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, Asahel? He answered, It
is I. <a name="C102V21" id="C102V21">2:21</a> Abner said to him, Turn you
aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay you hold on one of the
young men, and take you his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from
following him. <a name="C102V22" id="C102V22">2:22</a> Abner said again to
Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the
ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother? <a
name="C102V23" id="C102V23">2:23</a> However he refused to turn aside:
therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear struck him in the body,
so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in
the same place: and it happened, that as many as came to the place where
Asahel fell down and died stood still. <a name="C102V24" id="C102V24">2:24</a>
But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they
were come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the
wilderness of Gibeon. <a name="C102V25" id="C102V25">2:25</a> The children of
Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band,
and stood on the top of a hill. <a name="C102V26" id="C102V26">2:26</a> Then
Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever?
Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long
shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their
brothers?" <a name="C102V27" id="C102V27">2:27</a> Joab said, As Elohim
lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had
gone away, nor followed everyone his brother. <a name="C102V28" id="C102V28">2:28</a>
So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued
after Yisrael no more, neither fought they any more. <a name="C102V29"
id="C102V29">2:29</a> Abner and his men went all that night through the
Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and
came to Mahanaim. <a name="C102V30" id="C102V30">2:30</a> Joab returned from
following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there
lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel. <a name="C102V31"
id="C102V31">2:31</a> But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and
of Abner's men, <i>so that</i> three hundred sixty men died. <a
name="C102V32" id="C102V32">2:32</a> They took up Asahel, and buried him in
the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all
night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C103V1" id="C103V1">3:1</a> Now there was long war between the house
of Sha'ul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but
the house of Sha'ul grew weaker and weaker. <a name="C103V2" id="C103V2">3:2</a>
To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam
the Jezreelitess; <a name="C103V3" id="C103V3">3:3</a> and his second,
Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third,
Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; <a
name="C103V4" id="C103V4">3:4</a> and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; <a name="C103V5" id="C103V5">3:5</a>
and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David
in Hebron. <a name="C103V6" id="C103V6">3:6</a> It happened, while there was
war between the house of Sha'ul and the house of David, that Abner made
himself strong in the house of Sha'ul. <a name="C103V7" id="C103V7">3:7</a> Now
Sha'ul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and <i>Ishbosheth</i>
said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine? <a
name="C103V8" id="C103V8">3:8</a> Then was Abner very angry for the words of
Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Yehudah? This day do
I show kindness to the house of Sha'ul your father, to his brothers, and to
his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet
you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman. <a name="C103V9"
id="C103V9">3:9</a> Elohim do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has
sworn to David, I don't do even so to him; <a name="C103V10" id="C103V10">3:10</a>
to transfer the kingdom from the house of Sha'ul, and to set up the throne
of David over Yisrael and over Yehudah, from Dan even to Beersheba. <a
name="C103V11" id="C103V11">3:11</a> He could not answer Abner another word,
because he feared him. <a name="C103V12" id="C103V12">3:12</a> Abner sent
messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying <i>also</i>,
Make your league with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring
about all Yisrael to you. <a name="C103V13" id="C103V13">3:13</a> He said,
Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that
is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Sha'ul's
daughter, when you come to see my face. <a name="C103V14" id="C103V14">3:14</a>
David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Sha'ul's son, saying, Deliver me my
wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins
of the Philistines. <a name="C103V15" id="C103V15">3:15</a> Ishbosheth sent,
and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish. <a
name="C103V16" id="C103V16">3:16</a> Her husband went with her, weeping as he
went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and
he returned. <a name="C103V17" id="C103V17">3:17</a> Abner had communication
with the elders of Yisrael, saying, In times past you sought for David to
be king over you: <a name="C103V18" id="C103V18">3:18</a> now then do it; for
Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will
save my people Yisrael out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the
hand of all their enemies. <a name="C103V19" id="C103V19">3:19</a> Abner also
spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of
David in Hebron all that seemed good to Yisrael, and to the whole house of
Benjamin. <a name="C103V20" id="C103V20">3:20</a> So Abner came to David to
Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were
with him a feast. <a name="C103V21" id="C103V21">3:21</a> Abner said to David,
I will arise and go, and will gather all Yisrael to my lord the king, that
they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that
your soul desires. David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. <a
name="C103V22" id="C103V22">3:22</a> Behold, the servants of David and Joab
came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was
not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in
peace. <a name="C103V23" id="C103V23">3:23</a> When Joab and all the army who
was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came
to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace. <a
name="C103V24" id="C103V24">3:24</a> Then Joab came to the king, and said,
What have you done? behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have
sent him away, and he is quite gone? <a name="C103V25" id="C103V25">3:25</a>
You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know
your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do. <a
name="C103V26" id="C103V26">3:26</a> When Joab was come out from David, he
sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of
Sirah: but David didn't know it. <a name="C103V27" id="C103V27">3:27</a> When
Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the
gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that
he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. <a name="C103V28" id="C103V28">3:28</a>
Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless
before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner: <a name="C103V29"
id="C103V29">3:29</a> let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his
father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has
an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the
sword, or who lacks bread. <a name="C103V30" id="C103V30">3:30</a> So Joab and
Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother
Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. <a name="C103V31" id="C103V31">3:31</a> David
said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes,
and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed
the bier. <a name="C103V32" id="C103V32">3:32</a> They buried Abner in Hebron:
and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all
the people wept. <a name="C103V33" id="C103V33">3:33</a> The king lamented for
Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies? <a name="C103V34"
id="C103V34">3:34</a> Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into
fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.
</p>
<p>
All the people wept again over him. <a name="C103V35" id="C103V35">3:35</a>
All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but
David swore, saying, Elohim do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or
anything else, until the sun be down. <a name="C103V36" id="C103V36">3:36</a>
All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the
king did pleased all the people. <a name="C103V37" id="C103V37">3:37</a> So
all the people and all Yisrael understood that day that it was not of the
king to kill Abner the son of Ner. <a name="C103V38" id="C103V38">3:38</a> The
king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a
great man has fallen this day in Yisrael? <a name="C103V39" id="C103V39">3:39</a>
I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of
Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evil-doer according to
his wickedness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C104V1" id="C104V1">4:1</a> When <i>Ishbosheth</i>, Sha'ul's son, heard
that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the
Israelites were troubled. <a name="C104V2" id="C104V2">4:2</a> <i>Ishbosheth</i>,
Sha'ul's son, <i>had</i> two men who were captains of bands: the name of the
one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to
Benjamin: <a name="C104V3" id="C104V3">4:3</a> and the Beerothites fled to
Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day). <a name="C104V4"
id="C104V4">4:4</a> Now Jonathan, Sha'ul's son, had a son who was lame of his
feet. He was five years old when the news came of Sha'ul and Jonathan out of
Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made
haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
<a name="C104V5" id="C104V5">4:5</a> The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab
and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of
Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon. <a name="C104V6" id="C104V6">4:6</a>
They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have
fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his
brother escaped. <a name="C104V7" id="C104V7">4:7</a> Now when they came into
the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and
killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of
the Arabah all night. <a name="C104V8" id="C104V8">4:8</a> They brought the
head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the
head of Ishbosheth, the son of Sha'ul, your enemy, who sought your life; and
Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Sha'ul, and of his seed. <a
name="C104V9" id="C104V9">4:9</a> David answered Rechab and Baanah his
brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh
lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, <a name="C104V10"
id="C104V10">4:10</a> when one told me, saying, Behold, Sha'ul is dead,
thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in
Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. <a name="C104V11"
id="C104V11">4:11</a> How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous
person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of
your hand, and take you away from the earth? <a name="C104V12" id="C104V12">4:12</a>
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their
hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But
they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in
Hebron.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C105V1" id="C105V1">5:1</a> Then came all the tribes of Yisrael to
David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your
flesh. <a name="C105V2" id="C105V2">5:2</a> In times past, when Sha'ul was king
over us, it was you who led out and brought in Yisrael: and Yahweh said to
you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisrael, and you shall be prince
over Yisrael. <a name="C105V3" id="C105V3">5:3</a> So all the elders of Yisrael
came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in
Hebron before Yahweh: and they anointed David king over Yisrael. <a
name="C105V4" id="C105V4">5:4</a> David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years. <a name="C105V5" id="C105V5">5:5</a> In
Hebron he reigned over Yehudah seven years and six months; and in Yerushalayim
he reigned thirty-three years over all Yisrael and Yehudah. <a name="C105V6"
id="C105V6">5:6</a> The king and his men went to Yerushalayim against the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Except
you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here;
thinking, David can't come in here. <a name="C105V7" id="C105V7">5:7</a>
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of
David. <a name="C105V8" id="C105V8">5:8</a> David said on that day, Whoever
strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and <i>strike</i>
the lame and the blind, who are hated of David's soul. Therefore they say,
There are the blind and the lame; he can't come into the house. <a
name="C105V9" id="C105V9">5:9</a> David lived in the stronghold, and called it
the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward. <a
name="C105V10" id="C105V10">5:10</a> David grew greater and greater; for
Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, was with him. <a name="C105V11" id="C105V11">5:11</a>
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and
carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. <a name="C105V12"
id="C105V12">5:12</a> David perceived that Yahweh had established him king
over Yisrael, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Yisrael's
sake. <a name="C105V13" id="C105V13">5:13</a> David took him more concubines
and wives out of Yerushalayim, after he was come from Hebron; and there were
yet sons and daughters born to David. <a name="C105V14" id="C105V14">5:14</a>
These are the names of those who were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shammua,
and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, <a name="C105V15" id="C105V15">5:15</a>
and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, <a name="C105V16" id="C105V16">5:16</a>
and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet. <a name="C105V17" id="C105V17">5:17</a>
When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Yisrael,
all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went
down to the stronghold. <a name="C105V18" id="C105V18">5:18</a> Now the
Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. <a
name="C105V19" id="C105V19">5:19</a> David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I
go up against the Philistines? will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh
said to David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into
your hand. <a name="C105V20" id="C105V20">5:20</a> David came to Baal Perazim,
and David struck them there; and he said, Yahweh has broken my enemies
before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that
place Baal Perazim. <a name="C105V21" id="C105V21">5:21</a> They left their
images there; and David and his men took them away. <a name="C105V22"
id="C105V22">5:22</a> The Philistines came up yet again, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim. <a name="C105V23" id="C105V23">5:23</a>
When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up: make a
circuit behind them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees. <a
name="C105V24" id="C105V24">5:24</a> It shall be, when you hear the sound of
marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall bestir
yourself; for then is Yahweh gone out before you to strike the army of the
Philistines. <a name="C105V25" id="C105V25">5:25</a> David did so, as Yahweh
commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to
Gezer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C106V1" id="C106V1">6:1</a> David again gathered together all the
chosen men of Yisrael, thirty thousand. <a name="C106V2" id="C106V2">6:2</a>
David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale
Yehudah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim, which is called by the Name,
even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits <i>above</i> the cherubim. <a
name="C106V3" id="C106V3">6:3</a> They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart, and
brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah
and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. <a name="C106V4"
id="C106V4">6:4</a> They brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was
in the hill, with the ark of Elohim: and Ahio went before the ark. <a
name="C106V5" id="C106V5">6:5</a> David and all the house of Yisrael played
before Yahweh with all manner of <i>instruments made of</i> fir wood, and
with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with
castanets, and with cymbals. <a name="C106V6" id="C106V6">6:6</a> When they
came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth <i>his hand</i> to
the ark of Elohim, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled. <a
name="C106V7" id="C106V7">6:7</a> The anger of Yahweh was kindled against
Uzzah; and Elohim struck him there for his error; and there he died by the
ark of Elohim. <a name="C106V8" id="C106V8">6:8</a> David was displeased, because
Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to
this day. <a name="C106V9" id="C106V9">6:9</a> David was afraid of Yahweh that
day; and he said, How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me? <a name="C106V10"
id="C106V10">6:10</a> So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him
into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of
Obed-Edom the Gittite. <a name="C106V11" id="C106V11">6:11</a> The ark of
Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months: and
Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom, and all his house. <a name="C106V12" id="C106V12">6:12</a>
It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom,
and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of Elohim. David went and
brought up the ark of Elohim from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of
David with joy. <a name="C106V13" id="C106V13">6:13</a> It was so, that, when
those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox
and a fattened calf. <a name="C106V14" id="C106V14">6:14</a> David danced
before Yahweh with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
<a name="C106V15" id="C106V15">6:15</a> So David and all the house of Yisrael
brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the
trumpet. <a name="C106V16" id="C106V16">6:16</a> It was so, as the ark of
Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Sha'ul
looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before
Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart. <a name="C106V17" id="C106V17">6:17</a>
They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst
of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. <a name="C106V18" id="C106V18">6:18</a>
When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies. <a
name="C106V19" id="C106V19">6:19</a> He dealt among all the people, even among
the whole multitude of Yisrael, both to men and women, to everyone a cake
of bread, and a portion <i>of flesh</i>, and a cake of raisins. So all the
people departed everyone to his house. <a name="C106V20" id="C106V20">6:20</a>
Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Sha'ul
came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Yisrael
today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his
servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself! <a
name="C106V21" id="C106V21">6:21</a> David said to Michal, <i>It was</i>
before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to
appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Yisrael: therefore will I
play before Yahweh. <a name="C106V22" id="C106V22">6:22</a> I will be yet more
vile than this, and will be base in my own sight: but of the handmaids of
whom you have spoken, they shall honor me. <a name="C106V23" id="C106V23">6:23</a>
Michal the daughter of Sha'ul had no child to the day of her death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C107V1" id="C107V1">7:1</a> It happened, when the king lived in his
house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around, <a
name="C107V2" id="C107V2">7:2</a> that the king said to Nathan the prophet,
See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Elohim dwells within
curtains. <a name="C107V3" id="C107V3">7:3</a> Nathan said to the king, Go, do
all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you. <a name="C107V4" id="C107V4">7:4</a>
It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan,
saying, <a name="C107V5" id="C107V5">7:5</a> Go and tell my servant David,
Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in? <a
name="C107V6" id="C107V6">7:6</a> for I have not lived in a house since the
day that I brought up the children of Yisrael out of Egypt, even to this
day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle. <a name="C107V7"
id="C107V7">7:7</a> In all places in which I have walked with all the
children of Yisrael, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Yisrael, whom
I commanded to be shepherd of my people Yisrael, saying, Why have you not
built me a house of cedar? <a name="C107V8" id="C107V8">7:8</a> Now therefore
thus you shall tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I took
you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be
prince over my people, over Yisrael; <a name="C107V9" id="C107V9">7:9</a> and I
have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies
from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the
great ones who are in the earth. <a name="C107V10" id="C107V10">7:10</a> I
will appoint a place for my people Yisrael, and will plant them, that they
may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the
children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, <a
name="C107V11" id="C107V11">7:11</a> and <i>as</i> from the day that I
commanded judges to be over my people Yisrael; and I will cause you to rest
from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you
a house. <a name="C107V12" id="C107V12">7:12</a> When your days are fulfilled,
and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you,
who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. <a
name="C107V13" id="C107V13">7:13</a> He shall build a house for my name, and I
will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. <a name="C107V14"
id="C107V14">7:14</a> I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he
commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
stripes of the children of men; <a name="C107V15" id="C107V15">7:15</a> but my
loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Sha'ul, whom I
put away before you. <a name="C107V16" id="C107V16">7:16</a> Your house and
your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be
established forever. <a name="C107V17" id="C107V17">7:17</a> According to all
these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to
David. <a name="C107V18" id="C107V18">7:18</a> Then David the king went in,
and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my
house, that you have brought me thus far? <a name="C107V19" id="C107V19">7:19</a>
This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken
also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this <i>too</i>
after the manner of men, Lord Yahweh! <a name="C107V20" id="C107V20">7:20</a>
What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C107V21" id="C107V21">7:21</a> For your word's sake, and according to
your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make your servant
know it. <a name="C107V22" id="C107V22">7:22</a> Therefore you are great,
Yahweh Elohim: for there is none like you, neither is there any Elohim besides
you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. <a name="C107V23"
id="C107V23">7:23</a> What one nation in the earth is like your people, even
like Yisrael, whom Elohim went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make
him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your
land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, <i>from</i>
the nations and their gods? <a name="C107V24" id="C107V24">7:24</a> You did
establish to yourself your people Yisrael to be a people to you forever;
and you, Yahweh, became their Elohim. <a name="C107V25" id="C107V25">7:25</a>
Now, Yahweh Elohim, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant,
and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have
spoken. <a name="C107V26" id="C107V26">7:26</a> Let your name be magnified
forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies is Elohim over Yisrael; and the house of
your servant David shall be established before you. <a name="C107V27"
id="C107V27">7:27</a> For you, Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, have
revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has
your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you. <a name="C107V28"
id="C107V28">7:28</a> Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are Elohim, and your words are
truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant: <a
name="C107V29" id="C107V29">7:29</a> now therefore let it please you to bless
the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for
you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of
your servant be blessed forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C108V1" id="C108V1">8:1</a> After this it happened that David struck
the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother
city out of the hand of the Philistines. <a name="C108V2" id="C108V2">8:2</a>
He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down
on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full
line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought
tribute. <a name="C108V3" id="C108V3">8:3</a> David struck also Hadadezer the
son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the
River. <a name="C108V4" id="C108V4">8:4</a> David took from him one thousand
seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung
all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. <a
name="C108V5" id="C108V5">8:5</a> When the Syrians of Damascus came to help
Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men. <a name="C108V6" id="C108V6">8:6</a> Then David put garrisons in
Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought
tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. <a name="C108V7"
id="C108V7">8:7</a> David took the shields of gold that were on the servants
of Hadadezer, and brought them to Yerushalayim. <a name="C108V8" id="C108V8">8:8</a>
From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took
exceeding much brass. <a name="C108V9" id="C108V9">8:9</a> When Toi king of
Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer, <a
name="C108V10" id="C108V10">8:10</a> then Toi sent Joram his son to king
David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. <i>Joram</i>
brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of
brass: <a name="C108V11" id="C108V11">8:11</a> These also did king David
dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the
nations which he subdued; <a name="C108V12" id="C108V12">8:12</a> of Syria,
and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of
Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. <a
name="C108V13" id="C108V13">8:13</a> David got him a name when he returned
from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand
men. <a name="C108V14" id="C108V14">8:14</a> He put garrisons in Edom;
throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. <a name="C108V15"
id="C108V15">8:15</a> David reigned over all Yisrael; and David executed
justice and righteousness to all his people. <a name="C108V16" id="C108V16">8:16</a>
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud was recorder; <a name="C108V17" id="C108V17">8:17</a> and Zadok the son
of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah
was scribe; <a name="C108V18" id="C108V18">8:18</a> and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada <i>was over</i> the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's
sons were chief ministers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C109V1" id="C109V1">9:1</a> David said, Is there yet any who is left
of the house of Sha'ul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? <a
name="C109V2" id="C109V2">9:2</a> There was of the house of Sha'ul a servant
whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to
him, Are you Ziba? He said, Your servant is he. <a name="C109V3" id="C109V3">9:3</a>
The king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Sha'ul, that I may show
the kindness of Elohim to him? Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son,
who is lame of his feet. <a name="C109V4" id="C109V4">9:4</a> The king said to
him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of
Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar. <a name="C109V5" id="C109V5">9:5</a>
Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son
of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. <a name="C109V6" id="C109V6">9:6</a> Mephibosheth,
the son of Jonathan, the son of Sha'ul, came to David, and fell on his face,
and did obeisance. David said, Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your
servant! <a name="C109V7" id="C109V7">9:7</a> David said to him, "Don't
be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your
father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Sha'ul your father; and
you shall eat bread at my table continually." <a name="C109V8" id="C109V8">9:8</a>
He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should
look on such a dead dog as I am?" <a name="C109V9" id="C109V9">9:9</a>
Then the king called to Ziba, Sha'ul's servant, and said to him, "All
that pertained to Sha'ul and to all his house have I given to your master's
son. <a name="C109V10" id="C109V10">9:10</a> You shall till the land for him,
you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in <i>the
fruits</i>, that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth
your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had
fifteen sons and twenty servants. <a name="C109V11" id="C109V11">9:11</a> Then
said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his
servant, so your shall servant do. As for Mephibosheth, <i>said the king</i>,
he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons. <a name="C109V12"
id="C109V12">9:12</a> Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All
that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. <a
name="C109V13" id="C109V13">9:13</a> So Mephibosheth lived in Yerushalayim; for
he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1010V1" id="C1010V1">10:1</a> It happened after this, that the king
of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. <a
name="C1010V2" id="C1010V2">10:2</a> David said, I will show kindness to Hanun
the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. So David sent by
his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came
into the land of the children of Ammon. <a name="C1010V3" id="C1010V3">10:3</a>
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you
think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to
you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy
it out, and to overthrow it? <a name="C1010V4" id="C1010V4">10:4</a> So Hanun
took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and
cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent
them away. <a name="C1010V5" id="C1010V5">10:5</a> When they told it to David,
he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said,
Wait at Jericho until your beards are grown, and then return. <a
name="C1010V6" id="C1010V6">10:6</a> When the children of Ammon saw that they
were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the
Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen,
and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve
thousand men. <a name="C1010V7" id="C1010V7">10:7</a> When David heard of it,
he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. <a name="C1010V8"
id="C1010V8">10:8</a> The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob,
and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. <a
name="C1010V9" id="C1010V9">10:9</a> Now when Joab saw that the battle was set
against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisrael,
and put them in array against the Syrians: <a name="C1010V10" id="C1010V10">10:10</a>
The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother;
and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. <a name="C1010V11"
id="C1010V11">10:11</a> He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then
you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you,
then I will come and help you. <a name="C1010V12" id="C1010V12">10:12</a> Be
of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities
of our Elohim: and Yahweh do that which seems him good. <a name="C1010V13"
id="C1010V13">10:13</a> So Joab and the people who were with him drew near
to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him. <a
name="C1010V14" id="C1010V14">10:14</a> When the children of Ammon saw that
the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into
the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1010V15" id="C1010V15">10:15</a> When the Syrians saw
that they were defeated by Yisrael, they gathered themselves together. <a
name="C1010V16" id="C1010V16">10:16</a> Hadadezer sent, and brought out the
Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach
the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. <a name="C1010V17"
id="C1010V17">10:17</a> It was told David; and he gathered all Yisrael
together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set
themselves in array against David, and fought with him. <a name="C1010V18"
id="C1010V18">10:18</a> The Syrians fled before Yisrael; and David killed of
the Syrians <i>the men of</i> seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand
horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died
there. <a name="C1010V19" id="C1010V19">10:19</a> When all the kings who were
servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Yisrael, they made
peace with Yisrael, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the
children of Ammon any more.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1011V1" id="C1011V1">11:1</a> It happened, at the return of the
year, at the time when kings go out <i>to battle</i>, that David sent
Joab, and his servants with him, and all Yisrael; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1011V2" id="C1011V2">11:2</a> It happened at evening, that David arose
from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the
roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
<a name="C1011V3" id="C1011V3">11:3</a> David send and inquired after the
woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of
Uriah the Hittite? <a name="C1011V4" id="C1011V4">11:4</a> David sent
messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for
she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. <a
name="C1011V5" id="C1011V5">11:5</a> The woman conceived; and she sent and
told David, and said, I am with child. <a name="C1011V6" id="C1011V6">11:6</a>
David sent to Joab, <i>saying</i>, Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent
Uriah to David. <a name="C1011V7" id="C1011V7">11:7</a> When Uriah was come to
him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how
the war prospered. <a name="C1011V8" id="C1011V8">11:8</a> David said to
Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. Uriah departed out of
the king's house, and there followed him a mess <i>of food</i> from the
king. <a name="C1011V9" id="C1011V9">11:9</a> But Uriah slept at the door of
the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to
his house. <a name="C1011V10" id="C1011V10">11:10</a> When they had told
David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah,
Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house? <a
name="C1011V11" id="C1011V11">11:11</a> Uriah said to David, The ark, and
Yisrael, and Yehudah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of
my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to
eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul
lives, I will not do this thing. <a name="C1011V12" id="C1011V12">11:12</a>
David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you
depart. So Uriah abode in Yerushalayim that day, and the next day. <a
name="C1011V13" id="C1011V13">11:13</a> When David had called him, he ate and
drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on
his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house. <a
name="C1011V14" id="C1011V14">11:14</a> It happened in the morning, that David
wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. <a name="C1011V15"
id="C1011V15">11:15</a> He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the
forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be
struck, and die. <a name="C1011V16" id="C1011V16">11:16</a> It happened, when
Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he
knew that valiant men were. <a name="C1011V17" id="C1011V17">11:17</a> The men
of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the
people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. <a
name="C1011V18" id="C1011V18">11:18</a> Then Joab sent and told David all the
things concerning the war; <a name="C1011V19" id="C1011V19">11:19</a> and he
commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of
telling all the things concerning the war to the king, <a name="C1011V20"
id="C1011V20">11:20</a> it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he
tells you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know
that they would shoot from the wall? <a name="C1011V21" id="C1011V21">11:21</a>
who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper
millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go
so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead also.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1011V22" id="C1011V22">11:22</a> So the messenger went, and came and
showed David all that Joab had sent him for. <a name="C1011V23" id="C1011V23">11:23</a>
The messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out to
us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
<a name="C1011V24" id="C1011V24">11:24</a> The shooters shot at your servants
from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. <a name="C1011V25" id="C1011V25">11:25</a>
Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall tell Joab, Don't let this
thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make
your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage
you him. <a name="C1011V26" id="C1011V26">11:26</a> When the wife of Uriah
heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her
husband. <a name="C1011V27" id="C1011V27">11:27</a> When the mourning was
past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife,
and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1012V1" id="C1012V1">12:1</a> Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came
to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one
rich, and the other poor. <a name="C1012V2" id="C1012V2">12:2</a> The rich man
had very many flocks and herds, <a name="C1012V3" id="C1012V3">12:3</a> but
the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought
and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of
his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him
like a daughter. <a name="C1012V4" id="C1012V4">12:4</a> A traveler came to
the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd,
to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor
man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1012V5" id="C1012V5">12:5</a> David's anger was greatly kindled
against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who
has done this is worthy to die! <a name="C1012V6" id="C1012V6">12:6</a> He
shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he
had no pity!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1012V7" id="C1012V7">12:7</a> Nathan said to David, "You are
the man. This is what Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, says: 'I anointed you
king over Yisrael, and I delivered you out of the hand of Sha'ul. <a
name="C1012V8" id="C1012V8">12:8</a> I gave you your master's house, and your
master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Yisrael and of
Yehudah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you
many more such things. <a name="C1012V9" id="C1012V9">12:9</a> Why have you
despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You
have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to
be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
<a name="C1012V10" id="C1012V10">12:10</a> Now therefore the sword will never
depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' <a name="C1012V11" id="C1012V11">12:11</a>
This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of
your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them
to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this
sun. <a name="C1012V12" id="C1012V12">12:12</a> For you did it secretly, but I
will do this thing before all Yisrael, and before the sun.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1012V13" id="C1012V13">12:13</a> David said to Nathan, "I have
sinned against Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will
not die. <a name="C1012V14" id="C1012V14">12:14</a> However, because by this
deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the
child also who is born to you shall surely die." <a name="C1012V15"
id="C1012V15">12:15</a> Nathan departed to his house.
</p>
<p>
Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very
sick. <a name="C1012V16" id="C1012V16">12:16</a> David therefore begged Elohim
for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the
earth. <a name="C1012V17" id="C1012V17">12:17</a> The elders of his house
arose, <i>and stood</i> beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he
would not, neither did he eat bread with them. <a name="C1012V18" id="C1012V18">12:18</a>
It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David
feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while
the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our
voice: how will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is
dead! <a name="C1012V19" id="C1012V19">12:19</a> But when David saw that his
servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was
dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is
dead. <a name="C1012V20" id="C1012V20">12:20</a> Then David arose from the
earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he
came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own
house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate. <a
name="C1012V21" id="C1012V21">12:21</a> Then said his servants to him, What
thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child,
while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat
bread. <a name="C1012V22" id="C1012V22">12:22</a> He said, While the child was
yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will
not be gracious to me, that the child may live? <a name="C1012V23"
id="C1012V23">12:23</a> But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring
him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. <a
name="C1012V24" id="C1012V24">12:24</a> David comforted Bathsheba his wife,
and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called
his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him; <a name="C1012V25" id="C1012V25">12:25</a>
and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah,
for Yahweh's sake. <a name="C1012V26" id="C1012V26">12:26</a> Now Joab fought
against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. <a
name="C1012V27" id="C1012V27">12:27</a> Joab sent messengers to David, and
said, I have fought against Rabbah; yes, I have taken the city of waters.
<a name="C1012V28" id="C1012V28">12:28</a> Now therefore gather the rest of
the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take
the city, and it be called after my name. <a name="C1012V29" id="C1012V29">12:29</a>
David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought
against it, and took it. <a name="C1012V30" id="C1012V30">12:30</a> He took
the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of
gold, and <i>in it were</i> precious stones; and it was set on David's
head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. <a
name="C1012V31" id="C1012V31">12:31</a> He brought forth the people who were
therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of
iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the
cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to
Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1013V1" id="C1013V1">13:1</a> It happened after this, that Absalom
the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon
the son of David loved her. <a name="C1013V2" id="C1013V2">13:2</a> Amnon was
so troubled that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a
virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her. <a name="C1013V3"
id="C1013V3">13:3</a> But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the
son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. <a
name="C1013V4" id="C1013V4">13:4</a> He said to him, Why, son of the king, are
you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I
love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. <a name="C1013V5" id="C1013V5">13:5</a>
Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick:
and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister
Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that
I may see it, and eat it from her hand. <a name="C1013V6" id="C1013V6">13:6</a>
So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to
see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her sister Tamar come, and
make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand. <a
name="C1013V7" id="C1013V7">13:7</a> Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go
now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food. <a name="C1013V8"
id="C1013V8">13:8</a> So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was
laid down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight,
and did bake the cakes. <a name="C1013V9" id="C1013V9">13:9</a> She took the
pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said,
Have out all men from me. They went out every man from him. <a
name="C1013V10" id="C1013V10">13:10</a> Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food
into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes
which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her
brother. <a name="C1013V11" id="C1013V11">13:11</a> When she had brought them
near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with
me, my sister. <a name="C1013V12" id="C1013V12">13:12</a> She answered him,
No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in
Yisrael. Don't you do this folly. <a name="C1013V13" id="C1013V13">13:13</a> I,
where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the
fools in Yisrael. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not
withhold me from you. <a name="C1013V14" id="C1013V14">13:14</a> However he
would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her,
and lay with her. <a name="C1013V15" id="C1013V15">13:15</a> Then Amnon hated
her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her
was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her,
Arise, be gone. <a name="C1013V16" id="C1013V16">13:16</a> She said to him,
Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is <i>worse</i> than
the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her. <a
name="C1013V17" id="C1013V17">13:17</a> Then he called his servant who
ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the
door after her. <a name="C1013V18" id="C1013V18">13:18</a> She had a garment
of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters
who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the
door after her. <a name="C1013V19" id="C1013V19">13:19</a> Tamar put ashes on
her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she
laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went. <a
name="C1013V20" id="C1013V20">13:20</a> Absalom her brother said to her, Has
Amnon your brother been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: he
is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. So Tamar remained
desolate in her brother Absalom's house. <a name="C1013V21" id="C1013V21">13:21</a>
But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry. <a
name="C1013V22" id="C1013V22">13:22</a> Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good
nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
<a name="C1013V23" id="C1013V23">13:23</a> It happened after two full years,
that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and
Absalom invited all the king's sons. <a name="C1013V24" id="C1013V24">13:24</a>
Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant has
sheepshearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants go with your
servant. <a name="C1013V25" id="C1013V25">13:25</a> The king said to Absalom,
No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you. He pressed
him: however he would not go, but blessed him. <a name="C1013V26" id="C1013V26">13:26</a>
Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. The
king said to him, Why should he go with you? <a name="C1013V27" id="C1013V27">13:27</a>
But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with
him. <a name="C1013V28" id="C1013V28">13:28</a> Absalom commanded his
servants, saying, Mark you now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and
when I tell you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; don't be afraid; haven't I
commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. <a name="C1013V29" id="C1013V29">13:29</a>
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all
the king's sons arose, and every man got him up on his mule, and fled. <a
name="C1013V30" id="C1013V30">13:30</a> It happened, while they were in the
way, that the news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's
sons, and there is not one of them left. <a name="C1013V31" id="C1013V31">13:31</a>
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all
his servants stood by with their clothes torn. <a name="C1013V32" id="C1013V32">13:32</a>
Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let my lord
suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon
only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined
from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. <a name="C1013V33" id="C1013V33">13:33</a>
Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to
think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead. <a
name="C1013V34" id="C1013V34">13:34</a> But Absalom fled. The young man who
kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people
were coming by way of the hillside behind him. <a name="C1013V35" id="C1013V35">13:35</a>
Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your
servant said, so it is. <a name="C1013V36" id="C1013V36">13:36</a> It
happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the
king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also
and all his servants wept very sore. <a name="C1013V37" id="C1013V37">13:37</a>
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur.
<i>David</i> mourned for his son every day. <a name="C1013V38" id="C1013V38">13:38</a>
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. <a
name="C1013V39" id="C1013V39">13:39</a> <i>the soul of</i> king David longed
to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he
was dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1014V1" id="C1014V1">14:1</a> Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived
that the king's heart was toward Absalom. <a name="C1014V2" id="C1014V2">14:2</a>
Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her,
please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't
anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned
for the dead: <a name="C1014V3" id="C1014V3">14:3</a> and go in to the king,
and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. <a
name="C1014V4" id="C1014V4">14:4</a> When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the
king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said,
Help, O king. <a name="C1014V5" id="C1014V5">14:5</a> The king said to her,
What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is
dead. <a name="C1014V6" id="C1014V6">14:6</a> Your handmaid had two sons, and
they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them,
but the one struck the other, and killed him. <a name="C1014V7" id="C1014V7">14:7</a>
Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say,
Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of
his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they
quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name
nor remainder on the surface of the earth. <a name="C1014V8" id="C1014V8">14:8</a>
The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give a command
concerning you. <a name="C1014V9" id="C1014V9">14:9</a> The woman of Tekoa
said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my
father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless. <a name="C1014V10"
id="C1014V10">14:10</a> The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring
him to me, and he shall not touch you any more. <a name="C1014V11"
id="C1014V11">14:11</a> Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh
your Elohim, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they
destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your
son fall to the earth. <a name="C1014V12" id="C1014V12">14:12</a> Then the
woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He
said, Say on. <a name="C1014V13" id="C1014V13">14:13</a> The woman said, Why
then have you devised such a thing against the people of Elohim? for in
speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does
not bring home again his banished one. <a name="C1014V14" id="C1014V14">14:14</a>
For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't
be gathered up again; neither does Elohim take away life, but devises means,
that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. <a name="C1014V15"
id="C1014V15">14:15</a> Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this
word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid:
and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the
king will perform the request of his servant. <a name="C1014V16" id="C1014V16">14:16</a>
For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man
who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of Elohim. <a
name="C1014V17" id="C1014V17">14:17</a> Then your handmaid said, Please let
the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of Elohim, so is
my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your Elohim be with you.
<a name="C1014V18" id="C1014V18">14:18</a> Then the king answered the woman,
Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said,
Let my lord the king now speak. <a name="C1014V19" id="C1014V19">14:19</a> The
king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered,
As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or
to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your
servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your
handmaid; <a name="C1014V20" id="C1014V20">14:20</a> to change the face of the
matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise,
according to the wisdom of an angel of Elohim, to know all things that are in
the earth. <a name="C1014V21" id="C1014V21">14:21</a> The king said to Joab,
Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man
Absalom back. <a name="C1014V22" id="C1014V22">14:22</a> Joab fell to the
ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab
said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my
lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant. <a
name="C1014V23" id="C1014V23">14:23</a> So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and
brought Absalom to Yerushalayim. <a name="C1014V24" id="C1014V24">14:24</a> The
king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So
Absalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face. <a
name="C1014V25" id="C1014V25">14:25</a> Now in all Yisrael there was none to be
so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even
to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. <a name="C1014V26"
id="C1014V26">14:26</a> When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at
every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he
cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the
king's weight. <a name="C1014V27" id="C1014V27">14:27</a> To Absalom there
were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a
woman of a beautiful face. <a name="C1014V28" id="C1014V28">14:28</a> Absalom
lived two full years in Yerushalayim; and he didn't see the king's face. <a
name="C1014V29" id="C1014V29">14:29</a> Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send
him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second
time, but he would not come. <a name="C1014V30" id="C1014V30">14:30</a>
Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and
he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the
field on fire. <a name="C1014V31" id="C1014V31">14:31</a> Then Joab arose, and
came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set
my field on fire? <a name="C1014V32" id="C1014V32">14:32</a> Absalom answered
Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the
king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there
still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity
in me, let him kill me. <a name="C1014V33" id="C1014V33">14:33</a> So Joab
came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he
came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the
king: and the king kissed Absalom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1015V1" id="C1015V1">15:1</a> It happened after this, that Absalom
prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. <a
name="C1015V2" id="C1015V2">15:2</a> Absalom rose up early, and stood beside
the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man had a suit which
should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and
said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes
of Yisrael. <a name="C1015V3" id="C1015V3">15:3</a> Absalom said to him,
Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized of
the king to hear you. <a name="C1015V4" id="C1015V4">15:4</a> Absalom said
moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has
any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice! <a
name="C1015V5" id="C1015V5">15:5</a> It was so, that when any man came near to
do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed
him. <a name="C1015V6" id="C1015V6">15:6</a> In this manner Absalom did to all
Yisrael who came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of
the men of Yisrael. <a name="C1015V7" id="C1015V7">15:7</a> It happened at the
end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and
pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. <a name="C1015V8"
id="C1015V8">15:8</a> For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur
in Syria, saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Yerushalayim, then
I will serve Yahweh. <a name="C1015V9" id="C1015V9">15:9</a> The king said to
him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. <a name="C1015V10"
id="C1015V10">15:10</a> But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of
Yisrael, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you
shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron. <a name="C1015V11" id="C1015V11">15:11</a>
With Absalom went two hundred men out of Yerushalayim, who were invited, and
went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything. <a name="C1015V12"
id="C1015V12">15:12</a> Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's
counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the
sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased
continually with Absalom. <a name="C1015V13" id="C1015V13">15:13</a> There
came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Yisrael are
after Absalom. <a name="C1015V14" id="C1015V14">15:14</a> David said to all
his servants who were with him at Yerushalayim, Arise, and let us flee; for
else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he
overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with
the edge of the sword. <a name="C1015V15" id="C1015V15">15:15</a> The king's
servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever
my lord the king shall choose. <a name="C1015V16" id="C1015V16">15:16</a> The
king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women,
who were concubines, to keep the house. <a name="C1015V17" id="C1015V17">15:17</a>
The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth
Merhak. <a name="C1015V18" id="C1015V18">15:18</a> All his servants passed on
beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the
Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before
the king. <a name="C1015V19" id="C1015V19">15:19</a> Then said the king to
Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with us? return, and abide with the
king: for you are a foreigner, and also an exile; <i>return</i> to your
own place. <a name="C1015V20" id="C1015V20">15:20</a> Whereas you came but
yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, seeing I go
where I may? return you, and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be
with you. <a name="C1015V21" id="C1015V21">15:21</a> Ittai answered the king,
and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what
place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there
also will your servant be. <a name="C1015V22" id="C1015V22">15:22</a> David
said to Ittai, Go and pass over. Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all
his men, and all the little ones who were with him. <a name="C1015V23"
id="C1015V23">15:23</a> All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the
people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron,
and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. <a
name="C1015V24" id="C1015V24">15:24</a> Behold, Zadok also <i>came</i>, and
all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of Elohim; and they
set down the ark of Elohim; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had
done passing out of the city. <a name="C1015V25" id="C1015V25">15:25</a> The
king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of Elohim into the city: if I shall
find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both
it, and his habitation: <a name="C1015V26" id="C1015V26">15:26</a> but if he
say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as
seems good to him. <a name="C1015V27" id="C1015V27">15:27</a> The king said
also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in
peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son
of Abiathar. <a name="C1015V28" id="C1015V28">15:28</a> Behold, I will stay at
the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."
<a name="C1015V29" id="C1015V29">15:29</a> Zadok therefore and Abiathar
carried the ark of Elohim again to Yerushalayim: and they abode there. <a
name="C1015V30" id="C1015V30">15:30</a> David went up by the ascent of the <i>Mount
of</i> Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and
went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his
head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. <a name="C1015V31"
id="C1015V31">15:31</a> One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the
conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of
Ahithophel into foolishness. <a name="C1015V32" id="C1015V32">15:32</a> It
happened that when David had come to the top <i>of the ascent</i>, where
Elohim was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his
coat torn, and earth on his head. <a name="C1015V33" id="C1015V33">15:33</a>
David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to
me: <a name="C1015V34" id="C1015V34">15:34</a> but if you return to the city,
and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your
father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will
you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. <a name="C1015V35" id="C1015V35">15:35</a>
Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? therefore it
shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you
shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. <a name="C1015V36"
id="C1015V36">15:36</a> Behold, they have there with them their two sons,
Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall
send to me everything that you shall hear. <a name="C1015V37" id="C1015V37">15:37</a>
So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into
Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1016V1" id="C1016V1">16:1</a> When David was a little past the top
<i>of the ascent</i>, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him,
with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread,
and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a
bottle of wine. <a name="C1016V2" id="C1016V2">16:2</a> The king said to Ziba,
What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's
household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to
eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink. <a
name="C1016V3" id="C1016V3">16:3</a> The king said, Where is your master's
son? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abides at Yerushalayim; for he said,
Today will the house of Yisrael restore me the kingdom of my father. <a
name="C1016V4" id="C1016V4">16:4</a> Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all
that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours. Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me
find favor in your sight, my lord, O king. <a name="C1016V5" id="C1016V5">16:5</a>
When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house
of Sha'ul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and
cursed still as he came. <a name="C1016V6" id="C1016V6">16:6</a> He cast
stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people
and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. <a
name="C1016V7" id="C1016V7">16:7</a> Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone,
be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow: <a name="C1016V8" id="C1016V8">16:8</a>
Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Sha'ul, in whose
place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand
of Absalom your son; and behold, you are <i>taken</i> in your own
mischief, because you are a man of blood. <a name="C1016V9" id="C1016V9">16:9</a>
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, "Why should this
dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his
head." <a name="C1016V10" id="C1016V10">16:10</a> The king said, What
have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because
Yahweh has said to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done
so? <a name="C1016V11" id="C1016V11">16:11</a> David said to Abishai, and to
all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my
life: how much more <i>may</i> this Benjamite now <i>do it</i>? let him
alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. <a name="C1016V12"
id="C1016V12">16:12</a> It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to
me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for <i>his</i> cursing of me this
day. <a name="C1016V13" id="C1016V13">16:13</a> So David and his men went by
the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside over against him, and
cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust. <a name="C1016V14"
id="C1016V14">16:14</a> The king, and all the people who were with him, came
weary; and he refreshed himself there. <a name="C1016V15" id="C1016V15">16:15</a>
Absalom, and all the people, the men of Yisrael, came to Yerushalayim, and
Ahithophel with him. <a name="C1016V16" id="C1016V16">16:16</a> It happened,
when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, that Hushai
said to Absalom, <i>Long</i> live the king, <i>Long</i> live the king. <a
name="C1016V17" id="C1016V17">16:17</a> Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your
kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend? <a
name="C1016V18" id="C1016V18">16:18</a> Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom
Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Yisrael have chosen, his will I
be, and with him will I abide. <a name="C1016V19" id="C1016V19">16:19</a>
Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence of his son?
as I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence.
<a name="C1016V20" id="C1016V20">16:20</a> Then said Absalom to Ahithophel,
Give your counsel what we shall do. <a name="C1016V21" id="C1016V21">16:21</a>
Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he has
left to keep the house; and all Yisrael will hear that you are abhorred of
your father: then will the hands of all who are with you be strong. <a
name="C1016V22" id="C1016V22">16:22</a> So they spread Absalom a tent on the
top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the
sight of all Yisrael. <a name="C1016V23" id="C1016V23">16:23</a> The counsel of
Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the
oracle of Elohim: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and
with Absalom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1017V1" id="C1017V1">17:1</a> Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom,
Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue
after David this night: <a name="C1017V2" id="C1017V2">17:2</a> and I will
come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid; and
all the people who are with him shall flee; and I will strike the king
only; <a name="C1017V3" id="C1017V3">17:3</a> and I will bring back all the
people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: <i>so</i> all
the people shall be in peace. <a name="C1017V4" id="C1017V4">17:4</a> The
saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Yisrael. <a name="C1017V5"
id="C1017V5">17:5</a> Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also,
and let us hear likewise what he says. <a name="C1017V6" id="C1017V6">17:6</a>
When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel
has spoken after this manner: shall we do <i>after</i> his saying? if not,
speak up. <a name="C1017V7" id="C1017V7">17:7</a> Hushai said to Absalom, The
counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good. <a name="C1017V8"
id="C1017V8">17:8</a> Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his
men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, as a
bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and
will not lodge with the people. <a name="C1017V9" id="C1017V9">17:9</a>
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some <i>other</i> place: and it
will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears
it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom. <a
name="C1017V10" id="C1017V10">17:10</a> Even he who is valiant, whose heart is
as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Yisrael knows that your
father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. <a
name="C1017V11" id="C1017V11">17:11</a> But I counsel that all Yisrael be
gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is
by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person. <a
name="C1017V12" id="C1017V12">17:12</a> So shall we come on him in some place
where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the
ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave
so much as one. <a name="C1017V13" id="C1017V13">17:13</a> Moreover, if he be
gotten into a city, then shall all Yisrael bring ropes to that city, and we
will draw it into the river, until there not be one small stone found
there. <a name="C1017V14" id="C1017V14">17:14</a> Absalom and all the men of
Yisrael said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel
of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of
Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. <a
name="C1017V15" id="C1017V15">17:15</a> Then Hushai said to Zadok and to
Abiathar the priests, Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of
Yisrael that way; and I have counseled this way. <a name="C1017V16"
id="C1017V16">17:16</a> Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,
Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means
pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with
him. <a name="C1017V17" id="C1017V17">17:17</a> Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were
staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and
they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the
city. <a name="C1017V18" id="C1017V18">17:18</a> But a boy saw them, and told
Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of
a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
<a name="C1017V19" id="C1017V19">17:19</a> The woman took and spread the
covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and
nothing was known. <a name="C1017V20" id="C1017V20">17:20</a> Absalom's
servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz
and Jonathan? The woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of
water. When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to
Yerushalayim. <a name="C1017V21" id="C1017V21">17:21</a> It happened, after they
had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king
David; and they said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water;
for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you. <a name="C1017V22" id="C1017V22">17:22</a>
Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed
over the Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them who had
not gone over the Jordan. <a name="C1017V23" id="C1017V23">17:23</a> When
Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey,
and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and
hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father. <a
name="C1017V24" id="C1017V24">17:24</a> Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom
passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Yisrael with him. <a
name="C1017V25" id="C1017V25">17:25</a> Absalom set Amasa over the army
instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the
Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to
Zeruiah, Joab's mother. <a name="C1017V26" id="C1017V26">17:26</a> Yisrael and
Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. <a name="C1017V27" id="C1017V27">17:27</a>
It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash
of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of
Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, <a name="C1017V28"
id="C1017V28">17:28</a> brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and
wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched <i>grain</i>, and beans, and
lentils, and parched <i>pulse</i>, <a name="C1017V29" id="C1017V29">17:29</a>
and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and
for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are
hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
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<p>
<a name="C1018V1" id="C1018V1">18:1</a> David numbered the people who were
with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over
them. <a name="C1018V2" id="C1018V2">18:2</a> David sent forth the people, a
third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the
hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will surely go
forth with you myself also. <a name="C1018V3" id="C1018V3">18:3</a> But the
people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not
care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are
worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to
help us out of the city. <a name="C1018V4" id="C1018V4">18:4</a> The king said
to them, What seems you best I will do. The king stood beside the gate,
and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. <a name="C1018V5"
id="C1018V5">18:5</a> The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. All the
people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
<a name="C1018V6" id="C1018V6">18:6</a> So the people went out into the field
against Yisrael: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. <a
name="C1018V7" id="C1018V7">18:7</a> The people of Yisrael were struck there
before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that
day of twenty thousand men. <a name="C1018V8" id="C1018V8">18:8</a> For the
battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the
forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. <a
name="C1018V9" id="C1018V9">18:9</a> Absalom happened to meet the servants of
David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick
boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was
taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went
on. <a name="C1018V10" id="C1018V10">18:10</a> A certain man saw it, and told
Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak. <a name="C1018V11"
id="C1018V11">18:11</a> Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw
it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have
given you ten <i>pieces of</i> silver, and a sash. <a name="C1018V12"
id="C1018V12">18:12</a> The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a
thousand <i>pieces of</i> silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my
hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and
Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
<a name="C1018V13" id="C1018V13">18:13</a> Otherwise if I had dealt falsely
against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you
yourself would have set yourself against <i>me</i>. <a name="C1018V14"
id="C1018V14">18:14</a> Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He
took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of
Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. <a name="C1018V15"
id="C1018V15">18:15</a> Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and
struck Absalom, and killed him. <a name="C1018V16" id="C1018V16">18:16</a>
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Yisrael;
for Joab held back the people. <a name="C1018V17" id="C1018V17">18:17</a> They
took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised
over him a very great heap of stones: and all Yisrael fled everyone to his
tent. <a name="C1018V18" id="C1018V18">18:18</a> Now Absalom in his lifetime
had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's
dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and he called
the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to
this day. <a name="C1018V19" id="C1018V19">18:19</a> Then said Ahimaaz the son
of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has
avenged him of his enemies. <a name="C1018V20" id="C1018V20">18:20</a> Joab
said to him, You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall
bear news another day; but this day you shall bear no news, because the
king's son is dead. <a name="C1018V21" id="C1018V21">18:21</a> Then said Joab
to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. The Cushite bowed
himself to Joab, and ran. <a name="C1018V22" id="C1018V22">18:22</a> Then said
Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come what may, Please let
me also run after the Cushite. Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing
that you will have no reward for the news? <a name="C1018V23" id="C1018V23">18:23</a>
But come what may, <i>said he</i>, I will run. He said to him, Run. Then
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite. <a
name="C1018V24" id="C1018V24">18:24</a> Now David was sitting between the two
gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone. <a
name="C1018V25" id="C1018V25">18:25</a> The watchman cried, and told the king.
The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace,
and drew near. <a name="C1018V26" id="C1018V26">18:26</a> The watchman saw
another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said,
Behold, <i>another</i> man running alone. The king said, He also brings
news. <a name="C1018V27" id="C1018V27">18:27</a> The watchman said, I think
the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of
Zadok. The king said, He is a good man, and comes with good news. <a
name="C1018V28" id="C1018V28">18:28</a> Ahimaaz called, and said to the king,
All is well. He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth,
and said, Blessed be Yahweh your Elohim, who has delivered up the men who
lifted up their hand against my lord the king. <a name="C1018V29" id="C1018V29">18:29</a>
The king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? Ahimaaz answered,
When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I saw a great
tumult, but I don't know what it was. <a name="C1018V30" id="C1018V30">18:30</a>
The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood
still. <a name="C1018V31" id="C1018V31">18:31</a> Behold, the Cushite came;
and the Cushite said, News for my lord the king; for Yahweh has avenged
you this day of all those who rose up against you. <a name="C1018V32"
id="C1018V32">18:32</a> The king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the
young man Absalom? The Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king,
and all who rise up against you to do you hurt, be as that young man is.
<a name="C1018V33" id="C1018V33">18:33</a> The king was much moved, and went
up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said,
my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom,
my son, my son!
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<p>
<a name="C1019V1" id="C1019V1">19:1</a> It was told Joab, Behold, the king
weeps and mourns for Absalom. <a name="C1019V2" id="C1019V2">19:2</a> The
victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the
people heard say that day, The king grieves for his son. <a name="C1019V3"
id="C1019V3">19:3</a> The people got them by stealth that day into the city,
as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. <a
name="C1019V4" id="C1019V4">19:4</a> The king covered his face, and the king
cried with a loud voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son! <a
name="C1019V5" id="C1019V5">19:5</a> Joab came into the house to the king, and
said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this
day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your
daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
<a name="C1019V6" id="C1019V6">19:6</a> in that you love those who hate you,
and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes
and servants are nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom
had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well. <a
name="C1019V7" id="C1019V7">19:7</a> Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak
comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go
forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be
worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth
until now. <a name="C1019V8" id="C1019V8">19:8</a> Then the king arose, and
sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is
sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Yisrael
had fled every man to his tent. <a name="C1019V9" id="C1019V9">19:9</a> All
the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Yisrael, saying, The
king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of
the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from
Absalom. <a name="C1019V10" id="C1019V10">19:10</a> Absalom, whom we anointed
over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of
bringing the king back? <a name="C1019V11" id="C1019V11">19:11</a> King David
sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of
Yehudah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house?
seeing the speech of all Yisrael is come to the king, <i>to bring him</i>
to his house. <a name="C1019V12" id="C1019V12">19:12</a> You are my brothers,
you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the
king? <a name="C1019V13" id="C1019V13">19:13</a> Say you to Amasa, Aren't you
my bone and my flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if you aren't
captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab. <a
name="C1019V14" id="C1019V14">19:14</a> He bowed the heart of all the men of
Yehudah, even as <i>the heart of</i> one man; so that they sent to the king,
<i>saying</i>, Return you, and all your servants. <a name="C1019V15"
id="C1019V15">19:15</a> So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Yehudah
came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
<a name="C1019V16" id="C1019V16">19:16</a> Shimei the son of Gera, the
Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Yehudah
to meet king David. <a name="C1019V17" id="C1019V17">19:17</a> There were a
thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of
Sha'ul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went
through the Jordan in the presence of the king. <a name="C1019V18"
id="C1019V18">19:18</a> A ferry boat went to bring over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell
down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan. <a name="C1019V19"
id="C1019V19">19:19</a> He said to the king, Don't let my lord impute
iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did
perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Yerushalayim, that the
king should take it to his heart. <a name="C1019V20" id="C1019V20">19:20</a>
For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am
come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my
lord the king. <a name="C1019V21" id="C1019V21">19:21</a> But Abishai the son
of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he
cursed Yahweh's anointed? <a name="C1019V22" id="C1019V22">19:22</a> David
said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should
this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this
day in Yisrael? for don't I know that I am this day king over Yisrael? <a
name="C1019V23" id="C1019V23">19:23</a> The king said to Shimei, You shall not
die. The king swore to him. <a name="C1019V24" id="C1019V24">19:24</a>
Mephibosheth the son of Sha'ul came down to meet the king; and he had
neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes,
from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. <a
name="C1019V25" id="C1019V25">19:25</a> It happened, when he was come to
Yerushalayim to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didn't you go
with me, Mephibosheth? <a name="C1019V26" id="C1019V26">19:26</a> He answered,
My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will
saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because
your servant is lame. <a name="C1019V27" id="C1019V27">19:27</a> He has
slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an
angel of Elohim: do therefore what is good in your eyes. <a name="C1019V28"
id="C1019V28">19:28</a> For all my father's house were but dead men before
my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own
table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the
king? <a name="C1019V29" id="C1019V29">19:29</a> The king said to him, Why
speak you any more of your matters? I say, You and Ziba divide the land.
<a name="C1019V30" id="C1019V30">19:30</a> Mephibosheth said to the king, yes,
let him take all, because my lord the king is come in peace to his own
house. <a name="C1019V31" id="C1019V31">19:31</a> Barzillai the Gileadite came
down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct
him over the Jordan. <a name="C1019V32" id="C1019V32">19:32</a> Now Barzillai
was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king
with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. <a
name="C1019V33" id="C1019V33">19:33</a> The king said to Barzillai, Come you
over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1019V34"
id="C1019V34">19:34</a> Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of
the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Yerushalayim? <a
name="C1019V35" id="C1019V35">19:35</a> I am this day eighty years old: can I
discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I
drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why
then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king? <a
name="C1019V36" id="C1019V36">19:36</a> Your servant would but just go over
the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with
such a reward? <a name="C1019V37" id="C1019V37">19:37</a> Please let your
servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my
father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you. <a
name="C1019V38" id="C1019V38">19:38</a> The king answered, Chimham shall go
over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: and
whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you. <a name="C1019V39"
id="C1019V39">19:39</a> All the people went over the Jordan, and the king
went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned
to his own place. <a name="C1019V40" id="C1019V40">19:40</a> So the king went
over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: and all the people of
Yehudah brought the king over, and also half the people of Yisrael. <a
name="C1019V41" id="C1019V41">19:41</a> Behold, all the men of Yisrael came to
the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Yehudah
stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan,
and all David's men with him? <a name="C1019V42" id="C1019V42">19:42</a> All
the men of Yehudah answered the men of Yisrael, Because the king is a close
relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at
all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift? <a name="C1019V43"
id="C1019V43">19:43</a> The men of Yisrael answered the men of Yehudah, and
said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more <i>right</i> in
David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be
first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Yehudah were
fiercer than the words of the men of Yisrael.
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<p>
<a name="C1020V1" id="C1020V1">20:1</a> There happened to be there a base
fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew
the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we
inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Yisrael. <a
name="C1020V2" id="C1020V2">20:2</a> So all the men of Yisrael went up from
following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of
Yehudah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Yerushalayim. <a
name="C1020V3" id="C1020V3">20:3</a> David came to his house at Yerushalayim; and
the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the
house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but
didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death,
living in widowhood. <a name="C1020V4" id="C1020V4">20:4</a> Then said the
king to Amasa, Call me the men of Yehudah together within three days, and be
here present. <a name="C1020V5" id="C1020V5">20:5</a> So Amasa went to call <i>the
men of</i> Yehudah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he
had appointed him. <a name="C1020V6" id="C1020V6">20:6</a> David said to
Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did
Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him
fortified cities, and escape out of our sight. <a name="C1020V7" id="C1020V7">20:7</a>
There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the
Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Yerushalayim, to
pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. <a name="C1020V8" id="C1020V8">20:8</a>
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet
them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and
thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and
as he went forth it fell out. <a name="C1020V9" id="C1020V9">20:9</a> Joab
said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took Amasa by the
beard with his right hand to kiss him. <a name="C1020V10" id="C1020V10">20:10</a>
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck
him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and
didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued
after Sheba the son of Bichri. <a name="C1020V11" id="C1020V11">20:11</a>
There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who favors Joab,
and he who is for David, let him follow Joab. <a name="C1020V12" id="C1020V12">20:12</a>
Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man
saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway
into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who
came by him stood still. <a name="C1020V13" id="C1020V13">20:13</a> When he
was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to
pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. <a name="C1020V14" id="C1020V14">20:14</a>
He went through all the tribes of Yisrael to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and
all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
<a name="C1020V15" id="C1020V15">20:15</a> They came and besieged him in Abel
of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood
against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the
wall, to throw it down. <a name="C1020V16" id="C1020V16">20:16</a> Then cried
a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come
near here, that I may speak with you.'" <a name="C1020V17" id="C1020V17">20:17</a>
He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am.
Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do
hear. <a name="C1020V18" id="C1020V18">20:18</a> Then she spoke, saying, They
were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask <i>counsel</i>
at Abel: and so they ended <i>the matter</i>. <a name="C1020V19" id="C1020V19">20:19</a>
I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Yisrael: you seek to
destroy a city and a mother in Yisrael: why will you swallow up the
inheritance of Yahweh? <a name="C1020V20" id="C1020V20">20:20</a> Joab
answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or
destroy. <a name="C1020V21" id="C1020V21">20:21</a> The matter is not so: but
a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has
lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only,
and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head
shall be thrown to you over the wall. <a name="C1020V22" id="C1020V22">20:22</a>
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head
of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet,
and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab
returned to Yerushalayim to the king. <a name="C1020V23" id="C1020V23">20:23</a>
Now Joab was over all the army of Yisrael; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; <a name="C1020V24"
id="C1020V24">20:24</a> and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; <a name="C1020V25"
id="C1020V25">20:25</a> and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were
priests; <a name="C1020V26" id="C1020V26">20:26</a> and also Ira the Jairite
was chief minister to David.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1021V1" id="C1021V1">21:1</a> There was a famine in the days of
David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh.
Yahweh said, It is for Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he put to
death the Gibeonites. <a name="C1021V2" id="C1021V2">21:2</a> The king called
the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the
children of Yisrael, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children
of Yisrael had sworn to them: and Sha'ul sought to kill them in his zeal for
the children of Yisrael and Yehudah); <a name="C1021V3" id="C1021V3">21:3</a> and
David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall
I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh? <a
name="C1021V4" id="C1021V4">21:4</a> The Gibeonites said to him, It is no
matter of silver or gold between us and Sha'ul, or his house; neither is it
for us to put any man to death in Yisrael. He said, What you shall say,
that will I do for you. <a name="C1021V5" id="C1021V5">21:5</a> They said to
the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, <i>that</i>
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Yisrael, <a
name="C1021V6" id="C1021V6">21:6</a> let seven men of his sons be delivered to
us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Sha'ul, the chosen of
Yahweh. The king said, I will give them. <a name="C1021V7" id="C1021V7">21:7</a>
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Sha'ul,
because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan
the son of Sha'ul. <a name="C1021V8" id="C1021V8">21:8</a> But the king took the
two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Sha'ul, Armoni and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Sha'ul, whom she
bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: <a name="C1021V9"
id="C1021V9">21:9</a> He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,
and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell <i>all</i>
seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the
first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. <a name="C1021V10"
id="C1021V10">21:10</a> Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and
spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water
was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the
sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night. <a
name="C1021V11" id="C1021V11">21:11</a> It was told David what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Sha'ul, had done. <a name="C1021V12"
id="C1021V12">21:12</a> David went and took the bones of Sha'ul and the bones
of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them
from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in
the day that the Philistines killed Sha'ul in Gilboa; <a name="C1021V13"
id="C1021V13">21:13</a> and he brought up from there the bones of Sha'ul and
the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who
were hanged. <a name="C1021V14" id="C1021V14">21:14</a> They buried the bones
of Sha'ul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the
tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded.
After that Elohim was entreated for the land. <a name="C1021V15" id="C1021V15">21:15</a>
The Philistines had war again with Yisrael; and David went down, and his
servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
<a name="C1021V16" id="C1021V16">21:16</a> and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons
of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred <i>shekels</i>
of brass in weight, he being girded with a new <i>sword</i>, thought to
have slain David. <a name="C1021V17" id="C1021V17">21:17</a> But Abishai the
son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then
the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to
battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Yisrael. <a name="C1021V18"
id="C1021V18">21:18</a> It came to pass after this, that there was again war
with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who
was of the sons of the giant. <a name="C1021V19" id="C1021V19">21:19</a> There
was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of
Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the
staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. <a name="C1021V20" id="C1021V20">21:20</a>
There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who
had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty
in number; and he also was born to the giant. <a name="C1021V21" id="C1021V21">21:21</a>
When he defied Yisrael, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed
him. <a name="C1021V22" id="C1021V22">21:22</a> These four were born to the
giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his
servants.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1022V1" id="C1022V1">22:1</a> David spoke to Yahweh the words of
this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Sha'ul: <a name="C1022V2" id="C1022V2">22:2</a>
and he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Yahweh is my rock,
</dt>
<dd>
my fortress,
</dd>
<dd>
and my deliverer, even mine;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V3" id="C1022V3">22:3</a> Elohim, my rock, in him I will take
refuge;
</dt>
<dd>
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
</dd>
<dd>
my high tower, and my refuge.
</dd>
<dd>
My savior, you save me from violence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V4" id="C1022V4">22:4</a> I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy
to be praised:
</dt>
<dd>
So shall I be saved from my enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V5" id="C1022V5">22:5</a> For the waves of death surrounded
me.
</dt>
<dd>
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V6" id="C1022V6">22:6</a> The cords of Sheol were around me.
</dt>
<dt>
The snares of death caught me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V7" id="C1022V7">22:7</a> In my distress I called on Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I called to my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
He heard my voice out of his temple.
</dt>
<dd>
My cry <i>came</i> into his ears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V8" id="C1022V8">22:8</a> Then the earth shook and trembled.
</dt>
<dd>
The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
</dd>
<dd>
because he was angry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V9" id="C1022V9">22:9</a> Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
</dt>
<dd>
Fire out of his mouth devoured.
</dd>
<dd>
Coals were kindled by it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V10" id="C1022V10">22:10</a> He bowed the heavens also, and
came down.
</dt>
<dd>
Thick darkness was under his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V11" id="C1022V11">22:11</a> He rode on a cherub, and flew.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V12" id="C1022V12">22:12</a> He made darkness pavilions around
himself:
</dt>
<dd>
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V13" id="C1022V13">22:13</a> At the brightness before him,
</dt>
<dd>
coals of fire were kindled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V14" id="C1022V14">22:14</a> Yahweh thundered from heaven.
</dt>
<dd>
The Most High uttered his voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V15" id="C1022V15">22:15</a> He sent out arrows, and scattered
them;
</dt>
<dd>
lightning, and confused them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V16" id="C1022V16">22:16</a> Then the channels of the sea
appeared.
</dt>
<dd>
The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V17" id="C1022V17">22:17</a> He sent from on high and he took
me.
</dt>
<dd>
He drew me out of many waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V18" id="C1022V18">22:18</a> He delivered me from my strong
enemy,
</dt>
<dd>
from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V19" id="C1022V19">22:19</a> They came on me in the day of my
calamity,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh was my support.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V20" id="C1022V20">22:20</a> He also brought me out into a
large place.
</dt>
<dd>
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V21" id="C1022V21">22:21</a> Yahweh rewarded me according to
my righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V22" id="C1022V22">22:22</a> For I have kept the ways of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and have not wickedly departed from my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V23" id="C1022V23">22:23</a> For all his ordinances were
before me.
</dt>
<dd>
As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V24" id="C1022V24">22:24</a> I was also perfect toward him.
</dt>
<dd>
I kept myself from my iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V25" id="C1022V25">22:25</a> Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me
according to my righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V26" id="C1022V26">22:26</a> With the merciful you will show
yourself merciful.
</dt>
<dd>
With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1022V27" id="C1022V27">22:27</a> With the pure you will show
yourself pure.
</dd>
<dd>
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V28" id="C1022V28">22:28</a> You will save the afflicted
people,
</dt>
<dd>
But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V29" id="C1022V29">22:29</a> For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will light up my darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V30" id="C1022V30">22:30</a> For by you, I run against a
troop.
</dt>
<dt>
By my Elohim, I leap over a wall.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V31" id="C1022V31">22:31</a> As for Elohim, his way is perfect.
</dt>
<dd>
The word of Yahweh is tested.
</dd>
<dd>
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V32" id="C1022V32">22:32</a> For who is Elohim, besides Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Who is a rock, besides our Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V33" id="C1022V33">22:33</a> Elohim is my strong fortress.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes my way perfect.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V34" id="C1022V34">22:34</a> He makes his feet like hinds' <i>feet</i>,
</dt>
<dd>
and sets me on my high places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V35" id="C1022V35">22:35</a> He teaches my hands to war,
</dt>
<dd>
so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V36" id="C1022V36">22:36</a> You have also given me the shield
of your salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
Your gentleness has made me great.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V37" id="C1022V37">22:37</a> You have enlarged my steps under
me.
</dt>
<dd>
My feet have not slipped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V38" id="C1022V38">22:38</a> I have pursued my enemies and
destroyed them.
</dt>
<dd>
I didn't turn again until they were consumed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V39" id="C1022V39">22:39</a> I have consumed them,
</dt>
<dd>
and struck them through,
</dd>
<dd>
so that they can't arise.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V40" id="C1022V40">22:40</a> For you have armed me with
strength for the battle.
</dt>
<dd>
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V41" id="C1022V41">22:41</a> You have also made my enemies
turn their backs to me,
</dt>
<dd>
that I might cut off those who hate me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V42" id="C1022V42">22:42</a> They looked, but there was none
to save;
</dt>
<dd>
even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V43" id="C1022V43">22:43</a> Then I beat them as small as the
dust of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V44" id="C1022V44">22:44</a> You also have delivered me from
the strivings of my people.
</dt>
<dd>
You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
</dd>
<dd>
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V45" id="C1022V45">22:45</a> The foreigners will submit
themselves to me.
</dt>
<dd>
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V46" id="C1022V46">22:46</a> The foreigners will fade away,
</dt>
<dd>
and will come trembling out of their close places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V47" id="C1022V47">22:47</a> Yahweh lives!
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed be my rock!
</dd>
<dt>
Exalted be Elohim, the rock of my salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1022V48" id="C1022V48">22:48</a> even the Elohim who executes
vengeance for me,
</dd>
<dd>
who brings down peoples under me,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1022V49" id="C1022V49">22:49</a> who brings me away from my
enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
</dt>
<dd>
You deliver me from the violent man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V50" id="C1022V50">22:50</a> Therefore I will give thanks to
you, Yahweh, among the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
Will sing praises to your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1022V51" id="C1022V51">22:51</a> He gives great deliverance to his
king,
</dt>
<dd>
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
</dd>
<dd>
to David and to his seed, forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1023V1" id="C1023V1">23:1</a> Now these are the last words of David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
David the son of Jesse says,
</dt>
<dd>
the man who was raised on high says,
</dd>
<dd>
the anointed of the Elohim of Jacob,
</dd>
<dd>
the sweet psalmist of Yisrael:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V2" id="C1023V2">23:2</a> The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me.
</dt>
<dd>
His word was on my tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V3" id="C1023V3">23:3</a> The Elohim of Yisrael said,
</dt>
<dd>
the Rock of Yisrael spoke to me,
</dd>
<dd>
one who rules over men righteously,
</dd>
<dd>
who rules in the fear of Elohim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V4" id="C1023V4">23:4</a> <i>He shall be</i> as the light of
the morning, when the sun rises,
</dt>
<dd>
a morning without clouds,
</dd>
<dd>
<i>When</i> the tender grass <i>springs</i> out of the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
Through clear shining after rain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V5" id="C1023V5">23:5</a> Most certainly my house is not so
with Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
</dd>
<dd>
ordered in all things, and sure,
</dd>
<dd>
for it is all my salvation, and all <i>my</i> desire,
</dd>
<dd>
although he doesn't make it grow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V6" id="C1023V6">23:6</a> But all of the ungodly shall be as
thorns to be thrust away,
</dt>
<dd>
because they can't be taken with the hand,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1023V7" id="C1023V7">23:7</a> But the man who touches them must be
armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
</dt>
<dt>
They shall be utterly burned with fire in <i>their</i> place.
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1023V8" id="C1023V8">23:8</a> These are the names of the mighty men
whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains;
the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time. <a
name="C1023V9" id="C1023V9">23:9</a> After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai
the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they
defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the
men of Yisrael were gone away. <a name="C1023V10" id="C1023V10">23:10</a> He
arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand
froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the
people returned after him only to take spoil. <a name="C1023V11" id="C1023V11">23:11</a>
After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines were
gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of
lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. <a name="C1023V12"
id="C1023V12">23:12</a> But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended
it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory. <a
name="C1023V13" id="C1023V13">23:13</a> Three of the thirty chief men went
down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and
the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. <a
name="C1023V14" id="C1023V14">23:14</a> David was then in the stronghold; and
the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. <a name="C1023V15"
id="C1023V15">23:15</a> David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me
water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! <a
name="C1023V16" id="C1023V16">23:16</a> The three mighty men broke through the
army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not
drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh. <a name="C1023V17" id="C1023V17">23:17</a>
He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: <i>shall I
drink</i> the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?
therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. <a
name="C1023V18" id="C1023V18">23:18</a> Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son
of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three
hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. <a name="C1023V19"
id="C1023V19">23:19</a> Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he
was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the <i>first</i>
three. <a name="C1023V20" id="C1023V20">23:20</a> Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed
the two <i>sons of</i> Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion
in the midst of a pit in time of snow. <a name="C1023V21" id="C1023V21">23:21</a>
He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his
hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of
the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear. <a name="C1023V22"
id="C1023V22">23:22</a> These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
had a name among the three mighty men. <a name="C1023V23" id="C1023V23">23:23</a>
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the <i>first</i>
three. David set him over his guard. <a name="C1023V24" id="C1023V24">23:24</a>
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo
of Bethlehem, <a name="C1023V25" id="C1023V25">23:25</a> Shammah the Harodite,
Elika the Harodite, <a name="C1023V26" id="C1023V26">23:26</a> Helez the
Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, <a name="C1023V27" id="C1023V27">23:27</a>
Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, <a name="C1023V28"
id="C1023V28">23:28</a> Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, <a
name="C1023V29" id="C1023V29">23:29</a> Heleb the son of Baanah the
Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of
Benjamin, <a name="C1023V30" id="C1023V30">23:30</a> Benaiah a Pirathonite,
Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. <a name="C1023V31" id="C1023V31">23:31</a>
Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, <a name="C1023V32"
id="C1023V32">23:32</a> Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen,
Jonathan, <a name="C1023V33" id="C1023V33">23:33</a> Shammah the Hararite,
Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, <a name="C1023V34" id="C1023V34">23:34</a>
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of
Ahithophel the Gilonite, <a name="C1023V35" id="C1023V35">23:35</a> Hezro the
Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, <a name="C1023V36" id="C1023V36">23:36</a> Igal
the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, <a name="C1023V37" id="C1023V37">23:37</a>
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son
of Zeruiah, <a name="C1023V38" id="C1023V38">23:38</a> Ira the Ithrite, Gareb
the Ithrite, <a name="C1023V39" id="C1023V39">23:39</a> Uriah the Hittite:
thirty-seven in all.
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<a name="C1024V1" id="C1024V1">24:1</a> Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled
against Yisrael, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Yisrael
and Yehudah. <a name="C1024V2" id="C1024V2">24:2</a> The king said to Joab the
captain of the army, who was with him, Go now back and forth through all
the tribes of Yisrael, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the
people, that I may know the sum of the people. <a name="C1024V3" id="C1024V3">24:3</a>
Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your Elohim add to the people, however many
they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see
it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing? <a name="C1024V4"
id="C1024V4">24:4</a> Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against
Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the
army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of
Yisrael. <a name="C1024V5" id="C1024V5">24:5</a> They passed over the Jordan,
and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle
of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer: <a name="C1024V6" id="C1024V6">24:6</a>
then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came
to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon, <a name="C1024V7" id="C1024V7">24:7</a> and
came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and
of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Yehudah, at Beersheba.
<a name="C1024V8" id="C1024V8">24:8</a> So when they had gone back and forth
through all the land, they came to Yerushalayim at the end of nine months and
twenty days. <a name="C1024V9" id="C1024V9">24:9</a> Joab gave up the sum of
the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Yisrael eight
hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Yehudah were
five hundred thousand men. <a name="C1024V10" id="C1024V10">24:10</a> David's
heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to
Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh,
put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very
foolishly. <a name="C1024V11" id="C1024V11">24:11</a> When David rose up in
the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer,
saying, <a name="C1024V12" id="C1024V12">24:12</a> Go and speak to David, Thus
says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose one of them, that I may do
it to you. <a name="C1024V13" id="C1024V13">24:13</a> So Gad came to David,
and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in
your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they
pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now
advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. <a
name="C1024V14" id="C1024V14">24:14</a> David said to Gad, I am in distress.
Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and
let me not fall into the hand of man. <a name="C1024V15" id="C1024V15">24:15</a>
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Yisrael from the morning even to the time
appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy
thousand men. <a name="C1024V16" id="C1024V16">24:16</a> When the angel
stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, Yahweh relented of
the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is
enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor
of Araunah the Jebusite. <a name="C1024V17" id="C1024V17">24:17</a> David
spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said,
Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what
have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my
father's house. <a name="C1024V18" id="C1024V18">24:18</a> Gad came that day
to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Yahweh in the threshing
floor of Araunah the Jebusite. <a name="C1024V19" id="C1024V19">24:19</a>
David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. <a
name="C1024V20" id="C1024V20">24:20</a> Araunah looked forth, and saw the king
and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground. <a name="C1024V21"
id="C1024V21">24:21</a> Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his
servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar
to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people. <a
name="C1024V22" id="C1024V22">24:22</a> Araunah said to David, Let my lord the
king take and offer up what seems good to him: behold, the cattle for the
burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen
for the wood: <a name="C1024V23" id="C1024V23">24:23</a> all this, king, does
Araunah give to the king. Araunah said to the king, Yahweh your Elohim accept
you. <a name="C1024V24" id="C1024V24">24:24</a> The king said to Araunah, No;
but I will most certainly buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer
burnt offerings to Yahweh my Elohim which cost me nothing. So David bought
the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. <a
name="C1024V25" id="C1024V25">24:25</a> David built there an altar to Yahweh,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated
for the land, and the plague was stayed from Yisrael.
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<p>
<a name="C641V1" id="C641V1">1:1</a> The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I
love in truth.
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<p>
<a name="C641V2" id="C641V2">1:2</a> Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in
all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. <a name="C641V3"
id="C641V3">1:3</a> For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified
about your truth, even as you walk in truth. <a name="C641V4" id="C641V4">1:4</a>
I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in
truth.
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<p>
<a name="C641V5" id="C641V5">1:5</a> Beloved, you do a faithful work in
whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. <a
name="C641V6" id="C641V6">1:6</a> They have testified about your love before
the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a
manner worthy of Elohim, <a name="C641V7" id="C641V7">1:7</a> because for the
sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. <a
name="C641V8" id="C641V8">1:8</a> We therefore ought to receive such, that we
may be fellow workers for the truth.
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<p>
<a name="C641V9" id="C641V9">1:9</a> I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes,
who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say. <a
name="C641V10" id="C641V10">1:10</a> Therefore, if I come, I will call
attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked
words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the
brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
<a name="C641V11" id="C641V11">1:11</a> Beloved, don't imitate that which is
evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of Elohim. He who does evil
hasn't seen Elohim. <a name="C641V12" id="C641V12">1:12</a> Demetrius has the
testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you
know that our testimony is true.
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<p>
<a name="C641V13" id="C641V13">1:13</a> I had many things to write to you, but
I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; <a name="C641V14" id="C641V14">1:14</a>
but I hope to see you soon, and we will speak face to face. Peace be to
you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
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hath an issue, or whose seed goeth from him, and who is defiled therewith; and of her who hath an issue of separation; and of him who hath a flowing issue, of the male and of the female, and of him who lieth with her who is unclean.
SECTION XXIX.
ACHAREY.
XVI. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh after the two sons of Aharon were dead, who offered the strange fire before the Lord, and died; and the Lord said unto Mosheh, Speak with Aharon thy brother, that he may not enter at any time into the Holy Place within the veil before the mercy‑seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for in the cloud will I reveal Myself over the mercy‑seat.
With this shall Aharon enter the holy place: With a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. With the holy linen vesture shall he be clothed, and linen drawers shall be upon his flesh, and with the linen girdle shall he be bound, and the linen mitre shall be upon his head: these are holy garments; and he shall wash his flesh in water, and then put them on.
And of the congregation of the sons of Yisrael let him take two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. And Aharon shall offer the bullock of the sin offering for himself, and make atonement for himself and for the men of his house.
And he shall take the two goats, and make them to stand before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Aharon shall put lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Name of the Lord, and one lot for Azazel.[1] And Aharon shall offer the goat whose lot came up for the Name of the Lord, and make him a sin offering; and the goat whose lot came up for Azazel he shall make to stand alive before the Lord, to make an atonement upon him, and to send him away to Azazel, to the desert.
And Aharon shall offer the bullock for his own sin, and make atonement for himself and for the men of his house and he shall kill the bullock for the sin offering which is for himself. And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his handful of sweet incense beaten small, and carry (them) within the veil. And he shall put the sweet incense upon the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will envelope the mercy‑seat which is over the testimony, that he may not die. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the face of the mercy‑seat eastward, and before the mercy-seat he shall sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.
And be shall kill the goat for the sin offering of the people, and enter, with its blood, within the veil, and do with his blood as he had done with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy‑seat and before the mercy‑seat. And he shall (thus) make atonement for the holy place on account of the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael, and the rebellion of all their sin. And so shall he do for the tabernacle of ordinance which remaineth with them in the midst of their uncleanness. But no man shall be in the tabernacle of ordinance (at the time of) his entering to make atonement in the holy place until his coming out: and he shall atone for himself, and for the men of his house, and for all the congregation of Yisrael.
And he shall go forth to the altar which is before the Lord, and make atonement for it; and take of the blood of the bullock and of the goat's blood, and put upon the horns of the altar round about; and of the blood he shall sprinkle upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael.
And when he hath completed to atone for the holy place, and for the tabernacle of ordinance, and for the altar, then shall he bring the living goat. And Aharon shall lay his two hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Yisrael, and all their rebellions, and all their sins, and put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away, by the hand of an appointed man, to go into the desert. And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited; and he shall send the goat away into the desert.
And Aharon shall go into the tabernacle of ordinance, and put off the linen robes which he wore on going into the Holy Place, and shall lay them there aside. And he shall wash his flesh with water in the Holy Place, and put on his garments, and come forth to offer his burnt sacrifice, and the burnt sacrifice of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn at the altar.
But he who led away the goat unto Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards go into the camp. And the bullock of the sin offering whose blood was carried in to make atonement in the Holy Place, he shall take forth out of the camp, and they shall burn their skins and their flesh and their food with fire. And he who burned them must wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh with water, and may then enter into the camp.
And this shall be to you for an everlasting statute: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict (humble) your souls,[2] and do no work, whether the native‑born or the stranger that dwelleth among you. For on that day he shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you from all your sins, that you may be cleansed from all your sins before the Lord. A Shabbat it shall be to you, and you shall humble your souls. It is an everlasting statute.
And the priest whom he shall anoint, and who shall offer his oblation, to minister instead of his father, shall make the atonement, and dress himself with the vestments of fine linen, even the consecrated vestments. And he shall make atonement for the Holy of Holies, and for the tabernacle of ordinance and for the altar he shall atone, and for all the people of the congregation shall he atone. And this shall be to you an everlasting statute for the expiation of all the children of Yisrael from all their sins once in the year. And he did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
XVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded, saying: Any man of the house of Yisrael who shall kill bullock or lamb or goat in the camp, or who shall kill (such as sacrifices) without the camp, and bring it not to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, that it may be offered an oblation in the presence of the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be reckoned to that man; he hath shed blood, and that man shall be destroyed from his people. In order that the sons of Yisrael may bring their victims which they (formerly) sacrificed upon the face of the field, before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, unto the priest, and offer them as consecrated oblations in the presence of the Lord.
And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and burn the fat to be received with acceptance before the Lord. And they shall no more sacrifice their victims unto demons after which they have wandered: this shall be an everlasting statute to you unto your generations.
And say thou to them, Whatever man of the house of Yisrael, or the stranger who sojourneth among you, who sacrificeth a burnt offering or a consecrated victim, and bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, that it may be performed before the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from his people. And what man soever of the house of Yisrael or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall eat any blood, I will set my anger[3] upon the man who shall have eaten blood, and will destroy him[4] from among his people. Because the life of flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it IS THE BLOOD THAT ATONETH FOR THE SOUL. Therefore have I said to the children of Yisrael, Let no man of you eat blood, nor let the strangers who sojourn among you eat blood; and whatever man of the sons of Yisrael, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, that hunteth venison of beast or bird which may be eaten, let him pour out its blood and cover it in the earth (or in the dust); for the life of all flesh is its blood; it is for its life; and I have said to the children of Yisrael, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; every one who eateth of it shall be destroyed.
And every one who eateth of a carcase (that hath died of itself) or hath been torn, whether he be native born or of the strangers, let him wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening, and (then) shall he be clean. But if he wash not, nor bathe his flesh, he shall bear his transgression.
XVIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say unto them: I am the Lord your Elohim: You shall not do according to the people of the land of Mizraim in which you dwelt, nor after the works of the people of the land of Kenaan, whither I am bringing you, shall you do, neither shall you walk in their laws. My judgments shall you perform and keep My statutes to walk in them; I am the Lord your Elohim. And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man do he shall live by them an everlasting life. I am the Lord.
No man shall come nigh to any of his own flesh to uncover the nakedness; I am the Lord. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, thou shalt not uncover. She is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover, it is thy father’s nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, who hath been begotten of thy father by another wife, or of thy mother by another husband, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or the daughhter of thy daughter, thou shalt not uncover; for they are thy nakedness. The nakedness of the daughter of thy father's wife who hath been begotten of thy father, who is thv sister, thou shalt not uncover. The nakedness of thy father's sister thou shalt not uncover; she is of kin to thy father. The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou shalt not uncover; for she is of kin to thy mother. The nakedness of thy father's brother thou shalt not uncover; unto his wife thou shalt not come near; she is the wife of thy father's brother. The nakedness of thy daughter‑in‑Torah thou shalt not uncover; she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou shalt not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness. The nakedness of a woman and of her daughter thou shalt not uncover; thou shalt not take the daughter of her son nor the daughter of her daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are near of kin, it is a device of wickedness. And a wife with her sister thou shalt not take to cause her tribulation by uncovering her nakedness over her in her life (time). And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness shalt thou not come near to uncover her nakedness. Nor with the wife of thy neighbour shalt thou carnally lie to defile her. And of thy children thou shalt give none to transfer them to Molek, (or, to make them pass through to Molek,) neither shalt thou profane the Name of the Lord thy Elohim: I am the Lord. And with the male thou shalt not lie as with the woman; it is an abhorrent thing. Nor with any beast shall be thy lying down to defile thyseIf with it; neither shall a woman stand before a beast to permit him to prevail with her; it is confusion. [5] Ye shall not pollute yourselves with any of these; for with all these have the peoples defiled themselves whom I am about to drive away from before you. And the land (itself) is contaminated; and I will visit the guilt that is upon it, and the land shall vomit forth the inhabitants. But you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and commit none of these abominations,
[1] To be sent to Azazel, a steep rough mountain, (RASHI) not far from Mount Sinai (EBEN EZRA). See the Talmud in Joma, 67. Compare the Glossary, pp. 66-68.
[2] Sam. Vers., “by fasting.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “I will stir up my wrath.”
[4] “I will extripate him.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “It is indignation.”
Pgs. 195-203
Ch. 16-18
SECTION XXIX.
ACHAREY MOTH.
XVI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, after that the two sons of Aharon the high priest had died (or, the priests the two elder sons of Aharon had died) at the time of their offering extraneous fire (aisha baria) before the Lord; died they by the flaming fire. [JERUSALEM. The two sons of Aharon, in their offering extraneous fire.] And the Lord said unto Mosheh: Speak with Aharon thy brother, that he enter not at any time into the holy place within the veil before the mercy‑seat; for the cloud of the glory of My Shekinah is revealed over the place of the mercy‑seat.
This shall be the rite (mida) for the entering of Aharon into the holy place. With a young bullock, having no mixture, for the sin offering, and a ram for the burnt offering. With the vestments of fine linen, the holy robe, shall he be dressed, and linen drawers shall be upon his flesh, and with the girdle of fine linen shall he be bound, and the mitre of fine linen shall be ordained for his head. These are the holy garments; but with the golden robes he shall not enter, that there be not brought to memory the sin of the golden calf; and at the time when he is to enter he shall wash his flesh in forty seahs of water, and attire himself with them.
And from the congregation of the sons of Yisrael let him take two kids of the goats, without mixture, for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. And Aharon shall offer the bullock of the sin offering which (hath been purchased) with his own money, and make an atonement with words of confession[1] for himself and for the men of his house. And he shall take the two goats, and cause them to stand before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Aharon shall put upon the goats equal lots; one lot for the Name of the Lord, and one lot for Azazel: and he shall throw them into the vase, and draw them out, and put them upon the goats. And Aharon shall bring the goat upon which came up the lot for the Name of the Lord, and make him a sin offering. And the goat on which came up the lot for Azazel he shall make to stand alive before the Lord, to expiate for the sins of the people of the house of Yisrael, by sending him to die in a place rough and hard in the rocky desert which is Beth‑hadurey.
And Aharon shall bring the bullock which is for himself, and make atonement with confession of words for himself, and for the men of his house, and kill the bullock for his sin offering.
And he shall take a censer full of coals burning with fire from off the altar from before the Lord, and with his hand full of sweet incense, beaten small, he shall enter within the veil. And he shall put the sweet incense upon the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of the fuming incense shall envelope the mercy‑seat that is over the testimony, that he may not die by the flaming fire before the Lord. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle with his right finger upon the face of the mercy‑seat eastward, and before the mercyseat he shall sprinkle the blood seven times with his right finger.
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering which is (purchased with) the money of the people, and carry in of the blood of the goat within the veil, and do with the blood of the goat as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy‑seat, and before the mercy‑seat. And he shall make atonement for the holy place, with confession of words for the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael, and for their rebellions, and for their sins; and so shall he do for the tabernacle of ordinance which remaineth with them in the midst of their uncleanness. But let no one be in the tabernacle of ordinance at the time of his going in to make atonement in the holy place for the sins of Yisrael, until the time of his coming out; and so shall he make atonement for himself, and for the men of his house, and for all the congregation of Yisrael.
And he shall withdraw, and come forth from the holy place, unto the altar which is before the Lord, and make atonement upon it with confession of words, and take of the blood of the bullock and of the blood of the goat, mingled together, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle upon it from the blood with his right finger seven times, and cleanse it, and sanctify it from the defilements of the children of Yisrael.
And when he hath completed to make atonement for the holy place, and for the tabernacle of ordinance, and for the altar, with confession of words, he shall bring near the living goat. And Aharon shall lay his hands (upon him) in this order, his right hand upon his left, upon the head of the living goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Yisrael, and all their rebellions, and all their sins, and shall put them, with an oath uttered and expressed with the Great and glorious Name, upon the head of the goat, and send (him) away by the hand of a man prepared from the year foregoing, to take him into a rocky desert which is Beth‑hadurey; and the goat shall bear upon him all their sins into a desert place; and the man shall send forth the goat to a rocky desert; and the goat will go up on the mountains of Beth‑hadurey, and a tempestuous wind from the presence of the Lord will carry him away, and he will die.
And Aharon shall enter the tabernacle of ordinance, and take off the robes of fine linen with which he was attired at the time of his going into the holy place, and shall lay them aside there. Then shall he wash his flesh in the sanctuary, and afterward attire himself, and withdraw, and come forth, and perform his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for his people. And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn at the altar.
And he who led away the goat to Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in forty seahs of water, and afterward he may enter the camp. But the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the sanctuary to make atonement, shall be carried away upon carriages[2] by the hands of young men who are priests; and they shall bear them without the camp, and burn them with fire, their skin, their flesh, and their dung. And he who burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in forty seahs of water, and afterwards he may enter the camp.
And this shall be to you for an everlasting statute: in the seventh month, it is the month Tishri, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, (abstaining) from food, and from drinks, and from the use of the bath, and from rubbing[3], and from sandals, and from the practice of the bed: nor shall you do any work, neither the native‑born nor the stranger who dwelleth among you. For on this day be shall make ATONEMENT for you to cleanse you from all your sins; and you shall confess your transgressions before the Lord, and shall be clean. It is a Shabbat of rest to you: no work of business shall you do, but shall humiliate your souls. [JERUSALEM. But in it you shall fast for your souls.] It is an everlasting statute.
And the priest who is anointed, and who hath offered his oblation to minister instead of his father, shall be clothed in the robes of fine linen, even the consecrated robes. And he shall make atonement for the Holy of Holies, and for the tabernacle of ordinance, and for the altar; and for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation, shall he atone, with confession of words. And this shall be to you for an everlasting statute, to expiate the children of Yisrael from all their sins, once in the year. And Aharon did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
XVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, and with the sons of Yisrael, and tell them: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded, saying: A man of the house of Yisrael, young or old, who shall kill as a sacrifice a bullock, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who killeth it without the camp, and bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance to offer it an oblation before the Lord, before the tabernacle of the Lord, the blood of slaughter shall be reckoned to that man, and it shall be to him as if he had shed innocent blood, and that man shall be destroyed from his people. In order that the sons of Yisrael may bring their sacrifices which they have [heretofore] killed on the face of the field, they may [henceforth] bring them before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, unto the priest, and sacrifice their consecrated victims before the Lord. And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and burn the fat, to be received with acceptance before the Lord. Neither shall they offer any more their sacrifices unto idols which are like unto demons, after which they have wandered. This shall be an everlasting statute to them, unto their generations.
And thou shalt tell them: A man, whether young or old, of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall sacrifice a burnt offering, or consecrated oblation, and bring it not to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, to be made an oblation before the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from his people.
A man also, whether young or old, of the house of the family of Yisrael, or of the strangers who sojourn, in dwelling among them, who shall eat any blood, I will cause employment to turn away (or cease) from that man who eateth any blood, and will destroy him from among his people. Because the subsistence of the life of all flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you for a decree, that you shall bring the blood of the victim unto the altar to make atonement for the blood of your lives, because the blood of the victim is to atone for the guilt of the soul. Therefore have I said to the sons of Yisrael, Beware lest any man among you eat the blood. Neither shall the strangers who sojourn by dwelling among you eat the blood. And any man, whether young or old, of the house of the stock of Yisrael, or of the sojourners who sojourn by dwelling among you, who hunteth venison of beast or fowl proper to be eaten, shall pour out its blood when it is killed; and if what he hath killed be not destroyed (or strangled?), let [the blood] be covered with dust. Because the subsistence of the life of all flesh is its blood; it is its life; and I have told the sons of Yisrael, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh; for the subsistence of the life of all flesh is its blood: whosoever among you eateth it shall be destroyed. And any man who shall eat flesh which hath been thrown away on account of having been strangled (or corrupted), or the flesh of that which hath been torn, (any man,) whether native or sojourner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening when he shall be clean; but if he be perverse and will not wash, nor bathe his flesh, he shall bear histransgression. [JERUSALEM. And if he will not cleanse nor purify his flesh, he shall bear his transgression.]
XVIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, I am the Lord your Elohim. After the evil work of the people of the land of Mizraim, among whom you have dwelt, you shall not do; so likewise, after the evil work of the people of the land of Kenaan, whither I am bringing you, ye shall not do, neither shall you walk according to their laws; but you shall perform the orders of My judgments, and observe My statutes to walk in them: I am the Lord your Elohim. And you shall keep My statutes, and the order of My judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them, in the life of eternity, and his portion shall be with the just: I am the Lord.
No man, either young or old, shall come nigh to any of the kindred of his flesh to dishonour (their) nakedness by carnality, or by the knowledge of their nakedness. I am the Lord. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, thou shall not dishonour. A woman shall not lie with her father, nor a man with his mother; she is thy mother: thou shalt not discover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not dishonour, for it is the nakedness of thy father. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, (or of her) whom, thy father begat by another wife, or of thy mother, whom thy mother bare by thy father or by another husband, thou shalt not dishonour. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or the daughter of thy daughter, thou shalt not dishonour, because they are as thy own nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, who hath been begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not dishonour. The nakedness of thy father's sister thou shalt not dishonour; she is of kin to thy father's flesh. The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou shall not dishonour; for she is of kin to thy mother's flesh. The nakedness of thy father's brother thou shalt not dishonour, nor come nigh to his wife carnally; she is the wife of thy father's brother. The nakedness of thy daughter‑in‑Torah thou shalt not dishonour; she is the wife of thy son, thou shalt not dishonour her nakedness. The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou shalt not dishonour in the life‑time of thy brother, or after his death, if he have children; for it is the nakedness of thy brother. The nakedness of a woman and of her daughter thou shalt not dishonour, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or the daughter of her daughter, to dishonour their nakedness; for they are of kin to her flesh; it is corruption. Neither shalt thou take a wife in the lifetime of her sister, to aggrieve her by dishonouring her nakedness, over her, all the days of her life. And unto the side of a woman in the time of the separation of her uncleanness thou shalt not draw nigh to dishonour her nakedness. Nor unto the side of thy neighbour's wife shalt thou come to defile her. And of thy offspring thou shalt not give up any to lie carnally with the daughters of the Gentiles, to perform strange worship; nor shalt thou profane the Name of thy Elohim: I am the Lord. [JERUSALEM. Neither shall ye profane the Name of your Elohim: thus speaketh the Lord.] Nor with a male person shalt thou lie as with a woman; it is an abhorrent thing. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to corrupt thyseIf therewith nor shall any woman approach before a beast for evil pleasure; it is confusion. Defile not yourselves by any one of all these; for by all these have the peoples defiled themselves whom I am about to drive away from before you. And the land hath been defiled, and I have visited the guilt upon it, and the land delivereth itself of its inhabitants. But you, O` congregation of Yisrael, observe My statutes, and the order of My judgments, and commit not one of these abominations, neither (you who are) native born, or the strangers who sojourn among you. For these abominable things have been done by the men of the land who have been before you, so that the land hath been polluted: lest, when you pollute the land, it cast you forth, as it will have delivered itself of the people that were before you. [JERUSALEM. And the land cast you not forth.] For whoever committeth any one of these abominations, the souls who do so shall be destroyed from among their people. Observe you (then) the keeping of My Word, in being careful to avoid the practice of these abominable rites, which have been practised in the land before you, and the defilement of yourselves by them: I am the Lord.
[1] Or, "with confession of words:" be-ishteoth milaya.
[2] Aslin, "bars."
[3] Castel. 2152
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<a href=#C441V1>Chapter 01</a>
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<a href=#C443V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C444V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C445V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C446V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C447V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C448V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C449V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4410V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4411V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4412V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4413V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4414V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4415V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4416V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C4417V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C4418V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C4419V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C4420V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C4421V1>Chapter 21</a>
<a href=#C4422V1>Chapter 22</a>
<a href=#C4423V1>Chapter 23</a>
<a href=#C4424V1>Chapter 24</a>
<a href=#C4425V1>Chapter 25</a>
<a href=#C4426V1>Chapter 26</a>
<a href=#C4427V1>Chapter 27</a>
<a href=#C4428V1>Chapter 28</a>
<p>
<a name="C441V1" id="C441V1">1:1</a> The first book I wrote, Theophilus,
concerned all that Yeshua began both to do and to teach, <a name="C441V2"
id="C441V2">1:2</a> until the day in which he was received up, after he had
given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had
chosen. <a name="C441V3" id="C441V3">1:3</a> To these he also showed himself
alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period
of forty days, and speaking about Elohim's Kingdom. <a name="C441V4" id="C441V4">1:4</a>
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart
from Yerushalayim, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard
from me. <a name="C441V5" id="C441V5">1:5</a> For John indeed baptized in
water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V6" id="C441V6">1:6</a> Therefore, when they had come together,
they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Yisrael?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V7" id="C441V7">1:7</a> He said to them, "It isn't for you
to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own
authority. <a name="C441V8" id="C441V8">1:8</a> But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in
Yerushalayim, in all Judea and Shomron, and to the uttermost parts of the
earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V9" id="C441V9">1:9</a> When he had said these things, as they
were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their
sight. <a name="C441V10" id="C441V10">1:10</a> While they were looking
steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in
white clothing, <a name="C441V11" id="C441V11">1:11</a> who also said, "You
men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua, who was
received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you
saw him going into the sky."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V12" id="C441V12">1:12</a> Then they returned to Yerushalayim from
the mountain called Olivet, which is near Yerushalayim, a Shabbat day's
journey away. <a name="C441V13" id="C441V13">1:13</a> When they had come in,
they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter,
John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son
of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. <a name="C441V14"
id="C441V14">1:14</a> All these with one accord continued steadfastly in
prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of
Yeshua, and with his brothers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V15" id="C441V15">1:15</a> In these days, Peter stood up in the
midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred
twenty), and said, <a name="C441V16" id="C441V16">1:16</a> "Brothers, it
was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy
Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide
to those who took Yeshua. <a name="C441V17" id="C441V17">1:17</a> For he was
numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry. <a
name="C441V18" id="C441V18">1:18</a> Now this man obtained a field with the
reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and
all his intestines gushed out. <a name="C441V19" id="C441V19">1:19</a> It
became known to everyone who lived in Yerushalayim that in their language
that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field of blood.' <a
name="C441V20" id="C441V20">1:20</a> For it is written in the book of Psalms,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Let his habitation be made desolate.
</dt>
<dd>
Let no one dwell therein;'<sup><a href="#N441">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
and,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Let another take his office.'<sup><a href="#N442">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C441V21" id="C441V21">1:21</a> "Of the men therefore who have
accompanied us all the time that the Lord Yeshua went in and out among us,
<a name="C441V22" id="C441V22">1:22</a> beginning from the baptism of John, to
the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a
witness with us of his resurrection."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C441V23" id="C441V23">1:23</a> They put forward two, Joseph called
Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. <a name="C441V24"
id="C441V24">1:24</a> They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the
hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen <a
name="C441V25" id="C441V25">1:25</a> to take part in this ministry and
apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
<a name="C441V26" id="C441V26">1:26</a> They drew lots for them, and the lot
fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C442V1" id="C442V1">2:1</a> Now when the day of Pentecost had come,
they were all with one accord in one place. <a name="C442V2" id="C442V2">2:2</a>
Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. <a name="C442V3"
id="C442V3">2:3</a> Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them,
and one sat on each of them. <a name="C442V4" id="C442V4">2:4</a> They were
all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages,
as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. <a name="C442V5" id="C442V5">2:5</a>
Now there were dwelling in Yerushalayim Jews, devout men, from every nation
under the sky. <a name="C442V6" id="C442V6">2:6</a> When this sound was heard,
the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard
them speaking in his own language. <a name="C442V7" id="C442V7">2:7</a> They
were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't
all these who speak Galileans? <a name="C442V8" id="C442V8">2:8</a> How do we
hear, everyone in our own native language? <a name="C442V9" id="C442V9">2:9</a>
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea,
Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, <a name="C442V10" id="C442V10">2:10</a> Phrygia,
Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome,
both Jews and proselytes, <a name="C442V11" id="C442V11">2:11</a> Cretans and
Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of Elohim!"
<a name="C442V12" id="C442V12">2:12</a> They were all amazed, and were
perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?" <a
name="C442V13" id="C442V13">2:13</a> Others, mocking, said, "They are
filled with new wine."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C442V14" id="C442V14">2:14</a> But Peter, standing up with the
eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of
Judea, and all you who dwell at Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and
listen to my words. <a name="C442V15" id="C442V15">2:15</a> For these aren't
drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only <a href="#N443">the third hour of
the day</a>. <a name="C442V16" id="C442V16">2:16</a> But this is what has been
spoken through the prophet Joel:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C442V17" id="C442V17">2:17</a> 'It will be in the last days, says
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
</dd>
<dt>
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
</dt>
<dd>
Your young men will see visions.
</dd>
<dd>
Your old men will dream dreams.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V18" id="C442V18">2:18</a> Yes, and on my servants and on my
handmaidens in those days,
</dt>
<dd>
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V19" id="C442V19">2:19</a> I will show wonders in the sky
above,
</dt>
<dd>
and signs on the earth beneath;
</dd>
<dd>
blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V20" id="C442V20">2:20</a> The sun will be turned into
darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the moon into blood,
</dd>
<dd>
before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C442V21" id="C442V21">2:21</a> It will be, that whoever will call
on the name of the Lord will be saved.'<sup><a href="#N444">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C442V22" id="C442V22">2:22</a> "Men of Yisrael, hear these words!
Yeshua of Nazareth, a man approved by Elohim to you by mighty works and
wonders and signs which Elohim did by him in the midst of you, even as you
yourselves know, <a name="C442V23" id="C442V23">2:23</a> him, being delivered
up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have taken by
the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; <a name="C442V24" id="C442V24">2:24</a>
whom Elohim raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it
was not possible that he should be held by it. <a name="C442V25" id="C442V25">2:25</a>
For David says concerning him,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'I saw the Lord always before my face,
</dt>
<dd>
For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V26" id="C442V26">2:26</a> Therefore my heart was glad, and my
tongue rejoiced.
</dt>
<dd>
Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V27" id="C442V27">2:27</a> because you will not leave my soul
in <a href="#N445">Hades</a>,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C442V28" id="C442V28">2:28</a> You made known to me the ways of
life.
</dt>
<dd>
You will make me full of gladness with your presence.'<sup><a href="#N446">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C442V29" id="C442V29">2:29</a> "Brothers, I may tell you freely
of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is
with us to this day. <a name="C442V30" id="C442V30">2:30</a> Therefore, being
a prophet, and knowing that Elohim had sworn with an oath to him that of the
fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah to
sit on his throne, <a name="C442V31" id="C442V31">2:31</a> he foreseeing this
spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was his soul left
in <a href="#N447">Hades</a>, nor did his flesh see decay. <a name="C442V32"
id="C442V32">2:32</a> This Yeshua Elohim raised up, to which we all are
witnesses. <a name="C442V33" id="C442V33">2:33</a> Being therefore exalted by
the right hand of Elohim, and having received from the Father the promise of
the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear. <a
name="C442V34" id="C442V34">2:34</a> For David didn't ascend into the heavens,
but he says himself,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C442V35" id="C442V35">2:35</a> until I make your enemies a
footstool for your feet."'<sup><a href="#N448">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C442V36" id="C442V36">2:36</a> "Let all the house of Yisrael
therefore know certainly that Elohim has made him both Lord and Messiah, this
Yeshua whom you crucified."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C442V37" id="C442V37">2:37</a> Now when they heard this, they were
cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers,
what shall we do?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C442V38" id="C442V38">2:38</a> Peter said to them, "Repent, and
be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Yeshua Messiah for the
forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. <a
name="C442V39" id="C442V39">2:39</a> For to you is the promise, and to your
children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our Elohim
will call to himself." <a name="C442V40" id="C442V40">2:40</a> With many
other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves
from this crooked generation!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C442V41" id="C442V41">2:41</a> Then those who gladly received his
word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
<a name="C442V42" id="C442V42">2:42</a> They continued steadfastly in the
apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
<a name="C442V43" id="C442V43">2:43</a> Fear came on every soul, and many
wonders and signs were done through the apostles. <a name="C442V44"
id="C442V44">2:44</a> All who believed were together, and had all things in
common. <a name="C442V45" id="C442V45">2:45</a> They sold their possessions
and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need. <a
name="C442V46" id="C442V46">2:46</a> Day by day, continuing steadfastly with
one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food
with gladness and singleness of heart, <a name="C442V47" id="C442V47">2:47</a>
praising Elohim, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the
assembly day by day those who were being saved.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C443V1" id="C443V1">3:1</a> Peter and John were going up into the
temple at the hour of prayer, <a href="#N449">the ninth hour</a>. <a
name="C443V2" id="C443V2">3:2</a> A certain man who was lame from his mother's
womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple
which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered
into the temple. <a name="C443V3" id="C443V3">3:3</a> Seeing Peter and John
about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. <a
name="C443V4" id="C443V4">3:4</a> Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John,
said, "Look at us." <a name="C443V5" id="C443V5">3:5</a> He listened
to them, expecting to receive something from them. <a name="C443V6" id="C443V6">3:6</a>
But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I
give you. In the name of Yeshua Messiah of Nazareth, get up and walk!"
<a name="C443V7" id="C443V7">3:7</a> He took him by the right hand, and raised
him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. <a
name="C443V8" id="C443V8">3:8</a> Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He
entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising Elohim. <a
name="C443V9" id="C443V9">3:9</a> All the people saw him walking and praising
Elohim. <a name="C443V10" id="C443V10">3:10</a> They recognized him, that it was
he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate
of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had
happened to him. <a name="C443V11" id="C443V11">3:11</a> As the lame man who
was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them
in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C443V12" id="C443V12">3:12</a> When Peter saw it, he responded to the
people, "You men of Yisrael, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you
fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had
made him walk? <a name="C443V13" id="C443V13">3:13</a> The Elohim of Avraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, the Elohim of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua,
whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had
determined to release him. <a name="C443V14" id="C443V14">3:14</a> But you
denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted
to you, <a name="C443V15" id="C443V15">3:15</a> and killed the Prince of life,
whom Elohim raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. <a name="C443V16"
id="C443V16">3:16</a> By faith in his name, his name has made this man
strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has
given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C443V17" id="C443V17">3:17</a> "Now, <a href="#N4410">brothers</a>,
I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. <a
name="C443V18" id="C443V18">3:18</a> But the things which Elohim announced by the
mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C443V19" id="C443V19">3:19</a> "Repent therefore, and turn
again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of
refreshing from the presence of the Lord, <a name="C443V20" id="C443V20">3:20</a>
and that he may send Messiah Yeshua, who was ordained for you before, <a
name="C443V21" id="C443V21">3:21</a> whom heaven must receive until the times
of restoration of all things, which Elohim spoke long ago by the mouth of his
holy prophets. <a name="C443V22" id="C443V22">3:22</a> For Moshe indeed said
to the fathers, 'The Lord Elohim will raise up a prophet for you from among
your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he
says to you. <a name="C443V23" id="C443V23">3:23</a> It will be, that every
soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from
among the people.'<sup><a href="#N4411">*</a></sup> <a name="C443V24"
id="C443V24">3:24</a> Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who
followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. <a
name="C443V25" id="C443V25">3:25</a> You are the children of the prophets, and
of the covenant which Elohim made with our fathers, saying to Avraham, 'In
your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'<sup><a
href="#N4412">*</a></sup> <a name="C443V26" id="C443V26">3:26</a> Elohim, having
raised up his servant, Yeshua, sent him to you first, to bless you, in
turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V1" id="C444V1">4:1</a> As they spoke to the people, the priests
and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, <a
name="C444V2" id="C444V2">4:2</a> being upset because they taught the people
and proclaimed in Yeshua the resurrection from the dead. <a name="C444V3"
id="C444V3">4:3</a> They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until
the next day, for it was now evening. <a name="C444V4" id="C444V4">4:4</a> But
many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came
to be about five thousand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V5" id="C444V5">4:5</a> It happened in the morning, that their
rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Yerushalayim. <a
name="C444V6" id="C444V6">4:6</a> Annas the high priest was there, with
Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high
priest. <a name="C444V7" id="C444V7">4:7</a> When they had stood them in the
middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have
you done this?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V8" id="C444V8">4:8</a> Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,
said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Yisrael, <a
name="C444V9" id="C444V9">4:9</a> if we are examined today concerning a good
deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, <a
name="C444V10" id="C444V10">4:10</a> be it known to you all, and to all the
people of Yisrael, that in the name of Yeshua Messiah of Nazareth, whom you
crucified, whom Elohim raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here
before you whole. <a name="C444V11" id="C444V11">4:11</a> He is 'the stone
which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the
head of the corner.'<sup><a href="#N4413">*</a></sup> <a name="C444V12"
id="C444V12">4:12</a> There is salvation in none other, for neither is there
any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be
saved!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V13" id="C444V13">4:13</a> Now when they saw the boldness of
Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant
men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Yeshua. <a
name="C444V14" id="C444V14">4:14</a> Seeing the man who was healed standing
with them, they could say nothing against it. <a name="C444V15" id="C444V15">4:15</a>
But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they
conferred among themselves, <a name="C444V16" id="C444V16">4:16</a> saying,
"What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has
been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in
Yerushalayim, and we can't deny it. <a name="C444V17" id="C444V17">4:17</a> But
so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them,
that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name." <a
name="C444V18" id="C444V18">4:18</a> They called them, and commanded them not
to speak at all nor teach in the name of Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V19" id="C444V19">4:19</a> But Peter and John answered them,
"Whether it is right in the sight of Elohim to listen to you rather than
to Elohim, judge for yourselves, <a name="C444V20" id="C444V20">4:20</a> for we
can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V21" id="C444V21">4:21</a> When they had further threatened them,
they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people;
for everyone glorified Elohim for that which was done. <a name="C444V22"
id="C444V22">4:22</a> For the man on whom this miracle of healing was
performed was more than forty years old.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V23" id="C444V23">4:23</a> Being let go, they came to their own
company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said
to them. <a name="C444V24" id="C444V24">4:24</a> When they heard it, they
lifted up their voice to Elohim with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you
are Elohim, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
<a name="C444V25" id="C444V25">4:25</a> who by the mouth of your servant,
David, said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Why do the nations rage,
</dt>
<dd>
and the peoples plot a vain thing?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C444V26" id="C444V26">4:26</a> The kings of the earth take a stand,
</dt>
<dd>
and the rulers take council together,
</dd>
<dd>
against the Lord, and against his <a href="#N4414">Messiah</a>.'<sup><a
href="#N4415">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C444V27" id="C444V27">4:27</a> "For truly, in this city against
your holy servant, Yeshua, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius
Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Yisrael, were gathered together
<a name="C444V28" id="C444V28">4:28</a> to do whatever your hand and your
council foreordained to happen. <a name="C444V29" id="C444V29">4:29</a> Now,
Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word
with all boldness, <a name="C444V30" id="C444V30">4:30</a> while you stretch
out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the
name of your holy Servant Yeshua."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C444V31" id="C444V31">4:31</a> When they had prayed, the place was
shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the
Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of Elohim with boldness. <a name="C444V32"
id="C444V32">4:32</a> The multitude of those who believed were of one heart
and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he
possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. <a name="C444V33"
id="C444V33">4:33</a> With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of
the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua. Great grace was on them all. <a
name="C444V34" id="C444V34">4:34</a> For neither was there among them any who
lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and
brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, <a name="C444V35"
id="C444V35">4:35</a> and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution
was made to each, according as anyone had need. <a name="C444V36" id="C444V36">4:36</a>
Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being
interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race, <a
name="C444V37" id="C444V37">4:37</a> having a field, sold it, and brought the
money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V1" id="C445V1">5:1</a> But a certain man named Ananias, with
Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, <a name="C445V2" id="C445V2">5:2</a>
and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and
brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. <a name="C445V3"
id="C445V3">5:3</a> But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your
heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the
land? <a name="C445V4" id="C445V4">5:4</a> While you kept it, didn't it remain
your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you
have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to
Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V5" id="C445V5">5:5</a> Ananias, hearing these words, fell down
and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things. <a name="C445V6"
id="C445V6">5:6</a> The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried
him out and buried him. <a name="C445V7" id="C445V7">5:7</a> About three hours
later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. <a name="C445V8"
id="C445V8">5:8</a> Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the
land for so much."
</p>
<p>
She said, "Yes, for so much."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V9" id="C445V9">5:9</a> But Peter asked her, "How is it that
you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet
of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry
you out."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V10" id="C445V10">5:10</a> She fell down immediately at his feet,
and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her
out and buried her by her husband. <a name="C445V11" id="C445V11">5:11</a>
Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
<a name="C445V12" id="C445V12">5:12</a> By the hands of the apostles many
signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one
accord in Solomon's porch. <a name="C445V13" id="C445V13">5:13</a> None of the
rest dared to join them, however the people honored them. <a name="C445V14"
id="C445V14">5:14</a> More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of
both men and women. <a name="C445V15" id="C445V15">5:15</a> They even carried
out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so
that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of
them. <a name="C445V16" id="C445V16">5:16</a> Multitudes also came together
from the cities around Yerushalayim, bringing sick people, and those who were
tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V17" id="C445V17">5:17</a> But the high priest rose up, and all
those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they
were filled with jealousy, <a name="C445V18" id="C445V18">5:18</a> and laid
hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody. <a name="C445V19"
id="C445V19">5:19</a> But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by
night, and brought them out, and said, <a name="C445V20" id="C445V20">5:20</a>
"Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this
life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V21" id="C445V21">5:21</a> When they heard this, they entered
into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and
those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the
senate of the children of Yisrael, and sent to the prison to have them
brought. <a name="C445V22" id="C445V22">5:22</a> But the officers who came
didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported, <a name="C445V23"
id="C445V23">5:23</a> "We found the prison shut and locked, and the
guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one
inside!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V24" id="C445V24">5:24</a> Now when the high priest, the captain
of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very
perplexed about them and what might become of this. <a name="C445V25"
id="C445V25">5:25</a> One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you
put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
<a name="C445V26" id="C445V26">5:26</a> Then the captain went with the
officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the
people might stone them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V27" id="C445V27">5:27</a> When they had brought them, they set
them before the council. The high priest questioned them, <a name="C445V28"
id="C445V28">5:28</a> saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to
teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching,
and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V29" id="C445V29">5:29</a> But Peter and the apostles answered,
"We must obey Elohim rather than men. <a name="C445V30" id="C445V30">5:30</a>
The Elohim of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whom you killed, hanging him on a
tree. <a name="C445V31" id="C445V31">5:31</a> Elohim exalted him with his right
hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Yisrael, and
remission of sins. <a name="C445V32" id="C445V32">5:32</a> We are His
witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom Elohim has
given to those who obey him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V33" id="C445V33">5:33</a> But they, when they heard this, were
cut to the heart, and determined to kill them. <a name="C445V34" id="C445V34">5:34</a>
But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of
the Torah, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out
for a little while. <a name="C445V35" id="C445V35">5:35</a> He said to them,
"You men of Yisrael, be careful concerning these men, what you are
about to do. <a name="C445V36" id="C445V36">5:36</a> For before these days
Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of
men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as
many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing. <a name="C445V37"
id="C445V37">5:37</a> After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days
of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished,
and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad. <a name="C445V38"
id="C445V38">5:38</a> Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave
them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be
overthrown. <a name="C445V39" id="C445V39">5:39</a> But if it is of Elohim, you
will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be
fighting against Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V40" id="C445V40">5:40</a> They agreed with him. Summoning the
apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of
Yeshua, and let them go. <a name="C445V41" id="C445V41">5:41</a> They therefore
departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were
counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Yeshua' name.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C445V42" id="C445V42">5:42</a> Every day, in the temple and at home,
they never stopped teaching and preaching Yeshua, the Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C446V1" id="C446V1">6:1</a> Now in those days, when the number of the
disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the <a href="#N4416">Hellenists</a>
against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
service. <a name="C446V2" id="C446V2">6:2</a> The twelve summoned the
multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to
forsake the word of Elohim and serve tables. <a name="C446V3" id="C446V3">6:3</a>
Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full
of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
<a name="C446V4" id="C446V4">6:4</a> But we will continue steadfastly in
prayer and in the ministry of the word."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C446V5" id="C446V5">6:5</a> These words pleased the whole multitude.
They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip,
Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
<a name="C446V6" id="C446V6">6:6</a> whom they set before the apostles. When
they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. <a name="C446V7" id="C446V7">6:7</a>
The word of Elohim increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in
Yerushalayim exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the
faith.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C446V8" id="C446V8">6:8</a> Stephen, full of faith and power,
performed great wonders and signs among the people. <a name="C446V9"
id="C446V9">6:9</a> But some of those who were of the synagogue called
"The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and
of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen. <a name="C446V10"
id="C446V10">6:10</a> They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the
Spirit by which he spoke. <a name="C446V11" id="C446V11">6:11</a> Then they
secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous
words against Moshe and Elohim." <a name="C446V12" id="C446V12">6:12</a>
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against
him and seized him, and brought him in to the council, <a name="C446V13"
id="C446V13">6:13</a> and set up false witnesses who said, "This man
never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the
Torah. <a name="C446V14" id="C446V14">6:14</a> For we have heard him say that
this Yeshua of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the
customs which Moshe delivered to us." <a name="C446V15" id="C446V15">6:15</a>
All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like
it was the face of an angel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V1" id="C447V1">7:1</a> The high priest said, "Are these
things so?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V2" id="C447V2">7:2</a> He said, "Brothers and fathers,
listen. The Elohim of glory appeared to our father Avraham, when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, <a name="C447V3" id="C447V3">7:3</a>
and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come
into a land which I will show you.'<sup><a href="#N4417">*</a></sup> <a
name="C447V4" id="C447V4">7:4</a> Then he came out of the land of the
Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, Elohim
moved him into this land, where you are now living. <a name="C447V5"
id="C447V5">7:5</a> He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to
set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a
possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child. <a
name="C447V6" id="C447V6">7:6</a> Elohim spoke in this way: that his seed would
live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and
mistreated for four hundred years. <a name="C447V7" id="C447V7">7:7</a> 'I
will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said Elohim, 'and
after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'<sup><a
href="#N4418">*</a></sup> <a name="C447V8" id="C447V8">7:8</a> He gave him the
covenant of circumcision. So Avraham became the father of Isaac, and
circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and
Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V9" id="C447V9">7:9</a> "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy
against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. Elohim was with him, <a name="C447V10"
id="C447V10">7:10</a> and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave
him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor
over Egypt and all his house. <a name="C447V11" id="C447V11">7:11</a> Now a
famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction.
Our fathers found no food. <a name="C447V12" id="C447V12">7:12</a> But when
Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the
first time. <a name="C447V13" id="C447V13">7:13</a> On the second time Joseph
was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
<a name="C447V14" id="C447V14">7:14</a> Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his
father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. <a name="C447V15"
id="C447V15">7:15</a> Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and
our fathers, <a name="C447V16" id="C447V16">7:16</a> and they were brought
back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Avraham bought for a price in
silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V17" id="C447V17">7:17</a> "But as the time of the promise
came close which Elohim had sworn to Avraham, the people grew and multiplied
in Egypt, <a name="C447V18" id="C447V18">7:18</a> until there arose a
different king, who didn't know Joseph. <a name="C447V19" id="C447V19">7:19</a>
The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and
forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.
<a name="C447V20" id="C447V20">7:20</a> At that time Moshe was born, and was
exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.
<a name="C447V21" id="C447V21">7:21</a> When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's
daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son. <a name="C447V22"
id="C447V22">7:22</a> Moshe was instructed in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. <a name="C447V23" id="C447V23">7:23</a>
But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his <a
href="#N4419">brothers</a>, the children of Yisrael. <a name="C447V24"
id="C447V24">7:24</a> Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and
avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. <a name="C447V25"
id="C447V25">7:25</a> He supposed that his brothers understood that Elohim, by
his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V26" id="C447V26">7:26</a> "The day following, he appeared
to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying,
'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?' <a name="C447V27"
id="C447V27">7:27</a> But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away,
saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? <a name="C447V28"
id="C447V28">7:28</a> Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian
yesterday?'<sup><a href="#N4420">*</a></sup> <a name="C447V29" id="C447V29">7:29</a>
Moshe fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian,
where he became the father of two sons.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V30" id="C447V30">7:30</a> "When forty years were fulfilled,
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in
a flame of fire in a bush. <a name="C447V31" id="C447V31">7:31</a> When Moshe
saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the
Lord came to him, <a name="C447V32" id="C447V32">7:32</a> 'I am the Elohim of
your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.'<sup><a
href="#N4421">*</a></sup> Moshe trembled, and dared not look. <a name="C447V33"
id="C447V33">7:33</a> The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your
feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. <a name="C447V34"
id="C447V34">7:34</a> I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is
in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them.
Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'<sup><a href="#N4422">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V35" id="C447V35">7:35</a> "This Moshe, whom they refused,
saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--Elohim has sent him as both a
ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the
bush. <a name="C447V36" id="C447V36">7:36</a> This man led them out, having
worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness
for forty years. <a name="C447V37" id="C447V37">7:37</a> This is that Moshe,
who said to the children of Yisrael, 'The Lord our Elohim will raise up a
prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.<sup><a href="#N4423">*</a></sup>'<sup><a
href="#N4424">*</a></sup> <a name="C447V38" id="C447V38">7:38</a> This is he who
was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on
Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to
us, <a name="C447V39" id="C447V39">7:39</a> to whom our fathers wouldn't be
obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, <a
name="C447V40" id="C447V40">7:40</a> saying to Aharon, 'Make us gods that will
go before us, for as for this Moshe, who led us out of the land of Egypt,
we don't know what has become of him.'<sup><a href="#N4425">*</a></sup> <a
name="C447V41" id="C447V41">7:41</a> They made a calf in those days, and
brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
<a name="C447V42" id="C447V42">7:42</a> But Elohim turned, and gave them up to
serve the <a href="#N4426">army of the sky,</a> as it is written in the book
of the prophets,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
</dt>
<dd>
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisrael?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C447V43" id="C447V43">7:43</a> You took up the tent of Moloch,
</dt>
<dd>
the star of your god Rephan,
</dd>
<dt>
the figures which you made to worship.
</dt>
<dd>
I will carry you away<sup><a href="#N4427">*</a></sup> beyond Babylon.'
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C447V44" id="C447V44">7:44</a> "Our fathers had the tent of the
testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moshe commanded him
to make it according to the pattern that he had seen; <a name="C447V45"
id="C447V45">7:45</a> which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with
Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom Elohim
drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, <a
name="C447V46" id="C447V46">7:46</a> who found favor in the sight of Elohim, and
asked to find a habitation for the Elohim of Jacob. <a name="C447V47" id="C447V47">7:47</a>
But Solomon built him a house. <a name="C447V48" id="C447V48">7:48</a>
However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the
prophet says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C447V49" id="C447V49">7:49</a> 'heaven is my throne,
</dt>
<dd>
and the earth a footstool for my feet.
</dd>
<dt>
What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord;
</dt>
<dd>
'or what is the place of my rest?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C447V50" id="C447V50">7:50</a> Didn't my hand make all these
things?'<sup><a href="#N4428">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C447V51" id="C447V51">7:51</a> "You stiff-necked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As
your fathers did, so you do. <a name="C447V52" id="C447V52">7:52</a> Which of
the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold
the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and
murderers. <a name="C447V53" id="C447V53">7:53</a> You received the Torah as it
was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V54" id="C447V54">7:54</a> Now when they heard these things, they
were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. <a
name="C447V55" id="C447V55">7:55</a> But he, being full of the Holy Spirit,
looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of Elohim, and Yeshua
standing on the right hand of Elohim, <a name="C447V56" id="C447V56">7:56</a> and
said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing
at the right hand of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C447V57" id="C447V57">7:57</a> But they cried out with a loud voice,
and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord. <a name="C447V58"
id="C447V58">7:58</a> They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The
witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Sha'ul. <a
name="C447V59" id="C447V59">7:59</a> They stoned Stephen as he called out,
saying, "Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit!" <a name="C447V60"
id="C447V60">7:60</a> He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord,
don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell
asleep.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V1" id="C448V1">8:1</a> Sha'ul was consenting to his death. A great
persecution arose against the assembly which was in Yerushalayim in that day.
They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and
Shomron, except for the apostles. <a name="C448V2" id="C448V2">8:2</a> Devout
men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him. <a name="C448V3" id="C448V3">8:3</a>
But Sha'ul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both
men and women off to prison. <a name="C448V4" id="C448V4">8:4</a> Therefore
those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word. <a
name="C448V5" id="C448V5">8:5</a> Philip went down to the city of Shomron, and
proclaimed to them the Messiah. <a name="C448V6" id="C448V6">8:6</a> The
multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by
Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did. <a name="C448V7"
id="C448V7">8:7</a> For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had
them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed
and lame were healed. <a name="C448V8" id="C448V8">8:8</a> There was great joy
in that city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V9" id="C448V9">8:9</a> But there was a certain man, Simon by
name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of
Shomron, making himself out to be some great one, <a name="C448V10"
id="C448V10">8:10</a> to whom they all listened, from the least to the
greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of Elohim." <a
name="C448V11" id="C448V11">8:11</a> They listened to him, because for a long
time he had amazed them with his sorceries. <a name="C448V12" id="C448V12">8:12</a>
But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom
of Elohim and the name of Yeshua Messiah, they were baptized, both men and
women. <a name="C448V13" id="C448V13">8:13</a> Simon himself also believed.
Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles
occurring, he was amazed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V14" id="C448V14">8:14</a> Now when the apostles who were at
Yerushalayim heard that Shomron had received the word of Elohim, they sent Peter
and John to them, <a name="C448V15" id="C448V15">8:15</a> who, when they had
come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit; <a
name="C448V16" id="C448V16">8:16</a> for as yet he had fallen on none of them.
They had only been baptized in the name of Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C448V17"
id="C448V17">8:17</a> Then they laid their hands on them, and they received
the Holy Spirit. <a name="C448V18" id="C448V18">8:18</a> Now when Simon saw
that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles'
hands, he offered them money, <a name="C448V19" id="C448V19">8:19</a> saying,
"Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive
the Holy Spirit." <a name="C448V20" id="C448V20">8:20</a> But Peter said
to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you
could obtain the gift of Elohim with money! <a name="C448V21" id="C448V21">8:21</a>
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right
before Elohim. <a name="C448V22" id="C448V22">8:22</a> Repent therefore of this,
your wickedness, and ask Elohim if perhaps the thought of your heart may be
forgiven you. <a name="C448V23" id="C448V23">8:23</a> For I see that you are
in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V24" id="C448V24">8:24</a> Simon answered, "Pray for me to
the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V25" id="C448V25">8:25</a> They therefore, when they had
testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Yerushalayim, and
preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. <a name="C448V26"
id="C448V26">8:26</a> But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying,
"Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from
Yerushalayim to Gaza. This is a desert."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V27" id="C448V27">8:27</a> He arose and went; and behold, there
was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of
the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Yerushalayim
to worship. <a name="C448V28" id="C448V28">8:28</a> He was returning and
sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V29" id="C448V29">8:29</a> The Spirit said to Philip, "Go
near, and join yourself to this chariot."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V30" id="C448V30">8:30</a> Philip ran to him, and heard him
reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are
reading?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V31" id="C448V31">8:31</a> He said, "How can I, unless
someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with
him. <a name="C448V32" id="C448V32">8:32</a> Now the passage of the Scripture
which he was reading was this,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
</dt>
<dd>
As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
</dd>
<dd>
so he doesn't open his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C448V33" id="C448V33">8:33</a> In his humiliation, his judgment was
taken away.
</dt>
<dd>
Who will declare His generation?
</dd>
<dd>
For his life is taken from the earth."<sup><a href="#N4429">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C448V34" id="C448V34">8:34</a> The eunuch answered Philip, "Who
is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V35" id="C448V35">8:35</a> Philip opened his mouth, and beginning
from this Scripture, preached to him Yeshua. <a name="C448V36" id="C448V36">8:36</a>
As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,
"Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V37" id="C448V37">8:37</a> <sup><a href="#N4430">*</a></sup> <a
name="C448V38" id="C448V38">8:38</a> He commanded the chariot to stand still,
and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he
baptized him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C448V39" id="C448V39">8:39</a> When they came up out of the water,
the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him
any more, for he went on his way rejoicing. <a name="C448V40" id="C448V40">8:40</a>
But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News
to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V1" id="C449V1">9:1</a> But Sha'ul, still breathing threats and
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, <a
name="C449V2" id="C449V2">9:2</a> and asked for letters from him to the
synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether
men or women, he might bring them bound to Yerushalayim. <a name="C449V3"
id="C449V3">9:3</a> As he traveled, it happened that he got close to
Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. <a
name="C449V4" id="C449V4">9:4</a> He fell on the earth, and heard a voice
saying to him, "Sha'ul, Sha'ul, why do you persecute me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V5" id="C449V5">9:5</a> He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
</p>
<p>
The Lord said, "I am Yeshua, whom you are persecuting.<sup><a
href="#N4431">*</a></sup> <a name="C449V6" id="C449V6">9:6</a> <a href="#N4432">But</a>
rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V7" id="C449V7">9:7</a> The men who traveled with him stood
speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one. <a name="C449V8" id="C449V8">9:8</a>
Sha'ul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one.
They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. <a name="C449V9"
id="C449V9">9:9</a> He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor
drank.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V10" id="C449V10">9:10</a> Now there was a certain disciple at
Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V11" id="C449V11">9:11</a> The Lord said to him, "Arise, and
go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of <a
href="#N4433">Yehudah</a> for one named Sha'ul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he
is praying, <a name="C449V12" id="C449V12">9:12</a> and in a vision he has
seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he
might receive his sight."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V13" id="C449V13">9:13</a> But Ananias answered, "Lord, I
have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints
at Yerushalayim. <a name="C449V14" id="C449V14">9:14</a> Here he has authority
from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V15" id="C449V15">9:15</a> But the Lord said to him, "Go
your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations
and kings, and the children of Yisrael. <a name="C449V16" id="C449V16">9:16</a>
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V17" id="C449V17">9:17</a> Ananias departed, and entered into the
house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Sha'ul, the Lord, who
appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may
receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit." <a
name="C449V18" id="C449V18">9:18</a> Immediately something like scales fell
from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized. <a
name="C449V19" id="C449V19">9:19</a> He took food and was strengthened. Sha'ul
stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus. <a
name="C449V20" id="C449V20">9:20</a> Immediately in the synagogues he
proclaimed the Messiah, that he is the Son of Elohim. <a name="C449V21"
id="C449V21">9:21</a> All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't
this he who in Yerushalayim made havoc of those who called on this name? And
he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V22" id="C449V22">9:22</a> But Sha'ul increased more in strength,
and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the
Messiah. <a name="C449V23" id="C449V23">9:23</a> When many days were fulfilled,
the Jews conspired together to kill him, <a name="C449V24" id="C449V24">9:24</a>
but their plot became known to Sha'ul. They watched the gates both day and
night that they might kill him, <a name="C449V25" id="C449V25">9:25</a> but
his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall,
lowering him in a basket. <a name="C449V26" id="C449V26">9:26</a> When Sha'ul
had come to Yerushalayim, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they
were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. <a
name="C449V27" id="C449V27">9:27</a> But Barnabas took him, and brought him to
the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way,
and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly
in the name of Yeshua. <a name="C449V28" id="C449V28">9:28</a> He was with them
<a href="#N4434">entering into</a> Yerushalayim, <a name="C449V29" id="C449V29">9:29</a>
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. He spoke and disputed against
the <a href="#N4435">Hellenists,</a> but they were seeking to kill him. <a
name="C449V30" id="C449V30">9:30</a> When the <a href="#N4436">brothers</a> knew
it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus. <a
name="C449V31" id="C449V31">9:31</a> So the assemblies throughout all Judea
and Galilee and Shomron had peace, and were built up. They were
multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy
Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V32" id="C449V32">9:32</a> It happened, as Peter went throughout
all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. <a
name="C449V33" id="C449V33">9:33</a> There he found a certain man named
Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
<a name="C449V34" id="C449V34">9:34</a> Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Yeshua
Messiah heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose. <a
name="C449V35" id="C449V35">9:35</a> All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw
him, and they turned to the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C449V36" id="C449V36">9:36</a> Now there was at Joppa a certain
disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means <a href="#N4437">Dorcas.</a>
This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did. <a
name="C449V37" id="C449V37">9:37</a> It happened in those days that she fell
sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper
chamber. <a name="C449V38" id="C449V38">9:38</a> As Lydda was near Joppa, the
disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent <a href="#N4438">two men</a>
to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. <a name="C449V39"
id="C449V39">9:39</a> Peter got up and went with them. When he had come,
they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him
weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while
she was with them. <a name="C449V40" id="C449V40">9:40</a> Peter put them all
out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha,
get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. <a
name="C449V41" id="C449V41">9:41</a> He gave her his hand, and raised her up.
Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. <a name="C449V42"
id="C449V42">9:42</a> And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many
believed in the Lord. <a name="C449V43" id="C449V43">9:43</a> It happened,
that he stayed many days in Joppa with one Simon, a tanner.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V1" id="C4410V1">10:1</a> Now there was a certain man in
Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian
Regiment, <a name="C4410V2" id="C4410V2">10:2</a> a devout man, and one who
feared Elohim with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to
the people, and always prayed to Elohim. <a name="C4410V3" id="C4410V3">10:3</a>
At about <a href="#N4439">the ninth hour of the day</a>, he clearly saw in a
vision an angel of Elohim coming to him, and saying to him, "Cornelius!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V4" id="C4410V4">10:4</a> He, fastening his eyes on him, and
being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone
up for a memorial before Elohim. <a name="C4410V5" id="C4410V5">10:5</a> Now send
men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter. <a name="C4410V6"
id="C4410V6">10:6</a> He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by
the seaside.<sup><a href="#N4440">*</a></sup>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V7" id="C4410V7">10:7</a> When the angel who spoke to him had
departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout
soldier of those who waited on him continually. <a name="C4410V8" id="C4410V8">10:8</a>
Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. <a name="C4410V9"
id="C4410V9">10:9</a> Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and
got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about
noon. <a name="C4410V10" id="C4410V10">10:10</a> He became hungry and desired
to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. <a
name="C4410V11" id="C4410V11">10:11</a> He saw heaven opened and a certain
container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners
on the earth, <a name="C4410V12" id="C4410V12">10:12</a> in which were all
kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and
birds of the sky. <a name="C4410V13" id="C4410V13">10:13</a> A voice came to
him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V14" id="C4410V14">10:14</a> But Peter said, "Not so, Lord;
for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V15" id="C4410V15">10:15</a> A voice came to him again the
second time, "What Elohim has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
<a name="C4410V16" id="C4410V16">10:16</a> This was done three times, and
immediately the vessel was received up into heaven. <a name="C4410V17"
id="C4410V17">10:17</a> Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what
the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by
Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,
<a name="C4410V18" id="C4410V18">10:18</a> and called and asked whether Simon,
who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there. <a name="C4410V19" id="C4410V19">10:19</a>
While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold,
<a href="#N4441">three</a> men seek you. <a name="C4410V20" id="C4410V20">10:20</a>
But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent
them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V21" id="C4410V21">10:21</a> Peter went down to the men, and
said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V22" id="C4410V22">10:22</a> They said, "Cornelius, a
centurion, a righteous man and one who fears Elohim, and well spoken of by
all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to
his house, and to listen to what you say." <a name="C4410V23"
id="C4410V23">10:23</a> So he called them in and lodged them. On the next
day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from
Joppa accompanied him. <a name="C4410V24" id="C4410V24">10:24</a> On the next
day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having
called together his relatives and his near friends. <a name="C4410V25"
id="C4410V25">10:25</a> When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met
him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him. <a name="C4410V26" id="C4410V26">10:26</a>
But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."
<a name="C4410V27" id="C4410V27">10:27</a> As he talked with him, he went in
and found many gathered together. <a name="C4410V28" id="C4410V28">10:28</a>
He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for
a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but
Elohim has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean. <a
name="C4410V29" id="C4410V29">10:29</a> Therefore also I came without
complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V30" id="C4410V30">10:30</a> Cornelius said, "Four days
ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at <a href="#N4442">the ninth hour,</a>
I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright
clothing, <a name="C4410V31" id="C4410V31">10:31</a> and said, 'Cornelius,
your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the
sight of Elohim. <a name="C4410V32" id="C4410V32">10:32</a> Send therefore to
Joppa, and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. He lodges in the house of
Simon a tanner, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.' <a
name="C4410V33" id="C4410V33">10:33</a> Therefore I sent to you at once, and
it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the
sight of Elohim to hear all things that have been commanded you by Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V34" id="C4410V34">10:34</a> Peter opened his mouth and said,
"Truly I perceive that Elohim doesn't show favoritism; <a name="C4410V35"
id="C4410V35">10:35</a> but in every nation he who fears him and works
righteousness is acceptable to him. <a name="C4410V36" id="C4410V36">10:36</a>
The word which he sent to the children of Yisrael, preaching good news of
peace by Yeshua Messiah--he is Lord of all-- <a name="C4410V37" id="C4410V37">10:37</a>
that spoken word you yourselves know, which was proclaimed throughout all
Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; <a
name="C4410V38" id="C4410V38">10:38</a> even Yeshua of Nazareth, how Elohim
anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing
good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for Elohim was with
him. <a name="C4410V39" id="C4410V39">10:39</a> We are witnesses of everything
he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Yerushalayim; whom they <a
href="#N4443">also</a> killed, hanging him on a tree. <a name="C4410V40"
id="C4410V40">10:40</a> Elohim raised him up the third day, and gave him to be
revealed, <a name="C4410V41" id="C4410V41">10:41</a> not to all the people,
but to witnesses who were chosen before by Elohim, to us, who ate and drank
with him after he rose from the dead. <a name="C4410V42" id="C4410V42">10:42</a>
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who
is appointed by Elohim as the Judge of the living and the dead. <a
name="C4410V43" id="C4410V43">10:43</a> All the prophets testify about him,
that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission
of sins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4410V44" id="C4410V44">10:44</a> While Peter was still speaking
these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. <a
name="C4410V45" id="C4410V45">10:45</a> They of the circumcision who believed
were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy
Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. <a name="C4410V46" id="C4410V46">10:46</a>
For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying Elohim.
</p>
<p>
Then Peter answered, <a name="C4410V47" id="C4410V47">10:47</a> "Can any
man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well
as we should not be baptized?" <a name="C4410V48" id="C4410V48">10:48</a>
He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Yeshua Messiah. Then they
asked him to stay some days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V1" id="C4411V1">11:1</a> Now the apostles and the <a href="#N4444">brothers</a>
who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of
Elohim. <a name="C4411V2" id="C4411V2">11:2</a> When Peter had come up to
Yerushalayim, those who were of the circumcision contended with him, <a
name="C4411V3" id="C4411V3">11:3</a> saying, "You went in to
uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V4" id="C4411V4">11:4</a> But Peter began, and explained to them
in order, saying, <a name="C4411V5" id="C4411V5">11:5</a> "I was in the
city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container
descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four
corners. It came as far as me. <a name="C4411V6" id="C4411V6">11:6</a> When I
had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals
of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. <a
name="C4411V7" id="C4411V7">11:7</a> I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise,
Peter, kill and eat!' <a name="C4411V8" id="C4411V8">11:8</a> But I said, 'Not
so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
<a name="C4411V9" id="C4411V9">11:9</a> But a voice answered me the second
time out of heaven, 'What Elohim has cleansed, don't you call unclean.' <a
name="C4411V10" id="C4411V10">11:10</a> This was done three times, and all
were drawn up again into heaven. <a name="C4411V11" id="C4411V11">11:11</a>
Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having
been sent from Caesarea to me. <a name="C4411V12" id="C4411V12">11:12</a> The
Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers
also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house. <a name="C4411V13"
id="C4411V13">11:13</a> He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his
house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is
Peter, <a name="C4411V14" id="C4411V14">11:14</a> who will speak to you words
by which you will be saved, you and all your house.' <a name="C4411V15"
id="C4411V15">11:15</a> As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them,
even as on us at the beginning. <a name="C4411V16" id="C4411V16">11:16</a> I
remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in
water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.' <a name="C4411V17"
id="C4411V17">11:17</a> If then Elohim gave to them the same gift as us, when
we believed in the Lord Yeshua Messiah, who was I, that I could withstand
Elohim?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V18" id="C4411V18">11:18</a> When they heard these things, they
held their peace, and glorified Elohim, saying, "Then Elohim has also
granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V19" id="C4411V19">11:19</a> They therefore who were scattered
abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as
Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews
only. <a name="C4411V20" id="C4411V20">11:20</a> But there were some of them,
men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the
<a href="#N4445">Hellenists,</a> preaching the Lord Yeshua. <a name="C4411V21"
id="C4411V21">11:21</a> The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great
number believed and turned to the Lord. <a name="C4411V22" id="C4411V22">11:22</a>
The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in
Yerushalayim. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch, <a name="C4411V23"
id="C4411V23">11:23</a> who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of
Elohim, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they
should remain near to the Lord. <a name="C4411V24" id="C4411V24">11:24</a> For
he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many
people were added to the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V25" id="C4411V25">11:25</a> Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look
for Sha'ul. <a name="C4411V26" id="C4411V26">11:26</a> When he had found him, he
brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a whole year they were
gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples
were first called Messiahians in Antioch.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4411V27" id="C4411V27">11:27</a> Now in these days, prophets came
down from Yerushalayim to Antioch. <a name="C4411V28" id="C4411V28">11:28</a> One
of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there
should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the
days of Claudius. <a name="C4411V29" id="C4411V29">11:29</a> As any of the
disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who
lived in Judea; <a name="C4411V30" id="C4411V30">11:30</a> which they also
did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Sha'ul.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V1" id="C4412V1">12:1</a> Now about that time, Herod the king
stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. <a name="C4412V2"
id="C4412V2">12:2</a> He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
<a name="C4412V3" id="C4412V3">12:3</a> When he saw that it pleased the Jews,
he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened
bread. <a name="C4412V4" id="C4412V4">12:4</a> When he had arrested him, he
put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each
to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
<a name="C4412V5" id="C4412V5">12:5</a> Peter therefore was kept in the
prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to Elohim for him. <a
name="C4412V6" id="C4412V6">12:6</a> The same night when Herod was about to
bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V7" id="C4412V7">12:7</a> And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and
woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off
from his hands. <a name="C4412V8" id="C4412V8">12:8</a> The angel said to him,
"Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to
him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me." <a name="C4412V9"
id="C4412V9">12:9</a> And he went out and followed him. He didn't know that
what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. <a
name="C4412V10" id="C4412V10">12:10</a> When they were past the first and the
second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which
opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and
immediately the angel departed from him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V11" id="C4412V11">12:11</a> When Peter had come to himself, he
said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and
delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish
people were expecting." <a name="C4412V12" id="C4412V12">12:12</a>
Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John
whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were
praying. <a name="C4412V13" id="C4412V13">12:13</a> When Peter knocked at the
door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer. <a name="C4412V14"
id="C4412V14">12:14</a> When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open
the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in
front of the gate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V15" id="C4412V15">12:15</a> They said to her, "You are
crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his
angel." <a name="C4412V16" id="C4412V16">12:16</a> But Peter continued
knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. <a
name="C4412V17" id="C4412V17">12:17</a> But he, beckoning to them with his
hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of
the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the
brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V18" id="C4412V18">12:18</a> Now as soon as it was day, there
was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter. <a
name="C4412V19" id="C4412V19">12:19</a> When Herod had sought for him, and
didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be
put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there. <a
name="C4412V20" id="C4412V20">12:20</a> Now Herod was very angry with the
people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having
made Blastus, the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for
peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food. <a
name="C4412V21" id="C4412V21">12:21</a> On an appointed day, Herod dressed
himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
<a name="C4412V22" id="C4412V22">12:22</a> The people shouted, "The voice
of a god, and not of a man!" <a name="C4412V23" id="C4412V23">12:23</a>
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give Elohim
the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4412V24" id="C4412V24">12:24</a> But the word of Elohim grew and
multiplied. <a name="C4412V25" id="C4412V25">12:25</a> Barnabas and Sha'ul
returned <a href="#N4446">to</a> Yerushalayim, when they had fulfilled their
service, also taking with them John whose surname was Mark.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4413V1" id="C4413V1">13:1</a> Now in the assembly that was at
Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was
called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the
tetrarch, and Sha'ul. <a name="C4413V2" id="C4413V2">13:2</a> As they served the
Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Sha'ul
for me, for the work to which I have called them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4413V3" id="C4413V3">13:3</a> Then, when they had fasted and prayed
and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. <a name="C4413V4"
id="C4413V4">13:4</a> So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down
to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. <a name="C4413V5" id="C4413V5">13:5</a>
When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of Elohim in the Jewish
synagogues. They had also John as their attendant. <a name="C4413V6"
id="C4413V6">13:6</a> When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they
found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar
Yeshua, <a name="C4413V7" id="C4413V7">13:7</a> who was with the proconsul,
Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and
Sha'ul, and sought to hear the word of Elohim. <a name="C4413V8" id="C4413V8">13:8</a>
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood
them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith. <a name="C4413V9"
id="C4413V9">13:9</a> But Sha'ul, who is also called Paul, filled with the
Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, <a name="C4413V10" id="C4413V10">13:10</a>
and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil,
you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right
ways of the Lord? <a name="C4413V11" id="C4413V11">13:11</a> Now, behold, the
hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for
a season!"
</p>
<p>
Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking
someone to lead him by the hand. <a name="C4413V12" id="C4413V12">13:12</a>
Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished
at the teaching of the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4413V13" id="C4413V13">13:13</a> Now Paul and his company set sail
from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and
returned to Yerushalayim. <a name="C4413V14" id="C4413V14">13:14</a> But they,
passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the
synagogue on the Shabbat day, and sat down. <a name="C4413V15" id="C4413V15">13:15</a>
After the reading of the Torah and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue
sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation
for the people, speak."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4413V16" id="C4413V16">13:16</a> Paul stood up, and beckoning with
his hand said, "Men of Yisrael, and you who fear Elohim, listen. <a
name="C4413V17" id="C4413V17">13:17</a> The Elohim of this people<sup><a
href="#N4447">*</a></sup> chose our fathers, and exalted the people when
they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he
led them out of it. <a name="C4413V18" id="C4413V18">13:18</a> For a period of
about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. <a name="C4413V19"
id="C4413V19">13:19</a> When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred
fifty years. <a name="C4413V20" id="C4413V20">13:20</a> After these things he
gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. <a name="C4413V21" id="C4413V21">13:21</a>
Afterward they asked for a king, and Elohim gave to them Sha'ul the son of
Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. <a name="C4413V22"
id="C4413V22">13:22</a> When he had removed him, he raised up David to be
their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of
Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' <a name="C4413V23"
id="C4413V23">13:23</a> From this man's seed, Elohim has brought <a href="#N4448">salvation</a>
to Yisrael according to his promise, <a name="C4413V24" id="C4413V24">13:24</a>
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance
<a href="#N4449">to Yisrael.</a> <a name="C4413V25" id="C4413V25">13:25</a> As
John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I
am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am
not worthy to untie.' <a name="C4413V26" id="C4413V26">13:26</a> Brothers,
children of the stock of Avraham, and those among you who fear Elohim, the
word of this salvation is sent out to you. <a name="C4413V27" id="C4413V27">13:27</a>
For those who dwell in Yerushalayim, and their rulers, because they didn't
know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Shabbat,
fulfilled them by condemning him. <a name="C4413V28" id="C4413V28">13:28</a>
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him
killed. <a name="C4413V29" id="C4413V29">13:29</a> When they had fulfilled all
things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and
laid him in a tomb. <a name="C4413V30" id="C4413V30">13:30</a> But Elohim raised
him from the dead, <a name="C4413V31" id="C4413V31">13:31</a> and he was seen
for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Yerushalayim, who
are his witnesses to the people. <a name="C4413V32" id="C4413V32">13:32</a> We
bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, <a name="C4413V33"
id="C4413V33">13:33</a> that Elohim has fulfilled the same to us, their
children, in that he raised up Yeshua. As it is also written in the second
psalm,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'You are my Son.
</dt>
<dd>
Today I have become your father.'<sup><a href="#N4450">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4413V34" id="C4413V34">13:34</a> "Concerning that he raised him
up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus:
'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'<sup><a href="#N4451">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4413V35" id="C4413V35">13:35</a> Therefore he says also in another
psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'<sup><a href="#N4452">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4413V36" id="C4413V36">13:36</a> For David, after he had in his own
generation served the counsel of Elohim, fell asleep, and was laid with his
fathers, and saw decay. <a name="C4413V37" id="C4413V37">13:37</a> But he whom
Elohim raised up saw no decay. <a name="C4413V38" id="C4413V38">13:38</a> Be it
known to you therefore, <a href="#N4453">brothers</a>, that through this man
is proclaimed to you remission of sins, <a name="C4413V39" id="C4413V39">13:39</a>
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which
you could not be justified by the Torah of Moshe. <a name="C4413V40"
id="C4413V40">13:40</a> Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is
spoken in the prophets:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C4413V41" id="C4413V41">13:41</a> 'Behold, you scoffers, and
wonder, and perish;
</dt>
<dd>
for I work a work in your days,
</dd>
<dd>
a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"<sup><a
href="#N4454">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4413V42" id="C4413V42">13:42</a> So when the Jews went out of the
synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them
the next Shabbat. <a name="C4413V43" id="C4413V43">13:43</a> Now when the
synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed
Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the
grace of Elohim. <a name="C4413V44" id="C4413V44">13:44</a> The next Shabbat
almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of Elohim. <a
name="C4413V45" id="C4413V45">13:45</a> But when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were
spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4413V46" id="C4413V46">13:46</a> Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly,
and said, "It was necessary that Elohim's word should be spoken to you
first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy
of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. <a name="C4413V47"
id="C4413V47">13:47</a> For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
</dt>
<dd>
that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"<sup><a
href="#N4455">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4413V48" id="C4413V48">13:48</a> As the Gentiles heard this, they
were glad, and glorified the word of Elohim. As many as were appointed to
eternal life believed. <a name="C4413V49" id="C4413V49">13:49</a> The Lord's
word was spread abroad throughout all the region. <a name="C4413V50"
id="C4413V50">13:50</a> But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent
women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against
Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders. <a name="C4413V51"
id="C4413V51">13:51</a> But they shook off the dust of their feet against
them, and came to Iconium. <a name="C4413V52" id="C4413V52">13:52</a> The
disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4414V1" id="C4414V1">14:1</a> It happened in Iconium that they
entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great
multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. <a name="C4414V2" id="C4414V2">14:2</a>
But the <a href="#N4456">disbelieving</a> Jews stirred up and embittered the
souls of the Gentiles against the brothers. <a name="C4414V3" id="C4414V3">14:3</a>
Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who
testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done
by their hands. <a name="C4414V4" id="C4414V4">14:4</a> But the multitude of
the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the
apostles. <a name="C4414V5" id="C4414V5">14:5</a> When some of both the
Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to
mistreat and stone them, <a name="C4414V6" id="C4414V6">14:6</a> they became
aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the
surrounding region. <a name="C4414V7" id="C4414V7">14:7</a> There they
preached the Good News.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4414V8" id="C4414V8">14:8</a> At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent
in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. <a
name="C4414V9" id="C4414V9">14:9</a> He was listening to Paul speaking, who,
fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, <a
name="C4414V10" id="C4414V10">14:10</a> said with a loud voice, "Stand
upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked. <a name="C4414V11"
id="C4414V11">14:11</a> When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they
lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods
have come down to us in the likeness of men!" <a name="C4414V12"
id="C4414V12">14:12</a> They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul
"Mercury," because he was the chief speaker. <a name="C4414V13"
id="C4414V13">14:13</a> The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of
their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a
sacrifice along with the multitudes. <a name="C4414V14" id="C4414V14">14:14</a>
But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their
clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out, <a name="C4414V15"
id="C4414V15">14:15</a> "Men, why are you doing these things? We also
are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you
should turn from these vain things to the living Elohim, who made the sky and
the earth and the sea, and all that is in them; <a name="C4414V16"
id="C4414V16">14:16</a> who in the generations gone by allowed all the
nations to walk in their own ways. <a name="C4414V17" id="C4414V17">14:17</a>
Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave
<a href="#N4457">you</a> rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4414V18" id="C4414V18">14:18</a> Even saying these things, they
hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. <a
name="C4414V19" id="C4414V19">14:19</a> But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium
came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and
dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4414V20" id="C4414V20">14:20</a> But as the disciples stood around
him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out
with Barnabas to Derbe. <a name="C4414V21" id="C4414V21">14:21</a> When they
had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they
returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, <a name="C4414V22" id="C4414V22">14:22</a>
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the
faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of
Elohim. <a name="C4414V23" id="C4414V23">14:23</a> When they had appointed elders
for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended
them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4414V24" id="C4414V24">14:24</a> They passed through Pisidia, and
came to Pamphylia. <a name="C4414V25" id="C4414V25">14:25</a> When they had
spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. <a name="C4414V26"
id="C4414V26">14:26</a> From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they
had been committed to the grace of Elohim for the work which they had
fulfilled. <a name="C4414V27" id="C4414V27">14:27</a> When they had arrived,
and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that
Elohim had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the
nations. <a name="C4414V28" id="C4414V28">14:28</a> They stayed there with the
disciples for a long time.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V1" id="C4415V1">15:1</a> Some men came down from Judea and
taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of
Moshe, you can't be saved." <a name="C4415V2" id="C4415V2">15:2</a>
Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with
them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up
to Yerushalayim to the apostles and elders about this question. <a
name="C4415V3" id="C4415V3">15:3</a> They, being sent on their way by the
assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Shomron, declaring the
conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the <a href="#N4458">brothers.</a>
<a name="C4415V4" id="C4415V4">15:4</a> When they had come to Yerushalayim, they
were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they
reported all things that Elohim had done with them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V5" id="C4415V5">15:5</a> But some of the sect of the Pharisees
who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them,
and to command them to keep the Torah of Moshe."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V6" id="C4415V6">15:6</a> The apostles and the elders were
gathered together to see about this matter. <a name="C4415V7" id="C4415V7">15:7</a>
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them,
"Brothers, you know that a good while ago Elohim made a choice among
you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News,
and believe. <a name="C4415V8" id="C4415V8">15:8</a> Elohim, who knows the heart,
testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
<a name="C4415V9" id="C4415V9">15:9</a> He made no distinction between us and
them, cleansing their hearts by faith. <a name="C4415V10" id="C4415V10">15:10</a>
Now therefore why do you tempt Elohim, that you should put a yoke on the neck
of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? <a
name="C4415V11" id="C4415V11">15:11</a> But we believe that we are saved
through the grace of the Lord Yeshua,<sup><a href="#N4459">*</a></sup> just
as they are."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V12" id="C4415V12">15:12</a> All the multitude kept silence, and
they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders Elohim
had done among the nations through them. <a name="C4415V13" id="C4415V13">15:13</a>
After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me. <a
name="C4415V14" id="C4415V14">15:14</a> Simeon has reported how Elohim first
visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name. <a
name="C4415V15" id="C4415V15">15:15</a> This agrees with the words of the
prophets. As it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C4415V16" id="C4415V16">15:16</a> 'After these things I will
return.
</dt>
<dd>
I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen.
</dd>
<dd>
I will again build its ruins.
</dd>
<dt>
I will set it up,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C4415V17" id="C4415V17">15:17</a> That the rest of men may seek
after the Lord;
</dd>
<dd>
All the Gentiles who are called by my name,
</dd>
<dt>
Says the Lord, who does all these things.<sup><a href="#N4460">*</a></sup>
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C4415V18" id="C4415V18">15:18</a> All his works are known to Elohim
from eternity.'
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4415V19" id="C4415V19">15:19</a> "Therefore my judgment is that
we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to Elohim, <a
name="C4415V20" id="C4415V20">15:20</a> but that we write to them that they
abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is
strangled, and from blood. <a name="C4415V21" id="C4415V21">15:21</a> For
Moshe from generations of old has in every city those who preach him,
being read in the synagogues every Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V22" id="C4415V22">15:22</a> Then it seemed good to the apostles
and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their
company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called
Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the <a href="#N4461">brothers.</a> <a
name="C4415V23" id="C4415V23">15:23</a> They wrote these things by their hand:
</p>
<p>
"The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are
of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. <a name="C4415V24"
id="C4415V24">15:24</a> Because we have heard that some who went out from us
have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be
circumcised and keep the Torah,' to whom we gave no commandment; <a
name="C4415V25" id="C4415V25">15:25</a> it seemed good to us, having come to
one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved
Barnabas and Paul, <a name="C4415V26" id="C4415V26">15:26</a> men who have
risked their lives for the name of our Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C4415V27"
id="C4415V27">15:27</a> We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who
themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth. <a
name="C4415V28" id="C4415V28">15:28</a> For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit,
and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: <a
name="C4415V29" id="C4415V29">15:29</a> that you abstain from things
sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual
immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you.
Farewell."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V30" id="C4415V30">15:30</a> So, when they were sent off, they
came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered
the letter. <a name="C4415V31" id="C4415V31">15:31</a> When they had read it,
they rejoiced over the encouragement. <a name="C4415V32" id="C4415V32">15:32</a>
Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers
with many words, and strengthened them. <a name="C4415V33" id="C4415V33">15:33</a>
After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings
from the brothers to the apostles. <a name="C4415V34" id="C4415V34">15:34</a>
<sup><a href="#N4462">*</a></sup> <a name="C4415V35" id="C4415V35">15:35</a> But
Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of
the Lord, with many others also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4415V36" id="C4415V36">15:36</a> After some days Paul said to
Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in
which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
<a name="C4415V37" id="C4415V37">15:37</a> Barnabas planned to take John, who
was called Mark, with them also. <a name="C4415V38" id="C4415V38">15:38</a>
But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone
who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do
the work. <a name="C4415V39" id="C4415V39">15:39</a> Then the contention grew
so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him,
and sailed away to Cyprus, <a name="C4415V40" id="C4415V40">15:40</a> but Paul
chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of
Elohim. <a name="C4415V41" id="C4415V41">15:41</a> He went through Syria and
Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V1" id="C4416V1">16:1</a> He came to Derbe and Lystra: and
behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess
who believed; but his father was a Greek. <a name="C4416V2" id="C4416V2">16:2</a>
The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about
him. <a name="C4416V3" id="C4416V3">16:3</a> Paul wanted to have him go out
with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in
those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. <a name="C4416V4"
id="C4416V4">16:4</a> As they went on their way through the cities, they
delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the
apostles and elders who were at Yerushalayim. <a name="C4416V5" id="C4416V5">16:5</a>
So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number
daily.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V6" id="C4416V6">16:6</a> When they had gone through the region
of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak
the word in Asia. <a name="C4416V7" id="C4416V7">16:7</a> When they had come
opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't
allow them. <a name="C4416V8" id="C4416V8">16:8</a> Passing by Mysia, they
came down to Troas. <a name="C4416V9" id="C4416V9">16:9</a> A vision appeared
to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him,
and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." <a
name="C4416V10" id="C4416V10">16:10</a> When he had seen the vision,
immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had
called us to preach the Good News to them. <a name="C4416V11" id="C4416V11">16:11</a>
Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to
Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; <a name="C4416V12" id="C4416V12">16:12</a>
and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of
the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V13" id="C4416V13">16:13</a> On the Shabbat day we went forth
outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of
prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. <a
name="C4416V14" id="C4416V14">16:14</a> A certain woman named Lydia, a seller
of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped Elohim, heard us; whose
heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
<a name="C4416V15" id="C4416V15">16:15</a> When she and her household were
baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be
faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded
us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V16" id="C4416V16">16:16</a> It happened, as we were going to
prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who
brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. <a name="C4416V17"
id="C4416V17">16:17</a> Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These
men are servants of the Most High Elohim, who proclaim to us the way of
salvation!" <a name="C4416V18" id="C4416V18">16:18</a> She was doing this
for many days.
</p>
<p>
But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I
command you in the name of Yeshua Messiah to come out of her!" It came
out that very hour. <a name="C4416V19" id="C4416V19">16:19</a> But when her
masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and
Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. <a
name="C4416V20" id="C4416V20">16:20</a> When they had brought them to the
magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our
city, <a name="C4416V21" id="C4416V21">16:21</a> and set forth customs which
it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V22" id="C4416V22">16:22</a> The multitude rose up together
against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and
commanded them to be beaten with rods. <a name="C4416V23" id="C4416V23">16:23</a>
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison,
charging the jailer to keep them safely, <a name="C4416V24" id="C4416V24">16:24</a>
who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and
secured their feet in the stocks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V25" id="C4416V25">16:25</a> But about midnight Paul and Silas
were praying and singing hymns to Elohim, and the prisoners were listening to
them. <a name="C4416V26" id="C4416V26">16:26</a> Suddenly there was a great
earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and
immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
<a name="C4416V27" id="C4416V27">16:27</a> The jailer, being roused out of
sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to
kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. <a name="C4416V28"
id="C4416V28">16:28</a> But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't
harm yourself, for we are all here!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V29" id="C4416V29">16:29</a> He called for lights and sprang in,
and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, <a name="C4416V30"
id="C4416V30">16:30</a> and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must
I do to be saved?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V31" id="C4416V31">16:31</a> They said, "Believe in the
Lord Yeshua Messiah, and you will be saved, you and your household." <a
name="C4416V32" id="C4416V32">16:32</a> They spoke the word of the Lord to
him, and to all who were in his house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V33" id="C4416V33">16:33</a> He took them the same hour of the
night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all
his household. <a name="C4416V34" id="C4416V34">16:34</a> He brought them up
into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all
his household, having believed in Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V35" id="C4416V35">16:35</a> But when it was day, the
magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V36" id="C4416V36">16:36</a> The jailer reported these words to
Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore
come out, and go in peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V37" id="C4416V37">16:37</a> But Paul said to them, "They
have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have
cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly,
but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4416V38" id="C4416V38">16:38</a> The sergeants reported these words
to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were
Romans, <a name="C4416V39" id="C4416V39">16:39</a> and they came and begged
them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the
city. <a name="C4416V40" id="C4416V40">16:40</a> They went out of the prison,
and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they
encouraged them, and departed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V1" id="C4417V1">17:1</a> Now when they had passed through
Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a
Jewish synagogue. <a name="C4417V2" id="C4417V2">17:2</a> Paul, as was his
custom, went in to them, and for three Shabbat days reasoned with them
from the Scriptures, <a name="C4417V3" id="C4417V3">17:3</a> explaining and
demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead,
and saying, "This Yeshua, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V4" id="C4417V4">17:4</a> Some of them were persuaded, and
joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a
few of the chief women. <a name="C4417V5" id="C4417V5">17:5</a> <a href="#N4463">But
the unpersuaded Jews took along</a> some wicked men from the marketplace,
and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of
Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. <a name="C4417V6"
id="C4417V6">17:6</a> When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and
certain <a href="#N4464">brothers</a> before the rulers of the city, crying,
"These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, <a
name="C4417V7" id="C4417V7">17:7</a> whom Jason has received. These all act
contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king,
Yeshua!" <a name="C4417V8" id="C4417V8">17:8</a> The multitude and the
rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. <a
name="C4417V9" id="C4417V9">17:9</a> When they had taken security from Jason
and the rest, they let them go. <a name="C4417V10" id="C4417V10">17:10</a> The
brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When
they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V11" id="C4417V11">17:11</a> Now these were more noble than
those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness
of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things
were so. <a name="C4417V12" id="C4417V12">17:12</a> Many of them therefore
believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. <a
name="C4417V13" id="C4417V13">17:13</a> But when the Jews of Thessalonica had
knowledge that the word of Elohim was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they
came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. <a name="C4417V14" id="C4417V14">17:14</a>
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea,
and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. <a name="C4417V15" id="C4417V15">17:15</a>
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a
commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very
quickly, they departed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V16" id="C4417V16">17:16</a> Now while Paul waited for them at
Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of
idols. <a name="C4417V17" id="C4417V17">17:17</a> So he reasoned in the
synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace
every day with those who met him. <a name="C4417V18" id="C4417V18">17:18</a>
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers <a href="#N4465">also</a> were
conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
</p>
<p>
Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities,"
because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V19" id="C4417V19">17:19</a> They took hold of him, and brought
him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is,
which is spoken by you? <a name="C4417V20" id="C4417V20">17:20</a> For you
bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what
these things mean." <a name="C4417V21" id="C4417V21">17:21</a> Now all
the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing
else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V22" id="C4417V22">17:22</a> Paul stood in the middle of the
Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very
religious in all things. <a name="C4417V23" id="C4417V23">17:23</a> For as I
passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an
altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you
worship in ignorance, this I announce to you. <a name="C4417V24" id="C4417V24">17:24</a>
The Elohim who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven
and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, <a name="C4417V25"
id="C4417V25">17:25</a> neither is he served by men's hands, as though he
needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all
things. <a name="C4417V26" id="C4417V26">17:26</a> He made from one blood
every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having
determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, <a
name="C4417V27" id="C4417V27">17:27</a> that they should seek the Lord, if
perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far
from each one of us. <a name="C4417V28" id="C4417V28">17:28</a> 'For in him we
live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said,
'For we are also his offspring.' <a name="C4417V29" id="C4417V29">17:29</a>
Being then the offspring of Elohim, we ought not to think that the Divine
Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of
man. <a name="C4417V30" id="C4417V30">17:30</a> The times of ignorance
therefore Elohim overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere
should repent, <a name="C4417V31" id="C4417V31">17:31</a> because he has
appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the
man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in
that he has raised him from the dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V32" id="C4417V32">17:32</a> Now when they heard of the
resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to
hear you again concerning this."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4417V33" id="C4417V33">17:33</a> Thus Paul went out from among them.
<a name="C4417V34" id="C4417V34">17:34</a> But certain men joined with him,
and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman
named Damaris, and others with them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V1" id="C4418V1">18:1</a> After these things Paul departed from
Athens, and came to Corinth. <a name="C4418V2" id="C4418V2">18:2</a> He found
a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come
from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all
the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them, <a name="C4418V3" id="C4418V3">18:3</a>
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked,
for by trade they were tent makers. <a name="C4418V4" id="C4418V4">18:4</a> He
reasoned in the synagogue every Shabbat, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. <a
name="C4418V5" id="C4418V5">18:5</a> But when Silas and Timothy came down from
Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that
Yeshua was the Messiah. <a name="C4418V6" id="C4418V6">18:6</a> When they
opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them,
"Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go
to the Gentiles!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V7" id="C4418V7">18:7</a> He departed there, and went into the
house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped Elohim, whose house
was next door to the synagogue. <a name="C4418V8" id="C4418V8">18:8</a>
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his
house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were
baptized. <a name="C4418V9" id="C4418V9">18:9</a> The Lord said to Paul in the
night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
<a name="C4418V10" id="C4418V10">18:10</a> for I am with you, and no one will
attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V11" id="C4418V11">18:11</a> He lived there a year and six
months, teaching the word of Elohim among them. <a name="C4418V12" id="C4418V12">18:12</a>
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up
against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, <a name="C4418V13"
id="C4418V13">18:13</a> saying, "This man persuades men to worship Elohim
contrary to the Torah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V14" id="C4418V14">18:14</a> But when Paul was about to open his
mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong
or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear
with you; <a name="C4418V15" id="C4418V15">18:15</a> but if they are questions
about words and names and your own Torah, look to it yourselves. For I don't
want to be a judge of these matters." <a name="C4418V16" id="C4418V16">18:16</a>
He drove them from the judgment seat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V17" id="C4418V17">18:17</a> Then all the Greeks laid hold on
Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment
seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V18" id="C4418V18">18:18</a> Paul, having stayed after this many
more days, took his leave of the <a href="#N4466">brothers,</a> and sailed
from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his
head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow. <a name="C4418V19" id="C4418V19">18:19</a>
He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into
the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. <a name="C4418V20" id="C4418V20">18:20</a>
When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined; <a
name="C4418V21" id="C4418V21">18:21</a> but taking his leave of them, and
saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Yerushalayim, but
I will return again to you if Elohim wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V22" id="C4418V22">18:22</a> When he had landed at Caesarea, he
went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch. <a
name="C4418V23" id="C4418V23">18:23</a> Having spent some time there, he
departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order,
establishing all the disciples. <a name="C4418V24" id="C4418V24">18:24</a> Now
a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came
to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. <a name="C4418V25" id="C4418V25">18:25</a>
This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in
spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Yeshua,
although he knew only the baptism of John. <a name="C4418V26" id="C4418V26">18:26</a>
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila
heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of Elohim more
accurately.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4418V27" id="C4418V27">18:27</a> When he had determined to pass over
into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to
receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed
through grace; <a name="C4418V28" id="C4418V28">18:28</a> for he powerfully
refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Yeshua was the
Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V1" id="C4419V1">19:1</a> It happened that, while Apollos was at
Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus,
and found certain disciples. <a name="C4419V2" id="C4419V2">19:2</a> He said
to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy
Spirit."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V3" id="C4419V3">19:3</a> He said, "Into what then were you
baptized?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Into John's baptism."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V4" id="C4419V4">19:4</a> Paul said, "John indeed baptized
with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should
believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Yeshua."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V5" id="C4419V5">19:5</a> When they heard this, they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Yeshua. <a name="C4419V6" id="C4419V6">19:6</a>
When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and
they spoke with other languages and prophesied. <a name="C4419V7" id="C4419V7">19:7</a>
They were about twelve men in all. <a name="C4419V8" id="C4419V8">19:8</a> He
entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months,
reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V9" id="C4419V9">19:9</a> But when some were hardened and
disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed
from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of
Tyrannus. <a name="C4419V10" id="C4419V10">19:10</a> This continued for two
years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord
Yeshua, both Jews and Greeks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V11" id="C4419V11">19:11</a> Elohim worked special miracles by the
hands of Paul, <a name="C4419V12" id="C4419V12">19:12</a> so that even
handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and
the evil spirits went out. <a name="C4419V13" id="C4419V13">19:13</a> But some
of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those
who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Yeshua, saying, "We
adjure you by Yeshua whom Paul preaches." <a name="C4419V14" id="C4419V14">19:14</a>
There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V15" id="C4419V15">19:15</a> The evil spirit answered, "Yeshua
I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" <a name="C4419V16"
id="C4419V16">19:16</a> The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them,
and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of
that house naked and wounded. <a name="C4419V17" id="C4419V17">19:17</a> This
became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell
on them all, and the name of the Lord Yeshua was magnified. <a name="C4419V18"
id="C4419V18">19:18</a> Many also of those who had believed came,
confessing, and declaring their deeds. <a name="C4419V19" id="C4419V19">19:19</a>
Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and
burned them in the sight of all. They counted the price of them, and found
it to be <a href="#N4467">fifty thousand pieces of silver.</a> <a
name="C4419V20" id="C4419V20">19:20</a> So the word of the Lord was growing
and becoming mighty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V21" id="C4419V21">19:21</a> Now after these things had ended,
Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and
Achaia, to go to Yerushalayim, saying, "After I have been there, I must
also see Rome."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V22" id="C4419V22">19:22</a> Having sent into Macedonia two of
those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a
while. <a name="C4419V23" id="C4419V23">19:23</a> About that time there arose
no small stir concerning the Way. <a name="C4419V24" id="C4419V24">19:24</a>
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines
of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, <a name="C4419V25"
id="C4419V25">19:25</a> whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like
occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have
our wealth. <a name="C4419V26" id="C4419V26">19:26</a> You see and hear, that
not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has
persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that
are made with hands. <a name="C4419V27" id="C4419V27">19:27</a> Not only is
there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the
temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her
majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V28" id="C4419V28">19:28</a> When they heard this they were
filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the
Ephesians!" <a name="C4419V29" id="C4419V29">19:29</a> The whole city was
filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater,
having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions
in travel. <a name="C4419V30" id="C4419V30">19:30</a> When Paul wanted to
enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him. <a name="C4419V31"
id="C4419V31">19:31</a> Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends,
sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater. <a
name="C4419V32" id="C4419V32">19:32</a> Some therefore cried one thing, and
some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know
why they had come together. <a name="C4419V33" id="C4419V33">19:33</a> They
brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward.
Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the
people. <a name="C4419V34" id="C4419V34">19:34</a> But when they perceived
that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried
out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4419V35" id="C4419V35">19:35</a> When the town clerk had quieted the
multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who
doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great
goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus? <a
name="C4419V36" id="C4419V36">19:36</a> Seeing then that these things can't be
denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash. <a name="C4419V37"
id="C4419V37">19:37</a> For you have brought these men here, who are neither
robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. <a name="C4419V38"
id="C4419V38">19:38</a> If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are
with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are
proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another. <a name="C4419V39"
id="C4419V39">19:39</a> But if you seek anything about other matters, it
will be settled in the regular assembly. <a name="C4419V40" id="C4419V40">19:40</a>
For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot,
there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an
account of this commotion." <a name="C4419V41" id="C4419V41">19:41</a>
When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V1" id="C4420V1">20:1</a> After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent
for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
<a name="C4420V2" id="C4420V2">20:2</a> When he had gone through those parts,
and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece. <a
name="C4420V3" id="C4420V3">20:3</a> When he had spent three months there, and
a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria,
he determined to return through Macedonia. <a name="C4420V4" id="C4420V4">20:4</a>
These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and
Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and
Trophimus of Asia. <a name="C4420V5" id="C4420V5">20:5</a> But these had gone
ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas. <a name="C4420V6" id="C4420V6">20:6</a>
We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came
to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V7" id="C4420V7">20:7</a> On the first day of the week, when the
disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them,
intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until
midnight. <a name="C4420V8" id="C4420V8">20:8</a> There were many lights in
the upper chamber where <a href="#N4468">we</a> were gathered together. <a
name="C4420V9" id="C4420V9">20:9</a> A certain young man named Eutychus sat in
the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer,
being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and
was taken up dead. <a name="C4420V10" id="C4420V10">20:10</a> Paul went down,
and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for
his life is in him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V11" id="C4420V11">20:11</a> When he had gone up, and had broken
bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break
of day, he departed. <a name="C4420V12" id="C4420V12">20:12</a> They brought
the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V13" id="C4420V13">20:13</a> But we who went ahead to the ship
set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so
arranged, intending himself to go by land. <a name="C4420V14" id="C4420V14">20:14</a>
When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene. <a
name="C4420V15" id="C4420V15">20:15</a> Sailing from there, we came the
following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed
at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus. <a name="C4420V16"
id="C4420V16">20:16</a> For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that
he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were
possible for him, to be in Yerushalayim on the day of Pentecost.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V17" id="C4420V17">20:17</a> From Miletus he sent to Ephesus,
and called to himself the elders of the assembly. <a name="C4420V18"
id="C4420V18">20:18</a> When they had come to him, he said to them, "You
yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was
with you all the time, <a name="C4420V19" id="C4420V19">20:19</a> serving the
Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to
me by the plots of the Jews; <a name="C4420V20" id="C4420V20">20:20</a> how I
didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching
you publicly and from house to house, <a name="C4420V21" id="C4420V21">20:21</a>
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward Elohim, and faith
toward our Lord Yeshua.<sup><a href="#N4469">*</a></sup> <a name="C4420V22"
id="C4420V22">20:22</a> Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Yerushalayim,
not knowing what will happen to me there; <a name="C4420V23" id="C4420V23">20:23</a>
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and
afflictions wait for me. <a name="C4420V24" id="C4420V24">20:24</a> But these
things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may
finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord
Yeshua, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V25" id="C4420V25">20:25</a> "Now, behold, I know that you
all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of Elohim, will see my
face no more. <a name="C4420V26" id="C4420V26">20:26</a> Therefore I testify
to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men, <a name="C4420V27"
id="C4420V27">20:27</a> for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole
counsel of Elohim. <a name="C4420V28" id="C4420V28">20:28</a> Take heed,
therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit
has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of <a href="#N4470">the
Lord and</a> Elohim which he purchased with his own blood. <a name="C4420V29"
id="C4420V29">20:29</a> For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves
will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. <a name="C4420V30"
id="C4420V30">20:30</a> Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking
perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. <a name="C4420V31"
id="C4420V31">20:31</a> Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of
three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
<a name="C4420V32" id="C4420V32">20:32</a> Now, <a href="#N4471">brothers,</a> I
entrust you to Elohim, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build
up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. <a
name="C4420V33" id="C4420V33">20:33</a> I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or
clothing. <a name="C4420V34" id="C4420V34">20:34</a> You yourselves know that
these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. <a
name="C4420V35" id="C4420V35">20:35</a> In all things I gave you an example,
that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of
the Lord Yeshua, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to
receive.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4420V36" id="C4420V36">20:36</a> When he had spoken these things, he
knelt down and prayed with them all. <a name="C4420V37" id="C4420V37">20:37</a>
They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, <a
name="C4420V38" id="C4420V38">20:38</a> sorrowing most of all because of the
word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they
accompanied him to the ship.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V1" id="C4421V1">21:1</a> When it happened that we had parted
from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the
next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. <a name="C4421V2" id="C4421V2">21:2</a>
Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set
sail. <a name="C4421V3" id="C4421V3">21:3</a> When we had come in sight of
Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at
Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo. <a name="C4421V4"
id="C4421V4">21:4</a> Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days.
These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to
Yerushalayim. <a name="C4421V5" id="C4421V5">21:5</a> When it happened that we
had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all,
with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the
city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed. <a name="C4421V6" id="C4421V6">21:6</a>
After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they
returned home again.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V7" id="C4421V7">21:7</a> When we had finished the voyage from
Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with
them one day. <a name="C4421V8" id="C4421V8">21:8</a> On the next day, we, who
were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea.
</p>
<p>
We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the
seven, and stayed with him. <a name="C4421V9" id="C4421V9">21:9</a> Now this
man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. <a name="C4421V10" id="C4421V10">21:10</a>
As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down
from Judea. <a name="C4421V11" id="C4421V11">21:11</a> Coming to us, and
taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus
says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Yerushalayim bind the man who owns
this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V12" id="C4421V12">21:12</a> When we heard these things, both we
and they of that place begged him not to go up to Yerushalayim. <a
name="C4421V13" id="C4421V13">21:13</a> Then Paul answered, "What are you
doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound,
but also to die at Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V14" id="C4421V14">21:14</a> When he would not be persuaded, we
ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V15" id="C4421V15">21:15</a> After these days we took up our
baggage and went up to Yerushalayim. <a name="C4421V16" id="C4421V16">21:16</a>
Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason
of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V17" id="C4421V17">21:17</a> When we had come to Yerushalayim, the
brothers received us gladly. <a name="C4421V18" id="C4421V18">21:18</a> The
day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were
present. <a name="C4421V19" id="C4421V19">21:19</a> When he had greeted them,
he reported one by one the things which Elohim had worked among the Gentiles
through his ministry. <a name="C4421V20" id="C4421V20">21:20</a> They, when
they heard it, glorified Elohim. They said to him, "You see, brother,
how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed,
and they are all zealous for the Torah. <a name="C4421V21" id="C4421V21">21:21</a>
They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are
among the Gentiles to forsake Moshe, telling them not to circumcise their
children neither to walk after the customs. <a name="C4421V22" id="C4421V22">21:22</a>
What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you
have come. <a name="C4421V23" id="C4421V23">21:23</a> Therefore do what we
tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow. <a name="C4421V24"
id="C4421V24">21:24</a> Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay
their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will
know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed
about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the Torah. <a
name="C4421V25" id="C4421V25">21:25</a> But concerning the Gentiles who
believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such
thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols,
from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V26" id="C4421V26">21:26</a> Then Paul took the men, and the
next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring
the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was
offered for every one of them. <a name="C4421V27" id="C4421V27">21:27</a> When
the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw
him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him, <a
name="C4421V28" id="C4421V28">21:28</a> crying out, "Men of Yisrael, help!
This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the
Torah, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and
has defiled this holy place!" <a name="C4421V29" id="C4421V29">21:29</a>
For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they
supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V30" id="C4421V30">21:30</a> All the city was moved, and the
people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple.
Immediately the doors were shut. <a name="C4421V31" id="C4421V31">21:31</a> As
they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of
the regiment that all Yerushalayim was in an uproar. <a name="C4421V32"
id="C4421V32">21:32</a> Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran
down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers,
stopped beating Paul. <a name="C4421V33" id="C4421V33">21:33</a> Then the
commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with
two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done. <a name="C4421V34"
id="C4421V34">21:34</a> Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the
crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he
commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V35" id="C4421V35">21:35</a> When he came to the stairs, it
happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of
the crowd; <a name="C4421V36" id="C4421V36">21:36</a> for the multitude of the
people followed after, crying out, "Away with him!" <a
name="C4421V37" id="C4421V37">21:37</a> As Paul was about to be brought into
the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Do you know Greek? <a name="C4421V38" id="C4421V38">21:38</a>
Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition
and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V39" id="C4421V39">21:39</a> But Paul said, "I am a Jew,
from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you,
allow me to speak to the people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4421V40" id="C4421V40">21:40</a> When he had given him permission,
Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When
there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language,
saying,
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V1" id="C4422V1">22:1</a> "Brothers and fathers, listen to
the defense which I now make to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V2" id="C4422V2">22:2</a> When they heard that he spoke to them
in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said, <a name="C4422V3"
id="C4422V3">22:3</a> "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia,
but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according
to the strict manner of the Torah of our fathers, being zealous for Elohim,
even as you all are this day. <a name="C4422V4" id="C4422V4">22:4</a> I
persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both
men and women. <a name="C4422V5" id="C4422V5">22:5</a> As also the high priest
and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received
letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who
were there to Yerushalayim in bonds to be punished. <a name="C4422V6" id="C4422V6">22:6</a>
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about
noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me. <a
name="C4422V7" id="C4422V7">22:7</a> I fell to the ground, and heard a voice
saying to me, 'Sha'ul, Sha'ul, why are you persecuting me?' <a name="C4422V8"
id="C4422V8">22:8</a> I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am
Yeshua of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V9" id="C4422V9">22:9</a> "Those who were with me indeed
saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him
who spoke to me. <a name="C4422V10" id="C4422V10">22:10</a> I said, 'What
shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus.
There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to
do.' <a name="C4422V11" id="C4422V11">22:11</a> When I couldn't see for the
glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I
came into Damascus. <a name="C4422V12" id="C4422V12">22:12</a> One Ananias, a
devout man according to the Torah, well reported of by all the Jews who
lived in Damascus, <a name="C4422V13" id="C4422V13">22:13</a> came to me, and
standing by me said to me, 'Brother Sha'ul, receive your sight!' In that
very hour I looked up at him. <a name="C4422V14" id="C4422V14">22:14</a> He
said, 'The Elohim of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to
see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. <a name="C4422V15"
id="C4422V15">22:15</a> For you will be a witness for him to all men of what
you have seen and heard. <a name="C4422V16" id="C4422V16">22:16</a> Now why do
you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name
of the Lord.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V17" id="C4422V17">22:17</a> "It happened that, when I had
returned to Yerushalayim, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a
trance, <a name="C4422V18" id="C4422V18">22:18</a> and saw him saying to me,
'Hurry and get out of Yerushalayim quickly, because they will not receive
testimony concerning me from you.' <a name="C4422V19" id="C4422V19">22:19</a>
I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every
synagogue those who believed in you. <a name="C4422V20" id="C4422V20">22:20</a>
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by,
and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed
him.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V21" id="C4422V21">22:21</a> "He said to me, 'Depart, for I
will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V22" id="C4422V22">22:22</a> They listened to him until he said
that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of
this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V23" id="C4422V23">22:23</a> As they cried out, and threw off
their cloaks, and threw dust into the air, <a name="C4422V24" id="C4422V24">22:24</a>
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks,
ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what
crime they shouted against him like that. <a name="C4422V25" id="C4422V25">22:25</a>
When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood
by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not
found guilty?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V26" id="C4422V26">22:26</a> When the centurion heard it, he
went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are
about to do, for this man is a Roman!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V27" id="C4422V27">22:27</a> The commanding officer came and
asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Yes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V28" id="C4422V28">22:28</a> The commanding officer answered,
"I bought my citizenship for a great price."
</p>
<p>
Paul said, "But I was born a Roman."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4422V29" id="C4422V29">22:29</a> Immediately those who were about to
examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid
when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him. <a
name="C4422V30" id="C4422V30">22:30</a> But on the next day, desiring to know
the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the
bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come
together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V1" id="C4423V1">23:1</a> Paul, looking steadfastly at the
council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before Elohim in all good
conscience until this day."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V2" id="C4423V2">23:2</a> The high priest, Ananias, commanded
those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V3" id="C4423V3">23:3</a> Then Paul said to him, "Elohim will
strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the
Torah, and command me to be struck contrary to the Torah?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V4" id="C4423V4">23:4</a> Those who stood by said, "Do you
malign Elohim's high priest?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V5" id="C4423V5">23:5</a> Paul said, "I didn't know,
brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, 'You shall not speak
evil of a ruler of your people.'"<sup><a href="#N4472">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4423V6" id="C4423V6">23:6</a> But when Paul perceived that the one part
were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council,
"Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning
the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V7" id="C4423V7">23:7</a> When he had said this, an argument
arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
<a name="C4423V8" id="C4423V8">23:8</a> For the Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of
these. <a name="C4423V9" id="C4423V9">23:9</a> A great clamor arose, and some
of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying,
"We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to
him, let's not fight against Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V10" id="C4423V10">23:10</a> When a great argument arose, the
commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them,
commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them,
and bring him into the barracks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V11" id="C4423V11">23:11</a> The following night, the Lord stood
by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me
at Yerushalayim, so you must testify also at Rome."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V12" id="C4423V12">23:12</a> When it was day, some of the Jews
banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they
would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. <a name="C4423V13"
id="C4423V13">23:13</a> There were more than forty people who had made this
conspiracy. <a name="C4423V14" id="C4423V14">23:14</a> They came to the chief
priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a
great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. <a name="C4423V15"
id="C4423V15">23:15</a> Now therefore, you with the council inform the
commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as
though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill
him before he comes near."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V16" id="C4423V16">23:16</a> But Paul's sister's son heard of
their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told
Paul. <a name="C4423V17" id="C4423V17">23:17</a> Paul summoned one of the
centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding
officer, for he has something to tell him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V18" id="C4423V18">23:18</a> So he took him, and brought him to
the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me
and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell
you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V19" id="C4423V19">23:19</a> The commanding officer took him by
the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you
have to tell me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V20" id="C4423V20">23:20</a> He said, "The Jews have agreed
to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending
to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. <a name="C4423V21"
id="C4423V21">23:21</a> Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty
men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither
to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready,
looking for the promise from you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V22" id="C4423V22">23:22</a> So the commanding officer let the
young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these
things to me." <a name="C4423V23" id="C4423V23">23:23</a> He called to
himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred
soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred
men armed with spears, at <a href="#N4473">the third hour of the night</a>."
<a name="C4423V24" id="C4423V24">23:24</a> He asked them to provide animals,
that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the
governor. <a name="C4423V25" id="C4423V25">23:25</a> He wrote a letter like
this:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V26" id="C4423V26">23:26</a> "Claudius Lysias to the most
excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V27" id="C4423V27">23:27</a> "This man was seized by the
Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers
and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. <a name="C4423V28"
id="C4423V28">23:28</a> Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I
brought him down to their council. <a name="C4423V29" id="C4423V29">23:29</a>
I found him to be accused about questions of their Torah, but not to be
charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment. <a name="C4423V30"
id="C4423V30">23:30</a> When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the
man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring
their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4423V31" id="C4423V31">23:31</a> So the soldiers, carrying out their
orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. <a name="C4423V32"
id="C4423V32">23:32</a> But on the next day they left the horsemen to go
with him, and returned to the barracks. <a name="C4423V33" id="C4423V33">23:33</a>
When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they
also presented Paul to him. <a name="C4423V34" id="C4423V34">23:34</a> When
the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he
understood that he was from Cilicia, he said, <a name="C4423V35" id="C4423V35">23:35</a>
"I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He
commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4424V1" id="C4424V1">24:1</a> After five days, the high priest,
Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They
informed the governor against Paul. <a name="C4424V2" id="C4424V2">24:2</a>
When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing
that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to
this nation, <a name="C4424V3" id="C4424V3">24:3</a> we accept it in all ways
and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. <a
name="C4424V4" id="C4424V4">24:4</a> But, that I don't delay you, I entreat
you to bear with us and hear a few words. <a name="C4424V5" id="C4424V5">24:5</a>
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections
among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of
the Nazarenes. <a name="C4424V6" id="C4424V6">24:6</a> He even tried to
profane the temple, and we arrested him.<sup><a href="#N4474">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4424V7" id="C4424V7">24:7</a> <sup><a href="#N4475">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4424V8" id="C4424V8">24:8</a> <sup><a href="#N4476">*</a></sup>By
examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we
accuse him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4424V9" id="C4424V9">24:9</a> The Jews also joined in the attack,
affirming that these things were so. <a name="C4424V10" id="C4424V10">24:10</a>
When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because
I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I
cheerfully make my defense, <a name="C4424V11" id="C4424V11">24:11</a> seeing
that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went
up to worship at Yerushalayim. <a name="C4424V12" id="C4424V12">24:12</a> In the
temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd,
either in the synagogues, or in the city. <a name="C4424V13" id="C4424V13">24:13</a>
Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me. <a
name="C4424V14" id="C4424V14">24:14</a> But this I confess to you, that after
the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the Elohim of our fathers,
believing all things which are according to the Torah, and which are written
in the prophets; <a name="C4424V15" id="C4424V15">24:15</a> having hope toward
Elohim, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. <a name="C4424V16"
id="C4424V16">24:16</a> Herein I also practice always having a conscience
void of offense toward Elohim and men. <a name="C4424V17" id="C4424V17">24:17</a>
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation,
and offerings; <a name="C4424V18" id="C4424V18">24:18</a> amid which certain
Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with
turmoil. <a name="C4424V19" id="C4424V19">24:19</a> They ought to have been
here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
<a name="C4424V20" id="C4424V20">24:20</a> Or else let these men themselves
say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council, <a
name="C4424V21" id="C4424V21">24:21</a> unless it is for this one thing that I
cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am
being judged before you today!'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4424V22" id="C4424V22">24:22</a> But Felix, having more exact
knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias,
the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case." <a
name="C4424V23" id="C4424V23">24:23</a> He ordered the centurion that Paul
should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to
forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him. <a name="C4424V24"
id="C4424V24">24:24</a> But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his
wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the
faith in Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C4424V25" id="C4424V25">24:25</a> As he
reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come,
Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and
when it is convenient for me, I will summon you." <a name="C4424V26"
id="C4424V26">24:26</a> Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given
to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him
more often, and talked with him. <a name="C4424V27" id="C4424V27">24:27</a>
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus,
and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V1" id="C4425V1">25:1</a> Festus therefore, having come into the
province, after three days went up to Yerushalayim from Caesarea. <a
name="C4425V2" id="C4425V2">25:2</a> Then the high priest and the principal
men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, <a
name="C4425V3" id="C4425V3">25:3</a> asking a favor against him, that he would
summon him to Yerushalayim; plotting to kill him on the way. <a name="C4425V4"
id="C4425V4">25:4</a> However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in
custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly. <a
name="C4425V5" id="C4425V5">25:5</a> "Let them therefore," said he,
"that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is
anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V6" id="C4425V6">25:6</a> When he had stayed among them more
than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the
judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. <a name="C4425V7" id="C4425V7">25:7</a>
When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Yerushalayim stood around
him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not
prove, <a name="C4425V8" id="C4425V8">25:8</a> while he said in his defense,
"Neither against the Torah of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor
against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V9" id="C4425V9">25:9</a> But Festus, desiring to gain favor
with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to
Yerushalayim, and be judged by me there concerning these things?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V10" id="C4425V10">25:10</a> But Paul said, "I am standing
before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no
wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well. <a name="C4425V11" id="C4425V11">25:11</a>
For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I
don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse
me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V12" id="C4425V12">25:12</a> Then Festus, when he had conferred
with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar
you shall go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V13" id="C4425V13">25:13</a> Now when some days had passed,
Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus. <a
name="C4425V14" id="C4425V14">25:14</a> As he stayed there many days, Festus
laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man
left a prisoner by Felix; <a name="C4425V15" id="C4425V15">25:15</a> about
whom, when I was at Yerushalayim, the chief priests and the elders of the
Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him. <a name="C4425V16"
id="C4425V16">25:16</a> To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the
Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the
accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense
concerning the matter laid against him. <a name="C4425V17" id="C4425V17">25:17</a>
When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the
next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought. <a
name="C4425V18" id="C4425V18">25:18</a> Concerning whom, when the accusers
stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed; <a
name="C4425V19" id="C4425V19">25:19</a> but had certain questions against him
about their own religion, and about one Yeshua, who was dead, whom Paul
affirmed to be alive. <a name="C4425V20" id="C4425V20">25:20</a> Being
perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was
willing to go to Yerushalayim and there be judged concerning these matters.
<a name="C4425V21" id="C4425V21">25:21</a> But when Paul had appealed to be
kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I
could send him to Caesar."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V22" id="C4425V22">25:22</a> Agrippa said to Festus, "I
also would like to hear the man myself."
</p>
<p>
"Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4425V23" id="C4425V23">25:23</a> So on the next day, when Agrippa
and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place
of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at
the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. <a name="C4425V24" id="C4425V24">25:24</a>
Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us,
you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me,
both at Yerushalayim and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
<a name="C4425V25" id="C4425V25">25:25</a> But when I found that he had
committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the
emperor I determined to send him. <a name="C4425V26" id="C4425V26">25:26</a>
Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have
brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa,
that, after examination, I may have something to write. <a name="C4425V27"
id="C4425V27">25:27</a> For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a
prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V1" id="C4426V1">26:1</a> Agrippa said to Paul, "You may
speak for yourself."
</p>
<p>
Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. <a name="C4426V2"
id="C4426V2">26:2</a> "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to
make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am
accused by the Jews, <a name="C4426V3" id="C4426V3">26:3</a> especially
because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the
Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V4" id="C4426V4">26:4</a> "Indeed, all the Jews know my way
of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation
and at Yerushalayim; <a name="C4426V5" id="C4426V5">26:5</a> having known me from
the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect
of our religion I lived a Pharisee. <a name="C4426V6" id="C4426V6">26:6</a>
Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by Elohim to
our fathers, <a name="C4426V7" id="C4426V7">26:7</a> which our twelve tribes,
earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am
accused by the Jews, King Agrippa! <a name="C4426V8" id="C4426V8">26:8</a> Why
is it judged incredible with you, if Elohim does raise the dead?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V9" id="C4426V9">26:9</a> "I myself most certainly thought
that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Yeshua of Nazareth.
<a name="C4426V10" id="C4426V10">26:10</a> This I also did in Yerushalayim. I
both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from
the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against
them. <a name="C4426V11" id="C4426V11">26:11</a> Punishing them often in all
the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged
against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V12" id="C4426V12">26:12</a> "Whereupon as I traveled to
Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, <a
name="C4426V13" id="C4426V13">26:13</a> at noon, O King, I saw on the way a
light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who
traveled with me. <a name="C4426V14" id="C4426V14">26:14</a> When we had all
fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,
'Sha'ul, Sha'ul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick
against the goads.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V15" id="C4426V15">26:15</a> "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?'
</p>
<p>
"He said, 'I am Yeshua, whom you are persecuting. <a name="C4426V16"
id="C4426V16">26:16</a> But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have
appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness
both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will
reveal to you; <a name="C4426V17" id="C4426V17">26:17</a> delivering you from
the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, <a name="C4426V18"
id="C4426V18">26:18</a> to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness
to light and from the power of Satan to Elohim, that they may receive
remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by
faith in me.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V19" id="C4426V19">26:19</a> "Therefore, King Agrippa, I
was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, <a name="C4426V20" id="C4426V20">26:20</a>
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Yerushalayim, and throughout all
the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent
and turn to Elohim, doing works worthy of repentance. <a name="C4426V21"
id="C4426V21">26:21</a> For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple,
and tried to kill me. <a name="C4426V22" id="C4426V22">26:22</a> Having
therefore obtained the help that is from Elohim, I stand to this day
testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets
and Moshe said would happen, <a name="C4426V23" id="C4426V23">26:23</a> how
the Messiah must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would
be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V24" id="C4426V24">26:24</a> As he thus made his defense, Festus
said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is
driving you insane!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V25" id="C4426V25">26:25</a> But he said, "I am not crazy,
most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and
reasonableness. <a name="C4426V26" id="C4426V26">26:26</a> For the king knows
of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none
of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a
corner. <a name="C4426V27" id="C4426V27">26:27</a> King Agrippa, do you
believe the prophets? I know that you believe."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V28" id="C4426V28">26:28</a> Agrippa said to Paul, "With a
little persuasion are you trying to make me a Messiahian?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V29" id="C4426V29">26:29</a> Paul said, "I pray to Elohim,
that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that
hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4426V30" id="C4426V30">26:30</a> The king rose up with the governor,
and Bernice, and those who sat with them. <a name="C4426V31" id="C4426V31">26:31</a>
When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man
does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." <a name="C4426V32"
id="C4426V32">26:32</a> Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have
been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V1" id="C4427V1">27:1</a> When it was determined that we should
sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a
centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. <a name="C4427V2" id="C4427V2">27:2</a>
Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on
the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of
Thessalonica, being with us. <a name="C4427V3" id="C4427V3">27:3</a> The next
day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him
permission to go to his friends and refresh himself. <a name="C4427V4"
id="C4427V4">27:4</a> Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of
Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. <a name="C4427V5" id="C4427V5">27:5</a>
When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we
came to Myra, a city of Lycia. <a name="C4427V6" id="C4427V6">27:6</a> There
the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us
on board. <a name="C4427V7" id="C4427V7">27:7</a> When we had sailed slowly
many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not
allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
<a name="C4427V8" id="C4427V8">27:8</a> With difficulty sailing along it we
came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V9" id="C4427V9">27:9</a> When much time had passed and the
voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul
admonished them, <a name="C4427V10" id="C4427V10">27:10</a> and said to them,
"Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss,
not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives." <a
name="C4427V11" id="C4427V11">27:11</a> But the centurion gave more heed to
the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were
spoken by Paul. <a name="C4427V12" id="C4427V12">27:12</a> Because the haven
was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from
there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which
is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V13" id="C4427V13">27:13</a> When the south wind blew softly,
supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and
sailed along Crete, close to shore. <a name="C4427V14" id="C4427V14">27:14</a>
But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called <a
href="#N4477">Euroclydon.</a> <a name="C4427V15" id="C4427V15">27:15</a> When
the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and
were driven along. <a name="C4427V16" id="C4427V16">27:16</a> Running under
the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to
secure the boat. <a name="C4427V17" id="C4427V17">27:17</a> After they had
hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that
they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea
anchor, and so were driven along. <a name="C4427V18" id="C4427V18">27:18</a>
As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw
things overboard. <a name="C4427V19" id="C4427V19">27:19</a> On the third day,
they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands. <a name="C4427V20"
id="C4427V20">27:20</a> When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many
days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved
was now taken away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V21" id="C4427V21">27:21</a> When they had been long without
food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you
should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have
gotten this injury and loss. <a name="C4427V22" id="C4427V22">27:22</a> Now I
exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but
only of the ship. <a name="C4427V23" id="C4427V23">27:23</a> For there stood
by me this night an angel, belonging to the Elohim whose I am and whom I
serve, <a name="C4427V24" id="C4427V24">27:24</a> saying, 'Don't be afraid,
Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, Elohim has granted you all those
who sail with you.' <a name="C4427V25" id="C4427V25">27:25</a> Therefore,
sirs, cheer up! For I believe Elohim, that it will be just as it has been
spoken to me. <a name="C4427V26" id="C4427V26">27:26</a> But we must run
aground on a certain island."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V27" id="C4427V27">27:27</a> But when the fourteenth night had
come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight
the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. <a
name="C4427V28" id="C4427V28">27:28</a> They took soundings, and found <a
href="#N4478">twenty fathoms.</a> After a little while, they took soundings
again, and found <a href="#N4479">fifteen fathoms.</a> <a name="C4427V29"
id="C4427V29">27:29</a> Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground,
they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. <a
name="C4427V30" id="C4427V30">27:30</a> As the sailors were trying to flee out
of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they
would lay out anchors from the bow, <a name="C4427V31" id="C4427V31">27:31</a>
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in
the ship, you can't be saved." <a name="C4427V32" id="C4427V32">27:32</a>
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V33" id="C4427V33">27:33</a> While the day was coming on, Paul
begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the
fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
<a name="C4427V34" id="C4427V34">27:34</a> Therefore I beg you to take some
food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of
your heads." <a name="C4427V35" id="C4427V35">27:35</a> When he had said
this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to Elohim in the presence of all,
and he broke it, and began to eat. <a name="C4427V36" id="C4427V36">27:36</a>
Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. <a name="C4427V37"
id="C4427V37">27:37</a> In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the
ship. <a name="C4427V38" id="C4427V38">27:38</a> When they had eaten enough,
they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. <a
name="C4427V39" id="C4427V39">27:39</a> When it was day, they didn't recognize
the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to
try to drive the ship onto it. <a name="C4427V40" id="C4427V40">27:40</a>
Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time
untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made
for the beach. <a name="C4427V41" id="C4427V41">27:41</a> But coming to a
place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and
remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the
waves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4427V42" id="C4427V42">27:42</a> The soldiers' counsel was to kill
the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. <a
name="C4427V43" id="C4427V43">27:43</a> But the centurion, desiring to save
Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could
swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land; <a
name="C4427V44" id="C4427V44">27:44</a> and the rest should follow, some on
planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they
all escaped safely to the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V1" id="C4428V1">28:1</a> When we had escaped, then <a
href="#N4480">they</a> learned that the island was called Malta. <a
name="C4428V2" id="C4428V2">28:2</a> The natives showed us uncommon kindness;
for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain,
and because of the cold. <a name="C4428V3" id="C4428V3">28:3</a> But when Paul
had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came
out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. <a name="C4428V4"
id="C4428V4">28:4</a> When the natives saw the creature hanging from his
hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer,
whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to
live." <a name="C4428V5" id="C4428V5">28:5</a> However he shook off the
creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed. <a name="C4428V6" id="C4428V6">28:6</a>
But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly,
but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him,
they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V7" id="C4428V7">28:7</a> Now in the neighborhood of that place
were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who
received us, and courteously entertained us for three days. <a name="C4428V8"
id="C4428V8">28:8</a> It happened that the father of Publius lay sick of
fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands
on him, healed him. <a name="C4428V9" id="C4428V9">28:9</a> Then when this was
done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came, and were cured.
<a name="C4428V10" id="C4428V10">28:10</a> They also honored us with many
honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V11" id="C4428V11">28:11</a> After three months, we set sail in
a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was
"The Twin Brothers." <a name="C4428V12" id="C4428V12">28:12</a>
Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. <a name="C4428V13"
id="C4428V13">28:13</a> From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium.
After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to
Puteoli, <a name="C4428V14" id="C4428V14">28:14</a> where we found <a
href="#N4481">brothers,</a> and were entreated to stay with them for seven
days. So we came to Rome. <a name="C4428V15" id="C4428V15">28:15</a> From
there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The
Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked
Elohim, and took courage. <a name="C4428V16" id="C4428V16">28:16</a> When we
entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of
the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who
guarded him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V17" id="C4428V17">28:17</a> It happened that after three days
Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had
come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done
nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was
delivered prisoner from Yerushalayim into the hands of the Romans, <a
name="C4428V18" id="C4428V18">28:18</a> who, when they had examined me,
desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me. <a
name="C4428V19" id="C4428V19">28:19</a> But when the Jews spoke against it, I
was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which
to accuse my nation. <a name="C4428V20" id="C4428V20">28:20</a> For this cause
therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the
hope of Yisrael I am bound with this chain."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V21" id="C4428V21">28:21</a> They said to him, "We neither
received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers
come here and report or speak any evil of you. <a name="C4428V22" id="C4428V22">28:22</a>
But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this
sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V23" id="C4428V23">28:23</a> When they had appointed him a day,
many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying
about the Kingdom of Elohim, and persuading them concerning Yeshua, both from
the Torah of Moshe and from the prophets, from morning until evening. <a
name="C4428V24" id="C4428V24">28:24</a> Some believed the things which were
spoken, and some disbelieved. <a name="C4428V25" id="C4428V25">28:25</a> When
they didn't agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken
one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet,
to our fathers, <a name="C4428V26" id="C4428V26">28:26</a> saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Go to this people, and say,
</dt>
<dt>
in hearing, you will hear,
</dt>
<dd>
but will in no way understand.
</dd>
<dt>
In seeing, you will see,
</dt>
<dd>
but will in no way perceive.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4428V27" id="C4428V27">28:27</a> For this people's heart has grown
callous.
</dt>
<dd>
Their ears are dull of hearing.
</dd>
<dd>
Their eyes they have closed.
</dd>
<dt>
Lest they should see with their eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
hear with their ears,
</dd>
<dd>
understand with their heart,
</dd>
<dd>
and would turn again,
</dd>
<dd>
and I would heal them.'<sup><a href="#N4482">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4428V28" id="C4428V28">28:28</a> "Be it known therefore to you,
that the salvation of Elohim is sent to the nations. They will also listen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V29" id="C4428V29">28:29</a> When he had said these words, the
Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4428V30" id="C4428V30">28:30</a> Paul stayed two whole years in his
own rented house, and received all who were coming to him, <a name="C4428V31"
id="C4428V31">28:31</a> preaching the Kingdom of Elohim, and teaching the
things concerning the Lord Yeshua Messiah with all boldness, without
hindrance.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N441" id="N441">[1]</a> <a href="#C441V20">back to 1:20</a> Psalm 69:25
</p>
<p>
<a name="N442" id="N442">[2]</a> <a href="#C441V20">back to 1:20</a> Psalm 109:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N443" id="N443">[3]</a> <a href="#C442V15">back to 2:15</a> about 9:00
AM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N444" id="N444">[4]</a> <a href="#C442V21">back to 2:21</a> Joel
2:28-32
</p>
<p>
<a name="N445" id="N445">[5]</a> <a href="#C442V27">back to 2:27</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N446" id="N446">[6]</a> <a href="#C442V28">back to 2:28</a> Psalm
16:8-11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N447" id="N447">[7]</a> <a href="#C442V31">back to 2:31</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N448" id="N448">[8]</a> <a href="#C442V35">back to 2:35</a> Psalm 110:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N449" id="N449">[9]</a> <a href="#C443V1">back to 3:1</a> 3:00 PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4410" id="N4410">[10]</a> <a href="#C443V17">back to 3:17</a> The word
for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers
and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4411" id="N4411">[11]</a> <a href="#C443V23">back to 3:23</a>
Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4412" id="N4412">[12]</a> <a href="#C443V25">back to 3:25</a> Genesis
22:18; 26:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4413" id="N4413">[13]</a> <a href="#C444V11">back to 4:11</a> Psalm
118:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4414" id="N4414">[14]</a> <a href="#C444V26">back to 4:26</a> Messiah
(Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4415" id="N4415">[15]</a> <a href="#C444V26">back to 4:26</a> Psalm
2:1-2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4416" id="N4416">[16]</a> <a href="#C446V1">back to 6:1</a> The
Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of
Hebrew descent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4417" id="N4417">[17]</a> <a href="#C447V3">back to 7:3</a> Genesis
12:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4418" id="N4418">[18]</a> <a href="#C447V7">back to 7:7</a> Genesis
15:13-14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4419" id="N4419">[19]</a> <a href="#C447V23">back to 7:23</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4420" id="N4420">[20]</a> <a href="#C447V28">back to 7:28</a> Exodus
2:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4421" id="N4421">[21]</a> <a href="#C447V32">back to 7:32</a> Exodus
3:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4422" id="N4422">[22]</a> <a href="#C447V34">back to 7:34</a> Exodus
3:5,7-8,10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4423" id="N4423">[23]</a> <a href="#C447V37">back to 7:37</a> TR adds
"You shall listen to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4424" id="N4424">[24]</a> <a href="#C447V37">back to 7:37</a>
Deuteronomy 18:15
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4425" id="N4425">[25]</a> <a href="#C447V40">back to 7:40</a> Exodus
32:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4426" id="N4426">[26]</a> <a href="#C447V42">back to 7:42</a> This
idiom could also be translatted "host of heaven," or "angelic
beings," or "heavenly bodies."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4427" id="N4427">[27]</a> <a href="#C447V43">back to 7:43</a> Amos
5:25-27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4428" id="N4428">[28]</a> <a href="#C447V50">back to 7:50</a> Isaiah
66:1-2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4429" id="N4429">[29]</a> <a href="#C448V33">back to 8:33</a> Isaiah
53:7,8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4430" id="N4430">[30]</a> <a href="#C448V37">back to 8:37</a> TR adds
"Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.' He
answered, 'I believe that Yeshua Messiah is the Son of Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4431" id="N4431">[31]</a> <a href="#C449V5">back to 9:5</a> TR adds
"It's hard for you to kick against the goads."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4432" id="N4432">[32]</a> <a href="#C449V6">back to 9:6</a> TR omits
"But"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4433" id="N4433">[33]</a> <a href="#C449V11">back to 9:11</a> or,
Judas
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4434" id="N4434">[34]</a> <a href="#C449V28">back to 9:28</a> TR and
NU add "and going out"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4435" id="N4435">[35]</a> <a href="#C449V29">back to 9:29</a> The
Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4436" id="N4436">[36]</a> <a href="#C449V30">back to 9:30</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4437" id="N4437">[37]</a> <a href="#C449V36">back to 9:36</a> "Dorcas"
is Greek for "Gazelle."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4438" id="N4438">[38]</a> <a href="#C449V38">back to 9:38</a> Reading
from NU, TR; MT omits "two men"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4439" id="N4439">[39]</a> <a href="#C4410V3">back to 10:3</a> 3:00 PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4440" id="N4440">[40]</a> <a href="#C4410V6">back to 10:6</a> TR adds
"This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4441" id="N4441">[41]</a> <a href="#C4410V19">back to 10:19</a>
Reading from TR and NU. MT omits "three"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4442" id="N4442">[42]</a> <a href="#C4410V30">back to 10:30</a> 3:00
P. M.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4443" id="N4443">[43]</a> <a href="#C4410V39">back to 10:39</a> TR
omits "also"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4444" id="N4444">[44]</a> <a href="#C4411V1">back to 11:1</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4445" id="N4445">[45]</a> <a href="#C4411V20">back to 11:20</a> A
Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4446" id="N4446">[46]</a> <a href="#C4412V25">back to 12:25</a> TR
reads "from" instead of "to"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4447" id="N4447">[47]</a> <a href="#C4413V17">back to 13:17</a> TR, NU
add "Yisrael"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4448" id="N4448">[48]</a> <a href="#C4413V23">back to 13:23</a> TR, NU
read "a Savior, Yeshua" instead of "salvation"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4449" id="N4449">[49]</a> <a href="#C4413V24">back to 13:24</a> TR, NU
read "to all the people of Yisrael" instead of "to Yisrael"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4450" id="N4450">[50]</a> <a href="#C4413V33">back to 13:33</a> Psalm
2:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4451" id="N4451">[51]</a> <a href="#C4413V34">back to 13:34</a> Isaiah
55:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4452" id="N4452">[52]</a> <a href="#C4413V35">back to 13:35</a> Psalm
16:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4453" id="N4453">[53]</a> <a href="#C4413V38">back to 13:38</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also
be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4454" id="N4454">[54]</a> <a href="#C4413V41">back to 13:41</a>
Habakkuk 1:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4455" id="N4455">[55]</a> <a href="#C4413V47">back to 13:47</a> Isaiah
49:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4456" id="N4456">[56]</a> <a href="#C4414V2">back to 14:2</a> or,
disobedient
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4457" id="N4457">[57]</a> <a href="#C4414V17">back to 14:17</a> TR
reads "us" instead of "you"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4458" id="N4458">[58]</a> <a href="#C4415V3">back to 15:3</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4459" id="N4459">[59]</a> <a href="#C4415V11">back to 15:11</a> TR
adds "Messiah"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4460" id="N4460">[60]</a> <a href="#C4415V17">back to 15:17</a> Amos
9:11-12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4461" id="N4461">[61]</a> <a href="#C4415V22">back to 15:22</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also
be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4462" id="N4462">[62]</a> <a href="#C4415V34">back to 15:34</a> Some
manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4463" id="N4463">[63]</a> <a href="#C4417V5">back to 17:5</a> TR reads
"And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along"
instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4464" id="N4464">[64]</a> <a href="#C4417V6">back to 17:6</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4465" id="N4465">[65]</a> <a href="#C4417V18">back to 17:18</a> TR
omits "also"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4466" id="N4466">[66]</a> <a href="#C4418V18">back to 18:18</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also
be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4467" id="N4467">[67]</a> <a href="#C4419V19">back to 19:19</a> The
50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so,
the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of
wages for agricultural laborers
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4468" id="N4468">[68]</a> <a href="#C4420V8">back to 20:8</a> TR reads
"they" instead of "we"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4469" id="N4469">[69]</a> <a href="#C4420V21">back to 20:21</a> TR
adds "Messiah"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4470" id="N4470">[70]</a> <a href="#C4420V28">back to 20:28</a> TR, NU
omit "the Lord and"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4471" id="N4471">[71]</a> <a href="#C4420V32">back to 20:32</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also
be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4472" id="N4472">[72]</a> <a href="#C4423V5">back to 23:5</a> Exodus
22:28
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4473" id="N4473">[73]</a> <a href="#C4423V23">back to 23:23</a> about
9:00 PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4474" id="N4474">[74]</a> <a href="#C4424V6">back to 24:6</a> TR adds
"We wanted to judge him according to our Torah,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4475" id="N4475">[75]</a> <a href="#C4424V7">back to 24:7</a> TR adds
"but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence
took him out of our hands,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4476" id="N4476">[76]</a> <a href="#C4424V8">back to 24:8</a> TR adds
"commanding his accusers to come to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4477" id="N4477">[77]</a> <a href="#C4427V14">back to 27:14</a> Or,
"a northeaster."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4478" id="N4478">[78]</a> <a href="#C4427V28">back to 27:28</a> 20
fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4479" id="N4479">[79]</a> <a href="#C4427V28">back to 27:28</a> 15
fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4480" id="N4480">[80]</a> <a href="#C4428V1">back to 28:1</a> NU reads
"we"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4481" id="N4481">[81]</a> <a href="#C4428V14">back to 28:14</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4482" id="N4482">[82]</a> <a href="#C4428V27">back to 28:27</a> Isaiah
6:9-10
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C301V1" id="C301V1">1:1</a> The words of Amos, who was among the
herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Yisrael in the days of Uzziah
king of Yehudah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of
Yisrael, two years before the earthquake. <a name="C301V2" id="C301V2">1:2</a>
He said:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Yahweh will roar from Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and utter his voice from Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dt>
and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn,
</dt>
<dd>
and the top of Carmel will wither."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C301V3" id="C301V3">1:3</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V4" id="C301V4">1:4</a> but I will send a fire into the house
of Hazael,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V5" id="C301V5">1:5</a> I will break the bar of Damascus,
</dt>
<dd>
and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
</dd>
<dd>
and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden;
</dd>
<dd>
and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C301V6" id="C301V6">1:6</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they carried away captive the whole community,
</dd>
<dd>
to deliver them up to Edom;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V7" id="C301V7">1:7</a> but I will send a fire on the wall of
Gaza,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour its palaces.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V8" id="C301V8">1:8</a> I will cut off the inhabitant from
Ashdod,
</dt>
<dd>
and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will turn my hand against Ekron;
</dt>
<dd>
and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C301V9" id="C301V9">1:9</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they delivered up the whole community to Edom,
</dd>
<dd>
and didn't remember the brotherly covenant;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V10" id="C301V10">1:10</a> but I will send a fire on the wall
of Tyre,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour its palaces."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C301V11" id="C301V11">1:11</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because he pursued his brother with the sword,
</dd>
<dd>
and cast off all pity,
</dd>
<dd>
and his anger raged continually,
</dd>
<dd>
and he kept his wrath forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V12" id="C301V12">1:12</a> but I will send a fire on Teman,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C301V13" id="C301V13">1:13</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,
</dd>
<dd>
that they may enlarge their border.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V14" id="C301V14">1:14</a> But I will kindle a fire in the wall
of Rabbah,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour its palaces,
</dd>
<dd>
with shouting in the day of battle,
</dd>
<dd>
with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C301V15" id="C301V15">1:15</a> and their king will go into
captivity,
</dt>
<dd>
he and his princes together,"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C302V1" id="C302V1">2:1</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V2" id="C302V2">2:2</a> but I will send a fire on Moab,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
</dd>
<dd>
and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the
trumpet;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V3" id="C302V3">2:3</a> and I will cut off the judge from their
midst,
</dt>
<dd>
and will kill all its princes with him,"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C302V4" id="C302V4">2:4</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Yehudah, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they have rejected Yahweh's Torah,
</dd>
<dd>
and have not kept his statutes,
</dd>
<dd>
and their lies have led them astray,
</dd>
<dd>
after which their fathers walked;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V5" id="C302V5">2:5</a> But I will send a fire on Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will devour the palaces of Yerushalayim."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C302V6" id="C302V6">2:6</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"For three transgressions of Yisrael, yes, for four,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not turn away its punishment;
</dd>
<dd>
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
</dd>
<dd>
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C302V7" id="C302V7">2:7</a> They trample on the dust of the earth
on the head of the poor,
</dd>
<dd>
and deny justice to the oppressed;
</dd>
<dd>
and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C302V8" id="C302V8">2:8</a> and they lay themselves down beside
every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
</dd>
<dd>
and in the house of their Elohim they drink the wine of those who have been
fined.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V9" id="C302V9">2:9</a> Yet I destroyed the Amorite before
them,
</dt>
<dd>
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
</dd>
<dd>
and he was strong as the oaks;
</dd>
<dd>
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
</dd>
<dd>
and his roots from beneath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V10" id="C302V10">2:10</a> Also I brought you up out of the
land of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
to possess the land of the Amorite.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V11" id="C302V11">2:11</a> I raised up some of your sons for
prophets,
</dt>
<dd>
and some of your young men for Nazirites.
</dd>
<dt>
Isn't this true,
</dt>
<dd>
you children of Yisrael?" says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V12" id="C302V12">2:12</a> "But you gave the Nazirites
wine to drink,
</dt>
<dd>
and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V13" id="C302V13">2:13</a> Behold, I will crush you in your
place,
</dt>
<dd>
as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V14" id="C302V14">2:14</a> Flight will perish from the swift;
</dt>
<dd>
and the strong won't strengthen his force;
</dd>
<dd>
neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C302V15" id="C302V15">2:15</a> neither shall he stand who handles
the bow;
</dd>
<dd>
and he who is swift of foot won't escape;
</dd>
<dd>
neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C302V16" id="C302V16">2:16</a> and he who is courageous among the
mighty will flee away naked on that day,"
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C303V1" id="C303V1">3:1</a> Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken
against you, children of Yisrael, against the whole family which I brought
up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C303V2" id="C303V2">3:2</a> "You only have I chosen of all the
families of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V3" id="C303V3">3:3</a> Do two walk together,
</dt>
<dd>
unless they have agreed?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V4" id="C303V4">3:4</a> Will a lion roar in the thicket,
</dt>
<dd>
when he has no prey?
</dd>
<dt>
Does a young lion cry out of his den,
</dt>
<dd>
if he has caught nothing?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V5" id="C303V5">3:5</a> Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
where no snare is set for him?
</dd>
<dt>
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
</dt>
<dd>
when there is nothing to catch?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V6" id="C303V6">3:6</a> Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
</dt>
<dd>
without the people being afraid?
</dd>
<dt>
Does evil happen to a city,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yahweh hasn't done it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V7" id="C303V7">3:7</a> Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V8" id="C303V8">3:8</a> The lion has roared.
</dt>
<dd>
Who will not fear?
</dd>
<dt>
The Lord Yahweh has spoken.
</dt>
<dd>
Who can but prophesy?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V9" id="C303V9">3:9</a> Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
</dt>
<dd>
and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,
</dd>
<dt>
and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Shomron,
</dt>
<dd>
and see what unrest is in her,
</dd>
<dd>
and what oppression is among them."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V10" id="C303V10">3:10</a> "Indeed they don't know to do
right," says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C303V11" id="C303V11">3:11</a> Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"An adversary will overrun the land;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will pull down your strongholds,
</dd>
<dd>
and your fortresses will be plundered."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C303V12" id="C303V12">3:12</a> Thus says Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,
</dt>
<dd>
or a piece of an ear,
</dd>
<dd>
so shall the children of Yisrael be rescued who sit in Shomron on the
corner of a couch,
</dd>
<dd>
and on the silken cushions of a bed."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C303V13" id="C303V13">3:13</a> "Listen, and testify against the
house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C303V14" id="C303V14">3:14</a> "For in the day that I visit
the transgressions of Yisrael on him,
</dt>
<dd>
I will also visit the altars of Bethel;
</dd>
<dd>
and the horns of the altar will be cut off,
</dd>
<dd>
and fall to the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C303V15" id="C303V15">3:15</a> I will strike the winter house with
the summer house;
</dt>
<dd>
and the houses of ivory will perish,
</dd>
<dd>
and the great houses will have an end,"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<br /> says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C304V1" id="C304V1">4:1</a> Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan,
who are on the mountain of Shomron, who oppress the poor, who crush the
needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C304V2" id="C304V2">4:2</a> The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his
holiness that behold,
</dt>
<dd>
"The days shall come on you that they will take you away with
hooks,
</dd>
<dd>
and the last of you with fish hooks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V3" id="C304V3">4:3</a> You will go out at the breaks in the
wall,
</dt>
<dd>
everyone straight before her;
</dd>
<dd>
and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V4" id="C304V4">4:4</a> "Go to Bethel, and sin;
</dt>
<dd>
to Gilgal, and sin more.
</dd>
<dt>
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
</dt>
<dd>
your tithes every three days,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C304V5" id="C304V5">4:5</a> offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of
that which is leavened,
</dd>
<dd>
and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them:
</dd>
<dd>
for this pleases you, you children of Yisrael," says the Lord
Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V6" id="C304V6">4:6</a> "I also have given you cleanness
of teeth in all your cities,
</dt>
<dd>
and lack of bread in every town;
</dd>
<dd>
yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V7" id="C304V7">4:7</a> "I also have withheld the rain
from you,
</dt>
<dd>
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
</dd>
<dd>
and I caused it to rain on one city,
</dd>
<dd>
and caused it not to rain on another city.
</dd>
<dt>
One place was rained on,
</dt>
<dd>
and the piece where it didn't rain withered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V8" id="C304V8">4:8</a> So two or three cities staggered to one
city to drink water,
</dt>
<dd>
and were not satisfied:
</dd>
<dd>
yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V9" id="C304V9">4:9</a> "I struck you with blight and
mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;
</dt>
<dd>
and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust
devoured:
</dd>
<dd>
yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V10" id="C304V10">4:10</a> "I sent plagues among you like
I did Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
I have slain your young men with the sword,
</dd>
<dd>
and have carried away your horses;
</dd>
<dd>
and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
</dd>
<dd>
yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V11" id="C304V11">4:11</a> "I have overthrown some of you,
</dt>
<dd>
as when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
</dd>
<dd>
and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;
</dd>
<dd>
yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V12" id="C304V12">4:12</a> "Therefore thus will I do to
you, Yisrael;
</dt>
<dd>
because I will do this to you,
</dd>
<dd>
prepare to meet your Elohim, Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C304V13" id="C304V13">4:13</a> For, behold, he who forms the
mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
and creates the wind,
</dd>
<dd>
and declares to man what is his thought;
</dd>
<dd>
who makes the morning darkness,
</dd>
<dd>
and treads on the high places of the Earth:
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, is his name."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C305V1" id="C305V1">5:1</a> Listen to this word which I take up for a
lamentation over you, O house of Yisrael.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C305V2" id="C305V2">5:2</a> "The virgin of Yisrael has fallen;
</dt>
<dd>
She shall rise no more.
</dd>
<dt>
She is cast down on her land;
</dt>
<dd>
there is no one to raise her up."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C305V3" id="C305V3">5:3</a> For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left,
</dt>
<dd>
and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house
of Yisrael."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C305V4" id="C305V4">5:4</a> For thus says Yahweh to the house of
Yisrael:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Seek me, and you will live;
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C305V5" id="C305V5">5:5</a> but don't seek Bethel,
</dt>
<dd>
nor enter into Gilgal,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't pass to Beersheba:
</dd>
<dt>
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
</dt>
<dd>
and Bethel shall come to nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V6" id="C305V6">5:6</a> Seek Yahweh, and you will live;
</dt>
<dd>
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
</dd>
<dd>
and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V7" id="C305V7">5:7</a> You who turn justice to wormwood,
</dt>
<dd>
and cast down righteousness to the earth:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V8" id="C305V8">5:8</a> seek him who made the Pleiades and
Orion,
</dt>
<dd>
and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
</dd>
<dd>
and makes the day dark with night;
</dd>
<dd>
who calls for the waters of the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V9" id="C305V9">5:9</a> who brings sudden destruction on the
strong,
</dt>
<dd>
so that destruction comes on the fortress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V10" id="C305V10">5:10</a> They hate him who reproves in the
gate,
</dt>
<dd>
and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V11" id="C305V11">5:11</a> Forasmuch therefore as you trample
on the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
and take taxes from him of wheat:
</dd>
<dd>
You have built houses of cut stone,
</dd>
<dd>
but you will not dwell in them.
</dd>
<dt>
You have planted pleasant vineyards,
</dt>
<dd>
but you shall not drink their wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V12" id="C305V12">5:12</a> For I know how many your offenses,
</dt>
<dd>
and how great are your sins--
</dd>
<dd>
you who afflict the just,
</dd>
<dd>
who take a bribe,
</dd>
<dd>
and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V13" id="C305V13">5:13</a> Therefore a prudent person keeps
silent in such a time,
</dt>
<dd>
for it is an evil time.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V14" id="C305V14">5:14</a> Seek good, and not evil,
</dt>
<dd>
that you may live;
</dd>
<dd>
and so Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, will be with you,
</dd>
<dd>
as you say.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V15" id="C305V15">5:15</a> Hate evil, love good,
</dt>
<dd>
and establish justice in the courts.
</dd>
<dd>
It may be that Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, will be gracious to the
remnant of Joseph."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C305V16" id="C305V16">5:16</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Armies, the Lord:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Wailing will be in all the broad ways;
</dt>
<dd>
and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!'
</dd>
<dd>
and they will call the farmer to mourning,
</dd>
<dd>
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V17" id="C305V17">5:17</a> In all vineyards there will be
wailing;
</dt>
<dd>
for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V18" id="C305V18">5:18</a> "Woe to you who desire the day
of Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
</dd>
<dt>
It is darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and not light.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V19" id="C305V19">5:19</a> As if a man fled from a lion,
</dt>
<dd>
and a bear met him;
</dd>
<dt>
Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,
</dt>
<dd>
and a snake bit him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V20" id="C305V20">5:20</a> Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness,
and not light?
</dt>
<dd>
Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V21" id="C305V21">5:21</a> I hate, I despise your feasts,
</dt>
<dd>
and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V22" id="C305V22">5:22</a> Yes, though you offer me your burnt
offerings and meal offerings,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not accept them;
</dd>
<dd>
neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V23" id="C305V23">5:23</a> Take away from me the noise of your
songs!
</dt>
<dd>
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C305V24" id="C305V24">5:24</a> But let justice roll on like rivers,
</dt>
<dd>
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C305V25" id="C305V25">5:25</a> "Did you bring to me sacrifices
and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Yisrael? <a
name="C305V26" id="C305V26">5:26</a> You also carried the tent of your king
and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for
yourselves. <a name="C305V27" id="C305V27">5:27</a> Therefore will I cause you
to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the
Elohim of Armies.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C306V1" id="C306V1">6:1</a> Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and to those who are secure on the mountain of Shomron,
</dd>
<dd>
the notable men of the chief of the nations,
</dd>
<dd>
to whom the house of Yisrael come!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V2" id="C306V2">6:2</a> Go to Calneh, and see;
</dt>
<dd>
and from there go to Hamath the great;
</dd>
<dd>
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
</dd>
<dt>
are they better than these kingdoms?
</dt>
<dd>
or is their border greater than your border?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V3" id="C306V3">6:3</a> Those who put far away the evil day,
</dt>
<dd>
and cause the seat of violence to come near;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C306V4" id="C306V4">6:4</a> Who lie on beds of ivory,
</dd>
<dd>
and stretch themselves on their couches,
</dd>
<dd>
and eat the lambs out of the flock,
</dd>
<dd>
and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C306V5" id="C306V5">6:5</a> who strum on the strings of a harp;
</dd>
<dd>
who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C306V6" id="C306V6">6:6</a> who drink wine in bowls,
</dd>
<dd>
and anoint themselves with the best oils;
</dd>
<dd>
but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V7" id="C306V7">6:7</a> Therefore they will now go captive with
the first who go captive;
</dt>
<dd>
and the feasting and lounging will end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V8" id="C306V8">6:8</a> "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by
himself," says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies:
</dt>
<dd>
"I abhor the pride of Jacob,
</dd>
<dd>
and detest his fortresses.
</dd>
<dd>
Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V9" id="C306V9">6:9</a> It will happen, if there remain ten men
in one house,
</dt>
<dd>
that they shall die.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C306V10" id="C306V10">6:10</a> "When a man's relative carries
him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him
who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?'
And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the
name of Yahweh.'
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C306V11" id="C306V11">6:11</a> "For, behold, Yahweh commands,
and the great house will be smashed to pieces,
</dt>
<dd>
and the little house into bits.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V12" id="C306V12">6:12</a> Do horses run on the rocky crags?
</dt>
<dd>
Does one plow there with oxen?
</dd>
<dt>
But you have turned justice into poison,
</dt>
<dd>
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V13" id="C306V13">6:13</a> you who rejoice in a thing of
nothing, who say,
</dt>
<dd>
'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C306V14" id="C306V14">6:14</a> For, behold, I will raise up against
you a nation, house of Yisrael,"
</dt>
<dd>
says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies;
</dd>
<dd>
"and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook
of the Arabah."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C307V1" id="C307V1">7:1</a> Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and
behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the
latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's
harvest. <a name="C307V2" id="C307V2">7:2</a> It happened that, when they made
an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh,
forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V3" id="C307V3">7:3</a> Yahweh relented concerning this. "It
shall not be," says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V4" id="C307V4">7:4</a> Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and
behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the
great deep, and would have devoured the land. <a name="C307V5" id="C307V5">7:5</a>
Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand?
For he is small."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V6" id="C307V6">7:6</a> Yahweh relented concerning this. "This
also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V7" id="C307V7">7:7</a> Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord
stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
<a name="C307V8" id="C307V8">7:8</a> Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do
you see?"
</p>
<p>
I said, "A plumb line."
</p>
<p>
Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of
my people Yisrael. I will not again pass by them any more. <a name="C307V9"
id="C307V9">7:9</a> The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the
sanctuaries of Yisrael will be laid waste; and I will rise against the
house of Jeroboam with the sword."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V10" id="C307V10">7:10</a> Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent
to Jeroboam king of Yisrael, saying, "Amos has conspired against you
in the midst of the house of Yisrael. The land is not able to bear all his
words. <a name="C307V11" id="C307V11">7:11</a> For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will
die by the sword, and Yisrael shall surely be led away captive out of his
land.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V12" id="C307V12">7:12</a> Amaziah also said to Amos, "You
seer, go, flee away into the land of Yehudah, and there eat bread, and
prophesy there: <a name="C307V13" id="C307V13">7:13</a> but don't prophesy
again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a
royal house!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C307V14" id="C307V14">7:14</a> Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I
was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a
farmer of sycamore figs; <a name="C307V15" id="C307V15">7:15</a> and Yahweh
took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to
my people Yisrael.' <a name="C307V16" id="C307V16">7:16</a> Now therefore
listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Yisrael, and
don't preach against the house of Isaac.' <a name="C307V17" id="C307V17">7:17</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land
shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is
unclean, and Yisrael shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C308V1" id="C308V1">8:1</a> Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a
basket of summer fruit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C308V2" id="C308V2">8:2</a> He said, "Amos, what do you see?"
</p>
<p>
I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
</p>
<p>
Then Yahweh said to me,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The end has come on my people Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
I will not again pass by them any more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V3" id="C308V3">8:3</a> The songs of the temple will be
wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
"The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them
out with silence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V4" id="C308V4">8:4</a> Hear this, you who desire to swallow up
the needy,
</dt>
<dd>
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C308V5" id="C308V5">8:5</a> Saying, 'When will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell grain?
</dd>
<dd>
And the Shabbat, that we may market wheat,
</dd>
<dd>
making the ephah small, and the shekel large,
</dd>
<dd>
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V6" id="C308V6">8:6</a> that we may buy the poor for silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
</dd>
<dd>
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V7" id="C308V7">8:7</a> Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
"Surely I will never forget any of their works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V8" id="C308V8">8:8</a> Won't the land tremble for this,
</dt>
<dd>
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
</dt>
<dd>
and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V9" id="C308V9">8:9</a> It will happen in that day," says
the Lord Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
</dd>
<dd>
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V10" id="C308V10">8:10</a> I will turn your feasts into
mourning,
</dt>
<dd>
and all your songs into lamentation;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
</dt>
<dd>
and baldness on every head.
</dd>
<dt>
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
</dt>
<dd>
and its end like a bitter day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V11" id="C308V11">8:11</a> Behold, the days come," says
the Lord Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"that I will send a famine in the land,
</dd>
<dd>
not a famine of bread,
</dd>
<dd>
nor a thirst for water,
</dd>
<dd>
but of hearing the words of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V12" id="C308V12">8:12</a> They will wander from sea to sea,
</dt>
<dd>
and from the north even to the east;
</dd>
<dd>
they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and will not find it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V13" id="C308V13">8:13</a> In that day the beautiful virgins
</dt>
<dd>
and the young men will faint for thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C308V14" id="C308V14">8:14</a> Those who swear by the sin of
Shomron,
</dt>
<dd>
and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;'
</dd>
<dd>
and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;'
</dd>
<dd>
they will fall, and never rise up again."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C309V1" id="C309V1">9:1</a> I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,
and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may
shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will
kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee
away, and there shall not one of them escape. <a name="C309V2" id="C309V2">9:2</a>
Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they
climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. <a name="C309V3" id="C309V3">9:3</a>
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take
them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the
sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. <a
name="C309V4" id="C309V4">9:4</a> Though they go into captivity before their
enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set
my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. <a name="C309V5" id="C309V5">9:5</a>
For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts,
and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the
River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. <a name="C309V6"
id="C309V6">9:6</a> It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has
founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name. <a
name="C309V7" id="C309V7">9:7</a> Are you not like the children of the
Ethiopians to me, children of Yisrael?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I
brought up Yisrael out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from
Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? <a name="C309V8" id="C309V8">9:8</a>
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will
destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh. <a name="C309V9"
id="C309V9">9:9</a> "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the
house of Yisrael among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet
not the least kernel will fall on the earth. <a name="C309V10" id="C309V10">9:10</a>
All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't
overtake nor meet us.' <a name="C309V11" id="C309V11">9:11</a> In that day I
will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches,
and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
<a name="C309V12" id="C309V12">9:12</a> that they may possess the remnant of
Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who
does this.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C309V13" id="C309V13">9:13</a> "Behold, the days come,"
says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
</dd>
<dd>
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
</dd>
<dd>
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
</dd>
<dd>
and flow from the hills.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C309V14" id="C309V14">9:14</a> I will bring my people Yisrael back
from captivity,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
</dd>
<dt>
They shall also make gardens,
</dt>
<dd>
and eat the fruit of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C309V15" id="C309V15">9:15</a> I will plant them on their land,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given
them,"
</dd>
<dd>
says Yahweh your Elohim.
</dd>
</dl>
Pgs. 417-435
Ch. 22-25
SECTION XL.
BALAK.
AND Balak bar Zippor saw what Yisrael had done to the Amoraee. And the Moabaee feared before the people greatly because they were many, and they were distressed in their life before the sons of Yisrael. And they said to the elders of the Midianee, for the people had been one and the kingdom one unto that day: Now will this congregation consume all that is about them, as the ox eateth up the grass of the field. And Balak bar Zippor, a Midianite, was the king of Moab at that time; without (a Midianite) being such at another time; for so was the tradition among them, to have kings from this people and from that, by turns.
And he sent unto Laban the Aramite, who was Bileam, (so called because he it was) who sought (Biluva) to swallow up (Amma) the people of the house of Yisrael: the son of Beor, who was insane[1] from the vastness of his knowledge; and would not spare Yisrael, the descendants of his sons and daughters: and the house of his habitation in Padan was at Pethor, a name signifying an interpreter of dreams. It was built in Aram upon the Phrat, in a land where the children of the people worshipped and adored him. (To him did Balak send) to call him, saying: Behold, a people hath come out of Mizraim, and, lo, they cover the face of the earth, and are encamped over against me. But now, I entreat, come, curse this people for me, for they are stronger than I, if I may but be able to meet them, though smaller than they, and drive them from the land. For I know that he whom thou dost bless is blessed, and he whom thou dost curse is cursed.
And the elders of Moab and of Midian went, with the price of divinations sealed up in their hands, and came to Bileam, and told him the words of Balak. [JERUSALEM. And the sages of the Moabites and of the Midianites went, with sealed letters in their hands, and came to Bileam, and spake with him the words of Balak.] And he said to them, Abide here to‑night, and I will return you word as the Lord shall speak with me. And the princes of Moab stayed with Bileam. And the Word from before the Lord came to Bileam, and He said, What men are these who are now lodging with thee? And Bileam said before the Lord, Balak bar Zippor, king of the Moabaee, hath sent messengers to me, saying: Behold, a people hath come out of Mizraim, and cover the face of the land: now therefore, come, curse them for me, so that I may be able to fight and drive them away. And the Lord said unto Bileam, Thou shalt not go with them, nor curse the people, for they are blessed of Me from the day of their fathers. And Bileam rose up early, and said to the princes of Moab, Go unto your country, for it is not pleasing before the Lord to permit me to journey with you. And the princes of Moab arose and came to Balak, and said, Bileam hath refused to come with us.
But Balak added to send (other) princes more, and nobler than they; and they came to Bileam, and said to him: Thus saith Balak bar Zippor, Let not anything hinder thee from coming to me; for honouring I will honour thee greatly, and whatever thou biddest me I will do. Come therefore now, and curse this people for me. And Bileam answered the servants of Balak, and said, If Balak would give me out of his treasury a house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord my Elohim, to fabricate a word either small or great. But I entreat you to remain here this night also, that I may know what the Word of the Lord may yet speak with me.
And the Word came from before the Lord[2] unto Bileam in the night, and said to him, If these men come to call thee, arise, go with them; only, the word that I will speak with thee, that shalt thou do.
And Bileam, arose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. [JERUSALEM. And Bileam arose in the morning, and made ready his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.] But the anger of the Lord was provoked, because he would go (that he might) curse them; and the angel of the Lord stood in the way to be an adversary to him. But he sat upon his ass, and his two young men, Jannes and Jambres, were with him. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord standing in the way with a drawn sword in his hand, and the ass turned aside out of the road, to go into the field. And Bileam smote the ass to make her return unto the way. And the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path that was in the midst between vineyards, [JERUSALEM. And the angel of the Lord stood between the vineyards, a hedge (being) on this and on that side,] in the place where Jacob and Laban raised the mound, the pillar on this side and the observatory on that side,[3] which they raised, that neither should pass that limit to do evil (to the other). And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and thrust herself against the hedge, and bruised Bileam's foot by the hedge, and he smote her again; for the angel was invisible to him. And the angel of the Lord yet passed on, and stood in a distant place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or left. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and fell under Bileam; and Bileam's wrath was strong, so that he smote the ass with his staff.‑Ten things were created after the world had been founded at the coming in of the Shabbat between the suns,‑the manna, the well, the rod of Mosheh, the diamond, the rainbow, the cloud of glory, the mouth of the earth, the writing of the tables of the covenant, the demons, and the speaking ass. And in that hour the Word of the Lord opened her mouth, and fitted her to speak: and she said to Bileam. What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? And Bileam said to the ass, Because thou hast been false to me; if there was now but a sword in in hand, I would kill thee. And the ass said to Bileam, Woe to thee, Bileam, thou wanting‑in‑mind when me, an unclean beast, who am to die in this world, and not to enter the world to come, thou art not able to curse; how much less (canst thou harm) the children of Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, on account of whom the world hath been created, but whom thou art going to curse! So hast thou deceived these people, and hast said, This is not my ass, she is a loan in, my hand, and my horses remain in the pasture. But am I not thine ass upon whom thou hast ridden from thy youth unto this day? and have I been used to do thus with thee? And he said, No. [JERUSALEM. And the ass said to Bileam, Woe to thee, Bileam the wicked, wanting in understanding and wisdom! Behold, me, an unclean beast, who am to die in this world and not to enter the world to come, thou hast not power with all thy skill to curse; how much less the children of Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, on whose account the world was created at the beginning! And why art thou going to curse them? For thou hast deceived the people, saying to them, This is not my ass: she is a loan in my hand. But am I not thy ass, upon whom thou hast ridden from thy youth unto this day? Did I indeed intend to do thus with thee? And he said to her, No.] And the Lord unveiled the eyes of Bileam, and he beheld the angel of the Lord standing in the way, his sword unsheathed in his hand; and he bowed, and worshipped on his face.
And the angel of the Lord said to him, why hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I have come out to withstand thee; and the ass, fearing, saw, and turned from the way. It is known before me that thou seekest to go to curse the people, a thing that is not pleasing to me. But the ass discerned me, and turned away from me these three times: had she not turned from me, surely now I should have slain thee, and spared her alive. And Bileam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, because I knew not that thou wast standing against me in the way. But now, if it displease thee, I will go back. But the angel of the Lord said to Bileam, Go with these men; but the word that I will tell thee that thou shalt speak. And Bileam went with the princes of Balak.
And Balak heard that Bileam was coming, and came out to meet him at a city of Moab on the border of Arnon, which is on the side of the frontier. And Balak said to Bileam, Did I not send to call thee? Why camest thou not to me? Didst thou not indeed say that I could not do thee honour? And Bileam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to thee; yet now am I able to say any thing to thee? But the word that the Lord shall ordain for my mouth, that I must speak. And Bileam went with Balak, and they came to a city surrounded with walls, to the streets of the great city, the city of Sihon, which is Berosha. And Balak slew oxen and sheep, and sent to Bileam and the princes, and those who were with them. And at the time of the morning Balak took Bileam, and brought him up to the high place of the idol Peor; and be saw from thence the camp of Dan, which went at the rear of the people; and they were discovered under the Cloud of Glory.
XXIII. And Bileam, as he looked upon them, knew that strange worship was among them, and rejoiced in his heart; and he said to Balak, Build here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Bileam had said, and Balak and Bileam offered a bullock and a ram upon an altar. And Bileam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go, if preadventure the word of the Lord may come to meet me; and the word that shall be discovered to me, that I will declare to thee. And he went, bending as a serpent. [JERUSALEM. And Bileam went with a humbled heart.]
And the Word from before the Lord met with Bileam, who said before Him, The seven altars I have set in order, and have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar. And the Lord put a word in Bileam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus speak. And he returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt‑offering, he and all the nobles of Moab. And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said:
From Aram on Euphrates hath Balak king of the Moabaee brought me; from the mountains of the east come, curse for me the house of Jakob; come, for me make Yisrael small. [JERUSALEM. And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said: Balak, the king of the Moabaee, hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, curse for me the house of Jakob, come, diminish for me the tribes of the house of Yisrael.] How shall I curse, (while) the Word of the Lord blesseth them? and whom shall I diminish, when the Word of the Lord increaseth them? For, said Bileam the wicked, I look on this people who are led on for the sake of their righteous fathers, who are like the mountains, and of their mothers, who are like the hills: behold, this people alone are to possess the world, because they are not led by the laws of the nations. And when Bileam the sinner beheld the house of Yisrael, a circumcised people, hidden in the dust of the desert, he said, Who can number the merits of these strong ones, or count the good works of one of the four camps of Yisrael? Bileam the wicked said: If the house of Yisrael kill me with the sword, then, it is made known to me, I shall have no portion in the world to come: nevertheless if I may but die the death of the true! O that my last end may be as the least among them! [JERUSALEM. Wherewith shall I curse the house of Jakob, when the Word of the Lord blesseth them? and how shall I diminish the house of Yisrael, when the Word of the Lord doth multiply them? I see this people, who are conducted through the merit of their righteous fathers, Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, who are like the mountains, and of their four mothers, Sarah, Rivekah, Rahel, and Leah: behold, this people shall dwell alone, and not be mixed with the laws of the Gentiles. Who can number the youth of the house of Jakob, of whom it is said, They are to be like the stars of the skies? Bileam the wicked said, in the parable of his prophecy, If Yisrael do kill him with the sword Bileam himself declareth that he hath no portion in the world to come: but if Bileam may die as the faithful die, may his last end be as one of the least among them.]
And Balak said to Bileam, What hast thou done to me? I brought thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing, thou hast blessed them. But he answered and said, That which the Lord hath put in my mouth shall I not be careful to speak? And Balak said to him, Come now with me where thou mayest see him from another place. Thou shalt see only the camp that goeth in his rear, but not all their camps; and curse him for me there. And he brought him to the field of the observatory on the top of the hill, and builded seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. And he said to Balak, Stand thou here by thy burnt offering and I will meet (Him) yonder. And the Word from before the Lord met Bileam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus speak. And he came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the Lord spoken? And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said:
Arise, Balak, and hear; listen to my words, Bar Zippor. The Word of the living Elohim is not as the words of men for the Lord, the Ruler of all worlds, is the unchangeable (but) man speaketh and denieth. Neither are His works like the works of the children of flesh, who consult, and then repent them of what they had decreed. But when the Lord of all worlds hath said, I will multiply this people as the stars of the heavens, and will give them to possess the land of the Kenaanites, is He not able to perform what He hath spoken? and what He hath said, can He not confirm it? Behold, from the mouth of the Holy Word I have received the benediction, and their appointed benediction I cannot restrain from them. [JERUSALEAL 15. And I with My Word will honour thee. 19. Not as the word of the sons of men is the or of the living Elohim, nor are the works of Elohim as the works of men. Men say, and do not; they decree, but do not confirm; but Elohim saith and performeth, He maketh decree and confirmeth it, and His decrees are established forever. Behold, I have received to bless Yisrael, and I cannot restrain the blessings from them.]
Bileam the wicked said, I see not among them of the house of Jakob such as worship idols: they who serve false idols are not established among the tribes of the sons of Yisrael. The Word of the Lord their Elohim is their help, and the trumpets of the King Meshiha resound among them: Unto Eloha, who redeemed and led them out of Mizraim free, belong power and exaltation, glorification and greatness. They of the house of Jakob who use divination are not establisbed, nor the enchanters, who enchant among the greatness (multitudes) of Yisrael. At this time it is said to the house of Jakob and Yisrael, How glorious are the miracles and wonder‑works which Elohim hath wrought! This people reposeth alone, and dwelleth strong as a lion, and reareth himself as an old lion. They sleep not till with great slaughter they have slain their adversaries, and taken the spoils of the slain.[JERUSALEM. I have not seen the worshippers of a lie, nor those who offer strange service, among the tribes of the sons of Yisrael. The Word of the Lord is with them, and the trumpet of their glorious King protecteth them. Unto Elohim who redeemed, and brought them out from Mizraim free, belong power, and praise, and exaltation. For I see not those who perform divination in the house of Jakob, nor them who enchant with enebantments among the tribes of Yisrael. At this time it is said to Jakob, What bounties and comforts are prepared of the Lord to bestow upon you of the house of Jakob! Then said he in the parable of his prophecy, O happy saints, how goodly is the reward prepared for you by your Father in heaven, in the world to come! Behold, these people dwell as a lion, like the strong lion; as the lion resteth not, nor is quiet, until he hath taken and eaten flesh and drunk up blood, so this people will rest not, nor be in quiet, till they have slain their enemies, and have shed the blood of their slaughtered foes like water.]
And Balak said to Bileam, Neither curse them nor bless them. But Bileam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee at the beginning, Whatsoever the Lord speaketh, that must I do? And Balak said to Bileam, Come, and I will now take thee to another place, if so be it may be pleasing before the Lord, that thou mayest curse him for me from thence. And Balak led Bileam to the high place of the prospect which looketh toward Beth Jeshimoth. And Bileam said to Balak, Erect here for me seven altars, and prepare me seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Bileam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar.
XXIV. And Bileam, seeing that it was good before the Lord to bless Yisrael, went not, as once and again before, in quest of divinations, but set his face toward the wilderness, to recall to memory the work of the calf which they had there committed. And Bileam lifted up his eyes, but beheld Yisrael dwelling together by their tribes in their schools, and (saw) that their doors were arranged so as not to overlook the doors of their companions: and the Spirit of prophecy from before the Lord rested upon him. [JERUSALEM. And Bileam saw that it was pleasing before‑the Lord to bless Yisrael, so that he went not, as he had gone from time to time, to seek for divinations, or to provide enchantments; but went and set his face toward the wilderness to recall to memory their work of the calf, (still) being desirous to curse Yisrael.] But he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said:
Bileam, son of Beor, speaketh; the man speaketh who is more honourable than his father, (because) the dark mysteries hidden from the prophets have been revealed to him; and who, because he was not circumcised, fell upon his face when the angel stood over against him: he hath said who heard the Word from before the living Elohim; who beheld the vision before Elohim the Almighty, and, seeking that it might be discovered to him, fell upon his face, and the secret mysteries hidden from the prophets were revealed to him.
How beautiful your houses of instruction, in the tabernacle where Jakob your father ministered; and how beautiful this tabernacle of ordinance which is found among you, and the tents that surround it, O house of Yisrael! As tides of waters, so are the house of Yisrael, dwelling like flocks made strong by the doctrine of the Torah; and as gardens planted by the flowing streams, so are their disciples in the fellowships of their schools. The light of their faces shineth as the brightness of the firmament which the Lord created on the second day of the creation of the world, and outspread for the glory of the Shekinah. They are exalted and lifted up above all the nations, like cedars of Lebanon planted by fountains of waters. From them their King shall arise, and their Redeemer be of them and among them, and the seed of the children of Jakob shall rule over many nations. The first who will reign over them will make war with the house of Amalek, and will be exalted above Agag their king; but because he had spared him his kingdom will be taken from him. Unto Eloha, who brought them out free from Mizraim, belong might, and exaltation, and glory, and power. He will destroy the nations of their adversaries, and break down their strength and will send forth the plague‑arrows of His vengeance among them, and destroy them. They shall repose and dwell as a lion, and as an old lion, that sleeping who will (dare to) awake? They who bless them are blessed, as Mosheh the prophet, the scribe of Yisrael; and they who curse them are accursed, as Bileam son of Beor.
And Balak's wrath grew strong against Bileam, and, smiting his hands, Balak said to Bileam, I brought thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, in blessing thou hast blessed them these three times. [JERUSALEM. 3. And he took up in parable his prophecy and said: Bileam the son of Beor saith; the man saith who is more honourable than his father, for what hath been hidden from all prophets is revealed to him; the man saith who heard the Word from before the Lord, and who saw the vision before the Almighty; when, inquiring, prostrate on his face, the mysteries of prophecy were disclosed to him, and of himself he did prophesy that he shall fall by the sword, a prophecy to be confirmed at the end!
How goodly were the tabernacles in which Jakob their father did pray; and the tabernacle of ordinance which you have made to My name, and your own tabernacles, O house of Yisrael! As torrents that prevail, so shall Yisrael overpower their adversaries; and as gardens planted by fountains of water, so shall be their cities, giving forth scribes and teachers of the Torah; and as the heavens which the Memra of the Lord spread forth for the dwelling of His Shekinah, so shall Yisrael live, and endure unto eternity, beautiful and renowned as cedars by the waters which grow up oil high. Their King will arise from among their children, and their Redeemer will be of them and among them; and He will gather their captives from the cities of their adversaries, and their children shall have rule among the peoples. And the kingdom of the King Meshiha shall be made great: stronger is He than Shaul who vanquished Agag the kill of the Amalkaab. Unto Elohim who redeemed, and brought them out free from the land of Mizraim, belong power, and praise, and exaltation. The sons of Yisrael will prevail over their enemies, will divide their cities, slay their heroes, and disperse their residue. Behold, these people will dwell as a lion, and be as the strong lions. He who blesseth you, O Yisrael, shall be blessed, as Mosheh the prophet, the scribe of Yisrael; and he who curseth you will be accursed, as Bileam, the son of Beor.
And Balak's anger grew strong against Bileam, and Balak smote his hands, and said to Bileam, I brought thee to curse my enemies, and thou hast only blessed.] And now flee to thy place. I had said that honouring I would honour thee; but, behold, the Lord hath kept back Bileam from honour. But Bileam said to Balak, Did I not tell thy messengers whom thou. sentest to me, saying, If Balak would give me the fulness of his treasures of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord to do good or evil of my own will: what the Lord saith shall I not speak.
And now, behold, I return to go to my people. Come, I will give thee counsel: Go, furnish tavern houses, and employ seductive women to sell food and drinks cheaply, and to bring this people together to eat and drink, and commit whoredom with them, that they may deny their Elohim; then in a brief time will they be delivered into thy hand, and many of them fall. Nevertheless, after this they will still have dominion over thy people at the end of the days.
And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said Bileam the son of Beor speaketh; the man speaketh who is more honourable than his father, because the mysteries hidden from prophets have been revealed to him; he speaketh who heard the Word from before the Lord, and who knoweth the hour when the Most High Elohim will be wroth with him; (he speaketh) who saw the vision before the Almighty, seeking, prostrate on his face, that it should be revealed to him; the secret, concealed from the prophets, was disclosed unto him.
I shall see Him, but not now; I shall behold Him, but it is not near. When the mighty King of Jakob's house shall reign, and the Meshiha, the Power‑sceptre of Yisrael, be anointed, He will slay the princes of the Moabaee, and bring to nothing all the children of Sheth, the armies of Gog who will do battle against Yisrael and all their carcases shall fall before Him. And the Edomaee will be utterly driven out, even the sons of Gabela from before Yisrael their foes, and Yisrael will be strengthened with their riches and possess them. And a prince of the house of Jakob will arise and destroy and consume the remnant that have escaped from Constantina the guilty city, and will lay waste and ruin the rebellious city, even Kaiserin the strong city of the Gentiles.
And he looked on the house of Amalek, and took up the parable of his prophecy, and said: The first of the nations who made war with the house of Yisrael were those of the house of Amalek; and they at last, in the days of the King Meshiha, with all the children of the east, will make war against Yisrael; but all of them together will have eternal destruction in their end.
And he looked upon Jethro, who had been made proselyte, and took up the parable of his prophecy, and said: How strong is thy habitation, who hast set thy dwelling in the clefts of the rocks! Yet so is it decreed that the children of the Shalmaia must be despoiled, but not until Sancherib the king of Athur shall come and make thee captive.
[JERUSALEM. And now, behold, I go to my people. Come now, I will counsel thee how thou art to act with this people. Lead them into sin; for else thou canst have power against them to prevail over thy people at the end of the days. And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said:
Bileam the son of Beor saith; the man who is more honourable than his father saith, for what hath been hid from all the prophets is revealed unto me: the man speaketh who heard the Word from before the Lord, and learned knowledge from the Most High; who saw the vision in the presence of the Almighty, seeking prostrate on his face, when the visions of prophecy were disclosed to him, and he was made to foreknow of himself that he will fall by the sword, but that his prophecy will be confirmed.
I shall see Him, but not now; I shall behold Him, but He is not nigh. A King is to arise from the house of Jakob, and a Redeemer and Ruler from the house of Yisrael, who will slay the strong ones of the Moabaee, and bring to nothing and consume all the children of the east. And Edom may inherit Mount Gabela from their enemies but Yisrael will be stronger with a mighty host. A King will arise from the house of Jakob, and destroy what shall remain of the strong city. And he beheld the Amalkaah, and took up the parable of his prophecy and said: The house of Amalek was the first of the peoples to make war with Yisrael, and at last in the end of the days they will array battle against them; but their end is to perish, and their destruction to be for ever. And when he looked upon the Shalmaia, taking up the parable of his prophecy, he said, How strong is thy abode, who hast set the house of thy dwelling in the clefts of the rock! But the Shalmaia will not be spoiled, until Athuria shall arise, and take thee captive.]
And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said, Woe to them who are alive at the time when the Word of the Lord shall be revealed, to give the good reward to the righteous, and to take vengeance on the wicked, to smite the nations and the kings, and bring these things upon them! And ships (lit., sails) armed for war will come forth with urreat armies from Lombarnia, and from the land of Italia,[4] conjoined with the legions that will come forth from Constantina, and will afflict the Athuraee, and bring into captivity all the sons of Eber;[5] nevertheless the end of these and of those is to fall by the hand of the King Meshiha, and be brought to everlasting destruction: [JERUSALEM. Woe to him who is alive when the Word of the Lord setteth Himself to give the good reward to the just, and to take vengeance on the wicked! And great hosts in Livernia will come from the great city, and will conjoin with them many legions of the Romaee, and subjugate Athuria, and afflict all the children beyond the river. Nevertheless the end of these and of those is to perish, and the destruction to be everlasting. And Bileam rose up and went to return to his place; and Balak also.]
And Bileam rose up and went to return to his place, and Balak also went upon his way, and appointed the daughters of the Midianites for the tavern booths at Beth Jeshimotb, by the snow mountain, where they sold sweetmeats cheaper than their price, after the counsel of Bileam the wicked, at the dividing of the way.
XXV. And Yisrael dwelt in the place which is called Shittim, on account of the (Shetutha) foolishness[6] and depravity which were among them. And the people began to profane their holiness, and to strip their bodies to the image of Peor, and commit fornication with. the daughters of the Moabites, who brought out the image of Peor, concealed under their bundles. And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate in their feasts, and bowed themselves to their idols. And the people of the house of Yisrael joined themselves to Baala‑Peor, like the nail in the wood, which is not separated but by breaking up the wood (or, with the splinters). And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Yisrael.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take all the chiefs of the people, and appoint them for judges, and let them give judgment to put to death the people who have gone astray after Peor, and hang them before the word of the Lord upon the wood over against the morning sun, and at the departure of the sun take them down and bury them and turn away the strong anger of the Lord from Yisrael. And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisrael, Slay every one a man of his tribe of those who have joined themselves to the idol of Peor. [JERUSALEM. And Yisrael abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of the Moabites. And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their idols. And Yisrael were united with the worshippers of the idol of Peor; and the anger of the Lord was strong against Yisrael. And the Word of the Lord said to Mosheh, Take all the chiefs of the people and set them for a Sanhedrin before the Lord, and let them bang all who are worthy of death; and at sunset take down their bodies and bury them, that so may be averted the strong anger of the Lord from Yisrael. And Mosheh said to the princes of Yisrael, Slay each one a man of his house of them who have joined themselves to the idol of Peor.]
And behold, a man of the sons of Yisrael came, holding a Midianitess, and brought her to his brethren, in the sight of Mosheh and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael. He answered and said to Mosheh, What is it (that is wrong) to have company with her? If thou sayest, It is forbidden, didst thou not thyseIf take a Midianitess, the daughter of Jethro? When Mosheh heard, he trembled and swooned. But they wept, and cried, Listen! And they stood at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Phinehas bar Elazar‑bar Aharon, the priest, saw, and, remembering the ordination, answered, and said: He who ought to kill, let him kill! Where are the lions of the tribe of Jehudah? When they saw, they were quiet. And he arose from among his Sanhedrin, and took a lance in his hand. [JERUSALEM. And, behold, a man of the sons of Yisrael came and brought to his brethren a Midianitha, before Mosheh and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael; and, behold, they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle. And Phinehas bar Elazar bar Aharon, the high priest, saw, and arose from among the assembly, and took a lance.]
Twelve miracles were wrought for Phinehas at the time that he went in after the man of Yisrael with the Midianitha. The first sign was, He would have parted them but could not. 2. Their mouth was closed, that they could not cry out; for had they cried out, they would have been rescued. 3. He drave the lance through both of them. 4. The lance remained fixed in the wound. 5. When he bare them aloft, the lintel was uplifted for him until he had gone forth. 6. He carried them through the whole camp, six miles, without fatigue. 7. He held them up by his right arm, in sight of their kindred, who had no power to hurt him. 8. The lance was made strong so as not to be broken with the load. 9. The iron transpierced them, but was not withdrawn. 10. An angel came and made bare their corpses in sight of the people. 11. They lingered alive till they had been carried through the entire camp, lest the priest in the tabernacle should be defiled by the dead. 12. Their blood thickened so as not to flow upon him; but when he had borne them through the camp, it brake forth, and they died.
Answering, he said before the Lord of the world, Can it be that, on account of these, twenty and four thousands of Yisrael shall die? Immediately the compassions of Heaven were moved, and the plague was stayed from the children of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. And he went in after the man of Yisrael into the tent, and thrust both of them, the man and the woman, through the body; and the plague was stayed from the children of Yisrael.] And the number who died by the pestilence was twenty and four thousand. [JERUSALEM. And those who died by that plague were twenty and four thousand.]
[1] Or, "gross."
[1] Glossary, p. 16.
[1] Gen. xxxi. 51.
[1] Vulgate, Venient in trieribus de Italia.
[1] Peschito, "and subjugate all the Hebrews."
[1] Shoteh, in Chaldee is, "a fool or sot." The above derivation seems fanciful. The place took its name probably from the Acacia trees which may have abounded there; the Shittah, Mimosa Nilotica.
[1] Or, "gross."
[2] Glossary, p. 16.
[3] Gen. xxxi. 51.
[4] Vulgate, Venient in trieribus de Italia.
[5] Peschito, "and subjugate all the Hebrews."
[6] Shoteh, in Chaldee is, "a fool or sot." The above derivation seems fanciful. The place took its name probably from the Acacia trees which may have abounded there; the Shittah, Mimosa Nilotica.
SECTION XL.
BALAK.
AND Balak bar Zippor saw all that Yisrael had done to the Amoraah. And the Moabaah feared before the people greatly, because they were many; yea, the Moabaee were in distress before the sons of Yisrael. And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this host consume all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the herbage of the field. And Balak bar Zippor was the king of Moab at that time. And he sent messengers to Bileam bar Beor unto Pethor[1] Aram which is upon the Phrat, the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: Behold, a people hath come out of Mizraim; lo, they cover the sunshine from the earth, and they are dwelling over against me. Come now, I entreat, curse this people for me, for they are stronger than I: if perhaps I may become able to fight with him, and drive him from the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou dost curse is accursed.
And the elders of Moab and of Midian went, with the (price of) divinations in their hands, and came to Bileam, and told him the words of Balak. And he said to them, Lodge here for the night, and I will return you word, according as the Lord speaketh with me. And the princes of Moab tarried with Bileam.
And a word from before the Lord came unto Bileam, and said, Who are these men who are with thee? And Bileam said before the Lord, Balak bar Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent to me. Behold, a people are come out of Mizraim, and hide the glance of the sun from the earth…. Now come, curse him for me, that I may be able to fight him, and drive him away. And the Lord said to Bileam, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people, for he is blessed. And Bileam arose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go back to your country; for it is not pleasing before the Lord to permit me to go with you. And the princes of Moab arose and came to Balak, and said, Bileam refuseth to come with us.
But Balak added to send princes more (in number) and nobler than those.
And they came to Bileam, and said to him: Thus saith Balak bar Zippor: Be not, I beseech thee, hindered from coming to me; for I will greatly honour thee with honour, and will do all that thou shalt bid me. Come, then, curse me this people.
Bileam responded, and said to the servants of Balak: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord my Elohim, to do either little or great. But now I beg you tarry here this night, that I may know what yet the Lord will speak unto me.
And word came from before the Lord unto Bileam by night, and said to him: If the men come to call thee, arise and go with them; nevertheless the word that I speak with thee, that thou shalt do.
And Bileam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. But the displeasure of the Lord was provoked because he (so) went;[2] and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to withstand him: and he was riding upon his ass, and his two young men with him. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass started aside from the road, and went into the field. And Bileam struck the ass to make her to return into the road. And the angel of the Lord (again) stood in the way of the vineyards in a place where there was a fence here and a fence there. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and thrust herself to the wall, and drave Bileam's foot against the wall; and he smote her again. And the angel of the Lord yet passed on, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and fell down under Bileam; and Bileam's wrath was provoked, and he smote the ass with his staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass; and she spake to Bileam, What have I done to thee that thou bast smitten me these three times?
And Bileam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: would that there was a sword in my hand! for now would I kill thee. And the ass said to Bileam, Am I not thy ass, upon whom thou hast ridden from (the time that) I have been thine unto this day? Have I ever been used to do thus to thee? And he said, No. And the Lord unveiled Bileam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword unsheathed in his hand: and he bowed, and worshipped upon his face.
And the angel of the Lord said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I have come out to withstand thee, because it is seen before me that thou art willing to go in a way contrary to me. But the ass discerned me, and turned from before me these three times: unless she had turned from before me, now should I have slain thee, and her would I have spared. And Bileam said to the angel of the Lord, I knew not that thou wast standing before me in the way. And now, if it be evil in thine eyes, I will return.
But the angel of the Lord said to Bileam, Go with the men; only the word that I shall speak with thee, that thou shalt say.
And Bileam went with the princes of Balak. And Balak heard that Bileam was coming, and went forth to meet him, at a city of Moab which is upon the border of Arnon, on the side of the frontier. And Balak said to Bileam, Did not I sending send for thee to call thee? Why didst thou not come to me? Hast thou not indeed said that I am not able to do thee honour? And Bileam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to thee: but even now, have' I really any power to speak anything? The word which the Lord putteth into my mouth I will speak.
And Bileam went with Balak, and they came to a city of his territory.[3] And Balak slaughtered oxen and sheep, and sent to Bileam and to the princes who were with him. And when it was morning, Balak took Bileam, and brought him up to the high places of his idol; and he saw from thence the extreme of the people.
XXIII. And Bileam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Bileam had spoken, and Balak and Bileam offered up a bullock and a ram upon every altar. And Bileam said to Balak, Remain by thy burnt offering; and I will go, if perhaps the Word may meet me from before the Lord; and the word that He showeth me I will disclose unto thee. And he went solitary.
And the Word from before the Lord[4] met Bileam; and he said to Him; The seven altars have I set in order, and have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar. And the Lord put a word upon Bileam's mouth, and said to him: Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. And he returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the nobles of Moab. And he took up his parable, and said:
Balak, king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east:
Come, curse me, Jakob,
Come, hunt down[5] Yisrael for me.
How shall I curse whom Elohim hath not cursed?
How shall I persecute whom Elohim hath not?
For from the top of the mountain I discern him,
And look upon him from the heights;
Lo, the people by themselves are to possess the world,
And among the nations they shall not be judged with
consumption.
Who can number the dust of the house of Jakob,
Of whom it is said, They shall increase as the dust of
the earth,
Or of one of the four camps of Yisrael?
Let mine be the death of his truthful ones,
And let my end be as theirs!
And Balak said to Bileam, What hast thou done to me? I brought thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing hast thou blessed them. But he said, That which the Lord hath put in my mouth must I not observe to speak? And Balak said to him, Come now with me to another place, from whence thou mayest see him, where thou canst see only the outer side, but not the whole, and curse him for me from thence. And he brought him to the field of the watch-tower on the top of the hill; and builded seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, and I will go yonder.
And the Word from before the Lord met Bileam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus speak. And he came to him, and he was standing by his burnt offering, and the nobles of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the Lord spoken? And he took up his parable, and said:
Arise, Balak, and hear,
Listen to my words, Bar Zippor:
The word of Eloha is not as the words of men;
The sons of men speak, but lie;
Nor is it as the works of the children of flesh,
Who decree to do, but repent, and change their
counsels.
What He hath said He will perform,
And His every word is steadfast.
Behold, I have received benedictions to bless Yisrael,
And I may not turn my blessing from him.
I have seen that in the house of Jakob
The worshippers of idols are not,
Nor in Yisrael the workers of the work of lies.
The Word of the Lord their Elohim is their helper,
And the Shekinah of their King is among them.
Elohim, who brought them out from Mizraim,
Becomes his strength and exaltation.
For no divinations can prosper against the house of
Jakob,
Nor enchantments against the myriads of Yisrael.
According to the time it shall be said of Jakob and of
Yisrael,
What hath Eloah wrought!
Behold, the people shall dwell as a lioness,
And as a lion shall he lift himself up;
Until he hath slain with slaughter,
He will not rest in his land,
And inherit the treasures of the nations.
And Balak said to Bileam, Neither cursing curse them, nor blessing bless them. But Bileam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do? And Balak said to Bileam, Come now, I will take thee to another place; perhaps it may be pleasing before the Lord, that thou mayest curse them for me from thence. And Balak conducted Bileam to the top of the high place that looketh toward the face of Beth Jeshimon. And Bileam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Bileam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
XXIV. And Bileam saw that it was appointed before the Lord to bless Yisrael; and he went not as at those former times to inquire by divinations, but set his face towards the calf that the sons of Yisrael had made in the wilderness. And Bileam lifted up his eyes, and beheld Yisrael dwelling by his tribes; and the Spirit of prophecy rested upon him from before the Lord. And he took up his parable, and said:
Bileam, the son of Beor, hath said,
The man who saw the Beautiful[6] hath said,
He hath said who heard the Word from before Elohim,
Who saw the vision of the Almighty, prostrate when
he saw:
How goodly is thy land, O Jakob,
And the house of thy habitation, O Yisrael!
As rivers flowing onward; as the watered garden by
Euphrates,
As aromatics planted by the Lord; as cedars planted
by the waters.
The king anointed from his sons shall increase,
And have dominion over many nations;
His king shall be mightier than Agag, and his king-
dom be exalted.
Elohim, who brought them from Mizraim, is mighty and
high, and by Him
Shall Yisrael use the wealth of the nations their foes,
Enjoy the spoils of their kings, and inherit their lands.
He reposed in his strength, as the lion and the
lioness,
And no kingdom may commove him.
They who bless thee shall be blessed,
And they who curse thee be accursed.
And the anger of Balak was roused against Bileam, and he smote his hands together. And Balak said to Bileam, I called thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing hast thou blessed them these three times! And now go to thy place. I said, Honouring I would honour thee; but, behold, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour. But Bileam said to Balak, Did I not also tell the messengers whom thou sentest to me, saying, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord, to do good or evil of my own will; whatsoever the Lord shall sat that will I speak? And now, behold, I go unto my people. Come, I will give thee counsel what thou shouldst do; and will show thee what this people will do unto thy people at the end of the days. And he took up his parable, and said:
Bileam, the son of Beor, speaketh,
The man who saw the Beautiful speaketh,
He speaks who heard the Word from before Elohim,
And who knoweth knowledge from the Most High,
Who saw the vision of the Almighty, prostrate when
he saw.
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh.
When a king shall arise out of Jakob,
And the Meshiha be anointed from Yisrael,
He will slay the princes of Moab, and reign over all
the children of men;
And Edom shall be an inheritance,
And Seir a possession of his adversaries;
But Yisrael shall prosper in riches.
One will descend from the house of Jakob,
Who will destroy him that escapeth from the city of
the peoples.
And he looked on the Amalkaah, and took up his parable, and said:
Amalek was the beginning of the wars of Yisrael,
But in his end he shall perish for ever.
And he beheld the Shalmaah, and took up his parable, and said:
Strong is the house of thy dwelling,
And in a strong fortress thou hast set thy abode;
But yet Shalmaah shall be destroyed,
For Athuria will make thee captive.
And he took up his parable, and said:
Woe to the wicked who may live when Elohim doeth this!
And ships will come from the Kittaee,[7]
And afflict Athur, and subdue beyond the Phrat;
But they also shall perish for ever.
And Bileam arose, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went upon his way.
XXV. But Yisrael abode in Shittin; and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab; and they invited the people to the sacrifices of their idols, and the people did eat and bowed down to their idols. And Yisrael was joined unto Baala Pheor, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Yisrael.
And the Lord said unto Mosheh: Take all the chiefs of the people, and judge, and slay him who is guilty of death before the Lord, over against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Yisrael. And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisrael: Slay every man his men who have joined themselves to Baala Pheor.
And, behold, a man of the sons of Yisrael came and brought to his brethren a Midianitha, in the eyes of Mosheh, and in the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance.
And Phinehas bar Elazar bar Aharon the priest saw, and arose from the midst of the congregation, and took a lance in his hand; and he went in after the man, the son of Yisrael, into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man, the son of Yisrael, and the woman, through her belly; and the pestilence was stayed from the children of Yisrael. But they who had died by the pestilence were twenty and four thousand.
[1] Sam. Vers., “Phasura.” Syriac, “Bileam bar Beor, the interpreter;” (Phahura,) from pheshar, “to explain.” Pethar, in Chaldee, has the same meaning.
[2] Or, “that he went of himself,” arey azel hu; Heb., ki holek hu.
[3] Sam. text, “unto the city of visions.” Sam. Vers., “of his mysteries.”
[4] Sam. text, “the angel of the Lord.”
[5] Or, “persecute.” The Syriac has, “cause to perish.” Hebrew text, “execrate.”
[6] Or, “who saw fairly, or clearly.”
[7] Syriac: “And the legions shall come forth from the land of the Kittoyee.” See the Palestinian Targum.
Pgs. 230-240
Ch. 26-28
SECTION XXXIII
BECHUKKOTHAI.
IF you will go forward in the statutes of My Torah, and keep the orders of My judgments, and perform them, then will I give you the rains for your lands in your seasons, the early and the late, and the land shall yield the fruits of increase, and the tree on the face of the field shall be prosperous in its fruit. And with you the threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage unto the springing of the seed, and you shall eat your bread and be satisfied, and dwell securely in your land. And I will give peace in the land of Yisrael, that you may repose, and there be none to disturb; and I will make the power of the wild beast to cease from the land of Yisrael, and the unsheather of the sword shall not pass through your land. And you shall chase your adversaries, and they will fall before you broken with the sword. And five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you put a myriad to flight, and your adversaries shall fall before you, broken with the sword. For I will turn from the wages of the Gentiles, to fulfil to you the recompense of your good works, and I will strengthen you, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you. And you shall eat the old that is old without having the corn‑worm, and the old from before the new produce shall ye turn out of your barns. And I will set the Shekinah of My Glory among you, and my Word shall not abhor you, but the Glory of My Shekinah shall dwell among you, and My Word shall be to you for a redeeming Elohim, and you shall be unto My Name for a holy people. I am the Lord your Elohim, who brought you out redeemed from the land of Mizraim, that you should not be bondmen to them, and brake the yoke of their bondage from off you, and brought you out from among them, the children of liberty, and led you forth with an erect stature.
But if you will be unwilling to hear the instructions of the doctrine of My Torah, and to perform all these precepts with your free choice; and if you despise My statutes, and hate in your soul the orders of My judgments, to do not all My precepts, but your purpose be to abolish My covenant; this also will I do to you: I will draw out against you the smiting pestilence, the flame and the fever, to consume your eyes, and to exhaust life; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for it shall not spring up, and that which groweth of itself shall your enemies devour. And I will appoint a reverse to your affairs, and you shall be broken before your foes, and they who hate you shall rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursueth you. And if after these chastisements ye be not willing to obey the doctrines of My Torah, I will add to punish you with seven plagues, for the seven transgressions with which ye have sinned before Me. And I will break down the glory of the strength of your sanctuary, and will make the heavens above you obdurate as iron, to yield no moisture, nor send you dew or rain, and the ground beneath you to be like brass to put forth (only) to destroy its fruit. And your strength shall be consumed in vain, for your land shall not yield what you bestow upon it, and the tree upon the face of the field shall drop its fruit. And if you still walk perversely with Me, and will not hearken to the doctrine of My Torah, I will add to bring upon you (yet) seven plagues, for the seven transgressions with which ye have sinned before Me; and I will send against you the strength of the wild beast, to make you childless, and to destroy your cattle without, and to diminish you within, and your highways shall be desolate.
And if by these chastisements ye will not be corrected before Me, but will walk before Me perversely, I will Myself also remember you adversely in the world, and will destroy you, even I, with seven plagues, for seven transgressions with which ye have sinned before Me. And I will bring against you a people unsheathing the sword to take vengenance upon you, for that you will have abolished My covenant; and when you are gathered together from the wilderness into your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, or deliver you to die by the hand of your adversaries. And when I shall have broken for you the staff of all the subsistence of food, then ten women may bake your bread in one oven on account of its scarcity, and measure and divide it to you diminished in weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
But if by no one correction ye will hearken to the instruction of My Torah, but will walk perversely before Me, I will also remember you adversely in the world, and will chastise you, even I, with seven plagues, for the seven transgressions with which ye have sinned before Me. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters. Mosheh the prophet hath said, How heavy will have been the guilt, and how bitter those sins, that caused our fathers to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, because they kept not the commandments of the Torah! [JERUSALEM. How evil that guilt, and bow bitter those sins, which caused our fathers in Yerushalayim to eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters!] And I will destroy your high places, and overthrow your diviners and your enchanters, and your carcases will I cast away with the carcases of your idols, and My Word shall abhor you. And I will make your cities desert places, and desolate your sanctuary; nor will I receive with acceptance the odour of your oblations. And I, even I, will lay your country waste, that the spirit of quietness may not be upon it; so that your enemies who will dwell in it shall be confounded. And you will I disperse among the nations; for I will stir up against you a people who draw the sword, and your country shall be devastated, and your cities be solitary. Behold, then shall the land enjoy the years of its Shabbats all the days that it is forsaken of you, and you are wanderers in the land of your enemies. All the days that it is forsaken by you it shall rest, because it was not at rest in the years of the times for repose when you were dwellers upon it.
And unto those of you who remain will I bring brokenness of their hearts in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf falling from the tree shall put them to flight; and they shall flee as those who flee from the sword, and fall, while no man pursueth. And they shall thrust each man his brother, as before them who draw the sword, though none pursue; and you shall have no power of resistance to stand before your adversaries. And you shall perish among the nations, and be consumed with pestilence in the land of your enemies, And those who remain of you shall fail (melt away) for their sins in the land of your enemies, and also for the evil sin of your fathers which they held fast in their hands: like them shall they melt away.
But (when) in the hour of their need they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, with their falseness with which they have acted falsely against My Word; and that they have acted frowardly also with Me, so that I have remembered them adversely in the world, and brought them into captivity in the land of their enemies; behold, then will their proud heart have been broken, and they will make confession of their sins, and I will remember in mercy the covenant which I confirmed with Jakob at Bethel, and the covenant which I covenanted with Izhak at Mount Moriah, and the covenant which I covenanted with Avraham, between the divided portions, I will remember, and the land of Yisrael will I remember in mercy. But the land shall (first) be relinquished and forsaken you; and enjoy the repose of her remissions all the days that it shall be deserted by you. And they will receive retribution for their sins: curses instead of blessings will come upon them, measure for measure: because they shunned the orders of judgments, and their souls revolted from the covenant of My Torah.
Yet for all this I will have mercy upon them by My Word, when they are captives in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them away in the kingdom of Babel; nor shall My Word abhor them. in the kingdom of Madai, to destroy them in the kingdom of Javan, or to abolish My covenant with them in the kingdom of Edom;[1] for I am the Lord in the days of Gog.[2] [JERUSALEM. And I will remember in mercy the covenant which I established with Jakob at Bethel; and the covenant which I confirmed with Izhak at Mount Moriah, and the covenant I confirmed with Avraham between the divided parts I will remember in mercy; and the land of Yisrael will I remember in mercy. Yet the land shall be forsaken by you, and shall enjoy the repose of her remission (times) all the days that she is deserted of you. And they shall be broken for their sins; with measure for measure, and orders for orders, because they spurned the order of My judgments. Yet for this, when dwellers in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them away in the kingdom of Babel, nor abhor them in the kingdom of Madai, nor destroy them in the kingdom of Javan, (Greece,) to abolish My covenant with them in the kingdom of Edom; for He (will be) the Lord your Elohim in the days of Gog.] And I will remember with them the covenant which I confirmed before Me with their fathers in the time that I brought them out redeemed from the land of Mizraim; when all the nations beheld all the mighty acts which I wrought for them, that I might be their Elohim; I, the Lord.
These are the statutes and the orders of the judgments and decrees of the Torah, which the Lord appointed between His Word and the sons of Yisrael, in the mountain of Sinai, by the hand of Mosheh.
XXVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When a man willeth to set apart the separation of a vow, in the valuing of the life unto the name of the Lord, then his valuation for a male from twenty years old unto sixty years, fifty shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary, shall be his valuation: but if for a female, his valuation shall be thirty shekels. And if it be a child from five years until twenty years, his estimation for a male shall be twenty shekels; and for a female, ten shekels. But for a child of a month old until five years, his estimation for a male shall be five silver shekels; and for a female, three silver shekels. Moreover, for a man of sixty years and upwards, his estimation shall be fifteen shekels; and for a female, ten shekels. But if he be too poor for (such) a rate of his estimation, he shall stand before the priest; and the priest shall make an estimation for him, according to the ability of his hand, so shall the priest estimate for him.
And if it be an animal, of such as are offered as an oblation before the Lord, whatever he giveth of it before the Lord shall be sacred. He shall not alter it nor change it, that which is perfect for that which hath blemish, or that in which there is blemish for the perfect: but if by changing he will exchange animal for animal, both that and the one that is changed shall be consecrate. [JERUSALEM. And he shall not change it, good for bad, or bad for good: but if changing he will exchange animal for animal, both that and his changed one shall be sacred.] But if it be an unclean animal, of such as are not offered as an oblation before the Lord, he shall make the animal stand before the priest. And the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; as the priest shall value, so shall it be. But if he would redeem it, let him add a fifth of its price upon that of its valuation. [JERUSALEM. And if it be some unclean animal of such as are not offered as an oblation to the name of the Lord, let the priest order it, whether good or bad; according to the priest's valuation shall it be....And let him add a fifth of its price above its valuation.]
When a man would consecrate his house, as a consecrated thing before the Lord; the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; according as the priest shall estimate, so shall it stand. [JERUSALEM. A sanctified thing unto the name of the Lord: then the priest shall order: as the priest hath ordered it shall be.] And if he who hath consecrated would redeem his house, let him add a fifth of the price of its valuation thereunto, and it shall be his. [JERUSALEM. And if he who hath made sacred....a fifth of the price of its valuation upon it, and it shall be his.]
And if a man would dedicate (a portion) of the field of his inheritance before the Lord, the valuation of it shall be according to the measure of its seed: a space on which may be sown a kor (seventy‑five and a half pints) of barley (shall be considered) worth fifty shekels of silver. If he will dedicate the ground from the year of Jubela, it shall stand according to its valuation. But if he will dedicate his field after the year of Jubela, the priest shall compute with him the sum of the money according to the proportion of years that remain unto the next Jubela year, and shall abate it from the valuation. [JERUSALEM. And if a man would separate (a portion) of a field of his inheritance unto the Name of the Lord, its valuation shall be according to its sowing, a chomer of barley seed.... And if he separate his field from the year of Jubela, according to its value it shall stand.] And if he would redeem the field that he had consecrated, let him add one fifth of the money upon its valued price, and it shall be confirmed to him. [JERUSALEM. And if he would redeem that field which had been consecrated, let him add a fifth of the silver shekels above its estimation, and it shall be his.] But if he will not redeem the field, but sell it to another man, it shall not be redeemed again: the field, when it goeth out at the Jubela, shall be sacred before the Lord; as a field separated for the priest it shall be his inheritance. [JERUSALEM. It shall be a sanctified thing unto the Lord, as a field of separation.] And if he would consecrate before the Lord a field which he hath bought, and which is not of the land of his inheritance, then the priest shall compute with him the amount of the price of its valuation until the year of Jubela; and he shall give its value on that day, as a consecrated thing before the Lord. In the year of Jubela the field shall return to him from whom he bought it, to him who had the inheritance of the land. And every valuation shall be in shekels of the sanctuary twenty mahin are a shekel. [JERUSALEM. And if he would consecrate a purchased field unto the Name of the Lord, then the priest shall compute with him the value of the separation unto the year of Jubela, and he shall give the separation of the value on that day, a holy thing unto the Name of the Lord. At the year of Jubela the field shall revert to him from whom he had bought it, to him who had the inheritance of the land. And every estimation shall be according to the shekels of the sanctuary.]
Moreover, the firstling among cattle which is separated to the Name of the Lord, whether ox or lamb, a man cannot separate (as a votive gift), because it (already belongeth) to the Name of the Lord. And if it be an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to its valuation, and add a fifth of the price to it; but if he will not redeem it, then it shall be sold at the price of its valuation. [JERUSALEM. But the firstling among cattle, whether ox or lamb, which is separated before the Lord, belongeth (already) to the Name of the Lord. But if it be of an unclean animal, then let him redeem it according to its valuation, and add a fifth of its price unto it. And if it be not redeemed, it shall be sold according to its value.
Nevertheless, no devoted thing which a man shall separate before the Lord of anything that is his, of man, or beast, or of his inheritance, shall be sold or redeemed; every (devoted) separation is most sacred before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. Only no devoted thing that a man shall separate to the Name of the Lord of anything, that he hath of child or cattle; every separation is most sacred to the Name of the Lord.] Every separation which shall be separated of man[3] shall not be redeemed with money, but with burnt offerings, and with sanctified victims, and with supplication for mercy before the Lord, because such are to be put to death. [JERUSALEM. Every one of the children of men set apart (or devoted) shall not be redeemed; dying, he shall be put to death.]
And all the tythe of the land, of the seed of the ground, or the fruits of the tree, is the Lord's, and is most sacred before the Lord. But if a man will redeem any (part) of his tythes, he shall add a fifth part of its value thereunto. And every tythe of oxen and sheep, whatever passeth under the (tything) rod, the tenth shall be consecrated before the Lord. He shall not scrutinize between the good and the bad, nor exchange it; but if changing he will exchange it, both it and that for which it is changed shall be sacred, and not be redeemed.
These are the precepts which the Lord prescribed unto Mosheh, and of which not one must be trifled with (or, innovated upon); and He prescribed them to be shown Unto the children of Yisrael at Mount Sinai. [JERUSALEM. Verse 30 : It pertaineth to the Name of the Lord; it is holy unto the Name of the Lord. 31: But if a man will redeem any portion of his tythe, let him add upon, it a fifth part of its price; and every tythe of ox and sheep, whatever passeth under the rod, a tenth shall be holy Unto the Name of the Lord. He shall not scrutinize between good and bad, nor exchange it; but if he will change it, then shall both it and that for which it is changed be sacred, and not be redeemed. These are the Commandments.]
END OF THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM OF VAIYIKRA,
[1] Rome.
[2] Ezek. xxxix.; Zech. xiv.
[3] Every man who is devoted to death; the criminal guilty of murder; the Canaanites, also, at the taking of Jericho, &c.
Pgs. 362-380
Ch. 8-13
SECTION XXXVI.
VIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, and say to him: At the time when thou dost kindle the lamps upon the candelabrum, (all) the seven lamps shall be alight; three on the western side, and three on the eastern side, and the seventh in the midst. And Aharon did so; at the face of the candelabrum he lit the lamps thereof, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And this was the work delabrum, which was of beaten gold, from its foundations unto its lilies, the work of the artificer, with the hammer was it wrought: according to the vision which the Lord had showed Mosheh, so did Bezalel make the candelabrum.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring, the Levites out from among the sons of Yisrael, and purify them. And this shalt thou do to purify them. Sprinkle upon them the water for uncleanness through sin (chattatha), and let the razor pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their raiment, and wash themselves in forty savan of water. And they shall take a young bullock, and his mincha of flour sprinkled with olive oil; and take thou a second young bullock for a sin offering. And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of ordinance, and gather together also all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord, and the sons of Yisrael shall lay their hands upon the Levites. And Aharon shall present the Levites, (as) an elevation before the Lord from the sons of Yisrael, and they shall be for the work of the service of the Lord. And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullocks, and make one a sin offering and one a burnt offering before the Lord, to atone for the Levites. And thou shalt place the Levites before Aharon and his sons, and present them (as) an elevation before the Lord; and thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael, that the Levites may be ministers before Me. And afterward the Levites may enter to fulfil the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, when thou shalt have purified them and presented them (as) an elevation; for separated they are separate before Me from among the sons of Yisrael, instead of every one who openeth the womb; the first‑born of all who are of the sons of Yisrael have I taken (to be) before Me. For every first‑born of the sons of Yisrael is Mine, whether of man or of beast: in the day that I slew all the first‑born in the land of Mizraim, I sanctified them before Me; and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first‑born of the sons of Yisrael, and have given the Levites (as) gifts unto Aharon and to his sons from among the sons of Yisrael, to minister the service of the children of Yisrael in the tabernacle of ordinance, and to atone for the children of Yisrael, lest there be mortality among the children of Yisrael at the time when they approach the sanctuary.
And Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the Beni Yisrael did unto the Levites according to all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh concerning the Levites, so did the sons of Yisrael to them. And the Levites were purified, and they washed their raiment; and Aharon presented them as an elevation before the Lord. And Aharon made atonement for them to purify them. And afterward the Levites went in to fulfil their ministry in the tabernacle of ordinance, before Aharon and his sons: as the Lord had commanded Mosheh concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: This is the instruction for the Levites who are not disqualified (profaned) by their blemishes: from one of twenty‑five years and upward, he shall come, according to his company, to the service of the tabernacle of ordinance and from fifty years of age he shall return from the band of the service, and serve no more. Yet he may minister with his brethren at the tabernacle of ordinance in keeping the watch; but he shall not do any of the service. So shall the Levites act in their charge.
IX. And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year from the time of their going forth from the land of Mizraim, in the first month, saying: Let the children of Yisrael perform the sacrifice of the Pascha between the suns at its time. On the fourteenth day of this mouth, between the suns, they shall perform it in its time; according to all its rites and all its statutes shall they do it. And Mosheh spake with the children of Yisrael to perform the sacrifice of the Pascha. They performed the Pascha, therefore, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the suns in the wilderness of Sinai; after all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh, so did the children of Yisrael.
But certain men, who were unclean, having been defiled by the body of a man who had died near them suddenly; as the commandment (of the Pascha) came upon them, could not perform it on that day, which was the seventh of their uncleanness. And they came before Mosheh and Aharon on that day; and these men said to him, We are unclean, on account of a man who died with us: therefore we are hindered from killing the Pascha, and shedding the blood of the Lord's oblation upon the altar at its time, that we may eat its flesh, being clean, among the children of Yisrael.
This is one of four matters of judgment brought before Mosheh the prophet, which he decided according to the Word of the Holy One: in some of which Mosheh was deliberate, because they were judgments about life; but in the others Mosheh was prompt, they being (only) judgments concerning money: but in those (the former) Mosheh said, I have not heard; that he might teach the princes of the Sanhedrin who should arise after him to be deliberate in judgements regarding life, but prompt in judgments about money; and not to be ashamed to ask counsel in things too hard for them, inasmuch as Mosheh himself, the Rabbi of Yisrael, had need to say, I have not yet heard. Therefore, said Mosheh to them, Wait until I have heard what will be commanded from before the Lord concerning your case. [JERUSALEM. This is one of four matters of judgment brought before Mosheh, in two of which Mosheh was prompt, and in two was he slower. Concerning the unclean who could not perform the Pascha in its time, and concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, was Mosheh prompt, because the [latter] judgment was about money; but concerning the blasphemer who had reviled the sacred Name, and the gatherer of wood, who wickedly profaned the Shabbat, Mosheh was deliberate, they being decisions involving life; and in them he said, I have not heard; that he might teach the judges who were to come after Mosheh to be prompt in cases of mammon, but deliberate in those of life; and not to be ashamed to say, I have not heard, because Mosheh our Rabbi himself said, I have not heard. Therefore, spake he, Arise, and listen to what the Word of the Lord will prescribe to you.]
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: A man, whether young or old, when unclean by defilement from the dead, or an issue, or the leprosy, or who is hindered in the way of the world by the accidents of the night, or who shall be at a distance from the threshold of his house: if such things happen to you, or to your generations, then may he defer to perform the Pascha before the Lord. But in the second month, which is the month of Ijar, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the suns they shall perform it; with unleavened bread and with bitters they shall eat it. They shall not leave of it till the morning, and a bone in it shall not be broken; according to every instruction in the decree of the Pascha in Nisan, they shall perform it. In the Pascha of Nisan (such persons) may eat unleavened bread, but not perform the oblation of the Pascha on account of their defilement; but in the Pascha of Ijar being purified they shall offer it. But the man who, being clean and undefiled by the way of the world, and not at a distance from the threshold of his home, neglecteth to perform the oblation of the Pascha of Nisan, that man shall be cut off from his people, because he hath not offered the Lord's oblation in its season; that man shall bear his sin. And if the stranger who is sojourning with you will perform the Pascha before the Lord, he shall do it after the proper manner of the Paschal decree, according to its form so shall he do it. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land.
And on the day on which the tabernacle was reared the Cloud of Glory covered the Tabernacle; it overspread the Tabernacle of Testimony by day, and at evening, it was over the Tabernacle like a vision of Fire until the morning. So was it continually, a Cloud of Glory covering it by day, and a vision of Fire by night. And what time the Cloud of Glory was uplifted from the Tabernacle, then the children of Yisrael went forward; and at the place where the Cloud rested, there did the children of Yisrael rest. By the mouth of the Word of the Lord the children of Yisrael went forward, and by the Word of the Lord they rested. All the days that the Cloud of Glory abode upon the Tabernacle, (so long) did they abide. And if the Cloud tarried over the Tabernacle many days the children of Yisrael observed the watch of the Word of the Lord, and did not proceed. If for the time of a number of days, suppose the seven days of the week, the Cloud of Glory was upon the Tabernacle, by the mouth of the Word of the Lord they rested, and by the mouth of the Word of the Lord they went forward. Or, if the Cloud of Glory (rested only) from evening until morning, and was uplifted in the morning, then went they onward; whether by day or by night, when the Cloud was lifted up they went forward; whether it was two days, or a month, or a year complete, while the Cloud of Glory made stay over the Tabernacle, abiding on it, the children of Yisrael abode, and journeyed not, and at the time of its uplifting they went forward. By the mouth of the Word of the Lord they encamped, and by it they journeyed; they kept the observance of the Word of the Lord, by the mouth of the Word of the Lord through Mosheh.
X. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Make for thee, of thine, two trumpets of silver of solid material, the work of the artificer shalt thou make them; and let them be thine, with which to convoke the assembly, and for the removing of the camps. And thou shalt blow upon them, and bring together to thee all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. If they blow upon one (only), the princes of the heads of the thousands of Yisrael shall assemble to thee. But when you blow an alarm, then the camps which are on the east are to go forward; and when they blow a second alarm, the camps on the south shall go forward; they shall blow the alarm for their journeys. And at the time of assembling the congregation you shall blow, but not an alarm. The sons of Aharon, the priests only, shall blow with the trumpets, which shall be to you, for a perpetual statute for your generations.
And when you enter upon the order of the line of battle for your country, with oppressors who oppress you, then shall you blow the alarm on the trumpets, that the remembrance of you may come up for good before the Lord your Elohim, that you may be delivered from your enemies. And in the day of your rejoicings, and in your solemnities, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your consecrated victims, and they shall be for a good memorial to you before the Lord your Elohim; for Satana shall be troubled at the sound of your jubel notes: I am the Lord your Elohim.
And it was in the second year, the second month, which is the month of Ijar, the twentieth day of the month, that the Cloud of Glory was uplifted from above the Tabernacle of Testimony; and the children of Yisrael went forward upon their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the Cloud of Glory rested in the wilderness of Pharan. And they went forth at the first by the mouth of the Word of the Lord through Mosheh.
The standard of the camps of the Beni Jehudah went forward by their hosts, and the Rabba who was appointed over the host of the tribe of the Beni Jehudah was Nachshon bar Amminadab; the Rabba of the Beni Issakar was Nethanel Dar Zuar; and the Rabba of the Beni Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and of Merari went forward, carrying the tabernacle.
The standard of the camps of Reuben went forward by their hosts. The Rabba set over the hosts of the tribe of the Beni Reuben was Elizur bar Shedeur; the Rabba of the Beni Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai; and the Rabba of the Beni Gad, Eljasaph bar Dehuel.
And the family of Kehath went forward, carrying the sanctuary; and they (the men of Gershon) reared up the tabernacle against their coming.
The standard of the camps of the Beni Ephraim went forward by their hosts: the Rabba set over the host of the tribe of Ephraim was Elishama bar Ammihud; the Rabba of that of Menasheh, Gamaliel bar Pedazur; and the Rabba of Benjamin, Abidan bar Gideoni.
And the standard of the camps of the Beni Dan went forward, completing all the camps according to their hosts; and the Rabba set over his host was Ahiezer bar Ammishaddai; the Rabba of the tribe of Asher, Pagiel bar Achran; and the Rabba of the Beni Naphtali, Ahira bar Enan. These are the journeys of the children of Yisrael by their hosts; the Cloud of Glory was lifted up from above the tabernacle, and they went forward.
And Mosheh said unto Hobab bar Reuel the Midianite, father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh, We are journeying from hence to the place of which the Lord hath said, I will give it
to you: come with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken to do good unto the sojourner with Yisrael. But he answered him, I will not go (with you) but to my (own) land and to my kindred will I go. But he said, Do not now leave us; for when we were encamped in the wilderness, thou knewest how to judge, and didst teach us the method (or business) of judgment, and thou art dear to us as the apple of our eyes. And it shall be that if thou wilt go on with us, with the good that the Lord shall benefit us will we benefit thee, in the division of the land.
And they went forward from the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord had been revealed, going three days; and the Ark of the Lord's covenant went before them. Thirty and six miles it went that day; it preceded the camp of Yisrael, going three days, to provide for them a place to encamp in. And the Cloud of the Lord's Shekinah overshadowed them by day in their going out from the encampment. And it was when the ark should go forward, the Cloud gathered itself together and stood still, not going on, until Mosheh, standing in prayer, prayed and supplicated mercy from before the Lord, and thus spake: Let the Word of the Lord be now revealed in the power of Thy anger, that the adversaries of Thy people maybe scattered; and let not the banner of those who hate them be uplifted before Thee. But when the ark should rest, the Cloud gathered itself to ether and stood, but did not overspread, until Mosheh, standing in prayer, prayed and besought mercy from before the Lord, thus speaking: Return now, Thou Word of the Lord,[1] in the goodness of Thy mercy, and lead Thy people Yisrael, and let the glory of Thy Shekinah dwell among them, and (Thy) mercy with the myriads of the house of Jakob, and with the multitudes of the thousands of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. It was when the ark went forward. Mosheh stood, with bands (outstretched) in prayer, and said, Arise now, O Word of the Lord, in the power of Thy might, and let the adversaries of Thy people be scattered, and make Thine enemies flee before Thee. But when the ark rested, Mosheh lifted his hands in prayer, and said, O Word of the Lord, turn from the strength of Thy anger, and return unto us in the goodness of Thy mercy, and bless the myriads and multiply the thousands of the children of Yisrael.
XI. But there were wicked men of the people, who, being discontent, devised and imagined evil before the Lord; and it was heard before the Lord, whose displeasure was moved; and a flaming fire was kindled among them from the Lord, which destroyed some of the wicked in the outskirts of the house of Dan, with whom was a graven image. And the people cried to Mosheh to pray for them; and Mosheh did pray before the Lord, and the fire was extinguished where it was. And he called the name of that place Enkindlement, because the flaming fire had been enkindled there from before the Lord.
And the strangers who had gathered together among them demanded with demand, and they turned and wept; and the sons of Yisrael said, Who will give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we had to eat in Mizraim freely, without (being restricted by prohibitory) precept, the cucumbers and melons, the leeks, onions, and potherbs. [JERUSALEM. We remember the fish that we ate freely in Mizraim, the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions, and potherbs.] But now our life is dried up; there is not anything; we see only the manna, as the pauper who looks upon a morsel (bestowed) by the hands. Alas for the people whose food is bread from the heavens! And so murmured they, because the manna was like coriander‑seed, round, when it came down from the heavens, and when it had been sanctified its appearance was as the likeness of Bedilcha. And the wicked people looked about, and collected, and ground it in the mill. But he who would, bruised it in the mortar, or dressed it in the pot, or made cakes of it; and the taste of it was like the taste of cream covered with oil. [JERUSALEM. And the people were scattered abroad, and collected and ground it in mills, or crushed it in the mortar, or dressed it in the pan, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of pastry with honey.] And when the dew came down on the camp by night, the manna descended upon it.
And Mosheh heard the people lamenting with their neighbours, who had gathered every man at the gate of his tent and the displeasure of the Lord was strongly moved, and in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil; and Mosheh said before the Lord, Why hast Thou done ill with Thy servant, or I have not found mercy before Thee, that Thou shouldst have laid the toil of this people upon me? Have I made or borne all this people as from the womb? are they my children, that Thou saidst to me in Mizraim, Bear the toil of them with thy strength, as the instructor of youth beareth, until they be carried into the land which Thou hast sworn unto their fathers? [JERUSALEM. Have I made all this people, have I begotten them, that Thou hast said to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as the nurse[2] carrieth the sucklings, unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers?] Whence am I to find meat to give all this people? for they are cry crying to me, say saying Give us flesh that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people, for it is too weighty for me. But if Thou do this with me, to leave all the labour of them upon me, let me now die with the death in which the just have repose, if I have found mercy before Thee, that I may not see mine evil. [JERUSALEM. That I may not see the evil of them who are Thy people.] Then spake the Lord unto Mosheh, Gather together in My name seventy righteous men of the elders of Yisrael, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and who were set over them in Mizraim, and bring them to the taberncle to stand there with thee. And I will be revealed in the glory of My Shekinah, and will speak with thee there, and will amplify the spirit of prophecy that is upon thee, and bestow it upon them; and they shall sustain with thee the burden of the people, that thou mayest not bear it alone. And say thou to the people, Make ready against the morrow that you may eat flesh; because you have lamented before the Lord, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat? for it was better with us in Mizraim. The Lord therefore will give yon flesh that you may eat. You shall not eat it one day, nor two days, nor five, nor ten, nor twenty days; for a month of days, until the smell of it cometh forth from your nostrils, and it become a loathing to you; because you have been contemptuous against the Word of the Lord, whose glorious Shekinah dwelleth among you, and because you have wept before Him, saying, Why should we have come out from Mizraim?
But Mosheh said, Six hundred thousand footmen are the people among whom I dwell, and Thou hast said, I will give them flesh to eat for a month of days! Shall the flocks of Araby or the cattle of Nabatea be killed for them to satisfy them, or all the fishes of the Great Sea be collected, that they may have enough? And the Lord said to Mosheh, Can any thing fail before the Lord? Now shalt thou see whether what I have said to thee shall come to pass or not. Then Mosheh went forth from the tabernacle, the house of the Shekinah, and told the people the words of the Lord. And he called together the seventy men, the elders of Yisrael, and placed them around the tabernacle. And the Lord was revealed in the glorious Cloud of the Shekinah, and spake with him. And He made enlargement of the (Spirit of) prophecy that was upon him, so that Mosheh lost nothing thereof, but He gave unto the seventy men, the elders: and it was that when the Spirit of prophecy rested upon them, they prophesied, and ceased not.
But two men had remained in the camp; the name of the one Eldad, and the name of the second Medad, the sons of Elizaphan bar Parnak, whom Jokebed the daughter of Levi bare to him when Amram her husband had put her away; and to whom she had been espoused before she gave birth to Mosheh. And the Spirit of prophecy resting upon them, Eldad prophesied, and said: Behold, Mosheh shall be gathered from the world; and Jehoshua bar Nun, the minister of the camps, will be established after him, and will lead the people of the house of Yisrael into the land of Kenaan, and make it their inheritance.
Medad prophesied, and said: Behold, quails come up from the sea, and cover all the camp of Yisrael; but they will be to the people (a cause of) an offence. And both of them prophesied together, and said: Behold, a king will arise from the land of Magog, at the end of the days, and will assemble kings crowned with crowns, and captains wearing armour, and him will all nations obey. And they will set battle in array in the land of Yisrael against the children of the captivity; but already is it provided that in the hour of distresses all of them shall perish by the burning blast of the flame that cometh forth from beneath the Throne of Glory; and their carcases shall fall upon the mountains of the land of Yisrael, and the wild beasts of the field and the fowls of the sky shall come and consume their dead bodies. And afterward will all the dead of Yisrael live (again), and be feasted from the ox which hath been set apart for them from the beginning, and they shall receive the reward of their works.
And they were of the elders who stood in the registers among them; but they had not gone forth to the tabernacle, but had hidden to escape from the dignity; yet they prophesied in the camp. [JERUSALEM. And there remained two men in the camp: the name of one of them Eldad, the name of the second Medad, upon whom rested the Holy Spirit. Eldad prophesied, and said: Lo, Mosheh, the prophet, the scribe of Yisrael, will be gathered from the world, and Jehoshua bar Nun, his disciple, minister of the camps, will succeed. Medad prophesied, and said: Behold, quails come up from the sea; but they will be an offence to the children of Yisrael. Both of them prophesied together, and said: At the end, the end of the days, will Gog and Magog and his host come up against Yerushalayim; but by the hand of the King Meshiha they will fall, and seven years of days will the children of Yisrael kindle their fire with their weapons of war, not going into the wilderness, nor cutting down the trees. And they were of the seventy sages, who went not from the tabernacle, while Eldad and Medad prophesied in the camp.]
And a certain young man ran, and told to Mosheh, and said: Eldad and Medad are prophesying thus in the camp. And Jehoshua bar Nun, the minister of Mosheh, answered and said: Ribboni Mosheh, pray for mercy before the Lord, that the Spirit of prophecy may be withheld from them. But Mosheh said to him, Because they prophesy concerning me that I am to be gathered from the world, and that thou art to minister after me, art thou jealous for my sake? I would that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that He would bestow the Spirit of prophecy upon them.
And Mosheh proceeded to the camp, he and all the elders of Yisrael. And the wind of a tempest went forth, and came violently from before the Lord, so as to have swept the world away, but for the righteousness of Mosheh and Aharon: and it blew over the Great Sea, and made the quails fly from the Great Sea, and settle wherever there was place in the camp, as a day's journey northward and southward, and at the height as of two cubits; they flew upon the face of the ground, and went upon their bellies, so that (the people) were not wearied while they collected them. And they who had been wanting in faith arose: and all that day, and all the night, and all the day that followed, they gathered the quails; even he who was lame and infirm gathered ten korin, [JERUSALEM. Ten korin,] and they spread them abroad round about the camps.
The wicked ate of the flesh, yet offered no thanksgiving to Him who had given it to them: but while the flesh was between their teeth, and not consumed, the anger of the Lord waxed strong against the evil people, and the Lord slew the people with a very great mortality. And he called the name of that place, The Graves of the Desirers of Flesh; for there they buried the people who had desired flesh. And from the Graves of the Desirers the people journeyed to Hatseroth, and they were in Hatseroth.
XII. And Miriam and Aharon spake against Mosheh words that were not becoming with respect to the Kushaitha whom the Kushaee had caused Mosheh to take when he had fled from Pharoh, but whom he had sent away because they had given him the queen of Kush, and he had sent her away. [JERUSALEM. And Miriam and Aharon spake against Mosheh about the Kushaitha whom he had taken. But observe, the Kushite wife was not Zipporah, the wife of Mosheh, but a certain Kushaitha, of a flesh different from every creature: whereas Zipporah, the wife of Mosheh, was of a comely form and beautiful countenance, and more abundant in good works than all the women of her age.] And they said, Hath the Lord spoken only with Mosheh, that he should be separated from the married life? Hath He not spoken with us also? And it was heard before the Lord. But the man Mosheh was more bowed down in his mind than all the children of men upon the face of the earth; neither cared he for their words.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, to Aharon, and to Miriam, Come forth, you three, to the tabernacle. And those three went forth. And the Glory of the Lord was revealed in the Cloud of Glory, and He stood at the door of the tabernacle, and called Aharon and Miriam: and those two came forth. And He said, Hear now My words, while I speak. Have any of the prophets who have arisen from the days of old been spoken with as Mosheh hath been? To those (prophets) the Word of the Lord hath been revealed in apparition, speaking with them in a dream. Not so is the way with Mosheh My servant; in all the house of Yisrael My people he is faithful. [JERUSALEM. Not so is My servant Mosheh among all the company (of the prophets), the chief of the chiefs of My court, faithful is he.] Speaker with speaker have I spoken with him, who hath separated himself from the married life; but in vision, and not with mystery, revealed I Myself to him at the bush, and he beheld the likeness of My Shekinah. And why have you not feared to speak such words of My servant Mosheh? And the glory of the Lord's Shekinah ascended, and went. And the glorious Cloud of the Lord's Shekinah went up from above the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam was seized with the leprosy. And Aharon looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she had been smitten with leprosy. And Aharon said to Mosheh, I beseech of thee, my lord, not to lay upon us the sin we have foolishly committed, and by which we have transgressed. I entreat thee that Miriam, our sister, may not be defiled with leprosy in the tent, as the dead, for it is with her as with the infant[3] which, having well fulfilled the time of the womb, perishes at the birth: so Miriam was with us in the land of Mizraim, seeing us in our captivity, our dispersion, our servitude; but now, when the time hath come for our going forth to possess the land of Yisrael behold she is kept back from us. I entreat thee, my lord, to pray for her, that her righteousness may not come to nought among the congregation. [JERUSALEM. 11. That we have sinned. 12. Let not Miriam, our sister, be a leper, polluted in the tent as one dead. For it is with her as with the infant who hath passed nine months in its mother's womb, in water and in heat, without injury, but which after all perishes at the birth. So was Miriam, our sister, carried away with us into the desert, and with us in our trouble; but now the time hath come that we may enter into the land of Yisrael, why should she be kept from us? Pray now for the dead body that it may live, and that her righteousness may not fail.] And Mosheh did pray, and seek mercy before the Lord, saying: I pray through the compassions of the merciful Elohim, O Eloha, who hast power over the life of all flesh, heal her, I beseech thee. [JERUSALEM. O Eloha, who healest all flesh, heal her.] And the Lord said to Mosheh, If her father had corrected her, would she not have been disgraced, and secluded seven days? But to‑day, when I correct her, much more right is it that she should be dishonoured fourteen days: yet shall it suffice to seclude her seven days without the camp; and for thy righteousness will I make the Cloud of My Glory, the tabernacle, the ark, and all Yisrael, tarry until the time that she is healed, and then re‑admitted. And Miriam was kept apart without the camp for seven days, and the people went not forward until the time that Miriam was healed.
XIII. But though Miriam the prophetess had made herself liable to be stricken with leprosy in this world, the doctrine is ample that in the world to come (there remaineth a reward) for the just, and for them who keep the commandments of the Torah. And because Miriam the prophetess had watched for a little hour to know what would be the fate of Mosheh; (Exod. i.;) for the sake of that merit all Yisrael, numbering sixty myriads, being eighty legions, and the Cloud of Glory, the tabernacle, and the well, went not, nor proceeded, till the time that she was healed: and afterward the people journeyed from Hatseroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan. [JERUSALEM. But though Miriam the prophetess had become liable to leprosy, we have ample doctrine that by keeping the commandments and precepts a man who doeth even a little shall receive a great reward. Thus, because Miriam the prophetess had stood on the river bank for a little hour, to know what would be the end of Mosheh, the sons of Yisrael, being sixty myriads, and eighty legions in number, and the Cloud of Glory and the well, now moved not, nor went forward from their place, till the time that she was healed of her leprosy; but after she was healed the people journeyed from Hatseroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan.
[1] Observe Moshe prays to the Memra. Compare to the Glossary, pp. 14-17.
[1] Or, "the conductor of children."
[1] I have translated freely just here.
[1] Observe Moshe prays to the Memra. Compare to the Glossary, pp. 14-17.
[2] Or, "the conductor of children."
[3] I have translated freely just here.
SECTION XXXVI.
BEHAALOTHECA.
VIII. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, and say to him: When thou dost kindle the lamps upon the face of the candelabrum, the seven lamps shall be burning (together). And Aharon did so: on the face of the candelabrum he made the lamps burn, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And this work of the candelabrum was of beaten gold, from its shaft to its lilies, beaten (gold) according to the pattern which the Lord had showed to Mosheh, so had he made the candelabrum.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring near the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael, and purify them. And thus shalt thou do to them to purify them. Sprinkle upon them the water of purification, and make the razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their vestments, and they shall be clean. And let them take a young bullock, and his mincha of flour, sprinkled with oil; and a second bullock, a young bullock shalt thou take, for the sin offering. And bring the Levites before the tabernacle of ordinance, and assemble all the congregation of the children of Yisrael.
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Yisrael shall lay their hands upon the Levites; and Aharon shall offer the Levites[1] as an elevation before the Lord from the sons of Yisrael, that they may perform the service of the Lord. And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullocks, and make the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, before the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites. And thou shalt set the Levites before Aharon, and before his sons, and offer them up (as) an elevation before the Lord. And thou shalt thus separate the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael, that the Levites may minister before Me. And afterward shall the Levites enter, to minister (in) the tabernacle of ordinance; for thou wilt have purified them, and offered them up as an elevation. For by a separation are they separated unto Me from among the sons of Yisrael, instead of every firstborn who openeth the womb of ail the children of Yisrael have I taken them (to be) before Me. For Mine are all the firstborn of the children of Yisrael, of man and of beast: in the day that I slew all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim did I sanctify them before Me. And I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael. And the Levites I have given as a gift[2] unto Aharon and to his sons, from among the sons of Yisrael, to minister the service for the children of Yisrael in the tabernacle of ordinance, and to make atonement for the children of Yisrael, that death may not be among the children of Yisrael when the children of Yisrael come nigh to the sanctuary.
And Mosheh and Aharon, and all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, did unto the Levites according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheh for the Levites; so did the sons of Yisrael to them. And the Levites were purified, and they cleansed their raiment, and Aharon offered them (as) an elevation before the Lord; and Aharon made an atonement for them to purify them. And afterwards the Levites went in to perform their service in the tabernacle of ordinance before Aharon and before his sons; as the Lord had commanded Mosheh concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: This is (the Torah) of the Levites: from a son of five-and-twenty years and upward he shall come with the bands in their service (in the) tabernacle of ordinance, and from fifty years old he shall return from the company of the ministers, and work no longer; but minister with his brethren at the tabernacle of ordinance in keeping the custody; yet the service he shall not perform: so shalt thou do with the Levites in their charge.
IX. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going forth from the land of Mizraim, in the first month, saying: Let the children of Yisrael perform the Pascha in its time. On the fourteenth day of this month, between the suns, they shall perform it in its time according to all the rites of it, and according to all the form of it shall they do it. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael to perform the Pascha. And they performed the Pascha in Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the suns, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh, so did the children of Yisrael.
But there were men who were unclean by defilement, (having touched) the body of a (dead) man, and they could not make the Pascha on that day; and they came before Mosheh and before Aharon that day, and the men said to him: We are unclean, by the defilement of the life of a man, and are, therefore, restrained from offering the oblation of the Lord in its time among the sons of Yisrael. And Mosheh said to them, Wait, till I shall have heard what will be commanded from before the Lord about your case. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: If any man be unclean by the defilement of the life of a man, or be in the way, afar off' from you or from your dwellings, he shall perform the Pascha before the Lord in the second month,[3] on the fourteenth day, between the suns, they shall perform it; with unleavened (bread) and with bitter (herbs) shall they eat it: they shall not leave of it till the morning, and a bone of it shall not be broken; according to all the rites of the Pascha shall they perform it. But the man who is clean, and is not upon a journey, and forbeareth to perform the Pascha, that man shall be cut off from his people: because he hath not offered the Lord's oblation in its time, that man shall bear his guilt.And if a stranger sojourn with you, and will perform the Pascha before the Lord, according to the rites of the Pascha, and according to the forms thereof, so shall he do: one statute shall you have, for the stranger, and for the native of the land.
And on the day that the Tabernacle was erected the Cloud covered the Tabernacle of the Testimony; and at evening there was upon the Tabernacle as the vision of Fire, until the morning. So was it continually; the Cloud covered it (by day), and the appearance of the Fire in the night. And according as the Cloud was uplifted above the Tabernacle, the sons of Yisrael afterward went on; and at the place where the Cloud rested, there did the sons of Yisrael encamp. By the Word of the Lord the sons of Yisrael journeyed, and by the Word of the Lord they encamped; all the days that the Cloud rested, they remained. However long the time the Cloud was upon the Tabernacle, (however) many the days, the sons of Yisrael kept the watch of the Word of the Lord, and journeyed not. And if the Cloud was over the tabernacle a number of days, according to the Word of the Lord they remained, and by the Word of the Lord they went forward. Or if the Cloud was (over the Tabernacle only) from the evening till the morn, and the Cloud was uplifted in the morning, they went forward; whether (in the) days or nights the Cloud was uplifted, they went forward; whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer season, (time by time,) the Cloud was in staying upon the Tabernacle to remain thereon, the children of Yisrael remained, and went not forward; but at the lifting up of it. they proceeded. By the Word of the Lord they abode, and by the Word of the Lord they proceeded; they observed the watch of the Word of the Lord, upon the Word of the Lord through Mosheh.
X. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Make thee two trumpets of silver, beaten shalt thou make them, and they shall be for thee to convoke the assembly, and to move forward the host. And they shall blow with them, and bring all the congregation together unto thee, at the door of the tabernacle of
ordinance. And if they blow with but one, the chiefs, the heads of thousands of Yisrael, shall gather together to thee. When you blow with a full note, (or alarm,) the host that encampeth eastward shall go forward, and when you blow with the second alarm, the hosts that encamp southward shall go on; an alarm[4] shall they blow for their journeys. But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but not with the alarm. And the sons of Aharon, the priests, are to blow with the trumpets; and this shall be to you a perpetual statute for your generations.
And when you enter upon the battle fight for your country, with the oppressors who oppress you, ye shall blow the alarm with the trumpets, that your remembrance may come for good before the Lord your Elohim, (and) that you may be delivered from them who hate you.
And on the day of your rejoicing, and on your solemnities, and at the beginning of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over your consecrated victims; and they shall be for a memorial before your Elohim: I am the Lord your Elohim.
And it was in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the Cloud was uplifted from above the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and the children of Yisrael went forward upon their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the Cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. And they went forward at the first by the Word of the Lord through Mosheh. In the first place the standard of the camp of the Beni Jehudah went forward by their hosts; and over the host was Nachshon bar Aminadab. And over the host of the tribe of the Beni Issakar, Nethanel bar Zuar. And over the host of the tribe of the Beni Zebulun, Eliab bar Chelon.
And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon went forward, and the sons of Merari, carrying the tabernacle.
And the standard (or order) of the camp of Reuben went forward by their hosts, and over its host was Elizur bar Shedeur: and over the host of the tribe of the Beni Shemeun was Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai. And over the host of the Beni Gad was Eljasaph bar Dehuel. And the sons of Kehath went forward, carrying the sanctuary, and (the Gershonites and sons of Merari) set up the tabernacle against they came.
And the standard of the camps of the Beni Ephraim went forward by their hosts, and over his host was Elishama bar Amihud. And over the host of the tribe of the Beni Menasheh was Gamliel bar Phedazur. And over the host of the tribe of the Beni Benyamin, Abidan bar Gideoni.
And the standard of the camps of the Beni Dan went forward collecting each camp according to their hosts; and over his host was Achiezer bar Amishaddai.
And over the host of the tribe of the Beni Asher, Phagiel bar Akran; and over the host of the tribe of the Beni Naphtali, Achira bar Enan. These are the journeys of the sons of Yisrael, and according to their hosts they went forward.
And Mosheh said unto Hobab bar Reuel, the Midianite, the father-in-law of Mosheh, We are journeying to the place of which the Lord hath said, I will give it unto you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken, to bring good upon Yisrael. But he said to him, I will not go (with you), but to my country and to my kindred will I go. And he said, Leave us not, I beseech thee; for thou knowest how we should encamp in the wilderness; and the great things that will be done for us thou wilt see with thine eyes. And it shall be that if thou wilt go with us, with the good by which the Lord shall do us good, will we do good to thee.
And from the mountain on which the glory of the Lord had been revealed they went forward, journeying three days; and the ark of the Lord's covenant went before them, three days' journey, to provide for them a place of encampment.
And the Cloud of Glory of the Lord overspread them by day as they went forth from their encampments. And when the ark went forward, Mosheh said: Reveal thyself, O Lord, that Thine enemies may be scattered, and Thy adversaries may flee before thee. And when it rested, he said: Return, O Lord, and dwell in Thy glory among the multitudes of the thousands of Yisrael.
XI. But the people were discontented (or, were fomenting evil) before the Lord; and it was heard before the Lord, and His anger was strongly moved, and a fire was kindled against them from before the Lord, and it consumed the outskirts of the camp. And the people cried unto Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed before the Lord, and the fire was subdued. And Mosheh called the name of that place Enkindlement; because the fire had been kindled against them from before the Lord.
And the mixed multitude who were among them demanded with demand; and the children of Yisrael also turned, and wept, and said: Who will feed us with flesh? We remember the fish which we ate in Mizraim freely, the cucumbers and melons, the cresses and onions and garlick. But now our soul longeth, yet there is nothing before our eyes but manna. Now the manna was like the seed of coriander, and its appearance as the appearance of bedilcha. And the people went about and gathered; and he who would ground it in mills, or he who would beat it in the mortar, and they dressed it in the pan, and made cakes of it, and its taste was like the taste of a confection of oil. And when the dew came down upon the camp at night, the manna descended upon it.
And Mosheh heard the people lamenting with their families, a man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of the Lord grew very strong, as in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Wherefore hast Thou done painfully to Thy servant, and why have I not found mercy before Thee, that Thou hast put the burden of all this people upon me? Am I father to all this people, or are they my children, that Thou hast said to me, Carry them in thy strength, as the nurse carrieth the suckling, unto the land which Thou hast covenanted to their fathers? Whence shall I have flesh to give to all this people? for they lament to me, saying: Give us flesh to eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if Thou do thus with me, kill me, I pray, if I have found mercy before Thee, that I may not see my wretchedness. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Yisrael, whom thou knowest to be elders[5] of the people, and the overseers[6] thereof, and bring them to the tabernacle of ordinance, and let them stand there with thee; and I will reveal Myself, and will speak with thee there; and I will make enlargement[7] of the Spirit that is upon thee, and put it upon them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not sustain it by thyself alone. And say thou to the people, Prepare yourselves for the morrow, and you shall eat flesh; for that you have lamented before the Lord, saying: Who will give us flesh, that we may eat? for it was better with us in Mizraim; and I will give you flesh, and you shall eat. Not one day shall you eat (it), nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; but for a month of days, until you loathe it, and it be an offence to you; because you have felt, dislike to the Word of the Lord, whose Shekinah dwelleth among you; and before whom you have wept, saying: Why came we out of Mizraim? But Mosheh said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and Thou hast said, I will give them flesh to eat for a month of days. Shall the oxen and sheep be slaughtered for them, to satisfy them, or all the fish of the sea be gathered that they may be satisfied? And the Lord said to Mosheh: Is the "Word of the Lord restrained? Now shalt thou see whether My saying come to pass with thee or not.
And Mosheh went forth, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered together seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. And the Lord was revealed in the Cloud, and spake with him, and he made enlargement of the Spirit that was upon him, and imparted to the seventy men, the elders; and it came to pass that when the Spirit of prophecy rested upon them they prophesied, and ceased not. But two men remained in the camp, the name of the one Eldad, and the name of the second Medad; and the Spirit of prophecy rested upon them; and, though they were in the writings, they had not come out of the camp; but they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran, and showed to Mosheh, and said: Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Jehoshua bar Nun, the minister of Mosheh from his youth, answered and said, Ribboni Mosheh, put them in bond. But Mosheh said, Art thou jealous for my sake?[8] I would that all the people of the Lord did prophesy, and that the Lord would confer the Spirit of prophecy upon them. And Mosheh returned to the camp, he and the elders of Yisrael. And the wind proceeded from before the Lord, and the quails flew abroad from the sea, and it bare them upon the camp as (the breadth of) a day's journey here, and a day's journey there, round about the camp, and as at a height of two cubits over the face of the ground. And the people were up all that day, and all the night, and all the day after it, and collected the quails; he who collected least (gathered together) ten heaps; and they spread them abroad, round about the camp.
While yet the flesh was between their teeth, and they had not yet finished, the displeasure of the Lord was manifested strongly against the people, and the Lord inflicted death among the people with a very great mortality. And he called the name of that place, The Graves of the Demanders;[9] because there they buried the people who demanded. From the Graves of the Demanders the people journeyed to Hatseroth, and they were in Hatseroth.
XII. And Miriam and Aharon spake against Mosheh, because of the fair woman[10] whom he had taken, because the fair woman who .had been sent away he had taken. And they said, Hath the Lord spoken only with Mosheh? Hath He not spoken with us also? And it was heard before the Lord. [But the man Mosheh was very humble,[11] more than all the men who were upon the face of the earth.]
And the Lord spake suddenly with Mosheh, and to Aharon and to Miriam: Come forth, you three, to the tabernacle of ordinance; and those three went forth. And the Lord was revealed in the pillar of the Cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle: and He called Aharon and Miriam, and they two came forth. And He said, Hear now My words. If there be prophets with you, I the Lord will reveal Myself (to them) in visions, in dreams will I speak with them. But not so (with) My servant Mosheh; over all My house faithful is he. Speaker with speaker will I speak with him; in apparition, and not in similitudes; and he shall behold the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And how is this, that you have not been afraid to speak against My servant, against Mosheh? And the displeasure of the Lord was strong against them, and He went up. And the Cloud went up from over the tabernacle. And, behold, Miriam was white as snow; and Aharon looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. And Aharon said to Mosheh, My lord, I entreat that thou wouldst not lay this sin upon us, in that we have acted foolishly, and have transgressed. Let not this one, I entreat, be separated from among us, for she is our sister. Pray, now, over this dead flesh which is in her, that she may be healed. And Mosheh prayed before the Lord, saying: O Elohim, I beseech Thee, heal her now. But the Lord said to Mosheh, If her father, correcting, had corrected her, ought she not to have been ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up seven days without the camp, and afterward be admitted. And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not until Miriam was brought in. And afterward the people journeyed from Hatseroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan.
[1] Literally, “shall elevate an elevation.” The elevation not always done bodily.
[2] Lit., “delivered ones: those made over.” Heb., Nethinim.
[3] The regular time was the first month.
[4] Trumpet notes: Tekeha, Shevorim, Teruha.
[5] Sam. Vers., “the sages.”
[6] Sam. Vers., “scribes.”
[7] Heb., “I will take away of the Spirit.” LXX., idem. Syr., “I will diminish from the Spirit.”
[8] “Art thou jealous with my jealousy?”
[9] Heb., Kibroth Hattaavah, “the Graves of Desire.”
[10] Ittha Shaphirtha. Heb., Ha-isha ha Kushith, “the woman the Ethiopian.”
[11] Or, “bent down.” Comp. verses 14, 15.
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Ch. 25-26
SECTION XXXII.
BEHAR SINAI.
XXV. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give to you, then shall the ground rest for a rest before the Lord. Six years you shall sow your fields, and six years prune your vineyards and gather in the fruit; but in the seventh year there shall be a rest of remission to the earth, that she may rest before the Lord; you shall not sow your fields, nor prune your vineyards. The after crop which remaineth from your harvests you may not reap, nor of your later grapes make a vintage; a year of remission it shall be unto the earth; but the remission[1] of the ground shall be to you for food, to thee, to thy servant, and to thine handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to the stranger who dwelleth with thee; and for thy cattle and for the animals that are in thy land shall be the produce of it (also).
And thou shalt number to thee seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be to thee the sum of the days of seven Shabbats (or remissions, shemittin) of years, forty and nine years. And thou shalt make the voice of the trumpet to sound a jubilee in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of the Expiations thou shalt make the voice of the trumpet of Liberty to pass through all your land. And you shall sanctify that year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land of Yisrael to all the inhabitants; Jubela shall it be to you, and you shall return every man to his inheritance, and every man unto his family, you shall return. The year of Jubela shall that fiftieth be to you: ye shall not sow, nor reap the after crop, nor make vintages of the grapes which have been let alone. For that Jubela shall be sacred to you, the produce of the field shall you eat. In this year of Jubela you shall return every man unto his inheritance.
And when you sell sales to your neighbours, or you buy disposable (or moveable) goods from the hand of your neighbours, it is not allowable for a man to defraud his neighbour. Sons of Yisrael, My people, if you sell a field or a vineyard, according to the sum of the number of years after the Jubela you shall buy of your neighbour; according to the number of years for gathering the produce they shall sell it to you; according to the greatness of the amount of the years shall the price be enlarged; and according to the smallness of the amount of the years the price shall be diminished, because be sells to thee the amount of the fruitage to be ingathered. And you shall not overreach one man his neighbour by hard words, but fear your Elohim: I am the Lord your Elohim. And you shall perform My statutes, and observe the order of My judgments and do them, that you may dwell upon the land securely. And the land will yield her produce, and you shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell upon the land in security.
But if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year; behold, we sow not, nor ingather even the after crop of our provision? I will command My blessing upon you from my treasures of goodness, which are in the heaven of My Presence, in the sixth year, and it will create produce that will suffice for three years. But you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old produce of the sixth year until the ninth year; until the time of the incoming of the new produce, shall you eat of the old.
And the land of Yisrael shall not be sold absolutely, for the land is Mine; for you are sojourners and guests with Me. And in all the land of your possession you shall let the ground have redemption.
And if thy brother hath become poor and hath sold his possession, his redeemer who is near of kin to him may come and redeem the sale of his brother. But if a man have no one who is qualified to redeem that which he hath sold, and it befall to his own hand to find the price of its redemption, then let him count the sum of the years of its sale, and give the amount to the man who bought it, and return to his possession. But if his hand meet not with the price that he should give him, then the property sold shall (remain) in the hand of him who bought it until the year of Jubela, and shall then go out without money, and he shall return to his possession.
And if a man sell a dwelling‑house, in a town surrounded by a wall, it may have redemption until the completing of the year from its sale: from time to time shall be its redemption. But if it be not redeemed at the completing of the full year, the house that is in a walled town shall be confirmed absolutely to him who bought it, unto his generations: it shall not go out at the Jubela. But houses in villages which have no walls round about them, are to be accounted as tents which are spread upon the fields of the earth; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out at the Jubela. But the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession may be always redeemable by the Levites. And when one hath purchased of the Levites the house that was sold in the cities of their possession, it shall go out at the Jubela; for the houses of the Levites are their inheritance among the children of Yisrael. But a field in the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold for it is an everlasting possession for them. [JERUSALEM. But a field in the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold, because a possession].
And if thy brother hath become poor, and his hand wavereth with thee, then thou shalt strengthen and do him good, as a guest and a sojourner he shall be nourished with thee. My people of the house of Yisrael you shall not take usuries or remunerations (in his case) but thou shalt fear thy Elohim, and let thy brother have nourishment with thee. My people of the house of Yisrael, you shall not lend him for usury, nor give him your provisions for increase. [JERUSALEM. Thy money thou shalt not lend him for usuries, nor give thy food for increase]. I am the Lord your Elohim, who redeemed and brought you out redeemed from the land of Mizraim, to give unto you the land of Kenaan, and to be unto you Eloha.
If thy brother with thee shall have become poor, and have sold himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him serve according to the laws of the service of bondmen but as a hired man and as a sojourner shall he serve with thee, until the year of Jubela shall he serve thee. Then shall he go out from thee at liberty, he and his children with him, and return to his family, and to the heritage of his fathers shall he return. For they are My servants whom I brought forth redeemed from the land of Mizraim; they shall not be sold according to the laws of the sale of bondmen. Neither may you make him serve with rigour, but thou shalt fear the Lord thy Elohim. But your bondmen and your handmaids which you may have, of the handmaids of the Gentiles, of them you may purchase bondmen and handmaids.
Moreover, of the children of the uncircumcised strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; but not from the Kenaanaee; and they shall be yours for possession. And you may leave them to your children after you, to inherit as a perpetual possession; them you shall make to serve: but of your brethren of the sons of Yisrael no man (may enslave) his fellow; them shall you not make to serve with rigour.
And if the hand of the uncircumcised sojourner with you wax strong, and thy brother with him become poor, and sell himself to the uncircumcised stranger who is with thee, or to the stock of a strange religion, to serve him or to worship with him who is of the generation of strangers; when it is known to you that he hath been sold, forthwith redemption shall, be his; one of his brethren shall redeem him; either the brother of his father or the son of his father's brother may redeem him; or a kinsman of the flesh of his family may redeem him; or by his own hand being made strong, or by the hand of the congregation, he may be redeemed. And he shall account with the uncircumcised person who had bought him, from the year that he was sold until the year of Jubela, and the price of his re‑purchase shall be according to the number of the years; according to the days of an hireling shall it be with him. If yet there be many years, according to their number he shall give for his redemption of the money that he was bought for. But if few years remain till the year of Jubela, he shall compute with him, and according to the amount of the years give for his redemption. As a hireling by the year shall he be with him, and his master shall not make him to serve with rigour while thou see it. But if he be not redeemed within those years, he shall go out free at the year of Jubela, he and his children with him. For the sons of Yisrael are Mine, to obey My laws; servants are they whom I brought out redeemed from the land of Mizraim. I am the Lord your Elohim.
XXVI. You shall not make to you idols or images, nor erect for you statues to worship, neither a figured stone[2] shall ye place in your land to bow yourselves toward it. [JERUSALEM. Nor a stone for an idol.] Nevertheless a pavement sculptured with imagery you may set on the spot of your sanctuary, but not to worship it: I am the Lord your Elohim. The days of My Shabbats you shall keep, and walk to the house of My sanctuary in My fear; I am the Lord.
[1] The produce yielded spontaneously during the time of remission to be enjoyed in common. So Rashi, Eben Ezra, and Bar Nachman.
[2] Glossary, p. 23.
beast shall make it good; but he who killeth a man shall be put to death. One judgment shall you have, for the stranger as for the native born shall it be; for I am the Lord your Elohim. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael, and they brought out the blasphemer without the camp, and stoned him with stones; and the sons of Yisrael did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
SECTION XXXII.
BEHAR SINAI.
XXV. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give you, the land shall have rest by an intermission (shemet shemittha) before the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years prune thy vineyard, and gather in its fruit; but in the seventh year the land shall have a respite of rest (neach shemittha), a respite before the Lord; thou shalt not sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard. The after crop of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither make vintage of the grapes which thou mayest have left, it shall be a year of remission to the land. Yet the remission of the land[1] shall be to thee for food, to thee, and to thy servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to the sojourner who dwelleth with thee. And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the produce of it be for meat.
And number to thee seven (such) years of Release, which are seven times seven years; and the days of the seven years of release shall be to thee (in all) forty and nine years. And thou shalt make the sound of the trumpet to pass forth, in the seventh month on the tenth of the month, on the day of the expiations shall you make (the sound of) the trumpet to pass through all your land. And you shall sanctify the year of the fifty years, and proclaim liberty in all the land to all its inhabitants; it is and it shall be a jubilee to you; and each man shall return to his inheritance, and each to his family shall return. A jubilee shall that year of fifty years be to you. Ye shall not sow nor reap the after crop, nor make vintage of the remainder, for it is a jubilee; it shall be sacred to you; of the growth of the field you may eat. In the year of this jubilee a man shall return to his inheritance.
And when thou sellest a sale to thy neighbour, or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, you shall not impose, a man upon his brother. For the number of the years after the (last) jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; for the number of the years of the produce he shall sell to thee: according to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price; for he selleth thee the amount of the fruits. And you shall not impose, a man upon his neighbour; but thou shalt fear thy Elohim, for I am the Lord your Elohim. And you shall perform My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them, and dwell in the land in security. And the land shall yield her fruitage, and you shall eat unto the full, and dwell upon it in security. And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year; behold, we are not to sow, nor to gather in our fruit? I will command My benediction upon you in the sixth year, and it shall produce for three years. And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old produce unto the ninth year: until the fruit come in, you shall eat of the old.
But you may not sell the ground absolutely: for the land is Mine, for you are guests and sojourners before Me; and in all the land of your inheritance you shall let the ground have redemption.
When thy brother hath become poor, and shall have sold his possession, his redeemer who is of kin to him may come and release that which his kinsman has sold. And if he have no one to release it, and it pertaineth to his hand to find sufficient means for its redemption; then let him reckon the years of its sale, and restore the full amount to the man who bought it, that he may return to his possession. But if his hand find not sufficiency to give him, the (property) sold shall be in the hand of the buyer until the year of Jubilee, and shall go out in the Jubilee, and return to his possession.
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a town surrounded with a wall, he may redeem it within the full year of the sale of it; within that time shall be its redemption. But if it be not repurchased when the whole year is completed, the house that is in the walled town shall belong absolutely to him who bought it for his generations; it shall not go out at the Jubilee. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be accounted as the field of the land; they may be redeemed, or shall go out at the Jubilee.
And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their inheritance, may be always redeemed by the Levites (or, be a perpetual redemption for the Levites). And (so of him) who purchaseth of the Levites, the purchased house in the city of their possession shall go out at the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their inheritance among the sons of Yisrael. But a field in the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is an everlasting possession for them.
And if thy brother hath become poor, and his band waver with thee, then thou shalt strengthen him, and he shall be a guest and a sojourner with thee. Thou shalt not take from him any usuries,[2] nor interest (increase), but shalt fear thy Elohim, and let thy brother live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money for usury,1 nor thy food for increase. I am the Lord your Elohim, who brought you out from the land of Mizraim, to give you the land of Kenaan, and to be your Elohim.
And if thy brother hath become poor with thee, and hath sold himself to thee, thou shalt not make him do the works of slaves, but as a hired man and an inmate shall he be with thee; until the year of Jubilee shall he serve with thee: then shall he go out from being with thee, he and his children with him, and return to his family and to the inheritance of his fathers. For they are My servants, whom I brought out from the land of Mizraim; they shall not be sold as the selling of bond men. Thou shalt not make him serve with rigour, but shalt fear thy Elohim. Thy bondmen and thy handmaids thou shalt have from the Gentiles who are about thee; from them thou mayest obtain bondmen and handmaids. And also from the sons of the uncircumcised strangers who sojourn with you, of them and of their children who are with you which are born in the land, you may obtain a possession, and may make them an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession to serve them perpetually; but among your brethren the sons of Yisrael no man shall make his brother labour with hardness. And if the hand of an uncircumcised sojourner with thee wax strong, and thy brother with thee become poor and sell himself to the uncircumcised sojourner with thee, or to an Aramite of the race of the stranger, after that he is sold he may have redemption; one of his brethren may redeem him. Either his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, may redeem him; or any one of kin to the flesh of his family may redeem him; or if his hand be able, he may redeem himself. And he shall reckon with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself, unto the year of Jubilee, and the money of his payment shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of an hireling shall it be with him. If the years be yet many, according to them shall he give the price of his redemption; or if but few years remain unto the year of Jubilee, he shall compute with him, and according to the years shall give for his redemption. As a hireling year by year shall he be with him; he shall not work him with rigour before thine eyes. But if he be not redeemed within those years, he shall go out at the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. For the sons of Yisrael are My servants; they are servants whom I brought out of the land of Mizraim: I am the Lord your Elohim.
XXVI. You shall make to you no idols, nor image, nor set up for you a statue; nor a stone for worship shall you make on your land to worship upon it, for I am the Lord your Elohim. The days of my Shabbats you shall keep, and reverence the house of my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
SECTION XXXIII.
BECHUKKOTHAI.
If you walk in My statutes, and observe My commandments and perform them, then will I give you rains in their season, and your land shall yield her produce, and the tree of the field its fruit. And for you the threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the shooting forth of the seed; and you shall eat your bread with sufficiency, and dwell safely in your land. And I will give peace in the land, and you shall inhabit, and no one (be among you) who disturbeth. And I will make the evil beast to cease from the land, neither shall they who destroy with the sword pass through on your land. And you shall chase your adversaries, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you put a myriad to flight, and your adversaries shall fall before you by the sword. For I will have regard to you2 in my Word, to do you good, and will add to you, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you. And you shall eat the old of the old, and shall turn out the old before the new. And I will set My Tabernacle among you, and My Word shall not reject you. And I will make My Shekinah to dwell among you, and I will be to you Eloha, and you shall be a people before Me. I am the Lord your Elohim who brought you out from the land of Mizraim, that you should not be bondmen to them; and I brake off the yoke of the Gentiles from you, and brought you into liberty.[3]
But if you will not be obedient to My Word, nor perform all these commandments; and if you despise My statutes, and your soul abhor My judgments, so as not to do all My commandments, by your making My covenant of no effect, (or, by your changing My covenant,) I also will do this unto you: I will visit you with trouble, wasting and burning with darkness of eyes, and exhaustion of soul; and ye shall sow your seed in vain for your enemies shall eat it. And I will reveal My anger against you, and you shall be broken before your enemies; they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when no one pursueth you. And if yet with these ye will not obey My Word, I will add sevenfold chastisement upon your sins. And I will break the glory of your power, and will make the heavens above you obdurate as iron, to give no rain, and the ground beneath you hard as brass in yielding no fruit; and your strength shall be put forth in vain, for your ground will not yield its produce, nor the tree of the earth its fruit. And if you will walk on forwardly before Me, and will not turn again to obey My Word, I will add to bring upon you a stroke sevenfold (heavier) according to your sins. And I will send the beast of the wilderness against you, and it shall devour you, and consume your cattle, and diminish you, and make your ways desolate. And if through these (calamities) ye will not be corrected by My Word, but will walk before Me with hardness (of heart), I also will proceed with you in hardness,[4] and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins. And I will bring upon you those who kill with the sword, who shall take vengeance upon you in punishment for your transgressions against the words of the Torah. And you will congregate in your cities; but I will send forth the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. When I shall have broken for you the support of food, ten women will prepare your bread in one oven, and return your bread by weight, and you will eat, but will not be satisfied. And if with this you will not be obedient to My Word, but will walk before me with obstinacy, I will proceed with you with strengthened anger, and will chastise you, even I, sevenfold for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters will you eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and will throw your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and My Word shall abhor you. And I will make your cities a waste, and lay waste your sanctuary, and accept no more the offering of your congregation. And I will make your country a wilderness, and your enemies who will dwell in it shall spread desolation upon it. And I will disperse you among the nations, and draw out after you them who kill with the sword, and your country shall be a desert and your cities a waste. Then shall the land enjoy her repose all the days in which it shall be a desert, and you be in the land of your enemies: so shall the land repose, and enjoy her remission: all the days of its desolateness it shall rest; because it did not rest in your times of intermission, when you were inhabitants upon it. And to the heart of those of you who are left in the land of their enemies will I send brokenness, and they shall flee at the sound of a falling leaf; they shall flee as flying from before those who kill with the sword, and fall, while no man pursueth. They shall thrust, one man against his brother, as (fugitives) from before them who destroy with the sword, while no one is pursuing and ye shall have no power against your adversaries; and ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you. And they who are left of shall pine away in your sins, in their adversaries’ land, and for their sins, also, the evil deeds of their fathers which their own hands hold fast, shall they pine away.[5]
But, if they will confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, and their falseness with which they have acted falsely before My Word, and that they have walked before me in obduracy, (while) I also have dealt against them with sharpness, and brought them into the land of their enemies; when then their stout heart shall be broken, and they concur with (the punishment of) their sins, I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and my covenant with Izhak, and also my covenant with Avraham will I remember, and I will remember the land. But the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy her repose while made desolate for them, and they shall receive (the punishment of) their sins; curses instead of blessings will I have brought upon them who had cast away My judgments, and whose soul had abhorred My statutes. Yet, even in the land of their enemies I will not strike them down, nor cast them away to consume them utterly, and to make My covenant with them to change; for I am the Lord their Elohim. But I will remember the former covenant with them whom I brought out of the land of Mizraim in the eyes of the nations, that I might be their Elohim. I am the Lord.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord appointed between His Word and the sons of Yisrael, in the mountain of Sinai, by the hand of Mosheh.
XXVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When a man setteth apart a votive offering, (it shall be) by estimation of the life before the Lord. If it be the valuation for a male from twenty years to sixty years old, the valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, in the shekel of the sanctuary. And if a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. And if the age be from five years to twenty years, the valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. And if the age be from a month unto five years, the valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. And if the age be from a month unto five years, the valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels of silver shall be the valuation. But if (the age) be sixty years and upwards, for a male the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. But if he be too poor (for the sum of) his valuation, then he shall stand before the priest, and the priest shall make valuation for him upon the word of that which the hand of him who maketh the vow may possess; so shall the priest make his estimate.
And if it be an animal of which (some portion) will be offered an oblation before the Lord, all that he giveth of it before the Lord shall be sacred; he shall not alter it or change it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he will indeed change animal for animal, both it and that for which it is changed shall be sacred. And if it be any unclean animal, of which none may be offered an oblation before the Lord, he shall present the animal before the priest, and the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; according to the estimate of the priest so shall it be. Arid if he will redeem it, then he shall add the fifth upon its value.
And when a man shall sanctify his house, to be consecrated before the Lord, the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. And if he who had consecrated it will redeem his house, then let him add the fifth of the price of its value upon it, and it shall be his.
And if a man consecrate a field of his possession before the Lord, its valuation shall be according to (the quantity of) its seed; if sown with barley, a measure[6] shall be (valued at) fifty shekels of silver. If he consecrate his field from the year of Jubilee, it shall stand according to its value. But if he consecrate his field after the year of Jubilee, the priest shall reckon the money with him according to the years which remain until the (next) year of Jubilee, and it shall be abated from the valuation. But if he will redeem the field that he had consecrated, let him add to it a fifth of its valuated price, and it shall be confirmed to him. But if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more: but the field, when it would have gone out at the Jubilee, shall be consecrated before the Lord as a field devoted (hekel cherema); the possession of it shall be to the priest. And if a man will consecrate before the Lord a field which he hath bought, and which is not of the fields of his inheritance, then the priest shall reckon the sum (receipt) of its value until the year of Jubilee, and he shall give the price of it in that day, a holy thing before the Lord. In the year of Jubilee the field shall return unto him who sold it, to whom the possession of the land had belonged. And every valuation shall be in the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty maheen before the Lord.
Moreover, the first‑born among cattle which is to be a firstling, before the Lord, no man may consecrate, whether ox or sheep; it is the Lord's already. And if it be an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to its valuation, and add one fifth thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to its valuation. Nevertheless, no devoted thing which a man shall have devoted before the Lord of all that he hath of man or of beast and of the field of his possession may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most sacred before the Lord. No devoted one who is devoted (or accursed) of men, (as the criminal doomed to death,) shall be redeemed; being slain, he shall be killed.
And all the tythe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's; it is sacred before the Lord. But if a man will redeem any of his tythe, a fifth shall be add upon it. And every tything of oxen or sheep, whatever passeth under the tything rod, shall be sacred before the Lord. He shall not choose between the good and bad, neither shall he change it. But if he will commute it, both it and that for which it was exchanged shall be consecrate, and not be redeemed.
These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisrael, in the mountain of Sinai.
END OF THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE BOOK
VAIYIKRA.
[1] The produce of the land during the time of remission. – RASHI, EBEN EZRA. For the whole year it was common property, and not the owner’s exclusively.
[2] Sam. Vers., “From him thou shalt not take double.”
2 Sam. Vers., “I will be propitious.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “brought you into covenant with Me.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “relentlessly.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “they shall be crucified.”
[6] Kor. Heb., Chomer = seventy-five gallons.
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Ch. 1-4
THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM
ON
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS.
SECTION OF THE TORAH XXXIV.
BEMIDBAR.
I. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of ordinance, on the first of the month Ijar, which was the second month of the second year from the time of their coming forth from the land of Mizraim, saying: Take the account of the whole congregation of the Beni Yisrael, according to the families of their fathers' house, by the number of the names of all the males by their capitations. From each son twenty years and upwards, every one going out in the host in Yisrael; thou and Aharon number them by their hosts. And let there be with you a man of each tribe, a chief of his father's house. And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur: of Shemeon, the leader,[1] Shelumiel bar Zuri‑Shaddai: the prince of Jehudah, Nachshon bar Amminadab: the prince of Issakar, Nathaniel bar Zuar : the prince of Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon: the prince of the Beni Joseph, of Ephraim, Elishama bar Ammihud: the prince of Menasheh, Gamliel bar Pedazur: the prince of Benjamin, Abidan bar Gideoni: the prince of Dan, Achiezer bar Ammi‑shadai: the prince of Asher, Pagiel bar Achran: the prince of Gad, Eljasaph bar Dehuel: the prince of Naphtali, Achira bar Enan. These (were) the notables of the congregation of the people, chiefs of their fathers' tribes, heads of thousands in Yisrael these. And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who are expressed by their names: and they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month Ijar, which is the second month, and recensed them by the families of their fathers' house, by the number of their names, from twenty years old and upward by their capitations. As the Lord commanded Mosheh, they numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the sons of Reuben, the first‑born of Yisrael by the families of the generations of their fathers' house, in the number of their names by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all going forth in the host, the sum of the tribe of Reuben, forty‑six thousand Five hundred. [JERUSALEM. Their sum.] Of the families of the Beni Shemeon, after the generations of their fathers' house in the number of their names by their polls, every male from twenty years and upward, every one going forth in the host, the sum of the tribe of Shemeon, fifty‑nine thousand three hundred: of the family of the Beni Gad, after the generation of their fathers' house, in the number of their names by their polls, every male from twenty years and upward, forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. The sum of the tribe of Jehudah seventy‑four thousand six hundred:[2] of Issakar, fifty‑four thousand four hundred: of Zebulon, fifty‑seven thousand four hundred: of Ephraim, forty thousand five hundred: Of Menasheh, thirty‑two thousand two hundred: Benjamin, thirty five thousand four hundred: Dan, sixty‑two thousand seven hundred: Asher, forty-one thousand five hundred: Naphtali, fifty‑three thousand four hundred.
These are the sums of the numbered ones which Mosheh and Aharon, and the princes of Yisrael, twelve men, a man for each house of their fathers, did number. And all the sums of the numbered of the Beni Yisrael were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. But the Levites after their father's tribe were not numbered among them. For the Lord had spoken with Mosheh, saying: Nevertheless, the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, nor take their sum among the children of Yisrael: but thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and whatever things pertain unto it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and do service in it; and round about the tabernacle shall they dwell. And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it apart; and when the tabernacle is to be stationary, the Levites are to uprear it: the common person who draweth near will be slain by a flaming fire from before the Lord.
And the sons of Yisrael shall encamp every one by the place of his own company, every one under his standard according to their hosts. But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may not be wrath upon the congregation of the children of Yisrael; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of testimony. And the sons of Yisrael did according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheb, so did they.
II. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: Every man of the Beni Yisrael shall encamp by his standard, by the ensign which is signified upon the standards of their fathers' house over against the tabernacle of ordinance shall they encamp round about. The length of the camp of Yisrael shall be twelve miles, and its breadth twelve miles. And they who encamp eastward to the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Jehudah by their hosts, spreading over four miles. And his standard shall be of silk, of three colours, corresponding with (those of) the precious stones which are in the breastplate,--sardius, topaz, and carbuncle; and upon it shall be expressed and set forth the names of the three tribes of Jehudah, Issakar, and Zebulon; and in the midst shall be written : Arise, 0 Lord, and let Thine enemies be scattered, and Thine adversaries be driven away before Thee; and upon it shall be set forth the figure of a young lion. And the Rabba of the Beni Jehudah shall be Nachshon bar Amminadab. And the sum of the hosts of that tribe was seventy‑four thousand six hundred.
And they who encamp next by him shall be the tribe of Issakar, and the Rabba appointed over the host of the Beni Issakar, Nathaniel bar Zuar: and the sum of the host of the tribe fifty‑four thousand four hundred. The tribe of Zebulon,--the Rabba, Eliab bar Chelon; the number, fifty‑seven thousand four hundred. All the numbered ones of the camp of Jehudah, one hundred and eighty‑six thousand four hundred, by their hosts; they shall go forward in front.
(By) the standard of the camp of Reuben they, shall encamp southward by their hosts, spreading over four miles. And his standard shall be of silk, of three colours, corresponding with (those of) the precious stones that are in the breastplate, azmorad, sapphire, and adamant: on it shall be expressed and set forth the names of the three tribes of Reuben, Shemeon, Gad; and in the midst of it be written, Hear, Yisrael, the Lord our Elohim is One; and upon it shall be set forth the figure of a stag. Some would have thought there should have been upon it the figure of a young ox; but Mosheh the prophet altered it, that the sin of the calf might not be remembered against them. And the Rabba set over the host of the tribe Reuben was Elizur bar Shedeur. And his host and the numbered of his tribe were fifty‑nine thousand three hundred. The tribe of Gad: the Rabba set over the host of the tribe of the Beni Gad was Eljasaph bar Dehuel. And his host and the number of his tribe, forty‑five thousand six hundred. All the sum of the numbered ones of the camp of Reuben, one hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty by their hosts; and they went forward secondly,
But the tabernacle shall go with the host of the Levites, in the midst of their host; and their camp spreadeth over four miles, in the midst are they to be: as they encamp, so shall they go, every man going in his appointed place, by their standard.
The camp of Ephraim by the standard of their hosts shall pitch on the west; their camp spreadeth over four miles; and their standard is of silk of three colours, corresponding with the precious stones in the breastplate, ligure, agate, and amethyst; and upon it expressed and set forth the names of the three tribes, Ephraim, Menasheh and Benjamin, having written in the midst, And the Cloud of the Lord was over them, in the going forward of the host; and upon it was set forth the figure of a young man. And the Rabba set over the tribe of Ephraim, Elishama bar Ammihud; and the sum of his host, forty thousand five hundred. And next to him were the tribe of Menasheh: the Rabba, Gamliel bar Pedashur; their number, thirty‑two thousand two hundred. Of the tribe of Benjamin the Rabba was Abidan bar Gideoni, and the number of his host thirty-five thousand four hundred. The Sum of the camp of Ephraim was one hundred and eight thousand one hundred; and they went forward thirdly.
The standard of the camp of Dan shall be to the north with their hosts; and the space of their camp shall spread over four miles. His standard shall be of silk of three colours, corresponding with the stones in the breastplate, chrysolite, beryl, and jasper; in it shall be expressed and set forth the names of the three tribes, Dan, Naphtali, and Asher; and upon it shall be expressed: And in his encampment shall he say, Return, 0 Lord, and dwell in Thy glory in the midst of the myriads of Yisrael; and upon it shall also be set forth the figure of a basilisk serpent. (Gen. xlix. 17.) The Rabba set over the hosts of Dan was Achiezer bar Aminishaddai, and the number of his tribe sixty‑two thousand seven hundred. They who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher; the Rabbi was Paghiel bar Achran, and the numbers forty‑one thousand five hundred. Of the tribe Naphtali, the Rabba, Achira bar Enan; and the numbers, fifty‑three thousand four hundred. The sum of the hosts of Dan was one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred: and these went forward last with their ensigns.
This is the amount of the numbers of the Beni Yisrael, according to the house of their fathers; all the sums of the camps by their hosts were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Yisrael, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And the sons of Yisrael did according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheh; so did they encamp by their standards, and so went they forward, every man with his family by the house of his fathers.
III. These are the generations of Aharon and Mosheb, who were genealogized in the day that the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai. And these are the names of the Beni Aharon the priests, the disciples of Moshe, the Rabbi of Yisrael; and they were called by his name in the day that they were anointed to minister in offering their oblations. But Nadab and Abihu died by the flaming fire at the time of their offering the strange fire from their own tents; and they had no children. And Elazar and Ithamar ministered before Aharon their father.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring the tribe of Levi near, and appoint them before Aharon the priest to minister with him, (or, to do him service;) and let them be divided into twenty and four parties, and they shall keep his charge, and the charge of all the congregation before the tabernacle of ordinance, to perform the work of the tabernacle; and they shall have charge of all the vessels of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the charge of the sons of Yisrael to do the service of the tabernacle. And I have given the Levites unto Aharon and his sons; a gift are they given and delivered to him from among the sons of Yisrael; and number thou Aharon and his soils, that they may keep their priesthood; and the stranger who cometh near shall be slain by the flame from. before the Lord.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: And I, behold, I have brought nigh the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael, instead of all the first‑born who open the womb among the sons of Yisrael; and the Levites shall minister before Me. For every first‑born among the sons of Yisrael is Mine, from the day when. I slew every first-born in the land of Mizraim; I have sanctified before Me every first‑born in Yisrael; from man to animal, they are Mine: I am the Lord.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, saying: Number the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers and their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. Moshe therefore numbered them according to the mouth of the Word of the Lord, as he had been commanded. And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kehath, and Merari. And these are the names of the Beni Gershon, according to their families, Libni and Shemei. And the Beni Kehath by their families, Amram, Jizhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the Beni Merari by their families, Machli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
Of Gershon, the family of Libni, and the family of Shemei; these are the families of Gershon. The sum of them, by the numbers of all the males from a month old and upward, seven thousand five hundred. The two families who spring from Gershon shall encamp after the tabernacle westward; and the Rab of the house of the fathers set over the two families shall be Eljasaph bar Lael. And the charge of the Beni Gershon in the tabernacle of ordinance shall be the tent, and the covering that overspreadeth, and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the curtains of the court, and the hanging which is at the gate of the court by the tabernacle, and the altar round about, and the cords of it, for all the service thereof.
Of Kehath was the family of Amram, and the family of Izbar, and of Hebron, and Uzziel: these are the families of Kehath, the numbers eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. The four families that spring from Kehath shall encamp by the south side of the tabernacle; the Rab shall be Elizaphan bar Uzziel, and their charge, the ark, the table, the candelabrum, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the veil, and that which pertaineth to its service. And the Amarkol set over the chiefs of the Levites shall be Elazar bar Aharon the priest, who inquireth by Uraya and Thumaya; and under his hand shall they be appointed who keep the charge of the sanctuary.
Of Merari, the families of Machli and Mushi, their number six thousand two hundred, and the Rab Zeruel bar Abichael: they shall encamp by the tabernacle northward; and that delivered to their charge shall be the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, and sockets, and all (that pertains to) the service thereof. The pillars of the court also round about, their sockets, pins, and cords.
But they who encamp before the tabernacle of ordinance eastward (shall be) Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons; keeping charge of the sanctuary and of Yisrael; and the stranger who draweth near shall be slain by flaming fire from before the Lord. The sum of the Levites whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered by the mouth of the Word of the Lord was twenty‑two thousand.
And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Number all the first‑bon males among the sons of Yisrael, from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. And bring near the Levites before me--I am the Lord--instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Yisrael, and all the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstling cattle of the children of Yisrael. And Mosheh numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael: the sum of their number was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy‑three.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring near the Levites instead of every first‑born among Yisrael, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, that the Levites may minister before me: I am the Lord. And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy and three of the first‑born of the Beni Yisrael, who are more (than the number of) the Levites, thou shalt take of each five shekels by poll, in the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take, twenty mahin to the shekel. And thou shalt give the Shekel unto Aharon, and to his sons, as the redemption of them who are more than they. Arid Mosheh took the redemption (money) of them who were above those who were released by the Levites, one thousand three hundred and sixty‑five shekels; and Mosheh gave the redemption silver to Aharon, and to his sons, according to the mouth of the Word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
IV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take the account of the sons of Kehath from among the Beni Levi, from thirty years and upwards to fifty years, every one who cometh by the band to do the work in the tabernacle of ordinance. This is the service of the Beni Kehath, in the tabernacle of ordinance (with) the most holy things. But whenever the camp is to be removed, Aharon and his sons shall enter, and unloose the veil that is spread, and cover up the Ark of the Testimony, and put over it the covering of hyacinthine skin, and overspread it with a wrapper of twined work, and inset its staves. And over the table of the presence bread they shall spread a wrapper of purple, and set upon it the vials, and the spoons, and the vases, [JERUSALEM. Vials,] and the libation cups; but the bread shall be upon it evermore. And they shall spread upon it a wrapper of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of hyacinthine skin, and inset its staves. And they shall take a purple wrapper, and cover the candelabrum that lighteth, and its lamps, its tongs, its snuff‑dishes, and all the vessels of service by which they attend it. [JERUSALEM. Snuffers.] And they shall put it and all its vessels in a covering of hyacinthine skin, and place it upon a rest. [JERUSALEM. Upon a beam.] And upon the golden altar they shall spread a purple vest, and cover it with a covering of hyacinthine skin, and inset its staves. And they shall take all the vessels, of the service with which they minister in the sanctuary, and wrap them in a covering of hyacinthine skins, and place it upon a beam.
And they shall remove the cinders from the altar, and overspread it with a covering of crimson. [JERUSALEM. And they shall take away from the altar,] and put upon it all its vessels with which it is served, the cinder‑holders, flesh‑hooks, prongs, and basins, even all the vessels of the altar, and spread upon it a covering of hyacinthine skin, and inset its staves.
And after Aharon and his sons have completed to cover the sanctuary, and all the vessels thereof, when the camp is to go forward, then the sons of Kehath may enter in to carry: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die by the flaming fire. This is the burden of the sons of Kehath in the tabernacle of ordinance. And that delivered to Elazar bar Aharon the priest shall be the oil for the light, the aromatic incense, the perpetual mincha, the oil of anointing, and the custody of all the tabernacle, and whatever is in it in the sanctuary and its vessels.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Thou shalt not give occasion for the tribe of the family of Kehath to perish among the Levites. But this appointment make thou for them, that they may live the life of the just, and die not by the flaming fire; they shall turn away their eyes from the Most Holy Place at the time they approach thither. Aharon and his sons shall enter, and appoint them man by man to his service and his burden. But they shall not go in to gaze, when the priests go in to cover the vessels of the sanctuary, that they die not by the flaming fire. [JERUSALEM. And the Levites shall not go in to gaze when the priests cover the vessels of the holy house, lest they die.]
[1] Amarkol. See Glossary
[1] The same form of words is given with each tribe; in the remaining ones I have omitted the preamble, and rendered the numbers only
[1] Amarkol. See Glossary
[2] The same form of words is given with each tribe; in the remaining ones I have omitted the preamble, and rendered the numbers only
THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS
ON
THE BOOK BEMIDBAR
OR
NUMBERS.
SECTION OF THE TORAH XXXIV.
TITLE BEMIDBAR.
I. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of ordinance, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their coming out from the land of Mizraim, saying: Take the sum[1] of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael after their kindreds, and after the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their capitations: from a son of twenty years and upwards, every one who can go forth to war in Yisrael, thou and Aharon number them by their hosts. And with you let there be a man of each tribe, a man who is chief of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur; of Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zuri-Shaddai; of Jehudah, Nachshon bar Aminadab; of Issakar, Nethanel bar Zuar; of Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon; of the Beni-Joseph, of Ephraim, Elishama bar Amihud; of Menasheh, Gamliel bar Pheda-Zur; of Benyamin, Abidan bar Gideoni;
of Dan, Achiezer bar Ami-Shaddai; of Asher, Phagiel bar Akran; of Gad, Eljasaph bar Dehuel; of Naphtali, Achira bar Enan. These were the called ones of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, chiefs of the thousands of Yisrael were they. And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who were expressed by their names; and they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees according to the house of their fathers, with the number of their names from twenty years old and upwards, by their polling. As the Lord commanded Mosheh, he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael, by their generations and their families, according to the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, by their polls; every male from twenty years old and upward, all going forth in the host: of the tribe of Reuben were numbered forty and six thousand and five hundred. Of the sons of Shemeon, by their generations and their families and the house of their fathers, were numbered, by the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Shemeon, were numbered fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. Of the sons of Gad, the generations of the families of the house of their fathers, according to the number of their names from twenty years old and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Gad, were numbered forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. Of the sons of Jehudah, the generations of the families of the house of their fathers, by the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Jehudah, were numbered seventy and four thousand and six hundred. Of the sons of Issakar, the generations of the families of the house of their fathers, by the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Issakar, were numbered fifty and four thousand and four hundred. Of the tribe of Zebulon, the generations of the families of the house of their fathers, by the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going forth in the host; of the tribe of Zebulon, were numbered fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. Of the sons of Joseph, the generations of the Beni Ephraim by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Ephraim, forty thousand and five hundred. The generations of the Beni Menasheh by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upwards, every one going forth in the host; of the tribe of Menasheh, were numbered thirty and two thousand and two hundred. The generations of the sons of Benyamin, by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going forth in the host;
of the tribe of Benyamin, were numbered thirty and five thousand and four hundred. The generations of the Beni Dan, by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Dan, were numbered sixty and two thousand and seven hundred. Of the generations or the Beni Asher, by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe of Asher, were numbered forty and one thousand and five hundred. The generations of the sons of Naphtali, by the kindreds of the house of their fathers, in the number of their names, from a son of twenty years and upwards, everyone going forth in the host; of the tribe Naphtali, were numbered fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
These were the numbered ones whom Mosheh and Aharon, and the twelve men, the princes of Yisrael, did number, severally, according to the house of their fathers. And all those who were numbered of the Beni Yisrael according to the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going forth in the host of Yisrael; all the numbered ones were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. But the Levites, by the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
And the Lord had spoken with Mosheh, saying: Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, nor take the account of them among the sons of Yisrael. But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that belongeth to it: and they shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and serve it; and they shall encamp round about the tabernacle. And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it apart; and when the tabernacle is to be stationary, the Levites shall set it up; but the stranger who cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And the sons of Yisrael shall encamp every man upon his own dwelling-place, and every man by his standard, according to their hosts. But the Levites shall dwell round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may not be wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Yisrael; and the Levites shall watch the watching of the tabernacle of testimony. And the sons of Yisrael did according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheh, so did they.
II.And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: Every man (shall encamp) by his standard, by the ensign of the house of their fathers shall the sons of Yisrael encamp. Over against the tabernacle of ordinance shall they encamp round about.
The standard of the camp of Jehudah shall they pitch, according to their hosts, eastward toward the sunrise: and the chief of the sons of Jehudah is Nachshon bar Aminadab.[2] And his host, and the number of them, seventy and four thousand and six hundred. And they who pitch next by him shall be the tribe of Issakar; and the chief of the sons of Issakar, Nethanel bar Zuar; and his host, and the numbered of it, fifty and four thousand and four hundred. The tribe of Zebulon, and the chief of the sons of Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon. And his host, and the numbered of them, fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. All that were numbered of the camp of Jehudah, a hundred and eighty and six thousand and four hundred, by their hosts: they shall go forward in front.
The standard of the camp of Reuben (shall be) to the south, by their hosts: and the chief of the Beni Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur. And his host, and the numbered of it, forty and six thousand and five hundred. And they who pitch by him shall be the tribe of Shemeon; and the chief of the Beni Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zuri-Shaddai; and his host, and the numbered of them, fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. And the tribe of Gad, and the chief of the Beni Gad, Eljasaph bar Dehuel; and his host, and the numbered of them, forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben, a hundred and fifty and one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their hosts: they shall go forward secondly.
But the tabernacle of ordinance shall be taken forward with the camp of the Levites, in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they go onward, every man in his place, by their standard.
The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, shall be to the west: and the chief of the Beni Ephraim, Elishama bar Ammihud. And his host and their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred. And they who shall be next by him shall be the tribe of Menasheh: and the chief of the Beni Menasheh, Gamliel bar Phedazur. And his host, and the numbered thereof, thirty and two thousand and two hundred. And the tribe of Benyamin, and the chieftain of the sons of Benyamin, Abidan bar Gideoni: and his host, and the numbered thereof, thirty and five thousand and four hundred. All the numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred and eight thousand and one hundred, by their hosts: and they went forward thirdly.
The standard of the camp of Dan (shall be) to the north, by their hosts; and the chieftain of the Beni Dan, Achiezer bar Ammi-Shaddai. And his host, and the numbered thereof, sixty and two thousand and seven hundred. And those who encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the chieftain of the Beni Asher, Phagiel bar Akran. And his host, and the numbered of it, forty and one thousand and five hundred. And the tribe of Naphtali, and the chief of the Beni Naphtali, Achira bar Enan: and his host, and the numbered thereof, fifty and three thousand and four hundred. All who were numbered of the camp of Dan, a hundred and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred: they shall go hindmost by their standards.
These are they who were numbered of the sons of Yisrael, by the house of their fathers; all who were numbered in the camps by their hosts, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Yisrael, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And the sons of Yisrael did according to all which the Lord commanded Mosheh: so did they encamp by their standards, and so went they forward every man by his family, and by the house of his fathers.
III. And these are the generations of Aharon and Mosheh in the day that the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai. And these; are the names of the sons of Aharon. His firstborn, Nadab; and Abihu, Elazar, and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the priests, who were consecrated that their oblations might be offered, (and that they might) minister. But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord; in their offering the strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai: and they had no children. And Elazar and Ithamar ministered before Aharon their father.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring the tribe of Levi near, and appoint them before Aharon the priest, that they may minister with him. And they shall keep the watch and the charge of all the congregation by the tabernacle of ordinance to perform the service of the tabernacle. And they shall keep all the vessels of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the charge of the sons of Yisrael to perform the service of the tabernacle. And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aharon, and to his sons; they are delivered and given to him from the sons of Yisrael. And thou shalt appoint Aharon and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; but the stranger who cometh near shall be put to death.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: And I, behold, I have brought near the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael instead of every firstborn that openeth the womb of the sons of Yisrael; and the Levites shall minister before Me. For every firstborn is Mine; on the day that I slew every firstborn in the land of Mizraim, I sanctified before Me every firstborn in Yisrael from man to animal; they are Mine: I am the Lord.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
Number the sons of Levi, after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Mosheh numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he had been commanded.
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kehath and Merari. And these are the names of the Beni Gershon after their families: Lebni and Shemei. And the Beni Kehath after their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. And the Beni Merari by their families, Mahali and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
Of Gershon were the family of Libni and the family of Shemei; these are the families of Gershon. Those that were numbered of them, every male from the son of a month and upward, the number of them was seven thousand and five hundred. The families of Gershon shall encamp behind the tabernacle, westward:
and the Rab of the house of the fathers of Gershon, Eljasaph bar Lael. And the charge of the Beni Gershon in the tabernacle of ordinance (shall be) the tent and its covering, and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the curtains of the court, and the hanging of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it, for all its service.
And of Kehath was the family of Amram, and the family of Izhar, and the family or Hebron, and the family of Uzziel: these are the families of Kehath.
According to the number of all the males, from the son of a month and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. The families of the Beni Kehath shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle, southward. And the Rab of the house of the fathers of the Kehath families (shall be) Elizaphan bar Uzziel. And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candelabrum, and the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the tent, (or hanging, Sam. Vers. , "covering,") and all (that pertaineth to) the service thereof.And the chief (armarkella) who is appointed over the chiefs (rabbins) of the Levites is Elazar bar Aharon the priest: under his hand shall they be appointed who have the charge of the keeping of the sanctuary.
Of Merari, the families of Mahli and the families of Mushi. And the numbers of them, according to the numbers of all the males, from the son of a month and upwards, six thousand and two hundred. And the Rab of the house of the fathers of the Merari families, Zuriel bar Abichael; and they shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward. And the charge[3] for the custody of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and whatever (pertaineth) to its service; and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, their pins, and their cords. But they who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, even before the tabernacle of ordinance toward the sunrise, shall be Mosheh, and Aharon and his sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to watch over the children of Yisrael; and the stranger who cometh near shall be put to death. All who were numbered of the Levites whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered by the word of the Lord, by their families, every male, from the son of a month and upward, twenty and two thousand.[4]
And the Lord spake unto Mosheh, Number all the firstborn males of the children of Yisrael, from the son of a month upward, and the number of their names. And thou shalt take the Levites before me, I am the Lord, instead of all the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings of the cattle of the Beni Yisrael. And Mosheh numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael. And all the firstborn males, by the number of their names, from the son of a month and upward by their numbers, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and seventy and three.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the Beni Yisrael, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall minister before Me: I am the Lord. And of the redeemed ones of the two hundred and seventy and three of the sons of Yisrael who are more than the Levites, thou shalt take of each five shekels, by poll, in the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take; twenty mahin are a shekel. And thou shalt give the silver of the redeemed who exceed them to Aharon and his sons. And Mosheh took the silver of the redeemed who were more than the redeemed by the Levites. Of the firstborn of the Beni Yisrael he took the silver, a thousand and three hundred and sixty-five shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary. And Mosheh gave the silver of the redeemed ones to Aharon and to his sons, by the Word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
IV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: Take the reckoning of the Beni Kehath from among the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, from thirty years and upward, unto fifty years; all that come to the host, to do the work of the tabernacle of ordinance. And this (shall be) the service of the Beni Kehath in the tabernacle of ordinance, the Holy of Holies. And Aharon and his sons shall enter in, what time the camp is to proceed; and they shall unloose the veil that is hung, and cover therewith the ark of the testimony, and put over it a covering of hyacinthine skins, and overspread it with a wrapper, wholly purple, having inset its staves. And upon the table of the presence bread they shall spread a wrapper of purple, and on it put the bowls and mortars, and the measures and cups for libations, and the bread that is ever on it; and overspread it with a wrapper of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of hyacinth skins, having inset its staves. And they shall take a purple wrapper, and cover the candelabrum of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuff dishes, and all the vessels of the service by which they serve it; and put it and all its vessels into a covering of hyacinthine skins, and set it upon a bar. And upon the golden altar they shall spread a purple wrapper, and cover it with a covering of hyacinth skins, and fix its staves. And they shall take all the vessels of the ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of purple, and cover them with a covering of hyacinth skins, and set them upon bars.
And they shall collect the cinders from the altar, and spread upon it a wrapper of crimson, and put thereon all its vessels by which they minister upon it; censers, fleshhooks, shovels, and basins; all the vessels of the altar; and spread over it a covering of hyacinthine skins, and inset its staves. And when Aharon and his sons have completed to cover up the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary in the moving of the camp, the sons of Kehath shall go in to carry (them), but they shall not touch the holy things (themselves), lest they die; but these are the burden of the sons of Kehath in the tabernacle of ordinance.
And that delivered unto Elazar bar Aharon the priest (shall be) the oil for the light, and the aromatic incense, and the continual mincha, and the anointing oil, (with) the charge of all the tabernacle, and whatever belongeth to the sanctuary and its vessels.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: Cut not off the tribe of the family of Kehath from among the Levites;[5] but do this to them, that they may live and not die, in their approach to the Holy of Holies: Let Aharon and his sons go in, and appoint each man his service and his burden. But they shall not go in to see, when the vessels of the sanctuary are covered, lest they die.
[1] Chushban, “reckoning account.”
[2] Matt. i. 3, 4; Luke iii. 32, 33.
[3] Sam. Vers., “business.”
[4] On the difficulties connected with these numbers, see “Bishop Colenso’s Objections to the Pentateuch, examined by Dr. Avraham Benisch.” London. 1863. Also “An Examination of Bishop Colenso’s Difficulties,” by the late Dr. M’Caul. London. 1864.
[5] Do not occasion their death.
THE TARGUM OF PALESTINE,
COMMONLY ENTITLED
THE TARGUM OF JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL,
ON THE
BOOK OF GENESIS.
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SECTION I.
BERASHITH.
I. At the beginning (min avella) the Lord created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was vacancy and desolation, solitary of the sons of men, and void of every animal; and darkness was upon the face of the abyss, and the Spirit of mercies from before the Lord breathed upon the face of the waters.
[JERUSALEM TARGUM. In wisdom (be-hukema) the Lord created. And the earth was vacancy and desolation, and solitary of the sons of men, and void of every animal; and the Spirit of mercies from before the Lord breathed upon the face of the waters.]
And the Lord said, Let there be light and to enlighten above; and at once there was light. And the Lord beheld the light, that it was good; and the Lord divided between the light and the darkness. And the Lord call the light Day; and He made it that the inhabiters of the world might labour by it: and the darkness called He night; and He made it that in it the creatures might have rest. And it was evening, and it was morning, the First Day.
[JERUSALEM TARGUM. And it was evening, and it was morning, in the order of the work of the creation, (or of the beginning,) the First Day.]
And the Lord said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate between the waters above and the waters beneath.
[JERUSALEM. And let there be a separation between the waters above and the waters below.]
And the Lord made the expanse, upbearing it with three fingers, between the confines of the heavens and the waters of the ocean, and separated between the waters which were below the expanse, and the waters which were above, in the collection (or covering) of the expanse; and it was so. And the Lord called the expanse the Heavens. And it was evening, and it was morning, the Second Day.
And the Lord said, Let the lower waters which remain under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and the earth be dried, that the land may be visible. And it was so. And the Lord called the dry (land) the Earth, and the place of the assemblage of waters called He the Seas; and the Lord saw that it was good. And the Lord said, Let the earth increase the grassy herb whose seed seedeth, and the fruit-tree making fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. And the earth produced grasses (and) herbage whose seed seedeth, and the tree making fruit after its kind. And the Lord saw that it was good. And it was evening, and it was morning, the Third Day.
And the Lord said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to distinguish between the day and the night; and let them be for signs and for festival times, and for the numbering by them the account of days, and for the sanctifying of the beginning of months, and the beginning of years, the passing away of months, and the passing away of years, the revolutions of the sun, the birth of the moon, and the revolvings (of seasons).
[JERUSALEM. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for the sanctifying by them of the beginning of months and years.]
And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And the Lord made two great luminaries; and they were equal in glory twenty and one years, less six hundred and two and seventy parts of an hour. And afterwards the moon recited against the sun a false report; and she was diminished, and the sun was appointed to be the greater light to rule the day; and the moon to be the inferior light to rule in the night, and the stars. And the Lord ordained them unto their offices, in the expanse of the heavens, to give forth light upon the earth, and to minister by day and by night, to distinguish between the light of the day and the darkness of the night. And the Lord beheld that it was good. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Forth.
And the Lord said, Let the lakes of the waters swarm forth the reptile, the living animal, and the fowl which flieth, whose nest is upon the earth; and let the way of the bird be upon the air of the expanse of the heavens. And the Lord created the great tanins, the lev-ya-than and his yoke-fellow which are prepared for the day of consolation, and every living animal which creepeth, and which the clear waters had swarmed forth after their kind; the kinds which are clean, and the kinds which are not clean; and every fowl which flieth with wings after their kinds, the clean and the unclean. And the Lord beheld that it was good. And He blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowl multiply upon the earth. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Fifth.
And the Lord said, Let the soil of the earth bring forth the living creature according to his kind; the kind that is clean and the kind that is unclean; cattle, and creeping thing, and the creature of the earth, according to his kind. And it was so. And the Lord made the beast of the earth after his kind, the clean and the unclean, and cattle after their kind, and every reptile of the earth after its kind, the clean and the unclean. And the Lord saw that it was good.
And the Lord said to the angels who ministered before Him, who had been created in the second day of the creation of the world, Let us make man in Our image, in Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl which are in the atmosphere of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every reptile creeping upon the earth. And the Lord created man in His Likeness: [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord created man in His likeness, in the likeness of the presence of the Lord He created him, the male and his yoke-fellow He created them.] In the image of the Lord He created him, with two hundred and forty and eight members, with three hundred and sixty and five nerves, and overlaid them with skin, and filled it with flesh and blood. Male and female in their bodies He created them. And He blessed them, and the Lord said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth with sons and daughters, and prevail over it, in its possessions; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth. And the Lord said, Behold, I have given you every herb whose seed seedeth upon the face of all the earth, and every unfruitful tree for the need of building and for burning; and the tree in which is fruit seeding after its kind, to you it shall be for food. But to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every reptile upon the earth in which is the living soul, (I have given) all green herbs. And it was so. And the Lord beheld every thing He had made, and it was very good. And it was evening, and it was morning, the Sixth Day.
II. And the creatures of the heavens and earth, and all the hosts of them, were completed. And the Lord had finished by the Seventh Day the work which He had wrought, and the ten formations which He had created between the suns; and He rested the Seventh Day from all His works which He had performed. And the Lord blessed the Seventh Day more than all the days of the week, and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His works which the Lord had created and had willed to make. These are the geneses of the heavens and earth when they were created in the day that the Lord Elohim made the earth and heavens. And all the trees of the field were not as yet in the earth, and all the herbs of the field had not as yet germinated, because the Lord Elohim had not made it to rain upon the earth, and man was not to cultivate the ground. But a cloud of glory descended from the throne of glory, and was filled with waters from the ocean, and afterward went up from the earth, and gave rain to come down and water all the face of the ground.
And the Lord Elohim created man in two formations; and took dust from the place of the house of the sanctuary, and from the four winds of the world, and mixed from all the waters of the world, and created him red, black, and white; and breathed into his nostils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a speaking spirit, unto the illumination of the eyes and the hearing of the ears. [JERUSALEM. And Adam became a soul of life.]
And a garden from the Eden of the just was planted by the Word of the Lord Elohim before the creation of the world, and He made there to dwell the man when He had created him. And the Lord Elohim made to grow from the ground every tree that was desirable to behold and good to eat, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, whose height was a journey of five hundred years, and the tree of whose fruit they who ate would distinguish between good and evil.
[JERUSALEM. And the tree of knowledge, of which any one who ate would distinguish between good and evil.]
And a river went forth from Eden, to water the garden, and from thence was separated, and became four heads of rivers (or four chief rivers). The name of the first is Phishon; that is it which compasseth all the land of Hindiki, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is choice. There is the bedilcha, and the precious stones of byrils. And the name of the second river is Gichon; that is it which encompasseth all the land of Koosh. And the name of the third river is Diglath; that is it which goeth to the east of Athoor. And the fourth river is Pherath.
And the Lord Elohim took the man from the mountain of worship, where he had been created, and made him dwell in the garden of Eden, to do service in the Torah, and to keep its commandments.
[JERUSALEM. And the Lord Elohim took the man, and made him dwell in the garden of Eden; and set him to do service in the Torah, and to keep it.]
And the Lord Elohim commanded Adam, saying, Of every tree of the garden eating thou mayest eat. But of the tree of whose fruit they who eat (become) wise to know between good and evil, thou shalt not eat: for in the day that thou eatest thou wilt be guilty of death.
And the Lord Elohim said, It is not right that Adam should be sleeping alone: I will make unto him a wife who may be a helper before him.
[JERUSALEM. I will make for him a yoke-fellow, going forth with him.]
And the Lord Elohim created from the earth every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Adam, to see by what name he would call it. And whatever Adam called the living animal, that was its name. And Adam called the names of all cattle, and all fowl of the heavens, and all beasts of the field. But for Adam was not found as yet a helper before him. [JERUSALEM. And for Adam was not found a yoke-fellow going forth with him.]
And the Lord Elohim threw a deep slumber upon Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, it was the thirteenth rib of the right side, and closed it up with flesh. And the Lord Elohim builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman; and He brought her to Adam. And Adam said, This time, and not again, is woman created from man. Thus, because she is created from me, (she is) bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. This it is fit to call Woman, because from man she was taken. Therefore a man shall leave, and be separate from the house of the bed of his father and of his mother, and shall consociate with his wife, and both of them shall be one flesh. And both of them were wise, Adam and his wife; but they were not faithful (or truthful) in their glory. [JERUSALEM. Therefore a man shall leave the house of the bed of his father and his mother......And they knew not what is shame.]
III. And the serpent was wiser unto evil than all the beasts of the field which the Lord Elohim had made. And he said to the woman, Is it truth that the Lord Elohim hath said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, From the rest of the fruits of the trees of the garden we have power to eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden the Lord hath said, You shall not eat of it, nor approach it, lest you die. In that hour the serpent spake accusation against his Creator, and said to the woman, Dying you will not die; for every artificer hateth the son of his art: for it is manifest before the Lord, that in the day that you eat of it, you will be as the great angels, who are wise to know between good and evil.
And the woman beheld Sammael, the angel of death, and was afraid; yet she knew that the tree was good to eat, and that it was medicine for the enlightenment of the eyes, and desirable tree by means of which to understand. And she took of its fruit, and did eat; and she gave to her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of both were enlightened, and they knew that they were naked, divested of the purple robe in which they had been created. And they saw the sight of their shame, and sewed to themselves the leaves of figs, and made to them cinctures. [JERSULAEM. And they made to them vestments.] And they heard the voice of the word of the Lord Elohim walking in the garden in the repose of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from before the Lord Elohim among the trees of the garden. And the Lord Elohim called to Adam, and said to him, Is not all the world which I have made manifest before Me; the darkness as the light? and how hast thou thought in thine heart to hide from before Me? The place where thou art concealed, do I not see? Where are the commandments that I commanded thee?
[JERUSALEM. Walking in the garden in the strength of the day......And the Word of the Lord Elohim called to Adam, and said to him, Behold, the world which I have created is manifest before Me; and how thinkest thou that the place in the midst whereof thou art, is not revealed before Me? Where is the commandment which I taught thee?]
And he said, The voice of Thy Word heard I in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked; and the commandment which Thou didst teach me, I have transgressed; therefore I hid myself from shame. And He said, Who showed thee that thou art naked? Unless thou hast eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded that thou shouldst not eat. And Adam said, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord Elohim said to the woman, What hast thou done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me with his subtilty, and deceived me with his wickedness, and I ate. And the Lord Elohim brought the three unto judgment; and He said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou of all the cattle, and of all the beasts of the field: upon thy belly thou shalt go, and thy feet shall be cut off, and thy skin thou shalt cast away once in seven years; and the poison of death shall be in thy mouth, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between the seed of thy son, and the seed of her sons; and it shall be when the sons of the woman keep the commandments of the Torah, they will be prepared to smite thee upon thy head; but when they forsake the commandments of the Torah, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel. Nevertheless for them there shall be a medicine, but for thee there will be no medicine; and they shall make a remedy for the heel in the days of the King Meshiha.
[JERUSALEM. And it shall be when the sons of the woman consider the Torah, and perform (its) instructions, they will be prepared to smite thee on thy head to kill thee; and when the sons of the woman forsake the commandment of the Torah, and perform not (its) instructions, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel, and hurt them. Nevertheless there shall be a medicine for the sons of the woman, but for thee, serpent, there shall be no medicine: but it is to be that for these there shall be a remedy for the heel in the days of the king Meshiha.]
Unto the woman He said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy affliction by the blood of thy virginity, and by thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bear children, and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he will have rule over thee unto righteousness or unto sin.
But to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the word of thy wife, and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, accursed is the ground, in that it did not show thee thy guilt; in labour shalt thou eat (of) it all the days of thy life. And thorns and thistles will it put forth and increase on account of thee, and thou shalt eat the herb which is on the face of the field. And Adam answered: I pray, through mercies from before Thee, O Lord, that we may not be accounted as the cattle, to eat the herb of the face of the field. Let us stand up, and labour with the labour of the hands, and eat food of the food of the earth; and thus let there be distinction before Thee, between the children of men and the offspring of cattle.
[JERUSALEM. And thorns and dardareen shall it increase to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb which is on the face of the field. Adam answered and said, I pray, through mercies from before Thee, O Lord, that we be not accounted before Thee as the cattle, to eat the herb which is on the face of the field. Let us now stand up, and labour with the labour of the hands, and eat food of the fruits of the earth; and in these things let there be distinction before Thee between the children of men and the cattle.] By the labour of thy hands thou shalt eat food, until thou turn again to the dust from which thou wast created: for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return; for from the dust it is to be that thou art to arise, to render judgment and reckoning for all that thou hast done, in the day of the great judgment.
And Adam called the name of his wife Hava, because she is the mother of all the children of men. And the Lord Elohim made to Adam and to his wife vestures of honour from the skin of the serpent, which he had cast from him, upon the skin of their flesh, instead of that adornment which had been cast away; and He clothed them.
And the Lord Elohim said to the angels who ministered before Him, Behold, Adam is sole on the earth, as I am sole in the heavens above; and it will be that they will arise from him who will know to discern between good and evil. Had he kept the commandments which I appointed to him, he would have lived and subsisted as the tree of life for ever. But now, because he hath not kept that which I prescribed, it is decreed against him that we keep him from the garden of Eden, before he reach forth his hand and take of the tree of life: for, behold, if he eat thereof, living he will live and subsist for ever. And the Lord Elohim removed him from the garden of Eden; and he went and dwelt on Mount Moriah, to cultivate the ground from which he had been created. And He drave out the man from thence where He had made to dwell the glory of His Shekina at the first between the two Kerubaia. Before He had created the world, He created the Torah; He prepared the garden of Eden for the righteous, that they might eat and delight themselves with the fruit of the tree; because they would have practised in their lives the doctrine of the Torah in this world, and have maintained the commandments: (but) he prepared Gehinnam for the wicked, which is like the sharp, consuming sword of two edges; in the midst of it He hath prepared flakes of fire and burning coals for the judgment of the wicked who rebelled in their life against the doctrine of the Torah. To serve the Torah is better than (to eat of) the fruit of the tree of life, (the Torah) which the Word of the Lord prepared, that man in keeping it might continue, and walk in the paths of the way of life in the world to come.
[JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord Elohim said, Behold, Adam whom I have created is sole in my world, as I am sole in the heavens above. It is to be that a great people are to arise from him; from him will arise a people who will know how to discern between good and evil. And now it is good that we keep him from the garden of Eden before he stretch forth his hand and take also of the fruit of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever......And He cast out Adam, and made the glory of His Shekina to dwell at the front of the east of the garden of Eden, above the two Kerubaia. Two thousand years before He had created the world, He created the Torah, and prepared Gehinnam and the garden of Eden. He prepared the garden of Eden for the righteous, that they should eat, and delight themselves with the fruit of the tree, because they had kept the commandments of the Torah in this world. For the wicked He prepared Gehinnam, which is like the sharp, consuming sword with two edges. He prepared in the depth of it flakes of fire and burning coals for the wicked, for their punishment for ever in the world to come, who have not kept the commandment of the Torah in this world. For the Torah is the tree of life; whoever keepeth it in this life liveth and subsisteth as the tree of life. The Torah is good to keep in this world, as the fruit of the tree of life in the world that cometh.]
IV. And Adam knew Hava his wife, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Kain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord. And she added to bear from her husband Adam his twin, even Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock, but Kain was a man working in the earth. And it was at the end of days, on the fourteenth of Nisan, that Kain brought of the produce of the earth, the seed of cotton (or line), an oblation of first things before the Lord; and Habel brought of the firstlings of the flock, and of their fat; and it was pleasing before the Lord, and He gave (His) countenance to Habel and to his oblation; but to Kain and to his oblation He gave no countenance. And Kain was angered greatly, and the features of his face were downcast. And the Lord said to Kain, Why hast thou anger, and why are the features of thy face downcast? If thou doest thy work well, will not thy guilt be forgiven thee? But if thou doest not thy work well in this world, thy sin is retained unto the day of the great judgment, and at the doors of thy heart lieth thy sin. And into thy hand have I delivered the power over evil passion, and unto thee shall be the inclination thereof, that thou mayest have authority over it to become righteous, or to sin.
And Kain said to Habel his brother, Come, and let us two go forth into the field. And it was that when they two had gone forth into the field, Kain answered and said to Habel, I perceive that the world was created in goodness, but it is not governed (or conducted) according to the fruit of good works, for there is respect to persons in judgment; therefore it is that thy offering was accepted, and mine not accepted with good will.
Habel answered and said to Kain, In goodness was the world created, and according to the fruit of good works is it governed; and there is no respect of persons in judgment; but because the fruits of my works were better than thine, my oblation, before thine, hath been accepted with good will.
Kain answered and said to Habel, There is neither judgment nor Judge, nor another world; nor will good reward be given to the righteous, nor vengeance be taken of the wicked.
And Habel answered and said to Kain, There is a judgment, and there is a Judge; and there is another world, and a good reward given to the righteous, and vengeance taken of the wicked.
And because of these words they had contention upon the face of the field; and Kain arose against Habel his brother, and drave a stone into his forehead, and killed him.
And the Lord said to Kain, Where is Habel thy brother? And he said, I know not; am I the keeper of my brother? And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of the bloods of the murder of thy brother which are swallowed up in the sod, crieth before Me from the earth. And now because thou hast killed him, thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened the mouth, and received the bloods of thy brother from thy hand. When thou tillest the earth, it shall not add to give strength to its fruits for thee. A wanderer and an exile shalt thou be in the earth. And Kain said before the Lord, More heavy is my rebellion than can be borne (away). Yet is there power before Thee to forgive it. Behold, Thou hast cast me forth to-day from the face of the earth, and from before Thee is it possible to be hidden? And because I am a wanderer and an exile in the earth, any just one who findeth me will kill me. And the Lord said to him, Behold now, any one who killeth Kain, unto seven generations vengeance shall be taken of him. And the Lord sealed upon the face of Kain the mark of the Name great and honourable, that any one who might find him should not kill him when he saw it upon him.
[JERUSALEM. 7. If thou makest thy work good in this world, will it not be forgiven and remitted thee in the world to come? But if thou doest not make thy work good in this world, thy sin is retained unto the day of the great judgment; and at the door of thy heart it lieth. Yet into thy hand have I delivered power over evil passion, and to thee may be dominion over it, to become righteous or to sin......8. And Kain said to Habel his brother, Come, and let us go forth upon the face of the field. And it was when they had gone out upon the face of the field, Kain answered and said to Habel his brother, There is neither judgment nor Judge, nor another world; neither is a good reward given to the righteous, nor will vengeance be taken of the wicked. Nor was the world created in goodness, nor in goodness is it conducted. Therefore it is that thy oblation was accepted with good will, and mine not accepted with good will. Habel answered and said to Kain, There is a judgment, and there is a Judge: there is another world, and a good reward is given to the righteous, and vengeance taken of the wicked. And in goodness was the world created, and in goodness is it conducted. But according to the fruit of good works is it conducted. Because my works were better ordered than thine, my offering was accepted with good will, and thine was not accepted with good will. And as they two disputed on the face of the field, Kain arose against Habel his brother, and killed him......10. The voice of the blood of the multitude of the righteous who were to arise from Habel thy brother......13. And Kain said before the Lord, My sins are greater than can be borne. Nevertheless there is power before Thee to absolve and forgive me.]
And Kain went out from before the Lord, and dwelt in the land of the wandering of his exile, which had been made for him from before, as the garden of Eden. And Kain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Hanok; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Hanok.
[JERUSALEM. And Kain went out from before the Lord, and dwelt in the land of exile and wandering, eastward of the garden of Eden. And it had been before Kain slew Habel his brother that the earth multiplied fruits, as the fruits of the garden of Eden; (but) from (the time that) he sinned and killed his brother, it changed, to produce thorns and thistles.]
18. And there was born unto Hanok Irad, and Irad begat Mechujael, and Mechujael begat Methushael, and Methushael begat Lemek. And Lemek took to him two wives; the name of the first, Ada, and the name of the second, Zillah. And Ada bare Javal; he was the chief (rab) of all those who dwell in tents, and are masters of cattle. And the name of his brother (was) Juval: he was chief (rab) of all those who take part in song with the lyre and the pipe. And Zillah bare also Tuvalkain, the chief (rab) of all artificers who know the workmanship of brass and iron. And the sister of Tuvalkain was Naama; she was mistress of elegies and songs.
And Lemek said to his wives Ada and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lemek, hearken to my words: for I have not killed a man, that I should be slain for him; neither have I destroyed a young man, on whose account my children should perish. For Kain who sinned and was converted by repentance (had protection) unto seven generations extended to him: and to Lemek, the son of his son, who hath not sinned, it is just that it shall be extended unto seventy and seven.
And Adam knew his wife again, at the end of a hundred and thirty years after Habel had been slain; and she bare a son, and called his name Sheth; for she said, The Lord hath given me another son instead of Habel whom Kain slew. And to Sheth also was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. That was the generation in whose days they began to err, and to make themselves idols, and surnamed their idols by the name of the Word of the Lord.
V. This is the book of the genealogy of Man. In the day that the Lord created man, in the likeness of the Lord He made him. Male and female He created them, and blessed them in the name of His Word; and He called their name Man in the day they were created. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat Sheth, who had the likeness of his image and of his similitude: for before had Hava born Kain, who was not like to him; and Habel was killed by his hand. And Kain was cast out; neither is his seed genealogized in the book of the genealogy of Adam. But afterwards there was born one like him, and he called his name Sheth. And the days of Adam after he begat Sheth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
[JERUSALEM. 4. Eight hundred years; and in those years he begat sons and daughters. 5. And he died, and was gathered from the midst of the world.]
And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. And Kenan lived seventy years and begat Mahalalel. And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begat Jared. And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begat Hanok. And Jared lived after he had begotten Hanok eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died. And Hanok lived sixty-five years, and begat Methushelach. And Hanok worshipped in truth before the Lord after he had begotten Methushelach three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Hanok with the sojourners of the earth were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Hanok served in the truth before the Lord; and, behold, he was not with the sojourners of the earth; for he was withdrawn, and he ascended to the firmament by the Word before the Lord, and his name was called Metatron the Great Saphra.
[JERUSALEM. And Hanok served in the truth before the Lord; and, behold, he was not; for he was withdrawn by the Word from before the Lord.]
And Methushelach lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begat Lemek. And Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemek seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methushelach were nine hundred and two and sixty and nine years; and he died. And Lemek lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begat a son; and he called his name Noah, (Consolation,) saying, This shall console us for our works that are not prosperous, and for the labour of our hands with the earth which the Lord hath cursed on account of the guilt of the sons of men. And Lemek lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lemek were seven hundred and seventy and seven years; and he died. And Noah was the son of five hundred years, and Noah begat Shem, Cham, and Japhet.
VI. And it was when the sons of men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and fair daughters were born to them; and the sons of the great saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and painted, and curled, walking with revelation of the flesh, and with imaginations of wickedness; that they took them wives of all who pleased them. And the Lord said by His Word, All the generations of the wicked which are to arise shall not be purged after the order of the judgments of the generation of the deluge, which shall be destroyed and exterminated from the midst of the world. Have I not imparted My Holy Spirit to them, (or, placed My Holy Spirit in them,) that they may work good works? And, behold, their works are wicked. Behold, I will give them a prolongment of a hundred and twenty years, that they may work repentance, and not perish.
[JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord said, The generations which are to arise shall not be judged after (the manner of) the generation of the deluge, (which is) to be destroyed, and exterminated, and finally blotted out. Have I not imparted My Spirit to the sons of men, because they are flesh, that they may work good works? But they do works of evil. Behold, I have given them a prolongment of a hundred and twenty years, that they may work repentance; but they have not done it.]
Schamchazai and Uzziel, who fell from heaven, were on the earth in those days; and also, after the sons of the Great had gone in with the daughters of men, they bare to them: and these are they who are called men who are of the world, men of names.
And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and all the imagery of the thought of his heart was only evil every day. And it repented the Lord in His Word that He had made man upon the earth; and He passed judgment upon them by His Word.
[JERUSALEM. And there was repentance before the Lord in His Word that He had made man upon the earth...And He said, and judged in His heart.]
And the Lord said, I will abolish by My Word man, whom I have created upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle, to the reptile, and to the fowl of the heavens; because I have repented in My Word that I have made them. But Noah, who was righteous, found favour before the Lord.
[JERUSALEM. But Noah, because he was righteous in his generation, found favour and mercy before the Lord.]
Ch. 1-6
!THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS
!!!SECTION I.
!!BERESHITH BARA ELOHIM.
I. In the first times[1] the Lord created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was upon[2] the face of the abyss; and a wind from before the Lord blew upon the face of the waters. And the Lord said, Let there be light; and there was light. And the Lord saw the light that it was good. And the Lord distinguished between the light and between the darkness. And the Lord called the light the Day, and the darkness He called the Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, Day the First.
And the Lord said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it distinguish between waters and waters. And the Lord made the expanse, and distinguished between the waters which were under the expanse, and between the waters which were above the expanse: and it was so. And the Lord called the expanse the Heavens. And it was evening, and it was morning, the Second Day.
And the Lord said, The waters shall be collected under the heavens into one region, and the dry land shall appear. And it was so. And the Lord called the dry land Earth, and the place of the collection of waters He called Sea. And the Lord saw that it was good. And the Lord said, The earth shall bring forth grass; the plant whose germ‑seed[3] is to be sown; the fruit‑tree making fruit according to its kind, whose germ‑seed is in it upon the earth;‑and it was so. And the earth put forth grass; the herb, whose germ‑seed is sown after its kind; and the tree making fruit, whose seed is in it after its kind. And the Lord saw that it was good. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Third.
And the Lord said, There shall be Lights in the expanse of heaven, to distinguish between the day and the night; and they shall be for signs and for times, for the numbering of days and years. And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth;‑and it was so. And the Lord made the two great luminaries: the greater luminary to rule in the day;[4] and the smaller luminary to rule in the night, and the stars. And the Lord set them in the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth, and to rule in the day and in the night, and to distinguish between light and darkness. And the Lord saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning, Day the Fourth.
And the Lord said, Let the waters generate[5] the moving creature (having) life; and the fowl which flieth over the earth on the face of the expanse of heaven. And the Lord created the great taninia and every living animal which moveth, which the waters generated according to their kind, and every fowl which flieth according to his kind; and the Lord saw that it was good. And the Lord blessed them, saying, Spread abroad and become many, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the fowl become many on the earth. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Fifth.
And the Lord said, Let the earth produce the living animal after its kind, cattle, and reptile, and beast of the earth, according to its kind;‑and it was so. And the Lord mad, the beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and every reptile of the earth after its kind; and the Lord saw that it was good. And the Lord said, Let us make Man in Our image, as Our likeness; and shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every reptile which moveth upon the earth. And the Lord created the Adam[6] in His image, in the image of the Lord[7] He created him; male and female He created them. And the Lord blessed them, and said to them, spread abroad, and become many, and fill the earth, and be strong upon it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And the Lord said, Behold, I have given to you every plant which seedeth gerrn‑seed which is upon all the earth; and every tree in which is the fruit of the tree which seedeth germ‑seed; unto you it shall be for food, and unto every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every reptile upon the earth in which is the breath of life, every green herb to eat; and it was so. And the Lord saw all that He had made, and, behold, it was very steadfast. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Sixth.
''II.'' And the heavens and the earth and all their host were completed. And the Lord finished in the Seventh Day His work which He had wrought, and rested in the Seventh Day from all His work which He had wrought. And the Lord blessed the Seventh Day and made it holy, because in it He rested from all His work which the Lord had created to make. These are the memorials[8] of the heavens and the earth., when they were created in the day when the Lord Elohim made the earth and the heavens. And all trees of the field were not yet in the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet sprung up, because the Lord Elohim had not caused rain to come upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. And a mist[9] ascended from the earth, and moistened all the face of the ground. And the Lord Elohim created Adam from dust of the ground, and breathed upon his face the breath of lives, and it became in Adam a Discoursing Spirit. And the Lord Elohim planted a garden in a region of pleasantness[10] in the time of the beginning, and He made to dwell there the man whom He had created. And the Lord Elohim caused to grow from the earth every tree desirable to look upon, and good for food, and the Tree of Life (Lives) in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil. And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden,[11] and from thence it was divided and became four heads of rivers[12] (or four chid rivers). The name of the first is Pishon,[13] that which encompasseth all the land of Havilah, where is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bedalcha and burilla‑stones. And the name of the second river is Gichon,[14] which encompasseth all the land of Kush.[15] And the name of the third river is Digelatlh,[16] which goeth to the east of Athur.[17] And the fourth river is Pherat. And the Lord Elohim took Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden to culture it and keep it. And the Lord Elohim commanded Adam, saying, Of every tree of the garden eating thou mayest eat; but of the tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil thou shalt not eat; for in the day that thou eatest of it dying thou shalt die.[18] And the Lord Elohim said, It is not right that Adam should be solitary; I will make for him a helper as for his sake (or, as suited to him: Hebrew, kenegdo, as his counterpart). And the Lord Elohim created from the earth every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call him; and every (name by) which Adam called the living animal, that was its name. And Adam called the name of all cattle, and of the fowl of the heaven, and of every beast of the field; but to Adam was not found a helper as for him. And the Lord Elohim threw a sleep upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and filled with flesh in place thereof; and the Lord Elohim builded the rib which He took from Adam into Woman, and He brought her unto Adam. And Adam said, This now (this time) is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because from her husband this was taken. Therefore shall a man forsake the couch (beth mishkeb, the sleeping‑house) of his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be of one flesh. And they were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
''III.'' And the serpent (chivja) was more crafty than all the animals of the field which the Lord Elohim bad made. And he said to the woman, Is it in truth (that) the Lord said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,[19] the Lord hath said, You shall not eat of it, nor approach to it, lest you die.[20] And the serpent said to the woman. Not to die will you die: for it is manifest before the Lord, that in the day in which you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be (ki‑rabrebin) as the Great‑ones, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and that it was salutary to the eyes, and a tree desirable to con. template; and she took of its fruitage (aiba) and ate; and she gave to her husband with her, and he ate. And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed for themselves the leaves of the fig‑tree, and made for themselves cinctures. And they heard the voice of the Word of the Lord Elohim walking in the garden in the evening of the day;[21] and Adam and his wife hid themselves from before the Lord Elohim among the trees of the garden. And the Lord Elohim called to Adam and said to him, Where art thou? And he said, The voice of Thy Word heard I in the garden, and I was afraid, because I (was) naked, and I would hide. And He said, Who showed thee that thou wast naked? Of the tree of which I commanded that eating of it thou shouldst not eat, hast thou eaten? An Adam said, The woman whom Thou gavest (to be) with me, she gave to me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord Elohim said to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent led me astray, and I did eat. And the Lord Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, more accursed art thou than all cattle, and than all the beasts of the held; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and the dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy son and her son. He will remember thee, what thou didst to him (at) from the beginning, and thou shalt be observant unto him at the end.
And to the woman He said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy sorrows and thy pains. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and unto thy husband shall be thy desire, and lie. shall rule over thee. And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast obeyed the word of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree (about) which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, accursed is the ground on thy account. With labour shalt thou eat from it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles it shall put forth for thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until that thou return to the earth, because from it thou wast created; for dust thou art, and to dust thou wilt return. And Adam called the name of his wife Hava, because she was the mother of all the children of men. And the Lord Elohim made for Adam and for his wife vestments of honour upon the skin of their flesh, and clothed them. And the Lord Elohim said, Behold, man is become singular (or alone,[22] yechid) in the world by himself, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever; ......and the Lord Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he had been created. And He drove out the man, and before the garden of Eden he caused to dwell the kerubaya, and the sharp sword which revolved to keep the way of the
Tree of Life.
''IV. ''And Adam knew Hava his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Kain; and she said I have acquired the man from before the Lord. And she added to give birth to his brother, Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock, and Kain a man working on the ground. And it was at the end (or complement) of days, that Kain brought of the product of the earth an oblation before the Lord; and Habel he brought also of the first‑born of his sheep and of their fatlings. And there was acceptableness before the Lord in Habel and in his oblation; but in Kain and his oblation there was not acceptableness. And it was greatly displeasing to Kain, and his countenance was downcast. And the Lord said to Kain, Why art thou displeased, and why is thy countenance downcast? If thou doest thy work well, is it not remitted to thee? and if thou doest not thy work well, thy sin unto the day of judgment is reserved, when it will be exacted of thee, if thou convert not: but if thou convert, it is remitted to thee. And Kain spake with Habel his brother; and it was in their being in the field that Kain arose against Habel his brother, and killed him. And the Lord said to Kain, Where is Habel thy brother? And he said, I know not; am I the keeper of my brother? And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of the blood of generations which were to come from thy brother complaineth before Me, from the earth! And now, accursed art thou from the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother from thy hand. When thou tillest the earth., it shall not add to give its virtue to thee; a castaway and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. And Kain said before the Lord, Greater is my guilt than may be forgiven. Behold, Thou hast rejected me this day from the face of the earth, and from Thy presence it is not possible to hide; and I shall be a castaway and a wanderer in the earth, and any one who findeth me will slay me. And the Lord said to him, Therefore any one who killeth Kain,‑unto seven generations it shall be exacted of him. And the Lord set unto Kain a sign, lest any one who found him should kill him. And Kain went out from before the Lord, and dwelt in the land of the wanderer and outcast,[23] which was made for him in the beginnings in the garden of Eden. And Kain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Hanoch, and he became the builder of a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Hanoch. And there was born to Hanoch Irad, and Irad begat Mahujael;[24] and Mahujael begat Methusael, and Methusael begat Lemek. And Lemek took unto him two wives, the name of the one Ada, and the name of the second Zillah. And Ada bare Javal; he was the master (rab) of all dwellers in tents and lords of cattle. And the name of his brother was Juval. He was the master[25] of all who play upon the mouth of the pipe, who know the song of the harp and of the organ. And Zillah also, she bare Tuval‑kain, the master of all them who understand the working of brass and iron.[26] And the sister of Tuval‑kain was Naamah.[27] And Lemek said to his wives Ada and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lemek, attend to my words: I have not slain a man, that on his account I should bear the condemnation of death; or destroyed a young man, that on his account my posterity should be consumed. If seven generations are suspended unto Kain, will there not be to Lemek his son seventy and seven? And Adam knew yet his wife, and she bare a son, and called his name Sheth; Because, said she, the Lord hath given me another son instead of Habel, whom Kain slew. And to Sheth also was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then in his days the sons of men desisted (or forbore) from praying in the name of the Lord.
''V.'' This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that the Lord Elohim created man, in the resemblance of Elohim[28] He made him; male and female He created them; and He blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day that they were created. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat in his resemblance (one) who was like to himself, and he called his name Sheth. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Sheth[29] were eight hundred years, and be begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
And Sheth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh. And Sheth lived after he had begotton Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Keinan. And Enosh lived after he had begotten Keinan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
And Keinan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. And Keinan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Keinan were nine hundred and ten years, and be died.
And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jered. And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jered eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.
And Jered lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begat Hanok. And Jered lived after he had begotten Hanok eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died.
And Hanok lived sixty and five years, and begat Methushelach. And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord,[30] after he had begotten Methushelach, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Hanok were three hundred and sixty and five years. And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord; and he was not; for the Lord had not made him to die.[31]
And Methushelach lived an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begat Lemek. And Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemek seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methushelach were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.
And Lemek lived a hundred and eighty and two years, and begat a son. And he called his name Noach, saying, This shall console us from the works and from the labour of our hands from the earth which the Lord bath cursed. And Lemek lived, after he had begotten Noach, five hundred and ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lemek were seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he died.
''VI.'' And Noach was a son of five hundred years, and Noach begat Shem, Cham, and Japheth. And it was when the sons of men had begun to multiply upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of the mighty[32] saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and took to them wives of all whom they pleased.[33] And the Lord said, This evil generation shall not stand before me for ever, because they are flesh, and their works are evil. A term (or length) will I give them, an hundred and twenty years, if they may be converted. Giants were in the earth in those days; and also when, after that the sons of the mighty had gone in unto the daughters of men, there were born from them giants who from of old were men of name.
And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man had multiplied in the earth, and that every formation (or image) of the thought of his heart was only evil every day. And it repented the Lord in His Word that He had made men upon the earth. And He said, (in His Word,)[34] that He would break their strength according to His pleasure. And the Lord said, Man whom I have made will I blot out[35] I from the face of the earth;‑from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the fowls of heaven; because it repenteth Me in My Word that I have made them. But Noach found mercy before the Lord.
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[1] Be-kadmin, "in antiquities." The expression, when used, as here, in the plural, is sometimes put for "eternity." Compare Onkelos on Deut. xxxiii. 27, Eloha de-milkadmin, "the Eternal Elohim," or, "Elohim who is from eternity," with Jonathan on Micah v. 2, "Messiah, . . whose name is called (milkadmin) from eternity."
[2] Some copies, "Darkness was outspread upon the face," &c.
[3] Lit., "son-seed."
[4] Samaritan Version, "the plentitude of the greater light."
[5] "Swarm with, produce abundantly."
[6] Sam. Vers. "fashioned."
[7] Some copies, "in the image of Elohim."
[8] Toledath, "recitals, history."
[9] Or, "cloud."
[10] Or, "in Eden." Distinguish between the region and the garden.
[11] Sam. Vers. "Paradise."
[12] Sam. Vers. "islands."
[13] Sam. Vers. "Phishon-kedoph."
[14] Sam. Vers. "Askoph."
[15] Sam. Vers. "Chophin."
[16] Sam. Vers. "Kephlosah."
[17] Sam. Vers. "Kingdom of Hatsphu."
[18] Sam. Vers. "Consuming thou shalt be consumed."
[19] Sam. Vers. "Paradise."
[20] Sam. Vers. "be consumed."
[21] Sam. Vers. "calling them in Paradise in the breathing of the day."
[22] Sam. Vers. "as a branch."
[23] Sam. Vers. "the land of Keli."
[24] Sam. Vers. "Mihal."
[25] Sam. Vers. "prince," or "chief."
[26] Sam. Ver. "who melt and conjoin."
[27] Sam. Ver. "Zalkipha."
[28] Sam. Ver. "of angels."
[29] Sam. Vers. "after he had begotten his substitute" (chalipha)
[30] Peshito Syriac: "and Henok pleased Elohim, after," &c.
[31] Peshito, "Aloha took him." Sam. Vers. "the Angel took him."
[32] Bnei rabrebaia. The Sam. Vers. reads, "sons of the rulers."
[33] Other copies, "that they chose."
[34] Some copies omit this.
[35] Some copies read, "And He said, I have created (them) good, that they might be perfect on the earth; but they have not been perfect in (their) outspreading; and the Lord said, I will blot out," &c.
SECTION XVI.
BESHALACH.
AND it was when Pharoh had released the people, that the Lord did not conduct, them by the way of the land of the Phelishtaee though. that was the near one; for the Lord said, Lest the people be affrighted in seeing their brethren who were killed in war, two hundred thousand men of strength of the tribe of Ephraim, who took shields, and lances, and weapons of war, and went down to Gath to carry off the flocks of the Phelishtaee; and because the transgressed against the statute of the Word of the Lord, and went forth from Mizraim three years before the (appointed) end of their servitude, they were delivered into the hand of the Phelishtaee, who slew them. These are the dry bones which the Word of the Lord restored to life by the ministry (hand) of Yechezekel the prophet, in the vale of Dura; but which, if they (now) saw them, they would be afraid, and return into Mizraim. But the Lord led the people round by the way of the desert of the sea of Suph; and every one of the sons of Yisrael, with five children, went up from the land of Mizraim. Arid Mosheh carried up the ark in which were the bones of Joseph, from out of the Nilos, and took them with him; because, adjuring, he adjured the sons of Yisrael, saving, The Lord will surely remember you, and you shall carry up my bones with you.
And they journeyed from Succoth, the place where they had been covered with the clouds of glory, and sojourned in Ethan, which is on the side of the desert. [[JERUSALEM. IS. And the Word of the Lord conducted the people by the way of the desert of the sea of Suph; armed in good works went up the sons of Yisrael, free from the land of Mizraim. 19. For, adjuring, he adjured the sons of Yisrael, saving, The Lord remembering; will remember you in is Word, and in His good mercies. 20. Which cometh upon the end of the desert.] And the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord went before them by day in the column of the Cloud to lead them in the way, and at night the column of the Cloud removed behind them to darken on their pursuers behind them ; but to be a column of fire to enlighten them before, that they might go forward by day and by night. The column of the Cloud departed not by day, nor the column of fire by night, in leading on before the people. [[JERUSALEM. It ceased not.]
XIV. And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, Speak to the sons of Yisrael, that they return back, and encamp before the Mouths of Hiratha,[1] as they lie, created after the manner (likeness) of the children of men, male and female, and their eyes open to them: it is the place of Tanes, which is between Migdol and the sea, before the idol Zephon (Typhon), that is left of all the idols of Mizraim. For the Mizraee will say, More excellent is Baal Zephon than all idols, because it is left, and not smitten; and therefore will they come to worship it, and will find that you are encamped nigh unto it, on the border of the sea.
And Pharoh said to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Yisrael, who had remained in Mizraim, The people of the house of Yisrael are bewildered in the land: the idol Zephon hath shut them in close upon the desert. [JERUSALEM. 2. And they shall return and encamp before the caravansaries of Hiratha, between Migdol and the sea, before the idol of Zephon, ye shall encamp over against it. And Pharoh will say concerning the people of the sons of Yisrael, They are losing themselves in the wilderness: the idol of Peor hath shut them in before the desert.] And I will strengthen the design of Pharoh's heart to pursue after them, and I will be glorified upon Pharoh and upon his hosts, and the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
And the officers[2] who went with Yisrael announced that the people had fled. [[JERUSALEM. And it was declared to the king.] And the heart of Pharoh and his servants was turned unto evil against the people; and they said, What is this that we have done? for we have released Yisrael from serving us. And he himself prepared his chariot, and his people led he with him by soft words. And he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of the Mizraee his servants, who were afraid of the Word of the Lord, lest they should be killed with pestilence, if not with hail: and a third mule, for drawing and following swiftly, he added to each chariot. And the Lord hardened the design of the heart of Pharoh king of Mizraim, and he pursued after the sons of Yisrael. But the sons of Yisrael, going out with a high hand, were stronger than the Mizraee. And the Mizraee followed after them, and came upon them as they were encamped by the sea, gathering of pearls and goodly stones, which the river Pishon had carried from the garden of Eden into the Gihon, and the Gihon had carried into the sea of Suph, and the sea of Suph bad cast upon its bank. But all the chariot horses of Pharoh, and his horsemen, and his hosts (were coming) towards the Mouths of Hiratha, which are before the idol Zephon. And Pharoh saw the idol Zephon (still) preserved, and offered oblations before it. And the children of Yisrael lifted up their eyes, and, beheld, the Mizraee were pursuing them; and they were sorely afraid, and the children of Yisrael prayed before the Lord. But the wicked generation said to Mosheh, Because there were no places of burial for us in Mizraim, hast thou led us forth to die in the wilderness ? What hast thou done to us, in bringing us out of Mizraim? Was as not this the word that we spake to thee in Mizraim, Let the Lord manifest Himself over us and judge, saying, Desist from us, and we will serve the Mizraee? for it is better for us to serve the Mizraee than to perish in the desert. [JERUSALEM. 9. But the sons of Yisrael had gone out free.... Before the caravansaries of Hiratha, before the idol Zephon.]
Four parties were made (among) the sons of Yisrael on the shore of the Weedy Sea: one said, Let us go down into the sea; another said, Let us return into Mizraim; another said Let us set against them the line of battle; and another said Let us raise a cry against them, and confound them. Unto the company which said, Let us go down to the sea, spake Mosheh, Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which will be wrought for you to‑day. To the company which said, Let us return into Mizraim Mosheh said, You shall not return; for, though you see the Mizraee to‑day, you will see them no more for ever. To the company who said, Let us set against them the line of battle, said Mosheh, Contend not; for the victory shall be wrought among you from the presence of the Lord. And to the company who said. Let us raise a cry against them, Mosheh said, Be silent; and give the glory, and praise, and exaltation to your Elohim.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Why standest thou praying before Me? Behold, the prayers of My people have come before thy own: speak to the sons of Yisrael, that they go forward; and thou, lift up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand with it over the sea, and divide it: and the sons of Yisrael shall go through the midst of ,the sea upon the ground. For, behold, I will harden the design of the heart of the Mizraee, and they will go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharoh and upon all his hosts, upon his chariots and his horsemen; that the Mizraee may know that I am the Lord, when I am glorified upon Pharoh, upon his chariots and horsemen.
[JERUSALEM. 13. Four companies made the sons of Yisrael, standing by the Weedy Sea. One said, Let us fall upon the sea; another said, Let us return to Mizraim; another said, Let us array battle against them; and another said, Let us shout against them to confuse them. To that company who said, Let us fall upon the sea, Mosheh said, Fear not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord which shall be wrought for you this day. To the company who said, We will return unto Mizraim, Mosheh said, Fear not; for as you have seen the Mizraee to‑day, you will see them no more in bondage for ever. To the company who said, We will array battle against them, Mosheh said, Fear not; the Lord, in the glory of His Shekinah, will work the victory for your hosts. To the company who had said, Let us shout against them to confound them, Mosheh said, Fear not; stand and be silent; and give the glory, and praise, and exaltation unto Eloha. 15. And the Word of the Lord said to Mosheh, How long standest thou praying before Me ? Heard before Me are thy prayers; but the prayers of My people have preceded thine. Speak to the sons of Yisrael that they go forward; and thou, lift, up thy rod and stretch forth thy hand.]
And the Angel of the Lord who led the way before the hosts of Yisrael went and came behind them; and the column of the Cloud went from before and stood behind them: because the Mizraee threw darts and stones at the Israelites, but the Cloud intercepted them and it came between the host of Yisrael and the host of the Mizraee; a cloud, one half of which was light and one half darkness. On the one side it darkened upon the Mizraee, and on the other side it shined upon Yisrael all night; and one host did not attack the other all the night.
And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea, with the great and glorious rod which was created at the beginning, and on which were engraven and set forth the Great and Glorious Name, and the ten signs which had smitten the Mizraee, and the three fathers of the world, and the six mothers, and the twelve tribes of Jakob: and straightway the Lord brought a vehement east wind upon the sea all night, and made the sea dry; and divided the waters into twelve divisions according to the twelve tribes of Jacob. [JERUSALEM. 20. And the cloud was half light and half darkness: light, it enlightened upon Yisrael; and darkness, it darkened upon Mizraim. And those came not against these, to set battle in order, all the night. 21. And he stretched forth.] And the children of Yisrael went through the midst of the sea upon the ground, and the waters were congealed like a wall, three hundred miles on their right hand and on their left.
And the Mizraee followed and went in after them, all the horses of Pharoh, and his chariots and horsemen, into the midst of the sea. And it was that in the morning watch, at the time that the powers on high come to offer praise, the Lord looked forth with anger upon the hosts of the Mizraee from the column of fire, to hurl upon them flakes of fire and hail, and from the column of cloud, and confounded the host of the Mizraee and He brake (or, made rough) the wheels of Pharoh's carriages, so that they drave them with hardship, and that they went on and left them behind. And the Mizraee said one to another, Let us flee from the people of the house of Yisrael; for this is the Word of the Lord who fought for them in Mizraim.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy band over the sea, that the waters may return upon the Mizraee, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen. And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned at the time of the morning unto its strength; and the Mizraee fled from before its waves. And the Lord strengthened the Mizraee in the midst of the sea, that they should not (soon) die in the midst of it, that they might receive the punishment which had been sent to them. [JERUSALEM. 24. And it was in the time of the morning that the Word of the Lord looked upon the host of the Mizraee, and hurled upon them bitumen (naphtha), and fire, and stones of hail, and conturbed the host of the Mizraee. And he unloosed the wheels of their carriages, so that they went, dragging them after them: the mules, going after their way before the wheels, were turned, so as that the wheels went before the mules, and they were cast into the sea. The Mizraee answered and said on to another, Let us flee from before the people of the sons of Yisrael; for this is the Word of the Lord who worketh victory for them in their battles; so that they set the back against Mizraim. 26. Stretch forth. 27. And Mosheh stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned at the time of the morning to its place.] And the waves of the sea returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen.. and all the host of Pharoh who had gone in after them, into the sea, not one among them was left. But the sons of Yisrael walked on the ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters to them were as walls on their right band and on their left. That day the Lord redeemed and saved Yisrael from the hand of the Mizraee; and Yisrael saw the Mizraee, dead and not dead, cast upon the shore of the sea. And Yisrael saw the power of the mighty hand by which the Lord had wrought the miracles in Mizraim; and the people feared before the Lord, and believed in the Name of the Word of the Lord, and in the prophecies of Mosheh His servant.
XV. Behold: then sang, Mosheh and the sons of Yisrael this song of praise before the Lord and saying they said:
Thanksgiving and praise we bring before the Lord Most High, who is glorified above the glorious, and exalted above the exalted; who punisheth by His Word whomsoever glorifieth himself before Him.
Therefore when Pharoh the wicked bare himself proudly before the Lord, and, being uplifted in his heart, followed after the people of the sons of Yisrael, their horses and their chariots He threw and buried in the sea of Suph.
[JERUSALEM. Then sang Mosheh and the sons of Yisrael the praise of this song, before the Lord, saying, to say: Thanksgiving and praise bring we before the Lord, who is high above the highest, and glorified above the glorious, and who punisheth by His Word whom. whomsoever glorifieth himself before Him. The horses and their riders, because they bare themselves proudly and followed after the people of the house of Yisrael, He hath thrown and buried in the sea of Suph.]
The Lord is Mighty, and greatly to be feared over all the world. He spake in His Word, and became to me a Elohim of salvation.
From their mothers' breasts even the children have given signs with their fingers to their fathers, and said This is our Elohim, who nourished us with honey from the rock, and with oil from the stone of clay, at the time when our mothers went forth upon the face of the :geld to give us birth, and leave us there; and He sent an angel who washed us and enwrapped us; and now will we praise Him: He is the Elohim of our fathers, and we will exalt Him.
The sons of Yisrael said, The Lord is a man making war for us: from generation to generation He maketh known His power unto the people of the house of Yisrael. The Lord is His Name; according to His Name, so is His power; His Name shall be blessed for ever and ever.
The chariots of Pharoh and his hosts He hath cast into the sea; the goodliest of his young men hath He thrown and drowned in the sea of Suph. The deep covered them over, they wenr down and are buried in the depths of the sea, and are as silent as a stone.
Thy right hand, 0 Lord, how glorious is it in power? Thy right hand, 0 Lord, hath cut off the adversaries of Thy people who rose against them to do them hurt. And in the plenitude and greatness of Thy majesty Thou hast destroyed the walls of the enemies of Thy people.
Thou wilt pour upon them Thy fierce anger, Thou wilt consume them as the burning fire prevails over the stubble. For by the Word from before Thee the waters became heaps; they stood, as if bound like skins that confine flowing water, and the depths were congealed in the flood of the great sea.
Pharoh the wicked, the hater and adversary, did say, I will follow after the people of the sons of Yisrael, and will lay waste their camp on the bank of the sea: I will set war in array against them, and kill them, small and great, despoil them of much spoil, bring them back into great captivity, and divide their substance among my people who make war: and when my soul is satisfied with the blood of their slain, I will sheathe my sword, having, destroyed them with my right hand.
[JERUSALEM. The Lord is Mighty, and greatly to be praised and feared over all the world. He spake in His Word, and for us became salvation.
[From their mothers' breasts have even the children given signs with their fingers unto the fathers, and have said to them, This is our Father, who nourished us with honey from the rock, and gave us oil from the stone of clay.
[The sons of Yisrael answered and said one to another, He is our Elohim, and we will praise Him; the Elohim of our fathers, and we will exalt Him.
[The Lord in the glory of His Shekinah is He who worketh victory for your arms. From one generation to another He maketh known His power to the people of the house of Yisrael.
[His Name is the Lord: as is His Name, so is His power; let His name be glorified for ever and ever.
[Upon the chariots of Pharoh and his host He shot arrows in the sea; his goodly young men and his men of strength He hath drowned in the sea of Suph. How glorious is Thy right hand, 0 Lord, in power, which bath broken and shattered the walls of the enemies of Thy people!
[Pharoh the wicked, the hater and adversary, did say, I will follow after the people of the sons of Yisrael and will overtake them encamped at the side of the sea. I will lead them captive into great captivity, and despoil, them of great spoil; I will divide their substance among my men of war; and when my soul shall be satisfied with them, I will sheathe my sword, when I shall have destroyed them with my right hand.]
Thou didst blow with the wind from before Thee, 0 Lord, and the waves of the sea covered them; they went down, and sank as lead in the proud waters.
Who is like Thee among the exalted gods, 0 Lord, who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders and manifestations for Thy people, the house of Yisrael ?
The sea spake to the earth, Receive but the earth spake to the sea, Receive thy murderers. And the sea was not willing to overwhelm them, and the earth was not willing to swallow them up. The earth was afraid to receive them, lest they should be required from her in the day of the great judgment in the world to come, even as the blood of Habel will be required of her: whereupon Thou, 0 Lord, didst stretch forth Thy right hand in swearing to the earth that in the world to come they should not be required of her. And the earth opened her mouth and consumed them.
[JERUSALEM. The sea and the earth had controversy one with the other. The sea said to the earth, Receive thy children; and the earth said to the sea, Receive thy murderers. But the earth willed not to swallow them, and the sea willed not to overwhelm them. And by the Word from before Thee Thou. didst stretch forth Thy right hand in oath., and didst swear unto the earth that Thou wilt not require them of her in the world to come. Then did the earth open her mouth and swallow them up.]
Thou hast led in Thy mercy the people whom Thou hast redeemed, and given them the heritage of the mountain of Thy sanctuary, the place of the dwelling of Thy holy Shekinah.
The nations will hear and be afraid; terror will lay hold upon them, even upon all the pillars of the inhabitants of the Palestinian land. Behold, then will the princes of the Edomaee be confounded, the strong ones of Moaba will be seized with fear, their heart within them will melt away, even all the pillars of the inhabitants of the Kenaanian land.
Through the power of Thy mighty arm, let the terrors of death fall upon them, let them be silent as a stone, till the time when Thy people, 0 Lord, shall have passed the streams of Arnona, till the time when Thy people whom Thou didst ransom shall have crossed the dividing current of Jabeka.
Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on the mountain of Thy sanctuary, the place which Thou hast provided before the throne of Thy glory, the house of Thy holy Shekinah, which Thou, 0 Lord, hast prepared, Thy sanctuary that with both hands Thou hast established.
When the people of the house of Yisrael beheld the signs and manifestations which the Holy One, whose Name be praised, had done at the sea of Suph, and the power of His hand, the children of the captives answering said one to the other, Come, and let us set the crown of majesty on the head of our Redeemer, who maketh to pass over, and passeth not; who changeth, and is not changed; whose is the crown of the kingdom; the King of kings in this world; whose, too, is the kingdom in the world to come, for ever and ever.
[JERUSALEM. 16. Thou wilt make the terror of death to fall upon them and undoing, by the power of Thy mighty arm, that they shall be as silent as a stone, until this people whom Thou hast redeemed shall have gone over the dividing stream of Jobeka and that of Jardena; till this people shall have passed over whom Thou hast ransomed for Thy Name. 17. Thou wilt bring them in, and wilt plant them in the mountain of Thy inheritance, the dwelling of the glory of Thy holiness, which Thou 0 Lord, hast prepared for Thyself, the sanctuary of the Lord that with both hands He hath established. 18. When the house of Yisrael had beheld the signs and wonders that the Holy One, Blessed be He, had wrought for them at the border of the sea, let His great Name be blessed for ever and ever, they gave glory and thanksgiving and exaltation unto their Elohim. The sons of Yisrael answered and said one to another, Come, let us set the crown upon the bead of the Redeemer, who causeth to pass over, but is not passed; who changeth, but is not changed; the King of kings in this world; whose, too, is the crown of the kingdom of the world to come, and whose it will be for ever and ever.]
For Pharoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, and the Lord made the waters of the sea to return upon them; but the sons of Yisrael walked upon the land in the midst of the sea, and there did spring up sweet fountains and trees yielding food and verdure and ripe fruits, (even) on the ground of the sea.
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women came out after her, dancing with tambourines and playing on instruments. [JERUSALEM. With tambourines dancing.] And Miriam sang to them, Let us give thanks and praise before the Lord, for might and supremacy are His; above the proud He is glorified, and above the lofty He is exalted. When the wicked, Pharoh in his pride followed after the people of the sons of Yisrael, his horses and his chariots did He cast and drown in the sea of Suph.
And Mosheh made Yisrael go forward from the sea of Suph, and they went forth into the wilderness of Chalutsa. [JERUSALEM. The way of Chalutsa.] And they journeyed three days in the desert, empty of instruction, and found no water. And they came to Marah, but could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter; therefore he called the name of it Marah. And the people murmured against Mosheh, saying, What shall we drink? [JERUSALEM. And the people contended.] And he prayed before the Lord, and the Lord showed him the bitter tree of Ardiphne;[3] and lie wrote upon it the great and glorious Name, and cast it into the midst of the waters, and the waters were rendered sweet. And there did the Word of the Lord appoint to him the ordinance of the Shabbat, and the statute of honouring father and mother, the judgments concerning wounds and bruises., and the punishments wherewith offenders are punished; and there he tried (them) with the tenth trial, and said, If you will truly hearken to the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and do that which is right before Him, and will listen to His precepts and keep all His statutes, all those evil things that I laid upon the Mizraee I will not lay upon thee: but if thou wilt transgress against the word of the Torah, upon thee shall they be sent. If thou convert, I will remove them from thee; for I am the Lord thy Healer. [JERUSALEM. 25. And Mosheh prayed before the Lord, and the Word of the Lord showed him the tree of Ardiphne, and he cast it into the midst of the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There did the Word of the Lord show unto him statutes and orders of judgment, and there He tried him with trials in the tenth trial. 26. For I am the Lord who healeth thee by My Word.] And they came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, a fountain for each tribe; and seventy palm‑trees, corresponding with the seventy elders of Yisrael: and they encamped there by the waters. [JERUSALEM. And they came to Elim, where were twelve fountains of water, answering to the twelve tribes of Yisrael, and seventy palm‑trees, answering to the seventy elders of the sanhedrin of Yisrael.]
XVI. And the whole congregation of Yisrael journeyed from Elim, and came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the month of Ijar, the second month from their going forth from the land of Mizraim. And on that day the bread which they had brought out of Mizraim was finished. And all the sons of Yisrael grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon in the desert. And the sons of Yisrael said to them, Would that we had died by the Word of the Lord in the land of Mizraim, when we sat by the cisterns of meat, and ate bread and had enough! Why hast thou brought us out into this wilderness to kill all this congregation with hunger? And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, I will cause the bread which hath been laid up for you from the beginning to descend from heaven: and the people shall go out and gather the matter of a day by the day, that I may try them whether they will keep the commandments of My Torah or not. And on the sixth day they shall prepare what they set before them to eat on the day of the Shabbat; and they shall mix in the houses and communicate in their dwellings, so that by carrying th)is to that, they may have double of that which they gather from day to day.
And Mosheh and Aharon said to all the sons of Yisrael, At evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you out free from the land of Mizraim; and in the morning will be revealed to you the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord; and we, what are we accounted, that you complain against us? [JERUSALEM. And we, what are we accounted?] And Mosheh said, By this you shall know, when the Lord prepareth you at evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to satisfy, that your complainings wherewith you complain against Him are heard before the Lord. And we, what are we accounted? Your complaints are not against us, but against the Word of the Lord. Mosheh said to Aharon, Bid all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael draw nigh before the Lord; for your murmuring are heard before Him.
And it was while Aharon was speaking with all the congregation of Yisrael that they turned towards the desert, and, behold, the glory of the majesty of the Lord was revealed in the cloud of glory. And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying Hearing I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Yisrael before Me. Speak thou with them, saying, Between the evenings (suns) you shall eat flesh, and in the morning shall you eat bread, and shall know that I am the Lord your Elohim.
And it came to pass, that in the evening the pheasants[4] came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a fall of holy dew, prepared as a table, round about the camp: and the clouds ascended and caused manna to descend upon the dew; and there was upon the face of the desert a minute (substance) in lines,[5] minute as the hoar frost upon the ground. [JERUSALEM. As hoar frost.] And the sons of Yisrael beheld, and wondered, and said, a man to his companion, Man Hu?[6] for they knew not what it was. And Mosheh said to them, It is the bread which hath been laid up for you from the beginning in the heavens on high, and now the Lord will give it you to eat. This is the word which the Lord hath dictated: You are to gather of it, every man according to the number Of Your souls; every man according to the mouth of the number of the persons of his tabernacle, are you to take. And the sons of Yisrael did so, and gathered manna said to them, Let no man make a reserve of it till the morning. But (some of them) hearkened not to Mosheh: Dathan and Abiram, men of wickedness, did reserve of it till the morning; but it produced worms and putrefied; and Mosheh was angry with them. And they gathered from the time of the dawn until the fourth hour of the day, every man according to his eating; but at the fourth hour, when the sun had waxed hot upon it, it liquefied, and made streams of water, [JERUSALEM. Became as streams,] which flowed away into the Great Sea; and wild animals that were clean, and cattle, came to drink of it, and the sons of Yisrael hunted, and ate them. And it came to pass on the sixth day they gathered double bread, two homers a man; and all the princes of the congregation came and told Mosheh. And Mosheh said to them, This which the Lord hath told you, do. To‑morrow is the rest of the holy Shabbat before the Lord: That which is needful to have to bake for to‑morrow, bake to‑day; and what is needful to boil for to‑morrow, boil to‑day: and all whatever remaineth of that which on eat to‑day lay it up, and it shall be preserved until the morning. And they laid it up until the morning, as Mosheh had directed them; and it did not corrupt, and no worm was in it. And Mosheh said to them, Eat to-day, because this is the Shabbat day before the Lord. This day you will not find any in the feild. Six days you shall gather, but on the seventh day, which is the Shabbat, no manna will come down. And it was that on the seventh day some of the wicked people went forth to gather manna, but they found none. And the Lord said to Mosheh, How long will ye refuse to keep My commandments and My laws ? Behold, because I have given you the Shabbat, I gave you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man abide in his Place, and not wander from one locality to another, beyond four yards;[7] nor let any man go forth to walk beyond two thousand yards on the seventh day; for the people shall repose on the seventh day.
And the house of Yisrael called the name of it Manna; and it was like the seed of coriander,[8] white, and the taste of it like preparations of honey. [JERUSALEM. Like the seed of coriander, and the taste of it like confections of honey.] And Mosheh said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to lay up of it a homer full to keep in your generations; that perverse generations may see the bread which you have eaten in the wilderness, in your coming forth out of the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh said to Aharon, Take one earthen vase, and put therein a full homera of manna, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept unto your generations. As the Lord commanded Mosheh, so did Aharon, lay it up before the testimony to be kept. And the children of Yisrael ate the manna forty years, until they came to ail inhabited land: manna did they eat forty days after his death, until they had passed the Jordena, and entered upon the borders of the land of Kenaan. And a homera is one tenth of three seahs.
XVII. And all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael journeyed from the desert of Sin by their journeyings according to the word of the Lord, and they encamped in Rephidim, a place where their bands were idle in the commandments of the Torah, and the fountains were dry, and there was no water for the people to drink. And the wicked of the, people contended with Mosheh, and said, Give us water, that we may drink. And Mosheh said to them, Why contend you with me? and why tempt you before the Lord? But the people were athirst for water, and the people murmured against Mosheh, and said, Why hast thou made us come up out of Mizraim, to kill us, and our children, and our cattle with thirst ? And Mosheh prayed before the Lord, saying What shall I do for this people? Yet a very little, and they will stone me. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Pass over before the people, and take with thee some of the elders of Yisrael, and the rod with which thou didst smite the river take in thy hand, and go from the face of their murmuring. Behold, I will stand before thee there, on the spot where thou sawest the impress[9] of the foot on Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock with thy rod, and therefrom shall come forth waters for drinking, and the people shall drink. And Mosheh did so before the elders of Yisrael. And he called the name of that place Temptation and Strife; because there the sons of Yisrael contended with Mosheh, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Doth the glory of the majesty of the Lord trul dwell among us, or not?
And Amalek came from the land of the south and leaped on that night a thousand and six hundred miles; and on account of the disagreement which had been between Esau and Jakob, he came and waged war with Yisrael in Rephidim, and took and killed (some of the) men of the house of Dan; for the cloud did not embrace them, because of the strange worship that was among them. And Mosheh said to Jehoshua, Choose such men as are strong in the precepts, and victorious in fight; and go, under the Cloud of glory, and set battle in array against the hosts of Amalek. To‑morrow I will stand, prepared with fasting, with the righteous fathers of the chiefs of the people, and the righteous mothers who are like the hills, with the rod with which the miracles have been wrought from before the Lord, in my hand. And Jehoshua did as Mosheh bad bidden him, to wage war with Amalek. And Mosheh, and Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of the height. And it was, when Mosheh lifted up his hands in prayer, that the house of Yisrael prevailed; and when he rested his hand from praying, that the house of Amalek prevailedand. And the hands of Mosheh were heavy, because the conflict was prolonged till the morrow, and the deliverance of Yisrael was not prepared on that day; and he could not hold them up in prayer; on which account he would have afflicted his soul. And they took a stone, and placed it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aharon and Hur supported his hand, this the one, and that the other; and his hands were outstretched with firmness, (or, fidelity,) in prayer and fasting, until the going down of the sun. And Jehoshua shattered Amalek, and cut off the heads, of the strong men of his people, by the mouth of the Word of the Lord, with the slaughter of the sword. [Yerushalayim. 11. And it was that when Mosheh lifted up his hands in prayer, the house of Yisrael prevailed; and when his hands declined from prayer, Amalek prevailed; and (Yisrael) fell. in the line of battle. 12. And the hands of Mosheh were lifted up in prayer.]
And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Write this memorial in the book of the elders that were of old, and these words in the hearing, of Jehoshua, that blotting, I will blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. And Mosheh builded an altar, and called the name of it, The Word of the Lord is my banner; for the sign which He hath wrought (in this) place was on my behalf. And he said, Because the Word of the Lord hath sworn by the throne of His glory, that He by His Word will fight against those of the house of Amalek, and destroy them unto three generations; from the generation of this world, from the generation of the Meshiha, and from the generation of the world to come. [JERUSALEM. 16. And he said, The oath hath come forth from beneath the throne of the Great One, of all the world the Lord; the first king who will sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the sons of Yisrael, Shaul, the son of Kish, will set the battle in array against the house of Amalek, and will slay them; and those of them that remain will Mardekai and Esther destroy. The Lord hath said by His Word that the memory of Amalek shall perish to the age of ages.]
[1] They were two lofty rocks, with a defile between them, called the (pi) mouth of the rocks.-- R.S. Izhaki, in loco.
[1] Oktaraia: "Octarions, prafecti militares."
[1] The Ardiphne, Hirdoph, and sometimes Rododaphne, is described in Shemoth Rabba as a tree which grows beside water and bears flowers like lilies, of a bitter taste. The name us given also to the bitter herbs eaten with the passover. (Tr. Pesachim, 39.) The old commentator in the Yalkut says, "This was one miracle within another, --bitter waters made sweet by a bitter tree."
[1] Phisyonin.
[1] Mesargal.
[1] "What is it?"
[1] Garmidee.
[1] Kusebar.
[1] Roshem.
[1] They were two lofty rocks, with a defile between them, called the (pi) mouth of the rocks.-- R.S. Izhaki, in loco.
[2] Oktaraia: "Octarions, prafecti militares."
[3] The Ardiphne, Hirdoph, and sometimes Rododaphne, is described in Shemoth Rabba as a tree which grows beside water and bears flowers like lilies, of a bitter taste. The name us given also to the bitter herbs eaten with the passover. (Tr. Pesachim, 39.) The old commentator in the Yalkut says, "This was one miracle within another, --bitter waters made sweet by a bitter tree."
[4] Phisyonin.
[5] Mesargal.
[6] "What is it?"
[7] Garmidee.
[8] Kusebar.
[9] Roshem.
SECTION XVI.
BESHALLACH.
AND it was when Pharoh had sent the people away, that the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistaee because it was the nearest: for the Lord said, Lest the people be terrified at the seeing of war, and return to Mizraim. But the Lord led the people round by the way of the desert to the sea of Suph; and harnessed (or girded) went the sons of Yisrael up out of the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh brought up the bones of Joseph with him; for he had adjured the sons of Yisrael with an oath, saying, Remembering, the Lord will remember you, and you shall carry up my bones from hence. And they journeyed from Sukkoth, and encamped in Etham, which is beside the desert. And the Lord went before them by day in the column of the cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in the column of fire to enlighten them, that they might go in the day and in the night. The column of the cloud by day, nor the column of the fire by night, departed not before the people.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, Speak with the sons of Yisrael that they return and encamp before Pum Hiratha, between Migdol and the sea, before Beel Zephon: you shall encamp before it by the sea. And Pharoh will say of the children of Yisrael, They are bewildered in the land, the desert hath got hold of them:[1] and I will harden Pharoh's heart, and he will pursue them; and I will be glorified in Pharoh and in all his host; and the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. And it was seen by the king of Mizraim that the people had gone. And the heart of Pharoh and of his servants was turned to the people; and they said, What is this that we have done, that we have sent Yisrael away from serving us? And he set his chariot in order, and took his people with him. He took also six hundred select chariots, and all the chariots of the Mizraee, and appointed strong men over them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharoh king of Mizraim, and he pursued after the children of Yisrael. But the children of Yisrael went forth with uncovered head. And the Mizraee followed after them, and overtook them while encamping by the sea; all the chariot horses of Pharoh, and his horsemen, and his army, by Pum Hiratha which is before Beel Zephon. And Pharoh drew nigh, and the sons of Yisrael lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Mizraee were coming after them: and they were greatly afraid, and the children of Yisrael cried before the Lord. But to Mosheh they said, Was it because there were no graves in Mizraim that thou hast taken us to die in the wilderness? What is this that thou hast done to bring us out of Mizraim? Was not this the word which we spake with thee in Mizraim, saying, Let us alone, and we will serve the Mizraee? for better would it have been for us to serve the Mizraee, than to die in the wilderness. And Mosheh said to the people, Fear not, stand still (or, be ready) and see the Lord's deliverance which He will work for you this day; for as you have seen the Mizraee this day, you will see them no more for ever: the Lord will fight for you the fight, and you shall be quiet.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, I have heard thy prayer. Speak to the children of Yisrael that they go onward: and thou, take thy rod and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it, and the children of Yisrael shall go in the midst of the sea on dry ground. And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Mizraee, and they will go in after them; and I will be glorified by Pharoh and by all his army, by his chariots and his horsemen;[2] and the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord, when I have been glorified by Pharoh and his chariots and his horsemen.[3]
And the angel of the Lord who went before the camp of Yisrael passed by and came behind them; and the column of the cloud passed from before them and abode behind them. And it entered between the camp of the Mizraee and the camp of Yisrael; and was a cloud and darkness to the Mizraee, but unto Yisrael a light all the night: and that came not near to this all the night.
And Mosheh stretched forth his hand over the sea; and the Lord drave the sea by a mighty east wind all the night, and caused the sea to be dry, and the waters were disparted; and the children of Yisrael went into the midst of the sea upon dry ground; and the waters were to them a wall[4] on their right hand and on their left. And the Mizraee followed and entered in after them, all the horses of Pharoh, and his chariots and horsemen, into the midst of the sea. And it was in the morning watch that the Lord looked upon the host of the Mizraee from the column of fire and cloud, and perturbed the host of the Mizraee. And he removed the wheels of the chariots, so that they drave them by strength;[5] and the Mizraee said, Let us flee from before Yisrael; for this is the power of the Lord which hath done battle for them against Mizraim.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and the waters shall return upon the Mizraee, upon their chariots and their horsemen. And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned, at the time of the morning, unto its strength; and the Mizraee fled before it; and the Lord drowned the Mizraee in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen and all the host of Pharoh who had gone after them into the sea, and there remained of them not one. But the children of Yisrael walked on dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Lord delivered Yisrael that day from the Mizraee, and Yisrael saw the Mizraee dead upon the shore of the sea. And Yisrael saw the Power of the Great Hand which the Lord had made (to appear) in Mizraim; and the people feared before the Lord, and believed in the Word of the Lord, and in the prophetic (work) of Mosheh His servant.
Then sang Mosheh and the children of Yisrael this hymn before the Lord; and they spake, saying, We will sing and give thanks before the Lord, because He is magnified upon the mighty, and the power is His own; the horse and his rider hath He cast into the sea. My strength and my song[6] is the terrible Lord; He hath said by His Word that He will be mine to redeem. This is my Elohim, and I will build Him a sanctuary; the Elohim of my fathers, and I will worship before Him. The Lord is the Lord of Victory in battles, the Lord is His Name. The chariots of Pharoh and his horses He hath cast into the sea, his chosen warriors are drowned in the sea of Suph. The depths covered them over, they went down to the bottom as a stone. Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is illustrious in power; Thy right hand, 0 Lord, shattereth the adversary; and in the greatness of Thy might Thou hast broken down them who arose against Thy people. Thou didst send forth Thy wrath, and it consumed them as stubble in the flame, and by the word of Thy mouth the waters, (as if) wise, stood up like a wall; the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. The adversary said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, and my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst speak by Thy Word, the sea covered them over, they sank like lead in the mighty waters. There is none beside Thee, 0 Elohim, (who art) glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. Thou didst uplift Thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up. Thou hast led forth in goodness Thy people whom Thou hast redeemed; Thou wilt bring them by Thy strength to the dwelling of Thy holiness. The nations will hear it, and be moved; terror will seize on the inhabiters of Pelasheth; then will the princes of Edom be alarmed, the strong ones of Moab will be seized with trembling and they who dwell in Kenaan will be broken down. Fear and dread will fall upon them, by the greatness of Thy power they will be silent as a stone, until Thy people, 0 Lord, pass over Arnona, until Thy people whom Thou hast redeemed pass over Jardena. Thou wilt bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the mountain of Thine inheritance, in the place which Thou hast ordained for the house of Thy Shekina, the sanctuary which Thy hands, 0 Lord, have prepared. The kingdom of the Lord endureth for ever, and for ever, evermore! Because, when the horses of Pharoh with his chariots and his horsemen had entered into the sea, the Lord caused the waters of the sea to return upon them, and the children of Yisrael walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea.
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and choruses. And Miriam answered them: Sing and give thanks before the Lord, for He hath magnified Himself upon the proud: and the majesty belongeth (only) unto Him; the horse and his rider hath He cast into the sea.
And Mosheh caused Yisrael to remove from the sea of Suph, and they went forth into the desert of Chagra, and went three days in the desert, but found no water. And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter; therefore he called the name of it Marah. And the people were fretful against Mosheh, saying, What shall we drink? And he prayed before the Lord; and the Lord instructed him (in the properties of) a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There decreed He a statute, and a judgment, and there He tried him. And He said, If hearkening thou wilt hearken unto the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, and wilt do what is right in His eyes, and wilt listen to His precepts and keep all His statutes, none of the maladies which I have set upon Mizraim will I put upon thee; for I am the Lord thy Healer.
And they came to Elim, and there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there before the waters. And they journeyed from Elim, and came, the whole assembly of the sons of Yisrael, to the desert of Sir, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month from their outgoing from the land of Mizraim. And all the congregation of the children of Yisrael were troublous against Mosheh and against Aharon in the desert; and the children of Yisrael said to them, 0 that we had died before the Lord in the land of Mizraim, when we sat by the caldrons of flesh, and could eat bread and be satisfied! Why have you brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with famine?
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, I will cause bread to come down to you from heaven; and the people shall go out and collect the matter of the day for the day; that I may prove them whether they will walk in My Torah, or not. And in the sixth day, when they prepare that which they bring in, it shall be two for one upon what they collect from day to day. And Mosheh and Aharon said to all the children of Yisrael, In the evening you shall know that the Lord brought you out of the land of Mizraim, and in the morning shall you see the Glory of the Lord; for your tumults are heard before the Lord: and we ‑what, that you are restive against us? And Mosheh said, When the Lord will give you at evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satisfy, while are heard before the Lord your tumults against Him! For what are we? your tumults are not against us, but against the Word of the Lord. And Mosheh said to Aharon, Bid all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael to come together before the Lord; for your tumult is heard before the Lord.[7] And it was, while Aharon was speaking with all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, that they turned towards the desert, and, behold, the glory of the Lord was revealed in the cloud.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, The tumult of the children of Yisrael is heard before Me. Speak with them to say, Between the evenings you shall eat flesh, and in the morning be satisfied with bread, and you shall know that I am the Lord your Elohim. And it was in the evening that the quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning a dew descended round about the camp; and when the dew which had fallen had gone up, behold, upon the face of the desert, a small (substance) without covering,[8] small like hoar frost, heaped on the earth. And the sons of Yisrael saw, and said, a man to his brother, Mana‑hu! for they knew not what it was. And Mosheh said to them, This is the bread which the Lord will give you to eat. This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every man gather of it according to his eating[9] an omera for every head according to the number of your souls, a man for those of his tent shall you take. And the sons of Yisrael did so, and gathered, some more, (others) less; and they measured with an omera, ‑and he who had (gathered) much had not more, and he who had (gathered) little had not less; every man according to his eating9 they gathered. And Mosheh said to them, No man must leave of it for the morning. But they hearkened not to Mosheh, but some left for the morning, and it swarmed worms and corrupted. And Mosheh was angry with them. And they gathered it from morning to morning a man according to his eating; and when the sun grew hot on that which remained upon the face of the field, it melted. And it was that on the sixth day they gathered a double (quantity) of bread,[10] two omers for one: and all the chiefs of the congregation came and showed Mosheh. And be said to them, To‑morrow is the rest of the holy Shabbath before the Lord. That which you prepare by baking, bake, and that which you prepare by boiling, boil, and all the remainder lay up to you, a store for the morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as Mosheh had instructed; and it did not corrupt, neither were there worms in it. And Mosheh said, Eat that today, for this day is Shabbath before the Lord; this day you would not find it in the field. Six days you shall collect it; but on the seventh day, the Shabbath, there will be none. And it was on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found it not.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, How long will you be unwilling to keep My commandments and My laws? See, because the Lord hath given you the Shabbath He hath therefore given you on the sixth day the bread for two days; let every man dwell in his resting, and not go out from his place on the seventh day. And the people reposed on the seventh day. And the house of Yisrael called the name of it Manna; and it was as the seed of Gida[11] white, and its taste was like cake broiled with honey. And Mosheh said, This is the word which the Lord hath commanded. Fill an omera of it to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread which I made you eat in the desert when I brought you forth from the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh said to Aharon, Take one vase, and put therein an omera full of manna, and lay it up before the Lord to be preserved for your generations. As the Lord commanded, so did Mosheh; and Aharon laid it up before the Testimony, to keep. And the children of Yisrael ate the manna forty years, until they came to the land inhabited; they did eat the manna till they came to the confines of the land of Kenaan. And one omera is the tenth of three seahs.
XVII. And all the congregation of the children of Yisrael journeyed from the desert of Sin, according to their itinerations by the Word of the Lord; and they encamped in Rephidim: but the people had no water to drink; and the people were contentious with Mosheh, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Mosheh said, Why do you contend with me? why do you tempt before the Lord? But the people thirsted there for water, and the people were turbulent against Mosheh, and said, Why is this, ‑to have brought us from Mizraim, to kill me and my children and my cattle with thirst? And Mosheh prayed before the Lord, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me! And the Lord said to Mosheh, Pass over before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Yisrael, and thy rod wherewith thou didst smite the river take in thy hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there, upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Mosheh did so in the eyes of the elders of Yisrael. And he called the name of the place, Temptation and Strife, because of the striving of the sons of Yisrael, and because they tempted before the Lord, saying, Is the Majesty of the Lord among us, or not?
And Amaleq came, and warred battle with Yisrael in Rephidim. And Mosheh said to Jehoshua, Choose for us men, and go forth and do battle with Amaleq. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, and the rod with which the miracles are wrought from before the Lord shall be in my hand. And Jehoshua did as Mosheh had said to him, and he did battle with Amaleq. And Mosheh, Aharon, and Hur ascended to the top of the hill. And it was that when Mosheh lifted up his hand, the house of Yisrael prevailed; and when he let down his hand, the house of Amaleq prevailed. But the hands of Mosheh became heavy, and they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat upon it, and Aharon and Hur held up his hands, here one, and there one; and thus were his hands stretched out in prayer until the going of the sun. And Jehoshua shattered Amaleq and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said to Mosheh: Write this memorial in the Book, and set it before Jehoshua, ‑That blotting, I will blot out the memorial of Amaleq from under the heavens. And Mosheh builded an altar, and ministered upon it before the Lord who had wrought (such) miracles for him. And he said, With an oath hath this been declared from before the Fearful One whose Shekinah is upon His glorious throne; that war shall be waged with the house of Amaleq, to destroy it from the generations of the world.
[1] Sam. Vers., “hath covered them.”
[2] Sam. Vers., “footmen.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “footmen.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “a muition.”
[5] Or, “with difficulty.”
[6] Sam. Vers., “my portion.”
[7] Other copies, “before Him.”
[8] Or, “peeled.” Sam. Vers., “shining.”
[9]Or, “the mouth of his eating.”
10 Sam. Vers., “ashes.”
[10] Or, “bread for one, two.”
[11] Heb., Gid, “coriander.” Sam. Vers., “rice.”
Section XV. Bo El Pharoh
X. AND the Lord spake to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh; for I have made strong the design of his heart, and the design of the heart of his servants, to set these My signs among them; and that in the hearing of thy sons and of thy children's children may be told the wonders I have done in Mizraim, and the signs that I set among them, that ye may know that I am the Lord. And Mosheh and Aharon went in unto Pharoh, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of Yisrael, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship before Me. But if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow I bring the locust upon thy borders, and they shall cover the face of the ground, so that it will be impossible to see the ground, and shall destroy the remainder that was spared to you from the hail, and destroy every tree which groweth for you out of the field. And they shall fill thy house, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of the Mizraee, (the like of) which neither thy fathers nor thy forefathers have seen since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned and went out from Pharoh.
And the servants of Pharoh said, How long shall this man be a stumbling-block to us? Let the men be released, that they may worship before the Lord their Elohim. Art thou not aware that by His hand it will be that the land of Mizraim shall be destroyed? And he commanded to bring back Mosheh and Aharon to Pharoh, and said to them, Go, worship before the Lord your Elohim: but who are they that are to go? And Mosheh said, With our children and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters we will go; with our sheep and with our oxen we will go; for we have a solemn feast before the Lord. And he said to them, So may the Word of the Lord be a help to you: (but) how can I release (both) you and your children? The evil offence is in the look of your faces: (you think to go onward) in the way that you would walk, till the time that you shall have come to the house of the place of your habitation. (It shall be) not so as ye devise; but the men only shall go and worship before the Lord; for that it was which ye demanded. And he drave them out from before the face of Pharoh.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand over the land of Mizraim for the locust, that he may come up over the land of Mizraim, and destroy every herb of the earth, whatsoever the hail hath left. And Mosheh lifted up his rod over the land of Mizraim, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the country all that day and all the night; and in the morning the east wind bare the locust. And the locust came up over all the land of Mizraim, and settled in all the limits of Mizraim exceedingly strong. Before him there had been no locust so hard, nor will there be like him. And he covered the face of all the land, until the land was darkened, and every herb of the ground was consumed, and all the fruit of the tree that the hail had left; and nothing green of tree or herb of the field was left in all the land of Mizraim.
And Pharoh made haste, and sent certain to call Mosheh and Aharon. And he said, I have sinned before the Lord your Elohim and against you. But now, pardon my sin only this once, and pray before the Lord, that He would only remove from me this death. And he went out from Pharoh, and prayed before the Lord. And the Lord turned a wind from the west of exceeding strength, and it carried away the locust, and bare him to the sea of Suph: there was not one locust left in all the borders of Mizraim. And even such as had been salted in vessels for needed food, those, too, the western wind bare away, and they went. But the Lord strengthened the design of Pharoh's heart, and he would not release the children of Yisrael.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand towards the height of the heavens, and there shall be darkness over all the land of Mizraim, in the morning, at the passing away of the first darkness of the night. [JERUSALEM. And they shall serve in darkness.] And Mosheh stretched out his hand towards the height of the heavens, and there was dark darkness in all the land of Mizraim three days. No man saw his brother, and none arose from his place three days. But among all the sons of Yisrael there was light, that the wicked among them who died might be buried, and that the righteous might be occupied with the precepts of the Torah in their dwellings. And at the end of three days Pharoh called Mosheh, and said, Go, worship before the lord; only your sheep and your oxen shall abide with me: your children also may go with you. But Mosheh said, Thou must also give into our hands holy oblations and burnt offerings, that we may perform service before the Lord our Elohim. Our flocks, more-over, must go with us; not one hoof of them shall remain; for from them we are to take, to do service before the Lord our Elohim. We cannot leave them; for we know not (as yet) in what manner we are to worship before the Lord, until we come thither. But the Lord made strong the design of Pharoh's heart, and he would not release them. And Pharoh said to him, Go from me. Beware that thou add not to see my face to speak before me one of these words that are so hard: for in the day that thou seest my face, my anger will grow strong against thee, and I will deliver thee into the hands of the men who seek thy life to take it. And Mosheh said, Thou hast spoken fairly. While I was dwelling in Midian, it was told me in a word from before the Lord, that the men who had sought to kill me had fallen from their means, and were reckoned with the dead. At the end there will be no mercy upon thee; but I will pray, and the plague shall be restrained from thee. And now I will see thy face no more. [JERUSALEM. And Pharoh said to him, Go from me. Beware that thou increase not my anger against thee by saying, Are not these hard words that thou speakest to me? Verily Pharoh would rather die than hear thy words. Beware, lest my anger grow strong against thee, and I deliver thee into the hands of this people, who require thy life to slay thee. And Mosheh said, Thou hast spoken truly. But it was certified to me at the former time when I dwelt in Midian, that all the men were dead who sought to kill my life. At the end there will be no mercy upon thee. Yet I will pray for thee, and this plague shall be restrained. But a tenth plague is for Pharoh, of (which the victim will be) thy firstborn son. And Mosheh said to him, Thou hast spoken fairly the truth: I will see thy face no more.]
XI. And the Lord spake unto Mosheh, Yet one stroke will I bring upon Pharoh and upon the Mizraee, which shall be greater than all, and afterward will he send you hence: when he releases, there shall be to himself an end: driving, he will drive you forth from hence. Speak now in the hearing of the people, That every man shall demand from his Mizraite friend, and every woman of her Mizraite friend, vessels of silver and vessels of gold. And the Lord gave the people favour before the Mizraee; also the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mizraim before the servants of Pharoh and before his people.
And Mosheh spake (or, had spoken) to Pharoh, Thus saith the Lord, At this hour of the following night will I be revealed in the midst of the Mizraee, and every firstborn in the land of Mizraim shall die: from the firstborn of Pharoh who should sit upon the throne of his kingdom, unto the firstborn son of the humblest mother in Mizraim who grindeth behind the mills, and all the firstborn of cattle. And there will be a great cry in all the land of Mizraim, because like the plague of this night there hath not been, and like the plague of this night there never will be one. But any of the children of Yisrael a dog shall not harm by lifting up his tongue against either man or beast ; that they may know that the Lord maketh distinction between the Mizraites and the sons of Yisrael. And thou shalt send down all thy servants to me, coming and beseeching me, saying, Go forth, thou and all the people who are with thee; and afterwards I will go. And he went out from Pharoh in great anger. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Pharoh will not hearken to you ; that I may multiply My wonders in the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharoh; and the Lord strengthened the design of Pharoh's heart, and he would not release the sons of Yisrael from his land.
XII. And the Lord spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mizraim, saying, This month is ordained to be to you the beginning of the months; and from it you shall begin to number for festivals, and times, and cycles; it shall be to you the first of the number of the months of the year. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, saying, In the tenth of this month, whose time is appointed for this time (occasion), and not for (coming) generations, they shall take to them a lamb for the house of a family, and, if many in number, they shall take a lamb for a house: but if the men of the house are fewer than ten in number, in proportion to a sufficient number to eat the lamb, he and his neighbour who is nearest to his house shall take according to the number of souls: each man according to the sufficiency of his eating shall be counted for the lamb. The lamb shall be perfect, a male, the son of a year he shall be to you; from the sheep or from the young goats ye may take. And it shall be bound and reserved for you until the fourteenth day of this month, that you may not know the fear of the Mizraee when they see it; and ye shall kill him according to the rite of all to congregation of the assembly of Yisrael, between the suns. And you shall take of the blood and set it upon the two posts and upon the upper board outside of the houses in which you eat and sleep. And you shall eat the flesh on that night, the fifteenth of Nisan, until the dividing of the night roasted with fire, [JERUSALEM. Roasted,] without leaven, with horehound and lettuce shall you eat it. Eat not of it while living, neither boiled in wine, or oil, or other fluids, neither boiled in water, but roasted with fire, with its head, and its feet, and its inwards. Nor shall any be left of it till the morning; but what may remain of it in the morning you shall cover over, and in the daylight of the sixteenth day burn with fire; for you may not burn the residue of a holy oblation on the feast day. And according to this manner you shall eat it, this time, but not in (other) generations: your loins shall be girded, [JERUSALEM. Bound by the precepts of the Torah,] your shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands; and you shall eat in the fear of the majesty of the Lord of the world; because mercy hath been shown to you from before the Lord. And I will be revealed in the land of Mizraim in the majesty of My glory this night, and with Me ninety thousand myriads of destroying angels; and I will slay all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim, of man and of beast, and against all the idols of the Mizraee I will execute four judgments: the molten idols shall be melted, the idols of stone be broken, the idols of clay shall he shattered, and the idols of wood be made dust, that the Mizraee may know that I am the Lord. And the blood of the paschal oblation, (like) the matter of circumcision, shall be a bail for you, to become a sign upon the houses where you dwell; and I will look upon the worth of the blood, and will spare you; and the angel of death, to whom is given the power to destroy, shall have no dominion over you in the slaughter of the Mizraee. And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall celebrate it a festival before the Lord in your generations; by a perpetual statute shall you solemnize it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread: in the dividing of the day which precedes the feast you shall put away leaven from your houses; for whosoever eateth what is leavened, from the first day of the feast until the seventh day, that man shall be destroyed from Yisrael. And on the first day there shall be a holy congregation, and on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy congregation. No work shall be done among you, only that which must be done for every one's eating may be done by you. And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread, because in this same day the Lord will bring out your hosts free from the land of Mizraim; and you shall observe this day in your generations, a statute for ever. In Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall kill the passover, and at evening on the fifteenth you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first of the month. On the evening of the twenty-second you may eat leavened bread. For seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for whosoever eateth of leaven, that man shall perish from the congregation of Yisrael, whether he be a stranger or home-bred in the land. Any mixture of leaven you shall not eat; in every place of your habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.
And Mosheh called all the elders of Yisrael, and said to them, Withdraw your hands from the idols of the Mizraee, and take to you from the offspring of the flock, according to your houses, and kill the paschal lamb And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the earthen vessel, and upon the upper bar without and upon the two posts you shall sprinkle of the blood which is in the earthen vessel, and not a man of you must come forth from the door of his hour till the morning. For the Glory of the Lord will be manifested in striking the Mizraee, and He will see the blood upon the lintel and upon the too posts, and the Word of the Lord will spread His protection over the door, and the destroying angel will not be permitted to enter your houses to smite.
And you shall observe this thing for a statute to thee and to thy sons for a memorial for ever. And it shall be when you are come into the land that the Lord will give to you, as He hath spoken, that from the time of your coming you shall observe this service. And it shall be that when at that time your children shall say to you, What is this your service? you shall say, It is the sacrifice of mercy before the Lord, who had mercy in His Word upon the houses of the sons of Yisrael in Mizraim, when He destroyed the Mizraee, and spared our houses. And when the house of Yisrael heard this word from the mouth of Mosheh, they bowed and worshipped. And the sons of Yisrael went and did as the Lord com-manded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they hasten and do.
And it was in the dividing, of the night of the fifteenth, that the Word of the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim, from the firstborn son of Pharoh, who would have sat upon the throne of his kingdom, unto the firstborn sons of the kings who were captives in the dungeon as hostages under Pharoh's hand; and who, for having rejoiced at the servitude of Yisrael, were punished as (the Mizraee): and all the firstborn of the cattle that did the work of the Mizraee died also.
And Pharoh rose up in that night, and all the rest of his servants, and all the rest of the Mizraee; and there was a great cry, because there was no house of the Mizraee where the firstborn was not dead. And the border of the land of Mizraim extended four hundred pharsee; but the land of Goshen, where Mosheh and the sons of Yisrael were, was in the midst of the land of Mizraim; and the royal palace of Pharoh was at the entrance of the land of Mizraim. But when he cried to Mosheh and to Aharon in the night of the Pascha, his voice was heard unto the land of Goshen; Pharoh crying with a voice of woe, and saying thus: Arise, Go forth from among my people, both you and the sons of Yisrael ; and go, worship before the Lord, as you have said; your sheep also take, and whatever of mine you have spoken about, and go; and nothing ask I of you except that you pray for me that I may not die. When Mosheh and Aharon, and the sons of Yisrael, heard the voice of Pharoh's weeping, they were not mindful, until he came himself, and all his servants, and all the Mizraee, and urged all the people of the house of Yisrael, that they might hasten to send them forth from the land; For, said they, if they prolong here one hour more, behold, we are all dead. [JERUSALEM. For, said the Mizraee, if Yisrael delay one hour (longer), behold, all Mizraim dies.]
And the people carried their dough upon their beads, being unleavened, and what remained to them of the paschal cakes and bitter things they carried, bound up with their raiment, upon their shoulders. And the sons of Yisrael did according to the word of Mosheh, and asked of the Mizraee vessels of silver and vessels of gold. And the Lord gave the people favour and compassion before the Mizraee, and they brought forth to them, and they emptied the Mizraee of their riches.
And the sons of Yisrael moved forth from Pilusin towards Succoth, a hundred and thirty thousand, protected there by seven clouds of glory on their four sides: one above them, that neither hail nor rain might fall upon them, nor that they should be burned by the heat of the sun; one beneath them, that they might not be hurt by thorns, serpents, or scorpions; and one went before them, to make the valleys even, and the mountains low, and to prepare them a place of habitation. And they were about six hundred thousand men, journeying on foot, none riding on horses except the children five to every man; and a multitude of strangers, [JERUSALEM. A mixed multitude,] two hundred and forty myriads, went up with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle, very many. And they divided the dough which they brought out of Mizraim, which they had carried on their heads, and it was baked for them by the heat of the sun, (into) unleavened cakes, because it had not fermented; for the Mizraee had thrust them out, neither could they delay; and it was sufficient for them to eat until the fifteenth of the month Ijar; because they had not prepared provision for the way.
And the days of the dwelling of the sons of Yisrael in Mizraim were thirty weeks of years, (thirty times seven years,) which is the sum of two hundred and ten years. But the number of four hundred and thirty years (had passed away since) the Lord spake to Avraham, in the hour that He spake with him on the fifteenth of Nisan, between the divided parts, until the day that they went out of Mizraim. And it was at the end of thirty years from the making of this covenant, that Izhak was born; and thence until they went out of Mizraim four hundred (years), on the selfsame day it was that all the hosts of the Lord went forth made free from the land of Mizraim.
Four nights are there written in the Book of Memorials before the Lord of the world. Night the first,--when He was revealed in creating the world; the second,--when He was revealed to Avraham; the third,--when He was revealed in Mizraim, His hand killing all the firstborn of Mizraim, and His right hand saving the firstborn of Yisrael; the fourth,--when He will yet be revealed to liberate the people of the house of Yisrael from among the nations. And all these are called Nights to be observed; for so explained Mosheh, and said thereof, It is to be observed on account of the liberation which is from the Lord, to lead forth the people of the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim. This is that Night of preservation from the destroying angel for all the sons of Yisrael who were in Mizraim, and of redemption of their generations from their captivity.
[JERUSALEM. TARGUM. It is a night to be observed and celebrated for the liberation from before the Lord in bringing forth the sons of Yisrael, made free from the land of Mizraim. Four nights are there written in the Book of Memorial. Night first; when the Word of the Lord was revealed upon the world as it was created; when the world was without form and void, and darkness was spread upon the face of the deep, and the Word of the Lord illuminated and made it light; and he called it the first night. Night second; when the Word of the Lord was revealed unto Avraham between the divided parts; when Avraham was a son of a hundred years, and Sarah was a daughter of ninety years, and that which the Scripture saith was confirmed,--Avraham a hundred years, can he beget? and Sarah, ninety year old, can she bear? Was not our father Izhak a son of thirty and seven years, at the time he was offered upon the altar? The heavens were (then) bowed down and brought low, and Izhak saw their realities, and his eyes were blinded at the sight, and he called it the second night. The third night; when the Word of the Lord was revealed upon the Mizraee, at the dividing of the night; His right hand slew the firstborn of the Mizraee, His right hand spared the firstborn of Yisrael; to fulfil what the Scripture hath said, Yisrael is My firstborn son. And he called it the third night. Night the fourth; when the end of the age will be accomplished, that it might be dissolved, the bands of wickedness destroyed and the iron yoke broken. Mosheh came forth from the midst of the desert; but the King Meshiha (comes) from the midst of Roma. The Cloud preceded that, and the Cloud will go before this one; and the Word of the Lord will lead between both, and they shall proceed together. This is the night of the Pascha before the Lord, to be observed and celebrated by the sons of Yisrael in all their generations.]
A sojourner or a hired stranger shall not eat thereof. In his own company he shall eat. Thou shalt not carry any of the flesh out of the house from (thy) company, nor send a gift one mail to his neighbour; and a bone of him shall not be broken for the sake of eating that which is within it. [JERUSALEM. A sojourning man and a hireling born of the Gentiles shall not eat of it.] All the congregation of Yisrael shall mix together, this one with that, one family with another, that they may perform it. And if a proselyte sojourn with you, and would perform the pascha before the Lord, let every male belonging to him be circumcised, and so be made fit to perform it; and he shall be as the native of the land: but no uncircumcised one of the sons of Yisrael shall eat thereof. One Torah shall there be as to appointments for the native and for the proselyte who sojourneth among you. And all the sons of Yisrael did as the Lord had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they. And it was on that same day that the Lord brought forth the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim, with their hosts.
XIII. And the Lord spake unto Mosheh, saying, Sanctify before Me every firstborn male. Whatsoever openeth the womb of all the sons of Yisrael among men, and (also) among beasts, is Mine. And Mosheh said to the people, Remember this the day in which you went out free from Mizraim from the house of the bondage of slaves; for by great strength of hand did the Lord bring you forth from thence; and you shall not eat leaven. This day you are come out free; on the fifteenth of Nisan, which is the month of Abiba. And it shall be, when the Lord your Elohim shall have brought you into the land of the Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Amoraee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee, which He sware by His Word unto Avraham to give thee, a land producing milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened cakes, and on the seventh day shall be a feast before the Lord. Unleavened cakes shall be eaten seven days, and nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, nor leaven itself be seen with thee in all thy borders. And thou shalt instruct thy son on that day, saying, This precept is on account of what the Word of the Lord did for me in miracles and wonders, in bringing me forth from Mizraim. And this miracle shall be inscribed and set forth upon the tephilla of the hand, on the top of thy left (arm,) and for a memorial inscribed and set forth upon the tephilla of thy head, set between thine eyes on thy forehead; that the Torah of the Lord may be in thy mouth, because in strength, with a mighty hand, the Lord brought thee forth from Mizraim . Thou shalt therefore keep this statute of the Tephillin in the season to which it belongs, on work days, not on sabbaths or solemnities; and by day, not by night. [JERUSALEM. >From these days to those months.] And when I the Lord have brought thee into the land of the Kenaanaee, which I have sworn to thee and to thy fathers to give thee, thou shalt set apart before the Lord every one that openeth the womb; and every animal that its dam beareth and that openeth the womb if it be to thee a male thou shalt sanctify before the Lord. And every ass that openeth the womb thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou redeem him not, thou shalt cut him off; [JERUSALEM. Thou shalt kill him;] and every firstborn man (child) among thy sons thou shalt redeem; but thy servant thou mayest not redeem with money.
And when in future thy son shall ask thee, saying, What is this ordinance of the firstborn? thou shalt tell him: By the power of a mighty hand the Lord delivered us from Mizraim, redeeming us from the house of the servitude of slaves. And when the Word of the Lord had hardened the heart of Pharoh (that be would) not deliver us, he killed all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of cattle; therefore do I sacrifice before the Lord every male that openeth the womb, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem with silver. And it shall be inscribed and set forth upon thy left land, and on the tephilla between thine eyebrows; because by mighty strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Mizraim.
SECTION XV.
BO EL PHAROH.
X. AND the Lord said to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh; for I have hardened his heart., and the heart of his servants, to set these My signs among them; and that thou mayest relate before thy son and the son of thy son the miracles which I wrought in Mizraim and the signs that I did set among them, that ye may know that I am the Lord. And Mosheh and Aharon entered unto Pharoh, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the Elohim of the Jehudaee, Until now thou hast obstinately refused to humble thyself before Me; send My people away, that they may serve Me. For if thou refuse to release My people, behold, to‑morrow I will bring the locust into thy borders, and he shall cover the eye of the sun of the earth, (or, shall hide the sun (which is) the eye of the earth,[1]) so that it will not be possible to see the ground; and he will devour the residue which hath been spared (saved) and that hath been reserved to you from the hail, and will devour every tree which groweth up for you from the field; and they shall fill thy house, and the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all the Mizraee, which thy fathers have not seen, nor the fathers of thy fathers, from the day they were upon the earth until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharoh.
And the servants of Pharoh said to him, How long shall this man be an injury (stumbling‑block) to us? Send the men away, that they may serve before the Lord their Elohim. Knowest thou not yet that Mizraim hath perished? And Mosheh and Aharon were made to return unto Pharoh; and he said to them; Go, serve before the Lord your Elohim: (but) who and who shall go? And Mosheh said, With our young ones and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen, will we go; for we have a feast before the Lord. And he said to them, So be the Word of the Lord in your help when I send you away and your little ones: beware, for the evil that you are thinking to do will be turned against your faces. Not so: but let the men go and serve before the Lord; for it was that which you demanded. And they were driven from before Pharoh.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand over the land of Mizraim, that the locusts may come, and go up on the land of Mizraim, and devour every herb of the earth, even all which the b hail hath left. And Mosheh stretched forth his rod upon the land of Mizraim, and the Lord led an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night; at morn the east wind bare the locust. And the locust came up on all the land of Mizraim, and abode in all the boundary of Mizraim exceedingly strong. Before him the locust had never been like him nor afterward will he be so; and he covered the eye of the sun of all the earth, and the earth was darkened; and he devoured every herb of the ground, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there did not remain any green on the trees nor herbage of the field in all the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh made haste to call Mosheh and Aharon, and said, I have sinned before the Lord your Elohim, and you. And now, forgive my sin only this time, and intercede before the Lord your Elohim, that He may remove from me only this death. And they went out from Pharoh, and prayed before the Lord. And the Lord turned a west wind exceedingly strong, and it carried the locust and drave him into the sea of Suph, nor did one locust remain in all the border of Mizraim. Yet the heart of Pharoh was hardened, and he would not send the sons of Yisrael away.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Uplift thy hand towards heaven,[2] and there shall be darkness[3] upon the land of Mizraim after the darkness of the night hath passed away. And Mosheh lifted up his hand towards heaven, and there was darkness of darkness in all the land of Mizraim three days: a man saw not his brother, nor did any man rise up from his place, three days. Yet, all the sons of Yisrael had light in their dwellings. And Pharoh called Mosheh and said, Go, serve before the Lord; only leave your sheep and your oxen, your little ones also may go with you. But Mosheh said, Thou must give into our hands also the holy victims and holocausts, that we may serve before the Lord our Elohim. Our cattle too shall go with us, and there shall not remain any thereof; for of it we must take to serve the Lord our Elohim, and we know not with what we have to do service before Him until we come thither. But the Lord hardened Pharoh's heart, and he was not willing to send them away. And Pharoh said to him, Go from me. Beware for thyself. See my face no more; for in the day that thou seest my face thou shalt die. And Mosheh said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy face no more.
XI. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Yet one plague will I bring upon Pharoh and upon Mizraim; after which he will send you hence. When sending away he thoroughly driving will drive you from hence. Speak now before the people of Yisrael that a man shall require of his companion, and a woman of her companion, vessels of silver and vessels of gold. And the Lord gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mizraee; also the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mizraim, in the eyes of the servants of Pharoh and in the eyes of the people.
And Mosheh said, Thus saith the Lord, At the dividing of the night I will be revealed in the midst of Mizraim, and all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim shall die; from the firstborn of Pharoh who would sit upon the throne of his kingdom, unto the firstborn of the womanservant who is behind[4] the mills, and all the firstborn of cattle. And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Mizraim, the like of which hath not been, nor will be the like of it again. But any one of the sons of Yisrael no dog will hurt even with his tongue by barking, from man and to beast, so that you shall know that the Lord hath distinguished between the Mizraee and Yisrael. And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and beseech of me, saying, Go forth, thou and all thy people who are with thee: and after that I will go forth. And he went out from Pharoh with vehement anger.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Pharoh will not hearken to you; therefore will I multiply My wonders in the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh and Aharon wrought all these wonders before Pharoh; but the Lord hardened Pharoh's heart, that he would not send the children of Yisrael from his land.
XII. And the Lord spake to Mosheh and Aharon in the land of Mizraim, saying, This month shall be to you the beginning of the months; the first, it shall be to you, of the months of the year. Speak with all the congregation of Yisrael, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb for the house of a father, a lamb for the house. And if the house be smaller than the numbering (required) for the lamb, let him take himself, and his neighbour who is nearest to his house, according to the number of the souls, every man according to the mouth of his eating shall you count over the lamb. The lamb shall be perfect, a male, the son of a year; it shall be to you; from the sheep or from the goats[5] you may take it. And you shall have it in keeping till the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole church (kehala) of the congregation of Yisrael shall kill him between the suns. And they shall take of the blood, and apply it upon the two posts and upon the lintel of the houses in which they eat him. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire, and (with) unleavened cake with bitters you shall eat him. You shall not eat of it while living, neither boiled with boiling in water, but roasted with fire; his head with his feet and his inwards. And you shall not leave of it till the morning; and that which remains of it till morning you shall burn in the fire. And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, with your sandals on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and you shall eat it in haste; it is the Pascha before the Lord. And I will appear in the land of Mizraim in that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land from man unto beast, and on all the idols of Mizraim I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. And the blood shall be for you a sign upon the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and will have mercy upon you, and there shall not be among you the destruction of death when I slay in the land of Mizraim. And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall solemnize it a festival before the Lord in your generations; an everlasting ordinance (covenant) shall you solemnize it. And on the first day there shall be an holy congregation, and on the seventh day an holy congregation shall there be to you. Every kind of work may not be done in them; save what pertains to the eating of every soul, that only may be done by you. And you shall keep the (feast of the) Unleavened; for on this very day shall I have brought your hosts out of the land of Mizraim, and you shall keep this day to all your generations for ever.[6] In Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening you shall eat unleavened, until the twenty and first of the mouth in the evening. Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for whosoever will eat of that which is leavened, that man shall perish from the congregation of Yisrael, of the stranger, or of the native of the land. You shall eat no leavened (food), in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened.
And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisrael, and said to them, Draw out, and take to you from the sons of the flock for your families, and kill the pascha. And you shall take a bundle of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and sprinkle upon the lintel and the two posts from the blood which is in the basin; and you shall not go forth from the door of your house[7] until the morning. For the Lord will be revealed to smite the Mizraee; and seeing the blood upon the lintel and upon the two posts, the Lord will be merciful upon the door, and will not suffer the Destroyer (or destruction) to enter your houses to smite. And you shall observe the thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. And it shall be, when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you as He hath said, that you shall (still) keep this service. And it shall be, when your children say to you, What is this service to you? you shall say, It is a sacrifice for compassion before the Lord, because He had compassion on the house of the sons of Yisrael in Mizraim, when He smote the Mizraee, but spared our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped. And the sons of Yisrael went and did as the Lord had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they.
And it came to pass at the dividing of the night that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim; from the firstborn of Pharoh who should sit on the throne of his kingdom unto the firstborn of the captive in the house of the chained, and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharoh rose up in that night, and all his servants and all the Mizraee; and there was a great cry in Mizraim, because there was no house in which there was not the dead. And he cried to Mosheh and to Aharon by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, you and the sons of Yisrael, and go and serve before the Lord, as you have said. Your flocks and your herds take also, as you have spoken, and go, and pray also for me. And the Mizraee were forcible on the people to hasten to send them away; for they said, All of us are dead. And the people took their dough while not leavened, remaining in the kneading pans, bound with their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Yisrael did according to the word of Mosheh, and demanded of the Mizraee vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mizraee, and they demanded of them, and left the Mizraee empty.[8]
And the children of Yisrael journeyed from Ramases to Succoth; about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children (or families); and a multitude of strangers also went up with them, and flocks and herds and very much cattle. And they baked the dough which they had brought out from Mizraim (into) unleavened cakes; for it had not been leavened, because they had been driven out from Mizraim and could not stay, and they had not made provision. And the dwelling of the sons of Yisrael in their abode in Mizraim (was) four hundred and thirty years. And it was at the end of four hundred and thirty years, in that same day, that all the hosts of the Lord went forth from the land of Mizraim. It is a night to be kept before the Lord for bringing them forth from the land of Mizraim: this is that night before the Lord kept by all the children of Yisrael in their generations.
And the Lord said to Mosheh and to Aharon, This is the rite of the Pascha. Every son of Yisrael who apostatizes shall not eat of it; but every male servant bought with silver, and thou hast circumcised him, may eat thereof. A sojourner and a hireling shall not eat thereof. In one company it shall be eaten. You shall not carry any of the flesh from the house without, and a bone shall not be broken in him. All the congregation of Yisrael shall do this. And when the sojourner who sojourneth with thee will perform the pascha before the Lord, every male of his shall be circumcised, and he may then approach and perform it; he shall be as one born in the land, but none uncircumcised shall eat of it. One Torah shall there be for the native and for the proselyte who sojourneth among you. And all the children of Yisrael did as the Lord commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they. And it was on the same day that the Lord led forth the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim by their armies.
XIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Sanctify unto Me all the firstborn. Every one which openeth the womb among the children of Yisrael, of man and of beast, that is Mine. And Mosheh said to the people, Remember this day, in which you went forth from Mizraim from the house of servitude; for with a mighty hand hath the Lord brought you forth from thence; and you shall not eat what is leavened. This day have you come out, in the month of Abiba. And it shall be when the Lord hath led thee into the land of the Kenaanaee and Hittaee and Emoraee and Hivaee and Jebusaee, which He covenanted to thy fathers to give thee, a land producing milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month. Seven days thou shalt eat the (phatira) unleavened cake, and in the seventh day solemnize a feast before the Lord. The unleavened cake thou shalt eat seven days; that which is leavened shall not be seen with thee; the leavened thing shall not be seen with thee in all thy limits. And thou shalt teach thy son on that day, saying, (It is) on account of that which the Lord did for me in bringing me out of Mizraim. And it shall be a sign to thee on thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Torah of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for that with a mighty hand did the Lord bring thee forth from Mizraim: and thou shalt keep this ordinance in its season from time to time.
And it shall be, when the Lord hath brought thee into the land of the Kenaanaee, as He sware to thee and to thy fathers, and hath given it to thee, that thou shalt make over whatsoever openeth the womb before the Lord; among the cattle which thou hast the male shall be consecrate before the Lord. And every firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; but if thou wilt not ransom it, thou shalt destroy it; and every firstborn of man among thy children thou shalt ransom. And it shall be, when thy son shall ask thee to‑morrow, saying, Why is this? thou shalt say to him, By a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Mizraim from the house of servitude. And it was when Pharoh was obdurate about letting us go away that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of cattle: therefore I sacrifice before the Lord of all that openeth the womb, the males, and all the firstborn of my children I ransom. And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand and for Tephillin between thine eyes, because with a mighty hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Mizraim.
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[1] Sam. Vers., Òshall cover the appearance of the earth.Ó
[2] Al tsaith shemay, Òtowards the height of the heavens.Ó Sam. Vers., Òtowards the height.Ó
[3] Sam. Vers., ÒThat darkness may be brought.Ó
[4] Some copies, Òwho is in the house of the mills.Ó
[5] Other copies, Òfrom the sons of the goats.Ó
[6] Other copies, Òan everlasting ordinance in all your.Ó
[7] Other copies, Òany man from the door of his house.Ó
[8] Sam. Vers., Òstripped.Ó
SECTION V.
CHAIYEY SARAH.
XXIII. And the days of the life of Sarah were an hundred and twenty and seven years, the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiryath Arba, which is Hebron. [JERUSALEM. And Sarah died in the city of the giants.]
And Avraham came from the mountain of worship, and found that she was dead; and he sat to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. And Avraham rose up from the sight of the face of his dead, and spake with the sons of Hittah, saying, I am a sojourner and dweller with you; I pray sell me the inheritance of a sepulchre among you, and I will bury my dead there. And the sons of Hittah responded unto Avraham, saying to him, Attend to us, our lord. Great before the Lord art thou among us, in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead: there is not a man of us who will refuse thee his sepulchre, that thou mayest bury thy dead. And Avraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Hittah. And he spake with them, saying, If it be with the consent of your mind that I bury my dead from before my face, receive of me, and intercede for me before Ephron bar Zochar that he sell me his double cave which is built in the side of his field, for the full price in silver let him give it me among you, for an inheritance of sepulture. But Ephron the Hittite answered Avraham in the presence of the sons of Hittah, of all who entered the gate of his city, saying, My lord, listen to me: the field I give thee, and the cave which is in it, to thee I give it, as a gift before the sons of my people I give it to thee; go, bury thy dead. And Avraham bowed before the sons of Hittah. And he spake with Ephron before the people of the land, saying, Nevertheless, if thou art willing to do me a favour, hear me: I will give thee in silver the price of the field; take (it) of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Avraham, saing to him, My lord, hear me: the land, as to its price, would be four hundred sileen of silver; between me and thee what is that? Bury thy dead. And Avraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Avraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named before the sons of Hittah, four hundred sileen of silver, good, passing at every table, and receivable in all transactions. [JERUSALEM. Four hundred sileen of silver, passing at every table, and receivable in all transactions.] And he confirmed the purchase of the field of Ephron, in which (was) the double (cave) which is before Mamre, The field, and the cave that is therein, and all the trees that were in the field, in all the boundaries thereof round about,--Unto Avraham, for a purchased possession, in the presence of the sons of Hittah, (even) of all who entered in at the gate of the city. And afterwards Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field Kapheilta which is before Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Kenaan. And the field and the cave therein were confirmed unto Avraham for an inheritance of sepulture from the sons of Hittah.
XXIV. And Avraham was old with days, and the Word of the Lord had blessed Avraham with every kind of blessing. And Avraham said to Eliezer his servant, the senior of his house, who had rule over all his property, Put now thy hand upon the section of my circumcision. [JERUSALEM. And Avraham said to his servant, the ruler who had rule over all that was his, Put now thy hand under the thigh of my covenant.] And swear to me in the name of the Word of the Lord Elohim, whose habitation is in heaven on high, the Elohim whose dominion is over the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kenaanites among whom I dwell; but that thou wilt go to the land and the house of my kindred, and take a wife for my son, for Izhak. And the domestic said to him,e the woman may not be willing to come after me to this land; shall I, returning make thy son return to the land from whence thou camest? And Avraham said to him, Beware, lest thou make my some return thither! The Lord Elohim, whose seat is in heaven on high, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth; and who spake to me, and sware to me, saying, To thy son will I give this land; He will seasonably send His angel, and thou shalt take a wife for my sone from thence. But if the woman be not willing to come after thee, thou shalt be innocent from this my oath; only make not my son return thither. And the servant put his hand upon the circumcised part of Avraham his lord, and sware to him according to this thing.
And the servant took ten camels from the camels of his lord, and went: for all the goodly treasures of his lord were in his hand; and he arose and went unto Aram, which was by the Pherat, to the city of Nachor. [JERUSALEM. And all the goodly treasures of his lord were in his hand; and he arose and went to Aram, which is by Pherat Naharaim.] And he made the camels lie down without the city by the fountain of waters, at the time of evening, the time when the fillers (of water) come forth. And he said, Lord Elohim of my master Avraham, prepare thou a proper woman before me to-day, and deal graciously with my master Avraham. Behold I stand at the well of waters, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming forth to fill waters. Let the damsel to whom I say, Reach me now thy pitcher, that I may drink, and she say, Drink, and I will also make my camels drink, be she whom thou hast provided to go to thy servant Izhak; and herein shall I know that Thou hast dealt graciously with my master. And it was in that little hour, while he had not ceased to speak, that, behold, Rivekah came forth, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcha, the wife of Nachor, the brother of Avraham, and her pitcher was upon her shoulder. And the damsel was a virgin, very beautiful to behold, and she descended to the fountain and filled her pitcher, and came up. And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me taste now a little water from thy pitcher. And she said, Drink, my lord; and hastened to let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. And she finished giving him drink, and said, Also for thy camels I will fill until they be satisfied with drinking. And she hastened and emptied the pitcher into the canal, the place of drinking, and ran again to the well to fill; and she filled for all his camels. [JERUSALEM. And she made haste, and poured out her vase into the midst of the trough, and filled, and gave drink to all the camels.] But the man waited, and was silent, to know whether the Lord had prospered his way or not. And it was when the camels had been satisfied with drink, that the man took an earring of gold, of a drachma in weight, the counterpart of the drachma of the head (money) which her children presented for the work of the sanctuary; and he set two golden bracelets upon her hands, in weight ten sileen of gold; the sum of their weight being the counterpart of the two tables on which were inscribed the Ten Words. And he said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me now, if in thy father's house there be room for us to lodge. And she said, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcha, whom she bare to Nachor. And she told him, saying, There is also straw and provender in plenty with us, as also proper room to lodge. And the man bowed and worshipped before the Lord, who had thus prepared before him a suitable wife. And he said, Blessed be the Name of the Lord, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who hath not restrained His mercy and His truth from my master; for the sake of his righteousness in the right way hath the Lord led me to the house of my master's brother.
And Rivekah had a brother whose name was Laban. And Laban ran towards the man without at the fountain. And when Lamban saw the ring and the bracelets upon the hands of his sister, and heard the words of Rivekah his sister, saying, Thus hath the man spoken with me; he came to the man, and behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain. And Laban thought that this was Avraham, and said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord: wherefore standest thou without, when I have purified the house from strange worship, and have prepared a place for the camels?
And the man entered the house, and Laban undid the gear of the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender; and water (to Eliezer) to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who were with him. And he set in order before him to eat, prepared food in which was poison to kill; but he objected to it, and said, I will not eat, until I have spoken my words. And he said, Speak. And he said, I am the servant of Avraham. And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly, and hath increased, and given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, servants and handmaids, and camels and asses. And Sarah; my master's wife, bare a son after she was old, and he hath given to him all that he hath. And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son from the daughers of the Kenaanites in whose land I dwell, but shall go to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. But I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not come after me. And he said to me, The Lord before whom I worship will appoint His angel to be with thee, and will prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son from my household, from the race of my father's house. Then shalt thou be free from my oath: if, when thou art come to the house of my kindred, they give not to thee, thou shalt be free from thy oath.
And I came to-day to the fountain, and said, Lord Elohim of my master ABraham, if now Thou hast prospered the journey upon which I have come, behold, I stand at the fountain of water,--let the damsel who may come forth to fill, to whom I will say, Give me now a little water to drink from thy pitcher, and she say, Drink, and for thy camels also will I draw, be the wife whom the Lord hath prepared by His decree for my master's son.
I had not yet finished speaking in the thoughts of my heart, when, behold, Rivekah came forth with the pitcher upon (her) shoulder, and went down to the fountain, and filled. And I said, Let me now drink. And she hastened and let down her pitcher from her, and said, Drink, and I will also give thy camels drink. And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nachor, whom Milcha bare to him. And I set the jewel upon her brow, and the bracelets on her hand, and bowed and worshipped before the Lord; and I blessed the Lord, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who had led me in the true way to take the daughter of master's brother for his son.
And now, if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the south or to the north. And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing hath come forth from before the Lord that Rivekah should be given to Izhak, and we cannot say to thee either evil or good. Behold, Rivekah is before thee, take and go, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.
And when Avraham's servant heard these words, he worshipped on the ground before the Lord. And the servant brought forth vessels of silver and of gold, and vestments, and gave them to Rivekah; and presents give he to her brother and to her mother. And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and passed the night. And he arose in the morning, and said, Send me away to my master. But as they were talking in the evening, Bethuel had eaten of that prepared food; and in the morning they found that he was dead. And the brother and mother said therefore, Let the damsel dwell with us the days of one year or ten months, and then she shall go. And he said, Hinder me not, when the Lord hath prospered my way; let me depart, and I will go to my master. And they said, We will call Rivekah, and hear what she says. And they called Rivekah, and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
And they let Rivekah their sister go, and her nurse, and the servant of Avraham, and his men. And they blessed Rivekah, and said to her, Hitherto thou wast our sister; and now thou art going and art wedded to the righteous; so prosper thou, that from thee may come thousands of myriads; and may thy sons inherit the cities of those who hate them.
And Rivekah arose, and her damsel, and they rode upon camels, and went after the man. And the servant took Rivekah with him and journeyed. And as the way was shortened to him in his journey to Padan Aram, so was it shortened to him in his return, that in one day he went, and in one day he returned.
And Izhak was coming from the school of the Rabba Shem, by the way of the fountain where had been revealed to him the Living and Eternal One, who seeth, and is not seen; and he resided in the land of the south. [JERUSALEM. And Izhak was coming from the school of the Rabba Shem, at the fountain where had been revealed to him the Shekinah of the Lord; and he dwelt in the land of the south.} And Izhak went forth to pray upon the face of the field at the time of evening; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were approaching.
And Rivekah lifted up her eyes, and saw Izhak, and she bowed upon the camel. And she said to the servant, Who is the man (so) majestic and graceful, who walks in the field before us? And the servant said, He is my master. And she took a veil and covered herself. [JERUSALEM. And she took a veil, and wrapped herself in it.]
And the servant related to Izhak everything he had done. And Izhak introduced her into the tabernacle of Sarah his mother, and thereupon the light (again) shined which had gone out at the time of Sarah's death. And he took Rivekah, and she was his wife, and he loved her; for he saw her works that they were upright as the works of his mother. And Izhak was consoled after his mother's death.
XXV. And Avraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah; she is Hagar, who had been bound to him from the beginning. [JERUSALEM. She is Hagar, who had been tied to him from the beginning.] And she bare to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Yishbak, and Shovack. And Jokshan begat Sheva and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were merchants, and negotiators, and chiefs of peoples. [JERUSALEM. Merchants, and artificers, and chiefs of peoples.] And the sons of Midyan, Eipher, and Ephher, and Honok, and Abida, and Aldaah, all these were the sons of Keturah. And Abrahm gave the gift of all he had to Izhak. And to the sons of the concubines of Avraham gave Avraham riches and moveable property as gifts, and sent them away from Izhak his son while he (yet) lived; and they went and dwelt eastward in the land of the orient.
And this is the number of the days of the life of Avraham, who lived a hundred and seventy and five years. And Avraham expired, and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied with all good. (Also Ishmael wrought repentance in his days, and afterwards was gathered to his people.) And Izhak and Ishmael his sons buried him in the double cavern, at the field of Ephran bar Zochar, the Hittite, which is before Mamre; the field that Avraham purchased of the sons of Hittah: there was Avraham buried and Sarah his wife.
And because Avraham had not designed to bless Ishmael, therefore he blessed not Izhak; for had he blessed Izhak and not Ishmael, it would have kept them in enmity. But, after the death of Avraham, the Lord blessed Izhak; and Izhak dwelt near the well at which was revealed the glory of the Living and Eternal One, who seeth and is not seen.
And these are the generations of Ishmael bar Avraham, whom Hagar the Mizreitha, the handmaid of Sarah, bare unto Avraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names, according to their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, Neboi, and Arab, and Abdeel, and Mibsham,--Hearing, Silence, Patience, and Sharpness: and Tema, Yetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their villages, and in their fenced dwellings, twelve chiefs of their peoples. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he was coverted in repentance, and expired, and was gathered to his people. And they dwelt from Hindiki unto Chalutsa, which is in face of Mizraim from going up to Athur. Before the face of all his brethren he dwelt in his possession. [JERUSALEM. In their villages, and in their fenced dwellings (or encampments). Twelve chiefs of their peoples. And they dwelt from Hindekaia unto Chalutsa, which is by the side of Mizraim, from thy going up towards Arthur. Before all his brethren he dwelt.]
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SECTION V.
CHAIYEY SARAH
XXIII. AND the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty and seven years, the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiryath‑arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Kenaan. And Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her. And Avraham rose up from the presence of his dead, and spake with the sons of Hittah, saying, I am a guest and a sojourner with you: give me the possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me. And the sons of Hittah answered Avraham, saying to him, Receive from us Ribbona; a prince before the Lord art thou among us; in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead. No man of us will refuse his sepulchre to thee for the burial of thy dead. And Avraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Hittah. And he spake with them, saying, If you are willing in your minds that I should bury my dead from before me, receive from me, and request[1] for me of Ephron bar Zochar that he will give me the Double Cavern,[2] which is in the side of his field: for the full amount (shelim) of silver he shall give it to me among you for the possession of a sepulchre. But Ephron was sitting in the midst of the sons of Hittah; and Ephron the Hittite answered Avraham before the sons of Hittah, of all entering the gate of the city, saying, No, my lord; receive of me; I will present to thee the field and the cavern which is in it; to thee will I present it; in sight of the sons of my people will I present it to thee. Bury thy dead. And Avraham bowed before the people of the land. And he spake with Ephron before the people of the land, saying, Nevertheless, if thou wilt do me a grace, receive from me; I will give money for the field; take of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Avraham, saying to him, My lord, receive of me: the land is worth four hundred sileen of silver; between me and thee what is it? Bury thy dead. And Avraham agreed with Ephron, and Avraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which be had spoken before the sons of Hittah, four hundred sileen of silver, which is received in merchandise in every city.[3] And Ephron confirmed the field in which is the double cavern which is before Mamre; the field, and the cavern that is therein, and all the trees which were in the field, in all its boundaries round about, to Avraham, for a purchase, in the sight[4] of the sons of Hitah, of all entering the gate of the city. And after this Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the double cavern of the field which is before Mamre, that is Hebron, in the land of Kenaan. And the field and the cavern which is in it were confirmed to Avraham for the possession of a sepulchre from the sons of Hittah.
XXIV. And Avraham was old, (and) advanced in days, and the Lord had blessed Avraham in all things. And Avraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who had authority over all which was his, Put now thy hand under my thigh, and I will adjure thee by the Word of the Lord, the Elohim of heaven and the Elohim of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kenaanaee among whom I dwell. But to my country and to my kindred thou wilt go, and take a wife for my son Izhak. And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to come after me to this land,‑returning am I to return thy son to the land from which thou hast gone forth? And Avraham said to him, Take care that thou return not my son thither; the Lord, the Elohim of heaven, who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my birth, and who spake to me, and sware to me, saying, I will give thee this land, will send His angel before thee, and thou wilt take a wife for my son from thence. And if the woman be not willing to come after thee, thou shalt be absolved from this my oath; only cause not my son to return thither. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his lord and went. And all the goods of his master were in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram, which is upon Phrath, the river, to the city of Nachor. And he made the camels rest without the city at a well of waters in the evening time, at the time when they came forth to fill. And he said, Lord Elohim of my master Avraham, let it, I pray, be opportune with me this day, and deal thou graciously with my master Avraham. Behold, I stand by the fountain of waters, and the daughters of the men of the city will come forth to draw water. Let the maiden to whom I shall say, Reach thy waterpot, I pray, that I may drink; and she say, Drink, and I will also give thy camels drink,‑be she whom Thou hast prepared for Thy servant, for Izhak: and in this I shall know that Thou hast dealt graciously with my master. And it was while he had not ceased to speak that, behold, Revekah came forth, (she) who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcha, wife of Nachor, brother of Avraham, and her pitcher upon her shoulder. And the maiden was very fair to behold; a virgin, and man had not known her; and she descended to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. And the servant hasted to her presence; and said, Let me taste, I pray, a little water from thy pitcher. And she said, Drink, Ribboni; and she made haste, and held her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him to drink. And when she had ended giving him drink, she said, For thy camels also I will draw, until they shall have enough to drink. And she hastened and poured out her pitcher into the place of watering, and ran again to the well to fill, and she filled for all his camels . And the man wondered at her, gazing silently, to know whether the Lord had prospered his way or not. And it was when the camels had drunk enough, the man took a ring (qadasha) of gold weighing a shekel, and two bracelets (sherin) for the hand weighing ten sileen of gold. And he said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray, whether there be room in thy father's house sufficient for us to lodge? And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcha, whom she bare to Nachor. And she said to him, There is much straw and provender with us, also room enough to lodge. And the man kneeled, and worshipped before the Lord, and said, Blessed be the Lord the Elohim of my master Avraham, who hath not withheld His grace and His truth from my master; and me hath the Lord led in a right way to the house of my master's brother. And the maiden ran and showed these things to her mother's house. And Revekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran to the man without at the fountain. And it was when he saw the ring and the bracelets upon the hands of his sister, and heard the words of Revekah his sister, saying, As this spake the man with me, that he came to the man, and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain; and he said, Enter, blessed of the Lord;[5] why standest thou without? and I have a prepared house and a proper place for the camels. And the man entered the house, and he loosed the camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who were with him. And they set before him to eat. And he said, I will not eat until I have spoken my words. And he said, Speak. And he said, I am a servant of Avraham; and the Lord hath blessed my master much, and increased, and hath given to him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, servants and handmaidens, camels and asses. And Sarah the wife of my master bare a son to my master after she was old, and he hath given to him all that he hath. And my master adjured me, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of Kenaan in whose land I dwell; but thou shalt go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not come after me. And he said to me, The Lord before whom I worship will send His angel with thee, and will prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house. Then shalt thou be absolved from my oath when thou hast gone to my kindred: and if they will not give unto thee, thou shalt be absolved from my oath. And I came this day to the fountain, and I said, Lord Elohim of my master Avraham, if now it is pleasing before thee to prosper the way in which I go, behold, I stand at the fountain of waters, and a damsel may come forth to fill; and I will say to her, Give me to drink, I entreat, a little water from thy pitcher; and she shall say to me, Both for thee and thy camels also I will fill,‑let her be the wife whom the Lord hath ordained for my master's son. And I had not left speaking in my heart, when, behold, Revekah came forth, with her pitcher upon her shoulder, and went down to the fountain and filled. And I said to her, Let me now drink. And she hastened and let down her pitcher, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels also drink. And I drank, and the camels also she watered. And I asked her and said, Whose daughter art thou? and she said, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nachor, whom Milcha bare to him. And I set an ornament on her face, and bracelets upon her hand, and bowed down and worshipped before the Lord, and blessed the Lord Elohim of my master Avraham who had led me in a true way, to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son. And now, if you will act with goodness and truth with my master, show me; and if not, I will turn to the right or to the left. And Laban answered, and Bethuel, and said, From before the Lord the word hath come forth: we have no power to say to thee either evil or good. Behold, Revekah is before thee; take (her) and go; and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken. And it was, when the servant of Avraham heard these words, he worshipped on the earth before the Lord. And the servant brought out vessels of silver and vessels of gold and vestments, and gave to Revekah, and presents gave he to her brother and to her mother. And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and they lodged and arose in the morning. And he said, Send me to my master. And her brother said, and her mother, Let the maiden abide with us a season of time, or ten months; after that she shall go. And he said to them, Keep me not back: the Lord will direct my way, and I will proceed to my master. And they said, We will call the maiden, and hear what she will say. And they called Revekah, and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? and she said, I will go. And they dismissed Revekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Avraham, and his men. And they blessed Revekah, and said to her, Thou art our sister; be thou (multiplied) unto thousands and myriads, and may thy children inherit the cities of those who hate them. And Revekah arose, and her maidens; and they rode upon camels, and went after the man. And the servant took Revekah and went. And Izhak ascended in coming from the well over which the Angel of Life (malak qayama, " the Eternal Angel") had appeared; and he dwelt in the land of the south. And Izhak went forth to pray in the field, at the presence of the evening; and he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, the camels came. And Revekah lifted up her eyes, and saw Izhak; and she bowed herself on the camel. And she said to the servant, Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us? And the servant said, He is my master. And she took a mantle and covered herself. And the servant recounted to Izhak all the things which he had done. And Izhak brought her to the tabernacle: and he saw, and, behold, her works were right as the works of Sarah his mother. And he took Revekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Izhak was comforted after his mother.
XXV. And Avraham added, and took a wife, and her name was Keturah; and she bare to him Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Yeshbach, and Shuvach. And Yokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan have been in camps and tabernacles and islands.[6] And the sons of Midyan, Eipha, and Epher, and Hanok, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these the sons of Keturah. And Avraham gave all that he had unto Izhak. But to the sons of the concubine of Avraham gave Avraham portions, and sent them from his son Izhak, while he yet lived, eastward in the land of the sunrise. And these are the days of the years of the life of Avraham that he lived, an hundred and seventy and five years. And Avraham expired, and died in a good old age, aged, and full of days; and he was gathered unto his people. And Izhak and Ishmael his sons buried him in the twofold cave in the field of Ephron bar Zochar, the Hittah, which is before Mamre; the field which Avraham bought from the sons of Hittah: there they buried Avraham and Sarah his wife. And it was after the death of Avraham that the Lord blessed Izhak his son, and Izhak dwelt at the well over which the Eternal Angel had appeared. And these are the generations of Ishmael bar Avraham, whom Hagar the Mizretha, the handmaid of Sarah, bare to Avraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names in their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and Mishma, and Duma, and Massa; Hadad, and Thema, Yetoor, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their villages and their towns, twelve chiefs of their peoples.[7] And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people. And they have dwelt from Havilah unto Hagra, which looketh toward Mizraim, reaching unto Athoor. In the presence of all his brethren he dwelt.
[1] Sam. Vers. "consult with."
[1] Mearath Kaphelta. Hebrew, Mearath hamakphela, "the double cave;" root, kaphal, "to couple."
[1] Or, "province."
[1] "By the testimony of."
[1] Sam. Vers. "blessed of the Lord who comest."
[1] Sam. Vers. "were Ritorim and Amshakim and Amanim."
[1] Sam. Vers. "according to their elevations."
[1] Sam. Vers. "consult with."
[2] Mearath Kaphelta. Hebrew, Mearath hamakphela, "the double cave;" root, kaphal, "to couple."
[3] Or, "province."
[4] "By the testimony of."
[5] Sam. Vers. "blessed of the Lord who comest."
[6] Sam. Vers. "were Ritorim and Amshakim and Amanim."
[7] Sam. Vers. "according to their elevations."
<html>
<a href=#C511V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C512V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C513V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C514V1>Chapter 04</a>
<p>
<a name="C511V1" id="C511V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua through
the will of Elohim, and Timothy our brother, <a name="C511V2" id="C511V2">1:2</a>
to the saints and faithful <a href="#N511">brothers</a> in Messiah at
Colossae: Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father, and the Lord Yeshua
Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C511V3" id="C511V3">1:3</a> We give thanks to Elohim the Father of our
Lord Yeshua Messiah, praying always for you, <a name="C511V4" id="C511V4">1:4</a>
having heard of your faith in Messiah Yeshua, and of the love which you have
toward all the saints, <a name="C511V5" id="C511V5">1:5</a> because of the
hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in
the word of the truth of the Good News, <a name="C511V6" id="C511V6">1:6</a>
which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit
and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the
grace of Elohim in truth; <a name="C511V7" id="C511V7">1:7</a> even as you
learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant
of Messiah on our behalf, <a name="C511V8" id="C511V8">1:8</a> who also
declared to us your love in the Spirit. <a name="C511V9" id="C511V9">1:9</a>
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying
and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of
his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, <a name="C511V10"
id="C511V10">1:10</a> that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him
in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of Elohim; <a name="C511V11" id="C511V11">1:11</a> strengthened with
all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and
perseverance with joy; <a name="C511V12" id="C511V12">1:12</a> giving thanks
to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light; <a name="C511V13" id="C511V13">1:13</a> who delivered us out
of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of
his love; <a name="C511V14" id="C511V14">1:14</a> in whom we have our
redemption,<sup><a href="#N512">*</a></sup> the forgiveness of our sins; <a
name="C511V15" id="C511V15">1:15</a> who is the image of the invisible Elohim,
the firstborn of all creation. <a name="C511V16" id="C511V16">1:16</a> For by
him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things
visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and
for him. <a name="C511V17" id="C511V17">1:17</a> He is before all things, and
in him all things are held together. <a name="C511V18" id="C511V18">1:18</a>
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
<a name="C511V19" id="C511V19">1:19</a> For all the fullness was pleased to
dwell in him; <a name="C511V20" id="C511V20">1:20</a> and through him to
reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or
things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C511V21" id="C511V21">1:21</a> You, being in past times alienated and
enemies in your mind in your evil works, <a name="C511V22" id="C511V22">1:22</a>
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, <a
name="C511V23" id="C511V23">1:23</a> if it is so that you continue in the
faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the
Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under
heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C511V24" id="C511V24">1:24</a> Now I rejoice in my sufferings for
your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions
of Messiah in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly; <a
name="C511V25" id="C511V25">1:25</a> of which I was made a servant, according
to the stewardship of Elohim which was given me toward you, to fulfill the
word of Elohim, <a name="C511V26" id="C511V26">1:26</a> the mystery which has
been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his
saints, <a name="C511V27" id="C511V27">1:27</a> to whom Elohim was pleased to
make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles, which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory; <a name="C511V28"
id="C511V28">1:28</a> whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching
every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Messiah
Yeshua; <a name="C511V29" id="C511V29">1:29</a> for which I also labor,
striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C512V1" id="C512V1">2:1</a> For I desire to have you know how greatly
I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not
seen my face in the flesh; <a name="C512V2" id="C512V2">2:2</a> that their
hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all
riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the
mystery of Elohim, both of the Father and of Messiah, <a name="C512V3" id="C512V3">2:3</a>
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. <a
name="C512V4" id="C512V4">2:4</a> Now this I say that no one may delude you
with persuasiveness of speech. <a name="C512V5" id="C512V5">2:5</a> For though
I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and
seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah. <a
name="C512V6" id="C512V6">2:6</a> As therefore you received Messiah Yeshua, the
Lord, walk in him, <a name="C512V7" id="C512V7">2:7</a> rooted and built up in
him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in
it in thanksgiving. <a name="C512V8" id="C512V8">2:8</a> Be careful that you
don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Messiah.
<a name="C512V9" id="C512V9">2:9</a> For in him all the fullness of the
Elohimhead dwells bodily, <a name="C512V10" id="C512V10">2:10</a> and in him you
are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; <a
name="C512V11" id="C512V11">2:11</a> in whom you were also circumcised with a
circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the
sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Messiah; <a name="C512V12"
id="C512V12">2:12</a> having been buried with him in baptism, in which you
were also raised with him through faith in the working of Elohim, who raised
him from the dead. <a name="C512V13" id="C512V13">2:13</a> You were dead
through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you
alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, <a
name="C512V14" id="C512V14">2:14</a> wiping out the handwriting in ordinances
which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to
the cross; <a name="C512V15" id="C512V15">2:15</a> having stripped the
principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them in it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C512V16" id="C512V16">2:16</a> Let no man therefore judge you in
eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a
Shabbat day, <a name="C512V17" id="C512V17">2:17</a> which are a shadow of the
things to come; but the body is Messiah's. <a name="C512V18" id="C512V18">2:18</a>
Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping
of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed
up by his fleshly mind, <a name="C512V19" id="C512V19">2:19</a> and not
holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and
knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with Elohim's growth.
<a name="C512V20" id="C512V20">2:20</a> If you died with Messiah from the
elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject
yourselves to ordinances, <a name="C512V21" id="C512V21">2:21</a> "Don't
handle, nor taste, nor touch" <a name="C512V22" id="C512V22">2:22</a>
(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of
men? <a name="C512V23" id="C512V23">2:23</a> Which things indeed appear like
wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body;
but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V1" id="C513V1">3:1</a> If then you were raised together with
Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated on the
right hand of Elohim. <a name="C513V2" id="C513V2">3:2</a> Set your mind on the
things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. <a
name="C513V3" id="C513V3">3:3</a> For you died, and your life is hidden with
Messiah in Elohim. <a name="C513V4" id="C513V4">3:4</a> When Messiah, our life, is
revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. <a name="C513V5"
id="C513V5">3:5</a> Put to death therefore your members which are on the
earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry; <a name="C513V6" id="C513V6">3:6</a> for
which things' sake the wrath of Elohim comes on the children of disobedience.
<a name="C513V7" id="C513V7">3:7</a> You also once walked in those, when you
lived in them; <a name="C513V8" id="C513V8">3:8</a> but now you also put them
all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your
mouth. <a name="C513V9" id="C513V9">3:9</a> Don't lie to one another, seeing
that you have put off the old man with his doings, <a name="C513V10"
id="C513V10">3:10</a> and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in
knowledge after the image of his Creator, <a name="C513V11" id="C513V11">3:11</a>
where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision,
barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Messiah is all, and in all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V12" id="C513V12">3:12</a> Put on therefore, as Elohim's chosen
ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness,
humility, and perseverance; <a name="C513V13" id="C513V13">3:13</a> bearing
with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint
against any; even as Messiah forgave you, so you also do.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V14" id="C513V14">3:14</a> Above all these things, walk in love,
which is the bond of perfection. <a name="C513V15" id="C513V15">3:15</a> And
let the peace of Elohim rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in
one body; and be thankful. <a name="C513V16" id="C513V16">3:16</a> Let the
word of Messiah dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing
one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in
your heart to the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V17" id="C513V17">3:17</a> Whatever you do, in word or in deed,
do all in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks to Elohim the Father,
through him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V18" id="C513V18">3:18</a> Wives, be in subjection to your
husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V19" id="C513V19">3:19</a> Husbands, love your wives, and don't
be bitter against them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V20" id="C513V20">3:20</a> Children, obey your parents in all
things, for this pleases the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V21" id="C513V21">3:21</a> Fathers, don't provoke your children,
so that they won't be discouraged.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C513V22" id="C513V22">3:22</a> Servants, obey in all things those who
are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking,
as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing Elohim. <a name="C513V23"
id="C513V23">3:23</a> And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord,
and not for men, <a name="C513V24" id="C513V24">3:24</a> knowing that from the
Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the
Lord Messiah. <a name="C513V25" id="C513V25">3:25</a> But he who does wrong
will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no
partiality.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C514V1" id="C514V1">4:1</a> Masters, give to your servants that which
is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C514V2" id="C514V2">4:2</a> Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching
therein with thanksgiving; <a name="C514V3" id="C514V3">4:3</a> praying
together for us also, that Elohim may open to us a door for the word, to
speak the mystery of Messiah, for which I am also in bonds; <a name="C514V4"
id="C514V4">4:4</a> that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. <a name="C514V5"
id="C514V5">4:5</a> Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming
the time. <a name="C514V6" id="C514V6">4:6</a> Let your speech always be with
grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each
one.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C514V7" id="C514V7">4:7</a> All my affairs will be made known to you
by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant
in the Lord. <a name="C514V8" id="C514V8">4:8</a> I am sending him to you for
this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your
hearts, <a name="C514V9" id="C514V9">4:9</a> together with Onesimus, the
faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to
you everything that is going on here. <a name="C514V10" id="C514V10">4:10</a>
Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of
Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to
you, receive him"), <a name="C514V11" id="C514V11">4:11</a> and Yeshua who
is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow
workers for the Kingdom of Elohim, men who have been a comfort to me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C514V12" id="C514V12">4:12</a> Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant
of Messiah, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you
may stand perfect and complete in all the will of Elohim. <a name="C514V13"
id="C514V13">4:13</a> For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for
you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis. <a
name="C514V14" id="C514V14">4:14</a> Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas
greet you. <a name="C514V15" id="C514V15">4:15</a> Greet the brothers who are
in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house. <a
name="C514V16" id="C514V16">4:16</a> When this letter has been read among you,
cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you
also read the letter from Laodicea. <a name="C514V17" id="C514V17">4:17</a>
Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in
the Lord, that you fulfill it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C514V18" id="C514V18">4:18</a> The salutation of me, Paul, with my
own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N511" id="N511">[1]</a> <a href="#C511V2">back to 1:2</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N512" id="N512">[2]</a> <a href="#C511V14">back to 1:14</a> TR adds
"through his blood,"
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C271V1" id="C271V1">1:1</a> In the third year of the reign of
Jehoiakim king of Yehudah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Yerushalayim,
and besieged it. <a name="C271V2" id="C271V2">1:2</a> The Lord gave Jehoiakim
king of Yehudah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of Elohim;
and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and
he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. <a name="C271V3"
id="C271V3">1:3</a> The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs,
that he should bring in <i>certain</i> of the children of Yisrael, even of
the seed royal and of the nobles; <a name="C271V4" id="C271V4">1:4</a> youths
in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and
endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability
to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning
and the language of the Chaldeans. <a name="C271V5" id="C271V5">1:5</a> The
king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's dainties, and of the
wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that
at its end they should stand before the king. <a name="C271V6" id="C271V6">1:6</a>
Now among these were, of the children of Yehudah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah. <a name="C271V7" id="C271V7">1:7</a> The prince of the eunuchs
gave names to them: to Daniel he gave <i>the name of</i> Belteshazzar; and
to Hananiah, <i>of</i> Shadrach; and to Mishael, <i>of</i> Meshach; and to
Azariah, <i>of</i> Abednego. <a name="C271V8" id="C271V8">1:8</a> But Daniel
purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's
dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the
prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. <a name="C271V9"
id="C271V9">1:9</a> Now Elohim made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in
the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. <a name="C271V10" id="C271V10">1:10</a>
The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has
appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse
looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my
head with the king. <a name="C271V11" id="C271V11">1:11</a> Then said Daniel
to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: <a name="C271V12" id="C271V12">1:12</a> Prove
your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and
water to drink. <a name="C271V13" id="C271V13">1:13</a> Then let our faces be
looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's
dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants. <a name="C271V14"
id="C271V14">1:14</a> So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them
ten days. <a name="C271V15" id="C271V15">1:15</a> At the end of ten days their
faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths
who ate of the king's dainties. <a name="C271V16" id="C271V16">1:16</a> So the
steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and
gave them pulse. <a name="C271V17" id="C271V17">1:17</a> Now as for these four
youths, Elohim gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and
Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. <a name="C271V18"
id="C271V18">1:18</a> At the end of the days which the king had appointed
for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before
Nebuchadnezzar. <a name="C271V19" id="C271V19">1:19</a> The king talked with
them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. <a name="C271V20"
id="C271V20">1:20</a> In every matter of wisdom and understanding,
concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better
than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. <a
name="C271V21" id="C271V21">1:21</a> Daniel continued even to the first year
of king Cyrus.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C272V1" id="C272V1">2:1</a> In the second year of the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was
troubled, and his sleep went from him. <a name="C272V2" id="C272V2">2:2</a>
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in
and stood before the king. <a name="C272V3" id="C272V3">2:3</a> The king said
to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the
dream. <a name="C272V4" id="C272V4">2:4</a> Then spoke the Chaldeans to the
king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the
dream, and we will show the interpretation. <a name="C272V5" id="C272V5">2:5</a>
The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don't
make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in
pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. <a name="C272V6" id="C272V6">2:6</a>
But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive of me
gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and its
interpretation. <a name="C272V7" id="C272V7">2:7</a> They answered the second
time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show
the interpretation. <a name="C272V8" id="C272V8">2:8</a> The king answered, I
know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is
gone from me. <a name="C272V9" id="C272V9">2:9</a> But if you don't make known
to me the dream, there is but one Torah for you; for you have prepared lying
and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore
tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its
interpretation. <a name="C272V10" id="C272V10">2:10</a> The Chaldeans answered
before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show
the king's matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing
of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. <a name="C272V11" id="C272V11">2:11</a>
It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can
show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with
flesh. <a name="C272V12" id="C272V12">2:12</a> For this cause the king was
angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of
Babylon. <a name="C272V13" id="C272V13">2:13</a> So the decree went forth, and
the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions
to be slain. <a name="C272V14" id="C272V14">2:14</a> Then Daniel returned
answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king's
guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; <a name="C272V15"
id="C272V15">2:15</a> he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the
decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to
Daniel. <a name="C272V16" id="C272V16">2:16</a> Daniel went in, and desired of
the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the
interpretation. <a name="C272V17" id="C272V17">2:17</a> Then Daniel went to
his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his
companions: <a name="C272V18" id="C272V18">2:18</a> that they would desire
mercies of the Elohim of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his
companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. <a
name="C272V19" id="C272V19">2:19</a> Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in
a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the Elohim of heaven. <a
name="C272V20" id="C272V20">2:20</a> Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of
Elohim forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. <a name="C272V21"
id="C272V21">2:21</a> He changes the times and the seasons; he removes
kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to
those who have understanding; <a name="C272V22" id="C272V22">2:22</a> he
reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and
the light dwells with him. <a name="C272V23" id="C272V23">2:23</a> I thank
you, and praise you, you Elohim of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and
might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have
made known to us the king's matter. <a name="C272V24" id="C272V24">2:24</a>
Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy
the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don't destroy the
wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the
king the interpretation. <a name="C272V25" id="C272V25">2:25</a> Then Arioch
brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have
found a man of the children of the captivity of Yehudah, who will make known
to the king the interpretation. <a name="C272V26" id="C272V26">2:26</a> The
king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make
known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation? <a
name="C272V27" id="C272V27">2:27</a> Daniel answered before the king, and
said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men,
enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king; <a name="C272V28"
id="C272V28">2:28</a> but there is a Elohim in heaven who reveals secrets, and
he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter
days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: <a
name="C272V29" id="C272V29">2:29</a> as for you, O king, your thoughts came <i>into
your mind</i> on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who
reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen. <a name="C272V30"
id="C272V30">2:30</a> But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for
any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the
interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the
thoughts of your heart. <a name="C272V31" id="C272V31">2:31</a> You, O king,
saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose
brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its aspect was awesome. <a
name="C272V32" id="C272V32">2:32</a> As for this image, its head was of fine
gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of
brass, <a name="C272V33" id="C272V33">2:33</a> its legs of iron, its feet part
of iron, and part of clay. <a name="C272V34" id="C272V34">2:34</a> You saw
until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its
feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. <a name="C272V35"
id="C272V35">2:35</a> Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver,
and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place
was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth. <a name="C272V36" id="C272V36">2:36</a>
This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king. <a
name="C272V37" id="C272V37">2:37</a> You, O king, are king of kings, to whom
the Elohim of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and
the glory; <a name="C272V38" id="C272V38">2:38</a> and wherever the children
of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he
given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the
head of gold. <a name="C272V39" id="C272V39">2:39</a> After you shall arise
another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which
shall bear rule over all the earth. <a name="C272V40" id="C272V40">2:40</a>
The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces
and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break
in pieces and crush. <a name="C272V41" id="C272V41">2:41</a> Whereas you saw
the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a
divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,
because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. <a name="C272V42" id="C272V42">2:42</a>
As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the
kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. <a name="C272V43"
id="C272V43">2:43</a> Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they
shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to
one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay. <a name="C272V44"
id="C272V44">2:44</a> In the days of those kings shall the Elohim of heaven set
up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be
left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. <a name="C272V45" id="C272V45">2:45</a>
Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands,
and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and
the gold; the great Elohim has made known to the king what shall happen
hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure. <a
name="C272V46" id="C272V46">2:46</a> Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his
face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an
offering and sweet odors to him. <a name="C272V47" id="C272V47">2:47</a> The
king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your Elohim is the Elohim of gods,
and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been
able to reveal this secret. <a name="C272V48" id="C272V48">2:48</a> Then the
king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to
rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all
the wise men of Babylon. <a name="C272V49" id="C272V49">2:49</a> Daniel
requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of
the king.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C273V1" id="C273V1">3:1</a> Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of
gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it
up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. <a name="C273V2"
id="C273V2">3:2</a> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the
satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the
counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to
the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. <a
name="C273V3" id="C273V3">3:3</a> Then the satraps, the deputies, and the
governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and
all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication
of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood
before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. <a name="C273V4" id="C273V4">3:4</a>
Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and
languages, <a name="C273V5" id="C273V5">3:5</a> that whenever you hear the
sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of
music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king has set up; <a name="C273V6" id="C273V6">3:6</a> and whoever doesn't fall
down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning
fiery furnace. <a name="C273V7" id="C273V7">3:7</a> Therefore at that time,
when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre,
harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the
languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar
the king had set up. <a name="C273V8" id="C273V8">3:8</a> Therefore at that
time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
<a name="C273V9" id="C273V9">3:9</a> They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O
king, live for ever. <a name="C273V10" id="C273V10">3:10</a> You, O king, have
made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn,
flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down
and worship the golden image; <a name="C273V11" id="C273V11">3:11</a> and
whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace. <a name="C273V12" id="C273V12">3:12</a> There are
certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of
Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not
regarded you: they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image
which you have set up. <a name="C273V13" id="C273V13">3:13</a> Then
Nebuchadnezzar in <i>his</i> rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. <a
name="C273V14" id="C273V14">3:14</a> Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on
purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't serve my god, nor
worship the golden image which I have set up? <a name="C273V15" id="C273V15">3:15</a>
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute,
zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship
the image which I have made, <i>well</i>: but if you don't worship, you
shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and
who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands? <a name="C273V16"
id="C273V16">3:16</a> Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king,
Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. <a
name="C273V17" id="C273V17">3:17</a> If it be <i>so</i>, our Elohim whom we serve
is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver
us out of your hand, O king. <a name="C273V18" id="C273V18">3:18</a> But if
not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor
worship the golden image which you have set up. <a name="C273V19" id="C273V19">3:19</a>
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was
changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: <i>therefore</i> he
spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more
than it was usually heated. <a name="C273V20" id="C273V20">3:20</a> He
commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, <i>and</i> to cast them into the burning fiery
furnace. <a name="C273V21" id="C273V21">3:21</a> Then these men were bound in
their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their <i>other</i>
garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. <a
name="C273V22" id="C273V22">3:22</a> Therefore because the king's commandment
was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed
those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. <a name="C273V23"
id="C273V23">3:23</a> These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell
down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. <a name="C273V24"
id="C273V24">3:24</a> Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose
up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men
bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king. <a
name="C273V25" id="C273V25">3:25</a> He answered, Look, I see four men loose,
walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of
the fourth is like a son of the gods. <a name="C273V26" id="C273V26">3:26</a>
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace:
he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the
Most High Elohim, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire. <a name="C273V27"
id="C273V27">3:27</a> The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the
king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire
had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed,
neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on
them. <a name="C273V28" id="C273V28">3:28</a> Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said,
Blessed be the Elohim of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his
angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the
king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor
worship any god, except their own Elohim. <a name="C273V29" id="C273V29">3:29</a>
Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which
speak anything evil against the Elohim of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because
there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort. <a
name="C273V30" id="C273V30">3:30</a> Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C274V1" id="C274V1">4:1</a> Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the
peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be
multiplied to you. <a name="C274V2" id="C274V2">4:2</a> It has seemed good to
me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High Elohim has worked toward
me. <a name="C274V3" id="C274V3">4:3</a> How great are his signs! and how
mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his
dominion is from generation to generation. <a name="C274V4" id="C274V4">4:4</a>
I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
<a name="C274V5" id="C274V5">4:5</a> I saw a dream which made me afraid; and
the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. <a
name="C274V6" id="C274V6">4:6</a> Therefore made I a decree to bring in all
the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the
interpretation of the dream. <a name="C274V7" id="C274V7">4:7</a> Then came in
the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I
told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me its
interpretation. <a name="C274V8" id="C274V8">4:8</a> But at the last Daniel
came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of
my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream
before him, <i>saying</i>, <a name="C274V9" id="C274V9">4:9</a> Belteshazzar,
master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods
is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream
that I have seen, and its interpretation. <a name="C274V10" id="C274V10">4:10</a>
Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in
the midst of the earth; and its height was great. <a name="C274V11"
id="C274V11">4:11</a> The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached
to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth. <a name="C274V12"
id="C274V12">4:12</a> The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much,
and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it,
and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from
it. <a name="C274V13" id="C274V13">4:13</a> I saw in the visions of my head on
my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. <a
name="C274V14" id="C274V14">4:14</a> He cried aloud, and said thus, Cut down
the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its
fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its
branches. <a name="C274V15" id="C274V15">4:15</a> Nevertheless leave the stump
of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the
tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and
let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth: <a
name="C274V16" id="C274V16">4:16</a> let his heart be changed from man's, and
let an animal's heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.
<a name="C274V17" id="C274V17">4:17</a> The sentence is by the decree of the
watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that
the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and
gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men. <a
name="C274V18" id="C274V18">4:18</a> This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have
seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the
wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the
interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in
you. <a name="C274V19" id="C274V19">4:19</a> Then Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled
him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the
interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be
to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries. <a
name="C274V20" id="C274V20">4:20</a> The tree that you saw, which grew, and
was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the
earth; <a name="C274V21" id="C274V21">4:21</a> whose leaves were beautiful,
and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of
the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their
habitation: <a name="C274V22" id="C274V22">4:22</a> it is you, O king, that
are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to
the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth. <a name="C274V23"
id="C274V23">4:23</a> Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming
down from the sky, and saying, Cut down the tree, and destroy it;
nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band
of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet
with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the
field, until seven times pass over him; <a name="C274V24" id="C274V24">4:24</a>
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High,
which is come on my lord the king: <a name="C274V25" id="C274V25">4:25</a>
that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the
animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and
shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you;
until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives
it to whoever he will. <a name="C274V26" id="C274V26">4:26</a> Whereas they
commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall
be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
<a name="C274V27" id="C274V27">4:27</a> Therefore, O king, let my counsel be
acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your
iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of
your tranquility. <a name="C274V28" id="C274V28">4:28</a> All this came on the
king Nebuchadnezzar. <a name="C274V29" id="C274V29">4:29</a> At the end of
twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. <a
name="C274V30" id="C274V30">4:30</a> The king spoke and said, Is not this
great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the
might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? <a name="C274V31"
id="C274V31">4:31</a> While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a
voice from the sky, <i>saying</i>, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is
spoken: The kingdom is departed from you: <a name="C274V32" id="C274V32">4:32</a>
and you shall be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the
animals of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven
times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the
kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will. <a name="C274V33" id="C274V33">4:33</a>
The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven
from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the
sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' <i>feathers</i>, and his nails
like birds' <i>claws</i>. <a name="C274V34" id="C274V34">4:34</a> At the end
of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my
understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised
and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. <a name="C274V35"
id="C274V35">4:35</a> All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and
among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell
him, What do you? <a name="C274V36" id="C274V36">4:36</a> At the same time my
understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty
and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to
me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added
to me. <a name="C274V37" id="C274V37">4:37</a> Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and
his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C275V1" id="C275V1">5:1</a> Belshazzar the king made a great feast to
a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. <a name="C275V2"
id="C275V2">5:2</a> Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring
the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken
out of the temple which was in Yerushalayim; that the king and his lords, his
wives and his concubines, might drink from them. <a name="C275V3" id="C275V3">5:3</a>
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of
the house of Elohim which was at Yerushalayim; and the king and his lords, his
wives and his concubines, drank from them. <a name="C275V4" id="C275V4">5:4</a>
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of
iron, of wood, and of stone. <a name="C275V5" id="C275V5">5:5</a> In the same
hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the
lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king
saw the part of the hand that wrote. <a name="C275V6" id="C275V6">5:6</a> Then
the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the
joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against
another. <a name="C275V7" id="C275V7">5:7</a> The king cried aloud to bring in
the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and
said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show
me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of
gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. <a
name="C275V8" id="C275V8">5:8</a> Then came in all the king's wise men; but
they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the
interpretation. <a name="C275V9" id="C275V9">5:9</a> Then was king Belshazzar
greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were
perplexed. <a name="C275V10" id="C275V10">5:10</a> <i>Now</i> the queen by
reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house:
the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts
trouble you, nor let your face be changed. <a name="C275V11" id="C275V11">5:11</a>
There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods;
and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like
the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar
your father, the king, <i>I say</i>, your father, made him master of the
magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; <a name="C275V12"
id="C275V12">5:12</a> because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and
dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named
Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the
interpretation. <a name="C275V13" id="C275V13">5:13</a> Then was Daniel
brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you
that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Yehudah, whom the
king my father brought out of Yehudah? <a name="C275V14" id="C275V14">5:14</a> I
have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light
and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. <a name="C275V15"
id="C275V15">5:15</a> Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in
before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its
interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
<a name="C275V16" id="C275V16">5:16</a> But I have heard of you, that you can
give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the
writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed
with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the
third ruler in the kingdom. <a name="C275V17" id="C275V17">5:17</a> Then
Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give
your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king,
and make known to him the interpretation. <a name="C275V18" id="C275V18">5:18</a>
You king, the Most High Elohim gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom,
and greatness, and glory, and majesty: <a name="C275V19" id="C275V19">5:19</a>
and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations,
and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and
whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he
would he put down. <a name="C275V20" id="C275V20">5:20</a> But when his heart
was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he
was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: <a
name="C275V21" id="C275V21">5:21</a> and he was driven from the sons of men,
and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the
wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with
the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High Elohim rules in the
kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whoever he will. <a
name="C275V22" id="C275V22">5:22</a> You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled
your heart, though you knew all this, <a name="C275V23" id="C275V23">5:23</a>
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have
brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your
wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised
the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't
see, nor hear, nor know; and the Elohim in whose hand your breath is, and
whose are all your ways, you have not glorified. <a name="C275V24" id="C275V24">5:24</a>
Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was
inscribed. <a name="C275V25" id="C275V25">5:25</a> This is the writing that
was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. <a name="C275V26" id="C275V26">5:26</a>
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; Elohim has numbered your
kingdom, and brought it to an end; <a name="C275V27" id="C275V27">5:27</a>
TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. <a
name="C275V28" id="C275V28">5:28</a> PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given
to the Medes and Persians. <a name="C275V29" id="C275V29">5:29</a> Then
commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain
of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he
should be the third ruler in the kingdom. <a name="C275V30" id="C275V30">5:30</a>
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. <a name="C275V31"
id="C275V31">5:31</a> Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about
sixty-two years old.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C276V1" id="C276V1">6:1</a> It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom
one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; <a
name="C276V2" id="C276V2">6:2</a> and over them three presidents, of whom
Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that
the king should have no damage. <a name="C276V3" id="C276V3">6:3</a> Then this
Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an
excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the
whole realm. <a name="C276V4" id="C276V4">6:4</a> Then the presidents and the
satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom;
but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful,
neither was there any error or fault found in him. <a name="C276V5" id="C276V5">6:5</a>
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel,
except we find it against him concerning the Torah of his Elohim. <a name="C276V6"
id="C276V6">6:6</a> Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to
the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever. <a name="C276V7"
id="C276V7">6:7</a> All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the
satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to
establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever
shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O
king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. <a name="C276V8" id="C276V8">6:8</a>
Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it not be
changed, according to the Torah of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't
alter. <a name="C276V9" id="C276V9">6:9</a> Therefore king Darius signed the
writing and the interdict. <a name="C276V10" id="C276V10">6:10</a> When Daniel
knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows
were open in his chamber toward Yerushalayim) and he kneeled on his knees
three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his Elohim, as he did
before. <a name="C276V11" id="C276V11">6:11</a> Then these men assembled
together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his
Elohim. <a name="C276V12" id="C276V12">6:12</a> Then they came near, and spoke
before the king concerning the king's interdict: Haven't you signed an
interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within
thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The
king answered, The thing is true, according to the Torah of the Medes and
Persians, which doesn't alter. <a name="C276V13" id="C276V13">6:13</a> Then
answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the
children of the captivity of Yehudah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the
interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.
<a name="C276V14" id="C276V14">6:14</a> Then the king, when he heard these
words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him;
and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him. <a
name="C276V15" id="C276V15">6:15</a> Then these men assembled together to the
king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a Torah of the Medes
and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes may
be changed. <a name="C276V16" id="C276V16">6:16</a> Then the king commanded,
and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. <i>Now</i>
the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your Elohim whom you serve continually, he
will deliver you. <a name="C276V17" id="C276V17">6:17</a> A stone was brought,
and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own
signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed
concerning Daniel. <a name="C276V18" id="C276V18">6:18</a> Then the king went
to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of
music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him. <a name="C276V19"
id="C276V19">6:19</a> Then the king arose very early in the morning, and
went in haste to the den of lions. <a name="C276V20" id="C276V20">6:20</a>
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice;
the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living Elohim, is
your Elohim, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
<a name="C276V21" id="C276V21">6:21</a> Then said Daniel to the king, O king,
live forever. <a name="C276V22" id="C276V22">6:22</a> My Elohim has sent his
angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; because
as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have
I done no hurt. <a name="C276V23" id="C276V23">6:23</a> Then was the king
exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the
den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was
found on him, because he had trusted in his Elohim. <a name="C276V24" id="C276V24">6:24</a>
The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and
they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their
wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in
pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den. <a name="C276V25"
id="C276V25">6:25</a> Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations,
and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. <a
name="C276V26" id="C276V26">6:26</a> I make a decree, that in all the dominion
of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the Elohim of Daniel; for he is the
living Elohim, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end. <a name="C276V27"
id="C276V27">6:27</a> He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and
wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of
the lions. <a name="C276V28" id="C276V28">6:28</a> So this Daniel prospered in
the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C277V1" id="C277V1">7:1</a> In the first year of Belshazzar king of
Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he
wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. <a name="C277V2" id="C277V2">7:2</a>
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four
winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. <a name="C277V3" id="C277V3">7:3</a>
Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another. <a
name="C277V4" id="C277V4">7:4</a> The first was like a lion, and had eagle's
wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the
earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given
to it. <a name="C277V5" id="C277V5">7:5</a> Behold, another animal, a second,
like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its
mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much
flesh. <a name="C277V6" id="C277V6">7:6</a> After this I saw, and behold,
another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the
animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. <a name="C277V7"
id="C277V7">7:7</a> After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a
fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had
great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue
with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before
it; and it had ten horns. <a name="C277V8" id="C277V8">7:8</a> I considered
the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little
one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots:
and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth
speaking great things. <a name="C277V9" id="C277V9">7:9</a> I saw until
thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was
white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was
fiery flames, <i>and</i> its wheels burning fire. <a name="C277V10"
id="C277V10">7:10</a> A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were
opened. <a name="C277V11" id="C277V11">7:11</a> I saw at that time because of
the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the
animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned
with fire. <a name="C277V12" id="C277V12">7:12</a> As for the rest of the
animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for
a season and a time. <a name="C277V13" id="C277V13">7:13</a> I saw in the
night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like
a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought
him near before him. <a name="C277V14" id="C277V14">7:14</a> There was given
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and
languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. <a
name="C277V15" id="C277V15">7:15</a> As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved
in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. <a
name="C277V16" id="C277V16">7:16</a> I came near to one of those who stood by,
and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me
know the interpretation of the things. <a name="C277V17" id="C277V17">7:17</a>
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out
of the earth. <a name="C277V18" id="C277V18">7:18</a> But the saints of the
Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even
forever and ever. <a name="C277V19" id="C277V19">7:19</a> Then I desired to
know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of
them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of
brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its
feet; <a name="C277V20" id="C277V20">7:20</a> and concerning the ten horns
that were on its head, and the other <i>horn</i> which came up, and before
which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke
great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. <a name="C277V21"
id="C277V21">7:21</a> I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
prevailed against them; <a name="C277V22" id="C277V22">7:22</a> until the
ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most
High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. <a
name="C277V23" id="C277V23">7:23</a> Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be
a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms,
and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in
pieces. <a name="C277V24" id="C277V24">7:24</a> As for the ten horns, out of
this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them;
and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three
kings. <a name="C277V25" id="C277V25">7:25</a> He shall speak words against
the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he
shall think to change the times and the Torah; and they shall be given into
his hand until a time and times and half a time. <a name="C277V26" id="C277V26">7:26</a>
But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to
consume and to destroy it to the end. <a name="C277V27" id="C277V27">7:27</a>
The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the
whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High:
his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and
obey him. <a name="C277V28" id="C277V28">7:28</a> Here is the end of the
matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was
changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C278V1" id="C278V1">8:1</a> In the third year of the reign of king
Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which
appeared to me at the first. <a name="C278V2" id="C278V2">8:2</a> I saw in the
vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa,
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by
the river Ulai. <a name="C278V3" id="C278V3">8:3</a> Then I lifted up my eyes,
and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two
horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and
the higher came up last. <a name="C278V4" id="C278V4">8:4</a> I saw the ram
pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no animals could stand
before him, neither was there any who could deliver out of his hand; but
he did according to his will, and magnified himself. <a name="C278V5"
id="C278V5">8:5</a> As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the
west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground: and
the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. <a name="C278V6" id="C278V6">8:6</a>
He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the
river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. <a name="C278V7" id="C278V7">8:7</a>
I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him,
and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the
ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled
on him; and there was none who could deliver the ram out of his hand. <a
name="C278V8" id="C278V8">8:8</a> The male goat magnified himself exceedingly:
and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there
came up four notable <i>horns</i> toward the four winds of the sky. <a
name="C278V9" id="C278V9">8:9</a> Out of one of them came forth a little horn,
which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and
toward the glorious <i>land</i>. <a name="C278V10" id="C278V10">8:10</a> It
grew great, even to the army of the sky; and some of the army and of the
stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled on them. <a name="C278V11"
id="C278V11">8:11</a> Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the
army; and it took away from him the continual <i>burnt offering</i>, and
the place of his sanctuary was cast down. <a name="C278V12" id="C278V12">8:12</a>
The army was given over <i>to it</i> together with the continual <i>burnt
offering</i> through disobedience; and it cast down truth to the ground,
and it did <i>its pleasure</i> and prospered. <a name="C278V13" id="C278V13">8:13</a>
Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that
certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision <i>concerning</i> the
continual <i>burnt offering</i>, and the disobedience that makes desolate,
to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot? <a
name="C278V14" id="C278V14">8:14</a> He said to me, To two thousand and three
hundred evenings <i>and</i> mornings; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed. <a name="C278V15" id="C278V15">8:15</a> It happened, when I, even I
Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and behold,
there stood before me as the appearance of a man. <a name="C278V16"
id="C278V16">8:16</a> I heard a man's voice between <i>the banks of</i> the
Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the
vision. <a name="C278V17" id="C278V17">8:17</a> So he came near where I stood;
and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to
me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
<a name="C278V18" id="C278V18">8:18</a> Now as he was speaking with me, I fell
into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and
set me upright. <a name="C278V19" id="C278V19">8:19</a> He said, Behold, I
will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation;
for it belongs to the appointed time of the end. <a name="C278V20" id="C278V20">8:20</a>
The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media
and Persia. <a name="C278V21" id="C278V21">8:21</a> The rough male goat is the
king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first
king. <a name="C278V22" id="C278V22">8:22</a> As for that which was broken, in
the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the
nation, but not with his power. <a name="C278V23" id="C278V23">8:23</a> In the
latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full,
a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
<a name="C278V24" id="C278V24">8:24</a> His power shall be mighty, but not by
his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do
<i>his pleasure</i>; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy
people. <a name="C278V25" id="C278V25">8:25</a> Through his policy he shall
cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his
heart, and in <i>their</i> security shall he destroy many: he shall also
stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without
hand. <a name="C278V26" id="C278V26">8:26</a> The vision of the evenings and
mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it
belongs to many days <i>to come</i>. <a name="C278V27" id="C278V27">8:27</a>
I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the
king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C279V1" id="C279V1">9:1</a> In the first year of Darius the son of
Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of
the Chaldeans, <a name="C279V2" id="C279V2">9:2</a> in the first year of his
reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about
which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the
accomplishing of the desolations of Yerushalayim, even seventy years. <a
name="C279V3" id="C279V3">9:3</a> I set my face to the Lord Elohim, to seek by
prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. <a name="C279V4"
id="C279V4">9:4</a> I prayed to Yahweh my Elohim, and made confession, and
said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful Elohim, who keeps covenant and loving
kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, <a name="C279V5"
id="C279V5">9:5</a> we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and
from your ordinances; <a name="C279V6" id="C279V6">9:6</a> neither have we
listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our
kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. <a
name="C279V7" id="C279V7">9:7</a> Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to
us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Yehudah, and to the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and to all Yisrael, who are near, and who are far
off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of
their trespass that they have trespassed against you. <a name="C279V8"
id="C279V8">9:8</a> Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to
our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. <a
name="C279V9" id="C279V9">9:9</a> To the Lord our Elohim belong mercies and
forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him; <a name="C279V10" id="C279V10">9:10</a>
neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our Elohim, to walk in his laws,
which he set before us by his servants the prophets. <a name="C279V11"
id="C279V11">9:11</a> Yes, all Yisrael have transgressed your Torah, even
turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the
curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Torah of
Moshe the servant of Elohim; for we have sinned against him. <a name="C279V12"
id="C279V12">9:12</a> He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us,
and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for
under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Yerushalayim. <a
name="C279V13" id="C279V13">9:13</a> As it is written in the Torah of Moshe, all
this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our
Elohim, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your
truth. <a name="C279V14" id="C279V14">9:14</a> Therefore has Yahweh watched
over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our Elohim is righteous in
all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice. <a
name="C279V15" id="C279V15">9:15</a> Now, Lord our Elohim, who has brought your
people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten
you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. <a
name="C279V16" id="C279V16">9:16</a> Lord, according to all your
righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away
from your city Yerushalayim, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and
for the iniquities of our fathers, Yerushalayim and your people are become a
reproach to all who are around us. <a name="C279V17" id="C279V17">9:17</a> Now
therefore, our Elohim, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his
petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord's sake. <a name="C279V18" id="C279V18">9:18</a> My Elohim,
turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the
city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions
before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake. <a
name="C279V19" id="C279V19">9:19</a> Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen
and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my Elohim, because your city and your
people are called by your name. <a name="C279V20" id="C279V20">9:20</a> While
I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Yisrael, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my Elohim for the
holy mountain of my Elohim; <a name="C279V21" id="C279V21">9:21</a> yes, while I
was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at
the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of
the evening offering. <a name="C279V22" id="C279V22">9:22</a> He instructed
me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you
wisdom and understanding. <a name="C279V23" id="C279V23">9:23</a> At the
beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I am come to
tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and
understand the vision. <a name="C279V24" id="C279V24">9:24</a> Seventy weeks
are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience,
and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most holy. <a name="C279V25" id="C279V25">9:25</a> Know
therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Yerushalayim to the <a href="#N271">Anointed One,</a> the
prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built
again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. <a name="C279V26"
id="C279V26">9:26</a> After the sixty-two weeks the <a href="#N272">Anointed
One</a> shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the
prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its
end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations
are determined. <a name="C279V27" id="C279V27">9:27</a> He shall make a firm
covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of
abominations <i>shall come</i> one who makes desolate; and even to the
full end, and that determined, shall <i>wrath</i> be poured out on the
desolate.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N271" id="N271">[1]</a> <a href="#C279V25">back to 9:25</a> "Anointed
One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").
</p>
<p>
<a name="N272" id="N272">[2]</a> <a href="#C279V26">back to 9:26</a> "Anointed
One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2710V1" id="C2710V1">10:1</a> In the third year of Cyrus king of
Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar;
and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing,
and had understanding of the vision. <a name="C2710V2" id="C2710V2">10:2</a>
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. <a name="C2710V3"
id="C2710V3">10:3</a> I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine
into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks
were fulfilled. <a name="C2710V4" id="C2710V4">10:4</a> In the four and
twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river,
which is Hiddekel, <a name="C2710V5" id="C2710V5">10:5</a> I lifted up my
eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were
girded with pure gold of Uphaz: <a name="C2710V6" id="C2710V6">10:6</a> his
body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning,
and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished
brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. <a
name="C2710V7" id="C2710V7">10:7</a> I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the
men who were with me didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on
them, and they fled to hide themselves. <a name="C2710V8" id="C2710V8">10:8</a>
So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no
strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I
retained no strength. <a name="C2710V9" id="C2710V9">10:9</a> Yet heard I the
voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I
fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground. <a
name="C2710V10" id="C2710V10">10:10</a> Behold, a hand touched me, which set
me on my knees and on the palms of my hands. <a name="C2710V11" id="C2710V11">10:11</a>
He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that
I speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now sent. When he had
spoken this word to me, I stood trembling. <a name="C2710V12" id="C2710V12">10:12</a>
Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that
you did set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your
Elohim, your words were heard: and I am come for your words' sake. <a
name="C2710V13" id="C2710V13">10:13</a> But the prince of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the
chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of
Persia. <a name="C2710V14" id="C2710V14">10:14</a> Now I have come to make you
understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the
vision is yet for <i>many</i> days: <a name="C2710V15" id="C2710V15">10:15</a>
and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face
toward the ground, and was mute. <a name="C2710V16" id="C2710V16">10:16</a>
Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I
opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord,
by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no
strength. <a name="C2710V17" id="C2710V17">10:17</a> For how can the servant
of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, immediately there
remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me. <a
name="C2710V18" id="C2710V18">10:18</a> Then there touched me again one like
the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me. <a name="C2710V19"
id="C2710V19">10:19</a> He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid:
peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong."
</p>
<p>
When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord
speak; for you have strengthened me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2710V20" id="C2710V20">10:20</a> Then he said, "Do you know why
I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia.
When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come. <a name="C2710V21"
id="C2710V21">10:21</a> But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the
writing of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but
Michael your prince."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2711V1" id="C2711V1">11:1</a> "As for me, in the first year of
Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. <a name="C2711V2"
id="C2711V2">11:2</a> Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall
stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer
than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall
stir up all against the realm of Greece. <a name="C2711V3" id="C2711V3">11:3</a>
A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do
according to his will. <a name="C2711V4" id="C2711V4">11:4</a> When he shall
stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the
four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his
dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even
for others besides these. <a name="C2711V5" id="C2711V5">11:5</a> The king of
the south shall be strong, and <i>one</i> of his princes; and he shall be
strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great
dominion. <a name="C2711V6" id="C2711V6">11:6</a> At the end of years they
shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south
shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall
not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm;
but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became
the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times. <a
name="C2711V7" id="C2711V7">11:7</a> But out of a shoot from her roots shall
one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter
into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them,
and shall prevail. <a name="C2711V8" id="C2711V8">11:8</a> Also their gods,
with their molten images, <i>and</i> with their goodly vessels of silver
and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some
years from the king of the north. <a name="C2711V9" id="C2711V9">11:9</a> He
shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return
into his own land. <a name="C2711V10" id="C2711V10">11:10</a> His sons shall
war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on,
and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his
fortress. <a name="C2711V11" id="C2711V11">11:11</a> The king of the south
shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and fight with him, even
with the king of the north; and he shall set forth a great multitude, and
the multitude shall be given into his hand. <a name="C2711V12" id="C2711V12">11:12</a>
The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he
shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. <a
name="C2711V13" id="C2711V13">11:13</a> The king of the north shall return,
and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come
on at the end of the times, <i>even of</i> years, with a great army and
with much substance. <a name="C2711V14" id="C2711V14">11:14</a> In those times
there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children
of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the
vision; but they shall fall. <a name="C2711V15" id="C2711V15">11:15</a> So the
king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a
well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither
his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand. <a
name="C2711V16" id="C2711V16">11:16</a> But he who comes against him shall do
according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall
stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction. <a
name="C2711V17" id="C2711V17">11:17</a> He shall set his face to come with the
strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he
shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to
corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him. <a name="C2711V18"
id="C2711V18">11:18</a> After this shall he turn his face to the islands,
and shall take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him
to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn on him. <a
name="C2711V19" id="C2711V19">11:19</a> Then he shall turn his face toward the
fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not
be found. <a name="C2711V20" id="C2711V20">11:20</a> Then shall stand up in
his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom
to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither
in anger, nor in battle. <a name="C2711V21" id="C2711V21">11:21</a> In his
place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the
honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall
obtain the kingdom by flatteries. <a name="C2711V22" id="C2711V22">11:22</a>
The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be
broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant. <a name="C2711V23" id="C2711V23">11:23</a>
After the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall
come up, and shall become strong, with a small people. <a name="C2711V24"
id="C2711V24">11:24</a> In time of security shall he come even on the
fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers
have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey,
and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the
strongholds, even for a time. <a name="C2711V25" id="C2711V25">11:25</a> He
shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with
a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an
exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall
devise devices against him. <a name="C2711V26" id="C2711V26">11:26</a> Yes,
they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall
overflow; and many shall fall down slain. <a name="C2711V27" id="C2711V27">11:27</a>
As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they
shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end
shall be at the time appointed. <a name="C2711V28" id="C2711V28">11:28</a>
Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and his heart <i>shall
be</i> against the holy covenant; and he shall do <i>his pleasure</i>, and
return to his own land. <a name="C2711V29" id="C2711V29">11:29</a> At the time
appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in
the latter time as it was in the former. <a name="C2711V30" id="C2711V30">11:30</a>
For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved,
and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and
shall do <i>his pleasure</i>: he shall even return, and have regard to
those who forsake the holy covenant. <a name="C2711V31" id="C2711V31">11:31</a>
Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even
the fortress, and shall take away the continual <i>burnt offering</i>, and
they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. <a name="C2711V32"
id="C2711V32">11:32</a> Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he
pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their Elohim shall be strong,
and do <i>exploits</i>. <a name="C2711V33" id="C2711V33">11:33</a> Those who
are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the
sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, <i>many</i> days. <a
name="C2711V34" id="C2711V34">11:34</a> Now when they shall fall, they shall
be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with
flatteries. <a name="C2711V35" id="C2711V35">11:35</a> Some of those who are
wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white,
even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed. <a
name="C2711V36" id="C2711V36">11:36</a> The king shall do according to his
will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and
shall speak marvelous things against the Elohim of gods; and he shall prosper
until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall
be done. <a name="C2711V37" id="C2711V37">11:37</a> Neither shall he regard
the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for
he shall magnify himself above all. <a name="C2711V38" id="C2711V38">11:38</a>
But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his
fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with
precious stones, and pleasant things. <a name="C2711V39" id="C2711V39">11:39</a>
He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god:
whoever acknowledges <i>him</i> he will increase with glory; and he shall
cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price. <a
name="C2711V40" id="C2711V40">11:40</a> At the time of the end shall the king
of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come
against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with
many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and
pass through. <a name="C2711V41" id="C2711V41">11:41</a> He shall enter also
into the glorious land, and many <i>countries</i> shall be overthrown; but
these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of
the children of Ammon. <a name="C2711V42" id="C2711V42">11:42</a> He shall
stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the land of Egypt shall
not escape. <a name="C2711V43" id="C2711V43">11:43</a> But he shall have power
over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things
of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. <a
name="C2711V44" id="C2711V44">11:44</a> But news out of the east and out of
the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to
destroy and utterly to sweep away many. <a name="C2711V45" id="C2711V45">11:45</a>
He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious
holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2712V1" id="C2712V1">12:1</a> "At that time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered,
everyone who shall be found written in the book. <a name="C2712V2" id="C2712V2">12:2</a>
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. <a
name="C2712V3" id="C2712V3">12:3</a> Those who are wise shall shine as the
brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the
stars forever and ever. <a name="C2712V4" id="C2712V4">12:4</a> But you,
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2712V5" id="C2712V5">12:5</a> Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold,
there stood other two, the one on the brink of the river on this side, and
the other on the brink of the river on that side. <a name="C2712V6"
id="C2712V6">12:6</a> One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above
the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
<a name="C2712V7" id="C2712V7">12:7</a> I heard the man clothed in linen, who
was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his
left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be
for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking
in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be
finished. <a name="C2712V8" id="C2712V8">12:8</a> I heard, but I didn't
understand: then said I, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
<a name="C2712V9" id="C2712V9">12:9</a> He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the
words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. <a name="C2712V10"
id="C2712V10">12:10</a> Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves
white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the
wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand. <a
name="C2712V11" id="C2712V11">12:11</a> From the time that the continual <i>burnt
offering</i> shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate
set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. <a
name="C2712V12" id="C2712V12">12:12</a> Blessed is he who waits, and comes to
the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days. <a name="C2712V13"
id="C2712V13">12:13</a> But go you your way until the end be; for you shall
rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
</p>
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Ch. I.-III.
THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM
On The
SEPHER HADDEBARIM
or Deuteronomy
SECTION OF THE TORAH
TITLE DEBARIM.
I. These are the words of admonition[1] which Mosheh spake with all Yisrael. He gathered them together to him while they were beyond the Jordan, and answered and said to them:
Was it not in the wilderness at the mountain of Sinai that the Torah was given to you? and in the plains of Moab you were made to understand how many miracles and signs the Holy One, blessed be He, had wrought for you, from the time that you passed over the border of the Weedy Sea, where He made for you a way for every one of your tribes. But you declined from His word, and wrought provocation before Him, in Pharan, on account of the words of the spies, and put together lying words against Him, and murmured about the manna, which He had made to come down for you, white from the heavens; in Hazeroth you demanded flesh, and made yourselves deserving to perish from the midst of the world, but for the memory, on your behalf, of the merit of your righteous fathers, the tabernacle of ordinance, and the ark of the covenant, and the holy vessels which you had covered with pure gold, and made atonement for you on account of the sin of the golden calf. It is a journey of eleven days (only) from Horeb by the way of Mount Gebal unto Rekem Giah; but because you declined and provoked the Lord to displeasure, you have been retarded forty years.
And it was at the end of forty years, in the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, on the first of the month, that Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael according to all that the Lord had given him commandment for them.
[JERUSALEM. These are the words which Mosheh, spake with all Yisrael, reproving them, while as yet they were situate beyond the Jordan. Mosheh answering said to them: Was it not in the wilderness at Mount Sinai, that the Torah was given to you? and on the plains of Moab was shown you what miracles and mighty acts the Word of the Lord had wrought on your behalf. When you stood by the Weedy Sea, the sea was divided before you, and there were made twelve ways[2] of one way, (a path) for each tribe. Yet you provoked Him at the sea, and rebelled at the Sea of Suph. On account of the matter of the spies who had been sent from the wilderness of Pharan, the decree (came forth) against you, that you should not enter into the land of Yisrael; and for that of the manna, of which you said, Our soul is afflicted with this bread, whose eating is too light, the serpents were let loose upon you; and in Hazeroth, where your carcasses fell on account of the flesh, and concerning the calf that you had made, He would have spoken in His Word to destroy you, had He not been mindful of the covenant which He sware to your fathers, Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, and of the tabernacle of ordinance which you had made unto His name, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and of your burnt sacrifices in the midst (of the tabernacle and the ark) which you covered with purified gold. A journey of eleven days is it from Mount Horeb by way of Mount Gebal unto Rekem Giah; yet, because you sinned and provoked anger before Him, you have been delayed, and have been journeying for forty years. And it was at the end of forty years.]
After He had smitten Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Mathnan, who dwelt at Astarvata in Edrehath, beyond Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Mosheh to speak the words of this Torah, saying: The Lord our Elohim spake with us (and not I, of my own mind) in Horeb, saying: It is enough for you, and hath been profitable for you until this time (during) which you have received the Torah, and have made the tabernacle and its vessels, and appointed your princes over you; but now it would be evil for you to tarry longer at this mount. Turn you, and journey to Arad and Hormah, and go up to the mountain of the Amorites; and to the dwelling‑places of Ammon, Moab, and Gebala, in the plains of the forests, in mountain and valley, and by the south on the shore of the sea, Ashkelon and Kiserin, the land of the Kenaanite unto Kaldohi, and Lebanon, the place of the mountain of the sanctuary, to the great river, the River Phrat. See, I have given up the inhabitants of the land before you; nor shall it be needful to carry arms; go in and possess the land, and appoint the allotters, and divide it, even as the Lord sware to your fathers, to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, that He would give it unto them and their sons after them.
And I spake to you at that time, saying: We will not leave you with but one judge, for I am not able to bear you alone. The Word of the Lord our Elohim hath multiplied you; and, behold, you are to‑day as the stars of heaven for multitude. The Lord Elohim of your fathers increase you a thousand fold on account of this my benediction, and bless you beyond numbering as He hath said unto you. But how can I alone sustain the labour, your sensuality, your evil thoughts, your words of strife, your offering one shekel for two? Present, then, from among you wise men, prudent in their thinking, men of wisdom, by your tribes, and I will appoint them to be chiefs over you. And you answered me and said: The thing that thou hast spoken it is right for us to do. So I took the chiefs of your tribes, and moved them kindly with words; wise men, masters of knowledge, but prudent in their thoughts, I found not;[3] and I appointed them chiefs over you, rabbans of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties; twelve thousand rabbans of tens, six myriads, officers of your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time with the orders of judgments, saying: So hear your brethren that one may not (be permitted to) speak all his words, while another is compelled to cut his words short; and so hearken to their words, as that it may be impossible for you not to judge them, and deliver judgment in truth, and to resolve (a matter) completely between a man and his brother, and between him who hireth words of litigation. You shall not have respect to persons in a judgment; you shall hear little words as well as great ones, nor be afraid before the rich man and the ruler; for a judgment is from before the Lord, and He seeth every secret. But the thing that is too hard for you bring to me, and I will hear it. And at that time I taught you all the Ten Words which you are to practise about judgments of money, and judgments of life.
And we journeyed from Horeb, and came through all that great and fearful desert, where you saw serpents like boughs, and loathsome scorpions darting at you like arrows, on the way of the mountain of the Amoraah, as the Lord our Elohim had commanded us, and came to Rekem Giah. And I said to you, Ye are come to the mountain of the Amoraah, which the Lord our Elohim will give to us. Behold, the Lord our Elohim hath given you the land; arise and possess it, as the Lord your Elohim hath told you; fear not, nor be dismayed (broken). And all of you came to me in a body, and said, We will send men before us to examine the land for us, and bring us back word by what way we shall go up to it, and the cities we should enter. And the thing was proper in my eyes; and I took from you twelve chosen men, one man for a tribe, and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the stream of Ethkela, and explored it. [JERUSALEM. And they prepared and went up into the mountain, and came to the stream of the Grapes, and surveyed it.] And they took in their hands of the produce of the land and brought to us. And they returned us word; and Kaleb and Jehoshua said, The land which the Lord our Elohim hath given us is good. But you were not willing to go up, but believed the words of the ten wicked ones, and rebelled against the Word of the Lord your Elohim. And you cried in your tents, taking your sons and your daughters to your breasts, saying, Woe to you, ye stricken ones! to‑morrow ye will be slain. Why hath the Lord hated us, to have brought us out of the land of Mizraim, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? How shall we go up? Our brethren have dissolved our hearts, saying, The people are greater and mightier than we; their cities are vast and walled to the height of heaven, and we saw there also the sons of Ephron the giant.
And I said to you, Be not broken down, nor be afraid of them: the Word of the Lord your Elohim who goeth before you will Himself fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Mizraim before your eyes. And in the desert, where thou sawest burning serpents full of deadly venom, the Lord thy Elohim bare thee with the glorious clouds of His Shekinah, as a man carrieth his child, all the way that you went, until you have come to this place. But in this thing you believed not in the Word of the Lord your Elohim, who led before you in the way[4] to prepare for you the place of your encampments, in the pillar of fire by night to light you in the way you should go, and in the pillar of the cloud by day. And the voice of your words was heard before the Lord, and He was displeased, and did make oath saying, If any one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I covenanted to give unto their fathers, except Kaleb bar Jephunneh, who shall see it, and to whom I will give the good land, the land of Hebron through which he walked, and to his children, because he hath followed with integrity the fear of the Lord. Against me also was there displeasure before the Lord on your account, saying, Thou too art not to go in thither; Jehoshua bar Nun, who ministereth in thy house of instruction, he is to go in thither: strengthen him, for he is to make Yisrael possess it. But your little ones, of whom you said, They will be for prey, and your children, who as yet know not between good and evil, they shall go in thither: I will give it to them, and they shall possess it for an inheritance. As for you, turn, and go (back) into the wilderness by the way of the Weedy Sea. Then answered you, and said to me, We have sinned before the Lord ; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our Elohim commanded us. And you girded on every man his arms, and began to ascend the mountain. But the Lord said to me, Say to them, Go not up, nor prepare for battle, for My Shekinah goeth not among you; that you be not crushed before your enemies. And I spake with you, but you would not obey but were rebellious against the Word of the Lord, and did wickedly, and went up to the mountain. And the Amoraah who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you, as they drive away and destroy hornets, and smote you from Gebal unto Hormah. [JERUSALEM. And they chased you as bees are chased, and slew you in Gebal unto destruction.] And you returned, and wept before the Lord: but the Lord would not receive your prayers, nor hearken to your words. So you abode in Rekem many days, according to the days that you abode.
II. And turning we journeyed into the wilderness, by the way of the Sea of Suph, as the Lord had bidden me, and we compassed Mount Gebal many days. And the Lord spake to me, saying: It is enough for you to have dwelt about this mountain: turn you to the north, and command the people, saying, You are to pass by the border of your brethren, the children of Esau, who dwell in Gebala, and they will be afraid of you; be very heedful therefore; provoke them not; for of their land I have not given you as much as the sole of the foot; for I have given Mount Gebal an inheritance unto Esau on account of the honour which he did unto his father. You shall buy fresh provision of them for silver, that you may eat, and water shall you buy with silver, to drink. Be careful that you vex them not : for the Lord your Elohim hath blessed you in all the works of your hands, he hath supplied your wants in thy journeying in the great wilderness; these forty years hath the Word of the Lord your Elohim been your helper; you have not wanted anything.
So we passed by our brethren the sons of Esau, who dwell in Gebala, from Elath and the fortress of Tarnegola and turned and went by the way of the wilderness of Moab [JERUSALEM. So we passed by our brethren the sons of Esau, who dwell in Gebala, by the way of the plain from Elath and from the fortress of Tarnegola, and we turned and went by the way of the wilderness of Moab.] And the Lord spake to me, saying: Thou shalt not aggrieve the Moabaee, nor make war against them; for I have not given you their land to inherit, because I have given Lachaiath for a possession to the children of Lot. The Emthanaia dwelt in it of old, a people great and many, and mighty as the giants. The giants[5] who dwelt in the plain of Geyonbere were also reputed as the giants who perished in the Flood; but the Moabites called them Emethanee[6]. And in Gebala dwelt the Genosaia in old times, and the Beni Esau drave them out and destroyed them, and dwelt in their place; as did Yisrael in the land of their inheritance, which the Lord gave to them. Now arise, and pass over the stream of Tarvaja. And we crossed the stream of Tarvaja. And the days in which (from the time) we came from Rekem Giah till we crossed the stream of Tarvaja, were thirty and eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. But a plague also from the Lord had scourged them to consume them from the host, until they were brought to an end.
And when all the men of war, the makers of the high places, were consumed by dying out of the host, the Lord spake with me, saying: You are this day to pass the border of Moab towards Lechaiath. But coming near over against the children of Ammon, you are not to vex, nor provoke them to war; for I have not given you the land of the Beni Ammon for a possession: I have given it an inheritance to the children of Lot, for the sake of Avraham's righteousness. That also was accounted a land of giants; in old time the giants dwelt in it, and the Ammonites called them Zimthanee, a people great and mighty as giants: but the Word of the Lord destroyed them, and drave them out before them, and they dwelt in their place; as He did for the Beni Esau who dwell in Seir: for He destroyed the Horaee before them, and drave them out, and they dwell in their place to this day. And the rest of the escaped of the Kenaanah which dwelt in the cities of Dephia to Gaza, the Kapotkaee who came out of Kapotkaia destroyed them, and dwelt in their place. Arise, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnona; behold, I have delivered into your hands Sihon the king of Heshbon and the Amoraah, and his land: begin to drive them out, and to provoke him to wage war. To‑day I will begin to put thy terror and fear upon the faces of all the peoples which are under the whole heavens who shall hear the report of thy virtue, that the sun and moon have stood still, and have ceased from speaking (their) song for the space of a day and a half, standing still in their habitation until thou hadst done battle with Sihon; and they will shiver and tremble before thee.
And I sent messengers from Nehardea, which is by the wilderness of Kedemoth, to Sihon king of the Amorites, with words of peace, saying, I would pass through thy land; by the way which is the beaten road will I go; I will not turn aside to do thee harm on the right hand or the left. I will buy fresh provision with silver, to eat, and thou shalt give me water for silver, to drink; I will only pass through: as the Beni Esau, who dwell in Gebal, and the Moabaee, who dwell in Lechaiath have done to me, until the time that I pass over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our Elohim giveth us. But Sihon the king of Heshbon was not willing to allow us to pass through his borders; for the Lord our Elohim had hardened the form of his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, to deliver him into thy hand as at this day. And the Lord said to me, See, within the space of a sun and a moon I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country into thy hand; begin thou to cast him out, to inherit his land.
And Sihon came out to meet us, he and all his people, to do battle at Jehaz. And the Lord our Elohim delivered him up before us, and we smote him, and his children, and all his people. And we subdued all his cities at that time, and destroyed all the towns, the men, women, and children, we left none to escape; only the cattle took we for prey and the spoil of the towns which we subdued. From Aroer, on the bank of the river Arnona, and the city which is built in the midst of the river, even unto Gilead, there was no city too strong for us, the Lord our Elohim gave all of them up before us. Only to the land of the children of Ammon we went not nigh, nor to any place on the river Jobeka, nor to the cities of the mountain, according to all that the Lord our Elohim had commanded us.
III. ANd turning, we went up by the way of Mathnan: and Og the king of Mathnan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to give battle in Edrehath. And the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amoraah, who dwelt in Heshbon. [JERUSALEM. When Mosheh saw that wicked one, he trembled before him, and said, Is not this he who did scoff at our father Avraham and Sarah, and said to them, Ye are like trees planted by a fountain of water, but ye bear no fruit? Therefore did the Holy One, blessed be He, and let His Name be glorified, cause him to wait, and prolong him many years alive, to show to him the generations, because He would deliver him into the hands of his (Avraham's) children: therefore the Word of the Lord said to Mosheb, Be not afraid of him, for into thy hand have I given him up, and all his people, and his land, and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sihon. king of the Amoraee, who dwelt in Heshbon.] And the Lord our Elohim gave up into our hands Og the king of Mathnan, and all his people; and we smote him till no remnant remained to him. And we subdued all his cities at that time, there was no city which we took not from them, sixty cities, the whole boundary of Targona[7], the kingdom of Og in Mathnan. All these cities were fortified, surrounded with high walls, shut up with gates and bars; besides open towns very many. [JERUSALEM. All these cities were fortified, surrounded with high walls, with gates and bars.] And we utterly destroyed their cities: as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, so destroyed we with every city the men, women, and children. But all the cattle, and the prey of the cities, we made a spoil for ourselves. And at that time we took from the power of the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from the streams of Arnona unto Mount Hermon. The Sidonaee call Hermon the fruit‑producing Mount,[8] but the Amoraee call it the Snowy Mountain,[9] because the snownever ceases from it either in summer or winter. [JERUSALEM. The Sidonaee call Hermon the fruit‑producing land, but the Amoraee call it the land which multiplies the fruits of the tree.] All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Mathnan, unto Selukia and Edrehi, cities of the kingdom of Og in Mathnan. For only Og king of Mathnan remained of the remnant of the giants who perished in the deluge. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; behold, it is placed in the archive‑house in Rabbath, of the Beni Ammon, nine‑cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, in the cubit of his own (stature). [JERUSALEM. Is it not placed in the citadel of the Beni Ammon ?] And this land which we took in possession at that time, from Aroer unto the border of the river, and half of Mount Gilead, and the cities, I have given to the tribe of Reuben and Gad; but the remaining part of Gilead, and all Mathnan, the kingdom of Og, I have given to the half tribe of Menasheh; all the limit of the region of Targona, and all Mathnan, which is called the land of the giants.
And Jair bar Menasheh took the whole limit of the region of Targona, unto the limit of Korze and Antikiros, [JERUSALEM. All the limit of Atarkona, unto the limit of the city of Aphikeras,] and called them by his own name Mathnan, the towns of Jair, unto this day. But I gave Gilead to Makir. To the tribe Reuben and the tribe Gad have I given from Gilead to the river Arnona, half of the valley and its limit, unto the stream of Jubeka on the limit of the children of Ammon, the plain also, the Jordan, the boundary from Genesar to the sea of the plain, and the city of Tebaria, which is by the Sea of Salt, the limit of the outflow of waters from the heights of the east. [JERUSALEM. The plain, the Jordan, and the limit from Ginosar to the sea of the plain, the Sea of Salt, under the place of the pouring forth of ashes from the east.] And I commanded you, the tribe of Reuben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh, at that time, saying: The Lord your Elohim hath given this land to you to possess it; but you are to go over armed before your brethren, every one girded for the host. Only your wives, your children, and your cattle, (for I know that you have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the time when the Lord will have given rest to your brethren as to you, that they also may possess that land which the Lord your Elohim hath conferred upon you; then shall you return every one to his inheritance which I have given you.
And I instructed Jehoshua at that time, saying: Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord thy Elohim hath done to these two kings; so will the Lord do unto all the kingdoms to which thou art passing over. Fear them not, for the Word of the Lord your Elohim fighteth for you.
[1] Or, “reproof.”
[2] Or, “streets.”
[3] Lo ashkachith.
[4] Compare Glossary, p 16.
[5] Gibbaraia. Heb., Rephaim.
[6] Or, Emthanee, “Formidable.”
[7] Trachonitis, “rough or rocky.”
[8] Or, “the mount whose productions are fruit.”
[9] Tor Talga. So the present Arab name Jebel Thelj.
THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS
ON THE
SEPHER ELLEH HADDEBARIM
OR
BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
SECTION OF THE TORAH XLIV
TITLE DEBARIM
I. THESE are the words which Mosheh spake with all Yisrael beyond the Jordan, reproving them because they had sinned in the wilderness, and had provoked (the Lord) to anger on the plains over against the Sea of Suph, in Pharan, where they scorned the manna; and in Hazeroth, where they provoked to anger on account of flesh, and because they had made the golden calf.
It is a journey of eleven days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir unto Rekem Giah.
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, in the first day of the month, Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael according to all that the Lord had commanded him for them. After he had slain Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og, king of Mathnan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrehi; on this side Jordan in the land of Moab began Mosheh to explain the doctrine of this Torah, saying:
The Lord our Elohim spake with us at Horeb, saying : It is sufficient for you to have dwelt at this mountain: turn, and proceed, and go unto the mountain of the Amoraah, and to all its habitable places in the plains, the mountain, the valleys, and in the south, and by the side of the sea; the land of the Kenaanah and Lebanon, unto the river, the great river Phrat; behold, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord covenanted to your fathers, to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; to give it to them, and to your children after them.
And I spake to you at that time, saying: I am not able to bear you myself alone. The Lord your Elohim hath multiplied you; and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. The Lord Elohim of your fathers make you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, as He hath said to you! How can I bear alone your labour, your business, and your adjudgments? Provide (then) for yourselves prudent and sagacious men of your tribes, and I will appoint them to be chiefs over you. And you answered me, and said: The thing that thou hast spoken it is right that we should do.
And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and masters of knowledge, and appointed them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and officers of your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time, saying: Hear between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, or the sojourner. You shall not have respect to persons in the judgment; you shall hear little words (matters) as well as great; nor be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is of the Lord; and the matter that is too hard for you bring to me, and I will hear it; and commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and fearful desert which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amoraah, as the Lord our Elohim commanded us, and we came unto Rekem Giah. And I the said: You are come to the mountain of the Amoraah, which the Lord our Elohim will give to us. See, the Lord thy Elohim hath set the land before thee: arise, possess (it), as the Lord the Elohim of thy fathers hath bid thee; fear not, nor be broken. And all of you came to me and said: We will send men before us, to explore the land for us, and bring us word about the way to go up to it, and to what cities we shall come. And the thing was good in my eyes, and I took from you twelve men, one man for a tribe. And they turned and went up to the mountain, and came to the brook of Ethkela, and explored it. And they took in their hands some of the produce of the land and brought to us, and returned us word, saying: The land which the Lord will give us is good. But you were not willing to go up, but were rebellious against the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and murmured in your tents, and said: Because the Lord hath hated us, He hath brought us from the land of Mizraim to deliver us into the hand of the Amoraah to destroy us. To what shall we go up? Our brethren have broken our heart, saying: The people are greater and stronger than we; vast are the cities, and walled to the height of heaven, and we saw there also the sons of the giants. But I said to you: Be not broken (hearted), fear them not; the Word of the Lord, who leadeth on before you, will fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Mizraim in your sight; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that the Lord thy Elohim carrieth thee, as a man carrieth his child, in all the way you have journeyed until your coming to this place. But in this thing you did not believe in the Word of the Lord your Elohim, who led on before you in the way to prepare for you (each) place of encampment for your sojournings, in the pillar of fire by night to show you in which way to go, and in the pillar of the cloud by day. But the voice of your words was heard before the Lord, and He was angry, and made oath, saying: If a man of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I sware to your fathers, save Kaleb bar Jephunneh. He shall see it, and I will give to him the land on which he hath trodden, and unto his children, because he hath been upright in the fear of the Lord. Also against me was there displeasure before the Lord on your account, (He) saying: Thou too art not to go in thither; Jehoshua bar Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; strengthen him, for he is to make Yisrael to inherit; but your little ones, who you said would be for prey, your children, who today know not good and evil, they shall enter therein, to them will I give it, and they shall possess it; but you, turn you, and go into the wilderness by the Weedy Sea.
Then you answered, and said: We have sinned before the Lord; we will go up and wage war according to all that the Lord our Elohim commanded; and you girded on every man his weapons of war, and began to go up to the mountain. But the Lord said to me: Tell them, You shall not go up, neither wage war; for My Shekinah is not among you, lest you be crushed before your enemies. And I told you, but you hearkened not, but rebelled against the Word of the Lord, and dared, and went up to the mountain; but the Amoraah who dwelt in that mountain came out against you, and pursued you as bees are dispersed, and smote you in Seir unto Hormah. And you returned, and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not receive your prayer, nor hearken to your words; and you dwelt in Rekem many days, according to the days that you abode.
II. And we turned, and journeyed to the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Suph, as the Lord had told us; and we encompassed the mountain of Seir many days. And the Lord spake to me, saying: You have been about this mountain enough for you: turn you northward; and command the people, saying: You are going through the coasts of your brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take great heed, quarrel not with them; for I will not give you of their land, not so much as you may tread upon with the sole of the foot; for the inheritance of Mount Seir I have given to Esau. You shall buy provision of them with silver, that you may eat; and water, with silver, that you may drink; for the Lord thy Elohim bath blessed thee in all the works of thy hands; He bath given thee sufficient for thy need in thy going about in this great wilderness; these forty years the Word of the Lord thy Elohim hath been thy helper, thou hast not wanted any thing. And we passed by from our brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion Geber; and turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
And the Lord said to me, Distress not the Moabaee, nor stir thyself to make war with them; for I will not give thee any of their land to inherit, for I have given Lechiath unto the children of Lot for an inheritance. The Emethanee in old times dwelt in it; a people great and many, and strong as the giants. They were reputed as giants, and like giants also they were; but the Moabites called them Emethanee.And in Seir dwelt the Horaee in former times; but the sons of Esau drave them out, and destroyed them, and dwelt in their places, as Yisrael did in the land of his inheritance which the Lord gave to them.
Now arise, (said I,) and go over the stream of Zared. And we passed over the stream of Zared. And the days in which we were journeying from Rekem Giah until we crossed the stream of Zared were thirty and eight years, till all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. For the plague stroke from before the Lord was upon them to destroy them from among the host till they were consumed.
When all the men of war had been consumed, and had died away from among the people, the Lord spake with me, saying: Thou art today to pass by Lechaiath, the frontier of Moab. But when thou comest nigh over against the Beni Ammon, be not troublesome to them, nor provoke thyself to make war with them; for I have not given to thee of the land of the Beni Ammon any inheritance; for I have given it to the children of Lot to inherit. That also was reputed a land of giants; in old times giants did dwell in it, and the Ammonites called them Hashbanee; a people great and many, and strong as giants, but the Lord destroyed them before them) and cast them out, and they dwelt in their places.
As did the sons of Esau who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horaee from before them, and drave them out, and they have dwelt in their places unto this day. And the Avaee, who dwelt in Pheziach unto Hazah destroyed the Kaphutkaee, who came out of Kaphutkaia, and dwelt in their place.
Arise, remove, and pass over the river of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hand Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to cast him out, and rouse thyself to make battle with him. This day will I begin to put dread of thee and fear of thee upon the face of the peoples which are under the whole heavens, who shall hear thy fame, and be broken before thee.
And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, May I pass through thy land by the way? I will go by the way, nor turn to the right or the left: thou shalt sell me provision for silver, and I will eat; and give me water for silver, and I will drink; I will only go through on my feet: as the Beni Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabaee who dwell in Lechaiath, did to me, until I pass over Jordan to the land which the Lord our Elohim shall give to us. But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to permit us to pass through his coasts; for the Lord thy Elohim hardened his spirit and strengthened his heart, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as at this day. And the Lord said to me, See, I have begun to deliver to thee Sihon and his country; begin thou to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land. And Sihon came forth to meet us, he and all his people, to give battle at Jahaz; and the Word of the Lord our Elohim delivered him up before us, and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we subdued all his cities at that time, and consumed all the towns, and the men, women, and children, and left none to escape. Only the cattle was a booty to us, and the spoil of the cities which we subdued. From Aroer which is upon the bank of the river of Arnon, and the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was no city too strong for us; for the Lord our Elohim delivered all before us. Only to the land of the Beni Ammon thou didst not come near, nor to all the side of the river Jubeka, nor the cities of the mountain, nor to any of which the Lord our Elohim had commanded us.
III. And we turned, and went up the way of Mathnan; and Og king of Mathnan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to give battle at Edrehi. And the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for I have delivered him into thy hand, with all his people and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amoraah, who dwelt at Heshbon. And the Lord our Elohim delivered Og the king of Mathnan into our hand with all his people, and we smote him until not a remnant of him escaped. And we subdued all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of the territory of the kingdom of Og in Mathnan. All those strong cities were fortified with gates and bars, beside unwalled towns very many. But we consumed them as we did Sihon king of Heshbon: we destroyed in all the cities the men, women, and children; but all the cattle and the spoil of the cities were a prey to us. And we took at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amoraah, the country on this side of Jordana, from the river of Arnon unto the mountain of Hermon. The Zidonaee call Hermon Sirion, but the Amoraee call it the Mount of Snow: All the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Mathnan, unto Salka and Edrehi, cities of the kingdom of Og in Mathnan. For only Og king of Mathnan remained of the remnant of the giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, in the cubit of the king? And their land (which) we took into possession at that time, from Aroer, upon the river Arnon, and half Mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, I have given to the tribe of Reuben, and to the tribe of Gad. And the rest of Gilead, and all Mathnan, the kingdom of Og, I have given to the half tribe of Menasheh; all the surrounding country, even all Mathnan, which was called the Land of the Giants. Jaer bar Menasheh took all the territory of Terakona, unto the border of Geshurah and Aphkiros, and called it after his name, Mathnan Kapharne-Jair, unto this day. And to Machir I have given Gilead. And to the tribe of Reuben, and of Gad, I have given from Gilead unto the river of Arnon (to) the middle of the river and its bound, unto the river Jubeka, which is the border of the children of Ammon. And the plain, and the Jordan, and the border thereof, from Genezar unto the Sea of the Plain, the Sea of Salt, under the declivity of the height, eastward. And I instructed you at that time, saying: The Lord your Elohim hath given you this land to possess it; you shall pass over armed before your brethren the sons of Yisrael, all armed for the host. Only your wives, and little ones, and your cattle, for I know that you have much cattle, shall abide in your cities which I have given you, until the Lord hath given rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your Elohim hath given to them on the other side of Jordana: and you shall return every man to his inheritance which I have given you. And I charged Jehoshua at that time, saying: Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your Elohim hath done unto these two kings; so shall the Lord do to all the kingdoms to which thou art going over. Fear them not, for the Word of the Lord your Elohim will fight for you.
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<a name="C051V1" id="C051V1">1:1</a> These are the words which Moshe spoke to
all Yisrael beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against
Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. <a
name="C051V2" id="C051V2">1:2</a> It is eleven days' <i>journey</i> from Horeb
by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. <a name="C051V3" id="C051V3">1:3</a>
It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day
of the month, that Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael, according to all
that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them; <a name="C051V4" id="C051V4">1:4</a>
after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. <a name="C051V5"
id="C051V5">1:5</a> Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moshe to
declare this Torah, saying, <a name="C051V6" id="C051V6">1:6</a> Yahweh our Elohim
spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:
<a name="C051V7" id="C051V7">1:7</a> turn, and take your journey, and go to
the hill country of the Amorites, and to all <i>the places</i> near there,
in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South,
and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as
the great river, the river Euphrates. <a name="C051V8" id="C051V8">1:8</a>
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
to them and to their seed after them. <a name="C051V9" id="C051V9">1:9</a> I
spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
<a name="C051V10" id="C051V10">1:10</a> Yahweh your Elohim has multiplied you,
and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. <a
name="C051V11" id="C051V11">1:11</a> Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, make you
a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised
you! <a name="C051V12" id="C051V12">1:12</a> How can I myself alone bear your
encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? <a name="C051V13" id="C051V13">1:13</a>
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes,
and I will make them heads over you. <a name="C051V14" id="C051V14">1:14</a>
You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good <i>for
us</i> to do. <a name="C051V15" id="C051V15">1:15</a> So I took the heads of
your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains
of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and
captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. <a name="C051V16"
id="C051V16">1:16</a> I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear <i>the
causes</i> between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and
his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. <a name="C051V17"
id="C051V17">1:17</a> You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall
hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of
man; for the judgment is Elohim's: and the cause that is too hard for you,
you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. <a name="C051V18" id="C051V18">1:18</a>
I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. <a
name="C051V19" id="C051V19">1:19</a> We traveled from Horeb, and went through
all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the
hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our Elohim commanded us; and we came
to Kadesh Barnea. <a name="C051V20" id="C051V20">1:20</a> I said to you, You
are come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our Elohim gives
to us. <a name="C051V21" id="C051V21">1:21</a> Behold, Yahweh your Elohim has set
the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the Elohim of your
fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. <a
name="C051V22" id="C051V22">1:22</a> You came near to me everyone of you, and
said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and
bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to
which we shall come. <a name="C051V23" id="C051V23">1:23</a> The thing pleased
me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: <a
name="C051V24" id="C051V24">1:24</a> and they turned and went up into the hill
country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. <a
name="C051V25" id="C051V25">1:25</a> They took of the fruit of the land in
their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and
said, It is a good land which Yahweh our Elohim gives to us. <a name="C051V26"
id="C051V26">1:26</a> Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the
commandment of Yahweh your Elohim: <a name="C051V27" id="C051V27">1:27</a> and
you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has
brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of
the Amorites, to destroy us. <a name="C051V28" id="C051V28">1:28</a> Where are
we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people
are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to
the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. <a
name="C051V29" id="C051V29">1:29</a> Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither
be afraid of them. <a name="C051V30" id="C051V30">1:30</a> Yahweh your Elohim who
goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for
you in Egypt before your eyes, <a name="C051V31" id="C051V31">1:31</a> and in
the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your Elohim bore you, as
a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to
this place. <a name="C051V32" id="C051V32">1:32</a> Yet in this thing you
didn't believe Yahweh your Elohim, <a name="C051V33" id="C051V33">1:33</a> who
went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents
in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the
cloud by day. <a name="C051V34" id="C051V34">1:34</a> Yahweh heard the voice
of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, <a name="C051V35" id="C051V35">1:35</a>
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the
good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, <a name="C051V36"
id="C051V36">1:36</a> save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and
to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children,
because he has wholly followed Yahweh. <a name="C051V37" id="C051V37">1:37</a>
Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not
go in there: <a name="C051V38" id="C051V38">1:38</a> Joshua the son of Nun,
who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he
shall cause Yisrael to inherit it. <a name="C051V39" id="C051V39">1:39</a>
Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your
children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in
there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. <a
name="C051V40" id="C051V40">1:40</a> But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way to the <a href="#N051">Red Sea</a>.
<a name="C051V41" id="C051V41">1:41</a> Then you answered and said to me, We
have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that
Yahweh our Elohim commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war,
and were forward to go up into the hill country. <a name="C051V42" id="C051V42">1:42</a>
Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not
among you; lest you be struck before your enemies. <a name="C051V43"
id="C051V43">1:43</a> So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you
rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and
went up into the hill country. <a name="C051V44" id="C051V44">1:44</a> The
Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased
you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. <a name="C051V45"
id="C051V45">1:45</a> You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't
listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. <a name="C051V46" id="C051V46">1:46</a>
So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode <i>there</i>.
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<a name="N051" id="N051">[1]</a> <a href="#C051V40">back to 1:40</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
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<p>
<a name="C052V1" id="C052V1">2:1</a> Then we turned, and took our journey into
the wilderness by the way to the <a href="#N052">Red Sea</a>, as Yahweh
spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. <a name="C052V2"
id="C052V2">2:2</a> Yahweh spoke to me, saying, <a name="C052V3" id="C052V3">2:3</a>
You have encircled this mountain long enough: turn you northward. <a
name="C052V4" id="C052V4">2:4</a> Command you the people, saying, You are to
pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell
in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves
therefore; <a name="C052V5" id="C052V5">2:5</a> don't contend with them; for I
will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the
foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a
possession. <a name="C052V6" id="C052V6">2:6</a> You shall purchase food of
them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for
money, that you may drink. <a name="C052V7" id="C052V7">2:7</a> For Yahweh
your Elohim has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your
walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your Elohim
has been with you; you have lacked nothing. <a name="C052V8" id="C052V8">2:8</a>
So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir,
from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and
passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. <a name="C052V9" id="C052V9">2:9</a>
Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle;
for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given
Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. <a name="C052V10" id="C052V10">2:10</a>
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakim: <a name="C052V11" id="C052V11">2:11</a> these also are accounted
Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. <a name="C052V12"
id="C052V12">2:12</a> The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the
children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them,
and lived in their place; as Yisrael did to the land of his possession,
which Yahweh gave to them.) <a name="C052V13" id="C052V13">2:13</a> Now rise
up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over the brook Zered. <a
name="C052V14" id="C052V14">2:14</a> The days in which we came from Kadesh
Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years;
until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of
the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. <a name="C052V15" id="C052V15">2:15</a>
Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the
midst of the camp, until they were consumed. <a name="C052V16" id="C052V16">2:16</a>
So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among
the people, <a name="C052V17" id="C052V17">2:17</a> that Yahweh spoke to me,
saying, <a name="C052V18" id="C052V18">2:18</a> You are this day to pass over
Ar, the border of Moab: <a name="C052V19" id="C052V19">2:19</a> and when you
come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor
contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of
Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for
a possession. <a name="C052V20" id="C052V20">2:20</a> (That also is accounted
a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call
them Zamzummim, <a name="C052V21" id="C052V21">2:21</a> a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and
they succeeded them, and lived in their place; <a name="C052V22" id="C052V22">2:22</a>
as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed
the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their
place even to this day: <a name="C052V23" id="C052V23">2:23</a> and the Avvim,
who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of
Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.) <a name="C052V24"
id="C052V24">2:24</a> Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley
of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king
of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle. <a name="C052V25" id="C052V25">2:25</a> This day will I begin to put
the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the
whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in
anguish because of you. <a name="C052V26" id="C052V26">2:26</a> I sent
messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with
words of peace, saying, <a name="C052V27" id="C052V27">2:27</a> Let me pass
through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to
the right hand nor to the left. <a name="C052V28" id="C052V28">2:28</a> You
shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money,
that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, <a name="C052V29"
id="C052V29">2:29</a> as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the
Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan
into the land which Yahweh our Elohim gives us. <a name="C052V30" id="C052V30">2:30</a>
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your
Elohim hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
deliver him into your hand, as at this day. <a name="C052V31" id="C052V31">2:31</a>
Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land
before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land. <a
name="C052V32" id="C052V32">2:32</a> Then Sihon came out against us, he and
all his people, to battle at Jahaz. <a name="C052V33" id="C052V33">2:33</a>
Yahweh our Elohim delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his
sons, and all his people. <a name="C052V34" id="C052V34">2:34</a> We took all
his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with
the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: <a name="C052V35"
id="C052V35">2:35</a> only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves,
with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. <a name="C052V36" id="C052V36">2:36</a>
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and <i>from</i>
the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too
high for us; Yahweh our Elohim delivered up all before us: <a name="C052V37"
id="C052V37">2:37</a> only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't
come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill
country, and wherever Yahweh our Elohim forbade us.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N052" id="N052">[2]</a> <a href="#C052V1">back to 2:1</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C053V1" id="C053V1">3:1</a> Then we turned, and went up the way to
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei. <a name="C053V2" id="C053V2">3:2</a> Yahweh said
to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and
his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king
of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. <a name="C053V3" id="C053V3">3:3</a> So
Yahweh our Elohim delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and
all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining. <a
name="C053V4" id="C053V4">3:4</a> We took all his cities at that time; there
was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the
region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. <a name="C053V5" id="C053V5">3:5</a>
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides
the unwalled towns a great many. <a name="C053V6" id="C053V6">3:6</a> We
utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly
destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. <a
name="C053V7" id="C053V7">3:7</a> But all the livestock, and the spoil of the
cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. <a name="C053V8" id="C053V8">3:8</a>
We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount
Hermon; <a name="C053V9" id="C053V9">3:9</a> (<i>which</i> Hermon the
Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) <a name="C053V10"
id="C053V10">3:10</a> all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. <a
name="C053V11" id="C053V11">3:11</a> (For only Og king of Bashan remained of
the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron;
isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length,
and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.) <a name="C053V12"
id="C053V12">3:12</a> This land we took in possession at that time: from
Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of
Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: <a
name="C053V13" id="C053V13">3:13</a> and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan,
the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. <a
name="C053V14" id="C053V14">3:14</a> Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
<a name="C053V15" id="C053V15">3:15</a> I gave Gilead to Machir. <a
name="C053V16" id="C053V16">3:16</a> To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I
gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the
valley, and the border <i>of it</i>, even to the river Jabbok, which is
the border of the children of Ammon; <a name="C053V17" id="C053V17">3:17</a>
the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border <i>of it</i>, from
Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes
of Pisgah eastward. <a name="C053V18" id="C053V18">3:18</a> I commanded you at
that time, saying, Yahweh your Elohim has given you this land to possess it:
you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Yisrael, all
the men of valor. <a name="C053V19" id="C053V19">3:19</a> But your wives, and
your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much
livestock), shall abide in your cities which I have given you, <a
name="C053V20" id="C053V20">3:20</a> until Yahweh give rest to your brothers,
as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives them
beyond the Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession,
which I have given you. <a name="C053V21" id="C053V21">3:21</a> I commanded
Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your Elohim
has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where
you go over. <a name="C053V22" id="C053V22">3:22</a> You shall not fear them;
for Yahweh your Elohim, he it is who fights for you. <a name="C053V23"
id="C053V23">3:23</a> I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, <a name="C053V24"
id="C053V24">3:24</a> Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your
greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in
earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty
acts? <a name="C053V25" id="C053V25">3:25</a> Please let me go over and see
the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon. <a name="C053V26" id="C053V26">3:26</a> But Yahweh was angry with me
for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it
suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter. <a name="C053V27" id="C053V27">3:27</a>
Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward,
and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go
over this Jordan. <a name="C053V28" id="C053V28">3:28</a> But commission
Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before
this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall
see. <a name="C053V29" id="C053V29">3:29</a> So we abode in the valley over
against Beth Peor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C054V1" id="C054V1">4:1</a> Now, Yisrael, listen to the statutes and
to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and
go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, gives
you. <a name="C054V2" id="C054V2">4:2</a> You shall not add to the word which
I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the
commandments of Yahweh your Elohim which I command you. <a name="C054V3"
id="C054V3">4:3</a> Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal
Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your Elohim has
destroyed them from the midst of you. <a name="C054V4" id="C054V4">4:4</a> But
you who did cleave to Yahweh your Elohim are alive everyone of you this day.
<a name="C054V5" id="C054V5">4:5</a> Behold, I have taught you statutes and
ordinances, even as Yahweh my Elohim commanded me, that you should do so in
the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. <a name="C054V6"
id="C054V6">4:6</a> Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and
your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people. <a name="C054V7" id="C054V7">4:7</a> For what great nation is there,
that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our Elohim is whenever we call on
him? <a name="C054V8" id="C054V8">4:8</a> What great nation is there, that has
statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this Torah, which I set before
you this day? <a name="C054V9" id="C054V9">4:9</a> Only take heed to yourself,
and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes
saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but
make them known to your children and your children's children; <a
name="C054V10" id="C054V10">4:10</a> the day that you stood before Yahweh your
Elohim in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that
they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children. <a
name="C054V11" id="C054V11">4:11</a> You came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. <a name="C054V12" id="C054V12">4:12</a>
Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of
words, but you saw no form; only <i>you heard</i> a voice. <a name="C054V13"
id="C054V13">4:13</a> He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded
you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables
of stone. <a name="C054V14" id="C054V14">4:14</a> Yahweh commanded me at that
time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the
land where you go over to possess it. <a name="C054V15" id="C054V15">4:15</a>
Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on
the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. <a
name="C054V16" id="C054V16">4:16</a> Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make
yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male
or female, <a name="C054V17" id="C054V17">4:17</a> the likeness of any animal
that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the
sky, <a name="C054V18" id="C054V18">4:18</a> the likeness of anything that
creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under
the earth; <a name="C054V19" id="C054V19">4:19</a> and lest you lift up your
eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even
all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve
them, which Yahweh your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under the
whole sky. <a name="C054V20" id="C054V20">4:20</a> But Yahweh has taken you,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him
a people of inheritance, as at this day. <a name="C054V21" id="C054V21">4:21</a>
Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I
should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good
land, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance: <a name="C054V22"
id="C054V22">4:22</a> but I must die in this land, I must not go over the
Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land. <a name="C054V23"
id="C054V23">4:23</a> Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant
of Yahweh your Elohim, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image
in the form of anything which Yahweh your Elohim has forbidden you. <a
name="C054V24" id="C054V24">4:24</a> For Yahweh your Elohim is a devouring fire,
a jealous Elohim. <a name="C054V25" id="C054V25">4:25</a> When you shall father
children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the
land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form
of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your
Elohim, to provoke him to anger; <a name="C054V26" id="C054V26">4:26</a> I call
heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon
utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to
possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be
destroyed. <a name="C054V27" id="C054V27">4:27</a> Yahweh will scatter you
among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations,
where Yahweh shall lead you away. <a name="C054V28" id="C054V28">4:28</a>
There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. <a name="C054V29" id="C054V29">4:29</a>
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your Elohim, and you shall find him,
when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. <a
name="C054V30" id="C054V30">4:30</a> When you are in oppression, and all these
things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your
Elohim, and listen to his voice: <a name="C054V31" id="C054V31">4:31</a> for
Yahweh your Elohim is a merciful Elohim; he will not fail you, neither destroy
you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. <a
name="C054V32" id="C054V32">4:32</a> For ask now of the days that are past,
which were before you, since the day that Elohim created man on the earth,
and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been <i>any
such thing</i> as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? <a
name="C054V33" id="C054V33">4:33</a> Did ever a people hear the voice of Elohim
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? <a
name="C054V34" id="C054V34">4:34</a> Or has Elohim tried to go and take him a
nation from the midst of <i>another</i> nation, by trials, by signs, and
by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your Elohim did for you in
Egypt before your eyes? <a name="C054V35" id="C054V35">4:35</a> To you it was
shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is Elohim; there is none else
besides him. <a name="C054V36" id="C054V36">4:36</a> Out of heaven he made you
to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to
see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
<a name="C054V37" id="C054V37">4:37</a> Because he loved your fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his
presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; <a name="C054V38" id="C054V38">4:38</a>
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to
bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
<a name="C054V39" id="C054V39">4:39</a> Know therefore this day, and lay it to
your heart, that Yahweh he is Elohim in heaven above and on the earth
beneath; there is none else. <a name="C054V40" id="C054V40">4:40</a> You shall
keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day,
that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that
you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you,
forever. <a name="C054V41" id="C054V41">4:41</a> Then Moshe set apart three
cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; <a name="C054V42" id="C054V42">4:42</a>
that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he
might live: <a name="C054V43" id="C054V43">4:43</a> <i>namely</i>, Bezer in
the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in
Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. <a
name="C054V44" id="C054V44">4:44</a> This is the Torah which Moshe set before
the children of Yisrael: <a name="C054V45" id="C054V45">4:45</a> these are the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moshe spoke to
the children of Yisrael, when they came forth out of Egypt, <a name="C054V46"
id="C054V46">4:46</a> beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth
Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon,
whom Moshe and the children of Yisrael struck, when they came forth out of
Egypt. <a name="C054V47" id="C054V47">4:47</a> They took his land in
possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; <a name="C054V48"
id="C054V48">4:48</a> from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), <a name="C054V49" id="C054V49">4:49</a>
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V1" id="C055V1">5:1</a> Moshe called to all Yisrael, and said to
them, Hear, Yisrael, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your
ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. <a
name="C055V2" id="C055V2">5:2</a> Yahweh our Elohim made a covenant with us in
Horeb. <a name="C055V3" id="C055V3">5:3</a> Yahweh didn't make this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this
day. <a name="C055V4" id="C055V4">5:4</a> Yahweh spoke with you face to face
on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, <a name="C055V5" id="C055V5">5:5</a>
(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of
Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the
mountain;) saying, <a name="C055V6" id="C055V6">5:6</a> "I am Yahweh your
Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. <a name="C055V7" id="C055V7">5:7</a> You shall have no other gods
before me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V8" id="C055V8">5:8</a> "You shall not make an engraved
image for yourself, <i>nor</i> any likeness <i>of anything</i> that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth: <a name="C055V9" id="C055V9">5:9</a> you shall not bow down
yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your Elohim, am a jealous
Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the
third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; <a name="C055V10"
id="C055V10">5:10</a> and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who
love me and keep my commandments.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V11" id="C055V11">5:11</a> "You shall not take the name of
Yahweh your Elohim in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes
his name in vain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V12" id="C055V12">5:12</a> "Observe the Shabbat day, to keep
it holy, as Yahweh your Elohim commanded you. <a name="C055V13" id="C055V13">5:13</a>
You shall labor six days, and do all your work; <a name="C055V14" id="C055V14">5:14</a>
but the seventh day is a Shabbat to Yahweh your Elohim, in which you shall
not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male
servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of
your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male
servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. <a name="C055V15"
id="C055V15">5:15</a> You shall remember that you were a servant in the land
of Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of there by a mighty hand
and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your Elohim commanded you to
keep the Shabbat day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V16" id="C055V16">5:16</a> "Honor your father and your
mother, as Yahweh your Elohim commanded you; that your days may be long, and
that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V17" id="C055V17">5:17</a> "You shall not murder.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V18" id="C055V18">5:18</a> "Neither shall you commit
adultery.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V19" id="C055V19">5:19</a> "Neither shall you steal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V20" id="C055V20">5:20</a> "Neither shall you give false
testimony against your neighbor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V21" id="C055V21">5:21</a> "Neither shall you covet your
neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his
field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey,
or anything that is your neighbor's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C055V22" id="C055V22">5:22</a> These words Yahweh spoke to all your
assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and
of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote
them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. <a name="C055V23"
id="C055V23">5:23</a> It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst
of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came
near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; <a
name="C055V24" id="C055V24">5:24</a> and you said, Behold, Yahweh our Elohim has
shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of
the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that Elohim does speak with man,
and he lives. <a name="C055V25" id="C055V25">5:25</a> Now therefore why should
we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of
Yahweh our Elohim any more, then we shall die. <a name="C055V26" id="C055V26">5:26</a>
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living Elohim
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? <a
name="C055V27" id="C055V27">5:27</a> Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our
Elohim shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our Elohim shall speak to
you; and we will hear it, and do it. <a name="C055V28" id="C055V28">5:28</a>
Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh
said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they
have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken. <a
name="C055V29" id="C055V29">5:29</a> Oh that there were such a heart in them,
that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it
might be well with them, and with their children forever! <a name="C055V30"
id="C055V30">5:30</a> Go tell them, Return you to your tents. <a name="C055V31"
id="C055V31">5:31</a> But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak
to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which
you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them
to possess it. <a name="C055V32" id="C055V32">5:32</a> You shall observe to do
therefore as Yahweh your Elohim has commanded you: you shall not turn aside
to the right hand or to the left. <a name="C055V33" id="C055V33">5:33</a> You
shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your Elohim has commanded you, that
you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong
your days in the land which you shall possess.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C056V1" id="C056V1">6:1</a> Now this is the commandment, the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your Elohim commanded to teach
you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
<a name="C056V2" id="C056V2">6:2</a> that you might fear Yahweh your Elohim, to
keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and
your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your
days may be prolonged. <a name="C056V3" id="C056V3">6:3</a> Hear therefore,
Yisrael, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you
may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, has promised to
you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. <a name="C056V4" id="C056V4">6:4</a>
Hear, Yisrael: Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh is one: <a name="C056V5" id="C056V5">6:5</a>
and you shall love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your might. <a name="C056V6" id="C056V6">6:6</a> These
words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; <a name="C056V7"
id="C056V7">6:7</a> and you shall teach them diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by
the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. <a name="C056V8"
id="C056V8">6:8</a> You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they
shall be for symbols between your eyes. <a name="C056V9" id="C056V9">6:9</a>
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
<a name="C056V10" id="C056V10">6:10</a> It shall be, when Yahweh your Elohim
shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Avraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you
didn't build, <a name="C056V11" id="C056V11">6:11</a> and houses full of all
good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't
dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat
and be full; <a name="C056V12" id="C056V12">6:12</a> then beware lest you
forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. <a name="C056V13" id="C056V13">6:13</a> You shall fear
Yahweh your Elohim; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. <a
name="C056V14" id="C056V14">6:14</a> You shall not go after other gods, of the
gods of the peoples who are around you; <a name="C056V15" id="C056V15">6:15</a>
for Yahweh your Elohim in the midst of you is a jealous Elohim; lest the anger
of Yahweh your Elohim be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the
face of the earth. <a name="C056V16" id="C056V16">6:16</a> You shall not tempt
Yahweh your Elohim, as you tempted him in Massah. <a name="C056V17" id="C056V17">6:17</a>
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your Elohim, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. <a name="C056V18"
id="C056V18">6:18</a> You shall do that which is right and good in the sight
of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and
possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, <a name="C056V19"
id="C056V19">6:19</a> to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as
Yahweh has spoken. <a name="C056V20" id="C056V20">6:20</a> When your son asks
you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes,
and the ordinances, which Yahweh our Elohim has commanded you? <a name="C056V21"
id="C056V21">6:21</a> then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's
bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty
hand; <a name="C056V22" id="C056V22">6:22</a> and Yahweh showed great and
awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house,
before our eyes; <a name="C056V23" id="C056V23">6:23</a> and he brought us out
from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore
to our fathers. <a name="C056V24" id="C056V24">6:24</a> Yahweh commanded us to
do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our Elohim, for our good always, that
he might preserve us alive, as at this day. <a name="C056V25" id="C056V25">6:25</a>
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment
before Yahweh our Elohim, as he has commanded us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C057V1" id="C057V1">7:1</a> When Yahweh your Elohim shall bring you into
the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations
before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than you; <a name="C057V2" id="C057V2">7:2</a>
and when Yahweh your Elohim shall deliver them up before you, and you shall
strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; <a name="C057V3" id="C057V3">7:3</a>
neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not
give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. <a
name="C057V4" id="C057V4">7:4</a> For he will turn away your son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would
be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. <a name="C057V5"
id="C057V5">7:5</a> But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break
down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their
Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire. <a name="C057V6" id="C057V6">7:6</a>
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your Elohim: Yahweh your Elohim has chosen
you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on
the face of the earth. <a name="C057V7" id="C057V7">7:7</a> Yahweh didn't set
his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any
people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: <a name="C057V8" id="C057V8">7:8</a>
but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he
swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt. <a name="C057V9" id="C057V9">7:9</a> Know therefore that Yahweh your
Elohim, he is Elohim, the faithful Elohim, who keeps covenant and loving kindness
with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations, <a name="C057V10" id="C057V10">7:10</a> and repays those who hate
him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates
him, he will repay him to his face. <a name="C057V11" id="C057V11">7:11</a>
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them. <a name="C057V12"
id="C057V12">7:12</a> It shall happen, because you listen to these
ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your Elohim will keep with you
the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers: <a
name="C057V13" id="C057V13">7:13</a> and he will love you, and bless you, and
multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of
your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of
your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to
your fathers to give you. <a name="C057V14" id="C057V14">7:14</a> You shall be
blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among
you, or among your livestock. <a name="C057V15" id="C057V15">7:15</a> Yahweh
will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those
who hate you. <a name="C057V16" id="C057V16">7:16</a> You shall consume all
the peoples whom Yahweh your Elohim shall deliver to you; your eye shall not
pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to
you. <a name="C057V17" id="C057V17">7:17</a> If you shall say in your heart,
These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? <a name="C057V18"
id="C057V18">7:18</a> you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well
remember what Yahweh your Elohim did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; <a
name="C057V19" id="C057V19">7:19</a> the great trials which your eyes saw, and
the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm,
by which Yahweh your Elohim brought you out: so shall Yahweh your Elohim do to
all the peoples of whom you are afraid. <a name="C057V20" id="C057V20">7:20</a>
Moreover Yahweh your Elohim will send the hornet among them, until those who
are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. <a name="C057V21"
id="C057V21">7:21</a> You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your Elohim
is in the midst of you, a great and awesome Elohim. <a name="C057V22" id="C057V22">7:22</a>
Yahweh your Elohim will cast out those nations before you by little and
little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field
increase on you. <a name="C057V23" id="C057V23">7:23</a> But Yahweh your Elohim
will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great
confusion, until they be destroyed. <a name="C057V24" id="C057V24">7:24</a> He
will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to
perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you,
until you have destroyed them. <a name="C057V25" id="C057V25">7:25</a> You
shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not
covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself,
lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your Elohim. <a
name="C057V26" id="C057V26">7:26</a> You shall not bring an abomination into
your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest
it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C058V1" id="C058V1">8:1</a> You shall observe to do all the
commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply,
and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. <a
name="C058V2" id="C058V2">8:2</a> You shall remember all the way which Yahweh
your Elohim has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might
humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you
would keep his commandments, or not. <a name="C058V3" id="C058V3">8:3</a> He
humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you
didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know
that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out
of the mouth of Yahweh does man live. <a name="C058V4" id="C058V4">8:4</a>
Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these
forty years. <a name="C058V5" id="C058V5">8:5</a> You shall consider in your
heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your Elohim chastens you. <a
name="C058V6" id="C058V6">8:6</a> You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh
your Elohim, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. <a name="C058V7" id="C058V7">8:7</a>
For Yahweh your Elohim brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
<a name="C058V8" id="C058V8">8:8</a> a land of wheat and barley, and vines and
fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; <a name="C058V9"
id="C058V9">8:9</a> a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness,
you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills you may dig copper. <a name="C058V10" id="C058V10">8:10</a> You
shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your Elohim for the good
land which he has given you. <a name="C058V11" id="C058V11">8:11</a> Beware
lest you forget Yahweh your Elohim, in not keeping his commandments, and his
ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: <a name="C058V12"
id="C058V12">8:12</a> lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built
goodly houses, and lived therein; <a name="C058V13" id="C058V13">8:13</a> and
when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is
multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; <a name="C058V14" id="C058V14">8:14</a>
then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your Elohim, who brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; <a
name="C058V15" id="C058V15">8:15</a> who led you through the great and
terrible wilderness, <i>in which were</i> fiery serpents and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water
out of the rock of flint; <a name="C058V16" id="C058V16">8:16</a> who fed you
in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he
might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your
latter end: <a name="C058V17" id="C058V17">8:17</a> and <i>lest</i> you say in
your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
<a name="C058V18" id="C058V18">8:18</a> But you shall remember Yahweh your
Elohim, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish
his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. <a
name="C058V19" id="C058V19">8:19</a> It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh
your Elohim, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I
testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. <a name="C058V20"
id="C058V20">8:20</a> As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you,
so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh
your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C059V1" id="C059V1">9:1</a> Hear, Yisrael: you are to pass over the
Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than
yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, <a name="C059V2"
id="C059V2">9:2</a> a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom
you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of
Anak? <a name="C059V3" id="C059V3">9:3</a> Know therefore this day, that
Yahweh your Elohim is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he
will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall
drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to
you. <a name="C059V4" id="C059V4">9:4</a> Don't speak in your heart, after
that Yahweh your Elohim has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my
righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for
the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before
you. <a name="C059V5" id="C059V5">9:5</a> Not for your righteousness, or for
the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for
the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your Elohim does drive them out from
before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. <a name="C059V6" id="C059V6">9:6</a>
Know therefore, that Yahweh your Elohim doesn't give you this good land to
possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. <a
name="C059V7" id="C059V7">9:7</a> Remember, don't forget, how you provoked
Yahweh your Elohim to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went
forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have
been rebellious against Yahweh. <a name="C059V8" id="C059V8">9:8</a> Also in
Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to
destroy you. <a name="C059V9" id="C059V9">9:9</a> When I was gone up onto the
mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant
which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. <a name="C059V10"
id="C059V10">9:10</a> Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written
with the finger of Elohim; and on them <i>was written</i> according to all
the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly. <a name="C059V11" id="C059V11">9:11</a>
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh
gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. <a
name="C059V12" id="C059V12">9:12</a> Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down
quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of
Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the
way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. <a
name="C059V13" id="C059V13">9:13</a> Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I
have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: <a
name="C059V14" id="C059V14">9:14</a> let me alone, that I may destroy them,
and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a
nation mightier and greater than they. <a name="C059V15" id="C059V15">9:15</a>
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning
with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. <a
name="C059V16" id="C059V16">9:16</a> I looked, and behold, you had sinned
against Yahweh your Elohim; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned
aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. <a
name="C059V17" id="C059V17">9:17</a> I took hold of the two tables, and cast
them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. <a name="C059V18"
id="C059V18">9:18</a> I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days
and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all
your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. <a name="C059V19" id="C059V19">9:19</a> For I
was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry
against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. <a
name="C059V20" id="C059V20">9:20</a> Yahweh was very angry with Aharon to
destroy him: and I prayed for Aharon also at the same time. <a name="C059V21"
id="C059V21">9:21</a> I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and
burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was
as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of
the mountain. <a name="C059V22" id="C059V22">9:22</a> At Taberah, and at
Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. <a
name="C059V23" id="C059V23">9:23</a> When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea,
saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you
rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your Elohim, and you didn't
believe him, nor listen to his voice. <a name="C059V24" id="C059V24">9:24</a>
You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. <a
name="C059V25" id="C059V25">9:25</a> So I fell down before Yahweh the forty
days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would
destroy you. <a name="C059V26" id="C059V26">9:26</a> I prayed to Yahweh, and
said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that
you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out
of Egypt with a mighty hand. <a name="C059V27" id="C059V27">9:27</a> Remember
your servants, Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness
of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, <a name="C059V28"
id="C059V28">9:28</a> lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because
Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them,
and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness. <a name="C059V29" id="C059V29">9:29</a> Yet they are your people
and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by
your outstretched arm.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0510V1" id="C0510V1">10:1</a> At that time Yahweh said to me, Cut
two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain,
and make an ark of wood. <a name="C0510V2" id="C0510V2">10:2</a> I will write
on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and
you shall put them in the ark. <a name="C0510V3" id="C0510V3">10:3</a> So I
made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first,
and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. <a
name="C0510V4" id="C0510V4">10:4</a> He wrote on the tables, according to the
first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Yahweh gave them to me. <a name="C0510V5" id="C0510V5">10:5</a> I turned and
came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had
made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me. <a name="C0510V6" id="C0510V6">10:6</a>
(The children of Yisrael traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah.
There Aharon died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered
in the priest's office in his place. <a name="C0510V7" id="C0510V7">10:7</a>
From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a
land of brooks of water. <a name="C0510V8" id="C0510V8">10:8</a> At that time
Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his
name, to this day. <a name="C0510V9" id="C0510V9">10:9</a> Therefore Levi has
no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance,
according as Yahweh your Elohim spoke to him.) <a name="C0510V10" id="C0510V10">10:10</a>
I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty
nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy
you. <a name="C0510V11" id="C0510V11">10:11</a> Yahweh said to me, Arise, take
your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land,
which I swore to their fathers to give to them. <a name="C0510V12"
id="C0510V12">10:12</a> Now, Yisrael, what does Yahweh your Elohim require of
you, but to fear Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all his ways, and to love
him, and to serve Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your
soul, <a name="C0510V13" id="C0510V13">10:13</a> to keep the commandments of
Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? <a
name="C0510V14" id="C0510V14">10:14</a> Behold, to Yahweh your Elohim belongs
heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. <a
name="C0510V15" id="C0510V15">10:15</a> Only Yahweh had a delight in your
fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above
all peoples, as at this day. <a name="C0510V16" id="C0510V16">10:16</a>
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiff-necked. <a name="C0510V17" id="C0510V17">10:17</a> For Yahweh your Elohim,
he is Elohim of gods, and Lord of lords, the great Elohim, the mighty, and the
awesome, who doesn't regard persons, nor takes reward. <a name="C0510V18"
id="C0510V18">10:18</a> He does execute justice for the fatherless and
widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. <a
name="C0510V19" id="C0510V19">10:19</a> Therefore love the foreigner; for you
were foreigners in the land of Egypt. <a name="C0510V20" id="C0510V20">10:20</a>
You shall fear Yahweh your Elohim; you shall serve him; and you shall cling
to him, and you shall swear by his name. <a name="C0510V21" id="C0510V21">10:21</a>
He is your praise, and he is your Elohim, who has done for you these great
and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. <a name="C0510V22" id="C0510V22">10:22</a>
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh
your Elohim has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0511V1" id="C0511V1">11:1</a> Therefore you shall love Yahweh your
Elohim, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and
his commandments, always. <a name="C0511V2" id="C0511V2">11:2</a> Know you
this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who
have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your Elohim, his greatness, his
mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, <a name="C0511V3" id="C0511V3">11:3</a>
and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to
Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; <a name="C0511V4" id="C0511V4">11:4</a>
and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the <a href="#N053">Red Sea</a> to
overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them
to this day; <a name="C0511V5" id="C0511V5">11:5</a> and what he did to you in
the wilderness, until you came to this place; <a name="C0511V6" id="C0511V6">11:6</a>
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of
Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in
the midst of all Yisrael: <a name="C0511V7" id="C0511V7">11:7</a> but your eyes
have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did. <a name="C0511V8"
id="C0511V8">11:8</a> Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I
command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, where you go over to possess it; <a name="C0511V9" id="C0511V9">11:9</a>
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and
honey. <a name="C0511V10" id="C0511V10">11:10</a> For the land, where you go
in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out,
where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of
herbs; <a name="C0511V11" id="C0511V11">11:11</a> but the land, where you go
over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, <i>and</i> drinks
water of the rain of the sky, <a name="C0511V12" id="C0511V12">11:12</a> a
land which Yahweh your Elohim cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim are
always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
<a name="C0511V13" id="C0511V13">11:13</a> It shall happen, if you shall
listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love
Yahweh your Elohim, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your
soul, <a name="C0511V14" id="C0511V14">11:14</a> that I will give the rain of
your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may
gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. <a name="C0511V15"
id="C0511V15">11:15</a> I will give grass in your fields for your livestock,
and you shall eat and be full. <a name="C0511V16" id="C0511V16">11:16</a> Take
heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and
serve other gods, and worship them; <a name="C0511V17" id="C0511V17">11:17</a>
and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so
that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and
you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. <a
name="C0511V18" id="C0511V18">11:18</a> Therefore you shall lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign
on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. <a
name="C0511V19" id="C0511V19">11:19</a> You shall teach them your children,
talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down, and when you rise up. <a name="C0511V20" id="C0511V20">11:20</a>
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
<a name="C0511V21" id="C0511V21">11:21</a> that your days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. <a
name="C0511V22" id="C0511V22">11:22</a> For if you shall diligently keep all
this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your Elohim,
to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; <a name="C0511V23" id="C0511V23">11:23</a>
then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you
shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. <a
name="C0511V24" id="C0511V24">11:24</a> Every place whereon the sole of your
foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your
border. <a name="C0511V25" id="C0511V25">11:25</a> There shall no man be able
to stand before you: Yahweh your Elohim shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to
you. <a name="C0511V26" id="C0511V26">11:26</a> Behold, I set before you this
day a blessing and a curse: <a name="C0511V27" id="C0511V27">11:27</a> the
blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your Elohim,
which I command you this day; <a name="C0511V28" id="C0511V28">11:28</a> and
the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your Elohim,
but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which you have not known. <a name="C0511V29" id="C0511V29">11:29</a>
It shall happen, when Yahweh your Elohim shall bring you into the land where
you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim,
and the curse on Mount Ebal. <a name="C0511V30" id="C0511V30">11:30</a> Aren't
they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in
the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal,
beside the oaks of Moreh? <a name="C0511V31" id="C0511V31">11:31</a> For you
are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your
Elohim gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. <a
name="C0511V32" id="C0511V32">11:32</a> You shall observe to do all the
statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N053" id="N053">[3]</a> <a href="#C0511V4">back to 11:4</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0512V1" id="C0512V1">12:1</a> These are the statutes and the
ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the Elohim
of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live
on the earth. <a name="C0512V2" id="C0512V2">12:2</a> You shall surely destroy
all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their
gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
<a name="C0512V3" id="C0512V3">12:3</a> and you shall break down their altars,
and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and
you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall
destroy their name out of that place. <a name="C0512V4" id="C0512V4">12:4</a>
You shall not do so to Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0512V5" id="C0512V5">12:5</a>
But to the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose out of all your
tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and
there you shall come; <a name="C0512V6" id="C0512V6">12:6</a> and there you
shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes,
and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill
offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: <a
name="C0512V7" id="C0512V7">12:7</a> and there you shall eat before Yahweh
your Elohim, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and
your households, in which Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you. <a name="C0512V8"
id="C0512V8">12:8</a> You shall not do after all the things that we do here
this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; <a name="C0512V9"
id="C0512V9">12:9</a> for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you. <a name="C0512V10" id="C0512V10">12:10</a>
But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your
Elohim causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies
around you, so that you dwell in safety; <a name="C0512V11" id="C0512V11">12:11</a>
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose,
to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command
you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
<a name="C0512V12" id="C0512V12">12:12</a> You shall rejoice before Yahweh
your Elohim, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants,
and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because
he has no portion nor inheritance with you. <a name="C0512V13" id="C0512V13">12:13</a>
Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every
place that you see; <a name="C0512V14" id="C0512V14">12:14</a> but in the
place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall
offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
<a name="C0512V15" id="C0512V15">12:15</a> Notwithstanding, you may kill and
eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul,
according to the blessing of Yahweh your Elohim which he has given you: the
unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the
hart. <a name="C0512V16" id="C0512V16">12:16</a> Only you shall not eat the
blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. <a name="C0512V17"
id="C0512V17">12:17</a> You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your
grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd
or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill
offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; <a name="C0512V18" id="C0512V18">12:18</a>
but you shall eat them before Yahweh your Elohim in the place which Yahweh
your Elohim shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male
servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates:
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim in all that you put your hand
to. <a name="C0512V19" id="C0512V19">12:19</a> Take heed to yourself that you
don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. <a name="C0512V20"
id="C0512V20">12:20</a> When Yahweh your Elohim shall enlarge your border, as
he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your
soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your
soul. <a name="C0512V21" id="C0512V21">12:21</a> If the place which Yahweh
your Elohim shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then
you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you,
as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the
desire of your soul. <a name="C0512V22" id="C0512V22">12:22</a> Even as the
gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it alike. <a name="C0512V23" id="C0512V23">12:23</a> Only
be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you
shall not eat the life with the flesh. <a name="C0512V24" id="C0512V24">12:24</a>
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. <a
name="C0512V25" id="C0512V25">12:25</a> You shall not eat it; that it may go
well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that
which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. <a name="C0512V26" id="C0512V26">12:26</a>
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and
go to the place which Yahweh shall choose: <a name="C0512V27" id="C0512V27">12:27</a>
and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the
altar of Yahweh your Elohim; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured
out on the altar of Yahweh your Elohim; and you shall eat the flesh. <a
name="C0512V28" id="C0512V28">12:28</a> Observe and hear all these words which
I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0512V29" id="C0512V29">12:29</a> When Yahweh your
Elohim shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to
dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; <a
name="C0512V30" id="C0512V30">12:30</a> take heed to yourself that you not be
ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you;
and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. <a name="C0512V31" id="C0512V31">12:31</a>
You shall not do so to Yahweh your Elohim: for every abomination to Yahweh,
which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and
their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. <a name="C0512V32"
id="C0512V32">12:32</a> Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe
to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0513V1" id="C0513V1">13:1</a> If there arise in the midst of you a
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, <a
name="C0513V2" id="C0513V2">13:2</a> and the sign or the wonder come to pass,
of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you
have not known, and let us serve them; <a name="C0513V3" id="C0513V3">13:3</a>
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of
dreams: for Yahweh your Elohim proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh
your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul. <a name="C0513V4"
id="C0513V4">13:4</a> You shall walk after Yahweh your Elohim, and fear him,
and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him,
and cleave to him. <a name="C0513V5" id="C0513V5">13:5</a> That prophet, or
that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken
rebellion against Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out
of the way which Yahweh your Elohim commanded you to walk in. So you shall
put away the evil from the midst of you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0513V6" id="C0513V6">13:6</a> If your brother, the son of your
mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your
friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; <a
name="C0513V7" id="C0513V7">13:7</a> of the gods of the peoples who are around
you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth; <a name="C0513V8" id="C0513V8">13:8</a> you
shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity
him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: <a
name="C0513V9" id="C0513V9">13:9</a> but you shall surely kill him; your hand
shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all
the people. <a name="C0513V10" id="C0513V10">13:10</a> You shall stone him to
death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your
Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. <a name="C0513V11" id="C0513V11">13:11</a> All Yisrael shall hear, and
fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of
you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0513V12" id="C0513V12">13:12</a> If you shall hear tell concerning
one of your cities, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you to dwell there,
saying, <a name="C0513V13" id="C0513V13">13:13</a> Certain base fellows are
gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of
their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not
known; <a name="C0513V14" id="C0513V14">13:14</a> then you shall inquire, and
make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, <a
name="C0513V15" id="C0513V15">13:15</a> you shall surely strike the
inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the
sword. <a name="C0513V16" id="C0513V16">13:16</a> You shall gather all its
spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and
all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your Elohim: and it shall be a heap
forever; it shall not be built again. <a name="C0513V17" id="C0513V17">13:17</a>
There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh
may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have
compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; <a
name="C0513V18" id="C0513V18">13:18</a> when you shall listen to the voice of
Yahweh your Elohim, to keep all his commandments which I command you this
day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0514V1" id="C0514V1">14:1</a> You are the children of Yahweh your
Elohim: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead. <a name="C0514V2" id="C0514V2">14:2</a> For you are a holy
people to Yahweh your Elohim, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for
his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. <a
name="C0514V3" id="C0514V3">14:3</a> You shall not eat any abominable thing.
<a name="C0514V4" id="C0514V4">14:4</a> These are the animals which you may
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, <a name="C0514V5" id="C0514V5">14:5</a>
the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the
ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois. <a name="C0514V6" id="C0514V6">14:6</a>
Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, <i>and</i>
chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. <a name="C0514V7"
id="C0514V7">14:7</a> Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew
the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare,
and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they
are unclean to you. <a name="C0514V8" id="C0514V8">14:8</a> The pig, because
it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their
flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. <a
name="C0514V9" id="C0514V9">14:9</a> These you may eat of all that are in the
waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; <a name="C0514V10"
id="C0514V10">14:10</a> and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall
not eat; it is unclean to you. <a name="C0514V11" id="C0514V11">14:11</a> Of
all clean birds you may eat. <a name="C0514V12" id="C0514V12">14:12</a> But
these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and
the osprey, <a name="C0514V13" id="C0514V13">14:13</a> and the red kite, and
the falcon, and the kite after its kind, <a name="C0514V14" id="C0514V14">14:14</a>
and every raven after its kind, <a name="C0514V15" id="C0514V15">14:15</a> and
the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind, <a
name="C0514V16" id="C0514V16">14:16</a> the little owl, and the great owl, and
the horned owl, <a name="C0514V17" id="C0514V17">14:17</a> and the pelican,
and the vulture, and the cormorant, <a name="C0514V18" id="C0514V18">14:18</a>
and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
<a name="C0514V19" id="C0514V19">14:19</a> All winged creeping things are
unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. <a name="C0514V20" id="C0514V20">14:20</a>
Of all clean birds you may eat. <a name="C0514V21" id="C0514V21">14:21</a> You
shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the
foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it;
or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh
your Elohim. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. <a name="C0514V22"
id="C0514V22">14:22</a> You shall surely tithe all the increase of your
seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year. <a name="C0514V23"
id="C0514V23">14:23</a> You shall eat before Yahweh your Elohim, in the place
which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your
grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd
and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim always. <a
name="C0514V24" id="C0514V24">14:24</a> If the way is too long for you, so
that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you,
which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh
your Elohim shall bless you; <a name="C0514V25" id="C0514V25">14:25</a> then you
shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go
to the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose: <a name="C0514V26"
id="C0514V26">14:26</a> and you shall bestow the money for whatever your
soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before
Yahweh your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. <a
name="C0514V27" id="C0514V27">14:27</a> The Levite who is within your gates,
you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
<a name="C0514V28" id="C0514V28">14:28</a> At the end of every three years you
shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and
shall lay it up within your gates: <a name="C0514V29" id="C0514V29">14:29</a>
and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and
the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh
your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0515V1" id="C0515V1">15:1</a> At the end of every seven years you
shall make a release. <a name="C0515V2" id="C0515V2">15:2</a> This is the
manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent
to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother;
because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed. <a name="C0515V3" id="C0515V3">15:3</a>
Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother
your hand shall release. <a name="C0515V4" id="C0515V4">15:4</a> However there
shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land
which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) <a
name="C0515V5" id="C0515V5">15:5</a> if only you diligently listen to the
voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to observe to do all this commandment which I
command you this day. <a name="C0515V6" id="C0515V6">15:6</a> For Yahweh your
Elohim will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many
nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations,
but they shall not rule over you. <a name="C0515V7" id="C0515V7">15:7</a> If
there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your
gates in your land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you, you shall not harden
your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; <a name="C0515V8"
id="C0515V8">15:8</a> but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall
surely lend him sufficient for his need <i>in that</i> which he wants. <a
name="C0515V9" id="C0515V9">15:9</a> Beware that there not be a base thought
in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;
and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing;
and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. <a name="C0515V10"
id="C0515V10">15:10</a> You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not
be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your
Elohim will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
<a name="C0515V11" id="C0515V11">15:11</a> For the poor will never cease out
of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your
hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. <a
name="C0515V12" id="C0515V12">15:12</a> If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a
Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh
year you shall let him go free from you. <a name="C0515V13" id="C0515V13">15:13</a>
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: <a
name="C0515V14" id="C0515V14">15:14</a> you shall furnish him liberally out of
your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as
Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you, you shall give to him. <a name="C0515V15"
id="C0515V15">15:15</a> You shall remember that you were a bondservant in
the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim redeemed you: therefore I command
you this thing today. <a name="C0515V16" id="C0515V16">15:16</a> It shall be,
if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your
house, because he is well with you; <a name="C0515V17" id="C0515V17">15:17</a>
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and
he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do
likewise. <a name="C0515V18" id="C0515V18">15:18</a> It shall not seem hard to
you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a
hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your Elohim will bless you
in all that you do. <a name="C0515V19" id="C0515V19">15:19</a> All the
firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall
sanctify to Yahweh your Elohim: you shall do no work with the firstborn of
your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. <a name="C0515V20"
id="C0515V20">15:20</a> You shall eat it before Yahweh your Elohim year by year
in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household. <a
name="C0515V21" id="C0515V21">15:21</a> If it have any blemish, <i>as if it be</i>
lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0515V22" id="C0515V22">15:22</a> You shall eat it
within your gates: the unclean and the clean <i>shall eat it</i> alike, as
the gazelle, and as the hart. <a name="C0515V23" id="C0515V23">15:23</a> Only
you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0516V1" id="C0516V1">16:1</a> Observe the month of Abib, and keep
the Passover to Yahweh your Elohim; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your Elohim
brought you forth out of Egypt by night. <a name="C0516V2" id="C0516V2">16:2</a>
You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your Elohim, of the flock and the
herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. <a name="C0516V3" id="C0516V3">16:3</a> You shall eat no leavened bread
with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread
of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that
you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all
the days of your life. <a name="C0516V4" id="C0516V4">16:4</a> There shall be
no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any
of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night
until the morning. <a name="C0516V5" id="C0516V5">16:5</a> You may not
sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your Elohim
gives you; <a name="C0516V6" id="C0516V6">16:6</a> but at the place which
Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you
shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
season that you came forth out of Egypt. <a name="C0516V7" id="C0516V7">16:7</a>
You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall
choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents. <a
name="C0516V8" id="C0516V8">16:8</a> Six days you shall eat unleavened bread;
and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your Elohim; you
shall do no work <i>therein</i>. <a name="C0516V9" id="C0516V9">16:9</a> You
shall count seven weeks to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle
to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks. <a
name="C0516V10" id="C0516V10">16:10</a> You shall keep the feast of weeks to
Yahweh your Elohim with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which
you shall give, according as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you: <a name="C0516V11"
id="C0516V11">16:11</a> and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim, you,
and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female
servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and
the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place
which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. <a
name="C0516V12" id="C0516V12">16:12</a> You shall remember that you were a
bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes. <a
name="C0516V13" id="C0516V13">16:13</a> You shall keep the feast of tents
seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and
from your winepress: <a name="C0516V14" id="C0516V14">16:14</a> and you shall
rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male
servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and
the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates. <a name="C0516V15"
id="C0516V15">16:15</a> You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your Elohim seven days
in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your Elohim will bless
you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall
be altogether joyful. <a name="C0516V16" id="C0516V16">16:16</a> Three times
in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place
which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast
of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before
Yahweh empty: <a name="C0516V17" id="C0516V17">16:17</a> every man shall give
as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your Elohim which he has
given you. <a name="C0516V18" id="C0516V18">16:18</a> You shall make judges
and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you, according
to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
<a name="C0516V19" id="C0516V19">16:19</a> You shall not wrest justice: you
shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe
does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
<a name="C0516V20" id="C0516V20">16:20</a> You shall follow that which is
altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your
Elohim gives you. <a name="C0516V21" id="C0516V21">16:21</a> You shall not plant
you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your Elohim,
which you shall make you. <a name="C0516V22" id="C0516V22">16:22</a> Neither
shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your Elohim hates.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0517V1" id="C0517V1">17:1</a> You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your
Elohim an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, <i>or</i> anything evil; for
that is an abomination to Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0517V2" id="C0517V2">17:2</a>
If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which
Yahweh your Elohim gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in
the sight of Yahweh your Elohim, in transgressing his covenant, <a
name="C0517V3" id="C0517V3">17:3</a> and has gone and served other gods, and
worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky,
which I have not commanded; <a name="C0517V4" id="C0517V4">17:4</a> and it be
told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and
behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
done in Yisrael, <a name="C0517V5" id="C0517V5">17:5</a> then you shall bring
forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates,
even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
<a name="C0517V6" id="C0517V6">17:6</a> At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of
one witness he shall not be put to death. <a name="C0517V7" id="C0517V7">17:7</a>
The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from
the midst of you. <a name="C0517V8" id="C0517V8">17:8</a> If there arise a
matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea
and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy
within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which
Yahweh your Elohim shall choose; <a name="C0517V9" id="C0517V9">17:9</a> and you
shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in
those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of
judgment. <a name="C0517V10" id="C0517V10">17:10</a> You shall do according to
the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which
Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that
they shall teach you: <a name="C0517V11" id="C0517V11">17:11</a> according to
the tenor of the Torah which they shall teach you, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside
from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the
left. <a name="C0517V12" id="C0517V12">17:12</a> The man who does
presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister
there before Yahweh your Elohim, or to the judge, even that man shall die:
and you shall put away the evil from Yisrael. <a name="C0517V13" id="C0517V13">17:13</a>
All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. <a
name="C0517V14" id="C0517V14">17:14</a> When you are come to the land which
Yahweh your Elohim gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein,
and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are
around me; <a name="C0517V15" id="C0517V15">17:15</a> you shall surely set him
king over you, whom Yahweh your Elohim shall choose: one from among your
brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over
you, who is not your brother. <a name="C0517V16" id="C0517V16">17:16</a> Only
he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to
you, You shall henceforth return no more that way. <a name="C0517V17"
id="C0517V17">17:17</a> Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his
heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver
and gold. <a name="C0517V18" id="C0517V18">17:18</a> It shall be, when he sits
on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this Torah
in a book, out of <i>that which is</i> before the priests the Levites: <a
name="C0517V19" id="C0517V19">17:19</a> and it shall be with him, and he shall
read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh
his Elohim, to keep all the words of this Torah and these statutes, to do them;
<a name="C0517V20" id="C0517V20">17:20</a> that his heart not be lifted up
above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to
the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0518V1" id="C0518V1">18:1</a> The priests the Levites, <i>even</i>
all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Yisrael:
they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.
<a name="C0518V2" id="C0518V2">18:2</a> They shall have no inheritance among
their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. <a
name="C0518V3" id="C0518V3">18:3</a> This shall be the priests' due from the
people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that
they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the
maw. <a name="C0518V4" id="C0518V4">18:4</a> The first fruits of your grain,
of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your
sheep, you shall give him. <a name="C0518V5" id="C0518V5">18:5</a> For Yahweh
your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in
the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever. <a name="C0518V6" id="C0518V6">18:6</a>
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Yisrael, where he lives
as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place
which Yahweh shall choose; <a name="C0518V7" id="C0518V7">18:7</a> then he
shall minister in the name of Yahweh his Elohim, as all his brothers the
Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh. <a name="C0518V8" id="C0518V8">18:8</a>
They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale
of his patrimony. <a name="C0518V9" id="C0518V9">18:9</a> When you are come
into the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you, you shall not learn to do
after the abominations of those nations. <a name="C0518V10" id="C0518V10">18:10</a>
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices
sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, <a name="C0518V11" id="C0518V11">18:11</a>
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. <a name="C0518V12" id="C0518V12">18:12</a> For whoever does these
things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations
Yahweh your Elohim does drive them out from before you. <a name="C0518V13"
id="C0518V13">18:13</a> You shall be perfect with Yahweh your Elohim. <a
name="C0518V14" id="C0518V14">18:14</a> For these nations, that you shall
dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as
for you, Yahweh your Elohim has not allowed you so to do. <a name="C0518V15"
id="C0518V15">18:15</a> Yahweh your Elohim will raise up to you a prophet from
the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. <a
name="C0518V16" id="C0518V16">18:16</a> This is according to all that you
desired of Yahweh your Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my Elohim, neither let me see this
great fire any more, that I not die. <a name="C0518V17" id="C0518V17">18:17</a>
Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. <a
name="C0518V18" id="C0518V18">18:18</a> I will raise them up a prophet from
among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and
he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. <a name="C0518V19"
id="C0518V19">18:19</a> It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my
words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. <a
name="C0518V20" id="C0518V20">18:20</a> But the prophet, who shall speak a
word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
<a name="C0518V21" id="C0518V21">18:21</a> If you say in your heart, How shall
we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? <a name="C0518V22" id="C0518V22">18:22</a>
when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow,
nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has
spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0519V1" id="C0519V1">19:1</a> When Yahweh your Elohim shall cut off the
nations, whose land Yahweh your Elohim gives you, and you succeed them, and
dwell in their cities, and in their houses; <a name="C0519V2" id="C0519V2">19:2</a>
you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which
Yahweh your Elohim gives you to possess it. <a name="C0519V3" id="C0519V3">19:3</a>
You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which
Yahweh your Elohim causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every
manslayer may flee there. <a name="C0519V4" id="C0519V4">19:4</a> This is the
case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his
neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; <a name="C0519V5"
id="C0519V5">19:5</a> as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor
to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the
tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so
that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live: <a
name="C0519V6" id="C0519V6">19:6</a> lest the avenger of blood pursue the
manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death,
inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past. <a name="C0519V7" id="C0519V7">19:7</a>
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
<a name="C0519V8" id="C0519V8">19:8</a> If Yahweh your Elohim enlarge your
border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which
he promised to give to your fathers; <a name="C0519V9" id="C0519V9">19:9</a>
if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this
day, to love Yahweh your Elohim, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall
add three cities more for you, besides these three: <a name="C0519V10"
id="C0519V10">19:10</a> that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your
land, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be
on you. <a name="C0519V11" id="C0519V11">19:11</a> But if any man hate his
neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him
mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities; <a
name="C0519V12" id="C0519V12">19:12</a> then the elders of his city shall send
and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die. <a name="C0519V13" id="C0519V13">19:13</a> Your eye
shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Yisrael,
that it may go well with you. <a name="C0519V14" id="C0519V14">19:14</a> You
shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have
set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh
your Elohim gives you to possess it. <a name="C0519V15" id="C0519V15">19:15</a>
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. <a name="C0519V16"
id="C0519V16">19:16</a> If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to
testify against him of wrong-doing, <a name="C0519V17" id="C0519V17">19:17</a>
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before
Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; <a
name="C0519V18" id="C0519V18">19:18</a> and the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has
testified falsely against his brother; <a name="C0519V19" id="C0519V19">19:19</a>
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you
shall put away the evil from the midst of you. <a name="C0519V20" id="C0519V20">19:20</a>
Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more
any such evil in the midst of you. <a name="C0519V21" id="C0519V21">19:21</a>
Your eyes shall not pity; life <i>shall go</i> for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0520V1" id="C0520V1">20:1</a> When you go forth to battle against
your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, <i>and</i> a people more than
you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your Elohim is with you, who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C0520V2" id="C0520V2">20:2</a>
It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall
approach and speak to the people, <a name="C0520V3" id="C0520V3">20:3</a> and
shall tell them, Hear, Yisrael, you draw near this day to battle against
your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble,
neither be scared of them; <a name="C0520V4" id="C0520V4">20:4</a> for Yahweh
your Elohim is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies,
to save you. <a name="C0520V5" id="C0520V5">20:5</a> The officers shall speak
to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and
has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man dedicate it. <a name="C0520V6" id="C0520V6">20:6</a>
What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit?
let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man use its fruit. <a name="C0520V7" id="C0520V7">20:7</a> What man is there
who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take
her. <a name="C0520V8" id="C0520V8">20:8</a> The officers shall speak further
to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and
faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's
heart melt as his heart. <a name="C0520V9" id="C0520V9">20:9</a> It shall be,
when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they
shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people. <a
name="C0520V10" id="C0520V10">20:10</a> When you draw near to a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace to it. <a name="C0520V11" id="C0520V11">20:11</a>
It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it
shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary
to you, and shall serve you. <a name="C0520V12" id="C0520V12">20:12</a> If it
will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall
besiege it: <a name="C0520V13" id="C0520V13">20:13</a> and when Yahweh your
Elohim delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the
edge of the sword: <a name="C0520V14" id="C0520V14">20:14</a> but the women,
and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even
all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your Elohim has given you. <a
name="C0520V15" id="C0520V15">20:15</a> Thus you shall do to all the cities
which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these
nations. <a name="C0520V16" id="C0520V16">20:16</a> But of the cities of these
peoples, that Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance, you shall save
alive nothing that breathes; <a name="C0520V17" id="C0520V17">20:17</a> but
you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your
Elohim has commanded you; <a name="C0520V18" id="C0520V18">20:18</a> that they
not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to
their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0520V19"
id="C0520V19">20:19</a> When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making
war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an
axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them
down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
<a name="C0520V20" id="C0520V20">20:20</a> Only the trees of which you know
that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and
you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until
it fall.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0521V1" id="C0521V1">21:1</a> If one be found slain in the land
which Yahweh your Elohim gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it
isn't known who has struck him; <a name="C0521V2" id="C0521V2">21:2</a> then
your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to
the cities which are around him who is slain: <a name="C0521V3" id="C0521V3">21:3</a>
and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the
elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been
worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; <a name="C0521V4"
id="C0521V4">21:4</a> and the elders of that city shall bring down the
heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown,
and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. <a name="C0521V5"
id="C0521V5">21:5</a> The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them
Yahweh your Elohim has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of
Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be. <a name="C0521V6" id="C0521V6">21:6</a> All the elders of that
city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the
heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; <a name="C0521V7" id="C0521V7">21:7</a>
and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen it. <a name="C0521V8" id="C0521V8">21:8</a> Forgive,
Yahweh, your people Yisrael, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow
innocent blood <i>to remain</i> in the midst of your people Yisrael. The
blood shall be forgiven them. <a name="C0521V9" id="C0521V9">21:9</a> So you
shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do
that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. <a name="C0521V10" id="C0521V10">21:10</a>
When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your Elohim
delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, <a
name="C0521V11" id="C0521V11">21:11</a> and see among the captives a beautiful
woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; <a
name="C0521V12" id="C0521V12">21:12</a> then you shall bring her home to your
house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; <a name="C0521V13"
id="C0521V13">21:13</a> and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from
off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife. <a name="C0521V14" id="C0521V14">21:14</a>
It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go
where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not
deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. <a name="C0521V15"
id="C0521V15">21:15</a> If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the
other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the
hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; <a name="C0521V16"
id="C0521V16">21:16</a> then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons
to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved
the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: <a
name="C0521V17" id="C0521V17">21:17</a> but he shall acknowledge the
firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all
that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his. <a name="C0521V18" id="C0521V18">21:18</a> If a man have a
stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or
the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to
them; <a name="C0521V19" id="C0521V19">21:19</a> then shall his father and his
mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and
to the gate of his place; <a name="C0521V20" id="C0521V20">21:20</a> and they
shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
<a name="C0521V21" id="C0521V21">21:21</a> All the men of his city shall stone
him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of
you; and all Yisrael shall hear, and fear. <a name="C0521V22" id="C0521V22">21:22</a>
If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and
you hang him on a tree; <a name="C0521V23" id="C0521V23">21:23</a> his body
shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the
same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of Elohim; that you don't defile
your land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0522V1" id="C0522V1">22:1</a> You shall not see your brother's ox or
his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring
them again to your brother. <a name="C0522V2" id="C0522V2">22:2</a> If your
brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring
it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek
after it, and you shall restore it to him. <a name="C0522V3" id="C0522V3">22:3</a>
So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and
so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has
lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. <a name="C0522V4"
id="C0522V4">22:4</a> You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox
fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help
him to lift them up again. <a name="C0522V5" id="C0522V5">22:5</a> A woman
shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's
clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your
Elohim. <a name="C0522V6" id="C0522V6">22:6</a> If a bird's nest chance to be
before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or
eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take
the hen with the young: <a name="C0522V7" id="C0522V7">22:7</a> you shall
surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may
be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. <a name="C0522V8"
id="C0522V8">22:8</a> When you build a new house, then you shall make a
battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any
man fall from there. <a name="C0522V9" id="C0522V9">22:9</a> You shall not sow
your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited,
the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. <a
name="C0522V10" id="C0522V10">22:10</a> You shall not plow with an ox and a
donkey together. <a name="C0522V11" id="C0522V11">22:11</a> You shall not wear
a mixed stuff, wool and linen together. <a name="C0522V12" id="C0522V12">22:12</a>
You shall make yourselves <a href="#N054">fringes</a> on the four borders of
your cloak, with which you cover yourself. <a name="C0522V13" id="C0522V13">22:13</a>
If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, <a
name="C0522V14" id="C0522V14">22:14</a> and accuses her of shameful things,
and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I
came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity; <a
name="C0522V15" id="C0522V15">22:15</a> then shall the father of the young
lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's
virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; <a name="C0522V16"
id="C0522V16">22:16</a> and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I
gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; <a name="C0522V17"
id="C0522V17">22:17</a> and behold, he has accused her of shameful things,
saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet
these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city. <a name="C0522V18" id="C0522V18">22:18</a>
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; <a
name="C0522V19" id="C0522V19">22:19</a> and they shall fine him one hundred <i>shekels</i>
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has
brought up an evil name on a virgin of Yisrael: and she shall be his wife;
he may not put her away all his days. <a name="C0522V20" id="C0522V20">22:20</a>
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in
the young lady; <a name="C0522V21" id="C0522V21">22:21</a> then they shall
bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of
her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly
in Yisrael, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put
away the evil from the midst of you. <a name="C0522V22" id="C0522V22">22:22</a>
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall
both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you
shall put away the evil from Yisrael. <a name="C0522V23" id="C0522V23">22:23</a>
If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a
husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; <a name="C0522V24"
id="C0522V24">22:24</a> then you shall bring them both out to the gate of
that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady,
because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has
humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst
of you. <a name="C0522V25" id="C0522V25">22:25</a> But if the man find the
lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and
lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: <a
name="C0522V26" id="C0522V26">22:26</a> but to the lady you shall do nothing;
there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises
against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; <a
name="C0522V27" id="C0522V27">22:27</a> for he found her in the field, the
pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her. <a
name="C0522V28" id="C0522V28">22:28</a> If a man find a lady who is a virgin,
who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her,
and they be found; <a name="C0522V29" id="C0522V29">22:29</a> then the man who
lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty <i>shekels</i> of
silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not
put her away all his days. <a name="C0522V30" id="C0522V30">22:30</a> A man
shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's
skirt.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N054" id="N054">[4]</a> <a href="#C0522V12">back to 22:12</a> or,
tassles
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0523V1" id="C0523V1">23:1</a> He who is wounded in the stones, or
has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
<a name="C0523V2" id="C0523V2">23:2</a> A bastard shall not enter into the
assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter
into the assembly of Yahweh. <a name="C0523V3" id="C0523V3">23:3</a> An
Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to
the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly
of Yahweh forever: <a name="C0523V4" id="C0523V4">23:4</a> because they didn't
meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of
Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from
Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. <a name="C0523V5" id="C0523V5">23:5</a>
Nevertheless Yahweh your Elohim wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your
Elohim turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your Elohim loved
you. <a name="C0523V6" id="C0523V6">23:6</a> You shall not seek their peace
nor their prosperity all your days forever. <a name="C0523V7" id="C0523V7">23:7</a>
You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not
abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. <a
name="C0523V8" id="C0523V8">23:8</a> The children of the third generation who
are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh. <a name="C0523V9"
id="C0523V9">23:9</a> When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then
you shall keep you from every evil thing. <a name="C0523V10" id="C0523V10">23:10</a>
If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which
happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall
not come within the camp: <a name="C0523V11" id="C0523V11">23:11</a> but it
shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when
the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. <a name="C0523V12"
id="C0523V12">23:12</a> You shall have a place also outside of the camp,
where you shall go forth abroad: <a name="C0523V13" id="C0523V13">23:13</a>
and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you
sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover
that which comes from you: <a name="C0523V14" id="C0523V14">23:14</a> for
Yahweh your Elohim walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to
give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that
he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. <a
name="C0523V15" id="C0523V15">23:15</a> You shall not deliver to his master a
servant who is escaped from his master to you: <a name="C0523V16" id="C0523V16">23:16</a>
he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall
choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not
oppress him. <a name="C0523V17" id="C0523V17">23:17</a> There shall be no
prostitute of the daughters of Yisrael, neither shall there be a sodomite
of the sons of Yisrael. <a name="C0523V18" id="C0523V18">23:18</a> You shall
not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house
of Yahweh your Elohim for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0523V19" id="C0523V19">23:19</a> You shall not lend
on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest
of anything that is lent on interest: <a name="C0523V20" id="C0523V20">23:20</a>
to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not
lend on interest, that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in all that you put
your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. <a name="C0523V21"
id="C0523V21">23:21</a> When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your Elohim, you
shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your Elohim will surely require it
of you; and it would be sin in you. <a name="C0523V22" id="C0523V22">23:22</a>
But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. <a
name="C0523V23" id="C0523V23">23:23</a> That which is gone out of your lips
you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your Elohim,
a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth. <a
name="C0523V24" id="C0523V24">23:24</a> When you come into your neighbor's
vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but
you shall not put any in your vessel. <a name="C0523V25" id="C0523V25">23:25</a>
When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the
ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's
standing grain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0524V1" id="C0524V1">24:1</a> When a man takes a wife, and marries
her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has
found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a
name="C0524V2" id="C0524V2">24:2</a> When she is departed out of his house,
she may go and be another man's <i>wife</i>. <a name="C0524V3" id="C0524V3">24:3</a>
If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give
it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband
die, who took her to be his wife; <a name="C0524V4" id="C0524V4">24:4</a> her
former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you
shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an
inheritance. <a name="C0524V5" id="C0524V5">24:5</a> When a man takes a new
wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any
business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom
he has taken. <a name="C0524V6" id="C0524V6">24:6</a> No man shall take the
mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes <i>a man's</i> life to
pledge. <a name="C0524V7" id="C0524V7">24:7</a> If a man be found stealing any
of his brothers of the children of Yisrael, and he deal with him as a
slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the
evil from the midst of you. <a name="C0524V8" id="C0524V8">24:8</a> Take heed
in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to
all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so
you shall observe to do. <a name="C0524V9" id="C0524V9">24:9</a> Remember what
Yahweh your Elohim did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
<a name="C0524V10" id="C0524V10">24:10</a> When you do lend your neighbor any
manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. <a
name="C0524V11" id="C0524V11">24:11</a> You shall stand outside, and the man
to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. <a
name="C0524V12" id="C0524V12">24:12</a> If he be a poor man, you shall not
sleep with his pledge; <a name="C0524V13" id="C0524V13">24:13</a> you shall
surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep
in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0524V14" id="C0524V14">24:14</a> You shall not
oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your
brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates: <a
name="C0524V15" id="C0524V15">24:15</a> in his day you shall give him his
hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his
heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you. <a
name="C0524V16" id="C0524V16">24:16</a> The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the
fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. <a name="C0524V17"
id="C0524V17">24:17</a> You shall not wrest the justice <i>due</i> to the
foreigner, <i>or</i> to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to
pledge; <a name="C0524V18" id="C0524V18">24:18</a> but you shall remember that
you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim redeemed you there:
therefore I command you to do this thing. <a name="C0524V19" id="C0524V19">24:19</a>
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the
field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner,
for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you
in all the work of your hands. <a name="C0524V20" id="C0524V20">24:20</a> When
you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall
be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. <a
name="C0524V21" id="C0524V21">24:21</a> When you gather <i>the grapes of</i>
your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the
foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. <a name="C0524V22"
id="C0524V22">24:22</a> You shall remember that you were a bondservant in
the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0525V1" id="C0525V1">25:1</a> If there be a controversy between men,
and they come to judgment, and <i>the judges</i> judge them; then they
shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; <a name="C0525V2"
id="C0525V2">25:2</a> and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be
beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten
before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. <a name="C0525V3"
id="C0525V3">25:3</a> Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed;
lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,
then your brother should seem vile to you. <a name="C0525V4" id="C0525V4">25:4</a>
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out <i>the grain</i>. <a
name="C0525V5" id="C0525V5">25:5</a> If brothers dwell together, and one of
them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married
outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take
her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. <a
name="C0525V6" id="C0525V6">25:6</a> It shall be, that the firstborn whom she
bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name
not be blotted out of Yisrael. <a name="C0525V7" id="C0525V7">25:7</a> If the
man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall
go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to
raise up to his brother a name in Yisrael; he will not perform the duty of
a husband's brother to me. <a name="C0525V8" id="C0525V8">25:8</a> Then the
elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and
say, I don't want to take her; <a name="C0525V9" id="C0525V9">25:9</a> then
his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and
loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall
answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his
brother's house. <a name="C0525V10" id="C0525V10">25:10</a> His name shall be
called in Yisrael, The house of him who has his shoe untied. <a
name="C0525V11" id="C0525V11">25:11</a> When men strive together one with
another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of
the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by
the secrets; <a name="C0525V12" id="C0525V12">25:12</a> then you shall cut off
her hand, your eye shall have no pity. <a name="C0525V13" id="C0525V13">25:13</a>
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. <a
name="C0525V14" id="C0525V14">25:14</a> You shall not have in your house
diverse measures, a great and a small. <a name="C0525V15" id="C0525V15">25:15</a>
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and
just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your Elohim
gives you. <a name="C0525V16" id="C0525V16">25:16</a> For all who do such
things, <i>even</i> all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh
your Elohim. <a name="C0525V17" id="C0525V17">25:17</a> Remember what Amalek did
to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; <a name="C0525V18"
id="C0525V18">25:18</a> how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost
of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and
he didn't fear Elohim. <a name="C0525V19" id="C0525V19">25:19</a> Therefore it
shall be, when Yahweh your Elohim has given you rest from all your enemies
all around, in the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance
to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the
sky; you shall not forget.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0526V1" id="C0526V1">26:1</a> It shall be, when you are come in to
the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you for an inheritance, and possess
it, and dwell therein, <a name="C0526V2" id="C0526V2">26:2</a> that you shall
take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in
from your land that Yahweh your Elohim gives you; and you shall put it in a
basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there. <a name="C0526V3" id="C0526V3">26:3</a> You
shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I
profess this day to Yahweh your Elohim, that I am come to the land which
Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us. <a name="C0526V4" id="C0526V4">26:4</a>
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before
the altar of Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0526V5" id="C0526V5">26:5</a> You
shall answer and say before Yahweh your Elohim, A Syrian ready to perish was
my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in
number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. <a
name="C0526V6" id="C0526V6">26:6</a> The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and
afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: <a name="C0526V7" id="C0526V7">26:7</a>
and we cried to Yahweh, the Elohim of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our
voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; <a
name="C0526V8" id="C0526V8">26:8</a> and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror,
and with signs, and with wonders; <a name="C0526V9" id="C0526V9">26:9</a> and
he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey. <a name="C0526V10" id="C0526V10">26:10</a> Now,
behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you,
Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your Elohim, and
worship before Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0526V11" id="C0526V11">26:11</a> You
shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your Elohim has given to you, and
to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst
of you. <a name="C0526V12" id="C0526V12">26:12</a> When you have made an end
of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the
year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner,
to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates,
and be filled. <a name="C0526V13" id="C0526V13">26:13</a> You shall say before
Yahweh your Elohim, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also
have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless,
and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have
commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither
have I forgotten them: <a name="C0526V14" id="C0526V14">26:14</a> I have not
eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean,
nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my
Elohim; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. <a
name="C0526V15" id="C0526V15">26:15</a> Look down from your holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless your people Yisrael, and the ground which you have
given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
<a name="C0526V16" id="C0526V16">26:16</a> This day Yahweh your Elohim commands
you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do
them with all your heart, and with all your soul. <a name="C0526V17"
id="C0526V17">26:17</a> You have declared Yahweh this day to be your Elohim,
and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: <a name="C0526V18"
id="C0526V18">26:18</a> and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people
for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep
all his commandments; <a name="C0526V19" id="C0526V19">26:19</a> and to make
you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and
in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your Elohim, as he has
spoken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0527V1" id="C0527V1">27:1</a> Moshe and the elders of Yisrael
commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you
this day. <a name="C0527V2" id="C0527V2">27:2</a> It shall be on the day when
you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives
you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with
plaster: <a name="C0527V3" id="C0527V3">27:3</a> and you shall write on them
all the words of this Torah, when you are passed over; that you may go in to
the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, as Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, has promised you. <a
name="C0527V4" id="C0527V4">27:4</a> It shall be, when you are passed over the
Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day,
in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. <a name="C0527V5"
id="C0527V5">27:5</a> There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your Elohim, an
altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron <i>tool</i> on them. <a
name="C0527V6" id="C0527V6">27:6</a> You shall build the altar of Yahweh your
Elohim of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh
your Elohim: <a name="C0527V7" id="C0527V7">27:7</a> and you shall sacrifice
peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your Elohim. <a name="C0527V8" id="C0527V8">27:8</a> You shall write on the
stones all the words of this Torah very plainly. <a name="C0527V9" id="C0527V9">27:9</a>
Moshe and the priests the Levites spoke to all Yisrael, saying, Keep
silence, and listen, Yisrael: this day you are become the people of Yahweh
your Elohim. <a name="C0527V10" id="C0527V10">27:10</a> You shall therefore obey
the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, and do his commandments and his statutes,
which I command you this day. <a name="C0527V11" id="C0527V11">27:11</a> Moshe
commanded the people the same day, saying, <a name="C0527V12" id="C0527V12">27:12</a>
These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are
passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Yehudah, and Issachar, and
Joseph, and Benjamin. <a name="C0527V13" id="C0527V13">27:13</a> These shall
stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun,
Dan, and Naphtali. <a name="C0527V14" id="C0527V14">27:14</a> The Levites
shall answer, and tell all the men of Yisrael with a loud voice, <a
name="C0527V15" id="C0527V15">27:15</a> Cursed be the man who makes an
engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands
of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer
and say, Amen. <a name="C0527V16" id="C0527V16">27:16</a> Cursed be he who
sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. <a
name="C0527V17" id="C0527V17">27:17</a> Cursed be he who removes his
neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V18"
id="C0527V18">27:18</a> Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of
the way. All the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V19" id="C0527V19">27:19</a>
Cursed be he who wrests the justice <i>due</i> to the foreigner,
fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V20"
id="C0527V20">27:20</a> Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife,
because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say,
Amen. <a name="C0527V21" id="C0527V21">27:21</a> Cursed be he who lies with
any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V22"
id="C0527V22">27:22</a> Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter
of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say,
Amen. <a name="C0527V23" id="C0527V23">27:23</a> Cursed be he who lies with
his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V24"
id="C0527V24">27:24</a> Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All
the people shall say, Amen. <a name="C0527V25" id="C0527V25">27:25</a> Cursed
be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall
say, Amen. <a name="C0527V26" id="C0527V26">27:26</a> Cursed be he who doesn't
confirm the words of this Torah to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0528V1" id="C0528V1">28:1</a> It shall happen, if you shall listen
diligently to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to observe to do all his
commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your Elohim will set
you on high above all the nations of the earth: <a name="C0528V2" id="C0528V2">28:2</a>
and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall
listen to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0528V3" id="C0528V3">28:3</a>
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
<a name="C0528V4" id="C0528V4">28:4</a> You shall be blessed in the fruit of
your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the
increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. <a name="C0528V5"
id="C0528V5">28:5</a> Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
<a name="C0528V6" id="C0528V6">28:6</a> You shall be blessed when you come in,
and you shall be blessed when you go out. <a name="C0528V7" id="C0528V7">28:7</a>
Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before
you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you
seven ways. <a name="C0528V8" id="C0528V8">28:8</a> Yahweh will command the
blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and
he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you. <a
name="C0528V9" id="C0528V9">28:9</a> Yahweh will establish you for a holy
people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the
commandments of Yahweh your Elohim, and walk in his ways. <a name="C0528V10"
id="C0528V10">28:10</a> All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are
called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. <a
name="C0528V11" id="C0528V11">28:11</a> Yahweh will make you plenteous for
good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and
in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give you. <a name="C0528V12" id="C0528V12">28:12</a> Yahweh will
open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in
its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to
many nations, and you shall not borrow. <a name="C0528V13" id="C0528V13">28:13</a>
Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above
only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the
commandments of Yahweh your Elohim, which I command you this day, to observe
and to do <i>them</i>, <a name="C0528V14" id="C0528V14">28:14</a> and shall
not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the
right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. <a
name="C0528V15" id="C0528V15">28:15</a> But it shall come to pass, if you will
not listen to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these
curses shall come on you, and overtake you. <a name="C0528V16" id="C0528V16">28:16</a>
You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. <a
name="C0528V17" id="C0528V17">28:17</a> Your basket and your kneading trough
shall be cursed. <a name="C0528V18" id="C0528V18">28:18</a> The fruit of your
body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the
young of your flock shall be cursed. <a name="C0528V19" id="C0528V19">28:19</a>
You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go
out. <a name="C0528V20" id="C0528V20">28:20</a> Yahweh will send on you
cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until
you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of
your doings, by which you have forsaken me. <a name="C0528V21" id="C0528V21">28:21</a>
Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has consumed you
from off the land, where you go in to possess it. <a name="C0528V22"
id="C0528V22">28:22</a> Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with
fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and
with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
<a name="C0528V23" id="C0528V23">28:23</a> Your sky that is over your head
shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. <a
name="C0528V24" id="C0528V24">28:24</a> Yahweh will make the rain of your land
powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are
destroyed. <a name="C0528V25" id="C0528V25">28:25</a> Yahweh will cause you to
be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and
shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth
among all the kingdoms of the earth. <a name="C0528V26" id="C0528V26">28:26</a>
Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals
of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. <a
name="C0528V27" id="C0528V27">28:27</a> Yahweh will strike you with the boil
of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of
which you can not be healed. <a name="C0528V28" id="C0528V28">28:28</a> Yahweh
will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of
heart; <a name="C0528V29" id="C0528V29">28:29</a> and you shall grope at
noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in
your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there
shall be none to save you. <a name="C0528V30" id="C0528V30">28:30</a> You
shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build
a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and
shall not use its fruit. <a name="C0528V31" id="C0528V31">28:31</a> Your ox
shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey
shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be
restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall
have none to save you. <a name="C0528V32" id="C0528V32">28:32</a> Your sons
and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall
look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be
nothing in the power of your hand. <a name="C0528V33" id="C0528V33">28:33</a>
The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you
don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; <a
name="C0528V34" id="C0528V34">28:34</a> so that you shall be mad for the sight
of your eyes which you shall see. <a name="C0528V35" id="C0528V35">28:35</a>
Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of
which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of
your head. <a name="C0528V36" id="C0528V36">28:36</a> Yahweh will bring you,
and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not
known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood
and stone. <a name="C0528V37" id="C0528V37">28:37</a> You shall become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh
shall lead you away. <a name="C0528V38" id="C0528V38">28:38</a> You shall
carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the
locust shall consume it. <a name="C0528V39" id="C0528V39">28:39</a> You shall
plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine,
nor gather <i>the grapes</i>; for the worm shall eat them. <a name="C0528V40"
id="C0528V40">28:40</a> You shall have olive trees throughout all your
borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive
shall cast <i>its fruit</i>. <a name="C0528V41" id="C0528V41">28:41</a> You
shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they
shall go into captivity. <a name="C0528V42" id="C0528V42">28:42</a> All your
trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. <a
name="C0528V43" id="C0528V43">28:43</a> The foreigner who is in the midst of
you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down
lower and lower. <a name="C0528V44" id="C0528V44">28:44</a> He shall lend to
you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be
the tail. <a name="C0528V45" id="C0528V45">28:45</a> All these curses shall
come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are
destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: <a
name="C0528V46" id="C0528V46">28:46</a> and they shall be on you for a sign
and for a wonder, and on your seed forever. <a name="C0528V47" id="C0528V47">28:47</a>
Because you didn't serve Yahweh your Elohim with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; <a
name="C0528V48" id="C0528V48">28:48</a> therefore you shall serve your enemies
whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in
nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on
your neck, until he have destroyed you. <a name="C0528V49" id="C0528V49">28:49</a>
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the
earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not
understand; <a name="C0528V50" id="C0528V50">28:50</a> a nation of fierce
facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show
favor to the young, <a name="C0528V51" id="C0528V51">28:51</a> and shall eat
the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are
destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the
increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have
caused you to perish. <a name="C0528V52" id="C0528V52">28:52</a> They shall
besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come
down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall
besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your
Elohim has given you. <a name="C0528V53" id="C0528V53">28:53</a> You shall eat
the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters,
whom Yahweh your Elohim has given you, in the siege and in the distress with
which your enemies shall distress you. <a name="C0528V54" id="C0528V54">28:54</a>
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil
toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the
remnant of his children whom he has remaining; <a name="C0528V55" id="C0528V55">28:55</a>
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom
he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the
distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. <a
name="C0528V56" id="C0528V56">28:56</a> The tender and delicate woman among
you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for
delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of
her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, <a name="C0528V57"
id="C0528V57">28:57</a> and toward her young one who comes out from between
her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat
them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. <a name="C0528V58"
id="C0528V58">28:58</a> If you will not observe to do all the words of this
Torah that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and
fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; <a name="C0528V59" id="C0528V59">28:59</a> then
Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed,
even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of
long continuance. <a name="C0528V60" id="C0528V60">28:60</a> He will bring on
you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they
shall cleave to you. <a name="C0528V61" id="C0528V61">28:61</a> Also every
sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this Torah,
them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed. <a name="C0528V62"
id="C0528V62">28:62</a> You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as
the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice
of Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0528V63" id="C0528V63">28:63</a> It shall happen
that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so
Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you;
and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
<a name="C0528V64" id="C0528V64">28:64</a> Yahweh will scatter you among all
peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor
your fathers, even wood and stone. <a name="C0528V65" id="C0528V65">28:65</a>
Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for
the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart,
and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; <a name="C0528V66" id="C0528V66">28:66</a>
and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and
day, and shall have no assurance of your life. <a name="C0528V67" id="C0528V67">28:67</a>
In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall
say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall
fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. <a name="C0528V68"
id="C0528V68">28:68</a> Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships,
by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and
there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for
bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0529V1" id="C0529V1">29:1</a> These are the words of the covenant
which Yahweh commanded Moshe to make with the children of Yisrael in the
land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. <a
name="C0529V2" id="C0529V2">29:2</a> Moshe called to all Yisrael, and said to
them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of
Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; <a
name="C0529V3" id="C0529V3">29:3</a> the great trials which your eyes saw, the
signs, and those great wonders: <a name="C0529V4" id="C0529V4">29:4</a> but
Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to
hear, to this day. <a name="C0529V5" id="C0529V5">29:5</a> I have led you
forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and
your shoe has not grown old on your foot. <a name="C0529V6" id="C0529V6">29:6</a>
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink;
that you may know that I am Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0529V7" id="C0529V7">29:7</a>
When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: <a name="C0529V8"
id="C0529V8">29:8</a> and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance
to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the
Manassites. <a name="C0529V9" id="C0529V9">29:9</a> Keep therefore the words
of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. <a
name="C0529V10" id="C0529V10">29:10</a> You stand this day all of you before
Yahweh your Elohim; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers,
even all the men of Yisrael, <a name="C0529V11" id="C0529V11">29:11</a> your
little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your
camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; <a
name="C0529V12" id="C0529V12">29:12</a> that you may enter into the covenant
of Yahweh your Elohim, and into his oath, which Yahweh your Elohim makes with
you this day; <a name="C0529V13" id="C0529V13">29:13</a> that he may establish
you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a Elohim, as
he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob. <a name="C0529V14" id="C0529V14">29:14</a> Neither with you only
do I make this covenant and this oath, <a name="C0529V15" id="C0529V15">29:15</a>
but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our Elohim, and
also with him who is not here with us this day <a name="C0529V16" id="C0529V16">29:16</a>
(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through
the midst of the nations through which you passed; <a name="C0529V17"
id="C0529V17">29:17</a> and you have seen their abominations, and their
idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); <a
name="C0529V18" id="C0529V18">29:18</a> lest there should be among you man, or
woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh
our Elohim, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be
among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; <a name="C0529V19" id="C0529V19">29:19</a>
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the
stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. <a
name="C0529V20" id="C0529V20">29:20</a> Yahweh will not pardon him, but then
the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all
the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will
blot out his name from under the sky. <a name="C0529V21" id="C0529V21">29:21</a>
Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Yisrael,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book
of the Torah. <a name="C0529V22" id="C0529V22">29:22</a> The generation to come,
your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall
come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land,
and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick; <a name="C0529V23"
id="C0529V23">29:23</a> <i>and that</i> the whole land of it is sulfur, and
salt, <i>and</i> a burning, <i>that</i> it is not sown, nor bears, nor any
grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and
Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: <a
name="C0529V24" id="C0529V24">29:24</a> even all the nations shall say, Why
has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great
anger? <a name="C0529V25" id="C0529V25">29:25</a> Then men shall say, Because
they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers, which he
made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, <a
name="C0529V26" id="C0529V26">29:26</a> and went and served other gods, and
worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to
them: <a name="C0529V27" id="C0529V27">29:27</a> therefore the anger of Yahweh
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is
written in this book; <a name="C0529V28" id="C0529V28">29:28</a> and Yahweh
rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. <a
name="C0529V29" id="C0529V29">29:29</a> The secret things belong to Yahweh our
Elohim; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children
forever, that we may do all the words of this Torah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0530V1" id="C0530V1">30:1</a> It shall happen, when all these things
are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you,
and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your
Elohim has driven you, <a name="C0530V2" id="C0530V2">30:2</a> and shall return
to Yahweh your Elohim, and shall obey his voice according to all that I
command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with
all your soul; <a name="C0530V3" id="C0530V3">30:3</a> that then Yahweh your
Elohim will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return
and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your Elohim has scattered
you. <a name="C0530V4" id="C0530V4">30:4</a> If <i>any of</i> your outcasts
are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your Elohim
gather you, and from there he will bring you back: <a name="C0530V5"
id="C0530V5">30:5</a> and Yahweh your Elohim will bring you into the land which
your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good,
and multiply you above your fathers. <a name="C0530V6" id="C0530V6">30:6</a>
Yahweh your Elohim will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to
love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you
may live. <a name="C0530V7" id="C0530V7">30:7</a> Yahweh your Elohim will put all
these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted
you. <a name="C0530V8" id="C0530V8">30:8</a> You shall return and obey the
voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
<a name="C0530V9" id="C0530V9">30:9</a> Yahweh your Elohim will make you
plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in
the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good:
for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your
fathers; <a name="C0530V10" id="C0530V10">30:10</a> if you shall obey the
voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to keep his commandments and his statutes which
are written in this book of the Torah; if you turn to Yahweh your Elohim with
all your heart, and with all your soul. <a name="C0530V11" id="C0530V11">30:11</a>
For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for
you, neither is it far off. <a name="C0530V12" id="C0530V12">30:12</a> It is
not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and
bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? <a name="C0530V13"
id="C0530V13">30:13</a> Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say,
Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear
it, that we may do it? <a name="C0530V14" id="C0530V14">30:14</a> But the word
is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
<a name="C0530V15" id="C0530V15">30:15</a> Behold, I have set before you this
day life and good, and death and evil; <a name="C0530V16" id="C0530V16">30:16</a>
in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in his
ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances,
that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in
the land where you go in to possess it. <a name="C0530V17" id="C0530V17">30:17</a>
But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn
away, and worship other gods, and serve them; <a name="C0530V18" id="C0530V18">30:18</a>
I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to
possess it. <a name="C0530V19" id="C0530V19">30:19</a> I call heaven and earth
to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and
death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may
live, you and your seed; <a name="C0530V20" id="C0530V20">30:20</a> to love
Yahweh your Elohim, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your
life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0531V1" id="C0531V1">31:1</a> Moshe went and spoke these words to
all Yisrael. <a name="C0531V2" id="C0531V2">31:2</a> He said to them, I am one
hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and
Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan. <a name="C0531V3"
id="C0531V3">31:3</a> Yahweh your Elohim, he will go over before you; he will
destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: <i>and</i>
Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. <a name="C0531V4"
id="C0531V4">31:4</a> Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. <a
name="C0531V5" id="C0531V5">31:5</a> Yahweh will deliver them up before you,
and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have
commanded you. <a name="C0531V6" id="C0531V6">31:6</a> Be strong and of good
courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your Elohim, he
it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. <a
name="C0531V7" id="C0531V7">31:7</a> Moshe called to Joshua, and said to him
in the sight of all Yisrael, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall
go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers
to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. <a name="C0531V8"
id="C0531V8">31:8</a> Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be
with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed. <a name="C0531V9" id="C0531V9">31:9</a> Moshe wrote this
Torah, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Yisrael. <a name="C0531V10"
id="C0531V10">31:10</a> Moshe commanded them, saying, At the end of <i>every</i>
seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of
tents, <a name="C0531V11" id="C0531V11">31:11</a> when all Yisrael is come to
appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place which he shall choose, you
shall read this Torah before all Yisrael in their hearing. <a name="C0531V12"
id="C0531V12">31:12</a> Assemble the people, the men and the women and the
little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may
hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your Elohim, and observe to do
all the words of this Torah; <a name="C0531V13" id="C0531V13">31:13</a> and that
their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh
your Elohim, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to
possess it. <a name="C0531V14" id="C0531V14">31:14</a> Yahweh said to Moshe,
Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him. Moshe and
Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C0531V15" id="C0531V15">31:15</a> Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a
pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
<a name="C0531V16" id="C0531V16">31:16</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, Behold, you
shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the
prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among
them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them. <a name="C0531V17" id="C0531V17">31:17</a> Then my anger shall be
kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide
my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles
shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils
come on us because our Elohim is not among us? <a name="C0531V18" id="C0531V18">31:18</a>
I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall
have worked, in that they are turned to other gods. <a name="C0531V19"
id="C0531V19">31:19</a> Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach
you it the children of Yisrael: put it in their mouths, that this song may
be a witness for me against the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0531V20"
id="C0531V20">31:20</a> For when I shall have brought them into the land
which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they
shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn
to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. <a
name="C0531V21" id="C0531V21">31:21</a> It shall happen, when many evils and
troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a
witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have
brought them into the land which I swore. <a name="C0531V22" id="C0531V22">31:22</a>
So Moshe wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of
Yisrael. <a name="C0531V23" id="C0531V23">31:23</a> He commissioned Joshua the
son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring
the children of Yisrael into the land which I swore to them: and I will be
with you. <a name="C0531V24" id="C0531V24">31:24</a> It happened, when Moshe
had made an end of writing the words of this Torah in a book, until they
were finished, <a name="C0531V25" id="C0531V25">31:25</a> that Moshe commanded
the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, <a
name="C0531V26" id="C0531V26">31:26</a> Take this book of the Torah, and put it
by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim, that it may be
there for a witness against you. <a name="C0531V27" id="C0531V27">31:27</a>
For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how
much more after my death? <a name="C0531V28" id="C0531V28">31:28</a> Assemble
to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak
these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against
them. <a name="C0531V29" id="C0531V29">31:29</a> For I know that after my
death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way
which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter
days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to
provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. <a name="C0531V30"
id="C0531V30">31:30</a> Moshe spoke in the ears of all the assembly of
Yisrael the words of this song, until they were finished.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V1" id="C0532V1">32:1</a> Give ear, you heavens, and I will
speak.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V2" id="C0532V2">32:2</a> My doctrine shall drop as the rain.
</dt>
<dd>
My speech shall condense as the dew,
</dd>
<dd>
as the small rain on the tender grass,
</dd>
<dd>
as the showers on the herb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V3" id="C0532V3">32:3</a> For I will proclaim the name of
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Ascribe greatness to our Elohim!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V4" id="C0532V4">32:4</a> The Rock, his work is perfect,
</dt>
<dd>
for all his ways are justice:
</dd>
<dd>
a Elohim of faithfulness and without iniquity,
</dd>
<dd>
just and right is he.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V5" id="C0532V5">32:5</a> They have dealt corruptly with him,
<i>they are</i> not his children, <i>it is</i> their blemish.
</dt>
<dd>
<i>They are</i> a perverse and crooked generation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V6" id="C0532V6">32:6</a> Do you thus requite Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
foolish people and unwise?
</dd>
<dt>
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
</dt>
<dd>
He has made you, and established you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V7" id="C0532V7">32:7</a> Remember the days of old.
</dt>
<dd>
Consider the years of many generations.
</dd>
<dt>
Ask your father, and he will show you;
</dt>
<dd>
your elders, and they will tell you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V8" id="C0532V8">32:8</a> When the Most High gave to the
nations their inheritance,
</dt>
<dd>
when he separated the children of men,
</dd>
<dt>
he set the bounds of the peoples
</dt>
<dd>
according to the number of the children of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V9" id="C0532V9">32:9</a> For Yahweh's portion is his people.
</dt>
<dd>
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V10" id="C0532V10">32:10</a> He found him in a desert land,
</dt>
<dd>
in the waste howling wilderness.
</dd>
<dt>
He surrounded him.
</dt>
<dd>
He cared for him.
</dd>
<dd>
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V11" id="C0532V11">32:11</a> As an eagle that stirs up her
nest,
</dt>
<dd>
that flutters over her young,
</dd>
<dt>
he spread abroad his wings, he took them,
</dt>
<dd>
he bore them on his feathers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V12" id="C0532V12">32:12</a> Yahweh alone led him.
</dt>
<dd>
There was no foreign god with him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V13" id="C0532V13">32:13</a> He made him ride on the high
places of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
He ate the increase of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
</dt>
<dd>
oil out of the flinty rock;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V14" id="C0532V14">32:14</a> Butter of the herd, and milk of
the flock,
</dt>
<dd>
with fat of lambs,
</dd>
<dd>
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
</dd>
<dd>
with the finest of the wheat.
</dd>
<dd>
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V15" id="C0532V15">32:15</a> But Jeshurun grew fat, and
kicked.
</dt>
<dd>
You have grown fat.
</dd>
<dd>
You have grown thick.
</dd>
<dd>
You have become sleek.
</dd>
<dt>
Then he forsook Elohim who made him,
</dt>
<dd>
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V16" id="C0532V16">32:16</a> They moved him to jealousy with
strange <i>gods</i>.
</dt>
<dd>
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V17" id="C0532V17">32:17</a> They sacrificed to demons, <i>which
were</i> no Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
to gods that they didn't know,
</dd>
<dd>
to new <i>gods</i> that came up of late,
</dd>
<dd>
which your fathers didn't dread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V18" id="C0532V18">32:18</a> Of the Rock who became your
father, you are unmindful,
</dt>
<dd>
and have forgotten Elohim who gave you birth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V19" id="C0532V19">32:19</a> Yahweh saw <i>it</i>, and
abhorred <i>them</i>,
</dt>
<dd>
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V20" id="C0532V20">32:20</a> He said, I will hide my face from
them.
</dt>
<dd>
I will see what their end shall be;
</dd>
<dt>
for they are a very perverse generation,
</dt>
<dd>
children in whom is no faithfulness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V21" id="C0532V21">32:21</a> They have moved me to jealousy
with that which is not Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
</dd>
<dt>
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
</dt>
<dd>
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V22" id="C0532V22">32:22</a> For a fire is kindled in my
anger,
</dt>
<dd>
Burns to the lowest Sheol,
</dd>
<dd>
Devours the earth with its increase,
</dd>
<dd>
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V23" id="C0532V23">32:23</a> I will heap evils on them.
</dt>
<dd>
I will spend my arrows on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V24" id="C0532V24">32:24</a> <i>They shall be</i> wasted with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat
</dt>
<dd>
and bitter destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
</dt>
<dd>
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V25" id="C0532V25">32:25</a> Outside the sword shall bereave,
</dt>
<dd>
and in the chambers, terror;
</dd>
<dt>
on both young man and virgin,
</dt>
<dd>
The suckling with the gray-haired man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V26" id="C0532V26">32:26</a> I said, I would scatter them
afar.
</dt>
<dd>
I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V27" id="C0532V27">32:27</a> were it not that I feared the
provocation of the enemy,
</dt>
<dd>
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
</dd>
<dd>
lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh has not done all this.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V28" id="C0532V28">32:28</a> For they are a nation void of
counsel.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no understanding in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V29" id="C0532V29">32:29</a> Oh that they were wise, that they
understood this,
</dt>
<dd>
that they would consider their latter end!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V30" id="C0532V30">32:30</a> How could one chase a thousand,
</dt>
<dd>
and two put ten thousand to flight,
</dd>
<dt>
unless their Rock had sold them,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yahweh had delivered them up?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V31" id="C0532V31">32:31</a> For their rock is not as our
Rock,
</dt>
<dd>
even our enemies themselves being judges.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V32" id="C0532V32">32:32</a> For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom,
</dt>
<dd>
of the fields of Gomorrah.
</dd>
<dt>
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
</dt>
<dd>
Their clusters are bitter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V33" id="C0532V33">32:33</a> Their wine is the poison of
serpents,
</dt>
<dd>
The cruel venom of asps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V34" id="C0532V34">32:34</a> Isn't this laid up in store with
me,
</dt>
<dd>
sealed up among my treasures?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V35" id="C0532V35">32:35</a> Vengeance is mine, and
recompense,
</dt>
<dd>
at the time when their foot slides;
</dd>
<dt>
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
</dt>
<dd>
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V36" id="C0532V36">32:36</a> For Yahweh will judge his people,
</dt>
<dd>
and have compassion on his servants,
</dd>
<dt>
when he sees that <i>their</i> power is gone,
</dt>
<dd>
There is none <i>remaining</i>, shut up or left at large.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V37" id="C0532V37">32:37</a> He will say, Where are their
gods,
</dt>
<dd>
The rock in which they took refuge;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V38" id="C0532V38">32:38</a> Which ate the fat of their
sacrifices,
</dt>
<dd>
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
</dd>
<dt>
Let them rise up and help you!
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be your protection.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V39" id="C0532V39">32:39</a> See now that I, even I, am he,
</dt>
<dd>
There is no god with me.
</dd>
<dt>
I kill, and I make alive.
</dt>
<dd>
I wound, and I heal.
</dd>
<dd>
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V40" id="C0532V40">32:40</a> For I lift up my hand to heaven,
</dt>
<dd>
And say, As I live forever,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V41" id="C0532V41">32:41</a> if I whet my glittering sword,
</dt>
<dd>
My hand take hold on judgment;
</dd>
<dt>
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
and will recompense those who hate me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V42" id="C0532V42">32:42</a> I will make my arrows drunk with
blood.
</dt>
<dd>
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the
captives,
</dd>
<dd>
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0532V43" id="C0532V43">32:43</a> Rejoice, you nations, <i>with</i>
his people,
</dt>
<dd>
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
</dd>
<dd>
He will render vengeance to his adversaries,
</dd>
<dd>
And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0532V44" id="C0532V44">32:44</a> Moshe came and spoke all the words
of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. <a
name="C0532V45" id="C0532V45">32:45</a> Moshe made an end of speaking all
these words to all Yisrael; <a name="C0532V46" id="C0532V46">32:46</a> He said
to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day,
which you shall command your children to observe to do, <i>even</i> all
the words of this Torah. <a name="C0532V47" id="C0532V47">32:47</a> For it is no
vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you
shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to
possess it. <a name="C0532V48" id="C0532V48">32:48</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe
that same day, saying, <a name="C0532V49" id="C0532V49">32:49</a> Go up into
this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that
is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the
children of Yisrael for a possession; <a name="C0532V50" id="C0532V50">32:50</a>
and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people,
as Aharon your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
<a name="C0532V51" id="C0532V51">32:51</a> because you trespassed against me
in the midst of the children of Yisrael at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh,
in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of
the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0532V52" id="C0532V52">32:52</a> For you
shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land
which I give the children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0533V1" id="C0533V1">33:1</a> This is the blessing, with which Moshe
the man of Elohim blessed the children of Yisrael before his death. <a
name="C0533V2" id="C0533V2">33:2</a> He said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Yahweh came from Sinai,
</dt>
<dd>
And rose from Seir to them.
</dd>
<dt>
He shone forth from Mount Paran.
</dt>
<dd>
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
</dd>
<dd>
At his right hand was a fiery Torah for them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V3" id="C0533V3">33:3</a> Yes, he loves the people.
</dt>
<dd>
All his saints are in your hand.
</dd>
<dd>
They sat down at your feet;
</dd>
<dd>
<i>Everyone</i> shall receive of your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V4" id="C0533V4">33:4</a> Moshe commanded us a Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V5" id="C0533V5">33:5</a> He was king in Jeshurun,
</dt>
<dd>
When the heads of the people were gathered,
</dd>
<dd>
All the tribes of Yisrael together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V6" id="C0533V6">33:6</a> Let Reuben live, and not die;
</dt>
<dd>
Nor let his men be few.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V7" id="C0533V7">33:7</a> This is <i>the blessing</i> of Yehudah:
and he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Yehudah.
</dt>
<dd>
Bring him in to his people.
</dd>
<dt>
With his hands he contended for himself.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall be a help against his adversaries.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V8" id="C0533V8">33:8</a> Of Levi he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
</dt>
<dd>
whom you proved at Massah,
</dd>
<dd>
with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V9" id="C0533V9">33:9</a> who said of his father, and of his
mother, I have not seen him;
</dt>
<dd>
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
</dd>
<dd>
Nor did he know his own children:
</dd>
<dt>
For they have observed your word,
</dt>
<dd>
and keep your covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V10" id="C0533V10">33:10</a> They shall teach Jacob your
ordinances,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
They shall put incense before you,
</dt>
<dd>
and whole burnt offering on your altar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V11" id="C0533V11">33:11</a> Yahweh, bless his substance.
</dt>
<dd>
Accept the work of his hands.
</dd>
<dt>
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
</dt>
<dd>
of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V12" id="C0533V12">33:12</a> Of Benjamin he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him.
</dt>
<dd>
He covers him all the day long.
</dd>
<dd>
He dwells between his shoulders.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V13" id="C0533V13">33:13</a> Of Joseph he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
His land is blessed by Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
</dd>
<dd>
for the deep that couches beneath,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V14" id="C0533V14">33:14</a> for the precious things of the
fruits of the sun,
</dt>
<dd>
for the precious things of the growth of the moons,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V15" id="C0533V15">33:15</a> for the chief things of the
ancient mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V16" id="C0533V16">33:16</a> for the precious things of the
earth and its fullness,
</dt>
<dd>
the good will of him who lived in the <a href="#N055">bush</a>.
</dd>
<dt>
Let <i>the blessing</i> come on the head of Joseph,
</dt>
<dd>
On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V17" id="C0533V17">33:17</a> The firstborn of his herd,
majesty is his.
</dt>
<dd>
His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
</dd>
<dd>
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, <i>even</i> the ends of
the earth:
</dd>
<dt>
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
</dt>
<dd>
They are the thousands of Manasseh.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V18" id="C0533V18">33:18</a> Of Zebulun he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
</dt>
<dd>
and Issachar, in your tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V19" id="C0533V19">33:19</a> They shall call the peoples to
the mountain.
</dt>
<dd>
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
</dd>
<dt>
for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas,
</dt>
<dd>
the hidden treasures of the sand.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V20" id="C0533V20">33:20</a> Of Gad he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
</dt>
<dd>
He dwells as a lioness,
</dd>
<dd>
and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V21" id="C0533V21">33:21</a> He provided the first part for
himself,
</dt>
<dd>
for there was the lawgiver's portion reserved.
</dd>
<dt>
He came <i>with</i> the heads of the people.
</dt>
<dd>
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
His ordinances with Yisrael.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V22" id="C0533V22">33:22</a> Of Dan he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Dan is a lion's cub
</dt>
<dd>
that leaps out of Bashan.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V23" id="C0533V23">33:23</a> Of Naphtali he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
</dt>
<dd>
full of the blessing of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
Possess the west and the south.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0533V24" id="C0533V24">33:24</a> Of Asher he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Asher is blessed with children.
</dt>
<dd>
Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
</dd>
<dd>
Let him dip his foot in oil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V25" id="C0533V25">33:25</a> Your bars shall be iron and
brass.
</dt>
<dd>
As your days, so your strength will be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V26" id="C0533V26">33:26</a> There is none like Elohim, Jeshurun,
</dt>
<dd>
who rides on the heavens for your help,
</dd>
<dd>
In his excellency on the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V27" id="C0533V27">33:27</a> The eternal Elohim is <i>your</i>
dwelling place.
</dt>
<dd>
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
</dd>
<dt>
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
</dt>
<dd>
and said, Destroy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V28" id="C0533V28">33:28</a> Yisrael dwells in safety;
</dt>
<dd>
the fountain of Jacob alone,
</dd>
<dt>
In a land of grain and new wine.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0533V29" id="C0533V29">33:29</a> You are happy, Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
the shield of your help,
</dd>
<dd>
the sword of your excellency!
</dd>
<dt>
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall tread on their high places.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N055" id="N055">[5]</a> <a href="#C0533V16">back to 33:16</a> i. e. the
burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0534V1" id="C0534V1">34:1</a> Moshe went up from the plains of Moab
to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh
showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, <a name="C0534V2" id="C0534V2">34:2</a>
and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land
of Yehudah, to the hinder sea, <a name="C0534V3" id="C0534V3">34:3</a> and the
South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to
Zoar. <a name="C0534V4" id="C0534V4">34:4</a> Yahweh said to him, This is the
land which I swore to Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give
it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall
not go over there. <a name="C0534V5" id="C0534V5">34:5</a> So Moshe the
servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of
Yahweh. <a name="C0534V6" id="C0534V6">34:6</a> He buried him in the valley in
the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to
this day. <a name="C0534V7" id="C0534V7">34:7</a> Moshe was one hundred twenty
years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
<a name="C0534V8" id="C0534V8">34:8</a> The children of Yisrael wept for Moshe
in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning
for Moshe were ended. <a name="C0534V9" id="C0534V9">34:9</a> Joshua the son
of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moshe had laid his hands on
him: and the children of Yisrael listened to him, and did as Yahweh
commanded Moshe. <a name="C0534V10" id="C0534V10">34:10</a> There has not
arisen a prophet since in Yisrael like Moshe, whom Yahweh knew face to
face, <a name="C0534V11" id="C0534V11">34:11</a> in all the signs and the
wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and
to all his servants, and to all his land, <a name="C0534V12" id="C0534V12">34:12</a>
and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moshe
worked in the sight of all Yisrael.
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<a href=#C211V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C212V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C213V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C214V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C215V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C216V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C217V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C218V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C219V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C2110V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C2111V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C2112V1>Chapter 12</a>
<p>
<a name="C211V1" id="C211V1">1:1</a> The words of the Preacher, the son of
David, king in Yerushalayim:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C211V2" id="C211V2">1:2</a> "Vanity of vanities," says the
Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." <a name="C211V3"
id="C211V3">1:3</a> What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors
under the sun? <a name="C211V4" id="C211V4">1:4</a> One generation goes, and
another generation comes; but the earth remains forever. <a name="C211V5"
id="C211V5">1:5</a> The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries
to its place where it rises. <a name="C211V6" id="C211V6">1:6</a> The wind
goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around
continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses. <a
name="C211V7" id="C211V7">1:7</a> All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea
is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. <a
name="C211V8" id="C211V8">1:8</a> All things are full of weariness beyond
uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with
hearing. <a name="C211V9" id="C211V9">1:9</a> That which has been is that
which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun. <a name="C211V10" id="C211V10">1:10</a>
Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?"
It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. <a name="C211V11"
id="C211V11">1:11</a> There is no memory of the former; neither shall there
be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come
after.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C211V12" id="C211V12">1:12</a> I, the Preacher, was king over Yisrael
in Yerushalayim. <a name="C211V13" id="C211V13">1:13</a> I applied my heart to
seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the
sky. It is a heavy burden that Elohim has given to the sons of men to be
afflicted with. <a name="C211V14" id="C211V14">1:14</a> I have seen all the
works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing
after wind. <a name="C211V15" id="C211V15">1:15</a> That which is crooked
can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted. <a
name="C211V16" id="C211V16">1:16</a> I said to myself, "Behold, I have
obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in
Yerushalayim. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
<a name="C211V17" id="C211V17">1:17</a> I applied my heart to know wisdom, and
to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after
wind. <a name="C211V18" id="C211V18">1:18</a> For in much wisdom is much
grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C212V1" id="C212V1">2:1</a> I said in my heart, "Come now, I
will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this
also was vanity. <a name="C212V2" id="C212V2">2:2</a> I said of laughter,
"It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it
accomplish?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C212V3" id="C212V3">2:3</a> I searched in my heart how to cheer my
flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold
of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they
should do under heaven all the days of their lives. <a name="C212V4"
id="C212V4">2:4</a> I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I
planted myself vineyards. <a name="C212V5" id="C212V5">2:5</a> I made myself
gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. <a
name="C212V6" id="C212V6">2:6</a> I made myself pools of water, to water from
it the forest where trees were reared. <a name="C212V7" id="C212V7">2:7</a> I
bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my
house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who
were before me in Yerushalayim; <a name="C212V8" id="C212V8">2:8</a> I also
gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the
provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the
sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts. <a name="C212V9"
id="C212V9">2:9</a> So I was great, and increased more than all who were
before me in Yerushalayim. My wisdom also remained with me. <a name="C212V10"
id="C212V10">2:10</a> Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I
didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of
all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. <a name="C212V11"
id="C212V11">2:11</a> Then I looked at all the works that my hands had
worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was
vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C212V12" id="C212V12">2:12</a> I turned myself to consider wisdom,
madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which
has been done long ago. <a name="C212V13" id="C212V13">2:13</a> Then I saw
that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. <a name="C212V14"
id="C212V14">2:14</a> The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool
walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
<a name="C212V15" id="C212V15">2:15</a> Then said I in my heart, "As it
happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more
wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity. <a
name="C212V16" id="C212V16">2:16</a> For of the wise man, even as of the fool,
there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have
been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
</p>
<p>
<a name="C212V17" id="C212V17">2:17</a> So I hated life, because the work that
is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a
chasing after wind. <a name="C212V18" id="C212V18">2:18</a> I hated all my
labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the
man who comes after me. <a name="C212V19" id="C212V19">2:19</a> Who knows
whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of
my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise
under the sun. This also is vanity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C212V20" id="C212V20">2:20</a> Therefore I began to cause my heart to
despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. <a
name="C212V21" id="C212V21">2:21</a> For there is a man whose labor is with
wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for
his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a
great evil. <a name="C212V22" id="C212V22">2:22</a> For what has a man of all
his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the
sun? <a name="C212V23" id="C212V23">2:23</a> For all his days are sorrows, and
his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This
also is vanity. <a name="C212V24" id="C212V24">2:24</a> There is nothing
better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul
enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of Elohim.
<a name="C212V25" id="C212V25">2:25</a> For who can eat, or who can have
enjoyment, more than I? <a name="C212V26" id="C212V26">2:26</a> For to the man
who pleases him, Elohim gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner
he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who
pleases Elohim. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C213V1" id="C213V1">3:1</a> For everything there is a season, and a
time for every purpose under heaven:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C213V2" id="C213V2">3:2</a> a time to be born,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to die;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to plant,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V3" id="C213V3">3:3</a> a time to kill,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to heal;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to break down,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to build up;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V4" id="C213V4">3:4</a> a time to weep,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to laugh;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to mourn,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to dance;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V5" id="C213V5">3:5</a> a time to cast away stones,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to gather stones together;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to embrace,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to refrain from embracing;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V6" id="C213V6">3:6</a> a time to seek,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to lose;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to keep,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to cast away;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V7" id="C213V7">3:7</a> a time to tear,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to sew;
</dd>
<dt>
a time to keep silence,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to speak;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C213V8" id="C213V8">3:8</a> a time to love,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time to hate;
</dd>
<dt>
a time for war,
</dt>
<dd>
and a time for peace.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C213V9" id="C213V9">3:9</a> What profit has he who works in that in
which he labors? <a name="C213V10" id="C213V10">3:10</a> I have seen the
burden which Elohim has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. <a
name="C213V11" id="C213V11">3:11</a> He has made everything beautiful in its
time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find
out the work that Elohim has done from the beginning even to the end. <a
name="C213V12" id="C213V12">3:12</a> I know that there is nothing better for
them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. <a name="C213V13"
id="C213V13">3:13</a> Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy
good in all his labor, is the gift of Elohim. <a name="C213V14" id="C213V14">3:14</a>
I know that whatever Elohim does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added
to it, nor anything taken from it; and Elohim has done it, that men should
fear before him. <a name="C213V15" id="C213V15">3:15</a> That which is has
been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and Elohim seeks
again that which is passed away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C213V16" id="C213V16">3:16</a> Moreover I saw under the sun, in the
place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of
righteousness, that wickedness was there. <a name="C213V17" id="C213V17">3:17</a>
I said in my heart, "Elohim will judge the righteous and the wicked; for
there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." <a
name="C213V18" id="C213V18">3:18</a> I said in my heart, "As for the sons
of men, Elohim tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like
animals. <a name="C213V19" id="C213V19">3:19</a> For that which happens to the
sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one
dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no
advantage over the animals: for all is vanity. <a name="C213V20" id="C213V20">3:20</a>
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. <a
name="C213V21" id="C213V21">3:21</a> Who knows the spirit of man, whether it
goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the
earth?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C213V22" id="C213V22">3:22</a> Therefore I saw that there is nothing
better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his
portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C214V1" id="C214V1">4:1</a> Then I returned and saw all the
oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those
who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their
oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. <a name="C214V2"
id="C214V2">4:2</a> Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead
more than the living who are yet alive. <a name="C214V3" id="C214V3">4:3</a>
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen
the evil work that is done under the sun. <a name="C214V4" id="C214V4">4:4</a>
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's
neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. <a name="C214V5"
id="C214V5">4:5</a> The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C214V6" id="C214V6">4:6</a> Better is a handful, with quietness, than
two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind. <a name="C214V7" id="C214V7">4:7</a>
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. <a name="C214V8" id="C214V8">4:8</a>
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no
end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For
whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is
vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C214V9" id="C214V9">4:9</a> Two are better than one, because they
have a good reward for their labor. <a name="C214V10" id="C214V10">4:10</a>
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is
alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up. <a
name="C214V11" id="C214V11">4:11</a> Again, if two lie together, then they
have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? <a name="C214V12" id="C214V12">4:12</a>
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C214V13" id="C214V13">4:13</a> Better is a poor and wise youth than
an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any
more. <a name="C214V14" id="C214V14">4:14</a> For out of prison he came forth
to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor. <a name="C214V15"
id="C214V15">4:15</a> I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they
were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him. <a name="C214V16"
id="C214V16">4:16</a> There was no end of all the people, even of all them
over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V1" id="C215V1">5:1</a> Guard your steps when you go to Elohim's
house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of
fools, for they don't know that they do evil. <a name="C215V2" id="C215V2">5:2</a>
Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter
anything before Elohim; for Elohim is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let
your words be few. <a name="C215V3" id="C215V3">5:3</a> For as a dream comes
with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
<a name="C215V4" id="C215V4">5:4</a> When you vow a vow to Elohim, don't defer to
pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. <a
name="C215V5" id="C215V5">5:5</a> It is better that you should not vow, than
that you should vow and not pay. <a name="C215V6" id="C215V6">5:6</a> Don't
allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger
that this was a mistake. Why should Elohim be angry at your voice, and
destroy the work of your hands? <a name="C215V7" id="C215V7">5:7</a> For in
the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but
you must fear Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V8" id="C215V8">5:8</a> If you see the oppression of the poor,
and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district,
don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and
there are officials over them. <a name="C215V9" id="C215V9">5:9</a> Moreover
the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V10" id="C215V10">5:10</a> He who loves silver shall not be
satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this
also is vanity. <a name="C215V11" id="C215V11">5:11</a> When goods increase,
those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its
owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V12" id="C215V12">5:12</a> The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not
allow him to sleep.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V13" id="C215V13">5:13</a> There is a grievous evil which I have
seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. <a name="C215V14"
id="C215V14">5:14</a> Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has
fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. <a name="C215V15" id="C215V15">5:15</a>
As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he
came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his
hand. <a name="C215V16" id="C215V16">5:16</a> This also is a grievous evil,
that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he
have who labors for the wind? <a name="C215V17" id="C215V17">5:17</a> All his
days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and
wrath.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C215V18" id="C215V18">5:18</a> Behold, that which I have seen to be
good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all
his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life
which Elohim has given him; for this is his portion. <a name="C215V19"
id="C215V19">5:19</a> Every man also to whom Elohim has given riches and
wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and
to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of Elohim. <a name="C215V20"
id="C215V20">5:20</a> For he shall not often reflect on the days of his
life; because Elohim occupies him with the joy of his heart.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C216V1" id="C216V1">6:1</a> There is an evil which I have seen under
the sun, and it is heavy on men: <a name="C216V2" id="C216V2">6:2</a> a man to
whom Elohim gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his
soul of all that he desires, yet Elohim gives him no power to eat of it, but
an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C216V3" id="C216V3">6:3</a> If a man fathers a hundred children, and
lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is
not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an
untimely birth is better than he: <a name="C216V4" id="C216V4">6:4</a> for it
comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with
darkness. <a name="C216V5" id="C216V5">6:5</a> Moreover it has not seen the
sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other. <a name="C216V6"
id="C216V6">6:6</a> Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet
fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place? <a name="C216V7" id="C216V7">6:7</a>
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
<a name="C216V8" id="C216V8">6:8</a> For what advantage has the wise more than
the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
<a name="C216V9" id="C216V9">6:9</a> Better is the sight of the eyes than the
wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. <a
name="C216V10" id="C216V10">6:10</a> Whatever has been, its name was given
long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who
is mightier than he. <a name="C216V11" id="C216V11">6:11</a> For there are
many words that create vanity. What does that profit man? <a name="C216V12"
id="C216V12">6:12</a> For who knows what is good for man in life, all the
days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a
man what will be after him under the sun?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V1" id="C217V1">7:1</a> A good name is better than fine perfume;
and the day of death better than the day of one's birth. <a name="C217V2"
id="C217V2">7:2</a> It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go
to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living
should take this to heart. <a name="C217V3" id="C217V3">7:3</a> Sorrow is
better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made
good. <a name="C217V4" id="C217V4">7:4</a> The heart of the wise is in the
house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. <a
name="C217V5" id="C217V5">7:5</a> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
than for a man to hear the song of fools. <a name="C217V6" id="C217V6">7:6</a>
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the
fool. This also is vanity. <a name="C217V7" id="C217V7">7:7</a> Surely
extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the
understanding. <a name="C217V8" id="C217V8">7:8</a> Better is the end of a
thing than its beginning.
</p>
<p>
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. <a name="C217V9"
id="C217V9">7:9</a> Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger
rests in the bosom of fools. <a name="C217V10" id="C217V10">7:10</a> Don't
say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do
not ask wisely about this.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V11" id="C217V11">7:11</a> Wisdom is as good as an inheritance.
Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. <a name="C217V12"
id="C217V12">7:12</a> For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense;
but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him
who has it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V13" id="C217V13">7:13</a> Consider the work of Elohim, for who can
make that straight, which he has made crooked? <a name="C217V14" id="C217V14">7:14</a>
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider;
yes, Elohim has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man
should not find out anything after him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V15" id="C217V15">7:15</a> All this have I seen in my days of
vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and
there is a wicked man who lives long in his evil-doing. <a name="C217V16"
id="C217V16">7:16</a> Don't be overly righteous, neither make yourself
overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? <a name="C217V17" id="C217V17">7:17</a>
Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your
time? <a name="C217V18" id="C217V18">7:18</a> It is good that you should take
hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who
fears Elohim will come forth from them all. <a name="C217V19" id="C217V19">7:19</a>
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a
city. <a name="C217V20" id="C217V20">7:20</a> Surely there is not a righteous
man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin. <a name="C217V21" id="C217V21">7:21</a>
Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your
servant curse you; <a name="C217V22" id="C217V22">7:22</a> for often your own
heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others. <a name="C217V23"
id="C217V23">7:23</a> All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will
be wise;" but it was far from me. <a name="C217V24" id="C217V24">7:24</a>
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? <a
name="C217V25" id="C217V25">7:25</a> I turned around, and my heart sought to
know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and
to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V26" id="C217V26">7:26</a> I find more bitter than death the
woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever
pleases Elohim shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C217V27" id="C217V27">7:27</a> Behold, this have I found, says the
Preacher, one to another, to find out the scheme; <a name="C217V28"
id="C217V28">7:28</a> which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one
man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not
found. <a name="C217V29" id="C217V29">7:29</a> Behold, this only have I found:
that Elohim made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C218V1" id="C218V1">8:1</a> Who is like the wise man? And who knows
the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and
the hardness of his face is changed. <a name="C218V2" id="C218V2">8:2</a> I
say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to Elohim. <a
name="C218V3" id="C218V3">8:3</a> Don't be hasty to go out of his presence.
Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him, <a
name="C218V4" id="C218V4">8:4</a> for the king's word is supreme. Who can say
to him, "What are you doing?" <a name="C218V5" id="C218V5">8:5</a>
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart
will know the time and procedure. <a name="C218V6" id="C218V6">8:6</a> For
there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of
man is heavy on him. <a name="C218V7" id="C218V7">8:7</a> For he doesn't know
that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be? <a name="C218V8"
id="C218V8">8:8</a> There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain
the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no
discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C218V9" id="C218V9">8:9</a> All this have I seen, and applied my mind
to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man
has power over another to his hurt. <a name="C218V10" id="C218V10">8:10</a> So
I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went
and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
<a name="C218V11" id="C218V11">8:11</a> Because sentence against an evil work
is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully
set in them to do evil. <a name="C218V12" id="C218V12">8:12</a> Though a
sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know
that it will be better with those who fear Elohim, who are reverent before
him. <a name="C218V13" id="C218V13">8:13</a> But it shall not be well with the
wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't
fear Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C218V14" id="C218V14">8:14</a> There is a vanity which is done on the
earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the
work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens
according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
<a name="C218V15" id="C218V15">8:15</a> Then I commended mirth, because a man
has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be
joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life
which Elohim has given him under the sun.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C218V16" id="C218V16">8:16</a> When I applied my heart to know
wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there
is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes), <a name="C218V17"
id="C218V17">8:17</a> then I saw all the work of Elohim, that man can't find
out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors
to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he
can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C219V1" id="C219V1">9:1</a> For all this I laid to my heart, even to
explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are
in the hand of Elohim; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all
is before them. <a name="C219V2" id="C219V2">9:2</a> All things come alike to
all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good,
to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who
doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath,
as he who fears an oath. <a name="C219V3" id="C219V3">9:3</a> This is an evil
in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes
also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in
their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. <a
name="C219V4" id="C219V4">9:4</a> For to him who is joined with all the living
there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. <a name="C219V5"
id="C219V5">9:5</a> For the living know that they will die, but the dead
don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the
memory of them is forgotten. <a name="C219V6" id="C219V6">9:6</a> Also their
love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have
they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C219V7" id="C219V7">9:7</a> Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and
drink your wine with a merry heart; for Elohim has already accepted your
works. <a name="C219V8" id="C219V8">9:8</a> Let your garments be always white,
and don't let your head lack oil. <a name="C219V9" id="C219V9">9:9</a> Live
joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity,
which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is
your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
<a name="C219V10" id="C219V10">9:10</a> Whatever your hand finds to do, do it
with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C219V11" id="C219V11">9:11</a> I returned, and saw under the sun,
that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. <a
name="C219V12" id="C219V12">9:12</a> For man also doesn't know his time. As
the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught
in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it
falls suddenly on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C219V13" id="C219V13">9:13</a> I have also seen wisdom under the sun
in this way, and it seemed great to me. <a name="C219V14" id="C219V14">9:14</a>
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came
against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. <a
name="C219V15" id="C219V15">9:15</a> Now a poor wise man was found in it, and
he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor
man. <a name="C219V16" id="C219V16">9:16</a> Then said I, Wisdom is better
than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his
words are not heard. <a name="C219V17" id="C219V17">9:17</a> The words of the
wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
<a name="C219V18" id="C219V18">9:18</a> Wisdom is better than weapons of war;
but one sinner destroys much good.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2110V1" id="C2110V1">10:1</a> Dead flies cause the oil of the
perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh
wisdom and honor. <a name="C2110V2" id="C2110V2">10:2</a> A wise man's heart
is at his right hand, but a fool's heart at his left. <a name="C2110V3"
id="C2110V3">10:3</a> Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his
understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. <a
name="C2110V4" id="C2110V4">10:4</a> If the spirit of the ruler rises up
against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to
rest.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2110V5" id="C2110V5">10:5</a> There is an evil which I have seen
under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler. <a
name="C2110V6" id="C2110V6">10:6</a> Folly is set in great dignity, and the
rich sit in a low place. <a name="C2110V7" id="C2110V7">10:7</a> I have seen
servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth. <a
name="C2110V8" id="C2110V8">10:8</a> He who digs a pit may fall into it; and
whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. <a name="C2110V9"
id="C2110V9">10:9</a> Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them.
Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby. <a name="C2110V10" id="C2110V10">10:10</a>
If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use
more strength; but skill brings success.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2110V11" id="C2110V11">10:11</a> If the snake bites before it is
charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue. <a name="C2110V12"
id="C2110V12">10:12</a> The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a
fool is swallowed by his own lips. <a name="C2110V13" id="C2110V13">10:13</a>
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his
talk is mischievous madness. <a name="C2110V14" id="C2110V14">10:14</a> A fool
also multiplies words.
</p>
<p>
Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can
tell him? <a name="C2110V15" id="C2110V15">10:15</a> The labor of fools
wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2110V16" id="C2110V16">10:16</a> Woe to you, land, when your king
is a child,
</dt>
<dd>
and your princes eat in the morning! <a name="C2110V17" id="C2110V17">10:17</a>
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles,
</dd>
<dd>
and your princes eat in due season,
</dd>
<dd>
for strength, and not for drunkenness!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2110V18" id="C2110V18">10:18</a> By slothfulness the roof sinks
in;
</dt>
<dd>
and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2110V19" id="C2110V19">10:19</a> A feast is made for laughter,
</dt>
<dd>
and wine makes the life glad;
</dd>
<dd>
and money is the answer for all things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2110V20" id="C2110V20">10:20</a> Don't curse the king, no, not in
your thoughts;
</dt>
<dd>
and don't curse the rich in your bedchamber:
</dd>
<dd>
for a bird of the sky may carry your voice,
</dd>
<dd>
and that which has wings may tell the matter.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V1" id="C2111V1">11:1</a> Cast your bread on the waters;
</dt>
<dd>
for you shall find it after many days.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V2" id="C2111V2">11:2</a> Give a portion to seven, yes, even
to eight;
</dt>
<dd>
for you don't know what evil will be on the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V3" id="C2111V3">11:3</a> If the clouds are full of rain, they
empty themselves on the earth;
</dt>
<dd>
and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north,
</dd>
<dd>
in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V4" id="C2111V4">11:4</a> He who observes the wind won't sow;
</dt>
<dd>
and he who regards the clouds won't reap.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V5" id="C2111V5">11:5</a> As you don't know what is the way of
the wind,
</dt>
<dd>
nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child;
</dd>
<dd>
even so you don't know the work of Elohim who does all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V6" id="C2111V6">11:6</a> In the morning sow your seed,
</dt>
<dd>
and in the evening don't withhold your hand;
</dd>
<dd>
for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that,
</dd>
<dd>
or whether they both will be equally good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V7" id="C2111V7">11:7</a> Truly the light is sweet,
</dt>
<dd>
and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V8" id="C2111V8">11:8</a> Yes, if a man lives many years, let
him rejoice in them all;
</dt>
<dd>
but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
</dd>
<dd>
All that comes is vanity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V9" id="C2111V9">11:9</a> Rejoice, young man, in your youth,
</dt>
<dd>
and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth,
</dd>
<dd>
and walk in the ways of your heart,
</dd>
<dd>
and in the sight of your eyes;
</dd>
<dd>
but know that for all these things Elohim will bring you into judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2111V10" id="C2111V10">11:10</a> Therefore remove sorrow from your
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and put away evil from your flesh;
</dd>
<dd>
for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V1" id="C2112V1">12:1</a> Remember also your Creator in the
days of your youth,
</dt>
<dd>
before the evil days come, and the years draw near,
</dd>
<dd>
when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V2" id="C2112V2">12:2</a> Before the sun, the light, the moon,
and the stars are darkened,
</dt>
<dd>
and the clouds return after the rain;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V3" id="C2112V3">12:3</a> in the day when the keepers of the
house shall tremble,
</dt>
<dd>
and the strong men shall bow themselves,
</dd>
<dd>
and the grinders cease because they are few,
</dd>
<dd>
and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V4" id="C2112V4">12:4</a> and the doors shall be shut in the
street;
</dt>
<dd>
when the sound of the grinding is low,
</dd>
<dd>
and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,
</dd>
<dd>
and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V5" id="C2112V5">12:5</a> yes, they shall be afraid of
heights,
</dt>
<dd>
and terrors will be in the way;
</dd>
<dd>
and the almond tree shall blossom,
</dd>
<dd>
and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
</dd>
<dd>
and desire shall fail;
</dd>
<dd>
because man goes to his everlasting home,
</dd>
<dd>
and the mourners go about the streets:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V6" id="C2112V6">12:6</a> before the silver cord is severed,
</dt>
<dd>
or the golden bowl is broken,
</dd>
<dd>
or the pitcher is broken at the spring,
</dd>
<dd>
or the wheel broken at the cistern,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2112V7" id="C2112V7">12:7</a> and the dust returns to the earth as
it was,
</dt>
<dd>
and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2112V8" id="C2112V8">12:8</a> Vanity of vanities, says the
Preacher.
</dd>
<dd>
All is vanity!
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2112V9" id="C2112V9">12:9</a> Further, because the Preacher was
wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out,
and set in order many proverbs. <a name="C2112V10" id="C2112V10">12:10</a> The
Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written
blamelessly, words of truth. <a name="C2112V11" id="C2112V11">12:11</a> The
words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words
from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. <a
name="C2112V12" id="C2112V12">12:12</a> Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of
making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2112V13" id="C2112V13">12:13</a> This is the end of the matter. All
has been heard. Fear Elohim, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole
duty of man. <a name="C2112V14" id="C2112V14">12:14</a> For Elohim will bring
every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or
whether it is evil.
</p>
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SECTION XLVI.
EKEB.
AND it shall be that because thou wilt have obeyed these judgments, and have observed and performed them, the Lord thy Elohim will keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He sware to thy fathers. And He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, and will bless the offspring of thy womb, the fruit of thy land, thy corn, wine, and oil, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, on the land which He sware to thy fathers to give thee. Blessed shalt thou be above all peoples; there shall not be among thee a barren male or a barren female, neither among thy cattle. And the Lord thy Elohim will remove from thee all diseases, and all the plagues of Mizraim; the evil things that thou knowest He will not lay upon thee, but will put them on all that hate thee. And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the Lord thy Elohim will give up to thee; thine eye shall not have pity upon them, nor shalt thou serve their idols, for that will be a stumbling-block to thee.
If thou say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I am: how can I drive them out? thou shalt not be afraid of them; remembering thou shalt remember what the Lord thy Elohim did to Pharoh and all Mizraim; the great miracles which thine eye beheld, and the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and uplifted arm, by which the Lord thy Elohim led thee forth; so shall the Lord thy Elohim do to all the nations before whom thou art afraid. And moreover, the Lord thy Elohim will stir up the hornet among them, until they who remain and who hid themselves from before thee have perished. Thou shalt not be broken down before them; for the Lord thy Elohim dwelleth in the midst of thee, the Great and fearful Elohim. And the Lord thy Elohim will put away those nations before thee by little and little; for thou mayest not consume them instantly, lest the wild beast of the field multiply against thee. Yet will the Lord thy Elohim deliver them up before thee, and destroy them with a great destruction, till they be consumed; and He will deliver their kings into thy hand, and destroy their names from under the heavens, and not a man will stand before thee till thou wilt have destroyed them. The images of their idols thou shalt burn with fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or the gold upon them, nor take (it) to thyself, lest thou offend through it, for it is an abomination before the Lord thy Elohim. Nor shalt thou bring what is abominable into thy house, and thou be accursed as that is; but with loathing thou shalt loathe it, and with abhorrence abhor it, for it is a thing accursed.
VIII. Every mandate that I command thee this day, you shall observe to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord did covenant unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way that the Lord thy Elohim hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep His commandments or not: and He humbled ( or afflicted) thee, and let thee hunger, and fed thee with the manna which thou knewest not, nor did thy fathers know; that He might make thee to know, That not by bread only is man sustained, but by every forth-coming word from before the Lord shall man live. Thy raiment faded not away from thee, and thy shoes wore not out these forty years; and know thou with thy heart, that as a man instructeth his son, (so) the Lord thy Elohim instructeth thee. Keep then the commandments of the Lord thy Elohim, to walk in the ways which are right before Him, to fear Him for the Lord thy Elohim bringeth thee into the good [and; a land streaming with brooks of water, with fountain-springs, and depths (of water) gushing from valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olives yielding oil, and which produceth honey; a land where, without poverty, thou mayest eat bread, and have want of nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest cast brass: and thou shalt eat and be satisfied, and shalt bless the Lord thy Elohim in the good land.
Beware, lest thou forget the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, in not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes, which I command thee this day. Lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and bast built goodly houses and inhabited (them), and when thy oxen and sheep have multiplied to thee, and silver and gold have increased, and whatever thou hast is increased with thee, thy heart should be lifted up, and thou shouldest forget the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, who brought thee up from the land of Mizraim, from the house of bondage; who led thee through the great and terrible desert, the place of burning serpents and scorpions, the place of thirsting, where there is no water, who brought out water for thee from the hard rock; who fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and prove the, to do thee good in thy latter end. And (lest) thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand have gathered to me these possessions: but remember the Lord thy Elohim, for He it is who giveth thee power to acquire riches, that He may confirm his covenant which He sware to thy fathers, as at this day.
But it will be that if thou forget the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, and walk after the idols of the Gentiles to serve and worship them, I testify against you this day that perishing you will perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth from before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the Word of the Lord your Elohim.
IX. Hear, Yisrael: thou art this day (about) to pass over the Jordana, to enter, to drive out nations greater and stronger than thou, and (to take possession of) cities, great and fortified to the height of heaven; a people great and mighty, the sons of the giants whom thou knowest, and (of whom) thou hast heard (it said), Who can stand before the sons of the giants? But know this day that the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, He it is who goeth over before thee, He who is a burning fire, He will consume them, He will break them down before thee, and thou wilt soon drive them out, as the Lord hath told thee. Thou shalt not (therefore) speak in thy heart when the Lord thy Elohim hath broken them before thee, saying: For the sake of my righteousness hath the Lord brought me in to inherit this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord driveth them out before thee. Not for thy righteousness or the integrity of thy heart dost thou go in to possess their land, but for the guilt of these nations the Lord thy Elohim doth drive them out before thee, and that He may confirm the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob. Know, then, that not for thy righteousness will the Lord thy Elohim give thee this good land to possess it, for thou art a hard-necked people. Be mindful, and forget not that thou didst provoke the Lord thy Elohim to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that thou camest out from the land of Mizraim until thou hast come to this place, ye have been rebellious before the Lord. And in Horeb (itself) you provoked the Lord, and aroused the Lord's anger to destroy you. When I had gone up to the mountain to receive the tables of the stones, the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, and I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights - I ate no bread, I drank no water - And the Lord gave to me the two tables of stones, written upon by the finger of the Lord, according to all the words which the Lord had spoken with you on the mount from the midst of the fire, on the day of the convocation. It was at the end of forty days and nights, when the Lord gave to me the two tables of the stones, the tables of the covenant, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people whom I brought out from Mizraim are corrupted; they have soon turned from the way that I commanded them, and have made them a molten image. And the Lord spake to me, saying: This people are disclosed before me, and, behold, it is a hard-necked people.
Cease from thy prayer before me, and I will destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I will make thee for a people stronger and greater than they.
And I turned and descended from the mount; and the mountain burned with fire, and the two tables of the covenant were upon my two hands.
And I looked, and, behold, yon had sinned before the Lord your Elohim; you had made you a molten calf; you had turned quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. And I took the two tables, and cast them away from my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. And I fell down before the Lord as at the first, forty days and forty nights, bread I ate not, water I drank not, for all your sins which you sinned to do evil before the Lord, to provoke to anger before Him; for I was afraid before the anger and indignation wherewith the Lord was angry against you to destroy you; but the Lord hearkened to my prayer on that day also. And against Aharon was there great displeasure before the Lord to destroy him; but I prayed for Aharon also at that time.
And your sin which you had made, the calf, I took and burned it in fire, and ground it to a fine grinding till it was small as powder, and I threw the dust of it into the stream that descended from the mount.
And at the Burning, and at the Temptation, and at the Graves of Desire, you were rebellious before the Lord; and when the Lord sent you from Rekem Giah, saying: Go up and possess the land I have given, then rebelled you against the decree of the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and would not believe Him, nor be obedient to His Word. You have been contumacious before the Lord from the day that I have known you; but I fell down before the Lord the forty days and the forty nights that I was prostrate, for the Lord had spoken to consume you.
And I prayed before the Lord, and said: O Lord Elohim, destroy not Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed by Thy power, and brought out from Mizraim with a mighty hand. Remember Thy servants Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob; regard not the stubbornness of this people, nor their wickedness, nor their sin: lest the inhabitants of the land from whence Thou hast led us should say: Because there was no power before the Lord to bring them into the land which He had told them of, or because He hated them, He led them forth to kill them in the wilderness. But they are Thy people, and Thy inheritance, which thou hast led forth with Thy great power and Thy uplifted arm.
X. At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stones like the first, and come up before Me on the mount, and make thee an ark of wood; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the former tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them into the ark. And I made an ark of sittin wood, and hewed two tables of stones like the former, and went up to the mountain, and the two tables were in my hand; and He wrote upon the tables according to the former writing, the Ten Words which the Lord spake with you on the mount from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. And I returned and descended from the mount, and put the tables into the ark which I had made, and they are there, as the Lord commanded me.
And the children of Yisrael went forward from Bearith of the Beni Jaakan unto Moserah; there Aharon died, and was buried there, and Elazar his son hath ministered in his stead. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod, and from Gudgod unto Jatbath, a land flowing with streams of water.
At that time the Lord had set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the Lord's covenant, to stand before the Lord to minister unto Him, and to bless in His Name, unto this day. Wherefore, Levi hath no portion or inheritance with his brethren; the gifts which the Lord shall give him are his inheritance, as the Lord thy Elohim hath told him. And I stood on the mountain as in the former days, forty days and nights; and the Lord received my prayer at that time also, that He would not destroy thee. And the Lord said to me: Arise, go, to proceed before the people, that they may be brought in to possess the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
And now, Yisrael, what doth the Lord thy Elohim require of thee, but to fear before the Lord thy Elohim, to walk in all the ways that are right before Him, and to love Him, and to serve before the Lord thy Elohim with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; to keep the commandments of the Lord, and His statutes which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee? Behold, the heavens the heavens of the heavens, are the Lord's thy Elohim, and all that is therein; only the Lord did choose thy fathers to love them, and He hath taken pleasure in their children after them, even in you, above all people, as at this day. Put away, therefore, the foolishness of your hearts, and harden your neck no more; for the Lord your Elohim is the Elohim of judges, and the Lord of kings, the Great Elohim, mighty and terrible, before whom is no respect of persons, nor doth He accept a reward.[7] He executeth judgment for the orphan and the widow, and hath pity on the stranger to give him food and raiment. Be loving then to the stranger, for you were sojourners in the land of Mizraim. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy Elohim, and serve before Him; to His fear thou shalt keep close, and shalt swear by His Name;
He is thy glory, and He is thy Elohim, who hath done for thee these vast and mighty acts which thy eyes have seen. With seventy souls went thy fathers down into Mizraim, and now the Lord thy Elohim hath set thee as the stars of the heavens for multitude.
XI. And thou shalt love the Lord thy Elohim, and keeping keep His word, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all days. And you know this day what your children have not known or seen, the discipline of the Lord your Elohim, His greatness, His mighty hand and uplifted arm, His miracles, and His works which He did in Mizraim, to Pharoh king of Mizraim, and to all his land; and what He did to the host of the Mizraee, to their horses and their chariots, when he made the waters of the Sea of Suph to overflow their faces as they followed after you, and the Lord destroyed them unto this day; and what He did to you in the wilderness until your coming unto this place; and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab bar Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up with the men of their house, their tents, and all the substance they had, in the midst of all Yisrael; for your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which He hath wrought.
You shall observe all the precepts which I command thee this day, that you may be strengthened, and go in and possess the land unto which you are going over to inherit, and may prolong your days upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give them and their children, a land producing milk and honey; for the land into which thou art going to possess it, is not as the land of Mizraim from which thou hast come out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and didst water it with thy feet as a garden of herbs (or a green garden); but the land to which thou goest over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water of the rains of heaven; keep a land which the Lord thy Elohim looketh after; (inquireth for;) the eyes[8] of the Lord thy Elohim are evermore upon it, from the beginning unto the end of the year.
And it shall be, if you will be diligently obedient to all My commandments which I command you this day to love the Lord your Elohim, and to serve before Him with all most your heart, and with all your soul, I will give you the rain of your land in its season, the early and the latter; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine, and thy oil; and I will give herbage in thy field for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied.
Take heed to yourselves lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside to serve the gods of the Gentiles and worship them; and the anger of the Lord be aroused against you, and He shut up the skies that there be no rain, and the earth yield not her fruit, and you perish soon from off the good land which the Lord will give you: but lay these my words upon your heart, and upon your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and let them be for tephillin between your eyes; and teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest in the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up; and write them upon the posts, and fix them to the entrance of thy house, and upon thy gates;[9] that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied on the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
For if you surely keep all this precept that I command you to perform it, to love the Lord your Elohim, to walk in all the ways that are right before Him, and keep close unto His fear, then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, that you may possess (the lands) of nations greater and stronger than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, unto the uttermost sea shall be your border. There shall not a man stand before you; for the Lord your Elohim will put the fear and dread of you upon the face of all the land that you tread upon, as the Lord hath said unto you.
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Ch. 7-11
SECTION XLVI.
If you receive these judgments, and observe and perform them, then will the Lord your Elohim keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness which He sware to your fathers. And He will love, bless, and multiply you, and will bless the children of your wombs, the fruit of your ground, your corn, wine, and oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which He sware to your fathers to give you. More blessed will you be than all peoples; there shall not be among you barren men or women, nor thy cattle (be wanting) in wool, or milk, or offspring. And the Lord will put away from thee all the diseases and evil plagues that He sent upon Mizraim which thou hast known; He will not put them upon you, but will send them forth upon all your enemies. And thou shalt consume all the nations which the Lord thy Elohim giveth up to thee; thine eye shall not spare them nor their idols, because they would be a stumblingjblock to thee. Neither say in thy heart, These nations are greater and stronger than I am: how shall I be able to drive them out? Be not afraid of them; remember the work of power which the Lord thy Elohim wrought upon Pharoh and all the Mizraee; the great miracles which thou didst see with thine eyes, the signs and wonders, the strength of the mighty hand, and the victory of the uplifted arm, when the Lord your Elohim led you out free: so will the Lord your Elohim do unto all the peoples before whom thou art afraid. Moreover, the Lord your Elohim will send the plague of biting hornets among you, until they who have remained shall perish and disappear before you. Therefore be not downjbroken before them, for the Shekinah of the Lord your Elohim is among you, the Great and Fearful Elohim.
But the Lord your Elohim will make these nations depart from before thee by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field multiply against you, when they have come to devour their carcases. But the Lord your Elohim will give them up before you, and will trouble them with great trouble, until they shall be consumed [JERUSALEM. And shall trouble them with great trouble, till the time that they shall be destroyed.] And He will deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall destroy their names from remembrance under the whole heavens: not a man shall stand before you until you have destroyed them. You shall burn their images with fire, nor desire the silver and gold that may be upon them, nor take them, lest through them you offend, for they are an abomination before the Lord your Elohim. Neither may you bring their abominable idols or their servicejvessels into your houses, that you be not accursed as they but you shall utterly loathe them as a loathsome reptile, and abhor them altogether, because they are accursed.
VIII. Every commandment which I command you this day, observe ye to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord sware to your fathers. And remember all the way by which the Lord your Elohim hath led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and try you, to know whether you will keep His commandments or not. And He humbled thee and let thee hunger, and fed thee with the manna which thou knewest not, nor thy fathers had known, that He might make thee to know that man liveth not by bread only, but by all that is created by the Word of the Lord doth man live. [JERUSALEM. That by manna only.] Your raiment hath not waxen old upon your bodies, and your feet have not gone without covering these forty years. But you know with the thoughts of your hearts, that as a man regardeth his child, so the Lord your Elohim hath regarded you. Keep, therefore, the commandments of the Lord your Elohim, to walk in the ways that are right before Him, and to fear Him. For the Lord your Elohim bringeth you into a land whose fruits are celebrated, a land whose streams flow in clear waters, from sweet fountain springs, and depths that dry not up, issuing forth among the vales and mountains; a land producing wheat and barley, and growing vines from which cometh out wine sweet and ripe, and a land which yieldeth figs and pomegranates, a land whose olive trees make oil, and whose palms give honey; a land where, without poverty, you may eat bread and want nothing; a land whose sages will enact decrees unalloyed as iron, and whose disciples will propound questions weighty as brass.[JERUSALEM. A land from whose olive trees they make oil, and from whose palms they make honey......whose stones are, pure as iron, and whose hills are firm as brass.]
Be mindful, therefore, in the time when you will have eaten and are satisfied, that you render thanksgiving and blessing before the Lord your Elohim for all the fruit of the goodly land which He hath given you, lest you forget the fear of the Lord your Elohim, and keep not His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you this day; lest, when you shall have eaten and are satisfied, and you have builded pleasant houses to dwell in, and your oxen and sheep are multiplied, and silver and gold are increased to you, and all things you have are multiplied, your heart be lifted up, and you forget the fear of the Lord your Elohim, who brought you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the affliction of slaves; who led thee in mercy through that great and fearful desert, a place abounding in burning serpents and scorpions with stings, a place where there is thirst but no water; but (where) He brought thee forth water out of the hard rock, and fed thee in the desert with manna which thy fathers knew not, to humble thee and to prove thee, that He may do thee good in thine end.
Beware that you say not in your heart, Our strength and the might of our hands have obtained us all these riches; but remember the Lord your Elohim ; for He it is who giveth thee counsel whereby to get wealth; that He may confirm the covenant which He sware to your fathers at the time of this day. For it shall be that if you forget the fear of the Lord your Elohim, and go after the idols of the Gentiles, to serve and worship them, I testify against you this day, you will surely perish; as the peoples which the Lord your Elohim disperseth before you, so will you perish, because you were not obedient to the Word of the Lord your Elohim.
IX. Hear, Yisrael: you are this day (about) to pass Jordana to enter in and possess (the country of) nations greater and stronger than you, and cities many, and fortified to the height of heaven. A people (are they) strong and tall as the giants whom you know, and of whom you have heard (say), Who can stand before the sons of the giants? Know, therefore, tojday that the Lord your Elohim, whose glorious Shekinah goeth before you, whose Word is a consuming fire, will destroy them and drive them out before you; so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord your Elohim hath said to you. Speak not in your heart when the Lord your Elohim hath driven them away from before you saying, For the sake of my righteousness hath the Lord brought me in to inherit this land; for on account of the sins of these people the Lord driveth them out before you. Not for your righteousness, or the integrity of your heart, will you be brought in to possess their land, but for the sins of these people the Lord your Elohim driveth them away before you; and that the Lord may establish the word which He sware to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, your fathers. Know, therefore, that it is not on account of your merit that the Lord your Elohim giveth you this glorious land to possess it; for a hardjnecked people are you. Be mindful and forget not how you have provoked unto anger, before the Lord in the wilderness, from the day that you went out of the land of Mizraim until you came to this place, and have been perverse before the Lord. (Even) at Horeb you provoked the Lord to anger, so that there was wrath before the Lord against you, to destroy you. When I had gone up to the mountain to receive the tables of marble, the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, and I tarried on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread, I drank no water; and the Lord gave to me the two tables of marble inscribed by the finger of the Lord, and upon which was written according to all the words which the Lord spake with you on the mount from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembling of the congregation. But at the end of the forty days and nights, when the Lord gave to me the two tables of marble, the tables of the covenant, the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for the people who are called by thy name, whom I led forth from the land of Mizraim, have corrupted their way; they have soon gone aside from the way that I commanded them on Sinai, saying, Make not to you a likeness or image; for they have made for themselves a molten (form). And the Lord spake to me saying, the sin of this people is revealed before Me, and behold this people is hard-necked: desist from thy prayer to Me, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of thee a people stronger and greater than they.
And I prepared and went down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were upon my two hands. And I saw, and, behold, you had sinned before the Lord your Elohim; you had made for you a molten calf, and had quickly declined from the way which the Lord had commanded to you. And taking the two tables, I cast them from my two hands and broke them; and you looked on while the tables were broken and the letters[1] fled away. [JERUSALEM. And I took both the tables and cast them down.] But I prayed for mercy as at the first before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I ate no bread, nor drank water, for all your sin whereby you had sinned in doing what was evil before the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
At that time five destroying angels were sent from the Lord to destroy Yisrael, Wrath, Burning, Relentlessness, Destruction, and Indignation; but when Mosheh the Rabban of Yisrael heard, he went and made memorial of the great and glorious Name, and called. And Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob arose from their tomb, and stood in prayer before the Lord; and forthwith three of them were restrained, and two of them, Wrath and Burning, remained. But Mosheh (yet) supplicated mercy, and were also restrained ; and he digged a grave in the land of Moab and buried them, in swearing by the great and tremendous Name; for so it is written: For I was afraid before the anger with which the Lord was angry with you to destroy you, and the Lord received my prayer at that time also.
But against Aharon was there great displeasure before the Lord, (so that) He would destroy him; but I prayed for Aharon also at that time. And your sin, the calf which you had made, I took, and burned it in fire, and crushed it well with crushing until I had bruised it into dust; and I threw the dust into the stream that descended from the mountain
And at the place of Burning, and that of the Temptation, and at the Graves of Desire [JERUSALEM. And at the Graves of Desire] you provoked to anger before the Lord. And at the time when the Lord sent you from Rekem Giah, saying: Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, then were you perverse with the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and would not believe Him, nor be obedient to His Word. You have been perverse before the Lord from the day that I have known you.
And I bowed down in prayer before the Lord for the forty days and nights in which I was prostrate in supplication, because the Lord had said He was about to destroy you. And I prayed before the Lord, and said: I implore mercy before Thee, 0 Lord Elohim, that Thou wouldst not destroy Thy people and Thy heritage which Thou hast redeemed by Thy power, and led forth from Mizraim by the strength of Thy mighty hand. Remember Thy servants Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, nor regard Thou the hard heart of this people, nor their wickedness, nor their sin: lest the inhabitants of the land from whence Thou hast led us say, that power failed before the Lord to bring them into the land of which Thou hast told them, and that because Thou didst hate them, therefore didst Thou lead them out to kill them in the wilderness. But they are Thy people and Thy heritage, whom Thou didst bring out by Thy great power, and with Thy uplifted arm.
X. At that time did the Lord say to me: Hew thee two tables of marble according to the form of the first; and ascend before Me into the mountain, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write upon the tables the words which were upon the former ones, which thou didst break with thy entire strength; and thou shalt put them within the ark. And I made an ark of sitta wood, and hewed two marble tables according to the form of the first, and went up into the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. And He wrote upon the tables according to the former writing, the Ten Words which the Lord spake with you from the mount in the midst of the fire on the day that the congregation was gathered together, and the Lord gave them to me. And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables into the ark which I had made, and there are they laid up (hidden) as the Lord commanded me.
And the children of Yisrael journeyed from the villages of the wells of the Beni Jahakan to Mosera[2]. There Amalek, who reigned in Arad, and who had heard that Aharon was dead, and that the Cloud of Glory had gone up, (came and) fought with them. And those of Yisrael who were distressed by that war sought to go back into Mizraim, and returned (towards it) six journeys; (but) the sons of Levi followed after them, and slew eight families of them, and the remainder returned. Of the sons of Levi also four families were slain. And they said one to another, What hath been the cause of this slaughter? Because we have been remiss in the mourning for Aharon the Saint. Therefore all the children of Yisrael observed there a mourning for Aharon's death; and there was he buried, and Elazar his son ministered in his stead. Thence they journeyed to Gudgod, and from Gudgod to Jotbath, a land flowing with streams of water. At that time the Lord distinguished the tribe of Levi, because they had been zealous (even) to slay for His honour; that they should bear the ark of the Lord's covenant, and stand before the Lord to minister unto Him and to bless in His Name until this day. Therefore the tribe of Levi hath not a portion or inheritance with his brethren; the gifts which the Lord giveth him are his inheritance, as the Lord your Elohim hath spoken to him. But I stood in the mount praying and interceding as in the former days (of the) forty days and nights, and the Lord received my prayer at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you. And the Lord said to me, Arise, go, lead forth the people, that they be brought in, and possess the land which I promised to their fathers to give them.
And now, Yisrael, what doth the Lord your Elohim require of you, but that you fear the Lord your Elohim, to walk in all the ways that are right before Him, and that you love Him, and serve the Lord your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you this day, that it may be well with you ? Behold, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, are be Lord's your Elohim, and the hosts of angels are in them to minister before Him, and the earth, and whatsoever is therein. Only the Lord had pleasure in your fathers, and because He would love you He hath had favour to their children after them, as you, above all the nations upon the face of the earth, at the time of this day. Put away folly, therefore, from your heart, and be not stiffjnecked any more; for the Lord thy Elohim is Elohim, the Judge, and the Monarch of kings, a Great Elohim, mighty and terrible, before whom there is no respect of persons, and who taketh no bribe; He doeth judgment for the orphan and widow, and hath compassion upon the stranger to give him food and raiment. Have pity then (yourselves) upon the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Mizraim. Revere the Lord your Elohim, and worship before Him, and cleave closely to His fear, and swear by His Name. He is your praise, and He is your Elohim, who hath done for thee these great and mighty acts which thou hast beheld with thy eyes. With seventy souls your fathers went down into Mizraim, and now hath the Lord your Elohim set you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.
XI. Therefore shall you love the Lord your Elohim, and diligently observe His Word, His statutes, and His judgments always. And know you this day, for (I speak) not with your children who have not known or seen the instruction of the Torah of the Lord your Elohim, nor His greatness, nor His mighty hand, nor His uplifted arm, or His signs and works which He wrought in Mizraim, on Pharoh king of Mizraim, and on all the inhabitants of his land; what He did also to the hosts of Mizraim, to their horses and chariots, when He made the waters of the Red Sea to overwhelm their faces when they followed after you, when the Lord destroyed them unto this day's time; and what He hath done to you in the wilderness till the time that you came to this place; and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab bar Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up with the men of their house, and all their substance, in the midst of all Yisrael: for with your eyes have you seen all the great work of the Lord which He hath wrought. Therefore shall you keep all the precepts which I command you this day, that you may be strengthened, and go in, and inherit the land to possess which you go over; and that your days may be multiplied upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give it to them and their children; a land whose fruits are rich as milk, and sweet as honey. For the land to which thou goest in to possess it is not like the land of Mizraim, from whence you have come, in which thou didst sow thy seed, and water it thyself as a garden of herbs; but the land which you pass over to inherit is a land of mountains and valleys: it drinketh water from the rain that cometh down from the heavens; it is a land which the Lord your Elohim inquireth after by His Word, that He may bless it evermore; [JERUSALEM. A land which the Lord your Elohim inquireth after continually.] the eyes of the Lord your Elohim look upon it from the beginning of the year to the year's end. And it shall be that if you diligently obey My commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your Elohim, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul, then will I give you the rain of your land in its time, the early in Marchesvan, and the latter in Nisan, that you may gather in your corn, your wine., and your oil. I will give herbage also in thy field for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and have enough.
Take heed to yourselves, lest you be led away by the imagination of your heart, and turn aside to serve the idols of the Gentiles, and worship them, and the Lord's anger be provoked against you, and He shut up the clouds of heaven, and let not the rain come down, and the earth yield no provender, and you perish soon from off the glorious land which the Lord shall give you. But lay these my words upon your heart, and upon your soul, and bind them, written upon tephillin, as a sign upon the upper part (wrist?) of your left hands, and let them be for tephillin over thy forehead between thy eyes. And thou shalt teach them to thy children to study them when you are sitting in your house with your kindred, and when you are walking in the way, and in the evening when you lie down, and in the morning when you arise. [JERUSALEM. And when you repose, and when you rise up.] And you shall write them upon parchment[3], upon the posts, and affix them to three (things), against thy chest,[4] against the pillars of thy house, and against thy gates: that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied on the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give you, as the number of the days that the heavens abide over the earth.
For if you diligently keep every commandment that I command you to do it, to love the Lord your Elohim, and walk in all the ways that are right before Him, and cleave unto His fear, then will the Word of the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves. Every place where the sole of your foot shall tread will be yours, from the wilderness and the mountain; (among) your mountains shall be the house of the sanctuary, and from the great river, the River Phrat, unto the ocean sea, whose waters are (old as) the creation, on the western side shall be your limit. Not a man will be able to stand before you; but the Lord your Elohim will set the fear and dread of you upon the faces of all the inhabiters of the land that you tread upon, as it hath been told you. [JERUSALEM. Not a ruler nor a prince shall stand before you; but your terror and your fear.]
[1] Vide Palest. Targ. on Exodus xxxii.
[2] Compare the Samaritan text.
[3] Or, rolls,” megiltha.
[4] Tekey, theca.
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Ch. 21-24
SECTION XXXI.
EMOR
XXI. AND the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying: Speak unto the priests, the men of the children of Aharon, that they keep themselves apart from defilement and thus shalt thou say to them: For a man who is dead, (the priest) shall not defile himself among his people; but for a woman who is of kin to his flesh, for his daughter, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin who is nigh to him, and who hath neither been betrothed, nor married to a husband, for her he may defile himself. The husband shall not defile himself on account of his wife, except so far as it is right for him; but for a relative of those who do the work of his people he may defile himself. They shall not mark themselves between their eyes, nor set a mark upon their heads, nor cut away the corners of their beards, nor make any incision in their flesh: but they shall be holy before their Elohim, and shall not profane the name of their Elohim; [JERUSALEM. They shall not profane for the oblations of their Elohim they do offer, and they must be holy in their bodies. They shall not take to wife a woman who hath gone astray by fornication, [JERUSALEM. A woman a fornicatress, or profane,] or who was born illegitimate, nor a woman who hath been put away, whether from her husband or the husband's brother, may they take; for he is to be holy before his Elohim. Thou shalt sanctify him unto the priesthood; for the oblation itself of thy Elohim he is to offer: he shall be holy to thee, and thou shalt not make him profane: I, the Lord who sanctify you, am holy. And if the betrothed daughter of a man of the priesthood profane herself, by going astray in fornication; if, while she is yet in her father's house, she is guilty of fornication, she shall be burned with fire.
And the high priest who hath been anointed over his brethren, and upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who offered his oblation to be arrayed in the (holy) robes, shall not make his head bare, nor either rend or tear his garment in the hour of grief. Nor unto any person who is dead shall he go in, nor for his father or his mother make himself unclean. And he shall not go forth from the sanctuary, or profane the sanctuary of his Elohim; for the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him: I am the Lord. And he shall take a wife who is in her virginity; but a widow, or a divorced person, or one who was born of depraved parents, or who hath gone astray by fornication, such as these be shall not take; but a virgin proper shall he take to wife from the daughters of his people. Neither shall he profane his offspring among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify him.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, saying: No man of thy sons in the families of their generations who hath a blemish in him shall be qualified to offer the oblation of his Elohim: for no man who hath a blemish in him shall offer. A man who is blind or lame, or stricken in his nostrils, or mutilated in his thigh, or a man who hath a broken foot, or a broken hand or whose eyelids droop so as to cover his eyes, who hath no hair on his eyelids; or who bath a suffusion of whiteness with darkness in his eyes; or who hath the dry scurvy, or who is full of the blotches of Egypt, or whose testicles are swollen or shrunk, (JERUSALEM. Or one whose eyelids cover his eyes, or hath no hair on his eyelids, or who is overgrown, or a dwarf, or blear‑eyed, or filled with scurvy or with blotches, or who is wanting in the testicles,] no man, a priest of the race of Aharon the priest who hath in him any such blemish, shall be qualified to offer the oblations of the Lord. He bath a blemish, and it is not meet for him to offer the oblation of his Elohim. Nevertheless he may support himself with the residue of the oblations of his Elohim which remaineth of the most holy and of the holy (offerings); only he must not enter within the veil, nor approach the altar; for a blemish is in him, and he shall not profane My sanctuary; for I the Lord do sanctify them. And Mosheh spake with Aharon and with his sons, and with all the sons of Yisrael.
XXII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, that they keep apart from the consecrated things of the children of Yisrael, and profane not the Name of My Holiness (in whatever) they hallow before Me: I am the Lord. Say to them, Take heed in your generations: whatever man of all your sons who shall offer things hallowed, which the children of Yisrael have consecrated before the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that man shall be destroyed with a stroke of death before Me: I am the Lord. Any man, young or old of the offspring of Aharon, who is a leper, or hath a running issue, shall not eat of things consecrated till he be clean: and whoever toucheth any uncleanness of man, or one from whom uncleanness hath proceeded, or who toucheth any reptile that maketh unclean, or (the corpse of) a dead man which maketh unclean, or any of the uncleanness of his life, the man being a priest who toucheth such shall be unclean until the evening, and may not eat of the holy things, except that he wash his flesh in forty seahs of water. And when the sun hath set and he be fit, he may afterward eat of the holy things; for they are his food. But of a dead carcase, or (that which hath been) killed (by violence), he may not eat to defile himself therewith. I am the Lord. But the sons of Yisrael shall observe the keeping of My Word, that they may not bring sin upon themselves, nor die for it by the flaming fire; because they have profaned it: I am the Lord who sanctify them.
No stranger or profane person shall eat of a consecrated thing, (neither) a son of Yisrael who is an inmate of the priest, nor any hireling, may eat of the hallowed thing. But if the priest buy a man a stranger with the price of his money, he may eat of it, and such as have grown up in his house may eat of his bread. And the daughter of a priest, if she be married to a man a stranger, may not eat of things set apart by consecration. But if the daughter of a priest be a widow, or be divorced and having no child by him hath returned to her father's house, and hath not been wedded to a brother‑in‑Torah, (Deut. xxv. 5,) she, being as in the days of her youth, and not being with child, may eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat thereof. And if a man of Yisrael eat that which is consecrated unknowingly, let him add a fifth part of its value to it, and give the (price of the) holy thing unto the priest. Let them not profane the sacred things of the children of Yisrael which are set apart unto the Name of the Lord, nor let the sin of their trespass be found upon them, by eating in uncleanness their consecrated things; for I am the Lord who do sanctify them.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons and with all the children of Yisrael:‑A man, whether young or old, of the house of the family of Yisrael, or of the strangers who are in Yisrael, who shall offer his oblation of any of their vows, or their free will offerings which they present before the Lord for a burnt sacrifice, to be acceptable for you, it shall be perfect, a male of the bullocks, of the lamb, or of the young goats. But anything that hath a blemish you shall not offer; for that will not be acceptable from you. And if a man will offer a consecrated victim before the Lord to fulfil a vow, or as a free will offering, from the herd, or from the flock, it must be perfect to be acceptable; no blemish shall be in it. Whatever is blind, or broken‑boned, or stricken in the eyelids, or whose eyes are stricken with a mixture of white and dark, or one filled with scurvy or the blotches murrain, you shall not offer before the Lord, nor present an oblation of them on the altar before the Lord. A bullock or a ram that hath superfluity or deficiency of the testicles, you may make a free will offering, but for a vow it will not be acceptable. That which is crushed, or ruptured, or diseased, or enervated, you shall not offer to the Name of the Lord; and in your land you shall not emasculate. And from the hand of a son of the Gentiles you shall not offer the oblation of your Elohim of any of these, because their corruption is in them; a blemish is in them, they are profane, they shall not be acceptable for you.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying (to the effect that): What time thou callest to our mind the order of our oblations, as they shall be offered year by year, being our expiatory offering for our sins, when on account of our sins (such sacrifices are required), and we have none to bring from our flocks of sheep, then shall a bullock be chosen before him, in memorial of the righteousness of the elder who came from the cast, the sincere one who brought the calf, fat and tender, to Thy Name. A sheep is to be chosen, secondly, in memory of the righteousness of him who was bound as a lamb on the altar, and who stretched forth his neck for Thy Name's sake, while the heavens stooped down and condescended, and Izhak beheld their foundations, and his eyes were blinded by the high things; on which account he was reckoned to be worthy that a lamb should be provided for him as a burnt offering. A kid of the goats is to be chosen likewise, in memorial of the righteousness of that perfect one who made the savoury meat of the kid, and brought it to his father, and was made worthy to receive the order of the blessing: wherefore Mosheh the prophet explaineth, saying: Sons of Yisrael, my people, When a bullock, or a lamb, or a kid is brought forth according, to the manner of the world, it shall be seven days after its dam, that there may be evidence that it is not imperfect; and on the eighth day and thenceforth, it is acceptable to be offered an oblation to the Name of the Lord. Sons of Yisrael, my people, as our Father in heaven is merciful, so shall you be merciful on earth: neither cow, nor ewe, shall you sacrifice along with her young on the same day. And when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Name of the Lord, you shall offer so as to be accepted. It shall be eaten on that day, none shall remain till the morning: I am the Lord. And you shall observe My commandments to do them I am the Lord who give a good reward, to them who keep My commandments and My laws. Nor shall you profane My Holy Name, that I may be hallowed among the children of Yisrael. I am the Lord who sanctify you, having brought you forth redeemed from the land of Mizraim, that I may be to you Eloah: I am the Lord.
[JERUSALEM. In the time that thou remindest us of the order of the oblations as they are to be offered year by year; our offerings are to make atonement for our sins. But when our sins have given occasion, and we have not wherewith to bring from our flocks of sheep, a bullock is to be chosen before Me. to recall to remembrance the elder of the east, sincere altogether, Who brought to Thy Name a calf tender and good, Which he gave to the young man, who basted to dress it, and to bake unleavened cakes; and the angels did eat, and be was accounted worthy to receive the announcement that., behold, Sarah should give birth to Izhak. A lamb is to be chosen, secondly, to call to remembrance the righteousness of the prince who suffered himself to be bound upon the alter, and stretched forth his neck for Thy Name's sake; when the heavens stooped down and condescended, and Izhak beheld their foundations, and his eyes were blinded by the high things (or, from the heights), on which account be was held worthy that a lamb should be provided in his stead for a burnt offering. A kid of the goats also is to be chosen, to call to remembrance the righteousness of that perfect one who put on the skins of the kids, and made savory meat, and brought of his viands unto his father, and gave wine to him to drink; on account of which he was held worthy to receive the orders of blessings from Izhak his father, that the twelve sacred tribes should arise to Thy Name. Behold, then, how Mosheh, the prophet of the Lord, expoundeth, and saith, Sons of Yisrael, my people, When a bullock, or a lamb, or a goat is brought forth, it shall be seven days after its dam; on the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be fit to be offered as an oblation to the Name of the Lord.]
XXIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, The orders of the time of the Festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, these are the orders of the time of My festivals. Six days shalt thou do work, and the seventh day (shall be) a Shabbat and a rest, a holy convocation. No manner of work may you do; it is a Shabbat to the Lord in every place of your habitations.
These are the times of the Festivals of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their times: In the month of Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the suns (shall be) the time for the sacrifice of the Pascha to the Name of the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of this month the feast of unleavened cakes to the Name of the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day of the feast a holy convocation shall be to you; ye shall do no work of labour, but offer the oblation to the Name of the Lord seven days; in the seventh day of the feast shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labour.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land which I give you, and you reap the harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest; and he shall uplift the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you. After the first festal day of Pascha (or, the day after the feast‑day of Pascha) on the day on which you elevate the sheaf, you shall make (the sacrifice of a lamb of the year, unblemished a burnt offering unto the Name of the Lord: and its mincha, two tenths of flour, mingled with olive oil, for an oblation to the Name of the Lord, to be received with acceptance; and its libation, wine of grapes, the fourth of a hin. But neither bread nor parched corn (of the ripe harvest) nor new ears may you eat until this day, until the time of your bringing the oblation of your Elohim: an everlasting statute unto your generations in all your dwellings
And number to you after the first feast day of Pascha, from the day when you brought the sheaf for the elevation, seven weeks; complete they shall be. Until the day after the seventh week you shall number fifty days, and shall offer a mincha of the new bread unto the Name of the Lord. From the place of your dwellings you are to bring the bread for the elevation; two cakes of two‑tenths of flour, which must be baked with leaven, as first fruits unto the Name of the Lord. And with that bread you are to offer seven lambs of the year, unblemished, and a young bullock without mixture (of colour), the one for a sin offering, and two lambs of the year for a sanctified oblation. And you shall make (a sacrifice) of a young goat without mixture, the one for a sin offering and two lambs of the year for a sanctified oblation. And the priest shall uplift them with the bread of the first fruits, an elevation before the Lord, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Name of the Lord, and shall be for the priest. And you shall proclaim with life and strength
that self‑same day, that at the time of that day there shall be to you a holy convocation: you shall do no work of labour: it is an everlasting statute in all your dwelling for your generations.
And when you reap the harvest of the ground, you shall not finish one corner that is in thy field at thy reaping nor shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest, but leave them for the poor and the strangers: I am the Lord thy Elohim.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, saying: In Tishri, which is the seven month, shall be to you a festival of seven days, a memorial of trumpets, a holy convocation. No work of labour may you do, but offer an oblation before the Lord unto the Name of the Lord. And the Lord spake with Mosheh saying: But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; a holy convocation shall it be to you, and you shall humble your souls, (abstaining) from food, and from drink, and from the use of the bath, and from anointing, and the use of the bed, and from sandals; and you shall offer an oblation before the Lord, and do no work on this same day; for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your Elohim. For every man who eateth in the fast, and will not fast that same day, shall be cut off by death from among his people. [JERUSALEM. For every soul who hideth himself from fasting and fasteth not on the day of the fast of his atonement.] And every man who doeth any work on that same day, that man will I destroy with death from among his people. No work of labour may you do an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings. It is a Shabbat and time of leisure for you to humble your souls. And you shall begin to fast at the ninth day of the month at even time; from that evening, until the next evening, shall you fast your fast, and repose in your quietude, that you may employ the time of your festivals with joy. [JERUSALEM. From evening to evening you shall fast your fast, and repose in your quietude, that you may employ the time of your festivals with joy.]
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael: In the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles, seven days unto the Name of the Lord. On the first day of the feast is a holy convocation; no work of labour may you do. Seven days you shall offer an oblation to the Name of the Lord, you shall gather together to pray before the Lord for rain; no work of labour may you do. These are the times of the order of the Lord's festivals which you are to convoke for holy convocations, to offer an oblation to the name of the Lord, a burnt sacrifice and a mincha, sanctified offerings and libations, the rite of a day in its day; beside the days of the Lord's Shabbats, beside your gifts, and beside your vows, and beside your free‑will offering which you bring before the Lord. But on the fifteenth of the seventh month, at the time when you collect the produce of the ground, you shall solemnize a festival of the Lord seven days. On the first day, rest; and on the eighth day, rest. And of your own shall you take on the first day of the feast, the fruits of praiseworthy trees, citrons, and lulabin, and myrtles, and willows that grow by the brooks; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your Elohim seven days. [JERUSALEM. Citrons and lulabs.] And you shall solemnize it before the Lord seven days in the year, by an everlasting statute in your generations shall you observe it in the seventh month. In tabernacles of two sides according to their rule, and the third a handbreadth (higher), that its shaded part may be greater than that into which cometh the sunshine;[1] to be made for a bower (or shade) for the feast, from different kinds (of materials) which spring from the earth and are uprooted: in measure seven palms, but the height within ten palms. In it you shall sit seven days;[2] the males in Yisrael, and children who need not their mothers, shall sit in the tabernacles, blessing their Creator whenever they enter thereinto. That your generations may know how, under the shadow of the cloud of glory, I made the sons of Yisrael to dwell at the time that I brought them out redeemed from the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh declared the time of the orders of the Lord's festivals, and taught them to the sons of Yisrael.
XXIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh,saying: Command the children of Yisrael that they bring of their own, pure beaten olive oil for the light, that the lamps may burn continually, on the day of Shabbat, and on the day of work; outside of the veil of the testimony for evermore, because the Shekinah dwelleth in Yisrael: in the tabernacle of ordinance shall Aharon order it from evening till morning before the Lord continually, by an everlasting statute unto your generations.
And thou shalt take flour, and bake thereof twelve cakes, according to the twelve tribes; two tenths shall be one cake. And thou shalt set them in two orders (rows), six in one order, and six in the other upon the table in its purity, as it is ordained before the Lord. And thou shalt put upon the orders pure frankincense, that it may be an oblation of memorial bread before the Lord. From Shabbat day to Shabbat day he shall order it anew before the Lord continually from the children of Yisrael. This shall be an everlasting statute. And it shall be for Aharon and for his sons, and they shall eat it after they have taken it from off the table in the holy place; for it is most sacred to him of the oblations of the Lord by an everlasting statute.
But a wicked man, a rebel against the Elohim of heaven, had come out of Mizraim, the son of the Mizraite man who had killed the man of Yisrael in Mizraim, and had gone in unto his wife, who conceived and bare a son among the children of Yisrael. And while the Israelites were dwelling in the wilderness, he had sought to spread his tent in the midst of the tribe of the children of Dan; but they would not permit him, because in the arrangements of Yisrael every man dwelt with his family by the ensigns of the house of their fathers. And they contended together in the camp, and the son of the Israelitess with a man of Yisrael, who was of the tribe of Dan, went to the house of judgment; and when they had come out from the house of judgment, where he had been condemned, the son of the daughter of Yisrael expressed and reviled the great and glorious Name of Manifestation which he had heard at Sinai, and defiled and execrated; and the name of his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibree, of the tribe of Dan. [JERUSALEM. And the son of the woman of Yisrael reviled the Manifested Name and defied.]
This is one of four judgments which were brought in before Mosheh the prophet, who decided them by the dictate of the Word, who is above. They were judgments about money and about life. In judgments on money Mosheh was prompt; but in the judgment on life he was deliberate (or slow by delay) each (party) Mosheh said, I have not heard: that he might teach the chiefs of the Sanhedrin of Yisrael, who were to arise after him, to be prompt in judgments respecting money, but slow in judgments that affected life; and not to be ashamed to inquire for counsel in cases that should be too hard for them, forasmuch as Mosheh, Rabban of Yisrael, had need to say, I have not heard. Therefore they shut him up in the house of confinement till the time that it should be explained to them by the decree of the Word of the Lord.
[JERUSALEM. This is one of four judgments that were brought before Mosheh our Rabbi. In two of them was Mosheh slow by delay, and in two of them was Mosheh expeditious. With the blasphemer who blasphemed the Holy Name with scoffings and with the gatherer of sticks who profaned the Shabbat, Mosheh had delay, because they were judgments that affected life; but in the case of unclean persons who could not perform the Pascha in its time, and in that of the daughters of Zelophehad, Mosheh could be prompt, because they were judgments on temporal matters. But to those he would say, I have not heard: to teach the judges who were to arise after Mosheh to be slow in judgments on life and to be expeditious in judgments of Mammon; and not to be ashamed to say, I have not heard; for Mosheh our Rabban said, I have not heard. And they shut him up in confinement, while as yet it had not been explained to them from before the Lord with what judgments they were to deal with him.]
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp, and let the witnesses who heard his blasphemy, and the judges, lay their hands upon his head, and let the whole congregation stone him with stones. And speak thou with the sons of Yisrael, saying: A man young or old who shall blaspheme the known Name of his Elohim shall bear his sin. Whosoever expresseth and revileth the Name of the Lord shall verily be put to death; all the congregation shall cast stones upon him, whether he be a sojourner or native‑born, when he hath blasphemed the Name that is Alone, he shall die.
And if a man destroy the life of any one of the children of Yisrael, he shall verily be put to death by the sword. And he who destroyeth the life of an animal shall make it good, a living animal for a living one. And a man who inflicteth a blemish on his neighbour, whatsoever he hath done it shall be done unto him: the value of a fracture for a fracture; the value of an eye for an eye; the value of a tooth for a tooth; whatsoever blemish he inflicteth upon the man, the same shall be rendered unto him. [JERUSALEM. Fracture shall be recompensed by fracture, an eye shall be recompensed by an eye, a tooth for a tooth, the blemish he hath given to the man it shall be given unto him.] He who killeth a beast shall restore it; but be who slayeth a man shall be slain. One judgment shall you have for the stranger and for the native; for I am the Lord your Elohim. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael, and they brought forth the blasphemer without the camp, and stoned him with stones; and the sons of Yisrael did it, by laying their hands upon, leading him away hanging, and burying him, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
[1] Vide Mishna, order ii, treatise 17, Sukkah.
[1] One meal at least each day in the bower.
[1] Vide Mishna, order ii, treatise 17, Sukkah.
[2] One meal at least each day in the bower.
from, (merachaka,) he hath uncovered the nakedness of his brother, they shall be childless. But keep you all My statutes and all My judgments, and do them, that the land into which I bring you to dwell may not cast you out. You shall not walk in the laws of the peoples whom I drive away from before you; for they have committed all these things, and My Word hath abhorred them. But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit this land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land producing milk and honey. I am the Lord your Elohim who have separated you from the peoples. And you shall make distinction between animals clean and unclean, and between fowls unclean and clean, and not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing that creepeth on the ground which I have separated (as to be) unto you unclean. And you shall be holy before Me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the nations to be worshippers before Me. A man or a woman with whom are impostures or divinations shall be verily put to death; with stones they shall be stoned, they are guilty of death.
SECTION XXXI.
EMOR.
XXI. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no one be defiled among his people on account of the dead: yet for his kin, who is nigh to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who hath no husband, for her he may be defiled. But a chief among his people (the high priest) shall not defile himself, to make himself profane. They shall not make baldness on their heads, nor cut away the hair of their beards, nor scarify their flesh with marks. They shall be holy before their Elohim, and shall not profane the Name of their Elohim; for they offer the oblations of the Lord their Elohim, and they shall be holy. They shall not take to wife a woman who is a harlot, or one who is corrupted, nor may they take a woman who hath been put away from her husband; for (the priest is to be) holy before his Elohim. Thou shalt consecrate him, for he is to offer the oblation of thy Elohim: he shall be sacred to thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am Holy. And if the daughter of a man who is a priest profane herself by becoming an harlot, she hath profaned the sanctity of her father; she shall be burned with fire.
And the (high) priest who hath been consecrated from his brethren, upon whose head hath been poured the oil of consecration, and who, at the offering of his oblation, is arrayed with the (holy) robes, shall not make bare his head, nor rend his garments. Nor shall he enter unto any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother. And he shall not go out from the sanctuary nor defile the sanctuary of his Elohim; for the crown of the[9] anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him. I am the Lord. And he shall take a wife in her virginity; a widow, or a divorced person, or a corrupt harlot, these he shall not take; but a virgin from his people shall he take for a wife. And his offspring he shall not profane among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify him.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, saying: A man of the generations of thy sons who hath any blemish on him shall not approach to offer the oblation of his Elohim. For no man in whom is a blemish may come nigh; a blind man, or lame, or flat nosed, or disproportioned;[10] or a man who hath a broken foot, or a broken hand, or who is crookbacked, or dwarfish[11], or who hath a white spot in his eye,[12] or the scurvy, or ringworm, or who hath ruptured testicles. No man of the offspring of Aharon the priest who hath a blemish may approach to offer the oblations of the Lord; having a blemish in him he shall not draw near to present the oblation of his Elohim: yet of the sanctified oblations of his Elohim, even of the most holy, he may eat: only he shall not enter within the veil, nor approach the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My sanctuary; for I am the Lord who sanctify them. And Mosheh spake with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the sons of Yisrael.
XXII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, and let them keep separate from[13] the consecrated things of the children of Yisrael, that they profane not the Name of My Holiness which they (are to) sanctify before Me: I am the Lord. Say to them, Any man of all the sons of your generations who shall touch the hallowed things which the children of Yisrael consecrate before the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that man shall perish before Me: I am the Lord. Any man of Aharon's offspring who hath leprosy or an unclean effusion shall not eat of the consecrated things until he be clean; and whosoever toucheth any unclean animal, or a man whose seed goeth from him, or a man who toucheth any reptile that maketh him unclean, or a man who maketh him unclean by any of his uncleanness, the man who toucheth him shall be unclean until the evening, and may not eat of things consecrated unless he wash his flesh with water. But when the sun hath gone down, and he shall have purified himself, he may afterward eat of the hallowed things, for it is his food.
A carcase which hath been torn he may not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord. But let them keep the keeping of My word, lest they bring guilt upon themselves, and die for it, because they have profaned it, I am the Lord who sanctify them. No stranger shall eat of that which is consecrated, neither a sojourner with a priest, or a hireling, may eat of the consecrated thing. But if the priest buy a person with a purchase of his money, he may eat of it, and he who hath been born in his house, they may eat of his bread. And the daughter of a priest, if she be married to a stranger, may not eat of things set apart and hallowed. But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and, having, no child, hath returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat thereof.
And if a man eat some consecrated thing through ignorance, he shall add a fifth unto it, and give the consecrated thing unto the priest. And let them not profane the hallowed things of the children of Yisrael which are set apart before the Lord, nor bring upon themselves iniquities and sins, when they eat in uncleanness the things that are holy. I am the Lord, who sanctify them.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When any man of the sons of Yisrael, or of the sojourners in Yisrael, will offer the oblation of any of their vows or any of their freewill oblations which they may offer before the Lord for a burnt sacrifice; that it may be acceptable from you, (let it be) a male without blemish, of the bullocks, or of the lambs, or of the goats. But whatever hath a blemish in it you shall not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you. And if a man present a consecrated victim before the Lord, as a vow set apart, or a freewill offering of the herd or of the flock, it must be perfect, to be acceptable; there shall be no blemish in it. Blind, or broken, or mutilated, or having imposthumes, or ulcers, or blotches, these you shall not offer before the Lord, nor of them present an oblation upon the altar before the Lord. But a bullock or a lamb that hath anything superfluous or deficient you may make a free will offering,[14] but for a vow it will not be acceptable. And that which is crushed, or rent, or worn out, or emasculated, you shall not offer before the Lord, nor do it[15] in your land. Nor from (the hand of) a son of the Gentiles may you offer an oblation to your Elohim of any of these, because their corruption is in them, a blemish is in them; they will not be acceptable for you.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: When a bullock, or lamb, or goat, is brought forth, it shall be seven days with its dam, and on the eighth day and thenceforward it will be acceptable to be offered as an oblation before the Lord. Whether it be a cow or ewe, ye shall not immolate (both) her and her offspring on one day. And when you present a thank‑offering before the Lord, offer it so as to be acceptable for you. It is to be eaten on that day, nothing shall remain of it till the morning. I am the Lord. And you shall observe My commandments, and do them. I am the Lord. Nor shall you profane My holy Name, for I will be hallowed among the sons of Yisrael. I am the Lord who sanctify you, who have led you forth from the land of Mizraim to be unto you Eloha: I am the Lord.
XXIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: The FESTIVALS of the Lord which you shall convoke as holy convocations, these are My festivals. Six days thou shalt do work, but on the seventh day is the rest of the Shabbat; a holy convocation, (in it) you shall do no work. It is a Shabbat before the Lord in all your dwellings.
These are the festivals of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall convoke in their seasons. In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the suns, is the Pascha before the Lord, and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast (chagga) of unleavened cakes before the Lord; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have a holy convocation; no laborious work shall you do; but you shall offer an oblation before the Lord seven days; in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation; no laborious work may you do.
And the Lord spake with Mosheb, saving: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give unto you, and you reap its harvest, you shall bring an omera of the first of your harvest unto the priest, and he shall uplift the omera before the Lord to be accepted for you: after the day of the festivity (yoma taba) shall the priest uplift it. And you shall perform on the day of your elevation of the omera (the sacrifice of) an unblemished lamb of the year, as a burnt offering before the Lord. And the mincha thereof shall be two‑tenths of flour mingled with oil, an oblation to be accepted before the Lord; and its libation, wine, the fourth of a hin. Neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears shall you eat until this day when you bring the oblation of your Elohim; an everlasting statute unto your generations in all your dwellings.
And count to you, after the festival day, from the day that you brought the omera of the elevation, seven weeks, complete shall they be. Until the (day) after the seventh week number fifty days, and (then) offer a new mincha before the Lord. Bring from your dwellings two loaves for an elevation, two cakes, of two‑tenths of flour shall they be, baked with leaven, as first fruits before the Lord. And with the bread you shall offer seven unblemished lambs of the year, one young bullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering before the Lord, with their mincha and their libation, to be received with acceptance before the Lord. And you shall make one of the goats (a sacrifice) for a sin offering, and two lambs of the year for consecrated offerings. And the priest shall uplift them with the bread of the first fruits an elevation before the Lord; with the two lambs they (the loaves) shall be consecrated before the Lord for the priest. And on this same day you shall proclaim (that) it shall be a holy convocation to you. Ye shall do no work of labour. (This is) an everlasting statute in all your dwellings unto your generations.
And when you reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not entirely finish the corner of thy field in thy reaping, nor shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest; for the poor and for the stranger thou shalt leave them: I am the Lord your Elohim.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: In the seventh month[16] you shall have a (season of) Rest; a memorial of the Trumpet, a holy convocation; no work of labour shall you do, but offer an oblation before the Lord. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: But on the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement (Yoma de Kippuraia, the Day of Expiations); a holy convocation you shall have, and afflict (or humble) your souls2 and offer the oblation before the Lord. And NO WORK3 may you do on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your Elohim. For every man who will not humble himself4 on that same day, shall be cut off from his people. And any man who doeth any work oil that same day, I will destroy that man from among his people. No work shall you do: an everlasting statute unto your generations, in all your dwellings. A Shabbat of rest shall it be to you, and ye shall humble your souls, on the ninth of the month at evening: from evening to evening you shall rest your rest.5
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month (shall be) the Feast of Bowers,6 seven days before the Lord. On the first day a holy convocation; no work of labour may you do. Seven days you shall offer oblations before the Lord; on the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and offer an oblation before the Lord. You shall be gathered together; no work of labour may you do.
These are the Festivals of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an oblation before the Lord, a burnt sacrifice, and a mincha, and a consecrated offering and libations (according to) the directory of the day, on its day. Beside (or except) the Shabbats of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings which you present before the Lord. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the ground, you shall solemnize a feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day there shall be rest, and on the eighth day rest. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruit of the orange (or citron) tree,7 and branches of palms,8 and myrtles, and willows of the brook, and rejoice before the Lord your Elohim seven days. And solemnize it, a feast before the Lord, seven days in the year; it is an everlasting statute unto your generations; in the seventh month shall you solemnize it. In bowers shall you dwell seven days; every one who is native born in Yisrael shall dwell (or sit) in the bowers: that your generations may know that I made the children of Yisrael to dwell under the shadow of clouds when I brought them forth from the land of Mizraim. I am the Lord your Elohim. And Mosheh declared the order of the Festivals of the Lord, and taught them to the sons of Yisrael.
XXIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Instruct the sons of Yisrael to bring to thee oil of olives, pure (and) beaten, to give light, to make the lamps burn continually. Outside of the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of ordinance, shall Aharon order it from evening till morning before the Lord continually; an everlasting statute unto your generations. Upon the pure candelabrum shall be order the lamps before the Lord continually. And thou shalt take flour, and prepare twelve cakes; two tenths shall be for one cake. And thou shalt place them in two rows (orders), six in an order, upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon (each) order, and it shall be for Bread of Memorial, (Lechem leadkara,) an oblation before the Lord. From Shabbat day to Shabbat day he shall order it before the Lord continually, from the offerings of the children of Yisrael, an everlasting statute. And it shall be for Aharon and for his sons, that they may eat it in the holy place; for it is most sacred to him of the oblations of the Lord by an everlasting statute.
And the son of a woman, a daughter of Yisrael, but he was the son of a Mizraite man went out among the children of Yisrael; and the son of the Israelite woman, and a man, a son of Yisrael, had contention in the camp. And the son of the woman the daughter of Yisrael gave expression to the Name, and execrated. And they brought him unto Mosheh. And the name of his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibree, of the tribe of Dan. And they bound him in the house of confinement, until it should be explained to them by the decree of the Word of the Lord. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring forth him who hath imprecated without the camp, and let all who heard lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And speak thou with the sons of Yisrael, saying: Whatever man imprecateth before his Elohim shall bear his guilt, and be who (so) expresseth the Name of the Lord, dying shall die, and all the congregation shall stone him, as well the stranger as the native born; when he hath made (blasphemous) expression of the Name, he shall be put to death.
And the man who killeth any soul of man shall die, being put to death. And he who killeth the life of a beast shall make it good, life for life. And if a man inflict a blemish on his neighbour, as he hath done, so it shall be done to him: bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth) as he hath inflicted a blemish upon a man, it shall be done to him. And he who killeth a beast shall make it good; but he who killeth a man shall be pat to death. One judgment shall you have, for the stranger as for the native born shall it be; for I am the Lord your Elohim. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael, and they brought out the blasphemer without the camp, and stoned him with stones; and the sons of Yisrael did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
SECTION XXXII.
BEHAR SINAI.
XXV. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give you, the land shall have rest by an intermission (shemet shemittha) before the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years prune thy vineyard, and gather in its fruit; but in the seventh year the land shall have a respite of rest (neach shemittha), a respite before the Lord; thou shalt not sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard. The after crop of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither make vintage of the grapes which thou mayest have left, it shall be a year of remission to the land. Yet the remission of the land9 shall be to thee for food, to thee, and to thy servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to the sojourner who dwelleth with thee. And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the produce of it be for meat.
And number to thee seven (such) years of Release,
[9] Sam. Vers., “of the excellency.”
[10] Pesch. Syriac here, “or who hath the ear slit.”
[11] Or, “whose eyebrows have fallen off.” – Ibid.
[12] Or, “having sightless eyes,” or “having white spots in his eyes.” – Ibid.
[13] “At the time of their uncleanness.” – RASHI.
[14] The meaning, according to the Rabbins, is, that the animal itself was not to be brought, but the value of it in money, to be applied to the repairs of the sanctuary, &c.
[15] Pesch. Syr., “nor sacrifice it.”
[16] Tishri, September.
2 Sam. Vers., “by fasting.”
3 Not even the preparation of food; the fast being absolute.
4 Sam. Vers., “will not fast.”
5 Tenchun neyachakun. Heb., Tishebethu shabbatekem.
6 Or “shades;” Chaga di-metalaia. Heb., chag ha-sukkoth, “feast of booths, or tabernacles.”
7 Heb., “the tree hadar.” Onkelos, ilana ethrogia.
8 Lulabin.
9 The produce of the land during the time of remission. – RASHI, EBEN EZRA. For the whole year it was common property, and not the owner’s exclusively.
<html>
<a href=#C491V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C492V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C493V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C494V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C495V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C496V1>Chapter 06</a>
<p>
<a name="C491V1" id="C491V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua through
the will of Elohim,<br /> to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful
in Messiah Yeshua: <a name="C491V2" id="C491V2">1:2</a> Grace to you and peace
from Elohim our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C491V3" id="C491V3">1:3</a> Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Lord
Yeshua Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places in Messiah; <a name="C491V4" id="C491V4">1:4</a> even as he
chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy
and without blemish before him in love; <a name="C491V5" id="C491V5">1:5</a>
having predestined us for adoption as children through Yeshua Messiah to
himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, <a name="C491V6"
id="C491V6">1:6</a> to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he
freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, <a name="C491V7" id="C491V7">1:7</a>
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our
trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, <a name="C491V8" id="C491V8">1:8</a>
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, <a
name="C491V9" id="C491V9">1:9</a> making known to us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him <a name="C491V10"
id="C491V10">1:10</a> to an administration of the fullness of the times, to
sum up all things in Messiah, the things in the heavens, and the things on
the earth, in him; <a name="C491V11" id="C491V11">1:11</a> in whom also we
were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the
purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; <a
name="C491V12" id="C491V12">1:12</a> to the end that we should be to the
praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Messiah: <a name="C491V13"
id="C491V13">1:13</a> in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth,
the Good News of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, you were
sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, <a name="C491V14" id="C491V14">1:14</a>
who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of Elohim's own
possession, to the praise of his glory. <a name="C491V15" id="C491V15">1:15</a>
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Yeshua which
is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints, <a
name="C491V16" id="C491V16">1:16</a> don't cease to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayers, <a name="C491V17" id="C491V17">1:17</a>
that the Elohim of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, the Father of glory, may give to
you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; <a
name="C491V18" id="C491V18">1:18</a> having the eyes of your <a href="#N491">hearts</a>
enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what
are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, <a
name="C491V19" id="C491V19">1:19</a> and what is the exceeding greatness of
his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength
of his might <a name="C491V20" id="C491V20">1:20</a> which he worked in
Messiah, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right
hand in the heavenly places, <a name="C491V21" id="C491V21">1:21</a> far above
all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. <a
name="C491V22" id="C491V22">1:22</a> He put all things in subjection under his
feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, <a
name="C491V23" id="C491V23">1:23</a> which is his body, the fullness of him
who fills all in all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C492V1" id="C492V1">2:1</a> You were made alive when you were dead in
transgressions and sins, <a name="C492V2" id="C492V2">2:2</a> in which you
once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of
disobedience; <a name="C492V3" id="C492V3">2:3</a> among whom we also all once
lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. <a
name="C492V4" id="C492V4">2:4</a> But Elohim, being rich in mercy, for his great
love with which he loved us, <a name="C492V5" id="C492V5">2:5</a> even when we
were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah (by
grace you have been saved), <a name="C492V6" id="C492V6">2:6</a> and raised us
up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Messiah
Yeshua, <a name="C492V7" id="C492V7">2:7</a> that in the ages to come he might
show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Messiah
Yeshua; <a name="C492V8" id="C492V8">2:8</a> for by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of Elohim, <a
name="C492V9" id="C492V9">2:9</a> not of works, that no one would boast. <a
name="C492V10" id="C492V10">2:10</a> For we are his workmanship, created in
Messiah Yeshua for good works, which Elohim prepared before that we would walk
in them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C492V11" id="C492V11">2:11</a> Therefore remember that once you, the
Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that
which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
<a name="C492V12" id="C492V12">2:12</a> that you were at that time separate
from Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Yisrael, and strangers from
the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without Elohim in the world.
<a name="C492V13" id="C492V13">2:13</a> But now in Messiah Yeshua you who once
were far off are made near in the blood of Messiah. <a name="C492V14"
id="C492V14">2:14</a> For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down
the middle wall of partition, <a name="C492V15" id="C492V15">2:15</a> having
abolished in the flesh the hostility, the Torah of commandments contained in
ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making
peace; <a name="C492V16" id="C492V16">2:16</a> and might reconcile them both
in one body to Elohim through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
<a name="C492V17" id="C492V17">2:17</a> He came and preached peace to you who
were far off and to those who were near. <a name="C492V18" id="C492V18">2:18</a>
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. <a
name="C492V19" id="C492V19">2:19</a> So then you are no longer strangers and
foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
household of Elohim, <a name="C492V20" id="C492V20">2:20</a> being built on the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Messiah Yeshua himself being the
chief cornerstone; <a name="C492V21" id="C492V21">2:21</a> in whom the whole
building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; <a
name="C492V22" id="C492V22">2:22</a> in whom you also are built together for a
habitation of Elohim in the Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C493V1" id="C493V1">3:1</a> For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner
of Messiah Yeshua on behalf of you Gentiles, <a name="C493V2" id="C493V2">3:2</a>
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of Elohim
which was given me toward you; <a name="C493V3" id="C493V3">3:3</a> how that
by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few
words, <a name="C493V4" id="C493V4">3:4</a> by which, when you read, you can
perceive my understanding in the mystery of Messiah; <a name="C493V5"
id="C493V5">3:5</a> which in other generations was not made known to the
children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and
prophets in the Spirit; <a name="C493V6" id="C493V6">3:6</a> that the Gentiles
are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of
his promise in Messiah Yeshua through the Good News, <a name="C493V7" id="C493V7">3:7</a>
of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of Elohim
which was given me according to the working of his power. <a name="C493V8"
id="C493V8">3:8</a> To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace
given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Messiah, <a
name="C493V9" id="C493V9">3:9</a> and to make all men see what is the <a
href="#N492">administration</a> of the mystery which for ages has been
hidden in Elohim, who created all things through Yeshua Messiah; <a name="C493V10"
id="C493V10">3:10</a> to the intent that now through the assembly the
manifold wisdom of Elohim might be made known to the principalities and the
powers in the heavenly places, <a name="C493V11" id="C493V11">3:11</a>
according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Messiah Yeshua our
Lord; <a name="C493V12" id="C493V12">3:12</a> in whom we have boldness and
access in confidence through our faith in him. <a name="C493V13" id="C493V13">3:13</a>
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which
are your glory.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C493V14" id="C493V14">3:14</a> For this cause, I bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, <a name="C493V15" id="C493V15">3:15</a> from
whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, <a name="C493V16"
id="C493V16">3:16</a> that he would grant you, according to the riches of
his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in
the inward man; <a name="C493V17" id="C493V17">3:17</a> that Messiah may dwell
in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, <a name="C493V18" id="C493V18">3:18</a> may be strengthened
to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and
height and depth, <a name="C493V19" id="C493V19">3:19</a> and to know Messiah's
love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the
fullness of Elohim. <a name="C493V20" id="C493V20">3:20</a> Now to him who is
able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, <a name="C493V21" id="C493V21">3:21</a>
to him be the glory in the assembly and in Messiah Yeshua to all generations
forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C494V1" id="C494V1">4:1</a> I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord,
beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, <a
name="C494V2" id="C494V2">4:2</a> with all lowliness and humility, with
patience, bearing with one another in love; <a name="C494V3" id="C494V3">4:3</a>
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. <a
name="C494V4" id="C494V4">4:4</a> There is one body, and one Spirit, even as
you also were called in one hope of your calling; <a name="C494V5" id="C494V5">4:5</a>
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, <a name="C494V6" id="C494V6">4:6</a> one Elohim
and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. <a
name="C494V7" id="C494V7">4:7</a> But to each one of us was the grace given
according to the measure of the gift of Messiah. <a name="C494V8" id="C494V8">4:8</a>
Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity
captive, and gave gifts to men."<sup><a href="#N493">*</a></sup> <a
name="C494V9" id="C494V9">4:9</a> Now this, "He ascended," what is
it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? <a
name="C494V10" id="C494V10">4:10</a> He who descended is the one who also
ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C494V11" id="C494V11">4:11</a> He gave some to be apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, <a href="#N494">shepherds</a> and
teachers; <a name="C494V12" id="C494V12">4:12</a> for the perfecting of the
saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Messiah;
<a name="C494V13" id="C494V13">4:13</a> until we all attain to the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a full grown man, to
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah; <a name="C494V14"
id="C494V14">4:14</a> that we may no longer be children, tossed back and
forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of
men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; <a name="C494V15" id="C494V15">4:15</a>
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is
the head, Messiah; <a name="C494V16" id="C494V16">4:16</a> from whom all the
body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint
supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part,
makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C494V17" id="C494V17">4:17</a> This I say therefore, and testify in
the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk,
in the futility of their mind, <a name="C494V18" id="C494V18">4:18</a> being
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of Elohim, because
of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their
hearts; <a name="C494V19" id="C494V19">4:19</a> who having become callous gave
themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. <a
name="C494V20" id="C494V20">4:20</a> But you did not learn Messiah that way; <a
name="C494V21" id="C494V21">4:21</a> if indeed you heard him, and were taught
in him, even as truth is in Yeshua: <a name="C494V22" id="C494V22">4:22</a>
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man,
that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; <a name="C494V23" id="C494V23">4:23</a>
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, <a name="C494V24"
id="C494V24">4:24</a> and put on the new man, who in the likeness of Elohim has
been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C494V25" id="C494V25">4:25</a> Therefore, putting away falsehood,
speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
<a name="C494V26" id="C494V26">4:26</a> "Be angry, and don't sin."<sup><a
href="#N495">*</a></sup> Don't let the sun go down on your wrath, <a
name="C494V27" id="C494V27">4:27</a> neither give place to the devil. <a
name="C494V28" id="C494V28">4:28</a> Let him who stole steal no more; but
rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that
he may have something to give to him who has need. <a name="C494V29"
id="C494V29">4:29</a> Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but
such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace
to those who hear. <a name="C494V30" id="C494V30">4:30</a> Don't grieve the
Holy Spirit of Elohim, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. <a
name="C494V31" id="C494V31">4:31</a> Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry,
and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. <a name="C494V32"
id="C494V32">4:32</a> And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving
each other, just as Elohim also in Messiah forgave you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V1" id="C495V1">5:1</a> Be therefore imitators of Elohim, as beloved
children. <a name="C495V2" id="C495V2">5:2</a> Walk in love, even as Messiah
also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
Elohim for a sweet-smelling fragrance. <a name="C495V3" id="C495V3">5:3</a> But
sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even
be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; <a name="C495V4" id="C495V4">5:4</a>
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not
appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V5" id="C495V5">5:5</a> Know this for sure, that no sexually
immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Messiah and Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V6" id="C495V6">5:6</a> Let no one deceive you with empty words.
For because of these things, the wrath of Elohim comes on the children of
disobedience. <a name="C495V7" id="C495V7">5:7</a> Therefore don't be
partakers with them. <a name="C495V8" id="C495V8">5:8</a> For you were once
darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, <a
name="C495V9" id="C495V9">5:9</a> for the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth, <a name="C495V10" id="C495V10">5:10</a>
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. <a name="C495V11" id="C495V11">5:11</a>
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even
reprove them. <a name="C495V12" id="C495V12">5:12</a> For the things which are
done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. <a name="C495V13"
id="C495V13">5:13</a> But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed
by the light, for everything that reveals is light. <a name="C495V14"
id="C495V14">5:14</a> Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and
arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V15" id="C495V15">5:15</a> Therefore watch carefully how you
walk, not as unwise, but as wise; <a name="C495V16" id="C495V16">5:16</a>
redeeming the time, because the days are evil. <a name="C495V17" id="C495V17">5:17</a>
Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
<a name="C495V18" id="C495V18">5:18</a> Don't be drunken with wine, in which
is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, <a name="C495V19" id="C495V19">5:19</a>
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing,
and singing praises in your heart to the Lord; <a name="C495V20" id="C495V20">5:20</a>
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Yeshua
Messiah, to Elohim, even the Father; <a name="C495V21" id="C495V21">5:21</a>
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V22" id="C495V22">5:22</a> Wives, be subject to your own
husbands, as to the Lord. <a name="C495V23" id="C495V23">5:23</a> For the
husband is the head of the wife, and Messiah also is the head of the
assembly, being himself the savior of the body. <a name="C495V24" id="C495V24">5:24</a>
But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to
their own husbands in everything.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C495V25" id="C495V25">5:25</a> Husbands, love your wives, even as
Messiah also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; <a name="C495V26"
id="C495V26">5:26</a> that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the
washing of water with the word, <a name="C495V27" id="C495V27">5:27</a> that
he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
<a name="C495V28" id="C495V28">5:28</a> Even so husbands also ought to love
their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
himself. <a name="C495V29" id="C495V29">5:29</a> For no man ever hated his own
flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the
assembly; <a name="C495V30" id="C495V30">5:30</a> because we are members of
his body, of his flesh and bones. <a name="C495V31" id="C495V31">5:31</a>
"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be
joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."<sup><a href="#N496">*</a></sup>
<a name="C495V32" id="C495V32">5:32</a> This mystery is great, but I speak
concerning Messiah and of the assembly. <a name="C495V33" id="C495V33">5:33</a>
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and
let the wife see that she respects her husband.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V1" id="C496V1">6:1</a> Children, obey your parents in the Lord,
for this is right. <a name="C496V2" id="C496V2">6:2</a> "Honor your
father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: <a
name="C496V3" id="C496V3">6:3</a> "that it may be well with you, and you
may live long on the earth."<sup><a href="#N497">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V4" id="C496V4">6:4</a> You fathers, don't provoke your children
to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V5" id="C496V5">6:5</a> Servants, be obedient to those who
according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in
singleness of your heart, as to Messiah; <a name="C496V6" id="C496V6">6:6</a>
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but
as servants of Messiah, doing the will of Elohim from the heart; <a name="C496V7"
id="C496V7">6:7</a> with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to
men; <a name="C496V8" id="C496V8">6:8</a> knowing that whatever good thing
each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is
bound or free.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V9" id="C496V9">6:9</a> You masters, do the same things to them,
and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and
yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V10" id="C496V10">6:10</a> Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in
the strength of his might. <a name="C496V11" id="C496V11">6:11</a> Put on the
whole armor of Elohim, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil. <a name="C496V12" id="C496V12">6:12</a> For our wrestling is not
against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the
powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and
against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. <a
name="C496V13" id="C496V13">6:13</a> Therefore, put on the whole armor of Elohim,
that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all,
to stand. <a name="C496V14" id="C496V14">6:14</a> Stand therefore, having the
utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the
breastplate of righteousness, <a name="C496V15" id="C496V15">6:15</a> and
having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace; <a
name="C496V16" id="C496V16">6:16</a> above all, taking up the shield of faith,
with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
<a name="C496V17" id="C496V17">6:17</a> And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the spoken word of Elohim; <a name="C496V18"
id="C496V18">6:18</a> with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in
the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and
requests for all the saints: <a name="C496V19" id="C496V19">6:19</a> on my
behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make
known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, <a name="C496V20"
id="C496V20">6:20</a> for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I
may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V21" id="C496V21">6:21</a> But that you also may know my affairs,
how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the
Lord, will make known to you all things; <a name="C496V22" id="C496V22">6:22</a>
whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our
state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C496V23" id="C496V23">6:23</a> Peace be to the brothers, and love
with faith, from Elohim the Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C496V24"
id="C496V24">6:24</a> Grace be with all those who love our Lord Yeshua Messiah
with incorruptible love. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N491" id="N491">[1]</a> <a href="#C491V18">back to 1:18</a> TR reads
"understanding" instead of "hearts"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N492" id="N492">[2]</a> <a href="#C493V9">back to 3:9</a> TR reads
"fellowship" instead of "administration"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N493" id="N493">[3]</a> <a href="#C494V8">back to 4:8</a> Psalm 68:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N494" id="N494">[4]</a> <a href="#C494V11">back to 4:11</a> or, pastors
</p>
<p>
<a name="N495" id="N495">[5]</a> <a href="#C494V26">back to 4:26</a> Psalm 4:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N496" id="N496">[6]</a> <a href="#C495V31">back to 5:31</a> Genesis
2:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N497" id="N497">[7]</a> <a href="#C496V3">back to 6:3</a> Deuteronomy
5:16
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C171V1" id="C171V1">1:1</a> Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus
(this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one
hundred twenty-seven provinces), <a name="C171V2" id="C171V2">1:2</a> that in
those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom,
which was in Shushan the palace, <a name="C171V3" id="C171V3">1:3</a> in the
third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his
servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the
provinces, being before him. <a name="C171V4" id="C171V4">1:4</a> He displayed
the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty
many days, even one hundred eighty days. <a name="C171V5" id="C171V5">1:5</a>
When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all
the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small,
in the court of the garden of the king's palace. <a name="C171V6" id="C171V6">1:6</a>
There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with
cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The
couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and
black marble. <a name="C171V7" id="C171V7">1:7</a> They gave them drinks in
golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance,
according to the bounty of the king. <a name="C171V8" id="C171V8">1:8</a> In
accordance with the Torah, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king
had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do
according to every man's pleasure. <a name="C171V9" id="C171V9">1:9</a> Also
Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which
belonged to King Ahasuerus.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C171V10" id="C171V10">1:10</a> On the seventh day, when the heart of
the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,
Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in
the presence of Ahasuerus the king, <a name="C171V11" id="C171V11">1:11</a> to
bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the
people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful. <a name="C171V12"
id="C171V12">1:12</a> But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's
commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his
anger burned in him. <a name="C171V13" id="C171V13">1:13</a> Then the king
said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for it was the king's custom to
consult those who knew Torah and judgment; <a name="C171V14" id="C171V14">1:14</a>
and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres,
Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the
king's face, and sat first in the kingdom), <a name="C171V15" id="C171V15">1:15</a>
"What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to Torah, because she
has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C171V16" id="C171V16">1:16</a> Memucan answered before the king and
the princes, "Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king,
but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the
provinces of the King Ahasuerus. <a name="C171V17" id="C171V17">1:17</a> For
this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to
show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus
commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't
come.' <a name="C171V18" id="C171V18">1:18</a> Today, the princesses of Persia
and Media who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's
princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath. <a name="C171V19"
id="C171V19">1:19</a> If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from
him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes,
so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King
Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better
than she. <a name="C171V20" id="C171V20">1:20</a> When the king's decree which
he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great),
all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C171V21" id="C171V21">1:21</a> This advice pleased the king and the
princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan: <a name="C171V22"
id="C171V22">1:22</a> for he sent letters into all the king's provinces,
into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their
language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the
language of his own people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C172V1" id="C172V1">2:1</a> After these things, when the wrath of
King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done,
and what was decreed against her. <a name="C172V2" id="C172V2">2:2</a> Then
the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins
be sought for the king. <a name="C172V3" id="C172V3">2:3</a> Let the king
appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather
together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the
women's house, to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the
women. Let cosmetics be given them; <a name="C172V4" id="C172V4">2:4</a> and
let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The
thing pleased the king, and he did so.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C172V5" id="C172V5">2:5</a> There was a certain Jew in the citadel of
Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son
of Kish, a Benjamite, <a name="C172V6" id="C172V6">2:6</a> who had been
carried away from Yerushalayim with the captives who had been carried away
with Jeconiah king of Yehudah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had
carried away. <a name="C172V7" id="C172V7">2:7</a> He brought up Hadassah,
that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor
mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother
were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. <a name="C172V8" id="C172V8">2:8</a>
So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and
when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the
custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the
custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. <a name="C172V9" id="C172V9">2:9</a>
The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly
gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens
who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her
maidens to the best place in the women's house. <a name="C172V10" id="C172V10">2:10</a>
Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai
had instructed her that she should not make it known. <a name="C172V11"
id="C172V11">2:11</a> Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the
women's house, to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C172V12" id="C172V12">2:12</a> Each young woman's turn came to go in
to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were
the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh,
and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying
women). <a name="C172V13" id="C172V13">2:13</a> The young woman then came to
the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out
of the women's house to the king's house. <a name="C172V14" id="C172V14">2:14</a>
In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second
women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept
the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted
in her, and she was called by name. <a name="C172V15" id="C172V15">2:15</a>
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of
Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king,
she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the
women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked
at her. <a name="C172V16" id="C172V16">2:16</a> So Esther was taken to King
Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month
Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. <a name="C172V17" id="C172V17">2:17</a>
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and
kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal
crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C172V18" id="C172V18">2:18</a> Then the king made a great feast for
all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a
holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C172V19" id="C172V19">2:19</a> When the virgins were gathered
together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. <a
name="C172V20" id="C172V20">2:20</a> Esther had not yet made known her
relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed
Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him. <a name="C172V21"
id="C172V21">2:21</a> In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the
king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were
doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. <a
name="C172V22" id="C172V22">2:22</a> This thing became known to Mordecai, who
informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's
name. <a name="C172V23" id="C172V23">2:23</a> When this matter was
investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree;
and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king's presence.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C173V1" id="C173V1">3:1</a> After these things King Ahasuerus
promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and
set his seat above all the princes who were with him. <a name="C173V2"
id="C173V2">3:2</a> All the king's servants who were in the king's gate
bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded
concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down or pay him homage. <a
name="C173V3" id="C173V3">3:3</a> Then the king's servants, who were in the
king's gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's
commandment?" <a name="C173V4" id="C173V4">3:4</a> Now it came to pass,
when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told
Haman, to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them
that he was a Jew. <a name="C173V5" id="C173V5">3:5</a> When Haman saw that
Mordecai didn't bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. <a
name="C173V6" id="C173V6">3:6</a> But he scorned the thought of laying hands
on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people.
Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the
whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the Mordecai's people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C173V7" id="C173V7">3:7</a> In the first month, which is the month
Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the
lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the
twelfth month, which is the month Adar. <a name="C173V8" id="C173V8">3:8</a>
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered
abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your
kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don't keep
the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them
to remain. <a name="C173V9" id="C173V9">3:9</a> If it pleases the king, let it
be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of
silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king's business,
to bring it into the king's treasuries."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C173V10" id="C173V10">3:10</a> The king took his ring from his hand,
and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
<a name="C173V11" id="C173V11">3:11</a> The king said to Haman, "The
silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good
to you." <a name="C173V12" id="C173V12">3:12</a> Then the king's scribes
were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and
all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the
governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every
people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in
their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was
sealed with the king's ring. <a name="C173V13" id="C173V13">3:13</a> Letters
were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill,
and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and
women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which
is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. <a name="C173V14"
id="C173V14">3:14</a> A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given
out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should
be ready against that day. <a name="C173V15" id="C173V15">3:15</a> The
couriers went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was
given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink;
but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C174V1" id="C174V1">4:1</a> Now when Mordecai found out all that was
done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went
out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. <a
name="C174V2" id="C174V2">4:2</a> He came even before the king's gate, for no
one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. <a
name="C174V3" id="C174V3">4:3</a> In every province, wherever the king's
commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews,
and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and
ashes. <a name="C174V4" id="C174V4">4:4</a> Esther's maidens and her eunuchs
came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent
clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it.
<a name="C174V5" id="C174V5">4:5</a> Then Esther called for Hathach, one of
the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him
to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was. <a
name="C174V6" id="C174V6">4:6</a> So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city
square which was before the king's gate. <a name="C174V7" id="C174V7">4:7</a>
Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of
the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the
destruction of the Jews. <a name="C174V8" id="C174V8">4:8</a> He also gave him
the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to
destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge
her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request
before him, for her people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C174V9" id="C174V9">4:9</a> Hathach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai. <a name="C174V10" id="C174V10">4:10</a> Then Esther spoke to
Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: <a name="C174V11" id="C174V11">4:11</a>
"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces,
know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner
court without being called, there is one Torah for him, that he be put to
death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter,
that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these
thirty days."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C174V12" id="C174V12">4:12</a> They told to Mordecai Esther's words.
<a name="C174V13" id="C174V13">4:13</a> Then Mordecai asked them return answer
to Esther, "Don't think to yourself that you will escape in the
king's house any more than all the Jews. <a name="C174V14" id="C174V14">4:14</a>
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the
Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who
knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C174V15" id="C174V15">4:15</a> Then Esther asked them to answer
Mordecai, <a name="C174V16" id="C174V16">4:16</a> "Go, gather together
all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat
nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the
same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the Torah; and if
I perish, I perish." <a name="C174V17" id="C174V17">4:17</a> So Mordecai
went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V1" id="C175V1">5:1</a> Now it happened on the third day that
Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the
king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne
in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. <a name="C175V2"
id="C175V2">5:2</a> When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the
court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther
the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched
the top of the scepter. <a name="C175V3" id="C175V3">5:3</a> Then the king
asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request?
It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V4" id="C175V4">5:4</a> Esther said, "If it seems good to
the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have
prepared for him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V5" id="C175V5">5:5</a> Then the king said, "Bring Haman
quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and
Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V6" id="C175V6">5:6</a> The king said to Esther at the banquet of
wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your
request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V7" id="C175V7">5:7</a> Then Esther answered and said, "My
petition and my request is this. <a name="C175V8" id="C175V8">5:8</a> If I
have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to
grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come
to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the
king has said."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V9" id="C175V9">5:9</a> Then Haman went out that day joyful and
glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he
didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against
Mordecai. <a name="C175V10" id="C175V10">5:10</a> Nevertheless Haman
restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his
friends and Zeresh his wife. <a name="C175V11" id="C175V11">5:11</a> Haman
recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children,
all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced
him above the princes and servants of the king. <a name="C175V12" id="C175V12">5:12</a>
Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the
king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am
also invited by her together with the king. <a name="C175V13" id="C175V13">5:13</a>
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting
at the king's gate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C175V14" id="C175V14">5:14</a> Then Zeresh his wife and all his
friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in
the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in
merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had
the gallows made.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V1" id="C176V1">6:1</a> On that night, the king couldn't sleep.
He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they
were read to the king. <a name="C176V2" id="C176V2">6:2</a> It was found
written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's
eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King
Ahasuerus. <a name="C176V3" id="C176V3">6:3</a> The king said, "What
honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?"
</p>
<p>
Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been
done for him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V4" id="C176V4">6:4</a> The king said, "Who is in the court?"
Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to
the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V5" id="C176V5">6:5</a> The king's servants said to him, "Behold,
Haman stands in the court."
</p>
<p>
The king said, "Let him come in." <a name="C176V6" id="C176V6">6:6</a>
So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the
man whom the king delights to honor?"
</p>
<p>
Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor
more than myself?" <a name="C176V7" id="C176V7">6:7</a> Haman said to the
king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, <a name="C176V8"
id="C176V8">6:8</a> let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to
wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a
crown royal is set. <a name="C176V9" id="C176V9">6:9</a> Let the clothing and
the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble
princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with
them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim
before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to
honor!'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V10" id="C176V10">6:10</a> Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry
and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for
Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all
that you have spoken."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V11" id="C176V11">6:11</a> Then Haman took the clothing and the
horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and
proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the
king delights to honor!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C176V12" id="C176V12">6:12</a> Mordecai came back to the king's gate,
but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. <a
name="C176V13" id="C176V13">6:13</a> Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and
all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and
Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun
to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you
will surely fall before him." <a name="C176V14" id="C176V14">6:14</a>
While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried
to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V1" id="C177V1">7:1</a> So the king and Haman came to banquet
with Esther the queen. <a name="C177V2" id="C177V2">7:2</a> The king said
again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is
your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your
request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V3" id="C177V3">7:3</a> Then Esther the queen answered, "If
I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let
my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. <a
name="C177V4" id="C177V4">7:4</a> For we are sold, I and my people, to be
destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for
bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the
adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V5" id="C177V5">7:5</a> Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the
queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to
do so?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V6" id="C177V6">7:6</a> Esther said, "An adversary and an
enemy, even this wicked Haman!"
</p>
<p>
Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. <a name="C177V7"
id="C177V7">7:7</a> The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and
went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life
to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him
by the king. <a name="C177V8" id="C177V8">7:8</a> Then the king returned out
of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had
fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he
even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went
out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V9" id="C177V9">7:9</a> Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who
were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high,
which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is
standing at Haman's house."
</p>
<p>
The king said, "Hang him on it!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C177V10" id="C177V10">7:10</a> So they hanged Haman on the gallows
that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C178V1" id="C178V1">8:1</a> On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the
house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before
the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. <a name="C178V2" id="C178V2">8:2</a>
The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to
Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. <a name="C178V3"
id="C178V3">8:3</a> Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at
his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the
Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. <a
name="C178V4" id="C178V4">8:4</a> Then the king held out to Esther the golden
scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king. <a name="C178V5"
id="C178V5">8:5</a> She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have
found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am
pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by
Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the
Jews who are in all the king's provinces. <a name="C178V6" id="C178V6">8:6</a>
For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can
I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C178V7" id="C178V7">8:7</a> Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the
queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of
Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand
on the Jews. <a name="C178V8" id="C178V8">8:8</a> Write also to the Jews, as
it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for
the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the
king's ring, may not be reversed by any man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C178V9" id="C178V9">8:9</a> Then the king's scribes were called at
that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month;
and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews,
and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which
are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every
province according to its writing, and to every people in their language,
and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language. <a name="C178V10"
id="C178V10">8:10</a> He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it
with the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on
royal horses that were bread from swift steeds. <a name="C178V11" id="C178V11">8:11</a>
In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to
gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill,
and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that
would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their
possessions, <a name="C178V12" id="C178V12">8:12</a> on one day in all the
provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,
which is the month Adar. <a name="C178V13" id="C178V13">8:13</a> A copy of the
letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was
published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day
to avenge themselves on their enemies. <a name="C178V14" id="C178V14">8:14</a>
So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on
by the king's commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of
Susa.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C178V15" id="C178V15">8:15</a> Mordecai went out of the presence of
the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of
gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa
shouted and was glad. <a name="C178V16" id="C178V16">8:16</a> The Jews had
light, gladness, joy, and honor. <a name="C178V17" id="C178V17">8:17</a> In
every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his
decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many
from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews
was fallen on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C179V1" id="C179V1">9:1</a> Now in the twelfth month, which is the
month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's
commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day
that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out
the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them), <a
name="C179V2" id="C179V2">9:2</a> the Jews gathered themselves together in
their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay
hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them,
because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. <a name="C179V3"
id="C179V3">9:3</a> All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the
governors, and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, because
the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. <a name="C179V4" id="C179V4">9:4</a>
For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out
throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and
greater. <a name="C179V5" id="C179V5">9:5</a> The Jews struck all their
enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction,
and did what they wanted to those who hated them. <a name="C179V6" id="C179V6">9:6</a>
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. <a
name="C179V7" id="C179V7">9:7</a> They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
<a name="C179V8" id="C179V8">9:8</a> Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, <a name="C179V9"
id="C179V9">9:9</a> Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, <a name="C179V10"
id="C179V10">9:10</a> the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's
enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. <a name="C179V11"
id="C179V11">9:11</a> On that day, the number of those who were slain in the
citadel of Susa was brought before the king. <a name="C179V12" id="C179V12">9:12</a>
The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed
five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman;
what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is
your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It
shall be done."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C179V13" id="C179V13">9:13</a> Then Esther said, "If it pleases
the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow
also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on
the gallows."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C179V14" id="C179V14">9:14</a> The king commanded this to be done. A
decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. <a
name="C179V15" id="C179V15">9:15</a> The Jews who were in Shushan gathered
themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and
killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the
spoil. <a name="C179V16" id="C179V16">9:16</a> The other Jews who were in the
king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had
rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who
hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. <a name="C179V17"
id="C179V17">9:17</a> This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar;
and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of
feasting and gladness. <a name="C179V18" id="C179V18">9:18</a> But the Jews
who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the
fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they
rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. <a name="C179V19"
id="C179V19">9:19</a> Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the
unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of
gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food
to one another. <a name="C179V20" id="C179V20">9:20</a> Mordecai wrote these
things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of
the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, <a name="C179V21" id="C179V21">9:21</a>
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of
the month Adar yearly, <a name="C179V22" id="C179V22">9:22</a> as the days in
which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned
to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that
they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending
presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. <a name="C179V23"
id="C179V23">9:23</a> The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as
Mordecai had written to them; <a name="C179V24" id="C179V24">9:24</a> because
Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had
plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur,"
that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; <a name="C179V25"
id="C179V25">9:25</a> but when this became known to the king, he commanded
by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews,
should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged
on the gallows. <a name="C179V26" id="C179V26">9:26</a> Therefore they called
these days "<a href="#N171">Purim,</a>" from the word "Pur."
Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they
had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, <a
name="C179V27" id="C179V27">9:27</a> the Jews established, and imposed on
themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined
themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these
two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed
time, every year; <a name="C179V28" id="C179V28">9:28</a> and that these days
should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family,
every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not
fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C179V29" id="C179V29">9:29</a> Then Esther the queen, the daughter of
Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this
second letter of Purim. <a name="C179V30" id="C179V30">9:30</a> He sent
letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the
kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, <a name="C179V31"
id="C179V31">9:31</a> to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed
times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they
had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the
fastings and their cry. <a name="C179V32" id="C179V32">9:32</a> The
commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written
in the book.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N171" id="N171">[1]</a> <a href="#C179V26">back to 9:26</a> Purim is
the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1710V1" id="C1710V1">10:1</a> King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the
land, and on the islands of the sea. <a name="C1710V2" id="C1710V2">10:2</a>
All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the
greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? <a
name="C1710V3" id="C1710V3">10:3</a> For Mordecai the Jew was next to King
Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his
brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his
descendants.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C021V1" id="C021V1">1:1</a> Now these are the names of the sons of
Yisrael, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
<a name="C021V2" id="C021V2">1:2</a> Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Yehudah, <a
name="C021V3" id="C021V3">1:3</a> Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, <a
name="C021V4" id="C021V4">1:4</a> Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. <a
name="C021V5" id="C021V5">1:5</a> All the souls who came out of Jacob's body
were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. <a name="C021V6"
id="C021V6">1:6</a> Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that
generation. <a name="C021V7" id="C021V7">1:7</a> The children of Yisrael were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly
mighty; and the land was filled with them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C021V8" id="C021V8">1:8</a> Now there arose a new king over Egypt,
who didn't know Joseph. <a name="C021V9" id="C021V9">1:9</a> He said to his
people, "Behold, the people of the children of Yisrael are more and
mightier than we. <a name="C021V10" id="C021V10">1:10</a> Come, let us deal
wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war
breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against
us, and escape out of the land." <a name="C021V11" id="C021V11">1:11</a>
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their
burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. <a
name="C021V12" id="C021V12">1:12</a> But the more they afflicted them, the
more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved
because of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C021V13" id="C021V13">1:13</a> The
Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Yisrael serve, <a name="C021V14"
id="C021V14">1:14</a> and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in
mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their
service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C021V15" id="C021V15">1:15</a> The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the
other Puah, <a name="C021V16" id="C021V16">1:16</a> and he said, "When
you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the
birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a
daughter, then she shall live." <a name="C021V17" id="C021V17">1:17</a>
But the midwives feared Elohim, and didn't do what the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. <a name="C021V18" id="C021V18">1:18</a>
The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why
have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C021V19" id="C021V19">1:19</a> The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because
the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous,
and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C021V20" id="C021V20">1:20</a> Elohim dealt well with the midwives, and
the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. <a name="C021V21" id="C021V21">1:21</a>
It happened, because the midwives feared Elohim, that he gave them families.
<a name="C021V22" id="C021V22">1:22</a> Pharaoh commanded all his people,
saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and
every daughter you shall save alive."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V1" id="C022V1">2:1</a> A man of the house of Levi went and took
a daughter of Levi as his wife. <a name="C022V2" id="C022V2">2:2</a> The woman
conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid
him three months. <a name="C022V3" id="C022V3">2:3</a> When she could no
longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar
and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the
river's bank. <a name="C022V4" id="C022V4">2:4</a> His sister stood far off,
to see what would be done to him. <a name="C022V5" id="C022V5">2:5</a>
Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked
along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her
handmaid to get it. <a name="C022V6" id="C022V6">2:6</a> She opened it, and
saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and
said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V7" id="C022V7">2:7</a> Then his sister said to Pharaoh's
daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V8" id="C022V8">2:8</a> Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."
</p>
<p>
The maiden went and called the child's mother. <a name="C022V9" id="C022V9">2:9</a>
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him
for me, and I will give you your wages."
</p>
<p>
The woman took the child, and nursed it. <a name="C022V10" id="C022V10">2:10</a>
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
her son. She named him <a href="#N021">Moshe,</a> and said, "Because
I drew him out of the water."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V11" id="C022V11">2:11</a> It happened in those days, when Moshe
had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their
burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. <a
name="C022V12" id="C022V12">2:12</a> He looked this way and that way, and when
he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the
sand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V13" id="C022V13">2:13</a> He went out the second day, and
behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to
him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V14" id="C022V14">2:14</a> He said, "Who made you a prince
and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?"
</p>
<p>
Moshe was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known." <a
name="C022V15" id="C022V15">2:15</a> Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he
sought to kill Moshe. But Moshe fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived
in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V16" id="C022V16">2:16</a> Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their
father's flock. <a name="C022V17" id="C022V17">2:17</a> The shepherds came and
drove them away; but Moshe stood up and helped them, and watered their
flock. <a name="C022V18" id="C022V18">2:18</a> When they came to Reuel, their
father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V19" id="C022V19">2:19</a> They said, "An Egyptian delivered
us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us,
and watered the flock."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V20" id="C022V20">2:20</a> He said to his daughters, "Where
is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat
bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V21" id="C022V21">2:21</a> Moshe was content to dwell with the
man. He gave Moshe Zipporah, his daughter. <a name="C022V22" id="C022V22">2:22</a>
She bore a son, and he named him <a href="#N022">Gershom,</a> for he said,
"I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C022V23" id="C022V23">2:23</a> It happened in the course of those
many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Yisrael sighed
because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to Elohim
because of the bondage. <a name="C022V24" id="C022V24">2:24</a> Elohim heard
their groaning, and Elohim remembered his covenant with Avraham, with Isaac,
and with Jacob. <a name="C022V25" id="C022V25">2:25</a> Elohim saw the children
of Yisrael, and Elohim was concerned about them.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N021" id="N021">[1]</a> <a href="#C022V10">back to 2:10</a> "Moshe"
sounds like the Hebrew for "draw out".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N022" id="N022">[2]</a> <a href="#C022V22">back to 2:22</a> "Gershom"
sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V1" id="C023V1">3:1</a> Now Moshe was keeping the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to
the back of the wilderness, and came to Elohim's mountain, to Horeb. <a
name="C023V2" id="C023V2">3:2</a> The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush
burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. <a name="C023V3" id="C023V3">3:3</a>
Moshe said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the
bush is not burnt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V4" id="C023V4">3:4</a> When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to
see, Elohim called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moshe!
Moshe!"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V5" id="C023V5">3:5</a> He said, "Don't come close. Take
your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy
ground." <a name="C023V6" id="C023V6">3:6</a> Moreover he said, "I
am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the
Elohim of Jacob."
</p>
<p>
Moshe hid his face; for he was afraid to look at Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V7" id="C023V7">3:7</a> Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the
affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because
of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. <a name="C023V8" id="C023V8">3:8</a>
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing
with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the
Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <a name="C023V9"
id="C023V9">3:9</a> Now, behold, the cry of the children of Yisrael has come
to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians
oppress them. <a name="C023V10" id="C023V10">3:10</a> Come now therefore, and
I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the
children of Yisrael, out of Egypt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V11" id="C023V11">3:11</a> Moshe said to Elohim, "Who am I,
that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Yisrael out of Egypt?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V12" id="C023V12">3:12</a> He said, "Certainly I will be
with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you
have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve Elohim on this
mountain."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V13" id="C023V13">3:13</a> Moshe said to Elohim, "Behold, when
I come to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, 'The Elohim of your fathers
has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I
tell them?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C023V14" id="C023V14">3:14</a> Elohim said to Moshe, "I AM WHO I
AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Yisrael this:
'I AM has sent me to you.'" <a name="C023V15" id="C023V15">3:15</a> Elohim
said moreover to Moshe, "You shall tell the children of Yisrael this,
'Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Isaac,
and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and
this is my memorial to all generations. <a name="C023V16" id="C023V16">3:16</a>
Go, and gather the elders of Yisrael together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the
Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has
appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that
which is done to you in Egypt; <a name="C023V17" id="C023V17">3:17</a> and I
have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land
of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."' <a name="C023V18"
id="C023V18">3:18</a> They will listen to your voice, and you shall come,
you and the elders of Yisrael, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell
him, 'Yahweh, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us
go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to
Yahweh, our Elohim.' <a name="C023V19" id="C023V19">3:19</a> I know that the king
of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand. <a
name="C023V20" id="C023V20">3:20</a> I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt
with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will
let you go. <a name="C023V21" id="C023V21">3:21</a> I will give this people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go,
you shall not go empty-handed. <a name="C023V22" id="C023V22">3:22</a> But
every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house,
jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on
your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Egyptians.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V1" id="C024V1">4:1</a> Moshe answered, "But, behold, they
will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh
has not appeared to you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V2" id="C024V2">4:2</a> Yahweh said to him, "What is that in
your hand?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "A rod."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V3" id="C024V3">4:3</a> He said, "Throw it on the ground."
</p>
<p>
He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moshe ran away from
it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V4" id="C024V4">4:4</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Put forth
your hand, and take it by the tail."
</p>
<p>
He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his
hand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V5" id="C024V5">4:5</a> "That they may believe that Yahweh,
the Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the
Elohim of Jacob, has appeared to you." <a name="C024V6" id="C024V6">4:6</a>
Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak."
</p>
<p>
He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his
hand was leprous, as white as snow.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V7" id="C024V7">4:7</a> He said, "Put your hand inside your
cloak again."
</p>
<p>
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his
cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V8" id="C024V8">4:8</a> "It will happen, if they will
neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign. <a name="C024V9" id="C024V9">4:9</a>
It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither
listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and
pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will
become blood on the dry land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V10" id="C024V10">4:10</a> Moshe said to Yahweh, "Oh, Lord,
I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your
servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V11" id="C024V11">4:11</a> Yahweh said to him, "Who made
man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it
I, Yahweh? <a name="C024V12" id="C024V12">4:12</a> Now therefore go, and I
will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V13" id="C024V13">4:13</a> He said, "Oh, Lord, please send
someone else."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V14" id="C024V14">4:14</a> The anger of Yahweh was kindled
against Moshe, and he said, "What about Aharon, your brother, the
Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to
meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. <a name="C024V15"
id="C024V15">4:15</a> You shall speak to him, and put the words in his
mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you
what you shall do. <a name="C024V16" id="C024V16">4:16</a> He will be your
spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a
mouth, and you will be to him as Elohim. <a name="C024V17" id="C024V17">4:17</a>
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V18" id="C024V18">4:18</a> Moshe went and returned to Jethro his
father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my
brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive."
</p>
<p>
Jethro said to Moshe, "Go in peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V19" id="C024V19">4:19</a> Yahweh said to Moshe in Midian, "Go,
return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V20" id="C024V20">4:20</a> Moshe took his wife and his sons, and
set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moshe took
Elohim's rod in his hand. <a name="C024V21" id="C024V21">4:21</a> Yahweh said to
Moshe, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh
all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart
and he will not let the people go. <a name="C024V22" id="C024V22">4:22</a> You
shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Yisrael is my son, my firstborn, <a
name="C024V23" id="C024V23">4:23</a> and I have said to you, "Let my son
go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go.
Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V24" id="C024V24">4:24</a> It happened on the way at a lodging
place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him. <a name="C024V25"
id="C024V25">4:25</a> Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin
of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a
bridegroom of blood to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V26" id="C024V26">4:26</a> So he let him alone. Then she said,
"You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C024V27" id="C024V27">4:27</a> Yahweh said to Aharon, "Go into
the wilderness to meet Moshe."
</p>
<p>
He went, and met him on Elohim's mountain, and kissed him. <a name="C024V28"
id="C024V28">4:28</a> Moshe told Aharon all the words of Yahweh with which he
had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him. <a
name="C024V29" id="C024V29">4:29</a> Moshe and Aharon went and gathered
together all the elders of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C024V30"
id="C024V30">4:30</a> Aharon spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to
Moshe, and did the signs in the sight of the people. <a name="C024V31"
id="C024V31">4:31</a> The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh
had visited the children of Yisrael, and that he had seen their affliction,
then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V1" id="C025V1">5:1</a> Afterward Moshe and Aharon came, and said
to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, says, 'Let my
people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V2" id="C025V2">5:2</a> Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I
should listen to his voice to let Yisrael go? I don't know Yahweh, and
moreover I will not let Yisrael go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V3" id="C025V3">5:3</a> They said, "The Elohim of the Hebrews
has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice to Yahweh, our Elohim, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or
with the sword."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V4" id="C025V4">5:4</a> The king of Egypt said to them, "Why
do you, Moshe and Aharon, take the people from their work? Get back to your
burdens!" <a name="C025V5" id="C025V5">5:5</a> Pharaoh said, "Behold,
the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their
burdens." <a name="C025V6" id="C025V6">5:6</a> The same day Pharaoh
commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, <a
name="C025V7" id="C025V7">5:7</a> "You shall no longer give the people
straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for
themselves. <a name="C025V8" id="C025V8">5:8</a> The number of the bricks,
which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish
anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go
and sacrifice to our Elohim.' <a name="C025V9" id="C025V9">5:9</a> Let heavier
work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them
pay any attention to lying words."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V10" id="C025V10">5:10</a> The taskmasters of the people went
out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is
what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw. <a name="C025V11"
id="C025V11">5:11</a> Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for
nothing of your work shall be diminished." <a name="C025V12" id="C025V12">5:12</a>
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to
gather stubble for straw. <a name="C025V13" id="C025V13">5:13</a> The
taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as
when there was straw!" <a name="C025V14" id="C025V14">5:14</a> The
officers of the children of Yisrael, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your
quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V15" id="C025V15">5:15</a> Then the officers of the children of
Yisrael came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way
with your servants? <a name="C025V16" id="C025V16">5:16</a> No straw is given
to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your
servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V17" id="C025V17">5:17</a> But he said, "You are idle! You
are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' <a
name="C025V18" id="C025V18">5:18</a> Go therefore now, and work, for no straw
shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V19" id="C025V19">5:19</a> The officers of the children of Yisrael
saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not
diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V20" id="C025V20">5:20</a> They met Moshe and Aharon, who stood in
the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: <a name="C025V21" id="C025V21">5:21</a>
and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because
you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in
the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C025V22" id="C025V22">5:22</a> Moshe returned to Yahweh, and said,
"Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that
you have sent me? <a name="C025V23" id="C025V23">5:23</a> For since I came to
Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people;
neither have you delivered your people at all."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V1" id="C026V1">6:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Now you shall
see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go,
and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V2" id="C026V2">6:2</a> Elohim spoke to Moshe, and said to him,
"I am Yahweh; <a name="C026V3" id="C026V3">6:3</a> and I appeared to
Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as Elohim Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I
was not known to them. <a name="C026V4" id="C026V4">6:4</a> I have also
established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the
land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens. <a name="C026V5"
id="C026V5">6:5</a> Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of
Yisrael, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my
covenant. <a name="C026V6" id="C026V6">6:6</a> Therefore tell the children of
Yisrael, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: <a name="C026V7"
id="C026V7">6:7</a> and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to
you a Elohim; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brings you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. <a name="C026V8" id="C026V8">6:8</a>
I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Avraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V9" id="C026V9">6:9</a> Moshe spoke so to the children of Yisrael,
but they didn't listen to Moshe for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V10" id="C026V10">6:10</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C026V11" id="C026V11">6:11</a> "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, that he let the children of Yisrael go out of his land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V12" id="C026V12">6:12</a> Moshe spoke before Yahweh, saying,
"Behold, the children of Yisrael haven't listened to me. How then
shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?" <a
name="C026V13" id="C026V13">6:13</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, and
gave them a command to the children of Yisrael, and to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring the children of Yisrael out of the land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V14" id="C026V14">6:14</a> These are the heads of their fathers'
houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael: Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. <a name="C026V15"
id="C026V15">6:15</a> The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the
families of Simeon. <a name="C026V16" id="C026V16">6:16</a> These are the
names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred
thirty-seven years. <a name="C026V17" id="C026V17">6:17</a> The sons of
Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. <a name="C026V18"
id="C026V18">6:18</a> The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three
years. <a name="C026V19" id="C026V19">6:19</a> The sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their
generations. <a name="C026V20" id="C026V20">6:20</a> Amram took Jochebed his
father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aharon and Moshe: and
the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. <a
name="C026V21" id="C026V21">6:21</a> The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and
Zichri. <a name="C026V22" id="C026V22">6:22</a> The sons of Uzziel: Mishael,
and Elzaphan, and Sithri. <a name="C026V23" id="C026V23">6:23</a> Aharon took
Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife;
and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. <a name="C026V24"
id="C026V24">6:24</a> The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph;
these are the families of the Korahites. <a name="C026V25" id="C026V25">6:25</a>
Eleazar Aharon's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and
she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the
Levites according to their families. <a name="C026V26" id="C026V26">6:26</a>
These are that Aharon and Moshe, to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the
children of Yisrael from the land of Egypt according to their armies."
<a name="C026V27" id="C026V27">6:27</a> These are those who spoke to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Yisrael from Egypt. These are
that Moshe and Aharon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V28" id="C026V28">6:28</a> It happened on the day when Yahweh
spoke to Moshe in the land of Egypt, <a name="C026V29" id="C026V29">6:29</a>
that Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, "I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh
king of Egypt all that I speak to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C026V30" id="C026V30">6:30</a> Moshe said before Yahweh, "Behold,
I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V1" id="C027V1">7:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Behold, I
have made you as Elohim to Pharaoh; and Aharon your brother shall be your
prophet. <a name="C027V2" id="C027V2">7:2</a> You shall speak all that I
command you; and Aharon your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let
the children of Yisrael go out of his land. <a name="C027V3" id="C027V3">7:3</a>
I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the
land of Egypt. <a name="C027V4" id="C027V4">7:4</a> But Pharaoh will not
listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies,
my people the children of Yisrael, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments. <a name="C027V5" id="C027V5">7:5</a> The Egyptians shall know that
I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the
children of Yisrael from among them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V6" id="C027V6">7:6</a> Moshe and Aharon did so. As Yahweh
commanded them, so they did. <a name="C027V7" id="C027V7">7:7</a> Moshe was
eighty years old, and Aharon eighty-three years old, when they spoke to
Pharaoh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V8" id="C027V8">7:8</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C027V9" id="C027V9">7:9</a> "When Pharaoh speaks to you,
saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aharon, 'Take your rod,
and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V10" id="C027V10">7:10</a> Moshe and Aharon went in to Pharaoh,
and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aharon cast down his rod
before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. <a
name="C027V11" id="C027V11">7:11</a> Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men
and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner
with their enchantments. <a name="C027V12" id="C027V12">7:12</a> For they cast
down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aharon's rod
swallowed up their rods. <a name="C027V13" id="C027V13">7:13</a> Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V14" id="C027V14">7:14</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Pharaoh's
heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. <a name="C027V15"
id="C027V15">7:15</a> Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to
the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the
rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand. <a
name="C027V16" id="C027V16">7:16</a> You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the Elohim of
the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they
may serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't
listened. <a name="C027V17" id="C027V17">7:17</a> Thus says Yahweh, "In
this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod
that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be
turned to blood. <a name="C027V18" id="C027V18">7:18</a> The fish that are in
the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians
shall loathe to drink water from the river."'" <a name="C027V19"
id="C027V19">7:19</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Tell Aharon, 'Take your
rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their
rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds
of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout
all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C027V20" id="C027V20">7:20</a> Moshe and Aharon did so, as Yahweh
commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in
the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and
all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. <a name="C027V21"
id="C027V21">7:21</a> The fish that were in the river died; and the river
became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and
the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. <a name="C027V22" id="C027V22">7:22</a>
The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had
spoken. <a name="C027V23" id="C027V23">7:23</a> Pharaoh turned and went into
his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. <a name="C027V24"
id="C027V24">7:24</a> All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to
drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river. <a name="C027V25"
id="C027V25">7:25</a> Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the
river.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V1" id="C028V1">8:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, Go in to Pharaoh,
and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they
may serve me. <a name="C028V2" id="C028V2">8:2</a> If you refuse to let them
go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs: <a name="C028V3"
id="C028V3">8:3</a> and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up
and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and on your bed, and
into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens,
and into your kneading troughs: <a name="C028V4" id="C028V4">8:4</a> and the
frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your
servants.'" <a name="C028V5" id="C028V5">8:5</a> Yahweh said to Moshe,
"Tell Aharon, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers,
over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the
land of Egypt.'" <a name="C028V6" id="C028V6">8:6</a> Aharon stretched out
his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the
land of Egypt. <a name="C028V7" id="C028V7">8:7</a> The magicians did in like
manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V8" id="C028V8">8:8</a> Then Pharaoh called for Moshe and Aharon,
and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and
from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to
Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V9" id="C028V9">8:9</a> Moshe said to Pharaoh, "I give you
the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your
servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and
your houses, and remain in the river only."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V10" id="C028V10">8:10</a> He said, "Tomorrow."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Be it according to your word, that you may know that there
is none like Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C028V11" id="C028V11">8:11</a> The frogs
shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and
from your people. They shall remain in the river only."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V12" id="C028V12">8:12</a> Moshe and Aharon went out from Pharaoh,
and Moshe cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on
Pharaoh. <a name="C028V13" id="C028V13">8:13</a> Yahweh did according to the
word of Moshe, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts,
and out of the fields. <a name="C028V14" id="C028V14">8:14</a> They gathered
them together in heaps, and the land stank. <a name="C028V15" id="C028V15">8:15</a>
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and
didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V16" id="C028V16">8:16</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Tell
Aharon, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it
may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'" <a name="C028V17"
id="C028V17">8:17</a> They did so; and Aharon stretched out his hand with his
rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on
animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of
Egypt. <a name="C028V18" id="C028V18">8:18</a> The magicians tried with their
enchantments to bring forth lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on
man, and on animal. <a name="C028V19" id="C028V19">8:19</a> Then the magicians
said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of Elohim:" and Pharaoh's
heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V20" id="C028V20">8:20</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to
the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people
go, that they may serve me. <a name="C028V21" id="C028V21">8:21</a> Else, if
you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you,
and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the
houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the
ground whereon they are. <a name="C028V22" id="C028V22">8:22</a> I will set
apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no
swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh
in the midst of the earth. <a name="C028V23" id="C028V23">8:23</a> I will put
a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign
be."'" <a name="C028V24" id="C028V24">8:24</a> Yahweh did so; and
there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into
his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted
by reason of the swarms of flies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V25" id="C028V25">8:25</a> Pharaoh called for Moshe and for
Aharon, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your Elohim in the land!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V26" id="C028V26">8:26</a> Moshe said, "It isn't appropriate
to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to
Yahweh our Elohim. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the
Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us? <a name="C028V27"
id="C028V27">8:27</a> We will go three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice to Yahweh our Elohim, as he shall command us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V28" id="C028V28">8:28</a> Pharaoh said, "I will let you go,
that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim in the wilderness, only you
shall not go very far away. Pray for me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C028V29" id="C028V29">8:29</a> Moshe said, "Behold, I go out
from you, and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't
let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to Yahweh." <a name="C028V30" id="C028V30">8:30</a> Moshe went
out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. <a name="C028V31" id="C028V31">8:31</a>
Yahweh did according to the word of Moshe, and he removed the swarms of
flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained
not one. <a name="C028V32" id="C028V32">8:32</a> Pharaoh hardened his heart
this time also, and he didn't let the people go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V1" id="C029V1">9:1</a> Then Yahweh said to Moshe, "Go in to
Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the Elohim of the Hebrews, says:
"Let my people go, that they may serve me. <a name="C029V2" id="C029V2">9:2</a>
For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still, <a name="C029V3"
id="C029V3">9:3</a> behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your livestock which
are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the
herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. <a name="C029V4"
id="C029V4">9:4</a> Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of
Yisrael and the livestock of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that
belongs to the children of Yisrael."'" <a name="C029V5" id="C029V5">9:5</a>
Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this
thing in the land." <a name="C029V6" id="C029V6">9:6</a> Yahweh did that
thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the
livestock of the children of Yisrael, not one died. <a name="C029V7" id="C029V7">9:7</a>
Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock
of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he
didn't let the people go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V8" id="C029V8">9:8</a> Yahweh said to Moshe and to Aharon, "Take
to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moshe sprinkle it toward
the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. <a name="C029V9" id="C029V9">9:9</a> It shall
become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking
forth with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V10" id="C029V10">9:10</a> They took ashes of the furnace, and
stood before Pharaoh; and Moshe sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it
became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal. <a
name="C029V11" id="C029V11">9:11</a> The magicians couldn't stand before Moshe
because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the
Egyptians. <a name="C029V12" id="C029V12">9:12</a> Yahweh hardened the heart
of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V13" id="C029V13">9:13</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is
what Yahweh, the Elohim of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that
they may serve me. <a name="C029V14" id="C029V14">9:14</a> For this time I
will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and
against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all
the earth. <a name="C029V15" id="C029V15">9:15</a> For now I would have put
forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you
would have been cut off from the earth; <a name="C029V16" id="C029V16">9:16</a>
but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and
that my name may be declared throughout all the earth; <a name="C029V17"
id="C029V17">9:17</a> as you still exalt yourself against my people, that
you won't let them go. <a name="C029V18" id="C029V18">9:18</a> Behold,
tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
<a name="C029V19" id="C029V19">9:19</a> Now therefore command that all of your
livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter.
Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home,
the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V20" id="C029V20">9:20</a> Those who feared the word of Yahweh
among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee
into the houses. <a name="C029V21" id="C029V21">9:21</a> Whoever didn't regard
the word of Yahweh left his servants and his livestock in the field.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V22" id="C029V22">9:22</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Stretch
forth your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of
Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout
the land of Egypt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V23" id="C029V23">9:23</a> Moshe stretched forth his rod toward
the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to
the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt. <a name="C029V24"
id="C029V24">9:24</a> So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed
with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation. <a name="C029V25" id="C029V25">9:25</a> The hail struck
throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and
animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree
of the field. <a name="C029V26" id="C029V26">9:26</a> Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Yisrael were, there was no hail.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V27" id="C029V27">9:27</a> Pharaoh sent, and called for Moshe and
Aharon, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is
righteous, and I and my people are wicked. <a name="C029V28" id="C029V28">9:28</a>
Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail.
I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V29" id="C029V29">9:29</a> Moshe said to him, "As soon as I
have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The
thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may
know that the earth is Yahweh's. <a name="C029V30" id="C029V30">9:30</a> But
as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear Yahweh Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C029V31" id="C029V31">9:31</a> The flax and the barley were struck,
for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. <a name="C029V32"
id="C029V32">9:32</a> But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they
had not grown up. <a name="C029V33" id="C029V33">9:33</a> Moshe went out of
the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the
thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. <a
name="C029V34" id="C029V34">9:34</a> When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the
hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants. <a name="C029V35" id="C029V35">9:35</a> The heart
of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Yisrael go, just
as Yahweh had spoken through Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V1" id="C0210V1">10:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Go in to
Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, <a name="C0210V2"
id="C0210V2">10:2</a> and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and
of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I
have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V3" id="C0210V3">10:3</a> Moshe and Aharon went in to Pharaoh,
and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the Elohim of the Hebrews, says:
'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go,
that they may serve me. <a name="C0210V4" id="C0210V4">10:4</a> Or else, if
you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into
your country, <a name="C0210V5" id="C0210V5">10:5</a> and they shall cover the
surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They
shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from
the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
<a name="C0210V6" id="C0210V6">10:6</a> Your houses shall be filled, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as
neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out
from Pharaoh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V7" id="C0210V7">10:7</a> Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How
long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve
Yahweh, their Elohim. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V8" id="C0210V8">10:8</a> Moshe and Aharon were brought again to
Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your Elohim; but who are
those who will go?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V9" id="C0210V9">10:9</a> Moshe said, "We will go with our
young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our
flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V10" id="C0210V10">10:10</a> He said to them, "Yahweh be
with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly
before your faces. <a name="C0210V11" id="C0210V11">10:11</a> Not so! Go now
you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They
were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V12" id="C0210V12">10:12</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Stretch
out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come
up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the
hail has left." <a name="C0210V13" id="C0210V13">10:13</a> Moshe
stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east
wind on the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning,
the east wind brought the locusts. <a name="C0210V14" id="C0210V14">10:14</a>
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. <a name="C0210V15"
id="C0210V15">10:15</a> For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so
that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all
the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing
green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. <a
name="C0210V16" id="C0210V16">10:16</a> Then Pharaoh called for Moshe and
Aharon in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your Elohim,
and against you. <a name="C0210V17" id="C0210V17">10:17</a> Now therefore
please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your Elohim, that he may also
take away from me this death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V18" id="C0210V18">10:18</a> He went out from Pharaoh, and
prayed to Yahweh. <a name="C0210V19" id="C0210V19">10:19</a> Yahweh turned an
exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into
the <a href="#N023">Red Sea</a>. There remained not one locust in all the
borders of Egypt. <a name="C0210V20" id="C0210V20">10:20</a> But Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Yisrael go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V21" id="C0210V21">10:21</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Stretch
out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of
Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." <a name="C0210V22" id="C0210V22">10:22</a>
Moshe stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick
darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. <a name="C0210V23" id="C0210V23">10:23</a>
They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for
three days; but all the children of Yisrael had light in their dwellings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V24" id="C0210V24">10:24</a> Pharaoh called to Moshe, and said,
"Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind.
Let your little ones also go with you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V25" id="C0210V25">10:25</a> Moshe said, "You must also
give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice
to Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C0210V26" id="C0210V26">10:26</a> Our livestock
also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left behind, for of it we
must take to serve Yahweh our Elohim; and we don't know with what we must
serve Yahweh, until we come there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V27" id="C0210V27">10:27</a> But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he wouldn't let them go. <a name="C0210V28" id="C0210V28">10:28</a>
Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no
more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0210V29" id="C0210V29">10:29</a> Moshe said, "You have spoken
well. I will see your face again no more."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N023" id="N023">[3]</a> <a href="#C0210V19">back to 10:19</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0211V1" id="C0211V1">11:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Yet one
plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let
you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether. <a
name="C0211V2" id="C0211V2">11:2</a> Speak now in the ears of the people, and
let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor,
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold." <a name="C0211V3" id="C0211V3">11:3</a>
Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the
man Moshe was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's
servants, and in the sight of the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0211V4" id="C0211V4">11:4</a> Moshe said, "This is what Yahweh
says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, <a
name="C0211V5" id="C0211V5">11:5</a> and all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne,
even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and
all the firstborn of livestock. <a name="C0211V6" id="C0211V6">11:6</a> There
shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has
not been, nor shall be any more. <a name="C0211V7" id="C0211V7">11:7</a> But
against any of the children of Yisrael a dog won't even bark or move its
tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a
distinction between the Egyptians and Yisrael. <a name="C0211V8" id="C0211V8">11:8</a>
All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to
me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you;" and
after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0211V9" id="C0211V9">11:9</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Pharaoh
won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of
Egypt." <a name="C0211V10" id="C0211V10">11:10</a> Moshe and Aharon did
all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and
he didn't let the children of Yisrael go out of his land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V1" id="C0212V1">12:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the
land of Egypt, saying, <a name="C0212V2" id="C0212V2">12:2</a> "This
month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month
of the year to you. <a name="C0212V3" id="C0212V3">12:3</a> Speak to all the
congregation of Yisrael, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a
lamb for a household; <a name="C0212V4" id="C0212V4">12:4</a> and if the
household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his
house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to
what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. <a
name="C0212V5" id="C0212V5">12:5</a> Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: <a
name="C0212V6" id="C0212V6">12:6</a> and you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Yisrael shall kill it at evening. <a name="C0212V7" id="C0212V7">12:7</a>
They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on
the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. <a name="C0212V8"
id="C0212V8">12:8</a> They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with
fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. <a
name="C0212V9" id="C0212V9">12:9</a> Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with
water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
<a name="C0212V10" id="C0212V10">12:10</a> You shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you
shall burn with fire. <a name="C0212V11" id="C0212V11">12:11</a> This is how
you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's
Passover. <a name="C0212V12" id="C0212V12">12:12</a> For I will go through the
land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgments: I am Yahweh. <a name="C0212V13" id="C0212V13">12:13</a> The
blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you
to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. <a name="C0212V14"
id="C0212V14">12:14</a> This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you
shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V15" id="C0212V15">12:15</a> "'Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your
houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yisrael. <a name="C0212V16"
id="C0212V16">12:16</a> In the first day there shall be to you a holy
convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work
shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may
be done by you. <a name="C0212V17" id="C0212V17">12:17</a> You shall observe
the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your
armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. <a name="C0212V18"
id="C0212V18">12:18</a> In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first
day of the month at evening. <a name="C0212V19" id="C0212V19">12:19</a> Seven
days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that
which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of
Yisrael, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. <a
name="C0212V20" id="C0212V20">12:20</a> You shall eat nothing leavened. In all
your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V21" id="C0212V21">12:21</a> Then Moshe called for all the
elders of Yisrael, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs
according to your families, and kill the Passover. <a name="C0212V22"
id="C0212V22">12:22</a> You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the
blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts
with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the
door of his house until the morning. <a name="C0212V23" id="C0212V23">12:23</a>
For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the
blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the
door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike
you. <a name="C0212V24" id="C0212V24">12:24</a> You shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. <a name="C0212V25"
id="C0212V25">12:25</a> It shall happen when you have come to the land which
Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep
this service. <a name="C0212V26" id="C0212V26">12:26</a> It will happen, when
your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?' <a name="C0212V27"
id="C0212V27">12:27</a> that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's
Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisrael in Egypt,
when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"
</p>
<p>
The people bowed their heads and worshiped. <a name="C0212V28" id="C0212V28">12:28</a>
The children of Yisrael went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moshe and
Aharon, so they did.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V29" id="C0212V29">12:29</a> It happened at midnight, that
Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was
in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock. <a name="C0212V30"
id="C0212V30">12:30</a> Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for
there was not a house where there was not one dead. <a name="C0212V31"
id="C0212V31">12:31</a> He called for Moshe and Aharon by night, and said,
"Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of
Yisrael; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! <a name="C0212V32"
id="C0212V32">12:32</a> Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have
said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V33" id="C0212V33">12:33</a> The Egyptians were urgent with the
people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are
all dead men." <a name="C0212V34" id="C0212V34">12:34</a> The people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up
in their clothes on their shoulders. <a name="C0212V35" id="C0212V35">12:35</a>
The children of Yisrael did according to the word of Moshe; and they asked
of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. <a
name="C0212V36" id="C0212V36">12:36</a> Yahweh gave the people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They
despoiled the Egyptians.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V37" id="C0212V37">12:37</a> The children of Yisrael traveled
from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men,
besides children. <a name="C0212V38" id="C0212V38">12:38</a> A mixed multitude
went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
<a name="C0212V39" id="C0212V39">12:39</a> They baked unleavened cakes of the
dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they
prepared for themselves any food. <a name="C0212V40" id="C0212V40">12:40</a>
Now the time that the children of Yisrael lived in Egypt was four hundred
thirty years. <a name="C0212V41" id="C0212V41">12:41</a> It happened at the
end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all
the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. <a name="C0212V42"
id="C0212V42">12:42</a> It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to
be much observed of all the children of Yisrael throughout their
generations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0212V43" id="C0212V43">12:43</a> Yahweh said to Moshe and Aharon,
"This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat
of it, <a name="C0212V44" id="C0212V44">12:44</a> but every man's servant who
is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of
it. <a name="C0212V45" id="C0212V45">12:45</a> A foreigner and a hired servant
shall not eat of it. <a name="C0212V46" id="C0212V46">12:46</a> In one house
shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad
out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. <a name="C0212V47"
id="C0212V47">12:47</a> All the congregation of Yisrael shall keep it. <a
name="C0212V48" id="C0212V48">12:48</a> When a stranger shall live as a
foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his
males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall
be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat
of it. <a name="C0212V49" id="C0212V49">12:49</a> One Torah shall be to him who
is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."
<a name="C0212V50" id="C0212V50">12:50</a> All the children of Yisrael did so.
As Yahweh commanded Moshe and Aharon, so they did. <a name="C0212V51"
id="C0212V51">12:51</a> It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the
children of Yisrael out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0213V1" id="C0213V1">13:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0213V2" id="C0213V2">13:2</a> "Sanctify to me all of the
firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Yisrael, both of
man and of animal. It is mine."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0213V3" id="C0213V3">13:3</a> Moshe said to the people, "Remember
this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No
leavened bread shall be eaten. <a name="C0213V4" id="C0213V4">13:4</a> This
day you go forth in the month Abib. <a name="C0213V5" id="C0213V5">13:5</a> It
shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he
swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
that you shall keep this service in this month. <a name="C0213V6" id="C0213V6">13:6</a>
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be
a feast to Yahweh. <a name="C0213V7" id="C0213V7">13:7</a> Unleavened bread
shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be
seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your
borders. <a name="C0213V8" id="C0213V8">13:8</a> You shall tell your son in
that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I
came forth out of Egypt.' <a name="C0213V9" id="C0213V9">13:9</a> It shall be
for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that
the Torah of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has
brought you out of Egypt. <a name="C0213V10" id="C0213V10">13:10</a> You shall
therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0213V11" id="C0213V11">13:11</a> "It shall be, when Yahweh
shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to
your fathers, and shall give it you, <a name="C0213V12" id="C0213V12">13:12</a>
that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every
firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be
Yahweh's. <a name="C0213V13" id="C0213V13">13:13</a> Every firstborn of a
donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then
you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man
among your sons. <a name="C0213V14" id="C0213V14">13:14</a> It shall be, when
your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall
tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of bondage; <a name="C0213V15" id="C0213V15">13:15</a> and it happened,
when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of
animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being
males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' <a name="C0213V16"
id="C0213V16">13:16</a> It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols
between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of
Egypt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0213V17" id="C0213V17">13:17</a> It happened, when Pharaoh had let
the people go, that Elohim didn't lead them by the way of the land of the
Philistines, although that was near; for Elohim said, "Lest perhaps the
people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
<a name="C0213V18" id="C0213V18">13:18</a> but Elohim led the people around by
the way of the wilderness by the <a href="#N024">Red Sea</a>; and the
children of Yisrael went up armed out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C0213V19"
id="C0213V19">13:19</a> Moshe took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had
made the children of Yisrael swear, saying, "Elohim will surely visit
you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you." <a
name="C0213V20" id="C0213V20">13:20</a> They took their journey from Succoth,
and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. <a name="C0213V21"
id="C0213V21">13:21</a> Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud,
to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light, that they might go by day and by night: <a name="C0213V22" id="C0213V22">13:22</a>
the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart
from before the people.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N024" id="N024">[4]</a> <a href="#C0213V18">back to 13:18</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V1" id="C0214V1">14:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0214V2" id="C0214V2">14:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the
sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. <a
name="C0214V3" id="C0214V3">14:3</a> Pharaoh will say of the children of
Yisrael, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
<a name="C0214V4" id="C0214V4">14:4</a> I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he
will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all
his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did
so.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V5" id="C0214V5">14:5</a> It was told the king of Egypt that the
people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed
towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that
we have let Yisrael go from serving us?" <a name="C0214V6" id="C0214V6">14:6</a>
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him; <a name="C0214V7"
id="C0214V7">14:7</a> and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. <a name="C0214V8"
id="C0214V8">14:8</a> Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and he pursued after the children of Yisrael; for the children of Yisrael
went out with a high hand. <a name="C0214V9" id="C0214V9">14:9</a> The
Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his
horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside
Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V10" id="C0214V10">14:10</a> When Pharaoh drew near, the
children of Yisrael lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Yisrael
cried out to Yahweh. <a name="C0214V11" id="C0214V11">14:11</a> They said to
Moshe, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away
to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us
forth out of Egypt? <a name="C0214V12" id="C0214V12">14:12</a> Isn't this the
word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may
serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians,
than that we should die in the wilderness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V13" id="C0214V13">14:13</a> Moshe said to the people, "Don't
be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will
work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall
never see them again. <a name="C0214V14" id="C0214V14">14:14</a> Yahweh will
fight for you, and you shall be still."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V15" id="C0214V15">14:15</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Why do
you cry to me? Speak to the children of Yisrael, that they go forward. <a
name="C0214V16" id="C0214V16">14:16</a> Lift up your rod, and stretch out your
hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Yisrael shall go into
the midst of the sea on dry ground. <a name="C0214V17" id="C0214V17">14:17</a>
I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in
after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his
armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen. <a name="C0214V18"
id="C0214V18">14:18</a> The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I
have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his
horsemen." <a name="C0214V19" id="C0214V19">14:19</a> The angel of Elohim,
who went before the camp of Yisrael, moved and went behind them; and the
pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. <a
name="C0214V20" id="C0214V20">14:20</a> It came between the camp of Egypt and
the camp of Yisrael; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it
light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V21" id="C0214V21">14:21</a> Moshe stretched out his hand over
the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all
the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. <a
name="C0214V22" id="C0214V22">14:22</a> The children of Yisrael went into the
midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on
their right hand, and on their left. <a name="C0214V23" id="C0214V23">14:23</a>
The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea:
all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. <a name="C0214V24"
id="C0214V24">14:24</a> It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked
out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
confused the Egyptian army. <a name="C0214V25" id="C0214V25">14:25</a> He took
off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the
Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Yisrael, for Yahweh
fights for them against the Egyptians!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0214V26" id="C0214V26">14:26</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Stretch
out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the
Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." <a name="C0214V27"
id="C0214V27">14:27</a> Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
<a name="C0214V28" id="C0214V28">14:28</a> The waters returned, and covered
the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after
them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them. <a
name="C0214V29" id="C0214V29">14:29</a> But the children of Yisrael walked on
dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on
their right hand, and on their left. <a name="C0214V30" id="C0214V30">14:30</a>
Thus Yahweh saved Yisrael that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and
Yisrael saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. <a name="C0214V31" id="C0214V31">14:31</a>
Yisrael saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the
people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant
Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0215V1" id="C0215V1">15:1</a> Then Moshe and the children of Yisrael
sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
</dt>
<dd>
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V2" id="C0215V2">15:2</a> Yah is my strength and song.
</dt>
<dd>
He has become my salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
This is my Elohim, and I will praise him;
</dt>
<dd>
my father's Elohim, and I will exalt him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V3" id="C0215V3">15:3</a> Yahweh is a man of war.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is his name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V4" id="C0215V4">15:4</a> He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and
his army into the sea.
</dt>
<dd>
His chosen captains are sunk in the <a href="#N025">Red Sea</a>.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V5" id="C0215V5">15:5</a> The deeps cover them.
</dt>
<dd>
They went down into the depths like a stone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V6" id="C0215V6">15:6</a> Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious
in power.
</dt>
<dd>
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V7" id="C0215V7">15:7</a> In the greatness of your excellency,
you overthrow those who rise up against you.
</dt>
<dd>
You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V8" id="C0215V8">15:8</a> With the blast of your nostrils, the
waters were piled up.
</dt>
<dd>
The floods stood upright as a heap.
</dd>
<dd>
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V9" id="C0215V9">15:9</a> The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I
will overtake. I will divide the spoil.
</dt>
<dd>
My desire shall be satisfied on them.
</dd>
<dd>
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V10" id="C0215V10">15:10</a> You blew with your wind.
</dt>
<dd>
The sea covered them.
</dd>
<dd>
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V11" id="C0215V11">15:11</a> Who is like you, Yahweh, among
the gods?
</dt>
<dd>
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
</dd>
<dd>
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V12" id="C0215V12">15:12</a> You stretched out your right
hand.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth swallowed them.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V13" id="C0215V13">15:13</a> "You, in your loving
kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
</dt>
<dd>
You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V14" id="C0215V14">15:14</a> The peoples have heard.
</dt>
<dd>
They tremble.
</dd>
<dd>
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V15" id="C0215V15">15:15</a> Then the chiefs of Edom were
dismayed.
</dt>
<dd>
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
</dd>
<dd>
All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V16" id="C0215V16">15:16</a> Terror and dread falls on them.
</dt>
<dd>
By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone--
</dd>
<dd>
until your people pass over, Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
until the people pass over who you have purchased.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C0215V17" id="C0215V17">15:17</a> You shall bring them in, and
plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
</dd>
<dd>
the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
</dd>
<dd>
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0215V18" id="C0215V18">15:18</a> Yahweh shall reign forever and
ever."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0215V19" id="C0215V19">15:19</a> For the horses of Pharaoh went in
with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought
back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Yisrael walked on
dry land in the midst of the sea. <a name="C0215V20" id="C0215V20">15:20</a>
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took a tambourine in her hand;
and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. <a
name="C0215V21" id="C0215V21">15:21</a> Miriam answered them,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
</dt>
<dt>
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0215V22" id="C0215V22">15:22</a> Moshe led Yisrael onward from the <a
href="#N026">Red Sea</a>, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur;
and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. <a
name="C0215V23" id="C0215V23">15:23</a> When they came to Marah, they couldn't
drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name
was called <a href="#N027">Marah.</a> <a name="C0215V24" id="C0215V24">15:24</a>
The people murmured against Moshe, saying, "What shall we drink?"
<a name="C0215V25" id="C0215V25">15:25</a> Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh
showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were
made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there
he tested them; <a name="C0215V26" id="C0215V26">15:26</a> and he said, "If
you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, and will do
that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his
commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases
on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0215V27" id="C0215V27">15:27</a> They came to Elim, where there were
twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there
by the waters.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N025" id="N025">[5]</a> <a href="#C0215V4">back to 15:4</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N026" id="N026">[6]</a> <a href="#C0215V22">back to 15:22</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N027" id="N027">[7]</a> <a href="#C0215V23">back to 15:23</a> Marah
means bitter.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0216V1" id="C0216V1">16:1</a> They took their journey from Elim, and
all the congregation of the children of Yisrael came to the wilderness of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second
month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C0216V2"
id="C0216V2">16:2</a> The whole congregation of the children of Yisrael
murmured against Moshe and against Aharon in the wilderness; <a name="C0216V3"
id="C0216V3">16:3</a> and the children of Yisrael said to them, "We wish
that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat
by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us
out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0216V4" id="C0216V4">16:4</a> Then said Yahweh to Moshe, "Behold,
I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and
gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will
walk in my Torah, or not. <a name="C0216V5" id="C0216V5">16:5</a> It shall come
to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring
in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0216V6" id="C0216V6">16:6</a> Moshe and Aharon said to all the
children of Yisrael, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has
brought you out from the land of Egypt; <a name="C0216V7" id="C0216V7">16:7</a>
and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he
hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against
us?" <a name="C0216V8" id="C0216V8">16:8</a> Moshe said, "Now Yahweh
shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to
satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against
him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against
Yahweh." <a name="C0216V9" id="C0216V9">16:9</a> Moshe said to Aharon,
"Tell all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, 'Come near
before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'" <a name="C0216V10"
id="C0216V10">16:10</a> It happened, as Aharon spoke to the whole
congregation of the children of Yisrael, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. <a
name="C0216V11" id="C0216V11">16:11</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0216V12" id="C0216V12">16:12</a> "I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Yisrael. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat
meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall
know that I am Yahweh your Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0216V13" id="C0216V13">16:13</a> It happened at evening that quail
came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the
camp. <a name="C0216V14" id="C0216V14">16:14</a> When the dew that lay had
gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing,
small as the frost on the ground. <a name="C0216V15" id="C0216V15">16:15</a>
When the children of Yisrael saw it, they said one to another, "What
is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moshe said to them, "It
is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat." <a name="C0216V16"
id="C0216V16">16:16</a> This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather
of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the
number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in
his tent." <a name="C0216V17" id="C0216V17">16:17</a> The children of
Yisrael did so, and gathered some more, some less. <a name="C0216V18"
id="C0216V18">16:18</a> When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered
much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They
gathered every man according to his eating. <a name="C0216V19" id="C0216V19">16:19</a>
Moshe said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
<a name="C0216V20" id="C0216V20">16:20</a> Notwithstanding they didn't listen
to Moshe, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred
worms, and became foul: and Moshe was angry with them. <a name="C0216V21"
id="C0216V21">16:21</a> They gathered it morning by morning, everyone
according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. <a name="C0216V22"
id="C0216V22">16:22</a> It happened that on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moshe. <a name="C0216V23" id="C0216V23">16:23</a>
He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is
a solemn rest, a holy Shabbat to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake,
and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for
yourselves to be kept until the morning.'" <a name="C0216V24"
id="C0216V24">16:24</a> They laid it up until the morning, as Moshe asked,
and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. <a
name="C0216V25" id="C0216V25">16:25</a> Moshe said, "Eat that today, for
today is a Shabbat to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field. <a
name="C0216V26" id="C0216V26">16:26</a> Six days you shall gather it, but on
the seventh day is the Shabbat. In it there shall be none." <a
name="C0216V27" id="C0216V27">16:27</a> It happened on the seventh day, that
some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. <a
name="C0216V28" id="C0216V28">16:28</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "How long
do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? <a name="C0216V29"
id="C0216V29">16:29</a> Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Shabbat,
therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone
stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
<a name="C0216V30" id="C0216V30">16:30</a> So the people rested on the seventh
day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0216V31" id="C0216V31">16:31</a> The house of Yisrael called its name
<a href="#N028">Manna,</a> and it was like coriander seed, white; and its
taste was like wafers with honey. <a name="C0216V32" id="C0216V32">16:32</a>
Moshe said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an
omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the
bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth
from the land of Egypt.'" <a name="C0216V33" id="C0216V33">16:33</a>
Moshe said to Aharon, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in
it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
<a name="C0216V34" id="C0216V34">16:34</a> As Yahweh commanded Moshe, so Aharon
laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. <a name="C0216V35" id="C0216V35">16:35</a>
The children of Yisrael ate the manna forty years, until they came to an
inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the
land of Canaan. <a name="C0216V36" id="C0216V36">16:36</a> Now an omer is the
tenth part of an ephah.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N8" id="N8">[8]</a> <a href="#C0216V31">back to 16:31</a> "Manna"
means "What is it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0217V1" id="C0217V1">17:1</a> All the congregation of the children
of Yisrael traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys,
according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was
no water for the people to drink. <a name="C0217V2" id="C0217V2">17:2</a>
Therefore the people quarreled with Moshe, and said, "Give us water
to drink."
</p>
<p>
Moshe said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test
Yahweh?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0217V3" id="C0217V3">17:3</a> The people were thirsty for water
there; and the people murmured against Moshe, and said, "Why have you
brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock
with thirst?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0217V4" id="C0217V4">17:4</a> Moshe cried to Yahweh, saying, "What
shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0217V5" id="C0217V5">17:5</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Walk on
before the people, and take the elders of Yisrael with you, and take the
rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. <a name="C0217V6"
id="C0217V6">17:6</a> Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in
Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the
people may drink." Moshe did so in the sight of the elders of Yisrael.
<a name="C0217V7" id="C0217V7">17:7</a> He called the name of the place <a
href="#N029">Massah,</a> and <a href="#N0210">Meribah,</a> because the
children of Yisrael quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying,
"Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0217V8" id="C0217V8">17:8</a> Then Amalek came and fought with
Yisrael in Rephidim. <a name="C0217V9" id="C0217V9">17:9</a> Moshe said to
Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I
will stand on the top of the hill with Elohim's rod in my hand." <a
name="C0217V10" id="C0217V10">17:10</a> So Joshua did as Moshe had told him,
and fought with Amalek; and Moshe, Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of
the hill. <a name="C0217V11" id="C0217V11">17:11</a> It happened, when Moshe
held up his hand, that Yisrael prevailed; and when he let down his hand,
Amalek prevailed. <a name="C0217V12" id="C0217V12">17:12</a> But Moshe' hands
were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it.
Aharon and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on
the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. <a name="C0217V13"
id="C0217V13">17:13</a> Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword. <a name="C0217V14" id="C0217V14">17:14</a> Yahweh said to Moshe,
"Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of
Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the
sky." <a name="C0217V15" id="C0217V15">17:15</a> Moshe built an altar,
and called its name <a href="#N0211">Yahweh our Banner.</a> <a
name="C0217V16" id="C0217V16">17:16</a> He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh
will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0218V1" id="C0218V1">18:1</a> Now Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moshe's father-in-law, heard of all that Elohim had done for Moshe, and for
Yisrael his people, how that Yahweh had brought Yisrael out of Egypt. <a
name="C0218V2" id="C0218V2">18:2</a> Jethro, Moshe's father-in-law, received
Zipporah, Moshe's wife, after he had sent her away, <a name="C0218V3"
id="C0218V3">18:3</a> and her two sons. The name of one son was <a
href="#N0212">Gershom,</a> for Moshe said, "I have lived as a
foreigner in a foreign land". <a name="C0218V4" id="C0218V4">18:4</a> The
name of the other was <a href="#N0213">Eliezer,</a> for he said, "My
father's Elohim was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword." <a
name="C0218V5" id="C0218V5">18:5</a> Jethro, Moshe's father-in-law, came with
his sons and his wife to Moshe into the wilderness where he was encamped,
at the Mountain of Elohim. <a name="C0218V6" id="C0218V6">18:6</a> He said to
Moshe, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and
her two sons with her. <a name="C0218V7" id="C0218V7">18:7</a> Moshe went out
to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other
of their welfare, and they came into the tent. <a name="C0218V8" id="C0218V8">18:8</a>
Moshe told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to
the Egyptians for Yisrael's sake, all the hardships that had come on them
on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. <a name="C0218V9" id="C0218V9">18:9</a>
Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Yisrael, in
that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. <a
name="C0218V10" id="C0218V10">18:10</a> Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh,
who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the
hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the
Egyptians. <a name="C0218V11" id="C0218V11">18:11</a> Now I know that Yahweh
is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt
arrogantly against them." <a name="C0218V12" id="C0218V12">18:12</a>
Jethro, Moshe's father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for
Elohim. Aharon came with all of the elders of Yisrael, to eat bread with Moshe's
father-in-law before Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0218V13" id="C0218V13">18:13</a> It happened on the next day, that
Moshe sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moshe from the
morning to the evening. <a name="C0218V14" id="C0218V14">18:14</a> When Moshe's
father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is
this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the
people stand around you from morning to evening?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0218V15" id="C0218V15">18:15</a> Moshe said to his father-in-law,
"Because the people come to me to inquire of Elohim. <a name="C0218V16"
id="C0218V16">18:16</a> When they have a matter, they come to me, and I
judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of
Elohim, and his laws." <a name="C0218V17" id="C0218V17">18:17</a> Moshe's
father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. <a
name="C0218V18" id="C0218V18">18:18</a> You will surely wear away, both you,
and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You
are not able to perform it yourself alone. <a name="C0218V19" id="C0218V19">18:19</a>
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and Elohim be with you. You
represent the people before Elohim, and bring the causes to Elohim. <a
name="C0218V20" id="C0218V20">18:20</a> You shall teach them the statutes and
the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the
work that they must do. <a name="C0218V21" id="C0218V21">18:21</a> Moreover
you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear Elohim: men of
truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. <a
name="C0218V22" id="C0218V22">18:22</a> Let them judge the people at all
times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but
every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for
you, and they shall share the load with you. <a name="C0218V23" id="C0218V23">18:23</a>
If you will do this thing, and Elohim commands you so, then you will be able
to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0218V24" id="C0218V24">18:24</a> So Moshe listened to the voice of
his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. <a name="C0218V25"
id="C0218V25">18:25</a> Moshe chose able men out of all Yisrael, and made
them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. <a name="C0218V26" id="C0218V26">18:26</a>
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to
Moshe, but every small matter they judged themselves. <a name="C0218V27"
id="C0218V27">18:27</a> Moshe let his father-in-law depart, and he went his
way into his own land.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0212" id="N0212">[12]</a> <a href="#C0218V3">back to 18:3</a>
"Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0213" id="N0213">[13]</a> <a href="#C0218V4">back to 18:4</a>
Eliezer means "Elohim is my helper."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V1" id="C0219V1">19:1</a> In the third month after the children
of Yisrael had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they
came into the wilderness of Sinai. <a name="C0219V2" id="C0219V2">19:2</a>
When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Yisrael encamped before
the mountain. <a name="C0219V3" id="C0219V3">19:3</a> Moshe went up to Elohim,
and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what
you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Yisrael: <a
name="C0219V4" id="C0219V4">19:4</a> 'You have seen what I did to the
Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
<a name="C0219V5" id="C0219V5">19:5</a> Now therefore, if you will indeed obey
my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from
among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; <a name="C0219V6" id="C0219V6">19:6</a>
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are
the words which you shall speak to the children of Yisrael."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V7" id="C0219V7">19:7</a> Moshe came and called for the elders
of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded
him. <a name="C0219V8" id="C0219V8">19:8</a> All the people answered together,
and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do."
</p>
<p>
Moshe reported the words of the people to Yahweh. <a name="C0219V9"
id="C0219V9">19:9</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Behold, I come to you in a
thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also
believe you forever." Moshe told the words of the people to Yahweh.
<a name="C0219V10" id="C0219V10">19:10</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Go to
the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their
garments, <a name="C0219V11" id="C0219V11">19:11</a> and be ready against the
third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all
the people on Mount Sinai. <a name="C0219V12" id="C0219V12">19:12</a> You
shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you
don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the
mountain shall be surely put to death. <a name="C0219V13" id="C0219V13">19:13</a>
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through;
whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds
long, they shall come up to the mountain."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V14" id="C0219V14">19:14</a> Moshe went down from the mountain
to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
<a name="C0219V15" id="C0219V15">19:15</a> He said to the people, "Be
ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V16" id="C0219V16">19:16</a> It happened on the third day, when
it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the
people who were in the camp trembled. <a name="C0219V17" id="C0219V17">19:17</a>
Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet Elohim; and they stood at the
lower part of the mountain. <a name="C0219V18" id="C0219V18">19:18</a> Mount
Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its
smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked
greatly. <a name="C0219V19" id="C0219V19">19:19</a> When the sound of the
trumpet grew louder and louder, Moshe spoke, and Elohim answered him by a
voice. <a name="C0219V20" id="C0219V20">19:20</a> Yahweh came down on Mount
Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moshe to the top of the
mountain, and Moshe went up.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V21" id="C0219V21">19:21</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Go
down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many
of them perish. <a name="C0219V22" id="C0219V22">19:22</a> Let the priests
also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break
forth on them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V23" id="C0219V23">19:23</a> Moshe said to Yahweh, "The
people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, 'Set
bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V24" id="C0219V24">19:24</a> Yahweh said to him, "Go down
and you shall bring Aharon up with you, but don't let the priests and the
people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0219V25" id="C0219V25">19:25</a> So Moshe went down to the people,
and told them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V1" id="C0220V1">20:1</a> <a href="#N0214">Elohim</a> spoke all
these words, saying, <a name="C0220V2" id="C0220V2">20:2</a> "I am Yahweh
your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. <a name="C0220V3" id="C0220V3">20:3</a> You shall have no other gods
before me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V4" id="C0220V4">20:4</a> "You shall not make for
yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth: <a name="C0220V5" id="C0220V5">20:5</a> you shall not bow yourself down
to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your Elohim, am a jealous Elohim,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on
the fourth generation of those who hate me, <a name="C0220V6" id="C0220V6">20:6</a>
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V7" id="C0220V7">20:7</a> "You shall not take the name of
Yahweh your Elohim in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes
his name in vain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V8" id="C0220V8">20:8</a> "Remember the Shabbat day, to
keep it holy. <a name="C0220V9" id="C0220V9">20:9</a> You shall labor six
days, and do all your work, <a name="C0220V10" id="C0220V10">20:10</a> but the
seventh day is a Shabbat to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not do any work in
it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your
female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your
gates; <a name="C0220V11" id="C0220V11">20:11</a> for in six days Yahweh made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh
day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Shabbat day, and made it holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V12" id="C0220V12">20:12</a> "Honor your father and your
mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives
you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V13" id="C0220V13">20:13</a> "You shall not murder.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V14" id="C0220V14">20:14</a> "You shall not commit
adultery.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V15" id="C0220V15">20:15</a> "You shall not steal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V16" id="C0220V16">20:16</a> "You shall not give false
testimony against your neighbor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V17" id="C0220V17">20:17</a> "You shall not covet your
neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male
servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
that is your neighbor's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V18" id="C0220V18">20:18</a> All the people perceived the
thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
<a name="C0220V19" id="C0220V19">20:19</a> They said to Moshe, "Speak
with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let Elohim speak with us,
lest we die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V20" id="C0220V20">20:20</a> Moshe said to the people, "Don't
be afraid, for Elohim has come to test you, and that his fear may be before
you, that you won't sin." <a name="C0220V21" id="C0220V21">20:21</a> The
people stayed at a distance, and Moshe drew near to the thick darkness
where Elohim was.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0220V22" id="C0220V22">20:22</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "This is
what you shall tell the children of Yisrael: 'You yourselves have seen that
I have talked with you from heaven. <a name="C0220V23" id="C0220V23">20:23</a>
You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods
of gold for yourselves. <a name="C0220V24" id="C0220V24">20:24</a> You shall
make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt
offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every
place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. <a
name="C0220V25" id="C0220V25">20:25</a> If you make me an altar of stone, you
shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you
have polluted it. <a name="C0220V26" id="C0220V26">20:26</a> Neither shall you
go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0214" id="N0214">[14]</a> <a href="#C0220V1">back to 20:1</a>
After "Elohim," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav"
(the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as
a grammatical marker.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V1" id="C0221V1">21:1</a> "Now these are the ordinances
which you shall set before them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V2" id="C0221V2">21:2</a> "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he
shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without
paying anything. <a name="C0221V3" id="C0221V3">21:3</a> If he comes in by
himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall
go out with him. <a name="C0221V4" id="C0221V4">21:4</a> If his master gives
him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children
shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. <a name="C0221V5"
id="C0221V5">21:5</a> But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my
master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' <a name="C0221V6"
id="C0221V6">21:6</a> then his master shall bring him to Elohim, and shall
bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his
ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V7" id="C0221V7">21:7</a> "If a man sells his daughter to
be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do. <a
name="C0221V8" id="C0221V8">21:8</a> If she doesn't please her master, who has
married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have
no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully
with her. <a name="C0221V9" id="C0221V9">21:9</a> If he marries her to his
son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. <a name="C0221V10"
id="C0221V10">21:10</a> If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not
diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. <a name="C0221V11"
id="C0221V11">21:11</a> If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may
go free without paying any money.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V12" id="C0221V12">21:12</a> "One who strikes a man so that
he dies shall surely be put to death, <a name="C0221V13" id="C0221V13">21:13</a>
but not if it is unintentional, but Elohim allows it to happen: then I will
appoint you a place where he shall flee. <a name="C0221V14" id="C0221V14">21:14</a>
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you
shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V15" id="C0221V15">21:15</a> "Anyone who attacks his father
or his mother shall be surely put to death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V16" id="C0221V16">21:16</a> "Anyone who kidnaps someone
and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to
death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V17" id="C0221V17">21:17</a> "Anyone who curses his father
or his mother shall surely be put to death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V18" id="C0221V18">21:18</a> "If men quarrel and one
strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but
is confined to bed; <a name="C0221V19" id="C0221V19">21:19</a> if he rises
again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be
cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for
his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V20" id="C0221V20">21:20</a> "If a man strikes his servant
or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be
punished. <a name="C0221V21" id="C0221V21">21:21</a> Notwithstanding, if he
gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his
property.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V22" id="C0221V22">21:22</a> "If men fight and hurt a
pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm
follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands
and the judges allow. <a name="C0221V23" id="C0221V23">21:23</a> But if any
harm follows, then you must take life for life, <a name="C0221V24"
id="C0221V24">21:24</a> eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot, <a name="C0221V25" id="C0221V25">21:25</a> burning for burning,
wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V26" id="C0221V26">21:26</a> "If a man strikes his
servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go
free for his eye's sake. <a name="C0221V27" id="C0221V27">21:27</a> If he
strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he
shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V28" id="C0221V28">21:28</a> "If a bull gores a man or a
woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not
be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. <a
name="C0221V29" id="C0221V29">21:29</a> But if the bull had a habit of goring
in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept
it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and
its owner shall also be put to death. <a name="C0221V30" id="C0221V30">21:30</a>
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his
life whatever is laid on him. <a name="C0221V31" id="C0221V31">21:31</a>
Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this
judgment it shall be done to him. <a name="C0221V32" id="C0221V32">21:32</a>
If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of
silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V33" id="C0221V33">21:33</a> "If a man opens a pit, or if a
man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
<a name="C0221V34" id="C0221V34">21:34</a> the owner of the pit shall make it
good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0221V35" id="C0221V35">21:35</a> "If one man's bull injures
another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide
its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. <a name="C0221V36"
id="C0221V36">21:36</a> Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of
goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay
bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V1" id="C0222V1">22:1</a> "If a man steals an ox or a
sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and
four sheep for a sheep. <a name="C0222V2" id="C0222V2">22:2</a> If the thief
is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no
guilt of bloodshed for him. <a name="C0222V3" id="C0222V3">22:3</a> If the sun
has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. <a
name="C0222V4" id="C0222V4">22:4</a> If the stolen property is found in his
hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V5" id="C0222V5">22:5</a> "If a man causes a field or
vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another
man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and
from the best of his own vineyard.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V6" id="C0222V6">22:6</a> "If fire breaks out, and catches
in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field
are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V7" id="C0222V7">22:7</a> "If a man delivers to his
neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house;
if the thief is found, he shall pay double. <a name="C0222V8" id="C0222V8">22:8</a>
If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to
Elohim, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods. <a
name="C0222V9" id="C0222V9">22:9</a> For every matter of trespass, whether it
be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost
thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties
shall come before Elohim. He whom Elohim condemns shall pay double to his
neighbor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V10" id="C0222V10">22:10</a> "If a man delivers to his
neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or
is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; <a name="C0222V11" id="C0222V11">22:11</a>
the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his
hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall
not make restitution. <a name="C0222V12" id="C0222V12">22:12</a> But if it is
stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. <a name="C0222V13"
id="C0222V13">22:13</a> If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for
evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V14" id="C0222V14">22:14</a> "If a man borrows anything of
his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it,
he shall surely make restitution. <a name="C0222V15" id="C0222V15">22:15</a>
If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased
thing, it came for its lease.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V16" id="C0222V16">22:16</a> "If a man entices a virgin who
isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a
dowry for her to be his wife. <a name="C0222V17" id="C0222V17">22:17</a> If
her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V18" id="C0222V18">22:18</a> "You shall not allow a
sorceress to live.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V19" id="C0222V19">22:19</a> "Whoever has sex with an
animal shall surely be put to death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V20" id="C0222V20">22:20</a> "He who sacrifices to any god,
except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V21" id="C0222V21">22:21</a> "You shall not wrong an alien,
neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V22" id="C0222V22">22:22</a> "You shall not take advantage
of any widow or fatherless child. <a name="C0222V23" id="C0222V23">22:23</a>
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will
surely hear their cry; <a name="C0222V24" id="C0222V24">22:24</a> and my wrath
will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be
widows, and your children fatherless.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V25" id="C0222V25">22:25</a> "If you lend money to any of
my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor;
neither shall you charge him interest. <a name="C0222V26" id="C0222V26">22:26</a>
If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to
him before the sun goes down, <a name="C0222V27" id="C0222V27">22:27</a> for
that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he
sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am
gracious.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V28" id="C0222V28">22:28</a> "You shall not blaspheme Elohim,
nor curse a ruler of your people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V29" id="C0222V29">22:29</a> "You shall not delay to offer
from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.
</p>
<p>
"You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. <a name="C0222V30"
id="C0222V30">22:30</a> You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your
sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you
shall give it to me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0222V31" id="C0222V31">22:31</a> "You shall be holy men to me,
therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the
field. You shall cast it to the dogs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V1" id="C0223V1">23:1</a> "You shall not spread a false
report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. <a
name="C0223V2" id="C0223V2">23:2</a> You shall not follow a crowd to do evil;
neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert
justice; <a name="C0223V3" id="C0223V3">23:3</a> neither shall you favor a
poor man in his cause.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V4" id="C0223V4">23:4</a> "If you meet your enemy's ox or
his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. <a
name="C0223V5" id="C0223V5">23:5</a> If you see the donkey of him who hates
you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help
him with it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V6" id="C0223V6">23:6</a> "You shall not deny justice to
your poor people in their lawsuits.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V7" id="C0223V7">23:7</a> "Keep far from a false charge,
and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the
wicked.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V8" id="C0223V8">23:8</a> "You shall take no bribe, for a
bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V9" id="C0223V9">23:9</a> "You shall not oppress an alien,
for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of
Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V10" id="C0223V10">23:10</a> "For six years you shall sow
your land, and shall gather in its increase, <a name="C0223V11" id="C0223V11">23:11</a>
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor
of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall
eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive
grove.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V12" id="C0223V12">23:12</a> "Six days you shall do your
work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey
may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be
refreshed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V13" id="C0223V13">23:13</a> "Be careful to do all things
that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither
let them be heard out of your mouth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V14" id="C0223V14">23:14</a> "You shall observe a feast to
me three times a year. <a name="C0223V15" id="C0223V15">23:15</a> You shall
observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in
it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. <a
name="C0223V16" id="C0223V16">23:16</a> And the feast of harvest, the first
fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of
harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the
field. <a name="C0223V17" id="C0223V17">23:17</a> Three times in the year all
your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V18" id="C0223V18">23:18</a> "You shall not offer the blood
of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast
remain all night until the morning. <a name="C0223V19" id="C0223V19">23:19</a>
The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the
house of Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
"You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0223V20" id="C0223V20">23:20</a> "Behold, I send an angel
before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which
I have prepared. <a name="C0223V21" id="C0223V21">23:21</a> Pay attention to
him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon
your disobedience, for my name is in him. <a name="C0223V22" id="C0223V22">23:22</a>
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I
will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. <a
name="C0223V23" id="C0223V23">23:23</a> For my angel shall go before you, and
bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. <a name="C0223V24"
id="C0223V24">23:24</a> You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve
them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and
demolish their pillars. <a name="C0223V25" id="C0223V25">23:25</a> You shall
serve Yahweh your Elohim, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I
will take sickness away from your midst. <a name="C0223V26" id="C0223V26">23:26</a>
No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number
of your days. <a name="C0223V27" id="C0223V27">23:27</a> I will send my terror
before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will
make all your enemies turn their backs to you. <a name="C0223V28" id="C0223V28">23:28</a>
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. <a name="C0223V29" id="C0223V29">23:29</a>
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land
become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. <a
name="C0223V30" id="C0223V30">23:30</a> Little by little I will drive them out
from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. <a
name="C0223V31" id="C0223V31">23:31</a> I will set your border from the <a
href="#N0215">Red Sea</a> even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the
wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land
into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. <a name="C0223V32"
id="C0223V32">23:32</a> You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their
gods. <a name="C0223V33" id="C0223V33">23:33</a> They shall not dwell in your
land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it
will surely be a snare to you."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N15" id="N15">[15]</a> <a href="#C0223V31">back to 23:31</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V1" id="C0224V1">24:1</a> He said to Moshe, "Come up to
Yahweh, you, and Aharon, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Yisrael; and worship from a distance. <a name="C0224V2" id="C0224V2">24:2</a>
Moshe alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near,
neither shall the people go up with him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V3" id="C0224V3">24:3</a> Moshe came and told the people all the
words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with
one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we
do."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V4" id="C0224V4">24:4</a> Moshe wrote all the words of Yahweh,
and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain,
and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C0224V5"
id="C0224V5">24:5</a> He sent young men of the children of Yisrael, who
offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to
Yahweh. <a name="C0224V6" id="C0224V6">24:6</a> Moshe took half of the blood
and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. <a
name="C0224V7" id="C0224V7">24:7</a> He took the book of the covenant and read
it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has
spoken will we do, and be obedient."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V8" id="C0224V8">24:8</a> Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it
on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant,
which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V9" id="C0224V9">24:9</a> Then Moshe, Aharon, Nadab, Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Yisrael went up. <a name="C0224V10" id="C0224V10">24:10</a>
They saw the Elohim of Yisrael. Under his feet was like a paved work of <a
href="#N0216">sapphire</a> stone, like the skies for clearness. <a
name="C0224V11" id="C0224V11">24:11</a> He didn't lay his hand on the nobles
of the children of Yisrael. They saw Elohim, and ate and drank.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V12" id="C0224V12">24:12</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Come up
to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of
stone with the Torah and the commands that I have written, that you may
teach them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V13" id="C0224V13">24:13</a> Moshe rose up with Joshua, his
servant, and Moshe went up onto Elohim's Mountain. <a name="C0224V14"
id="C0224V14">24:14</a> He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until
we come again to you. Behold, Aharon and Hur are with you. Whoever is
involved in a dispute can go to them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0224V15" id="C0224V15">24:15</a> Moshe went up on the mountain, and
the cloud covered the mountain. <a name="C0224V16" id="C0224V16">24:16</a> The
glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days.
The seventh day he called to Moshe out of the midst of the cloud. <a
name="C0224V17" id="C0224V17">24:17</a> The appearance of the glory of Yahweh
was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the
children of Yisrael. <a name="C0224V18" id="C0224V18">24:18</a> Moshe entered
into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moshe was on
the mountain forty days and forty nights.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0216" id="N0216">[16]</a> <a href="#C0224V10">back to 24:10</a>
or, lapis lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0225V1" id="C0225V1">25:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0225V2" id="C0225V2">25:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him
willing you shall take my offering. <a name="C0225V3" id="C0225V3">25:3</a>
This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
<a name="C0225V4" id="C0225V4">25:4</a> blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen,
goats' hair, <a name="C0225V5" id="C0225V5">25:5</a> rams' skins dyed red, sea
cow hides, acacia wood, <a name="C0225V6" id="C0225V6">25:6</a> oil for the
light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, <a
name="C0225V7" id="C0225V7">25:7</a> onyx stones, and stones to be set for the
ephod and for the breastplate. <a name="C0225V8" id="C0225V8">25:8</a> Let
them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. <a name="C0225V9"
id="C0225V9">25:9</a> According to all that I show you, the pattern of the
tent, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0225V10" id="C0225V10">25:10</a> "They shall make an ark of
acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a
cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. <a name="C0225V11"
id="C0225V11">25:11</a> You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall
overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around
it. <a name="C0225V12" id="C0225V12">25:12</a> You shall cast four rings of
gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one
side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. <a name="C0225V13"
id="C0225V13">25:13</a> You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay
them with gold. <a name="C0225V14" id="C0225V14">25:14</a> You shall put the
poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. <a
name="C0225V15" id="C0225V15">25:15</a> The poles shall be in the rings of the
ark. They shall not be taken from it. <a name="C0225V16" id="C0225V16">25:16</a>
You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. <a
name="C0225V17" id="C0225V17">25:17</a> You shall make a mercy seat of pure
gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half
its breadth. <a name="C0225V18" id="C0225V18">25:18</a> You shall make two
cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the
mercy seat. <a name="C0225V19" id="C0225V19">25:19</a> Make one cherub at the
one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on
its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. <a name="C0225V20" id="C0225V20">25:20</a>
The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat
with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the
cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. <a name="C0225V21" id="C0225V21">25:21</a>
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall
put the testimony that I will give you. <a name="C0225V22" id="C0225V22">25:22</a>
There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat,
from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all
that I command you for the children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0225V23" id="C0225V23">25:23</a> "You shall make a table of
acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and
one and a half cubits its height. <a name="C0225V24" id="C0225V24">25:24</a>
You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. <a
name="C0225V25" id="C0225V25">25:25</a> You shall make a rim of a handbreadth
around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it. <a
name="C0225V26" id="C0225V26">25:26</a> You shall make four rings of gold for
it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. <a
name="C0225V27" id="C0225V27">25:27</a> the rings shall be close to the rim,
for places for the poles to carry the table. <a name="C0225V28" id="C0225V28">25:28</a>
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that
the table may be carried with them. <a name="C0225V29" id="C0225V29">25:29</a>
You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour
out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold. <a name="C0225V30"
id="C0225V30">25:30</a> You shall set bread of the presence on the table
before me always.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0225V31" id="C0225V31">25:31</a> "You shall make a lampstand of
pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base,
its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with
it. <a name="C0225V32" id="C0225V32">25:32</a> There shall be six branches
going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one
side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side; <a
name="C0225V33" id="C0225V33">25:33</a> three cups made like almond blossoms
in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond
blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches
going out of the lampstand; <a name="C0225V34" id="C0225V34">25:34</a> and in
the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its
flowers; <a name="C0225V35" id="C0225V35">25:35</a> and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece
with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six
branches going out of the lampstand. <a name="C0225V36" id="C0225V36">25:36</a>
Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one
beaten work of pure gold. <a name="C0225V37" id="C0225V37">25:37</a> You shall
make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the
space in front of it. <a name="C0225V38" id="C0225V38">25:38</a> Its snuffers
and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. <a name="C0225V39" id="C0225V39">25:39</a>
It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. <a
name="C0225V40" id="C0225V40">25:40</a> See that you make them after their
pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V1" id="C0226V1">26:1</a> "Moreover you shall make the tent
with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make
them. <a name="C0226V2" id="C0226V2">26:2</a> The length of each curtain shall
be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all
the curtains shall have one measure. <a name="C0226V3" id="C0226V3">26:3</a>
Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five
curtains shall be coupled one to another. <a name="C0226V4" id="C0226V4">26:4</a>
You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge
in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain
that is outmost in the second coupling. <a name="C0226V5" id="C0226V5">26:5</a>
You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty
loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops
shall be opposite one to another. <a name="C0226V6" id="C0226V6">26:6</a> You
shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another
with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V7" id="C0226V7">26:7</a> "You shall make curtains of
goats' hair for a covering over the tent. You shall make them eleven
curtains. <a name="C0226V8" id="C0226V8">26:8</a> The length of each curtain
shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the
eleven curtains shall have one measure. <a name="C0226V9" id="C0226V9">26:9</a>
You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of
the tent. <a name="C0226V10" id="C0226V10">26:10</a> You shall make fifty
loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and
fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second
coupling. <a name="C0226V11" id="C0226V11">26:11</a> You shall make fifty
clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent
together, that it may be one. <a name="C0226V12" id="C0226V12">26:12</a> The
overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half
curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tent. <a
name="C0226V13" id="C0226V13">26:13</a> The cubit on the one side, and the
cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the
curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side
and on that side, to cover it. <a name="C0226V14" id="C0226V14">26:14</a> You
shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering
of sea cow hides above.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V15" id="C0226V15">26:15</a> "You shall make the boards for
the tent of acacia wood, standing up. <a name="C0226V16" id="C0226V16">26:16</a>
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the
breadth of each board. <a name="C0226V17" id="C0226V17">26:17</a> There shall
be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make
for all the boards of the tent. <a name="C0226V18" id="C0226V18">26:18</a> You
shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side
southward. <a name="C0226V19" id="C0226V19">26:19</a> You shall make forty
sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for
its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. <a
name="C0226V20" id="C0226V20">26:20</a> For the second side of the tent, on
the north side, twenty boards, <a name="C0226V21" id="C0226V21">26:21</a> and
their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. <a name="C0226V22" id="C0226V22">26:22</a> For
the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards. <a
name="C0226V23" id="C0226V23">26:23</a> You shall make two boards for the
corners of the tent in the far part. <a name="C0226V24" id="C0226V24">26:24</a>
They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to
its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the
two corners. <a name="C0226V25" id="C0226V25">26:25</a> There shall be eight
boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under
one board, and two sockets under another board.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V26" id="C0226V26">26:26</a> "You shall make bars of acacia
wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent, <a name="C0226V27"
id="C0226V27">26:27</a> and five bars for the boards of the other side of
the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the
far part westward. <a name="C0226V28" id="C0226V28">26:28</a> The middle bar
in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end. <a
name="C0226V29" id="C0226V29">26:29</a> You shall overlay the boards with
gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall
overlay the bars with gold. <a name="C0226V30" id="C0226V30">26:30</a> You
shall set up the tent according to the way that it was shown to you on the
mountain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V31" id="C0226V31">26:31</a> "You shall make a veil of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The
work of the skillful workman shall it be made. <a name="C0226V32" id="C0226V32">26:32</a>
You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their
hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver. <a name="C0226V33"
id="C0226V33">26:33</a> You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and
shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the
veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you. <a
name="C0226V34" id="C0226V34">26:34</a> You shall put the mercy seat on the
ark of the testimony in the most holy place. <a name="C0226V35" id="C0226V35">26:35</a>
You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against
the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the
table on the north side.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0226V36" id="C0226V36">26:36</a> "You shall make a screen for
the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, the work of the embroiderer. <a name="C0226V37" id="C0226V37">26:37</a>
You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them
with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets
of brass for them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0227V1" id="C0227V1">27:1</a> "You shall make the altar of
acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits. <a name="C0227V2"
id="C0227V2">27:2</a> You shall make its horns on its four corners; its
horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
<a name="C0227V3" id="C0227V3">27:3</a> You shall make its pots to take away
its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans:
all its vessels you shall make of brass. <a name="C0227V4" id="C0227V4">27:4</a>
You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you
shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. <a name="C0227V5"
id="C0227V5">27:5</a> You shall put it under the ledge around the altar
beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. <a name="C0227V6"
id="C0227V6">27:6</a> You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia
wood, and overlay them with brass. <a name="C0227V7" id="C0227V7">27:7</a> Its
poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides
of the altar, when carrying it. <a name="C0227V8" id="C0227V8">27:8</a> You
shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown
you on the mountain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0227V9" id="C0227V9">27:9</a> "You shall make the court of the
tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court
of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side: <a name="C0227V10"
id="C0227V10">27:10</a> and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of
silver. <a name="C0227V11" id="C0227V11">27:11</a> Likewise for the north side
in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars
twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver. <a name="C0227V12" id="C0227V12">27:12</a> For the
breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits;
their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. <a name="C0227V13" id="C0227V13">27:13</a>
The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
<a name="C0227V14" id="C0227V14">27:14</a> The hangings for the one side of
the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three. <a name="C0227V15" id="C0227V15">27:15</a> For the other side shall be
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
<a name="C0227V16" id="C0227V16">27:16</a> For the gate of the court shall be
a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their
sockets four. <a name="C0227V17" id="C0227V17">27:17</a> All the pillars of
the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and
their sockets of brass. <a name="C0227V18" id="C0227V18">27:18</a> The length
of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every
where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets
of brass. <a name="C0227V19" id="C0227V19">27:19</a> All the instruments of
the tent in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the
court, shall be of brass.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0227V20" id="C0227V20">27:20</a> "You shall command the
children of Yisrael, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the
light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. <a name="C0227V21" id="C0227V21">27:21</a>
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony,
Aharon and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before
Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the
behalf of the children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V1" id="C0228V1">28:1</a> "Bring Aharon your brother, and
his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Yisrael, that he
may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aharon, Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aharon's sons. <a name="C0228V2" id="C0228V2">28:2</a> You
shall make holy garments for Aharon your brother, for glory and for beauty.
<a name="C0228V3" id="C0228V3">28:3</a> You shall speak to all who are
wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make
Aharon's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the
priest's office. <a name="C0228V4" id="C0228V4">28:4</a> These are the
garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe,
and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy
garments for Aharon your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me
in the priest's office. <a name="C0228V5" id="C0228V5">28:5</a> They shall
take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine
linen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V6" id="C0228V6">28:6</a> "They shall make the ephod of
gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
skillful workman. <a name="C0228V7" id="C0228V7">28:7</a> It shall have two
shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined
together. <a name="C0228V8" id="C0228V8">28:8</a> The skillfully woven band,
which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same
piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
<a name="C0228V9" id="C0228V9">28:9</a> You shall take two onyx stones, and
engrave on them the names of the children of Yisrael: <a name="C0228V10"
id="C0228V10">28:10</a> six of their names on the one stone, and the names
of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth. <a
name="C0228V11" id="C0228V11">28:11</a> With the work of an engraver in stone,
like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones,
according to the names of the children of Yisrael: you shall make them to
be enclosed in settings of gold. <a name="C0228V12" id="C0228V12">28:12</a>
You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be
stones of memorial for the children of Yisrael: and Aharon shall bear their
names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial. <a name="C0228V13"
id="C0228V13">28:13</a> You shall make settings of gold, <a name="C0228V14"
id="C0228V14">28:14</a> and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them
like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the
settings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V15" id="C0228V15">28:15</a> "You shall make a breastplate
of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod
you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, you shall make it. <a name="C0228V16" id="C0228V16">28:16</a> It
shall be square and folded double; a <a href="#N0217">span</a> shall be
its length of it, and a span its breadth. <a name="C0228V17" id="C0228V17">28:17</a>
You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of
ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; <a name="C0228V18" id="C0228V18">28:18</a>
and the second row a turquoise, a <a href="#N0218">sapphire</a>, and an
emerald; <a name="C0228V19" id="C0228V19">28:19</a> and the third row a
jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; <a name="C0228V20" id="C0228V20">28:20</a>
and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be
enclosed in gold in their settings. <a name="C0228V21" id="C0228V21">28:21</a>
The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Yisrael,
twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet,
everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. <a
name="C0228V22" id="C0228V22">28:22</a> You shall make on the breastplate
chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. <a name="C0228V23"
id="C0228V23">28:23</a> You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold,
and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. <a
name="C0228V24" id="C0228V24">28:24</a> You shall put the two braided chains
of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. <a name="C0228V25"
id="C0228V25">28:25</a> The other two ends of the two braided chains you
shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the
ephod in its forepart. <a name="C0228V26" id="C0228V26">28:26</a> You shall
make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the
breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward. <a
name="C0228V27" id="C0228V27">28:27</a> You shall make two rings of gold, and
shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its
forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the
ephod. <a name="C0228V28" id="C0228V28">28:28</a> They shall bind the
breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue,
that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the
breastplate may not swing out from the ephod. <a name="C0228V29" id="C0228V29">28:29</a>
Aharon shall bear the names of the children of Yisrael in the breastplate of
judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial
before Yahweh continually. <a name="C0228V30" id="C0228V30">28:30</a> You
shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and
they shall be on Aharon's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aharon
shall bear the judgment of the children of Yisrael on his heart before
Yahweh continually.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V31" id="C0228V31">28:31</a> "You shall make the robe of
the ephod all of blue. <a name="C0228V32" id="C0228V32">28:32</a> It shall
have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven
work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not
be torn. <a name="C0228V33" id="C0228V33">28:33</a> On its hem you shall make
pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and
bells of gold between and around them: <a name="C0228V34" id="C0228V34">28:34</a>
a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around
the hem of the robe. <a name="C0228V35" id="C0228V35">28:35</a> It shall be on
Aharon to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the
holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V36" id="C0228V36">28:36</a> "You shall make a plate of
pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO
YAHWEH.' <a name="C0228V37" id="C0228V37">28:37</a> You shall put it on a lace
of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall
be. <a name="C0228V38" id="C0228V38">28:38</a> It shall be on Aharon's
forehead, and Aharon shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the
children of Yisrael shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall
be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh. <a
name="C0228V39" id="C0228V39">28:39</a> You shall weave the coat in checker
work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you
shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0228V40" id="C0228V40">28:40</a> "You shall make coats for
Aharon's sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make
headbands for them, for glory and for beauty. <a name="C0228V41" id="C0228V41">28:41</a>
You shall put them on Aharon your brother, and on his sons with him, and
shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may
minister to me in the priest's office. <a name="C0228V42" id="C0228V42">28:42</a>
You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness;
from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach: <a name="C0228V43"
id="C0228V43">28:43</a> They shall be on Aharon, and on his sons, when they
go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to
minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it
shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V1" id="C0229V1">29:1</a> "This is the thing that you shall
do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office:
take one young bull and two rams without blemish, <a name="C0229V2"
id="C0229V2">29:2</a> unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat
flour. <a name="C0229V3" id="C0229V3">29:3</a> You shall put them into one
basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. <a
name="C0229V4" id="C0229V4">29:4</a> You shall bring Aharon and his sons to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. <a
name="C0229V5" id="C0229V5">29:5</a> You shall take the garments, and put on
Aharon the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and
dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; <a name="C0229V6"
id="C0229V6">29:6</a> and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the
holy crown on the turban. <a name="C0229V7" id="C0229V7">29:7</a> Then you
shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him. <a
name="C0229V8" id="C0229V8">29:8</a> You shall bring his sons, and put coats
on them. <a name="C0229V9" id="C0229V9">29:9</a> You shall dress them with
belts, Aharon and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have
the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aharon and
his sons.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V10" id="C0229V10">29:10</a> "You shall bring the bull
before the Tent of Meeting: and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands
on the head of the bull. <a name="C0229V11" id="C0229V11">29:11</a> You shall
kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C0229V12" id="C0229V12">29:12</a> You shall take of the blood of the
bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall
pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. <a name="C0229V13"
id="C0229V13">29:13</a> You shall take all the fat that covers the innards,
the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and
burn them on the altar. <a name="C0229V14" id="C0229V14">29:14</a> But the
flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire
outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V15" id="C0229V15">29:15</a> "You shall also take the one
ram; and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
<a name="C0229V16" id="C0229V16">29:16</a> You shall kill the ram, and you
shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar. <a name="C0229V17"
id="C0229V17">29:17</a> You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its
innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. <a
name="C0229V18" id="C0229V18">29:18</a> You shall burn the whole ram on the
altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V19" id="C0229V19">29:19</a> "You shall take the other ram;
and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. <a
name="C0229V20" id="C0229V20">29:20</a> Then you shall kill the ram, and take
some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aharon, and on
the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right
hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood
around on the altar. <a name="C0229V21" id="C0229V21">29:21</a> You shall take
of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle
it on Aharon, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of
his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his
sons, and his sons' garments with him. <a name="C0229V22" id="C0229V22">29:22</a>
Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that
covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that
is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), <a
name="C0229V23" id="C0229V23">29:23</a> and one loaf of bread, one cake of
oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is
before Yahweh. <a name="C0229V24" id="C0229V24">29:24</a> You shall put all of
this in Aharon's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a
wave offering before Yahweh. <a name="C0229V25" id="C0229V25">29:25</a> You
shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt
offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by
fire to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V26" id="C0229V26">29:26</a> "You shall take the breast of
Aharon's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before
Yahweh: and it shall be your portion. <a name="C0229V27" id="C0229V27">29:27</a>
You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the
wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of
consecration, even of that which is for Aharon, and of that which is for
his sons: <a name="C0229V28" id="C0229V28">29:28</a> and it shall be for Aharon
and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Yisrael; for it
is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of
Yisrael of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave
offering to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V29" id="C0229V29">29:29</a> "The holy garments of Aharon
shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be
consecrated in them. <a name="C0229V30" id="C0229V30">29:30</a> Seven days
shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into
the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V31" id="C0229V31">29:31</a> "You shall take the ram of
consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place. <a name="C0229V32"
id="C0229V32">29:32</a> Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram,
and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
<a name="C0229V33" id="C0229V33">29:33</a> They shall eat those things with
which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger
shall not eat of it, because they are holy. <a name="C0229V34" id="C0229V34">29:34</a>
If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to
the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be
eaten, because it is holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V35" id="C0229V35">29:35</a> "You shall do so to Aharon, and
to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall
consecrate them seven days. <a name="C0229V36" id="C0229V36">29:36</a> Every
day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall
cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint
it, to sanctify it. <a name="C0229V37" id="C0229V37">29:37</a> Seven days you
shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall
be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0229V38" id="C0229V38">29:38</a> "Now this is that which you
shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. <a
name="C0229V39" id="C0229V39">29:39</a> The one lamb you shall offer in the
morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening: <a name="C0229V40"
id="C0229V40">29:40</a> and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of
fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the
fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. <a name="C0229V41"
id="C0229V41">29:41</a> The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall
do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to
its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh. <a name="C0229V42" id="C0229V42">29:42</a> It shall be a continual
burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of
Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
<a name="C0229V43" id="C0229V43">29:43</a> There I will meet with the children
of Yisrael; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. <a name="C0229V44"
id="C0229V44">29:44</a> I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar:
Aharon also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's
office. <a name="C0229V45" id="C0229V45">29:45</a> I will dwell among the
children of Yisrael, and will be their Elohim. <a name="C0229V46" id="C0229V46">29:46</a>
They shall know that I am Yahweh their Elohim, who brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0230V1" id="C0230V1">30:1</a> "You shall make an altar to burn
incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. <a name="C0230V2" id="C0230V2">30:2</a>
Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square,
and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with
it. <a name="C0230V3" id="C0230V3">30:3</a> You shall overlay it with pure
gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a
gold molding around it. <a name="C0230V4" id="C0230V4">30:4</a> You shall make
two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two
sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with
which to bear it. <a name="C0230V5" id="C0230V5">30:5</a> You shall make the
poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. <a name="C0230V6"
id="C0230V6">30:6</a> You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of
the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I
will meet with you. <a name="C0230V7" id="C0230V7">30:7</a> Aharon shall burn
incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he
shall burn it. <a name="C0230V8" id="C0230V8">30:8</a> When Aharon lights the
lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh
throughout your generations. <a name="C0230V9" id="C0230V9">30:9</a> You shall
offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and
you shall pour no drink offering on it. <a name="C0230V10" id="C0230V10">30:10</a>
Aharon shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood
of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement
for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0230V11" id="C0230V11">30:11</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0230V12" id="C0230V12">30:12</a> "When you take a census of the
children of Yisrael, according to those who are numbered among them, then
each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them;
that there be no plague among them when you number them. <a name="C0230V13"
id="C0230V13">30:13</a> They shall give this, everyone who passes over to
those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary;
(the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. <a
name="C0230V14" id="C0230V14">30:14</a> Everyone who passes over to those who
are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to
Yahweh. <a name="C0230V15" id="C0230V15">30:15</a> The rich shall not give
more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they
give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls. <a
name="C0230V16" id="C0230V16">30:16</a> You shall take the atonement money
from the children of Yisrael, and shall appoint it for the service of the
Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Yisrael
before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0230V17" id="C0230V17">30:17</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0230V18" id="C0230V18">30:18</a> "You shall also make a basin of
brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between
the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. <a
name="C0230V19" id="C0230V19">30:19</a> Aharon and his sons shall wash their
hands and their feet in it. <a name="C0230V20" id="C0230V20">30:20</a> When
they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they
not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an
offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0230V21" id="C0230V21">30:21</a> So
they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it
shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants
throughout their generations."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0230V22" id="C0230V22">30:22</a> Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moshe,
saying, <a name="C0230V23" id="C0230V23">30:23</a> "Also take fine
spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon
half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two
hundred and fifty; <a name="C0230V24" id="C0230V24">30:24</a> and of cassia
five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.
<a name="C0230V25" id="C0230V25">30:25</a> You shall make it a holy anointing
oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a
holy anointing oil. <a name="C0230V26" id="C0230V26">30:26</a> You shall use
it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, <a
name="C0230V27" id="C0230V27">30:27</a> the table and all its articles, the
lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense, <a name="C0230V28"
id="C0230V28">30:28</a> the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils,
and the basin with its base. <a name="C0230V29" id="C0230V29">30:29</a> You
shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them
shall be holy. <a name="C0230V30" id="C0230V30">30:30</a> You shall anoint
Aharon and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the
priest's office. <a name="C0230V31" id="C0230V31">30:31</a> You shall speak to
the children of Yisrael, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me
throughout your generations. <a name="C0230V32" id="C0230V32">30:32</a> It
shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it,
according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you. <a
name="C0230V33" id="C0230V33">30:33</a> Whoever compounds any like it, or
whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his
people.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0230V34" id="C0230V34">30:34</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Take to
yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices
with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight; <a
name="C0230V35" id="C0230V35">30:35</a> and you shall make incense of it, a
perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
<a name="C0230V36" id="C0230V36">30:36</a> and you shall beat some of it very
small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting,
where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. <a name="C0230V37"
id="C0230V37">30:37</a> The incense which you shall make, according to its
composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for
Yahweh. <a name="C0230V38" id="C0230V38">30:38</a> Whoever shall make any like
that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0231V1" id="C0231V1">31:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0231V2" id="C0231V2">31:2</a> "Behold, I have called by name
Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yehudah: <a
name="C0231V3" id="C0231V3">31:3</a> and I have filled him with the Spirit of
Elohim, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner
of workmanship, <a name="C0231V4" id="C0231V4">31:4</a> to devise skillful
works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, <a name="C0231V5"
id="C0231V5">31:5</a> and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving
of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. <a name="C0231V6" id="C0231V6">31:6</a>
I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put
wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you: <a name="C0231V7"
id="C0231V7">31:7</a> the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the
mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent, <a name="C0231V8"
id="C0231V8">31:8</a> the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all
its vessels, the altar of incense, <a name="C0231V9" id="C0231V9">31:9</a> the
altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base, <a
name="C0231V10" id="C0231V10">31:10</a> the finely worked garments--the holy
garments for Aharon the priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the
priest's office, <a name="C0231V11" id="C0231V11">31:11</a> the anointing oil,
and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that
I have commanded you they shall do."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0231V12" id="C0231V12">31:12</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0231V13" id="C0231V13">31:13</a> "Speak also to the children of
Yisrael, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Shabbats: for it is a
sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know
that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. <a name="C0231V14" id="C0231V14">31:14</a>
You shall keep the Shabbat therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who
profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. <a name="C0231V15"
id="C0231V15">31:15</a> Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day
is a Shabbat of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the
Shabbat day shall surely be put to death. <a name="C0231V16" id="C0231V16">31:16</a>
Therefore the children of Yisrael shall keep the Shabbat, to observe the
Shabbat throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. <a
name="C0231V17" id="C0231V17">31:17</a> It is a sign between me and the
children of Yisrael forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0231V18" id="C0231V18">31:18</a> He gave to Moshe, when he finished
speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone
tablets, written with Elohim's finger.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V1" id="C0232V1">32:1</a> When the people saw that Moshe delayed
to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to
Aharon, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before
us; for as for this Moshe, the man who brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V2" id="C0232V2">32:2</a> Aharon said to them, "Take off the
golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of
your daughters, and bring them to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V3" id="C0232V3">32:3</a> All the people took off the golden
rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon. <a name="C0232V4"
id="C0232V4">32:4</a> He received what they handed him, and fashioned it
with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These
are your gods, Yisrael, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V5" id="C0232V5">32:5</a> When Aharon saw this, he built an altar
before it; and Aharon made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall
be a feast to Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V6" id="C0232V6">32:6</a> They rose up early on the next day,
and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people
sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V7" id="C0232V7">32:7</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, "Go, get
down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted themselves! <a name="C0232V8" id="C0232V8">32:8</a> They have turned
aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made
themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to
it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisrael, which brought you up out of
the land of Egypt.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V9" id="C0232V9">32:9</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "I have
seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. <a
name="C0232V10" id="C0232V10">32:10</a> Now therefore leave me alone, that my
wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will
make of you a great nation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V11" id="C0232V11">32:11</a> Moshe begged Yahweh his Elohim, and
said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that
you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with
a mighty hand? <a name="C0232V12" id="C0232V12">32:12</a> Why should the
Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in
the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn
from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. <a
name="C0232V13" id="C0232V13">32:13</a> Remember Avraham, Isaac, and Yisrael,
your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I
will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I
have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it
forever.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V14" id="C0232V14">32:14</a> Yahweh repented of the evil which
he said he would do to his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V15" id="C0232V15">32:15</a> Moshe turned, and went down from
the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets
that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other
they were written. <a name="C0232V16" id="C0232V16">32:16</a> The tablets were
the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim, engraved on the
tables.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V17" id="C0232V17">32:17</a> When Joshua heard the noise of the
people as they shouted, he said to Moshe, "There is the noise of war
in the camp."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V18" id="C0232V18">32:18</a> He said, "It isn't the voice
of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry
for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear." <a
name="C0232V19" id="C0232V19">32:19</a> It happened, as soon as he came near
to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moshe' anger grew
hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the
mountain. <a name="C0232V20" id="C0232V20">32:20</a> He took the calf which
they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered
it on the water, and made the children of Yisrael drink of it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V21" id="C0232V21">32:21</a> Moshe said to Aharon, "What did
these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V22" id="C0232V22">32:22</a> Aharon said, "Don't let the
anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
<a name="C0232V23" id="C0232V23">32:23</a> For they said to me, 'Make us gods,
which shall go before us; for as for this Moshe, the man who brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.' <a
name="C0232V24" id="C0232V24">32:24</a> I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold,
let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the
fire, and out came this calf."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V25" id="C0232V25">32:25</a> When Moshe saw that the people had
broken loose, (for Aharon had let them loose for a derision among their
enemies), <a name="C0232V26" id="C0232V26">32:26</a> then Moshe stood in the
gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!"
</p>
<p>
All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. <a name="C0232V27"
id="C0232V27">32:27</a> He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from
gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" <a
name="C0232V28" id="C0232V28">32:28</a> The sons of Levi did according to the
word of Moshe: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
men. <a name="C0232V29" id="C0232V29">32:29</a> Moshe said, "Consecrate
yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against
his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V30" id="C0232V30">32:30</a> It happened on the next day, that
Moshe said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go
up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V31" id="C0232V31">32:31</a> Moshe returned to Yahweh, and said,
"Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves
gods of gold. <a name="C0232V32" id="C0232V32">32:32</a> Yet now, if you will,
forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you
have written."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0232V33" id="C0232V33">32:33</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Whoever
has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. <a name="C0232V34"
id="C0232V34">32:34</a> Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have
spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the
day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin." <a name="C0232V35"
id="C0232V35">32:35</a> Yahweh struck the people, because they made the
calf, which Aharon made.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V1" id="C0233V1">33:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, "Depart,
go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the
land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Avraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' <a name="C0233V2" id="C0233V2">33:2</a>
I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
<a name="C0233V3" id="C0233V3">33:3</a> to a land flowing with milk and honey:
for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked
people, lest I consume you in the way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V4" id="C0233V4">33:4</a> When the people heard this evil news,
they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V5" id="C0233V5">33:5</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Tell the
children of Yisrael, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up
into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take
off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V6" id="C0233V6">33:6</a> The children of Yisrael stripped
themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V7" id="C0233V7">33:7</a> Now Moshe used to take the tent and to
pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The
Tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went
out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp. <a name="C0233V8"
id="C0233V8">33:8</a> It happened that when Moshe went out to the Tent, that
all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and
watched Moshe, until he had gone into the Tent. <a name="C0233V9" id="C0233V9">33:9</a>
It happened, when Moshe entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud
descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moshe. <a
name="C0233V10" id="C0233V10">33:10</a> All the people saw the pillar of cloud
stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped,
everyone at their tent door. <a name="C0233V11" id="C0233V11">33:11</a> Yahweh
spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned
again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man,
didn't depart out of the Tent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V12" id="C0233V12">33:12</a> Moshe said to Yahweh, "Behold,
you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you
will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have
also found favor in my sight.' <a name="C0233V13" id="C0233V13">33:13</a> Now
therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your
ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and
consider that this nation is your people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V14" id="C0233V14">33:14</a> He said, "My presence will go
with you, and I will give you rest."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V15" id="C0233V15">33:15</a> He said to him, "If your
presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. <a name="C0233V16"
id="C0233V16">33:16</a> For how would people know that I have found favor in
your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we
are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the
surface of the earth?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V17" id="C0233V17">33:17</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "I will
do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my
sight, and I know you by name."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V18" id="C0233V18">33:18</a> He said, "Please show me your
glory."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0233V19" id="C0233V19">33:19</a> He said, "I will make all my
goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you.
I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom
I will show mercy." <a name="C0233V20" id="C0233V20">33:20</a> He said,
"You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live." <a
name="C0233V21" id="C0233V21">33:21</a> Yahweh also said, "Behold, there
is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. <a name="C0233V22"
id="C0233V22">33:22</a> It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I
will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until
I have passed by; <a name="C0233V23" id="C0233V23">33:23</a> then I will take
away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V1" id="C0234V1">34:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Chisel two
stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words
that were on the first tablets, which you broke. <a name="C0234V2" id="C0234V2">34:2</a>
Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and
present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. <a name="C0234V3"
id="C0234V3">34:3</a> No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be
seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed
before that mountain."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V4" id="C0234V4">34:4</a> He chiseled two tablets of stone like
the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount
Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone
tablets. <a name="C0234V5" id="C0234V5">34:5</a> Yahweh descended in the
cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. <a
name="C0234V6" id="C0234V6">34:6</a> Yahweh passed by before him, and
proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious Elohim, slow to
anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, <a name="C0234V7"
id="C0234V7">34:7</a> keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving
iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the
children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V8" id="C0234V8">34:8</a> Moshe hurried and bowed his head
toward the earth, and worshiped. <a name="C0234V9" id="C0234V9">34:9</a> He
said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the
Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon
our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V10" id="C0234V10">34:10</a> He said, "Behold, I make a
covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been
worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which
you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do
with you. <a name="C0234V11" id="C0234V11">34:11</a> Observe that which I
command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <a
name="C0234V12" id="C0234V12">34:12</a> Be careful, lest you make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a
snare in the midst of you: <a name="C0234V13" id="C0234V13">34:13</a> but you
shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you
shall cut down their Asherim; <a name="C0234V14" id="C0234V14">34:14</a> for
you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous Elohim. <a name="C0234V15" id="C0234V15">34:15</a> Don't make a covenant
with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after
their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of
his sacrifice; <a name="C0234V16" id="C0234V16">34:16</a> and you take of
their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute
after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
<a name="C0234V17" id="C0234V17">34:17</a> You shall make no cast idols for
yourselves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V18" id="C0234V18">34:18</a> "You shall keep the feast of
unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I
commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month
Abib you came out from Egypt. <a name="C0234V19" id="C0234V19">34:19</a> All
that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the
firstborn of cow and sheep. <a name="C0234V20" id="C0234V20">34:20</a> The
firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not
redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons
you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V21" id="C0234V21">34:21</a> "Six days you shall work, but
on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you
shall rest. <a name="C0234V22" id="C0234V22">34:22</a> You shall observe the
feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of
harvest at the year's end. <a name="C0234V23" id="C0234V23">34:23</a> Three
times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C0234V24" id="C0234V24">34:24</a> For I will drive out
nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire
your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your Elohim, three times in
the year.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V25" id="C0234V25">34:25</a> "You shall not offer the blood
of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the
feast of the Passover be left to the morning. <a name="C0234V26" id="C0234V26">34:26</a>
You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house
of Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V27" id="C0234V27">34:27</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Write
you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant
with you and with Yisrael."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V28" id="C0234V28">34:28</a> He was there with Yahweh forty days
and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the
tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0234V29" id="C0234V29">34:29</a> It happened, when Moshe came down
from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moshe' hand,
when he came down from the mountain, that Moshe didn't know that the skin
of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. <a name="C0234V30"
id="C0234V30">34:30</a> When Aharon and all the children of Yisrael saw Moshe,
behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
<a name="C0234V31" id="C0234V31">34:31</a> Moshe called to them, and Aharon and
all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moshe spoke to
them. <a name="C0234V32" id="C0234V32">34:32</a> Afterward all the children of
Yisrael came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had
spoken with him on Mount Sinai. <a name="C0234V33" id="C0234V33">34:33</a>
When Moshe was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. <a
name="C0234V34" id="C0234V34">34:34</a> But when Moshe went in before Yahweh
to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came
out, and spoke to the children of Yisrael that which he was commanded. <a
name="C0234V35" id="C0234V35">34:35</a> The children of Yisrael saw Moshe'
face, that the skin of Moshe' face shone: and Moshe put the veil on his
face again, until he went in to speak with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0235V1" id="C0235V1">35:1</a> Moshe assembled all the congregation
of the children of Yisrael, and said to them, "These are the words
which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. <a name="C0235V2"
id="C0235V2">35:2</a> 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day
there shall be a holy day for you, a Shabbat of solemn rest to Yahweh:
whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. <a name="C0235V3"
id="C0235V3">35:3</a> You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations
on the Shabbat day.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0235V4" id="C0235V4">35:4</a> Moshe spoke to all the congregation of
the children of Yisrael, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh
commanded, saying, <a name="C0235V5" id="C0235V5">35:5</a> 'Take from among
you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring
it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass, <a name="C0235V6" id="C0235V6">35:6</a>
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, <a name="C0235V7" id="C0235V7">35:7</a>
rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood, <a name="C0235V8"
id="C0235V8">35:8</a> oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and
for the sweet incense, <a name="C0235V9" id="C0235V9">35:9</a> onyx stones,
and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0235V10" id="C0235V10">35:10</a> "'Let every wise-hearted man
among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded: <a name="C0235V11"
id="C0235V11">35:11</a> the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps,
its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; <a name="C0235V12"
id="C0235V12">35:12</a> the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of
the screen; <a name="C0235V13" id="C0235V13">35:13</a> the table with its
poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; <a name="C0235V14" id="C0235V14">35:14</a>
the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil
for the light; <a name="C0235V15" id="C0235V15">35:15</a> and the altar of
incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen
for the door, at the door of the tent; <a name="C0235V16" id="C0235V16">35:16</a>
the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all
its vessels, the basin and its base; <a name="C0235V17" id="C0235V17">35:17</a>
the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for
the gate of the court; <a name="C0235V18" id="C0235V18">35:18</a> the pins of
the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords; <a name="C0235V19"
id="C0235V19">35:19</a> the finely worked garments, for ministering in the
holy place, the holy garments for Aharon the priest, and the garments of
his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0235V20" id="C0235V20">35:20</a> All the congregation of the
children of Yisrael departed from the presence of Moshe. <a name="C0235V21"
id="C0235V21">35:21</a> They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and
everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for
the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the
holy garments. <a name="C0235V22" id="C0235V22">35:22</a> They came, both men
and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches,
earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man
who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh. <a name="C0235V23" id="C0235V23">35:23</a>
Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats'
hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them. <a
name="C0235V24" id="C0235V24">35:24</a> Everyone who did offer an offering of
silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was
found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. <a name="C0235V25"
id="C0235V25">35:25</a> All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their
hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the
scarlet, and the fine linen. <a name="C0235V26" id="C0235V26">35:26</a> All
the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. <a
name="C0235V27" id="C0235V27">35:27</a> The rulers brought the onyx stones,
and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate; <a
name="C0235V28" id="C0235V28">35:28</a> and the spice, and the oil for the
light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. <a name="C0235V29"
id="C0235V29">35:29</a> The children of Yisrael brought a freewill offering
to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for
all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0235V30" id="C0235V30">35:30</a> Moshe said to the children of
Yisrael, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, of the tribe of Yehudah. <a name="C0235V31" id="C0235V31">35:31</a>
He has filled him with the Spirit of Elohim, in wisdom, in understanding, in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; <a name="C0235V32" id="C0235V32">35:32</a>
and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass, <a
name="C0235V33" id="C0235V33">35:33</a> in cutting of stones for setting, and
in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship. <a
name="C0235V34" id="C0235V34">35:34</a> He has put in his heart that he may
teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. <a
name="C0235V35" id="C0235V35">35:35</a> He has filled them with wisdom of
heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful
workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in
fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and
of those who make skillful works.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V1" id="C0236V1">36:1</a> "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work
with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and
understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the
sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V2" id="C0236V2">36:2</a> Moshe called Bezalel and Oholiab, and
every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even
everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it: <a
name="C0236V3" id="C0236V3">36:3</a> and they received from Moshe all the
offering which the children of Yisrael had brought for the work of the
service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought yet to him
freewill offerings every morning. <a name="C0236V4" id="C0236V4">36:4</a> All
the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from
his work which they did. <a name="C0236V5" id="C0236V5">36:5</a> They spoke to
Moshe, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the
service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V6" id="C0236V6">36:6</a> Moshe gave commandment, and they
caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither
man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary."
So the people were restrained from bringing. <a name="C0236V7" id="C0236V7">36:7</a>
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too
much.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V8" id="C0236V8">36:8</a> All the wise-hearted men among those
who did the work made the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen,
blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful
workman, they made them. <a name="C0236V9" id="C0236V9">36:9</a> The length of
each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four
cubits. All the curtains had one measure. <a name="C0236V10" id="C0236V10">36:10</a>
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he
coupled one to another. <a name="C0236V11" id="C0236V11">36:11</a> He made
loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the
coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in
the second coupling. <a name="C0236V12" id="C0236V12">36:12</a> He made fifty
loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the
curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to
another. <a name="C0236V13" id="C0236V13">36:13</a> He made fifty clasps of
gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent
was a unit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V14" id="C0236V14">36:14</a> He made curtains of goats' hair for
a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains. <a name="C0236V15"
id="C0236V15">36:15</a> The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and
four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one
measure. <a name="C0236V16" id="C0236V16">36:16</a> He coupled five curtains
by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. <a name="C0236V17" id="C0236V17">36:17</a>
He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the
coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was
outmost in the second coupling. <a name="C0236V18" id="C0236V18">36:18</a> He
made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a
unit. <a name="C0236V19" id="C0236V19">36:19</a> He made a covering for the
tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V20" id="C0236V20">36:20</a> He made the boards for the tent of
acacia wood, standing up. <a name="C0236V21" id="C0236V21">36:21</a> Ten
cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of
each board. <a name="C0236V22" id="C0236V22">36:22</a> Each board had two
tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tent this
way. <a name="C0236V23" id="C0236V23">36:23</a> He made the boards for the
tent: twenty boards for the south side southward. <a name="C0236V24"
id="C0236V24">36:24</a> He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets
under another board for its two tenons. <a name="C0236V25" id="C0236V25">36:25</a>
For the second side of the tent, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
<a name="C0236V26" id="C0236V26">36:26</a> and their forty sockets of silver;
two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. <a
name="C0236V27" id="C0236V27">36:27</a> For the far part of the tent westward
he made six boards. <a name="C0236V28" id="C0236V28">36:28</a> He made two
boards for the corners of the tent in the far part. <a name="C0236V29"
id="C0236V29">36:29</a> They were double beneath, and in like manner they
were all the way to its top to one ring. He did thus to both of them in
the two corners. <a name="C0236V30" id="C0236V30">36:30</a> There were eight
boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board
two sockets.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V31" id="C0236V31">36:31</a> He made bars of acacia wood; five
for the boards of the one side of the tent, <a name="C0236V32" id="C0236V32">36:32</a>
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars
for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward. <a name="C0236V33"
id="C0236V33">36:33</a> He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst
of the boards from the one end to the other. <a name="C0236V34" id="C0236V34">36:34</a>
He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places
for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0236V35" id="C0236V35">36:35</a> He made the veil of blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a
skillful workman. <a name="C0236V36" id="C0236V36">36:36</a> He made four
pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of
gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them. <a name="C0236V37" id="C0236V37">36:37</a>
He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer; <a name="C0236V38" id="C0236V38">36:38</a>
and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals
and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0237V1" id="C0237V1">37:1</a> Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood.
Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half,
and a cubit and a half its height. <a name="C0237V2" id="C0237V2">37:2</a> He
overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold
for it around it. <a name="C0237V3" id="C0237V3">37:3</a> He cast four rings
of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two
rings on its other side. <a name="C0237V4" id="C0237V4">37:4</a> He made poles
of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. <a name="C0237V5" id="C0237V5">37:5</a>
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
<a name="C0237V6" id="C0237V6">37:6</a> He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its
length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth. <a
name="C0237V7" id="C0237V7">37:7</a> He made two cherubim of gold. He made
them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat; <a name="C0237V8"
id="C0237V8">37:8</a> one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other
end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two
ends. <a name="C0237V9" id="C0237V9">37:9</a> The cherubim spread out their
wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces
toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0237V10" id="C0237V10">37:10</a> He made the table of acacia wood.
Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was
a cubit and a half. <a name="C0237V11" id="C0237V11">37:11</a> He overlaid it
with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. <a name="C0237V12"
id="C0237V12">37:12</a> He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and
made a golden molding on its border around it. <a name="C0237V13" id="C0237V13">37:13</a>
He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners
that were on its four feet. <a name="C0237V14" id="C0237V14">37:14</a> The
rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the
table. <a name="C0237V15" id="C0237V15">37:15</a> He made the poles of acacia
wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. <a name="C0237V16"
id="C0237V16">37:16</a> He made the vessels which were on the table, its
dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of
pure gold.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0237V17" id="C0237V17">37:17</a> He made the lampstand of pure gold.
He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its
buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it. <a name="C0237V18"
id="C0237V18">37:18</a> There were six branches going out of its sides:
three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of
the lampstand out of its other side: <a name="C0237V19" id="C0237V19">37:19</a>
three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower,
and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a
flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. <a
name="C0237V20" id="C0237V20">37:20</a> In the lampstand were four cups made
like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; <a name="C0237V21"
id="C0237V21">37:21</a> and a bud under two branches of one piece with it,
and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it. <a
name="C0237V22" id="C0237V22">37:22</a> Their buds and their branches were of
one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. <a
name="C0237V23" id="C0237V23">37:23</a> He made its seven lamps, and its
snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold. <a name="C0237V24" id="C0237V24">37:24</a>
He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0237V25" id="C0237V25">37:25</a> He made the altar of incense of
acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a
cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. <a
name="C0237V26" id="C0237V26">37:26</a> He overlaid it with pure gold, its
top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
<a name="C0237V27" id="C0237V27">37:27</a> He made two golden rings for it
under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for
poles with which to carry it. <a name="C0237V28" id="C0237V28">37:28</a> He
made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. <a
name="C0237V29" id="C0237V29">37:29</a> He made the holy anointing oil and the
pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0238V1" id="C0238V1">38:1</a> He made the altar of burnt offering of
acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was
five cubits, and its height was three cubits. <a name="C0238V2" id="C0238V2">38:2</a>
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with
it, and he overlaid it with brass. <a name="C0238V3" id="C0238V3">38:3</a> He
made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the
forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass. <a name="C0238V4"
id="C0238V4">38:4</a> He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass,
under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. <a name="C0238V5"
id="C0238V5">38:5</a> He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating,
to be places for the poles. <a name="C0238V6" id="C0238V6">38:6</a> He made
the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass. <a name="C0238V7"
id="C0238V7">38:7</a> He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the
altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0238V8" id="C0238V8">38:8</a> He made the basin of brass, and its
base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered
at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0238V9" id="C0238V9">38:9</a> He made the court: for the south side
southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred
cubits; <a name="C0238V10" id="C0238V10">38:10</a> their pillars were twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver. <a name="C0238V11" id="C0238V11">38:11</a> For the
north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
<a name="C0238V12" id="C0238V12">38:12</a> For the west side were hangings of
fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver. <a name="C0238V13" id="C0238V13">38:13</a>
For the east side eastward fifty cubits. <a name="C0238V14" id="C0238V14">38:14</a>
The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and their sockets three; <a name="C0238V15" id="C0238V15">38:15</a> and so for
the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
<a name="C0238V16" id="C0238V16">38:16</a> All the hangings around the court
were of fine twined linen. <a name="C0238V17" id="C0238V17">38:17</a> The
sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their
fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver;
and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. <a
name="C0238V18" id="C0238V18">38:18</a> The screen for the gate of the court
was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was
five cubits, like to the hangings of the court. <a name="C0238V19"
id="C0238V19">38:19</a> Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of
brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and
their fillets, of silver. <a name="C0238V20" id="C0238V20">38:20</a> All the
pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0238V21" id="C0238V21">38:21</a> This is the amount of material used
for the tent, even the Tent of the Testimony, as they were counted,
according to the commandment of Moshe, for the service of the Levites, by
the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aharon the priest. <a name="C0238V22"
id="C0238V22">38:22</a> Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Yehudah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0238V23"
id="C0238V23">38:23</a> With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in
blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0238V24" id="C0238V24">38:24</a> All the gold that was used for the
work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was
twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary. <a name="C0238V25" id="C0238V25">38:25</a> The silver of those
who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one
thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary: <a name="C0238V26" id="C0238V26">38:26</a> a beka a head, that is,
half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed
over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six
hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. <a name="C0238V27" id="C0238V27">38:27</a>
The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the
sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one
hundred talents, a talent for a socket. <a name="C0238V28" id="C0238V28">38:28</a>
Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for
the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. <a
name="C0238V29" id="C0238V29">38:29</a> The brass of the offering was seventy
talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. <a name="C0238V30"
id="C0238V30">38:30</a> With this he made the sockets to the door of the
Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the
vessels of the altar, <a name="C0238V31" id="C0238V31">38:31</a> the sockets
around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of
the tent, and all the pins around the court.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V1" id="C0239V1">39:1</a> Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they
made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made
the holy garments for Aharon; as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V2" id="C0239V2">39:2</a> He made the ephod of gold, blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. <a name="C0239V3" id="C0239V3">39:3</a>
They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in
the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work
of the skillful workman. <a name="C0239V4" id="C0239V4">39:4</a> They made
shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined
together. <a name="C0239V5" id="C0239V5">39:5</a> The skillfully woven band
that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like
its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as
Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V6" id="C0239V6">39:6</a> They worked the onyx stones, enclosed
in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according
to the names of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0239V7" id="C0239V7">39:7</a>
He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial
for the children of Yisrael, as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V8" id="C0239V8">39:8</a> He made the breastplate, the work of a
skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen. <a name="C0239V9" id="C0239V9">39:9</a> It was
square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its
breadth a span, being double. <a name="C0239V10" id="C0239V10">39:10</a> They
set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the
first row; <a name="C0239V11" id="C0239V11">39:11</a> and the second row, a
turquoise, a <a href="#N0219">sapphire</a>, and an emerald; <a
name="C0239V12" id="C0239V12">39:12</a> and the third row, a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst; <a name="C0239V13" id="C0239V13">39:13</a> and the
fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in
gold settings. <a name="C0239V14" id="C0239V14">39:14</a> The stones were
according to the names of the children of Yisrael, twelve, according to
their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his
name, for the twelve tribes. <a name="C0239V15" id="C0239V15">39:15</a> They
made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
<a name="C0239V16" id="C0239V16">39:16</a> They made two settings of gold, and
two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
<a name="C0239V17" id="C0239V17">39:17</a> They put the two braided chains of
gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. <a name="C0239V18"
id="C0239V18">39:18</a> The other two ends of the two braided chains they
put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod,
in its front. <a name="C0239V19" id="C0239V19">39:19</a> They made two rings
of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge,
which was toward the side of the ephod inward. <a name="C0239V20" id="C0239V20">39:20</a>
They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of
the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the
skillfully woven band of the ephod. <a name="C0239V21" id="C0239V21">39:21</a>
They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a
lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod,
and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh
commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V22" id="C0239V22">39:22</a> He made the robe of the ephod of
woven work, all of blue. <a name="C0239V23" id="C0239V23">39:23</a> The
opening of the robe in its midst was like the opening of a coat of mail,
with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn. <a
name="C0239V24" id="C0239V24">39:24</a> They made on the skirts of the robe
pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen. <a name="C0239V25"
id="C0239V25">39:25</a> They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells
between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the
pomegranates; <a name="C0239V26" id="C0239V26">39:26</a> a bell and a
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to
minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V27" id="C0239V27">39:27</a> They made the coats of fine linen
of woven work for Aharon, and for his sons, <a name="C0239V28" id="C0239V28">39:28</a>
and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and
the linen breeches of fine twined linen, <a name="C0239V29" id="C0239V29">39:29</a>
and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the
work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V30" id="C0239V30">39:30</a> They made the plate of the holy
crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a
signet: "HOLY TO YAHWEH." <a name="C0239V31" id="C0239V31">39:31</a>
They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as
Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0239V32" id="C0239V32">39:32</a> Thus all the work of the tent of
the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Yisrael did according to
all that Yahweh commanded Moshe; so they did. <a name="C0239V33" id="C0239V33">39:33</a>
They brought the tent to Moshe, the tent, with all its furniture, its
clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, <a name="C0239V34"
id="C0239V34">39:34</a> the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering
of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, <a name="C0239V35" id="C0239V35">39:35</a>
the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, <a name="C0239V36"
id="C0239V36">39:36</a> the table, all its vessels, the show bread, <a
name="C0239V37" id="C0239V37">39:37</a> the pure lampstand, its lamps, even
the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, <a
name="C0239V38" id="C0239V38">39:38</a> the golden altar, the anointing oil,
the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, <a name="C0239V39"
id="C0239V39">39:39</a> the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles,
all of its vessels, the basin and its base, <a name="C0239V40" id="C0239V40">39:40</a>
the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the
gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service
of the tent, for the Tent of Meeting, <a name="C0239V41" id="C0239V41">39:41</a>
the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy
garments for Aharon the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister
in the priest's office. <a name="C0239V42" id="C0239V42">39:42</a> According
to all that Yahweh commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisrael did all the
work. <a name="C0239V43" id="C0239V43">39:43</a> Moshe saw all the work, and
behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done
it: and Moshe blessed them.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0219" id="N0219">[19]</a> <a href="#C0239V11">back to 39:11</a>
or, lapis lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0240V1" id="C0240V1">40:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0240V2" id="C0240V2">40:2</a> "On the first day of the first month
you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0240V3"
id="C0240V3">40:3</a> You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you
shall screen the ark with the veil. <a name="C0240V4" id="C0240V4">40:4</a>
You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it.
You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps. <a name="C0240V5"
id="C0240V5">40:5</a> You shall set the golden altar for incense before the
ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent. <a
name="C0240V6" id="C0240V6">40:6</a> You shall set the altar of burnt offering
before the door of the tent of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0240V7"
id="C0240V7">40:7</a> You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting
and the altar, and shall put water therein. <a name="C0240V8" id="C0240V8">40:8</a>
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate
of the court. <a name="C0240V9" id="C0240V9">40:9</a> You shall take the
anointing oil, and anoint the tent, and all that is in it, and shall make
it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy. <a name="C0240V10"
id="C0240V10">40:10</a> You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with
all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
<a name="C0240V11" id="C0240V11">40:11</a> You shall anoint the basin and its
base, and sanctify it. <a name="C0240V12" id="C0240V12">40:12</a> You shall
bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall
wash them with water. <a name="C0240V13" id="C0240V13">40:13</a> You shall put
on Aharon the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him,
that he may minister to me in the priest's office. <a name="C0240V14"
id="C0240V14">40:14</a> You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. <a
name="C0240V15" id="C0240V15">40:15</a> You shall anoint them, as you anointed
their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their
anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their
generations." <a name="C0240V16" id="C0240V16">40:16</a> Moshe did so.
According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0240V17" id="C0240V17">40:17</a> It happened in the first month in
the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised
up. <a name="C0240V18" id="C0240V18">40:18</a> Moshe raised up the tent, and
laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised
up its pillars. <a name="C0240V19" id="C0240V19">40:19</a> He spread the
covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as
Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V20" id="C0240V20">40:20</a> He took and
put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the
mercy seat above on the ark. <a name="C0240V21" id="C0240V21">40:21</a> He
brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and
screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a
name="C0240V22" id="C0240V22">40:22</a> He put the table in the Tent of
Meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil. <a
name="C0240V23" id="C0240V23">40:23</a> He set the bread in order on it before
Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V24" id="C0240V24">40:24</a>
He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the
side of the tent southward. <a name="C0240V25" id="C0240V25">40:25</a> He lit
the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V26"
id="C0240V26">40:26</a> He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting
before the veil; <a name="C0240V27" id="C0240V27">40:27</a> and he burnt
incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V28"
id="C0240V28">40:28</a> He put up the screen of the door to the tent. <a
name="C0240V29" id="C0240V29">40:29</a> He set the altar of burnt offering at
the door of the tent of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt
offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V30"
id="C0240V30">40:30</a> He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the
altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. <a name="C0240V31"
id="C0240V31">40:31</a> Moshe, Aharon, and his sons washed their hands and
their feet there. <a name="C0240V32" id="C0240V32">40:32</a> When they went
into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they
washed, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0240V33" id="C0240V33">40:33</a>
He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the
screen of the gate of the court. So Moshe finished the work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0240V34" id="C0240V34">40:34</a> Then the cloud covered the Tent of
Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tent. <a name="C0240V35"
id="C0240V35">40:35</a> Moshe wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting,
because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tent. <a
name="C0240V36" id="C0240V36">40:36</a> When the cloud was taken up from over
the tent, the children of Yisrael went onward, throughout all their
journeys; <a name="C0240V37" id="C0240V37">40:37</a> but if the cloud wasn't
taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up. <a
name="C0240V38" id="C0240V38">40:38</a> For the cloud of Yahweh was on the
tent by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all
the house of Yisrael, throughout all their journeys.
</p>
| !Ezekiel |>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Ezekiel01]] | [[Chapter 2|Ezekiel02]] | [[Chapter 3|Ezekiel03]] | [[Chapter 4|Ezekiel04]] | [[Chapter 5|Ezekiel05]] |
| [[Chapter 6|Ezekiel06]] | [[Chapter 7|Ezekiel07]] | [[Chapter 8|Ezekiel08]] | [[Chapter 9|Ezekiel09]] | [[Chapter 10|Ezekiel10]] |
| [[Chapter 11|Ezekiel11]] | [[Chapter 12|Ezekiel12]] | [[Chapter 13|Ezekiel13]] | [[Chapter 14|Ezekiel14]] | [[Chapter 15|Ezekiel15]] |
| [[Chapter 16|Ezekiel16]] | [[Chapter 17|Ezekiel17]] | [[Chapter 18|Ezekiel18]] | [[Chapter 19|Ezekiel19]] | [[Chapter 20|Ezekiel20]] |
| [[Chapter 21|Ezekiel21]] | [[Chapter 22|Ezekiel22]] | [[Chapter 23|Ezekiel23]] | [[Chapter 24|Ezekiel24]] | [[Chapter 25|Ezekiel25]] |
| [[Chapter 26|Ezekiel26]] | [[Chapter 27|Ezekiel27]] | [[Chapter 28|Ezekiel28]] | [[Chapter 29|Ezekiel29]] | [[Chapter 30|Ezekiel30]] |
| [[Chapter 31|Ezekiel31]] | [[Chapter 32|Ezekiel32]] | [[Chapter 33|Ezekiel33]] | [[Chapter 34|Ezekiel34]] | [[Chapter 35|Ezekiel35]] |
| [[Chapter 36|Ezekiel36]] | [[Chapter 37|Ezekiel37]] | [[Chapter 38|Ezekiel38]] | [[Chapter 39|Ezekiel39]] | [[Chapter 40|Ezekiel40]] |
| [[Chapter 41|Ezekiel41]] | [[Chapter 42|Ezekiel42]] | [[Chapter 43|Ezekiel43]] | [[Chapter 44|Ezekiel44]] | [[Chapter 45|Ezekiel45]] |
| [[Chapter 46|Ezekiel46]] | [[Chapter 47|Ezekiel47]] | [[Chapter 48|Ezekiel48]] | | |
| [[Hebrew Text|Ezekiel.vow.pdf]] |>|>|>|>|>|
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<p>
<a name="C261V1" id="C261V1">1:1</a> Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in
the fourth <i>month</i>, in the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and
I saw visions of Elohim. <a name="C261V2" id="C261V2">1:2</a> In the fifth <i>day</i>
of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, <a
name="C261V3" id="C261V3">1:3</a> the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. <a name="C261V4" id="C261V4">1:4</a>
I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud,
with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst
as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. <a name="C261V5"
id="C261V5">1:5</a> Out of its midst came the likeness of four living
creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. <a
name="C261V6" id="C261V6">1:6</a> Everyone had four faces, and each one of
them had four wings. <a name="C261V7" id="C261V7">1:7</a> Their feet were
straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. <a name="C261V8" id="C261V8">1:8</a>
They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and
they four had their faces and their wings <i>thus</i>: <a name="C261V9"
id="C261V9">1:9</a> their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn
when they went; each one went straight forward. <a name="C261V10" id="C261V10">1:10</a>
As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they
four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face
of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. <a
name="C261V11" id="C261V11">1:11</a> Their faces and their wings were separate
above; two <i>wings</i> of each one were joined one to another, and two
covered their bodies. <a name="C261V12" id="C261V12">1:12</a> Each one went
straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn
when they went. <a name="C261V13" id="C261V13">1:13</a> As for the likeness of
the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire,
like the appearance of torches: <i>the fire</i> went up and down among the
living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth
lightning. <a name="C261V14" id="C261V14">1:14</a> The living creatures ran
and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. <a name="C261V15"
id="C261V15">1:15</a> Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel
on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of
it. <a name="C261V16" id="C261V16">1:16</a> The appearance of the wheels and
their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. <a
name="C261V17" id="C261V17">1:17</a> When they went, they went in their four
directions: they didn't turn when they went. <a name="C261V18" id="C261V18">1:18</a>
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their
rims full of eyes all around. <a name="C261V19" id="C261V19">1:19</a> When the
living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living
creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. <a
name="C261V20" id="C261V20">1:20</a> Wherever the spirit was to go, they went;
there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for
the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. <a name="C261V21"
id="C261V21">1:21</a> When those went, these went; and when those stood,
these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels. <a name="C261V22" id="C261V22">1:22</a> Over the head of the living
creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to
look on, stretched forth over their heads above. <a name="C261V23" id="C261V23">1:23</a>
Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other:
each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which
covered on that side, their bodies. <a name="C261V24" id="C261V24">1:24</a>
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great
waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise
of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings. <a name="C261V25"
id="C261V25">1:25</a> There was a voice above the expanse that was over
their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings. <a name="C261V26"
id="C261V26">1:26</a> Above the expanse that was over their heads was the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a <a href="#N261">sapphire</a>
stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance
of a man on it above. <a name="C261V27" id="C261V27">1:27</a> I saw as it were
glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the
appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist
and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was
brightness around him. <a name="C261V28" id="C261V28">1:28</a> As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spoke.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N261" id="N261">[1]</a> <a href="#C261V26">back to 1:26</a> or, lapis
lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C262V1" id="C262V1">2:1</a> He said to me, Son of man, stand on your
feet, and I will speak with you. <a name="C262V2" id="C262V2">2:2</a> The
Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I
heard him who spoke to me. <a name="C262V3" id="C262V3">2:3</a> He said to me,
Son of man, I send you to the children of Yisrael, to nations that are
rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have
transgressed against me even to this very day. <a name="C262V4" id="C262V4">2:4</a>
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and
you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C262V5" id="C262V5">2:5</a>
They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are
a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among
them. <a name="C262V6" id="C262V6">2:6</a> You, son of man, don't be afraid of
them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with
you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor
be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. <a
name="C262V7" id="C262V7">2:7</a> You shall speak my words to them, whether
they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most
rebellious. <a name="C262V8" id="C262V8">2:8</a> But you, son of man, hear
what I tell you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open
your mouth, and eat that which I give you. <a name="C262V9" id="C262V9">2:9</a>
When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll
of a book was therein; <a name="C262V10" id="C262V10">2:10</a> He spread it
before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written
therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C263V1" id="C263V1">3:1</a> He said to me, Son of man, eat that which
you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Yisrael. <a
name="C263V2" id="C263V2">3:2</a> So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to
eat the scroll. <a name="C263V3" id="C263V3">3:3</a> He said to me, Son of
man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I
give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for
sweetness. <a name="C263V4" id="C263V4">3:4</a> He said to me, Son of man, go,
get you to the house of Yisrael, and speak with my words to them. <a
name="C263V5" id="C263V5">3:5</a> For you are not sent to a people of a
strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Yisrael; <a
name="C263V6" id="C263V6">3:6</a> not to many peoples of a strange speech and
of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent
you to them, they would listen to you. <a name="C263V7" id="C263V7">3:7</a>
But the house of Yisrael will not listen to you; for they will not listen
to me: for all the house of Yisrael are of hard forehead and of a stiff
heart. <a name="C263V8" id="C263V8">3:8</a> Behold, I have made your face hard
against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. <a
name="C263V9" id="C263V9">3:9</a> As an adamant harder than flint have I made
your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their
looks, though they are a rebellious house. <a name="C263V10" id="C263V10">3:10</a>
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you
receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. <a name="C263V11" id="C263V11">3:11</a>
Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and
speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will
hear, or whether they will forbear. <a name="C263V12" id="C263V12">3:12</a>
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great
rushing, <i>saying</i>, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place. <a
name="C263V13" id="C263V13">3:13</a> <i>I heard</i> the noise of the wings of
the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the
wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. <a name="C263V14"
id="C263V14">3:14</a> So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I
went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was
strong on me. <a name="C263V15" id="C263V15">3:15</a> Then I came to them of
the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where
they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. <a
name="C263V16" id="C263V16">3:16</a> It happened at the end of seven days,
that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C263V17" id="C263V17">3:17</a>
Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Yisrael: therefore
hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. <a name="C263V18"
id="C263V18">3:18</a> When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you
give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to
save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at your hand. <a name="C263V19" id="C263V19">3:19</a> Yet
if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from
his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your
soul. <a name="C263V20" id="C263V20">3:20</a> Again, when a righteous man does
turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling
block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he
shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not
be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. <a name="C263V21"
id="C263V21">3:21</a> Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the
righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he
took warning; and you have delivered your soul. <a name="C263V22" id="C263V22">3:22</a>
The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth
into the plain, and I will there talk with you. <a name="C263V23" id="C263V23">3:23</a>
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of
Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I
fell on my face. <a name="C263V24" id="C263V24">3:24</a> Then the Spirit
entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to
me, Go, shut yourself within your house. <a name="C263V25" id="C263V25">3:25</a>
But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind
you with them, and you shall not go out among them: <a name="C263V26"
id="C263V26">3:26</a> and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your
mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for
they are a rebellious house. <a name="C263V27" id="C263V27">3:27</a> But when
I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let
him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C264V1" id="C264V1">4:1</a> You also, son of man, take a tile, and
lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Yerushalayim: <a name="C264V2"
id="C264V2">4:2</a> and lay siege against it, and build forts against it,
and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant
battering rams against it all around. <a name="C264V3" id="C264V3">4:3</a>
Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you
and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and
you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of
Yisrael. <a name="C264V4" id="C264V4">4:4</a> Moreover lie you on your left
side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Yisrael on it; <i>according to</i>
the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their
iniquity. <a name="C264V5" id="C264V5">4:5</a> For I have appointed the years
of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety
days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Yisrael. <a name="C264V6"
id="C264V6">4:6</a> Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie
on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Yehudah:
forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you. <a name="C264V7"
id="C264V7">4:7</a> You shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim,
with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. <a name="C264V8"
id="C264V8">4:8</a> Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you
from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your
siege. <a name="C264V9" id="C264V9">4:9</a> Take for yourself also wheat, and
barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one
vessel, and make you bread of it; <i>according to</i> the number of the
days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you
shall eat of it. <a name="C264V10" id="C264V10">4:10</a> Your food which you
shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you
shall eat it. <a name="C264V11" id="C264V11">4:11</a> You shall drink water by
measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink. <a
name="C264V12" id="C264V12">4:12</a> You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you
shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man. <a
name="C264V13" id="C264V13">4:13</a> Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children
of Yisrael eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive
them. <a name="C264V14" id="C264V14">4:14</a> Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh!
behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now
have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. <a name="C264V15"
id="C264V15">4:15</a> Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's
dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon. <a
name="C264V16" id="C264V16">4:16</a> Moreover he said to me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Yerushalayim: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by
measure, and in dismay: <a name="C264V17" id="C264V17">4:17</a> that they may
want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in
their iniquity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C265V1" id="C265V1">5:1</a> You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You
shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on
your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the
hair. <a name="C265V2" id="C265V2">5:2</a> A third part you shall burn in the
fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled;
and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and
a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword
after them. <a name="C265V3" id="C265V3">5:3</a> You shall take of it a few in
number, and bind them in your skirts. <a name="C265V4" id="C265V4">5:4</a> Of
these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and
burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house
of Yisrael. <a name="C265V5" id="C265V5">5:5</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
This is Yerushalayim; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and
countries are around her. <a name="C265V6" id="C265V6">5:6</a> She has
rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations,
and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for
they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not
walked in them. <a name="C265V7" id="C265V7">5:7</a> Therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are
around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my
ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are
around you; <a name="C265V8" id="C265V8">5:8</a> therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in
the midst of you in the sight of the nations. <a name="C265V9" id="C265V9">5:9</a>
I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do
any more the like, because of all your abominations. <a name="C265V10"
id="C265V10">5:10</a> Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst
of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments
on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds. <a
name="C265V11" id="C265V11">5:11</a> Therefore, as I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your
detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also
diminish <i>you</i>; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no
pity. <a name="C265V12" id="C265V12">5:12</a> A third part of you shall die
with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst
of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third
part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after
them. <a name="C265V13" id="C265V13">5:13</a> Thus shall my anger be
accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall
be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my wrath on them. <a name="C265V14" id="C265V14">5:14</a>
Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations
that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. <a name="C265V15"
id="C265V15">5:15</a> So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction
and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall
execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes;
(I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) <a name="C265V16" id="C265V16">5:16</a> when I
shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction,
which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you,
and will break your staff of bread; <a name="C265V17" id="C265V17">5:17</a>
and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave
you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the
sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C266V1" id="C266V1">6:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C266V2" id="C266V2">6:2</a> Son of man, set your face toward the
mountains of Yisrael, and prophesy to them, <a name="C266V3" id="C266V3">6:3</a>
and say, You mountains of Yisrael, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus
says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on
you, and I will destroy your high places. <a name="C266V4" id="C266V4">6:4</a>
Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be
broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. <a
name="C266V5" id="C266V5">6:5</a> I will lay the dead bodies of the children
of Yisrael before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your
altars. <a name="C266V6" id="C266V6">6:6</a> In all your dwelling places the
cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that
your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be
broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works
may be abolished. <a name="C266V7" id="C266V7">6:7</a> The slain shall fall in
the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C266V8"
id="C266V8">6:8</a> Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some
that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered
through the countries. <a name="C266V9" id="C266V9">6:9</a> Those of you that
escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried
captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has
departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after
their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the
evils which they have committed in all their abominations. <a name="C266V10"
id="C266V10">6:10</a> They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in
vain that I would do this evil to them. <a name="C266V11" id="C266V11">6:11</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot,
and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of
Yisrael; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence. <a name="C266V12" id="C266V12">6:12</a> He who is far off shall
die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he
who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I
accomplish my wrath on them. <a name="C266V13" id="C266V13">6:13</a> You shall
know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols
around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains,
and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where
they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols. <a name="C266V14" id="C266V14">6:14</a>
I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste,
from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and
they shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C267V1" id="C267V1">7:1</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, <a name="C267V2" id="C267V2">7:2</a> You, son of man, thus says the
Lord Yahweh to the land of Yisrael, An end: the end is come on the four
corners of the land. <a name="C267V3" id="C267V3">7:3</a> Now is the end on
you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your
ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. <a name="C267V4"
id="C267V4">7:4</a> My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity;
but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the
midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C267V5" id="C267V5">7:5</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. <a
name="C267V6" id="C267V6">7:6</a> An end is come, the end is come; it awakes
against you; behold, it comes. <a name="C267V7" id="C267V7">7:7</a> Your doom
is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near,
<i>a day of</i> tumult, and not <i>of</i> joyful shouting, on the
mountains. <a name="C267V8" id="C267V8">7:8</a> Now will I shortly pour out my
wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you
according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations. <a
name="C267V9" id="C267V9">7:9</a> My eye shall not spare, neither will I have
pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations
shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do
strike. <a name="C267V10" id="C267V10">7:10</a> Behold, the day, behold, it
comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
<a name="C267V11" id="C267V11">7:11</a> Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness; none of them <i>shall remain</i>, nor of their multitude, nor
of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them. <a
name="C267V12" id="C267V12">7:12</a> The time is come, the day draws near:
don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its
multitude. <a name="C267V13" id="C267V13">7:13</a> For the seller shall not
return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision
is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall
any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. <a name="C267V14"
id="C267V14">7:14</a> They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready;
but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude. <a
name="C267V15" id="C267V15">7:15</a> The sword is outside, and the pestilence
and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword:
and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. <a
name="C267V16" id="C267V16">7:16</a> But those of those who escape shall
escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of
them moaning, every one in his iniquity. <a name="C267V17" id="C267V17">7:17</a>
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. <a
name="C267V18" id="C267V18">7:18</a> They shall also gird themselves with
sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces,
and baldness on all their heads. <a name="C267V19" id="C267V19">7:19</a> They
shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an
unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver
them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their
souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block
of their iniquity. <a name="C267V20" id="C267V20">7:20</a> As for the beauty
of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their
abominations <i>and</i> their detestable things therein: therefore have I
made it to them as an unclean thing. <a name="C267V21" id="C267V21">7:21</a> I
will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked
of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. <a name="C267V22"
id="C267V22">7:22</a> My face will I turn also from them, and they shall
profane my secret <i>place</i>; and robbers shall enter into it, and
profane it. <a name="C267V23" id="C267V23">7:23</a> Make the chain; for the
land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. <a
name="C267V24" id="C267V24">7:24</a> Therefore I will bring the worst of the
nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride
of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned. <a
name="C267V25" id="C267V25">7:25</a> Destruction comes; and they shall seek
peace, and there shall be none. <a name="C267V26" id="C267V26">7:26</a>
Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they
shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the Torah shall perish from the
priest, and counsel from the elders. <a name="C267V27" id="C267V27">7:27</a>
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and
the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them
after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C268V1" id="C268V1">8:1</a> It happened in the sixth year, in the
sixth <i>month</i>, in the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, as I sat in my
house, and the elders of Yehudah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord
Yahweh fell there on me. <a name="C268V2" id="C268V2">8:2</a> Then I saw, and
behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his
waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance
of brightness, as it were glowing metal. <a name="C268V3" id="C268V3">8:3</a>
He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the
Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the
visions of Elohim to Yerushalayim, to the door of the gate of the inner <i>court</i>
that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. <a name="C268V4" id="C268V4">8:4</a>
Behold, the glory of the Elohim of Yisrael was there, according to the
appearance that I saw in the plain. <a name="C268V5" id="C268V5">8:5</a> Then
said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north.
So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the
gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. <a name="C268V6"
id="C268V6">8:6</a> He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even
the great abominations that the house of Yisrael do commit here, that I
should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other
great abominations. <a name="C268V7" id="C268V7">8:7</a> He brought me to the
door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. <a
name="C268V8" id="C268V8">8:8</a> Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in
the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. <a name="C268V9"
id="C268V9">8:9</a> He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations
that they do here. <a name="C268V10" id="C268V10">8:10</a> So I went in and
saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and
all the idols of the house of Yisrael, portrayed around on the wall. <a
name="C268V11" id="C268V11">8:11</a> There stood before them seventy men of
the elders of the house of Yisrael; and in the midst of them stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and
the odor of the cloud of incense went up. <a name="C268V12" id="C268V12">8:12</a>
Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house
of Yisrael do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they
say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. <a name="C268V13"
id="C268V13">8:13</a> He said also to me, You shall again see yet other
great abominations which they do. <a name="C268V14" id="C268V14">8:14</a> Then
he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward
the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. <a name="C268V15"
id="C268V15">8:15</a> Then said he to me, Have you seen <i>this</i>, son of
man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these. <a
name="C268V16" id="C268V16">8:16</a> He brought me into the inner court of
Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the
porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward
the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were
worshipping the sun toward the east. <a name="C268V17" id="C268V17">8:17</a>
Then he said to me, Have you seen <i>this</i>, son of man? Is it a light
thing to the house of Yehudah that they commit the abominations which they
commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned
again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their
nose. <a name="C268V18" id="C268V18">8:18</a> Therefore will I also deal in
wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they
cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C269V1" id="C269V1">9:1</a> Then he cried in my ears with a loud
voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near,
every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. <a name="C269V2" id="C269V2">9:2</a>
Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the
north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the
midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They
went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. <a name="C269V3" id="C269V3">9:3</a>
The glory of the Elohim of Yisrael was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it
was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in
linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. <a name="C269V4" id="C269V4">9:4</a>
Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Yerushalayim, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that
cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst. <a name="C269V5"
id="C269V5">9:5</a> To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the
city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you
pity; <a name="C269V6" id="C269V6">9:6</a> kill utterly the old man, the young
man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any
man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the
old men that were before the house. <a name="C269V7" id="C269V7">9:7</a> He
said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you
forth. They went forth, and struck in the city. <a name="C269V8" id="C269V8">9:8</a>
It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my
face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the
residue of Yisrael in your pouring out of your wrath on Yerushalayim? <a
name="C269V9" id="C269V9">9:9</a> Then said he to me, The iniquity of the
house of Yisrael and Yehudah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of
blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken
the land, and Yahweh doesn't see. <a name="C269V10" id="C269V10">9:10</a> As
for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will
bring their way on their head. <a name="C269V11" id="C269V11">9:11</a> Behold,
the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2610V1" id="C2610V1">10:1</a> Then I looked, and see, in the expanse
that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it
were a <a href="#N262">sapphire</a> stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne. <a name="C2610V2" id="C2610V2">10:2</a> He spoke to the man
clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling <i>wheels</i>, even
under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between
the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. <a
name="C2610V3" id="C2610V3">10:3</a> Now the cherubim stood on the right side
of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
<a name="C2610V4" id="C2610V4">10:4</a> The glory of Yahweh mounted up from
the cherub, <i>and stood</i> over the threshold of the house; and the
house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness
of Yahweh's glory. <a name="C2610V5" id="C2610V5">10:5</a> The sound of the
wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of
Elohim Almighty when he speaks. <a name="C2610V6" id="C2610V6">10:6</a> It came
to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire
from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went
in, and stood beside a wheel. <a name="C2610V7" id="C2610V7">10:7</a> The
cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that
was between the cherubim, and took <i>of it</i>, and put it into the hands
of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. <a name="C2610V8"
id="C2610V8">10:8</a> There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's
hand under their wings. <a name="C2610V9" id="C2610V9">10:9</a> I looked, and
behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and
another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was
like a beryl stone. <a name="C2610V10" id="C2610V10">10:10</a> As for their
appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a
wheel. <a name="C2610V11" id="C2610V11">10:11</a> When they went, they went in
their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place
where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went. <a
name="C2610V12" id="C2610V12">10:12</a> Their whole body, and their backs, and
their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all
around, <i>even</i> the wheels that they four had. <a name="C2610V13"
id="C2610V13">10:13</a> As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
the whirling <i>wheels</i>. <a name="C2610V14" id="C2610V14">10:14</a> Every
one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the
second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion,
and the fourth the face of an eagle. <a name="C2610V15" id="C2610V15">10:15</a>
The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the
river Chebar. <a name="C2610V16" id="C2610V16">10:16</a> When the cherubim
went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their
wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside
them. <a name="C2610V17" id="C2610V17">10:17</a> When they stood, these stood;
and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of
the living creature was in them. <a name="C2610V18" id="C2610V18">10:18</a>
The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubim. <a name="C2610V19" id="C2610V19">10:19</a> The
cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight
when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the
door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the Elohim of
Yisrael was over them above. <a name="C2610V20" id="C2610V20">10:20</a> This is
the living creature that I saw under the Elohim of Yisrael by the river
Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. <a name="C2610V21" id="C2610V21">10:21</a>
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of
the hands of a man was under their wings. <a name="C2610V22" id="C2610V22">10:22</a>
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the
river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one
straight forward.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N262" id="N262">[2]</a> <a href="#C2610V1">back to 10:1</a> or, lapis
lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2611V1" id="C2611V1">11:1</a> Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and
brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and
see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of
them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes
of the people. <a name="C2611V2" id="C2611V2">11:2</a> He said to me, Son of
man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in
this city; <a name="C2611V3" id="C2611V3">11:3</a> who say, <i>The time</i> is
not near to build houses: this <i>city</i> is the caldron, and we are the
flesh. <a name="C2611V4" id="C2611V4">11:4</a> Therefore prophesy against
them, prophesy, son of man. <a name="C2611V5" id="C2611V5">11:5</a> The Spirit
of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus
have you said, house of Yisrael; for I know the things that come into your
mind. <a name="C2611V6" id="C2611V6">11:6</a> You have multiplied your slain
in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. <a
name="C2611V7" id="C2611V7">11:7</a> Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your
slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this <i>city</i>
is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst. <a
name="C2611V8" id="C2611V8">11:8</a> You have feared the sword; and I will
bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2611V9" id="C2611V9">11:9</a>
I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among you. <a name="C2611V10"
id="C2611V10">11:10</a> You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the
border of Yisrael; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2611V11"
id="C2611V11">11:11</a> This <i>city</i> shall not be your caldron, neither
shall you be the flesh in its midst; I will judge you in the border of
Yisrael; <a name="C2611V12" id="C2611V12">11:12</a> and you shall know that I
am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you
executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations
that are around you. <a name="C2611V13" id="C2611V13">11:13</a> It happened,
when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down
on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will
you make a full end of the remnant of Yisrael? <a name="C2611V14" id="C2611V14">11:14</a>
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2611V15" id="C2611V15">11:15</a>
Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives,
and all the house of Yisrael, all of them, <i>are they</i> to whom the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this
land given for a possession. <a name="C2611V16" id="C2611V16">11:16</a>
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far
off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the
countries where they are come. <a name="C2611V17" id="C2611V17">11:17</a>
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the
peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Yisrael. <a name="C2611V18"
id="C2611V18">11:18</a> They shall come there, and they shall take away all
the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there. <a
name="C2611V19" id="C2611V19">11:19</a> I will give them one heart, and I will
put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; <a name="C2611V20" id="C2611V20">11:20</a>
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their Elohim. <a name="C2611V21"
id="C2611V21">11:21</a> But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of
their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on
their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2611V22" id="C2611V22">11:22</a>
Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside
them; and the glory of the Elohim of Yisrael was over them above. <a
name="C2611V23" id="C2611V23">11:23</a> The glory of Yahweh went up from the
midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of
the city. <a name="C2611V24" id="C2611V24">11:24</a> The Spirit lifted me up,
and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of Elohim into Chaldea, to them of
the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. <a
name="C2611V25" id="C2611V25">11:25</a> Then I spoke to them of the captivity
all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2612V1" id="C2612V1">12:1</a> The word of Yahweh also came to me,
saying, <a name="C2612V2" id="C2612V2">12:2</a> Son of man, you dwell in the
midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who
have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house. <a
name="C2612V3" id="C2612V3">12:3</a> Therefore, you son of man, prepare you
stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove
from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
consider, though they are a rebellious house. <a name="C2612V4" id="C2612V4">12:4</a>
You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for
removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when
men go forth into exile. <a name="C2612V5" id="C2612V5">12:5</a> Dig you
through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. <a name="C2612V6"
id="C2612V6">12:6</a> In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and
carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see
the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Yisrael. <a
name="C2612V7" id="C2612V7">12:7</a> I did so as I was commanded: I brought
forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug
through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it
on my shoulder in their sight. <a name="C2612V8" id="C2612V8">12:8</a> In the
morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying, <a name="C2612V9" id="C2612V9">12:9</a>
Son of man, has not the house of Yisrael, the rebellious house, said to
you, What do you? <a name="C2612V10" id="C2612V10">12:10</a> Say you to them,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden <i>concerns</i> the prince in
Yerushalayim, and all the house of Yisrael among whom they are. <a
name="C2612V11" id="C2612V11">12:11</a> Say, I am your sign: like as I have
done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into
captivity. <a name="C2612V12" id="C2612V12">12:12</a> The prince who is among
them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they
shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
because he shall not see the land with his eyes. <a name="C2612V13"
id="C2612V13">12:13</a> My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be
taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. <a
name="C2612V14" id="C2612V14">12:14</a> I will scatter toward every wind all
who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the
sword after them. <a name="C2612V15" id="C2612V15">12:15</a> They shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and
scatter them through the countries. <a name="C2612V16" id="C2612V16">12:16</a>
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and
from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among
the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C2612V17" id="C2612V17">12:17</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, <a name="C2612V18" id="C2612V18">12:18</a> Son of man, eat your
bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with
fearfulness; <a name="C2612V19" id="C2612V19">12:19</a> and tell the people of
the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, and the land of Yisrael: They shall eat their bread with
fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be
desolate, <i>and despoiled</i> of all that is therein, because of the
violence of all those who dwell therein. <a name="C2612V20" id="C2612V20">12:20</a>
The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a
desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2612V21"
id="C2612V21">12:21</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2612V22" id="C2612V22">12:22</a> Son of man, what is this proverb that
you have in the land of Yisrael, saying, The days are prolonged, and every
vision fails? <a name="C2612V23" id="C2612V23">12:23</a> Tell them therefore,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they
shall no more use it as a proverb in Yisrael; but tell them, The days are
at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision. <a name="C2612V24" id="C2612V24">12:24</a>
For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Yisrael. <a name="C2612V25" id="C2612V25">12:25</a> For I
am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be
performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious
house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
<a name="C2612V26" id="C2612V26">12:26</a> Again the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, <a name="C2612V27" id="C2612V27">12:27</a> Son of man, behold,
they of the house of Yisrael say, The vision that he sees is for many day
to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off. <a name="C2612V28"
id="C2612V28">12:28</a> Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I
shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2613V1" id="C2613V1">13:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2613V2" id="C2613V2">13:2</a> Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Yisrael who prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of
their own heart, Hear you the word of Yahweh: <a name="C2613V3" id="C2613V3">13:3</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their
own spirit, and have seen nothing! <a name="C2613V4" id="C2613V4">13:4</a>
Yisrael, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. <a
name="C2613V5" id="C2613V5">13:5</a> You have not gone up into the gaps,
neither built up the wall for the house of Yisrael, to stand in the battle
in the day of Yahweh. <a name="C2613V6" id="C2613V6">13:6</a> They have seen
falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not
sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be
confirmed. <a name="C2613V7" id="C2613V7">13:7</a> Haven't you seen a false
vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh
says; but I have not spoken? <a name="C2613V8" id="C2613V8">13:8</a> Therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2613V9" id="C2613V9">13:9</a> My hand shall be against the prophets who
see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council
of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of
Yisrael, neither shall they enter into the land of Yisrael; and you shall
know that I am the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2613V10" id="C2613V10">13:10</a>
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and
there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they daub it
with whitewash: <a name="C2613V11" id="C2613V11">13:11</a> tell those who daub
it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall
tear it. <a name="C2613V12" id="C2613V12">13:12</a> Behold, when the wall is
fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you
have daubed it? <a name="C2613V13" id="C2613V13">13:13</a> Therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and
there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in
wrath to consume it. <a name="C2613V14" id="C2613V14">13:14</a> So will I
break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down
to the ground, so that its foundation shall be uncovered; and it shall
fall, and you shall be consumed in its midst: and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. <a name="C2613V15" id="C2613V15">13:15</a> Thus will I accomplish my
wrath on the wall, and on those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I
will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it; <a
name="C2613V16" id="C2613V16">13:16</a> <i>to wit</i>, the prophets of Yisrael
who prophesy concerning Yerushalayim, and who see visions of peace for her,
and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2613V17" id="C2613V17">13:17</a>
You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who
prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them, <a
name="C2613V18" id="C2613V18">13:18</a> and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the
head of <i>persons of</i> every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the
souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? <a name="C2613V19"
id="C2613V19">13:19</a> You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of
barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and
to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people
who listen to lies. <a name="C2613V20" id="C2613V20">13:20</a> Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you
there hunt the souls to make <i>them</i> fly, and I will tear them from
your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to
make <i>them</i> fly. <a name="C2613V21" id="C2613V21">13:21</a> Your
kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and
they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh. <a name="C2613V22" id="C2613V22">13:22</a> Because with lies you
have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his
wicked way, and be saved alive: <a name="C2613V23" id="C2613V23">13:23</a>
Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I
will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2614V1" id="C2614V1">14:1</a> Then came certain of the elders of
Yisrael to me, and sat before me. <a name="C2614V2" id="C2614V2">14:2</a> The
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2614V3" id="C2614V3">14:3</a> Son
of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the
stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired
of at all by them? <a name="C2614V4" id="C2614V4">14:4</a> Therefore speak to
them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of
Yisrael who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of
his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will
answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; <a name="C2614V5"
id="C2614V5">14:5</a> that I may take the house of Yisrael in their own
heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. <a
name="C2614V6" id="C2614V6">14:6</a> Therefore tell the house of Yisrael, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and
turn away your faces from all your abominations. <a name="C2614V7" id="C2614V7">14:7</a>
For everyone of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who sojourn in
Yisrael, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart,
and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to
the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by
myself: <a name="C2614V8" id="C2614V8">14:8</a> and I will set my face against
that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and
I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh. <a name="C2614V9" id="C2614V9">14:9</a> If the prophet be deceived
and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
people Yisrael. <a name="C2614V10" id="C2614V10">14:10</a> They shall bear
their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity
of him who seeks <i>to him</i>; <a name="C2614V11" id="C2614V11">14:11</a>
that the house of Yisrael may go no more astray from me, neither defile
themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my
people, and I may be their Elohim, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2614V12"
id="C2614V12">14:12</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2614V13" id="C2614V13">14:13</a> Son of man, when a land sins against
me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break
the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and
animal; <a name="C2614V14" id="C2614V14">14:14</a> though these three men,
Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls
by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2614V15" id="C2614V15">14:15</a>
If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and
it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the
animals; <a name="C2614V16" id="C2614V16">14:16</a> though these three men
were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither
sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be
desolate. <a name="C2614V17" id="C2614V17">14:17</a> Or if I bring a sword on
that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it
man and animal; <a name="C2614V18" id="C2614V18">14:18</a> though these three
men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver
neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
<a name="C2614V19" id="C2614V19">14:19</a> Or if I send a pestilence into that
land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and
animal; <a name="C2614V20" id="C2614V20">14:20</a> though Noah, Daniel, and
Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver
neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their
righteousness. <a name="C2614V21" id="C2614V21">14:21</a> For thus says the
Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on
Yerushalayim, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the
pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal! <a name="C2614V22" id="C2614V22">14:22</a>
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth,
both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you
shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought on Yerushalayim, even concerning all
that I have brought on it. <a name="C2614V23" id="C2614V23">14:23</a> They
shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall
know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says
the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2615V1" id="C2615V1">15:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2615V2" id="C2615V2">15:2</a> Son of man, what is the vine tree more
than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest? <a
name="C2615V3" id="C2615V3">15:3</a> Shall wood be taken of it to make any
work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? <a
name="C2615V4" id="C2615V4">15:4</a> Behold, it is cast into the fire for
fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it
profitable for any work? <a name="C2615V5" id="C2615V5">15:5</a> Behold, when
it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has
devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work! <a
name="C2615V6" id="C2615V6">15:6</a> Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As
the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the
fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. <a name="C2615V7"
id="C2615V7">15:7</a> I will set my face against them; they shall go forth
from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh, when I set my face against them. <a name="C2615V8" id="C2615V8">15:8</a>
I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,
says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2616V1" id="C2616V1">16:1</a> Again the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, <a name="C2616V2" id="C2616V2">16:2</a> Son of man, cause Yerushalayim to
know her abominations; <a name="C2616V3" id="C2616V3">16:3</a> and say, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh to Yerushalayim: Your birth and your birth is of the
land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a
Hittite. <a name="C2616V4" id="C2616V4">16:4</a> As for your birth, in the day
you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to
cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. <a
name="C2616V5" id="C2616V5">16:5</a> No eye pitied you, to do any of these
things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the
open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were
born. <a name="C2616V6" id="C2616V6">16:6</a> When I passed by you, and saw
you weltering in your blood, I said to you, <i>Though you are</i> in your
blood, live; yes, I said to you, <i>Though you are</i> in your blood,
live. <a name="C2616V7" id="C2616V7">16:7</a> I caused you to multiply as that
which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you
attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair
was grown; yet you were naked and bare. <a name="C2616V8" id="C2616V8">16:8</a>
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the
time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness:
yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord
Yahweh, and you became mine. <a name="C2616V9" id="C2616V9">16:9</a> Then
washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from
you, and I anointed you with oil. <a name="C2616V10" id="C2616V10">16:10</a> I
clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I
girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk. <a
name="C2616V11" id="C2616V11">16:11</a> I decked you with ornaments, and I put
bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. <a name="C2616V12"
id="C2616V12">16:12</a> I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your
ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. <a name="C2616V13" id="C2616V13">16:13</a>
Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine
linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and
oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
<a name="C2616V14" id="C2616V14">16:14</a> Your renown went forth among the
nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I
had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2616V15" id="C2616V15">16:15</a>
But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of
your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by;
his it was. <a name="C2616V16" id="C2616V16">16:16</a> You took of your
garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors,
and played the prostitute on them: <i>the like things</i> shall not come,
neither shall it be <i>so</i>. <a name="C2616V17" id="C2616V17">16:17</a> You
also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had
given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute
with them; <a name="C2616V18" id="C2616V18">16:18</a> and you took your
embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense
before them. <a name="C2616V19" id="C2616V19">16:19</a> My bread also which I
gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did
even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and <i>thus</i> it was, says
the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2616V20" id="C2616V20">16:20</a> Moreover you have
taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these
have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small
matter, <a name="C2616V21" id="C2616V21">16:21</a> that you have slain my
children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through <i>the
fire</i> to them? <a name="C2616V22" id="C2616V22">16:22</a> In all your
abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of
your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.
<a name="C2616V23" id="C2616V23">16:23</a> It is happen after all your
wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh), <a name="C2616V24"
id="C2616V24">16:24</a> that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have
made you a lofty place in every street. <a name="C2616V25" id="C2616V25">16:25</a>
You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made
your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who
passed by, and multiplied your prostitution. <a name="C2616V26" id="C2616V26">16:26</a>
You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your
neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to
provoke me to anger. <a name="C2616V27" id="C2616V27">16:27</a> See therefore,
I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary
<i>food</i>, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the
daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. <a
name="C2616V28" id="C2616V28">16:28</a> You have played the prostitute also
with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the
prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied. <a name="C2616V29"
id="C2616V29">16:29</a> You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to
the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with
this. <a name="C2616V30" id="C2616V30">16:30</a> How weak is your heart, says
the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent
prostitute; <a name="C2616V31" id="C2616V31">16:31</a> in that you build your
vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every
street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. <a
name="C2616V32" id="C2616V32">16:32</a> A wife who commits adultery! who takes
strangers instead of her husband! <a name="C2616V33" id="C2616V33">16:33</a>
They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your
lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your
prostitution. <a name="C2616V34" id="C2616V34">16:34</a> You are different
from <i>other</i> women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to
play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to
you, therefore you are different. <a name="C2616V35" id="C2616V35">16:35</a>
Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh: <a name="C2616V36"
id="C2616V36">16:36</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness
was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution
with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and
for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; <a name="C2616V37"
id="C2616V37">16:37</a> therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with
whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all
those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every
side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your
nakedness. <a name="C2616V38" id="C2616V38">16:38</a> I will judge you, as
women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you
the blood of wrath and jealousy. <a name="C2616V39" id="C2616V39">16:39</a> I
will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted
place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your
clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked
and bare. <a name="C2616V40" id="C2616V40">16:40</a> They shall also bring up
a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust
you through with their swords. <a name="C2616V41" id="C2616V41">16:41</a> They
shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the
sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the
prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more. <a name="C2616V42"
id="C2616V42">16:42</a> So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my
jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more
angry. <a name="C2616V43" id="C2616V43">16:43</a> Because you have not
remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these
things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says
the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your
abominations. <a name="C2616V44" id="C2616V44">16:44</a> Behold, everyone who
uses proverbs shall use <i>this</i> proverb against you, saying, As is the
mother, so is her daughter. <a name="C2616V45" id="C2616V45">16:45</a> You are
the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and
you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their
children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a
name="C2616V46" id="C2616V46">16:46</a> Your elder sister is Shomron, who
dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister,
who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. <a name="C2616V47"
id="C2616V47">16:47</a> Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done
after their abominations; but, as <i>if that were</i> a very little <i>thing</i>,
you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. <a name="C2616V48"
id="C2616V48">16:48</a> As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister
has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your
daughters. <a name="C2616V49" id="C2616V49">16:49</a> Behold, this was the
iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous
ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand
of the poor and needy. <a name="C2616V50" id="C2616V50">16:50</a> They were
haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away
as I saw <i>good</i>. <a name="C2616V51" id="C2616V51">16:51</a> Neither has
Shomron committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your
abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your
abominations which you have done. <a name="C2616V52" id="C2616V52">16:52</a>
You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for
your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable
than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and
bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. <a name="C2616V53"
id="C2616V53">16:53</a> I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of
Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Shomron and her daughters,
and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them; <a name="C2616V54"
id="C2616V54">16:54</a> that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed
because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. <a
name="C2616V55" id="C2616V55">16:55</a> Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
shall return to their former estate; and Shomron and her daughters shall
return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to
your former estate. <a name="C2616V56" id="C2616V56">16:56</a> For your sister
Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, <a
name="C2616V57" id="C2616V57">16:57</a> before your wickedness was uncovered,
as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who
are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you
all around. <a name="C2616V58" id="C2616V58">16:58</a> You have borne your
lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh. <a name="C2616V59" id="C2616V59">16:59</a>
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done,
who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. <a name="C2616V60"
id="C2616V60">16:60</a> Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in
the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting
covenant. <a name="C2616V61" id="C2616V61">16:61</a> Then you shall remember
your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder
<i>sisters</i> and your younger; and I will give them to you for
daughters, but not by your covenant. <a name="C2616V62" id="C2616V62">16:62</a>
I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh; <a name="C2616V63" id="C2616V63">16:63</a> that you may remember, and
be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame,
when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2617V1" id="C2617V1">17:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2617V2" id="C2617V2">17:2</a> Son of man, put forth a riddle, and
speak a parable to the house of Yisrael; <a name="C2617V3" id="C2617V3">17:3</a>
and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and
long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to
Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: <a name="C2617V4" id="C2617V4">17:4</a>
he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a
land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. <a name="C2617V5"
id="C2617V5">17:5</a> He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it
in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow
tree. <a name="C2617V6" id="C2617V6">17:6</a> It grew, and became a spreading
vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were
under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth
sprigs. <a name="C2617V7" id="C2617V7">17:7</a> There was also another great
eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend
its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the
beds of its plantation, that he might water it. <a name="C2617V8" id="C2617V8">17:8</a>
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. <a
name="C2617V9" id="C2617V9">17:9</a> Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall
it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it
may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a
strong arm or much people can it be raised from its roots. <a name="C2617V10"
id="C2617V10">17:10</a> Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall
it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in
the beds where it grew. <a name="C2617V11" id="C2617V11">17:11</a> Moreover
the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2617V12" id="C2617V12">17:12</a>
Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things mean?
tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Yerushalayim, and took its
king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon: <a name="C2617V13"
id="C2617V13">17:13</a> and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant
with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of
the land; <a name="C2617V14" id="C2617V14">17:14</a> that the kingdom might be
base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant
it might stand. <a name="C2617V15" id="C2617V15">17:15</a> But he rebelled
against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give
him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does
such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape? <a name="C2617V16"
id="C2617V16">17:16</a> As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place
where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. <a
name="C2617V17" id="C2617V17">17:17</a> Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty
army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and
build forts, to cut off many persons. <a name="C2617V18" id="C2617V18">17:18</a>
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had
given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. <a
name="C2617V19" id="C2617V19">17:19</a> Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he
has broken, I will even bring it on his own head. <a name="C2617V20"
id="C2617V20">17:20</a> I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken
in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment
with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. <a
name="C2617V21" id="C2617V21">17:21</a> All his fugitives in all his bands
shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward
every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it. <a
name="C2617V22" id="C2617V22">17:22</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from
the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high
and lofty mountain: <a name="C2617V23" id="C2617V23">17:23</a> in the mountain
of the height of Yisrael will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs,
and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds
of every wing; in the shade of its branches shall they dwell. <a
name="C2617V24" id="C2617V24">17:24</a> All the trees of the field shall know
that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low
tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to
flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2618V1" id="C2618V1">18:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me again,
saying, <a name="C2618V2" id="C2618V2">18:2</a> What do you mean, that you use
this proverb concerning the land of Yisrael, saying, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? <a name="C2618V3"
id="C2618V3">18:3</a> As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have <i>occasion</i>
any more to use this proverb in Yisrael. <a name="C2618V4" id="C2618V4">18:4</a>
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of
the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. <a name="C2618V5"
id="C2618V5">18:5</a> But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful
and right, <a name="C2618V6" id="C2618V6">18:6</a> and has not eaten on the
mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of
Yisrael, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to
a woman in her impurity, <a name="C2618V7" id="C2618V7">18:7</a> and has not
wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing
by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked
with a garment; <a name="C2618V8" id="C2618V8">18:8</a> he who has not given
forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his
hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, <a
name="C2618V9" id="C2618V9">18:9</a> has walked in my statutes, and has kept
my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the
Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2618V10" id="C2618V10">18:10</a> If he fathers a son
who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,
<a name="C2618V11" id="C2618V11">18:11</a> and who does not any of those <i>duties</i>,
but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, <a
name="C2618V12" id="C2618V12">18:12</a> has wronged the poor and needy, has
taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes
to the idols, has committed abomination, <a name="C2618V13" id="C2618V13">18:13</a>
has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live?
he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely
die; his blood shall be on him. <a name="C2618V14" id="C2618V14">18:14</a>
Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he
has done, and fears, and does not such like; <a name="C2618V15" id="C2618V15">18:15</a>
who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the
idols of the house of Yisrael, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, <a
name="C2618V16" id="C2618V16">18:16</a> neither has wronged any, has not taken
anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread
to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; <a name="C2618V17"
id="C2618V17">18:17</a> who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has
not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked
in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall
surely live. <a name="C2618V18" id="C2618V18">18:18</a> As for his father,
because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is
not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity. <a
name="C2618V19" id="C2618V19">18:19</a> Yet say you, Why does not the son bear
the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and
right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely
live. <a name="C2618V20" id="C2618V20">18:20</a> The soul who sins, he shall
die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the
father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. <a
name="C2618V21" id="C2618V21">18:21</a> But if the wicked turn from all his
sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. <a name="C2618V22"
id="C2618V22">18:22</a> None of his transgressions that he has committed
shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he
shall live. <a name="C2618V23" id="C2618V23">18:23</a> Have I any pleasure in
the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he
should return from his way, and live? <a name="C2618V24" id="C2618V24">18:24</a>
But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man
does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be
remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he
has sinned, in them shall he die. <a name="C2618V25" id="C2618V25">18:25</a>
Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Yisrael:
Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal? <a name="C2618V26" id="C2618V26">18:26</a>
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
<a name="C2618V27" id="C2618V27">18:27</a> Again, when the wicked man turns
away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is
lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. <a name="C2618V28"
id="C2618V28">18:28</a> Because he considers, and turns away from all his
transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not
die. <a name="C2618V29" id="C2618V29">18:29</a> Yet says the house of Yisrael,
The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Yisrael, are not my ways equal?
are not your ways unequal? <a name="C2618V30" id="C2618V30">18:30</a>
Therefore I will judge you, house of Yisrael, everyone according to his
ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. <a name="C2618V31"
id="C2618V31">18:31</a> Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which
you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
will you die, house of Yisrael? <a name="C2618V32" id="C2618V32">18:32</a> For
I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh:
therefore turn yourselves, and live.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2619V1" id="C2619V1">19:1</a> Moreover, take up a lamentation for
the princes of Yisrael, <a name="C2619V2" id="C2619V2">19:2</a> and say, What
was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the
young lions she nourished her cubs. <a name="C2619V3" id="C2619V3">19:3</a>
She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to
catch the prey; he devoured men. <a name="C2619V4" id="C2619V4">19:4</a> The
nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him
with hooks to the land of Egypt. <a name="C2619V5" id="C2619V5">19:5</a> Now
when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took
another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. <a name="C2619V6" id="C2619V6">19:6</a>
He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he
learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. <a name="C2619V7" id="C2619V7">19:7</a>
He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was
desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. <a
name="C2619V8" id="C2619V8">19:8</a> Then the nations set against him on every
side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken
in their pit. <a name="C2619V9" id="C2619V9">19:9</a> They put him in a cage
with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into
strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of
Yisrael. <a name="C2619V10" id="C2619V10">19:10</a> Your mother was like a
vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of
branches by reason of many waters. <a name="C2619V11" id="C2619V11">19:11</a>
It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their
stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their
height with the multitude of their branches. <a name="C2619V12" id="C2619V12">19:12</a>
But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the
east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and
withered; the fire consumed them. <a name="C2619V13" id="C2619V13">19:13</a>
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. <a
name="C2619V14" id="C2619V14">19:14</a> Fire is gone out of the rods of its
branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod
to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2620V1" id="C2620V1">20:1</a> It happened in the seventh year, in
the fifth <i>month</i>, the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, that certain of
the elders of Yisrael came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. <a
name="C2620V2" id="C2620V2">20:2</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2620V3" id="C2620V3">20:3</a> Son of man, speak to the elders of
Yisrael, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me
that you have come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be
inquired of by you. <a name="C2620V4" id="C2620V4">20:4</a> Will you judge
them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations
of their fathers; <a name="C2620V5" id="C2620V5">20:5</a> and tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Yisrael, and swore to the
seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of
Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your Elohim; <a name="C2620V6"
id="C2620V6">20:6</a> in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out
of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. <a name="C2620V7"
id="C2620V7">20:7</a> I said to them, Cast you away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of
Egypt; I am Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C2620V8" id="C2620V8">20:8</a> But they
rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man
cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the
idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. <a
name="C2620V9" id="C2620V9">20:9</a> But I worked for my name's sake, that it
should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were,
in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of
the land of Egypt. <a name="C2620V10" id="C2620V10">20:10</a> So I caused them
to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the
wilderness. <a name="C2620V11" id="C2620V11">20:11</a> I gave them my
statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall
live in them. <a name="C2620V12" id="C2620V12">20:12</a> Moreover also I gave
them my Shabbats, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know
that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. <a name="C2620V13" id="C2620V13">20:13</a>
But the house of Yisrael rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't
walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep,
he shall live in them; and my Shabbats they greatly profaned. Then I said
I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them. <a
name="C2620V14" id="C2620V14">20:14</a> But I worked for my name's sake, that
it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I
brought them out. <a name="C2620V15" id="C2620V15">20:15</a> Moreover also I
swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land
which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of
all lands; <a name="C2620V16" id="C2620V16">20:16</a> because they rejected my
ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Shabbats: for
their heart went after their idols. <a name="C2620V17" id="C2620V17">20:17</a>
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I
make a full end of them in the wilderness. <a name="C2620V18" id="C2620V18">20:18</a>
I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in the statutes
of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves
with their idols. <a name="C2620V19" id="C2620V19">20:19</a> I am Yahweh your
Elohim: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; <a
name="C2620V20" id="C2620V20">20:20</a> and make my Shabbats holy; and they
shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh
your Elohim. <a name="C2620V21" id="C2620V21">20:21</a> But the children rebelled
against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to
do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my
Shabbats. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my
anger against them in the wilderness. <a name="C2620V22" id="C2620V22">20:22</a>
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it
should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I
brought them forth. <a name="C2620V23" id="C2620V23">20:23</a> Moreover I
swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the
nations, and disperse them through the countries; <a name="C2620V24"
id="C2620V24">20:24</a> because they had not executed my ordinances, but had
rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Shabbats, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols. <a name="C2620V25" id="C2620V25">20:25</a>
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in
which they should not live; <a name="C2620V26" id="C2620V26">20:26</a> and I
polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through <i>the
fire</i> all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the
end that they might know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2620V27" id="C2620V27">20:27</a>
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Yisrael, and tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in
that they have committed a trespass against me. <a name="C2620V28"
id="C2620V28">20:28</a> For when I had brought them into the land, which I
swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick
tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented
the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant
aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings. <a name="C2620V29"
id="C2620V29">20:29</a> Then I said to them, What means the high place
whereunto you go? So its name is called Bamah to this day. <a name="C2620V30"
id="C2620V30">20:30</a> Therefore tell the house of Yisrael, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers?
and play you the prostitute after their abominations? <a name="C2620V31"
id="C2620V31">20:31</a> and when you offer your gifts, when you make your
sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your
idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Yisrael? As
I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you; <a
name="C2620V32" id="C2620V32">20:32</a> and that which comes into your mind
shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the
families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. <a name="C2620V33"
id="C2620V33">20:33</a> As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a
mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will
I be king over you: <a name="C2620V34" id="C2620V34">20:34</a> and I will
bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries
in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched
arm, and with wrath poured out; <a name="C2620V35" id="C2620V35">20:35</a> and
I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I
enter into judgment with you face to face. <a name="C2620V36" id="C2620V36">20:36</a>
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the
land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C2620V37" id="C2620V37">20:37</a> I will cause you to pass
under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; <a
name="C2620V38" id="C2620V38">20:38</a> and I will purge out from among you
the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out
of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of
Yisrael: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2620V39" id="C2620V39">20:39</a>
As for you, house of Yisrael, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve
everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but
my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts, and with your
idols. <a name="C2620V40" id="C2620V40">20:40</a> For in my holy mountain, in
the mountain of the height of Yisrael, says the Lord Yahweh, there shall
all the house of Yisrael, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I
accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits
of your offerings, with all your holy things. <a name="C2620V41" id="C2620V41">20:41</a>
As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the
peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. <a
name="C2620V42" id="C2620V42">20:42</a> You shall know that I am Yahweh, when
I shall bring you into the land of Yisrael, into the country which I swore
to give to your fathers. <a name="C2620V43" id="C2620V43">20:43</a> There you
shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted
yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your
evils that you have committed. <a name="C2620V44" id="C2620V44">20:44</a> You
shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's
sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt
doings, you house of Yisrael, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2620V45"
id="C2620V45">20:45</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2620V46" id="C2620V46">20:46</a> Son of man, set your face toward the
south, and drop <i>your word</i> toward the south, and prophesy against
the forest of the field in the South; <a name="C2620V47" id="C2620V47">20:47</a>
and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the
Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour
every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not
be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt
thereby. <a name="C2620V48" id="C2620V48">20:48</a> All flesh shall see that
I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. <a name="C2620V49"
id="C2620V49">20:49</a> Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't
he a speaker of parables?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2621V1" id="C2621V1">21:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2621V2" id="C2621V2">21:2</a> Son of man, set your face toward
Yerushalayim, and drop <i>your word</i> toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy
against the land of Yisrael; <a name="C2621V3" id="C2621V3">21:3</a> and tell
the land of Yisrael, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will
draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the
righteous and the wicked. <a name="C2621V4" id="C2621V4">21:4</a> Seeing then
that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall
my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to
the north: <a name="C2621V5" id="C2621V5">21:5</a> and all flesh shall know
that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not
return any more. <a name="C2621V6" id="C2621V6">21:6</a> Sigh therefore, you
son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will
sigh before their eyes. <a name="C2621V7" id="C2621V7">21:7</a> It shall be,
when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the
news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as
water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2621V8" id="C2621V8">21:8</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2621V9" id="C2621V9">21:9</a> Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says
Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; <a
name="C2621V10" id="C2621V10">21:10</a> it is sharpened that it may make a
slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make
mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree. <a name="C2621V11"
id="C2621V11">21:11</a> It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled:
the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand
of the killer. <a name="C2621V12" id="C2621V12">21:12</a> Cry and wail, son of
man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Yisrael: they are
delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your
thigh. <a name="C2621V13" id="C2621V13">21:13</a> For there is a trial; and
what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.
<a name="C2621V14" id="C2621V14">21:14</a> You therefore, son of man,
prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the
third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great
one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers. <a
name="C2621V15" id="C2621V15">21:15</a> I have set the threatening sword
against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings
be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
<a name="C2621V16" id="C2621V16">21:16</a> Gather you together, go to the
right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
<a name="C2621V17" id="C2621V17">21:17</a> I will also strike my hands
together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. <a
name="C2621V18" id="C2621V18">21:18</a> The word of Yahweh came to me again,
saying, <a name="C2621V19" id="C2621V19">21:19</a> Also, you son of man,
appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they
both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out
at the head of the way to the city. <a name="C2621V20" id="C2621V20">21:20</a>
You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of
Ammon, and to Yehudah in Yerushalayim the fortified. <a name="C2621V21"
id="C2621V21">21:21</a> For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the
way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows
back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver. <a
name="C2621V22" id="C2621V22">21:22</a> In his right hand was the divination
<i>for</i> Yerushalayim, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the
slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. <a name="C2621V23"
id="C2621V23">21:23</a> It shall be to them as a false divination in their
sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory,
that they may be taken. <a name="C2621V24" id="C2621V24">21:24</a> Therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be
remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your
doings your sins do appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be
taken with the hand. <a name="C2621V25" id="C2621V25">21:25</a> You, deadly
wounded wicked one, the prince of Yisrael, whose day is come, in the time
of the iniquity of the end, <a name="C2621V26" id="C2621V26">21:26</a> thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this <i>shall
be</i> no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is
high. <a name="C2621V27" id="C2621V27">21:27</a> I will overturn, overturn,
overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is;
and I will give it <i>him</i>. <a name="C2621V28" id="C2621V28">21:28</a> You,
son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the
children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say you, A sword, a
sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour,
that it may be as lightning; <a name="C2621V29" id="C2621V29">21:29</a> while
they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you
on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in
the time of the iniquity of the end. <a name="C2621V30" id="C2621V30">21:30</a>
Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created,
in the land of your birth, will I judge you. <a name="C2621V31" id="C2621V31">21:31</a>
I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of
my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to
destroy. <a name="C2621V32" id="C2621V32">21:32</a> You shall be for fuel to
the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no
more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2622V1" id="C2622V1">22:1</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, <a name="C2622V2" id="C2622V2">22:2</a> You, son of man, will you
judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her
abominations. <a name="C2622V3" id="C2622V3">22:3</a> You shall say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her
time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! <a
name="C2622V4" id="C2622V4">22:4</a> You have become guilty in your blood that
you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you
have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years:
therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all
the countries. <a name="C2622V5" id="C2622V5">22:5</a> Those who are near, and
those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one <i>and</i>
full of tumult. <a name="C2622V6" id="C2622V6">22:6</a> Behold, the princes of
Yisrael, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
<a name="C2622V7" id="C2622V7">22:7</a> In you have they set light by father
and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the
foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. <a
name="C2622V8" id="C2622V8">22:8</a> You have despised my holy things, and
have profaned my Shabbats. <a name="C2622V9" id="C2622V9">22:9</a> Slanderous
men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the
mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness. <a
name="C2622V10" id="C2622V10">22:10</a> In you have they uncovered their
fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her
impurity. <a name="C2622V11" id="C2622V11">22:11</a> One has committed
abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his
daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's
daughter. <a name="C2622V12" id="C2622V12">22:12</a> In you have they taken
bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have
greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2622V13" id="C2622V13">22:13</a> Behold,
therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have
made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you. <a
name="C2622V14" id="C2622V14">22:14</a> Can your heart endure, or can your
hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have
spoken it, and will do it. <a name="C2622V15" id="C2622V15">22:15</a> I will
scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and
I will consume your filthiness out of you. <a name="C2622V16" id="C2622V16">22:16</a>
You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2622V17" id="C2622V17">22:17</a> The
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2622V18" id="C2622V18">22:18</a>
Son of man, the house of Yisrael is become dross to me: all of them are
brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the
dross of silver. <a name="C2622V19" id="C2622V19">22:19</a> Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold,
I will gather you into the midst of Yerushalayim. <a name="C2622V20" id="C2622V20">22:20</a>
As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst
of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you
in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. <a
name="C2622V21" id="C2622V21">22:21</a> Yes, I will gather you, and blow on
you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. <a
name="C2622V22" id="C2622V22">22:22</a> As silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I,
Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you. <a name="C2622V23" id="C2622V23">22:23</a>
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2622V24" id="C2622V24">22:24</a>
Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on
in the day of indignation. <a name="C2622V25" id="C2622V25">22:25</a> There is
a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening
the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious
things; they have made her widows many in its midst. <a name="C2622V26"
id="C2622V26">22:26</a> Her priests have done violence to my Torah, and have
profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy
and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Shabbats, and I am
profaned among them. <a name="C2622V27" id="C2622V27">22:27</a> Her princes in
its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, <i>and</i> to
destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. <a name="C2622V28"
id="C2622V28">22:28</a> Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash,
seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. <a name="C2622V29" id="C2622V29">22:29</a>
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes,
they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner
wrongfully. <a name="C2622V30" id="C2622V30">22:30</a> I sought for a man
among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me
for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. <a
name="C2622V31" id="C2622V31">22:31</a> Therefore have I poured out my
indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their
own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2623V1" id="C2623V1">23:1</a> The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, <a name="C2623V2" id="C2623V2">23:2</a> Son of man, there were two
women, the daughters of one mother: <a name="C2623V3" id="C2623V3">23:3</a>
and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in
their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the
bosom of their virginity. <a name="C2623V4" id="C2623V4">23:4</a> The names of
them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine,
and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Shomron is Oholah,
and Yerushalayim Oholibah. <a name="C2623V5" id="C2623V5">23:5</a> Oholah played
the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the
Assyrians <i>her</i> neighbors, <a name="C2623V6" id="C2623V6">23:6</a> who
were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding on horses. <a name="C2623V7" id="C2623V7">23:7</a> She
bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of
them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
<a name="C2623V8" id="C2623V8">23:8</a> Neither has she left her prostitution
since <i>the days of</i> Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and
they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their
prostitution on her. <a name="C2623V9" id="C2623V9">23:9</a> Therefore I
delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians,
on whom she doted. <a name="C2623V10" id="C2623V10">23:10</a> These uncovered
her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed
with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed
judgments on her. <a name="C2623V11" id="C2623V11">23:11</a> Her sister
Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in
her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister. <a
name="C2623V12" id="C2623V12">23:12</a> She doted on the Assyrians, governors
and rulers, <i>her</i> neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding
on horses, all of them desirable young men. <a name="C2623V13" id="C2623V13">23:13</a>
I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way. <a name="C2623V14"
id="C2623V14">23:14</a> She increased her prostitution; for she saw men
portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with
vermilion, <a name="C2623V15" id="C2623V15">23:15</a> girded with girdles on
their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to
look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of
their birth. <a name="C2623V16" id="C2623V16">23:16</a> As soon as she saw
them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. <a
name="C2623V17" id="C2623V17">23:17</a> The Babylonians came to her into the
bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was
polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. <a name="C2623V18"
id="C2623V18">23:18</a> So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her
nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was
alienated from her sister. <a name="C2623V19" id="C2623V19">23:19</a> Yet she
multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which
she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. <a name="C2623V20"
id="C2623V20">23:20</a> She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the
flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. <a
name="C2623V21" id="C2623V21">23:21</a> Thus you called to memory the lewdness
of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the
breasts of your youth. <a name="C2623V22" id="C2623V22">23:22</a> Therefore,
Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers
against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them
against you on every side: <a name="C2623V23" id="C2623V23">23:23</a> the
Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, <i>and</i> all
the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of
them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. <a
name="C2623V24" id="C2623V24">23:24</a> They shall come against you with
weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall
set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around;
and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according
to their judgments. <a name="C2623V25" id="C2623V25">23:25</a> I will set my
jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall
take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the
sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue
shall be devoured by the fire. <a name="C2623V26" id="C2623V26">23:26</a> They
shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
<a name="C2623V27" id="C2623V27">23:27</a> Thus will I make your lewdness to
cease from you, and your prostitution <i>brought</i> from the land of
Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt
any more. <a name="C2623V28" id="C2623V28">23:28</a> For thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate,
into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated; <a name="C2623V29"
id="C2623V29">23:29</a> and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall
take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the
nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and
your prostitution. <a name="C2623V30" id="C2623V30">23:30</a> These things
shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the
nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. <a name="C2623V31"
id="C2623V31">23:31</a> You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore
will I give her cup into your hand. <a name="C2623V32" id="C2623V32">23:32</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is
deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains
much. <a name="C2623V33" id="C2623V33">23:33</a> You shall be filled with
drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with
the cup of your sister Shomron. <a name="C2623V34" id="C2623V34">23:34</a> You
shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces
of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C2623V35" id="C2623V35">23:35</a> Therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back,
therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution. <a
name="C2623V36" id="C2623V36">23:36</a> Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of
man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their
abominations. <a name="C2623V37" id="C2623V37">23:37</a> For they have
committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have
they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they
bore to me, to pass through <i>the fire</i> to them to be devoured. <a
name="C2623V38" id="C2623V38">23:38</a> Moreover this they have done to me:
they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
Shabbats. <a name="C2623V39" id="C2623V39">23:39</a> For when they had slain
their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of
my house. <a name="C2623V40" id="C2623V40">23:40</a> Furthermore you have sent
for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they
came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself
with ornaments, <a name="C2623V41" id="C2623V41">23:41</a> and sit on a
stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my
incense and my oil. <a name="C2623V42" id="C2623V42">23:42</a> The voice of a
multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were
brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands
of them <i>twain</i>, and beautiful crowns on their heads. <a name="C2623V43"
id="C2623V43">23:43</a> Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now
will they play the prostitute with her, and she <i>with them</i>. <a
name="C2623V44" id="C2623V44">23:44</a> They went in to her, as they go in to
a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
<a name="C2623V45" id="C2623V45">23:45</a> Righteous men, they shall judge
them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who
shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. <a
name="C2623V46" id="C2623V46">23:46</a> For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and
forth and robbed. <a name="C2623V47" id="C2623V47">23:47</a> The company shall
stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall
kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
<a name="C2623V48" id="C2623V48">23:48</a> Thus will I cause lewdness to cease
out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your
lewdness. <a name="C2623V49" id="C2623V49">23:49</a> They shall recompense
your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you
shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2624V1" id="C2624V1">24:1</a> Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, in the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, <a name="C2624V2" id="C2624V2">24:2</a> Son of man, write you the
name of the day, <i>even</i> of this same day: the king of Babylon drew
close to Yerushalayim this same day. <a name="C2624V3" id="C2624V3">24:3</a>
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it: <a
name="C2624V4" id="C2624V4">24:4</a> gather its pieces into it, even every
good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. <a
name="C2624V5" id="C2624V5">24:5</a> Take the choice of the flock, and also a
pile <i>of wood</i> for the bones under <i>the caldron</i>; make it boil
well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst. <a name="C2624V6" id="C2624V6">24:6</a>
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the
caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take
out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it. <a name="C2624V7"
id="C2624V7">24:7</a> For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on
the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. <a
name="C2624V8" id="C2624V8">24:8</a> That it may cause wrath to come up to
take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not
be covered. <a name="C2624V9" id="C2624V9">24:9</a> Therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. <a
name="C2624V10" id="C2624V10">24:10</a> Heap on the wood, make the fire hot,
boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be
burned. <a name="C2624V11" id="C2624V11">24:11</a> Then set it empty on its
coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness
may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed. <a name="C2624V12"
id="C2624V12">24:12</a> She has wearied <i>herself</i> with toil; yet her
great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't <i>go forth</i>
by fire. <a name="C2624V13" id="C2624V13">24:13</a> In your filthiness is
lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall
not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my
wrath toward you to rest. <a name="C2624V14" id="C2624V14">24:14</a> I,
Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go
back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways,
and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
<a name="C2624V15" id="C2624V15">24:15</a> Also the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, <a name="C2624V16" id="C2624V16">24:16</a> Son of man, behold, I take
away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither
mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. <a name="C2624V17"
id="C2624V17">24:17</a> Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead;
bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't
cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. <a name="C2624V18" id="C2624V18">24:18</a>
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I
did in the morning as I was commanded. <a name="C2624V19" id="C2624V19">24:19</a>
The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that
you do so? <a name="C2624V20" id="C2624V20">24:20</a> Then I said to them, The
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2624V21" id="C2624V21">24:21</a>
Speak to the house of Yisrael, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will
profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes,
and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you
have left behind shall fall by the sword. <a name="C2624V22" id="C2624V22">24:22</a>
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the
bread of men. <a name="C2624V23" id="C2624V23">24:23</a> Your tires shall be
on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep;
but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
<a name="C2624V24" id="C2624V24">24:24</a> Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a
sign; according to all that he has done you will do: when this comes, then
you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2624V25" id="C2624V25">24:25</a>
You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, <a
name="C2624V26" id="C2624V26">24:26</a> that in that day he who escapes shall
come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? <a name="C2624V27"
id="C2624V27">24:27</a> In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has
escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign
to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2625V1" id="C2625V1">25:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2625V2" id="C2625V2">25:2</a> Son of man, set your face toward the
children of Ammon, and prophesy against them: <a name="C2625V3" id="C2625V3">25:3</a>
and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it
was profaned; and against the land of Yisrael, when it was made desolate;
and against the house of Yehudah, when they went into captivity: <a
name="C2625V4" id="C2625V4">25:4</a> therefore, behold, I will deliver you to
the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their
encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your
fruit, and they shall drink your milk. <a name="C2625V5" id="C2625V5">25:5</a>
I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a
resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C2625V6" id="C2625V6">25:6</a> For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because
you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with
all the despite of your soul against the land of Yisrael; <a name="C2625V7"
id="C2625V7">25:7</a> therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on
you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you
off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries:
I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2625V8"
id="C2625V8">25:8</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say,
Behold, the house of Yehudah is like all the nations; <a name="C2625V9"
id="C2625V9">25:9</a> therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from
the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the
country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, <a name="C2625V10"
id="C2625V10">25:10</a> to the children of the east, <i>to go</i> against
the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the
children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations. <a name="C2625V11"
id="C2625V11">25:11</a> and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2625V12" id="C2625V12">25:12</a> Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Yehudah by
taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;
<a name="C2625V13" id="C2625V13">25:13</a> therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and
animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan
shall they fall by the sword. <a name="C2625V14" id="C2625V14">25:14</a> I
will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Yisrael; and they
shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they
shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2625V15" id="C2625V15">25:15</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge,
and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual
enmity; <a name="C2625V16" id="C2625V16">25:16</a> therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I
will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. <a
name="C2625V17" id="C2625V17">25:17</a> I will execute great vengeance on them
with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall
lay my vengeance on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2626V1" id="C2626V1">26:1</a> It happened in the eleventh year, in
the first <i>day</i> of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, <a name="C2626V2" id="C2626V2">26:2</a> Son of man, because Tyre has
said against Yerushalayim, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she
is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste: <a
name="C2626V3" id="C2626V3">26:3</a> therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up
against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. <a name="C2626V4"
id="C2626V4">26:4</a> They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down
her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare
rock. <a name="C2626V5" id="C2626V5">26:5</a> She shall be a place for the
spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the
Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations. <a name="C2626V6"
id="C2626V6">26:6</a> Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with
the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2626V7" id="C2626V7">26:7</a>
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with
chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. <a
name="C2626V8" id="C2626V8">26:8</a> He shall kill with the sword your
daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a
mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. <a name="C2626V9"
id="C2626V9">26:9</a> He shall set his battering engines against your walls,
and with his axes he shall break down your towers. <a name="C2626V10"
id="C2626V10">26:10</a> By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust
shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and
of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates,
as men enter into a city in which is made a breach. <a name="C2626V11"
id="C2626V11">26:11</a> With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all
your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of
your strength shall go down to the ground. <a name="C2626V12" id="C2626V12">26:12</a>
They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your
merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your
pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your
dust in the midst of the waters. <a name="C2626V13" id="C2626V13">26:13</a> I
will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps
shall be no more heard. <a name="C2626V14" id="C2626V14">26:14</a> I will make
you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall
be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2626V15" id="C2626V15">26:15</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre:
shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded
groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you? <a name="C2626V16"
id="C2626V16">26:16</a> Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from
their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered
garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on
the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. <a
name="C2626V17" id="C2626V17">26:17</a> They shall take up a lamentation over
you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring
men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there! <a
name="C2626V18" id="C2626V18">26:18</a> Now shall the islands tremble in the
day of your fall; yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
at your departure. <a name="C2626V19" id="C2626V19">26:19</a> For thus says
the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the
great waters shall cover you; <a name="C2626V20" id="C2626V20">26:20</a> then
will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people
of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth,
in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit,
that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
<a name="C2626V21" id="C2626V21">26:21</a> I will make you a terror, and you
shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will
never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2627V1" id="C2627V1">27:1</a> The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, <a name="C2627V2" id="C2627V2">27:2</a> You, son of man, take up a
lamentation over Tyre; <a name="C2627V3" id="C2627V3">27:3</a> and tell Tyre,
you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples
to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am
perfect in beauty. <a name="C2627V4" id="C2627V4">27:4</a> Your borders are in
the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty. <a
name="C2627V5" id="C2627V5">27:5</a> They have made all your planks of fir
trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for
you. <a name="C2627V6" id="C2627V6">27:6</a> Of the oaks of Bashan have they
made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the islands of Kittim. <a name="C2627V7" id="C2627V7">27:7</a> Of fine
linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to
you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your
awning. <a name="C2627V8" id="C2627V8">27:8</a> The inhabitants of Sidon and
Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your
pilots. <a name="C2627V9" id="C2627V9">27:9</a> The old men of Gebal and the
wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of
the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. <a
name="C2627V10" id="C2627V10">27:10</a> Persia and Lud and Put were in your
army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set
forth your comeliness. <a name="C2627V11" id="C2627V11">27:11</a> The men of
Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and valorous men were
in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls all around; they
have perfected your beauty. <a name="C2627V12" id="C2627V12">27:12</a>
Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of
riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. <a
name="C2627V13" id="C2627V13">27:13</a> Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were
your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for
your merchandise. <a name="C2627V14" id="C2627V14">27:14</a> They of the house
of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war horses and mules. <a
name="C2627V15" id="C2627V15">27:15</a> The men of Dedan were your
traffickers; many islands were the market of your hand: they brought you
in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. <a name="C2627V16" id="C2627V16">27:16</a>
Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks:
they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work,
and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. <a name="C2627V17" id="C2627V17">27:17</a>
Yehudah, and the land of Yisrael, they were your traffickers: they traded for
your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil,
and balm. <a name="C2627V18" id="C2627V18">27:18</a> Damascus was your
merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. <a
name="C2627V19" id="C2627V19">27:19</a> Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for
your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
<a name="C2627V20" id="C2627V20">27:20</a> Dedan was your trafficker in
precious cloths for riding. <a name="C2627V21" id="C2627V21">27:21</a> Arabia,
and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in
lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants. <a
name="C2627V22" id="C2627V22">27:22</a> The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah,
they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of
all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. <a name="C2627V23"
id="C2627V23">27:23</a> Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba,
Asshur <i>and</i> Chilmad, were your traffickers. <a name="C2627V24"
id="C2627V24">27:24</a> These were your traffickers in choice wares, in
wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing,
bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise. <a
name="C2627V25" id="C2627V25">27:25</a> The ships of Tarshish were your
caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very
glorious in the heart of the seas. <a name="C2627V26" id="C2627V26">27:26</a>
Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken
you in the heart of the seas. <a name="C2627V27" id="C2627V27">27:27</a> Your
riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots,
your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all
your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the
midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your
ruin. <a name="C2627V28" id="C2627V28">27:28</a> At the sound of the cry of
your pilots the suburbs shall shake. <a name="C2627V29" id="C2627V29">27:29</a>
All who handled the oar, the mariners, <i>and</i> all the pilots of the
sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land, <a
name="C2627V30" id="C2627V30">27:30</a> and shall cause their voice to be
heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their
heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: <a name="C2627V31"
id="C2627V31">27:31</a> and they shall make themselves bald for you, and
gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of
soul with bitter mourning. <a name="C2627V32" id="C2627V32">27:32</a> In their
wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, <i>saying</i>,
Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of
the sea? <a name="C2627V33" id="C2627V33">27:33</a> When your wares went forth
out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich the kings of the
earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. <a
name="C2627V34" id="C2627V34">27:34</a> In the time that you were broken by
the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your
company did fall in the midst of you. <a name="C2627V35" id="C2627V35">27:35</a>
All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings
are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face. <a name="C2627V36"
id="C2627V36">27:36</a> The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are
become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2628V1" id="C2628V1">28:1</a> The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, <a name="C2628V2" id="C2628V2">28:2</a> Son of man, tell the prince of
Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you
have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of Elohim, in the midst of the seas;
yet you are man, and not Elohim, though you did set your heart as the heart
of Elohim-- <a name="C2628V3" id="C2628V3">28:3</a> behold, you are wiser than
Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; <a name="C2628V4"
id="C2628V4">28:4</a> by your wisdom and by your understanding you have
gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; <a
name="C2628V5" id="C2628V5">28:5</a> by your great wisdom <i>and</i> by your
traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up
because of your riches-- <a name="C2628V6" id="C2628V6">28:6</a> therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of
Elohim, <a name="C2628V7" id="C2628V7">28:7</a> therefore, behold, I will bring
strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your
brightness. <a name="C2628V8" id="C2628V8">28:8</a> They shall bring you down
to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the
heart of the seas. <a name="C2628V9" id="C2628V9">28:9</a> Will you yet say
before him who kills you, I am Elohim? but you are man, and not Elohim, in the
hand of him who wounds you. <a name="C2628V10" id="C2628V10">28:10</a> You
shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I
have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2628V11" id="C2628V11">28:11</a>
Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2628V12"
id="C2628V12">28:12</a> Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of
Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full
of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. <a name="C2628V13" id="C2628V13">28:13</a>
You were in Eden, the garden of Elohim; every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, <a href="#N263">sapphire</a>,
turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In
the day that you were created they were prepared. <a name="C2628V14"
id="C2628V14">28:14</a> You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set
you, <i>so that</i> you were on the holy mountain of Elohim; you have walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. <a name="C2628V15"
id="C2628V15">28:15</a> You were perfect in your ways from the day that you
were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. <a name="C2628V16"
id="C2628V16">28:16</a> By the abundance of your traffic they filled the
midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you
as profane out of the mountain of Elohim; and I have destroyed you, covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. <a name="C2628V17" id="C2628V17">28:17</a>
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your
wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have
laid you before kings, that they may see you. <a name="C2628V18" id="C2628V18">28:18</a>
By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your
traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought
forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned
you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. <a
name="C2628V19" id="C2628V19">28:19</a> All those who know you among the
peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a terror, and you shall
nevermore have any being. <a name="C2628V20" id="C2628V20">28:20</a> The word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2628V21" id="C2628V21">28:21</a> Son
of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, <a
name="C2628V22" id="C2628V22">28:22</a> and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of
you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. <a name="C2628V23"
id="C2628V23">28:23</a> For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into
her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the
sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C2628V24" id="C2628V24">28:24</a> There shall be no more a pricking
brier to the house of Yisrael, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around
them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C2628V25" id="C2628V25">28:25</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
When I shall have gathered the house of Yisrael from the peoples among whom
they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the
nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my
servant Jacob. <a name="C2628V26" id="C2628V26">28:26</a> They shall dwell
securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and
shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do
them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their
Elohim.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N263" id="N263">[3]</a> <a href="#C2628V13">back to 28:13</a> or, lapis
lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2629V1" id="C2629V1">29:1</a> In the tenth year, in the tenth month,
on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2629V2" id="C2629V2">29:2</a> "Son of man, set your face against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. <a
name="C2629V3" id="C2629V3">29:3</a> Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great
monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is
my own, and I have made it for myself.' <a name="C2629V4" id="C2629V4">29:4</a>
I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers
stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your
rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales. <a
name="C2629V5" id="C2629V5">29:5</a> I'll cast you forth into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You
won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the
animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky. <a name="C2629V6"
id="C2629V6">29:6</a> All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am
Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Yisrael. <a
name="C2629V7" id="C2629V7">29:7</a> When they took hold of you by your hand,
you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you
broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs." <a name="C2629V8" id="C2629V8">29:8</a>
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring a sword on
you, and will cut off from you man and animal. <a name="C2629V9" id="C2629V9">29:9</a>
The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, 'The river is mine, and I have made
it;' <a name="C2629V10" id="C2629V10">29:10</a> therefore, behold, I am
against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an
utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border
of Ethiopia. <a name="C2629V11" id="C2629V11">29:11</a> No foot of man shall
pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall
it be inhabited forty years. <a name="C2629V12" id="C2629V12">29:12</a> I will
make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a
desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries." <a
name="C2629V13" id="C2629V13">29:13</a> For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At
the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where
they were scattered; <a name="C2629V14" id="C2629V14">29:14</a> and I will
bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the
land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a
base kingdom. <a name="C2629V15" id="C2629V15">29:15</a> It shall be the base
of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the
nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the
nations. <a name="C2629V16" id="C2629V16">29:16</a> It shall be no more the
confidence of the house of Yisrael, bringing iniquity to memory, when they
turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"
<a name="C2629V17" id="C2629V17">29:17</a> It came to pass in the seven and
twentieth year, in the first <i>month</i>, in the first <i>day</i> of the
month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2629V18" id="C2629V18">29:18</a>
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a
great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder
was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service
that he had served against it. <a name="C2629V19" id="C2629V19">29:19</a>
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt
to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude,
and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his
army. <a name="C2629V20" id="C2629V20">29:20</a> I have given him the land of
Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me,
says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2629V21" id="C2629V21">29:21</a> In that day
will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Yisrael, and I will give
you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2630V1" id="C2630V1">30:1</a> The word of Yahweh came again to me,
saying, <a name="C2630V2" id="C2630V2">30:2</a> Son of man, prophesy, and say,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day! <a name="C2630V3"
id="C2630V3">30:3</a> For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near;
it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. <a name="C2630V4"
id="C2630V4">30:4</a> A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in
Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. <a name="C2630V5"
id="C2630V5">30:5</a> Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people,
and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with
them by the sword. <a name="C2630V6" id="C2630V6">30:6</a> Thus says Yahweh:
They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall
come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2630V7" id="C2630V7">30:7</a> They shall be
desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities
shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. <a name="C2630V8"
id="C2630V8">30:8</a> They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a
fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. <a name="C2630V9"
id="C2630V9">30:9</a> In that day shall messengers go forth from before me
in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be
anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes. <a
name="C2630V10" id="C2630V10">30:10</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also
make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon. <a name="C2630V11" id="C2630V11">30:11</a> He and his people with
him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land;
and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain. <a name="C2630V12" id="C2630V12">30:12</a> I will make the rivers dry,
and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land
desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh,
have spoken it. <a name="C2630V13" id="C2630V13">30:13</a> Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to
cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of
Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. <a name="C2630V14"
id="C2630V14">30:14</a> I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in
Zoan, and will execute judgments on No. <a name="C2630V15" id="C2630V15">30:15</a>
I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off
the multitude of No. <a name="C2630V16" id="C2630V16">30:16</a> I will set a
fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up;
and Memphis <i>shall have</i> adversaries in the daytime. <a name="C2630V17"
id="C2630V17">30:17</a> The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by
the sword; and these <i>cities</i> shall go into captivity. <a
name="C2630V18" id="C2630V18">30:18</a> At Tehaphnehes also the day shall
withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the
pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. <a name="C2630V19"
id="C2630V19">30:19</a> Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh. <a name="C2630V20" id="C2630V20">30:20</a> It
happened in the eleventh year, in the first <i>month</i>, in the seventh
<i>day</i> of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2630V21" id="C2630V21">30:21</a> Son of man, I have broken the arm of
Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply <i>healing</i>
medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the
sword. <a name="C2630V22" id="C2630V22">30:22</a> Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his
arms, the strong <i>arm</i>, and that which was broken; and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand. <a name="C2630V23" id="C2630V23">30:23</a>
I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries. <a name="C2630V24" id="C2630V24">30:24</a> I will
strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand:
but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with
the groanings of a deadly wounded man. <a name="C2630V25" id="C2630V25">30:25</a>
I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh
shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my
sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on
the land of Egypt. <a name="C2630V26" id="C2630V26">30:26</a> I will scatter
the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2631V1" id="C2631V1">31:1</a> It happened in the eleventh year, in
the third <i>month</i>, in the first <i>day</i> of the month, that the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2631V2" id="C2631V2">31:2</a> Son
of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you
like in your greatness? <a name="C2631V3" id="C2631V3">31:3</a> Behold, the
Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick
boughs. <a name="C2631V4" id="C2631V4">31:4</a> The waters nourished it, the
deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it
sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. <a name="C2631V5"
id="C2631V5">31:5</a> Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees
of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
by reason of many waters, when it shot <i>them</i> forth. <a name="C2631V6"
id="C2631V6">31:6</a> All the birds of the sky made their nests in its
boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring
forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations. <a
name="C2631V7" id="C2631V7">31:7</a> Thus was it beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters. <a
name="C2631V8" id="C2631V8">31:8</a> The cedars in the garden of Elohim could not
hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were
not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of Elohim like it in its
beauty. <a name="C2631V9" id="C2631V9">31:9</a> I made it beautiful by the
multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the
garden of Elohim, envied it. <a name="C2631V10" id="C2631V10">31:10</a> Therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has
set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his
height; <a name="C2631V11" id="C2631V11">31:11</a> I will even deliver him
into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with
him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. <a name="C2631V12" id="C2631V12">31:12</a>
Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and
his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the
peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. <a
name="C2631V13" id="C2631V13">31:13</a> On his ruin all the birds of the sky
shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches; <a
name="C2631V14" id="C2631V14">31:14</a> to the end that none of all the trees
by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top
among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their
height, <i>even</i> all who drink water: for they are all delivered to
death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of
men, with those who go down to the pit. <a name="C2631V15" id="C2631V15">31:15</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused
a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and
the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and
all the trees of the field fainted for him. <a name="C2631V16" id="C2631V16">31:16</a>
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden,
the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in
the lower parts of the earth. <a name="C2631V17" id="C2631V17">31:17</a> They
also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword;
yes, those who were his arm, <i>that</i> lived under his shadow in the
midst of the nations. <a name="C2631V18" id="C2631V18">31:18</a> To whom are
you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you
will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the
earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2632V1" id="C2632V1">32:1</a> It happened in the twelfth year, in
the twelfth month, in the first <i>day</i> of the month, that the word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2632V2" id="C2632V2">32:2</a> Son of man,
take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were
likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the
seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters
with your feet, and fouled their rivers. <a name="C2632V3" id="C2632V3">32:3</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company
of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net. <a name="C2632V4"
id="C2632V4">32:4</a> I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on
the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you,
and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. <a name="C2632V5"
id="C2632V5">32:5</a> I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the
valleys with your height. <a name="C2632V6" id="C2632V6">32:6</a> I will also
water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains;
and the watercourses shall be full of you. <a name="C2632V7" id="C2632V7">32:7</a>
When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars
dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its
light. <a name="C2632V8" id="C2632V8">32:8</a> All the bright lights of the
sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the
Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2632V9" id="C2632V9">32:9</a> I will also trouble the
hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the
nations, into the countries which you have not known. <a name="C2632V10"
id="C2632V10">32:10</a> Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and
their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my
sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for
his own life, in the day of your fall. <a name="C2632V11" id="C2632V11">32:11</a>
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come
on you. <a name="C2632V12" id="C2632V12">32:12</a> By the swords of the mighty
will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they
all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its
multitude shall be destroyed. <a name="C2632V13" id="C2632V13">32:13</a> I
will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters; neither shall
the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble
them. <a name="C2632V14" id="C2632V14">32:14</a> Then will I make their waters
clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2632V15" id="C2632V15">32:15</a> When I shall make the land of Egypt
desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I
shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am
Yahweh. <a name="C2632V16" id="C2632V16">32:16</a> This is the lamentation
with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament
therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament
therewith, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2632V17" id="C2632V17">32:17</a> It
happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth <i>day</i> of the
month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2632V18"
id="C2632V18">32:18</a> Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and
cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the
lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. <a
name="C2632V19" id="C2632V19">32:19</a> Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down,
and be laid with the uncircumcised. <a name="C2632V20" id="C2632V20">32:20</a>
They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is
delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes. <a
name="C2632V21" id="C2632V21">32:21</a> The strong among the mighty shall
speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are
gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. <a
name="C2632V22" id="C2632V22">32:22</a> Asshur is there and all her company;
her graves are all around her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword; <a
name="C2632V23" id="C2632V23">32:23</a> whose graves are set in the uttermost
parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. <a
name="C2632V24" id="C2632V24">32:24</a> There is Elam and all her multitude
around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone
down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their
terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those
who go down to the pit. <a name="C2632V25" id="C2632V25">32:25</a> They have
set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves
are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their
terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their
shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those
who are slain. <a name="C2632V26" id="C2632V26">32:26</a> There is Meshech,
Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are around them; all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the
land of the living. <a name="C2632V27" id="C2632V27">32:27</a> They shall not
lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down
to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their
heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for <i>they were</i> the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living. <a name="C2632V28"
id="C2632V28">32:28</a> But you shall be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. <a
name="C2632V29" id="C2632V29">32:29</a> There is Edom, her kings and all her
princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the
sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down
to the pit. <a name="C2632V30" id="C2632V30">32:30</a> There are the princes
of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with
the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to
shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword,
and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. <a name="C2632V31"
id="C2632V31">32:31</a> Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over
all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says
the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2632V32" id="C2632V32">32:32</a> For I have put his
terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the
uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all
his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2633V1" id="C2633V1">33:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2633V2" id="C2633V2">33:2</a> Son of man, speak to the children of
your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the
people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their
watchman; <a name="C2633V3" id="C2633V3">33:3</a> if, when he sees the sword
come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; <a name="C2633V4"
id="C2633V4">33:4</a> then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and
doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be on his own head. <a name="C2633V5" id="C2633V5">33:5</a> He heard the
sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him;
whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. <a
name="C2633V6" id="C2633V6">33:6</a> But if the watchman sees the sword come,
and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword
comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his
iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. <a
name="C2633V7" id="C2633V7">33:7</a> So you, son of man, I have set you a
watchman to the house of Yisrael; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and
give them warning from me. <a name="C2633V8" id="C2633V8">33:8</a> When I tell
the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to
warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,
but his blood will I require at your hand. <a name="C2633V9" id="C2633V9">33:9</a>
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he
doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have
delivered your soul. <a name="C2633V10" id="C2633V10">33:10</a> You, son of
man, tell the house of Yisrael: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions
and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? <a
name="C2633V11" id="C2633V11">33:11</a> Tell them, As I live, says the Lord
Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked
turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for
why will you die, house of Yisrael? <a name="C2633V12" id="C2633V12">33:12</a>
You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of
the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as
for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day
that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be
able to live thereby in the day that he sins. <a name="C2633V13" id="C2633V13">33:13</a>
When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be
remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he
die. <a name="C2633V14" id="C2633V14">33:14</a> Again, when I say to the
wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which
is lawful and right; <a name="C2633V15" id="C2633V15">33:15</a> if the wicked
restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in
the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he
shall not die. <a name="C2633V16" id="C2633V16">33:16</a> None of his sins
that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that
which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. <a name="C2633V17"
id="C2633V17">33:17</a> Yet the children of your people say, The way of the
Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. <a
name="C2633V18" id="C2633V18">33:18</a> When the righteous turns from his
righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein. <a
name="C2633V19" id="C2633V19">33:19</a> When the wicked turns from his
wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live
thereby. <a name="C2633V20" id="C2633V20">33:20</a> Yet you say, The way of
the Lord is not equal. House of Yisrael, I will judge you everyone after
his ways. <a name="C2633V21" id="C2633V21">33:21</a> It happened in the
twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth <i>month</i>, in the fifth <i>day</i>
of the month, that one who had escaped out of Yerushalayim came to me,
saying, The city has been struck. <a name="C2633V22" id="C2633V22">33:22</a>
Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was
escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the
morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute. <a name="C2633V23"
id="C2633V23">33:23</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2633V24" id="C2633V24">33:24</a> Son of man, they who inhabit those
waste places in the land of Yisrael speak, saying, Avraham was one, and he
inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
<a name="C2633V25" id="C2633V25">33:25</a> Therefore tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols,
and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? <a name="C2633V26"
id="C2633V26">33:26</a> You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and
you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
<a name="C2633V27" id="C2633V27">33:27</a> You shall tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall
fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the
animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the
caves shall die of the pestilence. <a name="C2633V28" id="C2633V28">33:28</a>
I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of
her power shall cease; and the mountains of Yisrael shall be desolate, so
that none shall pass through. <a name="C2633V29" id="C2633V29">33:29</a> Then
shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation
and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have
committed. <a name="C2633V30" id="C2633V30">33:30</a> As for you, son of man,
the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of
the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying,
Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh. <a
name="C2633V31" id="C2633V31">33:31</a> They come to you as the people comes,
and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't
do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes
after their gain. <a name="C2633V32" id="C2633V32">33:32</a> Behold, you are
to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can
play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do
them. <a name="C2633V33" id="C2633V33">33:33</a> When this comes to pass,
(behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among
them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2634V1" id="C2634V1">34:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2634V2" id="C2634V2">34:2</a> Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds of Yisrael, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Yisrael who feed themselves!
Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? <a name="C2634V3" id="C2634V3">34:3</a>
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings;
but you don't feed the sheep. <a name="C2634V4" id="C2634V4">34:4</a> You
haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was
sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you
brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that
which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them. <a
name="C2634V5" id="C2634V5">34:5</a> They were scattered, because there was no
shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were
scattered. <a name="C2634V6" id="C2634V6">34:6</a> My sheep wandered through
all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on
all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
<a name="C2634V7" id="C2634V7">34:7</a> Therefore, you shepherds, hear the
word of Yahweh: <a name="C2634V8" id="C2634V8">34:8</a> As I live, says the
Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became
food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; <a name="C2634V9" id="C2634V9">34:9</a>
therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: <a name="C2634V10"
id="C2634V10">34:10</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to
cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves
any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not
be food for them. <a name="C2634V11" id="C2634V11">34:11</a> For thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will
seek them out. <a name="C2634V12" id="C2634V12">34:12</a> As a shepherd seeks
out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered
abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all
places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. <a
name="C2634V13" id="C2634V13">34:13</a> I will bring them out from the
peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into
their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Yisrael, by the
watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. <a
name="C2634V14" id="C2634V14">34:14</a> I will feed them with good pasture;
and on the mountains of the height of Yisrael shall their fold be: there
shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on
the mountains of Yisrael. <a name="C2634V15" id="C2634V15">34:15</a> I myself
will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says
the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2634V16" id="C2634V16">34:16</a> I will seek that
which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will
bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice. <a
name="C2634V17" id="C2634V17">34:17</a> As for you, O my flock, thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the
male goats. <a name="C2634V18" id="C2634V18">34:18</a> Seems it a small thing
to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your
feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters,
but you must foul the residue with your feet? <a name="C2634V19" id="C2634V19">34:19</a>
As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and
they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. <a name="C2634V20"
id="C2634V20">34:20</a> Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold,
I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. <a
name="C2634V21" id="C2634V21">34:21</a> Because you thrust with side and with
shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have
scattered them abroad; <a name="C2634V22" id="C2634V22">34:22</a> therefore
will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge
between sheep and sheep. <a name="C2634V23" id="C2634V23">34:23</a> I will set
up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David;
he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. <a name="C2634V24"
id="C2634V24">34:24</a> I, Yahweh, will be their Elohim, and my servant David
prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it. <a name="C2634V25" id="C2634V25">34:25</a>
I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to
cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness,
and sleep in the woods. <a name="C2634V26" id="C2634V26">34:26</a> I will make
them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower
to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. <a
name="C2634V27" id="C2634V27">34:27</a> The tree of the field shall yield its
fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in
their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the
bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who
made slaves of them. <a name="C2634V28" id="C2634V28">34:28</a> They shall no
more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth
devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them
afraid. <a name="C2634V29" id="C2634V29">34:29</a> I will raise up to them a
plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in
the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. <a name="C2634V30"
id="C2634V30">34:30</a> They shall know that I, Yahweh, their Elohim am with
them, and that they, the house of Yisrael, are my people, says the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C2634V31" id="C2634V31">34:31</a> You my sheep, the sheep of
my pasture, are men, and I am your Elohim, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2635V1" id="C2635V1">35:1</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, <a name="C2635V2" id="C2635V2">35:2</a> Son of man, set your face
against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, <a name="C2635V3" id="C2635V3">35:3</a>
and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount
Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a
desolation and an astonishment. <a name="C2635V4" id="C2635V4">35:4</a> I will
lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh. <a name="C2635V5" id="C2635V5">35:5</a> Because you have had a
perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Yisrael to the power
of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of
the end; <a name="C2635V6" id="C2635V6">35:6</a> therefore, as I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you:
since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. <a
name="C2635V7" id="C2635V7">35:7</a> Thus will I make Mount Seir an
astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes
through and him who returns. <a name="C2635V8" id="C2635V8">35:8</a> I will
fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and
in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword. <a
name="C2635V9" id="C2635V9">35:9</a> I will make you a perpetual desolation,
and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh. <a name="C2635V10" id="C2635V10">35:10</a> Because you have said,
These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will
possess it; whereas Yahweh was there: <a name="C2635V11" id="C2635V11">35:11</a>
therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your
anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred
against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge
you. <a name="C2635V12" id="C2635V12">35:12</a> You shall know that I, Yahweh,
have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of
Yisrael, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. <a
name="C2635V13" id="C2635V13">35:13</a> You have magnified yourselves against
me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have
heard it. <a name="C2635V14" id="C2635V14">35:14</a> Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. <a
name="C2635V15" id="C2635V15">35:15</a> As you did rejoice over the
inheritance of the house of Yisrael, because it was desolate, so will I do
to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2636V1" id="C2636V1">36:1</a> You, son of man, prophesy to the
mountains of Yisrael, and say, You mountains of Yisrael, hear the word of
Yahweh. <a name="C2636V2" id="C2636V2">36:2</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places
are ours in possession; <a name="C2636V3" id="C2636V3">36:3</a> therefore
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might
be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the
lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; <a name="C2636V4"
id="C2636V4">36:4</a> therefore, you mountains of Yisrael, hear the word of
the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the
hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and
to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to
the residue of the nations that are all around; <a name="C2636V5" id="C2636V5">36:5</a>
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy
have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom,
that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of
all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. <a
name="C2636V6" id="C2636V6">36:6</a> Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
Yisrael, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and
to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my
jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:
<a name="C2636V7" id="C2636V7">36:7</a> therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I
have sworn, <i>saying</i>, Surely the nations that are around you, they
shall bear their shame. <a name="C2636V8" id="C2636V8">36:8</a> But you,
mountains of Yisrael, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your
fruit to my people Yisrael; for they are at hand to come. <a name="C2636V9"
id="C2636V9">36:9</a> For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you,
and you shall be tilled and sown; <a name="C2636V10" id="C2636V10">36:10</a>
and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Yisrael, even all of it;
and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built; <a
name="C2636V11" id="C2636V11">36:11</a> and I will multiply on you man and
animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to
be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better <i>to you</i>
than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C2636V12" id="C2636V12">36:12</a> Yes, I will cause men to walk on you,
even my people Yisrael; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their
inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. <a
name="C2636V13" id="C2636V13">36:13</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because
they say to you, You <i>land</i> are a devourer of men, and have been a
bereaver of your nation; <a name="C2636V14" id="C2636V14">36:14</a> therefore
you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says
the Lord Yahweh; <a name="C2636V15" id="C2636V15">36:15</a> neither will I let
you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the
reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to
stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2636V16" id="C2636V16">36:16</a>
Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2636V17"
id="C2636V17">36:17</a> Son of man, when the house of Yisrael lived in their
own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way
before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. <a
name="C2636V18" id="C2636V18">36:18</a> Therefore I poured out my wrath on
them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they
had defiled it with their idols; <a name="C2636V19" id="C2636V19">36:19</a>
and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through
the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I
judged them. <a name="C2636V20" id="C2636V20">36:20</a> When they came to the
nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of
them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
<a name="C2636V21" id="C2636V21">36:21</a> But I had regard for my holy name,
which the house of Yisrael had profaned among the nations, where they went.
<a name="C2636V22" id="C2636V22">36:22</a> Therefore tell the house of Yisrael,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do <i>this</i> for your sake, house of
Yisrael, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations,
where you went. <a name="C2636V23" id="C2636V23">36:23</a> I will sanctify my
great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have
profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am
Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before
their eyes. <a name="C2636V24" id="C2636V24">36:24</a> For I will take you
from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will
bring you into your own land. <a name="C2636V25" id="C2636V25">36:25</a> I
will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. <a name="C2636V26"
id="C2636V26">36:26</a> A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit
will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. <a name="C2636V27" id="C2636V27">36:27</a>
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and
you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. <a name="C2636V28" id="C2636V28">36:28</a>
You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be
my people, and I will be your Elohim. <a name="C2636V29" id="C2636V29">36:29</a>
I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain,
and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. <a name="C2636V30"
id="C2636V30">36:30</a> I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine
among the nations. <a name="C2636V31" id="C2636V31">36:31</a> Then you shall
remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations. <a name="C2636V32" id="C2636V32">36:32</a> Nor for your sake do
I <i>this</i>, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and
confounded for your ways, house of Yisrael. <a name="C2636V33" id="C2636V33">36:33</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your
iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places
shall be built. <a name="C2636V34" id="C2636V34">36:34</a> The land that was
desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all
who passed by. <a name="C2636V35" id="C2636V35">36:35</a> They shall say, This
land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste
and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. <a
name="C2636V36" id="C2636V36">36:36</a> Then the nations that are left around
you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted
that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it. <a
name="C2636V37" id="C2636V37">36:37</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this,
moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Yisrael, to do it for them:
I will increase them with men like a flock. <a name="C2636V38" id="C2636V38">36:38</a>
As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Yerushalayim in her appointed
feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2637V1" id="C2637V1">37:1</a> The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he
brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of
the valley; and it was full of bones. <a name="C2637V2" id="C2637V2">37:2</a>
He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many
in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. <a name="C2637V3"
id="C2637V3">37:3</a> He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I
answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. <a name="C2637V4" id="C2637V4">37:4</a> Again
he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones,
hear the word of Yahweh. <a name="C2637V5" id="C2637V5">37:5</a> Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and you shall live. <a name="C2637V6" id="C2637V6">37:6</a> I will lay sinews
on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. <a
name="C2637V7" id="C2637V7">37:7</a> So I prophesied as I was commanded: and
as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the
bones came together, bone to its bone. <a name="C2637V8" id="C2637V8">37:8</a>
I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin
covered them above; but there was no breath in them. <a name="C2637V9"
id="C2637V9">37:9</a> Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy,
son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the
four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. <a
name="C2637V10" id="C2637V10">37:10</a> So I prophesied as he commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet,
an exceedingly great army. <a name="C2637V11" id="C2637V11">37:11</a> Then he
said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisrael: behold,
they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut
off. <a name="C2637V12" id="C2637V12">37:12</a> Therefore prophesy, and tell
them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and
cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you
into the land of Yisrael. <a name="C2637V13" id="C2637V13">37:13</a> You shall
know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to
come up out of your graves, my people. <a name="C2637V14" id="C2637V14">37:14</a>
I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in
your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and
performed it, says Yahweh. <a name="C2637V15" id="C2637V15">37:15</a> The word
of Yahweh came again to me, saying, <a name="C2637V16" id="C2637V16">37:16</a>
You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Yehudah, and for the
children of Yisrael his companions: then take another stick, and write on
it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and <i>for</i> all the house of
Yisrael his companions: <a name="C2637V17" id="C2637V17">37:17</a> and join
them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in
your hand. <a name="C2637V18" id="C2637V18">37:18</a> When the children of
your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean
by these? <a name="C2637V19" id="C2637V19">37:19</a> tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand
of Ephraim, and the tribes of Yisrael his companions; and I will put them
with it, <i>even</i> with the stick of Yehudah, and make them one stick, and
they shall be one in my hand. <a name="C2637V20" id="C2637V20">37:20</a> The
sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. <a
name="C2637V21" id="C2637V21">37:21</a> Say to them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Yisrael from among the nations,
where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them
into their own land: <a name="C2637V22" id="C2637V22">37:22</a> and I will
make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisrael; and one king
shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither
shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; <a name="C2637V23"
id="C2637V23">37:23</a> neither shall they defile themselves any more with
their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in
which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people,
and I will be their Elohim. <a name="C2637V24" id="C2637V24">37:24</a> My servant
David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they
shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. <a
name="C2637V25" id="C2637V25">37:25</a> They shall dwell in the land that I
have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they
shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's
children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. <a
name="C2637V26" id="C2637V26">37:26</a> Moreover I will make a covenant of
peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will
place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of
them forevermore. <a name="C2637V27" id="C2637V27">37:27</a> My tent also
shall be with them; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
<a name="C2637V28" id="C2637V28">37:28</a> The nations shall know that I am
Yahweh who sanctifies Yisrael, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of
them forevermore.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2638V1" id="C2638V1">38:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2638V2" id="C2638V2">38:2</a> Son of man, set your face toward Gog,
of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy
against him, <a name="C2638V3" id="C2638V3">38:3</a> and say, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and
Tubal: <a name="C2638V4" id="C2638V4">38:4</a> and I will turn you about, and
put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army,
horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company
with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; <a name="C2638V5"
id="C2638V5">38:5</a> Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with
shield and helmet; <a name="C2638V6" id="C2638V6">38:6</a> Gomer, and all his
hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all
his hordes; even many peoples with you. <a name="C2638V7" id="C2638V7">38:7</a>
Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are
assembled to you, and be a guard to them. <a name="C2638V8" id="C2638V8">38:8</a>
After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come
into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of
many peoples, on the mountains of Yisrael, which have been a continual
waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell
securely, all of them. <a name="C2638V9" id="C2638V9">38:9</a> You shall
ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover
the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you. <a
name="C2638V10" id="C2638V10">38:10</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall
happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall
devise an evil device: <a name="C2638V11" id="C2638V11">38:11</a> and you
shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to
those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates; <a name="C2638V12" id="C2638V12">38:12</a>
to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the
waste places that are <i>now</i> inhabited, and against the people who are
gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who
dwell in the middle of the earth. <a name="C2638V13" id="C2638V13">38:13</a>
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions
of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled
your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away
livestock and goods, to take great spoil? <a name="C2638V14" id="C2638V14">38:14</a>
Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
In that day when my people Yisrael dwells securely, shall you not know it?
<a name="C2638V15" id="C2638V15">38:15</a> You shall come from your place out
of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all
of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; <a
name="C2638V16" id="C2638V16">38:16</a> and you shall come up against my
people Yisrael, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter
days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me,
when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. <a name="C2638V17"
id="C2638V17">38:17</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I
spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Yisrael, who prophesied in
those days for <i>many</i> years that I would bring you against them? <a
name="C2638V18" id="C2638V18">38:18</a> It shall happen in that day, when Gog
shall come against the land of Yisrael, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath
shall come up into my nostrils. <a name="C2638V19" id="C2638V19">38:19</a> For
in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that
day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Yisrael; <a name="C2638V20"
id="C2638V20">38:20</a> so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the
sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on
the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall
shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the
steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. <a
name="C2638V21" id="C2638V21">38:21</a> I will call for a sword against him to
all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against
his brother. <a name="C2638V22" id="C2638V22">38:22</a> With pestilence and
with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him,
and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an
overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. <a
name="C2638V23" id="C2638V23">38:23</a> I will magnify myself, and sanctify
myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2639V1" id="C2639V1">39:1</a> You, son of man, prophesy against Gog,
and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: <a name="C2639V2" id="C2639V2">39:2</a> and I
will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up
from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the
mountains of Yisrael; <a name="C2639V3" id="C2639V3">39:3</a> and I will strike
your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of
your right hand. <a name="C2639V4" id="C2639V4">39:4</a> You shall fall on the
mountains of Yisrael, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are
with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the
animals of the field to be devoured. <a name="C2639V5" id="C2639V5">39:5</a>
You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C2639V6" id="C2639V6">39:6</a> I will send a fire on Magog,
and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh. <a name="C2639V7" id="C2639V7">39:7</a> My holy name will I make
known in the midst of my people Yisrael; neither will I allow my holy name
to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the
Holy One in Yisrael. <a name="C2639V8" id="C2639V8">39:8</a> Behold, it comes,
and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I
have spoken. <a name="C2639V9" id="C2639V9">39:9</a> Those who dwell in the
cities of Yisrael shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and
burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and
the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven
years; <a name="C2639V10" id="C2639V10">39:10</a> so that they shall take no
wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they
shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who
plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2639V11" id="C2639V11">39:11</a> It shall happen in that day, that I
will give to Gog a place for burial in Yisrael, the valley of those who
pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass
through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they
shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. <a name="C2639V12" id="C2639V12">39:12</a>
Seven months shall the house of Yisrael be burying them, that they may
cleanse the land. <a name="C2639V13" id="C2639V13">39:13</a> Yes, all the
people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in
the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2639V14"
id="C2639V14">39:14</a> They shall set apart men of continual employment,
who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those
who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after
the end of seven months shall they search. <a name="C2639V15" id="C2639V15">39:15</a>
Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have
buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. <a name="C2639V16" id="C2639V16">39:16</a>
Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the
land. <a name="C2639V17" id="C2639V17">39:17</a> You, son of man, thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of
the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the
mountains of Yisrael, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. <a
name="C2639V18" id="C2639V18">39:18</a> You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of
goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. <a name="C2639V19"
id="C2639V19">39:19</a> You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood
until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. <a
name="C2639V20" id="C2639V20">39:20</a> You shall be filled at my table with
horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the
Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2639V21" id="C2639V21">39:21</a> I will set my glory
among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have
executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. <a name="C2639V22"
id="C2639V22">39:22</a> So the house of Yisrael shall know that I am Yahweh
their Elohim, from that day and forward. <a name="C2639V23" id="C2639V23">39:23</a>
The nations shall know that the house of Yisrael went into captivity for
their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from
them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all
of them by the sword. <a name="C2639V24" id="C2639V24">39:24</a> According to
their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and
I hid my face from them. <a name="C2639V25" id="C2639V25">39:25</a> Therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob,
and have mercy on the whole house of Yisrael; and I will be jealous for my
holy name. <a name="C2639V26" id="C2639V26">39:26</a> They shall bear their
shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me,
when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them
afraid; <a name="C2639V27" id="C2639V27">39:27</a> when I have brought them
back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and
am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. <a name="C2639V28"
id="C2639V28">39:28</a> They shall know that I am Yahweh their Elohim, in that
I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; <a
name="C2639V29" id="C2639V29">39:29</a> neither will I hide my face any more
from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Yisrael, says
the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2640V1" id="C2640V1">40:1</a> In the five and twentieth year of our
captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth <i>day</i> of the
month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same
day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there. <a name="C2640V2"
id="C2640V2">40:2</a> In the visions of Elohim brought he me into the land of
Yisrael, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were
the frame of a city on the south. <a name="C2640V3" id="C2640V3">40:3</a> He
brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like
the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring
reed; and he stood in the gate. <a name="C2640V4" id="C2640V4">40:4</a> The
man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears,
and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I
may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to
the house of Yisrael. <a name="C2640V5" id="C2640V5">40:5</a> Behold, a wall on
the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring
reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured
the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. <a
name="C2640V6" id="C2640V6">40:6</a> Then came he to the gate which looks
toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of
the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. <a
name="C2640V7" id="C2640V7">40:7</a> Every lodge was one reed long, and one
reed broad; and <i>the space</i> between the lodges was five cubits; and
the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was
one reed. <a name="C2640V8" id="C2640V8">40:8</a> He measured also the porch
of the gate toward the house, one reed. <a name="C2640V9" id="C2640V9">40:9</a>
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two
cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house. <a name="C2640V10"
id="C2640V10">40:10</a> The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this
side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on that side. <a name="C2640V11"
id="C2640V11">40:11</a> He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate,
ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; <a name="C2640V12"
id="C2640V12">40:12</a> and a border before the lodges, one cubit <i>on this
side</i>, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits
on this side, and six cubits on that side. <a name="C2640V13" id="C2640V13">40:13</a>
He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the
other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door. <a name="C2640V14"
id="C2640V14">40:14</a> He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court <i>reached</i>
to the posts, around the gate. <a name="C2640V15" id="C2640V15">40:15</a> <i>From</i>
the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner
porch of the gate were fifty cubits. <a name="C2640V16" id="C2640V16">40:16</a>
There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the
gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around
inward; and on <i>each</i> post were palm trees. <a name="C2640V17"
id="C2640V17">40:17</a> Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold,
there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty
chambers were on the pavement. <a name="C2640V18" id="C2640V18">40:18</a> The
pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the
gates, even the lower pavement. <a name="C2640V19" id="C2640V19">40:19</a>
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the
forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, <i>both</i> on
the east and on the north. <a name="C2640V20" id="C2640V20">40:20</a> The gate
of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its
length and its breadth. <a name="C2640V21" id="C2640V21">40:21</a> The lodges
of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and
its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. <a name="C2640V22" id="C2640V22">40:22</a>
The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after
the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went
up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them. <a name="C2640V23"
id="C2640V23">40:23</a> There was a gate to the inner court over against the
<i>other</i> gate, <i>both</i> on the north and on the east; and he
measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits. <a name="C2640V24" id="C2640V24">40:24</a>
He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he
measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. <a
name="C2640V25" id="C2640V25">40:25</a> There were windows in it and in its
arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth twenty-five cubits. <a name="C2640V26" id="C2640V26">40:26</a>
There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them;
and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its
posts. <a name="C2640V27" id="C2640V27">40:27</a> There was a gate to the
inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the
south a hundred cubits. <a name="C2640V28" id="C2640V28">40:28</a> Then he
brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south
gate according to these measures; <a name="C2640V29" id="C2640V29">40:29</a>
and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these
measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it
was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. <a name="C2640V30"
id="C2640V30">40:30</a> There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits
long, and five cubits broad. <a name="C2640V31" id="C2640V31">40:31</a> The
arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its
posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps. <a name="C2640V32" id="C2640V32">40:32</a>
He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the
gate according to these measures; <a name="C2640V33" id="C2640V33">40:33</a>
and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these
measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it
was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. <a name="C2640V34"
id="C2640V34">40:34</a> The arches of it were toward the outer court; and
palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the
ascent to it had eight steps. <a name="C2640V35" id="C2640V35">40:35</a> He
brought me to the north gate: and he measured <i>it</i> according to these
measures; <a name="C2640V36" id="C2640V36">40:36</a> its lodges, its posts,
and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. <a name="C2640V37"
id="C2640V37">40:37</a> The posts of it were toward the outer court; and
palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the
ascent to it had eight steps. <a name="C2640V38" id="C2640V38">40:38</a> A
chamber with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the
burnt offering. <a name="C2640V39" id="C2640V39">40:39</a> In the porch of the
gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill
thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
<a name="C2640V40" id="C2640V40">40:40</a> On the <i>one</i> side outside, as
one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables;
and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two
tables. <a name="C2640V41" id="C2640V41">40:41</a> Four tables were on this
side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables,
whereupon they killed <i>the sacrifices</i>. <a name="C2640V42" id="C2640V42">40:42</a>
There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a
half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon
they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and
the sacrifice. <a name="C2640V43" id="C2640V43">40:43</a> The hooks, a
handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was
the flesh of the offering. <a name="C2640V44" id="C2640V44">40:44</a> Outside
of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which
was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the
south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the
north. <a name="C2640V45" id="C2640V45">40:45</a> He said to me, This chamber,
whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the
duty of the house; <a name="C2640V46" id="C2640V46">40:46</a> and the chamber
whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the
duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of
Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him. <a name="C2640V47" id="C2640V47">40:47</a>
He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits
broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. <a name="C2640V48"
id="C2640V48">40:48</a> Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and
measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,
and three cubits on that side. <a name="C2640V49" id="C2640V49">40:49</a> The
length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even
by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the
posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2641V1" id="C2641V1">41:1</a> He brought me to the temple, and
measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad
on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. <a name="C2641V2"
id="C2641V2">41:2</a> The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the
sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on
the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth,
twenty cubits. <a name="C2641V3" id="C2641V3">41:3</a> Then went he inward,
and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six
cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. <a name="C2641V4"
id="C2641V4">41:4</a> He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the
breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the
most holy place. <a name="C2641V5" id="C2641V5">41:5</a> Then he measured the
wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four
cubits, all around the house on every side. <a name="C2641V6" id="C2641V6">41:6</a>
The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in
order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the
side chambers all around, that they might have hold <i>therein</i>, and
not have hold in the wall of the house. <a name="C2641V7" id="C2641V7">41:7</a>
The side chambers were broader as they encompassed <i>the house</i> higher
and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher
around the house: therefore the breadth of the house <i>continued</i>
upward; and so one went up <i>from</i> the lowest <i>chamber</i> to the
highest by the middle <i>chamber</i>. <a name="C2641V8" id="C2641V8">41:8</a>
I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of
the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. <a name="C2641V9"
id="C2641V9">41:9</a> The thickness of the wall, which was for the side
chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the
place of the side chambers that belonged to the house. <a name="C2641V10"
id="C2641V10">41:10</a> Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits
around the house on every side. <a name="C2641V11" id="C2641V11">41:11</a> The
doors of the side chambers were toward <i>the place</i> that was left, one
door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth
of the place that was left was five cubits all around. <a name="C2641V12"
id="C2641V12">41:12</a> The building that was before the separate place at
the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
<a name="C2641V13" id="C2641V13">41:13</a> So he measured the house, one
hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its
walls, one hundred cubits long; <a name="C2641V14" id="C2641V14">41:14</a>
also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, one hundred cubits. <a name="C2641V15" id="C2641V15">41:15</a>
He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was
at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one
hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; <a
name="C2641V16" id="C2641V16">41:16</a> the thresholds, and the closed
windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the
threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and <i>from</i> the ground up to
the windows, (now the windows were covered), <a name="C2641V17" id="C2641V17">41:17</a>
to <i>the space</i> above the door, even to the inner house, and outside,
and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. <a
name="C2641V18" id="C2641V18">41:18</a> It was made with cherubim and palm
trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had
two faces; <a name="C2641V19" id="C2641V19">41:19</a> so that there was the
face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a
young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. <i>thus was it</i> made
through all the house all around: <a name="C2641V20" id="C2641V20">41:20</a>
from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus
was the wall of the temple. <a name="C2641V21" id="C2641V21">41:21</a> As for
the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the
sanctuary, the appearance <i>of it</i> was as the appearance <i>of the
temple</i>. <a name="C2641V22" id="C2641V22">41:22</a> The altar was of wood,
three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its
length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table
that is before Yahweh. <a name="C2641V23" id="C2641V23">41:23</a> The temple
and the sanctuary had two doors. <a name="C2641V24" id="C2641V24">41:24</a>
The doors had two leaves <i>apiece</i>, two turning leaves: two <i>leaves</i>
for the one door, and two leaves for the other. <a name="C2641V25"
id="C2641V25">41:25</a> There were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a
threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. <a name="C2641V26"
id="C2641V26">41:26</a> There were closed windows and palm trees on the one
side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side
chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2642V1" id="C2642V1">42:1</a> Then he brought me forth into the
outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber
that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the
building toward the north. <a name="C2642V2" id="C2642V2">42:2</a> Before the
length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty
cubits. <a name="C2642V3" id="C2642V3">42:3</a> Over against the twenty <i>cubits</i>
which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which
belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third
story. <a name="C2642V4" id="C2642V4">42:4</a> Before the chambers was a walk
of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were
toward the north. <a name="C2642V5" id="C2642V5">42:5</a> Now the upper
chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than
from the lower and the middle, in the building. <a name="C2642V6" id="C2642V6">42:6</a>
For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the
pillars of the courts: therefore <i>the uppermost</i> was straitened more
than the lowest and the middle from the ground. <a name="C2642V7" id="C2642V7">42:7</a>
The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer
court before the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. <a name="C2642V8"
id="C2642V8">42:8</a> For the length of the chambers that were in the outer
court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred
cubits. <a name="C2642V9" id="C2642V9">42:9</a> From under these chambers was
the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. <a
name="C2642V10" id="C2642V10">42:10</a> In the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building,
there were chambers. <a name="C2642V11" id="C2642V11">42:11</a> The way before
them was like the appearance of <i>the way of</i> the chambers which were
toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all
their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their
doors. <a name="C2642V12" id="C2642V12">42:12</a> According to the doors of
the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way,
even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into
them. <a name="C2642V13" id="C2642V13">42:13</a> Then said he to me, The north
chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they
are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat
the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the
meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the
place is holy. <a name="C2642V14" id="C2642V14">42:14</a> When the priests
enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer
court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for
they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to
that which pertains to the people. <a name="C2642V15" id="C2642V15">42:15</a>
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me
forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and
measured it all around. <a name="C2642V16" id="C2642V16">42:16</a> He measured
on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed all around. <a name="C2642V17" id="C2642V17">42:17</a> He
measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all
around. <a name="C2642V18" id="C2642V18">42:18</a> He measured on the south
side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. <a name="C2642V19"
id="C2642V19">42:19</a> He turned about to the west side, and measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed. <a name="C2642V20" id="C2642V20">42:20</a>
He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five
hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that
which was holy and that which was common.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2643V1" id="C2643V1">43:1</a> Afterward he brought me to the gate,
even the gate that looks toward the east. <a name="C2643V2" id="C2643V2">43:2</a>
Behold, the glory of the Elohim of Yisrael came from the way of the east: and
his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his
glory. <a name="C2643V3" id="C2643V3">43:3</a> It was according to the
appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I
saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. <a name="C2643V4"
id="C2643V4">43:4</a> The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of
the gate whose prospect is toward the east. <a name="C2643V5" id="C2643V5">43:5</a>
The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold,
the glory of Yahweh filled the house. <a name="C2643V6" id="C2643V6">43:6</a>
I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. <a
name="C2643V7" id="C2643V7">43:7</a> He said to me, Son of man, <i>this is</i>
the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I
will dwell in the midst of the children of Yisrael forever. The house of
Yisrael shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings,
by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings <i>in</i>
their high places; <a name="C2643V8" id="C2643V8">43:8</a> in their setting of
their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost,
and there was <i>but</i> the wall between me and them; and they have
defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed:
therefore I have consumed them in my anger. <a name="C2643V9" id="C2643V9">43:9</a>
Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their
kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. <a
name="C2643V10" id="C2643V10">43:10</a> You, son of man, show the house to the
house of Yisrael, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let
them measure the pattern. <a name="C2643V11" id="C2643V11">43:11</a> If they
be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the
house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its
forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and
write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all
its ordinances, and do them. <a name="C2643V12" id="C2643V12">43:12</a> This
is the Torah of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around
it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the Torah of the house. <a
name="C2643V13" id="C2643V13">43:13</a> These are the measures of the altar by
cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a
cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and
this shall be the base of the altar. <a name="C2643V14" id="C2643V14">43:14</a>
From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and
the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge
shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. <a name="C2643V15" id="C2643V15">43:15</a>
The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward
there shall be four horns. <a name="C2643V16" id="C2643V16">43:16</a> The
altar hearth shall be twelve <i>cubits</i> long by twelve broad, square in
the four sides of it. <a name="C2643V17" id="C2643V17">43:17</a> The ledge
shall be fourteen <i>cubits</i> long by fourteen broad in the four sides
of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall
be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east. <a
name="C2643V18" id="C2643V18">43:18</a> He said to me, Son of man, thus says
the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when
they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle
blood thereon. <a name="C2643V19" id="C2643V19">43:19</a> You shall give to
the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me,
to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
<a name="C2643V20" id="C2643V20">43:20</a> You shall take of its blood, and
put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and
on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for
it. <a name="C2643V21" id="C2643V21">43:21</a> You shall also take the bull of
the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the
house, outside of the sanctuary. <a name="C2643V22" id="C2643V22">43:22</a> On
the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with
the bull. <a name="C2643V23" id="C2643V23">43:23</a> When you have made an end
of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram
out of the flock without blemish. <a name="C2643V24" id="C2643V24">43:24</a>
You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt
on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. <a
name="C2643V25" id="C2643V25">43:25</a> Seven days you shall prepare every day
a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram
out of the flock, without blemish. <a name="C2643V26" id="C2643V26">43:26</a>
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall
they consecrate it. <a name="C2643V27" id="C2643V27">43:27</a> When they have
accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward,
the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace
offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2644V1" id="C2644V1">44:1</a> Then he brought me back by the way of
the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was
shut. <a name="C2644V2" id="C2644V2">44:2</a> Yahweh said to me, This gate
shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by
it; for Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, has entered in by it; therefore it
shall be shut. <a name="C2644V3" id="C2644V3">44:3</a> As for the prince, he
shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by
the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
<a name="C2644V4" id="C2644V4">44:4</a> Then he brought me by the way of the
north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh
filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face. <a name="C2644V5"
id="C2644V5">44:5</a> Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with
your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the
ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the
entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. <a name="C2644V6"
id="C2644V6">44:6</a> You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of
Yisrael, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Yisrael, let it suffice you
of all your abominations, <a name="C2644V7" id="C2644V7">44:7</a> in that you
have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer
my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, <i>to
add</i> to all your abominations. <a name="C2644V8" id="C2644V8">44:8</a> You
have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers
of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves. <a name="C2644V9" id="C2644V9">44:9</a>
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners
who are among the children of Yisrael. <a name="C2644V10" id="C2644V10">44:10</a>
But the Levites who went far from me, when Yisrael went astray, who went
astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. <a
name="C2644V11" id="C2644V11">44:11</a> Yet they shall be ministers in my
sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in
the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. <a
name="C2644V12" id="C2644V12">44:12</a> Because they ministered to them before
their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of
Yisrael; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord
Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity. <a name="C2644V13" id="C2644V13">44:13</a>
They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor
to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy;
but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed. <a name="C2644V14" id="C2644V14">44:14</a> Yet will I make them
performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that
shall be done therein. <a name="C2644V15" id="C2644V15">44:15</a> But the
priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my
sanctuary when the children of Yisrael went astray from me, they shall come
near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to
me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh: <a name="C2644V16"
id="C2644V16">44:16</a> they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall
come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my
instruction. <a name="C2644V17" id="C2644V17">44:17</a> It shall be that, when
they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within. <a name="C2644V18" id="C2644V18">44:18</a>
They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches
on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with <i>anything that
causes</i> sweat. <a name="C2644V19" id="C2644V19">44:19</a> When they go
forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they
shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the
holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not
sanctify the people with their garments. <a name="C2644V20" id="C2644V20">44:20</a>
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long;
they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. <a name="C2644V21"
id="C2644V21">44:21</a> Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when
they enter into the inner court. <a name="C2644V22" id="C2644V22">44:22</a>
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away;
but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Yisrael, or a widow
who is the widow of a priest. <a name="C2644V23" id="C2644V23">44:23</a> They
shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and
cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. <a name="C2644V24"
id="C2644V24">44:24</a> In a controversy they shall stand to judge;
according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my
laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my
Shabbats holy. <a name="C2644V25" id="C2644V25">44:25</a> They shall go in to
no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for
son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband,
they may defile themselves. <a name="C2644V26" id="C2644V26">44:26</a> After
he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. <a name="C2644V27"
id="C2644V27">44:27</a> In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the
inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin
offering, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2644V28" id="C2644V28">44:28</a>
They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give
them no possession in Yisrael; I am their possession. <a name="C2644V29"
id="C2644V29">44:29</a> They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Yisrael
shall be theirs. <a name="C2644V30" id="C2644V30">44:30</a> The first of all
the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all
your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the
priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your
house. <a name="C2644V31" id="C2644V31">44:31</a> The priests shall not eat of
anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2645V1" id="C2645V1">45:1</a> Moreover, when you shall divide by lot
the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy
portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five
thousand <i>reeds</i>, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be
holy in all its border all around. <a name="C2645V2" id="C2645V2">45:2</a> Of
this there shall be for the holy place five hundred <i>in length</i> by
five hundred <i>in breadth</i>, square all around; and fifty cubits for
its suburbs all around. <a name="C2645V3" id="C2645V3">45:3</a> Of this
measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth
of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. <a
name="C2645V4" id="C2645V4">45:4</a> It is a holy portion of the land; it
shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to
minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy
place for the sanctuary. <a name="C2645V5" id="C2645V5">45:5</a> Twenty-five
thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites,
the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, <i>for</i>
twenty chambers. <a name="C2645V6" id="C2645V6">45:6</a> You shall appoint the
possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long,
side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the
whole house of Yisrael. <a name="C2645V7" id="C2645V7">45:7</a> <i>Whatever is</i>
for the prince <i>shall be</i> on the one side and on the other side of
the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy
offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side
westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one
of the portions, from the west border to the east border. <a name="C2645V8"
id="C2645V8">45:8</a> In the land it shall be to him for a possession in
Yisrael: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall
give the land to the house of Yisrael according to their tribes. <a
name="C2645V9" id="C2645V9">45:9</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice
you, princes of Yisrael: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and
righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh. <a
name="C2645V10" id="C2645V10">45:10</a> You shall have just balances, and a
just ephah, and a just bath. <a name="C2645V11" id="C2645V11">45:11</a> The
ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the
tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its
measure shall be after the homer. <a name="C2645V12" id="C2645V12">45:12</a>
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels
plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. <a name="C2645V13" id="C2645V13">45:13</a>
This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from
a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a
homer of barley; <a name="C2645V14" id="C2645V14">45:14</a> and the set
portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the
cor, <i>which is</i> ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
<a name="C2645V15" id="C2645V15">45:15</a> and one lamb of the flock, out of
two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Yisrael--for a meal
offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make
atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2645V16" id="C2645V16">45:16</a>
All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in
Yisrael. <a name="C2645V17" id="C2645V17">45:17</a> It shall be the prince's
part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink
offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Shabbats, in
all the appointed feasts of the house of Yisrael: he shall prepare the sin
offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to make atonement for the house of Yisrael. <a name="C2645V18"
id="C2645V18">45:18</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first <i>month</i>,
in the first <i>day</i> of the month, you shall take a young bull without
blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. <a name="C2645V19" id="C2645V19">45:19</a>
The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the
door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the
altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. <a name="C2645V20"
id="C2645V20">45:20</a> So you shall do on the seventh <i>day</i> of the
month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall make
atonement for the house. <a name="C2645V21" id="C2645V21">45:21</a> In the
first <i>month</i>, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the
Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. <a
name="C2645V22" id="C2645V22">45:22</a> On that day shall the prince prepare
for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
<a name="C2645V23" id="C2645V23">45:23</a> The seven days of the feast he
shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams
without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin
offering. <a name="C2645V24" id="C2645V24">45:24</a> He shall prepare a meal
offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to
an ephah. <a name="C2645V25" id="C2645V25">45:25</a> In the seventh <i>month</i>,
in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the
seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt
offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2646V1" id="C2646V1">46:1</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of
the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the Shabbat day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new
moon it shall be opened. <a name="C2646V2" id="C2646V2">46:2</a> The prince
shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand
by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering
and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the
gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening. <a name="C2646V3" id="C2646V3">46:3</a> The people of the land shall
worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Shabbats and on the
new moons. <a name="C2646V4" id="C2646V4">46:4</a> The burnt offering that the
prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Shabbat day six lambs without
blemish and a ram without blemish; <a name="C2646V5" id="C2646V5">46:5</a> and
the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for
the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. <a
name="C2646V6" id="C2646V6">46:6</a> On the day of the new moon it shall be a
young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be
without blemish: <a name="C2646V7" id="C2646V7">46:7</a> and he shall prepare
a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for
the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. <a
name="C2646V8" id="C2646V8">46:8</a> When the prince shall enter, he shall go
in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way.
<a name="C2646V9" id="C2646V9">46:9</a> But when the people of the land shall
come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of
the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and
he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of
the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he
came in, but shall go forth straight before him. <a name="C2646V10"
id="C2646V10">46:10</a> The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of
them; and when they go out, he shall go out. <a name="C2646V11" id="C2646V11">46:11</a>
In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah
for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to
give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. <a name="C2646V12" id="C2646V12">46:12</a>
When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or
peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him
the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt
offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Shabbat day: then he
shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. <a
name="C2646V13" id="C2646V13">46:13</a> You shall prepare a lamb a year old
without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning
you shall prepare it. <a name="C2646V14" id="C2646V14">46:14</a> You shall
prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an
ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a
meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance. <a
name="C2646V15" id="C2646V15">46:15</a> Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and
the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt
offering. <a name="C2646V16" id="C2646V16">46:16</a> Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his
inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by
inheritance. <a name="C2646V17" id="C2646V17">46:17</a> But if he give of his
inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of
liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance,
it shall be for his sons. <a name="C2646V18" id="C2646V18">46:18</a> Moreover
the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out
of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own
possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.
<a name="C2646V19" id="C2646V19">46:19</a> Then he brought me through the
entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the
priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on
the hinder part westward. <a name="C2646V20" id="C2646V20">46:20</a> He said
to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass
offering and the sin offering, <i>and</i> where they shall bake the meal
offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify
the people. <a name="C2646V21" id="C2646V21">46:21</a> Then he brought me
forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of
the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. <a
name="C2646V22" id="C2646V22">46:22</a> In the four corners of the court there
were courts enclosed, forty <i>cubits</i> long and thirty broad: these
four in the corners were of one measure. <a name="C2646V23" id="C2646V23">46:23</a>
There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were
made under the walls all around. <a name="C2646V24" id="C2646V24">46:24</a>
Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of
the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2647V1" id="C2647V1">47:1</a> He brought me back to the door of the
house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the
waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the
south of the altar. <a name="C2647V2" id="C2647V2">47:2</a> Then he brought me
out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside
to the outer gate, by the way of <i>the gate</i> that looks toward the
east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side. <a name="C2647V3"
id="C2647V3">47:3</a> When the man went forth eastward with the line in his
hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through
the waters, waters that were to the ankles. <a name="C2647V4" id="C2647V4">47:4</a>
Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters,
waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused
me to pass through <i>the waters</i>, waters that were to the waist. <a
name="C2647V5" id="C2647V5">47:5</a> Afterward he measured one thousand; <i>and
it was</i> a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were
risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. <a
name="C2647V6" id="C2647V6">47:6</a> He said to me, Son of man, have you seen
<i>this</i>? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of
the river. <a name="C2647V7" id="C2647V7">47:7</a> Now when I had returned,
behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and
on the other. <a name="C2647V8" id="C2647V8">47:8</a> Then said he to me,
These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into
the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea <i>shall the
waters go</i> which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be
healed. <a name="C2647V9" id="C2647V9">47:9</a> It shall happen, that every
living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall
live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters
are come there, and <i>the waters of the sea</i> shall be healed, and
everything shall live wherever the river comes. <a name="C2647V10"
id="C2647V10">47:10</a> It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it:
from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets;
their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many. <a name="C2647V11" id="C2647V11">47:11</a> But the miry places
of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to
salt. <a name="C2647V12" id="C2647V12">47:12</a> By the river on its bank, on
this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf
shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new
fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its
fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing. <a name="C2647V13"
id="C2647V13">47:13</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border,
by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve
tribes of Yisrael: Joseph <i>shall have two</i> portions. <a name="C2647V14"
id="C2647V14">47:14</a> You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I
swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for
inheritance. <a name="C2647V15" id="C2647V15">47:15</a> This shall be the
border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of
Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; <a name="C2647V16" id="C2647V16">47:16</a>
Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the
border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. <a
name="C2647V17" id="C2647V17">47:17</a> The border from the sea, shall be
Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the
border of Hamath. This is the north side. <a name="C2647V18" id="C2647V18">47:18</a>
The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of
Yisrael, shall be the Jordan; from the <i>north</i> border to the east sea
you shall measure. This is the east side. <a name="C2647V19" id="C2647V19">47:19</a>
The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of
Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook <i>of Egypt</i>, to the great sea. This is
the south side southward. <a name="C2647V20" id="C2647V20">47:20</a> The west
side shall be the great sea, from the <i>south</i> border as far as over
against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. <a name="C2647V21"
id="C2647V21">47:21</a> So you shall divide this land to you according to
the tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C2647V22" id="C2647V22">47:22</a> It shall
happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to
the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall father children among you;
and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Yisrael;
they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Yisrael. <a
name="C2647V23" id="C2647V23">47:23</a> It shall happen, that in what tribe
the stranger sojourns, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the
Lord Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2648V1" id="C2648V1">48:1</a> Now these are the names of the tribes:
From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath,
Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they
shall have their sides east <i>and</i> west), Dan, one <i>portion</i>. <a
name="C2648V2" id="C2648V2">48:2</a> By the border of Dan, from the east side
to the west side, Asher, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V3" id="C2648V3">48:3</a>
By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side,
Naphtali, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V4" id="C2648V4">48:4</a> By the
border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one <i>portion</i>.
<a name="C2648V5" id="C2648V5">48:5</a> By the border of Manasseh, from the
east side to the west side, Ephraim, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V6"
id="C2648V6">48:6</a> By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to
the west side, Reuben, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V7" id="C2648V7">48:7</a>
By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Yehudah, one
<i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V8" id="C2648V8">48:8</a> By the border of
Yehudah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which
you shall offer, twenty-five thousand <i>reeds</i> in breadth, and in
length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and
the sanctuary shall be in its midst. <a name="C2648V9" id="C2648V9">48:9</a>
The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand
<i>reeds</i> in length, and ten thousand in breadth. <a name="C2648V10"
id="C2648V10">48:10</a> For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy
offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand <i>in length</i>, and
toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the
sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst. <a name="C2648V11" id="C2648V11">48:11</a>
<i>It shall be</i> for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of
Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the
children of Yisrael went astray, as the Levites went astray. <a
name="C2648V12" id="C2648V12">48:12</a> It shall be to them an offering from
the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
<a name="C2648V13" id="C2648V13">48:13</a> Answerable to the border of the
priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand. <a name="C2648V14" id="C2648V14">48:14</a> They shall
sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land
be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh. <a name="C2648V15" id="C2648V15">48:15</a>
The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the
twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling
and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst. <a name="C2648V16"
id="C2648V16">48:16</a> These shall be its measures: the north side four
thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five
hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west
side four thousand and five hundred. <a name="C2648V17" id="C2648V17">48:17</a>
The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and
toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty,
and toward the west two hundred fifty. <a name="C2648V18" id="C2648V18">48:18</a>
The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten
thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable
to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who
labor in the city. <a name="C2648V19" id="C2648V19">48:19</a> Those who labor
in the city, out of all the tribes of Yisrael, shall cultivate it. <a
name="C2648V20" id="C2648V20">48:20</a> All the offering shall be twenty-five
thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering
four-square, with the possession of the city. <a name="C2648V21" id="C2648V21">48:21</a>
The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of
the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the
twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward
in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to
the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the
sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst. <a name="C2648V22" id="C2648V22">48:22</a>
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of
the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the
border of Yehudah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince. <a
name="C2648V23" id="C2648V23">48:23</a> As for the rest of the tribes: from
the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one <i>portion</i>. <a
name="C2648V24" id="C2648V24">48:24</a> By the border of Benjamin, from the
east side to the west side, Simeon, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V25"
id="C2648V25">48:25</a> By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the
west side, Issachar, one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V26" id="C2648V26">48:26</a>
By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun,
one <i>portion</i>. <a name="C2648V27" id="C2648V27">48:27</a> By the border
of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one <i>portion</i>.
<a name="C2648V28" id="C2648V28">48:28</a> By the border of Gad, at the south
side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of
Meribath Kadesh, to the brook <i>of Egypt</i>, to the great sea. <a
name="C2648V29" id="C2648V29">48:29</a> This is the land which you shall
divide by lot to the tribes of Yisrael for inheritance, and these are their
several portions, says the Lord Yahweh. <a name="C2648V30" id="C2648V30">48:30</a>
These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five
hundred <i>reeds</i> by measure; <a name="C2648V31" id="C2648V31">48:31</a>
and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of
Yisrael, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Yehudah,
one; the gate of Levi, one. <a name="C2648V32" id="C2648V32">48:32</a> At the
east side four thousand and five hundred <i>reeds</i>, and three gates:
even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan,
one. <a name="C2648V33" id="C2648V33">48:33</a> At the south side four
thousand and five hundred <i>reeds</i> by measure, and three gates: the
gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
<a name="C2648V34" id="C2648V34">48:34</a> At the west side four thousand and
five hundred <i>reeds</i>, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one;
the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. <a name="C2648V35"
id="C2648V35">48:35</a> It shall be eighteen thousand <i>reeds</i> around:
and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C151V1" id="C151V1">1:1</a> Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so
that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and <i>put it</i>
also in writing, saying, <a name="C151V2" id="C151V2">1:2</a> Thus says Cyrus
king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the Elohim of
heaven, given me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in
Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah. <a name="C151V3" id="C151V3">1:3</a> Whoever
there is among you of all his people, his Elohim be with him, and let him go
up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah, and build the house of Yahweh, the Elohim
of Yisrael (he is Elohim), which is in Yerushalayim. <a name="C151V4" id="C151V4">1:4</a>
Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place
help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals,
besides the freewill offering for the house of Elohim which is in Yerushalayim.
<a name="C151V5" id="C151V5">1:5</a> Then rose up the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>
of Yehudah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose
spirit Elohim had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in
Yerushalayim. <a name="C151V6" id="C151V6">1:6</a> All those who were around them
strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods,
and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly
offered. <a name="C151V7" id="C151V7">1:7</a> Also Cyrus the king brought
forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought
forth out of Yerushalayim, and had put in the house of his gods; <a
name="C151V8" id="C151V8">1:8</a> even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring
forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to
Sheshbazzar, the prince of Yehudah. <a name="C151V9" id="C151V9">1:9</a> This is
the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of
silver, twenty-nine knives, <a name="C151V10" id="C151V10">1:10</a> thirty
bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and
other vessels one thousand. <a name="C151V11" id="C151V11">1:11</a> All the
vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All
these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up
from Babylon to Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C152V1" id="C152V1">2:1</a> Now these are the children of the
province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried
away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon,
and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehudah, everyone to his city; <a
name="C152V2" id="C152V2">2:2</a> who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah,
Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The
number of the men of the people of Yisrael: <a name="C152V3" id="C152V3">2:3</a>
The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. <a
name="C152V4" id="C152V4">2:4</a> The children of Shephatiah, three hundred
seventy-two. <a name="C152V5" id="C152V5">2:5</a> The children of Arah, seven
hundred seventy-five. <a name="C152V6" id="C152V6">2:6</a> The children of
Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua <i>and</i> Joab, two thousand eight
hundred twelve. <a name="C152V7" id="C152V7">2:7</a> The children of Elam, one
thousand two hundred fifty-four. <a name="C152V8" id="C152V8">2:8</a> The
children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. <a name="C152V9" id="C152V9">2:9</a>
The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. <a name="C152V10" id="C152V10">2:10</a>
The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. <a name="C152V11" id="C152V11">2:11</a>
The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. <a name="C152V12" id="C152V12">2:12</a>
The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. <a name="C152V13"
id="C152V13">2:13</a> The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. <a
name="C152V14" id="C152V14">2:14</a> The children of Bigvai, two thousand
fifty-six. <a name="C152V15" id="C152V15">2:15</a> The children of Adin, four
hundred fifty-four. <a name="C152V16" id="C152V16">2:16</a> The children of
Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. <a name="C152V17" id="C152V17">2:17</a> The
children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. <a name="C152V18" id="C152V18">2:18</a>
The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve. <a name="C152V19" id="C152V19">2:19</a>
The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three. <a name="C152V20"
id="C152V20">2:20</a> The children of Gibbar, ninety-five. <a name="C152V21"
id="C152V21">2:21</a> The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
<a name="C152V22" id="C152V22">2:22</a> The men of Netophah, fifty-six. <a
name="C152V23" id="C152V23">2:23</a> The men of Anathoth, one hundred
twenty-eight. <a name="C152V24" id="C152V24">2:24</a> The children of
Azmaveth, forty-two. <a name="C152V25" id="C152V25">2:25</a> The children of
Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three. <a
name="C152V26" id="C152V26">2:26</a> The children of Ramah and Geba, six
hundred twenty-one. <a name="C152V27" id="C152V27">2:27</a> The men of
Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. <a name="C152V28" id="C152V28">2:28</a> The
men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. <a name="C152V29" id="C152V29">2:29</a>
The children of Nebo, fifty-two. <a name="C152V30" id="C152V30">2:30</a> The
children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six. <a name="C152V31" id="C152V31">2:31</a>
The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. <a
name="C152V32" id="C152V32">2:32</a> The children of Harim, three hundred
twenty. <a name="C152V33" id="C152V33">2:33</a> The children of Lod, Hadid,
and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. <a name="C152V34" id="C152V34">2:34</a>
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. <a name="C152V35"
id="C152V35">2:35</a> The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred
thirty. <a name="C152V36" id="C152V36">2:36</a> The priests: the children of
Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. <a
name="C152V37" id="C152V37">2:37</a> The children of Immer, one thousand
fifty-two. <a name="C152V38" id="C152V38">2:38</a> The children of Pashhur,
one thousand two hundred forty-seven. <a name="C152V39" id="C152V39">2:39</a>
The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. <a name="C152V40" id="C152V40">2:40</a>
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of
Hodaviah, seventy-four. <a name="C152V41" id="C152V41">2:41</a> The singers:
the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight. <a name="C152V42" id="C152V42">2:42</a>
The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of
Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of
Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine. <a
name="C152V43" id="C152V43">2:43</a> The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the
children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, <a name="C152V44" id="C152V44">2:44</a>
the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, <a
name="C152V45" id="C152V45">2:45</a> the children of Lebanah, the children of
Hagabah, the children of Akkub, <a name="C152V46" id="C152V46">2:46</a> the
children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, <a
name="C152V47" id="C152V47">2:47</a> the children of Giddel, the children of
Gahar, the children of Reaiah, <a name="C152V48" id="C152V48">2:48</a> the
children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, <a
name="C152V49" id="C152V49">2:49</a> the children of Uzza, the children of
Paseah, the children of Besai, <a name="C152V50" id="C152V50">2:50</a> the
children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim, <a
name="C152V51" id="C152V51">2:51</a> the children of Bakbuk, the children of
Hakupha, the children of Harhur, <a name="C152V52" id="C152V52">2:52</a> the
children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, <a
name="C152V53" id="C152V53">2:53</a> the children of Barkos, the children of
Sisera, the children of Temah, <a name="C152V54" id="C152V54">2:54</a> the
children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. <a name="C152V55" id="C152V55">2:55</a>
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of
Hassophereth, the children of Peruda, <a name="C152V56" id="C152V56">2:56</a>
the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, <a
name="C152V57" id="C152V57">2:57</a> the children of Shephatiah, the children
of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami. <a
name="C152V58" id="C152V58">2:58</a> All the Nethinim, and the children of
Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two. <a name="C152V59"
id="C152V59">2:59</a> These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel
Harsha, Cherub, Addan, <i>and</i> Immer; but they could not show their
fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Yisrael: <a
name="C152V60" id="C152V60">2:60</a> the children of Delaiah, the children of
Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. <a name="C152V61"
id="C152V61">2:61</a> Of the children of the priests: the children of
Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a
wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after
their name. <a name="C152V62" id="C152V62">2:62</a> These sought their
register <i>among</i> those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were
not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the
priesthood. <a name="C152V63" id="C152V63">2:63</a> The governor said to them,
that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a
priest with Urim and with Thummim. <a name="C152V64" id="C152V64">2:64</a> The
whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, <a
name="C152V65" id="C152V65">2:65</a> besides their male servants and their
female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred
thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. <a
name="C152V66" id="C152V66">2:66</a> Their horses were seven hundred
thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five; <a name="C152V67" id="C152V67">2:67</a>
their camels, four hundred thirty-five; <i>their</i> donkeys, six thousand
seven hundred and twenty. <a name="C152V68" id="C152V68">2:68</a> Some of the
heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>, when they came to the house of Yahweh
which is in Yerushalayim, offered willingly for the house of Elohim to set it up
in its place: <a name="C152V69" id="C152V69">2:69</a> they gave after their
ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold,
and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments. <a
name="C152V70" id="C152V70">2:70</a> So the priests, and the Levites, and some
of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived
in their cities, and all Yisrael in their cities.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C153V1" id="C153V1">3:1</a> When the seventh month was come, and the
children of Yisrael were in the cities, the people gathered themselves
together as one man to Yerushalayim. <a name="C153V2" id="C153V2">3:2</a> Then
stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of
the Elohim of Yisrael, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in
the Torah of Moshe the man of Elohim. <a name="C153V3" id="C153V3">3:3</a> They set
the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the peoples of the
countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh, even burnt
offerings morning and evening. <a name="C153V4" id="C153V4">3:4</a> They kept
the feast of tents, as it is written, and <i>offered</i> the daily burnt
offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day
required; <a name="C153V5" id="C153V5">3:5</a> and afterward the continual
burnt offering, and <i>the offerings</i> of the new moons, and of all the
set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly
offered a freewill offering to Yahweh. <a name="C153V6" id="C153V6">3:6</a>
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt
offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not
yet laid. <a name="C153V7" id="C153V7">3:7</a> They gave money also to the
masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of
Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea,
to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. <a
name="C153V8" id="C153V8">3:8</a> Now in the second year of their coming to
the house of Elohim at Yerushalayim, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the
son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their
brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of
the captivity to Yerushalayim, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years
old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.
<a name="C153V9" id="C153V9">3:9</a> Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his
brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Yehudah, together, to have the
oversight of the workmen in the house of Elohim: the sons of Henadad, with
their sons and their brothers the Levites. <a name="C153V10" id="C153V10">3:10</a>
When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set
the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of
Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of
Yisrael. <a name="C153V11" id="C153V11">3:11</a> They sang one to another in
praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, <i>saying</i>, For he is good, for
his loving kindness endures forever toward Yisrael. All the people shouted
with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of
the house of Yahweh was laid. <a name="C153V12" id="C153V12">3:12</a> But many
of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>, the old
men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was
laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for
joy: <a name="C153V13" id="C153V13">3:13</a> so that the people could not
discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the
people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard
afar off.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C154V1" id="C154V1">4:1</a> Now when the adversaries of Yehudah and
Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple
to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael; <a name="C154V2" id="C154V2">4:2</a> then they
drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>, and
said to them, Let us build with you; for we seek your Elohim, as you do; and
we sacrifice to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who
brought us up here. <a name="C154V3" id="C154V3">4:3</a> But Zerubbabel, and
Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> of Yisrael,
said to them, You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our
Elohim; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, as
king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us. <a name="C154V4" id="C154V4">4:4</a>
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Yehudah, and
troubled them in building, <a name="C154V5" id="C154V5">4:5</a> and hired
counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus
king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. <a
name="C154V6" id="C154V6">4:6</a> In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning
of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Yehudah
and Yerushalayim. <a name="C154V7" id="C154V7">4:7</a> In the days of Artaxerxes
wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to
Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in
the Syrian <i>character</i>, and set forth in the Syrian <i>language</i>.
<a name="C154V8" id="C154V8">4:8</a> Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the
scribe wrote a letter against Yerushalayim to Artaxerxes the king in this
sort: <a name="C154V9" id="C154V9">4:9</a> then <i>wrote</i> Rehum the
chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the
Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the
Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the
Elamites, <a name="C154V10" id="C154V10">4:10</a> and the rest of the nations
whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of
Shomron, and in the rest <i>of the country</i> beyond the River, and so
forth. <a name="C154V11" id="C154V11">4:11</a> This is the copy of the letter
that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants the men beyond the
River, and so forth. <a name="C154V12" id="C154V12">4:12</a> Be it known to
the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim;
they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the
walls, and repaired the foundations. <a name="C154V13" id="C154V13">4:13</a>
Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls
finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it
will be hurtful to the kings. <a name="C154V14" id="C154V14">4:14</a> Now
because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to
see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king; <a
name="C154V15" id="C154V15">4:15</a> that search may be made in the book of
the records of your fathers: so you shall find in the book of the records,
and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and
provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time;
for which cause was this city laid waste. <a name="C154V16" id="C154V16">4:16</a>
We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by
this means you shall have no portion beyond the River. <a name="C154V17"
id="C154V17">4:17</a> <i>Then</i> sent the king an answer to Rehum the
chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their
companions who dwell in Shomron, and in the rest <i>of the country</i>
beyond the River: Peace, and so forth. <a name="C154V18" id="C154V18">4:18</a>
The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me. <a
name="C154V19" id="C154V19">4:19</a> I decreed, and search has been made, and
it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against
kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. <a
name="C154V20" id="C154V20">4:20</a> There have been mighty kings also over
Yerushalayim, who have ruled over all <i>the country</i> beyond the River;
and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them. <a name="C154V21" id="C154V21">4:21</a>
Make you now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city not
be built, until a decree shall be made by me. <a name="C154V22" id="C154V22">4:22</a>
Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt
of the kings? <a name="C154V23" id="C154V23">4:23</a> Then when the copy of
king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe,
and their companions, they went in haste to Yerushalayim to the Jews, and
made them to cease by force and power. <a name="C154V24" id="C154V24">4:24</a>
Then ceased the work of the house of Elohim which is at Yerushalayim; and it
ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C155V1" id="C155V1">5:1</a> Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and
Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Yehudah and
Yerushalayim; in the name of the Elohim of Yisrael <i>prophesied they</i> to
them. <a name="C155V2" id="C155V2">5:2</a> Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of
Elohim which is at Yerushalayim; and with them were the prophets of Elohim, helping
them. <a name="C155V3" id="C155V3">5:3</a> At the same time came to them
Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their
companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this
house, and to finish this wall? <a name="C155V4" id="C155V4">5:4</a> Then we
told them after this manner, what the names of the men were who were
making this building. <a name="C155V5" id="C155V5">5:5</a> But the eye of
their Elohim was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease,
until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned
by letter concerning it. <a name="C155V6" id="C155V6">5:6</a> The copy of the
letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai,
and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to
Darius the king; <a name="C155V7" id="C155V7">5:7</a> they sent a letter to
him, in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace. <a
name="C155V8" id="C155V8">5:8</a> Be it known to the king, that we went into
the province of Yehudah, to the house of the great Elohim, which is built with
great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with
diligence and prospers in their hands. <a name="C155V9" id="C155V9">5:9</a>
Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree
to build this house, and to finish this wall? <a name="C155V10" id="C155V10">5:10</a>
We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the
names of the men who were at the head of them. <a name="C155V11" id="C155V11">5:11</a>
Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the Elohim of
heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many
years ago, which a great king of Yisrael built and finished. <a name="C155V12"
id="C155V12">5:12</a> But after that our fathers had provoked the Elohim of
heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people
away into Babylon. <a name="C155V13" id="C155V13">5:13</a> But in the first
year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this
house of Elohim. <a name="C155V14" id="C155V14">5:14</a> The gold and silver
vessels also of the house of Elohim, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the
temple that was in Yerushalayim, and brought into the temple of Babylon,
those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were
delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; <a
name="C155V15" id="C155V15">5:15</a> and he said to him, Take these vessels,
go, put them in the temple that is in Yerushalayim, and let the house of Elohim
be built in its place. <a name="C155V16" id="C155V16">5:16</a> Then came the
same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of Elohim which is in
Yerushalayim: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and
yet it is not completed. <a name="C155V17" id="C155V17">5:17</a> Now
therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the
king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a
decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of Elohim at Yerushalayim;
and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C156V1" id="C156V1">6:1</a> Then Darius the king made a decree, and
search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were
laid up in Babylon. <a name="C156V2" id="C156V2">6:2</a> There was found at
Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and
therein was thus written for a record: <a name="C156V3" id="C156V3">6:3</a> In
the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning
the house of Elohim at Yerushalayim, let the house be built, the place where
they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; its
height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits; <a name="C156V4" id="C156V4">6:4</a>
with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let
the expenses be given out of the king's house. <a name="C156V5" id="C156V5">6:5</a>
Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of Elohim, which
Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Yerushalayim, and
brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is
at Yerushalayim, everyone to its place; and you shall put them in the house
of Elohim. <a name="C156V6" id="C156V6">6:6</a> Now therefore, Tattenai, governor
beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites,
who are beyond the River, be you far from there: <a name="C156V7" id="C156V7">6:7</a>
let the work of this house of Elohim alone; let the governor of the Jews and
the elders of the Jews build this house of Elohim in its place. <a name="C156V8"
id="C156V8">6:8</a> Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these
elders of the Jews for the building of this house of Elohim: that of the
king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with
all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered. <a name="C156V9"
id="C156V9">6:9</a> That which they have need of, both young bulls, and
rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the Elohim of heaven; <i>also</i>
wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are
at Yerushalayim, let it be given them day by day without fail; <a name="C156V10"
id="C156V10">6:10</a> that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to
the Elohim of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. <a
name="C156V11" id="C156V11">6:11</a> Also I have made a decree, that whoever
shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let
him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a
dunghill for this: <a name="C156V12" id="C156V12">6:12</a> and the Elohim who has
caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall
put forth their hand to alter <i>the same</i>, to destroy this house of
Elohim which is at Yerushalayim. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done
with all diligence. <a name="C156V13" id="C156V13">6:13</a> Then Tattenai, the
governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because
that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence. <a
name="C156V14" id="C156V14">6:14</a> The elders of the Jews built and
prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the
son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of
the Elohim of Yisrael, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and
Artaxerxes king of Persia. <a name="C156V15" id="C156V15">6:15</a> This house
was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth
year of the reign of Darius the king. <a name="C156V16" id="C156V16">6:16</a>
The children of Yisrael, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the
children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of Elohim with
joy. <a name="C156V17" id="C156V17">6:17</a> They offered at the dedication of
this house of Elohim one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin offering for all Yisrael, twelve male goats, according to the
number of the tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C156V18" id="C156V18">6:18</a> They
set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for
the service of Elohim, which is at Yerushalayim; as it is written in the book of
Moshe. <a name="C156V19" id="C156V19">6:19</a> The children of the captivity
kept the Passover on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of the first month. <a
name="C156V20" id="C156V20">6:20</a> For the priests and the Levites had
purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the
Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the
priests, and for themselves. <a name="C156V21" id="C156V21">6:21</a> The
children of Yisrael who had come again out of the captivity, and all such
as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of
the land, to seek Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, ate, <a name="C156V22"
id="C156V22">6:22</a> and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king
of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of
Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C157V1" id="C157V1">7:1</a> Now after these things, in the reign of
Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah,
the son of Hilkiah, <a name="C157V2" id="C157V2">7:2</a> the son of Shallum,
the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, <a name="C157V3" id="C157V3">7:3</a> the
son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, <a name="C157V4"
id="C157V4">7:4</a> the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
<a name="C157V5" id="C157V5">7:5</a> the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas,
the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the chief priest; <a name="C157V6"
id="C157V6">7:6</a> this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready
scribe in the Torah of Moshe, which Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, had given;
and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh
his Elohim on him. <a name="C157V7" id="C157V7">7:7</a> There went up some of the
children of Yisrael, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers,
and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Yerushalayim, in the seventh year of
Artaxerxes the king. <a name="C157V8" id="C157V8">7:8</a> He came to Yerushalayim
in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. <a
name="C157V9" id="C157V9">7:9</a> For on the first <i>day</i> of the first
month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first <i>day</i> of the
fifth month came he to Yerushalayim, according to the good hand of his Elohim on
him. <a name="C157V10" id="C157V10">7:10</a> For Ezra had set his heart to
seek the Torah of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Yisrael statutes and
ordinances. <a name="C157V11" id="C157V11">7:11</a> Now this is the copy of
the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe,
even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his
statutes to Yisrael: <a name="C157V12" id="C157V12">7:12</a> Artaxerxes, king
of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Torah of the Elohim of heaven,
perfect and so forth. <a name="C157V13" id="C157V13">7:13</a> I make a decree,
that all those of the people of Yisrael, and their priests and the Levites,
in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Yerushalayim, go
with you. <a name="C157V14" id="C157V14">7:14</a> Because you are sent of the
king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
according to the Torah of your Elohim which is in your hand, <a name="C157V15"
id="C157V15">7:15</a> and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and
his counselors have freely offered to the Elohim of Yisrael, whose habitation
is in Yerushalayim, <a name="C157V16" id="C157V16">7:16</a> and all the silver
and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the
freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly
for the house of their Elohim which is in Yerushalayim; <a name="C157V17"
id="C157V17">7:17</a> therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this
money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink
offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your Elohim
which is in Yerushalayim. <a name="C157V18" id="C157V18">7:18</a> Whatever shall
seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver
and the gold, that do you after the will of your Elohim. <a name="C157V19"
id="C157V19">7:19</a> The vessels that are given you for the service of the
house of your Elohim, deliver you before the Elohim of Yerushalayim. <a name="C157V20"
id="C157V20">7:20</a> Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your
Elohim, which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's
treasure house. <a name="C157V21" id="C157V21">7:21</a> I, even I Artaxerxes
the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River,
that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Torah of the Elohim of heaven,
shall require of you, it be done with all diligence, <a name="C157V22"
id="C157V22">7:22</a> to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred
measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred
baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. <a name="C157V23"
id="C157V23">7:23</a> Whatever is commanded by the Elohim of heaven, let it be
done exactly for the house of the Elohim of heaven; for why should there be
wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? <a name="C157V24"
id="C157V24">7:24</a> Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests
and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of
Elohim, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.
<a name="C157V25" id="C157V25">7:25</a> You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your
Elohim who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all
the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your
Elohim; and teach you him who doesn't know them. <a name="C157V26" id="C157V26">7:26</a>
Whoever will not do the Torah of your Elohim, and the Torah of the king, let
judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or
to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. <a
name="C157V27" id="C157V27">7:27</a> Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of our
fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify
the house of Yahweh which is in Yerushalayim; <a name="C157V28" id="C157V28">7:28</a>
and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his
counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened
according to the hand of Yahweh my Elohim on me, and I gathered together out
of Yisrael chief men to go up with me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C158V1" id="C158V1">8:1</a> Now these are the heads of their fathers'
<i>houses</i>, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from
Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: <a name="C158V2" id="C158V2">8:2</a>
Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the
sons of David, Hattush. <a name="C158V3" id="C158V3">8:3</a> Of the sons of
Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by
genealogy of the males one hundred fifty. <a name="C158V4" id="C158V4">8:4</a>
Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him
two hundred males. <a name="C158V5" id="C158V5">8:5</a> Of the sons of
Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males. <a
name="C158V6" id="C158V6">8:6</a> Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of
Jonathan; and with him fifty males. <a name="C158V7" id="C158V7">8:7</a> Of
the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy
males. <a name="C158V8" id="C158V8">8:8</a> Of the sons of Shephatiah,
Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males. <a name="C158V9"
id="C158V9">8:9</a> Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with
him two hundred and eighteen males. <a name="C158V10" id="C158V10">8:10</a> Of
the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred
sixty males. <a name="C158V11" id="C158V11">8:11</a> Of the sons of Bebai,
Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males. <a
name="C158V12" id="C158V12">8:12</a> Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of
Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males. <a name="C158V13" id="C158V13">8:13</a>
Of the sons of Adonikam, <i>who were</i> the last; and these are their
names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males. <a
name="C158V14" id="C158V14">8:14</a> Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud;
and with them seventy males. <a name="C158V15" id="C158V15">8:15</a> I
gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we
encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found
there none of the sons of Levi. <a name="C158V16" id="C158V16">8:16</a> Then
sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for
Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for
Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were
teachers. <a name="C158V17" id="C158V17">8:17</a> I sent them forth to Iddo
the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell
Iddo, <i>and</i> his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that
they should bring to us ministers for the house of our Elohim. <a name="C158V18"
id="C158V18">8:18</a> According to the good hand of our Elohim on us they
brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the
son of Yisrael; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen; <a
name="C158V19" id="C158V19">8:19</a> and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of
the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; <a name="C158V20"
id="C158V20">8:20</a> and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had
given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all
of them were mentioned by name. <a name="C158V21" id="C158V21">8:21</a> Then I
proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble
ourselves before our Elohim, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for
our little ones, and for all our substance. <a name="C158V22" id="C158V22">8:22</a>
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to
help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king,
saying, The hand of our Elohim is on all those who seek him, for good; but
his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him. <a
name="C158V23" id="C158V23">8:23</a> So we fasted and begged our Elohim for this:
and he was entreated of us. <a name="C158V24" id="C158V24">8:24</a> Then I set
apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and
ten of their brothers with them, <a name="C158V25" id="C158V25">8:25</a> and
weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the
offering for the house of our Elohim, which the king, and his counselors, and
his princes, and all Yisrael there present, had offered: <a name="C158V26"
id="C158V26">8:26</a> I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of
silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred
talents; <a name="C158V27" id="C158V27">8:27</a> and twenty bowls of gold, of
one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as
gold. <a name="C158V28" id="C158V28">8:28</a> I said to them, You are holy to
Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a
freewill offering to Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers. <a name="C158V29"
id="C158V29">8:29</a> Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before
the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers'
<i>houses</i> of Yisrael, at Yerushalayim, in the chambers of the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C158V30" id="C158V30">8:30</a> So the priests and the Levites
received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring
them to Yerushalayim to the house of our Elohim. <a name="C158V31" id="C158V31">8:31</a>
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth <i>day</i> of the
first month, to go to Yerushalayim: and the hand of our Elohim was on us, and he
delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way. <a
name="C158V32" id="C158V32">8:32</a> We came to Yerushalayim, and abode there
three days. <a name="C158V33" id="C158V33">8:33</a> On the fourth day the
silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our Elohim
into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was
Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua,
and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite; <a name="C158V34" id="C158V34">8:34</a>
the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that
time. <a name="C158V35" id="C158V35">8:35</a> The children of the captivity,
who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the Elohim of Yisrael,
twelve bulls for all Yisrael, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and
twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to
Yahweh. <a name="C158V36" id="C158V36">8:36</a> They delivered the king's
commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River:
and they furthered the people and the house of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C159V1" id="C159V1">9:1</a> Now when these things were done, the
princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Yisrael, and the priests and
the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands,
<i>doing</i> according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the
Egyptians, and the Amorites. <a name="C159V2" id="C159V2">9:2</a> For they
have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that
the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes,
the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass. <a
name="C159V3" id="C159V3">9:3</a> When I heard this thing, I tore my garment
and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat
down confounded. <a name="C159V4" id="C159V4">9:4</a> Then were assembled to
me everyone who trembled at the words of the Elohim of Yisrael, because of the
trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening
offering. <a name="C159V5" id="C159V5">9:5</a> At the evening offering I arose
up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell
on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my Elohim; <a name="C159V6"
id="C159V6">9:6</a> and I said, my Elohim, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my
face to you, my Elohim; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and
our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens. <a name="C159V7" id="C159V7">9:7</a>
Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day;
and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered
into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and
to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. <a name="C159V8"
id="C159V8">9:8</a> Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh
our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his
holy place, that our Elohim may lighten our eyes, and give us a little
reviving in our bondage. <a name="C159V9" id="C159V9">9:9</a> For we are
bondservants; yet our Elohim has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has
extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to
give us a reviving, to set up the house of our Elohim, and to repair its
ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim. <a name="C159V10"
id="C159V10">9:10</a> Now, our Elohim, what shall we say after this? for we
have forsaken your commandments, <a name="C159V11" id="C159V11">9:11</a> which
you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to
which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of
the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it
from one end to another with their filthiness: <a name="C159V12" id="C159V12">9:12</a>
now therefore don't give your daughters to their sons, neither take their
daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever;
that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an
inheritance to your children forever. <a name="C159V13" id="C159V13">9:13</a>
After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt,
seeing that you our Elohim have punished us less than our iniquities deserve,
and have given us such a remnant, <a name="C159V14" id="C159V14">9:14</a>
shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the
peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until
you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to
escape? <a name="C159V15" id="C159V15">9:15</a> Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, you
are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this
day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand
before you because of this.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1510V1" id="C1510V1">10:1</a> Now while Ezra prayed and made
confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of Elohim,
there was gathered together to him out of Yisrael a very great assembly of
men and women and children; for the people wept very sore. <a name="C1510V2"
id="C1510V2">10:2</a> Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our Elohim, and have married
foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Yisrael
concerning this thing. <a name="C1510V3" id="C1510V3">10:3</a> Now therefore
let us make a covenant with our Elohim to put away all the wives, and such as
are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who
tremble at the commandment of our Elohim; and let it be done according to the
Torah. <a name="C1510V4" id="C1510V4">10:4</a> Arise; for the matter belongs to
you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it. <a name="C1510V5"
id="C1510V5">10:5</a> Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests,
the Levites, and all Yisrael, to swear that they would do according to this
word. So they swore. <a name="C1510V6" id="C1510V6">10:6</a> Then Ezra rose up
from before the house of Elohim, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the
son of Eliashib: and <i>when</i> he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank
water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity. <a
name="C1510V7" id="C1510V7">10:7</a> They made proclamation throughout Yehudah
and Yerushalayim to all the children of the captivity, that they should
gather themselves together to Yerushalayim; <a name="C1510V8" id="C1510V8">10:8</a>
and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel
of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and
himself separated from the assembly of the captivity. <a name="C1510V9"
id="C1510V9">10:9</a> Then all the men of Yehudah and Benjamin gathered
themselves together to Yerushalayim within the three days; it was the ninth
month, on the twentieth <i>day</i> of the month: and all the people sat in
the broad place before the house of Elohim, trembling because of this matter,
and for the great rain. <a name="C1510V10" id="C1510V10">10:10</a> Ezra the
priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married
foreign women, to increase the guilt of Yisrael. <a name="C1510V11"
id="C1510V11">10:11</a> Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the Elohim of
your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land, and from the foreign women. <a name="C1510V12"
id="C1510V12">10:12</a> Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As
you have said concerning us, so must we do. <a name="C1510V13" id="C1510V13">10:13</a>
But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not
able to stand outside: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we
have greatly transgressed in this matter. <a name="C1510V14" id="C1510V14">10:14</a>
Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those
who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed
times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the
fierce wrath of our Elohim be turned from us, until this matter be
dispatched. <a name="C1510V15" id="C1510V15">10:15</a> Only Jonathan the son
of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this <i>matter</i>:
and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. <a name="C1510V16"
id="C1510V16">10:16</a> The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the
priest, <i>with</i> certain heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>, after their
fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they
sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. <a
name="C1510V17" id="C1510V17">10:17</a> They made an end with all the men who
had married foreign women by the first day of the first month. <a
name="C1510V18" id="C1510V18">10:18</a> Among the sons of the priests there
were found who had married foreign women: <i>namely</i>, of the sons of
Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and
Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a name="C1510V19" id="C1510V19">10:19</a> They gave
their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, <i>they
offered</i> a ram of the flock for their guilt. <a name="C1510V20"
id="C1510V20">10:20</a> Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. <a
name="C1510V21" id="C1510V21">10:21</a> Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and
Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. <a name="C1510V22" id="C1510V22">10:22</a>
Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad,
and Elasah. <a name="C1510V23" id="C1510V23">10:23</a> Of the Levites:
Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Yehudah,
and Eliezer. <a name="C1510V24" id="C1510V24">10:24</a> Of the singers:
Eliashib. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. <a name="C1510V25"
id="C1510V25">10:25</a> Of Yisrael: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and
Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and
Benaiah. <a name="C1510V26" id="C1510V26">10:26</a> Of the sons of Elam:
Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah. <a
name="C1510V27" id="C1510V27">10:27</a> Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai,
Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. <a name="C1510V28"
id="C1510V28">10:28</a> Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai,
Athlai. <a name="C1510V29" id="C1510V29">10:29</a> Of the sons of Bani:
Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth. <a
name="C1510V30" id="C1510V30">10:30</a> Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and
Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
<a name="C1510V31" id="C1510V31">10:31</a> <i>of</i> the sons of Harim:
Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, <a name="C1510V32"
id="C1510V32">10:32</a> Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah. <a name="C1510V33"
id="C1510V33">10:33</a> Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad,
Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei. <a name="C1510V34" id="C1510V34">10:34</a>
Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel, <a name="C1510V35" id="C1510V35">10:35</a>
Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, <a name="C1510V36" id="C1510V36">10:36</a> Vaniah,
Meremoth, Eliashib, <a name="C1510V37" id="C1510V37">10:37</a> Mattaniah,
Mattenai, and Jaasu, <a name="C1510V38" id="C1510V38">10:38</a> and Bani, and
Binnui, Shimei, <a name="C1510V39" id="C1510V39">10:39</a> and Shelemiah, and
Nathan, and Adaiah, <a name="C1510V40" id="C1510V40">10:40</a> Machnadebai,
Shashai, Sharai, <a name="C1510V41" id="C1510V41">10:41</a> Azarel, and
Shelemiah, Shemariah, <a name="C1510V42" id="C1510V42">10:42</a> Shallum,
Amariah, Joseph. <a name="C1510V43" id="C1510V43">10:43</a> Of the sons of
Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah. <a
name="C1510V44" id="C1510V44">10:44</a> All these had taken foreign wives; and
some of them had wives by whom they had children.
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C481V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C482V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C483V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C484V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C485V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C486V1>Chapter 06</a>
<p>
<a name="C481V1" id="C481V1">1:1</a> Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither
through man, but through Yeshua Messiah, and Elohim the Father, who raised him
from the dead), <a name="C481V2" id="C481V2">1:2</a> and all the <a href="#N481">brothers</a>
who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: <a name="C481V3" id="C481V3">1:3</a>
Grace to you and peace from Elohim the Father, and our Lord Yeshua Messiah, <a
name="C481V4" id="C481V4">1:4</a> who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our Elohim
and Father-- <a name="C481V5" id="C481V5">1:5</a> to whom be the glory forever
and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C481V6" id="C481V6">1:6</a> I marvel that you are so quickly
deserting him who called you in the grace of Messiah to a different "good
news"; <a name="C481V7" id="C481V7">1:7</a> and there isn't another
"good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to
pervert the Good News of Messiah. <a name="C481V8" id="C481V8">1:8</a> But even
though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any "good
news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. <a
name="C481V9" id="C481V9">1:9</a> As we have said before, so I now say again:
if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which
you received, let him be cursed. <a name="C481V10" id="C481V10">1:10</a> For
am I now seeking the favor of men, or of Elohim? Or am I striving to please
men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Messiah.
<a name="C481V11" id="C481V11">1:11</a> But I make known to you, brothers,
concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not
according to man. <a name="C481V12" id="C481V12">1:12</a> For neither did I
receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through
revelation of Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C481V13" id="C481V13">1:13</a> For you
have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how
that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of Elohim, and ravaged it. <a
name="C481V14" id="C481V14">1:14</a> I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond
many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for
the traditions of my fathers. <a name="C481V15" id="C481V15">1:15</a> But when
it was the good pleasure of Elohim, who separated me from my mother's womb,
and called me through his grace, <a name="C481V16" id="C481V16">1:16</a> to
reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't
immediately confer with flesh and blood, <a name="C481V17" id="C481V17">1:17</a>
nor did I go up to Yerushalayim to those who were apostles before me, but I
went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus. <a name="C481V18"
id="C481V18">1:18</a> Then after three years I went up to Yerushalayim to visit
Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. <a name="C481V19" id="C481V19">1:19</a>
But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother.
<a name="C481V20" id="C481V20">1:20</a> Now about the things which I write to
you, behold, before Elohim, I'm not lying. <a name="C481V21" id="C481V21">1:21</a>
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. <a name="C481V22" id="C481V22">1:22</a>
I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in
Messiah, <a name="C481V23" id="C481V23">1:23</a> but they only heard: "He
who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to
destroy." <a name="C481V24" id="C481V24">1:24</a> And they glorified Elohim
in me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C482V1" id="C482V1">2:1</a> Then after a period of fourteen years I
went up again to Yerushalayim with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. <a
name="C482V2" id="C482V2">2:2</a> I went up by revelation, and I laid before
them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before
those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in
vain. <a name="C482V3" id="C482V3">2:3</a> But not even Titus, who was with
me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. <a name="C482V4"
id="C482V4">2:4</a> This was because of the false brothers secretly brought
in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Messiah Yeshua,
that they might bring us into bondage; <a name="C482V5" id="C482V5">2:5</a> to
whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the
truth of the Good News might continue with you. <a name="C482V6" id="C482V6">2:6</a>
But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it
makes no difference to me; Elohim doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I
say, who were respected imparted nothing to me, <a name="C482V7" id="C482V7">2:7</a>
but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good
News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the
circumcision <a name="C482V8" id="C482V8">2:8</a> (for he who appointed Peter
to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
<a name="C482V9" id="C482V9">2:9</a> and when they perceived the grace that
was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be
pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we
should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. <a name="C482V10"
id="C482V10">2:10</a> They only asked us to remember the poor--which very
thing I was also zealous to do.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C482V11" id="C482V11">2:11</a> But when Peter came to Antioch, I
resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. <a name="C482V12"
id="C482V12">2:12</a> For before some people came from James, he ate with
the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself,
fearing those who were of the circumcision. <a name="C482V13" id="C482V13">2:13</a>
And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even
Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. <a name="C482V14" id="C482V14">2:14</a>
But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of
the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew,
live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the
Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C482V15" id="C482V15">2:15</a> "We, being Jews by nature, and
not Gentile sinners, <a name="C482V16" id="C482V16">2:16</a> yet knowing that
a man is not justified by the works of the Torah but through faith in Yeshua
Messiah, even we believed in Messiah Yeshua, that we might be justified by
faith in Messiah, and not by the works of the Torah, because no flesh will be
justified by the works of the Torah. <a name="C482V17" id="C482V17">2:17</a> But
if, while we sought to be justified in Messiah, we ourselves also were
found sinners, is Messiah a servant of sin? Certainly not! <a name="C482V18"
id="C482V18">2:18</a> For if I build up again those things which I
destroyed, I prove myself a Torah-breaker. <a name="C482V19" id="C482V19">2:19</a>
For I, through the Torah, died to the Torah, that I might live to Elohim. <a
name="C482V20" id="C482V20">2:20</a> I have been crucified with Messiah, and it
is no longer I that live, but Messiah living in me. That life which I now
live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of Elohim, who loved me, and
gave himself up for me. <a name="C482V21" id="C482V21">2:21</a> I don't make
void the grace of Elohim. For if righteousness is through the Torah, then
Messiah died for nothing!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C483V1" id="C483V1">3:1</a> Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you
not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Yeshua Messiah was openly set forth
among you as crucified? <a name="C483V2" id="C483V2">3:2</a> I just want to
learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Torah,
or by hearing of faith? <a name="C483V3" id="C483V3">3:3</a> Are you so
foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
<a name="C483V4" id="C483V4">3:4</a> Did you suffer so many things in vain, if
it is indeed in vain? <a name="C483V5" id="C483V5">3:5</a> He therefore who
supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by
the works of the Torah, or by hearing of faith? <a name="C483V6" id="C483V6">3:6</a>
Even as Avraham "believed Elohim, and it was counted to him for
righteousness." <a name="C483V7" id="C483V7">3:7</a> Know therefore that
those who are of faith, the same are children of Avraham. <a name="C483V8"
id="C483V8">3:8</a> The Scripture, foreseeing that Elohim would justify the
Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Avraham, saying,
"In you all the nations will be blessed."<sup><a href="#N482">*</a></sup>
<a name="C483V9" id="C483V9">3:9</a> So then, those who are of faith are
blessed with the faithful Avraham. <a name="C483V10" id="C483V10">3:10</a> For
as many as are of the works of the Torah are under a curse. For it is
written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that
are written in the book of the Torah, to do them."<sup><a href="#N483">*</a></sup>
<a name="C483V11" id="C483V11">3:11</a> Now that no man is justified by the
Torah before Elohim is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."<sup><a
href="#N484">*</a></sup> <a name="C483V12" id="C483V12">3:12</a> The Torah is not
of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."<sup><a
href="#N485">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C483V13" id="C483V13">3:13</a> Messiah redeemed us from the curse of
the Torah, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is
everyone who hangs on a tree,"<sup><a href="#N486">*</a></sup> <a
name="C483V14" id="C483V14">3:14</a> that the blessing of Avraham might come
on the Gentiles through Messiah Yeshua; that we might receive the promise of
the Spirit through faith. <a name="C483V15" id="C483V15">3:15</a> Brothers,
speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it
has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. <a name="C483V16"
id="C483V16">3:16</a> Now the promises were spoken to Avraham and to his
seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one,
"To your seed,"<sup><a href="#N487">*</a></sup> which is Messiah.
<a name="C483V17" id="C483V17">3:17</a> Now I say this. A covenant confirmed
beforehand by Elohim in Messiah, the Torah, which came four hundred thirty years
after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. <a
name="C483V18" id="C483V18">3:18</a> For if the inheritance is of the Torah, it
is no more of promise; but Elohim has granted it to Avraham by promise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C483V19" id="C483V19">3:19</a> What then is the Torah? It was added
because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise
has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
<a name="C483V20" id="C483V20">3:20</a> Now a mediator is not between one, but
Elohim is one. <a name="C483V21" id="C483V21">3:21</a> Is the Torah then against
the promises of Elohim? Certainly not! For if there had been a Torah given
which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of
the Torah. <a name="C483V22" id="C483V22">3:22</a> But the Scriptures imprisoned
all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Yeshua Messiah might be
given to those who believe. <a name="C483V23" id="C483V23">3:23</a> But before
faith came, we were kept in custody under the Torah, confined for the faith
which should afterwards be revealed. <a name="C483V24" id="C483V24">3:24</a>
So that the Torah has become our tutor to bring us to Messiah, that we might
be justified by faith. <a name="C483V25" id="C483V25">3:25</a> But now that
faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. <a name="C483V26" id="C483V26">3:26</a>
For you are all children of Elohim, through faith in Messiah Yeshua. <a
name="C483V27" id="C483V27">3:27</a> For as many of you as were baptized into
Messiah have put on Messiah. <a name="C483V28" id="C483V28">3:28</a> There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is
neither male nor female; for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua. <a
name="C483V29" id="C483V29">3:29</a> If you are Messiah's, then you are
Avraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C484V1" id="C484V1">4:1</a> But I say that so long as the heir is a
child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; <a
name="C484V2" id="C484V2">4:2</a> but is under guardians and stewards until
the day appointed by the father. <a name="C484V3" id="C484V3">4:3</a> So we
also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental
principles of the world. <a name="C484V4" id="C484V4">4:4</a> But when the
fullness of the time came, Elohim sent out his Son, born to a woman, born
under the Torah, <a name="C484V5" id="C484V5">4:5</a> that he might redeem those
who were under the Torah, that we might receive the adoption of children. <a
name="C484V6" id="C484V6">4:6</a> And because you are children, Elohim sent out
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "<a href="#N488">Abba,</a>
Father!" <a name="C484V7" id="C484V7">4:7</a> So you are no longer a
bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of Elohim through Messiah.
<a name="C484V8" id="C484V8">4:8</a> However at that time, not knowing Elohim,
you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. <a name="C484V9"
id="C484V9">4:9</a> But now that you have come to know Elohim, or rather to be
known by Elohim, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable
elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
<a name="C484V10" id="C484V10">4:10</a> You observe days, months, seasons, and
years. <a name="C484V11" id="C484V11">4:11</a> I am afraid for you, that I
might have wasted my labor for you. <a name="C484V12" id="C484V12">4:12</a> I
beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You
did me no wrong, <a name="C484V13" id="C484V13">4:13</a> but you know that
because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first
time. <a name="C484V14" id="C484V14">4:14</a> That which was a temptation to
you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an
angel of Elohim, even as Messiah Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C484V15" id="C484V15">4:15</a> What was the blessing you enjoyed? For
I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes
and given them to me. <a name="C484V16" id="C484V16">4:16</a> So then, have I
become your enemy by telling you the truth? <a name="C484V17" id="C484V17">4:17</a>
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you,
that you may seek them. <a name="C484V18" id="C484V18">4:18</a> But it is
always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present
with you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C484V19" id="C484V19">4:19</a> My little children, of whom I am again
in travail until Messiah is formed in you-- <a name="C484V20" id="C484V20">4:20</a>
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I
am perplexed about you. <a name="C484V21" id="C484V21">4:21</a> Tell me, you
that desire to be under the Torah, don't you listen to the Torah? <a
name="C484V22" id="C484V22">4:22</a> For it is written that Avraham had two
sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. <a name="C484V23"
id="C484V23">4:23</a> However, the son by the handmaid was born according to
the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. <a
name="C484V24" id="C484V24">4:24</a> These things contain an allegory, for
these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to
bondage, which is Hagar. <a name="C484V25" id="C484V25">4:25</a> For this
Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Yerushalayim that exists
now, for she is in bondage with her children. <a name="C484V26" id="C484V26">4:26</a>
But the Yerushalayim that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. <a
name="C484V27" id="C484V27">4:27</a> For it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Rejoice, you barren who don't bear.
</dt>
<dd>
Break forth and shout, you that don't travail.
</dd>
<dd>
For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."<sup><a
href="#N489">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C484V28" id="C484V28">4:28</a> Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are
children of promise. <a name="C484V29" id="C484V29">4:29</a> But as then, he
who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according
to the Spirit, so also it is now. <a name="C484V30" id="C484V30">4:30</a>
However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her
son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free
woman."<sup><a href="#N4810">*</a></sup> <a name="C484V31" id="C484V31">4:31</a>
So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free
woman.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C485V1" id="C485V1">5:1</a> Stand firm therefore in the liberty by
which Messiah has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of
bondage. <a name="C485V2" id="C485V2">5:2</a> Behold, I, Paul, tell you that
if you receive circumcision, Messiah will profit you nothing. <a name="C485V3"
id="C485V3">5:3</a> Yes, I testify again to every man who receives
circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole Torah. <a name="C485V4"
id="C485V4">5:4</a> You are alienated from Messiah, you who desire to be
justified by the Torah. You have fallen away from grace. <a name="C485V5"
id="C485V5">5:5</a> For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope
of righteousness. <a name="C485V6" id="C485V6">5:6</a> For in Messiah Yeshua
neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith
working through love. <a name="C485V7" id="C485V7">5:7</a> You were running
well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? <a
name="C485V8" id="C485V8">5:8</a> This persuasion is not from him who calls
you. <a name="C485V9" id="C485V9">5:9</a> A little yeast grows through the
whole lump. <a name="C485V10" id="C485V10">5:10</a> I have confidence toward
you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you
will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C485V11" id="C485V11">5:11</a> But I, brothers, if I still preach
circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the
cross has been removed. <a name="C485V12" id="C485V12">5:12</a> I wish that
those who disturb you would cut themselves off. <a name="C485V13" id="C485V13">5:13</a>
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom
for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. <a
name="C485V14" id="C485V14">5:14</a> For the whole Torah is fulfilled in one
word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."<sup><a
href="#N4811">*</a></sup> <a name="C485V15" id="C485V15">5:15</a> But if you
bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one
another. <a name="C485V16" id="C485V16">5:16</a> But I say, walk by the
Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. <a name="C485V17"
id="C485V17">5:17</a> For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not
do the things that you desire. <a name="C485V18" id="C485V18">5:18</a> But if
you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Torah. <a name="C485V19"
id="C485V19">5:19</a> Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are:
adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, <a name="C485V20"
id="C485V20">5:20</a> idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies,
outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, <a name="C485V21"
id="C485V21">5:21</a> envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things
like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that
those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C485V22" id="C485V22">5:22</a> But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, <a href="#N4812">faith,</a> <a
name="C485V23" id="C485V23">5:23</a> gentleness, and self-control. Against
such things there is no Torah. <a name="C485V24" id="C485V24">5:24</a> Those who
belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. <a
name="C485V25" id="C485V25">5:25</a> If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk
by the Spirit. <a name="C485V26" id="C485V26">5:26</a> Let's not become
conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C486V1" id="C486V1">6:1</a> Brothers, even if a man is caught in some
fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of
gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted. <a
name="C486V2" id="C486V2">6:2</a> Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill
the Torah of Messiah. <a name="C486V3" id="C486V3">6:3</a> For if a man thinks
himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. <a
name="C486V4" id="C486V4">6:4</a> But let each man test his own work, and then
he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor. <a name="C486V5"
id="C486V5">6:5</a> For each man will bear his own burden. <a name="C486V6"
id="C486V6">6:6</a> But let him who is taught in the word share all good
things with him who teaches. <a name="C486V7" id="C486V7">6:7</a> Don't be
deceived. Elohim is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also
reap. <a name="C486V8" id="C486V8">6:8</a> For he who sows to his own flesh
will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will
from the Spirit reap eternal life. <a name="C486V9" id="C486V9">6:9</a> Let us
not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't
give up. <a name="C486V10" id="C486V10">6:10</a> So then, as we have
opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward
those who are of the household of the faith.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C486V11" id="C486V11">6:11</a> See with what large letters I write to
you with my own hand. <a name="C486V12" id="C486V12">6:12</a> As many as
desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only
that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Messiah. <a name="C486V13"
id="C486V13">6:13</a> For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the
Torah themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may
boast in your flesh. <a name="C486V14" id="C486V14">6:14</a> But far be it
from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, through
which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. <a
name="C486V15" id="C486V15">6:15</a> For in Messiah Yeshua neither is
circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. <a
name="C486V16" id="C486V16">6:16</a> As many as walk by this rule, peace and
mercy be on them, and on Elohim's Yisrael. <a name="C486V17" id="C486V17">6:17</a>
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the
Lord Yeshua branded on my body.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C486V18" id="C486V18">6:18</a> The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be
with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N481" id="N481">[1]</a> <a href="#C481V2">back to 1:2</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N482" id="N482">[2]</a> <a href="#C483V8">back to 3:8</a> Genesis 12:3;
18:18; 22:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N483" id="N483">[3]</a> <a href="#C483V10">back to 3:10</a> Deuteronomy
27:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N484" id="N484">[4]</a> <a href="#C483V11">back to 3:11</a> Habakkuk
2:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N485" id="N485">[5]</a> <a href="#C483V12">back to 3:12</a> Leviticus
18:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N486" id="N486">[6]</a> <a href="#C483V13">back to 3:13</a> Deuteronomy
21:23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N487" id="N487">[7]</a> <a href="#C483V16">back to 3:16</a> Genesis
12:7; 13:15; 24:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N488" id="N488">[8]</a> <a href="#C484V6">back to 4:6</a> Abba is a
Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for "Father" or "Daddy"
used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N489" id="N489">[9]</a> <a href="#C484V27">back to 4:27</a> Isaiah 54:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4810" id="N4810">[10]</a> <a href="#C484V30">back to 4:30</a> Genesis
21:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4811" id="N4811">[11]</a> <a href="#C485V14">back to 5:14</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4812" id="N4812">[12]</a> <a href="#C485V22">back to 5:22</a> or,
faithfulness
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C011V1" id="C011V1">1:1</a> In the beginning <a href="#N011">Elohim</a>
created the heavens and the earth. <a name="C011V2" id="C011V2">1:2</a> Now
the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep.
Elohim's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V3" id="C011V3">1:3</a> Elohim said, "Let there be light,"
and there was light. <a name="C011V4" id="C011V4">1:4</a> Elohim saw the light,
and saw that it was good. Elohim divided the light from the darkness. <a
name="C011V5" id="C011V5">1:5</a> Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V6" id="C011V6">1:6</a> Elohim said, "Let there be an expanse
in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
<a name="C011V7" id="C011V7">1:7</a> Elohim made the expanse, and divided the
waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the
expanse; and it was so. <a name="C011V8" id="C011V8">1:8</a> Elohim called the
expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V9" id="C011V9">1:9</a> Elohim said, "Let the waters under the
sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;"
and it was so. <a name="C011V10" id="C011V10">1:10</a> Elohim called the dry land
Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. Elohim saw
that it was good. <a name="C011V11" id="C011V11">1:11</a> Elohim said, "Let
the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing
fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it
was so. <a name="C011V12" id="C011V12">1:12</a> The earth brought forth grass,
herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its
seed in it, after their kind; and Elohim saw that it was good. <a name="C011V13"
id="C011V13">1:13</a> There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V14" id="C011V14">1:14</a> Elohim said, "Let there be lights in
the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; <a name="C011V15" id="C011V15">1:15</a>
and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the
earth;" and it was so. <a name="C011V16" id="C011V16">1:16</a> Elohim made
the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night. He also made the stars. <a name="C011V17" id="C011V17">1:17</a>
Elohim set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, <a
name="C011V18" id="C011V18">1:18</a> and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness. Elohim saw that it was
good. <a name="C011V19" id="C011V19">1:19</a> There was evening and there was
morning, a fourth day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V20" id="C011V20">1:20</a> Elohim said, "Let the waters swarm
with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the
open expanse of sky." <a name="C011V21" id="C011V21">1:21</a> Elohim created
the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its
kind. Elohim saw that it was good. <a name="C011V22" id="C011V22">1:22</a> Elohim
blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters
in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." <a name="C011V23"
id="C011V23">1:23</a> There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V24" id="C011V24">1:24</a> Elohim said, "Let the earth bring
forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and
animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so. <a name="C011V25"
id="C011V25">1:25</a> Elohim made the animals of the earth after their kind,
and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the
ground after its kind. Elohim saw that it was good.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V26" id="C011V26">1:26</a> Elohim said, "Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
<a name="C011V27" id="C011V27">1:27</a> Elohim created man in his own image. In
Elohim's image he created him; male and female he created them. <a
name="C011V28" id="C011V28">1:28</a> Elohim blessed them. Elohim said to them,
"Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion
over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living
thing that moves on the earth." <a name="C011V29" id="C011V29">1:29</a>
Elohim said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which
is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit
yielding seed. It will be your food. <a name="C011V30" id="C011V30">1:30</a>
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to
everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given
every green herb for food;" and it was so.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V31" id="C011V31">1:31</a> Elohim saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a
sixth day.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N011" id="N011">[1]</a> <a href="#C011V1">back to 1:1</a> After
"Elohim," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the
first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V1" id="C012V1">2:1</a> The heavens and the earth were finished,
and all their vast array. <a name="C012V2" id="C012V2">2:2</a> On the seventh
day Elohim finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made. <a name="C012V3" id="C012V3">2:3</a>
Elohim blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it
from all his work which he had created and made.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V4" id="C012V4">2:4</a> This is the history of the generations of
the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that
Yahweh Elohim made the earth and the heavens. <a name="C012V5" id="C012V5">2:5</a>
No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had
yet sprung up; for Yahweh Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth.
There was not a man to till the ground, <a name="C012V6" id="C012V6">2:6</a>
but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the
ground. <a name="C012V7" id="C012V7">2:7</a> Yahweh Elohim formed man from the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul. <a name="C012V8" id="C012V8">2:8</a> Yahweh Elohim
planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had
formed. <a name="C012V9" id="C012V9">2:9</a> Out of the ground Yahweh Elohim made
every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. <a name="C012V10" id="C012V10">2:10</a> A river
went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and
became four heads. <a name="C012V11" id="C012V11">2:11</a> The name of the
first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold; <a name="C012V12" id="C012V12">2:12</a> and the
gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone. <a
name="C012V13" id="C012V13">2:13</a> The name of the second river is Gihon:
the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. <a name="C012V14"
id="C012V14">2:14</a> The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the
one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. <a
name="C012V15" id="C012V15">2:15</a> Yahweh Elohim took the man, and put him into
the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. <a name="C012V16" id="C012V16">2:16</a>
Yahweh Elohim commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden
you may freely eat; <a name="C012V17" id="C012V17">2:17</a> but of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day
that you eat of it you will surely die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V18" id="C012V18">2:18</a> Yahweh Elohim said, "It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
<a name="C012V19" id="C012V19">2:19</a> Out of the ground Yahweh Elohim formed
every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to
the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every
living creature, that was its name. <a name="C012V20" id="C012V20">2:20</a>
The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to
every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper
suitable for him. <a name="C012V21" id="C012V21">2:21</a> Yahweh Elohim caused a
deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh in its place. <a name="C012V22" id="C012V22">2:22</a>
He made the rib, which Yahweh Elohim had taken from the man, into a woman,
and brought her to the man. <a name="C012V23" id="C012V23">2:23</a> The man
said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will
be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." <a name="C012V24"
id="C012V24">2:24</a> Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother,
and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. <a name="C012V25"
id="C012V25">2:25</a> They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V1" id="C013V1">3:1</a> Now the serpent was more subtle than any
animal of the field which Yahweh Elohim had made. He said to the woman,
"Has Elohim really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V2" id="C013V2">3:2</a> The woman said to the serpent, "Of
the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, <a name="C013V3" id="C013V3">3:3</a>
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, Elohim has
said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V4" id="C013V4">3:4</a> The serpent said to the woman, "You
won't surely die, <a name="C013V5" id="C013V5">3:5</a> for Elohim knows that in
the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Elohim,
knowing good and evil."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V6" id="C013V6">3:6</a> When the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to
be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave
some to her husband with her, and he ate. <a name="C013V7" id="C013V7">3:7</a>
The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked.
They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. <a name="C013V8"
id="C013V8">3:8</a> They heard the voice of Yahweh Elohim walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of Yahweh Elohim among the trees of the garden.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V9" id="C013V9">3:9</a> Yahweh Elohim called to the man, and said to
him, "Where are you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V10" id="C013V10">3:10</a> The man said, "I heard your voice
in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V11" id="C013V11">3:11</a> Elohim said, "Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V12" id="C013V12">3:12</a> The man said, "The woman whom you
gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V13" id="C013V13">3:13</a> Yahweh Elohim said to the woman, "What
is this you have done?"
</p>
<p>
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V14" id="C013V14">3:14</a> Yahweh Elohim said to the serpent, "Because
you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every
animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust
all the days of your life. <a name="C013V15" id="C013V15">3:15</a> I will put
enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her
offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V16" id="C013V16">3:16</a> To the woman he said, "I will
greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth
children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V17" id="C013V17">3:17</a> To Adam he said, "Because you
have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for
your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. <a
name="C013V18" id="C013V18">3:18</a> Thorns also and thistles will it bring
forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. <a name="C013V19"
id="C013V19">3:19</a> By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you
return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and
to dust you shall return."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V20" id="C013V20">3:20</a> The man called his wife Chavah, because
she was the mother of all living. <a name="C013V21" id="C013V21">3:21</a>
Yahweh Elohim made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed
them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V22" id="C013V22">3:22</a> Yahweh Elohim said, "Behold, the man
has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth
his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
<a name="C013V23" id="C013V23">3:23</a> Therefore Yahweh Elohim sent him forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. <a
name="C013V24" id="C013V24">3:24</a> So he drove out the man; and he placed
Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which
turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V1" id="C014V1">4:1</a> The man knew Chavah his wife. She conceived,
and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's
help." <a name="C014V2" id="C014V2">4:2</a> Again she gave birth, to
Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of
the ground. <a name="C014V3" id="C014V3">4:3</a> As time passed, it happened
that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. <a
name="C014V4" id="C014V4">4:4</a> Abel also brought some of the firstborn of
his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, <a
name="C014V5" id="C014V5">4:5</a> but he didn't respect Cain and his offering.
Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. <a name="C014V6"
id="C014V6">4:6</a> Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has
the expression of your face fallen? <a name="C014V7" id="C014V7">4:7</a> If
you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches
at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it." <a
name="C014V8" id="C014V8">4:8</a> Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's
go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that
Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V9" id="C014V9">4:9</a> Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel,
your brother?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V10" id="C014V10">4:10</a> Yahweh said, "What have you done?
The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. <a
name="C014V11" id="C014V11">4:11</a> Now you are cursed because of the ground,
which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
<a name="C014V12" id="C014V12">4:12</a> From now on, when you till the ground,
it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer
in the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V13" id="C014V13">4:13</a> Cain said to Yahweh, "My
punishment is greater than I can bear. <a name="C014V14" id="C014V14">4:14</a>
Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I
will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in
the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V15" id="C014V15">4:15</a> Yahweh said to him, "Therefore
whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh
appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V16" id="C014V16">4:16</a> Cain went out from Yahweh's presence,
and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. <a name="C014V17" id="C014V17">4:17</a>
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a
city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
<a name="C014V18" id="C014V18">4:18</a> To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became
the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael.
Methushael became the father of Lamech. <a name="C014V19" id="C014V19">4:19</a>
Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the
other Zillah. <a name="C014V20" id="C014V20">4:20</a> Adah gave birth to
Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
<a name="C014V21" id="C014V21">4:21</a> His brother's name was Jubal, who was
the father of all who handle the harp and pipe. <a name="C014V22" id="C014V22">4:22</a>
Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting
instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah. <a
name="C014V23" id="C014V23">4:23</a> Lamech said to his wives,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
</dt>
<dd>
You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
</dd>
<dt>
for I have slain a man for wounding me,
</dt>
<dd>
a young man for bruising me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C014V24" id="C014V24">4:24</a> If Cain will be avenged seven times,
</dt>
<dd>
truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C014V25" id="C014V25">4:25</a> Adam knew his wife again. She gave
birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for Elohim has appointed me another
child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him." <a name="C014V26"
id="C014V26">4:26</a> There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him
Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V1" id="C015V1">5:1</a> This is the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that Elohim created man, he made him in Elohim's likeness. <a
name="C015V2" id="C015V2">5:2</a> He created them male and female, and blessed
them, and called their name <a href="#N012">Adam,</a> in the day when they
were created. <a name="C015V3" id="C015V3">5:3</a> Adam lived one hundred
thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after
his image, and named him Seth. <a name="C015V4" id="C015V4">5:4</a> The days
of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and
he became the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V5" id="C015V5">5:5</a>
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V6" id="C015V6">5:6</a> Seth lived one hundred five years, and
became the father of Enosh. <a name="C015V7" id="C015V7">5:7</a> Seth lived
after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became
the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V8" id="C015V8">5:8</a> All the
days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V9" id="C015V9">5:9</a> Enosh lived ninety years, and became the
father of Kenan. <a name="C015V10" id="C015V10">5:10</a> Enosh lived after he
became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the
father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V11" id="C015V11">5:11</a> All the
days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V12" id="C015V12">5:12</a> Kenan lived seventy years, and became
the father of Mahalalel. <a name="C015V13" id="C015V13">5:13</a> Kenan lived
after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and
became the father of sons and daughters <a name="C015V14" id="C015V14">5:14</a>
and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V15" id="C015V15">5:15</a> Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and
became the father of Jared. <a name="C015V16" id="C015V16">5:16</a> Mahalalel
lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and
became the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V17" id="C015V17">5:17</a>
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he
died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V18" id="C015V18">5:18</a> Jared lived one hundred sixty-two
years, and became the father of Enoch. <a name="C015V19" id="C015V19">5:19</a>
Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and
became the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V20" id="C015V20">5:20</a>
All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V21" id="C015V21">5:21</a> Enoch lived sixty-five years, and
became the father of Methuselah. <a name="C015V22" id="C015V22">5:22</a> Enoch
walked with Elohim after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred
years, and became the father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V23"
id="C015V23">5:23</a> All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five
years. <a name="C015V24" id="C015V24">5:24</a> Enoch walked with Elohim, and he
was not, for Elohim took him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V25" id="C015V25">5:25</a> Methuselah lived one hundred
eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech. <a name="C015V26"
id="C015V26">5:26</a> Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech
seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and
daughters. <a name="C015V27" id="C015V27">5:27</a> All the days of Methuselah
were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V28" id="C015V28">5:28</a> Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two
years, and became the father of a son, <a name="C015V29" id="C015V29">5:29</a>
and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work
and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has
cursed." <a name="C015V30" id="C015V30">5:30</a> Lamech lived after he
became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the
father of sons and daughters. <a name="C015V31" id="C015V31">5:31</a> All the
days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V32" id="C015V32">5:32</a> Noah was five hundred years old, and
Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N012" id="N012">[2]</a> <a href="#C015V2">back to 5:2</a> "Adam"
and "Man" are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew,
so this can be correctly translated either way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V1" id="C016V1">6:1</a> It happened, when men began to multiply
on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, <a
name="C016V2" id="C016V2">6:2</a> that Elohim's sons saw that men's daughters
were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
<a name="C016V3" id="C016V3">6:3</a> Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not
strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be
one hundred twenty years." <a name="C016V4" id="C016V4">6:4</a> The
Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when Elohim's
sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were
the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V5" id="C016V5">6:5</a> Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually. <a name="C016V6" id="C016V6">6:6</a> Yahweh
was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his
heart. <a name="C016V7" id="C016V7">6:7</a> Yahweh said, "I will destroy
man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with
animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have
made them." <a name="C016V8" id="C016V8">6:8</a> But Noah found favor in
Yahweh's eyes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V9" id="C016V9">6:9</a> This is the history of the generations of
Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time.
Noah walked with Elohim. <a name="C016V10" id="C016V10">6:10</a> Noah became the
father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. <a name="C016V11" id="C016V11">6:11</a>
The earth was corrupt before Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence.
<a name="C016V12" id="C016V12">6:12</a> Elohim saw the earth, and saw that it was
corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V13" id="C016V13">6:13</a> Elohim said to Noah, "The end of all
flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through
them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. <a name="C016V14"
id="C016V14">6:14</a> Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in
the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. <a name="C016V15"
id="C016V15">6:15</a> This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship
will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height
thirty cubits. <a name="C016V16" id="C016V16">6:16</a> You shall make a roof
in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the
door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and
third levels. <a name="C016V17" id="C016V17">6:17</a> I, even I, do bring the
flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of
life from under the sky. Chavahrything that is in the earth will die. <a
name="C016V18" id="C016V18">6:18</a> But I will establish my covenant with
you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your
sons' wives with you. <a name="C016V19" id="C016V19">6:19</a> Of every living
thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to
keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. <a name="C016V20"
id="C016V20">6:20</a> Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of
every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. <a name="C016V21"
id="C016V21">6:21</a> Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it
to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them." <a
name="C016V22" id="C016V22">6:22</a> Thus Noah did. According to all that Elohim
commanded him, so he did.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V1" id="C017V1">7:1</a> Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all
of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before
me in this generation. <a name="C017V2" id="C017V2">7:2</a> You shall take
seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of
the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. <a
name="C017V3" id="C017V3">7:3</a> Also of the birds of the sky, seven and
seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the
earth. <a name="C017V4" id="C017V4">7:4</a> In seven days, I will cause it to
rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Chavahry living thing that
I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V5" id="C017V5">7:5</a> Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V6" id="C017V6">7:6</a> Noah was six hundred years old when the
flood of waters came on the earth. <a name="C017V7" id="C017V7">7:7</a> Noah
went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because
of the waters of the flood. <a name="C017V8" id="C017V8">7:8</a> Clean
animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on
the ground <a name="C017V9" id="C017V9">7:9</a> went by pairs to Noah into the
ship, male and female, as Elohim commanded Noah. <a name="C017V10" id="C017V10">7:10</a>
It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the
earth. <a name="C017V11" id="C017V11">7:11</a> In the six hundredth year of
Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on
the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the
sky's windows were opened. <a name="C017V12" id="C017V12">7:12</a> The rain
was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V13" id="C017V13">7:13</a> In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
sons with them, entered into the ship; <a name="C017V14" id="C017V14">7:14</a>
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind,
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every
bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. <a name="C017V15" id="C017V15">7:15</a>
They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of
life in them. <a name="C017V16" id="C017V16">7:16</a> Those who went in, went
in male and female of all flesh, as Elohim commanded him; and Yahweh shut him
in. <a name="C017V17" id="C017V17">7:17</a> The flood was forty days on the
earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up
above the earth. <a name="C017V18" id="C017V18">7:18</a> The waters prevailed,
and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of
the waters. <a name="C017V19" id="C017V19">7:19</a> The waters prevailed
exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole
sky were covered. <a name="C017V20" id="C017V20">7:20</a> The waters prevailed
fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. <a name="C017V21"
id="C017V21">7:21</a> All flesh died that moved on the earth, including
birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,
and every man. <a name="C017V22" id="C017V22">7:22</a> All in whose nostrils
was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land,
died. <a name="C017V23" id="C017V23">7:23</a> Chavahry living thing was destroyed
that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping
things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only
Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. <a name="C017V24"
id="C017V24">7:24</a> The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty
days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V1" id="C018V1">8:1</a> Elohim remembered Noah, all the animals, and
all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and Elohim made a wind to
pass over the earth. The waters subsided. <a name="C018V2" id="C018V2">8:2</a>
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain
from the sky was restrained. <a name="C018V3" id="C018V3">8:3</a> The waters
receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty
days the waters decreased. <a name="C018V4" id="C018V4">8:4</a> The ship
rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on
Ararat's mountains. <a name="C018V5" id="C018V5">8:5</a> The waters receded
continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of
the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V6" id="C018V6">8:6</a> It happened at the end of forty days,
that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, <a name="C018V7"
id="C018V7">8:7</a> and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until
the waters were dried up from the earth. <a name="C018V8" id="C018V8">8:8</a>
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the
surface of the ground, <a name="C018V9" id="C018V9">8:9</a> but the dove found
no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the
waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and
took her, and brought her to him into the ship. <a name="C018V10" id="C018V10">8:10</a>
He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ship. <a name="C018V11" id="C018V11">8:11</a> The dove came back to him at
evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah
knew that the waters were abated from the earth. <a name="C018V12" id="C018V12">8:12</a>
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't
return to him any more.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V13" id="C018V13">8:13</a> It happened in the six hundred first
year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were
dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and
looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. <a name="C018V14"
id="C018V14">8:14</a> In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the
month, the earth was dry.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V15" id="C018V15">8:15</a> Elohim spoke to Noah, saying, <a
name="C018V16" id="C018V16">8:16</a> "Go out of the ship, you, and your
wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. <a name="C018V17"
id="C018V17">8:17</a> Bring forth with you every living thing that is with
you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and
be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V18" id="C018V18">8:18</a> Noah went forth, with his sons, his
wife, and his sons' wives with him. <a name="C018V19" id="C018V19">8:19</a>
Chavahry animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the
earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V20" id="C018V20">8:20</a> Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and
took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar. <a name="C018V21" id="C018V21">8:21</a> Yahweh smelled
the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything
living, as I have done. <a name="C018V22" id="C018V22">8:22</a> While the
earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V1" id="C019V1">9:1</a> Elohim blessed Noah and his sons, and said
to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. <a
name="C019V2" id="C019V2">9:2</a> The fear of you and the dread of you will be
on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Chavahrything
that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into
your hand. <a name="C019V3" id="C019V3">9:3</a> Chavahry moving thing that lives
will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
<a name="C019V4" id="C019V4">9:4</a> But flesh with its life, its blood, you
shall not eat. <a name="C019V5" id="C019V5">9:5</a> I will surely require your
blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the
hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the
life of man. <a name="C019V6" id="C019V6">9:6</a> Whoever sheds man's blood,
his blood will be shed by man, for Elohim made man in his own image. <a
name="C019V7" id="C019V7">9:7</a> Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V8" id="C019V8">9:8</a> Elohim spoke to Noah and to his sons with
him, saying, <a name="C019V9" id="C019V9">9:9</a> "As for me, behold, I
establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, <a
name="C019V10" id="C019V10">9:10</a> and with every living creature that is
with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with
you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. <a
name="C019V11" id="C019V11">9:11</a> I will establish my covenant with you:
all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither
will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth." <a
name="C019V12" id="C019V12">9:12</a> Elohim said, "This is the token of the
covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is
with you, for perpetual generations: <a name="C019V13" id="C019V13">9:13</a> I
set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant
between me and the earth. <a name="C019V14" id="C019V14">9:14</a> It will
happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen
in the cloud, <a name="C019V15" id="C019V15">9:15</a> and I will remember my
covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all
flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. <a
name="C019V16" id="C019V16">9:16</a> The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will
look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and
every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." <a
name="C019V17" id="C019V17">9:17</a> Elohim said to Noah, "This is the token
of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is
on the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V18" id="C019V18">9:18</a> The sons of Noah who went forth from
the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. <a
name="C019V19" id="C019V19">9:19</a> These three were the sons of Noah, and
from these, the whole earth was populated.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V20" id="C019V20">9:20</a> Noah began to be a farmer, and planted
a vineyard. <a name="C019V21" id="C019V21">9:21</a> He drank of the wine and
got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. <a name="C019V22" id="C019V22">9:22</a>
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his
two brothers outside. <a name="C019V23" id="C019V23">9:23</a> Shem and Japheth
took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards,
and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and
they didn't see their father's nakedness. <a name="C019V24" id="C019V24">9:24</a>
Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
<a name="C019V25" id="C019V25">9:25</a> He said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Canaan is cursed.
</dt>
<dt>
He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C019V26" id="C019V26">9:26</a> He said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of Shem.
</dt>
<dt>
Let Canaan be his servant.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C019V27" id="C019V27">9:27</a> May Elohim enlarge Japheth.
</dt>
<dt>
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
</dt>
<dt>
Let Canaan be his servant."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C019V28" id="C019V28">9:28</a> Noah lived three hundred fifty years
after the flood. <a name="C019V29" id="C019V29">9:29</a> All the days of Noah
were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V1" id="C0110V1">10:1</a> Now this is the history of the
generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were
born to them after the flood.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V2" id="C0110V2">10:2</a> The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog,
Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. <a name="C0110V3" id="C0110V3">10:3</a>
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. <a name="C0110V4"
id="C0110V4">10:4</a> The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim. <a name="C0110V5" id="C0110V5">10:5</a> Of these were the islands of
the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after
their families, in their nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V6" id="C0110V6">10:6</a> The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put,
and Canaan. <a name="C0110V7" id="C0110V7">10:7</a> The sons of Cush: Seba,
Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
<a name="C0110V8" id="C0110V8">10:8</a> Cush became the father of Nimrod. He
began to be a mighty one in the earth. <a name="C0110V9" id="C0110V9">10:9</a>
He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like
Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh." <a name="C0110V10" id="C0110V10">10:10</a>
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the
land of Shinar. <a name="C0110V11" id="C0110V11">10:11</a> Out of that land he
went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, <a
name="C0110V12" id="C0110V12">10:12</a> and Resen between Nineveh and Calah
(the same is the great city). <a name="C0110V13" id="C0110V13">10:13</a>
Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, <a
name="C0110V14" id="C0110V14">10:14</a> Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the
Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V15" id="C0110V15">10:15</a> Canaan became the father of Sidon
(his firstborn), Heth, <a name="C0110V16" id="C0110V16">10:16</a> the
Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, <a name="C0110V17" id="C0110V17">10:17</a>
the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, <a name="C0110V18" id="C0110V18">10:18</a>
the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of
the Canaanites were spread abroad. <a name="C0110V19" id="C0110V19">10:19</a>
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to
Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha. <a
name="C0110V20" id="C0110V20">10:20</a> These are the sons of Ham, after their
families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V21" id="C0110V21">10:21</a> To Shem, the father of all the
children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children
born. <a name="C0110V22" id="C0110V22">10:22</a> The sons of Shem: Elam,
Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. <a name="C0110V23" id="C0110V23">10:23</a>
The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. <a name="C0110V24" id="C0110V24">10:24</a>
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
<a name="C0110V25" id="C0110V25">10:25</a> To Eber were born two sons. The
name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His
brother's name was Joktan. <a name="C0110V26" id="C0110V26">10:26</a> Joktan
became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, <a name="C0110V27"
id="C0110V27">10:27</a> Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, <a name="C0110V28" id="C0110V28">10:28</a>
Obal, Abimael, Sheba, <a name="C0110V29" id="C0110V29">10:29</a> Ophir,
Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. <a name="C0110V30"
id="C0110V30">10:30</a> Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward
Sephar, the mountain of the east. <a name="C0110V31" id="C0110V31">10:31</a>
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages,
in their lands, after their nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V32" id="C0110V32">10:32</a> These are the families of the sons
of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the
nations divided in the earth after the flood.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V1" id="C0111V1">11:1</a> The whole earth was of one language
and of one speech. <a name="C0111V2" id="C0111V2">11:2</a> It happened, as
they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and
they lived there. <a name="C0111V3" id="C0111V3">11:3</a> They said one to
another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly."
They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. <a name="C0111V4"
id="C0111V4">11:4</a> They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city,
and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name,
lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V5" id="C0111V5">11:5</a> Yahweh came down to see the city and
the tower, which the children of men built. <a name="C0111V6" id="C0111V6">11:6</a>
Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one
language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld
from them, which they intend to do. <a name="C0111V7" id="C0111V7">11:7</a>
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech." <a name="C0111V8" id="C0111V8">11:8</a>
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the
earth. They stopped building the city. <a name="C0111V9" id="C0111V9">11:9</a>
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the
language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the
surface of all the earth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V10" id="C0111V10">11:10</a> This is the history of the
generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father
of Arpachshad two years after the flood. <a name="C0111V11" id="C0111V11">11:11</a>
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V12" id="C0111V12">11:12</a> Arpachshad lived thirty-five years
and became the father of Shelah. <a name="C0111V13" id="C0111V13">11:13</a>
Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of
Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V14" id="C0111V14">11:14</a> Shelah lived thirty years, and
became the father of Eber: <a name="C0111V15" id="C0111V15">11:15</a> and
Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber,
and became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V16" id="C0111V16">11:16</a> Eber lived thirty-four years, and
became the father of Peleg. <a name="C0111V17" id="C0111V17">11:17</a> Eber
lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and
became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V18" id="C0111V18">11:18</a> Peleg lived thirty years, and
became the father of Reu. <a name="C0111V19" id="C0111V19">11:19</a> Peleg
lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became
the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V20" id="C0111V20">11:20</a> Reu lived thirty-two years, and
became the father of Serug. <a name="C0111V21" id="C0111V21">11:21</a> Reu
lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and
became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V22" id="C0111V22">11:22</a> Serug lived thirty years, and
became the father of Nahor. <a name="C0111V23" id="C0111V23">11:23</a> Serug
lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became
the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V24" id="C0111V24">11:24</a> Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and
became the father of Terah. <a name="C0111V25" id="C0111V25">11:25</a> Nahor
lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and
became the father of sons and daughters.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V26" id="C0111V26">11:26</a> Terah lived seventy years, and
became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V27" id="C0111V27">11:27</a> Now this is the history of the
generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Avram, Nahor, and Haran.
Haran became the father of Lot. <a name="C0111V28" id="C0111V28">11:28</a>
Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the
Chaldees. <a name="C0111V29" id="C0111V29">11:29</a> Avram and Nahor took
wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife,
Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. <a
name="C0111V30" id="C0111V30">11:30</a> Sarai was barren. She had no child. <a
name="C0111V31" id="C0111V31">11:31</a> Terah took Avram his son, Lot the son
of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's
wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. <a name="C0111V32" id="C0111V32">11:32</a>
The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V1" id="C0112V1">12:1</a> Now Yahweh said to Avram, "Get
out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's
house, to the land that I will show you. <a name="C0112V2" id="C0112V2">12:2</a>
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name
great. You will be a blessing. <a name="C0112V3" id="C0112V3">12:3</a> I will
bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you
will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V4" id="C0112V4">12:4</a> So Avram went, as Yahweh had spoken to
him. Lot went with him. Avram was seventy-five years old when he departed
out of Haran. <a name="C0112V5" id="C0112V5">12:5</a> Avram took Sarai his
wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered,
and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go
into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came. <a name="C0112V6"
id="C0112V6">12:6</a> Avram passed through the land to the place of Shechem,
to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V7" id="C0112V7">12:7</a> Yahweh appeared to Avram and said,
"I will give this land to your <a href="#N013">seed</a>."
</p>
<p>
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. <a name="C0112V8"
id="C0112V8">12:8</a> He left from there to the mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the
east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
<a name="C0112V9" id="C0112V9">12:9</a> Avram traveled, going on still toward
the South.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V10" id="C0112V10">12:10</a> There was a famine in the land.
Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine
was severe in the land. <a name="C0112V11" id="C0112V11">12:11</a> It
happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his
wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. <a
name="C0112V12" id="C0112V12">12:12</a> It will happen, when the Egyptians
will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me,
but they will save you alive. <a name="C0112V13" id="C0112V13">12:13</a>
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your
sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V14" id="C0112V14">12:14</a> It happened that when Avram had
come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. <a
name="C0112V15" id="C0112V15">12:15</a> The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and
praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. <a
name="C0112V16" id="C0112V16">12:16</a> He dealt well with Avram for her sake.
He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female
donkeys, and camels. <a name="C0112V17" id="C0112V17">12:17</a> Yahweh plagued
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Avram's wife.
<a name="C0112V18" id="C0112V18">12:18</a> Pharaoh called Avram and said,
"What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that
she was your wife? <a name="C0112V19" id="C0112V19">12:19</a> Why did you say,
'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see
your wife, take her, and go your way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V20" id="C0112V20">12:20</a> Pharaoh commanded men concerning
him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N013" id="N013">[3]</a> <a href="#C0112V7">back to 12:7</a> or,
offspring
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V1" id="C0113V1">13:1</a> Avram went up out of Egypt: he, his
wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. <a name="C0113V2"
id="C0113V2">13:2</a> Avram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in
gold. <a name="C0113V3" id="C0113V3">13:3</a> He went on his journeys from the
South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Ai, <a name="C0113V4" id="C0113V4">13:4</a> to
the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram
called on the name of Yahweh. <a name="C0113V5" id="C0113V5">13:5</a> Lot
also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. <a
name="C0113V6" id="C0113V6">13:6</a> The land was not able to bear them, that
they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not live together. <a name="C0113V7" id="C0113V7">13:7</a> There was a
strife between the herdsmen of Avram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's
livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that
time. <a name="C0113V8" id="C0113V8">13:8</a> Avram said to Lot, "Please,
let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and
your herdsmen; for we are relatives. <a name="C0113V9" id="C0113V9">13:9</a>
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you
go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the
right hand, then I will go to the left."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V10" id="C0113V10">13:10</a> Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all
the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before
Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the
land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. <a name="C0113V11" id="C0113V11">13:11</a>
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and
they separated themselves the one from the other. <a name="C0113V12"
id="C0113V12">13:12</a> Avram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in
the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. <a
name="C0113V13" id="C0113V13">13:13</a> Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly
wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V14" id="C0113V14">13:14</a> Yahweh said to Avram, after Lot was
separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place
where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, <a
name="C0113V15" id="C0113V15">13:15</a> for all the land which you see, I will
give to you, and to your offspring forever. <a name="C0113V16" id="C0113V16">13:16</a>
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered. <a
name="C0113V17" id="C0113V17">13:17</a> Arise, walk through the land in its
length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V18" id="C0113V18">13:18</a> Avram moved his tent, and came and
lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there
to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V1" id="C0114V1">14:1</a> It happened in the days of Amraphel,
king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and
Tidal, king of Goiim, <a name="C0114V2" id="C0114V2">14:2</a> that they made
war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab,
king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the
same is Zoar). <a name="C0114V3" id="C0114V3">14:3</a> All these joined
together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea). <a
name="C0114V4" id="C0114V4">14:4</a> Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer,
and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled. <a name="C0114V5" id="C0114V5">14:5</a>
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him,
and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the
Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, <a name="C0114V6" id="C0114V6">14:6</a> and the
Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness. <a
name="C0114V7" id="C0114V7">14:7</a> They returned, and came to En Mishpat
(the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and
also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar. <a name="C0114V8" id="C0114V8">14:8</a>
The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and
the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and
they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; <a
name="C0114V9" id="C0114V9">14:9</a> against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings against the five. <a name="C0114V10" id="C0114V10">14:10</a>
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the
hills. <a name="C0114V11" id="C0114V11">14:11</a> They took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. <a
name="C0114V12" id="C0114V12">14:12</a> They took Lot, Avram's brother's son,
who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V13" id="C0114V13">14:13</a> One who had escaped came and told
Avram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother
of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Avram. <a
name="C0114V14" id="C0114V14">14:14</a> When Avram heard that his relative was
taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. <a name="C0114V15"
id="C0114V15">14:15</a> He divided himself against them by night, he and his
servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left
hand of Damascus. <a name="C0114V16" id="C0114V16">14:16</a> He brought back
all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and
the women also, and the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V17" id="C0114V17">14:17</a> The king of Sodom went out to meet
him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who
were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). <a
name="C0114V18" id="C0114V18">14:18</a> Melchizedek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine: and he was priest of Elohim Most High. <a name="C0114V19"
id="C0114V19">14:19</a> He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Avram of
Elohim Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: <a name="C0114V20" id="C0114V20">14:20</a>
and blessed be Elohim Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your
hand."
</p>
<p>
Avram gave him a tenth of all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V21" id="C0114V21">14:21</a> The king of Sodom said to Avram,
"Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V22" id="C0114V22">14:22</a> Avram said to the king of Sodom,
"I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, Elohim Most High, possessor of
heaven and earth, <a name="C0114V23" id="C0114V23">14:23</a> that I will not
take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you
should say, 'I have made Avram rich.' <a name="C0114V24" id="C0114V24">14:24</a>
I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten,
and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let
them take their portion."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V1" id="C0115V1">15:1</a> After these things the word of Yahweh
came to Avram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your
shield, your exceedingly great reward."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V2" id="C0115V2">15:2</a> Avram said, "Lord Yahweh, what
will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate
is Eliezer of Damascus?" <a name="C0115V3" id="C0115V3">15:3</a> Avram
said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in
my house is my heir."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V4" id="C0115V4">15:4</a> Behold, the word of Yahweh came to
him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come
forth out of your own body will be your heir." <a name="C0115V5"
id="C0115V5">15:5</a> Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now
toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them."
He said to Avram, "So shall your seed be." <a name="C0115V6"
id="C0115V6">15:6</a> He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for
righteousness. <a name="C0115V7" id="C0115V7">15:7</a> He said to him, "I
am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land
to inherit it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V8" id="C0115V8">15:8</a> He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I
know that I will inherit it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V9" id="C0115V9">15:9</a> He said to him, "Bring me a
heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years
old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." <a name="C0115V10" id="C0115V10">15:10</a>
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each
half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds. <a name="C0115V11"
id="C0115V11">15:11</a> The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and
Avram drove them away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V12" id="C0115V12">15:12</a> When the sun was going down, a deep
sleep fell on Avram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. <a
name="C0115V13" id="C0115V13">15:13</a> He said to Avram, "Know for sure
that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and
will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. <a
name="C0115V14" id="C0115V14">15:14</a> I will also judge that nation, whom
they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth, <a
name="C0115V15" id="C0115V15">15:15</a> but you will go to your fathers in
peace. You will be buried in a good old age. <a name="C0115V16" id="C0115V16">15:16</a>
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of
the Amorite is not yet full." <a name="C0115V17" id="C0115V17">15:17</a>
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a
smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. <a
name="C0115V18" id="C0115V18">15:18</a> In that day Yahweh made a covenant
with Avram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the
river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: <a name="C0115V19"
id="C0115V19">15:19</a> the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, <a
name="C0115V20" id="C0115V20">15:20</a> the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Rephaim, <a name="C0115V21" id="C0115V21">15:21</a> the Amorites, the
Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V1" id="C0116V1">16:1</a> Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no
children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. <a
name="C0116V2" id="C0116V2">16:2</a> Sarai said to Avram, "See now,
Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may
be that I will obtain children by her." Avram listened to the voice
of Sarai. <a name="C0116V3" id="C0116V3">16:3</a> Sarai, Avram's wife, took
Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the
land of Canaan, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife. <a
name="C0116V4" id="C0116V4">16:4</a> He went in to Hagar, and she conceived.
When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes. <a name="C0116V5" id="C0116V5">16:5</a> Sarai said to Avram, "This
wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw
that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between
me and you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V6" id="C0116V6">16:6</a> But Avram said to Sarai, "Behold,
your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes."
Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V7" id="C0116V7">16:7</a> The malakim of Yahweh found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
<a name="C0116V8" id="C0116V8">16:8</a> He said, "Hagar, Sarai's
handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?"
</p>
<p>
She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V9" id="C0116V9">16:9</a> The malakim of Yahweh said to her,
"Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
<a name="C0116V10" id="C0116V10">16:10</a> The malakim of Yahweh said to her,
"I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered
for multitude." <a name="C0116V11" id="C0116V11">16:11</a> The malakim of
Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
<a name="C0116V12" id="C0116V12">16:12</a> He will be like a wild donkey among
men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
He will live opposite all of his brothers."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V13" id="C0116V13">16:13</a> She called the name of Yahweh who
spoke to her, "You are a Elohim who sees," for she said, "Have
I even stayed alive after seeing him?" <a name="C0116V14" id="C0116V14">16:14</a>
Therefore the well was called <a href="#N014">Beer Lahai Roi.</a> Behold,
it is between Kadesh and Bered.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V15" id="C0116V15">16:15</a> Hagar bore a son for Avram. Avram
called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. <a name="C0116V16"
id="C0116V16">16:16</a> Avram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore
Ishmael to Avram.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N014" id="N014">[4]</a> <a href="#C0116V14">back to 16:14</a> Beer
Lahai Roi means "well of the one who lives and sees me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V1" id="C0117V1">17:1</a> When Avram was ninety-nine years old,
Yahweh appeared to Avram, and said to him, "I am Elohim Almighty. Walk
before me, and be blameless. <a name="C0117V2" id="C0117V2">17:2</a> I will
make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V3" id="C0117V3">17:3</a> Avram fell on his face. Elohim talked
with him, saying, <a name="C0117V4" id="C0117V4">17:4</a> "As for me,
behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of
nations. <a name="C0117V5" id="C0117V5">17:5</a> Neither will your name any
more be called Avram, but your name will be Avraham; for I have made you
the father of a multitude of nations. <a name="C0117V6" id="C0117V6">17:6</a>
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you.
Kings will come out of you. <a name="C0117V7" id="C0117V7">17:7</a> I will
establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you
throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a Elohim to
you and to your seed after you. <a name="C0117V8" id="C0117V8">17:8</a> I will
give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling,
all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their
Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V9" id="C0117V9">17:9</a> Elohim said to Avraham, "As for you,
you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their
generations. <a name="C0117V10" id="C0117V10">17:10</a> This is my covenant,
which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Chavahry
male among you shall be circumcised. <a name="C0117V11" id="C0117V11">17:11</a>
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token
of the covenant between me and you. <a name="C0117V12" id="C0117V12">17:12</a>
He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male
throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with
money from any foreigner who is not of your seed. <a name="C0117V13"
id="C0117V13">17:13</a> He who is born in your house, and he who is bought
with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh
for an everlasting covenant. <a name="C0117V14" id="C0117V14">17:14</a> The
uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,
that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V15" id="C0117V15">17:15</a> Elohim said to Avraham, "As for
Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be
Sarah. <a name="C0117V16" id="C0117V16">17:16</a> I will bless her, and
moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will
be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V17" id="C0117V17">17:17</a> Then Avraham fell on his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is
one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
<a name="C0117V18" id="C0117V18">17:18</a> Avraham said to Elohim, "Oh that
Ishmael might live before you!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V19" id="C0117V19">17:19</a> Elohim said, "No, but Sarah, your
wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name <a href="#N015">Isaac.</a>
I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his
seed after him. <a name="C0117V20" id="C0117V20">17:20</a> As for Ishmael, I
have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful,
and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve
princes, and I will make him a great nation. <a name="C0117V21" id="C0117V21">17:21</a>
But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at
this set time next year."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V22" id="C0117V22">17:22</a> When he finished talking with him,
Elohim went up from Avraham. <a name="C0117V23" id="C0117V23">17:23</a> Avraham
took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were
bought with his money; every male among the men of Avraham's house, and
circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as Elohim had said
to him. <a name="C0117V24" id="C0117V24">17:24</a> Avraham was ninety-nine
years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. <a
name="C0117V25" id="C0117V25">17:25</a> Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years
old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. <a name="C0117V26"
id="C0117V26">17:26</a> In the same day both Avraham and Ishmael, his son,
were circumcised. <a name="C0117V27" id="C0117V27">17:27</a> All the men of
his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a
foreigner, were circumcised with him.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N015" id="N015">[5]</a> <a href="#C0117V19">back to 17:19</a> Isaac
means "he laughs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V1" id="C0118V1">18:1</a> Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of
Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. <a name="C0118V2"
id="C0118V2">18:2</a> He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three
men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the
tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, <a name="C0118V3" id="C0118V3">18:3</a>
and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please
don't go away from your servant. <a name="C0118V4" id="C0118V4">18:4</a> Now
let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under
the tree. <a name="C0118V5" id="C0118V5">18:5</a> I will get a morsel of bread
so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that
you have come to your servant."
</p>
<p>
They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V6" id="C0118V6">18:6</a> Avraham hurried into the tent to
Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal,
knead it, and make cakes." <a name="C0118V7" id="C0118V7">18:7</a>
Avraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it
to the servant. He hurried to dress it. <a name="C0118V8" id="C0118V8">18:8</a>
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before
them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V9" id="C0118V9">18:9</a> They said to him, "Where is
Sarah, your wife?
</p>
<p>
He said, "See, in the tent."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V10" id="C0118V10">18:10</a> He said, "I will certainly
return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will
have a son."
</p>
<p>
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. <a name="C0118V11"
id="C0118V11">18:11</a> Now Avraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in
age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. <a
name="C0118V12" id="C0118V12">18:12</a> Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
"After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V13" id="C0118V13">18:13</a> Yahweh said to Avraham, "Why
did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' <a
name="C0118V14" id="C0118V14">18:14</a> Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At
the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah
will have a son."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V15" id="C0118V15">18:15</a> Then Sarah denied, saying, "I
didn't laugh," for she was afraid.
</p>
<p>
He said, "No, but you did laugh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V16" id="C0118V16">18:16</a> The men rose up from there, and
looked toward Sodom. Avraham went with them to see them on their way. <a
name="C0118V17" id="C0118V17">18:17</a> Yahweh said, "Will I hide from
Avraham what I do, <a name="C0118V18" id="C0118V18">18:18</a> seeing that
Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations
of the earth will be blessed in him? <a name="C0118V19" id="C0118V19">18:19</a>
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his
household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do
righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Avraham
that which he has spoken of him." <a name="C0118V20" id="C0118V20">18:20</a>
Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is very grievous, <a name="C0118V21" id="C0118V21">18:21</a>
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports
which have come to me. If not, I will know."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V22" id="C0118V22">18:22</a> The men turned from there, and went
toward Sodom, but Avraham stood yet before Yahweh. <a name="C0118V23"
id="C0118V23">18:23</a> Avraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume
the righteous with the wicked? <a name="C0118V24" id="C0118V24">18:24</a> What
if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? <a name="C0118V25"
id="C0118V25">18:25</a> Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill
the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the
wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do
right?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V26" id="C0118V26">18:26</a> Yahweh said, "If I find in
Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for
their sake." <a name="C0118V27" id="C0118V27">18:27</a> Avraham answered,
"See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but
dust and ashes. <a name="C0118V28" id="C0118V28">18:28</a> What if there will
lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack
of five?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V29" id="C0118V29">18:29</a> He spoke to him yet again, and
said, "What if there are forty found there?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V30" id="C0118V30">18:30</a> He said, "Oh don't let the
Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V31" id="C0118V31">18:31</a> He said, "See now, I have
taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found
there?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V32" id="C0118V32">18:32</a> He said, "Oh don't let the
Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found
there?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V33" id="C0118V33">18:33</a> Yahweh went his way, as soon as he
had finished communing with Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V1" id="C0119V1">19:1</a> The two malakims came to Sodom at
evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet
them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, <a name="C0119V2"
id="C0119V2">19:2</a> and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn
aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you
will rise up early, and go on your way."
</p>
<p>
They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V3" id="C0119V3">19:3</a> He urged them greatly, and they came
in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked
unleavened bread, and they ate. <a name="C0119V4" id="C0119V4">19:4</a> But
before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded
the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. <a
name="C0119V5" id="C0119V5">19:5</a> They called to Lot, and said to him,
"Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to
us, that we may have sex with them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V6" id="C0119V6">19:6</a> Lot went out to them to the door, and
shut the door after him. <a name="C0119V7" id="C0119V7">19:7</a> He said,
"Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly. <a name="C0119V8"
id="C0119V8">19:8</a> See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me
bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only
don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of
my roof."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V9" id="C0119V9">19:9</a> They said, "Stand back!"
They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he
appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!"
They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door. <a
name="C0119V10" id="C0119V10">19:10</a> But the men put forth their hand, and
brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. <a name="C0119V11"
id="C0119V11">19:11</a> They struck the men who were at the door of the
house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied
themselves to find the door.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V12" id="C0119V12">19:12</a> The men said to Lot, "Do you
have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and
whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: <a name="C0119V13"
id="C0119V13">19:13</a> for we will destroy this place, because the outcry
against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to
destroy it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V14" id="C0119V14">19:14</a> Lot went out, and spoke to his
sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get
up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city."
</p>
<p>
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. <a name="C0119V15" id="C0119V15">19:15</a>
When the morning came, then the malakims hurried Lot, saying, "Get up!
Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed
in the iniquity of the city." <a name="C0119V16" id="C0119V16">19:16</a>
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his
two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out,
and set him outside of the city. <a name="C0119V17" id="C0119V17">19:17</a> It
came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for
your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain.
Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V18" id="C0119V18">19:18</a> Lot said to them, "Oh, not so,
my lord. <a name="C0119V19" id="C0119V19">19:19</a> See now, your servant has
found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness,
which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the
mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. <a name="C0119V20" id="C0119V20">19:20</a>
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me
escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V21" id="C0119V21">19:21</a> He said to him, "Behold, I
have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not
overthrow the city of which you have spoken. <a name="C0119V22" id="C0119V22">19:22</a>
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there."
Therefore the name of the city was called <a href="#N016">Zoar.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V23" id="C0119V23">19:23</a> The sun had risen on the earth when
Lot came to Zoar. <a name="C0119V24" id="C0119V24">19:24</a> Then Yahweh
rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the
sky. <a name="C0119V25" id="C0119V25">19:25</a> He overthrew those cities, all
the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the
ground. <a name="C0119V26" id="C0119V26">19:26</a> But his wife looked back
from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V27" id="C0119V27">19:27</a> Avraham got up early in the morning
to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. <a name="C0119V28" id="C0119V28">19:28</a>
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain,
and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a
furnace.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V29" id="C0119V29">19:29</a> It happened, when Elohim destroyed the
cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the
middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V30" id="C0119V30">19:30</a> Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived
in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live
in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. <a name="C0119V31"
id="C0119V31">19:31</a> The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father
is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the
manner of all the earth. <a name="C0119V32" id="C0119V32">19:32</a> Come,
let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
preserve our father's seed." <a name="C0119V33" id="C0119V33">19:33</a>
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in,
and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she
arose. <a name="C0119V34" id="C0119V34">19:34</a> It came to pass on the next
day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last
night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go
in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." <a
name="C0119V35" id="C0119V35">19:35</a> They made their father drink wine that
night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay
down, nor when she got up. <a name="C0119V36" id="C0119V36">19:36</a> Thus
both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father. <a name="C0119V37"
id="C0119V37">19:37</a> The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is
the father of the Moabites to this day. <a name="C0119V38" id="C0119V38">19:38</a>
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the
father of the children of Ammon to this day.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N016" id="N016">[6]</a> <a href="#C0119V22">back to 19:22</a> Zoar
means "little."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V1" id="C0120V1">20:1</a> Avraham traveled from there toward the
land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a
foreigner in Gerar. <a name="C0120V2" id="C0120V2">20:2</a> Avraham said about
Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar
sent, and took Sarah. <a name="C0120V3" id="C0120V3">20:3</a> But Elohim came to
Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are
a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's
wife."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V4" id="C0120V4">20:4</a> Now Abimelech had not come near her.
He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? <a name="C0120V5"
id="C0120V5">20:5</a> Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she
herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the
innocence of my hands have I done this."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V6" id="C0120V6">20:6</a> Elohim said to him in the dream, "Yes,
I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also
withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to
touch her. <a name="C0120V7" id="C0120V7">20:7</a> Now therefore, restore the
man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will
live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and
all who are yours."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V8" id="C0120V8">20:8</a> Abimelech rose early in the morning,
and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The
men were very scared. <a name="C0120V9" id="C0120V9">20:9</a> Then Abimelech
called Avraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have
I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a
great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" <a
name="C0120V10" id="C0120V10">20:10</a> Abimelech said to Avraham, "What
did you see, that you have done this thing?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V11" id="C0120V11">20:11</a> Avraham said, "Because I
thought, 'Surely the fear of Elohim is not in this place. They will kill me
for my wife's sake.' <a name="C0120V12" id="C0120V12">20:12</a> Besides, she
is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my
mother; and she became my wife. <a name="C0120V13" id="C0120V13">20:13</a> It
happened, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said
to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Chavahrywhere that
we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V14" id="C0120V14">20:14</a> Abimelech took sheep and cattle,
male servants and female servants, and gave them to Avraham, and restored
Sarah, his wife, to him. <a name="C0120V15" id="C0120V15">20:15</a> Abimelech
said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."
<a name="C0120V16" id="C0120V16">20:16</a> To Sarah he said, "Behold, I
have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you
a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are
vindicated."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V17" id="C0120V17">20:17</a> Avraham prayed to Elohim. Elohim healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
<a name="C0120V18" id="C0120V18">20:18</a> For Yahweh had closed up tight all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V1" id="C0121V1">21:1</a> Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said,
and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. <a name="C0121V2" id="C0121V2">21:2</a>
Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of
which Elohim had spoken to him. <a name="C0121V3" id="C0121V3">21:3</a> Avraham
called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, <a href="#N017">Isaac.</a>
<a name="C0121V4" id="C0121V4">21:4</a> Avraham circumcised his son, Isaac,
when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him. <a name="C0121V5"
id="C0121V5">21:5</a> Avraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac,
was born to him. <a name="C0121V6" id="C0121V6">21:6</a> Sarah said, "Elohim
has made me laugh. Chavahryone who hears will laugh with me." <a
name="C0121V7" id="C0121V7">21:7</a> She said, "Who would have said to
Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in
his old age."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V8" id="C0121V8">21:8</a> The child grew, and was weaned.
Avraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. <a
name="C0121V9" id="C0121V9">21:9</a> Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking. <a name="C0121V10" id="C0121V10">21:10</a>
Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son!
For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V11" id="C0121V11">21:11</a> The thing was very grievous in
Avraham's sight on account of his son. <a name="C0121V12" id="C0121V12">21:12</a>
Elohim said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because
of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you,
listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called. <a
name="C0121V13" id="C0121V13">21:13</a> I will also make a nation of the son
of the handmaid, because he is your seed." <a name="C0121V14"
id="C0121V14">21:14</a> Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread
and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder;
and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in
the wilderness of Beersheba. <a name="C0121V15" id="C0121V15">21:15</a> The
water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the
shrubs. <a name="C0121V16" id="C0121V16">21:16</a> She went and sat down
opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't
let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and
lifted up her voice, and wept. <a name="C0121V17" id="C0121V17">21:17</a> Elohim
heard the voice of the boy.
</p>
<p>
The malakim of Elohim called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What
ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For Elohim has heard the voice of the boy
where he is. <a name="C0121V18" id="C0121V18">21:18</a> Get up, lift up the
boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V19" id="C0121V19">21:19</a> Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy
drink. <a name="C0121V20" id="C0121V20">21:20</a> Elohim was with the boy, and he
grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. <a
name="C0121V21" id="C0121V21">21:21</a> He lived in the wilderness of Paran.
His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V22" id="C0121V22">21:22</a> It happened at that time, that
Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Avraham, saying,
"Elohim is with you in all that you do. <a name="C0121V23" id="C0121V23">21:23</a>
Now, therefore, swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely
with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the
kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in
which you have lived as a foreigner."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V24" id="C0121V24">21:24</a> Avraham said, "I will swear."
<a name="C0121V25" id="C0121V25">21:25</a> Avraham complained to Abimelech
because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken
away. <a name="C0121V26" id="C0121V26">21:26</a> Abimelech said, "I don't
know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear
of it, until today."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V27" id="C0121V27">21:27</a> Avraham took sheep and cattle, and
gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. <a name="C0121V28"
id="C0121V28">21:28</a> Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves. <a name="C0121V29" id="C0121V29">21:29</a> Abimelech said to
Avraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by
themselves mean?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V30" id="C0121V30">21:30</a> He said, "You shall take these
seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have
dug this well." <a name="C0121V31" id="C0121V31">21:31</a> Therefore he
called that place <a href="#N018">Beersheba,</a> because they both swore
there. <a name="C0121V32" id="C0121V32">21:32</a> So they made a covenant at
Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and
they returned into the land of the Philistines. <a name="C0121V33"
id="C0121V33">21:33</a> Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and
called there on the name of Yahweh, the Chavahrlasting Elohim. <a name="C0121V34"
id="C0121V34">21:34</a> Avraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the
Philistines many days.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N017" id="N017">[7]</a> <a href="#C0121V3">back to 21:3</a> Isaac
means "He laughs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N018" id="N018">[8]</a> <a href="#C0121V31">back to 21:31</a>
Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V1" id="C0122V1">22:1</a> It happened after these things, that
Elohim tested Avraham, and said to him, "Avraham!"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V2" id="C0122V2">22:2</a> He said, "Now take your son, your
only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer
him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell
you of."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V3" id="C0122V3">22:3</a> Avraham rose early in the morning, and
saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his
son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to
the place of which Elohim had told him. <a name="C0122V4" id="C0122V4">22:4</a>
On the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. <a
name="C0122V5" id="C0122V5">22:5</a> Avraham said to his young men, "Stay
here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and
come back to you." <a name="C0122V6" id="C0122V6">22:6</a> Avraham took
the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in
his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. <a name="C0122V7"
id="C0122V7">22:7</a> Isaac spoke to Avraham his father, and said, "My
father?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am, my son."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a
burnt offering?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V8" id="C0122V8">22:8</a> Avraham said, "Elohim will provide
himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went
together. <a name="C0122V9" id="C0122V9">22:9</a> They came to the place which
Elohim had told him of. Avraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in
order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. <a
name="C0122V10" id="C0122V10">22:10</a> Avraham stretched forth his hand, and
took the knife to kill his son.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V11" id="C0122V11">22:11</a> The malakim of Yahweh called to him
out of the sky, and said, "Avraham, Avraham!"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V12" id="C0122V12">22:12</a> He said, "Don't lay your hand
on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear Elohim,
seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V13" id="C0122V13">22:13</a> Avraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his
horns. Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering instead of his son. <a name="C0122V14" id="C0122V14">22:14</a>
Avraham called the name of that place <a href="#N019">Yahweh Will Provide</a>.
As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be
provided."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V15" id="C0122V15">22:15</a> The malakim of Yahweh called to
Avraham a second time out of the sky, <a name="C0122V16" id="C0122V16">22:16</a>
and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done
this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, <a name="C0122V17"
id="C0122V17">22:17</a> that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply
your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which
is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. <a
name="C0122V18" id="C0122V18">22:18</a> In your seed will all the nations of
the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V19" id="C0122V19">22:19</a> So Avraham returned to his young
men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Avraham lived at
Beersheba.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V20" id="C0122V20">22:20</a> It happened after these things,
that it was told Avraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne
children to your brother Nahor: <a name="C0122V21" id="C0122V21">22:21</a> Uz
his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, <a name="C0122V22"
id="C0122V22">22:22</a> Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
<a name="C0122V23" id="C0122V23">22:23</a> Bethuel became the father of
Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Avraham's brother. <a
name="C0122V24" id="C0122V24">22:24</a> His concubine, whose name was Reumah,
also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N019" id="N019">[9]</a> <a href="#C0122V14">back to 22:14</a> or,
Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V1" id="C0123V1">23:1</a> Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven
years. This was the length of Sarah's life. <a name="C0123V2" id="C0123V2">23:2</a>
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. <a name="C0123V3"
id="C0123V3">23:3</a> Avraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the
children of Heth, saying, <a name="C0123V4" id="C0123V4">23:4</a> "I am a
stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a
burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V5" id="C0123V5">23:5</a> The children of Heth answered Avraham,
saying to him, <a name="C0123V6" id="C0123V6">23:6</a> "Hear us, my lord.
You are a prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs.
None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V7" id="C0123V7">23:7</a> Avraham rose up, and bowed himself to
the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. <a name="C0123V8"
id="C0123V8">23:8</a> He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind
that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar, <a name="C0123V9" id="C0123V9">23:9</a> that he may
give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his
field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession
of a burying-place."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V10" id="C0123V10">23:10</a> Now Ephron was sitting in the
middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Avraham in the
hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of
his city, saying, <a name="C0123V11" id="C0123V11">23:11</a> "No, my
lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in
it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury
your dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V12" id="C0123V12">23:12</a> Avraham bowed himself down before
the people of the land. <a name="C0123V13" id="C0123V13">23:13</a> He spoke to
Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you
will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me,
and I will bury my dead there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V14" id="C0123V14">23:14</a> Ephron answered Avraham, saying to
him, <a name="C0123V15" id="C0123V15">23:15</a> "My lord, listen to me.
What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me
and you? Therefore bury your dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V16" id="C0123V16">23:16</a> Avraham listened to Ephron. Avraham
weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the
children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current
merchants' standard.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V17" id="C0123V17">23:17</a> So the field of Ephron, which was
in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it,
and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders,
were deeded <a name="C0123V18" id="C0123V18">23:18</a> to Avraham for a
possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in
at the gate of his city. <a name="C0123V19" id="C0123V19">23:19</a> After
this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah
before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0123V20"
id="C0123V20">23:20</a> The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded
to Avraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V1" id="C0124V1">24:1</a> Avraham was old, and well stricken in
age. Yahweh had blessed Avraham in all things. <a name="C0124V2" id="C0124V2">24:2</a>
Avraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all
that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. <a name="C0124V3"
id="C0124V3">24:3</a> I will make you swear by Yahweh, the Elohim of heaven and
the Elohim of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. <a name="C0124V4" id="C0124V4">24:4</a>
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for
my son Isaac."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V5" id="C0124V5">24:5</a> The servant said to him, "What if
the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son
again to the land you came from?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V6" id="C0124V6">24:6</a> Avraham said to him, "Beware that
you don't bring my son there again. <a name="C0124V7" id="C0124V7">24:7</a>
Yahweh, the Elohim of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from
the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I
will give this land to your <a href="#N0110">seed</a>.' He will send his
malakim before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. <a
name="C0124V8" id="C0124V8">24:8</a> If the woman isn't willing to follow you,
then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son
there again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V9" id="C0124V9">24:9</a> The servant put his hand under the
thigh of Avraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. <a
name="C0124V10" id="C0124V10">24:10</a> The servant took ten camels, of his
master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his
master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of
Nahor. <a name="C0124V11" id="C0124V11">24:11</a> He made the camels kneel
down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the
time that women go out to draw water. <a name="C0124V12" id="C0124V12">24:12</a>
He said, "Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Avraham, please give me
success this day, and show kindness to my master Avraham. <a name="C0124V13"
id="C0124V13">24:13</a> Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The
daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. <a
name="C0124V14" id="C0124V14">24:14</a> Let it happen, that the young lady to
whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she
will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be
the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know
that you have shown kindness to my master."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V15" id="C0124V15">24:15</a> It happened, before he had finished
speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Avraham's brother, with her pitcher on her
shoulder. <a name="C0124V16" id="C0124V16">24:16</a> The young lady was very
beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went
down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. <a name="C0124V17"
id="C0124V17">24:17</a> The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please
give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V18" id="C0124V18">24:18</a> She said, "Drink, my lord."
She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. <a
name="C0124V19" id="C0124V19">24:19</a> When she had done giving him drink,
she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done
drinking." <a name="C0124V20" id="C0124V20">24:20</a> She hurried, and
emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw,
and drew for all his camels.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V21" id="C0124V21">24:21</a> The man looked steadfastly at her,
remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous
or not. <a name="C0124V22" id="C0124V22">24:22</a> It happened, as the camels
had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, <a
name="C0124V23" id="C0124V23">24:23</a> and said, "Whose daughter are
you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge
in?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V24" id="C0124V24">24:24</a> She said to him, "I am the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." <a
name="C0124V25" id="C0124V25">24:25</a> She said moreover to him, "We
have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V26" id="C0124V26">24:26</a> The man bowed his head, and
worshiped Yahweh. <a name="C0124V27" id="C0124V27">24:27</a> He said, "Blessed
be Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who has not forsaken his loving
kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in
the way to the house of my master's relatives."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V28" id="C0124V28">24:28</a> The young lady ran, and told her
mother's house about these words. <a name="C0124V29" id="C0124V29">24:29</a>
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man,
to the spring. <a name="C0124V30" id="C0124V30">24:30</a> It happened, when he
saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard
the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said
to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the
camels at the spring. <a name="C0124V31" id="C0124V31">24:31</a> He said,
"Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have
prepared the house, and room for the camels."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V32" id="C0124V32">24:32</a> The man came into the house, and he
unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water
to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. <a
name="C0124V33" id="C0124V33">24:33</a> Food was set before him to eat, but he
said, "I will not eat until I have told my message."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Speak on."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V34" id="C0124V34">24:34</a> He said, "I am Avraham's
servant. <a name="C0124V35" id="C0124V35">24:35</a> Yahweh has blessed my
master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds,
silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and
donkeys. <a name="C0124V36" id="C0124V36">24:36</a> Sarah, my master's wife,
bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to
him. <a name="C0124V37" id="C0124V37">24:37</a> My master made me swear,
saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites, in whose land I live, <a name="C0124V38" id="C0124V38">24:38</a>
but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a
wife for my son.' <a name="C0124V39" id="C0124V39">24:39</a> I said to my
master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?' <a name="C0124V40"
id="C0124V40">24:40</a> He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will
send his malakim with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for
my son of my relatives, and of my father's house. <a name="C0124V41"
id="C0124V41">24:41</a> Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come
to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my
oath.' <a name="C0124V42" id="C0124V42">24:42</a> I came this day to the
spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Avraham, if now you do
prosper my way which I go-- <a name="C0124V43" id="C0124V43">24:43</a> behold,
I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who
comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Give me, I pray you, a
little water from your pitcher to drink," <a name="C0124V44" id="C0124V44">24:44</a>
and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,"--let
her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.' <a
name="C0124V45" id="C0124V45">24:45</a> Before I had done speaking in my
heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She
went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
<a name="C0124V46" id="C0124V46">24:46</a> She hurried and let down her
pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your
camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also. <a
name="C0124V47" id="C0124V47">24:47</a> I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter
are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah
bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
<a name="C0124V48" id="C0124V48">24:48</a> I bowed my head, and worshiped
Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Avraham, who had led me
in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. <a
name="C0124V49" id="C0124V49">24:49</a> Now if you will deal kindly and truly
with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right
hand, or to the left."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V50" id="C0124V50">24:50</a> Then Laban and Bethuel answered,
"The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.
<a name="C0124V51" id="C0124V51">24:51</a> Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take
her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has
spoken."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V52" id="C0124V52">24:52</a> It happened that when Avraham's
servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
<a name="C0124V53" id="C0124V53">24:53</a> The servant brought forth jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He
also gave precious things to her brother and her mother. <a name="C0124V54"
id="C0124V54">24:54</a> They ate and drank, he and the men who were with
him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said,
"Send me away to my master."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V55" id="C0124V55">24:55</a> Her brother and her mother said,
"Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that
she will go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V56" id="C0124V56">24:56</a> He said to them, "Don't hinder
me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my
master."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V57" id="C0124V57">24:57</a> They said, "We will call the
young lady, and ask her." <a name="C0124V58" id="C0124V58">24:58</a> They
called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?"
</p>
<p>
She said, "I will go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V59" id="C0124V59">24:59</a> They sent away Rebekah, their
sister, with her nurse, Avraham's servant, and his men. <a name="C0124V60"
id="C0124V60">24:60</a> They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our
sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your
seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V61" id="C0124V61">24:61</a> Rebekah arose with her ladies. They
rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and
went his way. <a name="C0124V62" id="C0124V62">24:62</a> Isaac came from the
way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. <a
name="C0124V63" id="C0124V63">24:63</a> Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
were camels coming. <a name="C0124V64" id="C0124V64">24:64</a> Rebekah lifted
up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. <a
name="C0124V65" id="C0124V65">24:65</a> She said to the servant, "Who is
the man who is walking in the field to meet us?"
</p>
<p>
The servant said, "It is my master."
</p>
<p>
She took her veil, and covered herself. <a name="C0124V66" id="C0124V66">24:66</a>
The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. <a name="C0124V67"
id="C0124V67">24:67</a> Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and
took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted
after his mother's death.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0110" id="N0110">[10]</a> <a href="#C0124V7">back to 24:7</a> or,
offspring
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V1" id="C0125V1">25:1</a> Avraham took another wife, and her
name was Keturah. <a name="C0125V2" id="C0125V2">25:2</a> She bore him Zimran,
Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. <a name="C0125V3" id="C0125V3">25:3</a>
Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. <a name="C0125V4" id="C0125V4">25:4</a> The
sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were
the children of Keturah. <a name="C0125V5" id="C0125V5">25:5</a> Avraham gave
all that he had to Isaac, <a name="C0125V6" id="C0125V6">25:6</a> but to the
sons of Avraham's concubines, Avraham gave gifts. He sent them away from
Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country. <a
name="C0125V7" id="C0125V7">25:7</a> These are the days of the years of
Avraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years. <a
name="C0125V8" id="C0125V8">25:8</a> Avraham gave up the spirit, and died in a
good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his
people. <a name="C0125V9" id="C0125V9">25:9</a> Isaac and Ishmael, his sons,
buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of
Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre, <a name="C0125V10" id="C0125V10">25:10</a>
the field which Avraham purchased of the children of Heth. Avraham was
buried there with Sarah, his wife. <a name="C0125V11" id="C0125V11">25:11</a>
It happened after the death of Avraham that Elohim blessed Isaac, his son.
Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V12" id="C0125V12">25:12</a> Now this is the history of the
generations of Ishmael, Avraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's
handmaid, bore to Avraham. <a name="C0125V13" id="C0125V13">25:13</a> These
are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the
order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar,
Adbeel, Mibsam, <a name="C0125V14" id="C0125V14">25:14</a> Mishma, Dumah,
Massa, <a name="C0125V15" id="C0125V15">25:15</a> Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish,
and Kedemah. <a name="C0125V16" id="C0125V16">25:16</a> These are the sons of
Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their
encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations. <a name="C0125V17"
id="C0125V17">25:17</a> These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one
hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was
gathered to his people. <a name="C0125V18" id="C0125V18">25:18</a> They lived
from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He
lived opposite all his relatives.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V19" id="C0125V19">25:19</a> This is the history of the
generations of Isaac, Avraham's son. Avraham became the father of Isaac.
<a name="C0125V20" id="C0125V20">25:20</a> Isaac was forty years old when he
took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the
sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. <a name="C0125V21" id="C0125V21">25:21</a>
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was
entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. <a name="C0125V22"
id="C0125V22">25:22</a> The children struggled together within her. She
said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of
Yahweh. <a name="C0125V23" id="C0125V23">25:23</a> Yahweh said to her,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Two nations are in your womb.
</dt>
<dt>
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
</dt>
<dt>
The one people will be stronger than the other people.
</dt>
<dt>
The elder will serve the younger.
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0125V24" id="C0125V24">25:24</a> When her days to be delivered were
fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. <a name="C0125V25"
id="C0125V25">25:25</a> The first came out red all over, like a hairy
garment. They named him Esau. <a name="C0125V26" id="C0125V26">25:26</a> After
that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was
named Ya’akov. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V27" id="C0125V27">25:27</a> The boys grew. Esau was a skillful
hunter, a man of the field. Ya’akov was a quiet man, living in tents. <a
name="C0125V28" id="C0125V28">25:28</a> Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate
his venison. Rebekah loved Ya’akov. <a name="C0125V29" id="C0125V29">25:29</a>
Ya’akov boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. <a
name="C0125V30" id="C0125V30">25:30</a> Esau said to Ya’akov, "Please feed
me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name
was called Edom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V31" id="C0125V31">25:31</a> Ya’akov said, "First, sell me
your birthright."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V32" id="C0125V32">25:32</a> Esau said, "Behold, I am about
to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V33" id="C0125V33">25:33</a> Ya’akov said, "Swear to me
first."
</p>
<p>
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Ya’akov. <a name="C0125V34"
id="C0125V34">25:34</a> Ya’akov gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate
and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V1" id="C0126V1">26:1</a> There was a famine in the land,
besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. Isaac went to
Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. <a name="C0126V2" id="C0126V2">26:2</a>
Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in
the land I will tell you about. <a name="C0126V3" id="C0126V3">26:3</a>
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to
you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish
the oath which I swore to Avraham your father. <a name="C0126V4" id="C0126V4">26:4</a>
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your
seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be
blessed, <a name="C0126V5" id="C0126V5">26:5</a> because Avraham obeyed my
voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my
laws."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V6" id="C0126V6">26:6</a> Isaac lived in Gerar. <a name="C0126V7"
id="C0126V7">26:7</a> The men of the place asked him about his wife. He
said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My
wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for
Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at." <a name="C0126V8"
id="C0126V8">26:8</a> It happened, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. <a name="C0126V9" id="C0126V9">26:9</a>
Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife.
Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'"
</p>
<p>
Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V10" id="C0126V10">26:10</a> Abimelech said, "What is this
you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your
wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V11" id="C0126V11">26:11</a> Abimelech commanded all the people,
saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to
death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V12" id="C0126V12">26:12</a> Isaac sowed in that land, and
reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed
him. <a name="C0126V13" id="C0126V13">26:13</a> The man grew great, and grew
more and more until he became very great. <a name="C0126V14" id="C0126V14">26:14</a>
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household.
The Philistines envied him. <a name="C0126V15" id="C0126V15">26:15</a> Now all
the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Avraham his
father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. <a
name="C0126V16" id="C0126V16">26:16</a> Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from
us, for you are much mightier than we."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V17" id="C0126V17">26:17</a> Isaac departed from there, encamped
in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V18" id="C0126V18">26:18</a> Isaac dug again the wells of water,
which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father. For the Philistines
had stopped them after the death of Avraham. He called their names after
the names by which his father had called them. <a name="C0126V19" id="C0126V19">26:19</a>
Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing
water. <a name="C0126V20" id="C0126V20">26:20</a> The herdsmen of Gerar argued
with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called
the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. <a
name="C0126V21" id="C0126V21">26:21</a> They dug another well, and they argued
over that, also. He called its name Sitnah. <a name="C0126V22" id="C0126V22">26:22</a>
He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one.
He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us,
and we will be fruitful in the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V23" id="C0126V23">26:23</a> He went up from there to Beersheba.
<a name="C0126V24" id="C0126V24">26:24</a> Yahweh appeared to him the same
night, and said, "I am the Elohim of Avraham your father. Don't be
afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for
my servant Avraham's sake."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V25" id="C0126V25">26:25</a> He built an altar there, and called
on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants
dug a well.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V26" id="C0126V26">26:26</a> Then Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. <a
name="C0126V27" id="C0126V27">26:27</a> Isaac said to them, "Why have you
come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V28" id="C0126V28">26:28</a> They said, "We saw plainly
that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us,
even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, <a
name="C0126V29" id="C0126V29">26:29</a> that you will do us no harm, as we
have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and
have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V30" id="C0126V30">26:30</a> He made them a feast, and they ate
and drank. <a name="C0126V31" id="C0126V31">26:31</a> They rose up some time
in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they
departed from him in peace. <a name="C0126V32" id="C0126V32">26:32</a> It
happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning
the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
<a name="C0126V33" id="C0126V33">26:33</a> He called it <a href="#N0111">Shibah.</a>
Therefore the name of the city is <a href="#N0112">Beersheba</a> to this
day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V34" id="C0126V34">26:34</a> When Esau was forty years old, he
took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the
daughter of Elon the Hittite. <a name="C0126V35" id="C0126V35">26:35</a> They
grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0111" id="N0111">[11]</a> <a href="#C0126V33">back to 26:33</a>
Shibah means "oath" or "seven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0112" id="N0112">[12]</a> <a href="#C0126V33">back to 26:33</a>
Beersheba means "well of the oath" or "well of the seven"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V1" id="C0127V1">27:1</a> It happened, that when Isaac was old,
and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder
son, and said to him, "My son?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V2" id="C0127V2">27:2</a> He said, "See now, I am old. I
don't know the day of my death. <a name="C0127V3" id="C0127V3">27:3</a> Now
therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out
to the field, and take me venison. <a name="C0127V4" id="C0127V4">27:4</a>
Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat,
and that my soul may bless you before I die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V5" id="C0127V5">27:5</a> Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau
his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. <a
name="C0127V6" id="C0127V6">27:6</a> Rebekah spoke to Ya’akov her son, saying,
"Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, <a
name="C0127V7" id="C0127V7">27:7</a> 'Bring me venison, and make me savory
food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.' <a
name="C0127V8" id="C0127V8">27:8</a> Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command you. <a name="C0127V9" id="C0127V9">27:9</a>
Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I
will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. <a
name="C0127V10" id="C0127V10">27:10</a> You shall bring it to your father,
that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V11" id="C0127V11">27:11</a> Ya’akov said to Rebekah his mother,
"Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. <a
name="C0127V12" id="C0127V12">27:12</a> What if my father touches me? I will
seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a
blessing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V13" id="C0127V13">27:13</a> His mother said to him, "Let
your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V14" id="C0127V14">27:14</a> He went, and got them, and brought
them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
<a name="C0127V15" id="C0127V15">27:15</a> Rebekah took the good clothes of
Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on
Ya’akov, her younger son. <a name="C0127V16" id="C0127V16">27:16</a> She put the
skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his
neck. <a name="C0127V17" id="C0127V17">27:17</a> She gave the savory food and
the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya’akov.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V18" id="C0127V18">27:18</a> He came to his father, and said,
"My father?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V19" id="C0127V19">27:19</a> Ya’akov said to his father, "I
am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise,
sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V20" id="C0127V20">27:20</a> Isaac said to his son, "How is
it that you have found it so quickly, my son?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Because Yahweh your Elohim gave me success."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V21" id="C0127V21">27:21</a> Isaac said to Ya’akov, "Please
come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau
or not."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V22" id="C0127V22">27:22</a> Ya’akov went near to Isaac his
father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Ya’akov's voice, but the
hands are the hands of Esau." <a name="C0127V23" id="C0127V23">27:23</a>
He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother,
Esau's hands. So he blessed him. <a name="C0127V24" id="C0127V24">27:24</a> He
said, "Are you really my son Esau?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V25" id="C0127V25">27:25</a> He said, "Bring it near to me,
and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you."
</p>
<p>
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
<a name="C0127V26" id="C0127V26">27:26</a> His father Isaac said to him,
"Come near now, and kiss me, my son." <a name="C0127V27"
id="C0127V27">27:27</a> He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell
of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, the smell of my son
</dt>
<dd>
is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0127V28" id="C0127V28">27:28</a> Elohim give you of the dew of the
sky,
</dt>
<dd>
of the fatness of the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
and plenty of grain and new wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0127V29" id="C0127V29">27:29</a> Let peoples serve you,
</dt>
<dd>
and nations bow down to you.
</dd>
<dt>
Be lord over your brothers.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your mother's sons bow down to you.
</dd>
<dt>
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0127V30" id="C0127V30">27:30</a> It happened, as soon as Isaac had
made an end of blessing Ya’akov, and Ya’akov had just gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting. <a name="C0127V31" id="C0127V31">27:31</a> He also made savory food,
and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father
arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V32" id="C0127V32">27:32</a> Isaac his father said to him,
"Who are you?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V33" id="C0127V33">27:33</a> Isaac trembled violently, and said,
"Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I
have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be
blessed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V34" id="C0127V34">27:34</a> When Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his
father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V35" id="C0127V35">27:35</a> He said, "Your brother came
with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V36" id="C0127V36">27:36</a> He said, "Isn't he rightly
named Ya’akov? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my
birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't
you reserved a blessing for me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V37" id="C0127V37">27:37</a> Isaac answered Esau, "Behold,
I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for
servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I
do for you, my son?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V38" id="C0127V38">27:38</a> Esau said to his father, "Have
you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father."
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V39" id="C0127V39">27:39</a> Isaac his father answered him,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling,
</dt>
<dt>
and of the dew of the sky from above.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0127V40" id="C0127V40">27:40</a> By your sword will you live, and
you will serve your brother.
</dt>
<dt>
It will happen, when you will break loose,
</dt>
<dt>
that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0127V41" id="C0127V41">27:41</a> Esau hated Ya’akov because of the
blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The
days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother
Ya’akov."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V42" id="C0127V42">27:42</a> The words of Esau, her elder son,
were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Ya’akov, her younger son, and said
to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by
planning to kill you. <a name="C0127V43" id="C0127V43">27:43</a> Now
therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in
Haran. <a name="C0127V44" id="C0127V44">27:44</a> Stay with him a few days,
until your brother's fury turns away; <a name="C0127V45" id="C0127V45">27:45</a>
until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you
have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I
be bereaved of you both in one day?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V46" id="C0127V46">27:46</a> Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am
weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Ya’akov takes a wife
of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land,
what good will my life do me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V1" id="C0128V1">28:1</a> Isaac called Ya’akov, blessed him, and
commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
<a name="C0128V2" id="C0128V2">28:2</a> Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house
of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters
of Laban, your mother's brother. <a name="C0128V3" id="C0128V3">28:3</a> May
Elohim Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you
may be a company of peoples, <a name="C0128V4" id="C0128V4">28:4</a> and give
you the blessing of Avraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you
may inherit the land where you travel, which Elohim gave to Avraham."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V5" id="C0128V5">28:5</a> Isaac sent Ya’akov away. He went to
Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother,
Ya’akov's and Esau's mother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V6" id="C0128V6">28:6</a> Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Ya’akov and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and
that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," <a name="C0128V7" id="C0128V7">28:7</a>
and that Ya’akov obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan
Aram. <a name="C0128V8" id="C0128V8">28:8</a> Esau saw that the daughters of
Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father. <a name="C0128V9" id="C0128V9">28:9</a>
Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath
the daughter of Ishmael, Avraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his
wife.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V10" id="C0128V10">28:10</a> Ya’akov went out from Beersheba, and
went toward Haran. <a name="C0128V11" id="C0128V11">28:11</a> He came to a
certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He
took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay
down in that place to sleep. <a name="C0128V12" id="C0128V12">28:12</a> He
dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to
heaven. Behold, the malakims of Elohim ascending and descending on it. <a
name="C0128V13" id="C0128V13">28:13</a> Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and
said, "I am Yahweh, the Elohim of Avraham your father, and the Elohim of
Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
<a name="C0128V14" id="C0128V14">28:14</a> Your seed will be as the dust of
the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to
the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families
of the earth be blessed. <a name="C0128V15" id="C0128V15">28:15</a> Behold, I
am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again
into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I
have spoken of to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V16" id="C0128V16">28:16</a> Ya’akov awakened out of his sleep,
and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."
<a name="C0128V17" id="C0128V17">28:17</a> He was afraid, and said, "How
dreadful is this place! This is none other than Elohim's house, and this is
the gate of heaven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V18" id="C0128V18">28:18</a> Ya’akov rose up early in the morning,
and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil on its top. <a name="C0128V19" id="C0128V19">28:19</a>
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz
at the first. <a name="C0128V20" id="C0128V20">28:20</a> Ya’akov vowed a vow,
saying, "If Elohim will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I
go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, <a name="C0128V21"
id="C0128V21">28:21</a> so that I come again to my father's house in peace,
and Yahweh will be my Elohim, <a name="C0128V22" id="C0128V22">28:22</a> then
this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be Elohim's house. Of all
that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V1" id="C0129V1">29:1</a> Then Ya’akov went on his journey, and
came to the land of the children of the east. <a name="C0129V2" id="C0129V2">29:2</a>
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of
sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The
stone on the well's mouth was large. <a name="C0129V3" id="C0129V3">29:3</a>
There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's
mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth
in its place. <a name="C0129V4" id="C0129V4">29:4</a> Ya’akov said to them,
"My relatives, where are you from?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "We are from Haran."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V5" id="C0129V5">29:5</a> He said to them, "Do you know
Laban, the son of Nahor?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "We know him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V6" id="C0129V6">29:6</a> He said to them, "Is it well with
him?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the
sheep."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V7" id="C0129V7">29:7</a> He said, "Behold, it is still the
middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the
sheep, and go and feed them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V8" id="C0129V8">29:8</a> They said, "We can't, until all
the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's
mouth. Then we water the sheep."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V9" id="C0129V9">29:9</a> While he was yet speaking with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. <a name="C0129V10"
id="C0129V10">29:10</a> It happened, when Ya’akov saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother,
that Ya’akov went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. <a name="C0129V11"
id="C0129V11">29:11</a> Ya’akov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept. <a name="C0129V12" id="C0129V12">29:12</a> Ya’akov told Rachel that he was
her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her
father.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V13" id="C0129V13">29:13</a> It happened, when Laban heard the
news of Ya’akov, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Ya’akov, and embraced
him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya’akov told Laban all
these things. <a name="C0129V14" id="C0129V14">29:14</a> Laban said to him,
Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month. <a
name="C0129V15" id="C0129V15">29:15</a> Laban said to Ya’akov, "Because you
are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what
will your wages be?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V16" id="C0129V16">29:16</a> Laban had two daughters. The name
of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. <a
name="C0129V17" id="C0129V17">29:17</a> Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was
beautiful in form and attractive. <a name="C0129V18" id="C0129V18">29:18</a>
Ya’akov loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for
Rachel, your younger daughter."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V19" id="C0129V19">29:19</a> Laban said, "It is better that
I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with
me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V20" id="C0129V20">29:20</a> Ya’akov served seven years for
Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V21" id="C0129V21">29:21</a> Ya’akov said to Laban, "Give me
my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V22" id="C0129V22">29:22</a> Laban gathered together all the men
of the place, and made a feast. <a name="C0129V23" id="C0129V23">29:23</a> It
happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her
to him. He went in to her. <a name="C0129V24" id="C0129V24">29:24</a> Laban
gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. <a
name="C0129V25" id="C0129V25">29:25</a> It happened in the morning that,
behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to
me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V26" id="C0129V26">29:26</a> Laban said, "It is not done so
in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. <a name="C0129V27"
id="C0129V27">29:27</a> Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you
the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven
other years."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V28" id="C0129V28">29:28</a> Ya’akov did so, and fulfilled her
week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. <a name="C0129V29" id="C0129V29">29:29</a>
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her
handmaid. <a name="C0129V30" id="C0129V30">29:30</a> He went in also to
Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet
seven other years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0129V31" id="C0129V31">29:31</a> Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and
he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. <a name="C0129V32" id="C0129V32">29:32</a>
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said,
"Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will
love me." <a name="C0129V33" id="C0129V33">29:33</a> She conceived again,
and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated,
he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. <a
name="C0129V34" id="C0129V34">29:34</a> She conceived again, and bore a son.
Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have
borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi. <a
name="C0129V35" id="C0129V35">29:35</a> She conceived again, and bore a son.
She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named
him Yehudah. Then she stopped bearing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V1" id="C0130V1">30:1</a> When Rachel saw that she bore Ya’akov no
children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Ya’akov, "Give me
children, or else I will die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V2" id="C0130V2">30:2</a> Ya’akov's anger was kindled against
Rachel, and he said, "Am I in Elohim's place, who has withheld from you
the fruit of the womb?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V3" id="C0130V3">30:3</a> She said, "Behold, my maid
Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain
children by her." <a name="C0130V4" id="C0130V4">30:4</a> She gave him
Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Ya’akov went in to her. <a name="C0130V5"
id="C0130V5">30:5</a> Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya’akov a son. <a name="C0130V6"
id="C0130V6">30:6</a> Rachel said, "Elohim has judged me, and has also
heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his
name Dan. <a name="C0130V7" id="C0130V7">30:7</a> Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid,
conceived again, and bore Ya’akov a second son. <a name="C0130V8" id="C0130V8">30:8</a>
Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,
and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V9" id="C0130V9">30:9</a> When Leah saw that she had finished
bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Ya’akov as a wife.
<a name="C0130V10" id="C0130V10">30:10</a> Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Ya’akov
a son. <a name="C0130V11" id="C0130V11">30:11</a> Leah said, "How
fortunate!" She named him Gad. <a name="C0130V12" id="C0130V12">30:12</a>
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Ya’akov a second son. <a name="C0130V13"
id="C0130V13">30:13</a> Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will
call me happy." She named him Asher.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V14" id="C0130V14">30:14</a> Reuben went in the days of wheat
harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother,
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's
mandrakes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V15" id="C0130V15">30:15</a> She said to her, "Is it a
small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my
son's mandrakes, also?"
</p>
<p>
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's
mandrakes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V16" id="C0130V16">30:16</a> Ya’akov came from the field in the
evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in
to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes."
</p>
<p>
He lay with her that night. <a name="C0130V17" id="C0130V17">30:17</a> Elohim
listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Ya’akov a fifth son. <a
name="C0130V18" id="C0130V18">30:18</a> Leah said, "Elohim has given me my
hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him
Issachar. <a name="C0130V19" id="C0130V19">30:19</a> Leah conceived again, and
bore a sixth son to Ya’akov. <a name="C0130V20" id="C0130V20">30:20</a> Leah
said, "Elohim has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live
with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
<a name="C0130V21" id="C0130V21">30:21</a> Afterwards, she bore a daughter,
and named her Dinah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V22" id="C0130V22">30:22</a> Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim
listened to her, and opened her womb. <a name="C0130V23" id="C0130V23">30:23</a>
She conceived, bore a son, and said, "Elohim has taken away my reproach."
<a name="C0130V24" id="C0130V24">30:24</a> She named him <a href="#N0113">Yoseph,</a>
saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V25" id="C0130V25">30:25</a> It happened, when Rachel had borne
Yoseph, that Ya’akov said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my
own place, and to my country. <a name="C0130V26" id="C0130V26">30:26</a> Give
me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for
you know my service with which I have served you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V27" id="C0130V27">30:27</a> Laban said to him, "If now I
have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh
has blessed me for your sake." <a name="C0130V28" id="C0130V28">30:28</a>
He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V29" id="C0130V29">30:29</a> He said to him, "You know how
I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. <a
name="C0130V30" id="C0130V30">30:30</a> For it was little which you had before
I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you
wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V31" id="C0130V31">30:31</a> He said, "What shall I give
you?"
</p>
<p>
Ya’akov said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this
thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. <a name="C0130V32"
id="C0130V32">30:32</a> I will pass through all your flock today, removing
from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the
sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
<a name="C0130V33" id="C0130V33">30:33</a> So my righteousness will answer for
me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Chavahry
one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the
sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V34" id="C0130V34">30:34</a> Laban said, "Behold, I desire
it to be according to your word."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V35" id="C0130V35">30:35</a> That day, he removed the male goats
that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were
speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black
ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. <a
name="C0130V36" id="C0130V36">30:36</a> He set three days' journey between
himself and Ya’akov, and Ya’akov fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0130V37" id="C0130V37">30:37</a> Ya’akov took to himself rods of fresh
poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the
white appear which was in the rods. <a name="C0130V38" id="C0130V38">30:38</a>
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in
the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when
they came to drink. <a name="C0130V39" id="C0130V39">30:39</a> The flocks
conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked,
speckled, and spotted. <a name="C0130V40" id="C0130V40">30:40</a> Ya’akov
separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked
and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart,
and didn't put them into Laban's flock. <a name="C0130V41" id="C0130V41">30:41</a>
It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Ya’akov laid
the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might
conceive among the rods; <a name="C0130V42" id="C0130V42">30:42</a> but when
the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's,
and the stronger Ya’akov's. <a name="C0130V43" id="C0130V43">30:43</a> The man
increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male
servants, and camels and donkeys.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0113" id="N0113">[13]</a> <a href="#C0130V24">back to 30:24</a>
Yoseph means "may he add."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V1" id="C0131V1">31:1</a> He heard the words of Laban's sons,
saying, "Ya’akov has taken away all that was our father's. From that
which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth." <a
name="C0131V2" id="C0131V2">31:2</a> Ya’akov saw the expression on Laban's face,
and, behold, it was not toward him as before. <a name="C0131V3" id="C0131V3">31:3</a>
Yahweh said to Ya’akov, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to
your relatives, and I will be with you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V4" id="C0131V4">31:4</a> Ya’akov sent and called Rachel and Leah
to the field to his flock, <a name="C0131V5" id="C0131V5">31:5</a> and said to
them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not
toward me as before; but the Elohim of my father has been with me. <a
name="C0131V6" id="C0131V6">31:6</a> You know that I have served your father
with all of my strength. <a name="C0131V7" id="C0131V7">31:7</a> Your father
has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim didn't allow him
to hurt me. <a name="C0131V8" id="C0131V8">31:8</a> If he said this, 'The
speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said
this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
<a name="C0131V9" id="C0131V9">31:9</a> Thus Elohim has taken away your father's
livestock, and given them to me. <a name="C0131V10" id="C0131V10">31:10</a> It
happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a
dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked,
speckled, and grizzled. <a name="C0131V11" id="C0131V11">31:11</a> The malakim
of Elohim said to me in the dream, 'Ya’akov,' and I said, 'Here I am.' <a
name="C0131V12" id="C0131V12">31:12</a> He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and
behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled,
and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. <a name="C0131V13"
id="C0131V13">31:13</a> I am the Elohim of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar,
where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return
to the land of your birth.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V14" id="C0131V14">31:14</a> Rachel and Leah answered him,
"Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's
house? <a name="C0131V15" id="C0131V15">31:15</a> Aren't we accounted by him
as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
<a name="C0131V16" id="C0131V16">31:16</a> For all the riches which Elohim has
taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then,
whatever Elohim has said to you, do."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V17" id="C0131V17">31:17</a> Then Ya’akov rose up, and set his
sons and his wives on the camels, <a name="C0131V18" id="C0131V18">31:18</a>
and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had
gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to
go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. <a name="C0131V19" id="C0131V19">31:19</a>
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the <a
href="#N0114">teraphim</a> that were her father's.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V20" id="C0131V20">31:20</a> Ya’akov deceived Laban the Syrian, in
that he didn't tell him that he was running away. <a name="C0131V21"
id="C0131V21">31:21</a> So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed
over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V22" id="C0131V22">31:22</a> Laban was told on the third day
that Ya’akov had fled. <a name="C0131V23" id="C0131V23">31:23</a> He took his
relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook
him in the mountain of Gilead. <a name="C0131V24" id="C0131V24">31:24</a> Elohim
came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him,
"Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya’akov either good or
bad."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V25" id="C0131V25">31:25</a> Laban caught up with Ya’akov. Now
Ya’akov had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives
encamped in the mountain of Gilead. <a name="C0131V26" id="C0131V26">31:26</a>
Laban said to Ya’akov, "What have you done, that you have deceived me,
and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? <a name="C0131V27"
id="C0131V27">31:27</a> Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and
didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs,
with tambourine and with harp; <a name="C0131V28" id="C0131V28">31:28</a> and
didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done
foolishly. <a name="C0131V29" id="C0131V29">31:29</a> It is in the power of my
hand to hurt you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night,
saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya’akov either good
or bad.' <a name="C0131V30" id="C0131V30">31:30</a> Now, you want to be gone,
because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you
stolen my gods?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V31" id="C0131V31">31:31</a> Ya’akov answered Laban, "Because
I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by
force.' <a name="C0131V32" id="C0131V32">31:32</a> Anyone you find your gods
with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me,
and take it." For Ya’akov didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V33" id="C0131V33">31:33</a> Laban went into Ya’akov's tent, into
Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't
find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. <a
name="C0131V34" id="C0131V34">31:34</a> Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put
them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the
tent, but didn't find them. <a name="C0131V35" id="C0131V35">31:35</a> She
said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up
before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but
didn't find the teraphim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V36" id="C0131V36">31:36</a> Ya’akov was angry, and argued with
Laban. Ya’akov answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin,
that you have hotly pursued after me? <a name="C0131V37" id="C0131V37">31:37</a>
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all
your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives,
that they may judge between us two. <a name="C0131V38" id="C0131V38">31:38</a>
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats
have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks. <a
name="C0131V39" id="C0131V39">31:39</a> That which was torn of animals, I
didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether
stolen by day or stolen by night. <a name="C0131V40" id="C0131V40">31:40</a>
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost
by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. <a name="C0131V41" id="C0131V41">31:41</a>
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years
for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed
my wages ten times. <a name="C0131V42" id="C0131V42">31:42</a> Unless the Elohim
of my father, the Elohim of Avraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me,
surely now you would have sent me away empty. Elohim has seen my affliction
and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V43" id="C0131V43">31:43</a> Laban answered Ya’akov, "The
daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are
my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to
these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? <a
name="C0131V44" id="C0131V44">31:44</a> Now come, let us make a covenant, you
and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0131V45" id="C0131V45">31:45</a> Ya’akov took a stone, and set it up
for a pillar. <a name="C0131V46" id="C0131V46">31:46</a> Ya’akov said to his
relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap.
They ate there by the heap. <a name="C0131V47" id="C0131V47">31:47</a> Laban
called it <a href="#N0115">Jegar Sahadutha,</a> but Ya’akov called it <a
href="#N0116">Galeed.</a> <a name="C0131V48" id="C0131V48">31:48</a> Laban
said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day."
Therefore it was named Galeed <a name="C0131V49" id="C0131V49">31:49</a> and
Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are
absent one from another. <a name="C0131V50" id="C0131V50">31:50</a> If you
afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is
with us; behold, Elohim is witness between me and you." <a name="C0131V51"
id="C0131V51">31:51</a> Laban said to Ya’akov, "See this heap, and see
the pillar, which I have set between me and you. <a name="C0131V52"
id="C0131V52">31:52</a> May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a
witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not
pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. <a name="C0131V53"
id="C0131V53">31:53</a> The Elohim of Avraham, and the Elohim of Nahor, the Elohim of
their father, judge between us." Then Ya’akov swore by the fear of his
father, Isaac. <a name="C0131V54" id="C0131V54">31:54</a> Ya’akov offered a
sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate
bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. <a name="C0131V55" id="C0131V55">31:55</a>
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his
daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0114" id="N0114">[14]</a> <a href="#C0131V19">back to 31:19</a>
teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with
inheritance rights to the household property.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0115" id="N0115">[15]</a> <a href="#C0131V47">back to 31:47</a>
"Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0116" id="N0116">[16]</a> <a href="#C0131V47">back to 31:47</a>
"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V1" id="C0132V1">32:1</a> Ya’akov went on his way, and the malakims
of Elohim met him. <a name="C0132V2" id="C0132V2">32:2</a> When he saw them,
Ya’akov said, "This is Elohim's army." He called the name of that
place Mahanaim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V3" id="C0132V3">32:3</a> Ya’akov sent messengers in front of him
to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. <a
name="C0132V4" id="C0132V4">32:4</a> He commanded them, saying, "This is
what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Ya’akov,
says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. <a
name="C0132V5" id="C0132V5">32:5</a> I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male
servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find favor in your sight.'" <a name="C0132V6" id="C0132V6">32:6</a> The
messengers returned to Ya’akov, saying, "We came to your brother Esau.
Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
<a name="C0132V7" id="C0132V7">32:7</a> Then Ya’akov was greatly afraid and was
distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and
the herds, and the camels, into two companies; <a name="C0132V8" id="C0132V8">32:8</a>
and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then
the company which is left will escape." <a name="C0132V9" id="C0132V9">32:9</a>
Ya’akov said, "Elohim of my father Avraham, and Elohim of my father Isaac,
Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives,
and I will do you good,' <a name="C0132V10" id="C0132V10">32:10</a> I am not
worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth,
which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over
this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. <a name="C0132V11"
id="C0132V11">32:11</a> Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from
the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the
mothers with the children. <a name="C0132V12" id="C0132V12">32:12</a> You
said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the
sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V13" id="C0132V13">32:13</a> He lodged there that night, and
took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother: <a
name="C0132V14" id="C0132V14">32:14</a> two hundred female goats and twenty
male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, <a name="C0132V15" id="C0132V15">32:15</a>
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female
donkeys and ten foals. <a name="C0132V16" id="C0132V16">32:16</a> He delivered
them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his
servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and
herd." <a name="C0132V17" id="C0132V17">32:17</a> He commanded the
foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you,
saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
<a name="C0132V18" id="C0132V18">32:18</a> Then you shall say, 'They are your
servant, Ya’akov's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also
is behind us.'" <a name="C0132V19" id="C0132V19">32:19</a> He commanded
also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying,
"This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. <a
name="C0132V20" id="C0132V20">32:20</a> You shall say, 'Not only that, but
behold, your servant, Ya’akov, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I
will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I
will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V21" id="C0132V21">32:21</a> So the present passed over before
him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V22" id="C0132V22">32:22</a> He rose up that night, and took his
two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the
ford of the Jabbok. <a name="C0132V23" id="C0132V23">32:23</a> He took them,
and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. <a
name="C0132V24" id="C0132V24">32:24</a> Ya’akov was left alone, and wrestled
with a man there until the breaking of the day. <a name="C0132V25"
id="C0132V25">32:25</a> When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Ya’akov's thigh was
strained, as he wrestled. <a name="C0132V26" id="C0132V26">32:26</a> The man
said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."
</p>
<p>
Ya’akov said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V27" id="C0132V27">32:27</a> He said to him, "What is your
name?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Ya’akov." <a name="C0132V28" id="C0132V28">32:28</a> He
said, "Your name will no longer be called Ya’akov, but Yisrael; for you
have fought with Elohim and with men, and have prevailed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V29" id="C0132V29">32:29</a> Ya’akov asked him, "Please tell
me your name."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed
him there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0132V30" id="C0132V30">32:30</a> Ya’akov called the name of the place
<a href="#N0117">Peniel</a>: for, he said, "I have seen Elohim face to
face, and my life is preserved." <a name="C0132V31" id="C0132V31">32:31</a>
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his
thigh. <a name="C0132V32" id="C0132V32">32:32</a> Therefore the children of
Yisrael don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the
thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Ya’akov's thigh in the
sinew of the hip.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N17" id="N17">[17]</a> <a href="#C0132V30">back to 32:30</a> Peniel
means "face of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V1" id="C0133V1">33:1</a> Ya’akov lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided
the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids. <a name="C0133V2"
id="C0133V2">33:2</a> He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and Yoseph at the rear. <a name="C0133V3"
id="C0133V3">33:3</a> He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V4" id="C0133V4">33:4</a> Esau ran to meet him, embraced him,
fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. <a name="C0133V5" id="C0133V5">33:5</a>
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said,
"Who are these with you?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "The children whom Elohim has graciously given your servant."
<a name="C0133V6" id="C0133V6">33:6</a> Then the handmaids came near with
their children, and they bowed themselves. <a name="C0133V7" id="C0133V7">33:7</a>
Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them,
Yoseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V8" id="C0133V8">33:8</a> Esau said, "What do you mean by
all this company which I met?"
</p>
<p>
Ya’akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V9" id="C0133V9">33:9</a> Esau said, "I have enough, my
brother; let that which you have be yours."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V10" id="C0133V10">33:10</a> Ya’akov said, "Please, no, if I
have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand,
because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of Elohim, and you were
pleased with me. <a name="C0133V11" id="C0133V11">33:11</a> Please take the
gift that I brought to you, because Elohim has dealt graciously with me, and
because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V12" id="C0133V12">33:12</a> Esau said, "Let us take our
journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V13" id="C0133V13">33:13</a> Ya’akov said to him, "My lord
knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me
have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will
die. <a name="C0133V14" id="C0133V14">33:14</a> Please let my lord pass over
before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of
the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the
children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V15" id="C0133V15">33:15</a> Esau said, "Let me now leave
with you some of the folk who are with me."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V16" id="C0133V16">33:16</a> So Esau returned that day on his
way to Seir. <a name="C0133V17" id="C0133V17">33:17</a> Ya’akov traveled to
Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock.
Therefore the name of the place is called <a href="#N0118">Succoth.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0133V18" id="C0133V18">33:18</a> Ya’akov came in peace to the city of
Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram;
and encamped before the city. <a name="C0133V19" id="C0133V19">33:19</a> He
bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of
the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
<a name="C0133V20" id="C0133V20">33:20</a> He erected an altar there, and
called it <a href="#N0119">El Elohe Yisrael.</a>
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0118" id="N0118">[18]</a> <a href="#C0133V17">back to 33:17</a>
succoth means shelters or booths.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0119" id="N0119">[19]</a> <a href="#C0133V20">back to 33:20</a> El
Elohe Yisrael means "Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael" or "The Elohim of
Yisrael is mighty."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V1" id="C0134V1">34:1</a> Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she
bore to Ya’akov, went out to see the daughters of the land. <a name="C0134V2"
id="C0134V2">34:2</a> Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the
land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. <a name="C0134V3"
id="C0134V3">34:3</a> His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Ya’akov, and
he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. <a
name="C0134V4" id="C0134V4">34:4</a> Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor,
saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V5" id="C0134V5">34:5</a> Now Ya’akov heard that he had defiled
Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field.
Ya’akov held his peace until they came. <a name="C0134V6" id="C0134V6">34:6</a>
Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Ya’akov to talk with him. <a
name="C0134V7" id="C0134V7">34:7</a> The sons of Ya’akov came in from the field
when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry,
because he had done folly in Yisrael in lying with Ya’akov's daughter; a
which thing ought not to be done. <a name="C0134V8" id="C0134V8">34:8</a>
Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs
for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. <a name="C0134V9"
id="C0134V9">34:9</a> Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and
take our daughters for yourselves. <a name="C0134V10" id="C0134V10">34:10</a>
You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade
in it, and get possessions in it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V11" id="C0134V11">34:11</a> Shechem said to her father and to
her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will
tell me I will give. <a name="C0134V12" id="C0134V12">34:12</a> Ask me a great
amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me
the young lady as a wife."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V13" id="C0134V13">34:13</a> The sons of Ya’akov answered Shechem
and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah
their sister, <a name="C0134V14" id="C0134V14">34:14</a> and said to them,
"We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is
uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. <a name="C0134V15" id="C0134V15">34:15</a>
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are,
that every male of you be circumcised; <a name="C0134V16" id="C0134V16">34:16</a>
then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to
us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. <a
name="C0134V17" id="C0134V17">34:17</a> But if you will not listen to us, to
be circumcised, then we will take our <a href="#N0120">sister,</a> and we
will be gone."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V18" id="C0134V18">34:18</a> Their words pleased Hamor and
Shechem, Hamor's son. <a name="C0134V19" id="C0134V19">34:19</a> The young man
didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya’akov's daughter,
and he was honored above all the house of his father. <a name="C0134V20"
id="C0134V20">34:20</a> Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of
their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, <a name="C0134V21"
id="C0134V21">34:21</a> "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let
them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large
enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us
give them our daughters. <a name="C0134V22" id="C0134V22">34:22</a> Only on
this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one
people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. <a
name="C0134V23" id="C0134V23">34:23</a> Won't their livestock and their
possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to
them, and they will dwell with us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V24" id="C0134V24">34:24</a> All who went out of the gate of his
city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was
circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. <a name="C0134V25"
id="C0134V25">34:25</a> It happened on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of Ya’akov's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his
sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. <a
name="C0134V26" id="C0134V26">34:26</a> They killed Hamor and Shechem, his
son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house,
and went away. <a name="C0134V27" id="C0134V27">34:27</a> Ya’akov's sons came on
the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
<a name="C0134V28" id="C0134V28">34:28</a> They took their flocks, their
herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the
field, <a name="C0134V29" id="C0134V29">34:29</a> and all their wealth. They
took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder
everything that was in the house. <a name="C0134V30" id="C0134V30">34:30</a>
Ya’akov said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me
odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the
Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together
against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0134V31" id="C0134V31">34:31</a> They said, "Should he deal
with our sister as with a prostitute?"
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N20" id="N20">[20]</a> <a href="#C0134V17">back to 34:17</a> Hebrew
has, literally, "daughter"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V1" id="C0135V1">35:1</a> Elohim said to Ya’akov, "Arise, go up
to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to Elohim, who appeared to you
when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V2" id="C0135V2">35:2</a> Then Ya’akov said to his household, and
to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among
you, purify yourselves, change your garments. <a name="C0135V3" id="C0135V3">35:3</a>
Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to Elohim, who
answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I
went."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V4" id="C0135V4">35:4</a> They gave to Ya’akov all the foreign
gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears;
and Ya’akov hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. <a name="C0135V5"
id="C0135V5">35:5</a> They traveled, and a terror of Elohim was on the cities
that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Ya’akov. <a
name="C0135V6" id="C0135V6">35:6</a> So Ya’akov came to Luz (that is, Bethel),
which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
<a name="C0135V7" id="C0135V7">35:7</a> He built an altar there, and called
the place El Beth El; because there Elohim was revealed to him, when he fled
from the face of his brother. <a name="C0135V8" id="C0135V8">35:8</a> Deborah,
Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and
its name was called Allon Bacuth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V9" id="C0135V9">35:9</a> Elohim appeared to Ya’akov again, when he
came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. <a name="C0135V10" id="C0135V10">35:10</a>
Elohim said to him, "Your name is Ya’akov. Your name shall not be Ya’akov
any more, but your name will be Yisrael." He named him Yisrael. <a
name="C0135V11" id="C0135V11">35:11</a> Elohim said to him, "I am Elohim
Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will
be from you, and kings will come out of your body. <a name="C0135V12"
id="C0135V12">35:12</a> The land which I gave to Avraham and Isaac, I will
give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V13" id="C0135V13">35:13</a> Elohim went up from him in the place
where he spoke with him. <a name="C0135V14" id="C0135V14">35:14</a> Ya’akov set
up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He
poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. <a name="C0135V15"
id="C0135V15">35:15</a> Ya’akov called the name of the place where Elohim spoke
with him "Bethel."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V16" id="C0135V16">35:16</a> They traveled from Bethel. There
was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had
hard labor. <a name="C0135V17" id="C0135V17">35:17</a> When she was in hard
labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will
have another son."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V18" id="C0135V18">35:18</a> It happened, as her soul was
departing (for she died), that she named him <a href="#N0121">Benoni,</a>
but his father named him <a href="#N0122">Benjamin.</a> <a name="C0135V19"
id="C0135V19">35:19</a> Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath
(the same is Bethlehem). <a name="C0135V20" id="C0135V20">35:20</a> Ya’akov set
up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this
day. <a name="C0135V21" id="C0135V21">35:21</a> Yisrael traveled, and spread
his tent beyond the tower of Eder. <a name="C0135V22" id="C0135V22">35:22</a>
It happened, while Yisrael lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay
with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Yisrael heard of it.
</p>
<p>
Now the sons of Ya’akov were twelve. <a name="C0135V23" id="C0135V23">35:23</a>
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Ya’akov's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Yehudah,
Issachar, and Zebulun. <a name="C0135V24" id="C0135V24">35:24</a> The sons of
Rachel: Yoseph and Benjamin. <a name="C0135V25" id="C0135V25">35:25</a> The
sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. <a name="C0135V26"
id="C0135V26">35:26</a> The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher.
These are the sons of Ya’akov, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. <a
name="C0135V27" id="C0135V27">35:27</a> Ya’akov came to Isaac his father, to
Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Avraham and Isaac lived as
foreigners.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0135V28" id="C0135V28">35:28</a> The days of Isaac were one hundred
eighty years. <a name="C0135V29" id="C0135V29">35:29</a> Isaac gave up the
spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days.
Esau and Ya’akov, his sons, buried him.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0121" id="N0121">[21]</a> <a href="#C0135V18">back to 35:18</a>
"Benoni" means "son of my trouble."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0122" id="N0122">[22]</a> <a href="#C0135V18">back to 35:18</a>
"Benjamin" means "son of my right hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V1" id="C0136V1">36:1</a> Now this is the history of the
generations of Esau (that is, Edom). <a name="C0136V2" id="C0136V2">36:2</a>
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of
Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of
Zibeon, the Hivite; <a name="C0136V3" id="C0136V3">36:3</a> and Basemath,
Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. <a name="C0136V4" id="C0136V4">36:4</a>
Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. <a name="C0136V5" id="C0136V5">36:5</a>
Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who
were born to him in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0136V6" id="C0136V6">36:6</a>
Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his
household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions,
which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away
from his brother Ya’akov. <a name="C0136V7" id="C0136V7">36:7</a> For their
substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their
travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock. <a name="C0136V8"
id="C0136V8">36:8</a> Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V9" id="C0136V9">36:9</a> This is the history of the generations
of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: <a
name="C0136V10" id="C0136V10">36:10</a> these are the names of Esau's sons:
Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of
Basemath, the wife of Esau. <a name="C0136V11" id="C0136V11">36:11</a> The
sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. <a
name="C0136V12" id="C0136V12">36:12</a> Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's
son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's
wife. <a name="C0136V13" id="C0136V13">36:13</a> These are the sons of Reuel:
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath,
Esau's wife. <a name="C0136V14" id="C0136V14">36:14</a> These were the sons of
Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she
bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V15" id="C0136V15">36:15</a> These are the chiefs of the sons of
Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar,
chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, <a name="C0136V16" id="C0136V16">36:16</a> chief
Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz
in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. <a name="C0136V17"
id="C0136V17">36:17</a> These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief
Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who
came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's
wife. <a name="C0136V18" id="C0136V18">36:18</a> These are the sons of
Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are
the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. <a
name="C0136V19" id="C0136V19">36:19</a> These are the sons of Esau (that is,
Edom), and these are their chiefs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V20" id="C0136V20">36:20</a> These are the sons of Seir the
Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, <a
name="C0136V21" id="C0136V21">36:21</a> Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are
the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of
Edom. <a name="C0136V22" id="C0136V22">36:22</a> The children of Lotan were
Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna. <a name="C0136V23" id="C0136V23">36:23</a>
These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
<a name="C0136V24" id="C0136V24">36:24</a> These are the children of Zibeon:
Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness,
as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father. <a name="C0136V25" id="C0136V25">36:25</a>
These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of
Anah. <a name="C0136V26" id="C0136V26">36:26</a> These are the children of
Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. <a name="C0136V27" id="C0136V27">36:27</a>
These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. <a name="C0136V28"
id="C0136V28">36:28</a> These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. <a
name="C0136V29" id="C0136V29">36:29</a> These are the chiefs who came of the
Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, <a
name="C0136V30" id="C0136V30">36:30</a> chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief
Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their
chiefs in the land of Seir.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V31" id="C0136V31">36:31</a> These are the kings who reigned in
the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C0136V32" id="C0136V32">36:32</a> Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in
Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah. <a name="C0136V33" id="C0136V33">36:33</a>
Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place. <a
name="C0136V34" id="C0136V34">36:34</a> Jobab died, and Husham of the land of
the Temanites reigned in his place. <a name="C0136V35" id="C0136V35">36:35</a>
Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field
of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith. <a
name="C0136V36" id="C0136V36">36:36</a> Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his place. <a name="C0136V37" id="C0136V37">36:37</a> Samlah died,
and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place. <a name="C0136V38"
id="C0136V38">36:38</a> Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor
reigned in his place. <a name="C0136V39" id="C0136V39">36:39</a> Baal Hanan
the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his
city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the
daughter of Mezahab.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0136V40" id="C0136V40">36:40</a> These are the names of the chiefs
who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and
by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, <a name="C0136V41"
id="C0136V41">36:41</a> chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, <a
name="C0136V42" id="C0136V42">36:42</a> chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mibzar, <a name="C0136V43" id="C0136V43">36:43</a> chief Magdiel, and chief
Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the
land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V1" id="C0137V1">37:1</a> Ya’akov lived in the land of his
father's travels, in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0137V2" id="C0137V2">37:2</a>
This is the history of the generations of Ya’akov. Yoseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the
sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yoseph brought an evil
report of them to their father. <a name="C0137V3" id="C0137V3">37:3</a> Now
Yisrael loved Yoseph more than all his children, because he was the son of
his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. <a name="C0137V4"
id="C0137V4">37:4</a> His brothers saw that their father loved him more than
all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V5" id="C0137V5">37:5</a> Yoseph dreamed a dream, and he told it
to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. <a name="C0137V6"
id="C0137V6">37:6</a> He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I
have dreamed: <a name="C0137V7" id="C0137V7">37:7</a> for behold, we were
binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood
upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V8" id="C0137V8">37:8</a> His brothers said to him, "Will
you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?"
They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. <a
name="C0137V9" id="C0137V9">37:9</a> He dreamed yet another dream, and told it
to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream:
and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
<a name="C0137V10" id="C0137V10">37:10</a> He told it to his father and to his
brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this
dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers
indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?" <a
name="C0137V11" id="C0137V11">37:11</a> His brothers envied him, but his
father kept this saying in mind.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V12" id="C0137V12">37:12</a> His brothers went to feed their
father's flock in Shechem. <a name="C0137V13" id="C0137V13">37:13</a> Yisrael
said to Yoseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem?
Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V14" id="C0137V14">37:14</a> He said to him, "Go now, see
whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring
me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he
came to Shechem. <a name="C0137V15" id="C0137V15">37:15</a> A certain man
found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him,
"What are you looking for?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V16" id="C0137V16">37:16</a> He said, "I am looking for my
brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V17" id="C0137V17">37:17</a> The man said, "They have left
here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'"
</p>
<p>
Yoseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. <a name="C0137V18"
id="C0137V18">37:18</a> They saw him afar off, and before he came near to
them, they conspired against him to kill him. <a name="C0137V19" id="C0137V19">37:19</a>
They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. <a
name="C0137V20" id="C0137V20">37:20</a> Come now therefore, and let's kill
him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal
has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V21" id="C0137V21">37:21</a> Reuben heard it, and delivered him
out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life." <a
name="C0137V22" id="C0137V22">37:22</a> Reuben said to them, "Shed no
blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand
on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him
to his father. <a name="C0137V23" id="C0137V23">37:23</a> It happened, when
Yoseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Yoseph of his coat, the
coat of many colors that was on him; <a name="C0137V24" id="C0137V24">37:24</a>
and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There
was no water in it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V25" id="C0137V25">37:25</a> They sat down to eat bread, and
they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was
coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh,
going to carry it down to Egypt. <a name="C0137V26" id="C0137V26">37:26</a>
Yehudah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother
and conceal his blood? <a name="C0137V27" id="C0137V27">37:27</a> Come, and
let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he
is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him. <a
name="C0137V28" id="C0137V28">37:28</a> Midianites who were merchants passed
by, and they drew and lifted up Yoseph out of the pit, and sold Yoseph to
the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Yoseph into
Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V29" id="C0137V29">37:29</a> Reuben returned to the pit; and saw
that Yoseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes. <a name="C0137V30"
id="C0137V30">37:30</a> He returned to his brothers, and said, "The
child is no more; and I, where will I go?" <a name="C0137V31"
id="C0137V31">37:31</a> They took Yoseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and
dipped the coat in the blood. <a name="C0137V32" id="C0137V32">37:32</a> They
took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and
said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's
coat or not."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0137V33" id="C0137V33">37:33</a> He recognized it, and said, "It
is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Yoseph is without doubt
torn in pieces." <a name="C0137V34" id="C0137V34">37:34</a> Ya’akov tore
his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many
days. <a name="C0137V35" id="C0137V35">37:35</a> All his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said,
"For I will go down to <a href="#N0123">Sheol</a> to my son mourning."
His father wept for him. <a name="C0137V36" id="C0137V36">37:36</a> The
Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the
captain of the guard.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N23" id="N23">[23]</a> <a href="#C0137V35">back to 37:35</a> Sheol
is the place of the dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V1" id="C0138V1">38:1</a> It happened at that time, that Yehudah
went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name
was Hirah. <a name="C0138V2" id="C0138V2">38:2</a> Yehudah saw there a daughter
of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to
her. <a name="C0138V3" id="C0138V3">38:3</a> She conceived, and bore a son;
and he named him Er. <a name="C0138V4" id="C0138V4">38:4</a> She conceived
again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. <a name="C0138V5" id="C0138V5">38:5</a>
She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when
she bore him. <a name="C0138V6" id="C0138V6">38:6</a> Yehudah took a wife for
Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. <a name="C0138V7" id="C0138V7">38:7</a>
Er, Yehudah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed
him. <a name="C0138V8" id="C0138V8">38:8</a> Yehudah said to Onan, "Go in
to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to
her, and raise up seed to your brother." <a name="C0138V9" id="C0138V9">38:9</a>
Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in
to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should
give seed to his brother. <a name="C0138V10" id="C0138V10">38:10</a> The thing
which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also. <a
name="C0138V11" id="C0138V11">38:11</a> Then Yehudah said to Tamar, his
daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until
Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die,
like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V12" id="C0138V12">38:12</a> After many days, Shua's daughter,
the wife of Yehudah, died. Yehudah was comforted, and went up to his
sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. <a
name="C0138V13" id="C0138V13">38:13</a> It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold,
your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." <a
name="C0138V14" id="C0138V14">38:14</a> She took off of her the garments of
her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and
sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that
Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife. <a
name="C0138V15" id="C0138V15">38:15</a> When Yehudah saw her, he thought that
she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. <a name="C0138V16"
id="C0138V16">38:16</a> He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please
come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his
daughter-in-law.
</p>
<p>
She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V17" id="C0138V17">38:17</a> He said, "I will send you a
kid of the goats from the flock."
</p>
<p>
She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V18" id="C0138V18">38:18</a> He said, "What pledge will I
give you?"
</p>
<p>
She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your
hand."
</p>
<p>
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. <a
name="C0138V19" id="C0138V19">38:19</a> She arose, and went away, and put off
her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. <a
name="C0138V20" id="C0138V20">38:20</a> Yehudah sent the kid of the goats by the
hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's
hand, but he didn't find her. <a name="C0138V21" id="C0138V21">38:21</a> Then
he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that
was at Enaim by the road?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V22" id="C0138V22">38:22</a> He returned to Yehudah, and said,
"I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has
been no prostitute here.'" <a name="C0138V23" id="C0138V23">38:23</a>
Yehudah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this
kid, and you haven't found her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V24" id="C0138V24">38:24</a> It happened about three months
later, that it was told Yehudah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law,
has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by
prostitution."
</p>
<p>
Yehudah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." <a
name="C0138V25" id="C0138V25">38:25</a> When she was brought forth, she sent
to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with
child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the
signet, and the cords, and the staff."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0138V26" id="C0138V26">38:26</a> Yehudah acknowledged them, and said,
"She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah,
my son."
</p>
<p>
He knew her again no more. <a name="C0138V27" id="C0138V27">38:27</a> It
happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
<a name="C0138V28" id="C0138V28">38:28</a> When she travailed, one put out a
hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying,
"This came out first." <a name="C0138V29" id="C0138V29">38:29</a> It
happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and
she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore
his name was called <a href="#N0124">Perez.</a> <a name="C0138V30"
id="C0138V30">38:30</a> Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet
thread on his hand, and his name was called <a href="#N0125">Zerah.</a>
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0124" id="N0124">[24]</a> <a href="#C0138V29">back to 38:29</a>
Perez means "breaking out."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0125" id="N0125">[25]</a> <a href="#C0138V30">back to 38:30</a>
Zerah means "scarlet" or "brightness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0139V1" id="C0139V1">39:1</a> Yoseph was brought down to Egypt.
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down
there. <a name="C0139V2" id="C0139V2">39:2</a> Yahweh was with Yoseph, and he
was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. <a
name="C0139V3" id="C0139V3">39:3</a> His master saw that Yahweh was with him,
and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand. <a name="C0139V4"
id="C0139V4">39:4</a> Yoseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him,
and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into
his hand. <a name="C0139V5" id="C0139V5">39:5</a> It happened from the time
that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that
Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for Yoseph's sake; and the blessing of
Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. <a
name="C0139V6" id="C0139V6">39:6</a> He left all that he had in Yoseph's hand.
He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
</p>
<p>
Yoseph was well-built and handsome. <a name="C0139V7" id="C0139V7">39:7</a> It
happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on
Yoseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0139V8" id="C0139V8">39:8</a> But he refused, and said to his
master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the
house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. <a name="C0139V9"
id="C0139V9">39:9</a> He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he
kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can
I do this great wickedness, and sin against Elohim?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0139V10" id="C0139V10">39:10</a> As she spoke to Yoseph day by day,
he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. <a name="C0139V11"
id="C0139V11">39:11</a> About this time, he went into the house to do his
work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. <a name="C0139V12"
id="C0139V12">39:12</a> She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie
with me!"
</p>
<p>
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. <a name="C0139V13"
id="C0139V13">39:13</a> When she saw that he had left his garment in her
hand, and had run outside, <a name="C0139V14" id="C0139V14">39:14</a> she
called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold,
he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with
me, and I cried with a loud voice. <a name="C0139V15" id="C0139V15">39:15</a>
It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he
left his garment by me, and ran outside." <a name="C0139V16" id="C0139V16">39:16</a>
She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. <a
name="C0139V17" id="C0139V17">39:17</a> She spoke to him according to these
words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came
in to me to mock me, <a name="C0139V18" id="C0139V18">39:18</a> and it
happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by
me, and ran outside."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0139V19" id="C0139V19">39:19</a> It happened, when his master heard
the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what
your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled. <a name="C0139V20"
id="C0139V20">39:20</a> Yoseph's master took him, and put him into the
prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there
in custody. <a name="C0139V21" id="C0139V21">39:21</a> But Yahweh was with
Yoseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the
keeper of the prison. <a name="C0139V22" id="C0139V22">39:22</a> The keeper of
the prison committed to Yoseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the
prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it. <a
name="C0139V23" id="C0139V23">39:23</a> The keeper of the prison didn't look
after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and
that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V1" id="C0140V1">40:1</a> It happened after these things, that
the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the
king of Egypt. <a name="C0140V2" id="C0140V2">40:2</a> Pharaoh was angry with
his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. <a name="C0140V3"
id="C0140V3">40:3</a> He put them in custody in the house of the captain of
the guard, into the prison, the place where Yoseph was bound. <a
name="C0140V4" id="C0140V4">40:4</a> The captain of the guard assigned them to
Yoseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. <a
name="C0140V5" id="C0140V5">40:5</a> They both dreamed a dream, each man his
dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his
dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in
the prison. <a name="C0140V6" id="C0140V6">40:6</a> Yoseph came in to them in
the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. <a name="C0140V7"
id="C0140V7">40:7</a> He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in
custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V8" id="C0140V8">40:8</a> They said to him, "We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it."
</p>
<p>
Yoseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to Elohim? Please
tell it to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V9" id="C0140V9">40:9</a> The chief cupbearer told his dream to
Yoseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of
me, <a name="C0140V10" id="C0140V10">40:10</a> and in the vine were three
branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its
clusters brought forth ripe grapes. <a name="C0140V11" id="C0140V11">40:11</a>
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V12" id="C0140V12">40:12</a> Yoseph said to him, "This is
its interpretation: the three branches are three days. <a name="C0140V13"
id="C0140V13">40:13</a> Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your
head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his
hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer. <a name="C0140V14"
id="C0140V14">40:14</a> But remember me when it will be well with you, and
show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring
me out of this house. <a name="C0140V15" id="C0140V15">40:15</a> For indeed, I
was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done
nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V16" id="C0140V16">40:16</a> When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said to Yoseph, "I also was in my dream,
and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. <a name="C0140V17"
id="C0140V17">40:17</a> In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked
food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0140V18" id="C0140V18">40:18</a> Yoseph answered, "This is its
interpretation. The three baskets are three days. <a name="C0140V19"
id="C0140V19">40:19</a> Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your
head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat
your flesh from off you." <a name="C0140V20" id="C0140V20">40:20</a> It
happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast
for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and
the head of the chief baker among his servants. <a name="C0140V21"
id="C0140V21">40:21</a> He restored the chief cupbearer to his position
again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; <a name="C0140V22"
id="C0140V22">40:22</a> but he hanged the chief baker, as Yoseph had
interpreted to them. <a name="C0140V23" id="C0140V23">40:23</a> Yet the chief
cupbearer didn't remember Yoseph, but forgot him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V1" id="C0141V1">41:1</a> It happened at the end of two full
years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river. <a
name="C0141V2" id="C0141V2">41:2</a> Behold, there came up out of the river
seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. <a
name="C0141V3" id="C0141V3">41:3</a> Behold, seven other cattle came up after
them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the
brink of the river. <a name="C0141V4" id="C0141V4">41:4</a> The ugly and thin
cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke. <a
name="C0141V5" id="C0141V5">41:5</a> He slept and dreamed a second time: and
behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. <a
name="C0141V6" id="C0141V6">41:6</a> Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. <a name="C0141V7"
id="C0141V7">41:7</a> The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy
and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. <a name="C0141V8"
id="C0141V8">41:8</a> It happened in the morning that his spirit was
troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise
men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could
interpret them to Pharaoh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V9" id="C0141V9">41:9</a> Then the chief cupbearer spoke to
Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today. <a name="C0141V10"
id="C0141V10">41:10</a> Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in
custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
<a name="C0141V11" id="C0141V11">41:11</a> We dreamed a dream in one night, I
and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
<a name="C0141V12" id="C0141V12">41:12</a> There was with us there a young
man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and
he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he
interpreted. <a name="C0141V13" id="C0141V13">41:13</a> It happened, as he
interpreted to us, so it was: he restored me to my office, and he hanged
him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V14" id="C0141V14">41:14</a> Then Pharaoh sent and called
Yoseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved
himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. <a name="C0141V15"
id="C0141V15">41:15</a> Pharaoh said to Yoseph, "I have dreamed a
dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of
you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V16" id="C0141V16">41:16</a> Yoseph answered Pharaoh, saying,
"It isn't in me. Elohim will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V17" id="C0141V17">41:17</a> Pharaoh spoke to Yoseph, "In
my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river: <a name="C0141V18"
id="C0141V18">41:18</a> and behold, there came up out of the river seven
cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass, <a name="C0141V19"
id="C0141V19">41:19</a> and behold, seven other cattle came up after them,
poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
for ugliness. <a name="C0141V20" id="C0141V20">41:20</a> The thin and ugly
cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, <a name="C0141V21" id="C0141V21">41:21</a>
and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten
them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. <a
name="C0141V22" id="C0141V22">41:22</a> I saw in my dream, and behold, seven
heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good: <a name="C0141V23"
id="C0141V23">41:23</a> and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. <a name="C0141V24"
id="C0141V24">41:24</a> The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good
heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V25" id="C0141V25">41:25</a> Yoseph said to Pharaoh, "The
dream of Pharaoh is one. What Elohim is about to do he has declared to
Pharaoh. <a name="C0141V26" id="C0141V26">41:26</a> The seven good cattle are
seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream
is one. <a name="C0141V27" id="C0141V27">41:27</a> The seven thin and ugly
cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty
heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of
famine. <a name="C0141V28" id="C0141V28">41:28</a> That is the thing which I
spoke to Pharaoh. What Elohim is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. <a
name="C0141V29" id="C0141V29">41:29</a> Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. <a name="C0141V30" id="C0141V30">41:30</a>
There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will
be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, <a
name="C0141V31" id="C0141V31">41:31</a> and the plenty will not be known in
the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very
grievous. <a name="C0141V32" id="C0141V32">41:32</a> The dream was doubled to
Pharaoh, because the thing is established by Elohim, and Elohim will shortly
bring it to pass.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V33" id="C0141V33">41:33</a> "Now therefore let Pharaoh
look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. <a
name="C0141V34" id="C0141V34">41:34</a> Let Pharaoh do this, and let him
appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of
Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years. <a name="C0141V35" id="C0141V35">41:35</a>
Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up
grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep
it. <a name="C0141V36" id="C0141V36">41:36</a> The food will be for a store to
the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of
Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V37" id="C0141V37">41:37</a> The thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. <a name="C0141V38" id="C0141V38">41:38</a>
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man
in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?" <a name="C0141V39" id="C0141V39">41:39</a>
Pharaoh said to Yoseph, "Because Elohim has shown you all of this, there
is none so discreet and wise as you. <a name="C0141V40" id="C0141V40">41:40</a>
You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people
be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." <a
name="C0141V41" id="C0141V41">41:41</a> Pharaoh said to Yoseph, "Behold,
I have set you over all the land of Egypt." <a name="C0141V42"
id="C0141V42">41:42</a> Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and
put it on Yoseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a
gold chain about his neck, <a name="C0141V43" id="C0141V43">41:43</a> and he
made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before
him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt. <a
name="C0141V44" id="C0141V44">41:44</a> Pharaoh said to Yoseph, "I am
Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all
the land of Egypt." <a name="C0141V45" id="C0141V45">41:45</a> Pharaoh
called Yoseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Yoseph went out over the
land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V46" id="C0141V46">41:46</a> Yoseph was thirty years old when he
stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Yoseph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. <a name="C0141V47"
id="C0141V47">41:47</a> In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth
abundantly. <a name="C0141V48" id="C0141V48">41:48</a> He gathered up all the
food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the
food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he
laid up in the same. <a name="C0141V49" id="C0141V49">41:49</a> Yoseph laid up
grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it
was without number. <a name="C0141V50" id="C0141V50">41:50</a> To Yoseph were
born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter
of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. <a name="C0141V51" id="C0141V51">41:51</a>
Yoseph called the name of the firstborn <a href="#N0126">Manasseh,</a>
"For," he said, "Elohim has made me forget all my toil, and
all my father's house." <a name="C0141V52" id="C0141V52">41:52</a> The
name of the second, he called <a href="#N0127">Ephraim</a>: "For Elohim
has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0141V53" id="C0141V53">41:53</a> The seven years of plenty, that
were in the land of Egypt, came to an end. <a name="C0141V54" id="C0141V54">41:54</a>
The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yoseph had said. There
was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. <a
name="C0141V55" id="C0141V55">41:55</a> When all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all
the Egyptians, "Go to Yoseph. What he says to you, do." <a
name="C0141V56" id="C0141V56">41:56</a> The famine was over all the surface of
the earth. Yoseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians.
The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. <a name="C0141V57" id="C0141V57">41:57</a>
All countries came into Egypt, to Yoseph, to buy grain, because the famine
was severe in all the earth.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N0126" id="N0126">[26]</a> <a href="#C0141V51">back to 41:51</a>
"Manasseh" sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N0127" id="N0127">[27]</a> <a href="#C0141V52">back to 41:52</a>
"Ephraim" sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V1" id="C0142V1">42:1</a> Now Ya’akov saw that there was grain in
Egypt, and Ya’akov said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
<a name="C0142V2" id="C0142V2">42:2</a> He said, "Behold, I have heard
that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so
that we may live, and not die." <a name="C0142V3" id="C0142V3">42:3</a>
Yoseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. <a name="C0142V4"
id="C0142V4">42:4</a> But Ya’akov didn't send Benjamin, Yoseph's brother, with
his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." <a
name="C0142V5" id="C0142V5">42:5</a> The sons of Yisrael came to buy among
those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0142V6"
id="C0142V6">42:6</a> Yoseph was the governor over the land. It was he who
sold to all the people of the land. Yoseph's brothers came, and bowed
themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. <a name="C0142V7"
id="C0142V7">42:7</a> Yoseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but
acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to
them, "Where did you come from?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V8" id="C0142V8">42:8</a> Yoseph recognized his brothers, but
they didn't recognize him. <a name="C0142V9" id="C0142V9">42:9</a> Yoseph
remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them,
"You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V10" id="C0142V10">42:10</a> They said to him, "No, my
lord, but your servants have come to buy food. <a name="C0142V11" id="C0142V11">42:11</a>
We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V12" id="C0142V12">42:12</a> He said to them, "No, but you
have come to see the nakedness of the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V13" id="C0142V13">42:13</a> They said, "We, your servants,
are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and
behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V14" id="C0142V14">42:14</a> Yoseph said to them, "It is
like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.' <a name="C0142V15" id="C0142V15">42:15</a>
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go
forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. <a name="C0142V16"
id="C0142V16">42:16</a> Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and
you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth
in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." <a
name="C0142V17" id="C0142V17">42:17</a> He put them all together into custody
for three days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V18" id="C0142V18">42:18</a> Yoseph said to them the third day,
"Do this, and live, for I fear Elohim. <a name="C0142V19" id="C0142V19">42:19</a>
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your
prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. <a
name="C0142V20" id="C0142V20">42:20</a> Bring your youngest brother to me; so
will your words be verified, and you won't die."
</p>
<p>
They did so. <a name="C0142V21" id="C0142V21">42:21</a> They said one to
another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we
saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen.
Therefore this distress has come upon us." <a name="C0142V22"
id="C0142V22">42:22</a> Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell
you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen?
Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." <a name="C0142V23"
id="C0142V23">42:23</a> They didn't know that Yoseph understood them; for
there was an interpreter between them. <a name="C0142V24" id="C0142V24">42:24</a>
He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and
spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their
eyes. <a name="C0142V25" id="C0142V25">42:25</a> Then Yoseph gave a command to
fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his
sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V26" id="C0142V26">42:26</a> They loaded their donkeys with
their grain, and departed from there. <a name="C0142V27" id="C0142V27">42:27</a>
As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging
place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. <a
name="C0142V28" id="C0142V28">42:28</a> He said to his brothers, "My
money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed
them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this
that Elohim has done to us?" <a name="C0142V29" id="C0142V29">42:29</a> They
came to Ya’akov their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that
had happened to them, saying, <a name="C0142V30" id="C0142V30">42:30</a>
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us
for spies of the country. <a name="C0142V31" id="C0142V31">42:31</a> We said
to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies. <a name="C0142V32" id="C0142V32">42:32</a>
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.' <a
name="C0142V33" id="C0142V33">42:33</a> The man, the lord of the land, said to
us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your
brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go
your way. <a name="C0142V34" id="C0142V34">42:34</a> Bring your youngest
brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are
honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in
the land.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V35" id="C0142V35">42:35</a> It happened as they emptied their
sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they
and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. <a
name="C0142V36" id="C0142V36">42:36</a> Ya’akov, their father, said to them,
"You have bereaved me of my children! Yoseph is no more, Simeon is no
more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V37" id="C0142V37">42:37</a> Reuben spoke to his father, saying,
"Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my
care, and I will bring him to you again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0142V38" id="C0142V38">42:38</a> He said, "My son shall not go
down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm
happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V1" id="C0143V1">43:1</a> The famine was severe in the land. <a
name="C0143V2" id="C0143V2">43:2</a> It happened, when they had eaten up the
grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them,
"Go again, buy us a little more food."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V3" id="C0143V3">43:3</a> Yehudah spoke to him, saying, "The
man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your
brother is with you.' <a name="C0143V4" id="C0143V4">43:4</a> If you'll send
our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food, <a name="C0143V5"
id="C0143V5">43:5</a> but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the
man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with
you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V6" id="C0143V6">43:6</a> Yisrael said, "Why did you treat
me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V7" id="C0143V7">43:7</a> They said, "The man asked
directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is
your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his
questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your
brother down?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V8" id="C0143V8">43:8</a> Yehudah said to Yisrael, his father,
"Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live,
and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones. <a name="C0143V9"
id="C0143V9">43:9</a> I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you
require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let
me bear the blame forever, <a name="C0143V10" id="C0143V10">43:10</a> for if
we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V11" id="C0143V11">43:11</a> Their father, Yisrael, said to them,
"If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the
land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a
little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; <a name="C0143V12"
id="C0143V12">43:12</a> and take double money in your hand, and take back
the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an
oversight. <a name="C0143V13" id="C0143V13">43:13</a> Take your brother also,
get up, and return to the man. <a name="C0143V14" id="C0143V14">43:14</a> May
Elohim Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you
your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am
bereaved."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V15" id="C0143V15">43:15</a> The men took that present, and they
took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to
Egypt, and stood before Yoseph. <a name="C0143V16" id="C0143V16">43:16</a>
When Yoseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house,
"Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and make ready;
for the men will dine with me at noon."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V17" id="C0143V17">43:17</a> The man did as Yoseph commanded,
and the man brought the men to Yoseph's house. <a name="C0143V18" id="C0143V18">43:18</a>
The men were afraid, because they were brought to Yoseph's house; and they
said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the
first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack
us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys." <a name="C0143V19"
id="C0143V19">43:19</a> They came near to the steward of Yoseph's house, and
they spoke to him at the door of the house, <a name="C0143V20" id="C0143V20">43:20</a>
and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy
food. <a name="C0143V21" id="C0143V21">43:21</a> When we came to the lodging
place, we opened our sacks, and behold, every man's money was in the mouth
of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our
hand. <a name="C0143V22" id="C0143V22">43:22</a> We have brought down other
money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our
sacks."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V23" id="C0143V23">43:23</a> He said, "Peace be to you.
Don't be afraid. Your Elohim, and the Elohim of your father, has given you
treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out
to them. <a name="C0143V24" id="C0143V24">43:24</a> The man brought the men
into Yoseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He
gave their donkeys fodder. <a name="C0143V25" id="C0143V25">43:25</a> They
made ready the present for Yoseph's coming at noon, for they heard that
they should eat bread there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V26" id="C0143V26">43:26</a> When Yoseph came home, they brought
him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves down to him to the earth. <a name="C0143V27" id="C0143V27">43:27</a>
He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the
old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V28" id="C0143V28">43:28</a> They said, "Your servant, our
father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did
homage. <a name="C0143V29" id="C0143V29">43:29</a> He lifted up his eyes, and
saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your
youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "Elohim be
gracious to you, my son." <a name="C0143V30" id="C0143V30">43:30</a>
Yoseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a
place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. <a name="C0143V31"
id="C0143V31">43:31</a> He washed his face, and came out. He controlled
himself, and said, "Serve the meal."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0143V32" id="C0143V32">43:32</a> They served him by himself, and
them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves,
because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an
abomination to the Egyptians. <a name="C0143V33" id="C0143V33">43:33</a> They
sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the
youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another. <a
name="C0143V34" id="C0143V34">43:34</a> He sent portions to them from before
him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They
drank, and were merry with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V1" id="C0144V1">44:1</a> He commanded the steward of his house,
saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. <a name="C0144V2" id="C0144V2">44:2</a>
Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his
grain money." He did according to the word that Yoseph had spoken. <a
name="C0144V3" id="C0144V3">44:3</a> As soon as the morning was light, the men
were sent away, they and their donkeys. <a name="C0144V4" id="C0144V4">44:4</a>
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yoseph said
to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them,
ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good? <a name="C0144V5" id="C0144V5">44:5</a>
Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines?
You have done evil in so doing.'" <a name="C0144V6" id="C0144V6">44:6</a>
He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V7" id="C0144V7">44:7</a> They said to him, "Why does my
lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they
should do such a thing! <a name="C0144V8" id="C0144V8">44:8</a> Behold, the
money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of
the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your
lord's house? <a name="C0144V9" id="C0144V9">44:9</a> With whoever of your
servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's
bondservants."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V10" id="C0144V10">44:10</a> He said, "Now also let it be
according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant;
and you will be blameless."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V11" id="C0144V11">44:11</a> Then they hurried, and every man
took his sack down to the ground, and every man opened his sack. <a
name="C0144V12" id="C0144V12">44:12</a> He searched, beginning with the
eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
<a name="C0144V13" id="C0144V13">44:13</a> Then they tore their clothes, and
every man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V14" id="C0144V14">44:14</a> Yehudah and his brothers came to
Yoseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before
him. <a name="C0144V15" id="C0144V15">44:15</a> Yoseph said to them, "What
deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can
indeed divine?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V16" id="C0144V16">44:16</a> Yehudah said, "What will we tell
my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? Elohim has found
out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants,
both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V17" id="C0144V17">44:17</a> He said, "Far be it from me
that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my
bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0144V18" id="C0144V18">44:18</a> Then Yehudah came near to him, and
said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's
ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even
as Pharaoh. <a name="C0144V19" id="C0144V19">44:19</a> My lord asked his
servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?' <a name="C0144V20"
id="C0144V20">44:20</a> We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man,
and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he
alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.' <a name="C0144V21"
id="C0144V21">44:21</a> You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me,
that I may set my eyes on him.' <a name="C0144V22" id="C0144V22">44:22</a> We
said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave
his father, his father would die.' <a name="C0144V23" id="C0144V23">44:23</a>
You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with
you, you will see my face no more.' <a name="C0144V24" id="C0144V24">44:24</a>
It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the
words of my lord. <a name="C0144V25" id="C0144V25">44:25</a> Our father said,
'Go again, buy us a little food.' <a name="C0144V26" id="C0144V26">44:26</a>
We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we
will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest
brother is with us.' <a name="C0144V27" id="C0144V27">44:27</a> Your servant,
my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons: <a
name="C0144V28" id="C0144V28">44:28</a> and the one went out from me, and I
said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him
since. <a name="C0144V29" id="C0144V29">44:29</a> If you take this one also
from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to Sheol.' <a name="C0144V30" id="C0144V30">44:30</a> Now therefore
when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing
that his life is bound up in the boy's life; <a name="C0144V31" id="C0144V31">44:31</a>
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die.
Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father,
with sorrow to Sheol. <a name="C0144V32" id="C0144V32">44:32</a> For your
servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't
bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.' <a
name="C0144V33" id="C0144V33">44:33</a> Now therefore, please let your servant
stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up
with his brothers. <a name="C0144V34" id="C0144V34">44:34</a> For how will I
go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that
will come on my father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0145V1" id="C0145V1">45:1</a> Then Yoseph couldn't control himself
before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man
to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Yoseph made
himself known to his brothers. <a name="C0145V2" id="C0145V2">45:2</a> He wept
aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. <a name="C0145V3"
id="C0145V3">45:3</a> Yoseph said to his brothers, "I am Yoseph! Does
my father still live?"
</p>
<p>
His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
<a name="C0145V4" id="C0145V4">45:4</a> Yoseph said to his brothers, "Come
near to me, please."
</p>
<p>
They came near. "He said, I am Yoseph, your brother, whom you sold
into Egypt. <a name="C0145V5" id="C0145V5">45:5</a> Now don't be grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you
to preserve life. <a name="C0145V6" id="C0145V6">45:6</a> For these two years
the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which
there will be neither plowing nor harvest. <a name="C0145V7" id="C0145V7">45:7</a>
Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to
save you alive by a great deliverance. <a name="C0145V8" id="C0145V8">45:8</a>
So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but Elohim, and he has made me a
father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of
Egypt. <a name="C0145V9" id="C0145V9">45:9</a> Hurry, and go up to my father,
and tell him, 'This is what your son Yoseph says, "Elohim has made me
lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait. <a name="C0145V10"
id="C0145V10">45:10</a> You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will
be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks,
your herds, and all that you have. <a name="C0145V11" id="C0145V11">45:11</a>
There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you
come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."' <a
name="C0145V12" id="C0145V12">45:12</a> Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of
my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. <a
name="C0145V13" id="C0145V13">45:13</a> You shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring
my father down here." <a name="C0145V14" id="C0145V14">45:14</a> He fell
on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
<a name="C0145V15" id="C0145V15">45:15</a> He kissed all his brothers, and
wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0145V16" id="C0145V16">45:16</a> The report of it was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying, "Yoseph's brothers have come." It
pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. <a name="C0145V17" id="C0145V17">45:17</a>
Pharaoh said to Yoseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your
animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. <a name="C0145V18" id="C0145V18">45:18</a>
Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you
the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.' <a
name="C0145V19" id="C0145V19">45:19</a> Now you are commanded: do this. Take
wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives,
and bring your father, and come. <a name="C0145V20" id="C0145V20">45:20</a>
Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all
of the land of Egypt is yours."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0145V21" id="C0145V21">45:21</a> The sons of Yisrael did so. Yoseph
gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way. <a name="C0145V22" id="C0145V22">45:22</a> He gave each
one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred
pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. <a name="C0145V23" id="C0145V23">45:23</a>
To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good
things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and
provision for his father by the way. <a name="C0145V24" id="C0145V24">45:24</a>
So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See
that you don't quarrel on the way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0145V25" id="C0145V25">45:25</a> They went up out of Egypt, and came
into the land of Canaan, to Ya’akov their father. <a name="C0145V26"
id="C0145V26">45:26</a> They told him, saying, "Yoseph is still alive,
and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, for
he didn't believe them. <a name="C0145V27" id="C0145V27">45:27</a> They told
him all the words of Yoseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the
wagons which Yoseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Ya’akov, their
father, revived. <a name="C0145V28" id="C0145V28">45:28</a> Yisrael said,
"It is enough. Yoseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him
before I die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V1" id="C0146V1">46:1</a> Yisrael traveled with all that he had,
and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father,
Isaac. <a name="C0146V2" id="C0146V2">46:2</a> Elohim spoke to Yisrael in the
visions of the night, and said, "Ya’akov, Ya’akov!"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Here I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V3" id="C0146V3">46:3</a> He said, "I am Elohim, the Elohim of
your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make
of you a great nation. <a name="C0146V4" id="C0146V4">46:4</a> I will go down
with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Yoseph will
close your eyes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V5" id="C0146V5">46:5</a> Ya’akov rose up from Beersheba, and the
sons of Yisrael carried Ya’akov, their father, their little ones, and their
wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. <a name="C0146V6"
id="C0146V6">46:6</a> They took their livestock, and their goods, which they
had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Ya’akov, and all his
seed with him, <a name="C0146V7" id="C0146V7">46:7</a> his sons, and his sons'
sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all
his seed with him into Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V8" id="C0146V8">46:8</a> These are the names of the children of
Yisrael, who came into Egypt, Ya’akov and his sons: Reuben, Ya’akov's
firstborn. <a name="C0146V9" id="C0146V9">46:9</a> The sons of Reuben: Hanoch,
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. <a name="C0146V10" id="C0146V10">46:10</a> The sons
of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanite woman. <a name="C0146V11" id="C0146V11">46:11</a> The sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <a name="C0146V12" id="C0146V12">46:12</a> The
sons of Yehudah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in
the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. <a
name="C0146V13" id="C0146V13">46:13</a> The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah,
Iob, and Shimron. <a name="C0146V14" id="C0146V14">46:14</a> The sons of
Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. <a name="C0146V15" id="C0146V15">46:15</a>
These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Ya’akov in Paddan Aram, with
his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were
thirty-three. <a name="C0146V16" id="C0146V16">46:16</a> The sons of Gad:
Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. <a name="C0146V17"
id="C0146V17">46:17</a> The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and
Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. <a
name="C0146V18" id="C0146V18">46:18</a> These are the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya’akov, even
sixteen souls. <a name="C0146V19" id="C0146V19">46:19</a> The sons of Rachel,
Ya’akov's wife: Yoseph and Benjamin. <a name="C0146V20" id="C0146V20">46:20</a>
To Yoseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom
Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. <a
name="C0146V21" id="C0146V21">46:21</a> The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher,
Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. <a name="C0146V22"
id="C0146V22">46:22</a> These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to
Ya’akov: all the souls were fourteen. <a name="C0146V23" id="C0146V23">46:23</a>
The son of Dan: Hushim. <a name="C0146V24" id="C0146V24">46:24</a> The sons of
Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. <a name="C0146V25" id="C0146V25">46:25</a>
These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and
these she bore to Ya’akov: all the souls were seven. <a name="C0146V26"
id="C0146V26">46:26</a> All the souls who came with Ya’akov into Egypt, who
were his direct descendants, besides Ya’akov's sons' wives, all the souls
were sixty-six. <a name="C0146V27" id="C0146V27">46:27</a> The sons of Yoseph,
who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house
of Ya’akov, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V28" id="C0146V28">46:28</a> He sent Yehudah before him to Yoseph,
to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of
Goshen. <a name="C0146V29" id="C0146V29">46:29</a> Yoseph made ready his
chariot, and went up to meet Yisrael, his father, in Goshen. He presented
himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
<a name="C0146V30" id="C0146V30">46:30</a> Yisrael said to Yoseph, "Now
let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0146V31" id="C0146V31">46:31</a> Yoseph said to his brothers, and to
his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will
tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of
Canaan, have come to me. <a name="C0146V32" id="C0146V32">46:32</a> These men
are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have
brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.' <a
name="C0146V33" id="C0146V33">46:33</a> It will happen, when Pharaoh summons
you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?' <a name="C0146V34" id="C0146V34">46:34</a>
that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our
youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the
land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V1" id="C0147V1">47:1</a> Then Yoseph went in and told Pharaoh,
and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds,
and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold,
they are in the land of Goshen." <a name="C0147V2" id="C0147V2">47:2</a>
From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
<a name="C0147V3" id="C0147V3">47:3</a> Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What
is your occupation?"
</p>
<p>
They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our
fathers." <a name="C0147V4" id="C0147V4">47:4</a> They said to Pharaoh,
"We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no
pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of
Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of
Goshen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V5" id="C0147V5">47:5</a> Pharaoh spoke to Yoseph, saying,
"Your father and your brothers have come to you. <a name="C0147V6"
id="C0147V6">47:6</a> The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and
your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of
Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my
livestock."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V7" id="C0147V7">47:7</a> Yoseph brought in Ya’akov, his father,
and set him before Pharaoh, and Ya’akov blessed Pharaoh. <a name="C0147V8"
id="C0147V8">47:8</a> Pharaoh said to Ya’akov, "How many are the days of
the years of your life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V9" id="C0147V9">47:9</a> Ya’akov said to Pharaoh, "The days
of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil
have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to
the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimage." <a name="C0147V10" id="C0147V10">47:10</a> Ya’akov blessed
Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V11" id="C0147V11">47:11</a> Yoseph placed his father and his
brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of
the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. <a
name="C0147V12" id="C0147V12">47:12</a> Yoseph nourished his father, his
brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to
their families.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V13" id="C0147V13">47:13</a> There was no bread in all the land;
for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of
Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. <a name="C0147V14" id="C0147V14">47:14</a>
Yoseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and
in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Yoseph brought
the money into Pharaoh's house. <a name="C0147V15" id="C0147V15">47:15</a>
When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Yoseph, and said, "Give us bread,
for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V16" id="C0147V16">47:16</a> Yoseph said, "Give me your
livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is
gone."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V17" id="C0147V17">47:17</a> They brought their livestock to
Yoseph, and Yoseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the
flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread
in exchange for all their livestock for that year. <a name="C0147V18"
id="C0147V18">47:18</a> When that year was ended, they came to him the
second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our
money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is
nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. <a
name="C0147V19" id="C0147V19">47:19</a> Why should we die before your eyes,
both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die,
and that the land won't be desolate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V20" id="C0147V20">47:20</a> So Yoseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the
famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. <a name="C0147V21"
id="C0147V21">47:21</a> As for the people, he moved them to the cities from
one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. <a
name="C0147V22" id="C0147V22">47:22</a> Only he didn't buy the land of the
priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion
which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land. <a
name="C0147V23" id="C0147V23">47:23</a> Then Yoseph said to the people, "Behold,
I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed
for you, and you shall sow the land. <a name="C0147V24" id="C0147V24">47:24</a>
It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh,
and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for
them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V25" id="C0147V25">47:25</a> They said, "You have saved our
lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V26" id="C0147V26">47:26</a> Yoseph made it a statute concerning
the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only
the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V27" id="C0147V27">47:27</a> Yisrael lived in the land of Egypt,
in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and
were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. <a name="C0147V28" id="C0147V28">47:28</a>
Ya’akov lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Ya’akov,
the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. <a name="C0147V29"
id="C0147V29">47:29</a> The time drew near that Yisrael must die, and he
called his son Yoseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in
your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly
with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt, <a name="C0147V30" id="C0147V30">47:30</a>
but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and
bury me in their burying place."
</p>
<p>
He said, "I will do as you have said."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0147V31" id="C0147V31">47:31</a> He said, "Swear to me,"
and he swore to him. Yisrael bowed himself on the bed's head.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0148V1" id="C0148V1">48:1</a> It happened after these things, that
someone said to Yoseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took
with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. <a name="C0148V2" id="C0148V2">48:2</a>
Someone told Ya’akov, and said, "Behold, your son Yoseph comes to you,"
and Yisrael strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. <a name="C0148V3"
id="C0148V3">48:3</a> Ya’akov said to Yoseph, "Elohim Almighty appeared to
me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, <a name="C0148V4" id="C0148V4">48:4</a>
and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I
will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your
seed after you for an everlasting possession.' <a name="C0148V5" id="C0148V5">48:5</a>
Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came
to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and
Simeon, will be mine. <a name="C0148V6" id="C0148V6">48:6</a> Your issue, who
you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called
after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. <a name="C0148V7"
id="C0148V7">48:7</a> As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me
in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to
come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is
Bethlehem)."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0148V8" id="C0148V8">48:8</a> Yisrael saw Yoseph's sons, and said,
"Who are these?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0148V9" id="C0148V9">48:9</a> Yoseph said to his father, "They
are my sons, whom Elohim has given me here."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them." <a
name="C0148V10" id="C0148V10">48:10</a> Now the eyes of Yisrael were dim for
age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed
them, and embraced them. <a name="C0148V11" id="C0148V11">48:11</a> Yisrael
said to Yoseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold,
Elohim has let me see your seed also." <a name="C0148V12" id="C0148V12">48:12</a>
Yoseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with
his face to the earth. <a name="C0148V13" id="C0148V13">48:13</a> Yoseph took
them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Yisrael's left hand, and
Manasseh in his left hand toward Yisrael's right hand, and brought them
near to him. <a name="C0148V14" id="C0148V14">48:14</a> Yisrael stretched out
his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and
his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for
Manasseh was the firstborn. <a name="C0148V15" id="C0148V15">48:15</a> He
blessed Yoseph, and said, "The Elohim before whom my fathers Avraham and
Isaac did walk, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day, <a
name="C0148V16" id="C0148V16">48:16</a> the malakim who has redeemed me from all
evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my
fathers Avraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of
the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0148V17" id="C0148V17">48:17</a> When Yoseph saw that his father
laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up
his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. <a
name="C0148V18" id="C0148V18">48:18</a> Yoseph said to his father, "Not
so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0148V19" id="C0148V19">48:19</a> His father refused, and said,
"I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also
will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and
his seed will become a multitude of nations." <a name="C0148V20"
id="C0148V20">48:20</a> He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will
Yisrael bless, saying, 'Elohim make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He
set Ephraim before Manasseh. <a name="C0148V21" id="C0148V21">48:21</a> Yisrael
said to Yoseph, "Behold, I am dying, but Elohim will be with you, and
bring you again to the land of your fathers. <a name="C0148V22" id="C0148V22">48:22</a>
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took
out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0149V1" id="C0149V1">49:1</a> Ya’akov called to his sons, and said:
"Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will
happen to you in the days to come.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V2" id="C0149V2">49:2</a> Assemble yourselves, and hear, you
sons of Ya’akov.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to Yisrael, your father.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V3" id="C0149V3">49:3</a> "Reuben, you are my firstborn,
my might, and the beginning of my strength;
</dt>
<dd>
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V4" id="C0149V4">49:4</a> Boiling over as water, you shall not
excel;
</dt>
<dd>
because you went up to your father's bed,
</dd>
<dd>
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V5" id="C0149V5">49:5</a> "Simeon and Levi are brothers.
</dt>
<dd>
Their swords are weapons of violence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V6" id="C0149V6">49:6</a> My soul, don't come into their
council.
</dt>
<dd>
My glory, don't be united to their assembly;
</dd>
<dt>
for in their anger they killed men.
</dt>
<dd>
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V7" id="C0149V7">49:7</a> Cursed be their anger, for it was
fierce;
</dt>
<dd>
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
</dd>
<dt>
I will divide them in Ya’akov,
</dt>
<dd>
and scatter them in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V8" id="C0149V8">49:8</a> "Yehudah, your brothers will
praise you.
</dt>
<dd>
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
</dd>
<dd>
Your father's sons will bow down before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V9" id="C0149V9">49:9</a> Yehudah is a lion's cub.
</dt>
<dd>
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
</dd>
<dt>
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
</dt>
<dd>
as a lioness.
</dd>
<dd>
Who will rouse him up?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V10" id="C0149V10">49:10</a> The scepter will not depart from
Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
</dd>
<dt>
until he comes to whom it belongs.
</dt>
<dd>
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V11" id="C0149V11">49:11</a> Binding his foal to the vine,
</dt>
<dd>
his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
</dd>
<dt>
he has washed his garments in wine,
</dt>
<dd>
his robes in the blood of grapes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V12" id="C0149V12">49:12</a> His eyes will be red with wine,
</dt>
<dd>
his teeth white with milk.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V13" id="C0149V13">49:13</a> "Zebulun will dwell at the
haven of the sea.
</dt>
<dd>
He will be for a haven of ships.
</dd>
<dd>
His border will be on Sidon.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V14" id="C0149V14">49:14</a> "Issachar is a strong
donkey,
</dt>
<dd>
lying down between the saddlebags.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V15" id="C0149V15">49:15</a> He saw a resting place, that it
was good,
</dt>
<dd>
the land, that it was pleasant.
</dd>
<dt>
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
</dt>
<dd>
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V16" id="C0149V16">49:16</a> "Dan will judge his people,
</dt>
<dd>
as one of the tribes of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V17" id="C0149V17">49:17</a> Dan will be a serpent in the way,
</dt>
<dd>
an adder in the path,
</dd>
<dt>
That bites the horse's heels,
</dt>
<dd>
so that his rider falls backward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V18" id="C0149V18">49:18</a> I have waited for your salvation,
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V19" id="C0149V19">49:19</a> "A troop will press on Gad,
</dt>
<dd>
but he will press on their heel.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V20" id="C0149V20">49:20</a> "Asher's food will be rich.
</dt>
<dd>
He will yield royal dainties.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V21" id="C0149V21">49:21</a> "Naphtali is a doe set free,
</dt>
<dd>
who bears beautiful fawns.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V22" id="C0149V22">49:22</a> "Yoseph is a fruitful vine,
</dt>
<dd>
a fruitful vine by a spring.
</dd>
<dd>
His branches run over the wall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V23" id="C0149V23">49:23</a> The archers have sorely grieved
him,
</dt>
<dd>
shot at him, and persecute him:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V24" id="C0149V24">49:24</a> But his bow remained strong.
</dt>
<dd>
The arms of his hands were made strong,
</dd>
<dd>
by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya’akov,
</dd>
<dd>
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Yisrael),
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V25" id="C0149V25">49:25</a> even by the Elohim of your father,
who will help you;
</dt>
<dd>
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
</dd>
<dt>
with blessings of heaven above,
</dt>
<dd>
blessings of the deep that lies below,
</dd>
<dd>
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V26" id="C0149V26">49:26</a> The blessings of your father have
prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,
</dt>
<dd>
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
</dd>
<dt>
They will be on the head of Yoseph,
</dt>
<dd>
on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C0149V27" id="C0149V27">49:27</a> "Benjamin is a ravenous
wolf.
</dt>
<dd>
In the morning he will devour the prey.
</dd>
<dd>
At evening he will divide the spoil."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0149V28" id="C0149V28">49:28</a> All these are the twelve tribes of
Yisrael, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He
blessed everyone according to his blessing. <a name="C0149V29" id="C0149V29">49:29</a>
He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my
people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron
the Hittite, <a name="C0149V30" id="C0149V30">49:30</a> in the cave that is in
the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,
which Avraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial
place. <a name="C0149V31" id="C0149V31">49:31</a> There they buried Avraham
and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and
there I buried Leah: <a name="C0149V32" id="C0149V32">49:32</a> the field and
the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."
<a name="C0149V33" id="C0149V33">49:33</a> When Ya’akov made an end of charging
his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit,
and was gathered to his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V1" id="C0150V1">50:1</a> Yoseph fell on his father's face, wept
on him, and kissed him. <a name="C0150V2" id="C0150V2">50:2</a> Yoseph
commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the
physicians embalmed Yisrael. <a name="C0150V3" id="C0150V3">50:3</a> Forty days
were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm.
The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V4" id="C0150V4">50:4</a> When the days of weeping for him were
past, Yoseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have
found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, <a
name="C0150V5" id="C0150V5">50:5</a> 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold,
I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of
Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I
will come again.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V6" id="C0150V6">50:6</a> Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury
your father, just like he made you swear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V7" id="C0150V7">50:7</a> Yoseph went up to bury his father; and
with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all
the elders of the land of Egypt, <a name="C0150V8" id="C0150V8">50:8</a> all
the house of Yoseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their
little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of
Goshen. <a name="C0150V9" id="C0150V9">50:9</a> There went up with him both
chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. <a name="C0150V10"
id="C0150V10">50:10</a> They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is
beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore
lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. <a name="C0150V11"
id="C0150V11">50:11</a> When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous
mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel
Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. <a name="C0150V12" id="C0150V12">50:12</a>
His sons did to him just as he commanded them, <a name="C0150V13" id="C0150V13">50:13</a>
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a
possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. <a
name="C0150V14" id="C0150V14">50:14</a> Yoseph returned into Egypt--he, and
his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he
had buried his father.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V15" id="C0150V15">50:15</a> When Yoseph's brothers saw that
their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Yoseph will hate
us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."
<a name="C0150V16" id="C0150V16">50:16</a> They sent a message to Yoseph,
saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, <a
name="C0150V17" id="C0150V17">50:17</a> 'You shall tell Yoseph, "Now
please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because
they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the
servants of the Elohim of your father." Yoseph wept when they spoke to
him. <a name="C0150V18" id="C0150V18">50:18</a> His brothers also went and
fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your
servants." <a name="C0150V19" id="C0150V19">50:19</a> Yoseph said to
them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of Elohim? <a name="C0150V20"
id="C0150V20">50:20</a> As for you, you meant evil against me, but Elohim meant
it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people
alive. <a name="C0150V21" id="C0150V21">50:21</a> Now therefore don't be
afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them,
and spoke kindly to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0150V22" id="C0150V22">50:22</a> Yoseph lived in Egypt, he, and his
father's house. Yoseph lived one hundred ten years. <a name="C0150V23"
id="C0150V23">50:23</a> Yoseph saw Ephraim's children to the third
generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on
Yoseph's knees. <a name="C0150V24" id="C0150V24">50:24</a> Yoseph said to his
brothers, "I am dying, but Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you
up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Isaac, and
to Ya’akov." <a name="C0150V25" id="C0150V25">50:25</a> Yoseph took an oath
of the children of Yisrael, saying, "Elohim will surely visit you, and
you shall carry up my bones from here." <a name="C0150V26" id="C0150V26">50:26</a>
So Yoseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
</p>
Pgs. 659-672
Ch. 32
SECTION LIII.
HAAZINU.
XXXII. And when the last end of Mosheh the prophet was at hand, that he should be gathered from among the world, he said in his heart: I will not attest against this people with witnesses that taste of death in this world, behold, I attest against them with witnesses which do not taste of death in this world, and whose destination is to be renewed in the world to come. Isaiah the prophet, when he prophesied in the congregation of Yisrael, attributed hearing to the heavens, and attentiveness to the earth; because (in his case) earth was nearest and heaven more remote: but Mosheh the prophet, when he now prophesied in the congregation of Yisrael, attributed hearing to the earth, and attentiveness to the heavens; because (in his case) heaven was nearest and earth more remote; for so it is written, Attend, ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall smite the rebellious like heavy rain; but shall be enjoyed with pleasantness by those who receive instruction, as the dew: my words shall be like the downfalling rain of the wind that breathes upon the grass in the month of Marchesvan, and as the droppings of the latter rain which water the springing herbage of the earth in Nisan.
[JERUSALEM. When the end of Mosheh came that he should be removed from the world, he said: Behold, I testify in this world a thing which tasteth not of death; so will I attest against them the heavens and earth which taste not of death in this world, but whose end is to be consumed in the world that cometh. For so he explained, and said: Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and consider the earth beneath; for the heavens shall dissolve like smoke, and the earth fade away as a garment; but I have prepared to create new heavens and a new earth. Isaiah the prophet, when he prophesied in the congregation of Yisrael, because he was remote from the heavens and nearest the earth, attributed hearing to the heavens, and attention to the earth: for so be explaineth, and saith: Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth; for the Word of the Lord hath spoken. Mosheh the prophet, &c. (as above.) The doctrine of my Torah shall be sweet to the children of Yisrael as the rain, the word Of my mouth will be received by them with pleasantness as the dew, as the wind which breathes upon the herb, and as the drops of the latter rain that descend and water the herbage of the ground in Nisan.]
Woe to the wicked who make memorial of the Holy Name with blasphemies. Wherefore Mosheh, who was the Doctor of Yisrael, would not permit himself to pronounce the Holy Name until he had dedicated his mouth at the beginning of his hymn with eighty and five letters, making twenty and one words, and afterwards be spake: In the Name of the Lord I invoke you, O house of Yisrael, to ascribe glory and greatness before our Elohim. [JERUSALEM. Mosheh the prophet said: Woe to the wicked who make memorial of the Holy Name with blasphemies. For it is not possible even to one of the highest angels to utter that Name rightly until that they have said, Holy, Holy, Holy thrice. And from them did Mosheh learn not to utter that Name openly until he should have dedicated his mouth with twenty‑one words which consist of eighty-five letters;[1] and so explained he and said: Hear, ye heavens, and I will speak; for it is the Name of the Lord. Mosheh the prophet said: O people of Yisrael, I invoke you, in the Name of the Lord, to give glory, praise, and highest exaltation unto Elohim.]
Mosheh the prophet said: When I ascended the mountain of Sinai, I beheld the Lord of all the worlds, the Lord, dividing the day into four portions; three hours employed in the Torah, three with judgment, three in making marriage bonds between man and woman, and appointing to elevate or to abase, arid three hours in the care of every created thing: for so it is written: The Mighty One whose works are perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a faithful Elohim before whom no iniquity comes forth, pure and upright is He. [JERUSALEM. (The same words to) three hours, uniting the marriage yoke of the husband to the wife . . . . a faithful Elohim and true; falsehood is not before Him; He is just and upright in judgment.]
The beloved children have corrupted their good works, a blemish is found upon them; a perverse generation which have altered their works; so shall the order of this world's judgment be altered upon them. [JERUSALEM. The children have corrupted their works, and not them only, but themselves also: they have so corrupted that the spot is upon them; a depraved and perverse generation which changeth its order of this world shall be changed upon it.]
Can you indeed so requite the Name of the Word of the Lord, O foolish people, and receive the Torah, yet not be made wise? Is He not your Father who bought[2] you, who created you and established you? [JER. Do you return this before the Lord, O people foolish and unwise? Is He not your Father who is in heaven, who bought you? He created and founded you.] Remember the days of old; consider the years of every generation; read the books of the Torah, and they will teach you, and the books of the prophets, and they will tell you. [JER. Be mindful of the days, the days of old, consider the years of one generation and another; ask your fathers who are greater in the Torah than you, and they will teach you, the sages, and they will tell you.] When the Most High made allotment of the world unto the nations which proceeded from the sons of Noach, in the separation of the writings and languages of the children of men at the time[3] of the division, He cast the lot among the seventy angels, the princes of the nations with whom is the revelation to oversee the city, even at that time He established the limits of the nations according to the sum of the number of the seventy souls of Yisrael who went down into Mizraim. [JER. When the Most High divided the nations by lot, and distinguished the languages of the children of men, He appointed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the tribes of the Beni Yisrael.]
And when the holy people fell to the lot of the Lord of all the world, Michael opened his lips and said: Let the good portion of the Name of the Lord's Word be with Him. Gabriel opened his lips with thanksgivings, and said, Let the house of Jakob be the lot of His inheritance. [JER. Because the Lord's portion are His people, and the house of Jakob the lot of His inheritance.] He found them dwelling in the wilderness, in the solitude, the place of howling demons and thorns, the place of thirsting; He overspread them with His seven glorious clouds; He taught them His Torah; He kept them as the Shekinah keepeth the apple of His eye. [Jer. He found them wandering in a desert land, in the solitude of a howling wilderness; He threw over them clouds of glory; His Shekinah taught them the Ten Words, watched over them, and kept them as the apple of His eye.] As an eagle stirreth up and careth for his nest, and hovereth over his young, so did His Shekinah stir up the tents of Yisrael, and the shadow of His Shekinah overspread them; and as an eagle outstretcheth his wings over his young ones, beareth them and carrieth them upon his wings, so bare He them and carried them, and made them dwell upon the strong places of the land of Yisrael. [JER. As an eagle stirreth up his nest, and carefully spreadeth out his wings, and taketh and beareth them with the strength of his wings.] The Word of the Lord made them to dwell in His land, nor suffered any among them to be the followers of strange worship. [JER. The Lord alone caused them to dwell, and none were among them who served with strange worship.] He made them to dwell in the strong places of the land of Yisrael,
and gave them to eat of the goodly produce of His field, and nourished them with the honey of its fruits which grow even upon the rocks with the oil of its olive trees, and from branches (growing) out of the rocks. [JER. He made them ride upon the high places of the earth, and gave them to eat of royal delicacies, and nourished them with honey out of the rock, and with oil from their olives (growing) out of the flinty stone of the rock.] He gave them rich butter of kine from the spoil of their kings, and the fat of the firstlings of the sheep from the prey of their sultans, with the choice rams and goats of the flocks of Mathnan. Mosheh the prophet said: If the people of Yisrael will observe the precepts of the Torah, it is foretold that their wheat granary shall be like the kidneys of oxen, and that from one bunch of grapes shall come forth a kor of red wine. [JER. Tender oxen and choice flocks, goodly fatlings, rams bred in Batenaia, and goats, with the richest of the wheat. Mosheh the prophet said: If the children of Yisrael will observe the precepts of the Torah . . . . from one bunch they shall drink a cup of wine.]
But the house of Yisrael grew rich and wicked; they prospered much and possessed wealth, and forsook the worship of Eloah who created them, and provoked Him to anger who redeemed them. They moved Him to jealousy with strange worship, by their abominations they made Him angry. They sacrificed to idols, resembling devils, in whom there is no profit, to idols which they had not known, new gods lately made, with which your fathers had nothing to do; But the adorable Strong One who created you have you forgotten; of the word of Eloha who strengthened you so often[4] have you been forgetful. And when it was manifest before the Lord, He was wroth, provoked thereto by His beloved children who were called upon His Name son and daughters. [JER. But the house of Jeshuron ate and kicked; they became rich, and rebelled; they prospered, got wealth, and forsook the Word of Elohim who had created them, and refused to worship the Almighty who had redeemed them. They provoked Him to anger with their idols, by their abominations they made Him wroth They sacrificed to demons in whom is no stability,[5] idols which they had not known, lately formed, which your fathers remembered not. The Almighty who created you ye have forgotten, and have forsaken the Word of Elohim who gave you to be, and made you so many refuges. And it was manifest before the Lord, and He was angry, because the beloved children had provoked Him, even they who were beloved by Him as sons and daughters.] And He said, I will take away from them the favour of My countenance; it will be seen what will be the end; for they are a perverse generation, children who have not faith. They have made Me jealous by that which is not Elohim, they have angered Me by their vanities: I also will provoke them to jealousy by a people which hath not been a people, by the foolish Babylonian people will I provoke them. [JER. And He said, I will surely turn away the favour of My countenance from them; I will see what will be in their latter end; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved Me to jealousy by their idols in which there is nothing whatever, they have provoked Me by their abominations; but I also will move them to jealousy by a people which is not a people, by a foolish nation will I anger them.] For an east wind strong as fire shall go out before Me, and blaze in the might of My anger, and burn to the lowest hell; it shall consume the land with its produce, and set the foundations of the mountains in flame. [JER. For a fire shall come forth in the hour of My wrath, and burn to the lowest hell, devouring the earth and its fulness, and setting in flame the foundations of the hills.] And when they dwell in Babel they will serve their idols; for I have spoken in My Word to array calamities against them, the plague‑arrows of My vengeance to destroy them, I will make them go into captivity in Media and Elam, in the captivity of Babel, the house of Agag who are like demons gaping with famine, and to corpses devoured by birds, and to stricken evil spirits of the noon, to Lillin and to spirits big with evil. And the Javanaee (Greeks) who bite with their teeth like wild beasts will I send against them, and will shake them by the hand of the Syrians venomous as basilisks, the serpents of the dust. [JER. I have spoken in My Word to bring evil upon them, the arrows of My vengeance will I send among them: gaping with famine, devoured by unclean fowl, filled with evil spirits, even the teeth of the four kingdoms, which are like wild beasts,[6] will I send among them, with the poison of serpents, the reptiles of the earth.] A people who will come from beyond the land of Yisrael shall consume them with the stroke of the sword, and those who are left in the land of Yisrael will I throw into the terror of death, in the chambers here and there where they sleep; their young men shall perish, their maidens, their sucklings, with their men and their elders. [JER. In the street the sword will devour them; in the chambers where they sleep, the terrors of death; their young men and maidens, their infants and aged men.] I have spoken in My Word to withhold from them My Holy Spirit; I will make them weak; as a man who reaps his field leaveth but one upon the ground, so will I abolish their memory from the book of the genealogy of mankind; [JER. I have spoken in My Word to bring wrath upon them, and to cause their memorial to fail from among men;] but for the wrath of the enemy, and that their oppressors would glorify themselves against Me, and say, Our hand hath taken vengeance upon our adversaries, and all this hath not been decreed by the Lord; for they are a people lost to good counsel and void of understanding. O that they were intelligent in the Torah, and that they understood what they will become in their latter end! How will one foe pursue a thousand of them, and two put ten thousand of them to flight, unless He who is their strength deliver them, and the Lord avenge them! [JER. But that the wrath of the enemy would wax strong, that they could not prevail against their foes; and that they may not say, Our hand hath avenged us on our adversaries, and it hath not been done by the Lord; for this people perish by evil counsels, and they are void of understanding. If Yisrael were but wise, learning the Torah they would understand what shall be in their latter end. When Yisrael was diligent in the Torah, and observed the commandments, one of them chased a thousand, and two of them put ten thousand to flight; but because they have sinned and vexed the Almighty to anger, He hath left them to the hand of their enemies.]
For the idols of the Gentiles are not as He who is the Strength of Yisrael; for the Strength of Yisrael, when they have sinned, bringeth punishment upon them; but when they stretch forth their hands in prayer, He answereth and delivereth them. But, the idols of the peoples of strange worships are of no use: but because we have provoked Him, and have not returned to His service, our adversaries are our witnesses and our judges. [JER. For the confidence of the nations is not as our confidence; but because we have sinned and provoked Him to anger, our adversaries are made our judges.] For the works of this people are like the works of the people of Sedom, and their evil counsels like those of the people of Amorah; their wicked thoughts are as serpents heads; bitter therefore to them is their punishment which maketh desolate. Behold as the bitterness of serpents when they come forth from their wines, (?) so shall be the bitter cup of the curse which they are to drink in the day of their punishment, and cruel as the head of asps. [JER. For the works of this people are like those of the people of Sedom, and their thoughts like those of the people of Amorah: their evil works make them desolate, and become bitter to them. For the poison of this people is like that Of serpents what time they drink wine, and their malice like the head of asps and cruel reptiles.] Are not their secret works all known before Me? Sealed and laid up Are they in My treasury! Vengeance lies before Me, and I will recompense them at the time when their foot shall move to the captivity; for the day of their destruction is coming near, and the evil which is prepared for them maketh haste. [JER. Is not this the cup of punishment, mixed and ordained for the wicked, sealed in My treasuries for the day of the great judgment? Vengeance is mine: I am He who repayeth; in the time when the foot of the righteous is moved; for the day of destruction for the wicked is nigh the fire of Gehinam. is prepared for them, and their punishment girdeth itself to come upon them.]
For the Word of the Lord adjudgeth in His mercy the jundgement of His people Yisrael, and for the evil He hath appointed upon His servants there shall be repentance before Him; for He knoweth that in the time when they have sinned the stroke of their enemies will be heavy upon them, and help have passed away from their hands, and the faithful will have failed with their good works and be scattered and forsaken. And the enemy will say, Where is the fear of Yisrael, their Strength in whom they confided, who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Let Him now rise up and help you, let Him shield you by His Word. [JER. For the Lord Himself will adjudge the judgment of the people of the children of Yisrael, and comfort His righteous servants; for it is manifest before Him that the hand of the righteous will waver, and that they will be forsaken and cast down, with none to help or support them. For the Gentiles will say, Behold, the Elohim of Yisrael is strong in whom they put their trust; they brought before Him the fat of their sacrifices, and the wine of their libations; let Him who (once) was over them as a shield rise up now and deliver them.]
When the Word of the Lord shall reveal Himself to redeem His people, He will say to all the nations: Behold now, that I am He who Am, and Was, and Will Be, and there is no other Elohim beside Me: I, in My Word, kill and make alive; I smite the people of the Beth Yisrael, and I will heal them at the end of the days; and there will be none who can deliver them from My hand, Gog and his armies whom I have permitted to make war against them. [JER. See now that I in My Word am He, and there is no other Elohim beside Me. I kill the living in this world, and make alive the dead in the world that cometh; I am He who smiteth, and I am He who healeth; and there is none who can deliver from My hand.] I have lifted My hand with an oath to heaven, and have said, As I exist, I will not abolish My oath for ever. If I whet my sword, as lightning it will prevail in the judgment of My hand. I will return retribution on them who afflict My people, and repay to their enemies the hire of their wickedness. I will make My arrows drunk with the blood of their slain, and the captivity of their hosts shall be the punishment of My people's foes. [JER. For I have uplifted My hand with an oath to heaven, and said, I live, and My Word subsisteth for ever: If I whet My sword as lightning, My right hand will prevail in judgment. I will render punishment upon the adversaries of My people, I will repay them for their evil deeds. I will make My arrows drunk with their blood, and My sword shall consume their flesh; with the blood of the destroyers of My people, their captives, and the chieftains of their hosts.]
Rejoice, ye nations, (and) ye people of Beth Yisrael; for the blood of His servants which was shed, He hath avenged. He hath kept (in mind) and returned just vengeance upon His adversaries, and by His Word will He make Atonement for His land, and for His people. [JER. Let the nations give praise before Him, let the people of Beth Yisrael glorify Him; for He bath made inquisition for the trouble of His righteous servants, and brought vengeance upon His enemies; for the sins of His people He smote the land; but He will make Atonement for the land, and for His people.]
And Mosheh came from the tabernacle of the house of instruction, and spake all the words of this hymn, in the hearing of the people, he and Jehoshua bar Nun. And Mosheh made an end of speaking all these words with all Yisrael, and said to them: Apply your heart to all the words with which I bear witness to you this day, that you may dictate them to your children, so that they may observe and do all the words of this Torah. For there is no vain word in the Torah, unless to them who transgress it; for it is your life, and by this word you will prolong days upon the land that you pass over Jordan to inherit. [JER. And Mosheh came and spake all the praise of the words of this hymn in the hearing of the people, be and Hoshea bar Nun. And Mosheh ended speaking all these words with all Yisrael, and said to them: Set your heart unto all the words with which I bear witness to you this day, and which you shall teach your children, that they may observe and do all the glorious words of this Torah. For it is not a vain word to you, because it is your life, and by this word you will multiply days upon the land that you pass over Jordan to inherit.]
And the Lord spake with Mosheh on the seventh of the month Adar, on the same day,
saying, It was when the Word of the Lord had said to him, Go up to this mount Ibraee,
the mountain of Nebo, and he thought in his heart, and said, Perhaps this up‑going will
be like that to Mount Sinai; and he said, I will go and sanctify the people; but the Word of
the Lord said to him, Not so at all, but, Go thou up and view the land of Kenaan, which I
have given to the children of Yisrael for an inheritance. And thou shalt sleep in the mountain
to which thou goest up, and be gathered to thy people, even thou, as Aharon thy brother hath slept in the mountain of Omanos, and hath been gathered unto his people. Mosheh at once opened his mouth in prayer, and said, Lord of all the world, I entreat that I may not be as a man who had one only son, who being in captivity, he went and redeemed him with great price; he taught him wisdom and art, espoused him to a wife, planted for him a royal bower, builded him a marriage house, prepared for him the bed, invited his companions, baked his bread, slew his victims, and mixed his wine; yet, when the time came for his son to make glad with his wife, and the guests were about to consecrate the feast; then was that man required to go to the house of judgment, before the king and be Punished with the judgment of death; neither would the delay to execute his sentence that he might see the happiness of his son. So have I laboured for this people; I have led them by Thy Word out of Mizraim, and builded for this people; I have taught them Thy Torah builded for them the tabernacle to Thy Name; but now that the time hath come to pass the Jordan, I am punished with death! Let it please Thee to withhold from me this sentence until I have passed the Jordan, to see the good of Yisrael before I die. The Lord of the world answered him, and said: Because thou didst prevaricate with My Word In the midst of the children of Yisrael, at the Waters of Contention at Rekem in the desert of Zin, and didst not sanctify Me among them; therefore thou mayest look over against it, but shalt not enter into the land that I give unto the children of Yisrael. [Jer. Because you were rebellios towards the Name of My Word, among the Beni Yisrael, at the Waters of Contention in Rekem in the desert of Zin; forasmuch as you did not sanctify Me in the midst of them, therefore thou mayest look over against it, but shalt not enter into the land which I give to the children of Yisrael.]
[1] The Hebrew text of verses 1-3, to the word shem inclusive
[2] Or, "possessed."
[3] "Age or generation." The dispersion at Babel
[4] Or, "who so often gave you refuges."
[5] Or, "subsistence."
[6] Dan. vii.
SECTION LIII.
HAAZINU
XXXII. LISTEN, ye heavens, and I will speak ; give ear, O earth, to the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall be soft as rain; let it be received as the dew, and my word be as the breath of the rain that breathes upon the grass, and as the showers of the latter rain upon the herbage. For in the Name of the Lord do I invoke: Ascribe ye greatness unto our Elohim; the Mighty One whose works are perfect; for all His ways are justice; a faithful Elohim from whom no iniquity proceedeth, just and true is He.
They have corrupted themselves, and not Him; children who worship idols, a generation that changeth its work, and maketh it another. Behold, render you this before the Lord, ye people who have received the Torah, but have not become wise ? Is He not thy Father, and thou art His who made thee and bought thee?
Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation and generation; ask thy fathers, and they will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee. For the Lord's portion is His people, Jakob is the lot of His inheritance. He satisfied their wants in the land of the wilderness, in the dry place where there was no water; He placed them round about His Shekinah; He taught them the words of His Torah; He kept them as the apple of His eye. As the eagle which hasteneth to his: nest, and spreadeth himself over his young ones, stretching out his wings, taketh them, upbeareth them with the strength of his pinions, so did the Lord alone prepare them to dwell in the world which He will renew (set right), while the worship of idols shall not be established before Him. He made them to dwell in the strong places of the earth, to eat the spoil of their enemies: He gave them the spoil of the rulers of cities, and the wealth of them who dwelt in strong defences.
He gave them the spoil of their kings and sultans, with the riches of their princes, and the strength of the people of their lands, their possessions, the booty of their hosts and camps, and the blood of their heroes was poured out like water.
But Yisrael waxed fat and kicked, he prospered, grew strong and got rich, and forgot the worship of Eloha who made him, and provoked the Almighty who redeemed him. They provoked Him by the worship of idols, by abominations they made Him angry. They sacrificed to demons in whom there is no help, {nothing that is needed,) and fearful things that they had not known, new (gods) that were lately made, with which your fathers had no dealings; of the Awful One and the Omnipotent who created thee, thou art forgetful; thou hast forsaken the worship of Eloha who made thee.
And it was seen before the Lord, and His anger was kindled by the provocation of His sons and daughters before Him. And He said: I will take away (take up) My Shekinah from among them; what will be their latter end is manifest to Me; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.
They have moved Me to jealousy by that which is not worshipful, they have angered Me by their idolatries; and I will make them jealous by what hath not been a people, by a foolish nation will I provoke them. For a burning, strong as fire, shall go forth before Me in fury consuming unto the lowest hell, to make an end of the earth and its produce, and to destroy the mountains to the end;
and I will multiply calamities upon them, My plagues will I send forth among them; they shall be swollen with hunger, and be eaten by the fowl, and be vexed with evil spirits; and the teeth of wild beasts will I appoint among them with the venom of serpents that crawl in the dust. Without will the sword devour, and within the chambers be the slaughter-work of death, the youths and the maidens, the sucklings with the aged. I said I would make My anger to remain upon them and consume them; I will abolish their memorial from (among) the children of men: only that the wrath of the enemy would be condensed, and the adversary make himself great, and would say: Our hand hath prevailed, and all this is not from the Lord. For they are a people that letteth counsel go, and there is no understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they had understanding in this, and would consider what will be in their end! How would one Pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless the Mighty One had delivered them up, and the Lord had requited them!
For their strength is not as our Strength, and our enemies are the judges.
For as the punishment of the people of Sedom will their punishment be, and their stroke like (that) of the people of Amorah; their plagues will be evil as the heads of serpents, and the retribution of their works like their venom. As the poison of dragons is the cup of their punishment, and as the heads of the cruel basilisks. Are not all their works manifest before Me, laid up in My treasures against the day of judgment? Their punishment is before Me, and I will repay; in the time of their dispersion from their land; for the day of their ruin draweth near, and that which is prepared for them maketh haste.
For the Lord shall decide the judgment of His people, and the avengement of His righteous servants shall be avenged; for it is seen before Him, that in the time when the stroke of their enemies would prevail against them, they will be wavering (as those who) are forsaken. And He will say: Where are their idols, the mighty things in which they had trusted, which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drink the wine of their libations? Let them now rise up and help you, let them be a shield over you. See, now, that I, even I, am He, and there is no Elohim beside Me. I kill and make alive, I wound but also heal, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand. For I have prepared in the heavens the abode of My Shekinah, and have said, I live for evermore. When My sword is revealed like the sight of twofold lightning from one end of the heavens to another, and My hand taketh hold on judgment, I will render vengeance on My enemies, and My adversaries will I repay; I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall slay the peoples, that by the blood of the slain, and the captives, I may take the crowns from the head of the foe and the enemy.
Give praise, ye Gentiles, with His people, because the avengement of His righteous servants will have been made; for He will bring retribution on them who hate Him, and will show mercy unto His land and His people.
And Mosheh came and spake all the words of this hymn before the people, he and Jehoshua bar Nun. And Mosheh concluded to speak all these words with all Yisrael, and said to them, Set your heart upon all the words that I have witnessed to you this day, that you may instruct your children to observe and perform all the words of this Torah. For the word is not (given) in vain to you; it is your life, and by this word will you prolong your days upon the land which you pass over Jordan to inherit.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh the same day, saying: Go up to this mountain of Abaraee, the mountain of Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, over against Jericho, and see the land of Kenaan which I have given to the sons of Yisrael for possession; and, dying on the mountain to which thou goest up thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aharon thy brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people; because thou wast perverse with My Word in the midst of the children of Yisrael, at the Waters of Contradiction, at Rekem, in the desert of Zin, and because thou didst not sanctify Me among the children of Yisrael. For, though thou mayest see the land, yet from thence thou shalt not go in unto the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael.
XXXIII. And this is the benediction wherewith Mosheh, the prophet of the Lord, blessed the children of Yisrael before his death; and he said:
The Lord was revealed from Sinai, and the brightness of His glory appeared to us from Seir. He was revealed in His power upon the mountain of Pharan, and with Him were ten thousand saints; He gave us, written with His own right hand, the Torah from the midst of the fire.
He loved the tribes, all the holy ones of the house of Yisrael; with power He led them out of Mizraim, and they were conducted under Thy Cloud, they journeyed by Thy Word.
Mosheh gave to us the Torah and delivered it an inheritance to the congregation of Jakob. And he was the king in Yisrael, when the heads of the people were gathered with the tribes of Yisrael.
Let Reuben live in life eternal, and not die the second death; and let his children receive their inheritance according to their numbers.
And of Jehudah he said this: Hear, O Lord, the prayer of Jehudah when he goeth forth to battle, and let him return to his people in peace; let his hands do vengeance upon his enemies, and be Thou to him a help against his foes.
And of Levi he said: With perfections and lights, clothe Thou the man who is found holy before Thee whom Thou didst try in the temptation, and he was upright, and whom Thou didst prove at the Waters of Contention, and he was faithful. Who, when they had sinned, had no mercy in the judgment upon his father or his mother, and no respect to his brother or his children; for they have kept the charge of Thy word, and Thy covenant have they not altered.
These are worthy to teach Thy judgments unto Jakob, and Thy Torah unto Yisrael. They shall set the sweet incense before Thee, and the full free will offerings upon Thy altar. Bless, Lord, his substance, and the oblation of his hands receive Thou with favour; break the loins of his enemies and of his adversaries, that they may not arise.
Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him: the shield will be over him all the days, and the Shekinah will dwell in his land.
And of Joseph he said: Blessed be his land from before the Lord; let it make fruit by the dew of the heavens from above, and from the fountain springs, and the depths which flow from the abysses of the earth beneath, let it make fruit and produce which the sun causeth to grow; let it make fruit from the beginning of month after month; and first fruits from the mountain tops, and goodly things from the unfailing hills, with the good of the earth and its fulness, and the favour of Him Those glory is in the heavens, and who was revealed unto Mosheh at the Bush: let all these come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the man who was separated from his brethren. The greatness of his children will be his beauty, and the mighty works wrought for him from before the Omnipotent and the Most High, by whose strength he will slay nations together unto the ends of the earth; and these are the myriads of the house of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of the house of Menasheh.
And unto Zebulon he said: Rejoice, Zebulon, when thou goest out to war against thy adversaries, and thou, Issakar, when thou goest to compute the time of the festivals in Yerushalayim. They shall assemble the tribes of Yisrael at the mountain of the sanctuary, to offer there the holy sacrifices with free will; for they will eat the victims of the Gentiles, and the treasures hidden in the sand shall be disclosed for them.
And of Gad he said: Blessed is He who enlargeth Gad. He dwelleth as a lioness; he will kill sultans with kings: and he shall receive his own at the beginning: for there, in his inheritance, Mosheh the scribe-prince of Yisrael is (to be) buried; he who came out and went in at the head of the people, who hath wrought righteousness before the Lord and His judgments with Yisrael.
And of Dan he said: Dan is strong as a lion's whelp; his land is watered by the streams that flow from Mathnan.
And of Naphtali he said: Naphtali, satisfied with favour and full of blessings from the Lord, shall inherit from the western sea, Genesar, unto the south.
And of Asher he said: Blessed shall be Asher with the blessings of children: let him be acceptable to his brethren, and be nourished with the dainties of kings: strong shalt thou be as iron and brass, and as the days of thy youth shall be thy strength.
There is no Elohim like the Elohim of Yisrael, whose Shekinah in the skies is thy help, and whose power is in the heaven of heavens. The habitation of Eloha is from eternity, and the world was made by His Word; and He will drive out thy enemies from before thee, and will say, Destroy.
And Yisrael shall dwell securely by themselves, according to the benediction with which Jakob their father blessed them in the land producing corn and wine; the heavens also above them shall drop down with dew.
Happy art thou, Yisrael; none is like unto thee, a people whose salvation is from the Lord, who is the strength of thy help, and from whom is the might of thy victory: thy enemies shall be liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon the necks of their kings.
XXXIV. And Mosheh went up from the plains of Moab to the mountains of Nebo, to the summit of the height which is over against Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Menasheh, and all the land of Jehudah to the hinder sea, and the south, and the country of the plain of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
And the Lord said to him, This is the land which I covenanted unto Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, saying, To thy children will I give it; thou hast seen it with thine eyes, but unto it thou art not to pass over.
And Mosheh the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the Word of the Lord.
And He buried him in a valley (or cavity, becheltha) in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor : but no man knoweth his sepulchre unto this day.
And Mosheh was a son of a hundred and twenty years when he died: his eye had not dimmed, neither was the radiance of his face changed.
And the children of Yisrael wept for Mosheh in the fields of Moab thirty days; and the days of the mourning for Mosheh were completed.
And Jehoshua bar Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom; for Mosheh had laid his hands upon him, and the children of Yisrael obeyed him, and did as the Lord had commanded (by) Mosheh.
But no prophet hath arisen in Yisrael like unto Mosheh, unto whom the Lord revealed Himself face to face, in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Mizraim upon Pharoh, and on all his servants, and on all his land, and all the Mighty Hand, and all the great manifestations which Mosheh wrought in the eyes of all Yisrael.
END OF THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE TORAH.
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| [[Hebrew Text|Habakkuk.vow.pdf]] |>|>|>|
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<p>
<a name="C351V1" id="C351V1">1:1</a> The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet
saw. <a name="C351V2" id="C351V2">1:2</a> Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you
will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not
save? <a name="C351V3" id="C351V3">1:3</a> Why do you show me iniquity, and
look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is
strife, and contention rises up. <a name="C351V4" id="C351V4">1:4</a>
Therefore the Torah is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the
wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C351V5" id="C351V5">1:5</a> "Look among the nations, watch, and
wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will
not believe though it is told you. <a name="C351V6" id="C351V6">1:6</a> For,
behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march
through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not
theirs. <a name="C351V7" id="C351V7">1:7</a> They are feared and dreaded.
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. <a name="C351V8"
id="C351V8">1:8</a> Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are
more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes,
their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to
devour. <a name="C351V9" id="C351V9">1:9</a> All of them come for violence.
Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. <a
name="C351V10" id="C351V10">1:10</a> Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are
a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an
earthen ramp, and takes it. <a name="C351V11" id="C351V11">1:11</a> Then he
sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength
is his god."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C351V12" id="C351V12">1:12</a> Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my
Elohim, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for
judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. <a name="C351V13"
id="C351V13">1:13</a> You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who
cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal
treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is
more righteous than he, <a name="C351V14" id="C351V14">1:14</a> and make men
like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler
over them? <a name="C351V15" id="C351V15">1:15</a> He takes up all of them
with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his
dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. <a name="C351V16" id="C351V16">1:16</a>
Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet,
because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. <a
name="C351V17" id="C351V17">1:17</a> Will he therefore continually empty his
net, and kill the nations without mercy?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C352V1" id="C352V1">2:1</a> I will stand at my watch, and set myself
on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what
I will answer concerning my complaint.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C352V2" id="C352V2">2:2</a> Yahweh answered me, "Write the
vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. <a
name="C352V3" id="C352V3">2:3</a> For the vision is yet for the appointed
time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it
takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay. <a
name="C352V4" id="C352V4">2:4</a> Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not
upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. <a name="C352V5"
id="C352V5">2:5</a> Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who
doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like
death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and
heaps to himself all peoples. <a name="C352V6" id="C352V6">2:6</a> Won't all
these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him,
and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches
himself by extortion! How long?' <a name="C352V7" id="C352V7">2:7</a> Won't
your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and
you will be their victim? <a name="C352V8" id="C352V8">2:8</a> Because you
have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder
you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the
city and to all who dwell in it. <a name="C352V9" id="C352V9">2:9</a> Woe to
him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high,
that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! <a name="C352V10" id="C352V10">2:10</a>
You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and
have sinned against your soul. <a name="C352V11" id="C352V11">2:11</a> For the
stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will
answer it. <a name="C352V12" id="C352V12">2:12</a> Woe to him who builds a
town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! <a name="C352V13"
id="C352V13">2:13</a> Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples
labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? <a
name="C352V14" id="C352V14">2:14</a> For the earth will be filled with the
knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C352V15" id="C352V15">2:15</a> "Woe to him who gives his
neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that
you may gaze at their naked bodies! <a name="C352V16" id="C352V16">2:16</a>
You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be
exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and
disgrace will cover your glory. <a name="C352V17" id="C352V17">2:17</a> For
the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of
the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the
violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C352V18" id="C352V18">2:18</a> "What value does the engraved
image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the
teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute
idols? <a name="C352V19" id="C352V19">2:19</a> Woe to him who says to the
wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it
is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its
midst. <a name="C352V20" id="C352V20">2:20</a> But Yahweh is in his holy
temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C353V1" id="C353V1">3:1</a> A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to
victorious music.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C353V2" id="C353V2">3:2</a> Yahweh, I have heard of your fame.
</dt>
<dd>
I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
Renew your work in the midst of the years.
</dt>
<dd>
In the midst of the years make it known.
</dd>
<dd>
In wrath, you remember mercy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V3" id="C353V3">3:3</a> Elohim came from Teman,
</dt>
<dd>
the Holy One from Mount Paran.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
His glory covered the heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
and his praise filled the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V4" id="C353V4">3:4</a> His splendor is like the sunrise.
</dt>
<dd>
Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V5" id="C353V5">3:5</a> Plague went before him,
</dt>
<dd>
and pestilence followed his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V6" id="C353V6">3:6</a> He stood, and shook the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
He looked, and made the nations tremble.
</dd>
<dd>
The ancient mountains were crumbled.
</dd>
<dd>
The age-old hills collapsed.
</dd>
<dd>
His ways are eternal.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V7" id="C353V7">3:7</a> I saw the tents of Cushan in
affliction.
</dt>
<dd>
The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V8" id="C353V8">3:8</a> Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers?
</dt>
<dd>
Was your anger against the rivers,
</dd>
<dd>
or your wrath against the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
that you rode on your horses,
</dd>
<dd>
on your chariots of salvation?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V9" id="C353V9">3:9</a> You uncovered your bow.
</dt>
<dd>
You called for your sworn arrows.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
You split the earth with rivers.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C353V10" id="C353V10">3:10</a> The mountains saw you, and were
afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
The storm of waters passed by.
</dd>
<dd>
The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V11" id="C353V11">3:11</a> The sun and moon stood still in the
sky,
</dt>
<dd>
at the light of your arrows as they went,
</dd>
<dd>
at the shining of your glittering spear.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V12" id="C353V12">3:12</a> You marched through the land in
wrath.
</dt>
<dd>
You threshed the nations in anger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V13" id="C353V13">3:13</a> You went forth for the salvation of
your people,
</dt>
<dd>
for the salvation of your anointed.
</dd>
<dt>
You crushed the head of the land of wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
You stripped them head to foot.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C353V14" id="C353V14">3:14</a> You pierced the heads of his
warriors with their own spears.
</dt>
<dd>
They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
</dd>
<dd>
gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V15" id="C353V15">3:15</a> You trampled the sea with your
horses,
</dt>
<dd>
churning mighty waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V16" id="C353V16">3:16</a> I heard, and my body trembled.
</dt>
<dd>
My lips quivered at the voice.
</dd>
<dt>
Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place,
</dt>
<dd>
because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
</dd>
<dd>
for the coming up of the people who invade us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V17" id="C353V17">3:17</a> For though the fig tree doesn't
flourish,
</dt>
<dd>
nor fruit be in the vines;
</dd>
<dd>
the labor of the olive fails,
</dd>
<dd>
the fields yield no food;
</dd>
<dd>
the flocks are cut off from the fold,
</dd>
<dd>
and there is no herd in the stalls:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V18" id="C353V18">3:18</a> yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will be joyful in the Elohim of my salvation!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C353V19" id="C353V19">3:19</a> Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes my feet like deer's feet,
</dd>
<dd>
and enables me to go in high places.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
</p>
| !Haggai |>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Haggai01]] | [[Chapter 2|Haggai02]] |
| [[Hebrew Text|Haggai.vow.pdf]] |>|>|
<p>
<a name="C371V1" id="C371V1">1:1</a> In the second year of Darius the king, in
the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by
Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Yehudah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, <a
name="C371V2" id="C371V2">1:2</a> "This is what Yahweh of Armies says:
These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house
to be built.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C371V3" id="C371V3">1:3</a> Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai,
the prophet, saying, <a name="C371V4" id="C371V4">1:4</a> "Is it a time
for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies
waste? <a name="C371V5" id="C371V5">1:5</a> Now therefore this is what Yahweh
of Armies says: Consider your ways. <a name="C371V6" id="C371V6">1:6</a> You
have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough.
You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no
one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag
with holes in it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C371V7" id="C371V7">1:7</a> This is what Yahweh of Armies says:
"Consider your ways. <a name="C371V8" id="C371V8">1:8</a> Go up to the
mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and
I will be glorified," says Yahweh. <a name="C371V9" id="C371V9">1:9</a>
"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you
brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because
of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
<a name="C371V10" id="C371V10">1:10</a> Therefore for your sake the heavens
withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. <a name="C371V11"
id="C371V11">1:11</a> I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains,
on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings
forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C371V12" id="C371V12">1:12</a> Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of
the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their Elohim, and the words of
Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their Elohim, had sent him; and the people
feared Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C371V13" id="C371V13">1:13</a> Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke
Yahweh's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C371V14" id="C371V14">1:14</a> Yahweh stirred up the spirit of
Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Yehudah, and the spirit of
Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the
remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of
Armies, their Elohim, <a name="C371V15" id="C371V15">1:15</a> in the
twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C372V1" id="C372V1">2:1</a> In the seventh month, in the twenty-first
day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
<a name="C372V2" id="C372V2">2:2</a> "Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Yehudah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the
high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, <a name="C372V3"
id="C372V3">2:3</a> 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former
glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing? <a
name="C372V4" id="C372V4">2:4</a> Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh.
'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you
people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says
Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C372V5" id="C372V5">2:5</a> This is the word that I
covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among
you. 'Don't be afraid.' <a name="C372V6" id="C372V6">2:6</a> For this is what
Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake
the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; <a name="C372V7" id="C372V7">2:7</a>
and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will
come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies. <a
name="C372V8" id="C372V8">2:8</a> The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,'
says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C372V9" id="C372V9">2:9</a> 'The latter glory
of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of Armies;
'and in this place will I give peace,' says Yahweh of Armies."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C372V10" id="C372V10">2:10</a> In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth
month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the
prophet, saying, <a name="C372V11" id="C372V11">2:11</a> "Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the Torah, saying, <a
name="C372V12" id="C372V12">2:12</a> 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold
of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any
food, will it become holy?'"
</p>
<p>
The priests answered, "No."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C372V13" id="C372V13">2:13</a> Then Haggai said, "If one who is
unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?"
</p>
<p>
The priests answered, "It will be unclean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C372V14" id="C372V14">2:14</a> Then Haggai answered, "'So is
this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is
every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean. <a
name="C372V15" id="C372V15">2:15</a> Now, please consider from this day and
backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh. <a
name="C372V16" id="C372V16">2:16</a> Through all that time, when one came to a
heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine
vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. <a name="C372V17" id="C372V17">2:17</a>
I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands;
yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh. <a name="C372V18" id="C372V18">2:18</a>
'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day
of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple
was laid, consider it. <a name="C372V19" id="C372V19">2:19</a> Is the seed yet
in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive
tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C372V20" id="C372V20">2:20</a> The Word of Yahweh came the second
time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, <a
name="C372V21" id="C372V21">2:21</a> "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of
Yehudah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth. <a name="C372V22"
id="C372V22">2:22</a> I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will
destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the
chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will
come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. <a name="C372V23" id="C372V23">2:23</a>
In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my
servant, the son of Shealtiel,' says Yahweh, 'and will make you as a
signet, for I have chosen you,' says Yahweh of Armies."
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C581V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C582V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C583V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C584V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C585V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C586V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C587V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C588V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C589V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C5810V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C5811V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C5812V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C5813V1>Chapter 13</a>
<p>
<a name="C581V1" id="C581V1">1:1</a> Elohim, having in the past spoken to the
fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, <a
name="C581V2" id="C581V2">1:2</a> has at the end of these days spoken to us by
his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made
the worlds. <a name="C581V3" id="C581V3">1:3</a> His Son is the radiance of
his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by
the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our
sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; <a name="C581V4"
id="C581V4">1:4</a> having become so much better than the angels, as he has
inherited a more excellent name than they have. <a name="C581V5" id="C581V5">1:5</a>
For to which of the angels did he say at any time,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You are my Son.
</dt>
<dd>
Today have I become your father?"<sup><a href="#N581">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
and again,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will be to him a Father,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will be to me a Son?"<sup><a href="#N582">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C581V6" id="C581V6">1:6</a> Again, when he brings in the firstborn
into the world he says, "Let all the angels of Elohim worship him."
<a name="C581V7" id="C581V7">1:7</a> Of the angels he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Who makes his angels winds,
</dt>
<dd>
and his servants a flame of fire."<sup><a href="#N583">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C581V8" id="C581V8">1:8</a> But of the Son he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever.
</dt>
<dd>
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C581V9" id="C581V9">1:9</a> You have loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity;
</dt>
<dd>
therefore Elohim, your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above
your fellows."<sup><a href="#N584">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C581V10" id="C581V10">1:10</a> And,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The heavens are the works of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C581V11" id="C581V11">1:11</a> They will perish, but you continue.
</dt>
<dd>
They all will grow old like a garment does.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C581V12" id="C581V12">1:12</a> As a mantle, you will roll them up,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will be changed;
</dd>
<dt>
but you are the same.
</dt>
<dd>
Your years will not fail."<sup><a href="#N585">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C581V13" id="C581V13">1:13</a> But which of the angels has he told at
any time,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Sit at my right hand,
</dt>
<dd>
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"<sup><a
href="#N586">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C581V14" id="C581V14">1:14</a> Aren't they all serving spirits, sent
out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C582V1" id="C582V1">2:1</a> Therefore we ought to pay greater
attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. <a
name="C582V2" id="C582V2">2:2</a> For if the word spoken through angels proved
steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just
recompense; <a name="C582V3" id="C582V3">2:3</a> how will we escape if we
neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken
through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard; <a name="C582V4"
id="C582V4">2:4</a> Elohim also testifying with them, both by signs and
wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to his own will? <a name="C582V5" id="C582V5">2:5</a> For he didn't
subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels. <a name="C582V6"
id="C582V6">2:6</a> But one has somewhere testified, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"What is man, that you think of him?
</dt>
<dd>
Or the son of man, that you care for him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C582V7" id="C582V7">2:7</a> You made him a little lower than the
angels.
</dt>
<dd>
You crowned him with glory and honor.<sup><a href="#N587">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C582V8" id="C582V8">2:8</a> You have put all things in subjection
under his feet."<sup><a href="#N588">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not
subject to him. But now we don't see all things subjected to him, yet. <a
name="C582V9" id="C582V9">2:9</a> But we see him who has been made a little
lower than the angels, Yeshua, because of the suffering of death crowned
with glory and honor, that by the grace of Elohim he should taste of death
for everyone. <a name="C582V10" id="C582V10">2:10</a> For it became him, for
whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many
children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through
sufferings. <a name="C582V11" id="C582V11">2:11</a> For both he who sanctifies
and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not
ashamed to call them <a href="#N589">brothers</a>, <a name="C582V12" id="C582V12">2:12</a>
saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will declare your name to my brothers.
</dt>
<dd>
In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."<sup><a
href="#N5810">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C582V13" id="C582V13">2:13</a> Again, "I will put my trust in
him."<sup><a href="#N5811">*</a></sup> Again, "Behold, here I am
with the children whom Elohim has given me."<sup><a href="#N5812">*</a></sup>
<a name="C582V14" id="C582V14">2:14</a> Since then the children have shared in
flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that
through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death,
that is, the devil, <a name="C582V15" id="C582V15">2:15</a> and might deliver
all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. <a name="C582V16" id="C582V16">2:16</a> For most certainly, he
doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Avraham. <a
name="C582V17" id="C582V17">2:17</a> Therefore he was obligated in all things
to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of
the people. <a name="C582V18" id="C582V18">2:18</a> For in that he himself has
suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C583V1" id="C583V1">3:1</a> Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,
Yeshua; <a name="C583V2" id="C583V2">3:2</a> who was faithful to him who
appointed him, as also was Moshe in all his house. <a name="C583V3" id="C583V3">3:3</a>
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moshe, inasmuch as he
who built the house has more honor than the house. <a name="C583V4" id="C583V4">3:4</a>
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is Elohim.
<a name="C583V5" id="C583V5">3:5</a> Moshe indeed was faithful in all his
house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward
to be spoken, <a name="C583V6" id="C583V6">3:6</a> but Messiah is faithful as a
Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and
the glorying of our hope firm to the end. <a name="C583V7" id="C583V7">3:7</a>
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Today if you will hear his voice,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C583V8" id="C583V8">3:8</a> don't harden your hearts, as in the
provocation,
</dt>
<dd>
like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C583V9" id="C583V9">3:9</a> where your fathers tested me by proving
me,
</dt>
<dd>
and saw my works for forty years.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C583V10" id="C583V10">3:10</a> Therefore I was displeased with that
generation,
</dt>
<dd>
and said, 'They always err in their heart,
</dd>
<dd>
but they didn't know my ways;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C583V11" id="C583V11">3:11</a> as I swore in my wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
'They will not enter into my rest.'"<sup><a href="#N5813">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C583V12" id="C583V12">3:12</a> Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there
be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the
living Elohim; <a name="C583V13" id="C583V13">3:13</a> but exhort one another day
by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be
hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. <a name="C583V14" id="C583V14">3:14</a>
For we have become partakers of Messiah, if we hold fast the beginning of
our confidence firm to the end: <a name="C583V15" id="C583V15">3:15</a> while
it is said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Today if you will hear his voice,
</dt>
<dd>
don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."<sup><a href="#N5814">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C583V16" id="C583V16">3:16</a> For who, when they heard, rebelled?
No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moshe? <a name="C583V17"
id="C583V17">3:17</a> With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it
with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? <a name="C583V18"
id="C583V18">3:18</a> To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his
rest, but to those who were disobedient? <a name="C583V19" id="C583V19">3:19</a>
We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C584V1" id="C584V1">4:1</a> Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps
anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into
his rest. <a name="C584V2" id="C584V2">4:2</a> For indeed we have had good
news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't
profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard. <a
name="C584V3" id="C584V3">4:3</a> For we who have believed do enter into that
rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not
enter into my rest;"<sup><a href="#N5815">*</a></sup> although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world. <a name="C584V4"
id="C584V4">4:4</a> For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day,
"Elohim rested on the seventh day from all his works;"<sup><a
href="#N5816">*</a></sup> <a name="C584V5" id="C584V5">4:5</a> and in this place
again, "They will not enter into my rest."<sup><a href="#N5817">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C584V6" id="C584V6">4:6</a> Seeing therefore it remains that some
should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached
failed to enter in because of disobedience, <a name="C584V7" id="C584V7">4:7</a>
he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time
afterward (just as has been said),
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Today if you will hear his voice,
</dt>
<dd>
don't harden your hearts."<sup><a href="#N5818">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C584V8" id="C584V8">4:8</a> For if Joshua had given them rest, he
would not have spoken afterward of another day. <a name="C584V9" id="C584V9">4:9</a>
There remains therefore a Shabbat rest for the people of Elohim. <a
name="C584V10" id="C584V10">4:10</a> For he who has entered into his rest has
himself also rested from his works, as Elohim did from his. <a name="C584V11"
id="C584V11">4:11</a> Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that
rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. <a
name="C584V12" id="C584V12">4:12</a> For the word of Elohim is living, and
active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the
dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to
discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C584V13" id="C584V13">4:13</a> There is no creature that is hidden
from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of
him with whom we have to do. <a name="C584V14" id="C584V14">4:14</a> Having
then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Yeshua, the
Son of Elohim, let us hold tightly to our confession. <a name="C584V15"
id="C584V15">4:15</a> For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points
tempted like we are, yet without sin. <a name="C584V16" id="C584V16">4:16</a>
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we
may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C585V1" id="C585V1">5:1</a> For every high priest, being taken from
among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to Elohim, that he may
offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. <a name="C585V2" id="C585V2">5:2</a>
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going
astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. <a name="C585V3"
id="C585V3">5:3</a> Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for
the people, as well as for himself. <a name="C585V4" id="C585V4">5:4</a>
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by Elohim, just like
Aharon was. <a name="C585V5" id="C585V5">5:5</a> So also Messiah didn't glorify
himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You are my Son.
</dt>
<dd>
Today I have become your father."<sup><a href="#N5819">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C585V6" id="C585V6">5:6</a> As he says also in another place,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You are a priest forever,
</dt>
<dd>
after the order of Melchizedek."<sup><a href="#N5820">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C585V7" id="C585V7">5:7</a> He, in the days of his flesh, having
offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who
was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
<a name="C585V8" id="C585V8">5:8</a> though he was a Son, yet learned
obedience by the things which he suffered. <a name="C585V9" id="C585V9">5:9</a>
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the
author of eternal salvation, <a name="C585V10" id="C585V10">5:10</a> named by
Elohim a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. <a name="C585V11"
id="C585V11">5:11</a> About him we have many words to say, and hard to
interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. <a name="C585V12"
id="C585V12">5:12</a> For when by reason of the time you ought to be
teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the
first principles of the oracles of Elohim. You have come to need milk, and
not solid food. <a name="C585V13" id="C585V13">5:13</a> For everyone who lives
on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
<a name="C585V14" id="C585V14">5:14</a> But solid food is for those who are
full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern
good and evil.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C586V1" id="C586V1">6:1</a> Therefore leaving the doctrine of the
first principles of Messiah, let us press on to perfection--not laying
again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward Elohim, <a
name="C586V2" id="C586V2">6:2</a> of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of
hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. <a name="C586V3"
id="C586V3">6:3</a> This will we do, if Elohim permits. <a name="C586V4" id="C586V4">6:4</a>
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, <a name="C586V5" id="C586V5">6:5</a>
and tasted the good word of Elohim, and the powers of the age to come, <a
name="C586V6" id="C586V6">6:6</a> and then fell away, it is impossible to
renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of Elohim for
themselves again, and put him to open shame. <a name="C586V7" id="C586V7">6:7</a>
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings
forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives
blessing from Elohim; <a name="C586V8" id="C586V8">6:8</a> but if it bears thorns
and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be
burned.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C586V9" id="C586V9">6:9</a> But, beloved, we are persuaded of better
things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak
like this. <a name="C586V10" id="C586V10">6:10</a> For Elohim is not unrighteous,
so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward
his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. <a
name="C586V11" id="C586V11">6:11</a> We desire that each one of you may show
the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, <a name="C586V12"
id="C586V12">6:12</a> that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who
through faith and patience inherited the promises. <a name="C586V13"
id="C586V13">6:13</a> For when Elohim made a promise to Avraham, since he could
swear by none greater, he swore by himself, <a name="C586V14" id="C586V14">6:14</a>
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
multiply you."<sup><a href="#N5821">*</a></sup> <a name="C586V15"
id="C586V15">6:15</a> Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the
promise. <a name="C586V16" id="C586V16">6:16</a> For men indeed swear by a
greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for
confirmation. <a name="C586V17" id="C586V17">6:17</a> In this way Elohim, being
determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the
immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; <a name="C586V18"
id="C586V18">6:18</a> that by two immutable things, in which it is
impossible for Elohim to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have
fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. <a name="C586V19"
id="C586V19">6:19</a> This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope
both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
<a name="C586V20" id="C586V20">6:20</a> where as a forerunner Yeshua entered
for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C587V1" id="C587V1">7:1</a> For this Melchizedek, king of Salem,
priest of Elohim Most High, who met Avraham returning from the slaughter of
the kings and blessed him, <a name="C587V2" id="C587V2">7:2</a> to whom also
Avraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king
of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace; <a
name="C587V3" id="C587V3">7:3</a> without father, without mother, without
genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like
the Son of Elohim), remains a priest continually. <a name="C587V4" id="C587V4">7:4</a>
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Avraham, the patriarch,
gave a tenth out of the best spoils. <a name="C587V5" id="C587V5">7:5</a> They
indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a
commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Torah, that is, of
their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Avraham, <a
name="C587V6" id="C587V6">7:6</a> but he whose genealogy is not counted from
them has accepted tithes from Avraham, and has blessed him who has the
promises. <a name="C587V7" id="C587V7">7:7</a> But without any dispute the
lesser is blessed by the greater. <a name="C587V8" id="C587V8">7:8</a> Here
people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is
testified that he lives. <a name="C587V9" id="C587V9">7:9</a> We can say that
through Avraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, <a
name="C587V10" id="C587V10">7:10</a> for he was yet in the body of his father
when Melchizedek met him. <a name="C587V11" id="C587V11">7:11</a> Now if there
was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people
have received the Torah), what further need was there for another priest to
arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of
Aharon? <a name="C587V12" id="C587V12">7:12</a> For the priesthood being
changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the Torah. <a
name="C587V13" id="C587V13">7:13</a> For he of whom these things are said
belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
<a name="C587V14" id="C587V14">7:14</a> For it is evident that our Lord has
sprung out of Yehudah, about which tribe Moshe spoke nothing concerning
priesthood. <a name="C587V15" id="C587V15">7:15</a> This is yet more
abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises
another priest, <a name="C587V16" id="C587V16">7:16</a> who has been made, not
after the Torah of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless
life: <a name="C587V17" id="C587V17">7:17</a> for it is testified,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You are a priest forever,
</dt>
<dd>
according to the order of Melchizedek."<sup><a href="#N5822">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C587V18" id="C587V18">7:18</a> For there is an annulling of a
foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness <a
name="C587V19" id="C587V19">7:19</a> (for the Torah made nothing perfect), and a
bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to Elohim. <a
name="C587V20" id="C587V20">7:20</a> Inasmuch as he was not made priest
without the taking of an oath <a name="C587V21" id="C587V21">7:21</a> (for
they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath
by him that says of him,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The Lord swore and will not change his mind,
</dt>
<dd>
'You are a priest forever,
</dd>
<dd>
according to the order of Melchizedek.'"<sup><a href="#N5823">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C587V22" id="C587V22">7:22</a> By so much, Yeshua has become the
collateral of a better covenant. <a name="C587V23" id="C587V23">7:23</a> Many,
indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing
by death. <a name="C587V24" id="C587V24">7:24</a> But he, because he lives
forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. <a name="C587V25" id="C587V25">7:25</a>
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to
Elohim through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for
them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C587V26" id="C587V26">7:26</a> For such a high priest was fitting for
us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher
than the heavens; <a name="C587V27" id="C587V27">7:27</a> who doesn't need,
like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own
sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all,
when he offered up himself. <a name="C587V28" id="C587V28">7:28</a> For the
Torah appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the
oath which came after the Torah appoints a Son forever who has been
perfected.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C588V1" id="C588V1">8:1</a> Now in the things which we are saying,
the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, <a name="C588V2"
id="C588V2">8:2</a> a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched, not man. <a name="C588V3" id="C588V3">8:3</a> For
every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.
Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to
offer. <a name="C588V4" id="C588V4">8:4</a> For if he were on earth, he would
not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts
according to the Torah; <a name="C588V5" id="C588V5">8:5</a> who serve a copy
and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moshe was warned by Elohim when he
was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make
everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."<sup><a
href="#N5824">*</a></sup> <a name="C588V6" id="C588V6">8:6</a> But now he has
obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator
of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as Torah. <a
name="C588V7" id="C588V7">8:7</a> For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. <a
name="C588V8" id="C588V8">8:8</a> For finding fault with them, he said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, the days come," says the Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
"that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisrael and with
the house of Yehudah;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C588V9" id="C588V9">8:9</a> not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt;
</dd>
<dt>
for they didn't continue in my covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
and I disregarded them," says the Lord.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C588V10" id="C588V10">8:10</a> "For this is the covenant that
I will make with the house of Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
After those days," says the Lord;
</dd>
<dt>
"I will put my laws into their mind,
</dt>
<dd>
I will also write them on their heart.
</dd>
<dt>
I will be their Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will be my people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C588V11" id="C588V11">8:11</a> They will not teach every man his <a
href="#N5825">fellow citizen,</a>
</dt>
<dd>
and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
</dd>
<dd>
for all will know me,
</dd>
<dd>
from the least of them to the greatest of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C588V12" id="C588V12">8:12</a> For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."<sup><a
href="#N5826">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C588V13" id="C588V13">8:13</a> In that he says, "A new covenant,"
he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged
is near to vanishing away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C589V1" id="C589V1">9:1</a> Now indeed even the first<sup><a
href="#N5827">*</a></sup> covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an
earthly sanctuary. <a name="C589V2" id="C589V2">9:2</a> For a tabernacle was
prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show
bread; which is called the Holy Place. <a name="C589V3" id="C589V3">9:3</a>
After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies, <a name="C589V4" id="C589V4">9:4</a> having a golden altar of incense,
and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was
a golden pot holding the manna, Aharon's rod that budded, and the tablets
of the covenant; <a name="C589V5" id="C589V5">9:5</a> and above it cherubim of
glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in
detail. <a name="C589V6" id="C589V6">9:6</a> Now these things having been thus
prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the services, <a name="C589V7" id="C589V7">9:7</a> but into the
second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which
he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. <a name="C589V8"
id="C589V8">9:8</a> The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into
the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still
standing; <a name="C589V9" id="C589V9">9:9</a> which is a symbol of the
present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable,
concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; <a
name="C589V10" id="C589V10">9:10</a> being only (with meats and drinks and
various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C589V11" id="C589V11">9:11</a> But Messiah having come as a high
priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, <a
name="C589V12" id="C589V12">9:12</a> nor yet through the blood of goats and
calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy
Place, having obtained eternal redemption. <a name="C589V13" id="C589V13">9:13</a>
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: <a
name="C589V14" id="C589V14">9:14</a> how much more will the blood of Messiah,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to Elohim,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim? <a
name="C589V15" id="C589V15">9:15</a> For this reason he is the mediator of a
new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have
been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. <a
name="C589V16" id="C589V16">9:16</a> For where a last will and testament is,
there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. <a name="C589V17"
id="C589V17">9:17</a> For a will is in force where there has been death, for
it is never in force while he who made it lives. <a name="C589V18" id="C589V18">9:18</a>
Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. <a
name="C589V19" id="C589V19">9:19</a> For when every commandment had been
spoken by Moshe to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood
of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, <a name="C589V20"
id="C589V20">9:20</a> saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which
Elohim has commanded you."<sup><a href="#N5828">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C589V21" id="C589V21">9:21</a> Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle
and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood. <a
name="C589V22" id="C589V22">9:22</a> According to the Torah, nearly everything
is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no
remission. <a name="C589V23" id="C589V23">9:23</a> It was necessary therefore
that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with
these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
these. <a name="C589V24" id="C589V24">9:24</a> For Messiah hasn't entered into
holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim for us; <a
name="C589V25" id="C589V25">9:25</a> nor yet that he should offer himself
often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with
blood not his own, <a name="C589V26" id="C589V26">9:26</a> or else he must
have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the
end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. <a name="C589V27" id="C589V27">9:27</a> Inasmuch as it is appointed
for men to die once, and after this, judgment, <a name="C589V28" id="C589V28">9:28</a>
so Messiah also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will
appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for
him for salvation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5810V1" id="C5810V1">10:1</a> For the Torah, having a shadow of the
good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same
sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those
who draw near. <a name="C5810V2" id="C5810V2">10:2</a> Or else wouldn't they
have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once
cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? <a name="C5810V3"
id="C5810V3">10:3</a> But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of
sins. <a name="C5810V4" id="C5810V4">10:4</a> For it is impossible that the
blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. <a name="C5810V5" id="C5810V5">10:5</a>
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire,
</dt>
<dd>
but you prepared a body for me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C5810V6" id="C5810V6">10:6</a> You had no pleasure in whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C5810V7" id="C5810V7">10:7</a> Then I said, 'Behold, I have come
(in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
</dd>
<dd>
to do your will, O Elohim.'"<sup><a href="#N5829">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C5810V8" id="C5810V8">10:8</a> Previously saying, "Sacrifices
and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't
desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered
according to the Torah), <a name="C5810V9" id="C5810V9">10:9</a> then he has
said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the
first, that he may establish the second, <a name="C5810V10" id="C5810V10">10:10</a>
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of
Yeshua Messiah once for all. <a name="C5810V11" id="C5810V11">10:11</a> Every
priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins, <a name="C5810V12" id="C5810V12">10:12</a>
but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of Elohim; <a name="C5810V13" id="C5810V13">10:13</a> from that
time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. <a
name="C5810V14" id="C5810V14">10:14</a> For by one offering he has perfected
forever those who are being sanctified. <a name="C5810V15" id="C5810V15">10:15</a>
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C5810V16" id="C5810V16">10:16</a> "This is the covenant that I
will make with them:
</dt>
<dd>
'After those days,' says the Lord,
</dd>
<dt>
'I will put my laws on their heart,
</dt>
<dd>
I will also write them on their mind;'"<sup><a href="#N5830">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
then he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C5810V17" id="C5810V17">10:17</a> "I will remember their sins
and their iniquities no more."<sup><a href="#N5831">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C5810V18" id="C5810V18">10:18</a> Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. <a name="C5810V19" id="C5810V19">10:19</a>
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the
blood of Yeshua, <a name="C5810V20" id="C5810V20">10:20</a> by the way which he
dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh; <a name="C5810V21" id="C5810V21">10:21</a> and having a great
priest over the house of Elohim, <a name="C5810V22" id="C5810V22">10:22</a> let's
draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure
water, <a name="C5810V23" id="C5810V23">10:23</a> let us hold fast the
confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5810V24" id="C5810V24">10:24</a> Let us consider how to provoke one
another to love and good works, <a name="C5810V25" id="C5810V25">10:25</a> not
forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but
exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day
approaching. <a name="C5810V26" id="C5810V26">10:26</a> For if we sin
willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains
no more a sacrifice for sins, <a name="C5810V27" id="C5810V27">10:27</a> but a
certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which
will devour the adversaries. <a name="C5810V28" id="C5810V28">10:28</a> A man
who disregards Moshe' Torah dies without compassion on the word of two or
three witnesses. <a name="C5810V29" id="C5810V29">10:29</a> How much worse
punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden
under foot the Son of Elohim, and has counted the blood of the covenant with
which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of
grace? <a name="C5810V30" id="C5810V30">10:30</a> For we know him who said,
"Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay."<sup><a
href="#N5832">*</a></sup> Again, "The Lord will judge his people."<sup><a
href="#N5833">*</a></sup> <a name="C5810V31" id="C5810V31">10:31</a> It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Elohim. <a name="C5810V32"
id="C5810V32">10:32</a> But remember the former days, in which, after you
were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; <a
name="C5810V33" id="C5810V33">10:33</a> partly, being exposed to both
reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who
were treated so. <a name="C5810V34" id="C5810V34">10:34</a> For you both had
compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of
your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession
and an enduring one in the heavens. <a name="C5810V35" id="C5810V35">10:35</a>
Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. <a
name="C5810V36" id="C5810V36">10:36</a> For you need endurance so that, having
done the will of Elohim, you may receive the promise.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C5810V37" id="C5810V37">10:37</a> "In a very little while,
</dt>
<dd>
he who comes will come, and will not wait.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C5810V38" id="C5810V38">10:38</a> But the righteous will live by
faith.
</dt>
<dd>
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."<sup><a
href="#N5834">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C5810V39" id="C5810V39">10:39</a> But we are not of those who shrink
back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the
soul.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5811V1" id="C5811V1">11:1</a> Now faith is assurance of things hoped
for, proof of things not seen. <a name="C5811V2" id="C5811V2">11:2</a> For by
this, the elders obtained testimony. <a name="C5811V3" id="C5811V3">11:3</a>
By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of
Elohim, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are
visible. <a name="C5811V4" id="C5811V4">11:4</a> By faith, Abel offered to Elohim
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given
to him that he was righteous, Elohim testifying with respect to his gifts;
and through it he, being dead, still speaks. <a name="C5811V5" id="C5811V5">11:5</a>
By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was
not found, because Elohim translated him. For he has had testimony given to
him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to Elohim. <a
name="C5811V6" id="C5811V6">11:6</a> Without faith it is impossible to be well
pleasing to him, for he who comes to Elohim must believe that he exists, and
that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. <a name="C5811V7" id="C5811V7">11:7</a>
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly
fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
according to faith. <a name="C5811V8" id="C5811V8">11:8</a> By faith, Avraham,
when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive
for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. <a name="C5811V9"
id="C5811V9">11:9</a> By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise,
as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise. <a name="C5811V10" id="C5811V10">11:10</a>
For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and
maker is Elohim. <a name="C5811V11" id="C5811V11">11:11</a> By faith, even Sarah
herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past
age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. <a name="C5811V12"
id="C5811V12">11:12</a> Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in
multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were
fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. <a name="C5811V13" id="C5811V13">11:13</a>
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen<sup><a
href="#N5835">*</a></sup> them and embraced them from afar, and having
confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. <a
name="C5811V14" id="C5811V14">11:14</a> For those who say such things make it
clear that they are seeking a country of their own. <a name="C5811V15"
id="C5811V15">11:15</a> If indeed they had been thinking of that country
from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. <a
name="C5811V16" id="C5811V16">11:16</a> But now they desire a better country,
that is, a heavenly one. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed of them, to be
called their Elohim, for he has prepared a city for them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5811V17" id="C5811V17">11:17</a> By faith, Avraham, being tested,
offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was
offering up his one and only son; <a name="C5811V18" id="C5811V18">11:18</a>
even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"<sup><a
href="#N5836">*</a></sup> <a name="C5811V19" id="C5811V19">11:19</a> concluding
that Elohim is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he
also did receive him back from the dead. <a name="C5811V20" id="C5811V20">11:20</a>
By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. <a
name="C5811V21" id="C5811V21">11:21</a> By faith, Jacob, when he was dying,
blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of
his staff. <a name="C5811V22" id="C5811V22">11:22</a> By faith, Joseph, when
his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Yisrael;
and gave instructions concerning his bones. <a name="C5811V23" id="C5811V23">11:23</a>
By faith, Moshe, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his
parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not
afraid of the king's commandment. <a name="C5811V24" id="C5811V24">11:24</a>
By faith, Moshe, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter, <a name="C5811V25" id="C5811V25">11:25</a> choosing rather
to share ill treatment with Elohim's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a time; <a name="C5811V26" id="C5811V26">11:26</a> accounting the
reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he
looked to the reward. <a name="C5811V27" id="C5811V27">11:27</a> By faith, he
left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing
him who is invisible. <a name="C5811V28" id="C5811V28">11:28</a> By faith, he
kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of
the firstborn should not touch them. <a name="C5811V29" id="C5811V29">11:29</a>
By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the
Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. <a name="C5811V30"
id="C5811V30">11:30</a> By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they
had been encircled for seven days. <a name="C5811V31" id="C5811V31">11:31</a>
By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were
disobedient, having received the spies in peace. <a name="C5811V32"
id="C5811V32">11:32</a> What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if
I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the
prophets; <a name="C5811V33" id="C5811V33">11:33</a> who, through faith
subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions,<sup><a href="#N5837">*</a></sup> <a name="C5811V34"
id="C5811V34">11:34</a> quenched the power of fire,<sup><a href="#N5838">*</a></sup>
escaped the edge of the sword,<sup><a href="#N5839">*</a></sup> from
weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies
to flee. <a name="C5811V35" id="C5811V35">11:35</a> Women received their dead
by resurrection.<sup><a href="#N5840">*</a></sup> Others were tortured, not
accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
<a name="C5811V36" id="C5811V36">11:36</a> Others were tried by mocking and
scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. <a name="C5811V37"
id="C5811V37">11:37</a> They were stoned.<sup><a href="#N5841">*</a></sup>
They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.<sup><a
href="#N5842">*</a></sup> They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins;
being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated <a name="C5811V38" id="C5811V38">11:38</a>
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains,
caves, and the holes of the earth. <a name="C5811V39" id="C5811V39">11:39</a>
These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't
receive the promise, <a name="C5811V40" id="C5811V40">11:40</a> Elohim having
provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they
should not be made perfect.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5812V1" id="C5812V1">12:1</a> Therefore let us also, seeing we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and
the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us, <a name="C5812V2" id="C5812V2">12:2</a> looking to
Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the
right hand of the throne of Elohim. <a name="C5812V3" id="C5812V3">12:3</a> For
consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls. <a name="C5812V4"
id="C5812V4">12:4</a> You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against
sin; <a name="C5812V5" id="C5812V5">12:5</a> and you have forgotten the
exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C5812V6" id="C5812V6">12:6</a> For whom the Lord loves, he
chastens,
</dt>
<dd>
and scourges every son whom he receives."<sup><a href="#N5843">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C5812V7" id="C5812V7">12:7</a> It is for discipline that you endure.
Elohim deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father
doesn't discipline? <a name="C5812V8" id="C5812V8">12:8</a> But if you are
without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you
illegitimate, and not children. <a name="C5812V9" id="C5812V9">12:9</a>
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid
them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of
spirits, and live? <a name="C5812V10" id="C5812V10">12:10</a> For they indeed,
for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit,
that we may be partakers of his holiness. <a name="C5812V11" id="C5812V11">12:11</a>
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet
afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have
been exercised thereby. <a name="C5812V12" id="C5812V12">12:12</a> Therefore,
lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,<sup><a href="#N5844">*</a></sup>
<a name="C5812V13" id="C5812V13">12:13</a> and make straight paths for your
feet,<sup><a href="#N5845">*</a></sup> so that which is lame may not be
dislocated, but rather be healed. <a name="C5812V14" id="C5812V14">12:14</a>
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no
man will see the Lord, <a name="C5812V15" id="C5812V15">12:15</a> looking
carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of Elohim; lest
any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by
it; <a name="C5812V16" id="C5812V16">12:16</a> lest there be any sexually
immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for
one meal. <a name="C5812V17" id="C5812V17">12:17</a> For you know that even
when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he
found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with
tears. <a name="C5812V18" id="C5812V18">12:18</a> For you have not come to a
mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to
blackness, darkness, storm, <a name="C5812V19" id="C5812V19">12:19</a> the
sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it
begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, <a name="C5812V20"
id="C5812V20">12:20</a> for they could not stand that which was commanded,
"If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned<sup><a
href="#N5846">*</a></sup>;"<sup><a href="#N5847">*</a></sup> <a
name="C5812V21" id="C5812V21">12:21</a> and so fearful was the appearance,
that Moshe said, "I am terrified and trembling."<sup><a
href="#N5848">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5812V22" id="C5812V22">12:22</a> But you have come to Mount Zion,
and to the city of the living Elohim, the heavenly Yerushalayim, and to
innumerable multitudes of angels, <a name="C5812V23" id="C5812V23">12:23</a>
to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven, to Elohim the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
<a name="C5812V24" id="C5812V24">12:24</a> to Yeshua, the mediator of a new
covenant,<sup><a href="#N5849">*</a></sup> and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaks better than that of Abel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5812V25" id="C5812V25">12:25</a> See that you don't refuse him who
speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the
Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns
from heaven, <a name="C5812V26" id="C5812V26">12:26</a> whose voice shook the
earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will
shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."<sup><a href="#N5850">*</a></sup>
<a name="C5812V27" id="C5812V27">12:27</a> This phrase, "Yet once more,"
signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that
have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. <a
name="C5812V28" id="C5812V28">12:28</a> Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that
can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve Elohim acceptably,
with reverence and awe, <a name="C5812V29" id="C5812V29">12:29</a> for our Elohim
is a consuming fire.<sup><a href="#N5851">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V1" id="C5813V1">13:1</a> Let brotherly love continue. <a
name="C5813V2" id="C5813V2">13:2</a> Don't forget to show hospitality to
strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing
it. <a name="C5813V3" id="C5813V3">13:3</a> Remember those who are in bonds,
as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in
the body. <a name="C5813V4" id="C5813V4">13:4</a> Let marriage be held in
honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but Elohim will judge the
sexually immoral and adulterers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V5" id="C5813V5">13:5</a> Be free from the love of money,
content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no
way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."<sup><a
href="#N5852">*</a></sup> <a name="C5813V6" id="C5813V6">13:6</a> So that with
good courage we say,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
</dt>
<dd>
What can man do to me?"<sup><a href="#N5853">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C5813V7" id="C5813V7">13:7</a> Remember your leaders, men who spoke
to you the word of Elohim, and considering the results of their conduct,
imitate their faith. <a name="C5813V8" id="C5813V8">13:8</a> Yeshua Messiah is
the same yesterday, today, and forever. <a name="C5813V9" id="C5813V9">13:9</a>
Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good
that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those
who were so occupied were not benefited.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V10" id="C5813V10">13:10</a> We have an altar from which those
who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. <a name="C5813V11"
id="C5813V11">13:11</a> For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is
brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are
burned outside of the camp.<sup><a href="#N5854">*</a></sup> <a name="C5813V12"
id="C5813V12">13:12</a> Therefore Yeshua also, that he might sanctify the
people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. <a
name="C5813V13" id="C5813V13">13:13</a> Let us therefore go out to him outside
of the camp, bearing his reproach. <a name="C5813V14" id="C5813V14">13:14</a>
For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to
come. <a name="C5813V15" id="C5813V15">13:15</a> Through him, then, let us
offer up a sacrifice of praise to Elohim<sup><a href="#N5855">*</a></sup>
continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his
name. <a name="C5813V16" id="C5813V16">13:16</a> But don't forget to be doing
good and sharing, for with such sacrifices Elohim is well pleased.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V17" id="C5813V17">13:17</a> Obey your leaders and submit to
them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give
account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that
would be unprofitable for you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V18" id="C5813V18">13:18</a> Pray for us, for we are persuaded
that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
<a name="C5813V19" id="C5813V19">13:19</a> I strongly urge you to do this,
that I may be restored to you sooner.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V20" id="C5813V20">13:20</a> Now may the Elohim of peace, who
brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood
of an eternal covenant, our Lord Yeshua, <a name="C5813V21" id="C5813V21">13:21</a>
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that
which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yeshua Messiah, to whom be the
glory forever and ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C5813V22" id="C5813V22">13:22</a> But I exhort you, brothers, endure
the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words. <a
name="C5813V23" id="C5813V23">13:23</a> Know that our brother Timothy has been
freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. <a name="C5813V24"
id="C5813V24">13:24</a> Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The
Italians greet you. <a name="C5813V25" id="C5813V25">13:25</a> Grace be with
you all. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N581" id="N581">[1]</a> <a href="#C581V5">back to 1:5</a> Psalm 2:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N582" id="N582">[2]</a> <a href="#C581V5">back to 1:5</a> 2 Samuel
7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N583" id="N583">[3]</a> <a href="#C581V7">back to 1:7</a> Psalm 104:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N584" id="N584">[4]</a> <a href="#C581V9">back to 1:9</a> Psalm 45:6-7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N585" id="N585">[5]</a> <a href="#C581V12">back to 1:12</a> Psalm
102:25-27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N586" id="N586">[6]</a> <a href="#C581V13">back to 1:13</a> Psalm 110:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N587" id="N587">[7]</a> <a href="#C582V7">back to 2:7</a> TR adds
"and set him over the works of your hands"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N588" id="N588">[8]</a> <a href="#C582V8">back to 2:8</a> Psalm 8:4-6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N589" id="N589">[9]</a> <a href="#C582V11">back to 2:11</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5810" id="N5810">[10]</a> <a href="#C582V12">back to 2:12</a> Psalm
22:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5811" id="N5811">[11]</a> <a href="#C582V13">back to 2:13</a> Isaiah
8:17
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5812" id="N5812">[12]</a> <a href="#C582V13">back to 2:13</a> Isaiah
8:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5813" id="N5813">[13]</a> <a href="#C583V11">back to 3:11</a> Psalm
95:7-11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5814" id="N5814">[14]</a> <a href="#C583V15">back to 3:15</a> Psalm
95:7-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5815" id="N5815">[15]</a> <a href="#C584V3">back to 4:3</a> Psalm
95:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5816" id="N5816">[16]</a> <a href="#C584V4">back to 4:4</a> Genesis
2:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5817" id="N5817">[17]</a> <a href="#C584V5">back to 4:5</a> Psalm
95:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5818" id="N5818">[18]</a> <a href="#C584V7">back to 4:7</a> Psalm
95:7-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5819" id="N5819">[19]</a> <a href="#C585V5">back to 5:5</a> Psalm 2:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5820" id="N5820">[20]</a> <a href="#C585V6">back to 5:6</a> Psalm
110:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5821" id="N5821">[21]</a> <a href="#C586V14">back to 6:14</a> Genesis
22:17
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5822" id="N5822">[22]</a> <a href="#C587V17">back to 7:17</a> Psalm
110:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5823" id="N5823">[23]</a> <a href="#C587V21">back to 7:21</a> Psalm
110:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5824" id="N5824">[24]</a> <a href="#C588V5">back to 8:5</a> Exodus
25:40
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5825" id="N5825">[25]</a> <a href="#C588V11">back to 8:11</a> TR reads
"neighbor" instead of "fellow citizen"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5826" id="N5826">[26]</a> <a href="#C588V12">back to 8:12</a> Jeremiah
31:31-34
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5827" id="N5827">[27]</a> <a href="#C589V1">back to 9:1</a> TR adds
"tabernacle"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5828" id="N5828">[28]</a> <a href="#C589V20">back to 9:20</a> Exodus
24:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5829" id="N5829">[29]</a> <a href="#C5810V7">back to 10:7</a> Psalm
40:6-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5830" id="N5830">[30]</a> <a href="#C5810V16">back to 10:16</a>
Jeremiah 31:33
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5831" id="N5831">[31]</a> <a href="#C5810V17">back to 10:17</a>
Jeremiah 31:34
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5832" id="N5832">[32]</a> <a href="#C5810V30">back to 10:30</a>
Deuteronomy 32:35
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5833" id="N5833">[33]</a> <a href="#C5810V30">back to 10:30</a>
Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5834" id="N5834">[34]</a> <a href="#C5810V38">back to 10:38</a>
Habakkuk 2:3-4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5835" id="N5835">[35]</a> <a href="#C5811V13">back to 11:13</a> TR
adds "and being convinced of"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5836" id="N5836">[36]</a> <a href="#C5811V18">back to 11:18</a>
Genesis 21:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5837" id="N5837">[37]</a> <a href="#C5811V33">back to 11:33</a> Daniel
6:22-23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5838" id="N5838">[38]</a> <a href="#C5811V34">back to 11:34</a> Daniel
3:1-30
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5839" id="N5839">[39]</a> <a href="#C5811V34">back to 11:34</a> 1
Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5840" id="N5840">[40]</a> <a href="#C5811V35">back to 11:35</a> 1
Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5841" id="N5841">[41]</a> <a href="#C5811V37">back to 11:37</a> 2
Chronicles 24:20-21
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5842" id="N5842">[42]</a> <a href="#C5811V37">back to 11:37</a>
Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5843" id="N5843">[43]</a> <a href="#C5812V6">back to 12:6</a> Proverbs
3:11-12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5844" id="N5844">[44]</a> <a href="#C5812V12">back to 12:12</a> Isaiah
35:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5845" id="N5845">[45]</a> <a href="#C5812V13">back to 12:13</a>
Proverbs 4:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5846" id="N5846">[46]</a> <a href="#C5812V20">back to 12:20</a> TR
adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5847" id="N5847">[47]</a> <a href="#C5812V20">back to 12:20</a> Exodus
19:12-13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5848" id="N5848">[48]</a> <a href="#C5812V21">back to 12:21</a>
Deuteronomy 9:19
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5849" id="N5849">[49]</a> <a href="#C5812V24">back to 12:24</a>
Jeremiah 31:31
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5850" id="N5850">[50]</a> <a href="#C5812V26">back to 12:26</a> Haggai
2:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5851" id="N5851">[51]</a> <a href="#C5812V29">back to 12:29</a>
Deuteronomy 4:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5852" id="N5852">[52]</a> <a href="#C5813V5">back to 13:5</a>
Deuteronomy 31:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5853" id="N5853">[53]</a> <a href="#C5813V6">back to 13:6</a> Psalm
118:6-7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5854" id="N5854">[54]</a> <a href="#C5813V11">back to 13:11</a>
Leviticus 16:27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5855" id="N5855">[55]</a> <a href="#C5813V15">back to 13:15</a> Psalm
50:23
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<a name="C281V1" id="C281V1">1:1</a> The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the
son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Yehudah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Yisrael. <a
name="C281V2" id="C281V2">1:2</a> When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea,
Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution
and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery,
forsaking Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C281V3" id="C281V3">1:3</a> So he went and took Gomer the daughter of
Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C281V4" id="C281V4">1:4</a> Yahweh said to him, "Call his name
Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on
the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Yisrael to
cease. <a name="C281V5" id="C281V5">1:5</a> It will happen in that day that I
will break the bow of Yisrael in the valley of Jezreel."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C281V6" id="C281V6">1:6</a> She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
</p>
<p>
Then he said to him, "Call her name <a href="#N281">Lo-Ruhamah</a>; for
I will no longer have mercy on the house of Yisrael, that I should in any
way pardon them. <a name="C281V7" id="C281V7">1:7</a> But I will have mercy on
the house of Yehudah, and will save them by Yahweh their Elohim, and will not
save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C281V8" id="C281V8">1:8</a> Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she
conceived, and bore a son.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C281V9" id="C281V9">1:9</a> He said, "Call his name <a href="#N282">Lo-Ammi</a>;
for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. <a name="C281V10"
id="C281V10">1:10</a> Yet the number of the children of Yisrael will be as
the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will
come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my
people,' they will be called 'sons of the living Elohim.' <a name="C281V11"
id="C281V11">1:11</a> The children of Yehudah and the children of Yisrael will
be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will
go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N281" id="N281">[1]</a> <a href="#C281V6">back to 1:6</a> Lo-Ruhamah
means "not loved."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N282" id="N282">[2]</a> <a href="#C281V9">back to 1:9</a> Lo-Ammi means
"not my people"
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C282V1" id="C282V1">2:1</a> "Say to your brothers, <a
href="#N283">'My people!'</a>
</dt>
<dd>
and to your sisters, <a href="#N284">'My loved one!'</a>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V2" id="C282V2">2:2</a> Contend with your mother!
</dt>
<dd>
Contend, for she is not my wife,
</dd>
<dd>
neither am I her husband;
</dd>
<dt>
and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
</dt>
<dd>
and her adulteries from between her breasts;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V3" id="C282V3">2:3</a> Lest I strip her naked,
</dt>
<dd>
and make her bare as in the day that she was born,
</dd>
<dt>
and make her like a wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
and set her like a dry land,
</dd>
<dd>
and kill her with thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V4" id="C282V4">2:4</a> Indeed, on her children I will have no
mercy;
</dt>
<dd>
for they are children of unfaithfulness;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V5" id="C282V5">2:5</a> For their mother has played the
prostitute.
</dt>
<dd>
She who conceived them has done shamefully;
</dd>
<dt>
for she said, 'I will go after my lovers,
</dt>
<dd>
who give me my bread and my water,
</dd>
<dd>
my wool and my flax,
</dd>
<dd>
my oil and my drink.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V6" id="C282V6">2:6</a> Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your
way with thorns,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will build a wall against her,
</dd>
<dd>
that she can't find her way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V7" id="C282V7">2:7</a> She will follow after her lovers,
</dt>
<dd>
but she won't overtake them;
</dd>
<dt>
and she will seek them,
</dt>
<dd>
but won't find them.
</dd>
<dt>
Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband;
</dt>
<dd>
for then was it better with me than now.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V8" id="C282V8">2:8</a> For she did not know that I gave her
the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
</dt>
<dd>
and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V9" id="C282V9">2:9</a> Therefore I will take back my grain in
its time,
</dt>
<dd>
and my new wine in its season,
</dd>
<dd>
and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her
nakedness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V10" id="C282V10">2:10</a> Now I will uncover her lewdness in
the sight of her lovers,
</dt>
<dd>
and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V11" id="C282V11">2:11</a> I will also cause all her
celebrations to cease:
</dt>
<dd>
her feasts, her new moons, her Shabbats, and all her solemn assemblies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V12" id="C282V12">2:12</a> I will lay waste her vines and her
fig trees,
</dt>
<dd>
about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given
me;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will make them a forest,'
</dd>
<dd>
and the animals of the field shall eat them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V13" id="C282V13">2:13</a> I will visit on her the days of the
Baals,
</dt>
<dd>
to which she burned incense,
</dd>
<dt>
when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
</dt>
<dd>
and went after her lovers,
</dd>
<dd>
and forgot me," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V14" id="C282V14">2:14</a> "Therefore, behold, I will
allure her,
</dt>
<dd>
and bring her into the wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
and speak tenderly to her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V15" id="C282V15">2:15</a> I will give her vineyards from
there,
</dt>
<dd>
and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
</dd>
<dt>
and she will respond there,
</dt>
<dd>
as in the days of her youth,
</dd>
<dd>
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V16" id="C282V16">2:16</a> It will be in that day," says
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"that you will call me 'my husband,'
</dd>
<dd>
and no longer call me 'my master.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V17" id="C282V17">2:17</a> For I will take away the names of
the Baals out of her mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V18" id="C282V18">2:18</a> In that day I will make a covenant
for them with the animals of the field,
</dt>
<dd>
and with the birds of the sky,
</dd>
<dd>
and with the creeping things of the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land,
</dt>
<dd>
and will make them lie down safely.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V19" id="C282V19">2:19</a> I will betroth you to me forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving
kindness, and in compassion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V20" id="C282V20">2:20</a> I will even betroth you to me in
faithfulness;
</dt>
<dd>
and you shall know Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V21" id="C282V21">2:21</a> It will happen in that day, I will
respond," says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"I will respond to the heavens,
</dd>
<dd>
and they will respond to the earth;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C282V22" id="C282V22">2:22</a> and the earth will respond to the
grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will respond to Jezreel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C282V23" id="C282V23">2:23</a> I will sow her to me in the earth;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;'
</dd>
<dd>
and they will say, 'My Elohim!'"
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N283" id="N283">[3]</a> <a href="#C282V1">back to 2:1</a> 'Ammi' in
Hebrew
</p>
<p>
<a name="N284" id="N284">[4]</a> <a href="#C282V1">back to 2:1</a> 'Ruhamah' in
Hebrew
</p>
<p>
<a name="C283V1" id="C283V1">3:1</a> Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a
woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the
children of Yisrael, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of
raisins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C283V2" id="C283V2">3:2</a> So I bought her for myself for fifteen
pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. <a name="C283V3" id="C283V3">3:3</a>
I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play
the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so
toward you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C283V4" id="C283V4">3:4</a> For the children of Yisrael shall abide
many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and
without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. <a name="C283V5" id="C283V5">3:5</a>
Afterward the children of Yisrael shall return, and seek Yahweh their Elohim,
and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his
blessings in the last days.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C284V1" id="C284V1">4:1</a> Hear the word of Yahweh, you children
of Yisrael;
</dt>
<dd>
for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land:
</dd>
<dt>
"Indeed there is no truth,
</dt>
<dd>
nor goodness,
</dd>
<dd>
nor knowledge of Elohim in the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V2" id="C284V2">4:2</a> There is cursing, lying, murder,
stealing, and committing adultery;
</dt>
<dd>
they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V3" id="C284V3">4:3</a> Therefore the land will mourn,
</dt>
<dd>
and everyone who dwells therein will waste away.
</dd>
<dt>
all living things in her,
</dt>
<dd>
even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky;
</dd>
<dd>
yes, the fish of the sea also die.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C284V4" id="C284V4">4:4</a> "Yet let no man bring a charge,
neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring
charges against a priest.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C284V5" id="C284V5">4:5</a> You will stumble in the day,
</dt>
<dd>
and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will destroy your mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V6" id="C284V6">4:6</a> My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may be no priest to me.
</dd>
<dt>
Because you have forgotten your Elohim's Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
I will also forget your children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V7" id="C284V7">4:7</a> As they were multiplied, so they sinned
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
I will change their glory into shame.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V8" id="C284V8">4:8</a> They feed on the sin of my people,
</dt>
<dd>
and set their heart on their iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V9" id="C284V9">4:9</a> It will be, like people, like priest;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will punish them for their ways,
</dd>
<dd>
and will repay them for their deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V10" id="C284V10">4:10</a> They will eat, and not have enough.
</dt>
<dd>
They will play the prostitute, and will not increase;
</dd>
<dd>
because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V11" id="C284V11">4:11</a> Prostitution, wine, and new wine
take away understanding.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C284V12" id="C284V12">4:12</a> My people consult with their wooden
idol,
</dd>
<dd>
and answer to a stick of wood.
</dd>
<dt>
Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
</dt>
<dd>
and they have been unfaithful to their Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V13" id="C284V13">4:13</a> They sacrifice on the tops of the
mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths,
</dd>
<dd>
because its shade is good.
</dd>
<dt>
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
</dt>
<dd>
and your brides commit adultery.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V14" id="C284V14">4:14</a> I will not punish your daughters
when they play the prostitute,
</dt>
<dd>
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
</dd>
<dt>
because the men consort with prostitutes,
</dt>
<dd>
and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes;
</dd>
<dd>
so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C284V15" id="C284V15">4:15</a> "Though you, Yisrael, play the
prostitute,
</dt>
<dd>
yet don't let Yehudah offend;
</dd>
<dd>
and don't come to Gilgal,
</dd>
<dd>
neither go up to Beth Aven,
</dd>
<dd>
nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V16" id="C284V16">4:16</a> For Yisrael has behaved extremely
stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer.
</dt>
<dd>
Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V17" id="C284V17">4:17</a> Ephraim is joined to idols.
</dt>
<dd>
Leave him alone!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V18" id="C284V18">4:18</a> Their drink has become sour.
</dt>
<dd>
They play the prostitute continually.
</dd>
<dd>
Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C284V19" id="C284V19">4:19</a> The wind has wrapped her up in its
wings;
</dt>
<dd>
and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C285V1" id="C285V1">5:1</a> "Listen to this, you priests!
</dt>
<dd>
Listen, house of Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
and give ear, house of the king!
</dd>
<dt>
For the judgment is against you;
</dt>
<dd>
for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
</dd>
<dd>
and a net spread on Tabor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V2" id="C285V2">5:2</a> The rebels are deep in slaughter;
</dt>
<dd>
but I discipline all of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V3" id="C285V3">5:3</a> I know Ephraim,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael is not hidden from me;
</dd>
<dt>
for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael is defiled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V4" id="C285V4">5:4</a> Their deeds won't allow them to turn to
their Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
</dd>
<dd>
and they don't know Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V5" id="C285V5">5:5</a> The pride of Yisrael testifies to his
face.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore Yisrael and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
Yehudah also will stumble with them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V6" id="C285V6">5:6</a> They will go with their flocks and with
their herds to seek Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
but they won't find him.
</dd>
<dd>
He has withdrawn himself from them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V7" id="C285V7">5:7</a> They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
for they have borne illegitimate children.
</dd>
<dd>
Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C285V8" id="C285V8">5:8</a> "Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
</dt>
<dd>
and the trumpet in Ramah!
</dd>
<dd>
Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V9" id="C285V9">5:9</a> Ephraim will become a desolation in the
day of rebuke.
</dt>
<dd>
Among the tribes of Yisrael, I have made known that which will surely be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V10" id="C285V10">5:10</a> The princes of Yehudah are like those
who remove a landmark.
</dt>
<dd>
I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V11" id="C285V11">5:11</a> Ephraim is oppressed,
</dt>
<dd>
he is crushed in judgment;
</dd>
<dd>
Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V12" id="C285V12">5:12</a> Therefore I am to Ephraim like a
moth,
</dt>
<dd>
and to the house of Yehudah like rottenness.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C285V13" id="C285V13">5:13</a> "When Ephraim saw his sickness,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yehudah his wound,
</dd>
<dd>
Then Ephraim went to Assyria,
</dd>
<dd>
and sent to king Jareb:
</dd>
<dt>
but he is not able to heal you,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he cure you of your wound.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V14" id="C285V14">5:14</a> For I will be to Ephraim like a
lion,
</dt>
<dd>
and like a young lion to the house of Yehudah.
</dd>
<dt>
I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
</dt>
<dd>
I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C285V15" id="C285V15">5:15</a> I will go and return to my place,
</dt>
<dd>
until they acknowledge their offense,
</dd>
<dd>
and seek my face.
</dd>
<dd>
In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C286V1" id="C286V1">6:1</a> "Come, and let us return to
Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
for he has torn us to pieces,
</dd>
<dd>
and he will heal us;
</dd>
<dt>
he has injured us,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will bind up our wounds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V2" id="C286V2">6:2</a> After two days he will revive us.
</dt>
<dd>
On the third day he will raise us up,
</dd>
<dd>
and we will live before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V3" id="C286V3">6:3</a> Let us acknowledge Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let us press on to know Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
As surely as the sun rises,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will appear.
</dd>
<dt>
He will come to us like the rain,
</dt>
<dd>
like the spring rain that waters the earth."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C286V4" id="C286V4">6:4</a> "Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
</dt>
<dd>
Yehudah, what shall I do to you?
</dd>
<dd>
For your love is like a morning cloud,
</dd>
<dd>
and like the dew that disappears early.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V5" id="C286V5">6:5</a> Therefore I have cut them to pieces
with the prophets;
</dt>
<dd>
I killed them with the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dd>
Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V6" id="C286V6">6:6</a> For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
</dt>
<dd>
and the knowledge of Elohim more than burnt offerings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V7" id="C286V7">6:7</a> But they, like Adam, have broken the
covenant.
</dt>
<dd>
They were unfaithful to me, there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V8" id="C286V8">6:8</a> Gilead is a city of those who work
iniquity;
</dt>
<dd>
it is stained with blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V9" id="C286V9">6:9</a> As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a
man,
</dt>
<dd>
so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem,
</dd>
<dd>
committing shameful crimes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C286V10" id="C286V10">6:10</a> In the house of Yisrael I have seen a
horrible thing.
</dt>
<dd>
There is prostitution in Ephraim.
</dd>
<dd>
Yisrael is defiled.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C286V11" id="C286V11">6:11</a> "Also, Yehudah, there is a
harvest appointed for you,
</dt>
<dd>
when I restore the fortunes of my people.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C287V1" id="C287V1">7:1</a> When I would heal Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
</dd>
<dd>
also the wickedness of Shomron;
</dd>
<dd>
for they commit falsehood,
</dd>
<dd>
and the thief enters in,
</dd>
<dd>
and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V2" id="C287V2">7:2</a> They don't consider in their hearts
that I remember all their wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
Now their own deeds have engulfed them.
</dd>
<dd>
They are before my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V3" id="C287V3">7:3</a> They make the king glad with their
wickedness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the princes with their lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V4" id="C287V4">7:4</a> They are all adulterers.
</dt>
<dd>
They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
</dd>
<dd>
from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V5" id="C287V5">7:5</a> On the day of our king, the princes
made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
</dt>
<dd>
He joined his hand with mockers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V6" id="C287V6">7:6</a> For they have made ready their heart
like an oven,
</dt>
<dd>
while they lie in wait.
</dd>
<dd>
Their baker sleeps all the night.
</dd>
<dd>
In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V7" id="C287V7">7:7</a> They are all hot as an oven,
</dt>
<dd>
and devour their judges.
</dd>
<dt>
All their kings have fallen.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no one among them who calls to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V8" id="C287V8">7:8</a> Ephraim, he mixes himself among the
nations.
</dt>
<dd>
Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V9" id="C287V9">7:9</a> Strangers have devoured his strength,
</dt>
<dd>
and he doesn't realize it.
</dd>
<dt>
Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,
</dt>
<dd>
and he doesn't realize it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V10" id="C287V10">7:10</a> The pride of Yisrael testifies to his
face;
</dt>
<dd>
yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
nor sought him, for all this.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C287V11" id="C287V11">7:11</a> "Ephraim is like an easily
deceived dove, without understanding.
</dt>
<dd>
They call to Egypt.
</dd>
<dd>
They go to Assyria.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V12" id="C287V12">7:12</a> When they go, I will spread my net
on them.
</dt>
<dd>
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
</dd>
<dd>
I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V13" id="C287V13">7:13</a> Woe to them!
</dt>
<dd>
For they have wandered from me.
</dd>
<dt>
Destruction to them!
</dt>
<dd>
For they have trespassed against me.
</dd>
<dt>
Though I would redeem them,
</dt>
<dd>
yet they have spoken lies against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V14" id="C287V14">7:14</a> They haven't cried to me with their
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
but they howl on their beds.
</dd>
<dt>
They assemble themselves for grain and new wine.
</dt>
<dd>
They turn away from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V15" id="C287V15">7:15</a> Though I have taught and
strengthened their arms,
</dt>
<dd>
yet they plot evil against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C287V16" id="C287V16">7:16</a> They return, but not to the Most
High.
</dt>
<dd>
They are like a faulty bow.
</dd>
<dd>
Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue.
</dd>
<dd>
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C288V1" id="C288V1">8:1</a> "Put the trumpet to your lips!
</dt>
<dd>
Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house,
</dd>
<dd>
because they have broken my covenant,
</dd>
<dd>
and rebelled against my Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V2" id="C288V2">8:2</a> They cry to me, 'My Elohim, we Yisrael
acknowledge you!'
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C288V3" id="C288V3">8:3</a> Yisrael has cast off that which is good.
</dd>
<dd>
The enemy will pursue him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V4" id="C288V4">8:4</a> They have set up kings, but not by me.
</dt>
<dd>
They have made princes, and I didn't approve.
</dd>
<dd>
Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
</dd>
<dd>
that they may be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V5" id="C288V5">8:5</a> Let Shomron throw out his calf idol!
</dt>
<dd>
My anger burns against them!
</dd>
<dd>
How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V6" id="C288V6">8:6</a> For this is even from Yisrael!
</dt>
<dd>
The workman made it, and it is no Elohim;
</dd>
<dd>
indeed, the calf of Shomron shall be broken in pieces.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V7" id="C288V7">8:7</a> For they sow the wind,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will reap the whirlwind.
</dd>
<dt>
He has no standing grain.
</dt>
<dd>
The stalk will yield no head.
</dd>
<dd>
If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V8" id="C288V8">8:8</a> Yisrael is swallowed up.
</dt>
<dd>
Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V9" id="C288V9">8:9</a> For they have gone up to Assyria,
</dt>
<dd>
like a wild donkey wandering alone.
</dd>
<dd>
Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V10" id="C288V10">8:10</a> But although they sold themselves
among the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
I will now gather them;
</dd>
<dd>
and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of
mighty ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V11" id="C288V11">8:11</a> Because Ephraim has multiplied
altars for sinning,
</dt>
<dd>
they became for him altars for sinning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V12" id="C288V12">8:12</a> I wrote for him the many things of
my Torah;
</dt>
<dd>
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V13" id="C288V13">8:13</a> As for the sacrifices of my
offerings,
</dt>
<dd>
they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
</dd>
<dd>
But Yahweh doesn't accept them.
</dd>
<dt>
Now he will remember their iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and punish their sins.
</dd>
<dd>
They will return to Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C288V14" id="C288V14">8:14</a> For Yisrael has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces;
</dt>
<dd>
and Yehudah has multiplied fortified cities;
</dd>
<dd>
but I will send a fire on his cities,
</dd>
<dd>
and it will devour its fortresses."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C289V1" id="C289V1">9:1</a> Don't rejoice, Yisrael, to jubilation
like the nations;
</dt>
<dd>
for you were unfaithful to your Elohim.
</dd>
<dd>
You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V2" id="C289V2">9:2</a> The threshing floor and the winepress
won't feed them,
</dt>
<dd>
and the new wine will fail her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V3" id="C289V3">9:3</a> They won't dwell in Yahweh's land;
</dt>
<dd>
but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
</dd>
<dd>
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V4" id="C289V4">9:4</a> They won't pour out wine offerings to
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will they be pleasing to him.
</dd>
<dd>
Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
</dd>
<dd>
all who eat of it will be polluted;
</dd>
<dd>
for their bread will be for their appetite.
</dd>
<dd>
It will not come into the house of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V5" id="C289V5">9:5</a> What will you do in the day of solemn
assembly,
</dt>
<dd>
and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V6" id="C289V6">9:6</a> For, behold, they have gone away from
destruction.
</dt>
<dd>
Egypt will gather them up.
</dd>
<dd>
Memphis will bury them.
</dd>
<dd>
Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.
</dd>
<dd>
Thorns will be in their tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V7" id="C289V7">9:7</a> The days of visitation have come.
</dt>
<dd>
The days of reckoning have come.
</dd>
<dt>
Yisrael will consider the prophet to be a fool,
</dt>
<dd>
and the man who is inspired to be insane,
</dd>
<dd>
because of the abundance of your sins,
</dd>
<dd>
and because your hostility is great.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V8" id="C289V8">9:8</a> A prophet watches over Ephraim with my
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
A fowler's snare is on all of his paths,
</dd>
<dd>
and hostility in the house of his Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V9" id="C289V9">9:9</a> They have deeply corrupted themselves,
</dt>
<dd>
as in the days of Gibeah.
</dd>
<dd>
He will remember their iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
He will punish them for their sins.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V10" id="C289V10">9:10</a> I found Yisrael like grapes in the
wilderness.
</dt>
<dd>
I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first
season;
</dd>
<dd>
but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful
thing,
</dd>
<dd>
and became abominable like that which they loved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V11" id="C289V11">9:11</a> As for Ephraim, their glory will fly
away like a bird.
</dt>
<dd>
There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V12" id="C289V12">9:12</a> Though they bring up their children,
</dt>
<dd>
yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.
</dd>
<dd>
Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V13" id="C289V13">9:13</a> I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place;
</dt>
<dd>
but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V14" id="C289V14">9:14</a> Give them--Yahweh what will you
give?
</dt>
<dd>
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C289V15" id="C289V15">9:15</a> "All their wickedness is in
Gilgal;
</dt>
<dd>
for there I hated them.
</dd>
<dd>
Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my
house!
</dd>
<dd>
I will love them no more.
</dd>
<dd>
All their princes are rebels.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C289V16" id="C289V16">9:16</a> Ephraim is struck.
</dt>
<dd>
Their root has dried up.
</dd>
<dd>
They will bear no fruit.
</dd>
<dd>
Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their
womb."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C289V17" id="C289V17">9:17</a> My Elohim will cast them away, because
they did not listen to him;
</dt>
<dd>
and they will be wanderers among the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V1" id="C2810V1">10:1</a> Yisrael is a luxuriant vine that puts
forth his fruit.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars.
</dd>
<dd>
As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V2" id="C2810V2">10:2</a> Their heart is divided.
</dt>
<dd>
Now they will be found guilty.
</dd>
<dd>
He will demolish their altars.
</dd>
<dd>
He will destroy their sacred stones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V3" id="C2810V3">10:3</a> Surely now they will say, "We
have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
and the king, what can he do for us?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V4" id="C2810V4">10:4</a> They make promises, swearing falsely
in making covenants.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the
field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V5" id="C2810V5">10:5</a> The inhabitants of Shomron will be
in terror for the calves of Beth Aven;
</dt>
<dd>
for its people will mourn over it,
</dd>
<dd>
Along with its priests who rejoiced over it,
</dd>
<dd>
for its glory, because it has departed from it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V6" id="C2810V6">10:6</a> It also will be carried to Assyria
for a present to a great king.
</dt>
<dd>
Ephraim will receive shame,
</dd>
<dd>
and Yisrael will be ashamed of his own counsel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V7" id="C2810V7">10:7</a> Shomron and her king float away,
</dt>
<dd>
like a twig on the water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V8" id="C2810V8">10:8</a> The high places also of Aven, the
sin of Yisrael, will be destroyed.
</dt>
<dd>
The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars.
</dd>
<dd>
They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills,
"Fall on us!"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V9" id="C2810V9">10:9</a> "Yisrael, you have sinned from
the days of Gibeah.
</dt>
<dd>
There they remained.
</dd>
<dd>
The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in
Gibeah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V10" id="C2810V10">10:10</a> When it is my desire, I will
chastise them;
</dt>
<dd>
and the nations will be gathered against them,
</dd>
<dd>
when they are bound to their two transgressions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V11" id="C2810V11">10:11</a> Ephraim is a trained heifer that
loves to thresh;
</dt>
<dd>
so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck.
</dd>
<dd>
I will set a rider on Ephraim.
</dd>
<dd>
Yehudah will plow.
</dd>
<dd>
Jacob will break his clods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V12" id="C2810V12">10:12</a> Sow to yourselves in
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
reap according to kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
Break up your fallow ground;
</dt>
<dd>
for it is time to seek Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V13" id="C2810V13">10:13</a> You have plowed wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
You have reaped iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
</dd>
<dd>
for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V14" id="C2810V14">10:14</a> Therefore a battle roar will
arise among your people,
</dt>
<dd>
and all your fortresses will be destroyed,
</dd>
<dd>
as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle.
</dd>
<dd>
The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2810V15" id="C2810V15">10:15</a> So Bethel will do to you because
of your great wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
At daybreak the king of Yisrael will be destroyed.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V1" id="C2811V1">11:1</a> "When Yisrael was a child, then
I loved him,
</dt>
<dd>
and called my son out of Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V2" id="C2811V2">11:2</a> They called to them, so they went
from them.
</dt>
<dd>
They sacrificed to the Baals,
</dd>
<dd>
and burned incense to engraved images.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V3" id="C2811V3">11:3</a> Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
</dt>
<dd>
I took them by his arms;
</dd>
<dd>
but they didn't know that I healed them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V4" id="C2811V4">11:4</a> I drew them with cords of a man,
with ties of love;
</dt>
<dd>
and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks;
</dd>
<dd>
and I bent down to him and I fed him.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V5" id="C2811V5">11:5</a> "They won't return into the
land of Egypt;
</dt>
<dd>
but the Assyrian will be their king,
</dd>
<dd>
because they refused to repent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V6" id="C2811V6">11:6</a> The sword will fall on their cities,
</dt>
<dd>
and will destroy the bars of their gates,
</dd>
<dd>
and will put an end to their plans.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V7" id="C2811V7">11:7</a> My people are determined to turn
from me.
</dt>
<dd>
Though they call to the Most High,
</dd>
<dd>
he certainly won't exalt them.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V8" id="C2811V8">11:8</a> "How can I give you up,
Ephraim?
</dt>
<dd>
How can I hand you over, Yisrael?
</dd>
<dd>
How can I make you like Admah?
</dd>
<dd>
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
</dd>
<dt>
My heart is turned within me,
</dt>
<dd>
my compassion is aroused.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V9" id="C2811V9">11:9</a> I will not execute the fierceness of
my anger.
</dt>
<dd>
I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
</dd>
<dd>
for I am Elohim, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will not come in wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V10" id="C2811V10">11:10</a> They will walk after Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who will roar like a lion;
</dd>
<dd>
for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V11" id="C2811V11">11:11</a> They will come trembling like a
bird out of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will settle them in their houses," says Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2811V12" id="C2811V12">11:12</a> Ephraim surrounds me with
falsehood,
</dt>
<dd>
and the house of Yisrael with deceit.
</dd>
<dd>
Yehudah still strays from Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V1" id="C2812V1">12:1</a> Ephraim feeds on wind,
</dt>
<dd>
and chases the east wind.
</dd>
<dd>
He continually multiplies lies and desolation.
</dd>
<dd>
They make a covenant with Assyria,
</dd>
<dd>
and oil is carried into Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V2" id="C2812V2">12:2</a> Yahweh also has a controversy with
Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
</dd>
<dd>
according to his deeds he will repay him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V3" id="C2812V3">12:3</a> In the womb he took his brother by
the heel;
</dt>
<dd>
and in his manhood he contended with Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V4" id="C2812V4">12:4</a> Indeed, he struggled with the angel,
and prevailed;
</dt>
<dd>
he wept, and made supplication to him.
</dd>
<dd>
He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2812V5" id="C2812V5">12:5</a> even Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies;
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh is his name of renown!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V6" id="C2812V6">12:6</a> Therefore turn to your Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Keep kindness and justice,
</dd>
<dd>
and wait continually for your Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V7" id="C2812V7">12:7</a> A merchant has dishonest scales in
his hand.
</dt>
<dd>
He loves to defraud.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V8" id="C2812V8">12:8</a> Ephraim said, "Surely I have
become rich,
</dt>
<dd>
I have found myself wealth.
</dd>
<dd>
In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V9" id="C2812V9">12:9</a> "But I am Yahweh your Elohim from
the land of Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
I will yet again make you dwell in tents,
</dd>
<dd>
as in the days of the solemn feast.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V10" id="C2812V10">12:10</a> I have also spoken to the
prophets,
</dt>
<dd>
and I have multiplied visions;
</dd>
<dd>
and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V11" id="C2812V11">12:11</a> If Gilead is wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
surely they are worthless.
</dd>
<dt>
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.
</dt>
<dd>
Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V12" id="C2812V12">12:12</a> Jacob fled into the country of
Aram,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael served to get a wife,
</dd>
<dd>
and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V13" id="C2812V13">12:13</a> By a prophet Yahweh brought
Yisrael up out of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and by a prophet he was preserved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2812V14" id="C2812V14">12:14</a> Ephraim has bitterly provoked
anger.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore his blood will be left on him,
</dd>
<dd>
and his Lord will repay his contempt.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V1" id="C2813V1">13:1</a> When Ephraim spoke, there was
trembling.
</dt>
<dd>
He exalted himself in Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V2" id="C2813V2">13:2</a> Now they sin more and more,
</dt>
<dd>
and have made themselves molten images of their silver,
</dd>
<dd>
even idols according to their own understanding,
</dd>
<dd>
all of them the work of the craftsmen.
</dd>
<dd>
They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V3" id="C2813V3">13:3</a> Therefore they will be like the
morning mist,
</dt>
<dd>
and like the dew that passes away early,
</dd>
<dd>
like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing
floor,
</dd>
<dd>
and like the smoke out of the chimney.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V4" id="C2813V4">13:4</a> "Yet I am Yahweh your Elohim from
the land of Egypt;
</dt>
<dd>
and you shall acknowledge no god but me,
</dd>
<dd>
and besides me there is no savior.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V5" id="C2813V5">13:5</a> I knew you in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
in the land of great drought.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V6" id="C2813V6">13:6</a> According to their pasture, so were
they filled;
</dt>
<dd>
they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
</dd>
<dd>
Therefore they have forgotten me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V7" id="C2813V7">13:7</a> Therefore I am like a lion to them.
</dt>
<dd>
Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V8" id="C2813V8">13:8</a> I will meet them like a bear that is
bereaved of her cubs,
</dt>
<dd>
and will tear the covering of their heart.
</dd>
<dd>
There I will devour them like a lioness.
</dd>
<dd>
The wild animal will tear them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V9" id="C2813V9">13:9</a> You are destroyed, Yisrael, because
you are against me,
</dt>
<dd>
against your help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V10" id="C2813V10">13:10</a> Where is your king now, that he
may save you in all your cities?
</dt>
<dd>
And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V11" id="C2813V11">13:11</a> I have given you a king in my
anger,
</dt>
<dd>
and have taken him away in my wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V12" id="C2813V12">13:12</a> The guilt of Ephraim is stored
up.
</dt>
<dd>
His sin is stored up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V13" id="C2813V13">13:13</a> The sorrows of a travailing woman
will come on him.
</dt>
<dd>
He is an unwise son;
</dd>
<dd>
for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V14" id="C2813V14">13:14</a> I will ransom them from the power
of Sheol.
</dt>
<dd>
I will redeem them from death!
</dd>
<dd>
Death, where are your plagues?
</dd>
<dd>
Sheol, where is your destruction?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
"Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C2813V15" id="C2813V15">13:15</a> Though he is fruitful among his
brothers, an east wind will come,
</dd>
<dd>
the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness;
</dd>
<dd>
and his spring will become dry,
</dd>
<dd>
and his fountain will be dried up.
</dd>
<dd>
He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2813V16" id="C2813V16">13:16</a> Shomron will bear her guilt;
</dt>
<dd>
for she has rebelled against her Elohim.
</dd>
<dd>
They will fall by the sword.
</dd>
<dd>
Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
</dd>
<dd>
and their pregnant women will be ripped open."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V1" id="C2814V1">14:1</a> Yisrael, return to Yahweh your Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
for you have fallen because of your sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V2" id="C2814V2">14:2</a> Take words with you, and return to
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Tell him, "Forgive all our sins,
</dd>
<dd>
and accept that which is good:
</dd>
<dd>
so we offer our lips like bulls.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V3" id="C2814V3">14:3</a> Assyria can't save us.
</dt>
<dd>
We won't ride on horses;
</dd>
<dd>
neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!'
</dd>
<dd>
for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V4" id="C2814V4">14:4</a> "I will heal their waywardness.
</dt>
<dd>
I will love them freely;
</dd>
<dd>
for my anger is turned away from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V5" id="C2814V5">14:5</a> I will be like the dew to Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
He will blossom like the lily,
</dd>
<dd>
and send down his roots like Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V6" id="C2814V6">14:6</a> His branches will spread,
</dt>
<dd>
and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
</dd>
<dd>
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V7" id="C2814V7">14:7</a> Men will dwell in his shade.
</dt>
<dd>
They will revive like the grain,
</dd>
<dd>
and blossom like the vine.
</dd>
<dd>
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V8" id="C2814V8">14:8</a> Ephraim, what have I to do any more
with idols?
</dt>
<dd>
I answer, and will take care of him.
</dd>
<dd>
I am like a green fir tree;
</dd>
<dd>
from me your fruit is found."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2814V9" id="C2814V9">14:9</a> Who is wise, that he may understand
these things?
</dt>
<dd>
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
</dd>
<dd>
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
</dd>
<dd>
and the righteous walk in them;
</dd>
<dd>
But the rebellious stumble in them.
</dd>
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Pgs. 402-417
Ch. 19-22
SECTION XXXIX.
HUKKATH.
XIX. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh and Aharon, saying: This is the decree, the publication of the Torah which the Lord hath commanded, saying; Speak to the sons of Yisrael, that they bring to thee from the separation of the fold a red heifer, two years old, in which there is neither spot nor white hair, on which no male hath come, nor the burden of any work been imposed, neither hurt by the thong, nor grieved by the goad or prick, nor collar (band) or any like yoke. And thou shalt give her unto Elazar, the chief of the priests, who shall lead her alone without the camp, and set round about her a railing (border) of the branches of fig trees; and another priest shall slay her with the two signs before him, after the manner of other animals, and examine her by the eighteen kinds of divisions. And Elazar, in his priestly dress, shall take of her blood with the finger of his right hand, without (first) containing it in a vessel, and shall sprinkle the border of fig branches, and (afterwards) from the midst of a vessel on one side towards the tabernacle of ordinance, with one dipping, seven times (shall he sprinkle). And they shall bring her out from the midst of the railing and another priest, while Elazar looketh on, shall burn the heifer, her skin, flesh, and blood, with her dung shall he burn. And another priest shall take a piece of cedar wood and hyssop, and (wool) whose colour hath been changed to scarlet, and throw them into the midst of the burning of the heifer; and he shall enlarge the burning, that the ashes may be increased. [JERUSALEM. And throw into the midst of the ashes of the burning heifer.] And the priest who slew the heifer shall wash his dress in forty satas of water, and afterwards he may go into the camp; but the priest before his ablution shall be unclean until the evening And the priest who was employed in the burning shall wash his dress in forty satas of water, and his flesh in forty satas, and before his ablution shall be unclean until the evening
And a man, a priest who is clean, shall gather up the ashes of the heifer in an earthenware receptacle, its opening covered round about with clay; and shall divide the ashes into three portions, of which one shall be placed within the wall (of Yerushalayim), another in the Mount of Olives, and the third portion be in the custody of the Levites; and it shall be for the congregation of Yisrael, for the Water of Sprinkling: it is the heifer (immolated) for the remission of sins.
And the priest who gathered up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and before his ablution be unclean till the evening. And this shall be for the cleansing of the children of Yisrael, a statute for ever.
Whoever toucheth the body of a dead man, or of a child of some months old, either his body or his blood, shall be unclean seven days. He shall sprinkle himself with this water of the ashes on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean. But if he sprinkle not himself on the third day, his uncleanness will remain upon him, and he will not be clean on the seventh day. Whoever hath touched the body of a dead man, or of a child nine months old, either the body or the blood, and will not sprinkle himself, he hath defiled the tabernacle of the Lord, and that man shall be cut off from Yisrael; forasmuch as the water of sprinkling is not sprinkled upon him, he is unclean, his uncleanness is yet on him, until he shall sprinkle himself; yet may he sprinkle and make ablution on the seventh evening. This is the indication of the Torah concerning a man when he hath died under the outspread tent every one who entereth into the tent by the way of the door, but not from its side, when its door is open, (or when one hath opened its door,) and whatever is in the tent, its floor, stone, wood, and vessels, shall be unclean seven days. And every earthen vessel which hath no covering fastened upon its mouth, which would have kept it separate from the uncleanness, is defiled by the uncleanness of the air which toucheth its mouth, and its interior, and not the outside of it (only). [JERUSALEM. And every open vessel which hath no covering of stone upon it shall be unclean.] And whoever shall touch not one who hath died in his mother's womb, but who hath been slain with the sword on the face of the field, or the sword with which he was slain, or the dead man himself, or a bone of his, or the hair, or the bone of a living man which hath been separated from him, or a grave, or a shroud, or the bier, shall be unclean seven days. And for him who is unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, and put spring water upon them in an earthen vessel. And let a man, a priest, who is clean, take three branches of hyssop bound. together, and dip (them) in the water at the time of receiving the uncleanness, and sprinkle the tent and all its vessels, and the men who are in it, or upon him who hath touched the bone of a living man that hath been severed from him, and hath fallen, or him who hath. been slain with the sword, or hath died by the plague, or a grave, or a wrapper, or a bier. And the priest who is clean shall sprinkle upon the unclean man on the, third day, and on the seventh day, and shall make him clean on the seventh day; and he shall sprinkle his clothes, and wash himself with water, and at eventide be clean.
But the unclean man who will not be sprinkled, that man shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled upon him, he is unclean. And it shall be unto you an everlasting statute. The priest, also, who sprinkleth the water of sprinkling shall sprinkle his clothes, and he who toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening. And whatever the unclean person hath touched, though he carry it not, shall be unclean; and the clean man who toucheth him shall be unclean till evening.
XX. And the whole congregation of the children of Yisrael came to the desert of Zin on the tenth day of the month Nisan. And Miriam died there, and was buried there. And as on account of the innocency of Miriam a well had been given, so when she died the well was hidden, and the congregation had no water. And they gathered against Mosheh and Aharon, and the people contended with Mosheh, and said, Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! And why hast thou brought the congregation of the Lord into this desert, that we and our cattle may die here? And why didst thou make us come up out of Mizraim., to bring us to this evil place, a place which is not fit for sowing, or for planting fig trees, or vines, or pomegranates, and where there is no water to drink? And Mosheh and Aharon went from the face of the murmuring congregation to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and bowed upon their faces, and the Glory of the Lord's Shekinah was revealed to them.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take the rod of the miracles, and gather the congregation, thou, and Aharon thy brother, and both of you adjure the rock, by the Great and manifested Name, while they look on, and it shall give forth its waters: but if it refuse to bring forth, smite thou it once with the rod that is in thy hand, and thou wilt bring out water for them from the rock, that the congregation and their cattle may drink.
And Mosheh took the rod of the miracles from before the Lord, as he had commanded him. And Mosheh and Aharon gathered the congregation together before the rock. And Mosheh said to them, Hear now, rebels: is it possible for us to bring forth water for you from this rock? And Mosheh lifted up [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh lifted up] his hand, and with his rod struck the rock two times: at the first time it dropped blood; but at the second time there came forth a multitude of waters. And the congregation and their cattle drank.
But the Lord spake to Mosheh and Aharon with the oath, Because ye have not believed in My Word,[1] to sanctify Me in the sight of the children of Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land that I will give them. These are the Waters of Contention, where the sons of Yisrael contended before the Lord on account of the well that had been hidden; and He was sanctified in them, in Mosheh and Aharon, when (the waters) were given to them.
Then Mosheh sent messengers from Rekem unto the king of Edom, saying, Thus saith thy brother Yisrael. Thou hast known all the trouble that hath found us; that our fathers went down into Mizraim and dwelt in Mizraim many days, and the Mizraee afflicted us and our fathers. And we prayed before the Lord, who heard our prayers, and sent one of the ministering angels to lead us out of Mizraim: and, behold, we are in Rekem, a city built on the side of thy border. Let us now pass through thy land: we will not seduce virgins, nor carry off the betrothed, nor commit adultery: on the king's highway, under the heavens, we will go forward, and turn not to the right or to the left, to do any injury in the public way while we pass through thy border. [JERUSALEM. Let us now pass through thy country. We will do no kind of mischief, neither seduce virgins nor seek the wives of the men; by the highway of the king we will proceed, nor turn to the right or the left till we have passed through thy coast.] But Edomea answered him, You shall not go through my coast, lest I come to meet thee with the unsheathed sword. And Yisrael said to him, We would go by the king's highway; if we drink thy waters, I and my cattle, I will give thee the price of their value. I will only pass through, without doing wrong. But he said, You shall not pass through. And Edomea came out to meet him with a large army and with a strong hand. So Edomea would not suffer Yisrael to pass through his coast; and Yisrael turned away from him, because it was commanded from before the Word of the Heavens that they should not set battle in array against them, forasmuch as the time was not yet come when the punishment of Edom should be given into their hands. [JERUSALEM. And Yisrael turned away from them; for so was the commandment of their Father who is in heaven, that they should not set against them the array of war.]
And the whole congregation of the children of Yisrael journeyed from Rekem, and came unto Mount Umanom. And the Lord spake unto Mosheh in the Mount Umanom, on the coast of the land of Edom, saying: Aharon shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Yisrael, because you were rebels against My Word at the Waters of Contention. Take Aharon and Elazar his son, and make them come up to Mount Umanom. And thou shalt strip Aharon of his vestments, the adornment (glory) of the priesthood, and put them on Elazar his son; but Aharon shall be gathered, and die there. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him.
And they ascended Mount Umanom, in the view of all the congregation. And Mosheh stripped Aharon of his vestments, [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh drew off from Aharon] the priestly decoration, and put them on Elazar his son; and Aharon died there on the summit of the mountain and Mosheh and Elazar came down from the mount.
And when the soul of Aharon was at rest, the Cloud of Glory was lifted up on the first day of the month Ab; and all the congregation beheld Mosheh come down from the mountain with rent garments; and he wept and said, Woe unto me, for thee, my brother Aharon, the pillar of Yisrael's prayers! And they too wept for Aharon thirty days, the men and the women of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. And all the congregation beheld Mosheh come down from the height of the mountain, with garments rent and dust upon his head, weeping and saying, Woe unto me, for thee, my brother Aharon, the pillar of the prayers of the sons of Yisrael, who madest atonement for them once every year! In that hour the sons of Yisrael believed that Aharon was dead; and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael wept for Aharon thirty days.]
XXI. And Amalek, who had dwelt in the south, and changed, and came and reigned in Arad, heard that the soul of Aharon was at rest, that the pillar of the Cloud which for his sake had led the people of the house of Yisrael had been taken up, and that Yisrael was coming by the way of the explorers to the place where they had rebelled against the Lord of the world. For, when the explorers had returned, the children of Yisrael abode in Rekem, but afterward returned from Rekem to Motseroth, in six encampments during forty years, when they journeyed from Motseroth, and returned to Rekem by the way of the explorers, and came unto Mount Umanom, where Aharon died; (and,) behold, he came and arrayed battle against Yisrael, and captured some of them with a great captivity. [JERUSALEM. And when the Kenaanite, king Arad, who dwelt in the south, heard that Aharon was dead, that holy man on account of whose merit the Cloud of Glory had protected Yisrael; that the pillar of the Cloud had been taken up; and that the prophetess Mizraim was dead, on whose account the well had flowed, but had (since) been hidden; he answered and said, Ye servants of war, come and let us set battle in line against Yisrael; for we shall find the way by which the explorers came up. Therefore they set battle in line against Yisrael, and carried away some of them with a great captivity.]
And Yisrael vowed a vow before the Lord and said, If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, I will destroy their cities. And the Lord heard Yisrael's prayer, and delivered up the Kenaanites, and he destroyed them and their cities. And he called the name of the place Hormah.[2]
And they journeyed from Mount Umanom, by the way of the Sea of Suph, that they might compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people was wearied in the way. And the people thought (wickedly) in their heart, and talked against the Word of the Lord, and contended with Mosheh, saying: Why didst thou bring us up from Mizraim to die in the wilderness; for there is neither bread nor water, and our soul is weary of manna, this light food?
And the bath-kol fell from the high heaven, and thus spake: Come, all men, and see all the benefits which I have done to the people whom I brought up free out of Mizraim. I made manna come down for them from heaven, yet now turn they and murmur against Me. Yet, behold, the serpent, whom, in the days of the beginning of the world, I doomed to have dust for his food, hath not murmured against me: but My people are murmuring about their food. Now shall the serpents who have not complained of their food come and bite the people who complain. Therefore did the Word of the Lord send the basilisk serpents, and they bit the people, and a great multitude of the people of Yisrael died. [JERUSALEM. The bath‑kol came forth from the midst of the earth, and a voice was heard from the heights, See, all men, and listen and hear, all ye children of flesh. The serpent, whom I cursed at the beginning, and said to him, Dust shall be thy food, hath not complained about his food. I led forth My people from Mizraim free, and caused the manna to descend for them from heaven; I made the quails to come over to them, and the well to spring up from the deep; yet now they again complain before Me on account of the manna, saying, Our soul is aggrieved by this light bread: therefore shall the serpent who hath not complained of his food come and bite this people who have murmured about their food. So the Word of the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and a great multitude of Yisrael died.]
And the people came to Mosheh, and said: We have sinned, in thinking and speaking against the glory of the Lord's Shekinah, and in contending with thee. Pray before the Lord to remove the plague of serpents from us. And Mosheh prayed for the people.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Make thee a serpent of brass, and set it upon a place aloft;[3] and it shall be that when a serpent hath bitten any one, if he behold it, then shall he live, if his heart be directed to the Name of the Word of the Lord. And Mosheh made a serpent of brass, and set it upon a place aloft; and it was, when a serpent had bitten a man, and the serpent of brass was gazed at, and his heart was intent upon the Name of the Word of the Lord, he lived. [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh made a serpent of brass, and set it upon a high place; and it was that when any one had been bitten by a serpent, and his face was uplifted in prayer unto his Father who is in heaven, and he looked upon the brasen serpent, he lived.]
And the children of Yisrael journeyed from thence, and pitched in Oboth; and they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in the plain of Megistha, in a desert place which looketh toward Moab from the rising of the sun. Thence they journeyed and encamped in a valley abounding in reeds, osiers, and mandrakes.[4] And they journeyed from thence, and encamped beyond the Arnon, in a passage of the desert that stretcheth from the coast of the Amoraah; for Arnon is the border of Moab, situate between Moab and the Amoraah; and therein dwelt a priesthood of the worshippers of idols. Therefore it is said in the book of the Torah, where are recorded the wars of the Lord: Eth and Heb, who had been smitten with the blast of the leprosy, and had been banished beyond the confine of the camp, made known. to Yisrael that Edom and Moab were concealed among the mountains in ambush, to destroy the people of the house of Yisrael. But the Lord of the world made a sign to the mountains, which pressed one to another so that they died: and their blood flowed through a valley on the brink of the Arnon (or, a valley adjoining Arnon). And the effusion of the streams of their blood flowed to the habitations of Lechaiath, which were, however, delivered from this destruction, because they had not been in their counsels; and, behold, it was unto the confine of Moab.
And from thence was given to them (the Israelites) the living well, the well concerning which the Lord said to Mosheh, Assemble the people and give them water. Then, behold, Yisrael sang the thanksgiving of this song, at the time that the well which had been hidden was restored to them through the merit of Miriam: Spring up, O well, spring up, O well ! sang they to it, and it sprang up: the well which the fathers of the world, Avraham Izhak, and Jakob digged: the princes who were of old digged it, the chiefs of the people: Mosheh and Aharon, the scribes of Yisrael, found it with their rods; and from the desert it was given to them for a gift.
[JERUSALEM. Therefore it is said in the Book of the Torah of the Lord, which is likened to a Book of Wars: The miracles and mighty acts which the Lord wrought for His people, the sons of Yisrael, when they stood by the Red Sea, so did He with them when they were at the fords of the vale of Arnona. When the children of Yisrael were passing through the vale of Arnona, the Moabites were hidden in the caverns of the valley, saying: When the Beni Yisrael are coming through, we will go forth to prevent them, and will slay them. But the Lord of all the world, the Lord, who knew what was in their hearts, for before Him that which is within the reins is manifest,‑the Lord signed to the mountains, and their heads here and there were brought together, and the chiefs of their mighty ones were crushed, and the valleys were overflowed with the blood of the slain. But Yisrael walked above upon on the top of the hills, and knew not the miracle and mighty act which the Lord was doing for them in the valley of Arnon. But Lechaiath, the city which took no part in their counsel, was delivered from them; and, behold, it is by the confines of the Moabites. 17. Behold then sang Yisrael this song of praise: Spring up, O well! they sang to it, and it sprang up: the well which Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, the princes of the world, at the beginning did see, the sages of the world, the Sanhedrin the seventy wise men who were appointed by name beheld it: Mosheh and Aharon, the scribes of Yisrael, found it with their rods, and from the desert it was given to them as a gift.]
And from thence it was given to them in Mattana; turning, it went up with them to the high mountains, and from the high mountains it went down with them to the hills surrounding all the camp of Yisrael, and giving them drink, every one at the door of his tent. And from the high mountains it descended with them to the lower hills, but was hidden from them on the borders of Moab, at the summit of the hill looking toward Bethjeshimon, because there they neglected the words of the Torah. [JERUSALEM. And from thence the well was given to them at Mattana, turning it became strong overflowing streams, and again it ascended to the top of the mountains, and went down with them to the ancient valleys; but the well was hidden from them when on the borders of Moab, on the head of the height which overlooketh toward Abeth Jeshimon.]
Then sent Yisrael messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying: I would pass through thy country. We will not carry off the betrothed, nor seduce virgins, nor have to do with the wives of men; by the highway of the King who is in the heavens we will go, until we have passed through thy border. But Sihon would not permit Yisrael to pass through his limit, but constrained all his people, and came out to Jahaz, and made war against Yisrael. And Yisrael smote him with the anathema of the Lord, that he would destroy (him) with the edge of the sword; and he took possession of his country, from Arnon unto the Jabbok, unto the border of the children of Ammon; because Rabbath, which is the limit of the children of Ammon, was strong; and so far was their boundary.
And Yisrael took all those cities, and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her villages. For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites; for he had beforetime made war with the King of Moab, and had taken all his country from his hand unto the Arnon. Therefore, say the young men, (or the chosen ones,) using proverbs: The righteous who rule their passions say, Come let us reckon (Heshbon) the strength[5] of a good work by the recompense, and the recompense of an evil work by the strength for whoso is watchful and diligent[6] in the Torah is builded up and perfected; for mighty words like fire go forth from the lips of the righteous, the masters of such thought, (calculation, heshbona,) and powerful merit like flames from those who are read and devoted in the Torah: their fire devoureth the foe and the adversary, who are reckoned before them as the worshippers of the idol altars in the valley of Arnona. Woe to you, ye haters of the just! ye have perished, ye people of Kemosh, haters of the words of the Torah, in whom there is no righteousness, unless he waste you to bring you captive unto the place where they teach. the Torah, and their sons and daughters be removed by captivity of the sword to be near them who consult in its counsels the instructors and those anointed with the Torah. The wicked have said, In all this there is nothing lofty to the sight; but your numbers shall perish until the falsehood of your souls be ended, and the Lord of the world destroy them till their lives have expired, and they have come to nothing, as the cities of the Amorites have perished, and the palaces of their princes from the great gate of the house of the kingdom to the street of the smiths which is nigh to Medeba.
[JERUSALEM. 27. Therefore say they who speak in proverbs, Ascend. 28. Because the men of their people like fire come out of Heshbon, making war as flames of fire from the city of Sihon: the kings of the Amoraee are slain, the villages of the Moabite cities are destroyed, and the priests are slaughtered who sacrificed before the idols of Arnona. Woe to you of Moab! ye are consumed, destroyed, O worshippers of the idol of Kemosh; your sons and daughters bound by the collar are carried into the captivity of Sihon, king of the Amorites. And the kingdom hath ceased from Heshbon, and the ruler from Dibon, and his ways are made desolate unto the smithies which are nigh to Medaba.]
And Yisrael, after they had destroyed Sihon, dwelt in the land of the Amorites. And Mosheh sent Kaleb and Phineas to examine Makbar, and they subdued the villages, and destroyed the Amorites who were there. Then they turned, and went up by the way of Mathnan; and Og, the king of Mathnan, came out to meet us, he and all his people, to give battle at Edrei. And it was, when Mosheh saw Og, he trembled before him, stricken with fear: but he (soon) answered and said, This is Og the Wicked, who taunted Avraham our father and Sarah, saying: You are like trees planted by the water channels, but bring forth no fruit: therefore hath the Holy One, blessed be He, spared him to live through generations, that he might see the great multitude of their children, and be delivered into our hands. Then spake the Lord unto Mosheh: Fear him not, for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people and country; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon.
Now it was, after Og the Wicked had seen the camp of Yisrael spreading over six miles he said with himself, I will make war against this people, that they may not do to me as they have done to Sihon: so went he and tare up a mountain six miles in size, and brought it upon his head to hurl it upon them. But the Word of the Lord forthwith prepared a reptile[7] which ate into the mountain and perforated it, and his head was swallowed up within it; and he sought to withdraw it, but could not, because his back teeth and his front ones were drawn hither and thither. And Mosheh went and took an axe of ten cubits, and sprang ten cubits, and struck him on the ankle of his foot, and he fell, and died beyond the camp of Yisrael. Thus it is written. And they smote him and his sons and daughters, and all his people, till none of them remained to escape; and they took possession of his land. [JERUSALEM. And Yisrael dwelt in the land of the Amorites. And Mosheh sent to explore Makvar, and they took the villages, and destroyed the Amorites who were there. 34. And when Mosheh saw Og, he said, Is not this Og the Wicked, who taunted Avraham and Sarah, and said, They are like fair trees by fountain of water, but give no fruit ? Therefore the Holy One, blessed be He, hath kept him alive for many years, till the time that he should see their children and children's children, and fall by their hands. Therefore the Lord said to Mosheh, Fear him not, for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sichon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon.]
XXII. And the children of Yisrael journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab, near the passage of the Jordan (toward) Jerhico.
[1] From this expression some of the Jewish commentators consider the sin of Moshe to have lain his doubting whether the water would come from the rock at the word spoken, though Elohim had said it would.
[1] "Destruction."
[1] Or, "a place of suspension."
[1] Or, "lilies."
[1] Or, "the weapon, instrument."
[1] Or, "devoted;" literally, "anointed."
[1] "Grasshopper," zechila. The Targumist here draws the long bow of the Hagadistic method of paraphrase.
[1] From this expression some of the Jewish commentators consider the sin of Moshe to have lain his doubting whether the water would come from the rock at the word spoken, though Elohim had said it would.
[2] "Destruction."
[3] Or, "a place of suspension."
[4] Or, "lilies."
[5] Or, "the weapon, instrument."
[6] Or, "devoted;" literally, "anointed."
[7] "Grasshopper," zechila. The Targumist here draws the long bow of the Hagadistic method of paraphrase.
SECTION XXXIX.
HUKKATH.
XIX. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying: This is the decree of the Torah which the Lord hath commanded, saying: Speak to the sons of Yisrael that they bring to thee a red heifer, unblemished, with no spot in her, and upon which no yoke hath been put. And you shall give her unto Elazar the priest, that he may bring her without the camp, and (one) shall slaughter her before him.
And Elazar, the priest, shall take (some) of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood against the face of the tabernacle of ordinance seven times. And (one) shall burn the heifer before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her food shall he burn. And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. And the priest shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards come into the camp: but the priest shall be unclean until the evening. And he who burneth her shall wash his clothes with water, and bathe his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening. And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be for the congregation of the children of Yisrael to keep, for the sprinkling with water; it is (a purification) for sin. And he who gathereth up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his raiment, and be unclean until the evening; and it shall be for the children of Yisrael, and for the strangers who dwell among you, a statute for ever.
Whosoever toucheth the dead of any of mankind shall be unclean seven days. He shall sprinkle with it on the third day, and on the seventh day shall be clean; but if he sprinkle it not on the third day, on the seventh day he shall not be clean. Whoever toucheth the dead body of a man who hath died, and sprinkleth not with it, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that man shall be cut off from Yisrael: because the water of sprinkling is not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean, (for) his uncleanness is yet upon him.
This is the Torah when a man dieth in a tent: every one who entereth the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And every open earthen vessel which hath not a covering fastened upon it round about is unclean. And whoever toucheth one who is slain with the sword upon the face of the field, or a dead body, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. And for the unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, and put spring water upon it in a vessel. And a man who is clean shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle upon the tent, and upon every vessel, and upon the persons who are there, and upon him who had touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead body, or the grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall be clean; and shall sprinkle his raiment, and wash with water, and at the evening he shall be clean. But the man who is unclean, and it bath not been sprinkled upon him, shall be cut off from the congregation, because he would defile the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of sprinkling was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. And it shall be to them for an everlasting statute, that he who applieth the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes, and whoever toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until the evening; and whatever may be touched by the unclean person shall be unclean, and the man who toucheth it shall be unclean until the evening.
XX. And the children of Yisrael, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people abode in Rekem; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
And there was no water for the congregation; and they gathered against Mosheh and against Aharon; and the people were contentious with Mosheh, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died[1] before the Lord!
And why have you brought the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle may die here? And wherefore have you made us come up from Mizraim, to bring us into this evil place? This is not a place for sowing; here are neither fig trees, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there water to drink.
And Mosheh and Aharon went up from before the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and fell upon their faces; and the glory of the Lord was revealed to them. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying,
Take the rod, and gather the congregation together, thou and Aharon thy brother, and speak to the Rock, before their eyes, and it shall give its waters; and thou shalt bring forth water for them from the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.
And Mosheh took the rod from before the Lord, as He had commanded him.
And Mosheh and Aharon assembled the congregation before the rock; and he said to them: Hear now, rebels! Are we to draw forth water for you from this rock?
And Mosheh lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with the rod two times; and the waters came forth greatly, and the congregation drank and their cattle.
But the Lord spake unto Mosheh and Aharon: Because you have not believed in My Word to sanctify Me in the eyes of the sons of Yisrael, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them. These are the Waters of Strife,[2] because the sons of Yisrael strove before the Lord, and He was sanctified in them.
And Mosheh sent ambassadors from Rekem to the king of Edom:[3] Thus saith thy brother Yisrael, Thou knowest all the trouble we have found; that our fathers went down into Mizraim, and we dwelt in Mizraim many days, and the Mizraee badly treated us and our fathers. And we prayed before the Lord, and He accepted our prayers, and sent an Angel, and brought us out from Mizraim; and, behold, we are in Rekem, a city which is on the side of thy border. Let us now pass through thy country: we will not go through a field or through a vineyard, nor will we drink up the water of the cistern: on the king's highway will we travel; we will not turn to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through thy border.
But Edomea said to him, Thou shalt not pass through my border, lest I come out against thee with the slaughtering sword. And the sons of Yisrael said to him, We would go up by the trodden way; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, we will give thee the price of it; we will do nothing evil; upon my feet I will pass through. But he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edomea came out to meet him with great force and with a strong hand. So Edomea refused to permit Yisrael to go through his border; and Yisrael turned away from him.
And they went forward from Rekem, and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael came to Mount Hor. And the Lord spake to Mosheh and to Aharon at Mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying: Aharon shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael, because you rebelled against My Word at the waters of strife.
Take Aharon and Elazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; and strip Aharon of his vestments, and put them upon Elazar his son; and Aharon shall be gathered (to his people), and shall die there.
And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation. And Mosheh took off his garments from Aharon, and put them upon Elazar his son. And Aharon died there, on the summit of the mount. And Mosheh and Elazar came down from the mount. And all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead; and all the house of Yisrael bewailed Aharon thirty days.
XXI. And when the Kenaanah, king Arad, who dwelt in the south, heard that Yisrael was coming by the way of the explorers, he set battle in array against Yisrael, and took some of them captives. And Yisrael vowed a vow before the Lord, and said: If Thou wilt surely deliver this people into my hand, then I will destroy their cities. And the Lord accepted Yisrael's prayer, and gave up the Kenaanaah; and he destroyed them and their cities, and he called the name of the place Charma.[4]
And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Sea of Suph, to go round from the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was wearied in the way.
And the people murmured (or, growled) against the Word of the Lord, and contended with Mosheh, (saying :) Why have you brought us up out of Mizraim to die in the desert? for there is neither bread nor water, and our soul is weary of manna, this light food. And the Lord sent forth burning serpents among the people, and much people of Yisrael died. And the people came to Mosheh, and said: We have sinned, for we have murmured before the Lord, and have contended with thee. Intercede before the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from among us. And Mosheh prayed for the people.
And the Lord said to Mosheh: Make thee a burning (serpent), and uplift it on an ensign; and everyone who hath been bitten, and beholdeth it, shall live (or, be saved). And Mosheh made a serpent of brass, and set it upon an ensign; and when a serpent had bitten a man, if he looked up to the serpent of brass, he lived (or, was saved).
And the children of Yisrael journeyed and encamped in Oboth. And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at the Ford[5] of the Passengers, which is in the wilderness over against Moab, toward the sunrise. And they removed from thence, and encamped by the brook Zared. Thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, that is in the wilderness that stretcheth out from the coasts of the Amoraah; for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amoraah. Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars, That which the Lord did by the Sea of Suph, and the great deeds which (He wrought) by the torrents of Arnon, and at the flowing of the streams which lead towards Lechayath, and are joined at the confine of Moab. And from thence was given to them the well, which is the well whereof the Lord spake to Mosheh, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Therefore sang Yisrael this song :-Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it. The well which the princes digged, the chiefs of the people cut it, the scribes with their staves; it was given to them in the wilderness. And from (the time) that it was given to them it descended with them to the rivers, and from the rivers it went up with them to the height,[6] and from the height to the vale which is in the fields of Moab, at the head of Ramatha, which looketh towards Bethjeshimon.
And Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amoraah, saying: I would pass through thy country: I will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink of the waters of the cistern; by the king's high way will we go until we have crossed thy border. But Sihon would not permit Yisrael to pass through his coast; and Sihon gathered all his people, and came out to prevent Yisrael in the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and arrayed battle against Yisrael. And Yisrael smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, unto the Beni Ammon; for the border of the Beni Ammon was strong. And Yisrael subdued all those cities, and Yisrael dwelt in all the cities of the Amoraah, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amoraah; he had made war with the former king of Moab, and had taken all his territory from his hand unto Arnon. Therefore, say the proverbs: Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be builded and finished: for an east wind strong as fire hath gone out from Heshbon, and the servants of war (as) with a flame from the city of Sihon: they have slain the people who inhabited Lechayath of Moab, the priests who ministered in the idol-temple in the height of Arnona.
Woe to you, Moabaee, you are undone, ye people who have worshipped Kemosh; he hath delivered up his besieged sons and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon, king of the Amoraah. And the kingdom hath ceased from Heshbon, the dominion hath passed away from Dibon, they have laid waste unto Nophak which joineth Medeba. And Yisrael dwelt in the land of the Amoraah.
And Mosheh sent to explore Jaazer; and they subdued the towns, and drave out the Amoraah who were therein. And they turned and went up by the way of Mathnan;[7] and Og, king of Mathnan, came out to meet them, he and all his people, to give battle at Edrei. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand with all his people and his country; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sihon, the king of the Amoraah who dwelt in Heshbon. And they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until none remained of him who were spared; and they took possession of his land.
XXII. And the sons of Yisrael moved onward, and encamped in the plain of Moab (at some space) from the ford of the Jordan (towards) Jericho.
[1] Or, “with the death of our brethren.”
[2] Matsutha. Heb., Meribah, “contention.” LXX. and Vulg., “the water of contradiction.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “Gabla.”
[4] Charma, cherem, “devoted to destruction.”
[5] Peschito, “Fountain.”
[6] Or, “to Ramatha.” Heb. text, “Bamoth.”
[7] Sam. Vers., Batanin.
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<a name="C231V1" id="C231V1">1:1</a> The vision of Yesh’yahu the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Yehudah and Yerushalaim, in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Yehudah.
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<a name="C231V2" id="C231V2">1:2</a> Hear, heavens,
</dt>
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and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:
</dd>
<dt>
I have nourished and brought up children,
</dt>
<dd>
and they have rebelled against me.
</dd>
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<a name="C231V3" id="C231V3">1:3</a> The ox knows his owner,
</dt>
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and the donkey his master's crib;
</dd>
<dd>
but Yisrael doesn't know,
</dd>
<dd>
my people don't consider.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V4" id="C231V4">1:4</a> Ah sinful nation,
</dt>
<dd>
a people loaded with iniquity,
</dd>
<dd>
a seed of evil-doers,
</dd>
<dd>
children who deal corruptly!
</dd>
<dt>
They have forsaken Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
They have despised the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dd>
They are estranged and backward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V5" id="C231V5">1:5</a> Why should you be beaten more,
</dt>
<dd>
that you revolt more and more?
</dd>
<dt>
The whole head is sick,
</dt>
<dd>
and the whole heart faint.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V6" id="C231V6">1:6</a> From the sole of the foot even to the
head there is no soundness in it:
</dt>
<dd>
wounds, welts, and open sores.
</dd>
<dd>
They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V7" id="C231V7">1:7</a> Your country is desolate.
</dt>
<dd>
Your cities are burned with fire.
</dd>
<dd>
Strangers devour your land in your presence,
</dd>
<dd>
and it is desolate,
</dd>
<dd>
as overthrown by strangers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V8" id="C231V8">1:8</a> The daughter of Zion is left like a
shelter in a vineyard,
</dt>
<dd>
like a hut in a field of melons,
</dd>
<dd>
like a besieged city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V9" id="C231V9">1:9</a> Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us
a very small remnant,
</dt>
<dd>
we would have been as Sodom;
</dd>
<dd>
we would have been like Gomorrah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V10" id="C231V10">1:10</a> Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers
of Sodom!
</dt>
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Listen to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Gomorrah!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V11" id="C231V11">1:11</a> "What are the multitude of your
sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
"I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams,
</dd>
<dd>
and the fat of fed animals.
</dd>
<dd>
I don't delight in the blood of bulls,
</dd>
<dd>
or of lambs,
</dd>
<dd>
or of male goats.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V12" id="C231V12">1:12</a> When you come to appear before me,
</dt>
<dd>
who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V13" id="C231V13">1:13</a> Bring no more vain offerings.
</dt>
<dd>
Incense is an abomination to me;
</dd>
<dd>
new moons, Shabbats, and convocations:
</dd>
<dd>
I can't bear with evil assemblies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V14" id="C231V14">1:14</a> My soul hates your New Moons and
your appointed feasts.
</dt>
<dd>
They are a burden to me.
</dd>
<dd>
I am weary of bearing them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V15" id="C231V15">1:15</a> When you spread forth your hands, I
will hide my eyes from you.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
</dd>
<dd>
Your hands are full of blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V16" id="C231V16">1:16</a> Wash yourselves, make yourself
clean.
</dt>
<dd>
Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes.
</dd>
<dd>
Cease to do evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V17" id="C231V17">1:17</a> Learn to do well.
</dt>
<dd>
Seek justice.
</dd>
<dd>
Relieve the oppressed.
</dd>
<dd>
Judge the fatherless.
</dd>
<dd>
Plead for the widow."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C231V18" id="C231V18">1:18</a> "Come now, and let us reason
together," says Yahweh:
</dt>
<dd>
"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
</dd>
<dd>
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V19" id="C231V19">1:19</a> If you are willing and obedient,
</dt>
<dd>
you shall eat the good of the land;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C231V20" id="C231V20">1:20</a> but if you refuse and rebel, you
shall be devoured with the sword;
</dd>
<dd>
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C231V21" id="C231V21">1:21</a> How the faithful city has become a
prostitute!
</dt>
<dd>
She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her,
</dd>
<dd>
but now murderers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V22" id="C231V22">1:22</a> Your silver has become dross,
</dt>
<dd>
your wine mixed with water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V23" id="C231V23">1:23</a> Your princes are rebellious, and
companions of thieves.
</dt>
<dd>
Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
</dd>
<dd>
They don't judge the fatherless,
</dd>
<dd>
neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V24" id="C231V24">1:24</a> Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies,
</dt>
<dd>
the Mighty One of Yisrael, says:
</dd>
<dt>
"Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
and avenge myself of my enemies;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V25" id="C231V25">1:25</a> and I will turn my hand on you,
</dt>
<dd>
thoroughly purge away your dross,
</dd>
<dd>
and will take away all your tin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V26" id="C231V26">1:26</a> I will restore your judges as at the
first,
</dt>
<dd>
and your counselors as at the beginning.
</dd>
<dt>
Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
a faithful town.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V27" id="C231V27">1:27</a> Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
</dt>
<dd>
and her converts with righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V28" id="C231V28">1:28</a> But the destruction of transgressors
and sinners shall be together,
</dt>
<dd>
and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V29" id="C231V29">1:29</a> For they shall be ashamed of the
oaks which you have desired,
</dt>
<dd>
and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V30" id="C231V30">1:30</a> For you shall be as an oak whose
leaf fades,
</dt>
<dd>
and as a garden that has no water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C231V31" id="C231V31">1:31</a> The strong will be like tinder,
</dt>
<dd>
and his work like a spark.
</dd>
<dt>
They will both burn together,
</dt>
<dd>
and no one will quench them."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C232V1" id="C232V1">2:1</a> This is what Yesh’yahu the son of Amoz saw
concerning Yehudah and Yerushalaim.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C232V2" id="C232V2">2:2</a> It shall happen in the latter days,
that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of
the mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall be raised above the hills;
</dd>
<dd>
and all nations shall flow to it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V3" id="C232V3">2:3</a> Many peoples shall go and say,
</dt>
<dd>
"Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
to the house of the Elohim of Jacob;
</dd>
<dd>
and he will teach us of his ways,
</dd>
<dd>
and we will walk in his paths."
</dd>
<dt>
For out of Zion the Torah shall go forth,
</dt>
<dd>
and the word of Yahweh from Yerushalaim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V4" id="C232V4">2:4</a> He will judge between the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and will decide concerning many peoples;
</dd>
<dd>
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
</dd>
<dd>
and their spears into pruning hooks.
</dd>
<dt>
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall they learn war any more.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C232V5" id="C232V5">2:5</a> House of Jacob, come, and let us walk
in the light of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C232V6" id="C232V6">2:6</a> For you have forsaken your people, the
house of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
because they are filled from the east,
</dd>
<dd>
with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
</dd>
<dd>
and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V7" id="C232V7">2:7</a> Their land is full of silver and gold,
</dt>
<dd>
neither is there any end of their treasures.
</dd>
<dt>
Their land also is full of horses,
</dt>
<dd>
neither is there any end of their chariots.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V8" id="C232V8">2:8</a> Their land also is full of idols.
</dt>
<dd>
They worship the work of their own hands,
</dd>
<dd>
that which their own fingers have made.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V9" id="C232V9">2:9</a> Man is brought low,
</dt>
<dd>
and mankind is humbled;
</dd>
<dd>
therefore don't forgive them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V10" id="C232V10">2:10</a> Enter into the rock,
</dt>
<dd>
and hide in the dust,
</dd>
<dt>
from before the terror of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and from the glory of his majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V11" id="C232V11">2:11</a> The lofty looks of man will be
brought low,
</dt>
<dd>
the haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
</dd>
<dd>
and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V12" id="C232V12">2:12</a> For there will be a day of Yahweh of
Armies for all that is proud and haughty,
</dt>
<dd>
and for all that is lifted up;
</dd>
<dd>
and it shall be brought low:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C232V13" id="C232V13">2:13</a> For all the cedars of Lebanon, that
are high and lifted up,
</dd>
<dd>
for all the oaks of Bashan,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C232V14" id="C232V14">2:14</a> For all the high mountains,
</dd>
<dd>
for all the hills that are lifted up,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C232V15" id="C232V15">2:15</a> For every lofty tower,
</dd>
<dd>
for every fortified wall,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C232V16" id="C232V16">2:16</a> For all the ships of Tarshish,
</dd>
<dd>
and for all pleasant imagery.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V17" id="C232V17">2:17</a> The loftiness of man shall be bowed
down,
</dt>
<dd>
and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
</dd>
<dd>
and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V18" id="C232V18">2:18</a> The idols shall utterly pass away.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C232V19" id="C232V19">2:19</a> Men shall go into the caves of the
rocks,
</dt>
<dd>
and into the holes of the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
from before the terror of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and from the glory of his majesty,
</dd>
<dd>
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V20" id="C232V20">2:20</a> In that day, men shall cast away
their idols of silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and their idols of gold,
</dd>
<dd>
which have been made for themselves to worship,
</dd>
<dd>
to the moles and to the bats;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C232V21" id="C232V21">2:21</a> To go into the caverns of the rocks,
</dd>
<dd>
and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
</dd>
<dd>
from before the terror of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and from the glory of his majesty,
</dd>
<dd>
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C232V22" id="C232V22">2:22</a> Stop trusting in man, whose breath
is in his nostrils;
</dt>
<dd>
for of what account is he?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C233V1" id="C233V1">3:1</a> For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, takes away from Yerushalaim and from Yehudah supply and support,
</dt>
<dd>
the whole supply of bread,
</dd>
<dd>
and the whole supply of water;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C233V2" id="C233V2">3:2</a> the mighty man,
</dd>
<dd>
the man of war,
</dd>
<dd>
the judge,
</dd>
<dd>
the prophet,
</dd>
<dd>
the diviner,
</dd>
<dd>
the elder,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C233V3" id="C233V3">3:3</a> the captain of fifty,
</dd>
<dd>
the honorable man,
</dd>
<dd>
the counselor,
</dd>
<dd>
the skilled craftsman,
</dd>
<dd>
and the clever enchanter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V4" id="C233V4">3:4</a> I will give boys to be their princes,
</dt>
<dd>
and children shall rule over them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V5" id="C233V5">3:5</a> The people will be oppressed,
</dt>
<dd>
everyone by another,
</dd>
<dd>
and everyone by his neighbor.
</dd>
<dt>
The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,
</dt>
<dd>
and the base against the honorable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V6" id="C233V6">3:6</a> Indeed a man shall take hold of his
brother in the house of his father, saying,
</dt>
<dd>
"You have clothing, you be our ruler,
</dd>
<dd>
and let this ruin be under your hand."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V7" id="C233V7">3:7</a> In that day he will cry out, saying, I
will not be a healer;
</dt>
<dd>
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
</dd>
<dd>
You shall not make me ruler of the people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V8" id="C233V8">3:8</a> For Yerushalaim is ruined, and Yehudah is
fallen;
</dt>
<dd>
because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,
</dd>
<dt>
to provoke the eyes of his glory.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C233V9" id="C233V9">3:9</a> The look of their faces testify against
them.
</dt>
<dd>
They parade their sin like Sodom.
</dd>
<dd>
They don't hide it.
</dd>
<dd>
Woe to their soul!
</dd>
<dd>
For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V10" id="C233V10">3:10</a> Tell the righteous "Good!"
</dt>
<dd>
For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V11" id="C233V11">3:11</a> Woe to the wicked!
</dt>
<dd>
Disaster is upon them;
</dd>
<dd>
for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V12" id="C233V12">3:12</a> As for my people, children are their
oppressors,
</dt>
<dd>
and women rule over them.
</dd>
<dd>
My people, those who lead you cause you to err,
</dd>
<dd>
and destroy the way of your paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V13" id="C233V13">3:13</a> Yahweh stands up to contend,
</dt>
<dd>
and stands to judge the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V14" id="C233V14">3:14</a> Yahweh will enter into judgment with
the elders of his people,
</dt>
<dd>
and their leaders:
</dd>
<dd>
"It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
</dd>
<dd>
The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C233V15" id="C233V15">3:15</a> What do you mean that you crush my
people,
</dd>
<dd>
and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V16" id="C233V16">3:16</a> Moreover Yahweh said, "Because
the daughters of Zion are haughty,
</dt>
<dd>
and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
walking to trip as they go,
</dd>
<dd>
jingling ornaments on their feet;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V17" id="C233V17">3:17</a> therefore the Lord brings sores on
the crown of the head of the women of Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C233V18" id="C233V18">3:18</a> In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, <a
name="C233V19" id="C233V19">3:19</a> the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
<a name="C233V20" id="C233V20">3:20</a> the headdresses, the ankle chains, the
sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms, <a name="C233V21" id="C233V21">3:21</a>
the signet rings, the nose rings, <a name="C233V22" id="C233V22">3:22</a> the
fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, <a name="C233V23" id="C233V23">3:23</a>
the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C233V24" id="C233V24">3:24</a> It shall happen that instead of
sweet spices, there shall be rottenness;
</dt>
<dd>
instead of a belt, a rope;
</dd>
<dd>
instead of well set hair, baldness;
</dd>
<dd>
instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
</dd>
<dd>
and branding instead of beauty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V25" id="C233V25">3:25</a> Your men shall fall by the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and your mighty in the war.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C233V26" id="C233V26">3:26</a> Her gates shall lament and mourn;
</dt>
<dd>
and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C234V1" id="C234V1">4:1</a> Seven women shall take hold of one man in
that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C234V2" id="C234V2">4:2</a> In that day, Yahweh's branch will be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and
glory of the survivors of Yisrael. <a name="C234V3" id="C234V3">4:3</a> It will
happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Yerushalaim,
shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in
Yerushalaim; <a name="C234V4" id="C234V4">4:4</a> when the Lord shall have
washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the
blood of Yerushalaim from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the
spirit of burning. <a name="C234V5" id="C234V5">4:5</a> Yahweh will create
over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud
and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all
the glory will be a canopy. <a name="C234V6" id="C234V6">4:6</a> There will be
a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and
for a shelter from storm and from rain.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C235V1" id="C235V1">5:1</a> Let me sing for my well beloved a song
of my beloved about his vineyard.
</dt>
<dd>
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V2" id="C235V2">5:2</a> He dug it up,
</dt>
<dd>
gathered out its stones,
</dd>
<dd>
planted it with the choicest vine,
</dd>
<dd>
built a tower in its midst,
</dd>
<dd>
and also cut out a winepress therein.
</dd>
<dt>
He looked for it to yield grapes,
</dt>
<dd>
but it yielded wild grapes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V3" id="C235V3">5:3</a> "Now, inhabitants of Yerushalaim and
men of Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
please judge between me and my vineyard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V4" id="C235V4">5:4</a> What could have been done more to my
vineyard, that I have not done in it?
</dt>
<dd>
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V5" id="C235V5">5:5</a> Now I will tell you what I will do to
my vineyard.
</dt>
<dd>
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
</dd>
<dd>
I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V6" id="C235V6">5:6</a> I will lay it a wasteland.
</dt>
<dd>
It won't be pruned nor hoed,
</dd>
<dd>
but it will grow briers and thorns.
</dd>
<dd>
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V7" id="C235V7">5:7</a> For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is
the house of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant:
</dd>
<dd>
and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
</dd>
<dd>
for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V8" id="C235V8">5:8</a> Woe to those who join house to house,
</dt>
<dd>
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
</dd>
<dd>
and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V9" id="C235V9">5:9</a> In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says:
"Surely many houses will be desolate,
</dt>
<dd>
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V10" id="C235V10">5:10</a> For <a href="#N231">ten acres</a> of
vineyard shall yield <a href="#N232">one bath,</a>
</dt>
<dd>
and a <a href="#N233">homer</a> of seed shall yield an <a href="#N234">ephah.</a>"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C235V11" id="C235V11">5:11</a> Woe to those who rise up early in
the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
</dt>
<dd>
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V12" id="C235V12">5:12</a> The harp, lyre, tambourine, and
flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
</dt>
<dd>
but they don't regard the work of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V13" id="C235V13">5:13</a> Therefore my people go into
captivity for lack of knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
Their honorable men are famished,
</dd>
<dd>
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V14" id="C235V14">5:14</a> Therefore <a href="#N235">Sheol</a>
has enlarged its desire,
</dt>
<dd>
and opened its mouth without measure;
</dd>
<dd>
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among
them, descend into it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V15" id="C235V15">5:15</a> So man is brought low,
</dt>
<dd>
mankind is humbled,
</dd>
<dd>
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V16" id="C235V16">5:16</a> but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in
justice,
</dt>
<dd>
and Elohim the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V17" id="C235V17">5:17</a> Then the lambs will graze as in
their pasture,
</dt>
<dd>
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C235V18" id="C235V18">5:18</a> Woe to those who draw iniquity with
cords of falsehood,
</dt>
<dd>
and wickedness as with cart rope;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V19" id="C235V19">5:19</a> Who say, "Let him make speed,
let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
</dt>
<dd>
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisrael draw near and come,
</dd>
<dd>
that we may know it!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V20" id="C235V20">5:20</a> Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil;
</dt>
<dd>
who put darkness for light,
</dd>
<dd>
and light for darkness;
</dd>
<dt>
who put bitter for sweet,
</dt>
<dd>
and sweet for bitter!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V21" id="C235V21">5:21</a> Woe to those who are wise in their
own eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
and prudent in their own sight!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V22" id="C235V22">5:22</a> Woe to those who are mighty to drink
wine,
</dt>
<dd>
and champions at mixing strong drink;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V23" id="C235V23">5:23</a> who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
</dt>
<dd>
but deny justice for the innocent!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V24" id="C235V24">5:24</a> Therefore as the tongue of fire
devours the stubble,
</dt>
<dd>
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
</dd>
<dd>
so their root shall be as rottenness,
</dd>
<dd>
and their blossom shall go up as dust;
</dd>
<dt>
because they have rejected the Torah of Yahweh of Armies,
</dt>
<dd>
and despised the word of the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V25" id="C235V25">5:25</a> Therefore Yahweh's anger burns
against his people,
</dt>
<dd>
and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them.
</dd>
<dt>
The mountains tremble,
</dt>
<dd>
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.
</dd>
<dt>
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
</dt>
<dd>
but his hand is still stretched out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V26" id="C235V26">5:26</a> He will lift up a banner to the
nations from far,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
</dd>
<dd>
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V27" id="C235V27">5:27</a> None shall be weary nor stumble
among them;
</dt>
<dd>
none shall slumber nor sleep;
</dd>
<dd>
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
</dd>
<dd>
nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V28" id="C235V28">5:28</a> whose arrows are sharp,
</dt>
<dd>
and all their bows bent.
</dd>
<dt>
Their horses' hoofs will be like flint,
</dt>
<dd>
and their wheels like a whirlwind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V29" id="C235V29">5:29</a> Their roaring will be like a
lioness.
</dt>
<dd>
They will roar like young lions.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, they shall roar,
</dt>
<dd>
and seize their prey and carry it off,
</dd>
<dd>
and there will be no one to deliver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C235V30" id="C235V30">5:30</a> They will roar against them in that
day like the roaring of the sea.
</dt>
<dd>
If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress.
</dd>
<dd>
The light is darkened in its clouds.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N231" id="N231">[1]</a> <a href="#C235V10">back to 5:10</a> literally,
ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one
day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N232" id="N232">[2]</a> <a href="#C235V10">back to 5:10</a> 1 bath is
about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons
</p>
<p>
<a name="N233" id="N233">[3]</a> <a href="#C235V10">back to 5:10</a> 1 homer is
about 220 litres or 6 bushels
</p>
<p>
<a name="N234" id="N234">[4]</a> <a href="#C235V10">back to 5:10</a> 1 ephah is
about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what
was sown.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N235" id="N235">[5]</a> <a href="#C235V14">back to 5:14</a> Sheol is
the place of the dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C236V1" id="C236V1">6:1</a> In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the
temple. <a name="C236V2" id="C236V2">6:2</a> Above him stood the seraphim.
Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered
his feet. With two he flew. <a name="C236V3" id="C236V3">6:3</a> One called to
another, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!
</dt>
<dd>
The whole earth is full of his glory!"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C236V4" id="C236V4">6:4</a> The foundations of the thresholds shook
at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. <a
name="C236V5" id="C236V5">6:5</a> Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am
undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C236V6" id="C236V6">6:6</a> Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar. <a name="C236V7" id="C236V7">6:7</a> He touched my mouth with it,
and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is
taken away, and your sin forgiven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C236V8" id="C236V8">6:8</a> I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us?"
</p>
<p>
Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C236V9" id="C236V9">6:9</a> He said, "Go, and tell this people,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'You hear indeed,
</dt>
<dd>
but don't understand;
</dd>
<dt>
and you see indeed,
</dt>
<dd>
but don't perceive.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C236V10" id="C236V10">6:10</a> Make the heart of this people fat.
</dt>
<dd>
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
</dd>
<dt>
lest they see with their eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
and hear with their ears,
</dd>
<dd>
and understand with their heart,
</dd>
<dd>
and turn again, and be healed."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C236V11" id="C236V11">6:11</a> Then I said, "Lord, how long?"
</p>
<p>
He answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
</dt>
<dd>
and houses without man,
</dd>
<dd>
and the land becomes utterly waste,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C236V12" id="C236V12">6:12</a> And Yahweh has removed men far away,
</dd>
<dd>
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C236V13" id="C236V13">6:13</a> If there is a tenth left in it,
</dt>
<dd>
that also will in turn be consumed:
</dd>
<dt>
as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled;
</dt>
<dd>
so the holy seed is its stock."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C237V1" id="C237V1">7:1</a> It happened in the days of Ahaz the son
of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Yehudah, that Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Yisrael, went up to Yerushalaim to war
against it, but could not prevail against it. <a name="C237V2" id="C237V2">7:2</a>
It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with
Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the
trees of the forest tremble with the wind. <a name="C237V3" id="C237V3">7:3</a>
Then Yahweh said to Yesh’yahu, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and
Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the
highway of the fuller's field. <a name="C237V4" id="C237V4">7:4</a> Tell him,
'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be
faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. <a name="C237V5"
id="C237V5">7:5</a> Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have
plotted evil against you, saying, <a name="C237V6" id="C237V6">7:6</a> "Let's
go up against Yehudah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among
ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."
<a name="C237V7" id="C237V7">7:7</a> This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It
shall not stand, neither shall it happen." <a name="C237V8" id="C237V8">7:8</a>
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it
shall not be a people; <a name="C237V9" id="C237V9">7:9</a> and the head of
Ephraim is Shomron, and the head of Shomron is Remaliah's son. If you will
not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C237V10" id="C237V10">7:10</a> Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, <a
name="C237V11" id="C237V11">7:11</a> "Ask a sign of Yahweh your Elohim; ask
it either in the depth, or in the height above."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C237V12" id="C237V12">7:12</a> But Ahaz said, "I will not ask,
neither will I tempt Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C237V13" id="C237V13">7:13</a> He said, "Listen now, house of
David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will
try the patience of my Elohim also? <a name="C237V14" id="C237V14">7:14</a>
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name <a href="#N236">Immanuel.</a>
<a name="C237V15" id="C237V15">7:15</a> He shall eat butter and honey when he
knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. <a name="C237V16" id="C237V16">7:16</a>
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. <a name="C237V17"
id="C237V17">7:17</a> Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your
father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Yehudah; even the king of Assyria. <a name="C237V18" id="C237V18">7:18</a>
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in
the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the
land of Assyria. <a name="C237V19" id="C237V19">7:19</a> They shall come, and
shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all
thorn hedges, and on all pastures. <a name="C237V20" id="C237V20">7:20</a> In
that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts
beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of
the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. <a name="C237V21" id="C237V21">7:21</a>
It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and
two sheep; <a name="C237V22" id="C237V22">7:22</a> and it shall happen, that
because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat
butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst
of the land. <a name="C237V23" id="C237V23">7:23</a> It will happen in that
day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. <a name="C237V24" id="C237V24">7:24</a>
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will
be briers and thorns. <a name="C237V25" id="C237V25">7:25</a> All the hills
that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of
briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for
the treading of sheep."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N236" id="N236">[6]</a> <a href="#C237V14">back to 7:14</a> "Immanuel"
means "Elohim with us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C238V1" id="C238V1">8:1</a> Yahweh said to me, "Take a large
tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, '<a href="#N237">For Maher Shalal
Hash Baz;</a>' <a name="C238V2" id="C238V2">8:2</a> and I will take for myself
faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C238V3" id="C238V3">8:3</a> I went to the prophetess, and she
conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, "Call his name
'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.' <a name="C238V4" id="C238V4">8:4</a> For before the
child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Shomron will be carried away by the king of
Assyria."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C238V5" id="C238V5">8:5</a> Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, <a
name="C238V6" id="C238V6">8:6</a> "Because this people have refused the
waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
<a name="C238V7" id="C238V7">8:7</a> now therefore, behold, the Lord brings
upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and
all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its
banks. <a name="C238V8" id="C238V8">8:8</a> It will sweep onward into Yehudah.
It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the
stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
<a name="C238V9" id="C238V9">8:9</a> Make an uproar, you peoples, and be
broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle,
and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! <a name="C238V10"
id="C238V10">8:10</a> Take counsel together, and it will be brought to
nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for Elohim is with us."
<a name="C238V11" id="C238V11">8:11</a> For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a
strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people,
saying, <a name="C238V12" id="C238V12">8:12</a> "Don't say, 'A
conspiracy!' concerning all about which this people say, 'A conspiracy!'
neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized. <a name="C238V13" id="C238V13">8:13</a>
Yahweh of Armies is who you must regard as holy. He is the one you must
fear. He is the one you must dread. <a name="C238V14" id="C238V14">8:14</a> He
will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Yisrael, he will be a trap and
a snare for the inhabitants of Yerushalaim. <a name="C238V15" id="C238V15">8:15</a>
Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."
<a name="C238V16" id="C238V16">8:16</a> Wrap up the testimony. Seal the Torah
among my disciples. <a name="C238V17" id="C238V17">8:17</a> I will wait for
Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for
him. <a name="C238V18" id="C238V18">8:18</a> Behold, I and the children whom
Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Yisrael from Yahweh of
Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C238V19" id="C238V19">8:19</a> When they tell you, "Consult with
those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who
mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their Elohim? Should they
consult the dead on behalf of the living? <a name="C238V20" id="C238V20">8:20</a>
Turn to the Torah and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to
this word, surely there is no morning for them. <a name="C238V21" id="C238V21">8:21</a>
They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it will happen
that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by
their Elohim. They will turn their faces upward, <a name="C238V22" id="C238V22">8:22</a>
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of
anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N237" id="N237">[7]</a> <a href="#C238V1">back to 8:1</a> "Maher
Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to the
spoil."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C239V1" id="C239V1">9:1</a> But there shall be no more gloom for her
who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land
of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the
nations.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C239V2" id="C239V2">9:2</a> The people who walked in darkness have
seen a great light.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light
has shined.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V3" id="C239V3">9:3</a> You have multiplied the nation.
</dt>
<dd>
You have increased their joy.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice
when they divide the spoil. <a name="C239V4" id="C239V4">9:4</a> For the yoke
of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as in the day of Midian. <a name="C239V5" id="C239V5">9:5</a>
For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments
rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire. <a name="C239V6"
id="C239V6">9:6</a> For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the
government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful,
Counselor, Mighty Elohim, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. <a name="C239V7"
id="C239V7">9:7</a> Of the increase of his government and of peace there
shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish
it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time
on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C239V8" id="C239V8">9:8</a> The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and it falls on Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V9" id="C239V9">9:9</a> All the people will know,
</dt>
<dd>
including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomron, who say in pride and
in arrogance of heart,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V10" id="C239V10">9:10</a> "The bricks have fallen,
</dt>
<dd>
but we will build with cut stone.
</dd>
<dt>
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,
</dt>
<dd>
but we will put cedars in their place."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V11" id="C239V11">9:11</a> Therefore Yahweh will set up on high
against him the adversaries of Rezin,
</dt>
<dd>
and will stir up his enemies,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C239V12" id="C239V12">9:12</a> The Syrians in front,
</dd>
<dd>
and the Philistines behind;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will devour Yisrael with open mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
</dt>
<dd>
but his hand is stretched out still.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V13" id="C239V13">9:13</a> Yet the people have not turned to
him who struck them,
</dt>
<dd>
neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V14" id="C239V14">9:14</a> Therefore Yahweh will cut off from
Yisrael head and tail,
</dt>
<dd>
palm branch and reed, in one day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V15" id="C239V15">9:15</a> The elder and the honorable man is
the head,
</dt>
<dd>
and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V16" id="C239V16">9:16</a> For those who lead this people lead
them astray;
</dt>
<dd>
and those who are led by them are destroyed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V17" id="C239V17">9:17</a> Therefore the Lord will not rejoice
over their young men,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
</dd>
<dt>
for everyone is profane and an evil-doer,
</dt>
<dd>
and every mouth speaks folly.
</dd>
<dt>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
</dt>
<dd>
but his hand is stretched out still.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V18" id="C239V18">9:18</a> For wickedness burns like a fire.
</dt>
<dd>
It devours the briers and thorns;
</dd>
<dd>
yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
</dd>
<dd>
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V19" id="C239V19">9:19</a> Through the wrath of Yahweh of
Armies, the land is burnt up;
</dt>
<dd>
and the people are the fuel for the fire.
</dd>
<dd>
No one spares his brother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C239V20" id="C239V20">9:20</a> One will devour on the right hand,
and be hungry;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C239V21" id="C239V21">9:21</a> Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh; and they together shall be against Yehudah.
</dd>
<dt>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
</dt>
<dd>
but his hand is stretched out still.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2310V1" id="C2310V1">10:1</a> Woe to those who decree unrighteous
decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; <a name="C2310V2"
id="C2310V2">10:2</a> to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor
among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that
they may make the fatherless their prey! <a name="C2310V3" id="C2310V3">10:3</a>
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which
will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave
your wealth?
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2310V4" id="C2310V4">10:4</a> They will only bow down under the
prisoners,
</dt>
<dd>
and will fall under the slain.
</dd>
<dt>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
</dt>
<dd>
but his hand is stretched out still.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2310V5" id="C2310V5">10:5</a> Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger,
the staff in whose hand is my indignation! <a name="C2310V6" id="C2310V6">10:6</a>
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger
me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and
to tread them down like the mire of the streets. <a name="C2310V7" id="C2310V7">10:7</a>
However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in
his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. <a name="C2310V8"
id="C2310V8">10:8</a> For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings? <a
name="C2310V9" id="C2310V9">10:9</a> Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath
like Arpad? Isn't Shomron like Damascus?" <a name="C2310V10" id="C2310V10">10:10</a>
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images
exceeded those of Yerushalaim and of Shomron; <a name="C2310V11" id="C2310V11">10:11</a>
shall I not, as I have done to Shomron and her idols, so do to Yerushalaim
and her idols? <a name="C2310V12" id="C2310V12">10:12</a> Therefore it will
happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and
on Yerushalaim, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the
king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks. <a name="C2310V13"
id="C2310V13">10:13</a> For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I
have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have
removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures.
Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. <a name="C2310V14"
id="C2310V14">10:14</a> My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a
nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all
the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their
mouth, or chirped."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2310V15" id="C2310V15">10:15</a> Should an axe brag against him who
chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if
a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up
someone who is not wood. <a name="C2310V16" id="C2310V16">10:16</a> Therefore
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and
under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. <a
name="C2310V17" id="C2310V17">10:17</a> The light of Yisrael will be for a
fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns
and his briers in one day. <a name="C2310V18" id="C2310V18">10:18</a> He will
consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and
body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. <a name="C2310V19"
id="C2310V19">10:19</a> The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few,
so that a child could write their number.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2310V20" id="C2310V20">10:20</a> It will come to pass in that day
that the remnant of Yisrael, and those who have escaped from the house of
Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on
Yahweh, the Holy One of Yisrael, in truth. <a name="C2310V21" id="C2310V21">10:21</a>
A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty Elohim. <a
name="C2310V22" id="C2310V22">10:22</a> For though your people, Yisrael, are
like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A
destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. <a name="C2310V23"
id="C2310V23">10:23</a> For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full
end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth. <a name="C2310V24"
id="C2310V24">10:24</a> Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My
people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he
strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
<a name="C2310V25" id="C2310V25">10:25</a> For yet a very little while, and
the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be
directed to his destruction." <a name="C2310V26" id="C2310V26">10:26</a>
Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter
of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will
lift it up like he did against Egypt. <a name="C2310V27" id="C2310V27">10:27</a>
It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your
shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing oil.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2310V28" id="C2310V28">10:28</a> He has come to Aiath. He has passed
through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. <a name="C2310V29"
id="C2310V29">10:29</a> They have gone over the pass. They have taken up
their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Sha'ul has fled. <a
name="C2310V30" id="C2310V30">10:30</a> Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of
Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth! <a name="C2310V31" id="C2310V31">10:31</a>
Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. <a
name="C2310V32" id="C2310V32">10:32</a> This very day he will halt at Nob. He
shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
Yerushalaim. <a name="C2310V33" id="C2310V33">10:33</a> Behold, the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and
the lofty will be brought low. <a name="C2310V34" id="C2310V34">10:34</a> He
will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall
by the Mighty One.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2311V1" id="C2311V1">11:1</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
</dt>
<dd>
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V2" id="C2311V2">11:2</a> The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on
him:
</dt>
<dd>
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
</dd>
<dd>
the spirit of counsel and might,
</dd>
<dd>
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V3" id="C2311V3">11:3</a> His delight will be in the fear of
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V4" id="C2311V4">11:4</a> but with righteousness he will judge
the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
</dt>
<dd>
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V5" id="C2311V5">11:5</a> Righteousness will be the belt of
his waist,
</dt>
<dd>
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V6" id="C2311V6">11:6</a> The wolf will live with the lamb,
</dt>
<dd>
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat;
</dd>
<dd>
The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
</dd>
<dd>
and a little child will lead them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V7" id="C2311V7">11:7</a> The cow and the bear will graze.
</dt>
<dd>
Their young ones will lie down together.
</dd>
<dd>
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V8" id="C2311V8">11:8</a> The nursing child will play near a
cobra's hole,
</dt>
<dd>
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2311V9" id="C2311V9">11:9</a> They will not hurt nor destroy in
all my holy mountain;
</dt>
<dd>
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
as the waters cover the sea.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2311V10" id="C2311V10">11:10</a> It will happen in that day that the
nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the
peoples; and his resting place will be glorious. <a name="C2311V11"
id="C2311V11">11:11</a> It will happen in that day that the Lord will set
his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his
people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from
Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. <a name="C2311V12"
id="C2311V12">11:12</a> He will set up a banner for the nations, and will
assemble the outcasts of Yisrael, and gather together the dispersed of
Yehudah from the four corners of the earth. <a name="C2311V13" id="C2311V13">11:13</a>
The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Yehudah will
be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Yehudah, and Yehudah won't persecute Ephraim.
<a name="C2311V14" id="C2311V14">11:14</a> They will fly down on the shoulders
of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of
the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the
children of Ammon will obey them. <a name="C2311V15" id="C2311V15">11:15</a>
Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his
scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it
into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. <a
name="C2311V16" id="C2311V16">11:16</a> There will be a highway for the
remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Yisrael
in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2312V1" id="C2312V1">12:1</a> In that day you will say, "I will
give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger
has turned away and you comfort me. <a name="C2312V2" id="C2312V2">12:2</a>
Behold, Elohim is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for
Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
<a name="C2312V3" id="C2312V3">12:3</a> Therefore with joy you will draw water
out of the wells of salvation. <a name="C2312V4" id="C2312V4">12:4</a> In that
day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare
his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted! <a
name="C2312V5" id="C2312V5">12:5</a> Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent
things! Let this be known in all the earth! <a name="C2312V6" id="C2312V6">12:6</a>
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Yisrael is
great in the midst of you!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2313V1" id="C2313V1">13:1</a> The burden of Babylon, which Yesh’yahu
the son of Amoz saw: <a name="C2313V2" id="C2313V2">13:2</a> Set up a banner
on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. <a name="C2313V3" id="C2313V3">13:3</a>
I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for
my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. <a name="C2313V4" id="C2313V4">13:4</a>
The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the
noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!
Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle. <a name="C2313V5"
id="C2313V5">13:5</a> They come from a far country, from the uttermost part
of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the
whole land. <a name="C2313V6" id="C2313V6">13:6</a> Wail; for the day of
Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. <a
name="C2313V7" id="C2313V7">13:7</a> Therefore all hands will be feeble, and
everyone's heart will melt. <a name="C2313V8" id="C2313V8">13:8</a> They will
be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like
a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces
will be faces of flame. <a name="C2313V9" id="C2313V9">13:9</a> Behold, the
day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land
a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. <a name="C2313V10"
id="C2313V10">13:10</a> For the stars of the sky and its constellations will
not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the
moon will not cause its light to shine. <a name="C2313V11" id="C2313V11">13:11</a>
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity.
I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the
haughtiness of the terrible. <a name="C2313V12" id="C2313V12">13:12</a> I will
make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of
Ophir. <a name="C2313V13" id="C2313V13">13:13</a> Therefore I will make the
heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the
wrath of Yahweh of Armies, and in the day of his fierce anger. <a
name="C2313V14" id="C2313V14">13:14</a> It will happen that like a a hunted
gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their
own people, and will each flee to their own land. <a name="C2313V15"
id="C2313V15">13:15</a> Everyone who is found will be thrust through.
Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. <a name="C2313V16"
id="C2313V16">13:16</a> Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before
their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. <a
name="C2313V17" id="C2313V17">13:17</a> Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not
delight in it. <a name="C2313V18" id="C2313V18">13:18</a> Their bows will dash
the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the
womb. Their eyes will not spare children. <a name="C2313V19" id="C2313V19">13:19</a>
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will
be like when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. <a name="C2313V20" id="C2313V20">13:20</a>
It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to
generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will
shepherds make their flocks lie down there. <a name="C2313V21" id="C2313V21">13:21</a>
But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be
full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic
there. <a name="C2313V22" id="C2313V22">13:22</a> Wolves will cry in their
castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come,
and her days will not be prolonged.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2314V1" id="C2314V1">14:1</a> For Yahweh will have compassion on
Jacob, and will yet choose Yisrael, and set them in their own land. The
foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house
of Jacob. <a name="C2314V2" id="C2314V2">14:2</a> The peoples will take them,
and bring them to their place. The house of Yisrael will possess them in
Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives
those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
<a name="C2314V3" id="C2314V3">14:3</a> It will happen in the day that Yahweh
will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard
service in which you were made to serve, <a name="C2314V4" id="C2314V4">14:4</a>
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say,
"How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!" <a
name="C2314V5" id="C2314V5">14:5</a> Yahweh has broken the staff of the
wicked, the scepter of the rulers, <a name="C2314V6" id="C2314V6">14:6</a> who
struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations
in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. <a name="C2314V7"
id="C2314V7">14:7</a> The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break
out song. <a name="C2314V8" id="C2314V8">14:8</a> Yes, the fir trees rejoice
with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled,
no lumberjack has come up against us." <a name="C2314V9" id="C2314V9">14:9</a>
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs
up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up
from their thrones all the kings of the nations. <a name="C2314V10"
id="C2314V10">14:10</a> They all will answer and ask you, "Have you
also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?" <a
name="C2314V11" id="C2314V11">14:11</a> Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under
you, and worms cover you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2314V12" id="C2314V12">14:12</a> How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who
laid the nations low! <a name="C2314V13" id="C2314V13">14:13</a> You said in
your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above
the stars of Elohim! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far
north! <a name="C2314V14" id="C2314V14">14:14</a> I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!" <a
name="C2314V15" id="C2314V15">14:15</a> Yet you shall be brought down to
Sheol, to the depths of the pit. <a name="C2314V16" id="C2314V16">14:16</a>
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is
this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; <a
name="C2314V17" id="C2314V17">14:17</a> who made the world like a wilderness,
and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2314V18" id="C2314V18">14:18</a> All the kings of the nations, sleep
in glory, everyone in his own house. <a name="C2314V19" id="C2314V19">14:19</a>
But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed
with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the
stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. <a name="C2314V20"
id="C2314V20">14:20</a> You will not join them in burial, because you have
destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evil-doers
will not be named forever. <a name="C2314V21" id="C2314V21">14:21</a> Prepare
for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers,
that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the
world with cities. <a name="C2314V22" id="C2314V22">14:22</a> "I will
rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from
Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh. <a
name="C2314V23" id="C2314V23">14:23</a> "I will also make it a possession
for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of
destruction," says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C2314V24" id="C2314V24">14:24</a>
Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so
shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: <a
name="C2314V25" id="C2314V25">14:25</a> that I will break the Assyrian in my
land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave
them, and his burden leave their shoulders. <a name="C2314V26" id="C2314V26">14:26</a>
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand
that is stretched out over all the nations. <a name="C2314V27" id="C2314V27">14:27</a>
For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is
stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2314V28" id="C2314V28">14:28</a> This burden was in the year that
king Ahaz died. <a name="C2314V29" id="C2314V29">14:29</a> Don't rejoice, O
Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out
of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery
flying serpent. <a name="C2314V30" id="C2314V30">14:30</a> The firstborn of
the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill
your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2314V31" id="C2314V31">14:31</a> Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are
melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and
there is no straggler in his ranks. <a name="C2314V32" id="C2314V32">14:32</a>
What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has
founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2315V1" id="C2315V1">15:1</a> The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar
of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab
is laid waste, and brought to nothing. <a name="C2315V2" id="C2315V2">15:2</a>
They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads.
Every beard is cut off. <a name="C2315V3" id="C2315V3">15:3</a> In their
streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their
housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. <a name="C2315V4" id="C2315V4">15:4</a>
Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within
them. <a name="C2315V5" id="C2315V5">15:5</a> My heart cries out for Moab! Her
nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent
of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of
destruction. <a name="C2315V6" id="C2315V6">15:6</a> For the waters of Nimrim
will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails,
there is no green thing. <a name="C2315V7" id="C2315V7">15:7</a> Therefore
they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have stored up, over the brook of the willows. <a name="C2315V8" id="C2315V8">15:8</a>
For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim,
and its wailing to Beer Elim. <a name="C2315V9" id="C2315V9">15:9</a> For the
waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a
lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2316V1" id="C2316V1">16:1</a> Send the lambs for the ruler of the
land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of
Zion. <a name="C2316V2" id="C2316V2">16:2</a> For it will be that as wandering
birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords
of the Arnon. <a name="C2316V3" id="C2316V3">16:3</a> Give counsel! Execute
justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide
the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive! <a name="C2316V4" id="C2316V4">16:4</a>
Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him
from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing.
Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. <a
name="C2316V5" id="C2316V5">16:5</a> A throne will be established in loving
kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging,
seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2316V6" id="C2316V6">16:6</a> We have heard of the pride of Moab,
that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath.
His boastings are nothing. <a name="C2316V7" id="C2316V7">16:7</a> Therefore
Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin
cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. <a name="C2316V8" id="C2316V8">16:8</a>
For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of
the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to
Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad.
They passed over the sea. <a name="C2316V9" id="C2316V9">16:9</a> Therefore I
will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water
you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on
your harvest the battle shout has fallen. <a name="C2316V10" id="C2316V10">16:10</a>
Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the
vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will
tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. <a
name="C2316V11" id="C2316V11">16:11</a> Therefore my heart sounds like a harp
for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. <a name="C2316V12" id="C2316V12">16:12</a>
It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on
the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not
prevail. <a name="C2316V13" id="C2316V13">16:13</a> This is the word that
Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. <a name="C2316V14" id="C2316V14">16:14</a>
But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker
bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought
into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very
small and feeble."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2317V1" id="C2317V1">17:1</a> The burden of Damascus: "Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
<a name="C2317V2" id="C2317V2">17:2</a> The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They
will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
<a name="C2317V3" id="C2317V3">17:3</a> The fortress shall cease from Ephraim,
and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as
the glory of the children of Yisrael," says Yahweh of Armies. <a
name="C2317V4" id="C2317V4">17:4</a> "It will happen in that day that the
glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become
lean. <a name="C2317V5" id="C2317V5">17:5</a> It will be like when the
harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be
like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. <a name="C2317V6"
id="C2317V6">17:6</a> Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of
an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four
or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh,
the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C2317V7" id="C2317V7">17:7</a> In that day, people
will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy
One of Yisrael. <a name="C2317V8" id="C2317V8">17:8</a> They will not look to
the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which
their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars. <a
name="C2317V9" id="C2317V9">17:9</a> In that day, their strong cities will be
like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were
forsaken from before the children of Yisrael; and it will be a desolation.
<a name="C2317V10" id="C2317V10">17:10</a> For you have forgotten the Elohim of
your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. <a
name="C2317V11" id="C2317V11">17:11</a> In the day of your planting, you hedge
it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees
away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. <a name="C2317V12"
id="C2317V12">17:12</a> Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the
roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the
rushing of mighty waters! <a name="C2317V13" id="C2317V13">17:13</a> The
nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke
them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the
mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. <a
name="C2317V14" id="C2317V14">17:14</a> At evening, behold, terror! Before the
morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us,
and the lot of those who rob us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2318V1" id="C2318V1">18:1</a> Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; <a name="C2318V2" id="C2318V2">18:2</a>
that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the
waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and
smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that
measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!" <a
name="C2318V3" id="C2318V3">18:3</a> All you inhabitants of the world, and you
dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look!
When the trumpet is blown, listen! <a name="C2318V4" id="C2318V4">18:4</a> For
Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling
place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of
harvest." <a name="C2318V5" id="C2318V5">18:5</a> For before the harvest,
when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will
cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away
the spreading branches. <a name="C2318V6" id="C2318V6">18:6</a> They will be
left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals
of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals
of the earth will winter on them. <a name="C2318V7" id="C2318V7">18:7</a> In
that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people
tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a
nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to
the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2319V1" id="C2319V1">19:1</a> The burden of Egypt: "Behold,
Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. <a
name="C2319V2" id="C2319V2">19:2</a> I will stir up the Egyptians against the
Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone
against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. <a
name="C2319V3" id="C2319V3">19:3</a> The spirit of Egypt will fail in its
midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers,
those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. <a name="C2319V4"
id="C2319V4">19:4</a> I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a
cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies. <a name="C2319V5" id="C2319V5">19:5</a> The waters will fail from
the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. <a name="C2319V6"
id="C2319V6">19:6</a> The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will
be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. <a
name="C2319V7" id="C2319V7">19:7</a> The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of
the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven
away, and be no more. <a name="C2319V8" id="C2319V8">19:8</a> The fishermen
will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who
spread nets on the waters will languish. <a name="C2319V9" id="C2319V9">19:9</a>
Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth,
will be confounded. <a name="C2319V10" id="C2319V10">19:10</a> The pillars
will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in
soul. <a name="C2319V11" id="C2319V11">19:11</a> The princes of Zoan are
utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has
become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise,
the son of ancient kings?" <a name="C2319V12" id="C2319V12">19:12</a>
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know
what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. <a name="C2319V13"
id="C2319V13">19:13</a> The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes
of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the
cornerstone of her tribes. <a name="C2319V14" id="C2319V14">19:14</a> Yahweh
has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have
caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers
in his vomit. <a name="C2319V15" id="C2319V15">19:15</a> Neither shall there
be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. <a
name="C2319V16" id="C2319V16">19:16</a> In that day the Egyptians will be like
women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
Yahweh of Armies, which he shakes over them. <a name="C2319V17" id="C2319V17">19:17</a>
The land of Yehudah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention
is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies,
which he determines against it. <a name="C2319V18" id="C2319V18">19:18</a> In
that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the
language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called
"The city of destruction." <a name="C2319V19" id="C2319V19">19:19</a>
In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of
Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. <a name="C2319V20" id="C2319V20">19:20</a>
It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of
Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send
them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. <a name="C2319V21"
id="C2319V21">19:21</a> Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians
will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and
offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it. <a
name="C2319V22" id="C2319V22">19:22</a> Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and
healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and
will heal them. <a name="C2319V23" id="C2319V23">19:23</a> In that day there
will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come
into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship
with the Assyrians. <a name="C2319V24" id="C2319V24">19:24</a> In that day,
Yisrael will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the
midst of the earth; <a name="C2319V25" id="C2319V25">19:25</a> because Yahweh
of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people,
Assyria the work of my hands, and Yisrael my inheritance."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2320V1" id="C2320V1">20:1</a> In the year that Tartan came to
Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against
Ashdod and took it; <a name="C2320V2" id="C2320V2">20:2</a> at that time
Yahweh spoke by Yesh’yahu the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the
sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet."
He did so, walking naked and barefoot. <a name="C2320V3" id="C2320V3">20:3</a>
Yahweh said, "As my servant Yesh’yahu has walked naked and barefoot
three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning
Ethiopia, <a name="C2320V4" id="C2320V4">20:4</a> so the king of Assyria will
lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old,
naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. <a
name="C2320V5" id="C2320V5">20:5</a> They will be dismayed and confounded,
because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. <a
name="C2320V6" id="C2320V6">20:6</a> The inhabitants of this coast land will
say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help
to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2321V1" id="C2321V1">21:1</a> The burden of the wilderness of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the
wilderness, from an awesome land. <a name="C2321V2" id="C2321V2">21:2</a> A
grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals
treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have
stopped all of Media's sighing. <a name="C2321V3" id="C2321V3">21:3</a>
Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me,
like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't
hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see. <a name="C2321V4" id="C2321V4">21:4</a>
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired
has been turned into trembling for me. <a name="C2321V5" id="C2321V5">21:5</a>
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up,
you princes, oil the shield! <a name="C2321V6" id="C2321V6">21:6</a> For the
Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
<a name="C2321V7" id="C2321V7">21:7</a> When he sees a troop, horsemen in
pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently
with great attentiveness." <a name="C2321V8" id="C2321V8">21:8</a> He
cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in
the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. <a name="C2321V9" id="C2321V9">21:9</a>
Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered,
"Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her Elohims
are broken to the ground. <a name="C2321V10" id="C2321V10">21:10</a> You are
my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard
from Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, I have declared to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2321V11" id="C2321V11">21:11</a> The burden of Dumah. One calls to
me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the
night?" <a name="C2321V12" id="C2321V12">21:12</a> The watchman said,
"The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire.
Come back again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2321V13" id="C2321V13">21:13</a> The burden on Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. <a name="C2321V14"
id="C2321V14">21:14</a> They brought water to him who was thirsty. The
inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. <a
name="C2321V15" id="C2321V15">21:15</a> For they fled away from the swords,
from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. <a
name="C2321V16" id="C2321V16">21:16</a> For the Lord said to me, "Within
a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of
Kedar will fail, <a name="C2321V17" id="C2321V17">21:17</a> and the residue of
the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will
be few; for Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, has spoken it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2322V1" id="C2322V1">22:1</a> The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? <a
name="C2322V2" id="C2322V2">22:2</a> You that are full of shouting, a
tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword,
neither are they dead in battle. <a name="C2322V3" id="C2322V3">22:3</a> All
your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who
were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. <a name="C2322V4"
id="C2322V4">22:4</a> Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep
bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of
my people. <a name="C2322V5" id="C2322V5">22:5</a> For it is a day of
confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a
crying to the mountains." <a name="C2322V6" id="C2322V6">22:6</a> Elam
carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered
the shield. <a name="C2322V7" id="C2322V7">22:7</a> It happened that your
choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in
array at the gate. <a name="C2322V8" id="C2322V8">22:8</a> He took away the
covering of Yehudah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of
the forest. <a name="C2322V9" id="C2322V9">22:9</a> You saw the breaches of
the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the
waters of the lower pool. <a name="C2322V10" id="C2322V10">22:10</a> You
numbered the houses of Yerushalaim, and you broke down the houses to fortify
the wall. <a name="C2322V11" id="C2322V11">22:11</a> You also made a reservoir
between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn't look
to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who
purposed it long ago. <a name="C2322V12" id="C2322V12">22:12</a> In that day,
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to
baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: <a name="C2322V13" id="C2322V13">22:13</a>
and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating
flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will
die." <a name="C2322V14" id="C2322V14">22:14</a> Yahweh of Armies
revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this iniquity will not be
forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2322V15" id="C2322V15">22:15</a> Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, "Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is
over the house, and say, <a name="C2322V16" id="C2322V16">22:16</a> 'What are
you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?'
Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in
the rock!" <a name="C2322V17" id="C2322V17">22:17</a> Behold, Yahweh will
overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
<a name="C2322V18" id="C2322V18">22:18</a> He will surely wind you around and
around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will
die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your
lord's house. <a name="C2322V19" id="C2322V19">22:19</a> I will thrust you
from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2322V20" id="C2322V20">22:20</a> It will happen in that day that I
will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, <a name="C2322V21"
id="C2322V21">22:21</a> and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen
him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he
will be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalaim, and to the house of
Yehudah. <a name="C2322V22" id="C2322V22">22:22</a> I will lay the key of the
house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He
will shut, and no one will open. <a name="C2322V23" id="C2322V23">22:23</a> I
will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of
glory to his father's house. <a name="C2322V24" id="C2322V24">22:24</a> They
will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and
the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. <a
name="C2322V25" id="C2322V25">22:25</a> "In that day," says Yahweh
of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way.
It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off,
for Yahweh has spoken it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2323V1" id="C2323V1">23:1</a> The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of
Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in.
From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. <a name="C2323V2" id="C2323V2">23:2</a>
Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon,
that pass over the sea, have replenished. <a name="C2323V3" id="C2323V3">23:3</a>
On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her
revenue. She was the market of nations. <a name="C2323V4" id="C2323V4">23:4</a>
Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea,
saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I
nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." <a name="C2323V5"
id="C2323V5">23:5</a> When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in
anguish at the report of Tyre. <a name="C2323V6" id="C2323V6">23:6</a> Pass
over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! <a name="C2323V7"
id="C2323V7">23:7</a> Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of
ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? <a name="C2323V8"
id="C2323V8">23:8</a> Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of
crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable
of the earth? <a name="C2323V9" id="C2323V9">23:9</a> Yahweh of Armies has
planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all
the honorable of the earth. <a name="C2323V10" id="C2323V10">23:10</a> Pass
through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no
restraint any more. <a name="C2323V11" id="C2323V11">23:11</a> He has
stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh
has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds. <a name="C2323V12"
id="C2323V12">23:12</a> He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there
you will have no rest."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2323V13" id="C2323V13">23:13</a> Behold, the land of the Chaldeans.
This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the
wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They
made it a ruin. <a name="C2323V14" id="C2323V14">23:14</a> Howl, you ships of
Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! <a name="C2323V15" id="C2323V15">23:15</a>
It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy
years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years
it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. <a name="C2323V16"
id="C2323V16">23:16</a> Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that
has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be
remembered. <a name="C2323V17" id="C2323V17">23:17</a> It will happen after
the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return
to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the
world on the surface of the earth. <a name="C2323V18" id="C2323V18">23:18</a>
Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be
treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell
before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2324V1" id="C2324V1">24:1</a> Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty,
makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. <a
name="C2324V2" id="C2324V2">24:2</a> It will be as with the people, so with
the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so
with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the
creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the
giver of interest. <a name="C2324V3" id="C2324V3">24:3</a> The earth will be
utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
<a name="C2324V4" id="C2324V4">24:4</a> The earth mourns and fades away. The
world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
<a name="C2324V5" id="C2324V5">24:5</a> The earth also is polluted under its
inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the
statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. <a name="C2324V6" id="C2324V6">24:6</a>
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein
are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and
few men left. <a name="C2324V7" id="C2324V7">24:7</a> The new wine mourns. The
vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. <a name="C2324V8" id="C2324V8">24:8</a>
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The
joy of the harp ceases. <a name="C2324V9" id="C2324V9">24:9</a> They will not
drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
<a name="C2324V10" id="C2324V10">24:10</a> The confused city is broken down.
Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. <a name="C2324V11"
id="C2324V11">24:11</a> There is a crying in the streets because of the
wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. <a name="C2324V12"
id="C2324V12">24:12</a> The city is left in desolation, and the gate is
struck with destruction. <a name="C2324V13" id="C2324V13">24:13</a> For it
will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of
an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. <a name="C2324V14"
id="C2324V14">24:14</a> These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for
the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. <a name="C2324V15"
id="C2324V15">24:15</a> Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name
of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, in the islands of the sea! <a name="C2324V16"
id="C2324V16">24:16</a> From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away!
woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously. <a name="C2324V17" id="C2324V17">24:17</a>
Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. <a
name="C2324V18" id="C2324V18">24:18</a> It will happen that he who flees from
the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of
the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high
are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. <a name="C2324V19"
id="C2324V19">24:19</a> The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn
apart. The earth is shaken violently. <a name="C2324V20" id="C2324V20">24:20</a>
The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth
like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and
not rise again. <a name="C2324V21" id="C2324V21">24:21</a> It shall happen in
that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and
the kings of the earth on the earth. <a name="C2324V22" id="C2324V22">24:22</a>
They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and
shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
<a name="C2324V23" id="C2324V23">24:23</a> Then the moon shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in
Yerushalaim; and before his elders will be glory.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2325V1" id="C2325V1">25:1</a> Yahweh, you are my Elohim. I will exalt
you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things
planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. <a name="C2325V2"
id="C2325V2">25:2</a> For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city
into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
<a name="C2325V3" id="C2325V3">25:3</a> Therefore a strong people will glorify
you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. <a name="C2325V4" id="C2325V4">25:4</a>
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the
blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. <a name="C2325V5"
id="C2325V5">25:5</a> As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the
noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
dreaded ones will be brought low. <a name="C2325V6" id="C2325V6">25:6</a> In
this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat
things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well
refined choice wines. <a name="C2325V7" id="C2325V7">25:7</a> He will destroy
in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and
the veil that is spread over all nations. <a name="C2325V8" id="C2325V8">25:8</a>
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears
from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off
all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it. <a name="C2325V9" id="C2325V9">25:9</a>
It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our Elohim! We have
waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for
him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" <a name="C2325V10"
id="C2325V10">25:10</a> For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest.
</p>
<p>
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in
the water of the dunghill. <a name="C2325V11" id="C2325V11">25:11</a> He will
spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to
swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
<a name="C2325V12" id="C2325V12">25:12</a> He has brought the high fortress of
your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2326V1" id="C2326V1">26:1</a> In that day, this song will be sung in
the land of Yehudah:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"We have a strong city.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V2" id="C2326V2">26:2</a> Open the gates, that the righteous
nation may enter:
</dt>
<dd>
the one which keeps faith.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V3" id="C2326V3">26:3</a> You will keep whoever's mind is
steadfast in perfect peace,
</dt>
<dd>
because he trusts in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V4" id="C2326V4">26:4</a> Trust in Yahweh forever;
</dt>
<dd>
for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V5" id="C2326V5">26:5</a> For he has brought down those who
dwell on high, the lofty city.
</dt>
<dd>
He lays it low.
</dd>
<dd>
He lays it low even to the ground.
</dd>
<dd>
He brings it even to the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V6" id="C2326V6">26:6</a> The foot shall tread it down;
</dt>
<dd>
Even the feet of the poor,
</dd>
<dd>
and the steps of the needy."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V7" id="C2326V7">26:7</a> The way of the just is uprightness.
</dt>
<dd>
You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2326V8" id="C2326V8">26:8</a>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your
name and your renown are the desire of our soul. <a name="C2326V9" id="C2326V9">26:9</a>
With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within
me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. <a name="C2326V10"
id="C2326V10">26:10</a> Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not
learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh's majesty. <a name="C2326V11" id="C2326V11">26:11</a>
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your
zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your
adversaries. <a name="C2326V12" id="C2326V12">26:12</a> Yahweh, you will
ordain peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us. <a
name="C2326V13" id="C2326V13">26:13</a> Yahweh our Elohim, other lords besides
you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of
your name. <a name="C2326V14" id="C2326V14">26:14</a> The dead shall not live.
The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed
them, and caused all memory of them to perish. <a name="C2326V15" id="C2326V15">26:15</a>
You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation!
You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. <a
name="C2326V16" id="C2326V16">26:16</a> Yahweh, in trouble they have visited
you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. <a
name="C2326V17" id="C2326V17">26:17</a> Like as a woman with child, who draws
near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so
we have been before you, Yahweh. <a name="C2326V18" id="C2326V18">26:18</a> We
have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only
to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen. <a name="C2326V19" id="C2326V19">26:19</a>
Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who
dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth
will cast forth the dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2326V20" id="C2326V20">26:20</a> Come, my people, enter into your
chambers, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little
moment, until the indignation is past. <a name="C2326V21" id="C2326V21">26:21</a>
For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood,
and will no longer cover her slain.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2327V1" id="C2327V1">27:1</a> In that day, Yahweh with his hard and
great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and
leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the
sea. <a name="C2327V2" id="C2327V2">27:2</a> In that day, sing to her, "A
pleasant vineyard! <a name="C2327V3" id="C2327V3">27:3</a> I, Yahweh, am its
keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep
it night and day. <a name="C2327V4" id="C2327V4">27:4</a> Wrath is not in me,
but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march
on them and I would burn them together. <a name="C2327V5" id="C2327V5">27:5</a>
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me.
Let him make peace with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2327V6" id="C2327V6">27:6</a> In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Yisrael will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with
fruit. <a name="C2327V7" id="C2327V7">27:7</a> Has he struck them as he struck
those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were
killed? <a name="C2327V8" id="C2327V8">27:8</a> In measure, when you send them
away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in
the day of the east wind. <a name="C2327V9" id="C2327V9">27:9</a> Therefore,
by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit
of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk
stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense
altars shall rise no more. <a name="C2327V10" id="C2327V10">27:10</a> For the
fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the
wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and
consume its branches. <a name="C2327V11" id="C2327V11">27:11</a> When its
boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set
them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who
made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will
show them no favor. <a name="C2327V12" id="C2327V12">27:12</a> It will happen
in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the
Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one,
children of Yisrael. <a name="C2327V13" id="C2327V13">27:13</a> It will happen
in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready
to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land
of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at
Yerushalaim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2328V1" id="C2328V1">28:1</a> Woe to the crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with
wine! <a name="C2328V2" id="C2328V2">28:2</a> Behold, the Lord has a mighty
and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm
of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his
hand. <a name="C2328V3" id="C2328V3">28:3</a> The crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. <a name="C2328V4" id="C2328V4">28:4</a>
The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which
someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. <a name="C2328V5" id="C2328V5">28:5</a>
In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem
of beauty, to the residue of his people; <a name="C2328V6" id="C2328V6">28:6</a>
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those
who turn back the battle at the gate. <a name="C2328V7" id="C2328V7">28:7</a>
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and
the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They
stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
<a name="C2328V8" id="C2328V8">28:8</a> For all tables are completely full of
filthy vomit and filthiness. <a name="C2328V9" id="C2328V9">28:9</a> Whom will
he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are
weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? <a name="C2328V10"
id="C2328V10">28:10</a> For it is precept on precept, precept on precept;
line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. <a name="C2328V11"
id="C2328V11">28:11</a> But he will speak to this nation with stammering
lips and in another language; <a name="C2328V12" id="C2328V12">28:12</a> to
whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;"
and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. <a
name="C2328V13" id="C2328V13">28:13</a> Therefore the word of Yahweh will be
to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on
line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be
broken, be snared, and be taken. <a name="C2328V14" id="C2328V14">28:14</a>
Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in
Yerushalaim: <a name="C2328V15" id="C2328V15">28:15</a> "Because you have
said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in
agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to
us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under
falsehood.'" <a name="C2328V16" id="C2328V16">28:16</a> Therefore thus
says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who
believes shall not act hastily. <a name="C2328V17" id="C2328V17">28:17</a> I
will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line.
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow
the hiding place. <a name="C2328V18" id="C2328V18">28:18</a> Your covenant
with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not
stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be
trampled down by it. <a name="C2328V19" id="C2328V19">28:19</a> As often as it
passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass
through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to
understand the message." <a name="C2328V20" id="C2328V20">28:20</a> For
the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to
wrap oneself in. <a name="C2328V21" id="C2328V21">28:21</a> For Yahweh will
rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon;
that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his
extraordinary act. <a name="C2328V22" id="C2328V22">28:22</a> Now therefore
don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a
decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2328V23" id="C2328V23">28:23</a> Give ear, and hear my voice!
Listen, and hear my speech! <a name="C2328V24" id="C2328V24">28:24</a> Does he
who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and
breaking the clods? <a name="C2328V25" id="C2328V25">28:25</a> When he has
leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin
seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and
the spelt in its place? <a name="C2328V26" id="C2328V26">28:26</a> For his Elohim
instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him. <a name="C2328V27"
id="C2328V27">28:27</a> For the dill are not threshed with a sharp
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is
beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. <a name="C2328V28"
id="C2328V28">28:28</a> Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be
threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it,
his horses don't grind it. <a name="C2328V29" id="C2328V29">28:29</a> This
also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2329V1" id="C2329V1">29:1</a> Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where
David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; <a
name="C2329V2" id="C2329V2">29:2</a> then I will distress Ariel, and there
will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an <a href="#N238">altar
hearth</a>. <a name="C2329V3" id="C2329V3">29:3</a> I will encamp against you
all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will
raise siege works against you. <a name="C2329V4" id="C2329V4">29:4</a> You
will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will
mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar
spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
<a name="C2329V5" id="C2329V5">29:5</a> But the multitude of your foes will be
like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that
blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. <a name="C2329V6"
id="C2329V6">29:6</a> She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder,
with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the
flame of a devouring fire. <a name="C2329V7" id="C2329V7">29:7</a> The
multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight
against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a
dream, a vision of the night. <a name="C2329V8" id="C2329V8">29:8</a> It will
be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and
his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold,
he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still
thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion
will be like that. <a name="C2329V9" id="C2329V9">29:9</a> Pause and wonder!
Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink. <a name="C2329V10" id="C2329V10">29:10</a>
For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed
your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. <a
name="C2329V11" id="C2329V11">29:11</a> All vision has become to you like the
words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated,
saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it
is sealed:" <a name="C2329V12" id="C2329V12">29:12</a> and the book is
delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;"
and he says, "I can't read." <a name="C2329V13" id="C2329V13">29:13</a>
The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and
with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from
me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; <a
name="C2329V14" id="C2329V14">29:14</a> therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder;
and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of
their prudent men will be hidden."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2329V15" id="C2329V15">29:15</a> Woe to those who deeply hide their
counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who
sees us?" and "Who knows us?" <a name="C2329V16" id="C2329V16">29:16</a>
You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay;
that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make
me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no
understanding?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2329V17" id="C2329V17">29:17</a> Isn't it yet a very little while,
and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
will be regarded as a forest? <a name="C2329V18" id="C2329V18">29:18</a> In
that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the
blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. <a name="C2329V19"
id="C2329V19">29:19</a> The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh,
and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Yisrael. <a
name="C2329V20" id="C2329V20">29:20</a> For the ruthless is brought to
nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil
are cut off-- <a name="C2329V21" id="C2329V21">29:21</a> who cause a person to
be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and
who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. <a name="C2329V22"
id="C2329V22">29:22</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Avraham,
concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed,
neither shall his face grow pale. <a name="C2329V23" id="C2329V23">29:23</a>
But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him,
they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C2329V24" id="C2329V24">29:24</a>
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who
grumble will receive instruction."
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N238" id="N238">[8]</a> <a href="#C2329V2">back to 29:2</a> or, Ariel
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2330V1" id="C2330V1">30:1</a> "Woe to the rebellious children,"
says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an
alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, <a
name="C2330V2" id="C2330V2">30:2</a> who set out to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of
Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! <a name="C2330V3"
id="C2330V3">30:3</a> Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame,
and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. <a name="C2330V4"
id="C2330V4">30:4</a> For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors
have come to Hanes. <a name="C2330V5" id="C2330V5">30:5</a> They shall all be
ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help
nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2330V6" id="C2330V6">30:6</a> The burden of the animals of the
South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the
lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the
shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to
an unprofitable people. <a name="C2330V7" id="C2330V7">30:7</a> For Egypt
helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who
sits still. <a name="C2330V8" id="C2330V8">30:8</a> Now go, write it before
them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time
to come forever and ever. <a name="C2330V9" id="C2330V9">30:9</a> For it is a
rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the Torah of
Yahweh; <a name="C2330V10" id="C2330V10">30:10</a> who tell the seers, "Don't
see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things.
Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. <a name="C2330V11" id="C2330V11">30:11</a>
Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Yisrael
to cease from before us." <a name="C2330V12" id="C2330V12">30:12</a>
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Yisrael, "Because you despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it; <a
name="C2330V13" id="C2330V13">30:13</a> therefore this iniquity shall be to
you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose
breaking comes suddenly in an instant. <a name="C2330V14" id="C2330V14">30:14</a>
He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces
without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a
piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of
the cistern." <a name="C2330V15" id="C2330V15">30:15</a> For thus said
the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Yisrael, "You will be saved in
returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence."
You refused, <a name="C2330V16" id="C2330V16">30:16</a> but you said, "No,
for we will flee on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We
will ride on the swift;" therefore those who pursue you will be
swift. <a name="C2330V17" id="C2330V17">30:17</a> One thousand will flee at
the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left
like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. <a
name="C2330V18" id="C2330V18">30:18</a> Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he
may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have
mercy on you, for Yahweh is a Elohim of justice. Blessed are all those who
wait for him. <a name="C2330V19" id="C2330V19">30:19</a> For the people will
dwell in Zion at Yerushalaim. You will weep no more. He will surely be
gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will
answer you. <a name="C2330V20" id="C2330V20">30:20</a> Though the Lord may
give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your
teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers; <a
name="C2330V21" id="C2330V21">30:21</a> and when you turn to the right hand,
and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you,
saying, "This is the way. Walk in it." <a name="C2330V22"
id="C2330V22">30:22</a> You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved
images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall
cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
<a name="C2330V23" id="C2330V23">30:23</a> He will give the rain for your
seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the
ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed
in large pastures. <a name="C2330V24" id="C2330V24">30:24</a> The oxen
likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory
provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. <a
name="C2330V25" id="C2330V25">30:25</a> There shall be brooks and streams of
water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall. <a name="C2330V26" id="C2330V26">30:26</a>
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven
days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and
heals the wound they were struck with.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2330V27" id="C2330V27">30:27</a> Behold, the name of Yahweh comes
from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. <a
name="C2330V28" id="C2330V28">30:28</a> His breath is as an overflowing stream
that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the
peoples. <a name="C2330V29" id="C2330V29">30:29</a> You will have a song, as
in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one
goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Yisrael's Rock. <a
name="C2330V30" id="C2330V30">30:30</a> Yahweh will cause his glorious voice
to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of
his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and
hailstones. <a name="C2330V31" id="C2330V31">30:31</a> For through the voice
of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
<a name="C2330V32" id="C2330V32">30:32</a> Every stroke of the rod of
punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of
tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing
weapons. <a name="C2330V33" id="C2330V33">30:33</a> For his burning place has
long been ready. Yes, for the king it is made ready. He has made its pyre
deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of
sulfur, kindles it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2331V1" id="C2331V1">31:1</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
</dt>
<dd>
and rely on horses,
</dd>
<dd>
and trust in chariots because they are many,
</dd>
<dd>
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
</dd>
<dd>
but they don't look to the Holy One of Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
and they don't seek Yahweh!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V2" id="C2331V2">31:2</a> Yet he also is wise, and will bring
disaster,
</dt>
<dd>
and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of
the evil-doers,
</dd>
<dd>
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V3" id="C2331V3">31:3</a> Now the Egyptians are men, and not
Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,
</dt>
<dd>
and he who is helped shall fall,
</dd>
<dd>
and they all shall be consumed together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V4" id="C2331V4">31:4</a> For thus says Yahweh to me,
</dt>
<dt>
"As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
</dt>
<dd>
if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,
</dd>
<dd>
will not be dismayed at their voice,
</dd>
<dd>
nor abase himself for the noise of them,
</dd>
<dd>
so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its
heights.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V5" id="C2331V5">31:5</a> As birds hovering, so Yahweh of
Armies will protect Yerushalaim.
</dt>
<dd>
He will protect and deliver it.
</dd>
<dd>
He will pass over and preserve it."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V6" id="C2331V6">31:6</a>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Yisrael. <a
name="C2331V7" id="C2331V7">31:7</a> For in that day everyone shall cast away
his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have
made for you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2331V8" id="C2331V8">31:8</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;
</dt>
<dd>
and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.
</dd>
<dt>
He will flee from the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2331V9" id="C2331V9">31:9</a> His rock will pass away by reason of
terror,
</dt>
<dd>
and his princes will be afraid of the banner,"
</dd>
<dt>
says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and his furnace in Yerushalaim.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2332V1" id="C2332V1">32:1</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and princes shall rule in justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V2" id="C2332V2">32:2</a> A man shall be as a hiding place
from the wind,
</dt>
<dd>
and a covert from the storm,
</dd>
<dd>
as streams of water in a dry place,
</dd>
<dd>
as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V3" id="C2332V3">32:3</a> The eyes of those who see will not
be dim,
</dt>
<dd>
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V4" id="C2332V4">32:4</a> The heart of the rash will
understand knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V5" id="C2332V5">32:5</a> The fool will no longer be called
noble,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V6" id="C2332V6">32:6</a> For the fool will speak folly,
</dt>
<dd>
and his heart will work iniquity,
</dd>
<dd>
to practice profanity,
</dd>
<dd>
and to utter error against Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
To make empty the soul of the hungry,
</dd>
<dd>
and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V7" id="C2332V7">32:7</a> The ways of the scoundrel are evil.
</dt>
<dd>
He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words,
</dd>
<dd>
even when the needy speaks right.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V8" id="C2332V8">32:8</a> But the noble devises noble things;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will continue in noble things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V9" id="C2332V9">32:9</a> Rise up, you women who are at ease!
Hear my voice!
</dt>
<dd>
You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V10" id="C2332V10">32:10</a> For days beyond a year you will
be troubled, you careless women;
</dt>
<dd>
for the vintage shall fail.
</dd>
<dd>
The harvest won't come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V11" id="C2332V11">32:11</a> Tremble, you women who are at
ease!
</dt>
<dd>
Be troubled, you careless ones!
</dd>
<dd>
Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
</dd>
<dd>
and put sackcloth on your waist.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V12" id="C2332V12">32:12</a> Beat your breasts for the
pleasant fields,
</dt>
<dd>
for the fruitful vine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V13" id="C2332V13">32:13</a> Thorns and briars will come up on
my people's land;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V14" id="C2332V14">32:14</a> For the palace will be forsaken.
</dt>
<dd>
The populous city will be deserted.
</dd>
<dd>
The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,
</dd>
<dd>
a delight for wild donkeys,
</dd>
<dd>
a pasture of flocks;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V15" id="C2332V15">32:15</a> Until the Spirit is poured on us
from on high,
</dt>
<dd>
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
</dd>
<dd>
and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V16" id="C2332V16">32:16</a> Then justice will dwell in the
wilderness;
</dt>
<dd>
and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V17" id="C2332V17">32:17</a> The work of righteousness will be
peace;
</dt>
<dd>
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V18" id="C2332V18">32:18</a> My people will abide in a
peaceful habitation,
</dt>
<dd>
in safe dwellings,
</dd>
<dd>
and in quiet resting places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V19" id="C2332V19">32:19</a> Though hail flattens the forest,
</dt>
<dd>
and the city is leveled completely.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2332V20" id="C2332V20">32:20</a> Blessed are you who sow beside
all waters,
</dt>
<dd>
who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V1" id="C2333V1">33:1</a> Woe to you who destroy, but you
weren't destroyed;
</dt>
<dd>
and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
</dd>
<dt>
When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;
</dt>
<dd>
and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V2" id="C2333V2">33:2</a> Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have
waited for you.
</dt>
<dd>
Be our strength every morning,
</dd>
<dd>
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V3" id="C2333V3">33:3</a> At the noise of the thunder, the
peoples have fled.
</dt>
<dd>
When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V4" id="C2333V4">33:4</a> Your spoil will be gathered as the
caterpillar gathers.
</dt>
<dd>
Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V5" id="C2333V5">33:5</a> Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on
high.
</dt>
<dd>
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V6" id="C2333V6">33:6</a> There will be stability in your
times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V7" id="C2333V7">33:7</a> Behold, their valiant ones cry
outside;
</dt>
<dd>
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V8" id="C2333V8">33:8</a> The highways are desolate.
</dt>
<dd>
The traveling man ceases.
</dd>
<dd>
The covenant is broken.
</dd>
<dd>
He has despised the cities.
</dd>
<dd>
He doesn't regard man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V9" id="C2333V9">33:9</a> The land mourns and languishes.
</dt>
<dd>
Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
</dd>
<dd>
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V10" id="C2333V10">33:10</a> "Now I will arise,"
says Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
"Now I will lift myself up.
</dd>
<dd>
Now I will be exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V11" id="C2333V11">33:11</a> You will conceive chaff.
</dt>
<dd>
You will bring forth stubble.
</dd>
<dd>
Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V12" id="C2333V12">33:12</a> The peoples will be like the
burning of lime,
</dt>
<dd>
like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V13" id="C2333V13">33:13</a> Hear, you who are far off, what I
have done;
</dt>
<dd>
and, you who are near, acknowledge my might."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V14" id="C2333V14">33:14</a> The sinners in Zion are afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
Trembling has seized the Elohimless ones.
</dd>
<dt>
Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
</dt>
<dd>
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V15" id="C2333V15">33:15</a> He who walks righteously,
</dt>
<dd>
and speaks blamelessly;
</dd>
<dd>
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
</dd>
<dd>
who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,
</dd>
<dd>
who stops his ears from hearing of blood,
</dd>
<dd>
and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V16" id="C2333V16">33:16</a> he will dwell on high.
</dt>
<dd>
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.
</dd>
<dd>
His bread will be supplied.
</dd>
<dd>
His waters will be sure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V17" id="C2333V17">33:17</a> Your eyes will see the king in
his beauty.
</dt>
<dd>
They will see a distant land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V18" id="C2333V18">33:18</a> Your heart will meditate on the
terror.
</dt>
<dd>
Where is he who counted?
</dd>
<dd>
Where is he who weighed?
</dd>
<dd>
Where is he who counted the towers?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V19" id="C2333V19">33:19</a> You will no longer see the fierce
people,
</dt>
<dd>
a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend,
</dd>
<dd>
with a strange language that you can't understand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V20" id="C2333V20">33:20</a> Look at Zion, the city of our
appointed festivals.
</dt>
<dd>
Your eyes will see Yerushalaim, a quiet habitation,
</dd>
<dd>
a tent that won't be removed.
</dd>
<dt>
Its stakes will never be plucked up,
</dt>
<dd>
nor will any of its cords be broken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V21" id="C2333V21">33:21</a> But there Yahweh will be with us
in majesty,
</dt>
<dd>
a place of broad rivers and streams,
</dd>
<dd>
in which no galley with oars will go,
</dd>
<dd>
neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V22" id="C2333V22">33:22</a> For Yahweh is our judge.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is our lawgiver.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh is our king.
</dd>
<dd>
He will save us.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V23" id="C2333V23">33:23</a> Your rigging is untied.
</dt>
<dd>
They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast.
</dd>
<dd>
They couldn't spread the sail.
</dd>
<dt>
Then the prey of a great spoil was divided.
</dt>
<dd>
The lame took the prey.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2333V24" id="C2333V24">33:24</a> The inhabitant won't say, "I
am sick."
</dt>
<dd>
The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V1" id="C2334V1">34:1</a> Come near, you nations, to hear!
</dt>
<dd>
Listen, you peoples.
</dd>
<dd>
Let the earth and all it contains hear;
</dd>
<dd>
the world, and everything that comes from it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V2" id="C2334V2">34:2</a> For Yahweh is enraged against all
the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and angry with all their armies.
</dd>
<dt>
He has utterly destroyed them.
</dt>
<dd>
He has given them over for slaughter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V3" id="C2334V3">34:3</a> Their slain will also be cast out,
</dt>
<dd>
and the stench of their dead bodies will come up;
</dd>
<dd>
and the mountains will melt in their blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V4" id="C2334V4">34:4</a> All of the army of the sky will be
dissolved.
</dt>
<dd>
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
</dd>
<dd>
and all its armies will fade away,
</dd>
<dd>
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V5" id="C2334V5">34:5</a> For my sword has drunk its fill in
the sky.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
</dd>
<dd>
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V6" id="C2334V6">34:6</a> Yahweh's sword is filled with blood.
</dt>
<dd>
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
</dd>
<dd>
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
</dd>
<dd>
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V7" id="C2334V7">34:7</a> The wild oxen will come down with
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
</dd>
<dd>
and their land will be drunken with blood,
</dd>
<dd>
and their dust made greasy with fat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V8" id="C2334V8">34:8</a> For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
</dt>
<dd>
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V9" id="C2334V9">34:9</a> Its streams will be turned into
pitch,
</dt>
<dd>
its dust into sulfur,
</dd>
<dd>
And its land will become burning pitch.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V10" id="C2334V10">34:10</a> It won't be quenched night nor
day.
</dt>
<dd>
Its smoke will go up forever.
</dd>
<dd>
From generation to generation, it will lie waste.
</dd>
<dd>
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V11" id="C2334V11">34:11</a> But the pelican and the porcupine
will possess it.
</dt>
<dd>
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
</dd>
<dt>
He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
</dt>
<dd>
and the plumb line of emptiness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V12" id="C2334V12">34:12</a> They shall call its nobles to the
kingdom, but none shall be there;
</dt>
<dd>
and all its princes shall be nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V13" id="C2334V13">34:13</a> Thorns will come up in its
palaces,
</dt>
<dd>
nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
</dd>
<dd>
and it will be a habitation of jackals,
</dd>
<dd>
a court for ostriches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V14" id="C2334V14">34:14</a> The wild animals of the desert
will meet with the wolves,
</dt>
<dd>
and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, the <a href="#N239">night creature</a> shall settle there,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall find herself a place of rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V15" id="C2334V15">34:15</a> The arrow snake will make her
nest there,
</dt>
<dd>
and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V16" id="C2334V16">34:16</a> Search in the book of Yahweh, and
read:
</dt>
<dd>
not one of these will be missing.
</dd>
<dd>
none will lack her mate.
</dd>
<dd>
For my mouth has commanded,
</dd>
<dd>
and his Spirit has gathered them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2334V17" id="C2334V17">34:17</a> He has cast the lot for them,
</dt>
<dd>
and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.
</dd>
<dd>
They shall possess it forever.
</dd>
<dd>
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N239" id="N239">[9]</a> <a href="#C2334V14">back to 34:14</a>
literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V1" id="C2335V1">35:1</a> The wilderness and the dry land will
be glad.
</dt>
<dd>
The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V2" id="C2335V2">35:2</a> It will blossom abundantly,
</dt>
<dd>
and rejoice even with joy and singing.
</dd>
<dd>
Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it,
</dd>
<dd>
the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
</dd>
<dd>
They will see Yahweh's glory,
</dd>
<dd>
the excellence of our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V3" id="C2335V3">35:3</a> Strengthen the weak hands,
</dt>
<dd>
and make firm the feeble knees.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V4" id="C2335V4">35:4</a> Tell those who have a fearful heart,
"Be strong.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't be afraid.
</dd>
<dd>
Behold, your Elohim will come with vengeance, Elohim's retribution.
</dd>
<dd>
He will come and save you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V5" id="C2335V5">35:5</a> Then the eyes of the blind will be
opened,
</dt>
<dd>
and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V6" id="C2335V6">35:6</a> Then the lame man will leap like a
deer,
</dt>
<dd>
and the tongue of the mute will sing;
</dd>
<dd>
for waters will break out in the wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
and streams in the desert.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V7" id="C2335V7">35:7</a> The burning sand will become a pool,
</dt>
<dd>
and the thirsty ground springs of water.
</dd>
<dd>
Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where
they lay.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V8" id="C2335V8">35:8</a> A highway will be there, a road,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will be called The Holy Way.
</dd>
<dt>
The unclean shall not pass over it,
</dt>
<dd>
but it will be for those who walk in the Way.
</dd>
<dd>
Wicked fools will not go there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V9" id="C2335V9">35:9</a> No lion will be there,
</dt>
<dd>
nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
</dd>
<dd>
They will not be found there;
</dd>
<dd>
but the redeemed will walk there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2335V10" id="C2335V10">35:10</a> The Yahweh's ransomed ones will
return,
</dt>
<dd>
and come with singing to Zion;
</dd>
<dd>
and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
</dd>
<dt>
They will obtain gladness and joy,
</dt>
<dd>
and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2336V1" id="C2336V1">36:1</a> Now it happened in the fourteenth year
of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the
fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them. <a name="C2336V2" id="C2336V2">36:2</a>
The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Yerushalaim to king
Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool
in the fuller's field highway. <a name="C2336V3" id="C2336V3">36:3</a> Then
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him. <a
name="C2336V4" id="C2336V4">36:4</a> Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell
Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What
confidence is this in which you trust? <a name="C2336V5" id="C2336V5">36:5</a>
I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now
in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? <a name="C2336V6"
id="C2336V6">36:6</a> Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed,
even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and
pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. <a
name="C2336V7" id="C2336V7">36:7</a> But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh
our Elohim,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has
taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Yerushalaim, 'You shall worship
before this altar?'" <a name="C2336V8" id="C2336V8">36:8</a> Now
therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I
will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set
riders on them. <a name="C2336V9" id="C2336V9">36:9</a> How then can you turn
away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put
your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? <a name="C2336V10"
id="C2336V10">36:10</a> Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land
to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and
destroy it."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2336V11" id="C2336V11">36:11</a> Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said
to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we
understand it; and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing
of the people who are on the wall."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2336V12" id="C2336V12">36:12</a> But Rabshakeh said, "Has my
master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and
not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink
their own urine with you?" <a name="C2336V13" id="C2336V13">36:13</a>
Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of
Assyria! <a name="C2336V14" id="C2336V14">36:14</a> Thus says the king, 'Don't
let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. <a
name="C2336V15" id="C2336V15">36:15</a> Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in
Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won't be
given into the hand of the king of Assyria."' <a name="C2336V16"
id="C2336V16">36:16</a> Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of
Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat
from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink
the waters of his own cistern; <a name="C2336V17" id="C2336V17">36:17</a>
until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of
grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. <a name="C2336V18"
id="C2336V18">36:18</a> Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh
will deliver us." Have any of the Elohims of the nations delivered their
lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? <a name="C2336V19" id="C2336V19">36:19</a>
Where are the Elohims of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the Elohims of Sepharvaim?
Have they delivered Shomron from my hand? <a name="C2336V20" id="C2336V20">36:20</a>
Who are they among all the Elohims of these countries that have delivered
their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Yerushalaim out of
my hand?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2336V21" id="C2336V21">36:21</a> But they remained silent, and said
nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2336V22" id="C2336V22">36:22</a> Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of
Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V1" id="C2337V1">37:1</a> It happened, when king Hezekiah heard
it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into Yahweh's house. <a name="C2337V2" id="C2337V2">37:2</a> He sent Eliakim,
who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the
priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yesh’yahu the prophet, the son of Amoz.
<a name="C2337V3" id="C2337V3">37:3</a> They said to him, "Thus says
Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection;
for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring
forth. <a name="C2337V4" id="C2337V4">37:4</a> It may be Yahweh your Elohim will
hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent
to defy the living Elohim, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your Elohim
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
<a name="C2337V5" id="C2337V5">37:5</a> So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Yesh’yahu.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V6" id="C2337V6">37:6</a> Yesh’yahu said to them, "Tell your
master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be afraid of the words that you
have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed
me. <a name="C2337V7" id="C2337V7">37:7</a> Behold, I will put a spirit in him
and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him
to fall by the sword in his own land."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V8" id="C2337V8">37:8</a> So Rabshakeh returned, and found the
king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish. <a name="C2337V9" id="C2337V9">37:9</a> He heard news
concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight
against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying, <a name="C2337V10" id="C2337V10">37:10</a> "Thus you shall speak
to Hezekiah king of Yehudah, saying, 'Don't let your Elohim in whom you trust
deceive you, saying, "Yerushalaim won't be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria." <a name="C2337V11" id="C2337V11">37:11</a> Behold, you
have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying
them utterly. Shall you be delivered? <a name="C2337V12" id="C2337V12">37:12</a>
Have the Elohims of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have
destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in
Telassar? <a name="C2337V13" id="C2337V13">37:13</a> Where is the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of
Hena, and Ivvah?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V14" id="C2337V14">37:14</a> Hezekiah received the letter from
the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's
house, and spread it before Yahweh. <a name="C2337V15" id="C2337V15">37:15</a>
Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2337V16" id="C2337V16">37:16</a>
"Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, who is enthroned among the
cherubim, you are the Elohim, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth. You have made heaven and earth. <a name="C2337V17" id="C2337V17">37:17</a>
Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear
all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living Elohim. <a
name="C2337V18" id="C2337V18">37:18</a> Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed all the countries and their land, <a name="C2337V19"
id="C2337V19">37:19</a> and have cast their Elohims into the fire; for they
were no Elohims, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they
have destroyed them. <a name="C2337V20" id="C2337V20">37:20</a> Now therefore,
Yahweh our Elohim, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that you are Yahweh, even you only."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V21" id="C2337V21">37:21</a> Then Yesh’yahu the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, 'Because you
have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, <a name="C2337V22"
id="C2337V22">37:22</a> this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning
him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The
daughter of Yerushalaim has shaken her head at you. <a name="C2337V23"
id="C2337V23">37:23</a> Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom
have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the
Holy One of Yisrael. <a name="C2337V24" id="C2337V24">37:24</a> By your
servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the
multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to
the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its
choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its
fruitful field. <a name="C2337V25" id="C2337V25">37:25</a> I have dug and
drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of
Egypt." <a name="C2337V26" id="C2337V26">37:26</a> Have you not heard how
I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have
brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities,
turning them into ruinous heaps. <a name="C2337V27" id="C2337V27">37:27</a>
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and
confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green
herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop
has grown. <a name="C2337V28" id="C2337V28">37:28</a> But I know your sitting
down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. <a
name="C2337V29" id="C2337V29">37:29</a> Because of your raging against me, and
because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my
hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by
the way by which you came. <a name="C2337V30" id="C2337V30">37:30</a> This
shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of
itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in
the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. <a
name="C2337V31" id="C2337V31">37:31</a> The remnant that is escaped of the
house of Yehudah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. <a
name="C2337V32" id="C2337V32">37:32</a> For out of Yerushalaim a remnant will go
forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of
Armies will perform this.' <a name="C2337V33" id="C2337V33">37:33</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not
come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before
it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. <a name="C2337V34"
id="C2337V34">37:34</a> By the way that he came, by the same he shall
return, and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh. <a name="C2337V35"
id="C2337V35">37:35</a> 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own
sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2337V36" id="C2337V36">37:36</a> The angel of Yahweh went out and
struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the
Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all
dead bodies. <a name="C2337V37" id="C2337V37">37:37</a> So Sennacherib king of
Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. <a
name="C2337V38" id="C2337V38">37:38</a> It happened, as he was worshipping in
the house of Nisroch his Elohim, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar
Haddon his son reigned in his place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2338V1" id="C2338V1">38:1</a> In those days was Hezekiah sick and
near death. Yesh’yahu the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to
him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die,
and not live.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2338V2" id="C2338V2">38:2</a> Then Hezekiah turned his face to the
wall and prayed to Yahweh, <a name="C2338V3" id="C2338V3">38:3</a> and said,
"Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in
truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your
sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2338V4" id="C2338V4">38:4</a> Then the word of Yahweh came to
Yesh’yahu, saying, <a name="C2338V5" id="C2338V5">38:5</a> "Go, and tell
Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of David your father, "I have
heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen
years to your life. <a name="C2338V6" id="C2338V6">38:6</a> I will deliver you
and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend
this city. <a name="C2338V7" id="C2338V7">38:7</a> This shall be the sign to
you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. <a
name="C2338V8" id="C2338V8">38:8</a> Behold, I will cause the shadow on the
sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to
return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on
which it had gone down."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2338V9" id="C2338V9">38:9</a> The writing of Hezekiah king of Yehudah,
when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2338V10" id="C2338V10">38:10</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
</dt>
<dd>
I am deprived of the residue of my years."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V11" id="C2338V11">38:11</a> I said, "I won't see Yah,
</dt>
<dd>
Yah in the land of the living.
</dd>
<dd>
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V12" id="C2338V12">38:12</a> My dwelling is removed,
</dt>
<dd>
and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent.
</dd>
<dt>
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.
</dt>
<dd>
He will cut me off from the loom.
</dd>
<dd>
From day even to night you will make an end of me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V13" id="C2338V13">38:13</a> I waited patiently until morning.
</dt>
<dd>
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
</dd>
<dd>
From day even to night you will make an end of me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V14" id="C2338V14">38:14</a> I chattered like a swallow or a
crane.
</dt>
<dd>
I moaned like a dove.
</dd>
<dd>
My eyes weaken looking upward.
</dd>
<dd>
Lord, I am oppressed.
</dd>
<dd>
Be my security."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V15" id="C2338V15">38:15</a> What will I say?
</dt>
<dd>
He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
</dd>
<dd>
I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V16" id="C2338V16">38:16</a> Lord, men live by these things;
</dt>
<dd>
and my spirit finds life in all of them:
</dd>
<dd>
you restore me, and cause me to live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V17" id="C2338V17">38:17</a> Behold, for peace I had great
anguish,
</dt>
<dd>
but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of
corruption;
</dd>
<dd>
for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V18" id="C2338V18">38:18</a> For Sheol can't praise you.
</dt>
<dd>
Death can't celebrate you.
</dd>
<dt>
Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V19" id="C2338V19">38:19</a> The living, the living, he shall
praise you, as I do this day.
</dt>
<dd>
The father shall make known your truth to the children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2338V20" id="C2338V20">38:20</a> Yahweh will save me.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days
of our life in the house of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2338V21" id="C2338V21">38:21</a> Now Yesh’yahu had said, "Let them
take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall
recover." <a name="C2338V22" id="C2338V22">38:22</a> Hezekiah also had
said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2339V1" id="C2339V1">39:1</a> At that time, Merodach Baladan the son
of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for
he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. <a name="C2339V2"
id="C2339V2">39:2</a> Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and
the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found
in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah didn't show them. <a name="C2339V3" id="C2339V3">39:3</a> Then
Yesh’yahu the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did
these men say? Where did they come from to you?"
</p>
<p>
Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from
Babylon."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2339V4" id="C2339V4">39:4</a> Then he asked, "What have they
seen in your house?"
</p>
<p>
Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2339V5" id="C2339V5">39:5</a> Then said Yesh’yahu to Hezekiah, "Hear
the word of Yahweh of Armies: <a name="C2339V6" id="C2339V6">39:6</a> 'Behold,
the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your
fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing
will be left,' says Yahweh. <a name="C2339V7" id="C2339V7">39:7</a> 'They will
take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and
they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2339V8" id="C2339V8">39:8</a> Then Hezekiah said to Yesh’yahu, "Yahweh's
word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For
there will be peace and truth in my days."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2340V1" id="C2340V1">40:1</a> "Comfort, comfort my people,"
says your Elohim. <a name="C2340V2" id="C2340V2">40:2</a> "Speak comfortably
to Yerushalaim; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that
her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double
for all her sins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2340V3" id="C2340V3">40:3</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
The voice of one who calls out,
</dt>
<dd>
"Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!
</dd>
<dd>
Make a level highway in the desert for our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V4" id="C2340V4">40:4</a> Every valley shall be exalted,
</dt>
<dd>
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
</dd>
<dd>
The uneven shall be made level,
</dd>
<dd>
and the rough places a plain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V5" id="C2340V5">40:5</a> The glory of Yahweh shall be
revealed,
</dt>
<dd>
and all flesh shall see it together;
</dd>
<dd>
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." <a name="C2340V6" id="C2340V6">40:6</a>
The voice of one saying, "Cry!"
</dd>
<dd>
One said, "What shall I cry?"
</dd>
<dt>
"All flesh is like grass,
</dt>
<dd>
and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V7" id="C2340V7">40:7</a> The grass withers,
</dt>
<dd>
the flower fades,
</dd>
<dd>
because Yahweh's breath blows on it.
</dd>
<dd>
Surely the people are like grass.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V8" id="C2340V8">40:8</a> The grass withers,
</dt>
<dd>
the flower fades;
</dd>
<dd>
but the word of our Elohim stands forever."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V9" id="C2340V9">40:9</a> You who tell good news to Zion, go
up on a high mountain.
</dt>
<dd>
You who tell good news to Yerushalaim, lift up your voice with strength.
</dd>
<dd>
Lift it up. Don't be afraid.
</dd>
<dd>
Say to the cities of Yehudah, "Behold, your Elohim!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V10" id="C2340V10">40:10</a> Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come
as a mighty one,
</dt>
<dd>
and his arm will rule for him.
</dd>
<dd>
Behold, his reward is with him,
</dd>
<dd>
and his recompense before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V11" id="C2340V11">40:11</a> He will feed his flock like a
shepherd.
</dt>
<dd>
He will gather the lambs in his arm,
</dd>
<dd>
and carry them in his bosom.
</dd>
<dd>
He will gently lead those who have their young.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V12" id="C2340V12">40:12</a> Who has measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand,
</dt>
<dd>
and marked off the sky with his span,
</dd>
<dd>
and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure,
</dd>
<dd>
and weighed the mountains in scales,
</dd>
<dd>
and the hills in a balance?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V13" id="C2340V13">40:13</a> Who has directed the Spirit of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
or has taught him as his counselor?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V14" id="C2340V14">40:14</a> Who did he take counsel with,
</dt>
<dd>
and who instructed him,
</dd>
<dd>
and taught him in the path of justice,
</dd>
<dd>
and taught him knowledge,
</dd>
<dd>
and showed him the way of understanding?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V15" id="C2340V15">40:15</a> Behold, the nations are like a
drop in a bucket,
</dt>
<dd>
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
</dd>
<dd>
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V16" id="C2340V16">40:16</a> Lebanon is not sufficient to
burn,
</dt>
<dd>
nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V17" id="C2340V17">40:17</a> All the nations are like nothing
before him.
</dt>
<dd>
They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V18" id="C2340V18">40:18</a> To whom then will you liken Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Or what likeness will you compare to him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V19" id="C2340V19">40:19</a> A workman has cast an image,
</dt>
<dd>
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
</dd>
<dd>
and casts silver chains for it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V20" id="C2340V20">40:20</a> He who is too impoverished for
such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.
</dt>
<dd>
He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that
will not be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V21" id="C2340V21">40:21</a> Haven't you known?
</dt>
<dd>
Haven't you heard, yet?
</dd>
<dd>
Haven't you been told from the beginning?
</dd>
<dd>
Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V22" id="C2340V22">40:22</a> It is he who sits above the
circle of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
</dd>
<dd>
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
</dd>
<dd>
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2340V23" id="C2340V23">40:23</a> who brings princes to nothing;
</dd>
<dd>
who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V24" id="C2340V24">40:24</a> They are planted scarcely.
</dt>
<dd>
They are sown scarcely.
</dd>
<dd>
Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.
</dd>
<dd>
He merely blows on them, and they wither,
</dd>
<dd>
and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V25" id="C2340V25">40:25</a> "To whom then will you liken
me?
</dt>
<dd>
Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V26" id="C2340V26">40:26</a> Lift up your eyes on high,
</dt>
<dd>
and see who has created these,
</dd>
<dd>
who brings out their army by number.
</dd>
<dd>
He calls them all by name.
</dd>
<dd>
by the greatness of his might,
</dd>
<dd>
and because he is strong in power,
</dd>
<dd>
Not one is lacking.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V27" id="C2340V27">40:27</a> Why do you say, Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and speak, Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
"My way is hidden from Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and the justice due me is disregarded by my Elohim?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V28" id="C2340V28">40:28</a> Haven't you known?
</dt>
<dd>
Haven't you heard?
</dd>
<dd>
The everlasting Elohim, Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint.
</dd>
<dd>
He isn't weary.
</dd>
<dd>
His understanding is unsearchable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V29" id="C2340V29">40:29</a> He gives power to the weak.
</dt>
<dd>
He increases the strength of him who has no might.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2340V30" id="C2340V30">40:30</a> Even the youths faint and get
weary,
</dt>
<dd>
and the young men utterly fall;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2340V31" id="C2340V31">40:31</a> But those who wait for Yahweh
will renew their strength.
</dd>
<dd>
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
</dd>
<dd>
They will run, and not be weary.
</dd>
<dd>
They will walk, and not faint.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V1" id="C2341V1">41:1</a> "Keep silent before me,
islands,
</dt>
<dd>
and let the peoples renew their strength.
</dd>
<dt>
Let them come near,
</dt>
<dd>
then let them speak.
</dd>
<dd>
Let's meet together for judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V2" id="C2341V2">41:2</a> Who has raised up one from the east?
</dt>
<dd>
Whom called him to his foot in righteousness?
</dd>
<dd>
He hands over nations to him,
</dd>
<dd>
and makes him rule over kings.
</dd>
<dd>
He gives them like the dust to his sword,
</dd>
<dd>
like the driven stubble to his bow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V3" id="C2341V3">41:3</a> He pursues them,
</dt>
<dd>
and passes by safely,
</dd>
<dd>
Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V4" id="C2341V4">41:4</a> Who has worked and done it,
</dt>
<dd>
calling the generations from the beginning?
</dd>
<dd>
I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V5" id="C2341V5">41:5</a> The islands have seen, and fear.
</dt>
<dd>
The ends of the earth tremble.
</dd>
<dd>
They approach, and come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V6" id="C2341V6">41:6</a> Everyone helps his neighbor.
</dt>
<dd>
They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V7" id="C2341V7">41:7</a> So the carpenter encourages the
goldsmith.
</dt>
<dd>
He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,
</dd>
<dd>
saying of the soldering, "It is good;"
</dd>
<dd>
and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V8" id="C2341V8">41:8</a> "But you, Yisrael, my servant,
</dt>
<dd>
Jacob whom I have chosen,
</dd>
<dd>
the seed of Avraham my friend,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2341V9" id="C2341V9">41:9</a> You whom I have taken hold of from
the ends of the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
and called from its corners,
</dd>
<dd>
and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you
away;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V10" id="C2341V10">41:10</a> Don't you be afraid, for I am
with you.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't be dismayed, for I am your Elohim.
</dd>
<dd>
I will strengthen you.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, I will help you.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V11" id="C2341V11">41:11</a> Behold, all those who are
incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V12" id="C2341V12">41:12</a> You will seek them, and won't
find them,
</dt>
<dd>
even those who contend with you.
</dd>
<dd>
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
</dd>
<dd>
as a non-existent thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V13" id="C2341V13">41:13</a> For I, Yahweh your Elohim, will hold
your right hand,
</dt>
<dd>
saying to you, 'Don't be afraid.
</dd>
<dd>
I will help you.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V14" id="C2341V14">41:14</a> Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and you men of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dd>
I will help you," says Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
"and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V15" id="C2341V15">41:15</a> Behold, I have made you into a
new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.
</dt>
<dd>
You will thresh the mountains,
</dd>
<dd>
and beat them small,
</dd>
<dd>
and will make the hills like chaff.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V16" id="C2341V16">41:16</a> You will winnow them,
</dt>
<dd>
and the wind will carry them away,
</dd>
<dd>
and the whirlwind will scatter them.
</dd>
<dt>
You will rejoice in Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
You will glory in the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V17" id="C2341V17">41:17</a> The poor and needy seek water,
and there is none.
</dt>
<dd>
Their tongue fails for thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
I, Yahweh, will answer them.
</dt>
<dd>
I, the Elohim of Yisrael, will not forsake them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V18" id="C2341V18">41:18</a> I will open rivers on the bare
heights,
</dt>
<dd>
and springs in the midst of the valleys.
</dd>
<dd>
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
</dd>
<dd>
and the dry land springs of water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V19" id="C2341V19">41:19</a> I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle,
and oil trees in the wilderness.
</dt>
<dd>
I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2341V20" id="C2341V20">41:20</a> that they may see, know,
consider, and understand together,
</dd>
<dd>
that the hand of Yahweh has done this,
</dd>
<dd>
and the Holy One of Yisrael has created it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V21" id="C2341V21">41:21</a> Produce your cause," says
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
"Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V22" id="C2341V22">41:22</a> "Let them announce, and
declare to us what shall happen.
</dt>
<dd>
Declare the former things, what they are,
</dd>
<dd>
that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
</dd>
<dd>
or show us things to come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V23" id="C2341V23">41:23</a> Declare the things that are to
come hereafter,
</dt>
<dd>
that we may know that you are Elohims.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, do good, or do evil,
</dt>
<dd>
that we may be dismayed,
</dd>
<dd>
and see it together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V24" id="C2341V24">41:24</a> Behold, you are of nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
and your work is of nothing.
</dd>
<dd>
He who chooses you is an abomination.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V25" id="C2341V25">41:25</a> "I have raised up one from
the north, and he has come;
</dt>
<dd>
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name;
</dd>
<dd>
and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,
</dd>
<dd>
and as the potter treads clay.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V26" id="C2341V26">41:26</a> Who has declared it from the
beginning, that we may know?
</dt>
<dd>
And before, that we may say, 'He is right?'
</dd>
<dt>
Surely, there is no one who declares.
</dt>
<dd>
Surely, there is no one who shows.
</dd>
<dd>
Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V27" id="C2341V27">41:27</a> I am the first to say to Zion,
'Behold, look at them;'
</dt>
<dd>
and I will give one who brings good news to Yerushalaim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V28" id="C2341V28">41:28</a> When I look, there is no man;
</dt>
<dd>
even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can
answer a word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2341V29" id="C2341V29">41:29</a> Behold, all of them, their works
are vanity and nothing.
</dt>
<dd>
Their molten images are wind and confusion.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V1" id="C2342V1">42:1</a> "Behold, my servant, whom I
uphold;
</dt>
<dd>
my chosen, in whom my soul delights--
</dd>
<dd>
I have put my Spirit on him.
</dd>
<dd>
He will bring justice to the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V2" id="C2342V2">42:2</a> He will not shout,
</dt>
<dd>
nor raise his voice,
</dd>
<dd>
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V3" id="C2342V3">42:3</a> He won't break a bruised reed.
</dt>
<dd>
He won't quench a dimly burning wick.
</dd>
<dd>
He will faithfully bring justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V4" id="C2342V4">42:4</a> He will not fail nor be discouraged,
</dt>
<dd>
until he has set justice in the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
and the islands will wait for his Torah."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V5" id="C2342V5">42:5</a> Thus says Elohim Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
</dd>
<dd>
he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
</dd>
<dd>
he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V6" id="C2342V6">42:6</a> "I, Yahweh, have called you in
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and will hold your hand,
</dd>
<dd>
and will keep you,
</dd>
<dd>
and make you a covenant for the people,
</dd>
<dd>
as a light for the nations;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2342V7" id="C2342V7">42:7</a> to open the blind eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
</dd>
<dd>
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V8" id="C2342V8">42:8</a> "I am Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
That is my name.
</dd>
<dd>
I will not give my glory to another,
</dd>
<dd>
nor my praise to engraved images.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V9" id="C2342V9">42:9</a> Behold, the former things have
happened,
</dt>
<dd>
and I declare new things.
</dd>
<dd>
I tell you about them before they come up."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V10" id="C2342V10">42:10</a> Sing to Yahweh a new song,
</dt>
<dd>
and his praise from the end of the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
you who go down to the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and all that is therein,
</dd>
<dd>
the islands and their inhabitants.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V11" id="C2342V11">42:11</a> Let the wilderness and its cities
raise their voices,
</dt>
<dd>
with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
</dd>
<dd>
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
</dd>
<dd>
Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V12" id="C2342V12">42:12</a> Let them give glory to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and declare his praise in the islands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V13" id="C2342V13">42:13</a> Yahweh will go out like a mighty
man.
</dt>
<dd>
He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
</dd>
<dd>
He will raise a war cry.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, he will shout aloud.
</dd>
<dd>
He will triumph over his enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V14" id="C2342V14">42:14</a> "I have been silent a long
time.
</dt>
<dd>
I have been quiet and restrained myself.
</dd>
<dd>
Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V15" id="C2342V15">42:15</a> I will destroy mountains and
hills,
</dt>
<dd>
and dry up all their herbs.
</dd>
<dd>
I will make the rivers islands,
</dd>
<dd>
and will dry up the pools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V16" id="C2342V16">42:16</a> I will bring the blind by a way
that they don't know.
</dt>
<dd>
I will lead them in paths that they don't know.
</dd>
<dd>
I will make darkness light before them,
</dd>
<dd>
and crooked places straight.
</dd>
<dd>
I will do these things,
</dd>
<dd>
and I will not forsake them.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V17" id="C2342V17">42:17</a> "Those who trust in engraved
images,
</dt>
<dd>
who tell molten images,
</dd>
<dd>
'You are our Elohims'
</dd>
<dd>
will be turned back.
</dd>
<dd>
They will be utterly disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V18" id="C2342V18">42:18</a> "Hear, you deaf,
</dt>
<dd>
and look, you blind,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may see.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V19" id="C2342V19">42:19</a> Who is blind, but my servant?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
</dd>
<dd>
Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
</dd>
<dd>
and as blind as Yahweh's servant?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V20" id="C2342V20">42:20</a> You see many things, but don't
observe.
</dt>
<dd>
His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V21" id="C2342V21">42:21</a> It pleased Yahweh, for his
righteousness' sake, to magnify the Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
and make it honorable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V22" id="C2342V22">42:22</a> But this is a robbed and
plundered people.
</dt>
<dd>
All of them are snared in holes,
</dd>
<dd>
and they are hidden in prisons.
</dd>
<dt>
They have become a prey, and no one delivers;
</dt>
<dd>
and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V23" id="C2342V23">42:23</a> Who is there among you who will
give ear to this?
</dt>
<dd>
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V24" id="C2342V24">42:24</a> Who gave Jacob as plunder,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael to the robbers?
</dd>
<dd>
Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?
</dd>
<dd>
For they would not walk in his ways,
</dd>
<dd>
and they disobeyed his Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2342V25" id="C2342V25">42:25</a> Therefore he poured the
fierceness of his anger on him,
</dt>
<dd>
and the strength of battle;
</dd>
<dd>
and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know;
</dd>
<dd>
and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V1" id="C2343V1">43:1</a> But now thus says Yahweh who created
you, Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and he who formed you, Yisrael:
</dd>
<dt>
"Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
</dt>
<dd>
I have called you by your name.
</dd>
<dd>
You are mine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V2" id="C2343V2">43:2</a> When you pass through the waters, I
will be with you;
</dt>
<dd>
and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
</dd>
<dt>
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,
</dt>
<dd>
and flame will not scorch you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V3" id="C2343V3">43:3</a> For I am Yahweh your Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
the Holy One of Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
your Savior.
</dd>
<dt>
I have given Egypt as your ransom,
</dt>
<dd>
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V4" id="C2343V4">43:4</a> Since you have been precious and
honored in my sight,
</dt>
<dd>
and I have loved you;
</dd>
<dd>
therefore I will give people in your place,
</dd>
<dd>
and nations instead of your life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V5" id="C2343V5">43:5</a> Don't be afraid; for I am with you.
</dt>
<dd>
I will bring your seed from the east,
</dd>
<dd>
and gather you from the west.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V6" id="C2343V6">43:6</a> I will tell the north, 'Give them
up!'
</dt>
<dd>
and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back!
</dd>
<dd>
Bring my sons from far,
</dd>
<dd>
and my daughters from the ends of the earth--
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V7" id="C2343V7">43:7</a> everyone who is called by my name,
</dt>
<dd>
and whom I have created for my glory,
</dd>
<dd>
whom I have formed,
</dd>
<dd>
yes, whom I have made.'"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V8" id="C2343V8">43:8</a> Bring out the blind people who have
eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
and the deaf who have ears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V9" id="C2343V9">43:9</a> Let all the nations be gathered
together,
</dt>
<dd>
and let the peoples be assembled.
</dd>
<dt>
Who among them can declare this,
</dt>
<dd>
and show us former things?
</dd>
<dt>
Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;
</dt>
<dd>
or let them hear, and say, "That is true."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V10" id="C2343V10">43:10</a> "You are my witnesses,"
says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"With my servant whom I have chosen;
</dd>
<dd>
that you may know and believe me,
</dd>
<dd>
and understand that I am he.
</dd>
<dt>
Before me there was no Elohim formed,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will there be after me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V11" id="C2343V11">43:11</a> I myself am Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
and besides me there is no savior.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V12" id="C2343V12">43:12</a> I have declared, I have saved,
and I have shown;
</dt>
<dd>
and there was no strange Elohim among you.
</dd>
<dt>
Therefore you are my witnesses,"
</dt>
<dd>
says Yahweh, "and I am Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V13" id="C2343V13">43:13</a> Yes, since the day was I am he;
</dt>
<dd>
and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
</dd>
<dd>
I will work, and who can hinder it?"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2343V14" id="C2343V14">43:14</a> Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Yisrael: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I
will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships
of their rejoicing. <a name="C2343V15" id="C2343V15">43:15</a> I am Yahweh,
your Holy One, the Creator of Yisrael, your King."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2343V16" id="C2343V16">43:16</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
</dt>
<dd>
and a path in the mighty waters;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V17" id="C2343V17">43:17</a> who brings forth the chariot and
horse,
</dt>
<dd>
the army and the mighty man
</dd>
<dd>
(they lie down together, they shall not rise;
</dd>
<dd>
they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V18" id="C2343V18">43:18</a> "Don't remember the former
things,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't consider the things of old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V19" id="C2343V19">43:19</a> Behold, I will do a new thing.
</dt>
<dd>
It springs forth now.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't you know it?
</dd>
<dt>
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
and rivers in the desert.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V20" id="C2343V20">43:20</a> The animals of the field shall
honor me,
</dt>
<dd>
the jackals and the ostriches;
</dd>
<dt>
because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
</dt>
<dd>
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2343V21" id="C2343V21">43:21</a> the people which I formed for
myself,
</dd>
<dd>
that they might set forth my praise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V22" id="C2343V22">43:22</a> Yet you have not called on me,
Jacob;
</dt>
<dd>
but you have been weary of me, Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V23" id="C2343V23">43:23</a> You have not brought me of your
sheep for burnt offerings;
</dt>
<dd>
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
</dd>
<dt>
I have not burdened you with offerings,
</dt>
<dd>
nor wearied you with frankincense.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V24" id="C2343V24">43:24</a> You have bought me no sweet cane
with money,
</dt>
<dd>
nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices;
</dd>
<dt>
but you have burdened me with your sins.
</dt>
<dd>
You have wearied me with your iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V25" id="C2343V25">43:25</a> I, even I, am he who blots out
your transgressions for my own sake;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will not remember your sins.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V26" id="C2343V26">43:26</a> Put me in remembrance.
</dt>
<dd>
Let us plead together.
</dd>
<dt>
Set forth your case,
</dt>
<dd>
that you may be justified.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V27" id="C2343V27">43:27</a> Your first father sinned,
</dt>
<dd>
and your teachers have transgressed against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2343V28" id="C2343V28">43:28</a> Therefore I will profane the
princes of the sanctuary;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will make Jacob a curse,
</dd>
<dd>
and Yisrael a reviling."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V1" id="C2344V1">44:1</a> Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael, whom I have chosen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V2" id="C2344V2">44:2</a> This is what Yahweh who made you,
</dt>
<dd>
and formed you from the womb,
</dd>
<dd>
who will help you says:
</dd>
<dt>
"Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant;
</dt>
<dd>
and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V3" id="C2344V3">44:3</a> For I will pour water on him who is
thirsty,
</dt>
<dd>
and streams on the dry ground.
</dd>
<dt>
I will pour my Spirit on your seed,
</dt>
<dd>
and my blessing on your offspring:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V4" id="C2344V4">44:4</a> and they will spring up among the
grass,
</dt>
<dd>
as willows by the watercourses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V5" id="C2344V5">44:5</a> One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;'
</dt>
<dd>
and another will be called by the name of Jacob;
</dd>
<dd>
and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,'
</dd>
<dd>
and honor the name of Yisrael."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V6" id="C2344V6">44:6</a> This is what Yahweh, the King of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:
</dd>
<dt>
"I am the first, and I am the last;
</dt>
<dd>
and besides me there is no Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V7" id="C2344V7">44:7</a> Who is like me?
</dt>
<dd>
Who will call,
</dd>
<dd>
and will declare it,
</dd>
<dd>
and set it in order for me,
</dd>
<dd>
since I established the ancient people?
</dd>
<dt>
Let them declare the things that are coming,
</dt>
<dd>
and that will happen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V8" id="C2344V8">44:8</a> Don't fear,
</dt>
<dd>
neither be afraid.
</dd>
<dt>
Haven't I declared it to you long ago,
</dt>
<dd>
and shown it?
</dd>
<dt>
You are my witnesses.
</dt>
<dd>
Is there a Elohim besides me?
</dd>
<dt>
Indeed, there is not.
</dt>
<dd>
I don't know any other Rock."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V9" id="C2344V9">44:9</a> Everyone who makes an engraved image
is vain.
</dt>
<dd>
The things that they delight in will not profit.
</dd>
<dd>
Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V10" id="C2344V10">44:10</a> Who has fashioned a Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V11" id="C2344V11">44:11</a> Behold, all his fellows will be
disappointed;
</dt>
<dd>
and the workmen are mere men.
</dd>
<dt>
Let them all be gathered together.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them stand up.
</dd>
<dd>
They will fear.
</dd>
<dd>
They will be put to shame together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V12" id="C2344V12">44:12</a> The blacksmith takes an axe,
</dt>
<dd>
works in the coals,
</dd>
<dd>
fashions it with hammers,
</dd>
<dd>
and works it with his strong arm.
</dd>
<dt>
He is hungry,
</dt>
<dd>
and his strength fails;
</dd>
<dt>
he drinks no water,
</dt>
<dd>
and is faint.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V13" id="C2344V13">44:13</a> The carpenter stretches out a
line.
</dt>
<dd>
He marks it out with a pencil.
</dd>
<dd>
He shapes it with planes.
</dd>
<dd>
He marks it out with compasses,
</dd>
<dd>
and shapes it like the figure of a man,
</dd>
<dd>
with the beauty of a man,
</dd>
<dd>
to reside in a house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V14" id="C2344V14">44:14</a> He cuts down cedars for himself,
</dt>
<dd>
and takes the cypress and the oak,
</dd>
<dd>
and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
</dd>
<dt>
He plants a fir tree,
</dt>
<dd>
and the rain nourishes it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V15" id="C2344V15">44:15</a> Then it will be for a man to
burn;
</dt>
<dd>
and he takes some of it, and warms himself.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, he makes an elohim, and worships it;
</dt>
<dd>
he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V16" id="C2344V16">44:16</a> He burns part of it in the fire.
</dt>
<dd>
With part of it, he eats meat.
</dd>
<dd>
He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, he warms himself,
</dt>
<dd>
and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V17" id="C2344V17">44:17</a> The rest of it he makes into a
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
even his engraved image.
</dd>
<dt>
He bows down to it and worships,
</dt>
<dd>
and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my Elohim!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V18" id="C2344V18">44:18</a> They don't know, neither do they
consider:
</dt>
<dd>
for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see;
</dd>
<dd>
and their hearts, that they can't understand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V19" id="C2344V19">44:19</a> No one thinks,
</dt>
<dd>
neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
</dd>
<dd>
"I have burned part of it in the fire.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.
</dd>
<dd>
I have roasted meat and eaten it.
</dd>
<dd>
Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?
</dd>
<dd>
Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V20" id="C2344V20">44:20</a> He feeds on ashes.
</dt>
<dd>
A deceived heart has turned him aside;
</dd>
<dd>
and he can't deliver his soul,
</dd>
<dd>
nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V21" id="C2344V21">44:21</a> Remember these things, Jacob and
Yisrael;
</dt>
<dd>
for you are my servant.
</dd>
<dd>
I have formed you.
</dd>
<dd>
You are my servant.
</dd>
<dd>
Yisrael, you will not be forgotten by me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V22" id="C2344V22">44:22</a> I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, your transgressions,
</dt>
<dd>
and, as a cloud, your sins.
</dd>
<dd>
Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V23" id="C2344V23">44:23</a> Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has
done it!
</dt>
<dd>
Shout, you lower parts of the earth!
</dd>
<dd>
Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,
</dd>
<dd>
and will glorify himself in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V24" id="C2344V24">44:24</a> Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer,
</dt>
<dd>
and he who formed you from the womb:
</dd>
<dt>
"I am Yahweh, who makes all things;
</dt>
<dd>
who alone stretches out the heavens;
</dd>
<dd>
who spreads out the earth by myself;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V25" id="C2344V25">44:25</a> who frustrates the signs of the
liars,
</dt>
<dd>
and makes diviners mad;
</dd>
<dt>
who turns wise men backward,
</dt>
<dd>
and makes their knowledge foolish;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V26" id="C2344V26">44:26</a> who confirms the word of his
servant,
</dt>
<dd>
and performs the counsel of his messengers;
</dd>
<dt>
who says of Yerushalaim, 'She will be inhabited;'
</dt>
<dd>
and of the cities of Yehudah, 'They will be built,'
</dd>
<dd>
and I will raise up its waste places;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V27" id="C2344V27">44:27</a> who says to the deep, 'Be dry,'
</dt>
<dd>
and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2344V28" id="C2344V28">44:28</a> Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my
shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,'
</dt>
<dd>
even saying of Yerushalaim, 'She will be built;'
</dd>
<dd>
and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2345V1" id="C2345V1">45:1</a> Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to
Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and
strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates
shall not be shut:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V2" id="C2345V2">45:2</a> "I will go before you,
</dt>
<dd>
and make the rough places smooth.
</dd>
<dt>
I will break the doors of brass in pieces,
</dt>
<dd>
and cut apart the bars of iron.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V3" id="C2345V3">45:3</a> I will give you the treasures of
darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and hidden riches of secret places,
</dd>
<dt>
that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name,
</dt>
<dd>
even the Elohim of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V4" id="C2345V4">45:4</a> For Jacob my servant's sake,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yisrael my chosen,
</dd>
<dt>
I have called you by your name.
</dt>
<dd>
I have surnamed you,
</dd>
<dd>
though you have not known me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V5" id="C2345V5">45:5</a> I am Yahweh, and there is none else.
</dt>
<dd>
Besides me, there is no Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
I will <a href="#N2310">strengthen</a> you,
</dt>
<dd>
though you have not known me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V6" id="C2345V6">45:6</a> that they may know from the rising
of the sun,
</dt>
<dd>
and from the west,
</dd>
<dt>
that there is none besides me.
</dt>
<dd>
I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V7" id="C2345V7">45:7</a> I form the light,
</dt>
<dd>
and create darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
I make peace,
</dt>
<dd>
and create calamity.
</dd>
<dt>
I am Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who does all these things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V8" id="C2345V8">45:8</a> Distil, you heavens, from above,
</dt>
<dd>
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.
</dd>
<dt>
I, Yahweh, have created it.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V9" id="C2345V9">45:9</a> Woe to him who strives with his
Maker--
</dt>
<dd>
a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!
</dd>
<dt>
Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?'
</dt>
<dd>
or your work, 'He has no hands?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V10" id="C2345V10">45:10</a> Woe to him who says to a father,
'What have you become the father of?'
</dt>
<dd>
or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V11" id="C2345V11">45:11</a> Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
and his Maker:
</dd>
<dt>
"You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
</dt>
<dd>
and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V12" id="C2345V12">45:12</a> I have made the earth, and
created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and
all their army have I commanded. <a name="C2345V13" id="C2345V13">45:13</a>
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not
for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C2345V14" id="C2345V14">45:14</a>
Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of
Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and
they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come
over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to
you: 'Surely Elohim is in you; and there is none else, there is no other
Elohim. <a name="C2345V15" id="C2345V15">45:15</a> Most certainly you are a Elohim
who hid yourself, Elohim of Yisrael, the Savior.'"
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2345V16" id="C2345V16">45:16</a> They shall be disappointed, yes,
confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are
makers of idols. <a name="C2345V17" id="C2345V17">45:17</a> <i>But</i>
Yisrael shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall
not be disappointed nor confounded world without end. <a name="C2345V18"
id="C2345V18">45:18</a> For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the
Elohim who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't
create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there
is no one else. <a name="C2345V19" id="C2345V19">45:19</a> I have not spoken
in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed
of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare
things that are right. <a name="C2345V20" id="C2345V20">45:20</a> Assemble
yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the
nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved
image, and pray to a Elohim that can't save. <a name="C2345V21" id="C2345V21">45:21</a>
Declare you, and bring <i>it</i> forth; yes, let them take counsel
together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of
old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no Elohim else besides me, a just Elohim
and a Savior; there is no one besides me. <a name="C2345V22" id="C2345V22">45:22</a>
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am Elohim,
and there is none else. <a name="C2345V23" id="C2345V23">45:23</a> By myself
have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth <i>in</i>
righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear. <a name="C2345V24" id="C2345V24">45:24</a> Only in
Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him
shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be
disappointed. <a name="C2345V25" id="C2345V25">45:25</a> In Yahweh shall all
the seed of Yisrael be justified, and shall glory.
</dt>
----
<p>
<a name="N2310" id="N2310">[10]</a> <a href="#C2345V5">back to 45:5</a> or,
equip
</p>
<dt>
<a name="C2346V1" id="C2346V1">46:1</a> Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their
idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you
carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary <i>animal</i>. <a
name="C2346V2" id="C2346V2">46:2</a> They stoop, they bow down together;
they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into
captivity. <a name="C2346V3" id="C2346V3">46:3</a> Listen to me, house of
Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Yisrael, that have been borne
<i>by me</i> from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; <a
name="C2346V4" id="C2346V4">46:4</a> and even to old age I am he, and even
to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I
will carry, and will deliver. <a name="C2346V5" id="C2346V5">46:5</a> To
whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may
be like? <a name="C2346V6" id="C2346V6">46:6</a> Some pour out gold from the
bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he
makes it a Elohim. They fall down--yes, they worship. <a name="C2346V7"
id="C2346V7">46:7</a> They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set
it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes,
one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his
trouble. <a name="C2346V8" id="C2346V8">46:8</a> Remember this, and show
yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors. <a
name="C2346V9" id="C2346V9">46:9</a> Remember the former things of old: for
I am Elohim, and there is none else; <i>I am</i> Elohim, and there is none
like me; <a name="C2346V10" id="C2346V10">46:10</a> declaring the end from
the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not <i>yet</i>
done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; <a
name="C2346V11" id="C2346V11">46:11</a> calling a ravenous bird from the
east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I
will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it. <a
name="C2346V12" id="C2346V12">46:12</a> Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who
are far from righteousness: <a name="C2346V13" id="C2346V13">46:13</a> I
bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Yisrael my glory.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2347V1" id="C2347V1">47:1</a> Come down, and sit in the dust,
virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter
of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
<a name="C2347V2" id="C2347V2">47:2</a> Take the millstones, and grind meal;
remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the
rivers. <a name="C2347V3" id="C2347V3">47:3</a> Your nakedness shall be
uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and
will spare no man. <a name="C2347V4" id="C2347V4">47:4</a> Our Redeemer,
Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Yisrael. <a name="C2347V5"
id="C2347V5">47:5</a> Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter
of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of
kingdoms. <a name="C2347V6" id="C2347V6">47:6</a> I was angry with my
people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did
show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. <a
name="C2347V7" id="C2347V7">47:7</a> You said, I shall be mistress forever;
so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember
the latter end of it. <a name="C2347V8" id="C2347V8">47:8</a> Now therefore
hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in
your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as
a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: <a name="C2347V9"
id="C2347V9">47:9</a> but these two things shall come to you in a moment
in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure
shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the
great abundance of your enchantments. <a name="C2347V10" id="C2347V10">47:10</a>
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me;
your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said
in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. <a name="C2347V11"
id="C2347V11">47:11</a> Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know
when it dawns: and mischief wil fall on you; you will not be able to put
it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't
know. <a name="C2347V12" id="C2347V12">47:12</a> Stand now with your
enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you
have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if
so be you may prevail. <a name="C2347V13" id="C2347V13">47:13</a> You are
wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the
stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the
things that shall come on you. <a name="C2347V14" id="C2347V14">47:14</a>
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall
not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a
coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. <a name="C2347V15" id="C2347V15">47:15</a>
Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who
have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his
quarter; there shall be none to save you.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2348V1" id="C2348V1">48:1</a> Hear you this, house of Jacob, who
are called by the name of Yisrael, and are come forth out of the waters
of Yehudah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the Elohim
of Yisrael, but not in truth, nor in righteousness <a name="C2348V2"
id="C2348V2">48:2</a> (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves on the Elohim of Yisrael; Yahweh of Armies is his name): <a
name="C2348V3" id="C2348V3">48:3</a> I have declared the former things from
of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them:
suddenly I did them, and they happened. <a name="C2348V4" id="C2348V4">48:4</a>
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow brass; <a name="C2348V5" id="C2348V5">48:5</a> therefore I
have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it
to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved
image, and my molten image, has commanded them. <a name="C2348V6"
id="C2348V6">48:6</a> You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you
not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden
things, which you have not known. <a name="C2348V7" id="C2348V7">48:7</a>
They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you
didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. <a
name="C2348V8" id="C2348V8">48:8</a> Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't
know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did
deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. <a
name="C2348V9" id="C2348V9">48:9</a> For my name's sake will I defer my
anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
<a name="C2348V10" id="C2348V10">48:10</a> Behold, I have refined you, but
not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. <a
name="C2348V11" id="C2348V11">48:11</a> For my own sake, for my own sake,
will I do it; for how should <i>my name</i> be profaned? and my glory I
will not give to another. <a name="C2348V12" id="C2348V12">48:12</a> Listen
to me, O Jacob, and Yisrael my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am
the last. <a name="C2348V13" id="C2348V13">48:13</a> Yes, my hand has laid
the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the
heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together. <a name="C2348V14"
id="C2348V14">48:14</a> Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among
them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm <i>shall be on</i> the Chaldeans. <a
name="C2348V15" id="C2348V15">48:15</a> I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have
called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. <a
name="C2348V16" id="C2348V16">48:16</a> Come you near to me, hear you this;
from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it
was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. <a
name="C2348V17" id="C2348V17">48:17</a> Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Yisrael: I am Yahweh your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who
leads you by the way that you should go. <a name="C2348V18" id="C2348V18">48:18</a>
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as
a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: <a name="C2348V19"
id="C2348V19">48:19</a> your seed also had been as the sand, and the
offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off
nor destroyed from before me. <a name="C2348V20" id="C2348V20">48:20</a> Go
you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of
singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth:
say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob. <a name="C2348V21"
id="C2348V21">48:21</a> They didn't thirst when he led them through the
deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split
the rock also, and the waters gushed out. <a name="C2348V22" id="C2348V22">48:22</a>
There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2349V1" id="C2349V1">49:1</a> Listen, islands, to me; and listen,
you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the
bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name: <a name="C2349V2"
id="C2349V2">49:2</a> and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the
shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft;
in his quiver has he kept me close: <a name="C2349V3" id="C2349V3">49:3</a>
and he said to me, You are my servant; Yisrael, in whom I will be
glorified. <a name="C2349V4" id="C2349V4">49:4</a> But I said, I have
labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet
surely the justice <i>due</i> to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense
with my Elohim. <a name="C2349V5" id="C2349V5">49:5</a> Now says Yahweh who
formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him,
and that Yisrael be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of
Yahweh, and my Elohim is become my strength); <a name="C2349V6" id="C2349V6">49:6</a>
yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Yisrael: I
will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my
salvation to the end of the earth. <a name="C2349V7" id="C2349V7">49:7</a>
Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Yisrael, <i>and</i> his Holy One, to
him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of
rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship;
because of Yahweh who is faithful, <i>even</i> the Holy One of Yisrael,
who has chosen you. <a name="C2349V8" id="C2349V8">49:8</a> Thus says
Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of
salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a
covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the
desolate heritage: <a name="C2349V9" id="C2349V9">49:9</a> saying to those
who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves.
They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their
pasture. <a name="C2349V10" id="C2349V10">49:10</a> They shall not hunger
nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has
mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide
them. <a name="C2349V11" id="C2349V11">49:11</a> I will make all my
mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. <a name="C2349V12"
id="C2349V12">49:12</a> Behold, these shall come from far; and behold,
these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of
Sinim. <a name="C2349V13" id="C2349V13">49:13</a> Sing, heavens; and be
joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has
comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. <a
name="C2349V14" id="C2349V14">49:14</a> But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken
me, and the Lord has forgotten me. <a name="C2349V15" id="C2349V15">49:15</a>
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not
forget you. <a name="C2349V16" id="C2349V16">49:16</a> Behold, I have
engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before
me. <a name="C2349V17" id="C2349V17">49:17</a> Your children make haste;
your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you. <a
name="C2349V18" id="C2349V18">49:18</a> Lift up your eyes all around, and
see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,
says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an
ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride. <a name="C2349V19"
id="C2349V19">49:19</a> For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small
for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.
<a name="C2349V20" id="C2349V20">49:20</a> The children of your bereavement
shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to
me that I may dwell. <a name="C2349V21" id="C2349V21">49:21</a> Then you
will say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have
been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering
back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;
these, where were they? <a name="C2349V22" id="C2349V22">49:22</a> Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set
up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their
bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. <a
name="C2349V23" id="C2349V23">49:23</a> Kings shall be your nursing fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with
their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be
disappointed. <a name="C2349V24" id="C2349V24">49:24</a> Shall the prey be
taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? <a
name="C2349V25" id="C2349V25">49:25</a> But thus says Yahweh, Even the
captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible
shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you,
and I will save your children. <a name="C2349V26" id="C2349V26">49:26</a> I
will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be
drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One
of Jacob.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2350V1" id="C2350V1">50:1</a> Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill
of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities
were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. <a
name="C2350V2" id="C2350V2">50:2</a> Why, when I came, was there no man?
when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all,
that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my
rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish
stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. <a name="C2350V3"
id="C2350V3">50:3</a> I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering. <a name="C2350V4" id="C2350V4">50:4</a> The Lord
Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know
how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by
morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. <a
name="C2350V5" id="C2350V5">50:5</a> The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and
I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. <a name="C2350V6"
id="C2350V6">50:6</a> I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to
those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and
spitting. <a name="C2350V7" id="C2350V7">50:7</a> For the Lord Yahweh will
help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my
face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed. <a
name="C2350V8" id="C2350V8">50:8</a> He is near who justifies me; who will
bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me. <a name="C2350V9" id="C2350V9">50:9</a> Behold, the
Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all
they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up. <a
name="C2350V10" id="C2350V10">50:10</a> Who is among you who fears Yahweh,
who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no
light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his Elohim. <a
name="C2350V11" id="C2350V11">50:11</a> Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your
fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of
my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2351V1" id="C2351V1">51:1</a> Listen to me, you who follow after
righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were
cut, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug. <a name="C2351V2"
id="C2351V2">51:2</a> Look to Avraham your father, and to Sarah who bore
you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made
him many. <a name="C2351V3" id="C2351V3">51:3</a> For Yahweh has comforted
Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness
like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. <a
name="C2351V4" id="C2351V4">51:4</a> Attend to me, my people; and give ear
to me, my nation: for a Torah shall go forth from me, and I will establish
my justice for a light of the peoples. <a name="C2351V5" id="C2351V5">51:5</a>
My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall
judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall
they trust. <a name="C2351V6" id="C2351V6">51:6</a> Lift up your eyes to the
heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish
away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those
who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. <a name="C2351V7"
id="C2351V7">51:7</a> Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people
in whose heart is my Torah; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be
you dismayed at their insults. <a name="C2351V8" id="C2351V8">51:8</a> For
the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them
like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to
all generations. <a name="C2351V9" id="C2351V9">51:9</a> Awake, awake, put
on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the
generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the monster? <a name="C2351V10" id="C2351V10">51:10</a> Isn't it
you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the
depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? <a name="C2351V11"
id="C2351V11">51:11</a> The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with
singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall
obtain gladness and joy; <i>and</i> sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
<a name="C2351V12" id="C2351V12">51:12</a> I, even I, am he who comforts
you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the
son of man who shall be made as grass; <a name="C2351V13" id="C2351V13">51:13</a>
and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day
because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy?
and where is the fury of the oppressor? <a name="C2351V14" id="C2351V14">51:14</a>
The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die <i>and
go down</i> into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. <a name="C2351V15"
id="C2351V15">51:15</a> For I am Yahweh your Elohim, who stirs up the sea, so
that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name. <a name="C2351V16"
id="C2351V16">51:16</a> I have put my words in your mouth, and have
covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and
lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people. <a
name="C2351V17" id="C2351V17">51:17</a> Awake, awake, stand up, Yerushalaim,
that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have
drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. <a
name="C2351V18" id="C2351V18">51:18</a> There is none to guide her among all
the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her
by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up. <a name="C2351V19"
id="C2351V19">51:19</a> These two things have happened to you. Who will
bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword;
how shall I comfort you? <a name="C2351V20" id="C2351V20">51:20</a> Your
sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an
antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of
your Elohim. <a name="C2351V21" id="C2351V21">51:21</a> Therefore hear now
this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine: <a name="C2351V22"
id="C2351V22">51:22</a> Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your Elohim who
pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand
the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall
no more drink it again: <a name="C2351V23" id="C2351V23">51:23</a> and I
will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to
your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as
the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2352V1" id="C2352V1">52:1</a> Awake, awake, put on your strength,
Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Yerushalaim, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the
unclean. <a name="C2352V2" id="C2352V2">52:2</a> Shake yourself from the
dust; arise, sit <i>on your throne</i>, Yerushalaim: loose yourself from
the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. <a name="C2352V3"
id="C2352V3">52:3</a> For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and
you shall be redeemed without money. <a name="C2352V4" id="C2352V4">52:4</a>
For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into
Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without
cause. <a name="C2352V5" id="C2352V5">52:5</a> Now therefore, what do I
here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing?
those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually
all the day is blasphemed. <a name="C2352V6" id="C2352V6">52:6</a> Therefore
my people shall know my name: therefore <i>they shall know</i> in that
day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I. <a name="C2352V7"
id="C2352V7">52:7</a> How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him
who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good,
who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your Elohim reigns! <a
name="C2352V8" id="C2352V8">52:8</a> The voice of your watchmen! they lift
up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when
Yahweh returns to Zion. <a name="C2352V9" id="C2352V9">52:9</a> Break forth
into joy, sing together, you waste places of Yerushalaim; for Yahweh has
comforted his people, he has redeemed Yerushalaim. <a name="C2352V10"
id="C2352V10">52:10</a> Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of
all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our Elohim. <a name="C2352V11" id="C2352V11">52:11</a> Depart you, depart
you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the
midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. <a
name="C2352V12" id="C2352V12">52:12</a> For you shall not go out in haste,
neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the
Elohim of Yisrael will be your rearward. <a name="C2352V13" id="C2352V13">52:13</a>
Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high. <a name="C2352V14" id="C2352V14">52:14</a> Like as
many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men), <a name="C2352V15" id="C2352V15">52:15</a>
so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him:
for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which
they had not heard shall they understand.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V1" id="C2353V1">53:1</a> Who has believed our message?
</dt>
<dd>
To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V2" id="C2353V2">53:2</a> For he grew up before him as a
tender plant,
</dt>
<dd>
and as a root out of dry ground.
</dd>
<dt>
He has no form nor comeliness.
</dt>
<dd>
When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V3" id="C2353V3">53:3</a> He was despised,
</dt>
<dd>
and rejected by men;
</dd>
<dt>
a man of suffering,
</dt>
<dd>
and acquainted with disease.
</dd>
<dt>
He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
</dt>
<dd>
and we didn't respect him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V4" id="C2353V4">53:4</a> Surely he has borne our sickness,
</dt>
<dd>
and carried our suffering;
</dd>
<dt>
yet we considered him plagued,
</dt>
<dd>
struck by Elohim, and afflicted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V5" id="C2353V5">53:5</a> But he was pierced for our
transgressions.
</dt>
<dd>
He was crushed for our iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
</dt>
<dd>
and by his wounds we are healed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V6" id="C2353V6">53:6</a> All we like sheep have gone astray.
</dt>
<dd>
Everyone has turned to his own way;
</dd>
<dd>
and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V7" id="C2353V7">53:7</a> He was oppressed,
</dt>
<dd>
yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
</dt>
<dd>
and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,
</dd>
<dd>
so he didn't open his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V8" id="C2353V8">53:8</a> He was taken away by oppression and
judgment;
</dt>
<dd>
and as for his generation,
</dd>
<dd>
who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
</dd>
<dd>
and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V9" id="C2353V9">53:9</a> They made his grave with the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
and with a rich man in his death;
</dd>
<dt>
although he had done no violence,
</dt>
<dd>
neither was any deceit in his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V10" id="C2353V10">53:10</a> Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise
him.
</dt>
<dd>
He has caused him to suffer.
</dd>
<dt>
When you make his soul an offering for sin,
</dt>
<dd>
he shall see his seed.
</dd>
<dt>
He shall prolong his days,
</dt>
<dd>
and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V11" id="C2353V11">53:11</a> After the suffering of his soul,
</dt>
<dd>
he will see the <a href="#N2311">light</a> and be satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will bear their iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2353V12" id="C2353V12">53:12</a> Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great,
</dt>
<dd>
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
</dd>
<dt>
because he poured out his soul to death,
</dt>
<dd>
and was numbered with the transgressors;
</dd>
<dt>
yet he bore the sin of many,
</dt>
<dd>
and made intercession for the transgressors.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
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<p>
<a name="N2311" id="N2311">[11]</a> <a href="#C2353V11">back to 53:11</a> So
read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits "the
light".
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2354V1" id="C2354V1">54:1</a> Sing, barren, you who didn't bear;
break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with
child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the
married wife, says Yahweh. <a name="C2354V2" id="C2354V2">54:2</a> Enlarge the
place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your
habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
<a name="C2354V3" id="C2354V3">54:3</a> For you shall spread aboard on the
right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and
make the desolate cities to be inhabited. <a name="C2354V4" id="C2354V4">54:4</a>
Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for
you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your
youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more. <a
name="C2354V5" id="C2354V5">54:5</a> For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of
Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Yisrael is your Redeemer; the Elohim
of the whole earth shall he be called. <a name="C2354V6" id="C2354V6">54:6</a>
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a
wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your Elohim. <a name="C2354V7"
id="C2354V7">54:7</a> For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great
mercies will I gather you. <a name="C2354V8" id="C2354V8">54:8</a> In
overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with
everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your
Redeemer. <a name="C2354V9" id="C2354V9">54:9</a> For this is <i>as</i> the
waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no
more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you,
nor rebuke you. <a name="C2354V10" id="C2354V10">54:10</a> For the mountains
may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not
depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says
Yahweh who has mercy on you. <a name="C2354V11" id="C2354V11">54:11</a> You
afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your
stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. <a
name="C2354V12" id="C2354V12">54:12</a> I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
and your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
<a name="C2354V13" id="C2354V13">54:13</a> All your children shall be taught
of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children. <a name="C2354V14"
id="C2354V14">54:14</a> In righteousness you shall be established: you shall
be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for
it shall not come near you. <a name="C2354V15" id="C2354V15">54:15</a> Behold,
they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together
against you shall fall because of you. <a name="C2354V16" id="C2354V16">54:16</a>
Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings
forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. <a
name="C2354V17" id="C2354V17">54:17</a> No weapon that is formed against you
shall prosper; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in
judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their
righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2355V1" id="C2355V1">55:1</a> Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to
the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come,
buy wine and milk without money and without price. <a name="C2355V2"
id="C2355V2">55:2</a> Why do you spend money for that which is not bread?
and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me,
and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness. <a name="C2355V3" id="C2355V3">55:3</a> Turn your ear, and come to
me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. <a name="C2355V4"
id="C2355V4">55:4</a> Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples. <a name="C2355V5" id="C2355V5">55:5</a>
Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that
didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your Elohim, and for the
Holy One of Yisrael; for he has glorified you. <a name="C2355V6" id="C2355V6">55:6</a>
Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
<a name="C2355V7" id="C2355V7">55:7</a> let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he
will have mercy on him; and to our Elohim, for he will abundantly pardon. <a
name="C2355V8" id="C2355V8">55:8</a> For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. <a name="C2355V9" id="C2355V9">55:9</a>
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. <a name="C2355V10" id="C2355V10">55:10</a>
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return
there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives
seed to the sower and bread to the eater; <a name="C2355V11" id="C2355V11">55:11</a>
so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return
to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing I sent it to do. <a name="C2355V12" id="C2355V12">55:12</a>
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees
of the fields shall clap their hands. <a name="C2355V13" id="C2355V13">55:13</a>
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier
shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2356V1" id="C2356V1">56:1</a> Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice,
and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed. <a name="C2356V2" id="C2356V2">56:2</a> Blessed
is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps
the Shabbat from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil. <a
name="C2356V3" id="C2356V3">56:3</a> Neither let the foreigner, who has joined
himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his
people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. <a
name="C2356V4" id="C2356V4">56:4</a> For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who
keep my Shabbats, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my
covenant: <a name="C2356V5" id="C2356V5">56:5</a> To them will I give in my
house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of
daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off. <a name="C2356V6" id="C2356V6">56:6</a> Also the foreigners who join
themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh,
to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Shabbat from profaning it, and
holds fast my covenant; <a name="C2356V7" id="C2356V7">56:7</a> even them will
I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer:
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. <a
name="C2356V8" id="C2356V8">56:8</a> The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts
of Yisrael, says, Yet will I gather <i>others</i> to him, besides his own
who are gathered. <a name="C2356V9" id="C2356V9">56:9</a> All you animals of
the field, come to devour, <i>yes</i>, all you animals in the forest. <a
name="C2356V10" id="C2356V10">56:10</a> His watchmen are blind, they are all
without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming,
lying down, loving to slumber. <a name="C2356V11" id="C2356V11">56:11</a> Yes,
the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds
who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to
his gain, from every quarter. <a name="C2356V12" id="C2356V12">56:12</a> Come
you, <i>say they</i>, I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with
strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, <i>a day</i> great beyond
measure.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2357V1" id="C2357V1">57:1</a> The righteous perishes, and no man
lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that
the righteous is taken away from the evil <i>to come</i>. <a name="C2357V2"
id="C2357V2">57:2</a> He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each
one who walks in his uprightness. <a name="C2357V3" id="C2357V3">57:3</a> But
draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and
the prostitute. <a name="C2357V4" id="C2357V4">57:4</a> Against whom do you
sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the
tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, <a
name="C2357V5" id="C2357V5">57:5</a> you who inflame yourselves among the
oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under
the clefts of the rocks? <a name="C2357V6" id="C2357V6">57:6</a> Among the
smooth <i>stones</i> of the valley is your portion; they, they are your
lot; even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered an
offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? <a name="C2357V7" id="C2357V7">57:7</a>
On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up
to offer sacrifice. <a name="C2357V8" id="C2357V8">57:8</a> Behind the doors
and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered <i>yourself</i>
to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made
you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it. <a
name="C2357V9" id="C2357V9">57:9</a> You went to the king with oil, and did
increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did
debase yourself even to Sheol. <a name="C2357V10" id="C2357V10">57:10</a> You
were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in
vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.
<a name="C2357V11" id="C2357V11">57:11</a> Of whom have you been afraid and in
fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?
Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me? <a
name="C2357V12" id="C2357V12">57:12</a> I will declare your righteousness; and
as for your works, they shall not profit you. <a name="C2357V13" id="C2357V13">57:13</a>
When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind
shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes
refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
<a name="C2357V14" id="C2357V14">57:14</a> He will say, Cast up, cast up,
prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
<a name="C2357V15" id="C2357V15">57:15</a> For thus says the high and lofty
One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and
holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
<a name="C2357V16" id="C2357V16">57:16</a> For I will not contend forever,
neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and
the souls who I have made. <a name="C2357V17" id="C2357V17">57:17</a> For the
iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid <i>my face</i>
and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. <a
name="C2357V18" id="C2357V18">57:18</a> I have seen his ways, and will heal
him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his
mourners. <a name="C2357V19" id="C2357V19">57:19</a> I create the fruit of the
lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says
Yahweh; and I will heal him. <a name="C2357V20" id="C2357V20">57:20</a> But
the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters
cast up mire and dirt. <a name="C2357V21" id="C2357V21">57:21</a> There is no
peace, says my Elohim, to the wicked.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2358V1" id="C2358V1">58:1</a> Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your
voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to
the house of Jacob their sins. <a name="C2358V2" id="C2358V2">58:2</a> Yet
they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did
righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their Elohim, they ask of
me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to Elohim. <a name="C2358V3"
id="C2358V3">58:3</a> Why have we fasted, <i>say they</i>, and you don't
see? <i>why</i> have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast you find <i>your own</i> pleasure, and
exact all your labors. <a name="C2358V4" id="C2358V4">58:4</a> Behold, you
fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness:
you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. <a
name="C2358V5" id="C2358V5">58:5</a> Is such the fast that I have chosen? the
day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to Yahweh? <a name="C2358V6" id="C2358V6">58:6</a> Isn't
this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to
undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you
break every yoke? <a name="C2358V7" id="C2358V7">58:7</a> Isn't it to deal
your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to
your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not
hide yourself from your own flesh? <a name="C2358V8" id="C2358V8">58:8</a>
Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall
spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the
glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. <a name="C2358V9" id="C2358V9">58:9</a>
Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will
say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; <a name="C2358V10"
id="C2358V10">58:10</a> and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and
your obscurity be as the noonday; <a name="C2358V11" id="C2358V11">58:11</a>
and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry
places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail. <a
name="C2358V12" id="C2358V12">58:12</a> Those who shall be of you shall build
the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many
generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in. <a name="C2358V13" id="C2358V13">58:13</a> If
you turn away your foot from the Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on my
holy day; and call the Shabbat a delight, <i>and</i> the holy of Yahweh
honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your
own pleasure, nor speaking <i>your own</i> words: <a name="C2358V14"
id="C2358V14">58:14</a> then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I
will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you
with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken
it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2359V1" id="C2359V1">59:1</a> Behold, Yahweh's hand is not
shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:
<a name="C2359V2" id="C2359V2">59:2</a> but your iniquities have separated
between you and your Elohim, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so
that he will not hear. <a name="C2359V3" id="C2359V3">59:3</a> For your hands
are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. <a name="C2359V4" id="C2359V4">59:4</a>
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
<a name="C2359V5" id="C2359V5">59:5</a> They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the
spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed
breaks out into a viper. <a name="C2359V6" id="C2359V6">59:6</a> Their webs
shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their
works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in
their hands. <a name="C2359V7" id="C2359V7">59:7</a> Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. <a name="C2359V8"
id="C2359V8">59:8</a> The way of peace they don't know; and there is no
justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes
therein does not know peace. <a name="C2359V9" id="C2359V9">59:9</a> Therefore
is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look
for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in
obscurity. <a name="C2359V10" id="C2359V10">59:10</a> We grope for the wall
like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at
noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
<a name="C2359V11" id="C2359V11">59:11</a> We roar all like bears, and moan
sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation,
but it is far off from us. <a name="C2359V12" id="C2359V12">59:12</a> For our
transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know
them: <a name="C2359V13" id="C2359V13">59:13</a> transgressing and denying
Yahweh, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and
revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. <a
name="C2359V14" id="C2359V14">59:14</a> Justice is turned away backward, and
righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and
uprightness can't enter. <a name="C2359V15" id="C2359V15">59:15</a> Yes, truth
is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw
it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. <a name="C2359V16"
id="C2359V16">59:16</a> He saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness, it upheld him. <a name="C2359V17" id="C2359V17">59:17</a>
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his
head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with
zeal as a mantle. <a name="C2359V18" id="C2359V18">59:18</a> According to
their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. <a
name="C2359V19" id="C2359V19">59:19</a> So shall they fear the name of Yahweh
from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come
as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives. <a name="C2359V20"
id="C2359V20">59:20</a> A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn
from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. <a name="C2359V21" id="C2359V21">59:21</a>
As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on
you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of
your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of
your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2360V1" id="C2360V1">60:1</a> Arise, shine; for your light is come,
and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you. <a name="C2360V2" id="C2360V2">60:2</a>
For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
<a name="C2360V3" id="C2360V3">60:3</a> Nations shall come to your light, and
kings to the brightness of your rising. <a name="C2360V4" id="C2360V4">60:4</a>
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves
together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your
daughters shall be carried in the arms. <a name="C2360V5" id="C2360V5">60:5</a>
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be
enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the
wealth of the nations shall come to you. <a name="C2360V6" id="C2360V6">60:6</a>
The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and
frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh. <a name="C2360V7"
id="C2360V7">60:7</a> All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to
you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with
acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory. <a
name="C2360V8" id="C2360V8">60:8</a> Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as
the doves to their windows? <a name="C2360V9" id="C2360V9">60:9</a> Surely the
islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your
sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of
Yahweh your Elohim, and for the Holy One of Yisrael, because he has glorified
you. <a name="C2360V10" id="C2360V10">60:10</a> Foreigners shall build up your
walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck
you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you. <a name="C2360V11" id="C2360V11">60:11</a>
Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor
night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their
kings led captive. <a name="C2360V12" id="C2360V12">60:12</a> For that nation
and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall
be utterly wasted. <a name="C2360V13" id="C2360V13">60:13</a> The glory of
Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place
of my feet glorious. <a name="C2360V14" id="C2360V14">60:14</a> The sons of
those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who
despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they
shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Yisrael. <a
name="C2360V15" id="C2360V15">60:15</a> Whereas you have been forsaken and
hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations. <a name="C2360V16" id="C2360V16">60:16</a>
You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of
kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. <a name="C2360V17" id="C2360V17">60:17</a>
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for
wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and
righteousness your ruler. <a name="C2360V18" id="C2360V18">60:18</a> Violence
shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within
your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates
Praise. <a name="C2360V19" id="C2360V19">60:19</a> The sun shall be no more
your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to
you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your Elohim your
glory. <a name="C2360V20" id="C2360V20">60:20</a> Your sun shall no more go
down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your
everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended. <a
name="C2360V21" id="C2360V21">60:21</a> Your people also shall be all
righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. <a name="C2360V22" id="C2360V22">60:22</a>
The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation;
I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2361V1" id="C2361V1">61:1</a> The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on
me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he
has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening <i>of the prison</i> to those who are bound; <a
name="C2361V2" id="C2361V2">61:2</a> to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our Elohim; to comfort all who mourn; <a
name="C2361V3" id="C2361V3">61:3</a> to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to
give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified. <a
name="C2361V4" id="C2361V4">61:4</a> They shall build the old wastes, they
shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste
cities, the desolations of many generations. <a name="C2361V5" id="C2361V5">61:5</a>
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers. <a name="C2361V6" id="C2361V6">61:6</a> But you
shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of
our Elohim: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you
will boast yourselves. <a name="C2361V7" id="C2361V7">61:7</a> Instead of your
shame <i>you shall have</i> double; and instead of dishonor they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess
double; everlasting joy shall be to them. <a name="C2361V8" id="C2361V8">61:8</a>
For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give
them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them. <a name="C2361V9" id="C2361V9">61:9</a> Their seed shall be known
among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them
shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.
<a name="C2361V10" id="C2361V10">61:10</a> I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh,
my soul shall be joyful in my Elohim; for he has clothed me with the garments
of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a
bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself
with her jewels. <a name="C2361V11" id="C2361V11">61:11</a> For as the earth
brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in
it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2362V1" id="C2362V1">62:1</a> For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Yerushalaim's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness
go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. <a
name="C2362V2" id="C2362V2">62:2</a> The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the
mouth of Yahweh shall name. <a name="C2362V3" id="C2362V3">62:3</a> You shall
also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the
hand of your Elohim. <a name="C2362V4" id="C2362V4">62:4</a> You shall no more be
termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but
you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights
in you, and your land shall be married. <a name="C2362V5" id="C2362V5">62:5</a>
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as
the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.
<a name="C2362V6" id="C2362V6">62:6</a> I have set watchmen on your walls,
Yerushalaim; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call
on Yahweh, take no rest, <a name="C2362V7" id="C2362V7">62:7</a> and give him
no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Yerushalaim a praise in
the earth. <a name="C2362V8" id="C2362V8">62:8</a> Yahweh has sworn by his
right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give
your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink
your new wine, for which you have labored: <a name="C2362V9" id="C2362V9">62:9</a>
but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those
who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. <a
name="C2362V10" id="C2362V10">62:10</a> Go through, go through the gates;
prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather
out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples. <a name="C2362V11"
id="C2362V11">62:11</a> Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the
earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. <a
name="C2362V12" id="C2362V12">62:12</a> They shall call them The holy people,
The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not
forsaken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2363V1" id="C2363V1">63:1</a> Who is this who comes from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching
in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to
save. <a name="C2363V2" id="C2363V2">63:2</a> Why are you red in your
clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? <a
name="C2363V3" id="C2363V3">63:3</a> I have trodden the winepress alone; and
of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and
trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my
garments, and I have stained all my clothing. <a name="C2363V4" id="C2363V4">63:4</a>
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is
come. <a name="C2363V5" id="C2363V5">63:5</a> I looked, and there was none to
help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm
brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me. <a name="C2363V6"
id="C2363V6">63:6</a> I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them
drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. <a
name="C2363V7" id="C2363V7">63:7</a> I will make mention of the loving
kindnesses of Yahweh, <i>and</i> the praises of Yahweh, according to all
that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Yisrael, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and
according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. <a name="C2363V8"
id="C2363V8">63:8</a> For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who
will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior. <a name="C2363V9" id="C2363V9">63:9</a>
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore
them, and carried them all the days of old. <a name="C2363V10" id="C2363V10">63:10</a>
But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to
be their enemy, <i>and</i> himself fought against them. <a name="C2363V11"
id="C2363V11">63:11</a> Then he remembered the days of old, Moshe <i>and</i>
his people, <i>saying</i>, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in
the midst of them? <a name="C2363V12" id="C2363V12">63:12</a> who caused his
glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moshe? who divided the waters
before them, to make himself an everlasting name? <a name="C2363V13"
id="C2363V13">63:13</a> who led them through the depths, as a horse in the
wilderness, so that they didn't stumble? <a name="C2363V14" id="C2363V14">63:14</a>
As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused
them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious
name. <a name="C2363V15" id="C2363V15">63:15</a> Look down from heaven, and
see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your
zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion
is restrained toward me. <a name="C2363V16" id="C2363V16">63:16</a> For you
are our Father, though Avraham doesn't know us, and Yisrael does not
acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting
is your name. <a name="C2363V17" id="C2363V17">63:17</a> O Yahweh, why do you
make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return
for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. <a name="C2363V18"
id="C2363V18">63:18</a> Your holy people possessed <i>it</i> but a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. <a name="C2363V19"
id="C2363V19">63:19</a> We are become as they over whom you never bear rule,
as those who were not called by your name.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2364V1" id="C2364V1">64:1</a> Oh that you would tear the heavens,
that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
<a name="C2364V2" id="C2364V2">64:2</a> as when fire kindles the brushwood, <i>and</i>
the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! <a name="C2364V3"
id="C2364V3">64:3</a> When you did terrible things which we didn't look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. <a name="C2364V4"
id="C2364V4">64:4</a> For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by
the ear, neither has the eye seen a Elohim besides you, who works for him who
waits for him. <a name="C2364V5" id="C2364V5">64:5</a> You meet him who
rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways:
behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them <i>have we been</i> of long
time; and shall we be saved? <a name="C2364V6" id="C2364V6">64:6</a> For we
have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a
polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, take us away. <a name="C2364V7" id="C2364V7">64:7</a> There is none who
calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have
hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. <a
name="C2364V8" id="C2364V8">64:8</a> But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we
are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. <a
name="C2364V9" id="C2364V9">64:9</a> Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither
remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
<a name="C2364V10" id="C2364V10">64:10</a> Your holy cities are become a
wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Yerushalaim a desolation. <a
name="C2364V11" id="C2364V11">64:11</a> Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant
places are laid waste. <a name="C2364V12" id="C2364V12">64:12</a> Will you
refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and
afflict us very sore?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2365V1" id="C2365V1">65:1</a> I am inquired of by those who didn't
ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a
nation that was not called by my name. <a name="C2365V2" id="C2365V2">65:2</a>
I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in
a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; <a name="C2365V3"
id="C2365V3">65:3</a> a people who provoke me to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; <a name="C2365V4"
id="C2365V4">65:4</a> who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret
places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels; <a name="C2365V5" id="C2365V5">65:5</a> who say, Stand by yourself,
don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my
nose, a fire that burns all the day. <a name="C2365V6" id="C2365V6">65:6</a>
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom, <a name="C2365V7"
id="C2365V7">65:7</a> your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your
fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains,
and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work
into their bosom. <a name="C2365V8" id="C2365V8">65:8</a> Thus says Yahweh, As
the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for
a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not
destroy them all. <a name="C2365V9" id="C2365V9">65:9</a> I will bring forth a
seed out of Jacob, and out of Yehudah an inheritor of my mountains; and my
chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. <a
name="C2365V10" id="C2365V10">65:10</a> Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and
the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who
have sought me. <a name="C2365V11" id="C2365V11">65:11</a> But you who forsake
Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and
who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; <a name="C2365V12" id="C2365V12">65:12</a>
I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the
slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you
did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that
in which I didn't delight. <a name="C2365V13" id="C2365V13">65:13</a>
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but
you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be
thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;
<a name="C2365V14" id="C2365V14">65:14</a> behold, my servants shall sing for
joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for
anguish of spirit. <a name="C2365V15" id="C2365V15">65:15</a> You shall leave
your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and
he will call his servants by another name: <a name="C2365V16" id="C2365V16">65:16</a>
so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the Elohim
of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the Elohim of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from
my eyes. <a name="C2365V17" id="C2365V17">65:17</a> For, behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered,
nor come into mind. <a name="C2365V18" id="C2365V18">65:18</a> But be you glad
and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create
Yerushalaim a rejoicing, and her people a joy. <a name="C2365V19" id="C2365V19">65:19</a>
I will rejoice in Yerushalaim, and joy in my people; and there shall be
heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. <a
name="C2365V20" id="C2365V20">65:20</a> There shall be no more there an infant
of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall
die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old
shall be accursed. <a name="C2365V21" id="C2365V21">65:21</a> They shall build
houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit of them. <a name="C2365V22" id="C2365V22">65:22</a> They shall not
build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as
the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall
long enjoy the work of their hands. <a name="C2365V23" id="C2365V23">65:23</a>
They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are
the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them. <a
name="C2365V24" id="C2365V24">65:24</a> It shall happen that, before they
call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. <a
name="C2365V25" id="C2365V25">65:25</a> The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the
serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2366V1" id="C2366V1">66:1</a> Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me?
and what place shall be my rest? <a name="C2366V2" id="C2366V2">66:2</a> For
all these things has my hand made, and <i>so</i> all these things came to
be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and
of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word. <a name="C2366V3"
id="C2366V3">66:3</a> He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who
sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an
offering, <i>as he who offers</i> pig's blood; he who burns frankincense,
as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their
soul delights in their abominations: <a name="C2366V4" id="C2366V4">66:4</a> I
also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear:
but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I
didn't delight. <a name="C2366V5" id="C2366V5">66:5</a> Hear the word of
Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast
you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we
may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed. <a
name="C2366V6" id="C2366V6">66:6</a> A voice of tumult from the city, a voice
from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.
<a name="C2366V7" id="C2366V7">66:7</a> Before she travailed, she brought
forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a boy. <a name="C2366V8"
id="C2366V8">66:8</a> Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once?
for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. <a
name="C2366V9" id="C2366V9">66:9</a> Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause
to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut <i>the
womb</i>? says your Elohim. <a name="C2366V10" id="C2366V10">66:10</a> Rejoice
you with Yerushalaim, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for
joy with her, all you who mourn over her; <a name="C2366V11" id="C2366V11">66:11</a>
that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations;
that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
<a name="C2366V12" id="C2366V12">66:12</a> For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I
will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like
an overflowing stream: and you shall suck <i>of it</i>; you shall be borne
on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees. <a name="C2366V13"
id="C2366V13">66:13</a> As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort
you; and you shall be comforted in Yerushalaim. <a name="C2366V14" id="C2366V14">66:14</a>
You shall see <i>it</i>, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be
known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his
enemies. <a name="C2366V15" id="C2366V15">66:15</a> For, behold, Yahweh will
come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render
his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. <a
name="C2366V16" id="C2366V16">66:16</a> For by fire will Yahweh execute
judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be
many. <a name="C2366V17" id="C2366V17">66:17</a> Those who sanctify themselves
and purify themselves <i>to go</i> to the gardens, behind one in the
midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall
come to an end together, says Yahweh. <a name="C2366V18" id="C2366V18">66:18</a>
For I <i>know</i> their works and their thoughts: <i>the time</i> comes,
that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and
shall see my glory. <a name="C2366V19" id="C2366V19">66:19</a> I will set a
sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to
Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the
islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the nations. <a name="C2366V20"
id="C2366V20">66:20</a> They shall bring all your brothers out of all the
nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in
litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Yerushalaim,
says Yahweh, as the children of Yisrael bring their offering in a clean
vessel into the house of Yahweh. <a name="C2366V21" id="C2366V21">66:21</a> Of
them also will I take for priests <i>and</i> for Levites, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2366V22" id="C2366V22">66:22</a> For as the new heavens and the new
earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so your
seed and your name shall remain. <a name="C2366V23" id="C2366V23">66:23</a> It
shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Shabbat to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2366V24" id="C2366V24">66:24</a> They shall go forth, and look on the
dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm
shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring to all flesh.
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C591V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C592V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C593V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C594V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C595V1>Chapter 05</a>
<p>
<a name="C591V1" id="C591V1">1:1</a> James, a servant of Elohim and of the Lord
Yeshua Messiah, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
<a name="C591V2" id="C591V2">1:2</a> Count it all joy, my <a href="#N591">brothers</a>,
when you fall into various temptations, <a name="C591V3" id="C591V3">1:3</a>
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. <a name="C591V4"
id="C591V4">1:4</a> Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. <a name="C591V5" id="C591V5">1:5</a>
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of Elohim, who gives to all
liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. <a name="C591V6"
id="C591V6">1:6</a> But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he
who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. <a
name="C591V7" id="C591V7">1:7</a> For let that man not think that he will
receive anything from the Lord. <a name="C591V8" id="C591V8">1:8</a> He is a
double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C591V9" id="C591V9">1:9</a> But let the brother in humble
circumstances glory in his high position; <a name="C591V10" id="C591V10">1:10</a>
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the
grass, he will pass away. <a name="C591V11" id="C591V11">1:11</a> For the sun
arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in
it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich
man fade away in his pursuits.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C591V12" id="C591V12">1:12</a> Blessed is the man who endures
temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of
life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. <a name="C591V13"
id="C591V13">1:13</a> Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted
by Elohim," for Elohim can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no
one. <a name="C591V14" id="C591V14">1:14</a> But each one is tempted, when he
is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. <a name="C591V15" id="C591V15">1:15</a>
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is
full grown, brings forth death. <a name="C591V16" id="C591V16">1:16</a> Don't
be deceived, my beloved brothers. <a name="C591V17" id="C591V17">1:17</a>
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. <a
name="C591V18" id="C591V18">1:18</a> Of his own will he brought us forth by
the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his
creatures.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C591V19" id="C591V19">1:19</a> So, then, my beloved brothers, let
every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; <a
name="C591V20" id="C591V20">1:20</a> for the anger of man doesn't produce the
righteousness of Elohim. <a name="C591V21" id="C591V21">1:21</a> Therefore,
putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with
humility the implanted word, which is able to <a href="#N592">save your
souls</a>. <a name="C591V22" id="C591V22">1:22</a> But be doers of the word,
and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. <a name="C591V23" id="C591V23">1:23</a>
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
looking at his natural face in a mirror; <a name="C591V24" id="C591V24">1:24</a>
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of
man he was. <a name="C591V25" id="C591V25">1:25</a> But he who looks into the
perfect Torah of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but
a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C591V26" id="C591V26">1:26</a> If anyone among you thinks himself to
be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart,
this man's religion is worthless. <a name="C591V27" id="C591V27">1:27</a> Pure
religion and undefiled before our Elohim and Father is this: to visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained
by the world.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C592V1" id="C592V1">2:1</a> My brothers, don't hold the faith of our
Lord Yeshua Messiah of glory with partiality. <a name="C592V2" id="C592V2">2:2</a>
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your <a
href="#N593">synagogue</a>, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
<a name="C592V3" id="C592V3">2:3</a> and you pay special attention to him who
wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;"
and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my
footstool;" <a name="C592V4" id="C592V4">2:4</a> haven't you shown
partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? <a
name="C592V5" id="C592V5">2:5</a> Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't Elohim
choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of
the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? <a name="C592V6"
id="C592V6">2:6</a> But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich
oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? <a name="C592V7"
id="C592V7">2:7</a> Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are
called? <a name="C592V8" id="C592V8">2:8</a> However, if you fulfill the royal
Torah, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself,"<sup><a href="#N594">*</a></sup> you do well. <a name="C592V9"
id="C592V9">2:9</a> But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being
convicted by the Torah as transgressors. <a name="C592V10" id="C592V10">2:10</a>
For whoever keeps the whole Torah, and yet stumbles in one point, he has
become guilty of all. <a name="C592V11" id="C592V11">2:11</a> For he who said,
"Do not commit adultery,"<sup><a href="#N595">*</a></sup> also
said, "Do not commit murder."<sup><a href="#N596">*</a></sup> Now
if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor
of the Torah. <a name="C592V12" id="C592V12">2:12</a> So speak, and so do, as
men who are to be judged by a Torah of freedom. <a name="C592V13" id="C592V13">2:13</a>
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy
triumphs over judgment.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C592V14" id="C592V14">2:14</a> What good is it, my brothers, if a man
says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? <a name="C592V15"
id="C592V15">2:15</a> And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of
daily food, <a name="C592V16" id="C592V16">2:16</a> and one of you tells them,
"Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give
them the things the body needs, what good is it? <a name="C592V17" id="C592V17">2:17</a>
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. <a name="C592V18"
id="C592V18">2:18</a> Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have
works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show
you my faith.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C592V19" id="C592V19">2:19</a> You believe that Elohim is one. You do
well. The demons also believe, and shudder. <a name="C592V20" id="C592V20">2:20</a>
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? <a
name="C592V21" id="C592V21">2:21</a> Wasn't Avraham our father justified by
works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? <a name="C592V22"
id="C592V22">2:22</a> You see that faith worked with his works, and by works
faith was perfected; <a name="C592V23" id="C592V23">2:23</a> and the Scripture
was fulfilled which says, "Avraham believed Elohim, and it was accounted
to him as righteousness;"<sup><a href="#N597">*</a></sup> and he was
called the friend of Elohim. <a name="C592V24" id="C592V24">2:24</a> You see then
that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. <a name="C592V25"
id="C592V25">2:25</a> In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also
justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out
another way? <a name="C592V26" id="C592V26">2:26</a> For as the body apart
from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C593V1" id="C593V1">3:1</a> Let not many of you be teachers, my
brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. <a name="C593V2"
id="C593V2">3:2</a> For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't
stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body
also. <a name="C593V3" id="C593V3">3:3</a> Indeed, we put bits into the
horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. <a
name="C593V4" id="C593V4">3:4</a> Behold, the ships also, though they are so
big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder,
wherever the pilot desires. <a name="C593V5" id="C593V5">3:5</a> So the tongue
is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can
spread to a large forest! <a name="C593V6" id="C593V6">3:6</a> And the tongue
is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which
defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set
on fire by <a href="#N598">Gehenna.</a> <a name="C593V7" id="C593V7">3:7</a> For
every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is
tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. <a name="C593V8" id="C593V8">3:8</a> But
nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
<a name="C593V9" id="C593V9">3:9</a> With it we bless our Elohim and Father, and
with it we curse men, who are made in the image of Elohim. <a name="C593V10"
id="C593V10">3:10</a> Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and
cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. <a name="C593V11"
id="C593V11">3:11</a> Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and
bitter water? <a name="C593V12" id="C593V12">3:12</a> Can a fig tree, my
brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt
water and fresh water.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C593V13" id="C593V13">3:13</a> Who is wise and understanding among
you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in
gentleness of wisdom. <a name="C593V14" id="C593V14">3:14</a> But if you have
bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't
lie against the truth. <a name="C593V15" id="C593V15">3:15</a> This wisdom is
not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and
demonic. <a name="C593V16" id="C593V16">3:16</a> For where jealousy and
selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. <a
name="C593V17" id="C593V17">3:17</a> But the wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good
fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. <a name="C593V18"
id="C593V18">3:18</a> Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by
those who make peace.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C594V1" id="C594V1">4:1</a> Where do wars and fightings among you
come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
<a name="C594V2" id="C594V2">4:2</a> You lust, and don't have. You kill,
covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because
you don't ask. <a name="C594V3" id="C594V3">4:3</a> You ask, and don't
receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for
your pleasures. <a name="C594V4" id="C594V4">4:4</a> You adulterers and
adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with
Elohim? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of Elohim. <a name="C594V5" id="C594V5">4:5</a> Or do you think that the
Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
<a name="C594V6" id="C594V6">4:6</a> But he gives more grace. Therefore it
says, "Elohim resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."<sup><a
href="#N599">*</a></sup> <a name="C594V7" id="C594V7">4:7</a> Be subject
therefore to Elohim. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. <a
name="C594V8" id="C594V8">4:8</a> Draw near to Elohim, and he will draw near to
you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you
double-minded. <a name="C594V9" id="C594V9">4:9</a> Lament, mourn, and weep.
Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. <a
name="C594V10" id="C594V10">4:10</a> Humble yourselves in the sight of the
Lord, and he will exalt you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C594V11" id="C594V11">4:11</a> Don't speak against one another,
brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks
against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not
a doer of the Torah, but a judge. <a name="C594V12" id="C594V12">4:12</a> Only
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you
to judge another?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C594V13" id="C594V13">4:13</a> Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make
a profit." <a name="C594V14" id="C594V14">4:14</a> Whereas you don't know
what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a
vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. <a
name="C594V15" id="C594V15">4:15</a> For you ought to say, "If the Lord
wills, we will both live, and do this or that." <a name="C594V16"
id="C594V16">4:16</a> But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting
is evil. <a name="C594V17" id="C594V17">4:17</a> To him therefore who knows to
do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C595V1" id="C595V1">5:1</a> Come now, you rich, weep and howl for
your miseries that are coming on you. <a name="C595V2" id="C595V2">5:2</a>
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. <a name="C595V3"
id="C595V3">5:3</a> Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their
corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh
like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. <a name="C595V4"
id="C595V4">5:4</a> Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,
which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who
reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of <a href="#N5910">Armies</a>.
<a name="C595V5" id="C595V5">5:5</a> You have lived delicately on the earth,
and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of
slaughter. <a name="C595V6" id="C595V6">5:6</a> You have condemned, you have
murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C595V7" id="C595V7">5:7</a> Be patient therefore, brothers, until the
coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the
earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
<a name="C595V8" id="C595V8">5:8</a> You also be patient. Establish your
hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C595V9" id="C595V9">5:9</a> Don't grumble, brothers, against one
another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the
door. <a name="C595V10" id="C595V10">5:10</a> Take, brothers, for an example
of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the
Lord. <a name="C595V11" id="C595V11">5:11</a> Behold, we call them blessed who
endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in
the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. <a
name="C595V12" id="C595V12">5:12</a> But above all things, my brothers, don't
swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let
your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;"
so that you don't fall <a href="#N5911">into hypocrisy.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C595V13" id="C595V13">5:13</a> Is any among you suffering? Let him
pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. <a name="C595V14" id="C595V14">5:14</a>
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and
let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, <a
name="C595V15" id="C595V15">5:15</a> and the prayer of faith will heal him who
is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will
be forgiven. <a name="C595V16" id="C595V16">5:16</a> Confess your offenses to
one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The
insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. <a
name="C595V17" id="C595V17">5:17</a> Elijah was a man with a nature like ours,
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the
earth for three years and six months. <a name="C595V18" id="C595V18">5:18</a>
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its
fruit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C595V19" id="C595V19">5:19</a> Brothers, if any among you wanders
from the truth, and someone turns him back, <a name="C595V20" id="C595V20">5:20</a>
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will
save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N591" id="N591">[1]</a> <a href="#C591V2">back to 1:2</a> The word for
"brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N592" id="N592">[2]</a> <a href="#C591V21">back to 1:21</a> or,
preserve your life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N593" id="N593">[3]</a> <a href="#C592V2">back to 2:2</a> or, meeting
</p>
<p>
<a name="N594" id="N594">[4]</a> <a href="#C592V8">back to 2:8</a> Leviticus
19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N595" id="N595">[5]</a> <a href="#C592V11">back to 2:11</a> Exodus
20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N596" id="N596">[6]</a> <a href="#C592V11">back to 2:11</a> Exodus
10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17
</p>
<p>
<a name="N597" id="N597">[7]</a> <a href="#C592V23">back to 2:23</a> Genesis
15:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N598" id="N598">[8]</a> <a href="#C593V6">back to 3:6</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N599" id="N599">[9]</a> <a href="#C594V6">back to 4:6</a> Proverbs 3:34
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5910" id="N5910">[10]</a> <a href="#C595V4">back to 5:4</a> Greek:
Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N5911" id="N5911">[11]</a> <a href="#C595V12">back to 5:12</a> TR reads
"under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"
</p>
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<a name="C241V1" id="C241V1">1:1</a> The words of Yirmiyahu the son of Hilkiah,
of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: <a name="C241V2"
id="C241V2">1:2</a> to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah
the son of Amon, king of Yehudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. <a
name="C241V3" id="C241V3">1:3</a> It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah,
the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, to the carrying away of Yerushalayim
captive in the fifth month. <a name="C241V4" id="C241V4">1:4</a> Now the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C241V5" id="C241V5">1:5</a> Before I
formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the
womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. <a
name="C241V6" id="C241V6">1:6</a> Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I
don't know how to speak; for I am a child. <a name="C241V7" id="C241V7">1:7</a>
But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall
send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.
<a name="C241V8" id="C241V8">1:8</a> Don't be afraid because of them; for I am
with you to deliver you, says Yahweh. <a name="C241V9" id="C241V9">1:9</a>
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to
me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth: <a name="C241V10" id="C241V10">1:10</a>
behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to
pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and
to plant. <a name="C241V11" id="C241V11">1:11</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, Yirmiyahu, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree. <a name="C241V12" id="C241V12">1:12</a> Then said Yahweh to me,
You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it. <a name="C241V13"
id="C241V13">1:13</a> The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,
What see you? I said, I see a boiling caldron; and its face is from the
north. <a name="C241V14" id="C241V14">1:14</a> Then Yahweh said to me, Out of
the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. <a
name="C241V15" id="C241V15">1:15</a> For, behold, I will call all the families
of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they
shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Yerushalayim,
and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Yehudah.
<a name="C241V16" id="C241V16">1:16</a> I will utter my judgments against them
touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have
burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
<a name="C241V17" id="C241V17">1:17</a> You therefore gird up your waist, and
arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at
them, lest I dismay you before them. <a name="C241V18" id="C241V18">1:18</a>
For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron
pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of
Yehudah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of
the land. <a name="C241V19" id="C241V19">1:19</a> They shall fight against
you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says
Yahweh, to deliver you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C242V1" id="C242V1">2:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C242V2" id="C242V2">2:2</a> Go, and cry in the ears of Yerushalayim,
saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth,
the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a
land that was not sown. <a name="C242V3" id="C242V3">2:3</a> Yisrael <i>was</i>
holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him
shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh. <a name="C242V4"
id="C242V4">2:4</a> Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Yisrael: <a name="C242V5" id="C242V5">2:5</a> thus
says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they
have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
<a name="C242V6" id="C242V6">2:6</a> Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of
the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no
man lived? <a name="C242V7" id="C242V7">2:7</a> I brought you into a plentiful
land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled
my land, and made my heritage an abomination. <a name="C242V8" id="C242V8">2:8</a>
The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the Torah
didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets
prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. <a
name="C242V9" id="C242V9">2:9</a> Therefore I will yet contend with you, says
Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend. <a name="C242V10"
id="C242V10">2:10</a> For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and
send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a
thing. <a name="C242V11" id="C242V11">2:11</a> Has a nation changed <i>its</i>
gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for
that which does not profit. <a name="C242V12" id="C242V12">2:12</a> Be
astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very
desolate, says Yahweh. <a name="C242V13" id="C242V13">2:13</a> For my people
have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living
waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no
water. <a name="C242V14" id="C242V14">2:14</a> Is Yisrael a servant? is he a
native-born <i>slave</i>? why is he become a prey? <a name="C242V15"
id="C242V15">2:15</a> The young lions have roared on him, and yelled; and
they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without
inhabitant. <a name="C242V16" id="C242V16">2:16</a> The children also of
Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. <a name="C242V17"
id="C242V17">2:17</a> Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you
have forsaken Yahweh your Elohim, when he led you by the way? <a name="C242V18"
id="C242V18">2:18</a> Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink
the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to
drink the waters of the River? <a name="C242V19" id="C242V19">2:19</a> Your
own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you:
know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you
have forsaken Yahweh your Elohim, and that my fear is not in you, says the
Lord, Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C242V20" id="C242V20">2:20</a> For of old
time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will
not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow
yourself, playing the prostitute. <a name="C242V21" id="C242V21">2:21</a> Yet
I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you
turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? <a
name="C242V22" id="C242V22">2:22</a> For though you wash yourself with lye,
and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord
Yahweh. <a name="C242V23" id="C242V23">2:23</a> How can you say, I am not
defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know
what you have done: <i>you are</i> a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
<a name="C242V24" id="C242V24">2:24</a> a wild donkey used to the wilderness,
that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her
away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they
shall find her. <a name="C242V25" id="C242V25">2:25</a> Withhold your foot
from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in
vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. <a
name="C242V26" id="C242V26">2:26</a> As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
so is the house of Yisrael ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and
their priests, and their prophets; <a name="C242V27" id="C242V27">2:27</a> who
tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me
forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in
the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. <a
name="C242V28" id="C242V28">2:28</a> But where are your gods that you have
made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your
trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Yehudah.
<a name="C242V29" id="C242V29">2:29</a> Why will you contend with me? you all
have transgressed against me, says Yahweh. <a name="C242V30" id="C242V30">2:30</a>
In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own
sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. <a name="C242V31"
id="C242V31">2:31</a> Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a
wilderness to Yisrael? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We
are broken loose; we will come no more to you? <a name="C242V32" id="C242V32">2:32</a>
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people
have forgotten me days without number. <a name="C242V33" id="C242V33">2:33</a>
How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women
have you taught your ways. <a name="C242V34" id="C242V34">2:34</a> Also in
your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did
not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. <a
name="C242V35" id="C242V35">2:35</a> Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his
anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you,
because you say, I have not sinned. <a name="C242V36" id="C242V36">2:36</a>
Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt
also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. <a name="C242V37" id="C242V37">2:37</a>
From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head: for
Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper
with them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C243V1" id="C243V1">3:1</a> They say, If a man put away his wife, and
she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?
Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute
with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh. <a name="C243V2"
id="C243V2">3:2</a> Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where
have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an
Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your
prostitution and with your wickedness. <a name="C243V3" id="C243V3">3:3</a>
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter
rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed. <a
name="C243V4" id="C243V4">3:4</a> Will you not from this time cry to me, My
Father, you are the guide of my youth? <a name="C243V5" id="C243V5">3:5</a>
Will he retain <i>his anger</i> forever? will he keep it to the end?
Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.
<a name="C243V6" id="C243V6">3:6</a> Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of
Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Yisrael has done? she
is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there
has played the prostitute. <a name="C243V7" id="C243V7">3:7</a> I said after
she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't
return: and her treacherous sister Yehudah saw it. <a name="C243V8" id="C243V8">3:8</a>
I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Yisrael had committed
adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet
treacherous Yehudah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played
the prostitute. <a name="C243V9" id="C243V9">3:9</a> It happened through the
lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she
committed adultery with stones and with stocks. <a name="C243V10" id="C243V10">3:10</a>
Yet for all this her treacherous sister Yehudah has not returned to me with
her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. <a name="C243V11"
id="C243V11">3:11</a> Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Yisrael has shown
herself more righteous than treacherous Yehudah. <a name="C243V12" id="C243V12">3:12</a>
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you
backsliding Yisrael, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you; for I am
merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep <i>anger</i> forever. <a
name="C243V13" id="C243V13">3:13</a> Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you
have transgressed against Yahweh your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to
the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,
says Yahweh. <a name="C243V14" id="C243V14">3:14</a> Return, backsliding
children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one
of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: <a
name="C243V15" id="C243V15">3:15</a> and I will give you shepherds according
to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. <a
name="C243V16" id="C243V16">3:16</a> It shall come to pass, when you are
multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it
come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it;
neither shall it be made any more. <a name="C243V17" id="C243V17">3:17</a> At
that time they shall call Yerushalayim the throne of Yahweh; and all the
nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Yerushalayim:
neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil
heart. <a name="C243V18" id="C243V18">3:18</a> In those days the house of
Yehudah shall walk with the house of Yisrael, and they shall come together
out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to
your fathers. <a name="C243V19" id="C243V19">3:19</a> But I said, How I will
put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly
heritage of the armies of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My
Father, and shall not turn away from following me. <a name="C243V20"
id="C243V20">3:20</a> Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her
husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Yisrael, says
Yahweh. <a name="C243V21" id="C243V21">3:21</a> A voice is heard on the bare
heights, the weeping <i>and</i> the petitions of the children of Yisrael;
because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their
Elohim. <a name="C243V22" id="C243V22">3:22</a> Return, you backsliding children,
I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are
Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C243V23" id="C243V23">3:23</a> Truly in vain is <i>the
help that is looked for</i> from the hills, the tumult on the mountains:
truly in Yahweh our Elohim is the salvation of Yisrael. <a name="C243V24"
id="C243V24">3:24</a> But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our
fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
daughters. <a name="C243V25" id="C243V25">3:25</a> Let us lie down in our
shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh
our Elohim, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have
not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C244V1" id="C244V1">4:1</a> If you will return, Yisrael, says Yahweh,
if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out
of my sight; then you shall not be removed; <a name="C244V2" id="C244V2">4:2</a>
and you shall swear, As Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and in
righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him
shall they glory. <a name="C244V3" id="C244V3">4:3</a> For thus says Yahweh to
the men of Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, Break up your fallow ground, and don't
sow among thorns. <a name="C244V4" id="C244V4">4:4</a> Circumcise yourselves
to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Yehudah and
inhabitants of Yerushalayim; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so
that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. <a name="C244V5"
id="C244V5">4:5</a> Declare you in Yehudah, and publish in Yerushalayim; and say,
Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves,
and let us go into the fortified cities. <a name="C244V6" id="C244V6">4:6</a>
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will
bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. <a name="C244V7"
id="C244V7">4:7</a> A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of
nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your
land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. <a
name="C244V8" id="C244V8">4:8</a> For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and
wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us. <a
name="C244V9" id="C244V9">4:9</a> It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh,
that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and
the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. <a
name="C244V10" id="C244V10">4:10</a> Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you
have greatly deceived this people and Yerushalayim, saying, You shall have
peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life. <a name="C244V11" id="C244V11">4:11</a>
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Yerushalayim, A hot wind
from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
not to winnow, nor to cleanse; <a name="C244V12" id="C244V12">4:12</a> a full
wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against
them. <a name="C244V13" id="C244V13">4:13</a> Behold, he shall come up as
clouds, and his chariots <i>shall be</i> as the whirlwind: his horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined. <a name="C244V14"
id="C244V14">4:14</a> Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you
may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? <a
name="C244V15" id="C244V15">4:15</a> For a voice declares from Dan, and
publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: <a name="C244V16" id="C244V16">4:16</a>
make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Yerushalayim, <i>that</i>
watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the
cities of Yehudah. <a name="C244V17" id="C244V17">4:17</a> As keepers of a field
are they against her all around, because she has been rebellious against
me, says Yahweh. <a name="C244V18" id="C244V18">4:18</a> Your way and your
doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it
is bitter, for it reaches to your heart. <a name="C244V19" id="C244V19">4:19</a>
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is
disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my
soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. <a name="C244V20"
id="C244V20">4:20</a> Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole
land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, <i>and</i> my
curtains in a moment. <a name="C244V21" id="C244V21">4:21</a> How long shall I
see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? <a name="C244V22"
id="C244V22">4:22</a> For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they
are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. <a name="C244V23" id="C244V23">4:23</a>
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and
they had no light. <a name="C244V24" id="C244V24">4:24</a> I saw the
mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and
forth. <a name="C244V25" id="C244V25">4:25</a> I saw, and behold, there was no
man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. <a name="C244V26" id="C244V26">4:26</a>
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities
were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, <i>and</i> before his fierce
anger. <a name="C244V27" id="C244V27">4:27</a> For thus says Yahweh, The whole
land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. <a name="C244V28"
id="C244V28">4:28</a> For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above
be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not
repented, neither will I turn back from it. <a name="C244V29" id="C244V29">4:29</a>
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into
the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a
man dwells therein. <a name="C244V30" id="C244V30">4:30</a> You, when you are
made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet,
though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes
with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; <i>your</i> lovers
despise you, they seek your life. <a name="C244V31" id="C244V31">4:31</a> For
I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who
brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps
for breath, who spreads her hands, <i>saying</i>, Woe is me now! for my
soul faints before the murderers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C245V1" id="C245V1">5:1</a> Run you back and forth through the
streets of Yerushalayim, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks
truth; and I will pardon her. <a name="C245V2" id="C245V2">5:2</a> Though they
say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely. <a name="C245V3" id="C245V3">5:3</a>
O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they
were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return. <a name="C245V4" id="C245V4">5:4</a> Then I said, Surely
these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh,
nor the Torah of their Elohim: <a name="C245V5" id="C245V5">5:5</a> I will get me
to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh,
and the Torah of their Elohim. But these with one accord have broken the yoke,
and burst the bonds. <a name="C245V6" id="C245V6">5:6</a> Therefore a lion out
of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them,
a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there
shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, <i>and</i>
their backsliding is increased. <a name="C245V7" id="C245V7">5:7</a> How can I
pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no
gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and
assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. <a name="C245V8"
id="C245V8">5:8</a> They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone
neighed after his neighbor's wife. <a name="C245V9" id="C245V9">5:9</a> Shall
I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this? <a name="C245V10" id="C245V10">5:10</a> Go
up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her
branches; for they are not Yahweh's. <a name="C245V11" id="C245V11">5:11</a>
For the house of Yisrael and the house of Yehudah have dealt very
treacherously against me, says Yahweh. <a name="C245V12" id="C245V12">5:12</a>
They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come
on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: <a name="C245V13" id="C245V13">5:13</a>
and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus
shall it be done to them. <a name="C245V14" id="C245V14">5:14</a> Therefore
thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, Because you speak this word, behold,
I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it
shall devour them. <a name="C245V15" id="C245V15">5:15</a> Behold, I will
bring a nation on you from far, house of Yisrael, says Yahweh: it is a
mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't
know, neither understand what they say. <a name="C245V16" id="C245V16">5:16</a>
Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. <a name="C245V17"
id="C245V17">5:17</a> They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, <i>which</i>
your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and
your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall
beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. <a
name="C245V18" id="C245V18">5:18</a> But even in those days, says Yahweh, I
will not make a full end with you. <a name="C245V19" id="C245V19">5:19</a> It
shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our Elohim done all these
things to us? then you shall say to them, Like as you have forsaken me,
and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a
land that is not yours. <a name="C245V20" id="C245V20">5:20</a> Declare you
this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Yehudah, saying, <a
name="C245V21" id="C245V21">5:21</a> Hear now this, foolish people, and
without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and
don't hear: <a name="C245V22" id="C245V22">5:22</a> Don't you fear me? says
Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the
bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though
its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet
they can't pass over it. <a name="C245V23" id="C245V23">5:23</a> But this
people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
<a name="C245V24" id="C245V24">5:24</a> Neither say they in their heart, Let
us now fear Yahweh our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the
latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the
harvest. <a name="C245V25" id="C245V25">5:25</a> Your iniquities have turned
away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. <a
name="C245V26" id="C245V26">5:26</a> For among my people are found wicked men:
they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. <a
name="C245V27" id="C245V27">5:27</a> As a cage is full of birds, so are their
houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich. <a
name="C245V28" id="C245V28">5:28</a> They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they
overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of
the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they
don't judge. <a name="C245V29" id="C245V29">5:29</a> Shall I not visit for
these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation
as this? <a name="C245V30" id="C245V30">5:30</a> A wonderful and horrible
thing is happen in the land: <a name="C245V31" id="C245V31">5:31</a> the
prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and
my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C246V1" id="C246V1">6:1</a> Flee for safety, you children of
Benjamin, out of the midst of Yerushalayim, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the
north, and a great destruction. <a name="C246V2" id="C246V2">6:2</a> The
comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. <a
name="C246V3" id="C246V3">6:3</a> Shepherds with their flocks shall come to
her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed
everyone in his place. <a name="C246V4" id="C246V4">6:4</a> Prepare you war
against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day
declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. <a name="C246V5"
id="C246V5">6:5</a> Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
palaces. <a name="C246V6" id="C246V6">6:6</a> For thus has Yahweh of Armies
said, Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Yerushalayim: this is the
city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. <a
name="C246V7" id="C246V7">6:7</a> As a well casts forth its waters, so she
casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her;
before me continually is sickness and wounds. <a name="C246V8" id="C246V8">6:8</a>
Be instructed, Yerushalayim, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make
you a desolation, a land not inhabited. <a name="C246V9" id="C246V9">6:9</a>
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of
Yisrael as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the
baskets. <a name="C246V10" id="C246V10">6:10</a> To whom shall I speak and
testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they
can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach;
they have no delight in it. <a name="C246V11" id="C246V11">6:11</a> Therefore
I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out
on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together;
for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who
is full of days. <a name="C246V12" id="C246V12">6:12</a> Their houses shall be
turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will
stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh. <a
name="C246V13" id="C246V13">6:13</a> For from the least of them even to the
greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet
even to the priest everyone deals falsely. <a name="C246V14" id="C246V14">6:14</a>
They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace. <a name="C246V15" id="C246V15">6:15</a> Were
they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among
those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down,
says Yahweh. <a name="C246V16" id="C246V16">6:16</a> Thus says Yahweh, Stand
you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way;
and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said,
We will not walk <i>therein</i>. <a name="C246V17" id="C246V17">6:17</a> I set
watchmen over you, <i>saying</i>, Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but
they said, We will not listen. <a name="C246V18" id="C246V18">6:18</a>
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
<a name="C246V19" id="C246V19">6:19</a> Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil
on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
listened to my words; and as for my Torah, they have rejected it. <a
name="C246V20" id="C246V20">6:20</a> To what purpose comes there to me
frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. <a
name="C246V21" id="C246V21">6:21</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I
will lay stumbling blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons
together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall
perish. <a name="C246V22" id="C246V22">6:22</a> Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a
people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred
up from the uttermost parts of the earth. <a name="C246V23" id="C246V23">6:23</a>
They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their
voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array,
as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion. <a name="C246V24"
id="C246V24">6:24</a> We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble:
anguish has taken hold of us, <i>and</i> pangs as of a woman in travail.
<a name="C246V25" id="C246V25">6:25</a> Don't go forth into the field, nor
walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, <i>and</i> terror, are on
every side. <a name="C246V26" id="C246V26">6:26</a> Daughter of my people,
gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning,
as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall
suddenly come on us. <a name="C246V27" id="C246V27">6:27</a> I have made you a
tester of metals <i>and</i> a fortress among my people; that you may know
and try their way. <a name="C246V28" id="C246V28">6:28</a> They are all
grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they
all of them deal corruptly. <a name="C246V29" id="C246V29">6:29</a> The
bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they
go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. <a name="C246V30"
id="C246V30">6:30</a> Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has
rejected them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C247V1" id="C247V1">7:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, saying, <a name="C247V2" id="C247V2">7:2</a> Stand in the gate of
Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of
Yahweh, all you of Yehudah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.
<a name="C247V3" id="C247V3">7:3</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of
Yisrael, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in
this place. <a name="C247V4" id="C247V4">7:4</a> Don't you trust in lying
words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of
Yahweh, are these. <a name="C247V5" id="C247V5">7:5</a> For if you thoroughly
amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between
a man and his neighbor; <a name="C247V6" id="C247V6">7:6</a> if you don't
oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed
innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own
hurt: <a name="C247V7" id="C247V7">7:7</a> then will I cause you to dwell in
this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even
forevermore. <a name="C247V8" id="C247V8">7:8</a> Behold, you trust in lying
words, that can't profit. <a name="C247V9" id="C247V9">7:9</a> Will you steal,
murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal,
and walk after other gods that you have not known, <a name="C247V10"
id="C247V10">7:10</a> and come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these
abominations? <a name="C247V11" id="C247V11">7:11</a> Is this house, which is
called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even
I, have seen it, says Yahweh. <a name="C247V12" id="C247V12">7:12</a> But go
you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell
at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
Yisrael. <a name="C247V13" id="C247V13">7:13</a> Now, because you have done all
these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and
speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer: <a
name="C247V14" id="C247V14">7:14</a> therefore will I do to the house which is
called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to
you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. <a name="C247V15" id="C247V15">7:15</a>
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers,
even the whole seed of Ephraim. <a name="C247V16" id="C247V16">7:16</a>
Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer
for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you. <a
name="C247V17" id="C247V17">7:17</a> Don't you see what they do in the cities
of Yehudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim? <a name="C247V18" id="C247V18">7:18</a>
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. <a
name="C247V19" id="C247V19">7:19</a> Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh;
<i>do they</i> not <i>provoke</i> themselves, to the confusion of their
own faces? <a name="C247V20" id="C247V20">7:20</a> Therefore thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this
place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the
fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. <a
name="C247V21" id="C247V21">7:21</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of
Yisrael: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. <a
name="C247V22" id="C247V22">7:22</a> For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor
command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: <a name="C247V23" id="C247V23">7:23</a>
but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be
your Elohim, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I
command you, that it may be well with you. <a name="C247V24" id="C247V24">7:24</a>
But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in <i>their own</i>
counsels <i>and</i> in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward. <a name="C247V25" id="C247V25">7:25</a> Since the
day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I
have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and
sending them: <a name="C247V26" id="C247V26">7:26</a> yet they didn't listen
to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse
than their fathers. <a name="C247V27" id="C247V27">7:27</a> You shall speak
all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also
call to them; but they will not answer you. <a name="C247V28" id="C247V28">7:28</a>
You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice
of Yahweh their Elohim, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is
cut off from their mouth. <a name="C247V29" id="C247V29">7:29</a> Cut off your
hair, <i>Yerushalayim</i>, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the
bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his
wrath. <a name="C247V30" id="C247V30">7:30</a> For the children of Yehudah have
done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. <a
name="C247V31" id="C247V31">7:31</a> They have built the high places of
Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons
and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come
into my mind. <a name="C247V32" id="C247V32">7:32</a> Therefore, behold, the
days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall
bury in Topheth, until there be no place <i>to bury</i>. <a name="C247V33"
id="C247V33">7:33</a> The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the
birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall
frighten them away. <a name="C247V34" id="C247V34">7:34</a> Then will I cause
to cease from the cities of Yehudah, and from the streets of Yerushalayim, the
voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and
the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C248V1" id="C248V1">8:1</a> At that time, says Yahweh, they shall
bring out the bones of the kings of Yehudah, and the bones of his princes,
and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones
of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, out of their graves; <a name="C248V2"
id="C248V2">8:2</a> and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have
served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and
which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they
shall be for dung on the surface of the earth. <a name="C248V3" id="C248V3">8:3</a>
Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of
this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,
says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C248V4" id="C248V4">8:4</a> Moreover you shall
tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall
one turn away, and not return? <a name="C248V5" id="C248V5">8:5</a> Why then
is this people of Yerushalayim slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they
hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. <a name="C248V6" id="C248V6">8:6</a>
I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of
his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as
a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. <a name="C248V7" id="C248V7">8:7</a>
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove
and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my
people don't know Yahweh's Torah. <a name="C248V8" id="C248V8">8:8</a> How do
you say, We are wise, and the Torah of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the
false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. <a name="C248V9" id="C248V9">8:9</a>
The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they
have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them? <a
name="C248V10" id="C248V10">8:10</a> Therefore will I give their wives to
others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone
from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the
prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. <a name="C248V11"
id="C248V11">8:11</a> They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. <a name="C248V12"
id="C248V12">8:12</a> Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they
shall be cast down, says Yahweh. <a name="C248V13" id="C248V13">8:13</a> I
will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the
vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and <i>the things
that</i> I have given them shall pass away from them. <a name="C248V14"
id="C248V14">8:14</a> Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us
enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh
our Elohim has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink,
because we have sinned against Yahweh. <a name="C248V15" id="C248V15">8:15</a>
We looked for peace, but no good came; <i>and</i> for a time of healing,
and behold, dismay! <a name="C248V16" id="C248V16">8:16</a> The snorting of
his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong
ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the
land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. <a
name="C248V17" id="C248V17">8:17</a> For, behold, I will send serpents,
adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you,
says Yahweh. <a name="C248V18" id="C248V18">8:18</a> Oh that I could comfort
myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me. <a name="C248V19"
id="C248V19">8:19</a> Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her
King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved
images, and with foreign vanities? <a name="C248V20" id="C248V20">8:20</a> The
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. <a name="C248V21"
id="C248V21">8:21</a> For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I
mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. <a name="C248V22" id="C248V22">8:22</a> Is
there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C249V1" id="C249V1">9:1</a> Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes
a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people! <a name="C249V2" id="C249V2">9:2</a> Oh that I had in
the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my
people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of
treacherous men. <a name="C249V3" id="C249V3">9:3</a> They bend their tongue,
<i>as it were</i> their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in
the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they
don't know me, says Yahweh. <a name="C249V4" id="C249V4">9:4</a> Take you heed
everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every
brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with
slanders. <a name="C249V5" id="C249V5">9:5</a> They will deceive everyone his
neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to
speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. <a name="C249V6"
id="C249V6">9:6</a> Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through
deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh. <a name="C249V7" id="C249V7">9:7</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try
them; for how <i>else</i> should I do, because of the daughter of my
people? <a name="C249V8" id="C249V8">9:8</a> Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but
in his heart he lays wait for him. <a name="C249V9" id="C249V9">9:9</a> Shall
I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this? <a name="C249V10" id="C249V10">9:10</a> For
the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none
passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the
birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. <a name="C249V11"
id="C249V11">9:11</a> I will make Yerushalayim heaps, a dwelling place of
jackals; and I will make the cities of Yehudah a desolation, without
inhabitant. <a name="C249V12" id="C249V12">9:12</a> Who is the wise man, that
may understand this? and <i>who is</i> he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has
spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up
like a wilderness, so that none passes through? <a name="C249V13" id="C249V13">9:13</a>
Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my Torah which I set before them,
and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, <a name="C249V14"
id="C249V14">9:14</a> but have walked after the stubbornness of their own
heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; <a
name="C249V15" id="C249V15">9:15</a> therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
Elohim of Yisrael, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood,
and give them water of gall to drink. <a name="C249V16" id="C249V16">9:16</a>
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have
consumed them. <a name="C249V17" id="C249V17">9:17</a> Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
and send for the skillful women, that they may come: <a name="C249V18"
id="C249V18">9:18</a> and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with
waters. <a name="C249V19" id="C249V19">9:19</a> For a voice of wailing is
heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because
we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. <a
name="C249V20" id="C249V20">9:20</a> Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters
wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation. <a name="C249V21" id="C249V21">9:21</a>
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to
cut off the children from outside, <i>and</i> the young men from the
streets. <a name="C249V22" id="C249V22">9:22</a> Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The
dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the
handful after the harvester; and none shall gather <i>them</i>. <a
name="C249V23" id="C249V23">9:23</a> Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't
let the rich man glory in his riches; <a name="C249V24" id="C249V24">9:24</a>
but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and
knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.
<a name="C249V25" id="C249V25">9:25</a> Behold, the days come, says Yahweh,
that I will punish all those who are circumcised in <i>their</i>
uncircumcision: <a name="C249V26" id="C249V26">9:26</a> Egypt, and Yehudah, and
Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners
<i>of their hair</i> cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the
nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisrael are uncircumcised
in heart.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2410V1" id="C2410V1">10:1</a> Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to
you, house of Yisrael! <a name="C2410V2" id="C2410V2">10:2</a> Thus says
Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at
the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. <a name="C2410V3"
id="C2410V3">10:3</a> For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one
cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with
the axe. <a name="C2410V4" id="C2410V4">10:4</a> They deck it with silver and
with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
<a name="C2410V5" id="C2410V5">10:5</a> They are like a palm tree, of turned
work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't
be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do
good." <a name="C2410V6" id="C2410V6">10:6</a> There is none like you,
Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might. <a name="C2410V7"
id="C2410V7">10:7</a> Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to
you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and
in all their royal estate, there is none like you. <a name="C2410V8"
id="C2410V8">10:8</a> But they are together brutish and foolish: the
instruction of idols! it is but a stock. <a name="C2410V9" id="C2410V9">10:9</a>
There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and
gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the
goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of
skillful men. <a name="C2410V10" id="C2410V10">10:10</a> But Yahweh is the
true Elohim; he is the living Elohim, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the
earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation. <a
name="C2410V11" id="C2410V11">10:11</a> You shall say this to them: The gods
that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the
earth, and from under the heavens. <a name="C2410V12" id="C2410V12">10:12</a>
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his
wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: <a
name="C2410V13" id="C2410V13">10:13</a> when he utters his voice, there is a
tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from
the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth
the wind out of his treasuries. <a name="C2410V14" id="C2410V14">10:14</a>
Every man is become brutish <i>and is</i> without knowledge; every
goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them. <a name="C2410V15" id="C2410V15">10:15</a>
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they
shall perish. <a name="C2410V16" id="C2410V16">10:16</a> The portion of Jacob
is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Yisrael is the
tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name. <a name="C2410V17"
id="C2410V17">10:17</a> Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide
in the siege. <a name="C2410V18" id="C2410V18">10:18</a> For thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and
will distress them, that they may feel <i>it</i>. <a name="C2410V19"
id="C2410V19">10:19</a> Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous:
but I said, Truly this is <i>my</i> grief, and I must bear it. <a
name="C2410V20" id="C2410V20">10:20</a> My tent is destroyed, and all my cords
are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more:
there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. <a
name="C2410V21" id="C2410V21">10:21</a> For the shepherds are become brutish,
and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and
all their flocks are scattered. <a name="C2410V22" id="C2410V22">10:22</a> The
voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north
country, to make the cities of Yehudah a desolation, a dwelling place of
jackals. <a name="C2410V23" id="C2410V23">10:23</a> Yahweh, I know that the
way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his
steps. <a name="C2410V24" id="C2410V24">10:24</a> Yahweh, correct me, but in
measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. <a name="C2410V25"
id="C2410V25">10:25</a> Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know
you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have
devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have
laid waste his habitation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2411V1" id="C2411V1">11:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2411V2" id="C2411V2">11:2</a> Hear you the words of
this covenant, and speak to the men of Yehudah, and to the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim; <a name="C2411V3" id="C2411V3">11:3</a> and say you to them, Thus
says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the
words of this covenant, <a name="C2411V4" id="C2411V4">11:4</a> which I
commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do
them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be my people, and
I will be your Elohim; <a name="C2411V5" id="C2411V5">11:5</a> that I may
establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land
flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said,
Amen, Yahweh. <a name="C2411V6" id="C2411V6">11:6</a> Yahweh said to me,
Proclaim all these words in the cities of Yehudah, and in the streets of
Yerushalayim, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them. <a
name="C2411V7" id="C2411V7">11:7</a> For I earnestly protested to your fathers
in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this
day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. <a name="C2411V8"
id="C2411V8">11:8</a> Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked
everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on
them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but
they didn't do them. <a name="C2411V9" id="C2411V9">11:9</a> Yahweh said to
me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Yehudah, and among the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim. <a name="C2411V10" id="C2411V10">11:10</a> They are
turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my
words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of
Yisrael and the house of Yehudah have broken my covenant which I made with
their fathers. <a name="C2411V11" id="C2411V11">11:11</a> Therefore thus says
Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to
escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them. <a
name="C2411V12" id="C2411V12">11:12</a> Then shall the cities of Yehudah and the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim go and cry to the gods to which they offer
incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
<a name="C2411V13" id="C2411V13">11:13</a> For according to the number of your
cities are your gods, Yehudah; and according to the number of the streets of
Yerushalayim have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to
burn incense to Baal. <a name="C2411V14" id="C2411V14">11:14</a> Therefore
don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them;
for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their
trouble. <a name="C2411V15" id="C2411V15">11:15</a> What has my beloved to do
in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness <i>with</i> many, and the holy
flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice. <a
name="C2411V16" id="C2411V16">11:16</a> Yahweh called your name, A green olive
tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has
kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken. <a name="C2411V17"
id="C2411V17">11:17</a> For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has
pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Yisrael
and of the house of Yehudah, which they have worked for themselves in
provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. <a name="C2411V18"
id="C2411V18">11:18</a> Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then
you showed me their doings. <a name="C2411V19" id="C2411V19">11:19</a> But I
was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know
that they had devised devices against me, <i>saying</i>, Let us destroy
the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the
living, that his name may be no more remembered. <a name="C2411V20"
id="C2411V20">11:20</a> But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who
tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to
you have I revealed my cause. <a name="C2411V21" id="C2411V21">11:21</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your
life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not
die by our hand; <a name="C2411V22" id="C2411V22">11:22</a> therefore thus
says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die
by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; <a
name="C2411V23" id="C2411V23">11:23</a> and there shall be no remnant to them:
for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their
visitation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2412V1" id="C2412V1">12:1</a> Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I
contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way
of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very
treacherously? <a name="C2412V2" id="C2412V2">12:2</a> You have planted them,
yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are
near in their mouth, and far from their heart. <a name="C2412V3" id="C2412V3">12:3</a>
But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull
them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of
slaughter. <a name="C2412V4" id="C2412V4">12:4</a> How long shall the land
mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of
those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because
they said, He shall not see our latter end. <a name="C2412V5" id="C2412V5">12:5</a>
If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can
you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet
how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? <a name="C2412V6" id="C2412V6">12:6</a>
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt
treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't
believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. <a name="C2412V7"
id="C2412V7">12:7</a> I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
<a name="C2412V8" id="C2412V8">12:8</a> My heritage is become to me as a lion
in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have
hated her. <a name="C2412V9" id="C2412V9">12:9</a> Is my heritage to me as a
speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? go
you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour. <a
name="C2412V10" id="C2412V10">12:10</a> Many shepherds have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. <a name="C2412V11" id="C2412V11">12:11</a>
They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole
land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. <a name="C2412V12"
id="C2412V12">12:12</a> Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the
wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land
even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace. <a name="C2412V13"
id="C2412V13">12:13</a> They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they
have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed
of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. <a name="C2412V14"
id="C2412V14">12:14</a> Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, who
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisrael to inherit:
behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the
house of Yehudah from among them. <a name="C2412V15" id="C2412V15">12:15</a> It
shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land. <a name="C2412V16" id="C2412V16">12:16</a>
It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to
swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear
by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. <a
name="C2412V17" id="C2412V17">12:17</a> But if they will not hear, then will I
pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2413V1" id="C2413V1">13:1</a> Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy
you a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water. <a
name="C2413V2" id="C2413V2">13:2</a> So I bought a belt according to the word
of Yahweh, and put it on my waist. <a name="C2413V3" id="C2413V3">13:3</a> The
word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, <a name="C2413V4"
id="C2413V4">13:4</a> Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your
waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the
rock. <a name="C2413V5" id="C2413V5">13:5</a> So I went, and hid it by the
Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. <a name="C2413V6" id="C2413V6">13:6</a> It
happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the
Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide
there. <a name="C2413V7" id="C2413V7">13:7</a> Then I went to the Euphrates,
and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and behold,
the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing. <a name="C2413V8"
id="C2413V8">13:8</a> Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C2413V9" id="C2413V9">13:9</a> Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will
I mar the pride of Yehudah, and the great pride of Yerushalayim. <a
name="C2413V10" id="C2413V10">13:10</a> This evil people, who refuse to hear
my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after
other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt,
which is profitable for nothing. <a name="C2413V11" id="C2413V11">13:11</a>
For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cleave
to me the whole house of Yisrael and the whole house of Yehudah, says Yahweh;
that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and
for a glory: but they would not hear. <a name="C2413V12" id="C2413V12">13:12</a>
Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you,
Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? <a
name="C2413V13" id="C2413V13">13:13</a> Then you shall tell them, Thus says
Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the
kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and
all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, with drunkenness. <a name="C2413V14"
id="C2413V14">13:14</a> I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare,
nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. <a name="C2413V15"
id="C2413V15">13:15</a> Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh
has spoken. <a name="C2413V16" id="C2413V16">13:16</a> Give glory to Yahweh
your Elohim, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the
dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow
of death, and make it gross darkness. <a name="C2413V17" id="C2413V17">13:17</a>
But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for <i>your</i>
pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because
Yahweh's flock is taken captive. <a name="C2413V18" id="C2413V18">13:18</a>
Say you to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down;
for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory. <a
name="C2413V19" id="C2413V19">13:19</a> The cities of the South are shut up,
and there is none to open them: Yehudah is carried away captive, all of it;
it is wholly carried away captive. <a name="C2413V20" id="C2413V20">13:20</a>
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the
flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? <a name="C2413V21"
id="C2413V21">13:21</a> What will you say, when he shall set over you as
head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not
sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? <a name="C2413V22"
id="C2413V22">13:22</a> If you say in your heart, Why are these things come
on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and
your heels suffer violence. <a name="C2413V23" id="C2413V23">13:23</a> Can the
Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do
good, who are accustomed to do evil. <a name="C2413V24" id="C2413V24">13:24</a>
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the
wind of the wilderness. <a name="C2413V25" id="C2413V25">13:25</a> This is
your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you
have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. <a name="C2413V26" id="C2413V26">13:26</a>
Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame
shall appear. <a name="C2413V27" id="C2413V27">13:27</a> I have seen your
abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of
your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Yerushalayim! you
will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2414V1" id="C2414V1">14:1</a> The word of Yahweh that came to
Yirmiyahu concerning the drought. <a name="C2414V2" id="C2414V2">14:2</a> Yehudah
mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the
cry of Yerushalayim is gone up. <a name="C2414V3" id="C2414V3">14:3</a> Their
nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns,
and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are
disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. <a name="C2414V4"
id="C2414V4">14:4</a> Because of the ground which is cracked, because no
rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their
heads. <a name="C2414V5" id="C2414V5">14:5</a> Yes, the hind also in the field
calves, and forsakes <i>her young</i>, because there is no grass. <a
name="C2414V6" id="C2414V6">14:6</a> The wild donkeys stand on the bare
heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is
no herbage. <a name="C2414V7" id="C2414V7">14:7</a> Though our iniquities
testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our
backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. <a name="C2414V8"
id="C2414V8">14:8</a> You hope of Yisrael, its Savior in the time of trouble,
why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who
turns aside to stay for a night? <a name="C2414V9" id="C2414V9">14:9</a> Why
should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you,
Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't
leave us. <a name="C2414V10" id="C2414V10">14:10</a> Thus says Yahweh to this
people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their
feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their
iniquity, and visit their sins. <a name="C2414V11" id="C2414V11">14:11</a>
Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for <i>their</i> good. <a
name="C2414V12" id="C2414V12">14:12</a> When they fast, I will not hear their
cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not
accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and
by the pestilence. <a name="C2414V13" id="C2414V13">14:13</a> Then said I, Ah,
Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword,
neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this
place. <a name="C2414V14" id="C2414V14">14:14</a> Then Yahweh said to me, The
prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I
commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying
vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their
own heart. <a name="C2414V15" id="C2414V15">14:15</a> Therefore thus says
Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send
them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword
and famine shall those prophets be consumed. <a name="C2414V16" id="C2414V16">14:16</a>
The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of
Yerushalayim because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to
bury them--them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I
will pour their wickedness on them. <a name="C2414V17" id="C2414V17">14:17</a>
You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and
day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is
broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. <a name="C2414V18"
id="C2414V18">14:18</a> If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the
slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those
who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in
the land, and have no knowledge. <a name="C2414V19" id="C2414V19">14:19</a>
Have you utterly rejected Yehudah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you
struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no
good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! <a name="C2414V20"
id="C2414V20">14:20</a> We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. <a name="C2414V21"
id="C2414V21">14:21</a> Do not abhor <i>us</i>, for your name's sake; do not
disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant
with us. <a name="C2414V22" id="C2414V22">14:22</a> Are there any among the
vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers?
Aren't you he, Yahweh our Elohim? therefore we will wait for you; for you
have made all these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2415V1" id="C2415V1">15:1</a> Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moshe
and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people:
cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. <a name="C2415V2"
id="C2415V2">15:2</a> It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go
forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death,
to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for
the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. <a
name="C2415V3" id="C2415V3">15:3</a> I will appoint over them four kinds, says
Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky,
and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. <a name="C2415V4"
id="C2415V4">15:4</a> I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among
all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah,
king of Yehudah, for that which he did in Yerushalayim. <a name="C2415V5"
id="C2415V5">15:5</a> For who will have pity on you, Yerushalayim? or who will
bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? <a name="C2415V6"
id="C2415V6">15:6</a> You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone
backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and
destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. <a name="C2415V7" id="C2415V7">15:7</a>
I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved
<i>them</i> of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return
from their ways. <a name="C2415V8" id="C2415V8">15:8</a> Their widows are
increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against
the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish
and terrors to fall on her suddenly. <a name="C2415V9" id="C2415V9">15:9</a>
She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun
is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and
confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before
their enemies, says Yahweh. <a name="C2415V10" id="C2415V10">15:10</a> Woe is
me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to
me; <i>yet</i> everyone of them does curse me. <a name="C2415V11" id="C2415V11">15:11</a>
Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly
I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and
in the time of affliction. <a name="C2415V12" id="C2415V12">15:12</a> Can one
break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? <a name="C2415V13"
id="C2415V13">15:13</a> Your substance and your treasures will I give for a
spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
<a name="C2415V14" id="C2415V14">15:14</a> I will make <i>them</i> to pass
with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled
in my anger, which shall burn on you. <a name="C2415V15" id="C2415V15">15:15</a>
Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my
persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your
sake I have suffered reproach. <a name="C2415V16" id="C2415V16">15:16</a> Your
words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the
rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, Elohim of
Armies. <a name="C2415V17" id="C2415V17">15:17</a> I didn't sit in the
assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of
your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. <a name="C2415V18"
id="C2415V18">15:18</a> Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,
which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful <i>brook</i>,
as waters that fail? <a name="C2415V19" id="C2415V19">15:19</a> Therefore thus
says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may
stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you
shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return
to them. <a name="C2415V20" id="C2415V20">15:20</a> I will make you to this
people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they
shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to
deliver you, says Yahweh. <a name="C2415V21" id="C2415V21">15:21</a> I will
deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of
the hand of the terrible.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2416V1" id="C2416V1">16:1</a> The word of Yahweh came also to me,
saying, <a name="C2416V2" id="C2416V2">16:2</a> You shall not take a wife,
neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. <a name="C2416V3"
id="C2416V3">16:3</a> For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their
mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father
of them in this land: <a name="C2416V4" id="C2416V4">16:4</a> They shall die
grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried;
they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be
consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food
for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. <a name="C2416V5"
id="C2416V5">16:5</a> For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away
my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender
mercies. <a name="C2416V6" id="C2416V6">16:6</a> Both great and small shall
die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for
them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; <a
name="C2416V7" id="C2416V7">16:7</a> neither shall men break <i>bread</i> for
them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give
them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
<a name="C2416V8" id="C2416V8">16:8</a> You shall not go into the house of
feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. <a name="C2416V9" id="C2416V9">16:9</a>
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold, I will cause to
cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of
mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
of the bride. <a name="C2416V10" id="C2416V10">16:10</a> It shall happen, when
you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why
has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our
iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our
Elohim? <a name="C2416V11" id="C2416V11">16:11</a> Then you shall tell them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my Torah; <a name="C2416V12" id="C2416V12">16:12</a>
and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every
one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to
me: <a name="C2416V13" id="C2416V13">16:13</a> therefore will I cast you forth
out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor
your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night; for I
will show you no favor. <a name="C2416V14" id="C2416V14">16:14</a> Therefore,
behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As
Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Yisrael out of the land of
Egypt; <a name="C2416V15" id="C2416V15">16:15</a> but, As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Yisrael from the land of the north, and from all
the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their
land that I gave to their fathers. <a name="C2416V16" id="C2416V16">16:16</a>
Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish
them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt
them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of
the rocks. <a name="C2416V17" id="C2416V17">16:17</a> For my eyes are on all
their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity
concealed from my eyes. <a name="C2416V18" id="C2416V18">16:18</a> First I
will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have
polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have
filled my inheritance with their abominations. <a name="C2416V19" id="C2416V19">16:19</a>
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of
affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and
shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, <i>even</i> vanity
and things in which there is no profit. <a name="C2416V20" id="C2416V20">16:20</a>
Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods? <a name="C2416V21"
id="C2416V21">16:21</a> Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this
once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know
that my name is Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2417V1" id="C2417V1">17:1</a> The sin of Yehudah is written with a pen
of iron, <i>and</i> with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the
tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; <a name="C2417V2"
id="C2417V2">17:2</a> while their children remember their altars and their
Asherim by the green trees on the high hills. <a name="C2417V3" id="C2417V3">17:3</a>
My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your
treasures for a spoil, <i>and</i> your high places, because of sin,
throughout all your borders. <a name="C2417V4" id="C2417V4">17:4</a> You, even
of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I
will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for
you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. <a
name="C2417V5" id="C2417V5">17:5</a> Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who
trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from
Yahweh. <a name="C2417V6" id="C2417V6">17:6</a> For he shall be like the heath
in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the
parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. <a
name="C2417V7" id="C2417V7">17:7</a> Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh,
and whose trust Yahweh is. <a name="C2417V8" id="C2417V8">17:8</a> For he
shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the
river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit. <a name="C2417V9" id="C2417V9">17:9</a> The heart is deceitful
above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? <a
name="C2417V10" id="C2417V10">17:10</a> I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the
heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the
fruit of his doings. <a name="C2417V11" id="C2417V11">17:11</a> As the
partridge that sits on <i>eggs</i> which she has not laid, so is he who
gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave
him, and at his end he shall be a fool. <a name="C2417V12" id="C2417V12">17:12</a>
A glorious throne, <i>set</i> on high from the beginning, is the place of
our sanctuary. <a name="C2417V13" id="C2417V13">17:13</a> Yahweh, the hope of
Yisrael, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from
me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the
spring of living waters. <a name="C2417V14" id="C2417V14">17:14</a> Heal me, O
Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are
my praise. <a name="C2417V15" id="C2417V15">17:15</a> Behold, they tell me,
Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now. <a name="C2417V16" id="C2417V16">17:16</a>
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither
have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips
was before your face. <a name="C2417V17" id="C2417V17">17:17</a> Don't be a
terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. <a name="C2417V18"
id="C2417V18">17:18</a> Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let
not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be
dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction. <a name="C2417V19" id="C2417V19">17:19</a> Thus said Yahweh to
me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which
the kings of Yehudah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates
of Yerushalayim; <a name="C2417V20" id="C2417V20">17:20</a> and tell them, Hear
you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Yehudah, and all Yehudah, and all the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, that enter in by these gates: <a name="C2417V21"
id="C2417V21">17:21</a> Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear
no burden on the Shabbat day, nor bring it in by the gates of Yerushalayim;
<a name="C2417V22" id="C2417V22">17:22</a> neither carry forth a burden out of
your houses on the Shabbat day holy, neither do any work: but make the
Shabbat day, as I commanded your fathers. <a name="C2417V23" id="C2417V23">17:23</a>
But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff,
that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. <a
name="C2417V24" id="C2417V24">17:24</a> It shall happen, if you diligently
listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this
city on the Shabbat day, but to make the Shabbat day holy, to do no work
therein; <a name="C2417V25" id="C2417V25">17:25</a> then shall there enter in
by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of
David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men
of Yehudah, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; and this city shall remain
forever. <a name="C2417V26" id="C2417V26">17:26</a> They shall come from the
cities of Yehudah, and from the places around Yerushalayim, and from the land
of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the
South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and
frankincense, and bringing <i>sacrifices of</i> thanksgiving, to the house
of Yahweh. <a name="C2417V27" id="C2417V27">17:27</a> But if you will not
listen to me to make the Shabbat day holy, and not to bear a burden and
enter in at the gates of Yerushalayim on the Shabbat day; then will I kindle
a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim, and it
shall not be quenched.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2418V1" id="C2418V1">18:1</a> The word which came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2418V2" id="C2418V2">18:2</a> Arise, and go down to
the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. <a
name="C2418V3" id="C2418V3">18:3</a> Then I went down to the potter's house,
and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. <a name="C2418V4" id="C2418V4">18:4</a>
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the
potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to
make it. <a name="C2418V5" id="C2418V5">18:5</a> Then the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying, <a name="C2418V6" id="C2418V6">18:6</a> House of Yisrael, can't
I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the
potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Yisrael. <a name="C2418V7"
id="C2418V7">18:7</a> At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; <a
name="C2418V8" id="C2418V8">18:8</a> if that nation, concerning which I have
spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do to them. <a name="C2418V9" id="C2418V9">18:9</a> At what instant I shall
speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant
it; <a name="C2418V10" id="C2418V10">18:10</a> if they do that which is evil
in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good,
with which I said I would benefit them. <a name="C2418V11" id="C2418V11">18:11</a>
Now therefore, speak to the men of Yehudah, and to the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and
devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way,
and amend your ways and your doings. <a name="C2418V12" id="C2418V12">18:12</a>
But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and
we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. <a
name="C2418V13" id="C2418V13">18:13</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you
now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Yisrael has
done a very horrible thing. <a name="C2418V14" id="C2418V14">18:14</a> Shall
the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? <i>or</i> shall the
cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? <a name="C2418V15"
id="C2418V15">18:15</a> For my people have forgotten me, they have burned
incense to false <i>gods</i>; and they have been made to stumble in their
ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up; <a
name="C2418V16" id="C2418V16">18:16</a> to make their land an astonishment,
and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished,
and shake his head. <a name="C2418V17" id="C2418V17">18:17</a> I will scatter
them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and
not the face, in the day of their calamity. <a name="C2418V18" id="C2418V18">18:18</a>
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmiyahu; for the
Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the
word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and
let us not give heed to any of his words. <a name="C2418V19" id="C2418V19">18:19</a>
Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with
me. <a name="C2418V20" id="C2418V20">18:20</a> Shall evil be recompensed for
good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. <a name="C2418V21"
id="C2418V21">18:21</a> Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become
childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, <i>and</i>
their young men struck of the sword in battle. <a name="C2418V22" id="C2418V22">18:22</a>
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop
suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for
my feet. <a name="C2418V23" id="C2418V23">18:23</a> Yet, Yahweh, you know all
their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither
blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you;
deal you with them in the time of your anger.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2419V1" id="C2419V1">19:1</a> Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a
potter's earthen bottle, and <i>take</i> of the elders of the people, and
of the elders of the priests; <a name="C2419V2" id="C2419V2">19:2</a> and go
forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the
gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you; <a
name="C2419V3" id="C2419V3">19:3</a> and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh,
kings of Yehudah, and inhabitants of Yerushalayim: thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever
hears, his ears shall tingle. <a name="C2419V4" id="C2419V4">19:4</a> Because
they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers
and the kings of Yehudah; and have filled this place with the blood of
innocents, <a name="C2419V5" id="C2419V5">19:5</a> and have built the high
places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to
Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
<a name="C2419V6" id="C2419V6">19:6</a> therefore, behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. <a name="C2419V7" id="C2419V7">19:7</a>
I will make void the counsel of Yehudah and Yerushalayim in this place; and I
will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand
of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food
for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. <a name="C2419V8"
id="C2419V8">19:8</a> I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing;
everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all
its plagues. <a name="C2419V9" id="C2419V9">19:9</a> I will cause them to eat
the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall
eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress,
with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress
them. <a name="C2419V10" id="C2419V10">19:10</a> Then you shall break the
bottle in the sight of the men who go with you, <a name="C2419V11"
id="C2419V11">19:11</a> and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies:
Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's
vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth,
until there be no place to bury. <a name="C2419V12" id="C2419V12">19:12</a>
Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even
making this city as Topheth: <a name="C2419V13" id="C2419V13">19:13</a> and
the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are
defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose
roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured
out drink offerings to other gods. <a name="C2419V14" id="C2419V14">19:14</a>
Then came Yirmiyahu from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy;
and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all the people:
<a name="C2419V15" id="C2419V15">19:15</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim
of Yisrael, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the
evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck
stiff, that they may not hear my words.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2420V1" id="C2420V1">20:1</a> Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the
priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Yirmiyahu
prophesying these things. <a name="C2420V2" id="C2420V2">20:2</a> Then Pashhur
struck Yirmiyahu the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the
upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C2420V3"
id="C2420V3">20:3</a> It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought
forth Yirmiyahu out of the stocks. Then said Yirmiyahu to him, Yahweh has
not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. <a name="C2420V4" id="C2420V4">20:4</a>
For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to
all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and
your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Yehudah into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall
kill them with the sword. <a name="C2420V5" id="C2420V5">20:5</a> Moreover I
will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the
precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Yehudah will I
give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and
take them, and carry them to Babylon. <a name="C2420V6" id="C2420V6">20:6</a>
You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and
you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be
buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. <a
name="C2420V7" id="C2420V7">20:7</a> Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was
persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. <a name="C2420V8" id="C2420V8">20:8</a>
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction!
because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all
the day. <a name="C2420V9" id="C2420V9">20:9</a> If I say, I will not make
mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart
as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with
forbearing, and I can't <i>contain</i>. <a name="C2420V10" id="C2420V10">20:10</a>
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and
we will denounce him, <i>say</i> all my familiar friends, those who watch
for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail
against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. <a name="C2420V11"
id="C2420V11">20:11</a> But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one:
therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they
shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even
with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. <a
name="C2420V12" id="C2420V12">20:12</a> But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the
righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on
them; for to you have I revealed my cause. <a name="C2420V13" id="C2420V13">20:13</a>
Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the
needy from the hand of evil-doers. <a name="C2420V14" id="C2420V14">20:14</a>
Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my
mother bore me be blessed. <a name="C2420V15" id="C2420V15">20:15</a> Cursed
be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you;
making him very glad. <a name="C2420V16" id="C2420V16">20:16</a> Let that man
be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him
hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; <a name="C2420V17"
id="C2420V17">20:17</a> because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my
mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. <a
name="C2420V18" id="C2420V18">20:18</a> Why came I forth out of the womb to
see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2421V1" id="C2421V1">21:1</a> The word which came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, <a name="C2421V2"
id="C2421V2">21:2</a> Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh will deal with
us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. <a
name="C2421V3" id="C2421V3">21:3</a> Then said Yirmiyahu to them, You shall
tell Zedekiah: <a name="C2421V4" id="C2421V4">21:4</a> Thus says Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in
your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against
the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them
into the midst of this city. <a name="C2421V5" id="C2421V5">21:5</a> I myself
will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm,
even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation. <a name="C2421V6"
id="C2421V6">21:6</a> I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man
and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence. <a name="C2421V7"
id="C2421V7">21:7</a> Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king
of Yehudah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this
city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall
strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither
have pity, nor have mercy. <a name="C2421V8" id="C2421V8">21:8</a> To this
people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way
of life and the way of death. <a name="C2421V9" id="C2421V9">21:9</a> He who
remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who
besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey. <a
name="C2421V10" id="C2421V10">21:10</a> For I have set my face on this city
for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. <a name="C2421V11"
id="C2421V11">21:11</a> Touching the house of the king of Yehudah, hear you
the word of Yahweh: <a name="C2421V12" id="C2421V12">21:12</a> House of David,
thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is
robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
<a name="C2421V13" id="C2421V13">21:13</a> Behold, I am against you, O
inhabitant of the valley, <i>and</i> of the rock of the plain, says
Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations? <a name="C2421V14" id="C2421V14">21:14</a> I will punish
you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle
a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2422V1" id="C2422V1">22:1</a> Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house
of the king of Yehudah, and speak there this word, <a name="C2422V2" id="C2422V2">22:2</a>
Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Yehudah, who sits on the throne of
David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these
gates. <a name="C2422V3" id="C2422V3">22:3</a> Thus says Yahweh: Execute you
justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand
of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the
fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place. <a
name="C2422V4" id="C2422V4">22:4</a> For if you do this thing indeed, then
shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the
throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people. <a name="C2422V5" id="C2422V5">22:5</a> But if you will not
hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall
become a desolation. <a name="C2422V6" id="C2422V6">22:6</a> For thus says
Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Yehudah: You are Gilead to me, <i>and</i>
the head of Lebanon; <i>yet</i> surely I will make you a wilderness, <i>and</i>
cities which are not inhabited. <a name="C2422V7" id="C2422V7">22:7</a> I will
prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall
cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. <a name="C2422V8"
id="C2422V8">22:8</a> Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great
city? <a name="C2422V9" id="C2422V9">22:9</a> Then they shall answer, Because
they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their Elohim, and worshiped other gods,
and served them. <a name="C2422V10" id="C2422V10">22:10</a> Don't you weep for
the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he
shall return no more, nor see his native country. <a name="C2422V11"
id="C2422V11">22:11</a> For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of
Josiah, king of Yehudah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, <i>and</i>
who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more. <a
name="C2422V12" id="C2422V12">22:12</a> But in the place where they have led
him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more. <a
name="C2422V13" id="C2422V13">22:13</a> Woe to him who builds his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's
service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire; <a name="C2422V14"
id="C2422V14">22:14</a> who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious
chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and
painted with vermilion. <a name="C2422V15" id="C2422V15">22:15</a> Shall you
reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and
drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. <a
name="C2422V16" id="C2422V16">22:16</a> He judged the cause of the poor and
needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. <a
name="C2422V17" id="C2422V17">22:17</a> But your eyes and your heart are not
but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it. <a name="C2422V18" id="C2422V18">22:18</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Yehudah: they shall not lament for him, <i>saying</i>, Ah my brother! or, Ah
sister! They shall not lament for him, <i>saying</i> Ah lord! or, Ah his
glory! <a name="C2422V19" id="C2422V19">22:19</a> He shall be buried with the
burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Yerushalayim. <a
name="C2422V20" id="C2422V20">22:20</a> Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up
your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are
destroyed. <a name="C2422V21" id="C2422V21">22:21</a> I spoke to you in your
prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from
your youth, that you didn't obey my voice. <a name="C2422V22" id="C2422V22">22:22</a>
The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your
wickedness. <a name="C2422V23" id="C2422V23">22:23</a> Inhabitant of Lebanon,
who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be
when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! <a name="C2422V24"
id="C2422V24">22:24</a> As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Yehudah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I
pluck you there; <a name="C2422V25" id="C2422V25">22:25</a> and I will give
you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them
of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. <a name="C2422V26" id="C2422V26">22:26</a>
I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country,
where you were not born; and there you will die. <a name="C2422V27"
id="C2422V27">22:27</a> But to the land whereunto their soul longs to
return, there shall they not return. <a name="C2422V28" id="C2422V28">22:28</a>
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none
delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the
land which they don't know? <a name="C2422V29" id="C2422V29">22:29</a> O
earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh. <a name="C2422V30" id="C2422V30">22:30</a>
Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not
prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting
on the throne of David, and ruling in Yehudah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2423V1" id="C2423V1">23:1</a> Woe to the shepherds who destroy and
scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V2" id="C2423V2">23:2</a>
Therefore thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, against the shepherds who
feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and
have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your
doings, says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V3" id="C2423V3">23:3</a> I will gather the
remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and
will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and
multiply. <a name="C2423V4" id="C2423V4">23:4</a> I will set up shepherds over
them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V5" id="C2423V5">23:5</a>
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous
Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land. <a name="C2423V6" id="C2423V6">23:6</a>
In his days Yehudah shall be saved, and Yisrael shall dwell safely; and this
is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness. <a
name="C2423V7" id="C2423V7">23:7</a> Therefore, behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the
children of Yisrael out of the land of Egypt; <a name="C2423V8" id="C2423V8">23:8</a>
but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of
Yisrael out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had
driven them. They shall dwell in their own land. <a name="C2423V9" id="C2423V9">23:9</a>
Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of
Yahweh, and because of his holy words. <a name="C2423V10" id="C2423V10">23:10</a>
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land
mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil,
and their might is not right; <a name="C2423V11" id="C2423V11">23:11</a> for
both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their
wickedness, says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V12" id="C2423V12">23:12</a> Therefore
their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall
be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the
year of their visitation, says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V13" id="C2423V13">23:13</a>
I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomron; they prophesied by Baal, and
caused my people Yisrael to err. <a name="C2423V14" id="C2423V14">23:14</a> In
the prophets of Yerushalayim also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit
adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers,
so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become
to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. <a name="C2423V15"
id="C2423V15">23:15</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the
prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the
water of gall; for from the prophets of Yerushalayim is ungodliness gone
forth into all the land. <a name="C2423V16" id="C2423V16">23:16</a> Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy
to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and
not out of the mouth of Yahweh. <a name="C2423V17" id="C2423V17">23:17</a>
They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall
have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart
they say, No evil shall come on you. <a name="C2423V18" id="C2423V18">23:18</a>
For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and
hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it? <a name="C2423V19"
id="C2423V19">23:19</a> Behold, the storm of Yahweh, <i>even his</i> wrath,
is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the
wicked. <a name="C2423V20" id="C2423V20">23:20</a> The anger of Yahweh shall
not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly. <a
name="C2423V21" id="C2423V21">23:21</a> I sent not these prophets, yet they
ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied. <a name="C2423V22"
id="C2423V22">23:22</a> But if they had stood in my council, then had they
caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil
way, and from the evil of their doings. <a name="C2423V23" id="C2423V23">23:23</a>
Am I a Elohim at hand, says Yahweh, and not a Elohim afar off? <a name="C2423V24"
id="C2423V24">23:24</a> Can any hide himself in secret places so that I
shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says
Yahweh. <a name="C2423V25" id="C2423V25">23:25</a> I have heard what the
prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed,
I have dreamed. <a name="C2423V26" id="C2423V26">23:26</a> How long shall this
be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of
the deceit of their own heart? <a name="C2423V27" id="C2423V27">23:27</a> who
think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell
every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. <a
name="C2423V28" id="C2423V28">23:28</a> The prophet who has a dream, let him
tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh. <a name="C2423V29" id="C2423V29">23:29</a>
Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the
rock in pieces? <a name="C2423V30" id="C2423V30">23:30</a> Therefore, behold,
I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from
his neighbor. <a name="C2423V31" id="C2423V31">23:31</a> Behold, I am against
the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says. <a
name="C2423V32" id="C2423V32">23:32</a> Behold, I am against those who
prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people
to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them,
nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says
Yahweh. <a name="C2423V33" id="C2423V33">23:33</a> When this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh?
then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
<a name="C2423V34" id="C2423V34">23:34</a> As for the prophet, and the priest,
and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish
that man and his house. <a name="C2423V35" id="C2423V35">23:35</a> You shall
say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh
answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? <a name="C2423V36" id="C2423V36">23:36</a>
You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every man's own word
shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living Elohim,
of Yahweh of Armies our Elohim. <a name="C2423V37" id="C2423V37">23:37</a> You
shall say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has
Yahweh spoken? <a name="C2423V38" id="C2423V38">23:38</a> But if you say, The
burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word,
The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say,
The burden of Yahweh; <a name="C2423V39" id="C2423V39">23:39</a> therefore,
behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city
that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence: <a
name="C2423V40" id="C2423V40">23:40</a> and I will bring an everlasting
reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2424V1" id="C2424V1">24:1</a> Yahweh showed me, and behold, two
baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim,
king of Yehudah, and the princes of Yehudah, with the craftsmen and smiths,
from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Babylon. <a name="C2424V2" id="C2424V2">24:2</a>
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the
other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so
bad. <a name="C2424V3" id="C2424V3">24:3</a> Then said Yahweh to me, What see
you, Yirmiyahu? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very
bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad. <a name="C2424V4" id="C2424V4">24:4</a>
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a name="C2424V5" id="C2424V5">24:5</a>
Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: Like these good figs, so will I
regard the captives of Yehudah, whom I have sent out of this place into the
land of the Chaldeans, for good. <a name="C2424V6" id="C2424V6">24:6</a> For I
will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this
land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant
them, and not pluck them up. <a name="C2424V7" id="C2424V7">24:7</a> I will
give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their Elohim; for they shall return to me with their
whole heart. <a name="C2424V8" id="C2424V8">24:8</a> As the bad figs, which
can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give
up Zedekiah the king of Yehudah, and his princes, and the residue of
Yerushalayim, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of
Egypt, <a name="C2424V9" id="C2424V9">24:9</a> I will even give them up to be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be
a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall
drive them. <a name="C2424V10" id="C2424V10">24:10</a> I will send the sword,
the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from
off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2425V1" id="C2425V1">25:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu
concerning all the people of Yehudah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Yehudah (the same was the first year of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), <a name="C2425V2" id="C2425V2">25:2</a> which
Yirmiyahu the prophet spoke to all the people of Yehudah, and to all the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying: <a name="C2425V3" id="C2425V3">25:3</a> From
the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Yehudah, even to this
day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I
have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not
listened. <a name="C2425V4" id="C2425V4">25:4</a> Yahweh has sent to you all
his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have
not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear), <a name="C2425V5" id="C2425V5">25:5</a>
saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of
your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to
your fathers, from of old and even forevermore; <a name="C2425V6" id="C2425V6">25:6</a>
and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't
provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no
harm. <a name="C2425V7" id="C2425V7">25:7</a> Yet you have not listened to me,
says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands
to your own hurt. <a name="C2425V8" id="C2425V8">25:8</a> Therefore thus says
Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not heard my words, <a name="C2425V9"
id="C2425V9">25:9</a> behold, I will send and take all the families of the
north, says Yahweh, and <i>I will send</i> to Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against
its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly
destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual
desolations. <a name="C2425V10" id="C2425V10">25:10</a> Moreover I will take
from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and
the light of the lamp. <a name="C2425V11" id="C2425V11">25:11</a> This whole
land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall
serve the king of Babylon seventy years. <a name="C2425V12" id="C2425V12">25:12</a>
It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish
the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and
the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever. <a
name="C2425V13" id="C2425V13">25:13</a> I will bring on that land all my words
which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book,
which Yirmiyahu has prophesied against all the nations. <a name="C2425V14"
id="C2425V14">25:14</a> For many nations and great kings shall make
bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according
to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. <a name="C2425V15"
id="C2425V15">25:15</a> For thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to me: take
this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to
whom I send you, to drink it. <a name="C2425V16" id="C2425V16">25:16</a> They
shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword
that I will send among them. <a name="C2425V17" id="C2425V17">25:17</a> Then
took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to
whom Yahweh had sent me: <a name="C2425V18" id="C2425V18">25:18</a> <i>to wit</i>,
Yerushalayim, and the cities of Yehudah, and its kings, and its princes, to
make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is
this day; <a name="C2425V19" id="C2425V19">25:19</a> Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; <a name="C2425V20"
id="C2425V20">25:20</a> and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the
land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and
Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; <a name="C2425V21" id="C2425V21">25:21</a>
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; <a name="C2425V22" id="C2425V22">25:22</a>
and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of
the isle which is beyond the sea; <a name="C2425V23" id="C2425V23">25:23</a>
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners <i>of their hair</i>
cut off; <a name="C2425V24" id="C2425V24">25:24</a> and all the kings of
Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
<a name="C2425V25" id="C2425V25">25:25</a> and all the kings of Zimri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; <a name="C2425V26"
id="C2425V26">25:26</a> and all the kings of the north, far and near, one
with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface
of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. <a
name="C2425V27" id="C2425V27">25:27</a> You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and
fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
<a name="C2425V28" id="C2425V28">25:28</a> It shall be, if they refuse to take
the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies: You shall surely drink. <a name="C2425V29" id="C2425V29">25:29</a>
For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name;
and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I
will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of
Armies. <a name="C2425V30" id="C2425V30">25:30</a> Therefore prophesy you
against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on
high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar
against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread <i>the grapes</i>,
against all the inhabitants of the earth. <a name="C2425V31" id="C2425V31">25:31</a>
A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a
controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh:
as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2425V32" id="C2425V32">25:32</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be
raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. <a name="C2425V33"
id="C2425V33">25:33</a> The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one
end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be
lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface
of the ground. <a name="C2425V34" id="C2425V34">25:34</a> Wail, you shepherds,
and cry; and wallow <i>in ashes</i>, you principal of the flock; for the
days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you
shall fall like a goodly vessel. <a name="C2425V35" id="C2425V35">25:35</a>
The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to
escape. <a name="C2425V36" id="C2425V36">25:36</a> A voice of the cry of the
shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays
waste their pasture. <a name="C2425V37" id="C2425V37">25:37</a> The peaceable
folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. <a
name="C2425V38" id="C2425V38">25:38</a> He has left his covert, as the lion;
for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the
oppressing <i>sword</i>, and because of his fierce anger.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2426V1" id="C2426V1">26:1</a> In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, came this word from Yahweh,
saying, <a name="C2426V2" id="C2426V2">26:2</a> Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the
court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities of Yehudah, which come
to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to
them; don't diminish a word. <a name="C2426V3" id="C2426V3">26:3</a> It may be
they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent
me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their
doings. <a name="C2426V4" id="C2426V4">26:4</a> You shall tell them, Thus says
Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my Torah, which I have set
before you, <a name="C2426V5" id="C2426V5">26:5</a> to listen to the words of
my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and
sending them, but you have not listened; <a name="C2426V6" id="C2426V6">26:6</a>
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse
to all the nations of the earth. <a name="C2426V7" id="C2426V7">26:7</a> The
priests and the prophets and all the people heard Yirmiyahu speaking these
words in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C2426V8" id="C2426V8">26:8</a> It
happened, when Yirmiyahu had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had
commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the
prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely
die. <a name="C2426V9" id="C2426V9">26:9</a> Why have you prophesied in the
name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city
shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to
Yirmiyahu in the house of Yahweh. <a name="C2426V10" id="C2426V10">26:10</a>
When the princes of Yehudah heard these things, they came up from the king's
house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of
Yahweh's <i>house</i>. <a name="C2426V11" id="C2426V11">26:11</a> Then spoke
the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying,
This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as
you have heard with your ears. <a name="C2426V12" id="C2426V12">26:12</a> Then
spoke Yirmiyahu to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh
sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words
that you have heard. <a name="C2426V13" id="C2426V13">26:13</a> Now therefore
amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your Elohim;
and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
<a name="C2426V14" id="C2426V14">26:14</a> But as for me, behold, I am in your
hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes. <a name="C2426V15"
id="C2426V15">26:15</a> Only know for certain that, if you put me to death,
you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its
inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these
words in your ears. <a name="C2426V16" id="C2426V16">26:16</a> Then said the
princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man is
not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our
Elohim. <a name="C2426V17" id="C2426V17">26:17</a> Then rose up certain of the
elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
<a name="C2426V18" id="C2426V18">26:18</a> Micah the Morashtite prophesied in
the days of Hezekiah king of Yehudah; and he spoke to all the people of
Yehudah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a
field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
the high places of a forest. <a name="C2426V19" id="C2426V19">26:19</a> Did
Hezekiah king of Yehudah and all Yehudah put him to death? Didn't he fear
Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the
disaster which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great
evil against our own souls. <a name="C2426V20" id="C2426V20">26:20</a> There
was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of
Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and
against this land according to all the words of Yirmiyahu: <a name="C2426V21"
id="C2426V21">26:21</a> and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty
men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to
death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into
Egypt: <a name="C2426V22" id="C2426V22">26:22</a> and Jehoiakim the king sent
men into Egypt, <i>namely</i>, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men
with him, into Egypt; <a name="C2426V23" id="C2426V23">26:23</a> and they
fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king,
who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of
the common people. <a name="C2426V24" id="C2426V24">26:24</a> But the hand of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Yirmiyahu, that they should not give him
into the hand of the people to put him to death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2427V1" id="C2427V1">27:1</a> In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, came this word to Yirmiyahu
from Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2427V2" id="C2427V2">27:2</a> Thus says Yahweh
to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck; <a name="C2427V3"
id="C2427V3">27:3</a> and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre,
and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to
Yerushalayim to Zedekiah king of Yehudah; <a name="C2427V4" id="C2427V4">27:4</a>
and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, You shall tell your masters: <a name="C2427V5"
id="C2427V5">27:5</a> I have made the earth, the men and the animals that
are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched
arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. <a name="C2427V6" id="C2427V6">27:6</a>
Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him
to serve him. <a name="C2427V7" id="C2427V7">27:7</a> All the nations shall
serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land
come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their
bondservant. <a name="C2427V8" id="C2427V8">27:8</a> It shall happen, that the
nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with
the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
hand. <a name="C2427V9" id="C2427V9">27:9</a> But as for you, don't you listen
to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall
not serve the king of Babylon: <a name="C2427V10" id="C2427V10">27:10</a> for
they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I
should drive you out, and you should perish. <a name="C2427V11" id="C2427V11">27:11</a>
But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, that <i>nation</i> will I let remain in their own
land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. <a
name="C2427V12" id="C2427V12">27:12</a> I spoke to Zedekiah king of Yehudah
according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. <a
name="C2427V13" id="C2427V13">27:13</a> Why will you die, you and your people,
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken
concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? <a
name="C2427V14" id="C2427V14">27:14</a> Don't listen to the words of the
prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. <a name="C2427V15" id="C2427V15">27:15</a>
For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my
name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the
prophets who prophesy to you. <a name="C2427V16" id="C2427V16">27:16</a> Also
I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh:
Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying,
Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again
from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. <a name="C2427V17" id="C2427V17">27:17</a>
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this
city become a desolation? <a name="C2427V18" id="C2427V18">27:18</a> But if
they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now
make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in
the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Yehudah, and at
Yerushalayim, don't go to Babylon. <a name="C2427V19" id="C2427V19">27:19</a> For
thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea,
and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that
are left in this city, <a name="C2427V20" id="C2427V20">27:20</a> which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Yehudah, from Yerushalayim to Babylon,
and all the nobles of Yehudah and Yerushalayim; <a name="C2427V21" id="C2427V21">27:21</a>
yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, concerning the vessels
that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of
Yehudah, and at Yerushalayim: <a name="C2427V22" id="C2427V22">27:22</a> They shall
be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit
them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this
place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2428V1" id="C2428V1">28:1</a> It happened the same year, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Yehudah, in the fourth year, in
the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of
Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying, <a name="C2428V2" id="C2428V2">28:2</a> Thus
speaks Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, saying, I have broken the yoke
of the king of Babylon. <a name="C2428V3" id="C2428V3">28:3</a> Within two
full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's
house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and
carried to Babylon: <a name="C2428V4" id="C2428V4">28:4</a> and I will bring
again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Yehudah, with all
the captives of Yehudah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break
the yoke of the king of Babylon. <a name="C2428V5" id="C2428V5">28:5</a> Then
the prophet Yirmiyahu said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the
priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of
Yahweh, <a name="C2428V6" id="C2428V6">28:6</a> even the prophet Yirmiyahu
said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have
prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of
the captivity, from Babylon to this place. <a name="C2428V7" id="C2428V7">28:7</a>
Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the
ears of all the people: <a name="C2428V8" id="C2428V8">28:8</a> The prophets
who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many
countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of
pestilence. <a name="C2428V9" id="C2428V9">28:9</a> The prophet who prophesies
of peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the
prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him. <a name="C2428V10"
id="C2428V10">28:10</a> Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the
prophet Yirmiyahu's neck, and broke it. <a name="C2428V11" id="C2428V11">28:11</a>
Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says
Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet
Yirmiyahu went his way. <a name="C2428V12" id="C2428V12">28:12</a> Then the
word of Yahweh came to Yirmiyahu, after that Hananiah the prophet had
broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Yirmiyahu, saying, <a
name="C2428V13" id="C2428V13">28:13</a> Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus
says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their
place bars of iron. <a name="C2428V14" id="C2428V14">28:14</a> For thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck
of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field
also. <a name="C2428V15" id="C2428V15">28:15</a> Then said the prophet
Yirmiyahu to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent
you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. <a name="C2428V16"
id="C2428V16">28:16</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you
away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because
you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. <a name="C2428V17" id="C2428V17">28:17</a>
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2429V1" id="C2429V1">29:1</a> Now these are the words of the letter
that Yirmiyahu the prophet sent from Yerushalayim to the residue of the elders
of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the
people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Yerushalayim to
Babylon, <a name="C2429V2" id="C2429V2">29:2</a> (after that Jeconiah the
king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, <i>and</i> the princes of
Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from
Yerushalayim), <a name="C2429V3" id="C2429V3">29:3</a> by the hand of Elasah the
son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of
Yehudah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying, <a
name="C2429V4" id="C2429V4">29:4</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of
Yisrael, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away
captive from Yerushalayim to Babylon: <a name="C2429V5" id="C2429V5">29:5</a>
Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit
of them. <a name="C2429V6" id="C2429V6">29:6</a> Take wives, and father sons
and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to
husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there,
and don't be diminished. <a name="C2429V7" id="C2429V7">29:7</a> Seek the
peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and
pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace. <a
name="C2429V8" id="C2429V8">29:8</a> For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim
of Yisrael: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your
diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause
to be dreamed. <a name="C2429V9" id="C2429V9">29:9</a> For they prophesy
falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2429V10" id="C2429V10">29:10</a> For thus says Yahweh, After seventy
years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. <a name="C2429V11"
id="C2429V11">29:11</a> For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your
latter end. <a name="C2429V12" id="C2429V12">29:12</a> You shall call on me,
and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. <a name="C2429V13"
id="C2429V13">29:13</a> You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall
search for me with all your heart. <a name="C2429V14" id="C2429V14">29:14</a>
I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity,
and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where
I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place
from where I caused you to be carried away captive. <a name="C2429V15"
id="C2429V15">29:15</a> Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up
prophets in Babylon; <a name="C2429V16" id="C2429V16">29:16</a> thus says
Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning
all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone
forth with you into captivity; <a name="C2429V17" id="C2429V17">29:17</a> thus
says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be
eaten, they are so bad. <a name="C2429V18" id="C2429V18">29:18</a> I will
pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the
pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment,
and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven
them; <a name="C2429V19" id="C2429V19">29:19</a> because they have not
listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants
the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,
says Yahweh. <a name="C2429V20" id="C2429V20">29:20</a> Hear you therefore the
word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from
Yerushalayim to Babylon. <a name="C2429V21" id="C2429V21">29:21</a> Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah,
and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in
my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes; <a name="C2429V22"
id="C2429V22">29:22</a> and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captives of Yehudah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like
Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; <a
name="C2429V23" id="C2429V23">29:23</a> because they have worked folly in
Yisrael, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have
spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he
who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. <a name="C2429V24" id="C2429V24">29:24</a>
Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, <a
name="C2429V25" id="C2429V25">29:25</a> Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim
of Yisrael, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all
the people who are at Yerushalayim, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
priest, and to all the priests, saying, <a name="C2429V26" id="C2429V26">29:26</a>
Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there
may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and
makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in
shackles. <a name="C2429V27" id="C2429V27">29:27</a> Now therefore, why have
you not rebuked Yirmiyahu of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
<a name="C2429V28" id="C2429V28">29:28</a> because he has sent to us in
Babylon, saying, <i>The captivity</i> is long: build you houses, and dwell
in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? <a name="C2429V29"
id="C2429V29">29:29</a> Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Yirmiyahu the prophet. <a name="C2429V30" id="C2429V30">29:30</a> Then came the
word of Yahweh to Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2429V31" id="C2429V31">29:31</a>
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I
didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie; <a name="C2429V32"
id="C2429V32">29:32</a> therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish
Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell
among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my
people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2430V1" id="C2430V1">30:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2430V2" id="C2430V2">30:2</a> Thus speaks Yahweh,
the Elohim of Yisrael, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to
you in a book. <a name="C2430V3" id="C2430V3">30:3</a> For, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people
Yisrael and Yehudah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land
that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. <a name="C2430V4"
id="C2430V4">30:4</a> These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning
Yisrael and concerning Yehudah. <a name="C2430V5" id="C2430V5">30:5</a> For thus
says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of
peace. <a name="C2430V6" id="C2430V6">30:6</a> Ask now, and see whether a man
does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his
waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? <a
name="C2430V7" id="C2430V7">30:7</a> Alas! for that day is great, so that none
is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved
out of it. <a name="C2430V8" id="C2430V8">30:8</a> It shall come to pass in
that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your
neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him
their bondservant; <a name="C2430V9" id="C2430V9">30:9</a> but they shall
serve Yahweh their Elohim, and David their king, whom I will raise up to
them. <a name="C2430V10" id="C2430V10">30:10</a> Therefore don't you be
afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Yisrael: for,
behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and
none shall make him afraid. <a name="C2430V11" id="C2430V11">30:11</a> For I
am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all
the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of
you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you
unpunished. <a name="C2430V12" id="C2430V12">30:12</a> For thus says Yahweh,
Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. <a name="C2430V13"
id="C2430V13">30:13</a> There is none to plead your cause, that you may be
bound up: you have no healing medicines. <a name="C2430V14" id="C2430V14">30:14</a>
All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have
wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
<a name="C2430V15" id="C2430V15">30:15</a> Why cry you for your hurt? your
pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
were increased, I have done these things to you. <a name="C2430V16"
id="C2430V16">30:16</a> Therefore all those who devour you shall be
devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into
captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on
you will I give for a prey. <a name="C2430V17" id="C2430V17">30:17</a> For I
will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says
Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, <i>saying</i>, It is
Zion, whom no man seeks after. <a name="C2430V18" id="C2430V18">30:18</a> Thus
says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and
have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its
own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. <a
name="C2430V19" id="C2430V19">30:19</a> Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving
and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they
shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
<a name="C2430V20" id="C2430V20">30:20</a> Their children also shall be as
before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will
punish all who oppress them. <a name="C2430V21" id="C2430V21">30:21</a> Their
prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the
midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to
me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh. <a
name="C2430V22" id="C2430V22">30:22</a> You shall be my people, and I will be
your Elohim. <a name="C2430V23" id="C2430V23">30:23</a> Behold, the storm of
Yahweh, <i>even his</i> wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall
burst on the head of the wicked. <a name="C2430V24" id="C2430V24">30:24</a>
The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and
until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you
shall understand it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2431V1" id="C2431V1">31:1</a> At that time, says Yahweh, will I be
the Elohim of all the families of Yisrael, and they shall be my people. <a
name="C2431V2" id="C2431V2">31:2</a> Thus says Yahweh, The people who were
left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Yisrael, when I went
to cause him to rest. <a name="C2431V3" id="C2431V3">31:3</a> Yahweh appeared
of old to me, <i>saying</i>, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting
love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. <a name="C2431V4"
id="C2431V4">31:4</a> Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O
virgin of Yisrael: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and
shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry. <a name="C2431V5"
id="C2431V5">31:5</a> Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of
Shomron; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy <i>its fruit</i>. <a
name="C2431V6" id="C2431V6">31:6</a> For there shall be a day, that the
watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to
Zion to Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C2431V7" id="C2431V7">31:7</a> For thus says
Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the
nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the
remnant of Yisrael. <a name="C2431V8" id="C2431V8">31:8</a> Behold, I will
bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost
parts of the earth, <i>and</i> with them the blind and the lame, the woman
with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall
they return here. <a name="C2431V9" id="C2431V9">31:9</a> They shall come with
weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by
rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I
am a father to Yisrael, and Ephraim is my firstborn. <a name="C2431V10"
id="C2431V10">31:10</a> Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it
in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Yisrael will gather him,
and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. <a name="C2431V11" id="C2431V11">31:11</a>
For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who
was stronger than he. <a name="C2431V12" id="C2431V12">31:12</a> They shall
come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of
Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the
young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered
garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. <a name="C2431V13"
id="C2431V13">31:13</a> Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the
young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy,
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. <a
name="C2431V14" id="C2431V14">31:14</a> I will satiate the soul of the priests
with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says
Yahweh. <a name="C2431V15" id="C2431V15">31:15</a> Thus says Yahweh: A voice
is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her
children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are
no more. <a name="C2431V16" id="C2431V16">31:16</a> Thus says Yahweh: Refrain
your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be
rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy. <a name="C2431V17" id="C2431V17">31:17</a> There is hope for your
latter end, says Yahweh; and <i>your</i> children shall come again to
their own border. <a name="C2431V18" id="C2431V18">31:18</a> I have surely
heard Ephraim bemoaning himself <i>thus</i>, You have chastised me, and I
was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed <i>to the yoke</i>: turn you me, and
I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my Elohim. <a name="C2431V19" id="C2431V19">31:19</a>
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was
instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth. <a name="C2431V20" id="C2431V20">31:20</a>
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns
for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. <a name="C2431V21"
id="C2431V21">31:21</a> Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart
toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of
Yisrael, turn again to these your cities. <a name="C2431V22" id="C2431V22">31:22</a>
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh
has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. <a
name="C2431V23" id="C2431V23">31:23</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of
Yisrael, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Yehudah and in
its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you,
habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. <a name="C2431V24"
id="C2431V24">31:24</a> Yehudah and all its cities shall dwell therein
together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. <a name="C2431V25"
id="C2431V25">31:25</a> For I have satiated the weary soul, and every
sorrowful soul have I replenished. <a name="C2431V26" id="C2431V26">31:26</a>
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. <a name="C2431V27"
id="C2431V27">31:27</a> Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow
the house of Yisrael and the house of Yehudah with the seed of man, and with
the seed of animal. <a name="C2431V28" id="C2431V28">31:28</a> It shall happen
that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and
to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to
build and to plant, says Yahweh. <a name="C2431V29" id="C2431V29">31:29</a> In
those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
the children's teeth are set on edge. <a name="C2431V30" id="C2431V30">31:30</a>
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour
grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. <a name="C2431V31" id="C2431V31">31:31</a>
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with
the house of Yisrael, and with the house of Yehudah: <a name="C2431V32"
id="C2431V32">31:32</a> not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to
them, says Yahweh. <a name="C2431V33" id="C2431V33">31:33</a> But this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of Yisrael after those days, says
Yahweh: I will put my Torah in their inward parts, and in their heart will I
write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people: <a
name="C2431V34" id="C2431V34">31:34</a> and they shall teach no more every man
his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they
shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says
Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember
no more. <a name="C2431V35" id="C2431V35">31:35</a> Thus says Yahweh, who
gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of
the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves
roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name: <a name="C2431V36" id="C2431V36">31:36</a>
If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of
Yisrael also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. <a
name="C2431V37" id="C2431V37">31:37</a> Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can
be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then
will I also cast off all the seed of Yisrael for all that they have done,
says Yahweh. <a name="C2431V38" id="C2431V38">31:38</a> Behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of
Hananel to the gate of the corner. <a name="C2431V39" id="C2431V39">31:39</a>
The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb,
and shall turn about to Goah. <a name="C2431V40" id="C2431V40">31:40</a> The
whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to
the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall
be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more
forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2432V1" id="C2432V1">32:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Yehudah, which was the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. <a name="C2432V2" id="C2432V2">32:2</a> Now
at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Yerushalayim; and
Yirmiyahu the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in
the king of Yehudah's house. <a name="C2432V3" id="C2432V3">32:3</a> For
Zedekiah king of Yehudah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and
say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall take it; <a name="C2432V4" id="C2432V4">32:4</a>
and Zedekiah king of Yehudah shall not escape out of the hand of the
Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see
his eyes; <a name="C2432V5" id="C2432V5">32:5</a> and he shall bring Zedekiah
to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says Yahweh: though
you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper? <a name="C2432V6"
id="C2432V6">32:6</a> Yirmiyahu said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
<a name="C2432V7" id="C2432V7">32:7</a> Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum
your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in
Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it. <a name="C2432V8"
id="C2432V8">32:8</a> So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of
the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my
field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right
of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.
Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh. <a name="C2432V9" id="C2432V9">32:9</a>
I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and
weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. <a name="C2432V10"
id="C2432V10">32:10</a> I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called
witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. <a name="C2432V11"
id="C2432V11">32:11</a> So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which
was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
<a name="C2432V12" id="C2432V12">32:12</a> and I delivered the deed of the
purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence
of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who
subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the
court of the guard. <a name="C2432V13" id="C2432V13">32:13</a> I commanded
Baruch before them, saying, <a name="C2432V14" id="C2432V14">32:14</a> Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Take these deeds, this deed of
the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in
an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. <a name="C2432V15"
id="C2432V15">32:15</a> For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael:
Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land. <a
name="C2432V16" id="C2432V16">32:16</a> Now after I had delivered the deed of
the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying, <a
name="C2432V17" id="C2432V17">32:17</a> Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made
the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched
arm; there is nothing too hard for you, <a name="C2432V18" id="C2432V18">32:18</a>
who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the
fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty
Elohim, Yahweh of Armies is his name; <a name="C2432V19" id="C2432V19">32:19</a>
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways
of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according
to the fruit of his doings: <a name="C2432V20" id="C2432V20">32:20</a> who
performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both
in Yisrael and among <i>other</i> men; and made you a name, as in this day;
<a name="C2432V21" id="C2432V21">32:21</a> and brought forth your people
Yisrael out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a
strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; <a
name="C2432V22" id="C2432V22">32:22</a> and gave them this land, which you did
swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
<a name="C2432V23" id="C2432V23">32:23</a> and they came in, and possessed it,
but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your Torah; they have
done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have
caused all this evil to come on them. <a name="C2432V24" id="C2432V24">32:24</a>
Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the
sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken
has happened; and behold, you see it. <a name="C2432V25" id="C2432V25">32:25</a>
You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, and call
witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. <a
name="C2432V26" id="C2432V26">32:26</a> Then came the word of Yahweh to
Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2432V27" id="C2432V27">32:27</a> Behold, I am
Yahweh, the Elohim of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? <a
name="C2432V28" id="C2432V28">32:28</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I
will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: <a name="C2432V29"
id="C2432V29">32:29</a> and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city,
shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on
whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink
offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. <a name="C2432V30"
id="C2432V30">32:30</a> For the children of Yisrael and the children of Yehudah
have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the
children of Yisrael have only provoked me to anger with the work of their
hands, says Yahweh. <a name="C2432V31" id="C2432V31">32:31</a> For this city
has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that
they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my
face, <a name="C2432V32" id="C2432V32">32:32</a> because of all the evil of
the children of Yisrael and of the children of Yehudah, which they have done
to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests,
and their prophets, and the men of Yehudah, and the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim. <a name="C2432V33" id="C2432V33">32:33</a> They have turned to me
the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and
teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. <a
name="C2432V34" id="C2432V34">32:34</a> But they set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to defile it. <a name="C2432V35"
id="C2432V35">32:35</a> They built the high places of Baal, which are in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to
pass through <i>the fire</i> to Molech; which I didn't command them,
neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to
cause Yehudah to sin. <a name="C2432V36" id="C2432V36">32:36</a> Now therefore
thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, concerning this city, about which you
say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence: <a name="C2432V37" id="C2432V37">32:37</a>
Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven
them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will
bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: <a
name="C2432V38" id="C2432V38">32:38</a> and they shall be my people, and I
will be their Elohim: <a name="C2432V39" id="C2432V39">32:39</a> and I will give
them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of
them, and of their children after them: <a name="C2432V40" id="C2432V40">32:40</a>
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn
away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they may not depart from me. <a name="C2432V41" id="C2432V41">32:41</a>
Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in
this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. <a
name="C2432V42" id="C2432V42">32:42</a> For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have
brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all
the good that I have promised them. <a name="C2432V43" id="C2432V43">32:43</a>
Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate,
without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. <a
name="C2432V44" id="C2432V44">32:44</a> Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehudah,
and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to
return, says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2433V1" id="C2433V1">33:1</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
Yirmiyahu the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
guard, saying, <a name="C2433V2" id="C2433V2">33:2</a> Thus says Yahweh who
does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name: <a
name="C2433V3" id="C2433V3">33:3</a> Call to me, and I will answer you, and
will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know. <a
name="C2433V4" id="C2433V4">33:4</a> For thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael,
concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings
of Yehudah, which are broken down <i>to make a defense</i> against the
mounds and against the sword; <a name="C2433V5" id="C2433V5">33:5</a> while <i>men</i>
come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of
men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose
wickedness I have hid my face from this city: <a name="C2433V6" id="C2433V6">33:6</a>
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will
reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. <a name="C2433V7" id="C2433V7">33:7</a>
I will cause the captivity of Yehudah and the captivity of Yisrael to return,
and will build them, as at the first. <a name="C2433V8" id="C2433V8">33:8</a>
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned
against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have
sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me. <a
name="C2433V9" id="C2433V9">33:9</a> <i>This city</i> shall be to me for a
name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the
earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and
tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it. <a
name="C2433V10" id="C2433V10">33:10</a> Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there
shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without
man and without animal, even in the cities of Yehudah, and in the streets of
Yerushalayim, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and
without animal, <a name="C2433V11" id="C2433V11">33:11</a> the voice of joy
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies,
for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; <i>and of
them</i> who bring <i>sacrifices of</i> thanksgiving into the house of
Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the
first, says Yahweh. <a name="C2433V12" id="C2433V12">33:12</a> Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste,
without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of
shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. <a name="C2433V13" id="C2433V13">33:13</a>
In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in
the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places
about Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehudah, shall the flocks again pass
under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh. <a name="C2433V14"
id="C2433V14">33:14</a> Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Yisrael
and concerning the house of Yehudah. <a name="C2433V15" id="C2433V15">33:15</a>
In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to
grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the
land. <a name="C2433V16" id="C2433V16">33:16</a> In those days shall Yehudah be
saved, and Yerushalayim shall dwell safely; and this is <i>the name</i> by
which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness. <a name="C2433V17"
id="C2433V17">33:17</a> For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man
to sit on the throne of the house of Yisrael; <a name="C2433V18" id="C2433V18">33:18</a>
neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt
offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. <a
name="C2433V19" id="C2433V19">33:19</a> The word of Yahweh came to Yirmiyahu,
saying, <a name="C2433V20" id="C2433V20">33:20</a> Thus says Yahweh: If you
can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that
there shall not be day and night in their season; <a name="C2433V21"
id="C2433V21">33:21</a> then may also my covenant be broken with David my
servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers. <a name="C2433V22" id="C2433V22">33:22</a>
As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites
who minister to me. <a name="C2433V23" id="C2433V23">33:23</a> The word of
Yahweh came to Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2433V24" id="C2433V24">33:24</a>
Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families
which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my
people, that they should be no more a nation before them. <a name="C2433V25"
id="C2433V25">33:25</a> Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night
fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; <a
name="C2433V26" id="C2433V26">33:26</a> then will I also cast away the seed of
Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be
rulers over the seed of Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their
captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2434V1" id="C2434V1">34:1</a> The word which came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples,
were fighting against Yerushalayim, and against all the cities of it, saying:
<a name="C2434V2" id="C2434V2">34:2</a> Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael,
Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Yehudah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall burn it with fire: <a name="C2434V3" id="C2434V3">34:3</a> and you shall
not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into
his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he
shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. <a
name="C2434V4" id="C2434V4">34:4</a> Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah
king of Yehudah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the
sword; <a name="C2434V5" id="C2434V5">34:5</a> you shall die in peace; and
with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you,
so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, <i>saying</i>,
Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh. <a name="C2434V6"
id="C2434V6">34:6</a> Then Yirmiyahu the prophet spoke all these words to
Zedekiah king of Yehudah in Yerushalayim, <a name="C2434V7" id="C2434V7">34:7</a>
when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Yerushalayim, and
against all the cities of Yehudah that were left, against Lachish and
against Azekah; for these <i>alone</i> remained of the cities of Yehudah <i>as</i>
fortified cities. <a name="C2434V8" id="C2434V8">34:8</a> The word that came
to Yirmiyahu from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant
with all the people who were at Yerushalayim, to proclaim liberty to them; <a
name="C2434V9" id="C2434V9">34:9</a> that every man should let his male
servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess,
go free; that none should make bondservants of them, <i>to wit</i>, of a
Jew his brother. <a name="C2434V10" id="C2434V10">34:10</a> All the princes
and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that
everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go
free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed,
and let them go: <a name="C2434V11" id="C2434V11">34:11</a> but afterwards
they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let
go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids. <a name="C2434V12" id="C2434V12">34:12</a> Therefore the word of
Yahweh came to Yirmiyahu from Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2434V13" id="C2434V13">34:13</a>
Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael: I made a covenant with your fathers
in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage, saying, <a name="C2434V14" id="C2434V14">34:14</a> At the
end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew,
who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him
go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined
their ear. <a name="C2434V15" id="C2434V15">34:15</a> You were now turned, and
had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man
to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which
is called by my name: <a name="C2434V16" id="C2434V16">34:16</a> but you
turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every
man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return;
and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for
handmaids. <a name="C2434V17" id="C2434V17">34:17</a> Therefore thus says
Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his
brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a
liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine;
and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of
the earth. <a name="C2434V18" id="C2434V18">34:18</a> I will give the men who
have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and
passed between its parts; <a name="C2434V19" id="C2434V19">34:19</a> the
princes of Yehudah, and the princes of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the
priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of
the calf; <a name="C2434V20" id="C2434V20">34:20</a> I will even give them
into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their
life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and
to the animals of the earth. <a name="C2434V21" id="C2434V21">34:21</a>
Zedekiah king of Yehudah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand
of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you. <a
name="C2434V22" id="C2434V22">34:22</a> Behold, I will command, says Yahweh,
and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it,
and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Yehudah a
desolation, without inhabitant.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2435V1" id="C2435V1">35:1</a> The word which came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, saying,
<a name="C2435V2" id="C2435V2">35:2</a> Go to the house of the Rechabites, and
speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the
chambers, and give them wine to drink. <a name="C2435V3" id="C2435V3">35:3</a>
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Yirmiyahu, the son of Habazziniah, and his
brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; <a
name="C2435V4" id="C2435V4">35:4</a> and I brought them into the house of
Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man
of Elohim, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. <a
name="C2435V5" id="C2435V5">35:5</a> I set before the sons of the house of the
Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you
wine. <a name="C2435V6" id="C2435V6">35:6</a> But they said, We will drink no
wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You
shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever: <a name="C2435V7"
id="C2435V7">35:7</a> neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that
you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn. <a name="C2435V8"
id="C2435V8">35:8</a> We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days,
we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; <a name="C2435V9" id="C2435V9">35:9</a>
nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor
field, nor seed: <a name="C2435V10" id="C2435V10">35:10</a> but we have lived
in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our
father commanded us. <a name="C2435V11" id="C2435V11">35:11</a> But it
happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that
we said, Come, and let us go to Yerushalayim for fear of the army of the
Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at
Yerushalayim. <a name="C2435V12" id="C2435V12">35:12</a> Then came the word of
Yahweh to Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2435V13" id="C2435V13">35:13</a> Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Go, and tell the men of Yehudah
and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, Will you not receive instruction to
listen to my words? says Yahweh. <a name="C2435V14" id="C2435V14">35:14</a>
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to
drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey
their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and
speaking; and you have not listened to me. <a name="C2435V15" id="C2435V15">35:15</a>
I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and
amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you
shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but
you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me. <a name="C2435V16"
id="C2435V16">35:16</a> Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have
performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but
this people has not listened to me; <a name="C2435V17" id="C2435V17">35:17</a>
therefore thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold,
I will bring on Yehudah and on all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim all the evil
that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but
they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not
answered. <a name="C2435V18" id="C2435V18">35:18</a> Yirmiyahu said to the
house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael:
Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept
all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you; <a
name="C2435V19" id="C2435V19">35:19</a> therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand
before me forever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2436V1" id="C2436V1">36:1</a> It happened in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, that this word came to
Yirmiyahu from Yahweh, saying, <a name="C2436V2" id="C2436V2">36:2</a> Take a
scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to
you against Yisrael, and against Yehudah, and against all the nations, from
the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. <a
name="C2436V3" id="C2436V3">36:3</a> It may be that the house of Yehudah will
hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their
sin. <a name="C2436V4" id="C2436V4">36:4</a> Then Yirmiyahu called Baruch the
son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Yirmiyahu all the words
of Yahweh, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. <a
name="C2436V5" id="C2436V5">36:5</a> Yirmiyahu commanded Baruch, saying, I am
shut up; I can't go into the house of Yahweh: <a name="C2436V6" id="C2436V6">36:6</a>
therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my
mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on
the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Yehudah who
come out of their cities. <a name="C2436V7" id="C2436V7">36:7</a> It may be
they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return
everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that
Yahweh has pronounced against this people. <a name="C2436V8" id="C2436V8">36:8</a>
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Yirmiyahu the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house.
<a name="C2436V9" id="C2436V9">36:9</a> Now it happened in the fifth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah, in the ninth month, that all
the people in Yerushalayim, and all the people who came from the cities of
Yehudah to Yerushalayim, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. <a name="C2436V10"
id="C2436V10">36:10</a> Then read Baruch in the book the words of Yirmiyahu
in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the
scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
house, in the ears of all the people. <a name="C2436V11" id="C2436V11">36:11</a>
When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the
book all the words of Yahweh, <a name="C2436V12" id="C2436V12">36:12</a> he
went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and behold,
all the princes were sitting there, <i>to wit</i>, Elishama the scribe,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the
princes. <a name="C2436V13" id="C2436V13">36:13</a> Then Micaiah declared to
them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the
ears of the people. <a name="C2436V14" id="C2436V14">36:14</a> Therefore all
the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the
son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you
have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah
took the scroll in his hand, and came to them. <a name="C2436V15" id="C2436V15">36:15</a>
They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it
in their ears. <a name="C2436V16" id="C2436V16">36:16</a> Now it happened,
when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another,
and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. <a
name="C2436V17" id="C2436V17">36:17</a> They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us
now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? <a name="C2436V18"
id="C2436V18">36:18</a> Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these
words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. <a
name="C2436V19" id="C2436V19">36:19</a> Then said the princes to Baruch, Go,
hide you, you and Yirmiyahu; and let no man know where you are. <a
name="C2436V20" id="C2436V20">36:20</a> They went in to the king into the
court; but they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the
scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king. <a
name="C2436V21" id="C2436V21">36:21</a> So the king sent Jehudi to get the
scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi
read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who
stood beside the king. <a name="C2436V22" id="C2436V22">36:22</a> Now the king
was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and <i>there was a
fire in</i> the brazier burning before him. <a name="C2436V23" id="C2436V23">36:23</a>
It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that <i>the king</i>
cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the
brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the
brazier. <a name="C2436V24" id="C2436V24">36:24</a> They were not afraid, nor
tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard
all these words. <a name="C2436V25" id="C2436V25">36:25</a> Moreover Elnathan
and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would
not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them. <a name="C2436V26"
id="C2436V26">36:26</a> The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch
the scribe and Yirmiyahu the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. <a name="C2436V27"
id="C2436V27">36:27</a> Then the word of Yahweh came to Yirmiyahu, after that
the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the
mouth of Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2436V28" id="C2436V28">36:28</a> Take
again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in
the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Yehudah has burned. <a
name="C2436V29" id="C2436V29">36:29</a> Concerning Jehoiakim king of Yehudah you
shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have
you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and
destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal? <a
name="C2436V30" id="C2436V30">36:30</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning
Jehoiakim king of Yehudah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David;
and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night to the frost. <a name="C2436V31" id="C2436V31">36:31</a> I will punish
him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on
them, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and on the men of Yehudah, all
the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn't listen. <a
name="C2436V32" id="C2436V32">36:32</a> Then took Yirmiyahu another scroll, and
gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from
the mouth of Yirmiyahu all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
Yehudah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many
like words.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2437V1" id="C2437V1">37:1</a> Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as
king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon made king in the land of Yehudah. <a name="C2437V2" id="C2437V2">37:2</a>
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did listen
to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet Yirmiyahu. <a
name="C2437V3" id="C2437V3">37:3</a> Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet
Yirmiyahu, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our Elohim for us. <a name="C2437V4"
id="C2437V4">37:4</a> Now Yirmiyahu came in and went out among the people;
for they had not put him into prison. <a name="C2437V5" id="C2437V5">37:5</a>
Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who
were besieging Yerushalayim heard news of them, they broke up from Yerushalayim.
<a name="C2437V6" id="C2437V6">37:6</a> Then came the word of Yahweh to the
prophet Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2437V7" id="C2437V7">37:7</a> Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, You shall tell the king of Yehudah, who sent you
to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to
help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. <a name="C2437V8"
id="C2437V8">37:8</a> The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire. <a name="C2437V9"
id="C2437V9">37:9</a> Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying,
The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart. <a
name="C2437V10" id="C2437V10">37:10</a> For though you had struck the whole
army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but
wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and
burn this city with fire. <a name="C2437V11" id="C2437V11">37:11</a> It
happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Yerushalayim
for fear of Pharaoh's army, <a name="C2437V12" id="C2437V12">37:12</a> then
Yirmiyahu went forth out of Yerushalayim to go into the land of Benjamin, to
receive his portion there, in the midst of the people. <a name="C2437V13"
id="C2437V13">37:13</a> When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of
the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son
of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Yirmiyahu the prophet, saying, You are
falling away to the Chaldeans. <a name="C2437V14" id="C2437V14">37:14</a> Then
said Yirmiyahu, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he
didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Yirmiyahu, and brought him to
the princes. <a name="C2437V15" id="C2437V15">37:15</a> The princes were angry
with Yirmiyahu, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of
Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. <a name="C2437V16"
id="C2437V16">37:16</a> When Yirmiyahu was come into the dungeon house, and
into the cells, and Yirmiyahu had remained there many days; <a name="C2437V17"
id="C2437V17">37:17</a> Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and
the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from
Yahweh? Yirmiyahu said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into
the hand of the king of Babylon. <a name="C2437V18" id="C2437V18">37:18</a>
Moreover Yirmiyahu said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against
you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put
me in prison? <a name="C2437V19" id="C2437V19">37:19</a> Where now are your
prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come
against you, nor against this land? <a name="C2437V20" id="C2437V20">37:20</a>
Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented
before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there. <a name="C2437V21" id="C2437V21">37:21</a> Then
Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Yirmiyahu into the court of
the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers'
street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Yirmiyahu remained
in the court of the guard.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2438V1" id="C2438V1">38:1</a> Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and
Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur
the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Yirmiyahu spoke to all the
people, saying, <a name="C2438V2" id="C2438V2">38:2</a> Thus says Yahweh, He
who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his
life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. <a name="C2438V3"
id="C2438V3">38:3</a> Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into
the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. <a
name="C2438V4" id="C2438V4">38:4</a> Then the princes said to the king, Let
this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of
the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people,
in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of
this people, but the hurt. <a name="C2438V5" id="C2438V5">38:5</a> Zedekiah
the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can
do anything against you. <a name="C2438V6" id="C2438V6">38:6</a> Then took
they Yirmiyahu, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son,
that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Yirmiyahu with cords.
In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Yirmiyahu sank in the
mire. <a name="C2438V7" id="C2438V7">38:7</a> Now when Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put
Yirmiyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
<a name="C2438V8" id="C2438V8">38:8</a> Ebedmelech went forth out of the
king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, <a name="C2438V9" id="C2438V9">38:9</a>
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to
Yirmiyahu the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is
likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there
is no more bread in the city. <a name="C2438V10" id="C2438V10">38:10</a> Then
the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence
thirty men with you, and take up Yirmiyahu the prophet out of the dungeon,
before he dies. <a name="C2438V11" id="C2438V11">38:11</a> So Ebedmelech took
the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury,
and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to Yirmiyahu. <a name="C2438V12" id="C2438V12">38:12</a> Ebedmelech
the Ethiopian said to Yirmiyahu, Put now these rags and worn-out garments
under your armholes under the cords. Yirmiyahu did so. <a name="C2438V13"
id="C2438V13">38:13</a> So they drew up Yirmiyahu with the cords, and took
him up out of the dungeon: and Yirmiyahu remained in the court of the
guard. <a name="C2438V14" id="C2438V14">38:14</a> Then Zedekiah the king sent,
and took Yirmiyahu the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the
house of Yahweh: and the king said to Yirmiyahu, I will ask you a thing;
hide nothing from me. <a name="C2438V15" id="C2438V15">38:15</a> Then Yirmiyahu
said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to
death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me. <a
name="C2438V16" id="C2438V16">38:16</a> So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to
Yirmiyahu, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put
you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek
your life. <a name="C2438V17" id="C2438V17">38:17</a> Then said Yirmiyahu to
Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: If you
will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live,
and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your
house. <a name="C2438V18" id="C2438V18">38:18</a> But if you will not go forth
to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the
hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not
escape out of their hand. <a name="C2438V19" id="C2438V19">38:19</a> Zedekiah
the king said to Yirmiyahu, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to
the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. <a
name="C2438V20" id="C2438V20">38:20</a> But Yirmiyahu said, They shall not
deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak
to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. <a
name="C2438V21" id="C2438V21">38:21</a> But if you refuse to go forth, this is
the word that Yahweh has shown me: <a name="C2438V22" id="C2438V22">38:22</a>
behold, all the women who are left in the king of Yehudah's house shall be
brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say,
Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: <i>now
that</i> your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. <a
name="C2438V23" id="C2438V23">38:23</a> They shall bring out all your wives
and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their
hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall
cause this city to be burned with fire. <a name="C2438V24" id="C2438V24">38:24</a>
Then said Zedekiah to Yirmiyahu, Let no man know of these words, and you
shall not die. <a name="C2438V25" id="C2438V25">38:25</a> But if the princes
hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you,
Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don't hide it from us,
and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you: <a
name="C2438V26" id="C2438V26">38:26</a> then you shall tell them, I presented
my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
Jonathan's house, to die there. <a name="C2438V27" id="C2438V27">38:27</a>
Then came all the princes to Yirmiyahu, and asked him; and he told them
according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off
speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. <a name="C2438V28"
id="C2438V28">38:28</a> So Yirmiyahu abode in the court of the guard until
the day that Yerushalayim was taken.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2439V1" id="C2439V1">39:1</a> It happened when Yerushalayim was taken,
(in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Yehudah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Yerushalayim, and
besieged it; <a name="C2439V2" id="C2439V2">39:2</a> in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was
made in the city), <a name="C2439V3" id="C2439V3">39:3</a> that all the
princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, <i>to
wit</i>, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal
Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
<a name="C2439V4" id="C2439V4">39:4</a> It happened that, when Zedekiah the
king of Yehudah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went
forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through
the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. <a
name="C2439V5" id="C2439V5">39:5</a> But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they
had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. <a name="C2439V6"
id="C2439V6">39:6</a> Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah
in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles
of Yehudah. <a name="C2439V7" id="C2439V7">39:7</a> Moreover he put out
Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. <a
name="C2439V8" id="C2439V8">39:8</a> The Chaldeans burned the king's house,
and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of
Yerushalayim. <a name="C2439V9" id="C2439V9">39:9</a> Then Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the
people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him,
and the residue of the people who remained. <a name="C2439V10" id="C2439V10">39:10</a>
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,
who had nothing, in the land of Yehudah, and gave them vineyards and fields
at the same time. <a name="C2439V11" id="C2439V11">39:11</a> Now
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard concerning Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2439V12" id="C2439V12">39:12</a>
Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as
he shall tell you. <a name="C2439V13" id="C2439V13">39:13</a> So Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal
Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; <a
name="C2439V14" id="C2439V14">39:14</a> they sent, and took Yirmiyahu out of
the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the
people. <a name="C2439V15" id="C2439V15">39:15</a> Now the word of Yahweh came
to Yirmiyahu, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying, <a
name="C2439V16" id="C2439V16">39:16</a> Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold,
I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they
shall be accomplished before you in that day. <a name="C2439V17" id="C2439V17">39:17</a>
But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be
given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. <a name="C2439V18"
id="C2439V18">39:18</a> For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall
by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have
put your trust in me, says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2440V1" id="C2440V1">40:1</a> The word which came to Yirmiyahu from
Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go
from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the
captives of Yerushalayim and Yehudah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
<a name="C2440V2" id="C2440V2">40:2</a> The captain of the guard took
Yirmiyahu, and said to him, Yahweh your Elohim pronounced this evil on this
place; <a name="C2440V3" id="C2440V3">40:3</a> and Yahweh has brought it, and
done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and
have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. <a
name="C2440V4" id="C2440V4">40:4</a> Now, behold, I loose you this day from
the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me
into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to
you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before
you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go. <a name="C2440V5"
id="C2440V5">40:5</a> Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, <i>said
he</i>, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king
of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Yehudah, and dwell with him
among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the
captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go. <a
name="C2440V6" id="C2440V6">40:6</a> Then went Yirmiyahu to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the
land. <a name="C2440V7" id="C2440V7">40:7</a> Now when all the captains of the
forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the
king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land,
and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest
of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; <a
name="C2440V8" id="C2440V8">40:8</a> then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, <i>to
wit</i>, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons
of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
<a name="C2440V9" id="C2440V9">40:9</a> Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve
the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it
shall be well with you. <a name="C2440V10" id="C2440V10">40:10</a> As for me,
behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall
come to us: but you, gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put
them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken. <a
name="C2440V11" id="C2440V11">40:11</a> Likewise when all the Jews who were in
Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all
the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Yehudah,
and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan; <a name="C2440V12" id="C2440V12">40:12</a> then all the Jews returned
out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Yehudah,
to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. <a
name="C2440V13" id="C2440V13">40:13</a> Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, <a name="C2440V14" id="C2440V14">40:14</a> and said to
him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam didn't believe them. <a name="C2440V15" id="C2440V15">40:15</a> Then
Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying,
Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man
shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are
gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Yehudah perish? <a
name="C2440V16" id="C2440V16">40:16</a> But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to
Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak
falsely of Ishmael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2441V1" id="C2441V1">41:1</a> Now it happened in the seventh month,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal
and <i>one of</i> the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him,
came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread
together in Mizpah. <a name="C2441V2" id="C2441V2">41:2</a> Then arose Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed
him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. <a
name="C2441V3" id="C2441V3">41:3</a> Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were
with him, <i>to wit</i>, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who
were found there, the men of war. <a name="C2441V4" id="C2441V4">41:4</a> It
happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
<a name="C2441V5" id="C2441V5">41:5</a> that there came men from Shechem, from
Shiloh, and from Shomron, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and
their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and
frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh. <a
name="C2441V6" id="C2441V6">41:6</a> Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth
from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened,
as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. <a
name="C2441V7" id="C2441V7">41:7</a> It was so, when they came into the midst
of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, <i>and cast
them</i> into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him. <a
name="C2441V8" id="C2441V8">41:8</a> But ten men were found among those who
said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of
wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't
kill them among their brothers. <a name="C2441V9" id="C2441V9">41:9</a> Now
the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had
killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had
made for fear of Baasha king of Yisrael), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
filled it with those who were killed. <a name="C2441V10" id="C2441V10">41:10</a>
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were
in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in
Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. <a name="C2441V11"
id="C2441V11">41:11</a> But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, <a name="C2441V12" id="C2441V12">41:12</a>
then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. <a
name="C2441V13" id="C2441V13">41:13</a> Now it happened that, when all the
people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces who were with him, then they were glad. <a
name="C2441V14" id="C2441V14">41:14</a> So all the people who Ishmael had
carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to
Johanan the son of Kareah. <a name="C2441V15" id="C2441V15">41:15</a> But
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went
to the children of Ammon. <a name="C2441V16" id="C2441V16">41:16</a> Then took
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were
with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had killed Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, <i>to wit</i>, the men of war, and the women, and the
children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: <a
name="C2441V17" id="C2441V17">41:17</a> and they departed, and lived in Geruth
Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, <a name="C2441V18"
id="C2441V18">41:18</a> because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of
them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2442V1" id="C2442V1">42:1</a> Then all the captains of the forces,
and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all
the people from the least even to the greatest, came near, <a name="C2442V2"
id="C2442V2">42:2</a> and said to Yirmiyahu the prophet, Let, we pray you,
our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your
Elohim, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your
eyes do see us: <a name="C2442V3" id="C2442V3">42:3</a> that Yahweh your Elohim
may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should
do. <a name="C2442V4" id="C2442V4">42:4</a> Then Yirmiyahu the prophet said to
them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your Elohim according
to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer
you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. <a
name="C2442V5" id="C2442V5">42:5</a> Then they said to Yirmiyahu, Yahweh be a
true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the
word with which Yahweh your Elohim shall send you to us. <a name="C2442V6"
id="C2442V6">42:6</a> Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will
obey the voice of Yahweh our Elohim, to whom we send you; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C2442V7"
id="C2442V7">42:7</a> It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh
came to Yirmiyahu. <a name="C2442V8" id="C2442V8">42:8</a> Then called he
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were
with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, <a
name="C2442V9" id="C2442V9">42:9</a> and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before
him: <a name="C2442V10" id="C2442V10">42:10</a> If you will still abide in
this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant
you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have
brought on you. <a name="C2442V11" id="C2442V11">42:11</a> Don't be afraid of
the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says
Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
<a name="C2442V12" id="C2442V12">42:12</a> I will grant you mercy, that he may
have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. <a
name="C2442V13" id="C2442V13">42:13</a> But if you say, We will not dwell in
this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, <a
name="C2442V14" id="C2442V14">42:14</a> saying, No; but we will go into the
land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: <a
name="C2442V15" id="C2442V15">42:15</a> now therefore hear you the word of
Yahweh, O remnant of Yehudah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael,
If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
<a name="C2442V16" id="C2442V16">42:16</a> then it shall happen, that the
sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and
the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there
in Egypt; and there you shall die. <a name="C2442V17" id="C2442V17">42:17</a>
So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to
sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I
will bring on them. <a name="C2442V18" id="C2442V18">42:18</a> For thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: As my anger and my wrath has been
poured forth on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall my wrath be poured
forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object
of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall
see this place no more. <a name="C2442V19" id="C2442V19">42:19</a> Yahweh has
spoken concerning you, remnant of Yehudah, Don't you go into Egypt: know
certainly that I have testified to you this day. <a name="C2442V20"
id="C2442V20">42:20</a> For you have dealt deceitfully against your own
souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your Elohim, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh
our Elohim; and according to all that Yahweh our Elohim shall say, so declare to
us, and we will do it: <a name="C2442V21" id="C2442V21">42:21</a> and I have
this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh
your Elohim in anything for which he has sent me to you. <a name="C2442V22"
id="C2442V22">42:22</a> Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you
desire to go to sojourn there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2443V1" id="C2443V1">43:1</a> It happened that, when Yirmiyahu had
made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their
Elohim, with which Yahweh their Elohim had sent him to them, even all these
words, <a name="C2443V2" id="C2443V2">43:2</a> then spoke Azariah the son of
Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to
Yirmiyahu, You speak falsely: Yahweh our Elohim has not sent you to say, You
shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there; <a name="C2443V3" id="C2443V3">43:3</a>
but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into
the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us
away captive to Babylon. <a name="C2443V4" id="C2443V4">43:4</a> So Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people,
didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Yehudah. <a
name="C2443V5" id="C2443V5">43:5</a> But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Yehudah, who were
returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to sojourn in
the land of Yehudah; <a name="C2443V6" id="C2443V6">43:6</a> the men, and the
women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every person who
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Yirmiyahu the prophet, and Baruch the son
of Neriah; <a name="C2443V7" id="C2443V7">43:7</a> and they came into the land
of Egypt; for they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to
Tahpanhes. <a name="C2443V8" id="C2443V8">43:8</a> Then came the word of
Yahweh to Yirmiyahu in Tahpanhes, saying, <a name="C2443V9" id="C2443V9">43:9</a>
Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work,
which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the
men of Yehudah; <a name="C2443V10" id="C2443V10">43:10</a> and tell them, Thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold, I will send and take
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on
these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion
over them. <a name="C2443V11" id="C2443V11">43:11</a> He shall come, and shall
strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death <i>shall be given</i> to
death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the
sword to the sword. <a name="C2443V12" id="C2443V12">43:12</a> I will kindle a
fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry
them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a
shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.
<a name="C2443V13" id="C2443V13">43:13</a> He shall also break the pillars of
Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of
Egypt shall he burn with fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2444V1" id="C2444V1">44:1</a> The word that came to Yirmiyahu
concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at
Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros,
saying, <a name="C2444V2" id="C2444V2">44:2</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on
Yerushalayim, and on all the cities of Yehudah; and behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwells therein, <a name="C2444V3" id="C2444V3">44:3</a>
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to
anger, in that they went to burn incense, <i>and</i> to serve other gods,
that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. <a
name="C2444V4" id="C2444V4">44:4</a> However I sent to you all my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this
abominable thing that I hate. <a name="C2444V5" id="C2444V5">44:5</a> But they
didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to
burn no incense to other gods. <a name="C2444V6" id="C2444V6">44:6</a>
Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the
cities of Yehudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim; and they are wasted and
desolate, as it is this day. <a name="C2444V7" id="C2444V7">44:7</a> Therefore
now thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Why commit you
<i>this</i> great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and
woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Yehudah, to leave you none
remaining; <a name="C2444V8" id="C2444V8">44:8</a> in that you provoke me to
anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the
land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and
that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
<a name="C2444V9" id="C2444V9">44:9</a> Have you forgotten the wickedness of
your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Yehudah, and the wickedness
of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives
which they committed in the land of Yehudah, and in the streets of
Yerushalayim? <a name="C2444V10" id="C2444V10">44:10</a> They are not humbled
even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my Torah, nor in
my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. <a
name="C2444V11" id="C2444V11">44:11</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even
to cut off all Yehudah. <a name="C2444V12" id="C2444V12">44:12</a> I will take
the remnant of Yehudah, that have set their faces to go into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of
Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the
famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, <i>and</i> an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. <a name="C2444V13" id="C2444V13">44:13</a>
For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished
Yerushalayim, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; <a
name="C2444V14" id="C2444V14">44:14</a> so that none of the remnant of Yehudah,
who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be
left, to return into the land of Yehudah, to which they have a desire to
return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape. <a
name="C2444V15" id="C2444V15">44:15</a> Then all the men who knew that their
wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a
great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Yirmiyahu, saying, <a name="C2444V16" id="C2444V16">44:16</a>
As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will
not listen to you. <a name="C2444V17" id="C2444V17">44:17</a> But we will
certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn
incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her,
as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the
cities of Yehudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim; for then had we plenty
of food, and were well, and saw no evil. <a name="C2444V18" id="C2444V18">44:18</a>
But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring
out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been
consumed by the sword and by the famine. <a name="C2444V19" id="C2444V19">44:19</a>
When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink
offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink
offerings to her, without our husbands? <a name="C2444V20" id="C2444V20">44:20</a>
Then Yirmiyahu said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even
to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, <a name="C2444V21"
id="C2444V21">44:21</a> The incense that you burned in the cities of Yehudah,
and in the streets of Yerushalayim, you and your fathers, your kings and your
princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and
didn't it come into his mind? <a name="C2444V22" id="C2444V22">44:22</a> so
that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and
because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is your
land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without
inhabitant, as it is this day. <a name="C2444V23" id="C2444V23">44:23</a>
Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against
Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his Torah,
nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is
happened to you, as it is this day. <a name="C2444V24" id="C2444V24">44:24</a>
Moreover Yirmiyahu said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the
word of Yahweh, all Yehudah who are in the land of Egypt: <a name="C2444V25"
id="C2444V25">44:25</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael,
saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with
your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that
we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.
<a name="C2444V26" id="C2444V26">44:26</a> Therefore hear the word of Yahweh,
all Yehudah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great
name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any
man of Yehudah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.
<a name="C2444V27" id="C2444V27">44:27</a> Behold, I watch over them for evil,
and not for good; and all the men of Yehudah who are in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them. <a name="C2444V28" id="C2444V28">44:28</a> Those who escape the sword
shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Yehudah, few in
number; and all the remnant of Yehudah, who have gone into the land of Egypt
to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. <a
name="C2444V29" id="C2444V29">44:29</a> This shall be the sign to you, says
Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my
words shall surely stand against you for evil: <a name="C2444V30" id="C2444V30">44:30</a>
Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into
the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as
I gave Zedekiah king of Yehudah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2445V1" id="C2445V1">45:1</a> The message that Yirmiyahu the prophet
spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at
the mouth of Yirmiyahu, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Yehudah, saying, <a name="C2445V2" id="C2445V2">45:2</a> Thus says
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, to you, Baruch: <a name="C2445V3" id="C2445V3">45:3</a>
You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am
weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. <a name="C2445V4" id="C2445V4">45:4</a>
You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will
I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in
the whole land. <a name="C2445V5" id="C2445V5">45:5</a> Seek you great things
for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all
flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all
places where you go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2446V1" id="C2446V1">46:1</a> The word of Yahweh which came to
Yirmiyahu the prophet concerning the nations. <a name="C2446V2" id="C2446V2">46:2</a>
Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by
the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yehudah.
<a name="C2446V3" id="C2446V3">46:3</a> Prepare you the buckler and shield,
and draw near to battle. <a name="C2446V4" id="C2446V4">46:4</a> Harness the
horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. <a name="C2446V5" id="C2446V5">46:5</a>
Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back:
terror is on every side, says Yahweh. <a name="C2446V6" id="C2446V6">46:6</a>
Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by
the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. <a name="C2446V7"
id="C2446V7">46:7</a> Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters
toss themselves like the rivers? <a name="C2446V8" id="C2446V8">46:8</a> Egypt
rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers:
and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities
and its inhabitants. <a name="C2446V9" id="C2446V9">46:9</a> Go up, you
horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and
Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. <a
name="C2446V10" id="C2446V10">46:10</a> For that day is <i>a day</i> of the
Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his
adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink
its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates. <a name="C2446V11" id="C2446V11">46:11</a>
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you
use many medicines; there is no healing for you. <a name="C2446V12"
id="C2446V12">46:12</a> The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth
is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
they are fallen both of them together. <a name="C2446V13" id="C2446V13">46:13</a>
The word that Yahweh spoke to Yirmiyahu the prophet, how that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
<a name="C2446V14" id="C2446V14">46:14</a> Declare you in Egypt, and publish
in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth,
and prepare you; for the sword has devoured around you. <a name="C2446V15"
id="C2446V15">46:15</a> Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't
stand, because Yahweh did drive them. <a name="C2446V16" id="C2446V16">46:16</a>
He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said,
Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our
birth, from the oppressing sword. <a name="C2446V17" id="C2446V17">46:17</a>
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the
appointed time pass by. <a name="C2446V18" id="C2446V18">46:18</a> As I live,
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the
mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. <a name="C2446V19"
id="C2446V19">46:19</a> You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to
go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be
burnt up, without inhabitant. <a name="C2446V20" id="C2446V20">46:20</a> Egypt
is a very beautiful heifer; <i>but</i> destruction out of the north is
come, it is come. <a name="C2446V21" id="C2446V21">46:21</a> Also her hired
men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are
turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day
of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation. <a
name="C2446V22" id="C2446V22">46:22</a> The sound of it shall go like the
serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with
axes, as wood cutters. <a name="C2446V23" id="C2446V23">46:23</a> They shall
cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because
they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. <a name="C2446V24"
id="C2446V24">46:24</a> The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. <a
name="C2446V25" id="C2446V25">46:25</a> Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael,
says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her
gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: <a
name="C2446V26" id="C2446V26">46:26</a> and I will deliver them into the hand
of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be
inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh. <a name="C2446V27" id="C2446V27">46:27</a>
But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Yisrael:
for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of
their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid. <a name="C2446V28" id="C2446V28">46:28</a>
Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you:
for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but
I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and
will in no way leave you unpunished.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2447V1" id="C2447V1">47:1</a> The word of Yahweh that came to
Yirmiyahu the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh
struck Gaza. <a name="C2447V2" id="C2447V2">47:2</a> Thus says Yahweh: Behold,
waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream,
and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those
who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the
land shall wail. <a name="C2447V3" id="C2447V3">47:3</a> At the noise of the
stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots,
at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their
children for feebleness of hands; <a name="C2447V4" id="C2447V4">47:4</a>
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off
from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the
Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. <a name="C2447V5" id="C2447V5">47:5</a>
Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of
their valley: how long will you cut yourself? <a name="C2447V6" id="C2447V6">47:6</a>
You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up
yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. <a name="C2447V7" id="C2447V7">47:7</a>
How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a command? Against
Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2448V1" id="C2448V1">48:1</a> Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is
disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. <a
name="C2448V2" id="C2448V2">48:2</a> The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon
they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from
being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword
shall pursue you. <a name="C2448V3" id="C2448V3">48:3</a> The sound of a cry
from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! <a name="C2448V4" id="C2448V4">48:4</a>
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. <a
name="C2448V5" id="C2448V5">48:5</a> For by the ascent of Luhith with
continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they
have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. <a name="C2448V6"
id="C2448V6">48:6</a> Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
wilderness. <a name="C2448V7" id="C2448V7">48:7</a> For, because you have
trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and
Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes
together. <a name="C2448V8" id="C2448V8">48:8</a> The destroyer shall come on
every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and
the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken. <a name="C2448V9"
id="C2448V9">48:9</a> Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away:
and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein. <a
name="C2448V10" id="C2448V10">48:10</a> Cursed be he who does the work of
Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
<a name="C2448V11" id="C2448V11">48:11</a> Moab has been at ease from his
youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from
vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remains in him, and his scent is not changed. <a name="C2448V12" id="C2448V12">48:12</a>
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him
those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his
vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. <a name="C2448V13" id="C2448V13">48:13</a>
Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Yisrael was ashamed of
Bethel their confidence. <a name="C2448V14" id="C2448V14">48:14</a> How say
you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? <a name="C2448V15"
id="C2448V15">48:15</a> Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his
cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the
King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C2448V16" id="C2448V16">48:16</a>
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast. <a
name="C2448V17" id="C2448V17">48:17</a> All you who are around him, bemoan
him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken,
the beautiful rod! <a name="C2448V18" id="C2448V18">48:18</a> You daughter who
dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the
destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your
strongholds. <a name="C2448V19" id="C2448V19">48:19</a> Inhabitant of Aroer,
stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say,
What has been done? <a name="C2448V20" id="C2448V20">48:20</a> Moab is
disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the
Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. <a name="C2448V21" id="C2448V21">48:21</a>
Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on
Mephaath, <a name="C2448V22" id="C2448V22">48:22</a> and on Dibon, and on
Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, <a name="C2448V23" id="C2448V23">48:23</a> and
on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon, <a name="C2448V24"
id="C2448V24">48:24</a> and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities
of the land of Moab, far or near. <a name="C2448V25" id="C2448V25">48:25</a>
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2448V26" id="C2448V26">48:26</a> Make you him drunken; for he magnified
himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also
shall be in derision. <a name="C2448V27" id="C2448V27">48:27</a> For wasn't
Yisrael a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you
speak of him, you wag the head. <a name="C2448V28" id="C2448V28">48:28</a> You
inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like
the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. <a name="C2448V29"
id="C2448V29">48:29</a> We have heard of the pride of Moab, <i>that</i> he
is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the
haughtiness of his heart. <a name="C2448V30" id="C2448V30">48:30</a> I know
his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked
nothing. <a name="C2448V31" id="C2448V31">48:31</a> Therefore will I wail for
Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall
they mourn. <a name="C2448V32" id="C2448V32">48:32</a> With more than the
weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed
over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits
and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen. <a name="C2448V33" id="C2448V33">48:33</a>
Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land
of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall
tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. <a name="C2448V34"
id="C2448V34">48:34</a> From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to
Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath
Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate. <a
name="C2448V35" id="C2448V35">48:35</a> Moreover I will cause to cease in
Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns
incense to his gods. <a name="C2448V36" id="C2448V36">48:36</a> Therefore my
heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the
men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
<a name="C2448V37" id="C2448V37">48:37</a> For every head is bald, and every
beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
<a name="C2448V38" id="C2448V38">48:38</a> On all the housetops of Moab and in
its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like
a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh. <a name="C2448V39" id="C2448V39">48:39</a>
How is it broken down! <i>how</i> do they wail! how has Moab turned the
back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who
are around him. <a name="C2448V40" id="C2448V40">48:40</a> For thus says
Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings
against Moab. <a name="C2448V41" id="C2448V41">48:41</a> Kerioth is taken, and
the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at
that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. <a name="C2448V42"
id="C2448V42">48:42</a> Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because
he has magnified himself against Yahweh. <a name="C2448V43" id="C2448V43">48:43</a>
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says
Yahweh. <a name="C2448V44" id="C2448V44">48:44</a> He who flees from the fear
shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken
in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their
visitation, says Yahweh. <a name="C2448V45" id="C2448V45">48:45</a> Those who
fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is
gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has
devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous
ones. <a name="C2448V46" id="C2448V46">48:46</a> Woe to you, O Moab! the
people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and
your daughters into captivity. <a name="C2448V47" id="C2448V47">48:47</a> Yet
will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2449V1" id="C2449V1">49:1</a> Of the children of Ammon. Thus says
Yahweh: Has Yisrael no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess
Gad, and his people well in its cities? <a name="C2449V2" id="C2449V2">49:2</a>
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm
of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall
become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then
shall Yisrael possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh. <a
name="C2449V3" id="C2449V3">49:3</a> Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry,
you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and
forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests
and his princes together. <a name="C2449V4" id="C2449V4">49:4</a> Why glory
you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted
in her treasures, <i>saying</i>, Who shall come to me? <a name="C2449V5"
id="C2449V5">49:5</a> Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out
every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the
fugitives. <a name="C2449V6" id="C2449V6">49:6</a> But afterward I will bring
back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh. <a name="C2449V7"
id="C2449V7">49:7</a> Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more
in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
<a name="C2449V8" id="C2449V8">49:8</a> Flee you, turn back, dwell in the
depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on
him, the time that I shall visit him. <a name="C2449V9" id="C2449V9">49:9</a>
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough? <a
name="C2449V10" id="C2449V10">49:10</a> But I have made Esau bare, I have
uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his
seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
<a name="C2449V11" id="C2449V11">49:11</a> Leave your fatherless children, I
will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. <a name="C2449V12"
id="C2449V12">49:12</a> For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't
pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who
shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall
surely drink. <a name="C2449V13" id="C2449V13">49:13</a> For I have sworn by
myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach,
a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. <a
name="C2449V14" id="C2449V14">49:14</a> I have heard news from Yahweh, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, <i>saying</i>, Gather yourselves
together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. <a name="C2449V15"
id="C2449V15">49:15</a> For, behold, I have made you small among the
nations, and despised among men. <a name="C2449V16" id="C2449V16">49:16</a> As
for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell
in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you
should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from
there, says Yahweh. <a name="C2449V17" id="C2449V17">49:17</a> Edom shall
become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and
shall hiss at all its plagues. <a name="C2449V18" id="C2449V18">49:18</a> As
in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says
Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn
therein. <a name="C2449V19" id="C2449V19">49:19</a> Behold, he shall come up
like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:
for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him
will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a
time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me? <a name="C2449V20"
id="C2449V20">49:20</a> Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has
taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, <i>even</i> the
little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate
over them. <a name="C2449V21" id="C2449V21">49:21</a> The earth trembles at
the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the
<a href="#N241">Red Sea</a>. <a name="C2449V22" id="C2449V22">49:22</a> Behold,
he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against
Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as
the heart of a woman in her pangs. <a name="C2449V23" id="C2449V23">49:23</a>
Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil
news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
<a name="C2449V24" id="C2449V24">49:24</a> Damascus has grown feeble, she
turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and
sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. <a name="C2449V25"
id="C2449V25">49:25</a> How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of
my joy? <a name="C2449V26" id="C2449V26">49:26</a> Therefore her young men
shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to
silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C2449V27" id="C2449V27">49:27</a>
I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the
palaces of Ben Hadad. <a name="C2449V28" id="C2449V28">49:28</a> Of Kedar, and
of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck.
Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of
the east. <a name="C2449V29" id="C2449V29">49:29</a> Their tents and their
flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their
curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to
them, Terror on every side! <a name="C2449V30" id="C2449V30">49:30</a> Flee
you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says
Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
and has conceived a purpose against you. <a name="C2449V31" id="C2449V31">49:31</a>
Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says
Yahweh; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone. <a
name="C2449V32" id="C2449V32">49:32</a> Their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds
those who have the corners <i>of their hair</i> cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. <a name="C2449V33"
id="C2449V33">49:33</a> Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein. <a name="C2449V34" id="C2449V34">49:34</a> The word of Yahweh
that came to Yirmiyahu the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Yehudah, saying, <a name="C2449V35" id="C2449V35">49:35</a>
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the
chief of their might. <a name="C2449V36" id="C2449V36">49:36</a> On Elam will
I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter
them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the
outcasts of Elam shall not come. <a name="C2449V37" id="C2449V37">49:37</a> I
will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who
seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says
Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
<a name="C2449V38" id="C2449V38">49:38</a> and I will set my throne in Elam,
and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh. <a name="C2449V39"
id="C2449V39">49:39</a> But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will
bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
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<p>
<a name="N241" id="N241">[1]</a> <a href="#C2449V21">back to 49:21</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2450V1" id="C2450V1">50:1</a> The word that Yahweh spoke concerning
Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Yirmiyahu the prophet. <a
name="C2450V2" id="C2450V2">50:2</a> Declare you among the nations and
publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon
is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are
disappointed, her idols are dismayed. <a name="C2450V3" id="C2450V3">50:3</a>
For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make
her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are
gone, both man and animal. <a name="C2450V4" id="C2450V4">50:4</a> In those
days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Yisrael shall come,
they and the children of Yehudah together; they shall go on their way
weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their Elohim. <a name="C2450V5" id="C2450V5">50:5</a>
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, <i>saying</i>,
Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that
shall not be forgotten. <a name="C2450V6" id="C2450V6">50:6</a> My people have
been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have
turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place. <a name="C2450V7" id="C2450V7">50:7</a>
All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are
not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of
righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers. <a name="C2450V8"
id="C2450V8">50:8</a> Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. <a
name="C2450V9" id="C2450V9">50:9</a> For, behold, I will stir up and cause to
come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;
and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall
be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain. <a name="C2450V10" id="C2450V10">50:10</a> Chaldea shall be a
prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh. <a name="C2450V11"
id="C2450V11">50:11</a> Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who
plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out <i>the
grain</i>, and neigh as strong horses; <a name="C2450V12" id="C2450V12">50:12</a>
your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be
confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a
dry land, and a desert. <a name="C2450V13" id="C2450V13">50:13</a> Because of
the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly
desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at
all her plagues. <a name="C2450V14" id="C2450V14">50:14</a> Set yourselves in
array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her,
spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh. <a name="C2450V15"
id="C2450V15">50:15</a> Shout against her all around: she has submitted
herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the
vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her. <a
name="C2450V16" id="C2450V16">50:16</a> Cut off the sower from Babylon, and
him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the
oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall
flee everyone to his own land. <a name="C2450V17" id="C2450V17">50:17</a>
Yisrael is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king
of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has broken his bones. <a name="C2450V18" id="C2450V18">50:18</a> Therefore
thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael: Behold, I will punish the
king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. <a
name="C2450V19" id="C2450V19">50:19</a> I will bring Yisrael again to his
pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be
satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. <a name="C2450V20"
id="C2450V20">50:20</a> In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the
iniquity of Yisrael shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the
sins of Yehudah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
leave as a remnant. <a name="C2450V21" id="C2450V21">50:21</a> Go up against
the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according
to all that I have commanded you. <a name="C2450V22" id="C2450V22">50:22</a> A
sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. <a name="C2450V23"
id="C2450V23">50:23</a> How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! <a
name="C2450V24" id="C2450V24">50:24</a> I have laid a snare for you, and you
are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also
caught, because you have striven against Yahweh. <a name="C2450V25"
id="C2450V25">50:25</a> Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth
the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work
<i>to do</i> in the land of the Chaldeans. <a name="C2450V26" id="C2450V26">50:26</a>
Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up
as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left. <a
name="C2450V27" id="C2450V27">50:27</a> Kill all her bulls; let them go down
to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their
visitation. <a name="C2450V28" id="C2450V28">50:28</a> The voice of those who
flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the
vengeance of Yahweh our Elohim, the vengeance of his temple. <a name="C2450V29"
id="C2450V29">50:29</a> Call together the archers against Babylon, all those
who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape:
recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done,
do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of
Yisrael. <a name="C2450V30" id="C2450V30">50:30</a> Therefore shall her young
men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to
silence in that day, says Yahweh. <a name="C2450V31" id="C2450V31">50:31</a>
Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies;
for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. <a name="C2450V32"
id="C2450V32">50:32</a> The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall
raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour
all who are around him. <a name="C2450V33" id="C2450V33">50:33</a> Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: The children of Yisrael and the children of Yehudah are
oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they
refuse to let them go. <a name="C2450V34" id="C2450V34">50:34</a> Their
Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead
their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the
inhabitants of Babylon. <a name="C2450V35" id="C2450V35">50:35</a> A sword is
on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on
her princes, and on her wise men. <a name="C2450V36" id="C2450V36">50:36</a> A
sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her
mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. <a name="C2450V37" id="C2450V37">50:37</a>
A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed
people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a
sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. <a name="C2450V38"
id="C2450V38">50:38</a> A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried
up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols. <a
name="C2450V39" id="C2450V39">50:39</a> Therefore the wild animals of the
desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell
therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be
lived in from generation to generation. <a name="C2450V40" id="C2450V40">50:40</a>
As when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it,
says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man
sojourn therein. <a name="C2450V41" id="C2450V41">50:41</a> Behold, a people
comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred
up from the uttermost parts of the earth. <a name="C2450V42" id="C2450V42">50:42</a>
They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their
voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array,
as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. <a name="C2450V43"
id="C2450V43">50:43</a> The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and
his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, <i>and</i> pangs as
of a woman in travail. <a name="C2450V44" id="C2450V44">50:44</a> Behold, <i>the
enemy</i> shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against
the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and
whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who
will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
<a name="C2450V45" id="C2450V45">50:45</a> Therefore hear the counsel of
Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them
away, <i>even</i> the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them. <a name="C2450V46" id="C2450V46">50:46</a> At
the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is
heard among the nations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2451V1" id="C2451V1">51:1</a> Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise
up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying
wind. <a name="C2451V2" id="C2451V2">51:2</a> I will send to Babylon
strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the
day of trouble they shall be against her around. <a name="C2451V3" id="C2451V3">51:3</a>
Against <i>him who</i> bends let the archer bend his bow, and against <i>him
who</i> lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't you spare her
young men; destroy you utterly all her army. <a name="C2451V4" id="C2451V4">51:4</a>
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust
through in her streets. <a name="C2451V5" id="C2451V5">51:5</a> For Yisrael is
not forsaken, nor Yehudah, of his Elohim, of Yahweh of Armies; though their
land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Yisrael. <a name="C2451V6"
id="C2451V6">51:6</a> Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man
his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's
vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. <a name="C2451V7" id="C2451V7">51:7</a>
Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth
drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are
mad. <a name="C2451V8" id="C2451V8">51:8</a> Babylon is suddenly fallen and
destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be
healed. <a name="C2451V9" id="C2451V9">51:9</a> We would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own
country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the
skies. <a name="C2451V10" id="C2451V10">51:10</a> Yahweh has brought forth our
righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our
Elohim. <a name="C2451V11" id="C2451V11">51:11</a> Make sharp the arrows; hold
firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is
the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. <a name="C2451V12"
id="C2451V12">51:12</a> Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make
the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has
both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of
Babylon. <a name="C2451V13" id="C2451V13">51:13</a> You who dwell on many
waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your
covetousness. <a name="C2451V14" id="C2451V14">51:14</a> Yahweh of Armies has
sworn by himself, <i>saying</i>, Surely I will fill you with men, as with
the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you. <a
name="C2451V15" id="C2451V15">51:15</a> He has made the earth by his power, he
has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he
stretched out the heavens: <a name="C2451V16" id="C2451V16">51:16</a> when he
utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning
for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries. <a
name="C2451V17" id="C2451V17">51:17</a> Every man is become brutish <i>and is</i>
without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his
molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. <a name="C2451V18"
id="C2451V18">51:18</a> They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish. <a name="C2451V19" id="C2451V19">51:19</a>
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all
things; and <i>Yisrael</i> is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of
Armies is his name. <a name="C2451V20" id="C2451V20">51:20</a> You are my
battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the
nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; <a name="C2451V21" id="C2451V21">51:21</a>
and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; <a
name="C2451V22" id="C2451V22">51:22</a> and with you will I break in pieces
the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces
man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the
youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
<a name="C2451V23" id="C2451V23">51:23</a> and with you will I break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer
and his yoke <i>of oxen</i>; and with you will I break in pieces governors
and deputies. <a name="C2451V24" id="C2451V24">51:24</a> I will render to
Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they
have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh. <a name="C2451V25" id="C2451V25">51:25</a>
Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys
all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down
from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. <a name="C2451V26"
id="C2451V26">51:26</a> They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor
a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
<a name="C2451V27" id="C2451V27">51:27</a> Set up a standard in the land, blow
the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint
a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker
worm. <a name="C2451V28" id="C2451V28">51:28</a> Prepare against her the
nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and
all the land of their dominion. <a name="C2451V29" id="C2451V29">51:29</a> The
land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon
do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. <a
name="C2451V30" id="C2451V30">51:30</a> The mighty men of Babylon have
forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has
failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her
bars are broken. <a name="C2451V31" id="C2451V31">51:31</a> One runner will
run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king
of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: <a name="C2451V32"
id="C2451V32">51:32</a> and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened. <a name="C2451V33"
id="C2451V33">51:33</a> For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the Elohim of Yisrael:
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is
trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
<a name="C2451V34" id="C2451V34">51:34</a> Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he
has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my
delicacies; he has cast me out. <a name="C2451V35" id="C2451V35">51:35</a> The
violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of
Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Yerushalayim
say. <a name="C2451V36" id="C2451V36">51:36</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh:
Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will
dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. <a name="C2451V37" id="C2451V37">51:37</a>
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment,
and a hissing, without inhabitant. <a name="C2451V38" id="C2451V38">51:38</a>
They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions'
cubs. <a name="C2451V39" id="C2451V39">51:39</a> When they are heated, I will
make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh. <a name="C2451V40"
id="C2451V40">51:40</a> I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats. <a name="C2451V41" id="C2451V41">51:41</a> How is
Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations! <a name="C2451V42" id="C2451V42">51:42</a>
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its
waves. <a name="C2451V43" id="C2451V43">51:43</a> Her cities are become a
desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells,
neither does any son of man pass thereby. <a name="C2451V44" id="C2451V44">51:44</a>
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of
his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow
any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. <a name="C2451V45"
id="C2451V45">51:45</a> My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save
yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. <a name="C2451V46"
id="C2451V46">51:46</a> Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the
news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and
after that in another year <i>shall come</i> news, and violence in the
land, ruler against ruler. <a name="C2451V47" id="C2451V47">51:47</a>
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the
engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and
all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. <a name="C2451V48" id="C2451V48">51:48</a>
Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for
joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north,
says Yahweh. <a name="C2451V49" id="C2451V49">51:49</a> As Babylon has caused
the slain of Yisrael to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the
land. <a name="C2451V50" id="C2451V50">51:50</a> You who have escaped the
sword, go you, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let
Yerushalayim come into your mind. <a name="C2451V51" id="C2451V51">51:51</a> We
are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our
faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house. <a
name="C2451V52" id="C2451V52">51:52</a> Therefore, behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through
all her land the wounded shall groan. <a name="C2451V53" id="C2451V53">51:53</a>
Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify
the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says
Yahweh. <a name="C2451V54" id="C2451V54">51:54</a> The sound of a cry from
Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! <a
name="C2451V55" id="C2451V55">51:55</a> For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and
destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many
waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: <a name="C2451V56" id="C2451V56">51:56</a>
for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are
taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a Elohim of
recompenses, he will surely requite. <a name="C2451V57" id="C2451V57">51:57</a>
I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her
deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. <a
name="C2451V58" id="C2451V58">51:58</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad
walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations
for the fire; and they shall be weary. <a name="C2451V59" id="C2451V59">51:59</a>
The word which Yirmiyahu the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah,
the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Yehudah to
Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief
quartermaster. <a name="C2451V60" id="C2451V60">51:60</a> Yirmiyahu wrote in a
book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that
are written concerning Babylon. <a name="C2451V61" id="C2451V61">51:61</a>
Yirmiyahu said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read
all these words, <a name="C2451V62" id="C2451V62">51:62</a> and say, Yahweh,
you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall
dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate
forever. <a name="C2451V63" id="C2451V63">51:63</a> It shall be, when you have
made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and
cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: <a name="C2451V64" id="C2451V64">51:64</a>
and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again
because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary.
Thus far are the words of Yirmiyahu.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C2452V1" id="C2452V1">52:1</a> Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Yirmiyahu of Libnah. <a
name="C2452V2" id="C2452V2">52:2</a> He did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. <a name="C2452V3"
id="C2452V3">52:3</a> For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in
Yerushalayim and Yehudah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. <a name="C2452V4" id="C2452V4">52:4</a>
It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the
tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and
all his army, against Yerushalayim, and encamped against it; and they built
forts against it round about. <a name="C2452V5" id="C2452V5">52:5</a> So the
city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. <a name="C2452V6"
id="C2452V6">52:6</a> In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month,
the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people
of the land. <a name="C2452V7" id="C2452V7">52:7</a> Then a breach was made in
the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by
night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the
king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and
they went toward the Arabah. <a name="C2452V8" id="C2452V8">52:8</a> But the
army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. <a name="C2452V9"
id="C2452V9">52:9</a> Then they took the king, and carried him up to the
king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on
him. <a name="C2452V10" id="C2452V10">52:10</a> The king of Babylon killed the
sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Yehudah
in Riblah. <a name="C2452V11" id="C2452V11">52:11</a> He put out the eyes of
Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to
Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death. <a name="C2452V12"
id="C2452V12">52:12</a> Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the
month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the
king of Babylon, into Yerushalayim: <a name="C2452V13" id="C2452V13">52:13</a>
and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the
houses of Yerushalayim, even every great house, burned he with fire. <a
name="C2452V14" id="C2452V14">52:14</a> All the army of the Chaldeans, who
were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim
all around. <a name="C2452V15" id="C2452V15">52:15</a> Then Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people,
and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who
fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the
multitude. <a name="C2452V16" id="C2452V16">52:16</a> But Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard
keepers and farmers. <a name="C2452V17" id="C2452V17">52:17</a> The pillars of
brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea
that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and
carried all the brass of them to Babylon. <a name="C2452V18" id="C2452V18">52:18</a>
The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they
away. <a name="C2452V19" id="C2452V19">52:19</a> The cups, and the fire pans,
and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the
bowls--that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in
silver,--the captain of the guard took away. <a name="C2452V20" id="C2452V20">52:20</a>
The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under
the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass
of all these vessels was without weight. <a name="C2452V21" id="C2452V21">52:21</a>
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and
a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and its thickness was four
fingers: it was hollow. <a name="C2452V22" id="C2452V22">52:22</a> A capital
of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits,
with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and
the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. <a name="C2452V23"
id="C2452V23">52:23</a> There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all
the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around. <a
name="C2452V24" id="C2452V24">52:24</a> The captain of the guard took Seraiah
the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
of the threshold: <a name="C2452V25" id="C2452V25">52:25</a> and out of the
city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of
those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe
of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty
men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. <a
name="C2452V26" id="C2452V26">52:26</a> Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. <a
name="C2452V27" id="C2452V27">52:27</a> The king of Babylon struck them, and
put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Yehudah was carried
away captive out of his land. <a name="C2452V28" id="C2452V28">52:28</a> This
is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh
year three thousand twenty-three Jews; <a name="C2452V29" id="C2452V29">52:29</a>
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from
Yerushalayim eight hundred thirty-two persons; <a name="C2452V30" id="C2452V30">52:30</a>
in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five
persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. <a
name="C2452V31" id="C2452V31">52:31</a> It happened in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Yehudah, in the twelfth month,
in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of
Babylon, in the <i>first</i> year of his reign, lifted up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Yehudah, and brought him forth out of prison; <a
name="C2452V32" id="C2452V32">52:32</a> and he spoke kindly to him, and set
his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, <a
name="C2452V33" id="C2452V33">52:33</a> and changed his prison garments. <i>Jehoiachin</i>
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: <a name="C2452V34"
id="C2452V34">52:34</a> and for his allowance, there was a continual
allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the
day of his death, all the days of his life.
</p>
Ch. 13-20
Pg. 504-515
SECTION XVII.
JETHRO.
And Jethro, prince of Midian, the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh, heard all that the Lord had done for Mosheh and for Yisrael His people, and that the Lord had brought forth Yisrael from Mizraim. And Jethro the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh took Zipporah his wife, whom Mosheh had sent back from him after going into Mizraim, and his two sons, the name of the one of whom was Gershom, Because He had said, I am a dweller in a strange land which is not mine; and the name of the other Eliezer, For (he had said) the Elohim of my fathers was my helper, and saved me from the sword of Pharoh. And Jethro the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh, and the sons of Mosheh, and his wife came to Mosheh at the desert in which be was sojourning hard by the mountain upon which the glory of the Lord was revealed to Mosheh at the beginning. And he said to Mosheh, I, thy father‑in‑Torah Jethro, have come to thee to be a proselyte; and if thou wilt not receive me on my own account, receive me for the sake of thy wife and of her two sons who are with her. And Mosheh came forth from under the cloud of glory to meet his father‑in‑Torah, and did obeisance, and kissed him and made him a proselyte; and they asked of each other's welfare, and came to the tabernacle, the house of instruction. And Mosheh recounted to his father‑in‑Torah all that the Lord had done to Pharoh and to the Mizraee on behalf of Yisrael; all the hardship they had found in the way, at the sea of Suph, and at Marah, and at Rephidim, and how Amalek had fought with them, and the Lord had delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced over all the good which the Lord had done unto Yisrael, and that He had given them manna, and the well, and that he had saved them from the hand of the Mizraee. And Jethro said, Blessed be the Name of the Lord who hath saved you from the hand of the Mizraee, and from the hand of Pharoh, and hath saved the people from under the tyranny of the Mizraee. Now have I known that the Lord is stronger than all gods; for by the very thing by which the Mizraee wickedly would have punished Yisrael by (drowning them in) the sea, upon themselves came the punishment, in being punished in the sea. And Jethro took burnt offerings and holy sacrifices before the Lord, and Aharon and all the elders of Yisrael. came to eat bread with the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh before the Lord; and Mosheh stood and ministered before them.
And the day after, the day of reconciliation, Mosheh sat to judge the people: and the people stood before Mosheh from morning till evening. And the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh saw how much he toiled and laboured for his people; and he said, What thing is this that thou art doing to the people? Why dost thou sit alone to judge, and all the people stand before thee from morning until evening? And Mosheh said to his father‑in‑Torah, Because the people come to me to inquire for instruction from before the Lord. When they have a matter for judgment, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his fellow, and make them to know the statutes and the Torah of the Lord. And the father-in‑Torah of Mosheh said to him, This thing that thou art doing is not well ordered; thou wilt verily wear thyself away. Aharon also, and his sons, and the elders of thy people, because the thing is heavier than thou art, able to do by thyseIf, (should take part in it.) Now hearken to me and I will advise thee; and may the Word of the Lord be thy helper! When thou art with the people who seek instruction from before the Lord, thou shouldst take their affair before the Lord, and give them counsel about the statutes and laws, make them understand the prayer they are to offer in the house of congregation, the manner of visiting the sick, of burying the dead, of being fruitful In doing good, and in the work and process of justice, and how to conduct themselves among the wicked. But thou shouldst elect from all the people men of ability who fear the Lord, upright men who hate to receive the mammon of dishonesty, and superappoint them to be heads of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And let them judge the people at all times, and every great matter bring to thee, but every little thing let them judge themselves, that they may lighten the burden that is upon thee, and bear it with thee. If thou wilt do this, and exempt thyself from judging (every case) as the Lord shall give thee instruction, thou wilt be able to continue to hear them; and Aharon also and his sons, and all the elders of this people, will resort to the place of Judgment in peace. And Mosheh hearkened to his father‑in‑Torah, and did all that he had said. And Mosheh selected able men from all Yisrael, and appointed them chief, over the people, rabbans of thousands, six hundred; rabbans of hundreds, six thousand; rabbans of fifties, twelve thousand; and rabbans of tens, six Myriads. And they judged the people at all times; a bard case they, brought to Mosheh; but every light matter they judged it. And Mosheh parted from his father‑in‑Torah, and he went, and himself made proselytes of all the children of his land.
XIX. In the third month of the Exodus of the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim, on that day, the first of the month, came they to the desert; for they had journeyed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai and Yisrael encamped there in the desert, of one heart, nigh to the mountain. And Mosheh on the second day went up to the summit of the mount; and the Lord called to him from the mount, saying, This shalt thou speak to the men of the house of Jakob, and instruct the house of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh went up to seek instruction from before the Lord; and the Word of the Lord anticipated him from the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou speak to the men of the house of Jakob, and teach the congregation of the sons of Yisrael.]
Ye have seen what I did to the Mizraee; and how I bare you upon the clouds as upon eagles' wings from Pelusin, to take you to the place of the sanctuary, there to solemnize the Pascha; and in the same night brought you back to Pelusin, and from thence have brought you nigh, to (receive) the doctrine of My Torah. And now, if you will truly hearken to My Word and keep My covenant, you shall be more beloved before Me than all the peoples on the face of the earth. And before Me you shall be crowned kings, and sanctified priests, and a holy people. These are the words thou shalt speak to the sons of Yisrael. And Mosheh came that day, and called the elders of the people, and set in order before them all these words which the Lord had commanded. And all the people responded together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.
And Mosheh carried back the words of the people before the Lord. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, on the third day I will reveal Myself to thee in the depth of the cloud of glory, that the people may hear while I speak with thee, and may believe in thee forever. And Mosheh delivered the words of the people before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. 4. You have seen what vengeance I have taken of the Mizraee, and (how) I bare you upon the light clouds as upon eagles' wings, and brought you nigh to the doctrine of My Torah. And now, if you will truly hearken to the voice of My Word, and will keep My covenant, you shall be unto My Name a distinct people, and beloved as a precious treasure above all peoples; for all the earth is to the Name of the Lord. And to My Name shall you be kings and priests and a holy people. These are the words thou shalt speak. And Mosheh came and called the sages of Yisrael and set in order before them all these words which the Word of the Lord had commanded him. And all the people answered together in the fulness of their heart, and said, All that the Word of the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And Mosheh returned the words of the people in prayer before the Lord. And the Word of the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, My Word will be revealed to thee in the thickness of the cloud, that the people may hear while I speak with thee, and may also believe for ever in the words of the prophecy of thee, My servant Mosheh. And Mosheh delivered the words of the people in prayer before the Lord.]
And the Lord said to Mosheh on the fourth day, Go unto the people, and prepare them to‑day and tomorrow; let them wash their raiment, and be prepared On the third day; for on the third day the Lord will reveal Himself to the eyes of all the people, upon the Mount of Sinai. And thou shalt set limits for the people that they may stand round about the mountain, and shalt say, Beware that you ascend not the mount, nor come near its confines; whoever cometh nigh the mount will be surely put to death. Touch it not with the hand; for he will be stoned with hailstone, or be pierced with arrows of fire; whether beast or man, he will not live. But when the voice of the trumpet is heard, they may go up (forwards) towards the mount. [JERUSALEM. No man shall touch it with the hand; for stoned he will be stoned, or fiery arrows will flee against him; whether beast or man, he will not live. When the trumpet soundeth, they may go up toward the mountain.] And Mosheh went down that day to the people, and prepared the people, and they blanched their clothes. And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; abstain from the marriage‑bed. [JERUSALEM. And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; abstain from the marriage‑bed.]
And it was on the third day, on the sixth of the month, in the time of the morning, that on the mountain there were voices of thunders, and lightnings, and mighty clouds of smoke, and a voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people in the camp trembled. And Mosheh brought forth the people from the camp to meet the glorious Presence of the Lord; and suddenly the Lord of the world uprooted the mountain, and lifted it in the air, and it became luminous as a beacon, and they stood beneath the mountain. And all the mount of Sinai was in flame; for the heavens had overspread it, and He was revealed over it in flaming fire, and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain quaked greatly. [JERUSALEM. And all mount Sinai sent up smoke, because the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord was revealed upon it in flame of fire.] And the voice of the trumpet went forth, and grew stronger: (then) Mosheh spake, and was answered from before the Lord with a gracious and majestic voice, and with pleasant and gracious words. And the Lord revealed Himself on mount Sinai upon the summit of the mountain, and the Lord called unto Mosheh from the summit of the mount, and Mosheh went up. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Descend, and warn the people, lest they come directly before the Lord to gaze, and many of them fall. The priests, also, who approach to minister before the Lord, must be sanctified, lest the Lord destroy them. And Mosheh said before the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai, because Thou didst instruct us, saying, Make limits to the mount, and sanctify it. And the Lord said to him, Go down, and then ascend, thou and Aharon with thee; but let not the, priests or the people directly come up to gaze before the Lord, lest He slay them. And Mosheh went down from the mountain to the people, and said to them, Draw nigh and hear the Torah with Ten Words.[1] [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh went down from the mountain to the people, and said to them, Draw nigh and receive the Ten Words.]
XX. And the Lord spake all these words, saying: [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord spake all the excellency[2] of these words saying:]
The first word, as it came forth from the mouth of the Holy One, whose Name be blessed, was like storms, and lightnings, and flames of fire, with a burning light on His right hand and on His left. It winged its way through the air of the heavens, and was made manifest unto the camp of Yisrael, and returned, and was engraven on the tables of the covenant that were given by the hand of Mosheh, and were turned in them[3] from side to side: and then called He, and said:
Sons of Yisrael My people, I am the Lord your Elohim, who brought you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the bondage of slaves. The second word which came forth from the mouth of the Holy One, whose name be blessed, was like storms, and lightnings, and flames of fire. A burning light was on His right hand and on His left and was borne through the air of the heavens, returned, and was made manifest unto the camp of Yisrael; it returned, and was engraven on the tables of the covenant, and was turned in them from side to side. Then called He, and said, House of Yisrael, My people, Thou shalt have no other Elohim beside Me. You shall not make to yourselves image or figure, or any similitude of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, or worship before them; for I the Lord your Elohim am a jealous Elohim and an avenger, punishing with vengeance, recording the guilt of wicked fathers upon rebellious children unto the third and unto the fourth generation of them who hate Me; but keeping mercy and goodness for thousands of generations of the righteous who love Me, and who keep My commandments and My laws.
My people of the house of Yisrael, Let no one of you swear by the name of the Word of the Lord your Elohim in vain; for in the day of the great judgment the Lord will not hold guiltless any one who sweareth by His name in vain.
My people of the house of Yisrael, Remember the day of Shabbatha, to sanctify it. Six days you shall labour, and do all your service: but the seventh day is (for) rest and quietude before the Lord your Elohim: you shall not perform any work, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your servants, and your handmaids, and your sojourners who are in your cities. For in six days the Lord created the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and whatever is therein, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord hath blessed the day of Shabbatha and sanctified it.
My people, the house of Yisrael, Let every man be instructed in the honour of his father and in the honour of his mother: that your days may be multiplied upon the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you.
My people, the sons of Yisrael, You. shall not be murderers; you shall not be companions of or partakers with murderers: in the congregations of Yisrael there shall not be seen a murderous people; neither shall your sons rise up after you and teach one another to take part with murderers: for on account of the guilt of murder the sword cometh forth upon the world.
My people of the house of Yisrael, Be ye not adulterers, nor companions nor partakers with adulterers: nor in the congregations of Yisrael shall there be seen an adulterous people, that your sons may not arise after you to teach one another to have part with adulterers: for through the guilt of adultery death cometh forth upon the world.
Sons of Yisrael My people, Ye shall not be thieves, nor companions nor partakers with thieves: there shall not be seen in the congregations of Yisrael a thievish people; that your sons may not arise after you to teach one another to have part with thieves: for on account of the guilt of theft famine cometh forth upon the world.
Sons of Yisrael My people, Ye shall not testify against your neighbours a testimony of falsehood, nor be companions or partakers with those who bear false witness nor shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael a people who testify a testimony of falsehood; neither shall your sons arise after you to teach one another to have part with those who testify falsehood: for because of the guilt of false testimony the clouds go up and the rain cometh not down, and dryness cometh upon the world.
Sons of Yisrael My people, Ye shall not be covetous companions or partakers with the covetous: nor shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael a covetous people; that your sons may not arise after you to teach one another to have part with the covetous: neither shall any among you covet the wife of his neighbour, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass nor anything that belongeth to his neighbour; because through the guilt of covetousness the government breaketh in upon the possessions of men to take them, and the wealthy are made poor, and slavery cometh upon the world.
And all the people saw the thunders, and were turned back, every one as he heard them coming forth from the midst of the lights, and the voice of the trumpet as it will raise the dead, and the mountain smoking; and all the people saw and drew back, and stood twelve miles off. And they said to Mosheh, Speak thou with us, and we can hear; but let it not be spoken with us any more from before the Lord, lest we die. [JERUSALEM. And all the people saw the thunders and the lights, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and the people saw and trembled, and stood afar off.]
And Mosheh said to the people, Fear not; for the glory of the Lord is revealed to try you, whether His fear is before your faces, that ye may not sin. And the people stood twelve miles off; but Mosheh drew near to the height of the darkness where was the glory of the Lord. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Speak thus to the sons of Yisrael: You have seen that from the heavens I have spoken with you; sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not make, that you may worship, the likeness of the sun or the moon or the stars, or the planets, or the angels who minister before Me; idols of silver, nor idols of gold, ye shall not make to you. An altar of earth ye shall make to My Name, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt offerings and thy sanctified oblations from thy sheep and from thy oxen. And in every place where My Shekinah shall dwell, and thou worship before Me, there will I send My blessing upon thee, and will bless thee. But if thou wilt make an altar of stones unto My Name, thou shalt not build them sculptured; for if thou lift up iron, from which the sword is made, upon the stone, thou wilt profane it. And you, the priests, who stand to minister before Me, shall not ascend to My altar by steps, but by (sloping) bridges; that thy shame may not be seen thereupon. [JERUSALEM. An altar grounded in the earth shalt thou make unto My name, and shalt offer upon it your burnt offerings and sacred oblations, your sheep and your oxen. In every place in which ye shall memorialize My holy Name, My Word shall be revealed to you, and bless you. But if you make an altar of stones unto My Name, you shall not build it with sculptured ones, because the sword is made of iron. If thou workest with iron upon it, thou wilt profane it. You also, the priests, the sons of Aharon, who stand and minister beside Mine altar, shall not ascend by steps unto Mine altar, lest your shame be disclosed upon it.]
[1] Im asareti dibraia.
[2] Shebach, "praise".
[3] Mithhaphik behon.
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<p>
<a name="C181V1" id="C181V1">1:1</a> There was a man in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared Elohim,
and turned away from evil. <a name="C181V2" id="C181V2">1:2</a> There were
born to him seven sons and three daughters. <a name="C181V3" id="C181V3">1:3</a>
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels,
five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great
household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the
east. <a name="C181V4" id="C181V4">1:4</a> His sons went and held a feast in
the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their
three sisters to eat and to drink with them. <a name="C181V5" id="C181V5">1:5</a>
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job
sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered
burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It
may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced Elohim in their hearts."
Job did so continually.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V6" id="C181V6">1:6</a> Now it happened on the day when the Elohim's
sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among
them. <a name="C181V7" id="C181V7">1:7</a> Yahweh said to Satan, "Where
have you come from?"
</p>
<p>
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in
the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V8" id="C181V8">1:8</a> Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you
considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a
blameless and an upright man, one who fears Elohim, and turns away from evil."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V9" id="C181V9">1:9</a> Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said,
"Does Job fear Elohim for nothing? <a name="C181V10" id="C181V10">1:10</a>
Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all
that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and
his substance is increased in the land. <a name="C181V11" id="C181V11">1:11</a>
But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will
renounce you to your face."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V12" id="C181V12">1:12</a> Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold,
all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your
hand."
</p>
<p>
So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh. <a name="C181V13" id="C181V13">1:13</a>
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house, <a name="C181V14" id="C181V14">1:14</a>
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing,
and the donkeys feeding beside them, <a name="C181V15" id="C181V15">1:15</a>
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the
servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V16" id="C181V16">1:16</a> While he was still speaking, there
also came another, and said, "The fire of Elohim has fallen from the
sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and
I alone have escaped to tell you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V17" id="C181V17">1:17</a> While he was still speaking, there
came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and
swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the
servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V18" id="C181V18">1:18</a> While he was still speaking, there
came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, <a name="C181V19"
id="C181V19">1:19</a> and behold, there came a great wind from the
wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the
young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C181V20" id="C181V20">1:20</a> Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and
shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. <a
name="C181V21" id="C181V21">1:21</a> He said, "Naked I came out of my
mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has
taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh." <a name="C181V22" id="C181V22">1:22</a>
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge Elohim with wrongdoing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V1" id="C182V1">2:1</a> Again it happened on the day when the
Elohim's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also
among them to present himself before Yahweh. <a name="C182V2" id="C182V2">2:2</a>
Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
</p>
<p>
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the
earth, and from walking up and down in it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V3" id="C182V3">2:3</a> Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you
considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a
blameless and an upright man, one who fears Elohim, and turns away from evil.
He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to
ruin him without cause."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V4" id="C182V4">2:4</a> Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin
for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. <a name="C182V5"
id="C182V5">2:5</a> But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his
flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V6" id="C182V6">2:6</a> Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is
in your hand. Only spare his life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V7" id="C182V7">2:7</a> So Satan went forth from the presence of
Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his
head. <a name="C182V8" id="C182V8">2:8</a> He took for himself a potsherd to
scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. <a name="C182V9" id="C182V9">2:9</a>
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity?
Renounce Elohim, and die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C182V10" id="C182V10">2:10</a> But he said to her, "You speak as
one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the
hand of Elohim, and shall we not receive evil?"
</p>
<p>
In all this Job didn't sin with his lips. <a name="C182V11" id="C182V11">2:11</a>
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him,
they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the
Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together
to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. <a name="C182V12"
id="C182V12">2:12</a> When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and
didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each
tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. <a
name="C182V13" id="C182V13">2:13</a> So they sat down with him on the ground
seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw
that his grief was very great.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C183V1" id="C183V1">3:1</a> After this Job opened his mouth, and
cursed the day of his birth. <a name="C183V2" id="C183V2">3:2</a> Job
answered:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C183V3" id="C183V3">3:3</a> "Let the day perish in which I was
born,
</dt>
<dd>
the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V4" id="C183V4">3:4</a> Let that day be darkness.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let Elohim from above seek for it,
</dd>
<dd>
neither let the light shine on it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V5" id="C183V5">3:5</a> Let darkness and the shadow of death
claim it for their own.
</dt>
<dd>
Let a cloud dwell on it.
</dd>
<dd>
Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V6" id="C183V6">3:6</a> As for that night, let thick darkness
seize on it.
</dt>
<dd>
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
</dd>
<dd>
Let it not come into the number of the months.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V7" id="C183V7">3:7</a> Behold, let that night be barren.
</dt>
<dd>
Let no joyful voice come therein.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V8" id="C183V8">3:8</a> Let them curse it who curse the day,
</dt>
<dd>
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V9" id="C183V9">3:9</a> Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
</dt>
<dd>
Let it look for light, but have none,
</dd>
<dd>
neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V10" id="C183V10">3:10</a> because it didn't shut up the doors
of my mother's womb,
</dt>
<dd>
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C183V11" id="C183V11">3:11</a> "Why didn't I die from the
womb?
</dt>
<dd>
Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V12" id="C183V12">3:12</a> Why did the knees receive me?
</dt>
<dd>
Or why the breast, that I should suck?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V13" id="C183V13">3:13</a> For now should I have lain down and
been quiet.
</dt>
<dd>
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V14" id="C183V14">3:14</a> with kings and counselors of the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
who built up waste places for themselves;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V15" id="C183V15">3:15</a> or with princes who had gold,
</dt>
<dd>
who filled their houses with silver:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V16" id="C183V16">3:16</a> or as a hidden untimely birth I had
not been,
</dt>
<dd>
as infants who never saw light.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V17" id="C183V17">3:17</a> There the wicked cease from
troubling.
</dt>
<dd>
There the weary are at rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V18" id="C183V18">3:18</a> There the prisoners are at ease
together.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V19" id="C183V19">3:19</a> The small and the great are there.
</dt>
<dd>
The servant is free from his master.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C183V20" id="C183V20">3:20</a> "Why is light given to him who
is in misery,
</dt>
<dd>
life to the bitter in soul,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V21" id="C183V21">3:21</a> Who long for death, but it doesn't
come;
</dt>
<dd>
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V22" id="C183V22">3:22</a> who rejoice exceedingly,
</dt>
<dd>
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V23" id="C183V23">3:23</a> Why is light given to a man whose
way is hid,
</dt>
<dd>
whom Elohim has hedged in?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V24" id="C183V24">3:24</a> For my sighing comes before I eat.
</dt>
<dd>
My groanings are poured out like water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V25" id="C183V25">3:25</a> For the thing which I fear comes on
me,
</dt>
<dd>
That which I am afraid of comes to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C183V26" id="C183V26">3:26</a> I am not at ease, neither am I
quiet, neither have I rest;
</dt>
<dd>
but trouble comes."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C184V1" id="C184V1">4:1</a> Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C184V2" id="C184V2">4:2</a> "If someone ventures to talk with
you, will you be grieved?
</dt>
<dd>
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V3" id="C184V3">4:3</a> Behold, you have instructed many,
</dt>
<dd>
you have strengthened the weak hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V4" id="C184V4">4:4</a> Your words have supported him who was
falling,
</dt>
<dd>
You have made firm the feeble knees.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V5" id="C184V5">4:5</a> But now it is come to you, and you
faint.
</dt>
<dd>
It touches you, and you are troubled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V6" id="C184V6">4:6</a> Isn't your piety your confidence?
</dt>
<dd>
Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C184V7" id="C184V7">4:7</a> "Remember, now, whoever perished,
being innocent?
</dt>
<dd>
Or where were the upright cut off?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V8" id="C184V8">4:8</a> According to what I have seen, those
who plow iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and sow trouble,
</dd>
<dd>
reap the same.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V9" id="C184V9">4:9</a> By the breath of Elohim they perish.
</dt>
<dd>
By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V10" id="C184V10">4:10</a> The roaring of the lion,
</dt>
<dd>
and the voice of the fierce lion,
</dd>
<dd>
the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V11" id="C184V11">4:11</a> The old lion perishes for lack of
prey.
</dt>
<dd>
The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C184V12" id="C184V12">4:12</a> "Now a thing was secretly
brought to me.
</dt>
<dd>
My ear received a whisper of it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V13" id="C184V13">4:13</a> In thoughts from the visions of the
night,
</dt>
<dd>
when deep sleep falls on men,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V14" id="C184V14">4:14</a> fear came on me, and trembling,
</dt>
<dd>
which made all my bones shake.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V15" id="C184V15">4:15</a> Then a spirit passed before my face.
</dt>
<dd>
The hair of my flesh stood up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V16" id="C184V16">4:16</a> It stood still, but I couldn't
discern its appearance.
</dt>
<dd>
A form was before my eyes.
</dd>
<dd>
Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V17" id="C184V17">4:17</a> 'Shall mortal man be more just than
Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V18" id="C184V18">4:18</a> Behold, he puts no trust in his
servants.
</dt>
<dd>
He charges his angels with error.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V19" id="C184V19">4:19</a> How much more, those who dwell in
houses of clay,
</dt>
<dd>
whose foundation is in the dust,
</dd>
<dd>
who are crushed before the moth!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V20" id="C184V20">4:20</a> Between morning and evening they are
destroyed.
</dt>
<dd>
They perish forever without any regarding it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C184V21" id="C184V21">4:21</a> Isn't their tent cord plucked up
within them?
</dt>
<dd>
They die, and that without wisdom.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C185V1" id="C185V1">5:1</a> "Call now; is there any who will
answer you?
</dt>
<dd>
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V2" id="C185V2">5:2</a> For resentment kills the foolish man,
</dt>
<dd>
and jealousy kills the simple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V3" id="C185V3">5:3</a> I have seen the foolish taking root,
</dt>
<dd>
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V4" id="C185V4">5:4</a> His children are far from safety.
</dt>
<dd>
They are crushed in the gate.
</dd>
<dd>
Neither is there any to deliver them,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V5" id="C185V5">5:5</a> whose harvest the hungry eats up,
</dt>
<dd>
and take it even out of the thorns.
</dd>
<dd>
The snare gapes for their substance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V6" id="C185V6">5:6</a> For affliction doesn't come forth from
the dust,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V7" id="C185V7">5:7</a> but man is born to trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
as the sparks fly upward.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C185V8" id="C185V8">5:8</a> "But as for me, I would seek Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I would commit my cause to Elohim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V9" id="C185V9">5:9</a> who does great things that can't be
fathomed,
</dt>
<dd>
marvelous things without number;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V10" id="C185V10">5:10</a> who gives rain on the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and sends waters on the fields;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V11" id="C185V11">5:11</a> so that he sets up on high those who
are low,
</dt>
<dd>
those who mourn are exalted to safety.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V12" id="C185V12">5:12</a> He frustrates the devices of the
crafty,
</dt>
<dd>
So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V13" id="C185V13">5:13</a> He takes the wise in their own
craftiness;
</dt>
<dd>
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V14" id="C185V14">5:14</a> They meet with darkness in the day
time,
</dt>
<dd>
and grope at noonday as in the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V15" id="C185V15">5:15</a> But he saves from the sword of their
mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V16" id="C185V16">5:16</a> So the poor has hope,
</dt>
<dd>
and injustice shuts her mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C185V17" id="C185V17">5:17</a> "Behold, happy is the man whom
Elohim corrects.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V18" id="C185V18">5:18</a> For he wounds, and binds up.
</dt>
<dd>
He injures, and his hands make whole.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V19" id="C185V19">5:19</a> He will deliver you in six troubles;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V20" id="C185V20">5:20</a> In famine he will redeem you from
death;
</dt>
<dd>
in war, from the power of the sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V21" id="C185V21">5:21</a> You shall be hidden from the scourge
of the tongue,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V22" id="C185V22">5:22</a> At destruction and famine you shall
laugh,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V23" id="C185V23">5:23</a> For you shall be in league with the
stones of the field.
</dt>
<dd>
The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V24" id="C185V24">5:24</a> You shall know that your tent is in
peace.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V25" id="C185V25">5:25</a> You shall know also that your seed
shall be great,
</dt>
<dd>
Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V26" id="C185V26">5:26</a> You shall come to your grave in a
full age,
</dt>
<dd>
like a shock of grain comes in its season.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C185V27" id="C185V27">5:27</a> Look this, we have searched it, so
it is.
</dt>
<dd>
Hear it, and know it for your good."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C186V1" id="C186V1">6:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C186V2" id="C186V2">6:2</a> "Oh that my anguish were weighed,
</dt>
<dd>
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V3" id="C186V3">6:3</a> For now it would be heavier than the
sand of the seas,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore have my words been rash.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V4" id="C186V4">6:4</a> For the arrows of the Almighty are
within me.
</dt>
<dd>
My spirit drinks up their poison.
</dd>
<dt>
The terrors of Elohim set themselves in array against me.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C186V5" id="C186V5">6:5</a> Does the wild donkey bray when he has
grass?
</dd>
<dt>
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C186V6" id="C186V6">6:6</a> Can that which has no flavor be eaten
without salt?
</dd>
<dt>
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C186V7" id="C186V7">6:7</a> My soul refuses to touch them.
</dd>
<dt>
They are as loathsome food to me.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C186V8" id="C186V8">6:8</a> "Oh that I might have my request,
</dt>
<dd>
that Elohim would grant the thing that I long for,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V9" id="C186V9">6:9</a> even that it would please Elohim to crush
me;
</dt>
<dd>
that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V10" id="C186V10">6:10</a> Be it still my consolation,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare,
</dd>
<dd>
that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V11" id="C186V11">6:11</a> What is my strength, that I should
wait?
</dt>
<dd>
What is my end, that I should be patient?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V12" id="C186V12">6:12</a> Is my strength the strength of
stones?
</dt>
<dd>
Or is my flesh of brass?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V13" id="C186V13">6:13</a> Isn't it that I have no help in me,
</dt>
<dd>
That wisdom is driven quite from me?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C186V14" id="C186V14">6:14</a> "To him who is ready to faint,
kindness should be shown from his friend;
</dt>
<dd>
even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V15" id="C186V15">6:15</a> My brothers have dealt deceitfully
as a brook,
</dt>
<dd>
as the channel of brooks that pass away;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V16" id="C186V16">6:16</a> Which are black by reason of the
ice,
</dt>
<dd>
in which the snow hides itself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V17" id="C186V17">6:17</a> In the dry season, they vanish.
</dt>
<dd>
When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V18" id="C186V18">6:18</a> The caravans that travel beside them
turn aside.
</dt>
<dd>
They go up into the waste, and perish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V19" id="C186V19">6:19</a> The caravans of Tema looked.
</dt>
<dd>
The companies of Sheba waited for them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V20" id="C186V20">6:20</a> They were distressed because they
were confident.
</dt>
<dd>
They came there, and were confounded.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V21" id="C186V21">6:21</a> For now you are nothing.
</dt>
<dd>
You see a terror, and are afraid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V22" id="C186V22">6:22</a> Did I say, 'Give to me?'
</dt>
<dd>
or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V23" id="C186V23">6:23</a> or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's
hand?'
</dt>
<dd>
or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C186V24" id="C186V24">6:24</a> "Teach me, and I will hold my
peace.
</dt>
<dd>
Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V25" id="C186V25">6:25</a> How forcible are words of
uprightness!
</dt>
<dd>
But your reproof, what does it reprove?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V26" id="C186V26">6:26</a> Do you intend to reprove words,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V27" id="C186V27">6:27</a> Yes, you would even cast lots for
the fatherless,
</dt>
<dd>
and make merchandise of your friend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V28" id="C186V28">6:28</a> Now therefore be pleased to look at
me,
</dt>
<dd>
for surely I shall not lie to your face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V29" id="C186V29">6:29</a> Please return.
</dt>
<dd>
Let there be no injustice.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, return again.
</dd>
<dd>
My cause is righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C186V30" id="C186V30">6:30</a> Is there injustice on my tongue?
</dt>
<dd>
Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C187V1" id="C187V1">7:1</a> "Isn't a man forced to labor on
earth?
</dt>
<dd>
Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V2" id="C187V2">7:2</a> As a servant who earnestly desires the
shadow,
</dt>
<dd>
as a hireling who looks for his wages,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V3" id="C187V3">7:3</a> so am I made to possess months of
misery,
</dt>
<dd>
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V4" id="C187V4">7:4</a> When I lie down, I say,
</dt>
<dd>
'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?'
</dd>
<dd>
I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V5" id="C187V5">7:5</a> My flesh is clothed with worms and
clods of dust.
</dt>
<dd>
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V6" id="C187V6">7:6</a> My days are swifter than a weaver's
shuttle,
</dt>
<dd>
and are spent without hope.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V7" id="C187V7">7:7</a> Oh remember that my life is a breath.
</dt>
<dd>
My eye shall no more see good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V8" id="C187V8">7:8</a> The eye of him who sees me shall see me
no more.
</dt>
<dd>
Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V9" id="C187V9">7:9</a> As the cloud is consumed and vanishes
away,
</dt>
<dd>
so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V10" id="C187V10">7:10</a> He shall return no more to his
house,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall his place know him any more.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C187V11" id="C187V11">7:11</a> "Therefore I will not keep
silent.
</dt>
<dd>
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
</dd>
<dd>
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V12" id="C187V12">7:12</a> Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
</dt>
<dd>
that you put a guard over me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V13" id="C187V13">7:13</a> When I say, 'My bed shall comfort
me.
</dt>
<dd>
My couch shall ease my complaint;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V14" id="C187V14">7:14</a> then you scare me with dreams,
</dt>
<dd>
and terrify me through visions:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V15" id="C187V15">7:15</a> so that my soul chooses strangling,
</dt>
<dd>
death rather than my bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V16" id="C187V16">7:16</a> I loathe my life.
</dt>
<dd>
I don't want to live forever.
</dd>
<dd>
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V17" id="C187V17">7:17</a> What is man, that you should magnify
him,
</dt>
<dd>
that you should set your mind on him,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V18" id="C187V18">7:18</a> that you should visit him every
morning,
</dt>
<dd>
and test him every moment?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V19" id="C187V19">7:19</a> How long will you not look away from
me,
</dt>
<dd>
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V20" id="C187V20">7:20</a> If I have sinned, what do I do to
you, you watcher of men?
</dt>
<dd>
Why have you set me as a mark for you,
</dd>
<dd>
so that I am a burden to myself?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C187V21" id="C187V21">7:21</a> Why do you not pardon my
disobedience, and take away my iniquity?
</dt>
<dd>
For now shall I lie down in the dust.
</dd>
<dd>
You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C188V1" id="C188V1">8:1</a> Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C188V2" id="C188V2">8:2</a> "How long will you speak these
things?
</dt>
<dd>
Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V3" id="C188V3">8:3</a> Does Elohim pervert justice?
</dt>
<dd>
Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V4" id="C188V4">8:4</a> If your children have sinned against
him,
</dt>
<dd>
He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V5" id="C188V5">8:5</a> If you want to seek Elohim diligently,
</dt>
<dd>
make your supplication to the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V6" id="C188V6">8:6</a> If you were pure and upright,
</dt>
<dd>
surely now he would awaken for you,
</dd>
<dt>
and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C188V7" id="C188V7">8:7</a> Though your beginning was small,
</dd>
<dt>
yet your latter end would greatly increase.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C188V8" id="C188V8">8:8</a> "Please inquire of past
generations.
</dt>
<dd>
Find out about the learning of their fathers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V9" id="C188V9">8:9</a> (For we are but of yesterday, and know
nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
because our days on earth are a shadow.)
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V10" id="C188V10">8:10</a> Shall they not teach you, tell you,
</dt>
<dd>
and utter words out of their heart?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C188V11" id="C188V11">8:11</a> "Can the papyrus grow up
without mire?
</dt>
<dd>
Can the rushes grow without water?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V12" id="C188V12">8:12</a> While it is yet in its greenness,
not cut down,
</dt>
<dd>
it withers before any other reed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V13" id="C188V13">8:13</a> So are the paths of all who forget
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
The hope of the godless man shall perish,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V14" id="C188V14">8:14</a> Whose confidence shall break apart,
</dt>
<dd>
Whose trust is a spider's web.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V15" id="C188V15">8:15</a> He shall lean on his house, but it
shall not stand.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V16" id="C188V16">8:16</a> He is green before the sun.
</dt>
<dd>
His shoots go forth over his garden.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V17" id="C188V17">8:17</a> His roots are wrapped around the
rock pile.
</dt>
<dd>
He sees the place of stones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V18" id="C188V18">8:18</a> If he is destroyed from his place,
</dt>
<dd>
then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V19" id="C188V19">8:19</a> Behold, this is the joy of his way:
</dt>
<dd>
out of the earth, others shall spring.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C188V20" id="C188V20">8:20</a> "Behold, Elohim will not cast away
a blameless man,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V21" id="C188V21">8:21</a> He will still fill your mouth with
laughter,
</dt>
<dd>
your lips with shouting.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C188V22" id="C188V22">8:22</a> Those who hate you shall be clothed
with shame.
</dt>
<dd>
The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C189V1" id="C189V1">9:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C189V2" id="C189V2">9:2</a> "Truly I know that it is so,
</dt>
<dd>
but how can man be just with Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V3" id="C189V3">9:3</a> If he is pleased to contend with him,
</dt>
<dd>
he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V4" id="C189V4">9:4</a> Elohim who is wise in heart, and mighty in
strength:
</dt>
<dd>
who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V5" id="C189V5">9:5</a> He removes the mountains, and they
don't know it,
</dt>
<dd>
when he overturns them in his anger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V6" id="C189V6">9:6</a> He shakes the earth out of its place.
</dt>
<dd>
Its pillars tremble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V7" id="C189V7">9:7</a> He commands the sun, and it doesn't
rise,
</dt>
<dd>
and seals up the stars.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V8" id="C189V8">9:8</a> He alone stretches out the heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
and treads on the waves of the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V9" id="C189V9">9:9</a> He makes the Bear, Orion, and the
Pleiades,
</dt>
<dd>
and the chambers of the south.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V10" id="C189V10">9:10</a> He does great things past finding
out;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, marvelous things without number.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V11" id="C189V11">9:11</a> Behold, he goes by me, and I don't
see him.
</dt>
<dd>
He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V12" id="C189V12">9:12</a> Behold, he snatches away.
</dt>
<dd>
Who can hinder him?
</dd>
<dd>
Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C189V13" id="C189V13">9:13</a> "Elohim will not withdraw his
anger.
</dt>
<dd>
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V14" id="C189V14">9:14</a> How much less shall I answer him,
</dt>
<dd>
And choose my words to argue with him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V15" id="C189V15">9:15</a> Though I were righteous, yet I
wouldn't answer him.
</dt>
<dd>
I would make supplication to my judge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V16" id="C189V16">9:16</a> If I had called, and he had answered
me,
</dt>
<dd>
yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V17" id="C189V17">9:17</a> For he breaks me with a storm,
</dt>
<dd>
and multiplies my wounds without cause.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V18" id="C189V18">9:18</a> He will not allow me to catch my
breath,
</dt>
<dd>
but fills me with bitterness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V19" id="C189V19">9:19</a> If it is a matter of strength,
behold, he is mighty!
</dt>
<dd>
If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V20" id="C189V20">9:20</a> Though I am righteous, my own mouth
shall condemn me.
</dt>
<dd>
Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V21" id="C189V21">9:21</a> I am blameless.
</dt>
<dd>
I don't regard myself.
</dd>
<dd>
I despise my life.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C189V22" id="C189V22">9:22</a> "It is all the same.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V23" id="C189V23">9:23</a> If the scourge kills suddenly,
</dt>
<dd>
he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V24" id="C189V24">9:24</a> The earth is given into the hand of
the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
He covers the faces of its judges.
</dd>
<dd>
If not he, then who is it?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C189V25" id="C189V25">9:25</a> "Now my days are swifter than a
runner.
</dt>
<dd>
They flee away, they see no good,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V26" id="C189V26">9:26</a> They have passed away as the swift
ships,
</dt>
<dd>
as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V27" id="C189V27">9:27</a> If I say, 'I will forget my
complaint,
</dt>
<dd>
I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V28" id="C189V28">9:28</a> I am afraid of all my sorrows,
</dt>
<dd>
I know that you will not hold me innocent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V29" id="C189V29">9:29</a> I shall be condemned.
</dt>
<dd>
Why then do I labor in vain?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V30" id="C189V30">9:30</a> If I wash myself with snow,
</dt>
<dd>
and cleanse my hands with lye,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V31" id="C189V31">9:31</a> yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
</dt>
<dd>
My own clothes shall abhor me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V32" id="C189V32">9:32</a> For he is not a man, as I am, that I
should answer him,
</dt>
<dd>
that we should come together in judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V33" id="C189V33">9:33</a> There is no umpire between us,
</dt>
<dd>
that might lay his hand on us both.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V34" id="C189V34">9:34</a> Let him take his rod away from me.
</dt>
<dd>
Let his terror not make me afraid;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C189V35" id="C189V35">9:35</a> then I would speak, and not fear
him,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am not so in myself.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V1" id="C1810V1">10:1</a> "My soul is weary of my life.
</dt>
<dd>
I will give free course to my complaint.
</dd>
<dd>
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V2" id="C1810V2">10:2</a> I will tell Elohim, 'Do not condemn me.
</dt>
<dd>
Show me why you contend with me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V3" id="C1810V3">10:3</a> Is it good to you that you should
oppress,
</dt>
<dd>
that you should despise the work of your hands,
</dd>
<dd>
and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V4" id="C1810V4">10:4</a> Do you have eyes of flesh?
</dt>
<dd>
Or do you see as man sees?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V5" id="C1810V5">10:5</a> Are your days as the days of
mortals,
</dt>
<dd>
or your years as man's years,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V6" id="C1810V6">10:6</a> that you inquire after my iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and search after my sin?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V7" id="C1810V7">10:7</a> Although you know that I am not
wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V8" id="C1810V8">10:8</a> "'Your hands have framed me and
fashioned me altogether,
</dt>
<dd>
yet you destroy me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V9" id="C1810V9">10:9</a> Remember, I beg you, that you have
fashioned me as clay.
</dt>
<dd>
Will you bring me into dust again?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V10" id="C1810V10">10:10</a> Haven't you poured me out like
milk,
</dt>
<dd>
and curdled me like cheese?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V11" id="C1810V11">10:11</a> You have clothed me with skin and
flesh,
</dt>
<dd>
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V12" id="C1810V12">10:12</a> You have granted me life and
loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V13" id="C1810V13">10:13</a> Yet you hid these things in your
heart.
</dt>
<dd>
I know that this is with you:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V14" id="C1810V14">10:14</a> if I sin, then you mark me.
</dt>
<dd>
You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V15" id="C1810V15">10:15</a> If I am wicked, woe to me.
</dt>
<dd>
If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head,
</dd>
<dd>
being filled with disgrace,
</dd>
<dd>
and conscious of my affliction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V16" id="C1810V16">10:16</a> If my head is held high, you hunt
me like a lion.
</dt>
<dd>
Again you show yourself powerful to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V17" id="C1810V17">10:17</a> You renew your witnesses against
me,
</dt>
<dd>
and increase your indignation on me.
</dd>
<dd>
Changes and warfare are with me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V18" id="C1810V18">10:18</a> "'Why, then, have you
brought me forth out of the womb?
</dt>
<dd>
I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V19" id="C1810V19">10:19</a> I should have been as though I
had not been.
</dt>
<dd>
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V20" id="C1810V20">10:20</a> Aren't my days few?
</dt>
<dd>
Cease then.
</dd>
<dd>
Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V21" id="C1810V21">10:21</a> before I go where I shall not
return from,
</dt>
<dd>
to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1810V22" id="C1810V22">10:22</a> the land dark as midnight,
</dt>
<dd>
of the shadow of death,
</dd>
<dd>
without any order,
</dd>
<dd>
where the light is as midnight.'"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1811V1" id="C1811V1">11:1</a> Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V2" id="C1811V2">11:2</a> "Shouldn't the multitude of
words be answered?
</dt>
<dd>
Should a man full of talk be justified?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V3" id="C1811V3">11:3</a> Should your boastings make men hold
their peace?
</dt>
<dd>
When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V4" id="C1811V4">11:4</a> For you say, 'My doctrine is pure.
</dt>
<dd>
I am clean in your eyes.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V5" id="C1811V5">11:5</a> But oh that Elohim would speak,
</dt>
<dd>
and open his lips against you,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V6" id="C1811V6">11:6</a> that he would show you the secrets
of wisdom!
</dt>
<dd>
For true wisdom has two sides.
</dd>
<dd>
Know therefore that Elohim exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V7" id="C1811V7">11:7</a> "Can you fathom the mystery of
Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V8" id="C1811V8">11:8</a> They are high as heaven. What can
you do?
</dt>
<dd>
They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V9" id="C1811V9">11:9</a> Its measure is longer than the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and broader than the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V10" id="C1811V10">11:10</a> If he passes by, or confines,
</dt>
<dd>
or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V11" id="C1811V11">11:11</a> For he knows false men.
</dt>
<dd>
He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V12" id="C1811V12">11:12</a> An empty-headed man becomes wise
</dt>
<dd>
when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V13" id="C1811V13">11:13</a> "If you set your heart
aright,
</dt>
<dd>
stretch out your hands toward him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V14" id="C1811V14">11:14</a> If iniquity is in your hand, put
it far away.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V15" id="C1811V15">11:15</a> Surely then you shall lift up
your face without spot;
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V16" id="C1811V16">11:16</a> for you shall forget your misery.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V17" id="C1811V17">11:17</a> Life shall be clearer than the
noonday.
</dt>
<dd>
Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V18" id="C1811V18">11:18</a> You shall be secure, because
there is hope.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V19" id="C1811V19">11:19</a> Also you shall lie down, and none
shall make you afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, many shall court your favor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1811V20" id="C1811V20">11:20</a> But the eyes of the wicked shall
fail.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall have no way to flee.
</dd>
<dd>
Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1812V1" id="C1812V1">12:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V2" id="C1812V2">12:2</a> "No doubt, but you are the
people,
</dt>
<dd>
and wisdom shall die with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V3" id="C1812V3">12:3</a> But I have understanding as well as
you;
</dt>
<dd>
I am not inferior to you.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V4" id="C1812V4">12:4</a> I am like one who is a joke to his
neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
I, who called on Elohim, and he answered.
</dd>
<dd>
The just, the blameless man is a joke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V5" id="C1812V5">12:5</a> In the thought of him who is at ease
there is contempt for misfortune.
</dt>
<dd>
It is ready for them whose foot slips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V6" id="C1812V6">12:6</a> The tents of robbers prosper.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who provoke Elohim are secure,
</dd>
<dd>
who carry their Elohim in their hands.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V7" id="C1812V7">12:7</a> "But ask the animals, now, and
they shall teach you;
</dt>
<dd>
the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V8" id="C1812V8">12:8</a> Or speak to the earth, and it shall
teach you.
</dt>
<dd>
The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V9" id="C1812V9">12:9</a> Who doesn't know that in all these,
</dt>
<dd>
the hand of Yahweh has done this,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V10" id="C1812V10">12:10</a> in whose hand is the life of
every living thing,
</dt>
<dd>
and the breath of all mankind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V11" id="C1812V11">12:11</a> Doesn't the ear try words,
</dt>
<dd>
even as the palate tastes its food?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V12" id="C1812V12">12:12</a> With aged men is wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
in length of days understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V13" id="C1812V13">12:13</a> "With Elohim is wisdom and
might.
</dt>
<dd>
He has counsel and understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V14" id="C1812V14">12:14</a> Behold, he breaks down, and it
can't be built again.
</dt>
<dd>
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V15" id="C1812V15">12:15</a> Behold, he withholds the waters,
and they dry up.
</dt>
<dd>
Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V16" id="C1812V16">12:16</a> With him is strength and wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
The deceived and the deceiver are his.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V17" id="C1812V17">12:17</a> He leads counselors away
stripped.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes judges fools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V18" id="C1812V18">12:18</a> He loosens the bond of kings.
</dt>
<dd>
He binds their waist with a belt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V19" id="C1812V19">12:19</a> He leads priests away stripped,
</dt>
<dd>
and overthrows the mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V20" id="C1812V20">12:20</a> He removes the speech of those
who are trusted,
</dt>
<dd>
and takes away the understanding of the elders.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V21" id="C1812V21">12:21</a> He pours contempt on princes,
</dt>
<dd>
and loosens the belt of the strong.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V22" id="C1812V22">12:22</a> He uncovers deep things out of
darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and brings out to light the shadow of death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V23" id="C1812V23">12:23</a> He increases the nations, and he
destroys them.
</dt>
<dd>
He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V24" id="C1812V24">12:24</a> He takes away understanding from
the chiefs of the people of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1812V25" id="C1812V25">12:25</a> They grope in the dark without
light.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V1" id="C1813V1">13:1</a> "Behold, my eye has seen all
this.
</dt>
<dd>
My ear has heard and understood it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V2" id="C1813V2">13:2</a> What you know, I know also.
</dt>
<dd>
I am not inferior to you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V3" id="C1813V3">13:3</a> "Surely I would speak to the
Almighty.
</dt>
<dd>
I desire to reason with Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V4" id="C1813V4">13:4</a> But you are forgers of lies.
</dt>
<dd>
You are all physicians of no value.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V5" id="C1813V5">13:5</a> Oh that you would be completely
silent!
</dt>
<dd>
Then you would be wise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V6" id="C1813V6">13:6</a> Hear now my reasoning.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V7" id="C1813V7">13:7</a> Will you speak unrighteously for
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and talk deceitfully for him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V8" id="C1813V8">13:8</a> Will you show partiality to him?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you contend for Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V9" id="C1813V9">13:9</a> Is it good that he should search you
out?
</dt>
<dd>
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V10" id="C1813V10">13:10</a> He will surely reprove you
</dt>
<dd>
if you secretly show partiality.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V11" id="C1813V11">13:11</a> Shall not his majesty make you
afraid,
</dt>
<dd>
And his dread fall on you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V12" id="C1813V12">13:12</a> Your memorable sayings are
proverbs of ashes,
</dt>
<dd>
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V13" id="C1813V13">13:13</a> "Be silent, leave me alone,
that I may speak.
</dt>
<dd>
Let come on me what will.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V14" id="C1813V14">13:14</a> Why should I take my flesh in my
teeth,
</dt>
<dd>
and put my life in my hand?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V15" id="C1813V15">13:15</a> Behold, he will kill me.
</dt>
<dd>
I have no hope.
</dd>
<dd>
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V16" id="C1813V16">13:16</a> This also shall be my salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
that a godless man shall not come before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V17" id="C1813V17">13:17</a> Hear diligently my speech.
</dt>
<dd>
Let my declaration be in your ears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V18" id="C1813V18">13:18</a> See now, I have set my cause in
order.
</dt>
<dd>
I know that I am righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V19" id="C1813V19">13:19</a> Who is he who will contend with
me?
</dt>
<dd>
For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V20" id="C1813V20">13:20</a> "Only don't do two things to
me;
</dt>
<dd>
then I will not hide myself from your face:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V21" id="C1813V21">13:21</a> withdraw your hand far from me;
</dt>
<dd>
and don't let your terror make me afraid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V22" id="C1813V22">13:22</a> Then call, and I will answer;
</dt>
<dd>
or let me speak, and you answer me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V23" id="C1813V23">13:23</a> How many are my iniquities and
sins?
</dt>
<dd>
Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V24" id="C1813V24">13:24</a> Why hide you your face,
</dt>
<dd>
and hold me for your enemy?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V25" id="C1813V25">13:25</a> Will you harass a driven leaf?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you pursue the dry stubble?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V26" id="C1813V26">13:26</a> For you write bitter things
against me,
</dt>
<dd>
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V27" id="C1813V27">13:27</a> You also put my feet in the
stocks,
</dt>
<dd>
and mark all my paths.
</dd>
<dd>
You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1813V28" id="C1813V28">13:28</a> though I am decaying like a
rotten thing,
</dt>
<dd>
like a garment that is moth-eaten.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V1" id="C1814V1">14:1</a> "Man, who is born of a woman,
</dt>
<dd>
is of few days, and full of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V2" id="C1814V2">14:2</a> He comes forth like a flower, and is
cut down.
</dt>
<dd>
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V3" id="C1814V3">14:3</a> Do you open your eyes on such a one,
</dt>
<dd>
and bring me into judgment with you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V4" id="C1814V4">14:4</a> Who can bring a clean thing out of
an unclean?
</dt>
<dd>
Not one.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1814V5" id="C1814V5">14:5</a> Seeing his days are determined,
</dd>
<dd>
the number of his months is with you,
</dd>
<dd>
and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V6" id="C1814V6">14:6</a> Look away from him, that he may
rest,
</dt>
<dd>
until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V7" id="C1814V7">14:7</a> "For there is hope for a tree,
</dt>
<dd>
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
</dd>
<dd>
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V8" id="C1814V8">14:8</a> Though its root grows old in the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and its stock dies in the ground,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V9" id="C1814V9">14:9</a> yet through the scent of water it
will bud,
</dt>
<dd>
and put forth boughs like a plant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V10" id="C1814V10">14:10</a> But man dies, and is laid low.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V11" id="C1814V11">14:11</a> As the waters fail from the sea,
</dt>
<dd>
and the river wastes and dries up,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V12" id="C1814V12">14:12</a> so man lies down and doesn't
rise.
</dt>
<dd>
Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake,
</dd>
<dd>
nor be roused out of their sleep.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V13" id="C1814V13">14:13</a> "Oh that you would hide me
in Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past,
</dd>
<dd>
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V14" id="C1814V14">14:14</a> If a man dies, shall he live
again?
</dt>
<dd>
All the days of my warfare would I wait,
</dd>
<dd>
until my release should come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V15" id="C1814V15">14:15</a> You would call, and I would
answer you.
</dt>
<dd>
You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V16" id="C1814V16">14:16</a> But now you number my steps.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't you watch over my sin?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V17" id="C1814V17">14:17</a> My disobedience is sealed up in a
bag.
</dt>
<dd>
You fasten up my iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V18" id="C1814V18">14:18</a> "But the mountain falling
comes to nothing.
</dt>
<dd>
The rock is removed out of its place;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V19" id="C1814V19">14:19</a> The waters wear the stones.
</dt>
<dd>
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
</dd>
<dd>
So you destroy the hope of man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V20" id="C1814V20">14:20</a> You forever prevail against him,
and he departs.
</dt>
<dd>
You change his face, and send him away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V21" id="C1814V21">14:21</a> His sons come to honor, and he
doesn't know it.
</dt>
<dd>
They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1814V22" id="C1814V22">14:22</a> But his flesh on him has pain,
</dt>
<dd>
and his soul within him mourns."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1815V1" id="C1815V1">15:1</a> Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V2" id="C1815V2">15:2</a> "Should a wise man answer with
vain knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
and fill himself with the east wind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V3" id="C1815V3">15:3</a> Should he reason with unprofitable
talk,
</dt>
<dd>
or with speeches with which he can do no good?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V4" id="C1815V4">15:4</a> Yes, you do away with fear,
</dt>
<dd>
and hinder devotion before Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V5" id="C1815V5">15:5</a> For your iniquity teaches your
mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and you choose the language of the crafty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V6" id="C1815V6">15:6</a> Your own mouth condemns you, and not
I.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V7" id="C1815V7">15:7</a> "Are you the first man who was
born?
</dt>
<dd>
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V8" id="C1815V8">15:8</a> Have you heard the secret counsel of
Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V9" id="C1815V9">15:9</a> What do you know, that we don't
know?
</dt>
<dd>
What do you understand, which is not in us?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V10" id="C1815V10">15:10</a> With us are both the gray-headed
and the very aged men,
</dt>
<dd>
much elder than your father.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V11" id="C1815V11">15:11</a> Are the consolations of Elohim too
small for you,
</dt>
<dd>
even the word that is gentle toward you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V12" id="C1815V12">15:12</a> Why does your heart carry you
away?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do your eyes flash,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V13" id="C1815V13">15:13</a> That you turn your spirit against
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and let such words go out of your mouth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V14" id="C1815V14">15:14</a> What is man, that he should be
clean?
</dt>
<dd>
What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V15" id="C1815V15">15:15</a> Behold, he puts no trust in his
holy ones.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V16" id="C1815V16">15:16</a> how much less one who is
abominable and corrupt,
</dt>
<dd>
a man who drinks iniquity like water!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V17" id="C1815V17">15:17</a> "I will show you, listen to
me;
</dt>
<dd>
that which I have seen I will declare:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V18" id="C1815V18">15:18</a> (Which wise men have told by
their fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
and have not hidden it;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V19" id="C1815V19">15:19</a> to whom alone the land was given,
</dt>
<dd>
and no stranger passed among them):
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V20" id="C1815V20">15:20</a> the wicked man writhes in pain
all his days,
</dt>
<dd>
even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V21" id="C1815V21">15:21</a> A sound of terrors is in his
ears.
</dt>
<dd>
In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V22" id="C1815V22">15:22</a> He doesn't believe that he shall
return out of darkness.
</dt>
<dd>
He is waited for by the sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V23" id="C1815V23">15:23</a> He wanders abroad for bread,
saying, 'Where is it?'
</dt>
<dd>
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V24" id="C1815V24">15:24</a> Distress and anguish make him
afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V25" id="C1815V25">15:25</a> Because he has stretched out his
hand against Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V26" id="C1815V26">15:26</a> he runs at him with a stiff neck,
</dt>
<dd>
with the thick shields of his bucklers;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V27" id="C1815V27">15:27</a> because he has covered his face
with his fatness,
</dt>
<dd>
and gathered fat on his thighs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V28" id="C1815V28">15:28</a> He has lived in desolate cities,
</dt>
<dd>
in houses which no one inhabited,
</dd>
<dd>
which were ready to become heaps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V29" id="C1815V29">15:29</a> He shall not be rich, neither
shall his substance continue,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V30" id="C1815V30">15:30</a> He shall not depart out of
darkness.
</dt>
<dd>
The flame shall dry up his branches.
</dd>
<dd>
By the breath of Elohim's mouth shall he go away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V31" id="C1815V31">15:31</a> Let him not trust in emptiness,
deceiving himself;
</dt>
<dd>
for emptiness shall be his reward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V32" id="C1815V32">15:32</a> It shall be accomplished before
his time.
</dt>
<dd>
His branch shall not be green.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V33" id="C1815V33">15:33</a> He shall shake off his unripe
grape as the vine,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V34" id="C1815V34">15:34</a> For the company of the godless
shall be barren,
</dt>
<dd>
and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1815V35" id="C1815V35">15:35</a> They conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
Their heart prepares deceit."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1816V1" id="C1816V1">16:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V2" id="C1816V2">16:2</a> "I have heard many such things.
</dt>
<dd>
You are all miserable comforters!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V3" id="C1816V3">16:3</a> Shall vain words have an end?
</dt>
<dd>
Or what provokes you that you answer?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V4" id="C1816V4">16:4</a> I also could speak as you do.
</dt>
<dd>
If your soul were in my soul's place,
</dd>
<dd>
I could join words together against you,
</dd>
<dd>
and shake my head at you,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V5" id="C1816V5">16:5</a> but I would strengthen you with my
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V6" id="C1816V6">16:6</a> "Though I speak, my grief is
not subsided.
</dt>
<dd>
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V7" id="C1816V7">16:7</a> But now, Elohim, you have surely worn
me out.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made desolate all my company.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V8" id="C1816V8">16:8</a> You have shriveled me up. This is a
witness against me.
</dt>
<dd>
My leanness rises up against me.
</dd>
<dd>
It testifies to my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V9" id="C1816V9">16:9</a> He has torn me in his wrath, and
persecuted me.
</dt>
<dd>
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
</dd>
<dd>
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V10" id="C1816V10">16:10</a> They have gaped on me with their
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
</dd>
<dd>
They gather themselves together against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V11" id="C1816V11">16:11</a> Elohim delivers me to the ungodly,
</dt>
<dd>
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V12" id="C1816V12">16:12</a> I was at ease, and he broke me
apart.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
</dd>
<dd>
He has also set me up for his target.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V13" id="C1816V13">16:13</a> His archers surround me.
</dt>
<dd>
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
</dd>
<dd>
He pours out my gall on the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V14" id="C1816V14">16:14</a> He breaks me with breach on
breach.
</dt>
<dd>
He runs on me like a giant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V15" id="C1816V15">16:15</a> I have sewed sackcloth on my
skin,
</dt>
<dd>
and have thrust my horn in the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V16" id="C1816V16">16:16</a> My face is red with weeping.
</dt>
<dd>
Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V17" id="C1816V17">16:17</a> Although there is no violence in
my hands,
</dt>
<dd>
and my prayer is pure.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V18" id="C1816V18">16:18</a> "Earth, don't cover my
blood.
</dt>
<dd>
Let my cry have no place to rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V19" id="C1816V19">16:19</a> Even now, behold, my witness is
in heaven.
</dt>
<dd>
He who vouches for me is on high.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V20" id="C1816V20">16:20</a> My friends scoff at me.
</dt>
<dd>
My eyes pour out tears to Elohim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V21" id="C1816V21">16:21</a> that he would maintain the right
of a man with Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
of a son of man with his neighbor!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1816V22" id="C1816V22">16:22</a> For when a few years are come,
</dt>
<dd>
I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V1" id="C1817V1">17:1</a> "My spirit is consumed.
</dt>
<dd>
My days are extinct,
</dd>
<dd>
And the grave is ready for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V2" id="C1817V2">17:2</a> Surely there are mockers with me.
</dt>
<dd>
My eye dwells on their provocation.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V3" id="C1817V3">17:3</a> "Now give a pledge, be
collateral for me with yourself.
</dt>
<dd>
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V4" id="C1817V4">17:4</a> For you have hidden their heart from
understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore you shall not exalt them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V5" id="C1817V5">17:5</a> He who denounces his friends for a
prey,
</dt>
<dd>
Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V6" id="C1817V6">17:6</a> "But he has made me a byword of
the people.
</dt>
<dd>
They spit in my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V7" id="C1817V7">17:7</a> My eye also is dim by reason of
sorrow.
</dt>
<dd>
All my members are as a shadow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V8" id="C1817V8">17:8</a> Upright men shall be astonished at
this.
</dt>
<dd>
The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V9" id="C1817V9">17:9</a> Yet shall the righteous hold on his
way.
</dt>
<dd>
He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V10" id="C1817V10">17:10</a> But as for you all, come on now
again;
</dt>
<dd>
I shall not find a wise man among you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V11" id="C1817V11">17:11</a> My days are past, my plans are
broken off,
</dt>
<dd>
as are the thoughts of my heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V12" id="C1817V12">17:12</a> They change the night into day,
</dt>
<dd>
saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V13" id="C1817V13">17:13</a> If I look for Sheol as my house,
</dt>
<dd>
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V14" id="C1817V14">17:14</a> If I have said to corruption,
'You are my father;'
</dt>
<dd>
to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V15" id="C1817V15">17:15</a> where then is my hope?
</dt>
<dd>
as for my hope, who shall see it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1817V16" id="C1817V16">17:16</a> Shall it go down with me to the
gates of Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
or descend together into the dust?"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1818V1" id="C1818V1">18:1</a> Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V2" id="C1818V2">18:2</a> "How long will you hunt for
words?
</dt>
<dd>
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V3" id="C1818V3">18:3</a> Why are we counted as animals,
</dt>
<dd>
which have become unclean in your sight?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V4" id="C1818V4">18:4</a> You who tear yourself in your anger,
</dt>
<dd>
shall the earth be forsaken for you?
</dd>
<dd>
Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V5" id="C1818V5">18:5</a> "Yes, the light of the wicked
shall be put out,
</dt>
<dd>
The spark of his fire shall not shine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V6" id="C1818V6">18:6</a> The light shall be dark in his tent.
</dt>
<dd>
His lamp above him shall be put out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V7" id="C1818V7">18:7</a> The steps of his strength shall be
shortened.
</dt>
<dd>
His own counsel shall cast him down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V8" id="C1818V8">18:8</a> For he is cast into a net by his own
feet,
</dt>
<dd>
and he wanders into its mesh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V9" id="C1818V9">18:9</a> A snare will take him by the heel.
</dt>
<dd>
A trap will catch him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V10" id="C1818V10">18:10</a> A noose is hidden for him in the
ground,
</dt>
<dd>
a trap for him in the way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V11" id="C1818V11">18:11</a> Terrors shall make him afraid on
every side,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall chase him at his heels.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V12" id="C1818V12">18:12</a> His strength shall be famished.
</dt>
<dd>
Calamity shall be ready at his side.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V13" id="C1818V13">18:13</a> The members of his body shall be
devoured.
</dt>
<dd>
The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V14" id="C1818V14">18:14</a> He shall be rooted out of his
tent where he trusts.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V15" id="C1818V15">18:15</a> There shall dwell in his tent
that which is none of his.
</dt>
<dd>
Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V16" id="C1818V16">18:16</a> His roots shall be dried up
beneath.
</dt>
<dd>
Above shall his branch be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V17" id="C1818V17">18:17</a> His memory shall perish from the
earth.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall have no name in the street.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V18" id="C1818V18">18:18</a> He shall be driven from light
into darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and chased out of the world.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V19" id="C1818V19">18:19</a> He shall have neither son nor
grandson among his people,
</dt>
<dd>
nor any remaining where he sojourned.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V20" id="C1818V20">18:20</a> Those who come after shall be
astonished at his day,
</dt>
<dd>
as those who went before were frightened.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1818V21" id="C1818V21">18:21</a> Surely such are the dwellings of
the unrighteous.
</dt>
<dd>
This is the place of him who doesn't know Elohim."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1819V1" id="C1819V1">19:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V2" id="C1819V2">19:2</a> "How long will you torment me,
</dt>
<dd>
and crush me with words?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V3" id="C1819V3">19:3</a> You have reproached me ten times.
</dt>
<dd>
You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V4" id="C1819V4">19:4</a> If it is true that I have erred,
</dt>
<dd>
my error remains with myself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V5" id="C1819V5">19:5</a> If indeed you will magnify
yourselves against me,
</dt>
<dd>
and plead against me my reproach;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V6" id="C1819V6">19:6</a> know now that Elohim has subverted me,
</dt>
<dd>
and has surrounded me with his net.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V7" id="C1819V7">19:7</a> "Behold, I cry out of wrong,
but I am not heard.
</dt>
<dd>
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V8" id="C1819V8">19:8</a> He has walled up my way so that I
can't pass,
</dt>
<dd>
and has set darkness in my paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V9" id="C1819V9">19:9</a> He has stripped me of my glory,
</dt>
<dd>
and taken the crown from my head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V10" id="C1819V10">19:10</a> He has broken me down on every
side, and I am gone.
</dt>
<dd>
My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V11" id="C1819V11">19:11</a> He has also kindled his wrath
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
He counts me among his adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V12" id="C1819V12">19:12</a> His troops come on together,
</dt>
<dd>
build a siege ramp against me,
</dd>
<dd>
and encamp around my tent.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V13" id="C1819V13">19:13</a> "He has put my brothers far
from me.
</dt>
<dd>
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V14" id="C1819V14">19:14</a> My relatives have gone away.
</dt>
<dd>
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V15" id="C1819V15">19:15</a> Those who dwell in my house, and
my maids, count me for a stranger.
</dt>
<dd>
I am an alien in their sight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V16" id="C1819V16">19:16</a> I call to my servant, and he
gives me no answer.
</dt>
<dd>
I beg him with my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V17" id="C1819V17">19:17</a> My breath is offensive to my
wife.
</dt>
<dd>
I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V18" id="C1819V18">19:18</a> Even young children despise me.
</dt>
<dd>
If I arise, they speak against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V19" id="C1819V19">19:19</a> All my familiar friends abhor me.
</dt>
<dd>
They whom I loved have turned against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V20" id="C1819V20">19:20</a> My bones stick to my skin and to
my flesh.
</dt>
<dd>
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V21" id="C1819V21">19:21</a> "Have pity on me, have pity
on me, you my friends;
</dt>
<dd>
for the hand of Elohim has touched me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V22" id="C1819V22">19:22</a> Why do you persecute me as Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and are not satisfied with my flesh?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V23" id="C1819V23">19:23</a> "Oh that my words were now
written!
</dt>
<dd>
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V24" id="C1819V24">19:24</a> That with an iron pen and lead
</dt>
<dd>
they were engraved in the rock forever!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V25" id="C1819V25">19:25</a> But as for me, I know that my
Redeemer lives.
</dt>
<dd>
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V26" id="C1819V26">19:26</a> After my skin is destroyed,
</dt>
<dd>
then in my flesh shall I see Elohim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V27" id="C1819V27">19:27</a> Whom I, even I, shall see on my
side.
</dt>
<dd>
My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
"My heart is consumed within me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V28" id="C1819V28">19:28</a> If you say, 'How we will
persecute him!'
</dt>
<dd>
because the root of the matter is found in me,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1819V29" id="C1819V29">19:29</a> be afraid of the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may know there is a judgment."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1820V1" id="C1820V1">20:1</a> Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V2" id="C1820V2">20:2</a> "Therefore do my thoughts give
answer to me,
</dt>
<dd>
even by reason of my haste that is in me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V3" id="C1820V3">20:3</a> I have heard the reproof which puts
me to shame.
</dt>
<dd>
The spirit of my understanding answers me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V4" id="C1820V4">20:4</a> Don't you know this from old time,
</dt>
<dd>
since man was placed on earth,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V5" id="C1820V5">20:5</a> that the triumphing of the wicked is
short,
</dt>
<dd>
the joy of the godless but for a moment?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V6" id="C1820V6">20:6</a> Though his height mount up to the
heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
and his head reach to the clouds,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V7" id="C1820V7">20:7</a> yet he shall perish forever like his
own dung.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V8" id="C1820V8">20:8</a> He shall fly away as a dream, and
shall not be found.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V9" id="C1820V9">20:9</a> The eye which saw him shall see him
no more,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall his place any more see him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V10" id="C1820V10">20:10</a> His children shall seek the favor
of the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
His hands shall give back his wealth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V11" id="C1820V11">20:11</a> His bones are full of his youth,
</dt>
<dd>
but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V12" id="C1820V12">20:12</a> "Though wickedness is sweet
in his mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
though he hide it under his tongue,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V13" id="C1820V13">20:13</a> though he spare it, and will not
let it go,
</dt>
<dd>
but keep it still within his mouth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V14" id="C1820V14">20:14</a> yet his food in his bowels is
turned.
</dt>
<dd>
It is cobra venom within him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V15" id="C1820V15">20:15</a> He has swallowed down riches, and
he shall vomit them up again.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim will cast them out of his belly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V16" id="C1820V16">20:16</a> He shall suck cobra venom.
</dt>
<dd>
The viper's tongue shall kill him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V17" id="C1820V17">20:17</a> He shall not look at the rivers,
</dt>
<dd>
the flowing streams of honey and butter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V18" id="C1820V18">20:18</a> That for which he labored he
shall restore, and shall not swallow it down.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V19" id="C1820V19">20:19</a> For he has oppressed and forsaken
the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V20" id="C1820V20">20:20</a> "Because he knew no
quietness within him,
</dt>
<dd>
he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V21" id="C1820V21">20:21</a> There was nothing left that he
didn't devour,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V22" id="C1820V22">20:22</a> In the fullness of his
sufficiency, distress shall overtake him.
</dt>
<dd>
The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V23" id="C1820V23">20:23</a> When he is about to fill his
belly, Elohim will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
</dt>
<dd>
It will rain on him while he is eating.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V24" id="C1820V24">20:24</a> He shall flee from the iron
weapon.
</dt>
<dd>
The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V25" id="C1820V25">20:25</a> He draws it forth, and it comes
out of his body.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.
</dd>
<dd>
Terrors are on him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V26" id="C1820V26">20:26</a> All darkness is laid up for his
treasures.
</dt>
<dd>
An unfanned fire shall devour him.
</dd>
<dd>
It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V27" id="C1820V27">20:27</a> The heavens shall reveal his
iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth shall rise up against him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V28" id="C1820V28">20:28</a> The increase of his house shall
depart.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1820V29" id="C1820V29">20:29</a> This is the portion of a wicked
man from Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
the heritage appointed to him by Elohim."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1821V1" id="C1821V1">21:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V2" id="C1821V2">21:2</a> "Listen diligently to my
speech.
</dt>
<dd>
Let this be your consolation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V3" id="C1821V3">21:3</a> Allow me, and I also will speak;
</dt>
<dd>
After I have spoken, mock on.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V4" id="C1821V4">21:4</a> As for me, is my complaint to man?
</dt>
<dd>
Why shouldn't I be impatient?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V5" id="C1821V5">21:5</a> Look at me, and be astonished.
</dt>
<dd>
Lay your hand on your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V6" id="C1821V6">21:6</a> When I remember, I am troubled.
</dt>
<dd>
Horror takes hold of my flesh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V7" id="C1821V7">21:7</a> "Why do the wicked live,
</dt>
<dd>
become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V8" id="C1821V8">21:8</a> Their child is established with them
in their sight,
</dt>
<dd>
their offspring before their eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V9" id="C1821V9">21:9</a> Their houses are safe from fear,
</dt>
<dd>
neither is the rod of Elohim upon them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V10" id="C1821V10">21:10</a> Their bulls breed without fail.
</dt>
<dd>
Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V11" id="C1821V11">21:11</a> They send forth their little ones
like a flock.
</dt>
<dd>
Their children dance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V12" id="C1821V12">21:12</a> They sing to the tambourine and
harp,
</dt>
<dd>
and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V13" id="C1821V13">21:13</a> They spend their days in
prosperity.
</dt>
<dd>
In an instant they go down to Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V14" id="C1821V14">21:14</a> They tell Elohim, 'Depart from us,
</dt>
<dd>
for we don't want to know about your ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V15" id="C1821V15">21:15</a> What is the Almighty, that we
should serve him?
</dt>
<dd>
What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V16" id="C1821V16">21:16</a> Behold, their prosperity is not
in their hand.
</dt>
<dd>
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V17" id="C1821V17">21:17</a> "How often is it that the
lamp of the wicked is put out,
</dt>
<dd>
that their calamity comes on them,
</dd>
<dd>
that Elohim distributes sorrows in his anger?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V18" id="C1821V18">21:18</a> How often is it that they are as
stubble before the wind,
</dt>
<dd>
as chaff that the storm carries away?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V19" id="C1821V19">21:19</a> You say, 'Elohim lays up his
iniquity for his children.'
</dt>
<dd>
Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V20" id="C1821V20">21:20</a> Let his own eyes see his
destruction.
</dt>
<dd>
Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V21" id="C1821V21">21:21</a> For what does he care for his
house after him,
</dt>
<dd>
when the number of his months is cut off?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V22" id="C1821V22">21:22</a> "Shall any teach Elohim
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing he judges those who are high?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V23" id="C1821V23">21:23</a> One dies in his full strength,
</dt>
<dd>
being wholly at ease and quiet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V24" id="C1821V24">21:24</a> His pails are full of milk.
</dt>
<dd>
The marrow of his bones is moistened.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V25" id="C1821V25">21:25</a> Another dies in bitterness of
soul,
</dt>
<dd>
and never tastes of good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V26" id="C1821V26">21:26</a> They lie down alike in the dust.
</dt>
<dd>
The worm covers them.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V27" id="C1821V27">21:27</a> "Behold, I know your
thoughts,
</dt>
<dd>
the devices with which you would wrong me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V28" id="C1821V28">21:28</a> For you say, 'Where is the house
of the prince?
</dt>
<dd>
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V29" id="C1821V29">21:29</a> Haven't you asked wayfaring men?
</dt>
<dd>
Don't you know their evidences,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V30" id="C1821V30">21:30</a> that the evil man is reserved to
the day of calamity,
</dt>
<dd>
That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V31" id="C1821V31">21:31</a> Who shall declare his way to his
face?
</dt>
<dd>
Who shall repay him what he has done?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V32" id="C1821V32">21:32</a> Yet he will be borne to the
grave.
</dt>
<dd>
Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V33" id="C1821V33">21:33</a> The clods of the valley shall be
sweet to him.
</dt>
<dd>
All men shall draw after him,
</dd>
<dd>
as there were innumerable before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1821V34" id="C1821V34">21:34</a> So how can you comfort me with
nonsense,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1822V1" id="C1822V1">22:1</a> Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V2" id="C1822V2">22:2</a> "Can a man be profitable to
Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V3" id="C1822V3">22:3</a> Is it any pleasure to the Almighty,
that you are righteous?
</dt>
<dd>
Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V4" id="C1822V4">22:4</a> Is it for your piety that he
reproves you,
</dt>
<dd>
that he enters with you into judgment?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V5" id="C1822V5">22:5</a> Isn't your wickedness great?
</dt>
<dd>
Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V6" id="C1822V6">22:6</a> For you have taken pledges from your
brother for nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V7" id="C1822V7">22:7</a> You haven't given water to the weary
to drink,
</dt>
<dd>
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V8" id="C1822V8">22:8</a> But as for the mighty man, he had
the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The honorable man, he lived in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V9" id="C1822V9">22:9</a> You have sent widows away empty,
</dt>
<dd>
and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V10" id="C1822V10">22:10</a> Therefore snares are around you.
</dt>
<dd>
Sudden fear troubles you,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V11" id="C1822V11">22:11</a> or darkness, so that you can not
see,
</dt>
<dd>
and floods of waters cover you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V12" id="C1822V12">22:12</a> "Isn't Elohim in the heights of
heaven?
</dt>
<dd>
See the height of the stars, how high they are!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V13" id="C1822V13">22:13</a> You say, 'What does Elohim know?
</dt>
<dd>
Can he judge through the thick darkness?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V14" id="C1822V14">22:14</a> Thick clouds are a covering to
him, so that he doesn't see.
</dt>
<dd>
He walks on the vault of the sky.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V15" id="C1822V15">22:15</a> Will you keep the old way,
</dt>
<dd>
which wicked men have trodden,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V16" id="C1822V16">22:16</a> who were snatched away before
their time,
</dt>
<dd>
whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V17" id="C1822V17">22:17</a> who said to Elohim, 'Depart from
us;'
</dt>
<dd>
and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V18" id="C1822V18">22:18</a> Yet he filled their houses with
good things,
</dt>
<dd>
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V19" id="C1822V19">22:19</a> The righteous see it, and are
glad.
</dt>
<dd>
The innocent ridicule them,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V20" id="C1822V20">22:20</a> saying, 'Surely those who rose up
against us are cut off.
</dt>
<dd>
The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V21" id="C1822V21">22:21</a> "Acquaint yourself with him,
now, and be at peace.
</dt>
<dd>
Thereby good shall come to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V22" id="C1822V22">22:22</a> Please receive instruction from
his mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and lay up his words in your heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V23" id="C1822V23">22:23</a> If you return to the Almighty,
you shall be built up,
</dt>
<dd>
if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V24" id="C1822V24">22:24</a> Lay your treasure in the dust,
</dt>
<dd>
the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V25" id="C1822V25">22:25</a> The Almighty will be your
treasure,
</dt>
<dd>
and precious silver to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V26" id="C1822V26">22:26</a> For then you will delight
yourself in the Almighty,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall lift up your face to Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V27" id="C1822V27">22:27</a> You shall make your prayer to
him, and he will hear you.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall pay your vows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V28" id="C1822V28">22:28</a> You shall also decree a thing,
and it shall be established to you.
</dt>
<dd>
Light shall shine on your ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V29" id="C1822V29">22:29</a> When they cast down, you shall
say, 'be lifted up.'
</dt>
<dd>
He will save the humble person.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1822V30" id="C1822V30">22:30</a> He will even deliver him who is
not innocent.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1823V1" id="C1823V1">23:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V2" id="C1823V2">23:2</a> "Even today my complaint is
rebellious.
</dt>
<dd>
His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V3" id="C1823V3">23:3</a> Oh that I knew where I might find
him!
</dt>
<dd>
That I might come even to his seat!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V4" id="C1823V4">23:4</a> I would set my cause in order before
him,
</dt>
<dd>
and fill my mouth with arguments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V5" id="C1823V5">23:5</a> I would know the words which he
would answer me,
</dt>
<dd>
and understand what he would tell me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V6" id="C1823V6">23:6</a> Would he contend with me in the
greatness of his power?
</dt>
<dd>
No, but he would listen to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V7" id="C1823V7">23:7</a> There the upright might reason with
him,
</dt>
<dd>
so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V8" id="C1823V8">23:8</a> "If I go east, he is not there;
</dt>
<dd>
if west, I can't find him;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V9" id="C1823V9">23:9</a> He works to the north, but I can't
see him.
</dt>
<dd>
He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V10" id="C1823V10">23:10</a> But he knows the way that I take.
</dt>
<dd>
When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V11" id="C1823V11">23:11</a> My foot has held fast to his
steps.
</dt>
<dd>
I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V12" id="C1823V12">23:12</a> I haven't gone back from the
commandment of his lips.
</dt>
<dd>
I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V13" id="C1823V13">23:13</a> But he stands alone, and who can
oppose him?
</dt>
<dd>
What his soul desires, even that he does.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V14" id="C1823V14">23:14</a> For he performs that which is
appointed for me.
</dt>
<dd>
Many such things are with him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V15" id="C1823V15">23:15</a> Therefore I am terrified at his
presence.
</dt>
<dd>
When I consider, I am afraid of him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V16" id="C1823V16">23:16</a> For Elohim has made my heart faint.
</dt>
<dd>
The Almighty has terrified me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1823V17" id="C1823V17">23:17</a> Because I was not cut off before
the darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V1" id="C1824V1">24:1</a> "Why aren't times laid up by
the Almighty?
</dt>
<dd>
Why don't those who know him see his days?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V2" id="C1824V2">24:2</a> There are people who remove the
landmarks.
</dt>
<dd>
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V3" id="C1824V3">24:3</a> They drive away the donkey of the
fatherless,
</dt>
<dd>
and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V4" id="C1824V4">24:4</a> They turn the needy out of the way.
</dt>
<dd>
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V5" id="C1824V5">24:5</a> Behold, as wild donkeys in the
desert,
</dt>
<dd>
they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food.
</dd>
<dt>
The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1824V6" id="C1824V6">24:6</a> They cut their provender in the
field.
</dd>
<dt>
They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1824V7" id="C1824V7">24:7</a> They lie all night naked without
clothing,
</dd>
<dt>
and have no covering in the cold.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1824V8" id="C1824V8">24:8</a> They are wet with the showers of the
mountains,
</dd>
<dt>
and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1824V9" id="C1824V9">24:9</a> There are those who pluck the
fatherless from the breast,
</dd>
<dt>
and take a pledge of the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1824V10" id="C1824V10">24:10</a> So that they go around naked
without clothing.
</dd>
<dd>
Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V11" id="C1824V11">24:11</a> They make oil within the walls of
these men.
</dt>
<dd>
They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V12" id="C1824V12">24:12</a> From out of the populous city,
men groan.
</dt>
<dd>
The soul of the wounded cries out,
</dd>
<dd>
yet Elohim doesn't regard the folly.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V13" id="C1824V13">24:13</a> "These are of those who
rebel against the light.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't know its ways,
</dd>
<dd>
nor abide in its paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V14" id="C1824V14">24:14</a> The murderer rises with the
light.
</dt>
<dd>
He kills the poor and needy.
</dd>
<dd>
In the night he is like a thief.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V15" id="C1824V15">24:15</a> The eye also of the adulterer
waits for the twilight,
</dt>
<dd>
saying, 'No eye shall see me.'
</dd>
<dd>
He disguises his face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V16" id="C1824V16">24:16</a> In the dark they dig through
houses.
</dt>
<dd>
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
</dd>
<dd>
They don't know the light.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V17" id="C1824V17">24:17</a> For the morning is to all of them
like thick darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V18" id="C1824V18">24:18</a> "They are foam on the
surface of the waters.
</dt>
<dd>
Their portion is cursed in the earth.
</dd>
<dd>
They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V19" id="C1824V19">24:19</a> Drought and heat consume the snow
waters,
</dt>
<dd>
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V20" id="C1824V20">24:20</a> The womb shall forget him.
</dt>
<dd>
The worm shall feed sweetly on him.
</dd>
<dd>
He shall be no more remembered.
</dd>
<dd>
Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V21" id="C1824V21">24:21</a> He devours the barren who don't
bear.
</dt>
<dd>
He shows no kindness to the widow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V22" id="C1824V22">24:22</a> Yet Elohim preserves the mighty by
his power.
</dt>
<dd>
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V23" id="C1824V23">24:23</a> Elohim gives them security, and they
rest in it.
</dt>
<dd>
His eyes are on their ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V24" id="C1824V24">24:24</a> They are exalted; yet a little
while, and they are gone.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
</dd>
<dd>
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1824V25" id="C1824V25">24:25</a> If it isn't so now, who will
prove me a liar,
</dt>
<dd>
and make my speech worth nothing?"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1825V1" id="C1825V1">25:1</a> Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1825V2" id="C1825V2">25:2</a> "Dominion and fear are with
him.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes peace in his high places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1825V3" id="C1825V3">25:3</a> Can his armies be counted?
</dt>
<dd>
On whom does his light not arise?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1825V4" id="C1825V4">25:4</a> How then can man be just with Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1825V5" id="C1825V5">25:5</a> Behold, even the moon has no
brightness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the stars are not pure in his sight;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1825V6" id="C1825V6">25:6</a> How much less man, who is a worm,
</dt>
<dd>
the son of man, who is a worm!"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1826V1" id="C1826V1">26:1</a> Then Job answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V2" id="C1826V2">26:2</a> "How have you helped him who is
without power!
</dt>
<dd>
How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V3" id="C1826V3">26:3</a> How have you counseled him who has
no wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V4" id="C1826V4">26:4</a> To whom have you uttered words?
</dt>
<dd>
Whose spirit came forth from you?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V5" id="C1826V5">26:5</a> "Those who are deceased
tremble,
</dt>
<dd>
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V6" id="C1826V6">26:6</a> <a href="#N181">Sheol</a> is naked
before Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and <a href="#N182">Abaddon</a> has no covering.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V7" id="C1826V7">26:7</a> He stretches out the north over
empty space,
</dt>
<dd>
and hangs the earth on nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V8" id="C1826V8">26:8</a> He binds up the waters in his thick
clouds,
</dt>
<dd>
and the cloud is not burst under them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V9" id="C1826V9">26:9</a> He encloses the face of his throne,
</dt>
<dd>
and spreads his cloud on it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V10" id="C1826V10">26:10</a> He has described a boundary on
the surface of the waters,
</dt>
<dd>
and to the confines of light and darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V11" id="C1826V11">26:11</a> The pillars of heaven tremble
</dt>
<dd>
and are astonished at his rebuke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V12" id="C1826V12">26:12</a> He stirs up the sea with his
power,
</dt>
<dd>
and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V13" id="C1826V13">26:13</a> By his Spirit the heavens are
garnished.
</dt>
<dd>
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1826V14" id="C1826V14">26:14</a> Behold, these are but the
outskirts of his ways.
</dt>
<dd>
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
</dd>
<dd>
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N181" id="N181">[1]</a> <a href="#C1826V6">back to 26:6</a> Sheol is
the lower world or the grave.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N182" id="N182">[2]</a> <a href="#C1826V6">back to 26:6</a> Abaddon
means Destroyer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1827V1" id="C1827V1">27:1</a> Job again took up his parable, and
said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V2" id="C1827V2">27:2</a> "As Elohim lives, who has taken
away my right,
</dt>
<dd>
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V3" id="C1827V3">27:3</a> (For the length of my life is still
in me,
</dt>
<dd>
and the spirit of Elohim is in my nostrils);
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V4" id="C1827V4">27:4</a> surely my lips shall not speak
unrighteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V5" id="C1827V5">27:5</a> Far be it from me that I should
justify you.
</dt>
<dd>
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V6" id="C1827V6">27:6</a> I hold fast to my righteousness, and
will not let it go.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V7" id="C1827V7">27:7</a> "Let my enemy be as the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V8" id="C1827V8">27:8</a> For what is the hope of the godless,
when he is cut off, when Elohim takes away his life?
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1827V9" id="C1827V9">27:9</a> Will Elohim hear his cry when trouble
comes on him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V10" id="C1827V10">27:10</a> Will he delight himself in the
Almighty,
</dt>
<dd>
and call on Elohim at all times?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V11" id="C1827V11">27:11</a> I will teach you about the hand
of Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V12" id="C1827V12">27:12</a> Behold, all of you have seen it
yourselves;
</dt>
<dd>
why then have you become altogether vain?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V13" id="C1827V13">27:13</a> "This is the portion of a
wicked man with Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V14" id="C1827V14">27:14</a> If his children are multiplied,
it is for the sword.
</dt>
<dd>
His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V15" id="C1827V15">27:15</a> Those who remain of him shall be
buried in death.
</dt>
<dd>
His widows shall make no lamentation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V16" id="C1827V16">27:16</a> Though he heap up silver as the
dust,
</dt>
<dd>
and prepare clothing as the clay;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V17" id="C1827V17">27:17</a> he may prepare it, but the just
shall put it on,
</dt>
<dd>
and the innocent shall divide the silver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V18" id="C1827V18">27:18</a> He builds his house as the moth,
</dt>
<dd>
as a booth which the watchman makes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V19" id="C1827V19">27:19</a> He lies down rich, but he shall
not do so again.
</dt>
<dd>
He opens his eyes, and he is not.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V20" id="C1827V20">27:20</a> Terrors overtake him like waters.
</dt>
<dd>
A storm steals him away in the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V21" id="C1827V21">27:21</a> The east wind carries him away,
and he departs.
</dt>
<dd>
It sweeps him out of his place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V22" id="C1827V22">27:22</a> For it hurls at him, and does not
spare,
</dt>
<dd>
as he flees away from his hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1827V23" id="C1827V23">27:23</a> Men shall clap their hands at
him,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall hiss him out of his place.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V1" id="C1828V1">28:1</a> "Surely there is a mine for
silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and a place for gold which they refine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V2" id="C1828V2">28:2</a> Iron is taken out of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and copper is smelted out of the ore.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V3" id="C1828V3">28:3</a> Man sets an end to darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and searches out, to the furthest bound,
</dd>
<dd>
the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V4" id="C1828V4">28:4</a> He breaks open a shaft away from
where people live.
</dt>
<dd>
They are forgotten by the foot.
</dd>
<dd>
They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V5" id="C1828V5">28:5</a> As for the earth, out of it comes
bread;
</dt>
<dd>
Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V6" id="C1828V6">28:6</a> Sapphires come from its rocks.
</dt>
<dd>
It has dust of gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V7" id="C1828V7">28:7</a> That path no bird of prey knows,
</dt>
<dd>
neither has the falcon's eye seen it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V8" id="C1828V8">28:8</a> The proud animals have not trodden
it,
</dt>
<dd>
nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V9" id="C1828V9">28:9</a> He puts forth his hand on the flinty
rock,
</dt>
<dd>
and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V10" id="C1828V10">28:10</a> He cuts out channels among the
rocks.
</dt>
<dd>
His eye sees every precious thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V11" id="C1828V11">28:11</a> He binds the streams that they
don't trickle.
</dt>
<dd>
The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V12" id="C1828V12">28:12</a> "But where shall wisdom be
found?
</dt>
<dd>
Where is the place of understanding?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V13" id="C1828V13">28:13</a> Man doesn't know its price;
</dt>
<dd>
Neither is it found in the land of the living.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V14" id="C1828V14">28:14</a> The deep says, 'It isn't in me.'
</dt>
<dd>
The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V15" id="C1828V15">28:15</a> It can't be gotten for gold,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V16" id="C1828V16">28:16</a> It can't be valued with the gold
of Ophir,
</dt>
<dd>
with the precious onyx, or the <a href="#N183">sapphire</a>.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V17" id="C1828V17">28:17</a> Gold and glass can't equal it,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V18" id="C1828V18">28:18</a> No mention shall be made of coral
or of crystal.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V19" id="C1828V19">28:19</a> The topaz of Ethiopia shall not
equal it,
</dt>
<dd>
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V20" id="C1828V20">28:20</a> Whence then comes wisdom?
</dt>
<dd>
Where is the place of understanding?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V21" id="C1828V21">28:21</a> Seeing it is hidden from the eyes
of all living,
</dt>
<dd>
and kept close from the birds of the sky.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V22" id="C1828V22">28:22</a> Destruction and Death say,
</dt>
<dd>
'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V23" id="C1828V23">28:23</a> "Elohim understands its way,
</dt>
<dd>
and he knows its place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V24" id="C1828V24">28:24</a> For he looks to the ends of the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and sees under the whole sky.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V25" id="C1828V25">28:25</a> He establishes the force of the
wind.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V26" id="C1828V26">28:26</a> When he made a decree for the
rain,
</dt>
<dd>
and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V27" id="C1828V27">28:27</a> then he saw it, and declared it.
</dt>
<dd>
He established it, yes, and searched it out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1828V28" id="C1828V28">28:28</a> To man he said,
</dt>
<dd>
'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.
</dd>
<dd>
To depart from evil is understanding.'"
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N183" id="N183">[3]</a> <a href="#C1828V16">back to 28:16</a> or, lapis
lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1829V1" id="C1829V1">29:1</a> Job again took up his parable, and
said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V2" id="C1829V2">29:2</a> "Oh that I were as in the
months of old,
</dt>
<dd>
as in the days when Elohim watched over me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V3" id="C1829V3">29:3</a> when his lamp shone on my head,
</dt>
<dd>
and by his light I walked through darkness,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V4" id="C1829V4">29:4</a> as I was in the ripeness of my days,
</dt>
<dd>
when the friendship of Elohim was in my tent,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V5" id="C1829V5">29:5</a> when the Almighty was yet with me,
</dt>
<dd>
and my children were around me,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V6" id="C1829V6">29:6</a> when my steps were washed with
butter,
</dt>
<dd>
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V7" id="C1829V7">29:7</a> when I went forth to the city gate,
</dt>
<dd>
when I prepared my seat in the street.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V8" id="C1829V8">29:8</a> The young men saw me and hid
themselves.
</dt>
<dd>
The aged rose up and stood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V9" id="C1829V9">29:9</a> The princes refrained from talking,
</dt>
<dd>
and laid their hand on their mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V10" id="C1829V10">29:10</a> The voice of the nobles was
hushed,
</dt>
<dd>
and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V11" id="C1829V11">29:11</a> For when the ear heard me, then
it blessed me;
</dt>
<dd>
and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V12" id="C1829V12">29:12</a> Because I delivered the poor who
cried,
</dt>
<dd>
and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V13" id="C1829V13">29:13</a> the blessing of him who was ready
to perish came on me,
</dt>
<dd>
and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V14" id="C1829V14">29:14</a> I put on righteousness, and it
clothed me.
</dt>
<dd>
My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V15" id="C1829V15">29:15</a> I was eyes to the blind,
</dt>
<dd>
and feet to the lame.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V16" id="C1829V16">29:16</a> I was a father to the needy.
</dt>
<dd>
The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V17" id="C1829V17">29:17</a> I broke the jaws of the
unrighteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V18" id="C1829V18">29:18</a> Then I said, 'I shall die in my
own house,
</dt>
<dd>
I shall number my days as the sand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V19" id="C1829V19">29:19</a> My root is spread out to the
waters.
</dt>
<dd>
The dew lies all night on my branch.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V20" id="C1829V20">29:20</a> My glory is fresh in me.
</dt>
<dd>
My bow is renewed in my hand.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V21" id="C1829V21">29:21</a> "Men listened to me, waited,
</dt>
<dd>
and kept silence for my counsel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V22" id="C1829V22">29:22</a> After my words they didn't speak
again.
</dt>
<dd>
My speech fell on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V23" id="C1829V23">29:23</a> They waited for me as for the
rain.
</dt>
<dd>
Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V24" id="C1829V24">29:24</a> I smiled on them when they had no
confidence.
</dt>
<dd>
They didn't reject the light of my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1829V25" id="C1829V25">29:25</a> I chose out their way, and sat as
chief.
</dt>
<dd>
I lived as a king in the army,
</dd>
<dd>
as one who comforts the mourners.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V1" id="C1830V1">30:1</a> "But now those who are younger
than I have me in derision,
</dt>
<dd>
whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V2" id="C1830V2">30:2</a> Of what use is the strength of their
hands to me,
</dt>
<dd>
men in whom ripe age has perished?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V3" id="C1830V3">30:3</a> They are gaunt from lack and famine.
</dt>
<dd>
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V4" id="C1830V4">30:4</a> They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
</dt>
<dd>
The roots of the broom are their food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V5" id="C1830V5">30:5</a> They are driven out from the midst
of men.
</dt>
<dd>
They cry after them as after a thief;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V6" id="C1830V6">30:6</a> So that they dwell in frightful
valleys,
</dt>
<dd>
and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V7" id="C1830V7">30:7</a> Among the bushes they bray;
</dt>
<dd>
and under the nettles they are gathered together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V8" id="C1830V8">30:8</a> They are children of fools, yes,
children of base men.
</dt>
<dd>
They were flogged out of the land.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V9" id="C1830V9">30:9</a> "Now I have become their song.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I am a byword to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V10" id="C1830V10">30:10</a> They abhor me, they stand aloof
from me,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't hesitate to spit in my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V11" id="C1830V11">30:11</a> For he has untied his cord, and
afflicted me;
</dt>
<dd>
and they have thrown off restraint before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V12" id="C1830V12">30:12</a> On my right hand rise the rabble.
</dt>
<dd>
They thrust aside my feet,
</dd>
<dd>
They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V13" id="C1830V13">30:13</a> They mar my path,
</dt>
<dd>
They set forward my calamity,
</dd>
<dd>
without anyone's help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V14" id="C1830V14">30:14</a> As through a wide breach they
come,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V15" id="C1830V15">30:15</a> Terrors have turned on me.
</dt>
<dd>
They chase my honor as the wind.
</dd>
<dd>
My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V16" id="C1830V16">30:16</a> "Now my soul is poured out
within me.
</dt>
<dd>
Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V17" id="C1830V17">30:17</a> In the night season my bones are
pierced in me,
</dt>
<dd>
and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V18" id="C1830V18">30:18</a> By great force is my garment
disfigured.
</dt>
<dd>
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V19" id="C1830V19">30:19</a> He has cast me into the mire.
</dt>
<dd>
I have become like dust and ashes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V20" id="C1830V20">30:20</a> I cry to you, and you do not
answer me.
</dt>
<dd>
I stand up, and you gaze at me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V21" id="C1830V21">30:21</a> You have turned to be cruel to
me.
</dt>
<dd>
With the might of your hand you persecute me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V22" id="C1830V22">30:22</a> You lift me up to the wind, and
drive me with it.
</dt>
<dd>
You dissolve me in the storm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V23" id="C1830V23">30:23</a> For I know that you will bring me
to death,
</dt>
<dd>
To the house appointed for all living.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V24" id="C1830V24">30:24</a> "However doesn't one stretch
out a hand in his fall?
</dt>
<dd>
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V25" id="C1830V25">30:25</a> Didn't I weep for him who was in
trouble?
</dt>
<dd>
Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V26" id="C1830V26">30:26</a> When I looked for good, then evil
came;
</dt>
<dd>
When I waited for light, there came darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V27" id="C1830V27">30:27</a> My heart is troubled, and doesn't
rest.
</dt>
<dd>
Days of affliction have come on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V28" id="C1830V28">30:28</a> I go mourning without the sun.
</dt>
<dd>
I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V29" id="C1830V29">30:29</a> I am a brother to jackals,
</dt>
<dd>
and a companion to ostriches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V30" id="C1830V30">30:30</a> My skin grows black and peels
from me.
</dt>
<dd>
My bones are burned with heat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1830V31" id="C1830V31">30:31</a> Therefore my harp has turned to
mourning,
</dt>
<dd>
and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V1" id="C1831V1">31:1</a> "I made a covenant with my
eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V2" id="C1831V2">31:2</a> For what is the portion from Elohim
above,
</dt>
<dd>
and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V3" id="C1831V3">31:3</a> Is it not calamity to the
unrighteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V4" id="C1831V4">31:4</a> Doesn't he see my ways,
</dt>
<dd>
and number all my steps?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V5" id="C1831V5">31:5</a> "If I have walked with
falsehood,
</dt>
<dd>
and my foot has hurried to deceit
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V6" id="C1831V6">31:6</a> (let me be weighed in an even
balance,
</dt>
<dd>
that Elohim may know my integrity);
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V7" id="C1831V7">31:7</a> if my step has turned out of the
way,
</dt>
<dd>
if my heart walked after my eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V8" id="C1831V8">31:8</a> then let me sow, and let another
eat.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V9" id="C1831V9">31:9</a> "If my heart has been enticed
to a woman,
</dt>
<dd>
and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V10" id="C1831V10">31:10</a> then let my wife grind for
another,
</dt>
<dd>
and let others sleep with her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V11" id="C1831V11">31:11</a> For that would be a heinous
crime.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V12" id="C1831V12">31:12</a> For it is a fire that consumes to
destruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and would root out all my increase.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V13" id="C1831V13">31:13</a> "If I have despised the
cause of my male servant
</dt>
<dd>
or of my female servant,
</dd>
<dd>
when they contended with me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V14" id="C1831V14">31:14</a> What then shall I do when Elohim
rises up?
</dt>
<dd>
When he visits, what shall I answer him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V15" id="C1831V15">31:15</a> Didn't he who made me in the womb
make him?
</dt>
<dd>
Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V16" id="C1831V16">31:16</a> "If I have withheld the poor
from their desire,
</dt>
<dd>
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V17" id="C1831V17">31:17</a> or have eaten my morsel alone,
</dt>
<dd>
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V18" id="C1831V18">31:18</a> (no, from my youth he grew up
with me as with a father,
</dt>
<dd>
her have I guided from my mother's womb);
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V19" id="C1831V19">31:19</a> if I have seen any perish for
want of clothing,
</dt>
<dd>
or that the needy had no covering;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V20" id="C1831V20">31:20</a> if his heart hasn't blessed me,
</dt>
<dd>
if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V21" id="C1831V21">31:21</a> if I have lifted up my hand
against the fatherless,
</dt>
<dd>
because I saw my help in the gate,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V22" id="C1831V22">31:22</a> then let my shoulder fall from
the shoulder blade,
</dt>
<dd>
and my arm be broken from the bone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V23" id="C1831V23">31:23</a> For calamity from Elohim is a terror
to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V24" id="C1831V24">31:24</a> "If I have made gold my
hope,
</dt>
<dd>
and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V25" id="C1831V25">31:25</a> If I have rejoiced because my
wealth was great,
</dt>
<dd>
and because my hand had gotten much;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V26" id="C1831V26">31:26</a> if I have seen the sun when it
shined,
</dt>
<dd>
or the moon moving in splendor,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V27" id="C1831V27">31:27</a> and my heart has been secretly
enticed,
</dt>
<dd>
and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V28" id="C1831V28">31:28</a> this also would be an iniquity to
be punished by the judges;
</dt>
<dd>
for I should have denied the Elohim who is above.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V29" id="C1831V29">31:29</a> "If I have rejoiced at the
destruction of him who hated me,
</dt>
<dd>
or lifted up myself when evil found him;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V30" id="C1831V30">31:30</a> (yes, I have not allowed my mouth
to sin
</dt>
<dd>
by asking his life with a curse);
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V31" id="C1831V31">31:31</a> if the men of my tent have not
said,
</dt>
<dd>
'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V32" id="C1831V32">31:32</a> (the foreigner has not lodged in
the street,
</dt>
<dd>
but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V33" id="C1831V33">31:33</a> if like Adam I have covered my
transgressions,
</dt>
<dd>
by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V34" id="C1831V34">31:34</a> because I feared the great
multitude,
</dt>
<dd>
and the contempt of families terrified me,
</dd>
<dd>
so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V35" id="C1831V35">31:35</a> oh that I had one to hear me!
</dt>
<dd>
(behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me);
</dd>
<dd>
let the accuser write my indictment!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V36" id="C1831V36">31:36</a> Surely I would carry it on my
shoulder;
</dt>
<dd>
and I would bind it to me as a crown.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V37" id="C1831V37">31:37</a> I would declare to him the number
of my steps.
</dt>
<dd>
as a prince would I go near to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V38" id="C1831V38">31:38</a> If my land cries out against me,
</dt>
<dd>
and its furrows weep together;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V39" id="C1831V39">31:39</a> if I have eaten its fruits
without money,
</dt>
<dd>
or have caused its owners to lose their life,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1831V40" id="C1831V40">31:40</a> let briars grow instead of wheat,
</dt>
<dd>
and stinkweed instead of barley."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
The words of Job are ended.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1832V1" id="C1832V1">32:1</a> So these three men ceased to answer
Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. <a name="C1832V2" id="C1832V2">32:2</a>
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of
Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified
himself rather than Elohim. <a name="C1832V3" id="C1832V3">32:3</a> Also his
wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no
answer, and yet had condemned Job. <a name="C1832V4" id="C1832V4">32:4</a> Now
Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he. <a
name="C1832V5" id="C1832V5">32:5</a> When Elihu saw that there was no answer
in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1832V6" id="C1832V6">32:6</a> Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite
answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I am young, and you are very old;
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V7" id="C1832V7">32:7</a> I said, 'Days should speak,
</dt>
<dd>
and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V8" id="C1832V8">32:8</a> But there is a spirit in man,
</dt>
<dd>
and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V9" id="C1832V9">32:9</a> It is not the great who are wise,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the aged who understand justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V10" id="C1832V10">32:10</a> Therefore I said, 'Listen to me;
</dt>
<dd>
I also will show my opinion.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V11" id="C1832V11">32:11</a> "Behold, I waited for your
words,
</dt>
<dd>
and I listened for your reasoning,
</dd>
<dd>
while you searched out what to say.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V12" id="C1832V12">32:12</a> Yes, I gave you my full
attention,
</dt>
<dd>
but there was no one who convinced Job,
</dd>
<dd>
or who answered his words, among you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V13" id="C1832V13">32:13</a> Beware lest you say, 'We have
found wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim may refute him, not man;'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V14" id="C1832V14">32:14</a> for he has not directed his words
against me;
</dt>
<dd>
neither will I answer him with your speeches.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V15" id="C1832V15">32:15</a> "They are amazed. They
answer no more.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't have a word to say.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V16" id="C1832V16">32:16</a> Shall I wait, because they don't
speak,
</dt>
<dd>
because they stand still, and answer no more?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V17" id="C1832V17">32:17</a> I also will answer my part,
</dt>
<dd>
and I also will show my opinion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V18" id="C1832V18">32:18</a> For I am full of words.
</dt>
<dd>
The spirit within me constrains me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V19" id="C1832V19">32:19</a> Behold, my breast is as wine
which has no vent;
</dt>
<dd>
like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V20" id="C1832V20">32:20</a> I will speak, that I may be
refreshed.
</dt>
<dd>
I will open my lips and answer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V21" id="C1832V21">32:21</a> Please don't let me respect any
man's person,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1832V22" id="C1832V22">32:22</a> For I don't know how to give
flattering titles;
</dt>
<dd>
or else my Maker would soon take me away.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V1" id="C1833V1">33:1</a> "However, Job, Please hear my
speech,
</dt>
<dd>
and listen to all my words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V2" id="C1833V2">33:2</a> See now, I have opened my mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V3" id="C1833V3">33:3</a> My words shall utter the uprightness
of my heart.
</dt>
<dd>
That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V4" id="C1833V4">33:4</a> The Spirit of Elohim has made me,
</dt>
<dd>
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V5" id="C1833V5">33:5</a> If you can, answer me.
</dt>
<dd>
Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V6" id="C1833V6">33:6</a> Behold, I am toward Elohim even as you
are.
</dt>
<dd>
I am also formed out of the clay.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V7" id="C1833V7">33:7</a> Behold, my terror shall not make you
afraid,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V8" id="C1833V8">33:8</a> "Surely you have spoken in my
hearing,
</dt>
<dd>
I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V9" id="C1833V9">33:9</a> 'I am clean, without disobedience.
</dt>
<dd>
I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V10" id="C1833V10">33:10</a> Behold, he finds occasions
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
He counts me for his enemy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V11" id="C1833V11">33:11</a> He puts my feet in the stocks.
</dt>
<dd>
He marks all my paths.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V12" id="C1833V12">33:12</a> "Behold, I will answer you.
In this you are not just,
</dt>
<dd>
for Elohim is greater than man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V13" id="C1833V13">33:13</a> Why do you strive against him,
</dt>
<dd>
because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V14" id="C1833V14">33:14</a> For Elohim speaks once,
</dt>
<dd>
yes twice, though man pays no attention.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V15" id="C1833V15">33:15</a> In a dream, in a vision of the
night,
</dt>
<dd>
when deep sleep falls on men,
</dd>
<dd>
in slumbering on the bed;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V16" id="C1833V16">33:16</a> Then he opens the ears of men,
</dt>
<dd>
and seals their instruction,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V17" id="C1833V17">33:17</a> That he may withdraw man from his
purpose,
</dt>
<dd>
and hide pride from man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V18" id="C1833V18">33:18</a> He keeps back his soul from the
pit,
</dt>
<dd>
and his life from perishing by the sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V19" id="C1833V19">33:19</a> He is chastened also with pain on
his bed,
</dt>
<dd>
with continual strife in his bones;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V20" id="C1833V20">33:20</a> So that his life abhors bread,
</dt>
<dd>
and his soul dainty food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V21" id="C1833V21">33:21</a> His flesh is so consumed away,
that it can't be seen.
</dt>
<dd>
His bones that were not seen stick out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V22" id="C1833V22">33:22</a> Yes, his soul draws near to the
pit,
</dt>
<dd>
and his life to the destroyers.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V23" id="C1833V23">33:23</a> "If there is beside him an
angel,
</dt>
<dd>
an interpreter, one among a thousand,
</dd>
<dd>
to show to man what is right for him;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V24" id="C1833V24">33:24</a> then Elohim is gracious to him, and
says,
</dt>
<dd>
'Deliver him from going down to the pit,
</dd>
<dd>
I have found a ransom.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V25" id="C1833V25">33:25</a> His flesh shall be fresher than a
child's.
</dt>
<dd>
He returns to the days of his youth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V26" id="C1833V26">33:26</a> He prays to Elohim, and he is
favorable to him,
</dt>
<dd>
so that he sees his face with joy.
</dd>
<dd>
He restores to man his righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V27" id="C1833V27">33:27</a> He sings before men, and says,
</dt>
<dd>
'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right,
</dd>
<dd>
and it didn't profit me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V28" id="C1833V28">33:28</a> He has redeemed my soul from
going into the pit.
</dt>
<dd>
My life shall see the light.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V29" id="C1833V29">33:29</a> "Behold, Elohim works all these
things,
</dt>
<dd>
twice, yes three times, with a man,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V30" id="C1833V30">33:30</a> to bring back his soul from the
pit,
</dt>
<dd>
that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V31" id="C1833V31">33:31</a> Mark well, Job, and listen to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Hold your peace, and I will speak.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V32" id="C1833V32">33:32</a> If you have anything to say,
answer me.
</dt>
<dd>
Speak, for I desire to justify you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1833V33" id="C1833V33">33:33</a> If not, listen to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1834V1" id="C1834V1">34:1</a> Moreover Elihu answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V2" id="C1834V2">34:2</a> "Hear my words, you wise men.
</dt>
<dd>
Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V3" id="C1834V3">34:3</a> For the ear tries words,
</dt>
<dd>
as the palate tastes food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V4" id="C1834V4">34:4</a> Let us choose for us that which is
right.
</dt>
<dd>
Let us know among ourselves what is good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V5" id="C1834V5">34:5</a> For Job has said, 'I am righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim has taken away my right:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V6" id="C1834V6">34:6</a> Notwithstanding my right I am
considered a liar.
</dt>
<dd>
My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V7" id="C1834V7">34:7</a> What man is like Job,
</dt>
<dd>
who drinks scorn like water,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V8" id="C1834V8">34:8</a> Who goes in company with the workers
of iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and walks with wicked men?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V9" id="C1834V9">34:9</a> For he has said, 'It profits a man
nothing
</dt>
<dd>
that he should delight himself with Elohim.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V10" id="C1834V10">34:10</a> "Therefore listen to me, you
men of understanding:
</dt>
<dd>
far be it from Elohim, that he should do wickedness,
</dd>
<dd>
from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V11" id="C1834V11">34:11</a> For the work of a man he will
render to him,
</dt>
<dd>
and cause every man to find according to his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V12" id="C1834V12">34:12</a> Yes surely, Elohim will not do
wickedly,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V13" id="C1834V13">34:13</a> Who put him in charge of the
earth?
</dt>
<dd>
or who has appointed him over the whole world?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V14" id="C1834V14">34:14</a> If he set his heart on himself,
</dt>
<dd>
If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V15" id="C1834V15">34:15</a> all flesh would perish together,
</dt>
<dd>
and man would turn again to dust.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V16" id="C1834V16">34:16</a> "If now you have
understanding, hear this.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to the voice of my words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V17" id="C1834V17">34:17</a> Shall even one who hates justice
govern?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V18" id="C1834V18">34:18</a> Who says to a king, 'Vile!'
</dt>
<dd>
or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V19" id="C1834V19">34:19</a> Who doesn't respect the persons
of princes,
</dt>
<dd>
nor regards the rich more than the poor;
</dd>
<dd>
for they all are the work of his hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V20" id="C1834V20">34:20</a> In a moment they die, even at
midnight.
</dt>
<dd>
The people are shaken and pass away.
</dd>
<dd>
The mighty are taken away without a hand.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V21" id="C1834V21">34:21</a> "For his eyes are on the
ways of a man.
</dt>
<dd>
He sees all his goings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V22" id="C1834V22">34:22</a> There is no darkness, nor thick
gloom,
</dt>
<dd>
where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V23" id="C1834V23">34:23</a> For he doesn't need to consider a
man further,
</dt>
<dd>
that he should go before Elohim in judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V24" id="C1834V24">34:24</a> He breaks in pieces mighty men in
ways past finding out,
</dt>
<dd>
and sets others in their place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V25" id="C1834V25">34:25</a> Therefore he takes knowledge of
their works.
</dt>
<dd>
He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V26" id="C1834V26">34:26</a> He strikes them as wicked men
</dt>
<dd>
in the open sight of others;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V27" id="C1834V27">34:27</a> because they turned aside from
following him,
</dt>
<dd>
and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V28" id="C1834V28">34:28</a> so that they caused the cry of
the poor to come to him.
</dt>
<dd>
He heard the cry of the afflicted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V29" id="C1834V29">34:29</a> When he gives quietness, who then
can condemn?
</dt>
<dd>
When he hides his face, who then can see him?
</dd>
<dd>
Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V30" id="C1834V30">34:30</a> that the godless man may not
reign,
</dt>
<dd>
that there be no one to ensnare the people.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V31" id="C1834V31">34:31</a> "For has any said to Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V32" id="C1834V32">34:32</a> Teach me that which I don't see.
</dt>
<dd>
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V33" id="C1834V33">34:33</a> Shall his recompense be as you
desire, that you refuse it?
</dt>
<dd>
For you must choose, and not I.
</dd>
<dd>
Therefore speak what you know.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V34" id="C1834V34">34:34</a> Men of understanding will tell
me,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, every wise man who hears me:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V35" id="C1834V35">34:35</a> 'Job speaks without knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
His words are without wisdom.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V36" id="C1834V36">34:36</a> I wish that Job were tried to the
end,
</dt>
<dd>
because of his answering like wicked men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1834V37" id="C1834V37">34:37</a> For he adds rebellion to his sin.
</dt>
<dd>
He claps his hands among us,
</dd>
<dd>
and multiplies his words against Elohim."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1835V1" id="C1835V1">35:1</a> Moreover Elihu answered,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V2" id="C1835V2">35:2</a> "Do you think this to be your
right,
</dt>
<dd>
or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than Elohim's,'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V3" id="C1835V3">35:3</a> That you ask, 'What advantage will
it be to you?
</dt>
<dd>
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V4" id="C1835V4">35:4</a> I will answer you,
</dt>
<dd>
and your companions with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V5" id="C1835V5">35:5</a> Look to the heavens, and see.
</dt>
<dd>
See the skies, which are higher than you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V6" id="C1835V6">35:6</a> If you have sinned, what effect do
you have against him?
</dt>
<dd>
If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V7" id="C1835V7">35:7</a> If you are righteous, what do you
give him?
</dt>
<dd>
Or what does he receive from your hand?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V8" id="C1835V8">35:8</a> Your wickedness may hurt a man as
you are,
</dt>
<dd>
and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V9" id="C1835V9">35:9</a> "By reason of the multitude of
oppressions they cry out.
</dt>
<dd>
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V10" id="C1835V10">35:10</a> But none says, 'Where is Elohim my
Maker,
</dt>
<dd>
who gives songs in the night,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V11" id="C1835V11">35:11</a> who teaches us more than the
animals of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V12" id="C1835V12">35:12</a> There they cry, but none gives
answer,
</dt>
<dd>
because of the pride of evil men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V13" id="C1835V13">35:13</a> Surely Elohim will not hear an empty
cry,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will the Almighty regard it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V14" id="C1835V14">35:14</a> How much less when you say you
don't see him.
</dt>
<dd>
The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V15" id="C1835V15">35:15</a> But now, because he has not
visited in his anger,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1835V16" id="C1835V16">35:16</a> Therefore Job opens his mouth
with empty talk,
</dt>
<dd>
and he multiplies words without knowledge."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1836V1" id="C1836V1">36:1</a> Elihu also continued, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V2" id="C1836V2">36:2</a> "Bear with me a little, and I
will show you;
</dt>
<dd>
for I still have something to say on Elohim's behalf.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V3" id="C1836V3">36:3</a> I will get my knowledge from afar,
</dt>
<dd>
and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V4" id="C1836V4">36:4</a> For truly my words are not false.
</dt>
<dd>
One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V5" id="C1836V5">36:5</a> "Behold, Elohim is mighty, and
doesn't despise anyone.
</dt>
<dd>
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V6" id="C1836V6">36:6</a> He doesn't preserve the life of the
wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but gives to the afflicted their right.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V7" id="C1836V7">36:7</a> He doesn't withdraw his eyes from
the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but with kings on the throne,
</dd>
<dd>
he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V8" id="C1836V8">36:8</a> If they are bound in fetters,
</dt>
<dd>
and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V9" id="C1836V9">36:9</a> then he shows them their work,
</dt>
<dd>
and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V10" id="C1836V10">36:10</a> He also opens their ears to
instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and commands that they return from iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V11" id="C1836V11">36:11</a> If they listen and serve him,
</dt>
<dd>
they shall spend their days in prosperity,
</dd>
<dd>
and their years in pleasures.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V12" id="C1836V12">36:12</a> But if they don't listen, they
shall perish by the sword;
</dt>
<dd>
they shall die without knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V13" id="C1836V13">36:13</a> "But those who are godless
in heart lay up anger.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't cry for help when he binds them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V14" id="C1836V14">36:14</a> They die in youth.
</dt>
<dd>
Their life perishes among the unclean.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V15" id="C1836V15">36:15</a> He delivers the afflicted by
their affliction,
</dt>
<dd>
and opens their ear in oppression.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V16" id="C1836V16">36:16</a> Yes, he would have allured you
out of distress,
</dt>
<dd>
into a broad place, where there is no restriction.
</dd>
<dd>
That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V17" id="C1836V17">36:17</a> "But you are full of the
judgment of the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Judgment and justice take hold of you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V18" id="C1836V18">36:18</a> Don't let riches entice you to
wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V19" id="C1836V19">36:19</a> Would your wealth sustain you in
distress,
</dt>
<dd>
or all the might of your strength?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V20" id="C1836V20">36:20</a> Don't desire the night,
</dt>
<dd>
when people are cut off in their place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V21" id="C1836V21">36:21</a> Take heed, don't regard iniquity;
</dt>
<dd>
for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V22" id="C1836V22">36:22</a> Behold, Elohim is exalted in his
power.
</dt>
<dd>
Who is a teacher like him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V23" id="C1836V23">36:23</a> Who has prescribed his way for
him?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V24" id="C1836V24">36:24</a> "Remember that you magnify
his work,
</dt>
<dd>
whereof men have sung.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V25" id="C1836V25">36:25</a> All men have looked thereon.
</dt>
<dd>
Man sees it afar off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V26" id="C1836V26">36:26</a> Behold, Elohim is great, and we
don't know him.
</dt>
<dd>
The number of his years is unsearchable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V27" id="C1836V27">36:27</a> For he draws up the drops of
water,
</dt>
<dd>
which distill in rain from his vapor,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V28" id="C1836V28">36:28</a> Which the skies pour down
</dt>
<dd>
and which drop on man abundantly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V29" id="C1836V29">36:29</a> Yes, can any understand the
spreading of the clouds,
</dt>
<dd>
and the thunderings of his pavilion?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V30" id="C1836V30">36:30</a> Behold, he spreads his light
around him.
</dt>
<dd>
He covers the bottom of the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V31" id="C1836V31">36:31</a> For by these he judges the
people.
</dt>
<dd>
He gives food in abundance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V32" id="C1836V32">36:32</a> He covers his hands with the
lightning,
</dt>
<dd>
and commands it to strike the mark.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1836V33" id="C1836V33">36:33</a> Its noise tells about him,
</dt>
<dd>
and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V1" id="C1837V1">37:1</a> "Yes, at this my heart
trembles,
</dt>
<dd>
and is moved out of its place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V2" id="C1837V2">37:2</a> Hear, oh, hear the noise of his
voice,
</dt>
<dd>
the sound that goes out of his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V3" id="C1837V3">37:3</a> He sends it forth under the whole
sky,
</dt>
<dd>
and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V4" id="C1837V4">37:4</a> After it a voice roars.
</dt>
<dd>
He thunders with the voice of his majesty.
</dd>
<dd>
He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V5" id="C1837V5">37:5</a> Elohim thunders marvelously with his
voice.
</dt>
<dd>
He does great things, which we can't comprehend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V6" id="C1837V6">37:6</a> For he says to the snow, 'Fall on
the earth;'
</dt>
<dd>
likewise to the shower of rain,
</dd>
<dd>
and to the showers of his mighty rain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V7" id="C1837V7">37:7</a> He seals up the hand of every man,
</dt>
<dd>
that all men whom he has made may know it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V8" id="C1837V8">37:8</a> Then the animals take cover,
</dt>
<dd>
and remain in their dens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V9" id="C1837V9">37:9</a> Out of its chamber comes the storm,
</dt>
<dd>
and cold out of the north.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V10" id="C1837V10">37:10</a> By the breath of Elohim, ice is
given,
</dt>
<dd>
and the breadth of the waters is frozen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V11" id="C1837V11">37:11</a> Yes, he loads the thick cloud
with moisture.
</dt>
<dd>
He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V12" id="C1837V12">37:12</a> It is turned around by his
guidance,
</dt>
<dd>
that they may do whatever he commands them
</dd>
<dd>
on the surface of the habitable world,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V13" id="C1837V13">37:13</a> Whether it is for correction, or
for his land,
</dt>
<dd>
or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V14" id="C1837V14">37:14</a> "Listen to this, Job.
</dt>
<dd>
Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V15" id="C1837V15">37:15</a> Do you know how Elohim controls
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V16" id="C1837V16">37:16</a> Do you know the workings of the
clouds,
</dt>
<dd>
the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V17" id="C1837V17">37:17</a> You whose clothing is warm,
</dt>
<dd>
when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V18" id="C1837V18">37:18</a> Can you, with him, spread out the
sky,
</dt>
<dd>
which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V19" id="C1837V19">37:19</a> Teach us what we shall tell him,
</dt>
<dd>
for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V20" id="C1837V20">37:20</a> Shall it be told him that I would
speak?
</dt>
<dd>
Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V21" id="C1837V21">37:21</a> Now men don't see the light which
is bright in the skies,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wind passes, and clears them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V22" id="C1837V22">37:22</a> Out of the north comes golden
splendor.
</dt>
<dd>
With Elohim is awesome majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V23" id="C1837V23">37:23</a> We can't reach the Almighty.
</dt>
<dd>
He is exalted in power.
</dd>
<dd>
In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1837V24" id="C1837V24">37:24</a> Therefore men revere him.
</dt>
<dd>
He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1838V1" id="C1838V1">38:1</a> Then Yahweh answered Job out of the
whirlwind,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V2" id="C1838V2">38:2</a> "Who is this who darkens
counsel
</dt>
<dd>
by words without knowledge?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V3" id="C1838V3">38:3</a> Brace yourself like a man,
</dt>
<dd>
for I will question you, then you answer me!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V4" id="C1838V4">38:4</a> "Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth?
</dt>
<dd>
Declare, if you have understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V5" id="C1838V5">38:5</a> Who determined its measures, if you
know?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who stretched the line on it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V6" id="C1838V6">38:6</a> Whereupon were its foundations
fastened?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who laid its cornerstone,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V7" id="C1838V7">38:7</a> when the morning stars sang
together,
</dt>
<dd>
and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V8" id="C1838V8">38:8</a> "Or who shut up the sea with
doors,
</dt>
<dd>
when it broke forth from the womb,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V9" id="C1838V9">38:9</a> when I made clouds its garment,
</dt>
<dd>
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V10" id="C1838V10">38:10</a> marked out for it my bound,
</dt>
<dd>
set bars and doors,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V11" id="C1838V11">38:11</a> and said, 'Here you may come, but
no further.
</dt>
<dd>
Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V12" id="C1838V12">38:12</a> "Have you commanded the
morning in your days,
</dt>
<dd>
and caused the dawn to know its place;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V13" id="C1838V13">38:13</a> that it might take hold of the
ends of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and shake the wicked out of it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V14" id="C1838V14">38:14</a> It is changed as clay under the
seal,
</dt>
<dd>
and stands forth as a garment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V15" id="C1838V15">38:15</a> From the wicked, their light is
withheld.
</dt>
<dd>
The high arm is broken.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V16" id="C1838V16">38:16</a> "Have you entered into the
springs of the sea?
</dt>
<dd>
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V17" id="C1838V17">38:17</a> Have the gates of death been
revealed to you?
</dt>
<dd>
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V18" id="C1838V18">38:18</a> Have you comprehended the earth
in its breadth?
</dt>
<dd>
Declare, if you know it all.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V19" id="C1838V19">38:19</a> "What is the way to the
dwelling of light?
</dt>
<dd>
As for darkness, where is its place,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V20" id="C1838V20">38:20</a> that you should take it to its
bound,
</dt>
<dd>
that you should discern the paths to its house?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V21" id="C1838V21">38:21</a> Surely you know, for you were
born then,
</dt>
<dd>
and the number of your days is great!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V22" id="C1838V22">38:22</a> Have you entered the treasuries
of the snow,
</dt>
<dd>
or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V23" id="C1838V23">38:23</a> which I have reserved against the
time of trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
against the day of battle and war?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V24" id="C1838V24">38:24</a> By what way is the lightning
distributed,
</dt>
<dd>
or the east wind scattered on the earth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V25" id="C1838V25">38:25</a> Who has cut a channel for the
flood water,
</dt>
<dd>
or the path for the thunderstorm;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V26" id="C1838V26">38:26</a> To cause it to rain on a land
where no man is;
</dt>
<dd>
on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V27" id="C1838V27">38:27</a> to satisfy the waste and desolate
ground,
</dt>
<dd>
to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V28" id="C1838V28">38:28</a> Does the rain have a father?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who fathers the drops of dew?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V29" id="C1838V29">38:29</a> Out of whose womb came the ice?
</dt>
<dd>
The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V30" id="C1838V30">38:30</a> The waters become hard like
stone,
</dt>
<dd>
when the surface of the deep is frozen.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V31" id="C1838V31">38:31</a> "Can you bind the cluster of
the Pleiades,
</dt>
<dd>
or loosen the cords of Orion?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V32" id="C1838V32">38:32</a> Can you lead forth the
constellations in their season?
</dt>
<dd>
Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V33" id="C1838V33">38:33</a> Do you know the laws of the
heavens?
</dt>
<dd>
Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V34" id="C1838V34">38:34</a> "Can you lift up your voice
to the clouds,
</dt>
<dd>
That abundance of waters may cover you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V35" id="C1838V35">38:35</a> Can you send forth lightnings,
that they may go?
</dt>
<dd>
Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V36" id="C1838V36">38:36</a> Who has put wisdom in the inward
parts?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who has given understanding to the mind?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V37" id="C1838V37">38:37</a> Who can number the clouds by
wisdom?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V38" id="C1838V38">38:38</a> when the dust runs into a mass,
</dt>
<dd>
and the clods of earth stick together?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V39" id="C1838V39">38:39</a> "Can you hunt the prey for
the lioness,
</dt>
<dd>
or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V40" id="C1838V40">38:40</a> when they crouch in their dens,
</dt>
<dd>
and lie in wait in the thicket?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1838V41" id="C1838V41">38:41</a> Who provides for the raven his
prey,
</dt>
<dd>
when his young ones cry to Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and wander for lack of food?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V1" id="C1839V1">39:1</a> "Do you know the time when the
mountain goats give birth?
</dt>
<dd>
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V2" id="C1839V2">39:2</a> Can you number the months that they
fulfill?
</dt>
<dd>
Or do you know the time when they give birth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V3" id="C1839V3">39:3</a> They bow themselves, they bring
forth their young,
</dt>
<dd>
they end their labor pains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V4" id="C1839V4">39:4</a> Their young ones become strong.
</dt>
<dd>
They grow up in the open field.
</dd>
<dd>
They go forth, and don't return again.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V5" id="C1839V5">39:5</a> "Who has set the wild donkey
free?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V6" id="C1839V6">39:6</a> Whose home I have made the
wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the salt land his dwelling place?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V7" id="C1839V7">39:7</a> He scorns the tumult of the city,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V8" id="C1839V8">39:8</a> The range of the mountains is his
pasture,
</dt>
<dd>
He searches after every green thing.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V9" id="C1839V9">39:9</a> "Will the wild ox be content to
serve you?
</dt>
<dd>
Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V10" id="C1839V10">39:10</a> Can you hold the wild ox in the
furrow with his harness?
</dt>
<dd>
Or will he till the valleys after you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V11" id="C1839V11">39:11</a> Will you trust him, because his
strength is great?
</dt>
<dd>
Or will you leave to him your labor?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V12" id="C1839V12">39:12</a> Will you confide in him, that he
will bring home your seed,
</dt>
<dd>
and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V13" id="C1839V13">39:13</a> "The wings of the ostrich
wave proudly;
</dt>
<dd>
but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V14" id="C1839V14">39:14</a> For she leaves her eggs on the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
warms them in the dust,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V15" id="C1839V15">39:15</a> and forgets that the foot may
crush them,
</dt>
<dd>
or that the wild animal may trample them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V16" id="C1839V16">39:16</a> She deals harshly with her young
ones, as if they were not hers.
</dt>
<dd>
Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V17" id="C1839V17">39:17</a> because Elohim has deprived her of
wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
neither has he imparted to her understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V18" id="C1839V18">39:18</a> When she lifts up herself on
high,
</dt>
<dd>
she scorns the horse and his rider.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V19" id="C1839V19">39:19</a> "Have you given the horse
might?
</dt>
<dd>
Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V20" id="C1839V20">39:20</a> Have you made him to leap as a
locust?
</dt>
<dd>
The glory of his snorting is awesome.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V21" id="C1839V21">39:21</a> He paws in the valley, and
rejoices in his strength.
</dt>
<dd>
He goes out to meet the armed men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V22" id="C1839V22">39:22</a> He mocks at fear, and is not
dismayed,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does he turn back from the sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V23" id="C1839V23">39:23</a> The quiver rattles against him,
</dt>
<dd>
the flashing spear and the javelin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V24" id="C1839V24">39:24</a> He eats up the ground with
fierceness and rage,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V25" id="C1839V25">39:25</a> As often as the trumpet sounds he
snorts, 'Aha!'
</dt>
<dd>
He smells the battle afar off,
</dd>
<dd>
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V26" id="C1839V26">39:26</a> "Is it by your wisdom that
the hawk soars,
</dt>
<dd>
and stretches her wings toward the south?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V27" id="C1839V27">39:27</a> Is it at your command that the
eagle mounts up,
</dt>
<dd>
and makes his nest on high?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V28" id="C1839V28">39:28</a> On the cliff he dwells, and makes
his home,
</dt>
<dd>
on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V29" id="C1839V29">39:29</a> From there he spies out the prey.
</dt>
<dd>
His eyes see it afar off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1839V30" id="C1839V30">39:30</a> His young ones also suck up
blood.
</dt>
<dd>
Where the slain are, there he is."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1840V1" id="C1840V1">40:1</a> Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V2" id="C1840V2">40:2</a> "Shall he who argues contend
with the Almighty?
</dt>
<dd>
He who argues with Elohim, let him answer it."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1840V3" id="C1840V3">40:3</a> Then Job answered Yahweh,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V4" id="C1840V4">40:4</a> "Behold, I am of small account.
What shall I answer you?
</dt>
<dd>
I lay my hand on my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V5" id="C1840V5">40:5</a> I have spoken once, and I will not
answer;
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1840V6" id="C1840V6">40:6</a> Then Yahweh answered Job out of the
whirlwind,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V7" id="C1840V7">40:7</a> "Now brace yourself like a man.
</dt>
<dd>
I will question you, and you will answer me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V8" id="C1840V8">40:8</a> Will you even annul my judgment?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V9" id="C1840V9">40:9</a> Or do you have an arm like Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
Can you thunder with a voice like him?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V10" id="C1840V10">40:10</a> "Now deck yourself with
excellency and dignity.
</dt>
<dd>
Array yourself with honor and majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V11" id="C1840V11">40:11</a> Pour out the fury of your anger.
</dt>
<dd>
Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V12" id="C1840V12">40:12</a> Look at everyone who is proud,
and humble him.
</dt>
<dd>
Crush the wicked in their place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V13" id="C1840V13">40:13</a> Hide them in the dust together.
</dt>
<dd>
Bind their faces in the hidden place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V14" id="C1840V14">40:14</a> Then I will also admit to you
</dt>
<dd>
that your own right hand can save you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V15" id="C1840V15">40:15</a> "See now, behemoth, which I
made as well as you.
</dt>
<dd>
He eats grass as an ox.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V16" id="C1840V16">40:16</a> Look now, his strength is in his
thighs.
</dt>
<dd>
His force is in the muscles of his belly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V17" id="C1840V17">40:17</a> He moves his tail like a cedar.
</dt>
<dd>
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V18" id="C1840V18">40:18</a> His bones are like tubes of
brass.
</dt>
<dd>
His limbs are like bars of iron.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V19" id="C1840V19">40:19</a> He is the chief of the ways of
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
He who made him gives him his sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V20" id="C1840V20">40:20</a> Surely the mountains produce food
for him,
</dt>
<dd>
where all the animals of the field play.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V21" id="C1840V21">40:21</a> He lies under the lotus trees,
</dt>
<dd>
in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V22" id="C1840V22">40:22</a> The lotuses cover him with their
shade.
</dt>
<dd>
The willows of the brook surround him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V23" id="C1840V23">40:23</a> Behold, if a river overflows, he
doesn't tremble.
</dt>
<dd>
He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1840V24" id="C1840V24">40:24</a> Shall any take him when he is on
the watch,
</dt>
<dd>
or pierce through his nose with a snare?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V1" id="C1841V1">41:1</a> "Can you draw out <a href="#N184">Leviathan</a>
with a fishhook,
</dt>
<dd>
or press down his tongue with a cord?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V2" id="C1841V2">41:2</a> Can you put a rope into his nose,
</dt>
<dd>
or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V3" id="C1841V3">41:3</a> Will he make many petitions to you,
</dt>
<dd>
or will he speak soft words to you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V4" id="C1841V4">41:4</a> Will he make a covenant with you,
</dt>
<dd>
that you should take him for a servant forever?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V5" id="C1841V5">41:5</a> Will you play with him as with a
bird?
</dt>
<dd>
Or will you bind him for your girls?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V6" id="C1841V6">41:6</a> Will traders barter for him?
</dt>
<dd>
Will they part him among the merchants?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V7" id="C1841V7">41:7</a> Can you fill his skin with barbed
irons,
</dt>
<dd>
or his head with fish spears?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V8" id="C1841V8">41:8</a> Lay your hand on him.
</dt>
<dd>
Remember the battle, and do so no more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V9" id="C1841V9">41:9</a> Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
</dt>
<dd>
Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V10" id="C1841V10">41:10</a> None is so fierce that he dare
stir him up.
</dt>
<dd>
Who then is he who can stand before me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V11" id="C1841V11">41:11</a> Who has first given to me, that I
should repay him?
</dt>
<dd>
Everything under the heavens is mine.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V12" id="C1841V12">41:12</a> "I will not keep silence
concerning his limbs,
</dt>
<dd>
nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V13" id="C1841V13">41:13</a> Who can strip off his outer
garment?
</dt>
<dd>
Who shall come within his jaws?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V14" id="C1841V14">41:14</a> Who can open the doors of his
face?
</dt>
<dd>
Around his teeth is terror.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V15" id="C1841V15">41:15</a> Strong scales are his pride,
</dt>
<dd>
shut up together with a close seal.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V16" id="C1841V16">41:16</a> One is so near to another,
</dt>
<dd>
that no air can come between them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V17" id="C1841V17">41:17</a> They are joined one to another.
</dt>
<dd>
They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V18" id="C1841V18">41:18</a> His sneezing flashes out light.
</dt>
<dd>
His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V19" id="C1841V19">41:19</a> Out of his mouth go burning
torches.
</dt>
<dd>
Sparks of fire leap forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V20" id="C1841V20">41:20</a> Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
</dt>
<dd>
as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V21" id="C1841V21">41:21</a> His breath kindles coals.
</dt>
<dd>
A flame goes forth from his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V22" id="C1841V22">41:22</a> There is strength in his neck.
</dt>
<dd>
Terror dances before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V23" id="C1841V23">41:23</a> The flakes of his flesh are
joined together.
</dt>
<dd>
They are firm on him.
</dd>
<dd>
They can't be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V24" id="C1841V24">41:24</a> His heart is as firm as a stone,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, firm as the lower millstone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V25" id="C1841V25">41:25</a> When he raises himself up, the
mighty are afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
They retreat before his thrashing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V26" id="C1841V26">41:26</a> If one attacks him with the
sword, it can't prevail;
</dt>
<dd>
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V27" id="C1841V27">41:27</a> He counts iron as straw;
</dt>
<dd>
and brass as rotten wood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V28" id="C1841V28">41:28</a> The arrow can't make him flee.
</dt>
<dd>
Sling stones are like chaff to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V29" id="C1841V29">41:29</a> Clubs are counted as stubble.
</dt>
<dd>
He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V30" id="C1841V30">41:30</a> His undersides are like sharp
potsherds,
</dt>
<dd>
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V31" id="C1841V31">41:31</a> He makes the deep to boil like a
pot.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V32" id="C1841V32">41:32</a> He makes a path shine after him.
</dt>
<dd>
One would think the deep had white hair.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V33" id="C1841V33">41:33</a> On earth there is not his equal,
</dt>
<dd>
that is made without fear.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1841V34" id="C1841V34">41:34</a> He sees everything that is high.
</dt>
<dd>
He is king over all the sons of pride."
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N184" id="N184">[4]</a> <a href="#C1841V1">back to 41:1</a> Leviathan
is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1842V1" id="C1842V1">42:1</a> Then Job answered Yahweh,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1842V2" id="C1842V2">42:2</a> "I know that you can do all
things,
</dt>
<dd>
and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1842V3" id="C1842V3">42:3</a> You asked, 'Who is this who hides
counsel without knowledge?'
</dt>
<dd>
therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand,
</dd>
<dd>
things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1842V4" id="C1842V4">42:4</a> You said, 'Listen, now, and I will
speak;
</dt>
<dd>
I will question you, and you will answer me.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1842V5" id="C1842V5">42:5</a> I had heard of you by the hearing of
the ear,
</dt>
<dd>
but now my eye sees you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1842V6" id="C1842V6">42:6</a> Therefore I abhor myself,
</dt>
<dd>
and repent in dust and ashes."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C1842V7" id="C1842V7">42:7</a> It was so, that after Yahweh had
spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My
wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have
not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. <a
name="C1842V8" id="C1842V8">42:8</a> Now therefore, take to yourselves seven
bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for
yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I
will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you
have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1842V9" id="C1842V9">42:9</a> So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the
Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded
them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1842V10" id="C1842V10">42:10</a> Yahweh turned the captivity of Job,
when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had
before. <a name="C1842V11" id="C1842V11">42:11</a> Then came there to him all
his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his
acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted
him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on
him. Everyone also gave him a <a href="#N185">piece of money,</a> and
everyone a ring of gold.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1842V12" id="C1842V12">42:12</a> So Yahweh blessed the latter end of
Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand
camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. <a
name="C1842V13" id="C1842V13">42:13</a> He had also seven sons and three
daughters. <a name="C1842V14" id="C1842V14">42:14</a> He called the name of
the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of
the third, Keren Happuch. <a name="C1842V15" id="C1842V15">42:15</a> In all
the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their
father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. <a name="C1842V16"
id="C1842V16">42:16</a> After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and
saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations. <a name="C1842V17"
id="C1842V17">42:17</a> So Job died, being old and full of days.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N185" id="N185">[5]</a> <a href="#C1842V11">back to 42:11</a>
literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C291V1" id="C291V1">1:1</a> The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the
son of Pethuel.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C291V2" id="C291V2">1:2</a> Hear this, you elders,
</dt>
<dd>
And listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
</dd>
<dt>
Has this ever happened in your days,
</dt>
<dd>
or in the days of your fathers?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V3" id="C291V3">1:3</a> Tell your children about it,
</dt>
<dd>
and have your children tell their children,
</dd>
<dd>
and their children, another generation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V4" id="C291V4">1:4</a> What the swarming locust has left, the
great locust has eaten.
</dt>
<dd>
What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
</dd>
<dd>
What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V5" id="C291V5">1:5</a> Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
</dt>
<dd>
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;
</dd>
<dd>
for it is cut off from your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V6" id="C291V6">1:6</a> For a nation has come up on my land,
strong, and without number.
</dt>
<dd>
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
</dd>
<dd>
and he has the fangs of a lioness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V7" id="C291V7">1:7</a> He has laid my vine waste,
</dt>
<dd>
and stripped my fig tree.
</dd>
<dd>
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
</dd>
<dd>
Its branches are made white.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V8" id="C291V8">1:8</a> Mourn like a virgin dressed in
sackcloth for the husband of her youth! <a name="C291V9" id="C291V9">1:9</a>
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's
house.
</dt>
<dd>
The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V10" id="C291V10">1:10</a> The field is laid waste.
</dt>
<dd>
The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
</dd>
<dd>
The new wine has dried up,
</dd>
<dd>
and the oil languishes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V11" id="C291V11">1:11</a> Be confounded, you farmers!
</dt>
<dd>
Wail, you vineyard keepers;
</dd>
<dd>
for the wheat and for the barley;
</dd>
<dd>
for the harvest of the field has perished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V12" id="C291V12">1:12</a> The vine has dried up, and the fig
tree withered;
</dt>
<dd>
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
</dd>
<dd>
even all of the trees of the field are withered;
</dd>
<dd>
for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V13" id="C291V13">1:13</a> Put on sackcloth and mourn, you
priests!
</dt>
<dd>
Wail, you ministers of the altar.
</dd>
<dt>
Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your
Elohim's house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V14" id="C291V14">1:14</a> Sanctify a fast.
</dt>
<dd>
Call a solemn assembly.
</dd>
<dd>
Gather the elders,
</dd>
<dd>
and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and cry to Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V15" id="C291V15">1:15</a> Alas for the day!
</dt>
<dd>
For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
</dd>
<dd>
and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V16" id="C291V16">1:16</a> Isn't the food cut off before our
eyes;
</dt>
<dd>
joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V17" id="C291V17">1:17</a> The seeds rot under their clods.
</dt>
<dd>
The granaries are laid desolate.
</dd>
<dd>
The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V18" id="C291V18">1:18</a> How the animals groan!
</dt>
<dd>
The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V19" id="C291V19">1:19</a> Yahweh, I cry to you,
</dt>
<dd>
For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C291V20" id="C291V20">1:20</a> Yes, the animals of the field pant
to you,
</dt>
<dd>
for the water brooks have dried up,
</dd>
<dd>
And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C292V1" id="C292V1">2:1</a> Blow the trumpet in Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
</dd>
<dt>
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
</dt>
<dd>
for the day of Yahweh comes,
</dd>
<dd>
for it is close at hand:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V2" id="C292V2">2:2</a> A day of darkness and gloominess,
</dt>
<dd>
a day of clouds and thick darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
As the dawn spreading on the mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
a great and strong people;
</dd>
<dd>
there has never been the like,
</dd>
<dd>
neither will there be any more after them,
</dd>
<dd>
even to the years of many generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V3" id="C292V3">2:3</a> A fire devours before them,
</dt>
<dd>
and behind them, a flame burns.
</dd>
<dt>
The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
</dt>
<dd>
and behind them, a desolate wilderness.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, and no one has escaped them.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C292V4" id="C292V4">2:4</a> The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses,
</dt>
<dd>
and as horsemen, so do they run.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V5" id="C292V5">2:5</a> Like the noise of chariots on the tops
of the mountains do they leap,
</dt>
<dd>
like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,
</dd>
<dd>
as a strong people set in battle array.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V6" id="C292V6">2:6</a> At their presence the peoples are in
anguish.
</dt>
<dd>
All faces have grown pale.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V7" id="C292V7">2:7</a> They run like mighty men.
</dt>
<dd>
They climb the wall like warriors.
</dd>
<dd>
They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V8" id="C292V8">2:8</a> Neither does one jostle another;
</dt>
<dd>
they march everyone in his path,
</dd>
<dd>
and they burst through the defenses,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't break ranks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V9" id="C292V9">2:9</a> They rush on the city.
</dt>
<dd>
They run on the wall.
</dd>
<dd>
They climb up into the houses.
</dd>
<dd>
They enter in at the windows like thieves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V10" id="C292V10">2:10</a> The earth quakes before them.
</dt>
<dd>
The heavens tremble.
</dd>
<dd>
The sun and the moon are darkened,
</dd>
<dd>
and the stars withdraw their shining.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V11" id="C292V11">2:11</a> Yahweh thunders his voice before his
army;
</dt>
<dd>
for his forces are very great;
</dd>
<dd>
for he is strong who obeys his command;
</dd>
<dd>
for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome,
</dd>
<dd>
and who can endure it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V12" id="C292V12">2:12</a> "Yet even now," says
Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V13" id="C292V13">2:13</a> Tear your heart, and not your
garments,
</dt>
<dd>
and turn to Yahweh, your Elohim;
</dd>
<dd>
for he is gracious and merciful,
</dd>
<dd>
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
</dd>
<dd>
and relents from sending calamity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V14" id="C292V14">2:14</a> Who knows? He may turn and relent,
</dt>
<dd>
and leave a blessing behind him,
</dd>
<dd>
even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V15" id="C292V15">2:15</a> Blow the trumpet in Zion!
</dt>
<dd>
Sanctify a fast.
</dd>
<dd>
Call a solemn assembly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V16" id="C292V16">2:16</a> Gather the people.
</dt>
<dd>
Sanctify the assembly.
</dd>
<dd>
Assemble the elders.
</dd>
<dd>
Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts.
</dd>
<dt>
Let the bridegroom go forth from his room,
</dt>
<dd>
and the bride out of her chamber.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V17" id="C292V17">2:17</a> Let the priests, the ministers of
Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,
</dt>
<dd>
and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't give your heritage to reproach,
</dd>
<dd>
that the nations should rule over them.
</dd>
<dt>
Why should they say among the peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
'Where is their Elohim?'"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V18" id="C292V18">2:18</a> Then Yahweh was jealous for his
land,
</dt>
<dd>
And had pity on his people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V19" id="C292V19">2:19</a> Yahweh answered his people,
</dt>
<dd>
"Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
</dd>
<dd>
and you will be satisfied with them;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V20" id="C292V20">2:20</a> But I will remove the northern army
far away from you,
</dt>
<dd>
and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
</dd>
<dd>
its front into the eastern sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and its back into the western sea;
</dd>
<dd>
and its stench will come up,
</dd>
<dd>
and its bad smell will rise."
</dd>
<dt>
Surely he has done great things.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C292V21" id="C292V21">2:21</a> Land, don't be afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V22" id="C292V22">2:22</a> Don't be afraid, you animals of the
field;
</dt>
<dd>
for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
</dd>
<dd>
for the tree bears its fruit.
</dd>
<dd>
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C292V23" id="C292V23">2:23</a> "Be glad then, you children of
Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and rejoice in Yahweh, your Elohim;
</dd>
<dd>
for he gives you the former rain in just measure,
</dd>
<dd>
and he causes the rain to come down for you,
</dd>
<dd>
the former rain and the latter rain,
</dd>
<dd>
as before.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V24" id="C292V24">2:24</a> The threshing floors will be full of
wheat,
</dt>
<dd>
and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V25" id="C292V25">2:25</a> I will restore to you the years that
the swarming locust has eaten,
</dt>
<dd>
the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,
</dd>
<dd>
my great army, which I sent among you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V26" id="C292V26">2:26</a> You will have plenty to eat, and be
satisfied,
</dt>
<dd>
and will praise the name of Yahweh, your Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
who has dealt wondrously with you;
</dd>
<dd>
and my people will never again be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V27" id="C292V27">2:27</a> You will know that I am in the midst
of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
and that I am Yahweh, your Elohim, and there is no one else;
</dd>
<dd>
and my people will never again be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C292V28" id="C292V28">2:28</a> "It will happen afterward, that
I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
</dt>
<dd>
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
</dd>
<dd>
Your old men will dream dreams.
</dd>
<dd>
Your young men will see visions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V29" id="C292V29">2:29</a> And also on the servants and on the
handmaids in those days,
</dt>
<dd>
I will pour out my Spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V30" id="C292V30">2:30</a> I will show wonders in the heavens
and in the earth:
</dt>
<dd>
blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V31" id="C292V31">2:31</a> The sun will be turned into
darkness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the moon into blood,
</dd>
<dd>
before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C292V32" id="C292V32">2:32</a> It will happen that whoever will
call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved;
</dt>
<dd>
for in Mount Zion and in Yerushalayim there will be those who escape,
</dd>
<dd>
as Yahweh has said,
</dd>
<dd>
and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C293V1" id="C293V1">3:1</a> "For, behold, in those days,
</dt>
<dd>
and in that time,
</dd>
<dd>
when I restore the fortunes of Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V2" id="C293V2">3:2</a> I will gather all nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
</dd>
<dd>
and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
</dd>
<dd>
and for my heritage, Yisrael, whom they have scattered among the nations.
</dd>
<dd>
They have divided my land,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C293V3" id="C293V3">3:3</a> and have cast lots for my people,
</dd>
<dd>
and have given a boy for a prostitute,
</dd>
<dd>
and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C293V4" id="C293V4">3:4</a> "Yes, and what are you to me,
Tyre, and Sidon,
</dt>
<dd>
and all the regions of Philistia?
</dd>
<dt>
Will you repay me?
</dt>
<dd>
And if you repay me,
</dd>
<dd>
I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V5" id="C293V5">3:5</a> Because you have taken my silver and my
gold,
</dt>
<dd>
and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C293V6" id="C293V6">3:6</a> and have sold the children of Yehudah and
the children of Yerushalayim to the sons of the Greeks,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may remove them far from their border.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V7" id="C293V7">3:7</a> Behold, I will stir them up out of the
place where you have sold them,
</dt>
<dd>
and will return your repayment on your own head;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V8" id="C293V8">3:8</a> and I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hands of the children of Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
</dd>
<dd>
to a faraway nation,
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh has spoken it."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C293V9" id="C293V9">3:9</a> Proclaim this among the nations:
</dt>
<dd>
"Prepare for war!
</dd>
<dd>
Stir up the mighty men.
</dd>
<dt>
Let all the warriors draw near.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them come up. <a name="C293V10" id="C293V10">3:10</a> Beat your
plowshares into swords,
</dd>
<dd>
and your pruning hooks into spears.
</dd>
<dd>
Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V11" id="C293V11">3:11</a> Hurry and come, all you surrounding
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and gather yourselves together."
</dd>
<dt>
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C293V12" id="C293V12">3:12</a> "Let the nations arouse
themselves,
</dt>
<dd>
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
</dd>
<dd>
for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V13" id="C293V13">3:13</a> Put in the sickle;
</dt>
<dd>
for the harvest is ripe.
</dd>
<dd>
Come, tread, for the winepress is full,
</dd>
<dd>
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V14" id="C293V14">3:14</a> Multitudes, multitudes in the valley
of decision!
</dt>
<dd>
For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V15" id="C293V15">3:15</a> The sun and the moon are darkened,
</dt>
<dd>
and the stars withdraw their shining.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V16" id="C293V16">3:16</a> Yahweh will roar from Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and thunder from Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dd>
and the heavens and the earth will shake;
</dd>
<dd>
but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
</dd>
<dd>
and a stronghold to the children of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V17" id="C293V17">3:17</a> "So you will know that I am
Yahweh, your Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
</dd>
<dt>
Then Yerushalayim will be holy,
</dt>
<dd>
and no strangers will pass through her any more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V18" id="C293V18">3:18</a> It will happen in that day,
</dt>
<dd>
that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
</dd>
<dd>
the hills will flow with milk,
</dd>
<dd>
all the brooks of Yehudah will flow with waters,
</dd>
<dd>
and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and will water the valley of Shittim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V19" id="C293V19">3:19</a> Egypt will be a desolation,
</dt>
<dd>
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
for the violence done to the children of Yehudah,
</dd>
<dd>
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V20" id="C293V20">3:20</a> But Yehudah will be inhabited forever,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yerushalayim from generation to generation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C293V21" id="C293V21">3:21</a> I will cleanse their blood,
</dt>
<dd>
that I have not cleansed:
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh dwells in Zion."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<html>
<a href=#C431V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C432V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C433V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C434V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C435V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C436V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C437V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C438V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C439V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4310V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4311V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4312V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4313V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4314V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4315V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4316V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C4317V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C4318V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C4319V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C4320V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C4321V1>Chapter 21</a>
<p>
<a name="C431V1" id="C431V1">1:1</a> In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. <a name="C431V2" id="C431V2">1:2</a>
The same was in the beginning with Elohim. <a name="C431V3" id="C431V3">1:3</a>
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that
has been made. <a name="C431V4" id="C431V4">1:4</a> In him was life, and the
life was the light of men. <a name="C431V5" id="C431V5">1:5</a> The light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't <a href="#N431">overcome</a>
it. <a name="C431V6" id="C431V6">1:6</a> There came a man, sent from Elohim,
whose name was John. <a name="C431V7" id="C431V7">1:7</a> The same came as a
witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe
through him. <a name="C431V8" id="C431V8">1:8</a> He was not the light, but
was sent that he might testify about the light. <a name="C431V9" id="C431V9">1:9</a>
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V10" id="C431V10">1:10</a> He was in the world, and the world was
made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. <a name="C431V11"
id="C431V11">1:11</a> He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't
receive him. <a name="C431V12" id="C431V12">1:12</a> But as many as received
him, to them he gave the right to become Elohim's children, to those who
believe in his name: <a name="C431V13" id="C431V13">1:13</a> who were born not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
Elohim. <a name="C431V14" id="C431V14">1:14</a> The Word became flesh, and lived
among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the
Father, full of grace and truth. <a name="C431V15" id="C431V15">1:15</a> John
testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I
said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"
<a name="C431V16" id="C431V16">1:16</a> From his fullness we all received
grace upon grace. <a name="C431V17" id="C431V17">1:17</a> For the Torah was
given through Moshe. Grace and truth came through Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C431V18" id="C431V18">1:18</a> No one has seen Elohim at any time. The one
and only <a href="#N432">Son,</a> who is in the bosom of the Father, he has
declared him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V19" id="C431V19">1:19</a> This is John's testimony, when the
Jews sent priests and Levites from Yerushalayim to ask him, "Who are
you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V20" id="C431V20">1:20</a> He confessed, and didn't deny, but he
confessed, "I am not the Messiah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V21" id="C431V21">1:21</a> They asked him, "What then? Are
you Elijah?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am not."
</p>
<p>
"Are you the prophet?"
</p>
<p>
He answered, "No."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V22" id="C431V22">1:22</a> They said therefore to him, "Who
are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you
say about yourself?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V23" id="C431V23">1:23</a> He said, "I am the voice of one
crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'<sup><a
href="#N433">*</a></sup> as Isaiah the prophet said."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V24" id="C431V24">1:24</a> The ones who had been sent were from
the Pharisees. <a name="C431V25" id="C431V25">1:25</a> They asked him, "Why
then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the
prophet?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V26" id="C431V26">1:26</a> John answered them, "I baptize in
water, but among you stands one whom you don't know. <a name="C431V27"
id="C431V27">1:27</a> He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred
before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." <a
name="C431V28" id="C431V28">1:28</a> These things were done in Bethany beyond
the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V29" id="C431V29">1:29</a> The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to
him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of Elohim, who takes away the sin of
the world! <a name="C431V30" id="C431V30">1:30</a> This is he of whom I said,
'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'
<a name="C431V31" id="C431V31">1:31</a> I didn't know him, but for this reason
I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Yisrael." <a
name="C431V32" id="C431V32">1:32</a> John testified, saying, "I have seen
the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
<a name="C431V33" id="C431V33">1:33</a> I didn't recognize him, but he who
sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the
Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit.' <a name="C431V34" id="C431V34">1:34</a> I have seen, and
have testified that this is the Son of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V35" id="C431V35">1:35</a> Again, the next day, John was standing
with two of his disciples, <a name="C431V36" id="C431V36">1:36</a> and he
looked at Yeshua as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of Elohim!"
<a name="C431V37" id="C431V37">1:37</a> The two disciples heard him speak, and
they followed Yeshua. <a name="C431V38" id="C431V38">1:38</a> Yeshua turned, and
saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted,
Teacher), "where are you staying?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V39" id="C431V39">1:39</a> He said to them, "Come, and see."
</p>
<p>
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.
It was about <a href="#N434">the tenth hour.</a> <a name="C431V40" id="C431V40">1:40</a>
One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's
brother. <a name="C431V41" id="C431V41">1:41</a> He first found his own
brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!"
(which is, being interpreted, <a href="#N435">Messiah</a>). <a name="C431V42"
id="C431V42">1:42</a> He brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him, and
said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas"
(which is by interpretation, Peter). <a name="C431V43" id="C431V43">1:43</a>
On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found
Philip. Yeshua said to him, "Follow me." <a name="C431V44"
id="C431V44">1:44</a> Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew
and Peter. <a name="C431V45" id="C431V45">1:45</a> Philip found Nathanael, and
said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moshe in the Torah, and the
prophets, wrote: Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V46" id="C431V46">1:46</a> Nathanael said to him, "Can any
good thing come out of Nazareth?"
</p>
<p>
Philip said to him, "Come and see."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V47" id="C431V47">1:47</a> Yeshua saw Nathanael coming to him, and
said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V48" id="C431V48">1:48</a> Nathanael said to him, "How do
you know me?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under
the fig tree, I saw you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V49" id="C431V49">1:49</a> Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi,
you are the Son of Elohim! You are King of Yisrael!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C431V50" id="C431V50">1:50</a> Yeshua answered him, "Because I
told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will
see greater things than these!" <a name="C431V51" id="C431V51">1:51</a>
He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see
heaven opened, and the angels of Elohim ascending and descending on the Son
of Man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V1" id="C432V1">2:1</a> The third day, there was a marriage in
Cana of Galilee. Yeshua' mother was there. <a name="C432V2" id="C432V2">2:2</a>
Yeshua also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. <a name="C432V3"
id="C432V3">2:3</a> When the wine ran out, Yeshua' mother said to him, "They
have no wine."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V4" id="C432V4">2:4</a> Yeshua said to her, "Woman, what does
that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V5" id="C432V5">2:5</a> His mother said to the servants, "Whatever
he says to you, do it." <a name="C432V6" id="C432V6">2:6</a> Now there
were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of
purifying, containing <a href="#N436">two or three metretes</a> apiece. <a
name="C432V7" id="C432V7">2:7</a> Yeshua said to them, "Fill the water
pots with water." They filled them up to the brim. <a name="C432V8"
id="C432V8">2:8</a> He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to
the ruler of the feast." So they took it. <a name="C432V9" id="C432V9">2:9</a>
When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't
know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew),
the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, <a name="C432V10" id="C432V10">2:10</a>
and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the
guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good
wine until now!" <a name="C432V11" id="C432V11">2:11</a> This beginning
of his signs Yeshua did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his
disciples believed in him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V12" id="C432V12">2:12</a> After this, he went down to Capernaum,
he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there
a few days. <a name="C432V13" id="C432V13">2:13</a> The Passover of the Jews
was at hand, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim. <a name="C432V14" id="C432V14">2:14</a>
He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the
changers of money sitting. <a name="C432V15" id="C432V15">2:15</a> He made a
whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the
oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
<a name="C432V16" id="C432V16">2:16</a> To those who sold the doves, he said,
"Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a
marketplace!" <a name="C432V17" id="C432V17">2:17</a> His disciples
remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."<sup><a
href="#N437">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V18" id="C432V18">2:18</a> The Jews therefore answered him,
"What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V19" id="C432V19">2:19</a> Yeshua answered them, "Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V20" id="C432V20">2:20</a> The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six
years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
<a name="C432V21" id="C432V21">2:21</a> But he spoke of the temple of his
body. <a name="C432V22" id="C432V22">2:22</a> When therefore he was raised
from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they
believed the Scripture, and the word which Yeshua had said.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C432V23" id="C432V23">2:23</a> Now when he was in Yerushalayim at the
Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs
which he did. <a name="C432V24" id="C432V24">2:24</a> But Yeshua didn't trust
himself to them, because he knew everyone, <a name="C432V25" id="C432V25">2:25</a>
and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he
himself knew what was in man.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V1" id="C433V1">3:1</a> Now there was a man of the Pharisees
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. <a name="C433V2" id="C433V2">3:2</a> The
same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you
are a teacher come from Elohim, for no one can do these signs that you do,
unless Elohim is with him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V3" id="C433V3">3:3</a> Yeshua answered him, "Most certainly,
I tell you, unless one is born <a href="#N438">anew,</a> he can't see the
Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V4" id="C433V4">3:4</a> Nicodemus said to him, "How can a
man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's
womb, and be born?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V5" id="C433V5">3:5</a> Yeshua answered, "Most certainly I
tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the
Kingdom of Elohim! <a name="C433V6" id="C433V6">3:6</a> That which is born of the
flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. <a name="C433V7"
id="C433V7">3:7</a> Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born
anew.' <a name="C433V8" id="C433V8">3:8</a> The <a href="#N439">wind</a> blows
where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes
from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V9" id="C433V9">3:9</a> Nicodemus answered him, "How can
these things be?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V10" id="C433V10">3:10</a> Yeshua answered him, "Are you the
teacher of Yisrael, and don't understand these things? <a name="C433V11"
id="C433V11">3:11</a> Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we
know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our
witness. <a name="C433V12" id="C433V12">3:12</a> If I told you earthly things
and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
<a name="C433V13" id="C433V13">3:13</a> No one has ascended into heaven, but
he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. <a
name="C433V14" id="C433V14">3:14</a> As Moshe lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, <a name="C433V15"
id="C433V15">3:15</a> that whoever believes in him should not perish, but
have eternal life. <a name="C433V16" id="C433V16">3:16</a> For Elohim so loved
the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish, but have eternal life. <a name="C433V17" id="C433V17">3:17</a>
For Elohim didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that
the world should be saved through him. <a name="C433V18" id="C433V18">3:18</a>
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been
judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and
only Son of Elohim. <a name="C433V19" id="C433V19">3:19</a> This is the judgment,
that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather
than the light; for their works were evil. <a name="C433V20" id="C433V20">3:20</a>
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light,
lest his works would be exposed. <a name="C433V21" id="C433V21">3:21</a> But
he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed,
that they have been done in Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V22" id="C433V22">3:22</a> After these things, Yeshua came with
his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and
baptized. <a name="C433V23" id="C433V23">3:23</a> John also was baptizing in
Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were
baptized. <a name="C433V24" id="C433V24">3:24</a> For John was not yet thrown
into prison. <a name="C433V25" id="C433V25">3:25</a> There arose therefore a
questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about
purification. <a name="C433V26" id="C433V26">3:26</a> They came to John, and
said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom
you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to
him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C433V27" id="C433V27">3:27</a> John answered, "A man can receive
nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. <a name="C433V28"
id="C433V28">3:28</a> You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the
Messiah,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' <a name="C433V29" id="C433V29">3:29</a>
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom,
who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's
voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. <a name="C433V30" id="C433V30">3:30</a>
He must increase, but I must decrease. <a name="C433V31" id="C433V31">3:31</a>
He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to
the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
<a name="C433V32" id="C433V32">3:32</a> What he has seen and heard, of that he
testifies; and no one receives his witness. <a name="C433V33" id="C433V33">3:33</a>
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that Elohim is
true. <a name="C433V34" id="C433V34">3:34</a> For he whom Elohim has sent speaks
the words of Elohim; for Elohim gives the Spirit without measure. <a name="C433V35"
id="C433V35">3:35</a> The Father loves the Son, and has given all things
into his hand. <a name="C433V36" id="C433V36">3:36</a> One who believes in the
Son has eternal life, but one who <a href="#N4310">disobeys</a> the Son
won't see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V1" id="C434V1">4:1</a> Therefore when the Lord knew that the
Pharisees had heard that Yeshua was making and baptizing more disciples
than John <a name="C434V2" id="C434V2">4:2</a> (although Yeshua himself didn't
baptize, but his disciples), <a name="C434V3" id="C434V3">4:3</a> he left
Judea, and departed into Galilee. <a name="C434V4" id="C434V4">4:4</a> He
needed to pass through Shomron. <a name="C434V5" id="C434V5">4:5</a> So he
came to a city of Shomron, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. <a name="C434V6" id="C434V6">4:6</a> Jacob's
well was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by
the well. It was about <a href="#N4311">the sixth hour</a>. <a name="C434V7"
id="C434V7">4:7</a> A woman of Shomron came to draw water. Yeshua said to
her, "Give me a drink." <a name="C434V8" id="C434V8">4:8</a> For his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V9" id="C434V9">4:9</a> The Samaritan woman therefore said to
him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a
Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V10" id="C434V10">4:10</a> Yeshua answered her, "If you knew
the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you
would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V11" id="C434V11">4:11</a> The woman said to him, "Sir, you
have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you
that living water? <a name="C434V12" id="C434V12">4:12</a> Are you greater
than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as
did his children, and his livestock?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V13" id="C434V13">4:13</a> Yeshua answered her, "Everyone who
drinks of this water will thirst again, <a name="C434V14" id="C434V14">4:14</a>
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst
again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of
water springing up to eternal life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V15" id="C434V15">4:15</a> The woman said to him, "Sir, give
me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here
to draw."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V16" id="C434V16">4:16</a> Yeshua said to her, "Go, call your
husband, and come here."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V17" id="C434V17">4:17</a> The woman answered, "I have no
husband."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' <a
name="C434V18" id="C434V18">4:18</a> for you have had five husbands; and he
whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V19" id="C434V19">4:19</a> The woman said to him, "Sir, I
perceive that you are a prophet. <a name="C434V20" id="C434V20">4:20</a> Our
fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Yerushalayim is
the place where people ought to worship."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V21" id="C434V21">4:21</a> Yeshua said to her, "Woman,
believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in
Yerushalayim, will you worship the Father. <a name="C434V22" id="C434V22">4:22</a>
You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for
salvation is from the Jews. <a name="C434V23" id="C434V23">4:23</a> But the
hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. <a
name="C434V24" id="C434V24">4:24</a> Elohim is spirit, and those who worship him
must worship in spirit and truth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V25" id="C434V25">4:25</a> The woman said to him, "I know
that Messiah comes," (he who is called Messiah). "When he has
come, he will declare to us all things."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V26" id="C434V26">4:26</a> Yeshua said to her, "I am he, the
one who speaks to you." <a name="C434V27" id="C434V27">4:27</a> At this,
his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet
no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you
speak with her?" <a name="C434V28" id="C434V28">4:28</a> So the woman
left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
<a name="C434V29" id="C434V29">4:29</a> "Come, see a man who told me
everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V30" id="C434V30">4:30</a> They went out of the city, and were
coming to him. <a name="C434V31" id="C434V31">4:31</a> In the meanwhile, the
disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V32" id="C434V32">4:32</a> But he said to them, "I have food
to eat that you don't know about."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V33" id="C434V33">4:33</a> The disciples therefore said one to
another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V34" id="C434V34">4:34</a> Yeshua said to them, "My food is
to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. <a
name="C434V35" id="C434V35">4:35</a> Don't you say, 'There are yet four months
until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the
fields, that they are white for harvest already. <a name="C434V36" id="C434V36">4:36</a>
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both
he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. <a name="C434V37"
id="C434V37">4:37</a> For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another
reaps.' <a name="C434V38" id="C434V38">4:38</a> I sent you to reap that for
which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into
their labor."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V39" id="C434V39">4:39</a> From that city many of the Samaritans
believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He
told me everything that I did." <a name="C434V40" id="C434V40">4:40</a>
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He
stayed there two days. <a name="C434V41" id="C434V41">4:41</a> Many more
believed because of his word. <a name="C434V42" id="C434V42">4:42</a> They
said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for
we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Messiah, the
Savior of the world."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V43" id="C434V43">4:43</a> After the two days he went out from
there and went into Galilee. <a name="C434V44" id="C434V44">4:44</a> For Yeshua
himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. <a
name="C434V45" id="C434V45">4:45</a> So when he came into Galilee, the
Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in
Yerushalayim at the feast, for they also went to the feast. <a name="C434V46"
id="C434V46">4:46</a> Yeshua came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where
he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was
sick at Capernaum. <a name="C434V47" id="C434V47">4:47</a> When he heard that
Yeshua had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him
that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of
death. <a name="C434V48" id="C434V48">4:48</a> Yeshua therefore said to him,
"Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C434V49" id="C434V49">4:49</a> The nobleman said to him, "Sir,
come down before my child dies." <a name="C434V50" id="C434V50">4:50</a>
Yeshua said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man
believed the word that Yeshua spoke to him, and he went his way. <a
name="C434V51" id="C434V51">4:51</a> As he was now going down, his servants
met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" <a name="C434V52"
id="C434V52">4:52</a> So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get
better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the <a href="#N4312">seventh
hour,</a> the fever left him." <a name="C434V53" id="C434V53">4:53</a> So
the father knew that it was at that hour in which Yeshua said to him,
"Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. <a
name="C434V54" id="C434V54">4:54</a> This is again the second sign that Yeshua
did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V1" id="C435V1">5:1</a> After these things, there was a feast of
the Jews, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim. <a name="C435V2" id="C435V2">5:2</a>
Now in Yerushalayim by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in
Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches. <a name="C435V3" id="C435V3">5:3</a>
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or
paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; <a name="C435V4" id="C435V4">5:4</a>
for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and
stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the
water was made whole of whatever disease he had. <a name="C435V5" id="C435V5">5:5</a>
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. <a
name="C435V6" id="C435V6">5:6</a> When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew
that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to
be made well?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V7" id="C435V7">5:7</a> The sick man answered him, "Sir, I
have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but
while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V8" id="C435V8">5:8</a> Yeshua said to him, "Arise, take up
your mat, and walk."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V9" id="C435V9">5:9</a> Immediately, the man was made well, and
took up his mat and walked.
</p>
<p>
Now it was the Shabbat on that day. <a name="C435V10" id="C435V10">5:10</a> So
the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Shabbat. It is not
lawful for you to carry the mat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V11" id="C435V11">5:11</a> He answered them, "He who made me
well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V12" id="C435V12">5:12</a> Then they asked him, "Who is the
man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V13" id="C435V13">5:13</a> But he who was healed didn't know who
it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V14" id="C435V14">5:14</a> Afterward Yeshua found him in the
temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so
that nothing worse happens to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V15" id="C435V15">5:15</a> The man went away, and told the Jews
that it was Yeshua who had made him well. <a name="C435V16" id="C435V16">5:16</a>
For this cause the Jews persecuted Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because
he did these things on the Shabbat. <a name="C435V17" id="C435V17">5:17</a>
But Yeshua answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am
working, too." <a name="C435V18" id="C435V18">5:18</a> For this cause
therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only
broke the Shabbat, but also called Elohim his own Father, making himself
equal with Elohim. <a name="C435V19" id="C435V19">5:19</a> Yeshua therefore
answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does,
these the Son also does likewise. <a name="C435V20" id="C435V20">5:20</a> For
the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he
himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may
marvel. <a name="C435V21" id="C435V21">5:21</a> For as the Father raises the
dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he
desires. <a name="C435V22" id="C435V22">5:22</a> For the Father judges no one,
but he has given all judgment to the Son, <a name="C435V23" id="C435V23">5:23</a>
that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't
honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V24" id="C435V24">5:24</a> "Most certainly I tell you, he
who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and
doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. <a
name="C435V25" id="C435V25">5:25</a> Most certainly, I tell you, the hour
comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of Elohim's voice; and
those who hear will live. <a name="C435V26" id="C435V26">5:26</a> For as the
Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life
in himself. <a name="C435V27" id="C435V27">5:27</a> He also gave him authority
to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. <a name="C435V28" id="C435V28">5:28</a>
Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the
tombs will hear his voice, <a name="C435V29" id="C435V29">5:29</a> and will
come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those
who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. <a name="C435V30"
id="C435V30">5:30</a> I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my
judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of
my Father who sent me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V31" id="C435V31">5:31</a> "If I testify about myself, my
witness is not valid. <a name="C435V32" id="C435V32">5:32</a> It is another
who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about
me is true. <a name="C435V33" id="C435V33">5:33</a> You have sent to John, and
he has testified to the truth. <a name="C435V34" id="C435V34">5:34</a> But the
testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things
that you may be saved. <a name="C435V35" id="C435V35">5:35</a> He was the
burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in
his light. <a name="C435V36" id="C435V36">5:36</a> But the testimony which I
have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me
to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father
has sent me. <a name="C435V37" id="C435V37">5:37</a> The Father himself, who
sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any
time, nor seen his form. <a name="C435V38" id="C435V38">5:38</a> You don't
have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V39" id="C435V39">5:39</a> "You search the Scriptures,
because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they
which testify about me. <a name="C435V40" id="C435V40">5:40</a> Yet you will
not come to me, that you may have life. <a name="C435V41" id="C435V41">5:41</a>
I don't receive glory from men. <a name="C435V42" id="C435V42">5:42</a> But I
know you, that you don't have Elohim's love in yourselves. <a name="C435V43"
id="C435V43">5:43</a> I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive
me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. <a name="C435V44"
id="C435V44">5:44</a> How can you believe, who receive glory from one
another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only Elohim?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C435V45" id="C435V45">5:45</a> "Don't think that I will accuse
you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moshe, on whom you
have set your hope. <a name="C435V46" id="C435V46">5:46</a> For if you
believed Moshe, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. <a
name="C435V47" id="C435V47">5:47</a> But if you don't believe his writings,
how will you believe my words?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V1" id="C436V1">6:1</a> After these things, Yeshua went away to
the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of
Tiberias. <a name="C436V2" id="C436V2">6:2</a> A great multitude followed him,
because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. <a
name="C436V3" id="C436V3">6:3</a> Yeshua went up into the mountain, and he sat
there with his disciples. <a name="C436V4" id="C436V4">6:4</a> Now the
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. <a name="C436V5" id="C436V5">6:5</a>
Yeshua therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was
coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these
may eat?" <a name="C436V6" id="C436V6">6:6</a> This he said to test him,
for he himself knew what he would do.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V7" id="C436V7">6:7</a> Philip answered him, "Two hundred
denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them
may receive a little."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V8" id="C436V8">6:8</a> One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter's brother, said to him, <a name="C436V9" id="C436V9">6:9</a> "There
is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these
among so many?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V10" id="C436V10">6:10</a> Yeshua said, "Have the people sit
down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down,
in number about five thousand. <a name="C436V11" id="C436V11">6:11</a> Yeshua
took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples,
and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the
fish as much as they desired. <a name="C436V12" id="C436V12">6:12</a> When
they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken
pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." <a name="C436V13"
id="C436V13">6:13</a> So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets
with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by
those who had eaten. <a name="C436V14" id="C436V14">6:14</a> When therefore
the people saw the sign which Yeshua did, they said, "This is truly
the prophet who comes into the world." <a name="C436V15" id="C436V15">6:15</a>
Yeshua therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by
force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V16" id="C436V16">6:16</a> When evening came, his disciples went
down to the sea, <a name="C436V17" id="C436V17">6:17</a> and they entered into
the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and
Yeshua had not come to them. <a name="C436V18" id="C436V18">6:18</a> The sea
was tossed by a great wind blowing. <a name="C436V19" id="C436V19">6:19</a>
When therefore they had rowed about <a href="#N4313">twenty-five or thirty
stadia,</a> they saw Yeshua walking on the sea,<sup><a href="#N4314">*</a></sup>
and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. <a name="C436V20"
id="C436V20">6:20</a> But he said to them, "<a href="#N4315">It is I</a>.
Don't be afraid." <a name="C436V21" id="C436V21">6:21</a> They were
willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was
at the land where they were going.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V22" id="C436V22">6:22</a> On the next day, the multitude that
stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there,
except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Yeshua hadn't
entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away
alone. <a name="C436V23" id="C436V23">6:23</a> However boats from Tiberias
came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given
thanks. <a name="C436V24" id="C436V24">6:24</a> When the multitude therefore
saw that Yeshua wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into
the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Yeshua. <a name="C436V25" id="C436V25">6:25</a>
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi,
when did you come here?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V26" id="C436V26">6:26</a> Yeshua answered them, "Most
certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because
you ate of the loaves, and were filled. <a name="C436V27" id="C436V27">6:27</a>
Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to
eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For Elohim the Father
has sealed him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V28" id="C436V28">6:28</a> They said therefore to him, "What
must we do, that we may work the works of Elohim?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V29" id="C436V29">6:29</a> Yeshua answered them, "This is the
work of Elohim, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V30" id="C436V30">6:30</a> They said therefore to him, "What
then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do
you do? <a name="C436V31" id="C436V31">6:31</a> Our fathers ate the manna in
the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of <a href="#N4316">heaven</a>
to eat.'"<sup><a href="#N4317">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V32" id="C436V32">6:32</a> Yeshua therefore said to them, "Most
certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moshe who gave you the bread out of
heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. <a
name="C436V33" id="C436V33">6:33</a> For the bread of Elohim is that which comes
down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V34" id="C436V34">6:34</a> They said therefore to him, "Lord,
always give us this bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V35" id="C436V35">6:35</a> Yeshua said to them, "I am the
bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes
in me will never be thirsty. <a name="C436V36" id="C436V36">6:36</a> But I
told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. <a name="C436V37"
id="C436V37">6:37</a> All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him
who comes to me I will in no way throw out. <a name="C436V38" id="C436V38">6:38</a>
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of
him who sent me. <a name="C436V39" id="C436V39">6:39</a> This is the will of
my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose
nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. <a name="C436V40"
id="C436V40">6:40</a> This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone
who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V41" id="C436V41">6:41</a> The Jews therefore murmured concerning
him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
<a name="C436V42" id="C436V42">6:42</a> They said, "Isn't this Yeshua, the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I
have come down out of heaven?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V43" id="C436V43">6:43</a> Therefore Yeshua answered them, "Don't
murmur among yourselves. <a name="C436V44" id="C436V44">6:44</a> No one can
come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up in the last day. <a name="C436V45" id="C436V45">6:45</a> It is written in
the prophets, 'They will all be taught by Elohim.'<sup><a href="#N4318">*</a></sup>
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to
me. <a name="C436V46" id="C436V46">6:46</a> Not that anyone has seen the
Father, except he who is from Elohim. He has seen the Father. <a name="C436V47"
id="C436V47">6:47</a> Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has
eternal life. <a name="C436V48" id="C436V48">6:48</a> I am the bread of life.
<a name="C436V49" id="C436V49">6:49</a> Your fathers ate the manna in the
wilderness, and they died. <a name="C436V50" id="C436V50">6:50</a> This is the
bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not
die. <a name="C436V51" id="C436V51">6:51</a> I am the living bread which came
down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V52" id="C436V52">6:52</a> The Jews therefore contended with one
another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V53" id="C436V53">6:53</a> Yeshua therefore said to them, "Most
certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. <a name="C436V54" id="C436V54">6:54</a>
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day. <a name="C436V55" id="C436V55">6:55</a> For my
flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. <a name="C436V56"
id="C436V56">6:56</a> He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me,
and I in him. <a name="C436V57" id="C436V57">6:57</a> As the living Father
sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will
also live because of me. <a name="C436V58" id="C436V58">6:58</a> This is the
bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and
died. He who eats this bread will live forever." <a name="C436V59"
id="C436V59">6:59</a> These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V60" id="C436V60">6:60</a> Therefore many of his disciples, when
they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V61" id="C436V61">6:61</a> But Yeshua knowing in himself that his
disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to
stumble? <a name="C436V62" id="C436V62">6:62</a> Then what if you would see
the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? <a name="C436V63" id="C436V63">6:63</a>
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that
I speak to you are spirit, and are life. <a name="C436V64" id="C436V64">6:64</a>
But there are some of you who don't believe." For Yeshua knew from the
beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would
betray him. <a name="C436V65" id="C436V65">6:65</a> He said, "For this
cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to
him by my Father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V66" id="C436V66">6:66</a> At this, many of his disciples went
back, and walked no more with him. <a name="C436V67" id="C436V67">6:67</a>
Yeshua said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away,
do you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V68" id="C436V68">6:68</a> Simon Peter answered him, "Lord,
to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. <a name="C436V69"
id="C436V69">6:69</a> We have come to believe and know that you are the
Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C436V70" id="C436V70">6:70</a> Yeshua answered them, "Didn't I
choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" <a name="C436V71"
id="C436V71">6:71</a> Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for
it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V1" id="C437V1">7:1</a> After these things, Yeshua was walking in
Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill
him. <a name="C437V2" id="C437V2">7:2</a> Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast
of Booths, was at hand. <a name="C437V3" id="C437V3">7:3</a> His brothers
therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that
your disciples also may see your works which you do. <a name="C437V4"
id="C437V4">7:4</a> For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to
be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
<a name="C437V5" id="C437V5">7:5</a> For even his brothers didn't believe in
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V6" id="C437V6">7:6</a> Yeshua therefore said to them, "My
time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. <a name="C437V7"
id="C437V7">7:7</a> The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I
testify about it, that its works are evil. <a name="C437V8" id="C437V8">7:8</a>
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my
time is not yet fulfilled."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V9" id="C437V9">7:9</a> Having said these things to them, he
stayed in Galilee. <a name="C437V10" id="C437V10">7:10</a> But when his
brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but
as it were in secret. <a name="C437V11" id="C437V11">7:11</a> The Jews
therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" <a
name="C437V12" id="C437V12">7:12</a> There was much murmuring among the
multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others
said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." <a
name="C437V13" id="C437V13">7:13</a> Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear
of the Jews. <a name="C437V14" id="C437V14">7:14</a> But when it was now the
midst of the feast, Yeshua went up into the temple and taught. <a
name="C437V15" id="C437V15">7:15</a> The Jews therefore marveled, saying,
"How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V16" id="C437V16">7:16</a> Yeshua therefore answered them, "My
teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. <a name="C437V17" id="C437V17">7:17</a>
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether
it is from Elohim, or if I am speaking from myself. <a name="C437V18" id="C437V18">7:18</a>
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory
of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. <a
name="C437V19" id="C437V19">7:19</a> Didn't Moshe give you the Torah, and yet
none of you keeps the Torah? Why do you seek to kill me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V20" id="C437V20">7:20</a> The multitude answered, "You have
a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V21" id="C437V21">7:21</a> Yeshua answered them, "I did one
work, and you all marvel because of it. <a name="C437V22" id="C437V22">7:22</a>
Moshe has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moshe, but of the
fathers), and on the Shabbat you circumcise a boy. <a name="C437V23"
id="C437V23">7:23</a> If a boy receives circumcision on the Shabbat, that
the Torah of Moshe may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made
a man completely healthy on the Shabbat? <a name="C437V24" id="C437V24">7:24</a>
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V25" id="C437V25">7:25</a> Therefore some of them of Yerushalayim
said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? <a name="C437V26"
id="C437V26">7:26</a> Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him.
Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Messiah? <a
name="C437V27" id="C437V27">7:27</a> However we know where this man comes
from, but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V28" id="C437V28">7:28</a> Yeshua therefore cried out in the
temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am
from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you
don't know. <a name="C437V29" id="C437V29">7:29</a> I know him, because I am
from him, and he sent me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V30" id="C437V30">7:30</a> They sought therefore to take him; but
no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. <a
name="C437V31" id="C437V31">7:31</a> But of the multitude, many believed in
him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than
those which this man has done, will he?" <a name="C437V32" id="C437V32">7:32</a>
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him,
and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V33" id="C437V33">7:33</a> Then Yeshua said, "I will be with
you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. <a name="C437V34"
id="C437V34">7:34</a> You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am,
you can't come."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V35" id="C437V35">7:35</a> The Jews therefore said among
themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he
go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? <a
name="C437V36" id="C437V36">7:36</a> What is this word that he said, 'You will
seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V37" id="C437V37">7:37</a> Now on the last and greatest day of
the feast, Yeshua stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him
come to me and drink! <a name="C437V38" id="C437V38">7:38</a> He who believes
in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of
living water." <a name="C437V39" id="C437V39">7:39</a> But he said this
about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the
Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Yeshua wasn't yet glorified.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V40" id="C437V40">7:40</a> Many of the multitude therefore, when
they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." <a
name="C437V41" id="C437V41">7:41</a> Others said, "This is the Messiah."
But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee? <a
name="C437V42" id="C437V42">7:42</a> Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah
comes of the seed of David,<sup><a href="#N4319">*</a></sup> and from
Bethlehem,<sup><a href="#N4320">*</a></sup> the village where David was?"
<a name="C437V43" id="C437V43">7:43</a> So there arose a division in the
multitude because of him. <a name="C437V44" id="C437V44">7:44</a> Some of them
would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. <a name="C437V45"
id="C437V45">7:45</a> The officers therefore came to the chief priests and
Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V46" id="C437V46">7:46</a> The officers answered, "No man
ever spoke like this man!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V47" id="C437V47">7:47</a> The Pharisees therefore answered them,
"You aren't also led astray, are you? <a name="C437V48" id="C437V48">7:48</a>
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? <a
name="C437V49" id="C437V49">7:49</a> But this multitude that doesn't know the
Torah is accursed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V50" id="C437V50">7:50</a> Nicodemus (he who came to him by
night, being one of them) said to them, <a name="C437V51" id="C437V51">7:51</a>
"Does our Torah judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally
and knows what he does?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V52" id="C437V52">7:52</a> They answered him, "Are you also
from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.<sup><a
href="#N4321">*</a></sup>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C437V53" id="C437V53">7:53</a> Everyone went to his own house, <a
name="C438V1" id="C438V1">8:1</a> but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. <a
name="C438V2" id="C438V2">8:2</a> Now very early in the morning, he came again
into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught
them. <a name="C438V3" id="C438V3">8:3</a> The scribes and the Pharisees
brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, <a
name="C438V4" id="C438V4">8:4</a> they told him, "Teacher, we found this
woman in adultery, in the very act. <a name="C438V5" id="C438V5">8:5</a> Now
in our Torah, Moshe commanded us to stone such.<sup><a href="#N4322">*</a></sup>
What then do you say about her?" <a name="C438V6" id="C438V6">8:6</a>
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him
of.
</p>
<p>
But Yeshua stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. <a
name="C438V7" id="C438V7">8:7</a> But when they continued asking him, he
looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him
throw the first stone at her." <a name="C438V8" id="C438V8">8:8</a> Again
he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V9" id="C438V9">8:9</a> They, when they heard it, being convicted
by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even
to the last. Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the
middle. <a name="C438V10" id="C438V10">8:10</a> Yeshua, standing up, saw her
and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V11" id="C438V11">8:11</a> She said, "No one, Lord."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin
no more."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V12" id="C438V12">8:12</a> Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them,
saying, "I am the light of the world.<sup><a href="#N4323">*</a></sup>
He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light
of life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V13" id="C438V13">8:13</a> The Pharisees therefore said to him,
"You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V14" id="C438V14">8:14</a> Yeshua answered them, "Even if I
testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from,
and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am
going. <a name="C438V15" id="C438V15">8:15</a> You judge according to the
flesh. I judge no one. <a name="C438V16" id="C438V16">8:16</a> Even if I do
judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father
who sent me. <a name="C438V17" id="C438V17">8:17</a> It's also written in your
Torah that the testimony of two people is valid.<sup><a href="#N4324">*</a></sup>
<a name="C438V18" id="C438V18">8:18</a> I am one who testifies about myself,
and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V19" id="C438V19">8:19</a> They said therefore to him, "Where
is your Father?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me,
you would know my Father also." <a name="C438V20" id="C438V20">8:20</a>
Yeshua spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet
no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. <a name="C438V21"
id="C438V21">8:21</a> Yeshua said therefore again to them, "I am going
away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you
can't come."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V22" id="C438V22">8:22</a> The Jews therefore said, "Will he
kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V23" id="C438V23">8:23</a> He said to them, "You are from
beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
<a name="C438V24" id="C438V24">8:24</a> I said therefore to you that you will
die in your sins; for unless you believe that <a href="#N4325">I am</a> he,
you will die in your sins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V25" id="C438V25">8:25</a> They said therefore to him, "Who
are you?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning. <a name="C438V26" id="C438V26">8:26</a> I have many things to speak
and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the
things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V27" id="C438V27">8:27</a> They didn't understand that he spoke
to them about the Father. <a name="C438V28" id="C438V28">8:28</a> Yeshua
therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then
you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father
taught me, I say these things. <a name="C438V29" id="C438V29">8:29</a> He who
sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the
things that are pleasing to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V30" id="C438V30">8:30</a> As he spoke these things, many
believed in him. <a name="C438V31" id="C438V31">8:31</a> Yeshua therefore said
to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then
you are truly my disciples. <a name="C438V32" id="C438V32">8:32</a> You will
know the truth, and the truth will make you free."<sup><a href="#N4326">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V33" id="C438V33">8:33</a> They answered him, "We are
Avraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,
'You will be made free?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V34" id="C438V34">8:34</a> Yeshua answered them, "Most
certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
<a name="C438V35" id="C438V35">8:35</a> A bondservant doesn't live in the
house forever. A son remains forever. <a name="C438V36" id="C438V36">8:36</a>
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. <a
name="C438V37" id="C438V37">8:37</a> I know that you are Avraham's seed, yet
you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. <a name="C438V38"
id="C438V38">8:38</a> I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and
you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V39" id="C438V39">8:39</a> They answered him, "Our father is
Avraham."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "If you were Avraham's children, you would do the
works of Avraham. <a name="C438V40" id="C438V40">8:40</a> But now you seek to
kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from Elohim. Avraham
didn't do this. <a name="C438V41" id="C438V41">8:41</a> You do the works of
your father."
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one
Father, Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V42" id="C438V42">8:42</a> Therefore Yeshua said to them, "If
Elohim were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from
Elohim. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me. <a name="C438V43"
id="C438V43">8:43</a> Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't
hear my word. <a name="C438V44" id="C438V44">8:44</a> You are of your father,
the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there
is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is
a liar, and its father. <a name="C438V45" id="C438V45">8:45</a> But because I
tell the truth, you don't believe me. <a name="C438V46" id="C438V46">8:46</a>
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not
believe me? <a name="C438V47" id="C438V47">8:47</a> He who is of Elohim hears the
words of Elohim. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V48" id="C438V48">8:48</a> Then the Jews answered him, "Don't
we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V49" id="C438V49">8:49</a> Yeshua answered, "I don't have a
demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. <a name="C438V50"
id="C438V50">8:50</a> But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks
and judges. <a name="C438V51" id="C438V51">8:51</a> Most certainly, I tell
you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V52" id="C438V52">8:52</a> Then the Jews said to him, "Now
we know that you have a demon. Avraham died, and the prophets; and you
say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.' <a
name="C438V53" id="C438V53">8:53</a> Are you greater than our father, Avraham,
who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V54" id="C438V54">8:54</a> Yeshua answered, "If I glorify
myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you
say that he is our Elohim. <a name="C438V55" id="C438V55">8:55</a> You have not
known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like
you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. <a name="C438V56" id="C438V56">8:56</a>
Your father Avraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V57" id="C438V57">8:57</a> The Jews therefore said to him, "You
are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Avraham?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V58" id="C438V58">8:58</a> Yeshua said to them, "Most
certainly, I tell you, before Avraham came into existence, <a href="#N4327">I
AM.</a>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C438V59" id="C438V59">8:59</a> Therefore they took up stones to throw
at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone
through the midst of them, and so passed by.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V1" id="C439V1">9:1</a> As he passed by, he saw a man blind from
birth. <a name="C439V2" id="C439V2">9:2</a> His disciples asked him, "Rabbi,
who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V3" id="C439V3">9:3</a> Yeshua answered, "Neither did this
man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of Elohim might be revealed in
him. <a name="C439V4" id="C439V4">9:4</a> I must work the works of him who
sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. <a
name="C439V5" id="C439V5">9:5</a> While I am in the world, I am the light of
the world." <a name="C439V6" id="C439V6">9:6</a> When he had said this,
he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's
eyes with the mud, <a name="C439V7" id="C439V7">9:7</a> and said to him,
"Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent").
So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. <a name="C439V8" id="C439V8">9:8</a>
The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said,
"Isn't this he who sat and begged?" <a name="C439V9" id="C439V9">9:9</a>
Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He
looks like him."
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am he." <a name="C439V10" id="C439V10">9:10</a> They
therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V11" id="C439V11">9:11</a> He answered, "A man called Yeshua
made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and
wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V12" id="C439V12">9:12</a> Then they asked him, "Where is
he?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I don't know."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V13" id="C439V13">9:13</a> They brought him who had been blind to
the Pharisees. <a name="C439V14" id="C439V14">9:14</a> It was a Shabbat when
Yeshua made the mud and opened his eyes. <a name="C439V15" id="C439V15">9:15</a>
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He
said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V16" id="C439V16">9:16</a> Some therefore of the Pharisees said,
"This man is not from Elohim, because he doesn't keep the Shabbat."
Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?"
There was division among them. <a name="C439V17" id="C439V17">9:17</a>
Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him,
because he opened your eyes?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "He is a prophet."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V18" id="C439V18">9:18</a> The Jews therefore did not believe
concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until
they called the parents of him who had received his sight, <a name="C439V19"
id="C439V19">9:19</a> and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say
was born blind? How then does he now see?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V20" id="C439V20">9:20</a> His parents answered them, "We
know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; <a name="C439V21"
id="C439V21">9:21</a> but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his
eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
<a name="C439V22" id="C439V22">9:22</a> His parents said these things because
they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man
would confess him as Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue. <a
name="C439V23" id="C439V23">9:23</a> Therefore his parents said, "He is
of age. Ask him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V24" id="C439V24">9:24</a> So they called the man who was blind a
second time, and said to him, "Give glory to Elohim. We know that this
man is a sinner."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V25" id="C439V25">9:25</a> He therefore answered, "I don't
know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now
I see."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V26" id="C439V26">9:26</a> They said to him again, "What did
he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V27" id="C439V27">9:27</a> He answered them, "I told you
already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You
don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V28" id="C439V28">9:28</a> They insulted him and said, "You
are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moshe. <a name="C439V29" id="C439V29">9:29</a>
We know that Elohim has spoken to Moshe. But as for this man, we don't know
where he comes from."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V30" id="C439V30">9:30</a> The man answered them, "How
amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. <a
name="C439V31" id="C439V31">9:31</a> We know that Elohim doesn't listen to
sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of Elohim, and does his will, he
listens to him.<sup><a href="#N4328">*</a></sup> <a name="C439V32" id="C439V32">9:32</a>
Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the
eyes of someone born blind. <a name="C439V33" id="C439V33">9:33</a> If this
man were not from Elohim, he could do nothing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V34" id="C439V34">9:34</a> They answered him, "You were
altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V35" id="C439V35">9:35</a> Yeshua heard that they had thrown him
out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Elohim?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V36" id="C439V36">9:36</a> He answered, "Who is he, Lord,
that I may believe in him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V37" id="C439V37">9:37</a> Yeshua said to him, "You have both
seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V38" id="C439V38">9:38</a> He said, "Lord, I believe!"
and he worshiped him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V39" id="C439V39">9:39</a> Yeshua said, "I came into this
world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who
see may become blind."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V40" id="C439V40">9:40</a> Those of the Pharisees who were with
him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C439V41" id="C439V41">9:41</a> Yeshua said to them, "If you were
blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your
sin remains.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V1" id="C4310V1">10:1</a> "Most certainly, I tell you, one
who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some
other way, the same is a thief and a robber. <a name="C4310V2" id="C4310V2">10:2</a>
But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. <a
name="C4310V3" id="C4310V3">10:3</a> The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and
leads them out. <a name="C4310V4" id="C4310V4">10:4</a> Whenever he brings out
his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they
know his voice. <a name="C4310V5" id="C4310V5">10:5</a> They will by no means
follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice
of strangers." <a name="C4310V6" id="C4310V6">10:6</a> Yeshua spoke this
parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V7" id="C4310V7">10:7</a> Yeshua therefore said to them again,
"Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. <a name="C4310V8"
id="C4310V8">10:8</a> All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but
the sheep didn't listen to them. <a name="C4310V9" id="C4310V9">10:9</a> I am
the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and
go out, and will find pasture. <a name="C4310V10" id="C4310V10">10:10</a> The
thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly. <a name="C4310V11" id="C4310V11">10:11</a> I
am the good shepherd.<sup><a href="#N4329">*</a></sup> The good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep. <a name="C4310V12" id="C4310V12">10:12</a>
He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep,
sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the
sheep, and scatters them. <a name="C4310V13" id="C4310V13">10:13</a> The hired
hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep. <a
name="C4310V14" id="C4310V14">10:14</a> I am the good shepherd. I know my own,
and I'm known by my own; <a name="C4310V15" id="C4310V15">10:15</a> even as
the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the
sheep. <a name="C4310V16" id="C4310V16">10:16</a> I have other sheep, which
are not of this fold.<sup><a href="#N4330">*</a></sup> I must bring them
also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one
shepherd. <a name="C4310V17" id="C4310V17">10:17</a> Therefore the Father
loves me, because I lay down my life,<sup><a href="#N4331">*</a></sup> that
I may take it again. <a name="C4310V18" id="C4310V18">10:18</a> No one takes
it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down,
and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my
Father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V19" id="C4310V19">10:19</a> Therefore a division arose again
among the Jews because of these words. <a name="C4310V20" id="C4310V20">10:20</a>
Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen
to him?" <a name="C4310V21" id="C4310V21">10:21</a> Others said, "These
are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a
demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"<sup><a href="#N4332">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V22" id="C4310V22">10:22</a> It was the <a href="#N4333">Feast of
the Dedication</a> at Yerushalayim. <a name="C4310V23" id="C4310V23">10:23</a> It
was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. <a
name="C4310V24" id="C4310V24">10:24</a> The Jews therefore came around him and
said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the
Messiah, tell us plainly."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V25" id="C4310V25">10:25</a> Yeshua answered them, "I told
you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these
testify about me. <a name="C4310V26" id="C4310V26">10:26</a> But you don't
believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. <a name="C4310V27"
id="C4310V27">10:27</a> My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me. <a name="C4310V28" id="C4310V28">10:28</a> I give eternal life to
them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
<a name="C4310V29" id="C4310V29">10:29</a> My Father, who has given them to
me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's
hand. <a name="C4310V30" id="C4310V30">10:30</a> I and the Father are one."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V31" id="C4310V31">10:31</a> Therefore Jews took up stones again
to stone him. <a name="C4310V32" id="C4310V32">10:32</a> Yeshua answered them,
"I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those
works do you stone me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V33" id="C4310V33">10:33</a> The Jews answered him, "We
don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a
man, make yourself Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V34" id="C4310V34">10:34</a> Yeshua answered them, "Isn't it
written in your Torah, 'I said, you are gods?'<sup><a href="#N4334">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4310V35" id="C4310V35">10:35</a> If he called them gods, to whom the
word of Elohim came (and the Scripture can't be broken), <a name="C4310V36"
id="C4310V36">10:36</a> do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and
sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of
Elohim?' <a name="C4310V37" id="C4310V37">10:37</a> If I don't do the works of my
Father, don't believe me. <a name="C4310V38" id="C4310V38">10:38</a> But if I
do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know
and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4310V39" id="C4310V39">10:39</a> They sought again to seize him, and
he went out of their hand. <a name="C4310V40" id="C4310V40">10:40</a> He went
away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at
first, and there he stayed. <a name="C4310V41" id="C4310V41">10:41</a> Many
came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that
John said about this man is true." <a name="C4310V42" id="C4310V42">10:42</a>
Many believed in him there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V1" id="C4311V1">11:1</a> Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus
from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. <a
name="C4311V2" id="C4311V2">11:2</a> It was that Mary who had anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother,
Lazarus, was sick. <a name="C4311V3" id="C4311V3">11:3</a> The sisters
therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have
great affection is sick." <a name="C4311V4" id="C4311V4">11:4</a> But
when Yeshua heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for
the glory of Elohim, that Elohim's Son may be glorified by it." <a
name="C4311V5" id="C4311V5">11:5</a> Now Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister,
and Lazarus. <a name="C4311V6" id="C4311V6">11:6</a> When therefore he heard
that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. <a
name="C4311V7" id="C4311V7">11:7</a> Then after this he said to the disciples,
"Let's go into Judea again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V8" id="C4311V8">11:8</a> The disciples told him, "Rabbi,
the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V9" id="C4311V9">11:9</a> Yeshua answered, "Aren't there
twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble,
because he sees the light of this world. <a name="C4311V10" id="C4311V10">11:10</a>
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in
him." <a name="C4311V11" id="C4311V11">11:11</a> He said these things,
and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen
asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V12" id="C4311V12">11:12</a> The disciples therefore said,
"Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V13" id="C4311V13">11:13</a> Now Yeshua had spoken of his death,
but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. <a name="C4311V14"
id="C4311V14">11:14</a> So Yeshua said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is
dead. <a name="C4311V15" id="C4311V15">11:15</a> I am glad for your sakes that
I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V16" id="C4311V16">11:16</a> Thomas therefore, who is called <a
href="#N4335">Didymus,</a> said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go
also, that we may die with him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V17" id="C4311V17">11:17</a> So when Yeshua came, he found that
he had been in the tomb four days already. <a name="C4311V18" id="C4311V18">11:18</a>
Now Bethany was near Yerushalayim, about <a href="#N4336">fifteen stadia</a>
away. <a name="C4311V19" id="C4311V19">11:19</a> Many of the Jews had joined
the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their
brother. <a name="C4311V20" id="C4311V20">11:20</a> Then when Martha heard
that Yeshua was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
<a name="C4311V21" id="C4311V21">11:21</a> Therefore Martha said to Yeshua,
"Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. <a
name="C4311V22" id="C4311V22">11:22</a> Even now I know that, whatever you ask
of Elohim, Elohim will give you." <a name="C4311V23" id="C4311V23">11:23</a>
Yeshua said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V24" id="C4311V24">11:24</a> Martha said to him, "I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V25" id="C4311V25">11:25</a> Yeshua said to her, "I am the
resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if
he dies. <a name="C4311V26" id="C4311V26">11:26</a> Whoever lives and believes
in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V27" id="C4311V27">11:27</a> She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I
have come to believe that you are the Messiah, Elohim's Son, he who comes into
the world."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V28" id="C4311V28">11:28</a> When she had said this, she went
away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is
here, and is calling you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V29" id="C4311V29">11:29</a> When she heard this, she arose
quickly, and went to him. <a name="C4311V30" id="C4311V30">11:30</a> Now Yeshua
had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met
him. <a name="C4311V31" id="C4311V31">11:31</a> Then the Jews who were with
her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she
rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to
the tomb to weep there." <a name="C4311V32" id="C4311V32">11:32</a>
Therefore when Mary came to where Yeshua was, and saw him, she fell down at
his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my
brother wouldn't have died."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V33" id="C4311V33">11:33</a> When Yeshua therefore saw her
weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit,
and was troubled, <a name="C4311V34" id="C4311V34">11:34</a> and said, "Where
have you laid him?"
</p>
<p>
They told him, "Lord, come and see."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V35" id="C4311V35">11:35</a> Yeshua wept.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V36" id="C4311V36">11:36</a> The Jews therefore said, "See
how much affection he had for him!" <a name="C4311V37" id="C4311V37">11:37</a>
Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who
was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V38" id="C4311V38">11:38</a> Yeshua therefore, again groaning in
himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
<a name="C4311V39" id="C4311V39">11:39</a> Yeshua said, "Take away the
stone."
</p>
<p>
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this
time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V40" id="C4311V40">11:40</a> Yeshua said to her, "Didn't I
tell you that if you believed, you would see Elohim's glory?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V41" id="C4311V41">11:41</a> So they took away the stone <a
href="#N4337">from the place where the dead man was lying.</a> Yeshua lifted
up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
<a name="C4311V42" id="C4311V42">11:42</a> I know that you always listen to
me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they
may believe that you sent me." <a name="C4311V43" id="C4311V43">11:43</a>
When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V44" id="C4311V44">11:44</a> He who was dead came out, bound
hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a
cloth.
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V45" id="C4311V45">11:45</a> Therefore many of the Jews, who
came to Mary and saw what Yeshua did, believed in him. <a name="C4311V46"
id="C4311V46">11:46</a> But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and
told them the things which Yeshua had done. <a name="C4311V47" id="C4311V47">11:47</a>
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and
said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. <a
name="C4311V48" id="C4311V48">11:48</a> If we leave him alone like this,
everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both
our place and our nation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V49" id="C4311V49">11:49</a> But a certain one of them,
Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know
nothing at all, <a name="C4311V50" id="C4311V50">11:50</a> nor do you consider
that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and
that the whole nation not perish." <a name="C4311V51" id="C4311V51">11:51</a>
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he
prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation, <a name="C4311V52"
id="C4311V52">11:52</a> and not for the nation only, but that he might also
gather together into one the children of Elohim who are scattered abroad. <a
name="C4311V53" id="C4311V53">11:53</a> So from that day forward they took
counsel that they might put him to death. <a name="C4311V54" id="C4311V54">11:54</a>
Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from
there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He
stayed there with his disciples.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4311V55" id="C4311V55">11:55</a> Now the Passover of the Jews was at
hand. Many went up from the country to Yerushalayim before the Passover, to
purify themselves. <a name="C4311V56" id="C4311V56">11:56</a> Then they sought
for Yeshua and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What
do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?" <a
name="C4311V57" id="C4311V57">11:57</a> Now the chief priests and the
Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report
it, that they might seize him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V1" id="C4312V1">12:1</a> Then six days before the Passover,
Yeshua came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he
raised from the dead. <a name="C4312V2" id="C4312V2">12:2</a> So they made him
a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the
table with him. <a name="C4312V3" id="C4312V3">12:3</a> Mary, therefore, took
a <a href="#N4338">pound</a> of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and
anointed the feet of Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house
was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. <a name="C4312V4" id="C4312V4">12:4</a>
Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray
him, said, <a name="C4312V5" id="C4312V5">12:5</a> "Why wasn't this
ointment sold for <a href="#N4339">three hundred denarii,</a> and given to
the poor?" <a name="C4312V6" id="C4312V6">12:6</a> Now he said this, not
because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the
money box, used to steal what was put into it. <a name="C4312V7" id="C4312V7">12:7</a>
But Yeshua said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my
burial. <a name="C4312V8" id="C4312V8">12:8</a> For you always have the poor
with you, but you don't always have me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V9" id="C4312V9">12:9</a> A large crowd therefore of the Jews
learned that he was there, and they came, not for Yeshua' sake only, but
that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. <a
name="C4312V10" id="C4312V10">12:10</a> But the chief priests conspired to put
Lazarus to death also, <a name="C4312V11" id="C4312V11">12:11</a> because on
account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V12" id="C4312V12">12:12</a> On the next day a great multitude
had come to the feast. When they heard that Yeshua was coming to Yerushalayim,
<a name="C4312V13" id="C4312V13">12:13</a> they took the branches of the palm
trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "<a href="#N4340">Hosanna</a>!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,<sup><a href="#N4341">*</a></sup>
the King of Yisrael!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V14" id="C4312V14">12:14</a> Yeshua, having found a young donkey,
sat on it. As it is written, <a name="C4312V15" id="C4312V15">12:15</a> "Don't
be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a
donkey's colt."<sup><a href="#N4342">*</a></sup> <a name="C4312V16"
id="C4312V16">12:16</a> His disciples didn't understand these things at
first, but when Yeshua was glorified, then they remembered that these
things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
<a name="C4312V17" id="C4312V17">12:17</a> The multitude therefore that was
with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the
dead, was testifying about it. <a name="C4312V18" id="C4312V18">12:18</a> For
this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he
had done this sign. <a name="C4312V19" id="C4312V19">12:19</a> The Pharisees
therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing.
Behold, the world has gone after him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V20" id="C4312V20">12:20</a> Now there were certain Greeks among
those that went up to worship at the feast. <a name="C4312V21" id="C4312V21">12:21</a>
These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and
asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Yeshua." <a name="C4312V22"
id="C4312V22">12:22</a> Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew
came with Philip, and they told Yeshua. <a name="C4312V23" id="C4312V23">12:23</a>
Yeshua answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. <a name="C4312V24" id="C4312V24">12:24</a> Most certainly I tell
you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by
itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. <a name="C4312V25"
id="C4312V25">12:25</a> He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his
life in this world will keep it to eternal life. <a name="C4312V26"
id="C4312V26">12:26</a> If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am,
there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor
him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V27" id="C4312V27">12:27</a> "Now my soul is troubled. What
shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came
to this time. <a name="C4312V28" id="C4312V28">12:28</a> Father, glorify your
name!"
</p>
<p>
Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both
glorified it, and will glorify it again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V29" id="C4312V29">12:29</a> The multitude therefore, who stood
by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel
has spoken to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V30" id="C4312V30">12:30</a> Yeshua answered, "This voice
hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes. <a name="C4312V31" id="C4312V31">12:31</a>
Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be
cast out. <a name="C4312V32" id="C4312V32">12:32</a> And I, if I am lifted up
from the earth, will draw all people to myself." <a name="C4312V33"
id="C4312V33">12:33</a> But he said this, signifying by what kind of death
he should die. <a name="C4312V34" id="C4312V34">12:34</a> The multitude
answered him, "We have heard out of the Torah that the Messiah remains
forever.<sup><a href="#N4343">*</a></sup> How do you say, 'The Son of Man
must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V35" id="C4312V35">12:35</a> Yeshua therefore said to them,
"Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the
light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness
doesn't know where he is going. <a name="C4312V36" id="C4312V36">12:36</a>
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become
children of light." Yeshua said these things, and he departed and hid
himself from them. <a name="C4312V37" id="C4312V37">12:37</a> But though he
had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him, <a
name="C4312V38" id="C4312V38">12:38</a> that the word of Isaiah the prophet
might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Lord, who has believed our report?
</dt>
<dd>
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"<sup><a href="#N4344">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4312V39" id="C4312V39">12:39</a> For this cause they couldn't
believe, for Isaiah said again,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C4312V40" id="C4312V40">12:40</a> "He has blinded their eyes
and he hardened their heart,
</dt>
<dd>
lest they should see with their eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
and perceive with their heart,
</dd>
<dd>
and would turn,
</dd>
<dd>
and I would heal them."<sup><a href="#N4345">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4312V41" id="C4312V41">12:41</a> Isaiah said these things when he
saw his glory, and spoke of him.<sup><a href="#N4346">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4312V42" id="C4312V42">12:42</a> Nevertheless even of the rulers many
believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so
that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, <a name="C4312V43"
id="C4312V43">12:43</a> for they loved men's praise more than Elohim's praise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4312V44" id="C4312V44">12:44</a> Yeshua cried out and said, "Whoever
believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. <a
name="C4312V45" id="C4312V45">12:45</a> He who sees me sees him who sent me.
<a name="C4312V46" id="C4312V46">12:46</a> I have come as a light into the
world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. <a
name="C4312V47" id="C4312V47">12:47</a> If anyone listens to my sayings, and
doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but
to save the world. <a name="C4312V48" id="C4312V48">12:48</a> He who rejects
me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that
I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. <a name="C4312V49"
id="C4312V49">12:49</a> For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent
me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
<a name="C4312V50" id="C4312V50">12:50</a> I know that his commandment is
eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has
said to me, so I speak."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V1" id="C4313V1">13:1</a> Now before the feast of the Passover,
Yeshua, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world
to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them
to the end. <a name="C4313V2" id="C4313V2">13:2</a> After supper, the devil
having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to
betray him, <a name="C4313V3" id="C4313V3">13:3</a> Yeshua, knowing that the
Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from
Elohim, and was going to Elohim, <a name="C4313V4" id="C4313V4">13:4</a> arose from
supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a
towel around his waist. <a name="C4313V5" id="C4313V5">13:5</a> Then he poured
water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel that was wrapped around him. <a name="C4313V6" id="C4313V6">13:6</a>
Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my
feet?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V7" id="C4313V7">13:7</a> Yeshua answered him, "You don't
know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V8" id="C4313V8">13:8</a> Peter said to him, "You will
never wash my feet!"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V9" id="C4313V9">13:9</a> Simon Peter said to him, "Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V10" id="C4313V10">13:10</a> Yeshua said to him, "Someone
who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely
clean. You are clean, but not all of you." <a name="C4313V11"
id="C4313V11">13:11</a> For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he
said, "You are not all clean." <a name="C4313V12" id="C4313V12">13:12</a>
So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat
down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? <a
name="C4313V13" id="C4313V13">13:13</a> You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You
say so correctly, for so I am. <a name="C4313V14" id="C4313V14">13:14</a> If I
then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to
wash one another's feet. <a name="C4313V15" id="C4313V15">13:15</a> For I have
given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. <a
name="C4313V16" id="C4313V16">13:16</a> Most certainly I tell you, a servant
is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who
sent him. <a name="C4313V17" id="C4313V17">13:17</a> If you know these things,
blessed are you if you do them. <a name="C4313V18" id="C4313V18">13:18</a> I
don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the
Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his
heel against me.'<sup><a href="#N4347">*</a></sup> <a name="C4313V19"
id="C4313V19">13:19</a> From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when
it happens, you may believe that I am he. <a name="C4313V20" id="C4313V20">13:20</a>
Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me;
and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V21" id="C4313V21">13:21</a> When Yeshua had said this, he was
troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that
one of you will betray me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V22" id="C4313V22">13:22</a> The disciples looked at one
another, perplexed about whom he spoke. <a name="C4313V23" id="C4313V23">13:23</a>
One of his disciples, whom Yeshua loved, was at the table, leaning against
Yeshua' breast. <a name="C4313V24" id="C4313V24">13:24</a> Simon Peter
therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of
whom he speaks."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V25" id="C4313V25">13:25</a> He, leaning back, as he was, on
Yeshua' breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V26" id="C4313V26">13:26</a> Yeshua therefore answered, "It
is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it."
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of
Simon Iscariot. <a name="C4313V27" id="C4313V27">13:27</a> After the piece of
bread, then Satan entered into him.
</p>
<p>
Then Yeshua said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V28" id="C4313V28">13:28</a> Now no man at the table knew why he
said this to him. <a name="C4313V29" id="C4313V29">13:29</a> For some thought,
because Judas had the money box, that Yeshua said to him, "Buy what
things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to
the poor. <a name="C4313V30" id="C4313V30">13:30</a> Therefore, having
received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V31" id="C4313V31">13:31</a> When he had gone out, Yeshua said,
"Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and Elohim has been glorified in
him. <a name="C4313V32" id="C4313V32">13:32</a> If Elohim has been glorified in
him, Elohim will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him
immediately. <a name="C4313V33" id="C4313V33">13:33</a> Little children, I
will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to
the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you. <a
name="C4313V34" id="C4313V34">13:34</a> A new commandment I give to you, that
you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one
another. <a name="C4313V35" id="C4313V35">13:35</a> By this everyone will know
that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V36" id="C4313V36">13:36</a> Simon Peter said to him, "Lord,
where are you going?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will
follow afterwards."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V37" id="C4313V37">13:37</a> Peter said to him, "Lord, why
can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4313V38" id="C4313V38">13:38</a> Yeshua answered him, "Will you
lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't
crow until you have denied me three times.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V1" id="C4314V1">14:1</a> "Don't let your heart be
troubled. Believe in Elohim. Believe also in me. <a name="C4314V2" id="C4314V2">14:2</a>
In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told
you. I am going to prepare a place for you. <a name="C4314V3" id="C4314V3">14:3</a>
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive
you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. <a name="C4314V4"
id="C4314V4">14:4</a> Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V5" id="C4314V5">14:5</a> Thomas said to him, "Lord, we
don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V6" id="C4314V6">14:6</a> Yeshua said to him, "I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. <a
name="C4314V7" id="C4314V7">14:7</a> If you had known me, you would have known
my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V8" id="C4314V8">14:8</a> Philip said to him, "Lord, show
us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V9" id="C4314V9">14:9</a> Yeshua said to him, "Have I been
with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen
me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' <a
name="C4314V10" id="C4314V10">14:10</a> Don't you believe that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from
myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. <a name="C4314V11"
id="C4314V11">14:11</a> Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake. <a name="C4314V12"
id="C4314V12">14:12</a> Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me,
the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than
these, because I am going to my Father. <a name="C4314V13" id="C4314V13">14:13</a>
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. <a name="C4314V14" id="C4314V14">14:14</a> If you will
ask anything in my name, I will do it. <a name="C4314V15" id="C4314V15">14:15</a>
If you love me, keep my commandments. <a name="C4314V16" id="C4314V16">14:16</a>
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another <a href="#N4348">Counselor,</a>
that he may be with you forever,-- <a name="C4314V17" id="C4314V17">14:17</a>
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him,
neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in
you. <a name="C4314V18" id="C4314V18">14:18</a> I will not leave you orphans.
I will come to you. <a name="C4314V19" id="C4314V19">14:19</a> Yet a little
while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I
live, you will live also. <a name="C4314V20" id="C4314V20">14:20</a> In that
day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. <a
name="C4314V21" id="C4314V21">14:21</a> One who has my commandments, and keeps
them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by
my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V22" id="C4314V22">14:22</a> Judas (not Iscariot) said to him,
"Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us,
and not to the world?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4314V23" id="C4314V23">14:23</a> Yeshua answered him, "If a man
loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come
to him, and make our home with him. <a name="C4314V24" id="C4314V24">14:24</a>
He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear
isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me. <a name="C4314V25" id="C4314V25">14:25</a>
I have said these things to you, while still living with you. <a
name="C4314V26" id="C4314V26">14:26</a> But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and
will remind you of all that I said to you. <a name="C4314V27" id="C4314V27">14:27</a>
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives,
give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be
fearful. <a name="C4314V28" id="C4314V28">14:28</a> You heard how I told you,
'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced,
because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than
I. <a name="C4314V29" id="C4314V29">14:29</a> Now I have told you before it
happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. <a name="C4314V30"
id="C4314V30">14:30</a> I will no more speak much with you, for the prince
of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. <a name="C4314V31" id="C4314V31">14:31</a>
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father
commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4315V1" id="C4315V1">15:1</a> "I am the true vine, and my
Father is the farmer. <a name="C4315V2" id="C4315V2">15:2</a> Every branch in
me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit,
he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. <a name="C4315V3" id="C4315V3">15:3</a>
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to
you. <a name="C4315V4" id="C4315V4">15:4</a> Remain in me, and I in you. As
the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so
neither can you, unless you remain in me. <a name="C4315V5" id="C4315V5">15:5</a>
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him,
the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. <a
name="C4315V6" id="C4315V6">15:6</a> If a man doesn't remain in me, he is
thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them
into the fire, and they are burned. <a name="C4315V7" id="C4315V7">15:7</a> If
you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you
desire, and it will be done for you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4315V8" id="C4315V8">15:8</a> "In this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. <a name="C4315V9"
id="C4315V9">15:9</a> Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved
you. Remain in my love. <a name="C4315V10" id="C4315V10">15:10</a> If you keep
my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and remain in his love. <a name="C4315V11" id="C4315V11">15:11</a>
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be made full.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4315V12" id="C4315V12">15:12</a> "This is my commandment, that
you love one another, even as I have loved you. <a name="C4315V13"
id="C4315V13">15:13</a> Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay
down his life for his friends. <a name="C4315V14" id="C4315V14">15:14</a> You
are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. <a name="C4315V15"
id="C4315V15">15:15</a> No longer do I call you servants, for the servant
doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for
everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. <a
name="C4315V16" id="C4315V16">15:16</a> You didn't choose me, but I chose you,
and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4315V17" id="C4315V17">15:17</a> "I command these things to
you, that you may love one another. <a name="C4315V18" id="C4315V18">15:18</a>
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
<a name="C4315V19" id="C4315V19">15:19</a> If you were of the world, the world
would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose
you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. <a name="C4315V20"
id="C4315V20">15:20</a> Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is
not greater than his lord.'<sup><a href="#N4349">*</a></sup> If they
persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they
will keep yours also. <a name="C4315V21" id="C4315V21">15:21</a> But all these
things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him
who sent me. <a name="C4315V22" id="C4315V22">15:22</a> If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse
for their sin. <a name="C4315V23" id="C4315V23">15:23</a> He who hates me,
hates my Father also. <a name="C4315V24" id="C4315V24">15:24</a> If I hadn't
done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had
sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. <a
name="C4315V25" id="C4315V25">15:25</a> But this happened so that the word may
be fulfilled which was written in their Torah, 'They hated me without a
cause.'<sup><a href="#N4350">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4315V26" id="C4315V26">15:26</a> "When the <a href="#N4351">Counselor</a>
has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth,
who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. <a name="C4315V27"
id="C4315V27">15:27</a> You will also testify, because you have been with me
from the beginning.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V1" id="C4316V1">16:1</a> "These things have I spoken to
you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble. <a name="C4316V2" id="C4316V2">16:2</a>
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever
kills you will think that he offers service to Elohim. <a name="C4316V3"
id="C4316V3">16:3</a> They will do these things<sup><a href="#N4352">*</a></sup>
because they have not known the Father, nor me. <a name="C4316V4" id="C4316V4">16:4</a>
But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may
remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from
the beginning, because I was with you. <a name="C4316V5" id="C4316V5">16:5</a>
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are
you going?' <a name="C4316V6" id="C4316V6">16:6</a> But because I have told
you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. <a name="C4316V7" id="C4316V7">16:7</a>
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away,
for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I
will send him to you. <a name="C4316V8" id="C4316V8">16:8</a> When he has
come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about
judgment; <a name="C4316V9" id="C4316V9">16:9</a> about sin, because they
don't believe in me; <a name="C4316V10" id="C4316V10">16:10</a> about
righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any
more; <a name="C4316V11" id="C4316V11">16:11</a> about judgment, because the
prince of this world has been judged.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V12" id="C4316V12">16:12</a> "I have yet many things to
tell you, but you can't bear them now. <a name="C4316V13" id="C4316V13">16:13</a>
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all
truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will
speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. <a name="C4316V14"
id="C4316V14">16:14</a> He will glorify me, for he will take from what is
mine, and will declare it to you. <a name="C4316V15" id="C4316V15">16:15</a>
All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he <a
href="#N4353">takes</a> of mine, and will declare it to you. <a name="C4316V16"
id="C4316V16">16:16</a> A little while, and you will not see me. Again a
little while, and you will see me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V17" id="C4316V17">16:17</a> Some of his disciples therefore
said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little
while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see
me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'" <a name="C4316V18" id="C4316V18">16:18</a>
They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We
don't know what he is saying."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V19" id="C4316V19">16:19</a> Therefore Yeshua perceived that they
wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among
yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't
see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?' <a name="C4316V20"
id="C4316V20">16:20</a> Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and
lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow
will be turned into joy. <a name="C4316V21" id="C4316V21">16:21</a> A woman,
when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she
has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for
the joy that a human being is born into the world. <a name="C4316V22"
id="C4316V22">16:22</a> Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you
again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away
from you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V23" id="C4316V23">16:23</a> "In that day you will ask me
no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the
Father in my name, he will give it to you. <a name="C4316V24" id="C4316V24">16:24</a>
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive,
that your joy may be made full. <a name="C4316V25" id="C4316V25">16:25</a> I
have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is
coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will
tell you plainly about the Father. <a name="C4316V26" id="C4316V26">16:26</a>
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will
pray to the Father for you, <a name="C4316V27" id="C4316V27">16:27</a> for the
Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed
that I came forth from Elohim. <a name="C4316V28" id="C4316V28">16:28</a> I came
out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the
world, and go to the Father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V29" id="C4316V29">16:29</a> His disciples said to him, "Behold,
now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech. <a name="C4316V30"
id="C4316V30">16:30</a> Now we know that you know all things, and don't need
for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from
Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4316V31" id="C4316V31">16:31</a> Yeshua answered them, "Do you
now believe? <a name="C4316V32" id="C4316V32">16:32</a> Behold, the time is
coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his
own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the
Father is with me. <a name="C4316V33" id="C4316V33">16:33</a> I have told you
these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have
oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4317V1" id="C4317V1">17:1</a> Yeshua said these things, and lifting
up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify
your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; <a name="C4317V2" id="C4317V2">17:2</a>
even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life
to all whom you have given him. <a name="C4317V3" id="C4317V3">17:3</a> This
is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true Elohim, and him
whom you sent, Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C4317V4" id="C4317V4">17:4</a> I
glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have
given me to do. <a name="C4317V5" id="C4317V5">17:5</a> Now, Father, glorify
me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world
existed. <a name="C4317V6" id="C4317V6">17:6</a> I revealed your name to the
people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you
have given them to me. They have kept your word. <a name="C4317V7" id="C4317V7">17:7</a>
Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from
you, <a name="C4317V8" id="C4317V8">17:8</a> for the words which you have
given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure
that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me. <a
name="C4317V9" id="C4317V9">17:9</a> I pray for them. I don't pray for the
world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. <a
name="C4317V10" id="C4317V10">17:10</a> All things that are mine are yours,
and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. <a name="C4317V11"
id="C4317V11">17:11</a> I am no more in the world, but these are in the
world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name
which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. <a
name="C4317V12" id="C4317V12">17:12</a> While I was with them in the world, I
kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of
them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled. <a name="C4317V13" id="C4317V13">17:13</a> But now I come to you,
and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full
in themselves. <a name="C4317V14" id="C4317V14">17:14</a> I have given them
your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. <a name="C4317V15" id="C4317V15">17:15</a> I pray
not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them
from the evil one. <a name="C4317V16" id="C4317V16">17:16</a> They are not of
the world even as I am not of the world. <a name="C4317V17" id="C4317V17">17:17</a>
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.<sup><a href="#N4354">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4317V18" id="C4317V18">17:18</a> As you sent me into the world, even
so I have sent them into the world. <a name="C4317V19" id="C4317V19">17:19</a>
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be
sanctified in truth. <a name="C4317V20" id="C4317V20">17:20</a> Not for these
only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
<a name="C4317V21" id="C4317V21">17:21</a> that they may all be one; even as
you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us;
that the world may believe that you sent me. <a name="C4317V22" id="C4317V22">17:22</a>
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be
one, even as we are one; <a name="C4317V23" id="C4317V23">17:23</a> I in them,
and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may
know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. <a
name="C4317V24" id="C4317V24">17:24</a> Father, I desire that they also whom
you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which
you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. <a
name="C4317V25" id="C4317V25">17:25</a> Righteous Father, the world hasn't
known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. <a
name="C4317V26" id="C4317V26">17:26</a> I made known to them your name, and
will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and I in them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V1" id="C4318V1">18:1</a> When Yeshua had spoken these words, he
went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a
garden, into which he and his disciples entered. <a name="C4318V2" id="C4318V2">18:2</a>
Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Yeshua often met
there with his disciples. <a name="C4318V3" id="C4318V3">18:3</a> Judas then,
having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests
and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. <a
name="C4318V4" id="C4318V4">18:4</a> Yeshua therefore, knowing all the things
that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are
you looking for?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V5" id="C4318V5">18:5</a> They answered him, "Yeshua of
Nazareth."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "I am he."
</p>
<p>
Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. <a name="C4318V6"
id="C4318V6">18:6</a> When therefore he said to them, "I am he,"
they went backward, and fell to the ground.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V7" id="C4318V7">18:7</a> Again therefore he asked them, "Who
are you looking for?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Yeshua of Nazareth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V8" id="C4318V8">18:8</a> Yeshua answered, "I told you that
I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way," <a
name="C4318V9" id="C4318V9">18:9</a> that the word might be fulfilled which he
spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none."<sup><a
href="#N4355">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V10" id="C4318V10">18:10</a> Simon Peter therefore, having a
sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his
right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. <a name="C4318V11" id="C4318V11">18:11</a>
Yeshua therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The
cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V12" id="C4318V12">18:12</a> So the detachment, the commanding
officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Yeshua and bound him, <a
name="C4318V13" id="C4318V13">18:13</a> and led him to Annas first, for he was
father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. <a name="C4318V14"
id="C4318V14">18:14</a> Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was
expedient that one man should perish for the people. <a name="C4318V15"
id="C4318V15">18:15</a> Simon Peter followed Yeshua, as did another disciple.
Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Yeshua
into the court of the high priest; <a name="C4318V16" id="C4318V16">18:16</a>
but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was
known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and
brought in Peter. <a name="C4318V17" id="C4318V17">18:17</a> Then the maid who
kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's
disciples?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am not."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V18" id="C4318V18">18:18</a> Now the servants and the officers
were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They
were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming
himself. <a name="C4318V19" id="C4318V19">18:19</a> The high priest therefore
asked Yeshua about his disciples, and about his teaching. <a name="C4318V20"
id="C4318V20">18:20</a> Yeshua answered him, "I spoke openly to the
world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews
always meet. I said nothing in secret. <a name="C4318V21" id="C4318V21">18:21</a>
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them.
Behold, these know the things which I said."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V22" id="C4318V22">18:22</a> When he had said this, one of the
officers standing by slapped Yeshua with his hand, saying, "Do you
answer the high priest like that?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V23" id="C4318V23">18:23</a> Yeshua answered him, "If I have
spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V24" id="C4318V24">18:24</a> Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas,
the high priest. <a name="C4318V25" id="C4318V25">18:25</a> Now Simon Peter
was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You
aren't also one of his disciples, are you?"
</p>
<p>
He denied it, and said, "I am not."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V26" id="C4318V26">18:26</a> One of the servants of the high
priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't
I see you in the garden with him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V27" id="C4318V27">18:27</a> Peter therefore denied it again,
and immediately the rooster crowed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V28" id="C4318V28">18:28</a> They led Yeshua therefore from
Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't
enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat
the Passover. <a name="C4318V29" id="C4318V29">18:29</a> Pilate therefore went
out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this
man?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V30" id="C4318V30">18:30</a> They answered him, "If this
man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V31" id="C4318V31">18:31</a> Pilate therefore said to them,
"Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your Torah."
</p>
<p>
Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put
anyone to death," <a name="C4318V32" id="C4318V32">18:32</a> that the
word of Yeshua might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind
of death he should die.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V33" id="C4318V33">18:33</a> Pilate therefore entered again into
the Praetorium, called Yeshua, and said to him, "Are you the King of
the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V34" id="C4318V34">18:34</a> Yeshua answered him, "Do you
say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V35" id="C4318V35">18:35</a> Pilate answered, "I'm not a
Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What
have you done?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V36" id="C4318V36">18:36</a> Yeshua answered, "My Kingdom is
not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants
would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom
is not from here."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V37" id="C4318V37">18:37</a> Pilate therefore said to him,
"Are you a king then?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have
been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should
testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V38" id="C4318V38">18:38</a> Pilate said to him, "What is
truth?"
</p>
<p>
When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them,
"I find no basis for a charge against him. <a name="C4318V39"
id="C4318V39">18:39</a> But you have a custom, that I should release someone
to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the
King of the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4318V40" id="C4318V40">18:40</a> Then they all shouted again,
saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V1" id="C4319V1">19:1</a> So Pilate then took Yeshua, and flogged
him. <a name="C4319V2" id="C4319V2">19:2</a> The soldiers twisted thorns into
a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. <a
name="C4319V3" id="C4319V3">19:3</a> They kept saying, "Hail, King of the
Jews!" and they kept slapping him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V4" id="C4319V4">19:4</a> Then Pilate went out again, and said
to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I
find no basis for a charge against him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V5" id="C4319V5">19:5</a> Yeshua therefore came out, wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold,
the man!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V6" id="C4319V6">19:6</a> When therefore the chief priests and
the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"
</p>
<p>
Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I
find no basis for a charge against him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V7" id="C4319V7">19:7</a> The Jews answered him, "We have a
Torah, and by our Torah he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V8" id="C4319V8">19:8</a> When therefore Pilate heard this
saying, he was more afraid. <a name="C4319V9" id="C4319V9">19:9</a> He entered
into the Praetorium again, and said to Yeshua, "Where are you from?"
But Yeshua gave him no answer. <a name="C4319V10" id="C4319V10">19:10</a>
Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you
know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V11" id="C4319V11">19:11</a> Yeshua answered, "You would
have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V12" id="C4319V12">19:12</a> At this, Pilate was seeking to
release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this
man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks
against Caesar!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V13" id="C4319V13">19:13</a> When Pilate therefore heard these
words, he brought Yeshua out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place
called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." <a
name="C4319V14" id="C4319V14">19:14</a> Now it was the Preparation Day of the
Passover, at about <a href="#N4356">the sixth hour.</a> He said to the Jews,
"Behold, your King!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V15" id="C4319V15">19:15</a> They cried out, "Away with
him! Away with him! Crucify him!"
</p>
<p>
Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"
</p>
<p>
The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V16" id="C4319V16">19:16</a> So then he delivered him to them to
be crucified. So they took Yeshua and led him away. <a name="C4319V17"
id="C4319V17">19:17</a> He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called
"The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
<a name="C4319V18" id="C4319V18">19:18</a> where they crucified him, and with
him two others, on either side one, and Yeshua in the middle. <a
name="C4319V19" id="C4319V19">19:19</a> Pilate wrote a title also, and put it
on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE
JEWS." <a name="C4319V20" id="C4319V20">19:20</a> Therefore many of the
Jews read this title, for the place where Yeshua was crucified was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. <a
name="C4319V21" id="C4319V21">19:21</a> The chief priests of the Jews
therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but,
'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V22" id="C4319V22">19:22</a> Pilate answered, "What I have
written, I have written."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V23" id="C4319V23">19:23</a> Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Yeshua, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a
part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top
throughout. <a name="C4319V24" id="C4319V24">19:24</a> Then they said to one
another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it
will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"They parted my garments among them.
</dt>
<dd>
For my cloak they cast lots."<sup><a href="#N4357">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
Therefore the soldiers did these things. <a name="C4319V25" id="C4319V25">19:25</a>
But there were standing by the cross of Yeshua his mother, and his mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. <a name="C4319V26"
id="C4319V26">19:26</a> Therefore when Yeshua saw his mother, and the
disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman,
behold your son!" <a name="C4319V27" id="C4319V27">19:27</a> Then he said
to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the
disciple took her to his own home.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V28" id="C4319V28">19:28</a> After this, Yeshua, <a href="#N4358">seeing</a>
that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
said, "I am thirsty." <a name="C4319V29" id="C4319V29">19:29</a> Now
a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the
vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. <a name="C4319V30" id="C4319V30">19:30</a>
When Yeshua therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is
finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V31" id="C4319V31">19:31</a> Therefore the Jews, because it was
the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on
the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a special one), asked of Pilate that
their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. <a
name="C4319V32" id="C4319V32">19:32</a> Therefore the soldiers came, and broke
the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; <a
name="C4319V33" id="C4319V33">19:33</a> but when they came to Yeshua, and saw
that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. <a name="C4319V34"
id="C4319V34">19:34</a> However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a
spear, and immediately blood and water came out. <a name="C4319V35"
id="C4319V35">19:35</a> He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is
true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. <a
name="C4319V36" id="C4319V36">19:36</a> For these things happened, that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."<sup><a
href="#N4359">*</a></sup> <a name="C4319V37" id="C4319V37">19:37</a> Again
another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."<sup><a
href="#N4360">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4319V38" id="C4319V38">19:38</a> After these things, Joseph of
Arimathaea, being a disciple of Yeshua, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
asked of Pilate that he might take away Yeshua' body. Pilate gave him
permission. He came therefore and took away his body. <a name="C4319V39"
id="C4319V39">19:39</a> Nicodemus, who at first came to Yeshua by night, also
came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about <a href="#N4361">a hundred
pounds.</a> <a name="C4319V40" id="C4319V40">19:40</a> So they took Yeshua'
body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the
Jews is to bury. <a name="C4319V41" id="C4319V41">19:41</a> Now in the place
where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in
which no man had ever yet been laid. <a name="C4319V42" id="C4319V42">19:42</a>
Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand)
they laid Yeshua there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V1" id="C4320V1">20:1</a> Now on the first day of the week, Mary
Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the
stone taken away from the tomb. <a name="C4320V2" id="C4320V2">20:2</a>
Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom
Yeshua loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of
the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V3" id="C4320V3">20:3</a> Therefore Peter and the other disciple
went out, and they went toward the tomb. <a name="C4320V4" id="C4320V4">20:4</a>
They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the
tomb first. <a name="C4320V5" id="C4320V5">20:5</a> Stooping and looking in,
he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in. <a name="C4320V6"
id="C4320V6">20:6</a> Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into
the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, <a name="C4320V7" id="C4320V7">20:7</a>
and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths,
but rolled up in a place by itself. <a name="C4320V8" id="C4320V8">20:8</a> So
then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he
saw and believed. <a name="C4320V9" id="C4320V9">20:9</a> For as yet they
didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. <a
name="C4320V10" id="C4320V10">20:10</a> So the disciples went away again to
their own homes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V11" id="C4320V11">20:11</a> But Mary was standing outside at
the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
<a name="C4320V12" id="C4320V12">20:12</a> and she saw two angels in white
sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Yeshua had
lain. <a name="C4320V13" id="C4320V13">20:13</a> They told her, "Woman,
why are you weeping?"
</p>
<p>
She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't
know where they have laid him." <a name="C4320V14" id="C4320V14">20:14</a>
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing, and
didn't know that it was Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V15" id="C4320V15">20:15</a> Yeshua said to her, "Woman, why
are you weeping? Who are you looking for?"
</p>
<p>
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have
carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him
away."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V16" id="C4320V16">20:16</a> Yeshua said to her, "Mary."
</p>
<p>
She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V17" id="C4320V17">20:17</a> Yeshua said to her, "Don't
touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers,
and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my Elohim and
your Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V18" id="C4320V18">20:18</a> Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to
her. <a name="C4320V19" id="C4320V19">20:19</a> When therefore it was evening,
on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked
where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Yeshua came and
stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V20" id="C4320V20">20:20</a> When he had said this, he showed
them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they
saw the Lord. <a name="C4320V21" id="C4320V21">20:21</a> Yeshua therefore said
to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I
send you." <a name="C4320V22" id="C4320V22">20:22</a> When he had said
this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy
Spirit! <a name="C4320V23" id="C4320V23">20:23</a> Whoever's sins you forgive,
they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been
retained."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V24" id="C4320V24">20:24</a> But Thomas, one of the twelve,
called Didymus, wasn't with them when Yeshua came. <a name="C4320V25"
id="C4320V25">20:25</a> The other disciples therefore said to him, "We
have seen the Lord!"
</p>
<p>
But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V26" id="C4320V26">20:26</a> After eight days again his
disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Yeshua came, the doors
being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
<a name="C4320V27" id="C4320V27">20:27</a> Then he said to Thomas, "Reach
here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into
my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V28" id="C4320V28">20:28</a> Thomas answered him, "My Lord
and my Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V29" id="C4320V29">20:29</a> Yeshua said to him, "Because
you have seen me,<sup><a href="#N4362">*</a></sup> you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4320V30" id="C4320V30">20:30</a> Therefore Yeshua did many other
signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this
book; <a name="C4320V31" id="C4320V31">20:31</a> but these are written, that
you may believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of Elohim, and that
believing you may have life in his name.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V1" id="C4321V1">21:1</a> After these things, Yeshua revealed
himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself
this way. <a name="C4321V2" id="C4321V2">21:2</a> Simon Peter, Thomas called
Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two
others of his disciples were together. <a name="C4321V3" id="C4321V3">21:3</a>
Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing."
</p>
<p>
They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately
went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing. <a
name="C4321V4" id="C4321V4">21:4</a> But when day had already come, Yeshua
stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Yeshua. <a
name="C4321V5" id="C4321V5">21:5</a> Yeshua therefore said to them, "Children,
have you anything to eat?"
</p>
<p>
They answered him, "No."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V6" id="C4321V6">21:6</a> He said to them, "Cast the net on
the right side of the boat, and you will find some."
</p>
<p>
They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the
multitude of fish. <a name="C4321V7" id="C4321V7">21:7</a> That disciple
therefore whom Yeshua loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!"
</p>
<p>
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around
him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. <a name="C4321V8"
id="C4321V8">21:8</a> But the other disciples came in the little boat (for
they were not far from the land, but about <a href="#N4363">two hundred
cubits</a> away), dragging the net full of fish. <a name="C4321V9" id="C4321V9">21:9</a>
So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish
laid on it, and bread. <a name="C4321V10" id="C4321V10">21:10</a> Yeshua said
to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V11" id="C4321V11">21:11</a> Simon Peter went up, and drew the
net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though
there were so many, the net wasn't torn.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V12" id="C4321V12">21:12</a> Yeshua said to them, "Come and
eat breakfast."
</p>
<p>
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?"
knowing that it was the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V13" id="C4321V13">21:13</a> Then Yeshua came and took the bread,
gave it to them, and the fish likewise. <a name="C4321V14" id="C4321V14">21:14</a>
This is now the third time that Yeshua was revealed to his disciples, after
he had risen from the dead. <a name="C4321V15" id="C4321V15">21:15</a> So when
they had eaten their breakfast, Yeshua said to Simon Peter, "Simon,
son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you."
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Feed my lambs." <a name="C4321V16" id="C4321V16">21:16</a>
He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
me?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you."
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "Tend my sheep." <a name="C4321V17" id="C4321V17">21:17</a>
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have
affection for me?"
</p>
<p>
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have
affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything.
You know that I have affection for you."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to him, "Feed my sheep. <a name="C4321V18" id="C4321V18">21:18</a>
Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and
walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out
your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want
to go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V19" id="C4321V19">21:19</a> Now he said this, signifying by
what kind of death he would glorify Elohim. When he had said this, he said to
him, "Follow me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V20" id="C4321V20">21:20</a> Then Peter, turning around, saw a
disciple following. This was the disciple whom Yeshua sincerely loved, the
one who had also leaned on Yeshua' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord,
who is going to betray You?" <a name="C4321V21" id="C4321V21">21:21</a>
Peter seeing him, said to Yeshua, "Lord, what about this man?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4321V22" id="C4321V22">21:22</a> Yeshua said to him, "If I
desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."
<a name="C4321V23" id="C4321V23">21:23</a> This saying therefore went out
among the <a href="#N4364">brothers</a>, that this disciple wouldn't die.
Yet Yeshua didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire
that he stay until I come, what is that to you?" <a name="C4321V24"
id="C4321V24">21:24</a> This is the disciple who testifies about these
things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. <a
name="C4321V25" id="C4321V25">21:25</a> There are also many other things which
Yeshua did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the
world itself wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N431" id="N431">[1]</a> <a href="#C431V5">back to 1:5</a> The word
translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended."
It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N432" id="N432">[2]</a> <a href="#C431V18">back to 1:18</a> NU reads
"Elohim"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N433" id="N433">[3]</a> <a href="#C431V23">back to 1:23</a> Isaiah 40:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N434" id="N434">[4]</a> <a href="#C431V39">back to 1:39</a> 4:00 PM.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N435" id="N435">[5]</a> <a href="#C431V41">back to 1:41</a> "Messiah"
(Hebrew) and "Messiah" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N436" id="N436">[6]</a> <a href="#C432V6">back to 2:6</a> 2 to 3
metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75
to 115 litres.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N437" id="N437">[7]</a> <a href="#C432V17">back to 2:17</a> Psalm 69:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N438" id="N438">[8]</a> <a href="#C433V3">back to 3:3</a> The word
translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means
"again" and "from above".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N439" id="N439">[9]</a> <a href="#C433V8">back to 3:8</a> The same
Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4310" id="N4310">[10]</a> <a href="#C433V36">back to 3:36</a> The same
word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in
this context.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4311" id="N4311">[11]</a> <a href="#C434V6">back to 4:6</a> noon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4312" id="N4312">[12]</a> <a href="#C434V52">back to 4:52</a> 1:00 P.
M.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4313" id="N4313">[13]</a> <a href="#C436V19">back to 6:19</a> 25 to 30
stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4314" id="N4314">[14]</a> <a href="#C436V19">back to 6:19</a> see Job
9:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4315" id="N4315">[15]</a> <a href="#C436V20">back to 6:20</a> or, I AM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4316" id="N4316">[16]</a> <a href="#C436V31">back to 6:31</a> Greek
and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens",
"the sky", and "the air".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4317" id="N4317">[17]</a> <a href="#C436V31">back to 6:31</a> Exodus
16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4318" id="N4318">[18]</a> <a href="#C436V45">back to 6:45</a> Isaiah
54:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4319" id="N4319">[19]</a> <a href="#C437V42">back to 7:42</a> 2 Samuel
7:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4320" id="N4320">[20]</a> <a href="#C437V42">back to 7:42</a> Micah
5:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4321" id="N4321">[21]</a> <a href="#C437V52">back to 7:52</a> See
Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4322" id="N4322">[22]</a> <a href="#C438V5">back to 8:5</a> Leviticus
20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4323" id="N4323">[23]</a> <a href="#C438V12">back to 8:12</a> Isaiah
60:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4324" id="N4324">[24]</a> <a href="#C438V17">back to 8:17</a>
Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4325" id="N4325">[25]</a> <a href="#C438V24">back to 8:24</a> or, I AM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4326" id="N4326">[26]</a> <a href="#C438V32">back to 8:32</a> Psalm
119:45
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4327" id="N4327">[27]</a> <a href="#C438V58">back to 8:58</a> or, I am
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4328" id="N4328">[28]</a> <a href="#C439V31">back to 9:31</a> Psalm
66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4329" id="N4329">[29]</a> <a href="#C4310V11">back to 10:11</a> Isaiah
40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4330" id="N4330">[30]</a> <a href="#C4310V16">back to 10:16</a> Isaiah
56:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4331" id="N4331">[31]</a> <a href="#C4310V17">back to 10:17</a> Isaiah
53:7-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4332" id="N4332">[32]</a> <a href="#C4310V21">back to 10:21</a> Exodus
4:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4333" id="N4333">[33]</a> <a href="#C4310V22">back to 10:22</a> The
"Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for "Hanukkah,"
a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4334" id="N4334">[34]</a> <a href="#C4310V34">back to 10:34</a> Psalm
82:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4335" id="N4335">[35]</a> <a href="#C4311V16">back to 11:16</a> "Didymus"
means "Twin"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4336" id="N4336">[36]</a> <a href="#C4311V18">back to 11:18</a> 15
stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4337" id="N4337">[37]</a> <a href="#C4311V41">back to 11:41</a> NU
omits "from the place where the dead man was lying."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4338" id="N4338">[38]</a> <a href="#C4312V3">back to 12:3</a> a Roman
pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4339" id="N4339">[39]</a> <a href="#C4312V5">back to 12:5</a> 300
denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4340" id="N4340">[40]</a> <a href="#C4312V13">back to 12:13</a> "Hosanna"
means "save us" or "help us, we pray."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4341" id="N4341">[41]</a> <a href="#C4312V13">back to 12:13</a> Psalm
118:25-26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4342" id="N4342">[42]</a> <a href="#C4312V15">back to 12:15</a>
Zechariah 9:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4343" id="N4343">[43]</a> <a href="#C4312V34">back to 12:34</a> Isaiah
9:7; Daniel 2:44 (but see also Isaiah 53:8)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4344" id="N4344">[44]</a> <a href="#C4312V38">back to 12:38</a> Isaiah
53:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4345" id="N4345">[45]</a> <a href="#C4312V40">back to 12:40</a> Isaiah
6:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4346" id="N4346">[46]</a> <a href="#C4312V41">back to 12:41</a> Isaiah
6:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4347" id="N4347">[47]</a> <a href="#C4313V18">back to 13:18</a> Psalm
41:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4348" id="N4348">[48]</a> <a href="#C4314V16">back to 14:16</a> Greek
Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4349" id="N4349">[49]</a> <a href="#C4315V20">back to 15:20</a> John
13:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4350" id="N4350">[50]</a> <a href="#C4315V25">back to 15:25</a> Psalms
35:19; 69:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4351" id="N4351">[51]</a> <a href="#C4315V26">back to 15:26</a> Greek
Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4352" id="N4352">[52]</a> <a href="#C4316V3">back to 16:3</a> TR adds
"to you"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4353" id="N4353">[53]</a> <a href="#C4316V15">back to 16:15</a> TR
reads "will take" instead of "takes"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4354" id="N4354">[54]</a> <a href="#C4317V17">back to 17:17</a> Psalm
119:142
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4355" id="N4355">[55]</a> <a href="#C4318V9">back to 18:9</a> John
6:39
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4356" id="N4356">[56]</a> <a href="#C4319V14">back to 19:14</a> noon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4357" id="N4357">[57]</a> <a href="#C4319V24">back to 19:24</a> Psalm
22:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4358" id="N4358">[58]</a> <a href="#C4319V28">back to 19:28</a> NU, TR
read "knowing" instead of "seeing"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4359" id="N4359">[59]</a> <a href="#C4319V36">back to 19:36</a> Exodus
12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4360" id="N4360">[60]</a> <a href="#C4319V37">back to 19:37</a>
Zechariah 12:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4361" id="N4361">[61]</a> <a href="#C4319V39">back to 19:39</a> 100
Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4362" id="N4362">[62]</a> <a href="#C4320V29">back to 20:29</a> TR
adds " Thomas,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4363" id="N4363">[63]</a> <a href="#C4321V8">back to 21:8</a> 200
cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4364" id="N4364">[64]</a> <a href="#C4321V23">back to 21:23</a> The
word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers
and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
</html>
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<p>
<a name="C321V1" id="C321V1">1:1</a> Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the
son of Amittai, saying, <a name="C321V2" id="C321V2">1:2</a> "Arise, go
to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness
has come up before me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V3" id="C321V3">1:3</a> But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish
from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going
to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them
to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. <a name="C321V4" id="C321V4">1:4</a>
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm
on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. <a name="C321V5"
id="C321V5">1:5</a> Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to
his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to
lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship,
and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. <a name="C321V6" id="C321V6">1:6</a>
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean,
sleeper? Arise, call on your <a href="#N321">Elohim</a>! Maybe your <a
href="#N322">Elohim</a> will notice us, so that we won't perish."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V7" id="C321V7">1:7</a> They all said to each other, "Come,
let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us."
So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. <a name="C321V8" id="C321V8">1:8</a>
Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is
on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your
country? Of what people are you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V9" id="C321V9">1:9</a> He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and
I fear Yahweh, the Elohim of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V10" id="C321V10">1:10</a> Then were the men exceedingly afraid,
and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men
knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told
them. <a name="C321V11" id="C321V11">1:11</a> Then said they to him, "What
shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew
more and more stormy. <a name="C321V12" id="C321V12">1:12</a> He said to them,
"Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for
you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V13" id="C321V13">1:13</a> Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get
them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more
stormy against them. <a name="C321V14" id="C321V14">1:14</a> Therefore they
cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us
not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for
you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you." <a name="C321V15" id="C321V15">1:15</a>
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its
raging. <a name="C321V16" id="C321V16">1:16</a> Then the men feared Yahweh
exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C321V17" id="C321V17">1:17</a> Yahweh prepared a great fish to
swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and
three nights.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N321" id="N321">[1]</a> <a href="#C321V6">back to 1:6</a> or, gods
</p>
<p>
<a name="N322" id="N322">[2]</a> <a href="#C321V6">back to 1:6</a> or, gods
</p>
<p>
<a name="C322V1" id="C322V1">2:1</a> Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his Elohim, out
of the fish's belly. <a name="C322V2" id="C322V2">2:2</a> He said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He answered me.
</dd>
<dt>
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried.
</dt>
<dd>
You heard my voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C322V3" id="C322V3">2:3</a> For you threw me into the depths,
</dt>
<dd>
in the heart of the seas.
</dd>
<dt>
The flood was all around me.
</dt>
<dd>
All your waves and your billows passed over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C322V4" id="C322V4">2:4</a> I said, 'I have been banished from your
sight;
</dt>
<dd>
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C322V5" id="C322V5">2:5</a> The waters surrounded me,
</dt>
<dd>
even to the soul.
</dd>
<dt>
The deep was around me.
</dt>
<dd>
The weeds were wrapped around my head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C322V6" id="C322V6">2:6</a> I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth barred me in forever:
</dd>
<dd>
yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C322V7" id="C322V7">2:7</a> "When my soul fainted within me, I
remembered Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C322V8" id="C322V8">2:8</a> Those who regard lying vanities forsake
their own mercy.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C322V9" id="C322V9">2:9</a> But I will sacrifice to you with the
voice of thanksgiving.
</dd>
<dd>
I will pay that which I have vowed.
</dd>
<dt>
Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C322V10" id="C322V10">2:10</a> Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it
vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C323V1" id="C323V1">3:1</a> The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the
second time, saying, <a name="C323V2" id="C323V2">3:2</a> "Arise, go to
Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C323V3" id="C323V3">3:3</a> So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great
city, three days' journey across. <a name="C323V4" id="C323V4">3:4</a> Jonah
began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said,
"Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C323V5" id="C323V5">3:5</a> The people of Nineveh believed Elohim; and
they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them
even to the least of them. <a name="C323V6" id="C323V6">3:6</a> The news
reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off
his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. <a
name="C323V7" id="C323V7">3:7</a> He made a proclamation and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let
neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed,
nor drink water; <a name="C323V8" id="C323V8">3:8</a> but let them be covered
with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to Elohim.
Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that
is in his hands. <a name="C323V9" id="C323V9">3:9</a> Who knows whether Elohim
will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we
might not perish?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C323V10" id="C323V10">3:10</a> Elohim saw their works, that they turned
from their evil way. Elohim relented of the disaster which he said he would
do to them, and he didn't do it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C324V1" id="C324V1">4:1</a> But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and
he was angry. <a name="C324V2" id="C324V2">4:2</a> He prayed to Yahweh, and
said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my
own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you
are a gracious Elohim, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving
kindness, and you relent of doing harm. <a name="C324V3" id="C324V3">4:3</a>
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better
for me to die than to live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C324V4" id="C324V4">4:4</a> Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to
be angry?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C324V5" id="C324V5">4:5</a> Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat
on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat
under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
<a name="C324V6" id="C324V6">4:6</a> Yahweh Elohim prepared a vine, and made it
to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver
him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the
vine. <a name="C324V7" id="C324V7">4:7</a> But Elohim prepared a worm at dawn the
next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. <a name="C324V8"
id="C324V8">4:8</a> It happened, when the sun arose, that Elohim prepared a
sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted,
and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better
for me to die than to live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C324V9" id="C324V9">4:9</a> Elohim said to Jonah, "Is it right for
you to be angry about the vine?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C324V10" id="C324V10">4:10</a> Yahweh said, "You have been
concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it
grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. <a name="C324V11"
id="C324V11">4:11</a> Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city,
in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
livestock?"
</p>
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| [[Chapter 6|Joshua06]] | [[Chapter 7|Joshua07]] | [[Chapter 8|Joshua08]] | [[Chapter 9|Joshua09]] | [[Chapter 10|Joshua10]] |
| [[Chapter 11|Joshua11]] | [[Chapter 12|Joshua12]] | [[Chapter 13|Joshua13]] | [[Chapter 14|Joshua14]] | [[Chapter 15|Joshua15]] |
| [[Chapter 16|Joshua16]] | [[Chapter 17|Joshua17]] | [[Chapter 18|Joshua18]] | [[Chapter 19|Joshua19]] | [[Chapter 20|Joshua20]] |
| [[Chapter 21|Joshua21]] | [[Chapter 22|Joshua22]] | [[Chapter 23|Joshua23]] | [[Chapter 24|Joshua24]] | |
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<p>
<a name="C061V1" id="C061V1">1:1</a> Now it happened after the death of Moshe
the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to <a href="#N062">Yehoshua</a> the son of Nun, Moshe'
servant, saying, <a name="C061V2" id="C061V2">1:2</a> Moshe my servant is
dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people,
to the land which I give to them, even to the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C061V3" id="C061V3">1:3</a> I have given you every place that the sole
of your foot will tread on, as I told Moshe. <a name="C061V4" id="C061V4">1:4</a>
From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the
going down of the sun, shall be your border. <a name="C061V5" id="C061V5">1:5</a>
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I
was with Moshe, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake
you. <a name="C061V6" id="C061V6">1:6</a> Be strong and of good courage; for
you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their
fathers to give them. <a name="C061V7" id="C061V7">1:7</a> Only be strong and
very courageous, to observe to do according to all the Torah, which Moshe my
servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the
left, that you may have good success wherever you go. <a name="C061V8"
id="C061V8">1:8</a> This book of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth,
but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do
according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way
prosperous, and then you shall have good success. <a name="C061V9" id="C061V9">1:9</a>
Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your Elohim is with you wherever you go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C061V10" id="C061V10">1:10</a> Then Yehoshua commanded the officers of
the people, saying, <a name="C061V11" id="C061V11">1:11</a> "Pass through
the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for
within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess
the land, which Yahweh your Elohim gives you to possess it.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C061V12" id="C061V12">1:12</a> Yehoshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to
the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying, <a name="C061V13"
id="C061V13">1:13</a> "Remember the word which Moshe the servant of
Yahweh commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your Elohim gives you rest, and will
give you this land. <a name="C061V14" id="C061V14">1:14</a> Your wives, your
little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moshe gave
you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed,
all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them <a name="C061V15" id="C061V15">1:15</a>
until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they
have also possessed the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives them. Then you
shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moshe
the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C061V16" id="C061V16">1:16</a> They answered Yehoshua, saying, "All
that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will
go. <a name="C061V17" id="C061V17">1:17</a> Just as we listened to Moshe in
all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your Elohim be with
you, as he was with Moshe. <a name="C061V18" id="C061V18">1:18</a> Whoever
rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in all
that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good
courage."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N062" id="N062">[1]</a> <a href="#C064V23">back to 1:1</a> Yehoshua is Hebrew for Joshua
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V1" id="C062V1">2:1</a> Yehoshua the son of Nun secretly sent two
men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, and Jericho."
They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab,
and slept there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V2" id="C062V2">2:2</a> The king of Jericho was told, "Behold,
men of the children of Yisrael came in here tonight to spy out the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V3" id="C062V3">2:3</a> The king of Jericho sent to Rahab,
saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered
into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V4" id="C062V4">2:4</a> The woman took the two men and hid them.
Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they
came from. <a name="C062V5" id="C062V5">2:5</a> It happened about the time of
the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where
the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake
them." <a name="C062V6" id="C062V6">2:6</a> But she had brought them up
to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in
order on the roof. <a name="C062V7" id="C062V7">2:7</a> The men pursued them
the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them
had gone out, they shut the gate. <a name="C062V8" id="C062V8">2:8</a> Before
they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof; <a name="C062V9"
id="C062V9">2:9</a> and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has
given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that
all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. <a name="C062V10"
id="C062V10">2:10</a> For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the
<a href="#N061">Red Sea</a> before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what
you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to
Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. <a name="C062V11" id="C062V11">2:11</a>
As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain
any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your Elohim, he is Elohim
in heaven above, and on earth beneath. <a name="C062V12" id="C062V12">2:12</a>
Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly
with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give
me a true token; <a name="C062V13" id="C062V13">2:13</a> and that you will
save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that
they have, and will deliver our lives from death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V14" id="C062V14">2:14</a> The men said to her, "Our life
for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be,
when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with
you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V15" id="C062V15">2:15</a> Then she let them down by a cord
through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she
lived on the wall. <a name="C062V16" id="C062V16">2:16</a> She said to them,
"Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves
there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go
your way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V17" id="C062V17">2:17</a> The men said to her, "We will be
guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear. <a
name="C062V18" id="C062V18">2:18</a> Behold, when we come into the land, you
shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us
down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your
mother, your brothers, and all your father's household. <a name="C062V19"
id="C062V19">2:19</a> It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your
house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be
guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our
head, if any hand is on him. <a name="C062V20" id="C062V20">2:20</a> But if
you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your
oath which you have made us to swear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V21" id="C062V21">2:21</a> She said, "According to your
words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the
scarlet line in the window.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C062V22" id="C062V22">2:22</a> They went, and came to the mountain,
and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers
sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them. <a name="C062V23"
id="C062V23">2:23</a> Then the two men returned, descended from the
mountain, passed over, and came to Yehoshua the son of Nun; and they told
him all that had happened to them. <a name="C062V24" id="C062V24">2:24</a>
They said to Yehoshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all
the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N061" id="N061">[1]</a> <a href="#C062V10">back to 2:10</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V1" id="C063V1">3:1</a> Yehoshua rose up early in the morning; and
they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children
of Yisrael. They lodged there before they passed over. <a name="C063V2"
id="C063V2">3:2</a> It happened after three days, that the officers went
through the midst of the camp; <a name="C063V3" id="C063V3">3:3</a> and they
commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh your Elohim, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall
move from your place, and follow it. <a name="C063V4" id="C063V4">3:4</a> Yet
there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by
measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you
must go; for you have not passed this way before."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V5" id="C063V5">3:5</a> Yehoshua said to the people, "Sanctify
yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V6" id="C063V6">3:6</a> Yehoshua spoke to the priests, saying,
"Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people."
They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V7" id="C063V7">3:7</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, "Today I will
begin to magnify you in the sight of all Yisrael, that they may know that
as I was with Moshe, so I will be with you. <a name="C063V8" id="C063V8">3:8</a>
You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying,
'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand
still in the Jordan.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V9" id="C063V9">3:9</a> Yehoshua said to the children of Yisrael,
"Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your Elohim." <a
name="C063V10" id="C063V10">3:10</a> Yehoshua said, "Hereby you shall know
that the living Elohim is among you, and that he will without fail drive the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the
Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. <a
name="C063V11" id="C063V11">3:11</a> Behold, the ark of the covenant of the
Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. <a
name="C063V12" id="C063V12">3:12</a> Now therefore take twelve men out of the
tribes of Yisrael, for every tribe a man. <a name="C063V13" id="C063V13">3:13</a>
It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear
the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the
Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters
that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C063V14" id="C063V14">3:14</a> It happened, when the people moved
from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of
the covenant being before the people, <a name="C063V15" id="C063V15">3:15</a>
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of
the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the
Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), <a name="C063V16"
id="C063V16">3:16</a> that the waters which came down from above stood, and
rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside
Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the
Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against
Jericho. <a name="C063V17" id="C063V17">3:17</a> The priests who bore the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the
Jordan; and all Yisrael passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had
passed completely over the Jordan.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V1" id="C064V1">4:1</a> It happened, when all the nation had
completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Yehoshua, saying, <a
name="C064V2" id="C064V2">4:2</a> "Take twelve men out of the people, out
of every tribe a man, <a name="C064V3" id="C064V3">4:3</a> and command them,
saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where
the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you,
and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V4" id="C064V4">4:4</a> Then Yehoshua called the twelve men, whom
he had prepared of the children of Yisrael, out of every tribe a man. <a
name="C064V5" id="C064V5">4:5</a> Yehoshua said to them, "Pass over before
the ark of Yahweh your Elohim into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you
pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of
the tribes of the children of Yisrael; <a name="C064V6" id="C064V6">4:6</a>
that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to
come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?' <a name="C064V7" id="C064V7">4:7</a>
then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off
before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan,
the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a
memorial to the children of Yisrael forever.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V8" id="C064V8">4:8</a> The children of Yisrael did as Yehoshua
commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as
Yahweh spoke to Yehoshua, according to the number of the tribes of the
children of Yisrael; and they carried them over with them to the place
where they lodged, and laid them down there. <a name="C064V9" id="C064V9">4:9</a>
Yehoshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place
where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and
they are there to this day. <a name="C064V10" id="C064V10">4:10</a> For the
priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until
everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Yehoshua to speak to the
people, according to all that Moshe commanded Yehoshua; and the people
hurried and passed over. <a name="C064V11" id="C064V11">4:11</a> It happened,
when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh
passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V12" id="C064V12">4:12</a> The children of Reuben, and the
children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before
the children of Yisrael, as Moshe spoke to them. <a name="C064V13" id="C064V13">4:13</a>
About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before
Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho. <a name="C064V14" id="C064V14">4:14</a>
On that day, Yahweh magnified Yehoshua in the sight of all Yisrael; and they
feared him, as they feared Moshe, all the days of his life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V15" id="C064V15">4:15</a> Yahweh spoke to Yehoshua, saying, <a
name="C064V16" id="C064V16">4:16</a> "Command the priests who bear the
ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V17" id="C064V17">4:17</a> Yehoshua therefore commanded the
priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan!" <a name="C064V18"
id="C064V18">4:18</a> It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the
soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the
waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks,
as before. <a name="C064V19" id="C064V19">4:19</a> The people came up out of
the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on
the east border of Jericho.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C064V20" id="C064V20">4:20</a> Yehoshua set up those twelve stones,
which they took out of the Jordan, n Gilgal. <a name="C064V21" id="C064V21">4:21</a>
He spoke to the children of Yisrael, saying, "When your children ask
their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?' <a
name="C064V22" id="C064V22">4:22</a> Then you shall let your children know,
saying, 'Yisrael came over this Jordan on dry land. <a name="C064V23"
id="C064V23">4:23</a> For Yahweh your Elohim dried up the waters of the Jordan
from before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your Elohim did to the
<a href="#N062">Red Sea</a>, which he dried up from before us, until we had
passed over; <a name="C064V24" id="C064V24">4:24</a> that all the peoples of
the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may
fear Yahweh your Elohim forever.'"
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N062" id="N062">[2]</a> <a href="#C064V23">back to 4:23</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C065V1" id="C065V1">5:1</a> It happened, when all the kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the
waters of the Jordan from before the children of Yisrael, until we had
passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any
more, because of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C065V2" id="C065V2">5:2</a>
At that time, Yahweh said to Yehoshua, "Make flint knives, and
circumcise again the children of Yisrael the second time." <a
name="C065V3" id="C065V3">5:3</a> Yehoshua made himself flint knives, and
circumcised the children of Yisrael at the hill of the foreskins. <a
name="C065V4" id="C065V4">5:4</a> This is the reason Yehoshua circumcised: all
the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war,
died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. <a
name="C065V5" id="C065V5">5:5</a> For all the people who came out were
circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way
as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. <a name="C065V6"
id="C065V6">5:6</a> For the children of Yisrael walked forty years in the
wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of
Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh.
Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh
swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and
honey. <a name="C065V7" id="C065V7">5:7</a> Their children, whom he raised up
in their place, were circumcised by Yehoshua; for they were uncircumcised,
because they had not circumcised them on the way. <a name="C065V8" id="C065V8">5:8</a>
It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they
stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C065V9" id="C065V9">5:9</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, "Today I have
rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name
of that place was called <a href="#N063">Gilgal,</a> to this day. <a
name="C065V10" id="C065V10">5:10</a> The children of Yisrael encamped in
Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening in the plains of Jericho. <a name="C065V11" id="C065V11">5:11</a> They
ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the
next day after the Passover, in the same day. <a name="C065V12" id="C065V12">5:12</a>
The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of
the land. The children of Yisrael didn't have manna any more; but they ate
of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C065V13" id="C065V13">5:13</a> It happened, when Yehoshua was by
Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in
front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Yehoshua went to him, and
said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C065V14" id="C065V14">5:14</a> He said, "No; but I have come now
as commander of Yahweh's army."
</p>
<p>
Yehoshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him,
"What does my lord say to his servant?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C065V15" id="C065V15">5:15</a> The prince of Yahweh's army said to
Yehoshua, "Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you
stand is holy." Yehoshua did so.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N063" id="N063">[3]</a> <a href="#C065V9">back to 5:9</a> "Gilgal"
sounds like the Hebrew for "roll."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V1" id="C066V1">6:1</a> Now Jericho was tightly shut up because
of the children of Yisrael. No one went out, and no one came in. <a
name="C066V2" id="C066V2">6:2</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, "Behold, I have
given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
<a name="C066V3" id="C066V3">6:3</a> All your men of war shall march around
the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. <a
name="C066V4" id="C066V4">6:4</a> Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of
rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the
city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. <a name="C066V5"
id="C066V5">6:5</a> It shall be that when they make a long blast with the
ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people
shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down
flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V6" id="C066V6">6:6</a> Yehoshua the son of Nun called the priests,
and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V7" id="C066V7">6:7</a> They said to the people, "Advance!
March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V8" id="C066V8">6:8</a> It was so, that when Yehoshua had spoken to
the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns
before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh followed them. <a name="C066V9" id="C066V9">6:9</a> The armed men
went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after
them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V10" id="C066V10">6:10</a> Yehoshua commanded the people, saying,
"You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any
word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then
you shall shout." <a name="C066V11" id="C066V11">6:11</a> So he caused
the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they
came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. <a name="C066V12" id="C066V12">6:12</a>
Yehoshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of
Yahweh. <a name="C066V13" id="C066V13">6:13</a> The seven priests bearing the
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on
continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them.
The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they
went. <a name="C066V14" id="C066V14">6:14</a> The second day they marched
around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V15" id="C066V15">6:15</a> It happened on the seventh day, that
they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in
the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city
seven times. <a name="C066V16" id="C066V16">6:16</a> It happened at the
seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Yehoshua said to the
people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city! <a name="C066V17"
id="C066V17">6:17</a> The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in
it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are
with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. <a
name="C066V18" id="C066V18">6:18</a> But as for you, only keep yourselves from
the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted
thing; so would you make the camp of Yisrael accursed, and trouble it. <a
name="C066V19" id="C066V19">6:19</a> But all the silver, and gold, and vessels
of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's
treasury."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V20" id="C066V20">6:20</a> So the people shouted, and the priests
blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell
down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city. <a name="C066V21" id="C066V21">6:21</a>
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both
young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
<a name="C066V22" id="C066V22">6:22</a> Yehoshua said to the two men who had
spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out
from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her." <a
name="C066V23" id="C066V23">6:23</a> The young men who were spies went in, and
brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that
she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them
outside of the camp of Yisrael. <a name="C066V24" id="C066V24">6:24</a> They
burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the
silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury
of Yahweh's house. <a name="C066V25" id="C066V25">6:25</a> But Rahab the
prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Yehoshua saved
alive. She lived in the midst of Yisrael to this day, because she hid the
messengers, whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Jericho.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C066V26" id="C066V26">6:26</a> Yehoshua commanded them with an oath at
that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before Yahweh, who rises up and
builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its
foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its
gates." <a name="C066V27" id="C066V27">6:27</a> So Yahweh was with
Yehoshua; and his fame was in all the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C067V1" id="C067V1">7:1</a> But the children of Yisrael committed a
trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yehudah, took of the devoted thing:
and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C067V2" id="C067V2">7:2</a> Yehoshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is
beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying,
Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai. <a
name="C067V3" id="C067V3">7:3</a> They returned to Yehoshua, and said to him,
Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go
up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they are
but few. <a name="C067V4" id="C067V4">7:4</a> So there went up there of the
people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. <a
name="C067V5" id="C067V5">7:5</a> The men of Ai struck of them about
thirty-six men; and they chased them <i>from</i> before the gate even to
Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people
melted, and became as water. <a name="C067V6" id="C067V6">7:6</a> Yehoshua tore
his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh
until the evening, he and the elders of Yisrael; and they put dust on their
heads. <a name="C067V7" id="C067V7">7:7</a> Yehoshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh,
why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had
been content and lived beyond the Jordan! <a name="C067V8" id="C067V8">7:8</a>
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Yisrael has turned their backs
before their enemies! <a name="C067V9" id="C067V9">7:9</a> For the Canaanites
and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us
round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your
great name? <a name="C067V10" id="C067V10">7:10</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, Get
you up; why are you thus fallen on your face? <a name="C067V11" id="C067V11">7:11</a>
Yisrael has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I
commanded them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have
also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their
own stuff. <a name="C067V12" id="C067V12">7:12</a> Therefore the children of
Yisrael can't stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before
their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you
any more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you. <a
name="C067V13" id="C067V13">7:13</a> Up, sanctify the people, and say,
Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Yisrael; you can not
stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted thing from
among you. <a name="C067V14" id="C067V14">7:14</a> In the morning therefore
you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe
which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which
Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which
Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man. <a name="C067V15" id="C067V15">7:15</a>
It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt
with fire, he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the
covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done folly in Yisrael. <a
name="C067V16" id="C067V16">7:16</a> So Yehoshua rose up early in the morning,
and brought Yisrael near by their tribes; and the tribe of Yehudah was taken:
<a name="C067V17" id="C067V17">7:17</a> and he brought near the family of
Yehudah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the
family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: <a name="C067V18"
id="C067V18">7:18</a> and he brought near his household man by man; and
Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe
of Yehudah, was taken. <a name="C067V19" id="C067V19">7:19</a> Yehoshua said to
Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, and make
confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from
me. <a name="C067V20" id="C067V20">7:20</a> Achan answered Yehoshua, and said,
Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, and thus and
thus have I done: <a name="C067V21" id="C067V21">7:21</a> when I saw among the
spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a
wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them;
and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the
silver under it. <a name="C067V22" id="C067V22">7:22</a> So Yehoshua sent
messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent,
and the silver under it. <a name="C067V23" id="C067V23">7:23</a> They took
them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Yehoshua, and to all
the children of Yisrael; and they laid them down before Yahweh. <a
name="C067V24" id="C067V24">7:24</a> Yehoshua, and all Yisrael with him, took
Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of
gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his donkeys,
and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up
to the valley of Achor. <a name="C067V25" id="C067V25">7:25</a> Yehoshua said,
Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Yisrael
stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them
with stones. <a name="C067V26" id="C067V26">7:26</a> They raised over him a
great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness
of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley
of Achor" to this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C068V1" id="C068V1">8:1</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, Don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up
to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people,
and his city, and his land; <a name="C068V2" id="C068V2">8:2</a> You shall do
to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only its spoil, and
its livestock, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush
for the city behind it. <a name="C068V3" id="C068V3">8:3</a> So Yehoshua arose,
and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Yehoshua chose out thirty
thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night. <a
name="C068V4" id="C068V4">8:4</a> He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall
lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from
the city, but be all ready: <a name="C068V5" id="C068V5">8:5</a> and I, and
all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall
happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee
before them; <a name="C068V6" id="C068V6">8:6</a> and they will come out after
us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They
flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them; <a
name="C068V7" id="C068V7">8:7</a> and you shall rise up from the ambush, and
take possession of the city: for Yahweh your Elohim will deliver it into your
hand. <a name="C068V8" id="C068V8">8:8</a> It shall be, when you have seized
on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of
Yahweh you shall do: behold, I have commanded you. <a name="C068V9" id="C068V9">8:9</a>
Yehoshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed
between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Yehoshua lodged that
night among the people. <a name="C068V10" id="C068V10">8:10</a> Yehoshua arose
up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the
elders of Yisrael, before the people to Ai. <a name="C068V11" id="C068V11">8:11</a>
All the people, <i>even</i> the <i>men of</i> war who were with him, went
up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north
side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai. <a name="C068V12"
id="C068V12">8:12</a> He took about five thousand men, and set them in
ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. <a name="C068V13"
id="C068V13">8:13</a> So they set the people, even all the army who was on
the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and
Yehoshua went that night into the midst of the valley. <a name="C068V14"
id="C068V14">8:14</a> It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they
hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Yisrael
to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the
Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the
city. <a name="C068V15" id="C068V15">8:15</a> Yehoshua and all Yisrael made as if
they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. <a
name="C068V16" id="C068V16">8:16</a> All the people who were in the city were
called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Yehoshua, and
were drawn away from the city. <a name="C068V17" id="C068V17">8:17</a> There
was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Yisrael: and
they left the city open, and pursued after Yisrael. <a name="C068V18"
id="C068V18">8:18</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, Stretch out the javelin that is
in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Yehoshua
stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. <a
name="C068V19" id="C068V19">8:19</a> The ambush arose quickly out of their
place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered
into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire. <a
name="C068V20" id="C068V20">8:20</a> When the men of Ai looked behind them,
they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and
they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to
the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. <a name="C068V21" id="C068V21">8:21</a>
When Yehoshua and all Yisrael saw that the ambush had taken the city, and
that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed
the men of Ai. <a name="C068V22" id="C068V22">8:22</a> The others came forth
out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Yisrael, some on
this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let
none of them remain or escape. <a name="C068V23" id="C068V23">8:23</a> The
king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Yehoshua. <a name="C068V24"
id="C068V24">8:24</a> It happened, when Yisrael had made an end of killing
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they
pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until
they were consumed, that all Yisrael returned to Ai, and struck it with the
edge of the sword. <a name="C068V25" id="C068V25">8:25</a> All that fell that
day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
<a name="C068V26" id="C068V26">8:26</a> For Yehoshua didn't draw back his hand,
with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed
all the inhabitants of Ai. <a name="C068V27" id="C068V27">8:27</a> Only the
livestock and the spoil of that city Yisrael took for prey to themselves,
according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Yehoshua. <a name="C068V28"
id="C068V28">8:28</a> So Yehoshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a
desolation, to this day. <a name="C068V29" id="C068V29">8:29</a> The king of
Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun
Yehoshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it
at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap
of stones, to this day. <a name="C068V30" id="C068V30">8:30</a> Then Yehoshua
built an altar to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, in Mount Ebal, <a name="C068V31"
id="C068V31">8:31</a> as Moshe the servant of Yahweh commanded the children
of Yisrael, as it is written in the book of the Torah of Moshe, an altar of
uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered
thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings. <a
name="C068V32" id="C068V32">8:32</a> He wrote there on the stones a copy of
the Torah of Moshe, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of
Yisrael. <a name="C068V33" id="C068V33">8:33</a> All Yisrael, and their elders
and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that
side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of
Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moshe the
servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the
people of Yisrael. <a name="C068V34" id="C068V34">8:34</a> Afterward he read
all the words of the Torah, the blessing and the curse, according to all
that is written in the book of the Torah. <a name="C068V35" id="C068V35">8:35</a>
There was not a word of all that Moshe commanded, which Yehoshua didn't read
before all the assembly of Yisrael, and the women, and the little ones, and
the foreigners who were among them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C069V1" id="C069V1">9:1</a> It happened, when all the kings who were
beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the
shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite,
the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
<a name="C069V2" id="C069V2">9:2</a> that they gathered themselves together,
to fight with Yehoshua and with Yisrael, with one accord. <a name="C069V3"
id="C069V3">9:3</a> But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Yehoshua had
done to Jericho and to Ai, <a name="C069V4" id="C069V4">9:4</a> they also
resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and
took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,
<a name="C069V5" id="C069V5">9:5</a> and old and patched shoes on their feet,
and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and
was become moldy. <a name="C069V6" id="C069V6">9:6</a> They went to Yehoshua to
the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Yisrael, We are come
from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us. <a
name="C069V7" id="C069V7">9:7</a> The men of Yisrael said to the Hivites, What
if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you? <a
name="C069V8" id="C069V8">9:8</a> They said to Yehoshua, We are your servants.
Yehoshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you? <a name="C069V9"
id="C069V9">9:9</a> They said to him, From a very far country your servants
are come because of the name of Yahweh your Elohim: for we have heard the
fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, <a name="C069V10" id="C069V10">9:10</a>
and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the
Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at
Ashtaroth. <a name="C069V11" id="C069V11">9:11</a> Our elders and all the
inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your
hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your
servants: and now make you a covenant with us. <a name="C069V12" id="C069V12">9:12</a>
This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day
we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become
moldy: <a name="C069V13" id="C069V13">9:13</a> and these wineskins, which we
filled, were new; and behold, they are torn: and these our garments and
our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. <a
name="C069V14" id="C069V14">9:14</a> The men took of their provision, and
didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh. <a name="C069V15" id="C069V15">9:15</a>
Yehoshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them
live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them. <a name="C069V16"
id="C069V16">9:16</a> It happened at the end of three days after they had
made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors,
and that they lived among them. <a name="C069V17" id="C069V17">9:17</a> The
children of Yisrael traveled, and came to their cities on the third day.
Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath
Jearim. <a name="C069V18" id="C069V18">9:18</a> The children of Yisrael didn't
strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by
Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. All the congregation murmured against the
princes. <a name="C069V19" id="C069V19">9:19</a> But all the princes said to
all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael:
now therefore we may not touch them. <a name="C069V20" id="C069V20">9:20</a>
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because
of the oath which we swore to them. <a name="C069V21" id="C069V21">9:21</a>
The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and
drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to
them. <a name="C069V22" id="C069V22">9:22</a> Yehoshua called for them, and he
spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far
from you; when you dwell among us? <a name="C069V23" id="C069V23">9:23</a> Now
therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you
bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my
Elohim. <a name="C069V24" id="C069V24">9:24</a> They answered Yehoshua, and said,
Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your Elohim
commanded his servant Moshe to give you all the land, and to destroy all
the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid
for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. <a name="C069V25"
id="C069V25">9:25</a> Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and
right to you to do to us, do. <a name="C069V26" id="C069V26">9:26</a> So did
he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Yisrael,
that they didn't kill them. <a name="C069V27" id="C069V27">9:27</a> That day
Yehoshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation,
and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should
choose.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0610V1" id="C0610V1">10:1</a> Now it happened, when Adoni-Zedek king
of Yerushalayim heard how Yehoshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king;
and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Yisrael, and were
among them; <a name="C0610V2" id="C0610V2">10:2</a> that they feared greatly,
because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because
it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. <a name="C0610V3"
id="C0610V3">10:3</a> Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Yerushalayim sent to Hoham
king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of
Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, <a name="C0610V4" id="C0610V4">10:4</a>
Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made
peace with Yehoshua and with the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0610V5"
id="C0610V5">10:5</a> Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Yerushalayim, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all
their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. <a
name="C0610V6" id="C0610V6">10:6</a> The men of Gibeon sent to Yehoshua to the
camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up
to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites
that dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us. <a
name="C0610V7" id="C0610V7">10:7</a> So Yehoshua went up from Gilgal, he, and
all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. <a
name="C0610V8" id="C0610V8">10:8</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, Don't fear them:
for I have delivered them into your hands; there shall not a man of them
stand before you. <a name="C0610V9" id="C0610V9">10:9</a> Yehoshua therefore
came on them suddenly; <i>for</i> he went up from Gilgal all the night. <a
name="C0610V10" id="C0610V10">10:10</a> Yahweh confused them before Yisrael,
and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by
the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to
Makkedah. <a name="C0610V11" id="C0610V11">10:11</a> It happened, as they fled
from before Yisrael, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that
Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they
died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the
children of Yisrael killed with the sword. <a name="C0610V12" id="C0610V12">10:12</a>
Then spoke Yehoshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Yisrael; and he said in the sight of
Yisrael, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of
Aijalon. <a name="C0610V13" id="C0610V13">10:13</a> The sun stood still, and
the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.
Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of
the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day. <a name="C0610V14"
id="C0610V14">10:14</a> There was no day like that before it or after it,
that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Yisrael.
<a name="C0610V15" id="C0610V15">10:15</a> Yehoshua returned, and all Yisrael
with him, to the camp to Gilgal. <a name="C0610V16" id="C0610V16">10:16</a>
These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. <a
name="C0610V17" id="C0610V17">10:17</a> It was told Yehoshua, saying, The five
kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. <a name="C0610V18"
id="C0610V18">10:18</a> Yehoshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the
cave, and set men by it to keep them: <a name="C0610V19" id="C0610V19">10:19</a>
but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of
them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your Elohim has
delivered them into your hand. <a name="C0610V20" id="C0610V20">10:20</a> It
happened, when Yehoshua and the children of Yisrael had made an end of
killing them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, and
the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
<a name="C0610V21" id="C0610V21">10:21</a> that all the people returned to the
camp to Yehoshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of
the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0610V22" id="C0610V22">10:22</a> Then said
Yehoshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me
out of the cave. <a name="C0610V23" id="C0610V23">10:23</a> They did so, and
brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of
Yerushalayim, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
the king of Eglon. <a name="C0610V24" id="C0610V24">10:24</a> It happened,
when they brought forth those kings to Yehoshua, that Yehoshua called for all
the men of Yisrael, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with
him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near,
and put their feet on the necks of them. <a name="C0610V25" id="C0610V25">10:25</a>
Yehoshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of
good courage: for thus shall Yahweh do to all your enemies against whom
you fight. <a name="C0610V26" id="C0610V26">10:26</a> Afterward Yehoshua struck
them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were
hanging on the trees until the evening. <a name="C0610V27" id="C0610V27">10:27</a>
It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yehoshua
commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the
cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the
mouth of the cave, to this very day. <a name="C0610V28" id="C0610V28">10:28</a>
Yehoshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the
sword, and its king: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were
therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he
had done to the king of Jericho. <a name="C0610V29" id="C0610V29">10:29</a>
Yehoshua passed from Makkedah, and all Yisrael with him, to Libnah, and
fought against Libnah: <a name="C0610V30" id="C0610V30">10:30</a> and Yahweh
delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Yisrael; and he struck it
with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left
none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of
Jericho. <a name="C0610V31" id="C0610V31">10:31</a> Yehoshua passed from Libnah,
and all Yisrael with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought
against it: <a name="C0610V32" id="C0610V32">10:32</a> and Yahweh delivered
Lachish into the hand of Yisrael; and he took it on the second day, and
struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein,
according to all that he had done to Libnah. <a name="C0610V33" id="C0610V33">10:33</a>
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Yehoshua struck him
and his people, until he had left him none remaining. <a name="C0610V34"
id="C0610V34">10:34</a> Yehoshua passed from Lachish, and all Yisrael with him,
to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it; <a
name="C0610V35" id="C0610V35">10:35</a> and they took it on that day, and
struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein
he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
Lachish. <a name="C0610V36" id="C0610V36">10:36</a> Yehoshua went up from Eglon,
and all Yisrael with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it: <a
name="C0610V37" id="C0610V37">10:37</a> and they took it, and struck it with
the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and all the souls
who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had
done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were
therein. <a name="C0610V38" id="C0610V38">10:38</a> Yehoshua returned, and all
Yisrael with him, to Debir, and fought against it: <a name="C0610V39"
id="C0610V39">10:39</a> and he took it, and its king, and all its cities;
and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all
the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to
Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to
Libnah, and to its king. <a name="C0610V40" id="C0610V40">10:40</a> So Yehoshua
struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and
the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly
destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, commanded. <a
name="C0610V41" id="C0610V41">10:41</a> Yehoshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea
even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. <a
name="C0610V42" id="C0610V42">10:42</a> All these kings and their land did
Yehoshua take at one time, because Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, fought for
Yisrael. <a name="C0610V43" id="C0610V43">10:43</a> Yehoshua returned, and all
Yisrael with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0611V1" id="C0611V1">11:1</a> It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor
heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, <a name="C0611V2" id="C0611V2">11:2</a>
and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, and in the
Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor
on the west, <a name="C0611V3" id="C0611V3">11:3</a> to the Canaanite on the
east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the
land of Mizpah. <a name="C0611V4" id="C0611V4">11:4</a> They went out, they
and all their armies with them, much people, even as the sand that is on
the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. <a
name="C0611V5" id="C0611V5">11:5</a> All these kings met together; and they
came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Yisrael.
<a name="C0611V6" id="C0611V6">11:6</a> Yahweh said to Yehoshua, Don't be afraid
because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all
slain before Yisrael: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their
chariots with fire. <a name="C0611V7" id="C0611V7">11:7</a> So Yehoshua came,
and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom
suddenly, and fell on them. <a name="C0611V8" id="C0611V8">11:8</a> Yahweh
delivered them into the hand of Yisrael, and they struck them, and chased
them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh
eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining. <a
name="C0611V9" id="C0611V9">11:9</a> Yehoshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he
hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. <a
name="C0611V10" id="C0611V10">11:10</a> Yehoshua turned back at that time, and
took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor before was the
head of all those kingdoms. <a name="C0611V11" id="C0611V11">11:11</a> They
struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with
fire. <a name="C0611V12" id="C0611V12">11:12</a> All the cities of those
kings, and all the kings of them, did Yehoshua take, and he struck them with
the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moshe the servant of
Yahweh commanded. <a name="C0611V13" id="C0611V13">11:13</a> But as for the
cities that stood on their mounds, Yisrael burned none of them, save Hazor
only; that did Yehoshua burn. <a name="C0611V14" id="C0611V14">11:14</a> All the
spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the children of Yisrael took for
a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the
sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.
<a name="C0611V15" id="C0611V15">11:15</a> As Yahweh commanded Moshe his
servant, so did Moshe command Yehoshua: and so did Yehoshua; he left nothing
undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0611V16" id="C0611V16">11:16</a>
So Yehoshua took all that land, the hill country, and all the South, and all
the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill country
of Yisrael, and the lowland of the same; <a name="C0611V17" id="C0611V17">11:17</a>
from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of
Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them,
and put them to death. <a name="C0611V18" id="C0611V18">11:18</a> Yehoshua made
war a long time with all those kings. <a name="C0611V19" id="C0611V19">11:19</a>
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Yisrael, save the
Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle. <a
name="C0611V20" id="C0611V20">11:20</a> For it was of Yahweh to harden their
hearts, to come against Yisrael in battle, that he might utterly destroy
them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as
Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0611V21" id="C0611V21">11:21</a> Yehoshua came
at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron,
from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Yehudah, and from
all the hill country of Yisrael: Yehoshua utterly destroyed them with their
cities. <a name="C0611V22" id="C0611V22">11:22</a> There was none of the
Anakim left in the land of the children of Yisrael: only in Gaza, in Gath,
and in Ashdod, did some remain. <a name="C0611V23" id="C0611V23">11:23</a> So
Yehoshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moshe;
and Yehoshua gave it for an inheritance to Yisrael according to their
divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0612V1" id="C0612V1">12:1</a> Now these are the kings of the land,
whom the children of Yisrael struck, and possessed their land beyond the
Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon,
and all the Arabah eastward: <a name="C0612V2" id="C0612V2">12:2</a> Sihon
king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is
on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and <i>the city that is in</i> the
middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the
border of the children of Ammon; <a name="C0612V3" id="C0612V3">12:3</a> and
the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the
Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the
south, under the slopes of Pisgah: <a name="C0612V4" id="C0612V4">12:4</a> and
the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived
at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, <a name="C0612V5" id="C0612V5">12:5</a> and ruled
in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king
of Heshbon. <a name="C0612V6" id="C0612V6">12:6</a> Moshe the servant of
Yahweh and the children of Yisrael struck them: and Moshe the servant of
Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half-tribe of Manasseh. <a name="C0612V7" id="C0612V7">12:7</a> These are
the kings of the land whom Yehoshua and the children of Yisrael struck beyond
the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount
Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Yehoshua gave it to the tribes of Yisrael
for a possession according to their divisions; <a name="C0612V8" id="C0612V8">12:8</a>
in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the
slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite,
and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: <a
name="C0612V9" id="C0612V9">12:9</a> the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai,
which is beside Bethel, one; <a name="C0612V10" id="C0612V10">12:10</a> the
king of Yerushalayim, one; the king of Hebron, one; <a name="C0612V11"
id="C0612V11">12:11</a> the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
<a name="C0612V12" id="C0612V12">12:12</a> the king of Eglon, one; the king of
Gezer, one; <a name="C0612V13" id="C0612V13">12:13</a> the king of Debir, one;
the king of Geder, one; <a name="C0612V14" id="C0612V14">12:14</a> the king of
Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; <a name="C0612V15" id="C0612V15">12:15</a>
the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; <a name="C0612V16"
id="C0612V16">12:16</a> the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
<a name="C0612V17" id="C0612V17">12:17</a> the king of Tappuah, one; the king
of Hepher, one; <a name="C0612V18" id="C0612V18">12:18</a> the king of Aphek,
one; the king of Lassharon, one; <a name="C0612V19" id="C0612V19">12:19</a>
the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; <a name="C0612V20"
id="C0612V20">12:20</a> the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of
Achshaph, one; <a name="C0612V21" id="C0612V21">12:21</a> the king of Taanach,
one; the king of Megiddo, one; <a name="C0612V22" id="C0612V22">12:22</a> the
king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; <a name="C0612V23"
id="C0612V23">12:23</a> the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king
of Goiim in Gilgal, one; <a name="C0612V24" id="C0612V24">12:24</a> the king
of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0613V1" id="C0613V1">13:1</a> Now Yehoshua was old and well stricken
in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are old and well stricken in years,
and there remains yet very much land to be possessed. <a name="C0613V2"
id="C0613V2">13:2</a> This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of
the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; <a name="C0613V3" id="C0613V3">13:3</a>
from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron
northward, <i>which</i> is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of
the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, <a name="C0613V4" id="C0613V4">13:4</a>
on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to
the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; <a name="C0613V5"
id="C0613V5">13:5</a> and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
<a name="C0613V6" id="C0613V6">13:6</a> all the inhabitants of the hill
country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will
I drive out from before the children of Yisrael: only allot you it to
Yisrael for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. <a name="C0613V7"
id="C0613V7">13:7</a> Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to
the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. <a name="C0613V8" id="C0613V8">13:8</a>
With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which
Moshe gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moshe the servant of
Yahweh gave them: <a name="C0613V9" id="C0613V9">13:9</a> from Aroer, that is
on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle
of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; <a name="C0613V10"
id="C0613V10">13:10</a> and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,
who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon; <a
name="C0613V11" id="C0613V11">13:11</a> and Gilead, and the border of the
Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to
Salecah; <a name="C0613V12" id="C0613V12">13:12</a> all the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the
remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moshe strike, and drove them out.
<a name="C0613V13" id="C0613V13">13:13</a> Nevertheless the children of Yisrael
didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and
Maacath dwell in the midst of Yisrael to this day. <a name="C0613V14"
id="C0613V14">13:14</a> Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance;
the offerings of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him. <a name="C0613V15" id="C0613V15">13:15</a>
Moshe gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
families. <a name="C0613V16" id="C0613V16">13:16</a> Their border was from
Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that
is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba; <a
name="C0613V17" id="C0613V17">13:17</a> Heshbon, and all its cities that are
in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon, <a name="C0613V18"
id="C0613V18">13:18</a> and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, <a
name="C0613V19" id="C0613V19">13:19</a> and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth
Shahar in the mount of the valley, <a name="C0613V20" id="C0613V20">13:20</a>
and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth, <a
name="C0613V21" id="C0613V21">13:21</a> and all the cities of the plain, and
all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moshe struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. <a
name="C0613V22" id="C0613V22">13:22</a> Balaam also the son of Beor, the
soothsayer, did the children of Yisrael kill with the sword among the rest
of their slain. <a name="C0613V23" id="C0613V23">13:23</a> The border of the
children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border <i>of it</i>. This was
the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and its villages. <a name="C0613V24" id="C0613V24">13:24</a> Moshe gave
to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
<a name="C0613V25" id="C0613V25">13:25</a> Their border was Jazer, and all the
cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer
that is before Rabbah; <a name="C0613V26" id="C0613V26">13:26</a> and from
Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of
Debir; <a name="C0613V27" id="C0613V27">13:27</a> and in the valley, Beth
Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom
of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border <i>of it</i>, to the
uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. <a
name="C0613V28" id="C0613V28">13:28</a> This is the inheritance of the
children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
<a name="C0613V29" id="C0613V29">13:29</a> Moshe gave <i>inheritance</i> to
the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children
of Manasseh according to their families. <a name="C0613V30" id="C0613V30">13:30</a>
Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities: <a
name="C0613V31" id="C0613V31">13:31</a> and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and
Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of
Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir
according to their families. <a name="C0613V32" id="C0613V32">13:32</a> These
are the inheritances which Moshe distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond
the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. <a name="C0613V33" id="C0613V33">13:33</a>
But to the tribe of Levi Moshe gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0614V1" id="C0614V1">14:1</a> These are the inheritances which the
children of Yisrael took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,
and Yehoshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of
the tribes of the children of Yisrael, distributed to them, <a name="C0614V2"
id="C0614V2">14:2</a> by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded
by Moshe, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. <a name="C0614V3"
id="C0614V3">14:3</a> For Moshe had given the inheritance of the two tribes
and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no
inheritance among them. <a name="C0614V4" id="C0614V4">14:4</a> For the
children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no
portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with its
suburbs for their livestock and for their substance. <a name="C0614V5"
id="C0614V5">14:5</a> As Yahweh commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisrael
did; and they divided the land. <a name="C0614V6" id="C0614V6">14:6</a> Then
the children of Yehudah drew near to Yehoshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke
to Moshe the man of Elohim concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
<a name="C0614V7" id="C0614V7">14:7</a> Forty years old was I when Moshe the
servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land; and I
brought him word again as it was in my heart. <a name="C0614V8" id="C0614V8">14:8</a>
Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people
melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my Elohim. <a name="C0614V9" id="C0614V9">14:9</a>
Moshe swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has
trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever,
because you have wholly followed Yahweh my Elohim. <a name="C0614V10"
id="C0614V10">14:10</a> Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke,
these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to
Moshe, while Yisrael walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this
day eighty-five years old. <a name="C0614V11" id="C0614V11">14:11</a> As yet I
am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moshe sent me: as my
strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and
to come in. <a name="C0614V12" id="C0614V12">14:12</a> Now therefore give me
this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in
that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may
be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh
spoke. <a name="C0614V13" id="C0614V13">14:13</a> Yehoshua blessed him; and he
gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. <a
name="C0614V14" id="C0614V14">14:14</a> Therefore Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day;
because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C0614V15"
id="C0614V15">14:15</a> Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; <i>which
Arba was</i> the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from
war.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0615V1" id="C0615V1">15:1</a> The lot for the tribe of the children
of Yehudah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to
the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. <a
name="C0615V2" id="C0615V2">15:2</a> Their south border was from the uttermost
part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward; <a name="C0615V3"
id="C0615V3">15:3</a> and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim,
and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and
passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;
<a name="C0615V4" id="C0615V4">15:4</a> and it passed along to Azmon, and went
out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea: this shall be your south border. <a name="C0615V5" id="C0615V5">15:5</a>
The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The
border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the
Jordan; <a name="C0615V6" id="C0615V6">15:6</a> and the border went up to Beth
Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went
up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben; <a name="C0615V7" id="C0615V7">15:7</a>
and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so
northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of
Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed
along to the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at En
Rogel; <a name="C0615V8" id="C0615V8">15:8</a> and the border went up by the
valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the
same is Yerushalayim); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that
lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part
of the valley of Rephaim northward; <a name="C0615V9" id="C0615V9">15:9</a>
and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the
waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the
border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim); <a name="C0615V10"
id="C0615V10">15:10</a> and the border turned about from Baalah westward to
Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the
same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by
Timnah; <a name="C0615V11" id="C0615V11">15:11</a> and the border went out to
the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and
passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out
of the border were at the sea. <a name="C0615V12" id="C0615V12">15:12</a> The
west border was to the great sea, and the border <i>of it</i>. This is the
border of the children of Yehudah according to their families. <a
name="C0615V13" id="C0615V13">15:13</a> To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave
a portion among the children of Yehudah, according to the commandment of
Yahweh to Yehoshua, even Kiriath Arba, <i>which Arba was</i> the father of
Anak (the same is Hebron). <a name="C0615V14" id="C0615V14">15:14</a> Caleb
drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai,
the children of Anak. <a name="C0615V15" id="C0615V15">15:15</a> He went up
there against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was
Kiriath Sepher. <a name="C0615V16" id="C0615V16">15:16</a> Caleb said, He who
strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my
daughter as wife. <a name="C0615V17" id="C0615V17">15:17</a> Othniel the son
of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his
daughter as wife. <a name="C0615V18" id="C0615V18">15:18</a> It happened, when
she came <i>to him</i>, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:
and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you? <a
name="C0615V19" id="C0615V19">15:19</a> She said, Give me a blessing; for that
you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.
He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. <a name="C0615V20"
id="C0615V20">15:20</a> This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Yehudah according to their families. <a name="C0615V21" id="C0615V21">15:21</a>
The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Yehudah toward the
border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, <a
name="C0615V22" id="C0615V22">15:22</a> and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, <a
name="C0615V23" id="C0615V23">15:23</a> and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, <a
name="C0615V24" id="C0615V24">15:24</a> Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, <a
name="C0615V25" id="C0615V25">15:25</a> Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the
same is Hazor), <a name="C0615V26" id="C0615V26">15:26</a> Amam, and Shema,
and Moladah, <a name="C0615V27" id="C0615V27">15:27</a> and Hazar Gaddah, and
Heshmon, and Beth Pelet, <a name="C0615V28" id="C0615V28">15:28</a> and Hazar
Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah, <a name="C0615V29" id="C0615V29">15:29</a>
Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem, <a name="C0615V30" id="C0615V30">15:30</a> and
Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, <a name="C0615V31" id="C0615V31">15:31</a>
and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, <a name="C0615V32" id="C0615V32">15:32</a>
and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are
twenty-nine, with their villages. <a name="C0615V33" id="C0615V33">15:33</a>
In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah, <a name="C0615V34"
id="C0615V34">15:34</a> and Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, <a
name="C0615V35" id="C0615V35">15:35</a> Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and
Azekah, <a name="C0615V36" id="C0615V36">15:36</a> and Shaaraim, and Adithaim,
and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages. <a
name="C0615V37" id="C0615V37">15:37</a> Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal Gad,
<a name="C0615V38" id="C0615V38">15:38</a> and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and
Joktheel, <a name="C0615V39" id="C0615V39">15:39</a> Lachish, and Bozkath, and
Eglon, <a name="C0615V40" id="C0615V40">15:40</a> and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and
Chitlish, <a name="C0615V41" id="C0615V41">15:41</a> and Gederoth, Beth Dagon,
and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages. <a
name="C0615V42" id="C0615V42">15:42</a> Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, <a
name="C0615V43" id="C0615V43">15:43</a> and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, <a
name="C0615V44" id="C0615V44">15:44</a> and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah;
nine cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V45" id="C0615V45">15:45</a>
Ekron, with its towns and its villages; <a name="C0615V46" id="C0615V46">15:46</a>
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with
their villages. <a name="C0615V47" id="C0615V47">15:47</a> Ashdod, its towns
and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt,
and the great sea, and the border <i>of it</i>. <a name="C0615V48"
id="C0615V48">15:48</a> In the hill country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
<a name="C0615V49" id="C0615V49">15:49</a> and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the
same is Debir), <a name="C0615V50" id="C0615V50">15:50</a> and Anab, and
Eshtemoh, and Anim, <a name="C0615V51" id="C0615V51">15:51</a> and Goshen, and
Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V52"
id="C0615V52">15:52</a> Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan, <a name="C0615V53"
id="C0615V53">15:53</a> and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah, <a
name="C0615V54" id="C0615V54">15:54</a> and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba (the same
is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V55"
id="C0615V55">15:55</a> Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah, <a name="C0615V56"
id="C0615V56">15:56</a> and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, <a
name="C0615V57" id="C0615V57">15:57</a> Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities
with their villages. <a name="C0615V58" id="C0615V58">15:58</a> Halhul, Beth
Zur, and Gedor, <a name="C0615V59" id="C0615V59">15:59</a> and Maarath, and
Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V60"
id="C0615V60">15:60</a> Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and
Rabbah; two cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V61" id="C0615V61">15:61</a>
In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah, <a name="C0615V62"
id="C0615V62">15:62</a> and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six
cities with their villages. <a name="C0615V63" id="C0615V63">15:63</a> As for
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the children of Yehudah
couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Yehudah at Yerushalayim to this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0616V1" id="C0616V1">16:1</a> The lot came out for the children of
Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east,
even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to
Bethel; <a name="C0616V2" id="C0616V2">16:2</a> and it went out from Bethel to
Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth; <a
name="C0616V3" id="C0616V3">16:3</a> and it went down westward to the border
of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer;
and the goings out of it were at the sea. <a name="C0616V4" id="C0616V4">16:4</a>
The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. <a
name="C0616V5" id="C0616V5">16:5</a> The border of the children of Ephraim
according to their families was <i>thus</i>: the border of their
inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper; <a
name="C0616V6" id="C0616V6">16:6</a> and the border went out westward at
Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward to Taanath
Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah; <a name="C0616V7"
id="C0616V7">16:7</a> and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to
Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. <a name="C0616V8"
id="C0616V8">16:8</a> From Tappuah the border went along westward to the
brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their
families; <a name="C0616V9" id="C0616V9">16:9</a> together with the cities
which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the
inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their
villages. <a name="C0616V10" id="C0616V10">16:10</a> They didn't drive out the
Canaanites who lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of
Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0617V1" id="C0617V1">17:1</a> <i>This</i> was the lot for the tribe
of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the
firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. <a name="C0617V2" id="C0617V2">17:2</a> So
<i>the lot</i> was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to
their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of
Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem,
and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these
were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families. <a name="C0617V3" id="C0617V3">17:3</a> But Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no
sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. <a name="C0617V4" id="C0617V4">17:4</a> They
came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Yehoshua the son of Nun, and
before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moshe to give us an
inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of
Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. <a
name="C0617V5" id="C0617V5">17:5</a> There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides
the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; <a name="C0617V6"
id="C0617V6">17:6</a> because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance
among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of
Manasseh. <a name="C0617V7" id="C0617V7">17:7</a> The border of Manasseh was
from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went
along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. <a name="C0617V8"
id="C0617V8">17:8</a> The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah
on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim. <a
name="C0617V9" id="C0617V9">17:9</a> The border went down to the brook of
Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the
cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of
the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea: <a name="C0617V10"
id="C0617V10">17:10</a> southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was
Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the
north, and to Issachar on the east. <a name="C0617V11" id="C0617V11">17:11</a>
Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the
inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its
towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three
heights. <a name="C0617V12" id="C0617V12">17:12</a> Yet the children of
Manasseh couldn't drive out <i>the inhabitants of</i> those cities; but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land. <a name="C0617V13" id="C0617V13">17:13</a>
It happened, when the children of Yisrael had grown strong, that they put
the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out. <a
name="C0617V14" id="C0617V14">17:14</a> The children of Joseph spoke to
Yehoshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an
inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has
blessed me? <a name="C0617V15" id="C0617V15">17:15</a> Yehoshua said to them, If
you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself
there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill
country of Ephraim is too narrow for you. <a name="C0617V16" id="C0617V16">17:16</a>
The children of Joseph said, The hill country is not enough for us: and
all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of
iron, both they who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and they who are in
the valley of Jezreel. <a name="C0617V17" id="C0617V17">17:17</a> Yehoshua spoke
to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a
great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only: <a
name="C0617V18" id="C0617V18">17:18</a> but the hill country shall be yours;
for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it
shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have
chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0618V1" id="C0618V1">18:1</a> The whole congregation of the children
of Yisrael assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of
Meeting there: and the land was subdued before them. <a name="C0618V2"
id="C0618V2">18:2</a> There remained among the children of Yisrael seven
tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance. <a name="C0618V3"
id="C0618V3">18:3</a> Yehoshua said to the children of Yisrael, How long are
you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the Elohim of your
fathers, has given you? <a name="C0618V4" id="C0618V4">18:4</a> Appoint for
you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise,
and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance;
and they shall come to me. <a name="C0618V5" id="C0618V5">18:5</a> They shall
divide it into seven portions: Yehudah shall abide in his border on the
south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
<a name="C0618V6" id="C0618V6">18:6</a> You shall describe the land into seven
portions, and bring <i>the description</i> here to me; and I will cast
lots for you here before Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C0618V7" id="C0618V7">18:7</a>
For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is
their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moshe the
servant of Yahweh gave them. <a name="C0618V8" id="C0618V8">18:8</a> The men
arose, and went: and Yehoshua commanded those who went to describe the land,
saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to
me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh. <a
name="C0618V9" id="C0618V9">18:9</a> The men went and passed through the land,
and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to
Yehoshua to the camp at Shiloh. <a name="C0618V10" id="C0618V10">18:10</a>
Yehoshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Yehoshua
divided the land to the children of Yisrael according to their divisions.
<a name="C0618V11" id="C0618V11">18:11</a> The lot of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border
of their lot went out between the children of Yehudah and the children of
Joseph. <a name="C0618V12" id="C0618V12">18:12</a> Their border on the north
quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho
on the north, and went up through the hill country westward; and the
goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven. <a name="C0618V13"
id="C0618V13">18:13</a> The border passed along from there to Luz, to the
side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to
Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the
lower. <a name="C0618V14" id="C0618V14">18:14</a> The border extended <i>there</i>,
and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that
lies before Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath
Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Yehudah: this
was the west quarter. <a name="C0618V15" id="C0618V15">18:15</a> The south
quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim; and the border went
out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; <a
name="C0618V16" id="C0618V16">18:16</a> and the border went down to the
uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to
the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down
to En Rogel; <a name="C0618V17" id="C0618V17">18:17</a> and it extended
northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is
over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben; <a name="C0618V18" id="C0618V18">18:18</a> and it passed
along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the
Arabah; <a name="C0618V19" id="C0618V19">18:19</a> and the border passed along
to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border
were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan:
this was the south border. <a name="C0618V20" id="C0618V20">18:20</a> The
Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their
families. <a name="C0618V21" id="C0618V21">18:21</a> Now the cities of the
tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were
Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, and Emek Keziz, <a name="C0618V22" id="C0618V22">18:22</a>
and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, <a name="C0618V23" id="C0618V23">18:23</a>
and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah, <a name="C0618V24" id="C0618V24">18:24</a>
and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their
villages: <a name="C0618V25" id="C0618V25">18:25</a> Gibeon, and Ramah, and
Beeroth, <a name="C0618V26" id="C0618V26">18:26</a> and Mizpeh, and Chephirah,
and Mozah, <a name="C0618V27" id="C0618V27">18:27</a> and Rekem, and Irpeel,
and Taralah, <a name="C0618V28" id="C0618V28">18:28</a> and Zelah, Eleph, and
the Jebusite (the same is Yerushalayim), Gibeath, <i>and</i> Kiriath;
fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their families.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0619V1" id="C0619V1">19:1</a> The second lot came out for Simeon,
even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families:
and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children
of Yehudah. <a name="C0619V2" id="C0619V2">19:2</a> They had for their
inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, <a name="C0619V3" id="C0619V3">19:3</a>
and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem, <a name="C0619V4" id="C0619V4">19:4</a>
and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, <a name="C0619V5" id="C0619V5">19:5</a>
and Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susah, <a name="C0619V6" id="C0619V6">19:6</a>
and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: <a
name="C0619V7" id="C0619V7">19:7</a> Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four
cities with their villages: <a name="C0619V8" id="C0619V8">19:8</a> and all
the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the
South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon
according to their families. <a name="C0619V9" id="C0619V9">19:9</a> Out of
the part of the children of Yehudah was the inheritance of the children of
Simeon; for the portion of the children of Yehudah was too much for them:
therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their
inheritance. <a name="C0619V10" id="C0619V10">19:10</a> The third lot came up
for the children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of
their inheritance was to Sarid; <a name="C0619V11" id="C0619V11">19:11</a> and
their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth;
and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam; <a name="C0619V12"
id="C0619V12">19:12</a> and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise
to the border of Chisloth Tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up
to Japhia; <a name="C0619V13" id="C0619V13">19:13</a> and from there it passed
along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon
which stretches to Neah; <a name="C0619V14" id="C0619V14">19:14</a> and the
border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out of it
were at the valley of Iphtah El; <a name="C0619V15" id="C0619V15">19:15</a>
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve
cities with their villages. <a name="C0619V16" id="C0619V16">19:16</a> This is
the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families,
these cities with their villages. <a name="C0619V17" id="C0619V17">19:17</a>
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar
according to their families. <a name="C0619V18" id="C0619V18">19:18</a> Their
border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, <a name="C0619V19"
id="C0619V19">19:19</a> and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, <a
name="C0619V20" id="C0619V20">19:20</a> and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez, <a
name="C0619V21" id="C0619V21">19:21</a> and Remeth, and Engannim, and En
Haddah, and Beth Pazzez, <a name="C0619V22" id="C0619V22">19:22</a> and the
border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh; and the goings
out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their
villages. <a name="C0619V23" id="C0619V23">19:23</a> This is the inheritance
of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the
cities with their villages. <a name="C0619V24" id="C0619V24">19:24</a> The
fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to
their families. <a name="C0619V25" id="C0619V25">19:25</a> Their border was
Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, <a name="C0619V26" id="C0619V26">19:26</a>
and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward,
and to Shihorlibnath; <a name="C0619V27" id="C0619V27">19:27</a> and it turned
toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the
valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel; and it went out to
Cabul on the left hand, <a name="C0619V28" id="C0619V28">19:28</a> and Ebron,
and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon; <a name="C0619V29"
id="C0619V29">19:29</a> and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified
city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out of it
were at the sea by the region of Achzib; <a name="C0619V30" id="C0619V30">19:30</a>
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
<a name="C0619V31" id="C0619V31">19:31</a> This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities
with their villages. <a name="C0619V32" id="C0619V32">19:32</a> The sixth lot
came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali
according to their families. <a name="C0619V33" id="C0619V33">19:33</a> Their
border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adaminekeb, and
Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out of it were at the Jordan; <a
name="C0619V34" id="C0619V34">19:34</a> and the border turned westward to
Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun
on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Yehudah at the Jordan
toward the sunrise. <a name="C0619V35" id="C0619V35">19:35</a> The fortified
cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, <a
name="C0619V36" id="C0619V36">19:36</a> and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, <a
name="C0619V37" id="C0619V37">19:37</a> and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor,
<a name="C0619V38" id="C0619V38">19:38</a> Iron, and Migdal El, Horem, and
Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. <a
name="C0619V39" id="C0619V39">19:39</a> This is the inheritance of the tribe
of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with
their villages. <a name="C0619V40" id="C0619V40">19:40</a> The seventh lot
came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
<a name="C0619V41" id="C0619V41">19:41</a> The border of their inheritance was
Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, <a name="C0619V42" id="C0619V42">19:42</a>
and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah, <a name="C0619V43" id="C0619V43">19:43</a>
and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron, <a name="C0619V44" id="C0619V44">19:44</a>
and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, <a name="C0619V45" id="C0619V45">19:45</a>
and Jehud, and Bene Berak, and Gath Rimmon, <a name="C0619V46" id="C0619V46">19:46</a>
and Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. <a
name="C0619V47" id="C0619V47">19:47</a> The border of the children of Dan went
out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against
Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and
possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of
Dan their father. <a name="C0619V48" id="C0619V48">19:48</a> This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages. <a name="C0619V49" id="C0619V49">19:49</a>
So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by its
borders; and the children of Yisrael gave an inheritance to Yehoshua the son
of Nun in the midst of them: <a name="C0619V50" id="C0619V50">19:50</a>
according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he
asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the
city, and lived therein. <a name="C0619V51" id="C0619V51">19:51</a> These are
the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Yehoshua the son of Nun, and
the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the tribes of the children of
Yisrael, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the
door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0620V1" id="C0620V1">20:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Yehoshua, saying, <a
name="C0620V2" id="C0620V2">20:2</a> Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying,
Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moshe, <a
name="C0620V3" id="C0620V3">20:3</a> that the manslayer who kills any person
unwittingly <i>and</i> unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you
for a refuge from the avenger of blood. <a name="C0620V4" id="C0620V4">20:4</a>
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of
the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of
that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a
place, that he may dwell among them. <a name="C0620V5" id="C0620V5">20:5</a>
If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up
the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him before. <a name="C0620V6" id="C0620V6">20:6</a> He shall dwell
in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until
the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the
manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the
city from whence he fled. <a name="C0620V7" id="C0620V7">20:7</a> They set
apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in
the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the
hill country of Yehudah. <a name="C0620V8" id="C0620V8">20:8</a> Beyond the
Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the
plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of
Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. <a name="C0620V9"
id="C0620V9">20:9</a> These were the appointed cities for all the children
of Yisrael, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever
kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of
the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0621V1" id="C0621V1">21:1</a> Then came near the heads of fathers'
<i>houses</i> of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Yehoshua the son
of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> of the tribes of the
children of Yisrael; <a name="C0621V2" id="C0621V2">21:2</a> and they spoke to
them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moshe to
give us cities to dwell in, with its suburbs for our livestock. <a
name="C0621V3" id="C0621V3">21:3</a> The children of Yisrael gave to the
Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh,
these cities with their suburbs. <a name="C0621V4" id="C0621V4">21:4</a> The
lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aharon
the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Yehudah,
and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin,
thirteen cities. <a name="C0621V5" id="C0621V5">21:5</a> The rest of the
children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim,
and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten
cities. <a name="C0621V6" id="C0621V6">21:6</a> The children of Gershon had by
lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of
Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. <a name="C0621V7" id="C0621V7">21:7</a>
The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
twelve cities. <a name="C0621V8" id="C0621V8">21:8</a> The children of Yisrael
gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh
commanded by Moshe. <a name="C0621V9" id="C0621V9">21:9</a> They gave out of
the tribe of the children of Yehudah, and out of the tribe of the children
of Simeon, these cities which are <i>here</i> mentioned by name: <a
name="C0621V10" id="C0621V10">21:10</a> and they were for the children of
Aharon, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of
Levi; for theirs was the first lot. <a name="C0621V11" id="C0621V11">21:11</a>
They gave them Kiriath Arba, <i>which Arba was</i> the father of Anak (the
same is Hebron), in the hill country of Yehudah, with its suburbs around it.
<a name="C0621V12" id="C0621V12">21:12</a> But the fields of the city, and its
villages, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. <a
name="C0621V13" id="C0621V13">21:13</a> To the children of Aharon the priest
they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Libnah with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V14" id="C0621V14">21:14</a> and
Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V15"
id="C0621V15">21:15</a> and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its
suburbs, <a name="C0621V16" id="C0621V16">21:16</a> and Ain with its suburbs,
and Juttah with its suburbs, <i>and</i> Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
nine cities out of those two tribes. <a name="C0621V17" id="C0621V17">21:17</a>
Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its
suburbs, <a name="C0621V18" id="C0621V18">21:18</a> Anathoth with its suburbs,
and Almon with its suburbs; four cities. <a name="C0621V19" id="C0621V19">21:19</a>
All the cities of the children of Aharon, the priests, were thirteen cities
with their suburbs. <a name="C0621V20" id="C0621V20">21:20</a> The families of
the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of
Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. <a
name="C0621V21" id="C0621V21">21:21</a> They gave them Shechem with its
suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V22" id="C0621V22">21:22</a>
and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four
cities. <a name="C0621V23" id="C0621V23">21:23</a> Out of the tribe of Dan,
Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V24"
id="C0621V24">21:24</a> Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its
suburbs; four cities. <a name="C0621V25" id="C0621V25">21:25</a> Out of the
half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its
suburbs; two cities. <a name="C0621V26" id="C0621V26">21:26</a> All the cities
of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their
suburbs. <a name="C0621V27" id="C0621V27">21:27</a> To the children of
Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh
<i>they gave</i> Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for
the manslayer, and Be Eshterah with its suburbs; two cities. <a
name="C0621V28" id="C0621V28">21:28</a> Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion
with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V29" id="C0621V29">21:29</a>
Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities. <a
name="C0621V30" id="C0621V30">21:30</a> Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with
its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V31" id="C0621V31">21:31</a>
Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities. <a
name="C0621V32" id="C0621V32">21:32</a> Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh
in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities. <a
name="C0621V33" id="C0621V33">21:33</a> All the cities of the Gershonites
according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs. <a
name="C0621V34" id="C0621V34">21:34</a> To the families of the children of
Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with
its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V35" id="C0621V35">21:35</a>
Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities. <a
name="C0621V36" id="C0621V36">21:36</a> Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with
its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V37" id="C0621V37">21:37</a>
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. <a
name="C0621V38" id="C0621V38">21:38</a> Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in
Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Mahanaim with its suburbs, <a name="C0621V39" id="C0621V39">21:39</a> Heshbon
with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all. <a
name="C0621V40" id="C0621V40">21:40</a> All <i>these were</i> the cities of
the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the
families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. <a name="C0621V41"
id="C0621V41">21:41</a> All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the
possession of the children of Yisrael were forty-eight cities with their
suburbs. <a name="C0621V42" id="C0621V42">21:42</a> These cities were every
one with their suburbs around them: thus it was with all these cities. <a
name="C0621V43" id="C0621V43">21:43</a> So Yahweh gave to Yisrael all the land
which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived
therein. <a name="C0621V44" id="C0621V44">21:44</a> Yahweh gave them rest all
around, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there stood
not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their
enemies into their hand. <a name="C0621V45" id="C0621V45">21:45</a> There
failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house
of Yisrael; all came to pass.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0622V1" id="C0622V1">22:1</a> Then Yehoshua called the Reubenites, and
the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, <a name="C0622V2" id="C0622V2">22:2</a>
and said to them, You have kept all that Moshe the servant of Yahweh
commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you:
<a name="C0622V3" id="C0622V3">22:3</a> you have not left your brothers these
many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0622V4" id="C0622V4">22:4</a> Now Yahweh your Elohim
has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn
you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which
Moshe the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. <a name="C0622V5"
id="C0622V5">22:5</a> Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the
Torah which Moshe the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your
Elohim, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to
cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your
soul. <a name="C0622V6" id="C0622V6">22:6</a> So Yehoshua blessed them, and sent
them away; and they went to their tents. <a name="C0622V7" id="C0622V7">22:7</a>
Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moshe had given <i>inheritance</i>
in Bashan; but to the other half gave Yehoshua among their brothers beyond
the Jordan westward; moreover when Yehoshua sent them away to their tents,
he blessed them, <a name="C0622V8" id="C0622V8">22:8</a> and spoke to them,
saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, and with very much
livestock, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and
with very much clothing: divide the spoil of your enemies with your
brothers. <a name="C0622V9" id="C0622V9">22:9</a> The children of Reuben and
the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed
from the children of Yisrael out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan,
to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they
owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moshe. <a name="C0622V10"
id="C0622V10">22:10</a> When they came to the region about the Jordan, that
is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great
altar to look on. <a name="C0622V11" id="C0622V11">22:11</a> The children of
Yisrael heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the
land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains
to the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0622V12" id="C0622V12">22:12</a> When the
children of Yisrael heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of
Yisrael gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to
war. <a name="C0622V13" id="C0622V13">22:13</a> The children of Yisrael sent to
the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, <a name="C0622V14" id="C0622V14">22:14</a> and with him ten princes,
one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Yisrael; and they
were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of
Yisrael. <a name="C0622V15" id="C0622V15">22:15</a> They came to the children
of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh,
to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, <a name="C0622V16"
id="C0622V16">22:16</a> Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What
trespass is this that you have committed against the Elohim of Yisrael, to
turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an
altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? <a name="C0622V17" id="C0622V17">22:17</a>
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed
ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of
Yahweh, <a name="C0622V18" id="C0622V18">22:18</a> that you must turn away
this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today
against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation
of Yisrael. <a name="C0622V19" id="C0622V19">22:19</a> However, if the land of
your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession
of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us:
but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an
altar besides the altar of Yahweh our Elohim. <a name="C0622V20" id="C0622V20">22:20</a>
Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and
wrath fell on all the congregation of Yisrael? and that man didn't perish
alone in his iniquity. <a name="C0622V21" id="C0622V21">22:21</a> Then the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Yisrael, <a
name="C0622V22" id="C0622V22">22:22</a> The Mighty One, Elohim, Yahweh, the
Mighty One, Elohim, Yahweh, he knows; and Yisrael he shall know: if it be in
rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day), <a
name="C0622V23" id="C0622V23">22:23</a> that we have built us an altar to turn
away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal
offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings thereon, let Yahweh
himself require it; <a name="C0622V24" id="C0622V24">22:24</a> and if we have
not <i>rather</i> out of carefulness done this, <i>and</i> of purpose,
saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying,
What have you to do with Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael? <a name="C0622V25"
id="C0622V25">22:25</a> for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us
and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion
in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing
Yahweh. <a name="C0622V26" id="C0622V26">22:26</a> Therefore we said, Let us
now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for
sacrifice: <a name="C0622V27" id="C0622V27">22:27</a> but it shall be a
witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we
may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with
our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not
tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh. <a
name="C0622V28" id="C0622V28">22:28</a> Therefore said we, It shall be, when
they so tell us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say,
Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for
burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.
<a name="C0622V29" id="C0622V29">22:29</a> Far be it from us that we should
rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to
build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of Yahweh our Elohim that is before his tent. <a
name="C0622V30" id="C0622V30">22:30</a> When Phinehas the priest, and the
princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Yisrael
that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
<a name="C0622V31" id="C0622V31">22:31</a> Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to
the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of
us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now have
you delivered the children of Yisrael out of the hand of Yahweh. <a
name="C0622V32" id="C0622V32">22:32</a> Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from
the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to
the children of Yisrael, and brought them word again. <a name="C0622V33"
id="C0622V33">22:33</a> The thing pleased the children of Yisrael; and the
children of Yisrael blessed Elohim, and spoke no more of going up against them
to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad lived. <a name="C0622V34" id="C0622V34">22:34</a> The children
of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar <i>Ed</i>: For, <i>said
they</i>, it is a witness between us that Yahweh is Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0623V1" id="C0623V1">23:1</a> It happened after many days, when
Yahweh had given rest to Yisrael from their enemies all around, and Yehoshua
was old and well stricken in years; <a name="C0623V2" id="C0623V2">23:2</a>
that Yehoshua called for all Yisrael, for their elders and for their heads,
and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old
and well stricken in years: <a name="C0623V3" id="C0623V3">23:3</a> and you
have seen all that Yahweh your Elohim has done to all these nations because
of you; for Yahweh your Elohim, he it is that has fought for you. <a
name="C0623V4" id="C0623V4">23:4</a> Behold, I have allotted to you these
nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the
Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea
toward the going down of the sun. <a name="C0623V5" id="C0623V5">23:5</a>
Yahweh your Elohim, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them
from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as Yahweh your
Elohim spoke to you. <a name="C0623V6" id="C0623V6">23:6</a> Therefore be you
very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the
Torah of Moshe, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the
left; <a name="C0623V7" id="C0623V7">23:7</a> that you not come among these
nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of
their gods, nor cause to swear <i>by them</i>, neither serve them, nor bow
down yourselves to them; <a name="C0623V8" id="C0623V8">23:8</a> but cleave to
Yahweh your Elohim, as you have done to this day. <a name="C0623V9" id="C0623V9">23:9</a>
For Yahweh has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as
for you, no man has stood before you to this day. <a name="C0623V10"
id="C0623V10">23:10</a> One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh
your Elohim, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you. <a name="C0623V11"
id="C0623V11">23:11</a> Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you
love Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0623V12" id="C0623V12">23:12</a> Else if you
do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these
who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and
they to you; <a name="C0623V13" id="C0623V13">23:13</a> know for a certainty
that Yahweh your Elohim will no more drive these nations from out of your
sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your
sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land
which Yahweh your Elohim has given you. <a name="C0623V14" id="C0623V14">23:14</a>
Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all
your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all
the good things which Yahweh your Elohim spoke concerning you; all are happen
to you, not one thing has failed of it. <a name="C0623V15" id="C0623V15">23:15</a>
It shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you of which
Yahweh your Elohim spoke to you, so will Yahweh bring on you all the evil
things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh
your Elohim has given you. <a name="C0623V16" id="C0623V16">23:16</a> When you
disobey the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim, which he commanded you, and go
and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger
of Yahweh be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off
the good land which he has given to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0624V1" id="C0624V1">24:1</a> Yehoshua gathered all the tribes of
Yisrael to Shechem, and called for the elders of Yisrael, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented
themselves before Elohim. <a name="C0624V2" id="C0624V2">24:2</a> Yehoshua said to
all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Your fathers lived of
old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Avraham, and the
father of Nahor: and they served other gods. <a name="C0624V3" id="C0624V3">24:3</a>
I took your father Avraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout
all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. <a
name="C0624V4" id="C0624V4">24:4</a> I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I
gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it: and Jacob and his children went
down into Egypt. <a name="C0624V5" id="C0624V5">24:5</a> I sent Moshe and
Aharon, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst:
and afterward I brought you out. <a name="C0624V6" id="C0624V6">24:6</a> I
brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the
Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to
the <a href="#N064">Red Sea</a>. <a name="C0624V7" id="C0624V7">24:7</a> When
they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians,
and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I
did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days. <a name="C0624V8"
id="C0624V8">24:8</a> I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that
lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into
your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before
you. <a name="C0624V9" id="C0624V9">24:9</a> Then Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab, arose and fought against Yisrael: and he sent and called
Balaam the son of Beor to curse you; <a name="C0624V10" id="C0624V10">24:10</a>
but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I
delivered you out of his hand. <a name="C0624V11" id="C0624V11">24:11</a> You
went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought
against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered
them into your hand. <a name="C0624V12" id="C0624V12">24:12</a> I sent the
hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two
kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. <a
name="C0624V13" id="C0624V13">24:13</a> I gave you a land whereon you had not
labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of
vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat. <a
name="C0624V14" id="C0624V14">24:14</a> Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve
him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers
served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh. <a
name="C0624V15" id="C0624V15">24:15</a> If it seem evil to you to serve
Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh. <a
name="C0624V16" id="C0624V16">24:16</a> The people answered, Far be it from us
that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; <a name="C0624V17"
id="C0624V17">24:17</a> for Yahweh our Elohim, he it is who brought us and our
fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who
did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in
which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we
passed; <a name="C0624V18" id="C0624V18">24:18</a> and Yahweh drove out from
before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land:
therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our Elohim. <a name="C0624V19"
id="C0624V19">24:19</a> Yehoshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh;
for he is a holy Elohim; he is a jealous Elohim; he will not forgive your
disobedience nor your sins. <a name="C0624V20" id="C0624V20">24:20</a> If you
forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil,
and consume you, after that he has done you good. <a name="C0624V21"
id="C0624V21">24:21</a> The people said to Yehoshua, No; but we will serve
Yahweh. <a name="C0624V22" id="C0624V22">24:22</a> Yehoshua said to the people,
You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to
serve him. They said, We are witnesses. <a name="C0624V23" id="C0624V23">24:23</a>
Now therefore put away, <i>said he</i>, the foreign gods which are among
you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael. <a name="C0624V24"
id="C0624V24">24:24</a> The people said to Yehoshua, Yahweh our Elohim will we
serve, and to his voice will we listen. <a name="C0624V25" id="C0624V25">24:25</a>
So Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute
and an ordinance in Shechem. <a name="C0624V26" id="C0624V26">24:26</a> Yehoshua
wrote these words in the book of the Torah of Elohim; and he took a great
stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of
Yahweh. <a name="C0624V27" id="C0624V27">24:27</a> Yehoshua said to all the
people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard
all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a
witness against you, lest you deny your Elohim. <a name="C0624V28" id="C0624V28">24:28</a>
So Yehoshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. <a
name="C0624V29" id="C0624V29">24:29</a> It happened after these things, that
Yehoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten
years old. <a name="C0624V30" id="C0624V30">24:30</a> They buried him in the
border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of
Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. <a name="C0624V31"
id="C0624V31">24:31</a> Yisrael served Yahweh all the days of Yehoshua, and all
the days of the elders who outlived Yehoshua, and had known all the work of
Yahweh, that he had worked for Yisrael. <a name="C0624V32" id="C0624V32">24:32</a>
The bones of Joseph, which the children of Yisrael brought up out of Egypt,
buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the
sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and
they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. <a name="C0624V33"
id="C0624V33">24:33</a> Eleazar the son of Aharon died; and they buried him
in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country
of Ephraim.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N064" id="N064">[4]</a> <a href="#C0624V6">back to 24:6</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
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<p>
<a name="C651V1" id="C651V1">1:1</a> <a href="#N651">Jude,</a> a servant of
Yeshua Messiah, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by
Elohim the Father, and kept for Yeshua Messiah: <a name="C651V2" id="C651V2">1:2</a>
Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C651V3" id="C651V3">1:3</a> Beloved, while I was very eager to write
to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you
exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all
delivered to the saints. <a name="C651V4" id="C651V4">1:4</a> For there are
certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written
about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our Elohim
into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, Elohim, and Lord, Yeshua
Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C651V5" id="C651V5">1:5</a> Now I desire to remind you, though you
already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe. <a name="C651V6"
id="C651V6">1:6</a> Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted
their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness
for the judgment of the great day. <a name="C651V7" id="C651V7">1:7</a> Even
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way
as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after
strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of
eternal fire. <a name="C651V8" id="C651V8">1:8</a> Yet in like manner these
also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander
celestial beings. <a name="C651V9" id="C651V9">1:9</a> But Michael, the
archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of
Moshe, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said,
"May the Lord rebuke you!" <a name="C651V10" id="C651V10">1:10</a>
But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they
understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are
destroyed in these things. <a name="C651V11" id="C651V11">1:11</a> Woe to
them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of
Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion. <a name="C651V12"
id="C651V12">1:12</a> These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when
they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds
without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots; <a name="C651V13" id="C651V13">1:13</a> wild
waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom
the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. <a name="C651V14"
id="C651V14">1:14</a> About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his
holy ones, <a name="C651V15" id="C651V15">1:15</a> to execute judgment on all,
and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which
they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him." <a name="C651V16" id="C651V16">1:16</a>
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their
mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C651V17" id="C651V17">1:17</a> But you, beloved, remember the words
which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C651V18" id="C651V18">1:18</a> They said to you that "In the last
time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
<a name="C651V19" id="C651V19">1:19</a> These are they who cause divisions,
and are sensual, not having the Spirit. <a name="C651V20" id="C651V20">1:20</a>
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit. <a name="C651V21" id="C651V21">1:21</a> Keep
yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the mercy of our Lord Yeshua
Messiah to eternal life. <a name="C651V22" id="C651V22">1:22</a> On some have
compassion, making a distinction, <a name="C651V23" id="C651V23">1:23</a> and
some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the
clothing stained by the flesh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C651V24" id="C651V24">1:24</a> Now to him who is able to keep <a
href="#N652">them</a> from stumbling, and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory in great joy, <a name="C651V25" id="C651V25">1:25</a>
to Elohim our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and
power, both now and forever. Amen.
</p>
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Notes:
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<p>
<a name="N651" id="N651">[1]</a> <a href="#C651V1">back to 1:1</a> or, Yehudah
</p>
<p>
<a name="N652" id="N652">[2]</a> <a href="#C651V24">back to 1:24</a> TR and NU
read "you"
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<a name="C071V1" id="C071V1">1:1</a> It happened after the death of Joshua,
the children of Yisrael asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us
first against the Canaanites, to fight against them? <a name="C071V2"
id="C071V2">1:2</a> Yahweh said, Yehudah shall go up: behold, I have delivered
the land into his hand. <a name="C071V3" id="C071V3">1:3</a> Yehudah said to
Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against
the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon
went with him. <a name="C071V4" id="C071V4">1:4</a> Yehudah went up; and Yahweh
delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they
struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men. <a name="C071V5" id="C071V5">1:5</a>
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they
struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. <a name="C071V6" id="C071V6">1:6</a>
But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut
off his thumbs and his great toes. <a name="C071V7" id="C071V7">1:7</a>
Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great
toes cut off, gathered <i>their food</i> under my table: as I have done,
so Elohim has requited me." They brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died
there. <a name="C071V8" id="C071V8">1:8</a> The children of Yehudah fought
against Yerushalayim, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword,
and set the city on fire. <a name="C071V9" id="C071V9">1:9</a> Afterward the
children of Yehudah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in
the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland. <a name="C071V10"
id="C071V10">1:10</a> Yehudah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron
(now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai. <a name="C071V11" id="C071V11">1:11</a> From there he
went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was
Kiriath Sepher.) <a name="C071V12" id="C071V12">1:12</a> Caleb said, He who
strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my
daughter as wife. <a name="C071V13" id="C071V13">1:13</a> Othniel the son of
Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his
daughter as wife. <a name="C071V14" id="C071V14">1:14</a> It happened, when
she came <i>to him</i>, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:
and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What would
you? <a name="C071V15" id="C071V15">1:15</a> She said to him, Give me a
blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also
springs of water. Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
<a name="C071V16" id="C071V16">1:16</a> The children of the Kenite, Moshe'
brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of
Yehudah into the wilderness of Yehudah, which is in the south of Arad; and
they went and lived with the people. <a name="C071V17" id="C071V17">1:17</a>
Yehudah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who
inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was
called Hormah. <a name="C071V18" id="C071V18">1:18</a> Also Yehudah took Gaza
with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
<a name="C071V19" id="C071V19">1:19</a> Yahweh was with Yehudah; and drove out
<i>the inhabitants of</i> the hill country; for he could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. <a
name="C071V20" id="C071V20">1:20</a> They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moshe had
spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak. <a name="C071V21"
id="C071V21">1:21</a> The children of Benjamin did not drive out the
Jebusites who inhabited Yerushalayim; but the Jebusites dwell with the
children of Benjamin in Yerushalayim to this day. <a name="C071V22" id="C071V22">1:22</a>
The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with
them. <a name="C071V23" id="C071V23">1:23</a> The house of Joseph sent to spy
out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) <a name="C071V24"
id="C071V24">1:24</a> The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and
they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we
will deal kindly with you. <a name="C071V25" id="C071V25">1:25</a> He showed
them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of
the sword; but they let the man go and all his family. <a name="C071V26"
id="C071V26">1:26</a> The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built
a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day. <a
name="C071V27" id="C071V27">1:27</a> Manasseh did not drive out <i>the
inhabitants of</i> Beth Shean and its towns, nor <i>of</i> Taanach and its
towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land. <a name="C071V28" id="C071V28">1:28</a>
It happened, when Yisrael had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to
forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out. <a name="C071V29"
id="C071V29">1:29</a> Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in
Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. <a name="C071V30"
id="C071V30">1:30</a> Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron,
nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and
became subject to forced labor. <a name="C071V31" id="C071V31">1:31</a> Asher
didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon,
nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; <a
name="C071V32" id="C071V32">1:32</a> but the Asherites lived among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
<a name="C071V33" id="C071V33">1:33</a> Naphtali didn't drive out the
inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he
lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the
inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced
labor. <a name="C071V34" id="C071V34">1:34</a> The Amorites forced the
children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to
come down to the valley; <a name="C071V35" id="C071V35">1:35</a> but the
Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the
hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to
forced labor. <a name="C071V36" id="C071V36">1:36</a> The border of the
Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C072V1" id="C072V1">2:1</a> The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal
to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you
to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break
my covenant with you: <a name="C072V2" id="C072V2">2:2</a> and you shall make
no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their
altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this? <a
name="C072V3" id="C072V3">2:3</a> Therefore I also said, I will not drive them
out from before you; but they shall be <i>as thorns</i> in your sides, and
their gods shall be a snare to you. <a name="C072V4" id="C072V4">2:4</a> It
happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children
of Yisrael, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. <a name="C072V5"
id="C072V5">2:5</a> They called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there to Yahweh. <a name="C072V6" id="C072V6">2:6</a> Now when
Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Yisrael went every man to
his inheritance to possess the land. <a name="C072V7" id="C072V7">2:7</a> The
people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that
he had worked for Yisrael. <a name="C072V8" id="C072V8">2:8</a> Joshua the son
of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. <a
name="C072V9" id="C072V9">2:9</a> They buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north
of the mountain of Gaash. <a name="C072V10" id="C072V10">2:10</a> Also all
that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another
generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he
had worked for Yisrael. <a name="C072V11" id="C072V11">2:11</a> The children of
Yisrael did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the
Baals; <a name="C072V12" id="C072V12">2:12</a> and they forsook Yahweh, the
Elohim of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and
followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and
bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. <a
name="C072V13" id="C072V13">2:13</a> They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and
the Ashtaroth. <a name="C072V14" id="C072V14">2:14</a> The anger of Yahweh was
kindled against Yisrael, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers
who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all
around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. <a
name="C072V15" id="C072V15">2:15</a> Wherever they went out, the hand of
Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had
sworn to them: and they were sore distressed. <a name="C072V16" id="C072V16">2:16</a>
Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who
despoiled them. <a name="C072V17" id="C072V17">2:17</a> Yet they didn't listen
to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and
bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in
which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; <i>but</i>
they didn't do so. <a name="C072V18" id="C072V18">2:18</a> When Yahweh raised
them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the
hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh
because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and
troubled them. <a name="C072V19" id="C072V19">2:19</a> But it happened, when
the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than
their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to
them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. <a
name="C072V20" id="C072V20">2:20</a> The anger of Yahweh was kindled against
Yisrael; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant
which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; <a
name="C072V21" id="C072V21">2:21</a> I also will not henceforth drive out any
from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; <a
name="C072V22" id="C072V22">2:22</a> that by them I may prove Yisrael, whether
they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did
keep it, or not. <a name="C072V23" id="C072V23">2:23</a> So Yahweh left those
nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into
the hand of Joshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C073V1" id="C073V1">3:1</a> Now these are the nations which Yahweh
left, to prove Yisrael by them, even as many <i>of Yisrael</i> as had not
known all the wars of Canaan; <a name="C073V2" id="C073V2">3:2</a> only that
the generations of the children of Yisrael might know, to teach them war,
at the least such as before knew nothing of it: <a name="C073V3" id="C073V3">3:3</a>
<i>namely</i>, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites,
and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount
Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. <a name="C073V4" id="C073V4">3:4</a>
They were <i>left</i>, to prove Yisrael by them, to know whether they would
listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by
Moshe. <a name="C073V5" id="C073V5">3:5</a> The children of Yisrael lived among
the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites, and the Jebusites: <a name="C073V6" id="C073V6">3:6</a> and they
took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to
their sons and served their gods. <a name="C073V7" id="C073V7">3:7</a> The
children of Yisrael did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and
forgot Yahweh their Elohim, and served the Baals and the Asheroth. <a
name="C073V8" id="C073V8">3:8</a> Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled
against Yisrael, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king
of Mesopotamia: and the children of Yisrael served Cushan Rishathaim eight
years. <a name="C073V9" id="C073V9">3:9</a> When the children of Yisrael cried
to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Yisrael, who saved
them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. <a
name="C073V10" id="C073V10">3:10</a> The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he
judged Yisrael; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan
Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed
against Cushan Rishathaim. <a name="C073V11" id="C073V11">3:11</a> The land
had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died. <a name="C073V12"
id="C073V12">3:12</a> The children of Yisrael again did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab
against Yisrael, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh. <a name="C073V13" id="C073V13">3:13</a> He gathered to him the
children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Yisrael, and they
possessed the city of palm trees. <a name="C073V14" id="C073V14">3:14</a> The
children of Yisrael served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. <a
name="C073V15" id="C073V15">3:15</a> But when the children of Yisrael cried to
Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the
Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Yisrael sent tribute by him
to Eglon the king of Moab. <a name="C073V16" id="C073V16">3:16</a> Ehud made
him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under
his clothing on his right thigh. <a name="C073V17" id="C073V17">3:17</a> He
offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
<a name="C073V18" id="C073V18">3:18</a> When he had made an end of offering
the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute. <a name="C073V19"
id="C073V19">3:19</a> But he himself turned back from the quarries that were
by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, Keep
silence. All who stood by him went out from him. <a name="C073V20" id="C073V20">3:20</a>
Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper
room. Ehud said, I have a message from Elohim to you. He arose out of his
seat. <a name="C073V21" id="C073V21">3:21</a> Ehud put forth his left hand,
and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body: <a
name="C073V22" id="C073V22">3:22</a> and the haft also went in after the
blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out
of his body; and it came out behind. <a name="C073V23" id="C073V23">3:23</a>
Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room
on him, and locked them. <a name="C073V24" id="C073V24">3:24</a> Now when he
was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of
the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet
in the upper chamber. <a name="C073V25" id="C073V25">3:25</a> They waited
until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper
room: therefore they took the key, and opened <i>them</i>, and behold,
their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. <a name="C073V26" id="C073V26">3:26</a>
Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and
escaped to Seirah. <a name="C073V27" id="C073V27">3:27</a> It happened, when
he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and
the children of Yisrael went down with him from the hill country, and he
before them. <a name="C073V28" id="C073V28">3:28</a> He said to them, Follow
after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your
hand. They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against
the Moabites, and didn't allow a man to pass over. <a name="C073V29"
id="C073V29">3:29</a> They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand
men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
<a name="C073V30" id="C073V30">3:30</a> So Moab was subdued that day under the
hand of Yisrael. The land had rest eighty years. <a name="C073V31" id="C073V31">3:31</a>
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six
hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C074V1" id="C074V1">4:1</a> The children of Yisrael again did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead. <a name="C074V2"
id="C074V2">4:2</a> Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan,
who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in
Harosheth of the Gentiles. <a name="C074V3" id="C074V3">4:3</a> The children
of Yisrael cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and
twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Yisrael. <a name="C074V4"
id="C074V4">4:4</a> Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she
judged Yisrael at that time. <a name="C074V5" id="C074V5">4:5</a> She lived
under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill
country of Ephraim: and the children of Yisrael came up to her for
judgment. <a name="C074V6" id="C074V6">4:6</a> She sent and called Barak the
son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael, commanded, <i>saying</i>, Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and
take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the
children of Zebulun? <a name="C074V7" id="C074V7">4:7</a> I will draw to you,
to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his
chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand. <a
name="C074V8" id="C074V8">4:8</a> Barak said to her, If you will go with me,
then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go. <a
name="C074V9" id="C074V9">4:9</a> She said, I will surely go with you:
notwithstanding, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor;
for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. Deborah arose, and
went with Barak to Kedesh. <a name="C074V10" id="C074V10">4:10</a> Barak
called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten
thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him. <a name="C074V11"
id="C074V11">4:11</a> Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the
Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moshe, and
had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
<a name="C074V12" id="C074V12">4:12</a> They told Sisera that Barak the son of
Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor. <a name="C074V13" id="C074V13">4:13</a>
Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of
iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the
Gentiles, to the river Kishon. <a name="C074V14" id="C074V14">4:14</a> Deborah
said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered
Sisera into your hand; hasn't Yahweh gone out before you? So Barak went
down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. <a name="C074V15"
id="C074V15">4:15</a> Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all
his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted
from his chariot, and fled away on his feet. <a name="C074V16" id="C074V16">4:16</a>
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of
the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword;
there was not a man left. <a name="C074V17" id="C074V17">4:17</a> However
Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the
Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house
of Heber the Kenite. <a name="C074V18" id="C074V18">4:18</a> Jael went out to
meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be
afraid. He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
<a name="C074V19" id="C074V19">4:19</a> He said to her, Please give me a
little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and
gave him drink, and covered him. <a name="C074V20" id="C074V20">4:20</a> He
said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man
does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you
shall say, No. <a name="C074V21" id="C074V21">4:21</a> Then Jael Heber's wife
took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him,
and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the
ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. <a name="C074V22"
id="C074V22">4:22</a> Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He
came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his
temples. <a name="C074V23" id="C074V23">4:23</a> So Elohim subdued on that day
Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Yisrael. <a name="C074V24"
id="C074V24">4:24</a> The hand of the children of Yisrael prevailed more and
more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king
of Canaan.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C075V1" id="C075V1">5:1</a> Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam
sang on that day, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C075V2" id="C075V2">5:2</a> Because the leaders took the lead in
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
because the people offered themselves willingly,
</dd>
<dt>
be blessed, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C075V3" id="C075V3">5:3</a> Hear, you kings!
</dt>
<dd>
Give ear, you princes!
</dd>
<dt>
I, <i>even</i> I, will sing to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praise to Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V4" id="C075V4">5:4</a> Yahweh, when you went forth out of
Seir,
</dt>
<dd>
when you marched out of the field of Edom,
</dd>
<dt>
the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, the clouds dropped water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V5" id="C075V5">5:5</a> The mountains quaked at the presence of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
even Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V6" id="C075V6">5:6</a> In the days of Shamgar the son of
Anath,
</dt>
<dd>
in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
</dd>
<dd>
The travelers walked through byways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V7" id="C075V7">5:7</a> The rulers ceased in Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
They ceased until I, Deborah, arose;
</dd>
<dd>
Until I arose a mother in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V8" id="C075V8">5:8</a> They chose new gods.
</dt>
<dd>
Then war was in the gates.
</dd>
<dd>
Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Yisrael?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V9" id="C075V9">5:9</a> My heart is toward the governors of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
who offered themselves willingly among the people.
</dd>
<dd>
Bless Yahweh!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V10" id="C075V10">5:10</a> Tell <i>of it</i>, you who ride on
white donkeys,
</dt>
<dd>
you who sit on rich carpets,
</dd>
<dd>
and you who walk by the way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V11" id="C075V11">5:11</a> Far from the noise of archers, in
the places of drawing water,
</dt>
<dd>
there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
<i>Even</i> the righteous acts of his rule in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dd>
Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
</dd>
<dd>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V12" id="C075V12">5:12</a> Awake, awake, Deborah!
</dt>
<dd>
Awake, awake, utter a song!
</dd>
<dd>
Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V13" id="C075V13">5:13</a> Then a remnant of the nobles <i>and</i>
the people came down.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V14" id="C075V14">5:14</a> Those whose root is in Amalek came
out of Ephraim,
</dt>
<dd>
after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
Governors come down out of Machir.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V15" id="C075V15">5:15</a> The princes of Issachar were with
Deborah.
</dt>
<dd>
As was Issachar, so was Barak.
</dd>
<dd>
They rushed into the valley at his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
By the watercourses of Reuben,
</dt>
<dd>
there were great resolves of heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V16" id="C075V16">5:16</a> Why did you sit among the
sheepfolds,
</dt>
<dd>
To hear the whistling for the flocks?
</dd>
<dt>
At the watercourses of Reuben
</dt>
<dd>
There were great searchings of heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V17" id="C075V17">5:17</a> Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
</dt>
<dd>
Why did Dan remain in ships?
</dd>
<dd>
Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and lived by his creeks.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V18" id="C075V18">5:18</a> Zebulun was a people that
jeopardized their lives to the deaths;
</dt>
<dd>
Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C075V19" id="C075V19">5:19</a> The kings came and fought,
</dt>
<dd>
then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.
</dd>
<dd>
They took no plunder of silver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V20" id="C075V20">5:20</a> From the sky the stars fought.
</dt>
<dd>
From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V21" id="C075V21">5:21</a> The river Kishon swept them away,
</dt>
<dd>
that ancient river, the river Kishon.
</dd>
<dd>
My soul, march on with strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V22" id="C075V22">5:22</a> Then the horse hoofs stamped because
of the prancings,
</dt>
<dd>
the prancings of their strong ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V23" id="C075V23">5:23</a> Curse Meroz, said the angel of
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
</dd>
<dd>
because they didn't come to help Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
to help Yahweh against the mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V24" id="C075V24">5:24</a> Jael shall be blessed above women,
</dt>
<dd>
the wife of Heber the Kenite;
</dd>
<dd>
blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V25" id="C075V25">5:25</a> He asked for water.
</dt>
<dd>
She gave him milk.
</dd>
<dd>
She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V26" id="C075V26">5:26</a> She put her hand to the tent peg,
</dt>
<dd>
and her right hand to the workmen's hammer.
</dd>
<dt>
With the hammer she struck Sisera.
</dt>
<dd>
She struck through his head.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V27" id="C075V27">5:27</a> At her feet he bowed, he fell, he
lay.
</dt>
<dd>
At her feet he bowed, he fell.
</dd>
<dd>
Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C075V28" id="C075V28">5:28</a> Through the window she looked out,
and cried:
</dt>
<dd>
Sisera's mother looked through the lattice.
</dd>
<dt>
Why is his chariot so long in coming?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V29" id="C075V29">5:29</a> Her wise ladies answered her,
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, she returned answer to herself,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V30" id="C075V30">5:30</a> Have they not found, have they not
divided the spoil?
</dt>
<dd>
A lady, two ladies to every man;
</dd>
<dt>
to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,
</dt>
<dd>
A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,
</dd>
<dd>
Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C075V31" id="C075V31">5:31</a> So let all your enemies perish,
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its
strength.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
The land had rest forty years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C076V1" id="C076V1">6:1</a> The children of Yisrael did that which was
evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of
Midian seven years. <a name="C076V2" id="C076V2">6:2</a> The hand of Midian
prevailed against Yisrael; and because of Midian the children of Yisrael
made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the
strongholds. <a name="C076V3" id="C076V3">6:3</a> So it was, when Yisrael had
sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of
the east; they came up against them; <a name="C076V4" id="C076V4">6:4</a> and
they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until
you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Yisrael, neither sheep, nor ox,
nor donkey. <a name="C076V5" id="C076V5">6:5</a> For they came up with their
livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both
they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to
destroy it. <a name="C076V6" id="C076V6">6:6</a> Yisrael was brought very low
because of Midian; and the children of Yisrael cried to Yahweh. <a
name="C076V7" id="C076V7">6:7</a> It happened, when the children of Yisrael
cried to Yahweh because of Midian, <a name="C076V8" id="C076V8">6:8</a> that
Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Yisrael: and he said to them, Thus
says Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought
you forth out of the house of bondage; <a name="C076V9" id="C076V9">6:9</a>
and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you
their land; <a name="C076V10" id="C076V10">6:10</a> and I said to you, I am
Yahweh your Elohim; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land you dwell. But you have not listened to my voice. <a name="C076V11"
id="C076V11">6:11</a> The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which
was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon
was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. <a
name="C076V12" id="C076V12">6:12</a> The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and
said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor. <a name="C076V13"
id="C076V13">6:13</a> Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us,
why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works
which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from
Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of
Midian. <a name="C076V14" id="C076V14">6:14</a> Yahweh looked at him, and
said, Go in this your might, and save Yisrael from the hand of Midian: have
not I sent you? <a name="C076V15" id="C076V15">6:15</a> He said to him, Oh,
Lord, with which shall I save Yisrael? behold, my family is the poorest in
Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. <a name="C076V16"
id="C076V16">6:16</a> Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you
shall strike the Midianites as one man. <a name="C076V17" id="C076V17">6:17</a>
He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a
sign that it is you who talk with me. <a name="C076V18" id="C076V18">6:18</a>
Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and
lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again. <a
name="C076V19" id="C076V19">6:19</a> Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and
unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he
put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and
presented it. <a name="C076V20" id="C076V20">6:20</a> The angel of Elohim said to
him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock,
and pour out the broth. He did so. <a name="C076V21" id="C076V21">6:21</a>
Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his
hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up
fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight. <a name="C076V22" id="C076V22">6:22</a>
Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, Lord
Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face. <a
name="C076V23" id="C076V23">6:23</a> Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you;
don't be afraid: you shall not die. <a name="C076V24" id="C076V24">6:24</a>
Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it <a href="#N071">Yahweh
is Peace</a>: to this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. <a
name="C076V25" id="C076V25">6:25</a> It happened the same night, that Yahweh
said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years
old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down
the Asherah that is by it; <a name="C076V26" id="C076V26">6:26</a> and build
an altar to Yahweh your Elohim on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly
manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood
of the Asherah which you shall cut down. <a name="C076V27" id="C076V27">6:27</a>
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to
him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men
of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
<a name="C076V28" id="C076V28">6:28</a> When the men of the city arose early
in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah
was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar
that was built. <a name="C076V29" id="C076V29">6:29</a> They said one to
another, Who has done this thing? When they inquired and asked, they said,
Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing. <a name="C076V30" id="C076V30">6:30</a>
Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may
die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut
down the Asherah that was by it. <a name="C076V31" id="C076V31">6:31</a> Joash
said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you
save him? he who will contend for him, let him be put to death while <i>it
is yet</i> morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because
one has broken down his altar. <a name="C076V32" id="C076V32">6:32</a>
Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend
against him, because he has broken down his altar. <a name="C076V33"
id="C076V33">6:33</a> Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the
children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over,
and encamped in the valley of Jezreel. <a name="C076V34" id="C076V34">6:34</a>
But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and
Abiezer was gathered together after him. <a name="C076V35" id="C076V35">6:35</a>
He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered
together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and
to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. <a name="C076V36" id="C076V36">6:36</a>
Gideon said to Elohim, If you will save Yisrael by my hand, as you have
spoken, <a name="C076V37" id="C076V37">6:37</a> behold, I will put a fleece of
wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be
dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Yisrael by my
hand, as you have spoken. <a name="C076V38" id="C076V38">6:38</a> It was so;
for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and
wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. <a name="C076V39"
id="C076V39">6:39</a> Gideon said to Elohim, Don't let your anger be kindled
against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial
just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and
on all the ground let there be dew. <a name="C076V40" id="C076V40">6:40</a>
Elohim did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was
dew on all the ground.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N071" id="N071">[1]</a> <a href="#C076V24">back to 6:24</a> or, Yahweh
Shalom
</p>
<p>
<a name="C077V1" id="C077V1">7:1</a> Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all
the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the
spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by
the hill of Moreh, in the valley. <a name="C077V2" id="C077V2">7:2</a> Yahweh
said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give
the Midianites into their hand, lest Yisrael vaunt themselves against me,
saying, My own hand has saved me. <a name="C077V3" id="C077V3">7:3</a> Now
therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful
and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned
of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. <a
name="C077V4" id="C077V4">7:4</a> Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet
too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there:
and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same
shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you,
the same shall not go. <a name="C077V5" id="C077V5">7:5</a> So he brought down
the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of
the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him you shall set by himself;
likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink. <a name="C077V6"
id="C077V6">7:6</a> The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to
their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
down on their knees to drink water. <a name="C077V7" id="C077V7">7:7</a>
Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save
you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go
every man to his place. <a name="C077V8" id="C077V8">7:8</a> So the people
took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of
Yisrael every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the
camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. <a name="C077V9" id="C077V9">7:9</a>
It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down
into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand. <a name="C077V10"
id="C077V10">7:10</a> But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your
servant down to the camp: <a name="C077V11" id="C077V11">7:11</a> and you
shall hear what they say; and afterward your will hands be strengthened to
go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the
outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp. <a name="C077V12"
id="C077V12">7:12</a> The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children
of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their
camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for
multitude. <a name="C077V13" id="C077V13">7:13</a> When Gideon had come,
behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said,
Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into
the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell,
and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. <a name="C077V14"
id="C077V14">7:14</a> His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the
sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Yisrael: into his hand Elohim has
delivered Midian, and all the army. <a name="C077V15" id="C077V15">7:15</a> It
was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its
interpretation, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of
Yisrael, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into your hand the army
of Midian. <a name="C077V16" id="C077V16">7:16</a> He divided the three
hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them
trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. <a
name="C077V17" id="C077V17">7:17</a> He said to them, Look on me, and do
likewise: and behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it
shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. <a name="C077V18" id="C077V18">7:18</a>
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow you the
trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and for
Gideon. <a name="C077V19" id="C077V19">7:19</a> So Gideon, and the hundred men
who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning
of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew
the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
<a name="C077V20" id="C077V20">7:20</a> The three companies blew the trumpets,
and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the
trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The
sword of Yahweh and of Gideon. <a name="C077V21" id="C077V21">7:21</a> They
stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and
they shouted, and put <i>them</i> to flight. <a name="C077V22" id="C077V22">7:22</a>
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword
against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as
Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by
Tabbath. <a name="C077V23" id="C077V23">7:23</a> The men of Yisrael were
gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all
Manasseh, and pursued after Midian. <a name="C077V24" id="C077V24">7:24</a>
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying,
Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth
Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together,
and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. <a name="C077V25"
id="C077V25">7:25</a> They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the
winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb
and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C078V1" id="C078V1">8:1</a> The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have
you served us thus, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with
Midian? They did chide with him sharply. <a name="C078V2" id="C078V2">8:2</a>
He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the
gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? <a
name="C078V3" id="C078V3">8:3</a> Elohim has delivered into your hand the princes
of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with
you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. <a
name="C078V4" id="C078V4">8:4</a> Gideon came to the Jordan, <i>and</i> passed
over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet
pursuing. <a name="C078V5" id="C078V5">8:5</a> He said to the men of Succoth,
Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are
faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. <a
name="C078V6" id="C078V6">8:6</a> The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands
of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your
army? <a name="C078V7" id="C078V7">8:7</a> Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh
has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh
with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. <a name="C078V8" id="C078V8">8:8</a>
He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men
of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. <a name="C078V9"
id="C078V9">8:9</a> He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
again in peace, I will break down this tower. <a name="C078V10" id="C078V10">8:10</a>
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about
fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of
the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.
<a name="C078V11" id="C078V11">8:11</a> Gideon went up by the way of those who
lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for
the army was secure. <a name="C078V12" id="C078V12">8:12</a> Zebah and
Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of
Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army. <a name="C078V13"
id="C078V13">8:13</a> Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from
the ascent of Heres. <a name="C078V14" id="C078V14">8:14</a> He caught a young
man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him
the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. <a name="C078V15"
id="C078V15">8:15</a> He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and
Zalmunna, concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah
and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who
are weary? <a name="C078V16" id="C078V16">8:16</a> He took the elders of the
city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the
men of Succoth. <a name="C078V17" id="C078V17">8:17</a> He broke down the
tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city. <a name="C078V18" id="C078V18">8:18</a>
Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you
killed at Tabor? They answered, As you are, so were they; each one
resembled the children of a king. <a name="C078V19" id="C078V19">8:19</a> He
said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if
you had saved them alive, I would not kill you. <a name="C078V20" id="C078V20">8:20</a>
He said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and kill them. But the youth didn't
draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth. <a name="C078V21"
id="C078V21">8:21</a> Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall on
us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gideon arose, and killed Zebah
and Zalmunna, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks. <a
name="C078V22" id="C078V22">8:22</a> Then the men of Yisrael said to Gideon,
Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you
have saved us out of the hand of Midian. <a name="C078V23" id="C078V23">8:23</a>
Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule
over you: Yahweh shall rule over you. <a name="C078V24" id="C078V24">8:24</a>
Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, that you would give me
every man the earrings of his spoil. (For they had golden earrings,
because they were Ishmaelites.) <a name="C078V25" id="C078V25">8:25</a> They
answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast
therein every man the earrings of his spoil. <a name="C078V26" id="C078V26">8:26</a>
The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and
seven hundred <i>shekels</i> of gold, besides the crescents, and the
pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and
besides the chains that were about their camels' necks. <a name="C078V27"
id="C078V27">8:27</a> Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city,
even in Ophrah: and all Yisrael played the prostitute after it there; and
it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. <a name="C078V28" id="C078V28">8:28</a>
So Midian was subdued before the children of Yisrael, and they lifted up
their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
<a name="C078V29" id="C078V29">8:29</a> Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and
lived in his own house. <a name="C078V30" id="C078V30">8:30</a> Gideon had
seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives. <a
name="C078V31" id="C078V31">8:31</a> His concubine who was in Shechem, she
also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech. <a name="C078V32" id="C078V32">8:32</a>
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb
of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. <a name="C078V33"
id="C078V33">8:33</a> It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of Yisrael turned again, and played the prostitute after the
Baals, and made Baal Berith their god. <a name="C078V34" id="C078V34">8:34</a>
The children of Yisrael didn't remember Yahweh their Elohim, who had delivered
them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; <a name="C078V35"
id="C078V35">8:35</a> neither did they show kindness to the house of
Jerubbaal, <i>who is</i> Gideon, according to all the goodness which he
had shown to Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C079V1" id="C079V1">9:1</a> Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to
Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the
family of the house of his mother's father, saying, <a name="C079V2"
id="C079V2">9:2</a> Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy
persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am
your bone and your flesh. <a name="C079V3" id="C079V3">9:3</a> His mother's
brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these
words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is
our brother. <a name="C079V4" id="C079V4">9:4</a> They gave him seventy <i>pieces</i>
of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain
and light fellows, who followed him. <a name="C079V5" id="C079V5">9:5</a> He
went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of
Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest
son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. <a name="C079V6" id="C079V6">9:6</a>
All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of
Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was
in Shechem. <a name="C079V7" id="C079V7">9:7</a> When they told it to Jotham,
he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice,
and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that Elohim
may listen to you. <a name="C079V8" id="C079V8">9:8</a> The trees went forth
on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree,
Reign you over us. <a name="C079V9" id="C079V9">9:9</a> But the olive tree
said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor Elohim
and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? <a name="C079V10"
id="C079V10">9:10</a> The trees said to the fig tree, Come you, and reign
over us. <a name="C079V11" id="C079V11">9:11</a> But the fig tree said to
them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back
and forth over the trees? <a name="C079V12" id="C079V12">9:12</a> The trees
said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us. <a name="C079V13" id="C079V13">9:13</a>
The vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers Elohim and
man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees? <a name="C079V14"
id="C079V14">9:14</a> Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, and
reign over us. <a name="C079V15" id="C079V15">9:15</a> The bramble said to the
trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge
in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the
cedars of Lebanon. <a name="C079V16" id="C079V16">9:16</a> Now therefore, if
you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech
king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have
done to him according to the deserving of his hands <a name="C079V17"
id="C079V17">9:17</a> (for my father fought for you, and adventured his
life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: <a name="C079V18"
id="C079V18">9:18</a> and you are risen up against my father's house this
day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made
Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem,
because he is your brother); <a name="C079V19" id="C079V19">9:19</a> if you
then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house
this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
<a name="C079V20" id="C079V20">9:20</a> but if not, let fire come out from
Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let
fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and
devour Abimelech. <a name="C079V21" id="C079V21">9:21</a> Jotham ran away, and
fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his
brother. <a name="C079V22" id="C079V22">9:22</a> Abimelech was prince over
Yisrael three years. <a name="C079V23" id="C079V23">9:23</a> Elohim sent an evil
spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem
dealt treacherously with Abimelech: <a name="C079V24" id="C079V24">9:24</a>
that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and
that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed
them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his
brothers. <a name="C079V25" id="C079V25">9:25</a> The men of Shechem set an
ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came
along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. <a name="C079V26"
id="C079V26">9:26</a> Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went
over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. <a
name="C079V27" id="C079V27">9:27</a> They went out into the field, and
gathered their vineyards, and trod <i>the grapes</i>, and held festival,
and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed
Abimelech. <a name="C079V28" id="C079V28">9:28</a> Gaal the son of Ebed said,
Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn't he
the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve you the men of Hamor
the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him? <a name="C079V29"
id="C079V29">9:29</a> Would that this people were under my hand! then would
I remove Abimelech. He said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come
out. <a name="C079V30" id="C079V30">9:30</a> When Zebul the ruler of the city
heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. <a
name="C079V31" id="C079V31">9:31</a> He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily,
saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem;
and behold, they constrain the city <i>to take part</i> against you. <a
name="C079V32" id="C079V32">9:32</a> Now therefore, up by night, you and the
people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field: <a name="C079V33"
id="C079V33">9:33</a> and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the
sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, when he
and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to
them as you shall find occasion. <a name="C079V34" id="C079V34">9:34</a>
Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and
they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. <a name="C079V35"
id="C079V35">9:35</a> Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the
entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people
who were with him, from the ambush. <a name="C079V36" id="C079V36">9:36</a>
When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down
from the tops of the mountains. Zebul said to him, You see the shadow of
the mountains as if they were men. <a name="C079V37" id="C079V37">9:37</a>
Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down by the middle of
the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim. <a
name="C079V38" id="C079V38">9:38</a> Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your
mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not
this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with
them. <a name="C079V39" id="C079V39">9:39</a> Gaal went out before the men of
Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. <a name="C079V40" id="C079V40">9:40</a>
Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded,
even to the entrance of the gate. <a name="C079V41" id="C079V41">9:41</a>
Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that
they should not dwell in Shechem. <a name="C079V42" id="C079V42">9:42</a> It
happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and
they told Abimelech. <a name="C079V43" id="C079V43">9:43</a> He took the
people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field;
and he looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose
up against them, and struck them. <a name="C079V44" id="C079V44">9:44</a>
Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood
in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on
all who were in the field, and struck them. <a name="C079V45" id="C079V45">9:45</a>
Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and
killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed
it with salt. <a name="C079V46" id="C079V46">9:46</a> When all the men of the
tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the
house of Elberith. <a name="C079V47" id="C079V47">9:47</a> It was told
Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
<a name="C079V48" id="C079V48">9:48</a> Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon,
he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his
hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on
his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, What you have
seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. <a name="C079V49" id="C079V49">9:49</a>
All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire
on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a
thousand men and women. <a name="C079V50" id="C079V50">9:50</a> Then went
Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. <a
name="C079V51" id="C079V51">9:51</a> But there was a strong tower within the
city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and
shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower. <a
name="C079V52" id="C079V52">9:52</a> Abimelech came to the tower, and fought
against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
<a name="C079V53" id="C079V53">9:53</a> A certain woman cast an upper
millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. <a name="C079V54"
id="C079V54">9:54</a> Then he called hastily to the young man his armor
bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of
me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died. <a
name="C079V55" id="C079V55">9:55</a> When the men of Yisrael saw that Abimelech
was dead, they departed every man to his place. <a name="C079V56" id="C079V56">9:56</a>
Thus Elohim requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father,
in killing his seventy brothers; <a name="C079V57" id="C079V57">9:57</a> and
all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did Elohim requite on their heads:
and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0710V1" id="C0710V1">10:1</a> After Abimelech there arose to save
Yisrael Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he
lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. <a name="C0710V2" id="C0710V2">10:2</a>
He judged Yisrael twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
<a name="C0710V3" id="C0710V3">10:3</a> After him arose Jair, the Gileadite;
and he judged Yisrael twenty-two years. <a name="C0710V4" id="C0710V4">10:4</a>
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty
cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land
of Gilead. <a name="C0710V5" id="C0710V5">10:5</a> Jair died, and was buried
in Kamon. <a name="C0710V6" id="C0710V6">10:6</a> The children of Yisrael again
did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and
the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods
of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the
Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him. <a name="C0710V7"
id="C0710V7">10:7</a> The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Yisrael, and he
sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the
children of Ammon. <a name="C0710V8" id="C0710V8">10:8</a> They troubled and
oppressed the children of Yisrael that year: eighteen years <i>oppressed
they</i> all the children of Yisrael that were beyond the Jordan in the
land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. <a name="C0710V9" id="C0710V9">10:9</a>
The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Yehudah,
and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Yisrael was
sore distressed. <a name="C0710V10" id="C0710V10">10:10</a> The children of
Yisrael cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because
we have forsaken our Elohim, and have served the Baals. <a name="C0710V11"
id="C0710V11">10:11</a> Yahweh said to the children of Yisrael, Didn't I save
you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon,
and from the Philistines? <a name="C0710V12" id="C0710V12">10:12</a> The
Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and
you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand. <a name="C0710V13"
id="C0710V13">10:13</a> Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods:
therefore I will save you no more. <a name="C0710V14" id="C0710V14">10:14</a>
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the
time of your distress. <a name="C0710V15" id="C0710V15">10:15</a> The children
of Yisrael said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good
to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day. <a name="C0710V16"
id="C0710V16">10:16</a> They put away the foreign gods from among them, and
served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Yisrael. <a
name="C0710V17" id="C0710V17">10:17</a> Then the children of Ammon were
gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Yisrael
assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah. <a name="C0710V18"
id="C0710V18">10:18</a> The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to
another, What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of
Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0711V1" id="C0711V1">11:1</a> Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a
mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became
the father of Jephthah. <a name="C0711V2" id="C0711V2">11:2</a> Gilead's wife
bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah,
and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are
the son of another woman. <a name="C0711V3" id="C0711V3">11:3</a> Then
Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there
were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him. <a
name="C0711V4" id="C0711V4">11:4</a> It happened after a while, that the
children of Ammon made war against Yisrael. <a name="C0711V5" id="C0711V5">11:5</a>
It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Yisrael, the
elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; <a
name="C0711V6" id="C0711V6">11:6</a> and they said to Jephthah, Come and be
our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. <a name="C0711V7"
id="C0711V7">11:7</a> Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate
me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are you come to me now
when you are in distress? <a name="C0711V8" id="C0711V8">11:8</a> The elders
of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you now, that
you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be
our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. <a name="C0711V9" id="C0711V9">11:9</a>
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight
with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be
your head? <a name="C0711V10" id="C0711V10">11:10</a> The elders of Gilead
said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to
your word so will we do. <a name="C0711V11" id="C0711V11">11:11</a> Then
Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and
chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
<a name="C0711V12" id="C0711V12">11:12</a> Jephthah sent messengers to the
king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that
you are come to me to fight against my land? <a name="C0711V13" id="C0711V13">11:13</a>
The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah,
Because Yisrael took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the
Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those
<i>lands</i> again peaceably. <a name="C0711V14" id="C0711V14">11:14</a>
Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; <a
name="C0711V15" id="C0711V15">11:15</a> and he said to him, Thus says
Jephthah: Yisrael didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the
children of Ammon, <a name="C0711V16" id="C0711V16">11:16</a> but when they
came up from Egypt, and Yisrael went through the wilderness to the <a
href="#N072">Red Sea</a>, and came to Kadesh; <a name="C0711V17" id="C0711V17">11:17</a>
then Yisrael sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me
pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same
way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Yisrael abode in
Kadesh. <a name="C0711V18" id="C0711V18">11:18</a> Then they went through the
wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and
came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other
side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the
Arnon was the border of Moab. <a name="C0711V19" id="C0711V19">11:19</a>
Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon;
and Yisrael said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my
place. <a name="C0711V20" id="C0711V20">11:20</a> But Sihon didn't trust
Yisrael to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people
together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Yisrael. <a
name="C0711V21" id="C0711V21">11:21</a> Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, delivered
Sihon and all his people into the hand of Yisrael, and they struck them: so
Yisrael possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that
country. <a name="C0711V22" id="C0711V22">11:22</a> They possessed all the
border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the
wilderness even to the Jordan. <a name="C0711V23" id="C0711V23">11:23</a> So
now Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, has dispossessed the Amorites from before
his people Yisrael, and should you possess them? <a name="C0711V24"
id="C0711V24">11:24</a> Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives
you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our Elohim has dispossessed from before us,
them will we possess. <a name="C0711V25" id="C0711V25">11:25</a> Now are you
anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever
strive against Yisrael, or did he ever fight against them? <a name="C0711V26"
id="C0711V26">11:26</a> While Yisrael lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in
Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of
the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that
time? <a name="C0711V27" id="C0711V27">11:27</a> I therefore have not sinned
against you, but you do me wrong to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be
judge this day between the children of Yisrael and the children of Ammon.
<a name="C0711V28" id="C0711V28">11:28</a> However the king of the children of
Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him. <a
name="C0711V29" id="C0711V29">11:29</a> Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on
Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh
of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of
Ammon. <a name="C0711V30" id="C0711V30">11:30</a> Jephthah vowed a vow to
Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my
hand, <a name="C0711V31" id="C0711V31">11:31</a> then it shall be, that
whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return
in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will
offer it up for a burnt offering. <a name="C0711V32" id="C0711V32">11:32</a>
So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them;
and Yahweh delivered them into his hand. <a name="C0711V33" id="C0711V33">11:33</a>
He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities,
and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon
were subdued before the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0711V34" id="C0711V34">11:34</a>
Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to
meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child;
besides her he had neither son nor daughter. <a name="C0711V35" id="C0711V35">11:35</a>
It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my
daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of those who
trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back. <a
name="C0711V36" id="C0711V36">11:36</a> She said to him, My father, you have
opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has
proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on
your enemies, even on the children of Ammon. <a name="C0711V37" id="C0711V37">11:37</a>
She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two
months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my
virginity, I and my companions. <a name="C0711V38" id="C0711V38">11:38</a> He
said, Go. He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her
companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains. <a name="C0711V39"
id="C0711V39">11:39</a> It happened at the end of two months, that she
returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had
vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Yisrael, <a name="C0711V40"
id="C0711V40">11:40</a> that the daughters of Yisrael went yearly to
celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N072" id="N072">[2]</a> <a href="#C0711V16">back to 11:16</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0712V1" id="C0712V1">12:1</a> The men of Ephraim were gathered
together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you
pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go
with you? we will burn your house on you with fire. <a name="C0712V2"
id="C0712V2">12:2</a> Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great
strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't save
me out of their hand. <a name="C0712V3" id="C0712V3">12:3</a> When I saw that
you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the
children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: why then are
you come up to me this day, to fight against me? <a name="C0712V4" id="C0712V4">12:4</a>
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with
Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You are
fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, <i>and</i>
in the midst of Manasseh. <a name="C0712V5" id="C0712V5">12:5</a> The
Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was
so, that when <i>any of</i> the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over,
the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No; <a
name="C0712V6" id="C0712V6">12:6</a> then said they to him, Say now
Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it
right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the
Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand. <a
name="C0712V7" id="C0712V7">12:7</a> Jephthah judged Yisrael six years. Then
died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in <i>one of</i> the cities of
Gilead. <a name="C0712V8" id="C0712V8">12:8</a> After him Ibzan of Bethlehem
judged Yisrael. <a name="C0712V9" id="C0712V9">12:9</a> He had thirty sons; and
thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from
abroad for his sons. He judged Yisrael seven years. <a name="C0712V10"
id="C0712V10">12:10</a> Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. <a
name="C0712V11" id="C0712V11">12:11</a> After him Elon the Zebulunite judged
Yisrael; and he judged Yisrael ten years. <a name="C0712V12" id="C0712V12">12:12</a>
Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of
Zebulun. <a name="C0712V13" id="C0712V13">12:13</a> After him Abdon the son of
Hillel the Pirathonite judged Yisrael. <a name="C0712V14" id="C0712V14">12:14</a>
He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts:
and he judged Yisrael eight years. <a name="C0712V15" id="C0712V15">12:15</a>
Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon
in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0713V1" id="C0713V1">13:1</a> The children of Yisrael again did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the
hand of the Philistines forty years. <a name="C0713V2" id="C0713V2">13:2</a>
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name
was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear. <a name="C0713V3"
id="C0713V3">13:3</a> The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to
her, See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and
bear a son. <a name="C0713V4" id="C0713V4">13:4</a> Now therefore please
beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean
thing: <a name="C0713V5" id="C0713V5">13:5</a> for, behold, you shall
conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the
child shall be a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb: and he shall begin to save
Yisrael out of the hand of the Philistines. <a name="C0713V6" id="C0713V6">13:6</a>
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of Elohim came to me,
and his face was like the face of the angel of Elohim, very awesome; and I
didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name: <a
name="C0713V7" id="C0713V7">13:7</a> but he said to me, Behold, you shall
conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat
not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to Elohim from the
womb to the day of his death. <a name="C0713V8" id="C0713V8">13:8</a> Then
Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of Elohim
whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the
child who shall be born. <a name="C0713V9" id="C0713V9">13:9</a> Elohim listened
to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of Elohim came again to the woman as
she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn't with her. <a
name="C0713V10" id="C0713V10">13:10</a> The woman made haste, and ran, and
told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who
came to me the <i>other</i> day. <a name="C0713V11" id="C0713V11">13:11</a>
Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to
him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I am. <a
name="C0713V12" id="C0713V12">13:12</a> Manoah said, Now let your words
happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and <i>how</i> shall we
do to him? <a name="C0713V13" id="C0713V13">13:13</a> The angel of Yahweh said
to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. <a name="C0713V14"
id="C0713V14">13:14</a> She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine,
neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all
that I commanded her let her observe. <a name="C0713V15" id="C0713V15">13:15</a>
Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we
may make ready a kid for you. <a name="C0713V16" id="C0713V16">13:16</a> The
angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your
bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to
Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh. <a
name="C0713V17" id="C0713V17">13:17</a> Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh,
What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you? <a
name="C0713V18" id="C0713V18">13:18</a> The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why
do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful? <a name="C0713V19"
id="C0713V19">13:19</a> So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and
offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and <i>the angel</i> did wondrously, and
Manoah and his wife looked on. <a name="C0713V20" id="C0713V20">13:20</a> For
it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar,
that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah
and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. <a
name="C0713V21" id="C0713V21">13:21</a> But the angel of Yahweh did no more
appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of
Yahweh. <a name="C0713V22" id="C0713V22">13:22</a> Manoah said to his wife, We
shall surely die, because we have seen Elohim. <a name="C0713V23" id="C0713V23">13:23</a>
But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't
have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither
would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told
such things as these. <a name="C0713V24" id="C0713V24">13:24</a> The woman
bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed
him. <a name="C0713V25" id="C0713V25">13:25</a> The Spirit of Yahweh began to
move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0714V1" id="C0714V1">14:1</a> Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a
woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. <a name="C0714V2"
id="C0714V2">14:2</a> He came up, and told his father and his mother, and
said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines:
now therefore get her for me as wife. <a name="C0714V3" id="C0714V3">14:3</a>
Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among
the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to
take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father,
Get her for me; for she pleases me well. <a name="C0714V4" id="C0714V4">14:4</a>
But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he
sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the
Philistines had rule over Yisrael. <a name="C0714V5" id="C0714V5">14:5</a> Then
went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to
the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him. <a
name="C0714V6" id="C0714V6">14:6</a> The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on
him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in
his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done. <a
name="C0714V7" id="C0714V7">14:7</a> He went down, and talked with the woman,
and she pleased Samson well. <a name="C0714V8" id="C0714V8">14:8</a> After a
while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of
the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion,
and honey. <a name="C0714V9" id="C0714V9">14:9</a> He took it into his hands,
and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and
gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the
honey out of the body of the lion. <a name="C0714V10" id="C0714V10">14:10</a>
His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so
used the young men to do. <a name="C0714V11" id="C0714V11">14:11</a> It
happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be
with him. <a name="C0714V12" id="C0714V12">14:12</a> Samson said to them, Let
me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the
seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty
linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; <a name="C0714V13" id="C0714V13">14:13</a>
but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen
garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your
riddle, that we may hear it. <a name="C0714V14" id="C0714V14">14:14</a> He
said to them,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Out of the eater came forth food.
</dt>
<dd>
Out of the strong came forth sweetness.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
They couldn't in three days declare the riddle. <a name="C0714V15"
id="C0714V15">14:15</a> It happened on the seventh day, that they said to
Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle,
lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to
impoverish us? is it not <i>so</i>? <a name="C0714V16" id="C0714V16">14:16</a>
Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't
love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and
haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father
nor my mother, and shall I tell you? <a name="C0714V17" id="C0714V17">14:17</a>
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it
happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him
sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. <a
name="C0714V18" id="C0714V18">14:18</a> The men of the city said to him on the
seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what
is stronger than a lion? He said to them,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
If you hadn't plowed with my heifer,
</dt>
<dd>
you wouldn't have found out my riddle.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0714V19" id="C0714V19">14:19</a> The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily
on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and
took their spoil, and gave the changes <i>of clothing</i> to those who
declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's
house. <a name="C0714V20" id="C0714V20">14:20</a> But Samson's wife was <i>given</i>
to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0715V1" id="C0715V1">15:1</a> But it happened after a while, in the
time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he
said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't
allow him to go in. <a name="C0715V2" id="C0715V2">15:2</a> Her father said, I
most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave
her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she?
Please take her, instead. <a name="C0715V3" id="C0715V3">15:3</a> Samson said
to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when
I do them a mischief. <a name="C0715V4" id="C0715V4">15:4</a> Samson went and
caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail,
and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails. <a name="C0715V5"
id="C0715V5">15:5</a> When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go
into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks
and the standing grain, and also the olive groves. <a name="C0715V6"
id="C0715V6">15:6</a> Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They
said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his
wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt
her and her father with fire. <a name="C0715V7" id="C0715V7">15:7</a> Samson
said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of
you, and after that I will cease. <a name="C0715V8" id="C0715V8">15:8</a> He
struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and
lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam. <a name="C0715V9" id="C0715V9">15:9</a>
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves
in Lehi. <a name="C0715V10" id="C0715V10">15:10</a> The men of Yehudah said, Why
are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to
do to him as he has done to us. <a name="C0715V11" id="C0715V11">15:11</a>
Then three thousand men of Yehudah went down to the cleft of the rock of
Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are
rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said
to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them. <a name="C0715V12"
id="C0715V12">15:12</a> They said to him, We have come down to bind you,
that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to
them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves. <a name="C0715V13"
id="C0715V13">15:13</a> They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you
fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you.
They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. <a
name="C0715V14" id="C0715V14">15:14</a> When he came to Lehi, the Philistines
shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him,
and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with
fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. <a name="C0715V15"
id="C0715V15">15:15</a> He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth
his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. <a
name="C0715V16" id="C0715V16">15:16</a> Samson said, With the jawbone of a
donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a
thousand men. <a name="C0715V17" id="C0715V17">15:17</a> It happened, when he
had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his
hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi. <a name="C0715V18" id="C0715V18">15:18</a>
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this
great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for
thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised. <a name="C0715V19"
id="C0715V19">15:19</a> But Elohim split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and
water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he
revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to
this day. <a name="C0715V20" id="C0715V20">15:20</a> He judged Yisrael in the
days of the Philistines twenty years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0716V1" id="C0716V1">16:1</a> Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a
prostitute, and went in to her. <a name="C0716V2" id="C0716V2">16:2</a> <i>It
was told</i> the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They surrounded
him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were
quiet all the night, saying, <i>Let be</i> until morning light, then we
will kill him. <a name="C0716V3" id="C0716V3">16:3</a> Samson lay until
midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of
the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put
them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that
is before Hebron. <a name="C0716V4" id="C0716V4">16:4</a> It came to pass
afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was
Delilah. <a name="C0716V5" id="C0716V5">16:5</a> The lords of the Philistines
came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great
strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may
bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred <i>pieces</i>
of silver. <a name="C0716V6" id="C0716V6">16:6</a> Delilah said to Samson,
Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you
might be bound to afflict you. <a name="C0716V7" id="C0716V7">16:7</a> Samson
said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried,
then shall I become weak, and be as another man. <a name="C0716V8" id="C0716V8">16:8</a>
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords
which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. <a name="C0716V9"
id="C0716V9">16:9</a> Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner chamber.
She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke
the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his
strength was not known. <a name="C0716V10" id="C0716V10">16:10</a> Delilah
said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me,
Please, with which you might be bound. <a name="C0716V11" id="C0716V11">16:11</a>
He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has
been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man. <a
name="C0716V12" id="C0716V12">16:12</a> So Delilah took new ropes, and bound
him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The
ambush was waiting in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a
thread. <a name="C0716V13" id="C0716V13">16:13</a> Delilah said to Samson,
Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you
might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head
with the web. <a name="C0716V14" id="C0716V14">16:14</a> She fastened it with
the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened
out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. <a
name="C0716V15" id="C0716V15">16:15</a> She said to him, How can you say, I
love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three
times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies. <a
name="C0716V16" id="C0716V16">16:16</a> It happened, when she pressed him
daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.
<a name="C0716V17" id="C0716V17">16:17</a> He told her all his heart, and said
to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a
Nazirite to Elohim from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength
will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."
<a name="C0716V18" id="C0716V18">16:18</a> When Delilah saw that he had told
her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines,
saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the
lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their
hand. <a name="C0716V19" id="C0716V19">16:19</a> She made him sleep on her
knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his
head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. <a
name="C0716V20" id="C0716V20">16:20</a> She said, The Philistines are on you,
Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other
times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed
from him. <a name="C0716V21" id="C0716V21">16:21</a> The Philistines laid hold
on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound
him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison. <a
name="C0716V22" id="C0716V22">16:22</a> However the hair of his head began to
grow again after he was shaved. <a name="C0716V23" id="C0716V23">16:23</a> The
lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice
to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered
Samson our enemy into our hand. <a name="C0716V24" id="C0716V24">16:24</a>
When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god
has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country,
who has slain many of us. <a name="C0716V25" id="C0716V25">16:25</a> It
happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson,
that he may make us sport. They called for Samson out of the prison; and
he made sport before them. They set him between the pillars: <a
name="C0716V26" id="C0716V26">16:26</a> and Samson said to the boy who held
him by the hand, Allow me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house
rests, that I may lean on them. <a name="C0716V27" id="C0716V27">16:27</a> Now
the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines
were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women,
who saw while Samson made sport. <a name="C0716V28" id="C0716V28">16:28</a>
Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and
strengthen me, Please, only this once, Elohim, that I may be at once avenged
of the Philistines for my two eyes. <a name="C0716V29" id="C0716V29">16:29</a>
Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and
leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
<a name="C0716V30" id="C0716V30">16:30</a> Samson said, Let me die with the
Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on
the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he
killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. <a
name="C0716V31" id="C0716V31">16:31</a> Then his brothers and all the house of
his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him
between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He
judged Yisrael twenty years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0717V1" id="C0717V1">17:1</a> There was a man of the hill country of
Ephraim, whose name was Micah. <a name="C0717V2" id="C0717V2">17:2</a> He said
to his mother, The eleven hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver that were taken
from you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my
ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed
be my son of Yahweh. <a name="C0717V3" id="C0717V3">17:3</a> He restored the
eleven hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver to his mother; and his mother said,
I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to
make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it
to you. <a name="C0717V4" id="C0717V4">17:4</a> When he restored the money to
his mother, his mother took two hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver, and gave
them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image:
and it was in the house of Micah. <a name="C0717V5" id="C0717V5">17:5</a> The
man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and
consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. <a name="C0717V6"
id="C0717V6">17:6</a> In those days there was no king in Yisrael: every man
did that which was right in his own eyes. <a name="C0717V7" id="C0717V7">17:7</a>
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Yehudah, of the family of Yehudah, who
was a Levite; and he sojourned there. <a name="C0717V8" id="C0717V8">17:8</a>
The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Yehudah, to sojourn where
he could find <i>a place</i>, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim
to the house of Micah, as he traveled. <a name="C0717V9" id="C0717V9">17:9</a>
Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of
Bethlehem Yehudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find <i>a place</i>. <a
name="C0717V10" id="C0717V10">17:10</a> Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and
be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten <i>pieces</i> of
silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite
went in. <a name="C0717V11" id="C0717V11">17:11</a> The Levite was content to
dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. <a
name="C0717V12" id="C0717V12">17:12</a> Micah consecrated the Levite, and the
young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. <a
name="C0717V13" id="C0717V13">17:13</a> Then said Micah, Now know I that
Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0718V1" id="C0718V1">18:1</a> In those days there was no king in
Yisrael: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an
inheritance to dwell in; for to that day <i>their</i> inheritance had not
fallen to them among the tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C0718V2" id="C0718V2">18:2</a>
The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number,
men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to
search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land. They came to the
hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. <a
name="C0718V3" id="C0718V3">18:3</a> When they were by the house of Micah,
they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside
there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this
place? and what have you here? <a name="C0718V4" id="C0718V4">18:4</a> He said
to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I
am become his priest. <a name="C0718V5" id="C0718V5">18:5</a> They said to
him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of Elohim, that we may know whether our way
which we go shall be prosperous. <a name="C0718V6" id="C0718V6">18:6</a> The
priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way wherein you
go. <a name="C0718V7" id="C0718V7">18:7</a> Then the five men departed, and
came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in
security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there
was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put <i>them</i> to
shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no
dealings with any man. <a name="C0718V8" id="C0718V8">18:8</a> They came to
their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What
<i>say</i> you? <a name="C0718V9" id="C0718V9">18:9</a> They said, Arise, and
let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is
very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to
possess the land. <a name="C0718V10" id="C0718V10">18:10</a> When you go, you
shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for Elohim has given it
into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the
earth. <a name="C0718V11" id="C0718V11">18:11</a> There set forth from there
of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred
men girt with weapons of war. <a name="C0718V12" id="C0718V12">18:12</a> They
went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Yehudah: therefore they called
that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
<a name="C0718V13" id="C0718V13">18:13</a> They passed there to the hill
country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. <a name="C0718V14"
id="C0718V14">18:14</a> Then the five men who went to spy out the country of
Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in
these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten
image? now therefore consider what you have to do. <a name="C0718V15"
id="C0718V15">18:15</a> They turned aside there, and came to the house of
the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his
welfare. <a name="C0718V16" id="C0718V16">18:16</a> The six hundred men girt
with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the
entrance of the gate. <a name="C0718V17" id="C0718V17">18:17</a> The five men
who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the
engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and
the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt
with weapons of war. <a name="C0718V18" id="C0718V18">18:18</a> When these
went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, What do you?
<a name="C0718V19" id="C0718V19">18:19</a> They said to him, Hold your peace,
lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a
priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to
be priest to a tribe and a family in Yisrael? <a name="C0718V20" id="C0718V20">18:20</a>
The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and
the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people. <a name="C0718V21"
id="C0718V21">18:21</a> So they turned and departed, and put the little ones
and the livestock and the goods before them. <a name="C0718V22" id="C0718V22">18:22</a>
When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the
houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the
children of Dan. <a name="C0718V23" id="C0718V23">18:23</a> They cried to the
children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails
you, that you come with such a company? <a name="C0718V24" id="C0718V24">18:24</a>
He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are
gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails
you? <a name="C0718V25" id="C0718V25">18:25</a> The children of Dan said to
him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall
on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household." <a
name="C0718V26" id="C0718V26">18:26</a> The children of Dan went their way:
and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went
back to his house. <a name="C0718V27" id="C0718V27">18:27</a> They took that
which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a
people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and
they burnt the city with fire. <a name="C0718V28" id="C0718V28">18:28</a>
There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no
dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob.
They built the city, and lived therein. <a name="C0718V29" id="C0718V29">18:29</a>
They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father,
who was born to Yisrael: however the name of the city was Laish at the
first. <a name="C0718V30" id="C0718V30">18:30</a> The children of Dan set up
for themselves the engraved image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the
son of Moshe, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites
until the day of the captivity of the land. <a name="C0718V31" id="C0718V31">18:31</a>
So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time
that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0719V1" id="C0719V1">19:1</a> It happened in those days, when there
was no king in Yisrael, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the
farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine
out of Bethlehem Yehudah. <a name="C0719V2" id="C0719V2">19:2</a> His concubine
played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's
house to Bethlehem Yehudah, and was there the space of four months. <a
name="C0719V3" id="C0719V3">19:3</a> Her husband arose, and went after her, to
speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and
a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when
the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. <a
name="C0719V4" id="C0719V4">19:4</a> His father-in-law, the young lady's
father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and
drink, and lodged there. <a name="C0719V5" id="C0719V5">19:5</a> It happened
on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to
depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen
your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way. <a
name="C0719V6" id="C0719V6">19:6</a> So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of
them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be
pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry. <a name="C0719V7"
id="C0719V7">19:7</a> The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged
him, and he lodged there again. <a name="C0719V8" id="C0719V8">19:8</a> He
arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young
lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day
declines; and they ate, both of them. <a name="C0719V9" id="C0719V9">19:9</a>
When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant,
his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, Behold, now the
day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to
an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you
early on your way, that you may go home. <a name="C0719V10" id="C0719V10">19:10</a>
But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and
came over against Jebus (the same is Yerushalayim): and there were with him a
couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him. <a
name="C0719V11" id="C0719V11">19:11</a> When they were by Jebus, the day was
far spent; and the servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn
aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. <a name="C0719V12"
id="C0719V12">19:12</a> His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the
city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Yisrael; but we will
pass over to Gibeah. <a name="C0719V13" id="C0719V13">19:13</a> He said to his
servant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will
lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah. <a name="C0719V14" id="C0719V14">19:14</a> So
they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to
Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. <a name="C0719V15" id="C0719V15">19:15</a>
They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and
sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them
into his house to lodge. <a name="C0719V16" id="C0719V16">19:16</a> Behold,
there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man
was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the
men of the place were Benjamites. <a name="C0719V17" id="C0719V17">19:17</a>
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the
city; and the old man said, Where go you? and whence come you? <a
name="C0719V18" id="C0719V18">19:18</a> He said to him, We are passing from
Bethlehem Yehudah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim; from
there am I, and I went to Bethlehem Yehudah: and I am <i>now</i> going to
the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house. <a
name="C0719V19" id="C0719V19">19:19</a> Yet there is both straw and provender
for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your
handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no
want of anything. <a name="C0719V20" id="C0719V20">19:20</a> The old man said,
Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge
in the street. <a name="C0719V21" id="C0719V21">19:21</a> So he brought him
into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet,
and ate and drink. <a name="C0719V22" id="C0719V22">19:22</a> As they were
making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base
fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the
master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came
into your house, that we may know him. <a name="C0719V23" id="C0719V23">19:23</a>
The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No,
my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; seeing that this man is come
into my house, don't do this folly. <a name="C0719V24" id="C0719V24">19:24</a>
Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; them I will bring
out now, and humble you them, and do with them what seems good to you: but
to this man don't do any such folly. <a name="C0719V25" id="C0719V25">19:25</a>
But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine,
and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the
night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her
go. <a name="C0719V26" id="C0719V26">19:26</a> Then came the woman in the
dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her
lord was, until it was light. <a name="C0719V27" id="C0719V27">19:27</a> Her
lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went
out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at
the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. <a name="C0719V28"
id="C0719V28">19:28</a> He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none
answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got
him to his place. <a name="C0719V29" id="C0719V29">19:29</a> When he was come
into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and
divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all
the borders of Yisrael. <a name="C0719V30" id="C0719V30">19:30</a> It was so,
that all who saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the
day that the children of Yisrael came up out of the land of Egypt to this
day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0720V1" id="C0720V1">20:1</a> Then all the children of Yisrael went
out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to
Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. <a name="C0720V2"
id="C0720V2">20:2</a> The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes
of Yisrael, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four
hundred thousand footmen who drew sword. <a name="C0720V3" id="C0720V3">20:3</a>
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Yisrael had gone
up to Mizpah.) The children of Yisrael said, Tell us, how was this
wickedness brought to pass? <a name="C0720V4" id="C0720V4">20:4</a> The
Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into
Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. <a
name="C0720V5" id="C0720V5">20:5</a> The men of Gibeah rose against me, and
surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they
forced my concubine, and she is dead. <a name="C0720V6" id="C0720V6">20:6</a>
I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all
the country of the inheritance of Yisrael; for they have committed lewdness
and folly in Yisrael. <a name="C0720V7" id="C0720V7">20:7</a> Behold, you
children of Yisrael, all of you, give here your advice and counsel. <a
name="C0720V8" id="C0720V8">20:8</a> All the people arose as one man, saying,
We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to
his house. <a name="C0720V9" id="C0720V9">20:9</a> But now this is the thing
which we will do to Gibeah: <i>we will go up</i> against it by lot; <a
name="C0720V10" id="C0720V10">20:10</a> and we will take ten men of one
hundred throughout all the tribes of Yisrael, and one hundred of one
thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people,
that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all
the folly that they have worked in Yisrael. <a name="C0720V11" id="C0720V11">20:11</a>
So all the men of Yisrael were gathered against the city, knit together as
one man. <a name="C0720V12" id="C0720V12">20:12</a> The tribes of Yisrael sent
men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this
that is happen among you? <a name="C0720V13" id="C0720V13">20:13</a> Now
therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we
may put them to death, and put away evil from Yisrael. But Benjamin would
not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C0720V14" id="C0720V14">20:14</a> The children of Benjamin gathered
themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle
against the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0720V15" id="C0720V15">20:15</a> The
children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities
twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of
Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men. <a name="C0720V16"
id="C0720V16">20:16</a> Among all this people there were seven hundred
chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and
not miss. <a name="C0720V17" id="C0720V17">20:17</a> The men of Yisrael,
besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword:
all these were men of war. <a name="C0720V18" id="C0720V18">20:18</a> The
children of Yisrael arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of Elohim;
and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children
of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Yehudah <i>shall go up</i> first. <a name="C0720V19"
id="C0720V19">20:19</a> The children of Yisrael rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah. <a name="C0720V20" id="C0720V20">20:20</a> The men of
Yisrael went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Yisrael set the
battle in array against them at Gibeah. <a name="C0720V21" id="C0720V21">20:21</a>
The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to
the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men. <a
name="C0720V22" id="C0720V22">20:22</a> The people, the men of Yisrael,
encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place
where they set themselves in array the first day. <a name="C0720V23"
id="C0720V23">20:23</a> The children of Yisrael went up and wept before
Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw
near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said,
Go up against him. <a name="C0720V24" id="C0720V24">20:24</a> The children of
Yisrael came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. <a
name="C0720V25" id="C0720V25">20:25</a> Benjamin went forth against them out
of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children
of Yisrael again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. <a
name="C0720V26" id="C0720V26">20:26</a> Then all the children of Yisrael, and
all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there
before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh. <a name="C0720V27" id="C0720V27">20:27</a>
The children of Yisrael asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of Elohim
was there in those days, <a name="C0720V28" id="C0720V28">20:28</a> and
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon, stood before it in those
days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of
Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I
will deliver him into your hand. <a name="C0720V29" id="C0720V29">20:29</a>
Yisrael set ambushes all around Gibeah. <a name="C0720V30" id="C0720V30">20:30</a>
The children of Yisrael went up against the children of Benjamin on the
third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
<a name="C0720V31" id="C0720V31">20:31</a> The children of Benjamin went out
against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to
strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of
which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about
thirty men of Yisrael. <a name="C0720V32" id="C0720V32">20:32</a> The children
of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the
children of Yisrael said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to
the highways. <a name="C0720V33" id="C0720V33">20:33</a> All the men of Yisrael
rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and
the ambushers of Yisrael broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh
Geba. <a name="C0720V34" id="C0720V34">20:34</a> There came over against
Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Yisrael, and the battle was sore;
but they didn't know that evil was close on them. <a name="C0720V35"
id="C0720V35">20:35</a> Yahweh struck Benjamin before Yisrael; and the
children of Yisrael destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one
hundred men: all these drew the sword. <a name="C0720V36" id="C0720V36">20:36</a>
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of
Yisrael gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom
they had set against Gibeah. <a name="C0720V37" id="C0720V37">20:37</a> The
ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves
along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. <a name="C0720V38"
id="C0720V38">20:38</a> Now the appointed sign between the men of Yisrael and
the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out
of the city. <a name="C0720V39" id="C0720V39">20:39</a> The men of Yisrael
turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of
Yisrael about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down
before us, as in the first battle. <a name="C0720V40" id="C0720V40">20:40</a>
But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke,
the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went
up in smoke to the sky. <a name="C0720V41" id="C0720V41">20:41</a> The men of
Yisrael turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that
evil had come on them. <a name="C0720V42" id="C0720V42">20:42</a> Therefore
they turned their backs before the men of Yisrael to the way of the
wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came
out of the cities destroyed them in its midst. <a name="C0720V43" id="C0720V43">20:43</a>
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, <i>and</i> trod them down at
<i>their</i> resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the
sunrise. <a name="C0720V44" id="C0720V44">20:44</a> There fell of Benjamin
eighteen thousand men; all these <i>were</i> men of valor. <a name="C0720V45"
id="C0720V45">20:45</a> They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the
rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand
men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two
thousand men. <a name="C0720V46" id="C0720V46">20:46</a> So that all who fell
that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all
these <i>were</i> men of valor. <a name="C0720V47" id="C0720V47">20:47</a> But
six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of
Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. <a name="C0720V48"
id="C0720V48">20:48</a> The men of Yisrael turned again on the children of
Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire
city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities
which they found they set on fire.
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<p>
<a name="C0721V1" id="C0721V1">21:1</a> Now the men of Yisrael had sworn in
Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as
wife. <a name="C0721V2" id="C0721V2">21:2</a> The people came to Bethel, and
sat there until evening before Elohim, and lifted up their voices, and wept
sore. <a name="C0721V3" id="C0721V3">21:3</a> They said, Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, why has this happened in Yisrael, that there should be today one
tribe lacking in Yisrael? <a name="C0721V4" id="C0721V4">21:4</a> It happened
on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. <a name="C0721V5" id="C0721V5">21:5</a>
The children of Yisrael said, Who is there among all the tribes of Yisrael
who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great
oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He
shall surely be put to death. <a name="C0721V6" id="C0721V6">21:6</a> The
children of Yisrael grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is
one tribe cut off from Yisrael this day. <a name="C0721V7" id="C0721V7">21:7</a>
How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by
Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? <a
name="C0721V8" id="C0721V8">21:8</a> They said, What one is there of the
tribes of Yisrael who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there
came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly. <a name="C0721V9"
id="C0721V9">21:9</a> For when the people were numbered, behold, there were
none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. <a name="C0721V10"
id="C0721V10">21:10</a> The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of
the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the
inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women
and the little ones. <a name="C0721V11" id="C0721V11">21:11</a> This is the
thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every
woman who has lain by man. <a name="C0721V12" id="C0721V12">21:12</a> They
found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins,
who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp
to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0721V13" id="C0721V13">21:13</a>
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were
in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. <a name="C0721V14"
id="C0721V14">21:14</a> Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them
the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet
so they weren't enough for them. <a name="C0721V15" id="C0721V15">21:15</a>
The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in
the tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C0721V16" id="C0721V16">21:16</a> Then the
elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who
remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? <a name="C0721V17"
id="C0721V17">21:17</a> They said, There must be an inheritance for those
who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Yisrael.
<a name="C0721V18" id="C0721V18">21:18</a> However we may not give them wives
of our daughters, for the children of Yisrael had sworn, saying, Cursed be
he who gives a wife to Benjamin. <a name="C0721V19" id="C0721V19">21:19</a>
They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh,
which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes
up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. <a name="C0721V20"
id="C0721V20">21:20</a> They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
and lie in wait in the vineyards, <a name="C0721V21" id="C0721V21">21:21</a>
and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the
dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his
wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. <a
name="C0721V22" id="C0721V22">21:22</a> It shall be, when their fathers or
their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant
them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in
battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
<a name="C0721V23" id="C0721V23">21:23</a> The children of Benjamin did so,
and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom
they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and
built the cities, and lived in them. <a name="C0721V24" id="C0721V24">21:24</a>
The children of Yisrael departed there at that time, every man to his tribe
and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his
inheritance. <a name="C0721V25" id="C0721V25">21:25</a> In those days there
was no king in Yisrael: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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neither the native born nor the sojourners who sojourn among you;-for all these abominations have been done by the men of the land who have been before you, and the land hath been polluted ;‑that the land vomit you not out when ye defile it; as it will have cast out the people who were before you. For whoso committeth any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people. And you shall observe the keeping of My word, that you do not (according to) the abominable usages which have been done before You, nor be corrupted by them. I am the Lord your Elohim.
SECTION XXX.
KEDOSHEIT.
XIX. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael and say to them, You shall be holy; for I, the Lord your Elohim, am holy. A man shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep the day of My Shabbat: I am the Lord your Elohim. Turn not after idols, nor make molten things (for worship): I am the Lord your Elohim. And when you offer the sacrifice of consecrated things before the Lord, make the sacrifice thereof with your own free will. On the day that it is sacrificed it may be eaten, and on the following day; but that which remaineth on the third day shall be burned with fire. If indeed it be eaten on the third day, it (the oblation) is rejected, and shall not be accepted. And whoever eateth it shall bear his guilt; for he hath profaned that which was consecrated, and that man shall destroyed from his people.
And when you reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, and the gleanings of thy harvest thou shalt not gather. Neither in thy vineyard shalt thou (entirely) ingather, nor collect the remainder of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger: I am the Lord thy Elohim. You shall not steal, nor prevaricate, nor be false, a man with his neighbour. Neither swear by My Name unto falsehood, nor profane the Name of thy Elohim: I am the Lord.
Thou shalt not overbear thy neighbour, nor be coercive: the hire of the hireling shall not abide with thee till the morning. Thou shalt not curse him who cannot hear, nor put a stumblingblock before him who cannot see, but shalt fear thy Elohim: I am the Lord. You shall not deal falsely in judgment, nor accept the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in truthfulness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Thou shalt not make false accusations against thy people, neither stand against thy neighbour's blood: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: reproving, reprove thou thy neighbour, and contract not sin his account. Thou shalt not be revengeful, nor keep enmity against the children of thy people, but love thy neighbour as thyseIf. I am the Lord.
You shall observe My statutes. Thy cattle thou shalt not make to gender with various kinds, nor sow thy field with various kinds, nor let a garment of a mixture of woollen and linen come upon thee. And if a man lie carnally with a woman, and she be a handmaid betrothed unto (another) man, and with redemption of money not redeemed, nor having freedom given to her by an instrument of writing, the stripe shall be upon her; they shall not be put to death, for she was not free.[1] But he shall bring his trespass offering before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, a ram for a trespass offering. And the priest shall make atonement with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for the sin that he hath sinned, that the sin he hath sinned may be forgiven him.
And when you have entered upon the land, and have planted any (kind) of tree for eating, the fruit of it shall be put away (from you); three years shall it be set aside to be destroyed; it shall not be eaten. But in the fourth year all the fruit shall be consecrated for thanksgiving before the Lord; and in the fifth year you shall eat the fruit of it, that the fruit may be added (increased) to you. I am the Lord your Elohim.
You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not use enchantments,[2] nor augury by the clouds. You shall not shave the hair on your head in a circle,[3] nor destroy the hair of thy beard, nor make a cutting for the dead in thy flesh; nor imprint signatures upon you: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to make her to become a fornicatress, lest the land become whorish, and the land be filled with the ways of wickedness. The days of Shabbats, which are Mine, observe ye, and hold in reverence the house of My sanctuary. I am the Lord. Turn not after deceivers, nor inquire by diviners to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your Elohim.
Thou shalt rise up before one who is a teacher in the Torah, and pay honour to the presence of the aged, and fear thy Elohim. I am the Lord. And if a stranger sojourn with you in the land, you shall not oppress him.
As one born among you shall be the stranger who sojourneth among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, because you were sojourners in the land of Mizraim: I am the Lord your Elohim. You shall commit no falsity in judgment, in rule, (or line,) in weight, or in measure. Balances of truth, weights of truth, a measure in truth, and hins of truth you shall have. I am the Lord your Elohim, who have brought you out from the land of Mizraim; and you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
XX. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Speak unto the sons of Yisrael: Whatever man of the sons of Yisrael, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisrael, giveth his offspring unto Molek,[4]
with killing shall he be killed; the people of the house of Yisrael shall stone him with stones. And I will show My displeasure against that man, and will destroy from among his people, because he hath given his offspring unto Molek, to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy Name. And if the people of the house of Yisrael turn away (or hide) their eyes from that man when he giveth his offspring to Molek, that they may not have to put him to death, I will give forth My anger against that man, and against his abettors, and will destroy him, and all who go after him, to wander after Molek, from among their people. And the man who turneth away after impostors and diviners to wander after them, I will set My displeasure upon that man, and will cut him off from among his people. But you shall be sanctified, and be holy; for I am your Elohim. And you shall observe My statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you. For the man who curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death; he hath cursed his father, he is guilty of death. And the man who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife shall be surely put to death; the adulterer and the adulteress. And the man who lieth with his father's wife, uncovering his father's nakedness, shall be surely put to death; both of them are guilty of death. And a man who lieth with his daughter‑in‑Torah, both of them shall be slain: they have wrought confusion, they are guilty of death. And a man who lieth with a man as with a woman, both of them have wrought abomination: they are to be surely put to death, of death they are guilty. And when a man taketh a wife along with her mother, it is wickedness; both he and they shall be burned with fire; such wickedness shall not be among you. And if a man lie with a beast, be shall be surely put to death, and you shall kill the beast. And if a woman approach to a beast to submit to it, the woman shall be put to death, and the beast; they shall verily be killed; of death they are guilty. And a man who shall take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is an ignominy and they shall be destroyed before the eyes of the children of their people: he hath uncovered the nakedness of his sister, he shall receive (the punishment of) his guilt. And a man who lieth with a woman who is unclean, and uncovereth her nakedness, he hath uncovered her shame, and she hath uncovered the uncleanness of her blood: both of them shall be cut off from among their people. Neither shalt thou uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he will have uncovered that of his near kin; they shall receive for their sin. And if a man lie with the wife of his father's brother he hath uncovered the nakedness of his father's brother; they shall receive for their guilt without children shall they die. And if man take his brother's wife,2 a thing to be kept aloof from, (merachaka,) he bath uncovered the nakedness of his brother, they shall be childless. But keep you all My statutes and all Aly judgments, and do them, that the land into which I bring you to dwell may not cast you out. You shall not walk in the laws of the peoples whom I drive away from before you; for they have committed all these thin", and My Word hath abhorred them. But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit this land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land producing milk and honey. I am the Lord your Elohim who have separated you from the peoples. And you shall make distinction between animals clean and unclean, and between fowls unclean and clean, and not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing that creepeth on the ground which I have separated (as to be) unto you unclean. And you shall be holy before Me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the nations to be worshippers before Me. A man or a woman with whom are impostures or divinations shall be verily put to death; with stones they shall be stoned, they are guilty of death.
SECTION XXXI.
EMOR.
XXI. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no one be defiled among his people on account of the dead: yet for his kin, who is nigh to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who hath no husband, for her he may be defiled. But a chief among his people (the high priest) shall not defile himself, to make him
[1] Compare chap. XX. 10.
[2] Peschito, “You shall not augur by a winged animal, “ i.e., by the flight of birds.
[3] See HERODOTUS, iii., 8.
[4] Molek, the Ruler = Baal.
2 The deceased brother having left children. The Torah in Deut. XXV. 5 refers to the case of a childless widow.
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SECTION XXX
KEDOSHIM
XIX. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the whole congregation of the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: Ye, shall be holy, for I the Lord your Elohim am Holy. Let every man revere his mother and his father, and keep the days of My Shabbats: I am the Lord your Elohim. Go not astray after the worship of idols, nor make gods for yourselves that are molten: I am the Lord your Elohim. And when you sacrifice the consecrated victims before the Lord, you shall make the sacrifice acceptable. On the day that it is sacrificed you may eat of it, and on the day following; but what remaineth on the third day shall be burned with fire. But if it be indeed eaten on the third day, it is profaned, and shall not be accepted. And he who eateth it shall receive (the penalty of) his sin; for he hath profaned the holy of the Lord, and that man shall be destroyed from among his people.
And in the time that you reap the harvest of your land you shall not finish one corner[1] that is in the circuit of thy field, and the (full) ingathering of thy harvest thou shalt not collect. Neither mayest thou shake out thy vines; (the whole of) their bunches, and the remnant of thy vines thou shalt not gather: thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the strangers at the time of their collection: I am the Lord your Elohim. [JERUSALEM. And when you reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not altogether finish gathering what is in your fields, and the (full) collection of your harvest you shall not gather in; neither shake your vines of all their clusters, nor collect the fallen grapes of your vines.] Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not steal, nor prevaricate, nor do fraudulently one man with his neighbour.Sons of Yisrael, My people, let no one of you swear by My Name in vain, to profane the Name of thy Elohim: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not be oppressive (hard) upon thy neighbour, nor take away by force, nor let the hire of the hireling be remaining all night at thy side until the morning. Thou shalt not curse one who heareth not, nor set a stumbling‑block before the blind, but shalt fear thy Elohim: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not act falsely in the order of judgment ment neither accept the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great but in truthfulness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Thou shalt not go after the slanderous tongue, which is cruel as a sword that killeth with its two edges in uttering false accusations to afflict thy people. Thou shalt not hinder the acquittal of thy neighbour in witnessing against him in the judgment: I am the Lord. [JERUSALEM. My people of the house of Yisrael, follow not the slanderous tongue[2] against your neighbour, nor be silent about thy neighbour's blood, what time in the judgment thou knowest the truth: so speaketh the Lord.]
Speak not bland words with your lips, having hatred to your brother in your hearts; but reproving you shall reprove your neighbour; and though it make you ashamed, you shall not contract sin in account of him. Be not revengeful, nor cherish animosity against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour himself, as that though there be (cause of) hatred with thee thou mayest not do (evil) to him: I am the Lord.
You shall keep My statutes. Thy cattle shall not be made to gender with various kinds, neither sow thy field with mixed seeds, nor put upon thee a garment of divers materials, (as) wool and linen. And if a man lie carnally with a woman, and she be an (Israelitish) handmaid (about to be) made free, and betrothed to a free man, but her redemption not altogether completed by (the payment of) the money, or the written instrument of liberation not having been given to her, let inquisition be made for judgment: she is liable to be chastised, but he is not. But it shall not be considered a matter of putting to death, because she was not altogether free. (Deut. xxii. 22‑24.) And the man who lay with her must bring his trespass offering to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, a ram for a trespass offering. [JERUSALEM. They have rebelled, they are guilty.] And the priest shall make atonement with the ram of his trespass offering before the Lord, for his sin that he hath sinned; and the sin that he hath sinned shall be forgiven.
And when you have come into the land, and have planted any tree that may be eaten of, you shall verily circumcise the fruit of it; three years shall it be to you for rejection, to be destroyed; it shall not be eaten. And in the fourth year all the fruit of it shall be consecrated, (a token of) praise before the Lord delivered for the priest (or, to be redeemed from the priest). But in the fifth year thou mayst eat the fruit of it; for produce will be increased to you from the heavens: I am the Lord your Elohim.
You shall not eat the flesh of any sacrifice while the blood remaineth in the veins. You shall not be observers of auguries, after the sanhedrin of the speculators. You shall not round off the (hair on) the sides of your heads, nor shave the corners of your beards. And a corrupting incision for the soul of the dead thou shalt not make in thy flesh, neither set upon yourselves an inscription by the incutting of any figurated sign: I am the Lord. You shall not profane your daughters to give them up to fornication: neither delay to give your daughters unto husbands in their proper ages, lest they go astray by fornication after the people of the land, and the land be filled with whoredom.
The days of My Shabbats You shall keep, and go unto My sanctuary with reverence: I am the Lord. Go not astray after those who inquire of impostors, or bring up the dead, or interrogate the bone of Jeddua:[3] neither be ye inquirers with them, to pollute yourselves thereby I am the Lord your Elohim. You shall rise up before the aged who instruct in the Torah and honour the presence of the wise, and fear thy Elohim: I am the Lord.
And if a stranger becometh a sojourner, and settleth among you in your land, you shall not molest him with hard words: but the stranger who sojourneth among you shall be (treated) as the native born, and thou shalt love him as thyseIf: thou shalt not deal with him as if thou didst hate him; for ye were sojourners in the land of Mizraim: I am the Lord your Elohim.
You shall not deal falsely in the ordering of judgment; in the admeasurement of summer and winter; in weight and measure, in heaping up, or in sweeping off:[4] but balances of truth, weights of truth, measures of truth, and tankards of truth, shall yours be. I am the Lord our Elohim who brought you redeemed from the land of Mizraim: and you shall observe all My statutes, and all the ordinations of My judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
XX. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: And with the sons of Yisrael speak thou, to say: A man of the family of the sons of Yisrael, whether young or old, who shall make (an offering) of his offspring unto Molek to be burned in the fire, shall be verily put to death: the people of the house of Yisrael shall punish his guilt by the infliction of stones; and I will cause a reverse, to make prosperity to cease with that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he gave his offspring in strange worship to pollute My sanctuary and to profane My holy Name. And if the people of the house of Yisrael hiding hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth his offspring unto strange worship, that they might not kill him, then will I appoint a reverse, to make a controversy against that man, and against his family who protect (cover) him, to chastise (them) with afflictions; and him will I destroy, and all who follow him to wander after strange worship, from among their people.
And the man who turns aside to inquire of the impostors, or to seek to bring up the dead, or to inquire by the bone of Jeddua, to go astray after them, I will appoint a reverse to punish that man, and will destroy him by a plague from among his people. But sanctify yourselves, and be holy in your bodies, that your prayers may be received with acceptance: I am the Lord who sanctify you. And observe My statutes and perform them: I am the Lord who sanctify you.
For the young man or the old man who curseth his father or his mother by the revealed Name, shall be verily put to death by the casting of stones; because he hath cursed his father or his mother, be is guilty of death. And the man who by adultery defileth the wife of (another) man, or who committeth adultery with the wife of his married neighbour, shall be verily put to death, by strangulation, with the hard towel in the tender part (?): and on account of a betrothed person, by the casting of stones: both the adulterer and the adulteress (shall die). And a man who lieth with his father's wife, whether his own mother or another wife, and who hath dishonoured the nakedness of his father shall be verily put to death: both of them are guilty of death by the casting of stones. And if a man lieth with his daughter‑in‑Torah, both of them shall be put to death; they have wrought confusion, they are guilty of death by the casting of stones. And if a man lie with a man as with a woman, they have wrought abomination; both of them shall die by the stoning of stones. And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is fornication let them be burned with fire with melted lead in their mouth, that fornication may not be among you. And a man who lieth with a beast shall be surely put to death with the stoning of stones, and the beast shall be slain with spikes. And if a woman approacheth the side of any beast that it may have to do with her, they shall be slain; the woman by the casting of stones, and the beast by the slaughter of spikes, they shall die; for they are deserving of death. And if a man lie with his sister, his father's daughter, or the daughter of his mother, and he dishonour her nakedness, it is depravity: for I showed mercy with the first ones, on behalf of the peopling of the world by them, while as yet I had not promulged the Torah in the world: but after the Torah bath been declared in the world, every one who committeth these things shall be destroyed by mortality, and the children of their people shall witness their punishment; for be who bath dishonoured the nakedness of his sister shall be guilty of death. And a man who lieth with a woman who is unclean, and dishonoureth her nakedness, they shall both of them be destroyed by a plague from among their people. Nor shalt thou dishonour the nakedness of thy mother's sister nor thy father's sister; for he hath dishonoured the flesh of his near kin: they shall receive the penalty of their guilt in dying. And if a man lie with the wife of his father's brother, he hath dishonoured the nakedness of his father's brother: they shall receive their punishment; they shall be consumed by mortality; without children shall they die. And if a man take the wife of his brother during his life, it is an abomination: he hath dishonoured the nakedness of his brother; without children shall they be.
But you, the congregation of Yisrael, shall observe all My statutes, and all the ordinations of My judgments, and do them; that the land into which I am to bring you to dwell in it may not cast you out: and walk not after the laws of the peoples whom I drive away from before you; for they have committed all these abhorrent things, and My Word hath abhorred them. But I have told you to beware of these horrors, that you may inherit their land; and I will give it you to possess it, a land producing milk and honey I am the Lord your Elohim who have separated you from the nations. And you shall make distinction between the animal which is fit to be eaten, and that which it is improper to eat; and between the fowl which it is improper to eat, and that which is fit to be eaten. Defile not your souls by (eating of) the animal that is torn by a wild beast, or the bird torn by the falcon, or anything that creepeth upon the which I have from you for their uncleanness. And you shall be holy before me; for holy am I, the Lord, who have chosen you, and separated you from the nations to be worshippers before Me. And the man or the woman who hath in them (the spirit of) divination or necromancy shall die by the casting of stones; for they are guilty of death.
[1] Heb., peah, "corner." Targ., umana, "nook, or edge."
[2] "the triple tongue." See introduction, vol., I., p. 12.
[3] Sanhedrin, vii., 7.
[4] "In the heaper up, (shovel,) and the smoother off; michka, an instument of wood for smoothing off the surface of a measure of any dry material, so as to make it exactly full, and no more.
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Ch. 30-34
SECTION XXI.
KI THISSA.
And the Lord spake unto Mosheh, saying, When thou takest the sum of the sons of Yisrael according to their number, they shall give every man the ransom of their souls before the Lord when thou numberest them; that there may not be among them the calamity of death when thou dost number them. [JERUSALEM. When thou takest the head of the number of the sums of the sons of Yisrael.] This valuation was shown to Mosheh in the mountain as with a denarius of fire, and thus spake He to him: So shall every one who passeth to the numberment give a half shekel of the coin of the sanctuary: (a half shekel is twenty manin:) the half shekel is to be the separation before the Lord. Every one who passeth to the numbering, from a son of twenty years and upwards, shall give the seperation before the Lord. He who is rich shall not add to, and he who is poor shall diminish from, the half shekel in giving the seperation before the Lord, to atone for your souls. And thou shalt take the silver of the ransom from the sons of Yisrael, and apply it to the work of the tabernacle of ordinance; that it may be for the sons of Yisrael for a good memorial before the Lord, as a ransom for your souls.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, And thou shalt make a laver of brass, and its foundation of brass, for purification; and shalt set it between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein. And they shall take from it for a cleansing ablution. And Aharon and his sons shall sanctify their hands and their feet with its water; at the time of their entering into the tabernacle of ordinance they shall sanctify with water, that they die not by the fiery flame: and it shall be to them an everlasting statute, to him and to his sons in their generations.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, And thou also take to thee the first aromatics, choice myrrh, in weight five hundred minas, and sweet cinnamon of half the weight, two hundred and fifty minas, and sweet calamus in weight two hundred and fifty minas and cassia in weight five hundred minas of shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a vase full, in weight twelve logas, a loga for each tribe of the twelve tribes. [JERUSALEM. And thou take to thee the chief goodly spices, choice myrrh, in weight five hundred minas of shekels.] And thou shalt make of it a holy anointing oil, perfumed with perfume, the work of the perfumer, of compounded perfumes : a holy anointing oil shall it be. And with it anoint thou the tabernacle of ordinance, and the ark of the testimony, and the table and all its vessels, and the candelabrum and its vessels, and the altar of sweet incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its foundation, and consecrate them, and they shall be most holy. Every one of the priests who approacheth to them shall be sanctified; but of the rest of the tribes, (whoever toucheth them) shall be consumed by the fiery flame from before the Lord. But Aharon and his sons anoint thou, and consecrate them to minister before Me. And speak thou to the sons of Yisrael, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil before Me unto your generations. Upon the flesh of man it may not be poured, and the like of it you shall not make to resemble it; unto you it shall be most sacred. The man who compoundeth the like of it, or putteth it upon the unconsecrated who are not of the sons of Aharon, shall be destroyed from his people.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take to thee spices, balsam, and onycha, and galbanum, choice spices, and pure frankincense, weight for weight shall it be. [JERUSALEM. Balsam, spikenard‑myrrh, and galbanum.] And confect therewith a fragrant incense, the work of the compounder, a pure and sacred mixture. [JERUSALEM. Commixed.] And beat, and make it small, and of it some shalt thou put before the testimony in the tabernacle of ordinance, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee. Most sacred shall it be to you. And of the sweet incense thou shalt make, the like shall not be made among you; it shall be sacred to you before the Lord: the man who maketh the like of it to smell thereto shall be destroyed from his people.
XXXI. And the Lord Spake with Mosheh, saying, Look, Mosheh, I have called by name the good Bezalel:[1] bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, and have fulfilled him with the Spirit of holiness from before the Lord, in wisdom and in intelligence, in knowledge, and in all workmanship; to think in their thoughts so as to work (perfectly) in gold, and in silver, and in brass; and in the cutting of jewels for their insetting, and in the carving of woods, to make all manner of work. [JERUSALEM. See, Mosheh, behold, I have anointed and called by a good name Bezalel.] And, behold, I have appointed with him Ahaliab bar Achisamah, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of every one wise hearted I have added the Spirit of wisdom, that they may perform all whatever I have commanded thee. The tabernacle of ordinance, and the ark of the testimony and the mercy seat which is over it; and all the vessels of the tabernacle; and the table, and all its vessels; and the altar of sweet incense, and the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels; and the laver, and its foot; and the vestments for ministration, the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons for ministry; and the oil of anointing; and the sweet incense for the sanctuary; even all whatever I have commanded thee, they shall make.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Also, speak thou with the sons of Yisrael, saying, Ye shall keep the day of My Shabbats indeed; for it is a sign between My Word and you, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Shabbat, because it is holy to you; whosoever profaneth it, dying he shall die; whoso doeth work therein, that man shall be destroyed from his people. Six days ye shall do work; but the seventh day is Shabbat, the holy Shabbat before the Lord. Whoso doeth work upon the Shabbat, dying he shall die, by the casting of stones. The sons of Yisrael shall therefore keep the Shabbat, to perform the delightful exercises of the Shabbat; (it is) for your generations an everlasting statute; between My Word and the sons of Yisrael it is a sign for ever. For in six days the Lord created and perfected the heavens and the earth; and in the seventh day He rested and refreshed.
And He gave to Mosheh, when He had finished to speak with him in Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of sapphire‑stone from the throne of glory, weighing forty sein, inscribed by the finger of the Lord.
XXXII. But the people saw that Mosheh delayed to come down from the mount, and the people gathered together unto Aharon, when they saw that the time he had appointed to them had passed; and Satana had come, and caused them to err, and perverted their hearts with pride. And they said to him, Arise, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Mosheh the man who brought us up from the land of Mizraim, he may have been consumed in the mountain by the fire which flameth from before the Lord, (and) we know not what hath befallen him in his end. And Aharon said to them, Deliver the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. And their wives denied themselves to give their ornaments to their husbands; and all the people at once delivered up the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon. And he took them from their hands, and bound them in a wrapper, and wrought it with a tool, having made a molten calf; and he said, These, Yisrael, are thy gods, which brought thee forth from the land of Mizraim. For Aharon had seen Hur slain before him, and was afraid; and he builded an altar before him, and Aharon cried with doleful voice, and said, Let there be a feast before the Lord to‑morrow, of the sacrifice of the slain of these adversaries who have denied their Lord, and have changed the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord for this calf. [JERUSALEM. And Aharon saw Hur slain before him, and was afraid; and he builded an altar before him, and Aharon cried and said, A feast.] And on the day following, they arose, and sacrificed burnt-offerings; and the people sat around to eat and to drink, and rose up to disport themselves with strange service. [JERUSALEM. And they rose up to disport themselves with strange service.]
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Descend from the greatness of thine honour; for I have not given thee greatness except on account of Yisrael. But now thy people, whom thou didst bring up from the land of Mizraim, have corrupted their works; quickly have they declined from the way which I taught them in Sinai, (that) ye shall not make yourselves image, or figure, or any similitude; for now have they made to them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and proclaimed before it, These are thy gods, Yisrael, which brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. And the Lord said to Mosheh, The pride of this people is manifest before Me, and, behold, it is a people of hard nack. And now, cease from thy prayer, and cry not for them before Me; for I will let My anger burn like strong fire against them, and consume them, and I will make thee a great people.
And Mosheh was shaken with fear, and began to pray before the Lord his Elohim; and he said,wherefore should Thy wrath, O Lord, prevail against Thy people whom Thou didst bring up from the land of Mizraim, with great power and with a mighty hand. Why should the Mizraee who are remaining say, It was for evil that He led them out, to kill them among the mountains of Tabor and Hermon, and Sirion and Sinai, and to destroy them from the face of the earth? Turn from Thy strong anger, and let there be relenting before Thee over the evil that Thou hast threatened to do unto Thy people. Remember Avraham, and Izhak, and Yisrael, Thy servants, to whom Thou didst swear in Thy Word and didst say to them, I will multiply your children as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have told you will I give to your sons, and they shall inherit for ever. And there was relenting before the Lord over the evil which He had thought to do unto His people. And Mosheh turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hands, inscribed on their two sides, here and there were they inscribed. And the tables were the work of the Lord, and the writing was the Lord's writing, inscribed and manifested upon the tables.
And Jehoshua heard the voice of the people exulting with joy before the calf. [JERUSALEM. Doing evil.] And he said to Mosheh, There is the voice of battle in the camp. But he said, It is not the voice of the strong, who are victorious in battle, nor the voice of the weak, who are overcome by their adversaries in the fight; but the voice of them who serve with strange service, and who make merriment before it, that I hear. [JERUSALEM. The voice of them who praise in strange service.] And it was when Mosheh came near the camp, and saw the calf, and the instruments of music in the hands of the wicked, who were dancing and bowing before it, and Satana among them dancing and leaping before the people, the wrath of Mosheh was suddenly kindled, and he cast the tables from his hands, and brake them at the foot of the mountain;- the holy writing that was on them, however, flew, and was carried away into the air of the heavens;‑ and he cried, and said, Woe upon the people who heard at Sinai from the mouth of the Holy One, Thou shalt not make to thyself an image, or figure, or any likeness,- and yet, at the end of forty days, make a useless molten calf! And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in fire, and bruised it into powder, and cast (it) upon the face of the water of the stream, and made the sons of Yisrael drink; and whoever had given thereto any trinket of gold, the sign of it came forth upon his nostrils. And Mosheh said unto Aharon, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought upon them a great sin? And Aharon said, Let not my lord's anger be strong: thou knowest the people, that they are the children of the Just; but evil concupiscence hath made them to err: and they said to me, Make us gods that may go before us; for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up from the land of Mizraim, is consumed in the mountain, by the flaming fire from before the Lord, and we know not what hath been done to him in his end. And I said to them, Whoever hath gold, let him deliver and give it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and Satana entered into it, and there came out of it the similitude of this calf! And Mosheh saw that the people were naked; for they had been stripped by the hand of Aharon of the holy crown which was upon their head, inscribed and beautified with the great and glorious Name; and that their evil report would go forth among the nations of the earth, and they would get to them an evil name unto their generations. [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh saw the people that they were uncovered; for they had been stripped of the golden crown which was upon their head, whereon the Name had been engraven and set forth, at Mount Horeb.] And Mosheh stood in the sanhedrin gate of the camp, and said, Who feareth the Lord, let him come to me. And there gathered to him all the sons of Levi. And he said to them, Thus hath said the Lord, the Elohim of Yisrael, Whosoever hath sacrificed to the idols of the Gentiles, let him be slain with the sword. And now, go, pass through from the gate of the sanhedrin to the gate of the house of judgment, in the camp, and with prayer before the Lord that He will forgive you this sin, take vengeance upon the wicked workers of strange worship and slay, even a man his brother, and a man his companion, and a man his neighbour. And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Mosheh; and of the people who had the mark in their nostrils there fell that day by the slaughter of the sword about the number of three thousand men.
And Mosheh said, Offer your oblation for the shedding of the blood that is upon your hands, and make atonement for yourselves before the Lord, because you have smitten a man his son or his brother, and that you may bring a blessing upon you this day. And it came to pass on the day following, that Mosheh said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; but now I will go up and will pray before the Lord, if haply I may obtain forgiveness of your sin. And Mosheh returned, and prayed before the Lord, and said, I supplicate of Thee, Thou Lord of all the world, before whom the darkness is as the light! Now have this people sinned a great sin, and have made to them gods of gold; but now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin, forgive; but if not, blot me, I pray, from the book of the just, in the midst of which Thou hast written my name. And the Lord said to Mosheh, It is not right that I should blot out thy name; but whosoever sinneth before Me, him will I blot from My book. But now, go lead the people to the place of which I have told thee; behold, My angel shall proceed before thee; but in the day of My visitation I will visit upon them their sin. And the Word of the Lord plagued the people, because they had bowed themselves to the calf that Aharon had made.
XXXIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, Go, remove thee hence, lest My anger grow hot against the people, and I consume them. Therefore proceed thou, and the people whom thou didst bring up out of the land of Mizraim, (to that land) which I have covenanted unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, saying, Unto thy sons will I give it. And I will appoint before thee an angel, and by his hand will cast out the Kenaanaee, Amoraee, Hittaee, and Pherizaee, Hivaee, and Jebusaee; to the land producing milk and honey. For the Shekinah of My Glory cannot go up among you, nor My Majesty dwell in the habitation of their camp, because thou art a hard‑necked people, lest I destroy you in the way.
And the people heard this evil word, and mourned; and no man put on his accustomed ornaments,[2] which had been given them at Mount Sinai, and on which was inscribed and set forth the great and holy Name. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Speak to the sons of Yisrael, Ye are a hard‑necked people: were the glory of My Shekinah to go up with you, in one little hour I should destroy you. And now put thy accustomed ornaments from thee, that it may be manifest before Me what I may do to thee. And the sons of Yisrael were deprived of their usual adornments, on which was written and set forth the great Name; and which had been given them, a gift from Mount Horeb. And Mosheh took and hid them in his tabernacle of instruction. But the tabernacle he took away from thence, and spread it without the camp, and removed it from the camp of the people to the distance of two thousand cubits; and it was called the Tabernacle of the House of Instruction: and it was that when any one turned by repentance with a true heart before the Lord, he went forth to the Tabernacle of the House of Instruction that was without the camp, to confess and pray for the pardon of his sins; and praying he was forgiven. And it was when Mosheh passed forth from the camp to go to the tabernacle that all the wicked people arose, and stood, every man at the door of his tent, and looked with the evil eye after Mosheh, when he entered the tabernacle. And it came to pass when Mosheh had gone into the tabernacle, the column of the glorious Cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle; and the Word of the Lord spake with Mosheh. And all the people beheld the column of the Cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle, and the whole people at once rose up and worshipped towards the tabernacle, standing every man at the door of his tent.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh word for word,- the voice of the word was heard, but the Majesty of the Presence was not seen,- in the way that a man converseth with his companion: and after the speaking voice had ascended, he returned to the camp, and delivered the word to the congregation of Yisrael. But his minister, Jehoshua bar Nun, a young man, removed not from the tabernacle. [JERUSALEM. But his minister, Jehoshua bar Nun, a young man, passed not from within the tabernacle.]
And Mosheh said before the Lord, Lo, what hast Thou said to me, Take this people up? but Thou hast not made me to know whom Thou wilt send with me. By Thy Word Thou hast said, I have ordained thee with a goodly name, and thou hast found favour before Me. But now I pray, if I have found mercy before Thee, make me to know the way of Thy goodness, to understand Thy mercy when in Thy dealing with just men it falleth to them as it (falleth) to the guilty, and to the guilty as to the just; but, on the contrary how it (indeed) befalleth the just according to their righteousness and the guilty according to their guilt: that I may find mercy before Thee, and it be made manifest by Thee that this people is Thy people. And He said, Await, until the face of My displeasure shall have gone away, and afterward I will give thee rest. And he said to Him, If Thy wrath go not from us, suffer us not to go up from hence under the frown of Thy displeasure. In what will it be known that I have found mercy before Thee but in the converse of Thy Shekinah with us, that distinguishing signs may be wrought for us, in the withholdment of the Spirit of prophecy from the nations, and by Thy speaking by the Holy Spirit to me and to Thy people, that we may be distinguished from all the peoples upon the face of the earth? And the Lord said to Mosheh, This thing also which thou hast spoken of, will I do; for thou hast found mercy before Me, and I have ordained thee with a goodly name. And he said, Show now unto me Thy glory: but He said, Behold, I will make all the measure of My goodness pass before thee, and I will give utterance in the good name of the Word of the Lord before thee; and I will have compassion upon whom I see it right to have compassion, and will be merciful to whom I see it right to have mercy. [JERUSALEM. And He said, Behold, I will make all the measure of My goodness to pass before thee, and I will give utterance in the Name of the Lord before thee, and I will have compassion upon whom I see it right to have compassion, and will be merciful upon whom I see it right to have mercy.] And He said, Thou canst not see the visage of My face; for no man can see Me and abide alive. And the Lord said, Behold, a place is prepared before Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock. And it shall be that when the glory of My Shekinah passeth before thee, I will put thee in a cavern of the rock, and will overshadow thee with My Word until the time that I have passed by. [JERUSALEM. And I will overshadow with My hand.] And I will make the host of angels who stand and minister before Me to pass by, and thou shalt see the handborder of the tephilla of My glorious Shekinah; but the face of the glory of My Shekinah thou canst not be able to see. [JERUSALEM. And I will cause the hosts of angels who stand and minister before Me to pass by, and will make known the oracle; for the glory of My Shekinah thou art not able to behold.
XXXIV. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Hew thee two tables of stone, as the former, and write upon the tables the words that were upon the former tables which thou didst break; and be ready in the morn; and at morning ascend thou Mount Sinai and stand there before Me on the summit of the mountain. No man shall ascend with thee, nor any man be seen on all the mountain, nor sheep, nor oxen grazing on the side of the mount. And he hewed two tables of stone like the former: and Mosheh arose in the morning and ascended Mount Sinai, as the Lord had instructed him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
And the Lord revealed Himself in the cloud of the glory of His Shekinah, and Mosheh stood with Him there; and Mosheh called on the Name of the Word of the Lord. And the Lord made His Shekinah to pass by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord Elohim, merciful and gracious, long‑suffering, and nigh in mercies, abounding to exercise compassion and truth; keeping mercy and bounty for thousands of generations, absolving and remitting guilt, passing by rebellions, and covering sins; pardoning them who convert unto the Torah, but holding not guiltless in the great day of judgment those who will not convert; visiting the sins of fathers upon rebellious children upon the third and upon the fourth generation. And Mosheh made haste and bowed himself upon the earth and worshipped. [JERUSALEM. And the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord passed by before him; and Mosheh prayed, and said, Lord, Lord Elohim, merciful and gracious, slow to be angry but nigh to be merciful, and abounding to exercise kindness and truth; keeping goodness for thousands of generations; absolving and remitting sin and transgressions, but not to acquit the guilty in the great day of judgment; and remembering the sins of wicked fathers upon rebellious children upon the third and upon the fourth generation. And Mosheh hastened and prostrated himself upon the earth, and gave thanks and glorified.]
And he said, If now I have found mercy before the Lord let the Shekinah of the Glory of the Lord go among us; for it is a people of hard neck; but pardon Thou our guilt and our sin, and give us the inheritance of the land which Thou didst covenant unto our fathers, and change us not to become an alien people. And He said, Behold, I make covenant that I will not change this people to become an alien people; nevertheless from thee shall proceed a multitude of the righteous; and with all thy people will I do wondrous things in the time when they go into captivity by the rivers of Bavel: for I will bring them up from thence, and make them dwell from within the river Sambation; and like wonders shall not be created among all the inhabitants of the earth, nor among any nation. And all the people among whom thou wilt dwell shall see in that day the work of the Lord; for terrible is the thing that I will do with thee.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out from before thee the Amoraee, and Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee. Take heed to thee, lest thou strike covenants with the inhabitants of that land into which thou art to enter; that it may not be a stumbling‑block unto thee. But thou shalt rather destroy their high places, and break their statues, and cut down their groves; for it is not lawful for thee to worship other gods; for the Lord is zealous and avengeful; His Name is Elohim, the Zealous and the Avenger. Lest thou strike covenant with the dwellers in the land, and they draw thee astray after their idols, and they sacrifice to their idols, and invite thee, and thou eat of the sacrifices of their idols and thou take of their daughters for thy sons, and when their daughters wander after their idols they make thy sons also go astray after their idols. [JERUSALEM. And they cause to err.] Molten gods you shall not make to you.
You shall observe the feast of the unleavened. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened (cakes), as I have commanded thee, in the time of the month Abiba; for in the month of Abiba you came out free from Mizraim. Whatever openeth the womb is Mine; and of all cattle thou art to consecrate the males, of oxen, and of sheep. But the firstling of an ass thou mayest redeem with a lamb; but if thou redeem him not, thou shalt cut him off with the blade. And each firstborn of thy sons thou must redeem; and they shall not appear before Me empty [JERUSALEM. All firstlings opening the womb thou shalt sanctify unto My Name; all the firstborn of your males, the first that breaketh. through the womb, of oxen and of sheep. 20. My people of the house of Yisrael, it shall not be allowed you to see the Lord your Elohim empty of any precept.]
Six days shalt thou work, and in the seventh day have rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. [JERUSALEM. In ploughing.] The feast of weeks also shalt thou make to thee in the time of the firsts of the wheat harvest; and the feast of ingathering at the conclusion of the ear. Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Master of the world, the Lord Elohim of Yisrael. For I will drive out the nations from before thee, and enlarge thy borders; and no man shall covet thy land at the time of thy going up to appear before the Lord thy Elohim thrice in the year.
You shall not sacrifice the victim of My passover before you have done away with leaven; nor suffer the fat of the paschal sacrifice to remain about the altar till the morning. [JERUSALEM. You shall not sacrifice with leaven the blood of the paschal victim, nor suffer the flesh which you sacrifice on the night of the feast of the first of Pascha to remain from the evening till the morning.] The best of the firstfruits of your land ye shall bring to the sanctuary of the Lord your Elohim. You are not allowed to boil or to eat flesh and milk mixed together, lest My displeasure be kindled against you, and the fruit of your trees, with the grapes in their branches and their leaves, be laid waste together [JERUSALEM. The first (best) of the firstfruits of your produce ye shall bring to the sanctuary of the Lord your Elohim. My people of the house of Yisrael, ye shall not be allowed to boil or to eat flesh and milk mixed together.]
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Write thou these words; for upon the expression of these words have I stricken My covenant with thee and with the people of Yisrael. And he was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread nor did he drink water; and he wrote upon the other tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Words which had been written upon the former tables.
And it was at the time when Mosheh came down from the mountain of Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in the hand of Mosheh, in his descending from the mount, that Mosheh knew not that the visage (form) of his face shone with the splendour which had come upon him from the brightness of the glory of the Lord's Shekinah in the time of His speaking with him. [JERUSALEM. That the beams of his face did shine.] And Aharon and all the sons of Yisrael saw Mosheh, and, behold, the glory of the form of his face shined, and they were afraid to come near to him. And Mosheh called to them and Aharon, and all the princes who had been appointed chiefs in the congregation returned, and Mosheh conversed with them. And afterward drew nigh all the sons of Yisrael, and he taught them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. And when Mosheh had finished to speak with them, he put over the form of his face a veil. [JERUSALEM. A cloth.] And when Mosheh went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he removed the veil from his countenance until he came forth; and he came forth and spake to the sons of Yisrael what had been commanded. And the sons of Yisrael saw the countenance of Mosheh, that the glory of the form of Mosheh's face was shining. And Mosheh replaced the veil upon his face until the time of his going in to speak with Him.
[1] Or, "I have called by a good name Bezalel."
[2] Or, "appointed arms."
SECTION XXI.
KI THISSA
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, When thou takest the account of the sons of Yisrael according to their number, they shall give every man a ransom for his soul before the Lord, when thou numberest them, that there may not be death among them when thou numberest them. This they shall give: every one who cometh over to the adnumberment, a half shekel, of the shekel of the sanctuary, of twenty mayin the shekel, half a shekel shall be set apart before the Lord. Every one who cometh over to the adnumberment, from a son of twenty years and above, shall give the separation before the Lord. He who is rich shall not increase (it), and he who is poor shall not diminish from the half shekel in presenting the separation before the Lord to propitiate for your souls. And thou shalt take the silver of the propitiation from the sons of Yisrael, and appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of ordinance and it shall be to the sons of Yisrael for a memorial before the Lord to propitiate for your souls.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Thou shalt make a LAVER of brass, and its foundation of brass for purifying; and set it between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein. And Aharon and his sons shall purify at it their hands and their feet. In their entering into the tabernacle of ordinance they shall cleanse themselves with water, that they die not; or when they approach the altar to minister, to offer an oblation before the Lord; and (thus) they shall purify their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be to them an everlasting statute, to him and to his sons unto their generations.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Take thou also to thee choice (first or principal) aromatics: pure myrrh, five hundred (shekels' weight); and sweet cinnamon, one half (as much), two hundred and fifty (shekels’) weight; of sweet calamus, two hundred and fifty (shekels') weight; and cassia, five hundred (shekels’) weight, of the shekels of the sanctuary; and olive oil, a hina full; and make it a holy anointing oil, most fragrant, the work of the perfumer; it shall be the holy oil for anointing. And thou shalt anoint therewith the tabernacle of ordinance and the ark of the testimony, and the table and all its vessels, and the candelabrum and its vessels, and the altar of sweet incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its foundation, and consecrate them. They shall be most holy; whoever approacheth them shall be sanctified. And Aharon and his sons thou shalt anoint, and consecrate them to minister before Me. And thou shalt speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying, A holy anointing oil shall thus be unto Me for your generations. Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor the like to it be made; sacred is it, and sacred shall it be to you. The man who compoundeth the like to it, or who putteth it upon an alien, shall be destroyed from his people.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take thee spices, stachte[1] and onycha, and galbanum spices, and pure frankincense, weight for weight shall they be; and thou shalt make it a sweet incense, fragrant, the work of the, perfumer, mixed, pure, for consecration. And thou shalt beat some of it and make it fine, and put thereof before the testimony in the tabernacle of ordinance, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee; to you it shall be most holy. And of the sweet incense which thou shalt make you must not make the like for yourselves; it shall be sacred to thee before the Lord. The man who maketh the like of it, to smell thereto, shall be destroyed from his people.
XXXI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Behold, I have named by name Bezalel bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, and have fulfilled him with the spirit of prophecy from before the Lord, with wisdom and with intelligence, and with knowledge, and in all work (to excel), to Instruct artificers to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in artisanship of precious stone, to fill in, and in carving of wood, to accomplish all the work. And I, behold, have given with him Ahaliab bar Achisamak, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all the wise of heart have I ingiven wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: The tabernacle of ordinance, and the ark of the testimony, and the propitiatory that is upon it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle; and the table and its vessels, and the pure candelabrum and all its vessels, and the altar of sweet incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its foundation. And the vestments of ministration, and the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons for ministry; and the oil of anointing and the sweet incense for the sanctuary, according to all that I have commanded thee, they shall make.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Speak thou also with the sons of Yisrael, saying, The days of My Shabbats ye shall indeed keep; for it is a sign between My Word and you, unto your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth you. And you shall keep the Shabbat, for it is holy unto you; whosoever profaneth it, dying, he shall die; for whosoever doeth work therein, that man shall be destroyed from among his people. Six days shalt thou do work, and the seventh day is Shabbat, the Holy Shabbat before the Lord: whosoever doeth work on the day of the Shabbat, dying, he shall die. And the sons of Yisrael shall keep the Shabbat to fulfil (lit., perform) the Shabbat unto their generations, a statute for ever. Between My Word and the sons of Yisrael it is a sign for ever for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth; and in the seventh day rested and was refreshed.[2] And He gave to Mosheh, when He had finished to speak with him on Mount Sinai, two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone inscribed with the finger of the Lord.
XXXII. But the people saw that Mosheh delayed to come down from the Mount; and the people gathered together unto Aharon, and said to him, Arise, make us gods (dachalan, pl., objects to be venerated) that may proceed before us;[3] for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up from the land of Mizraim, we know not what hath been to him. And Aharon said to them, Take off the golden ear‑rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. And all the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aharon. And he took them from their hands, and formed it with a graver, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are thy gods, Yisrael, which brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. And Aharon saw,[4] and builded an altar before it; and
Aharon proclaimed and said, A feast shall be held before the Lord to‑morrow. And they arose next day, and sacrificed burnt offerings and offered oblations; and the people sat around to eat and drink, and rose up to disport.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, Go, descend, for thy people whom thou broughtest up from the land of Mizraim have corrupted themselves; they have quickly warped from the way which I had taught them; they have made a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and sacrificed unto it and have said, These are thy gods, Yisrael, which have brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. And the Lord said to Mosheh, It is seen before Me that this people are hard-necked. And now refrain from thy prayer before Me, and My anger shall prevail against them, and I will destroy them, and will make thee to a great people. But Mosheh prayed before the Lord his Elohim, and said, Why, Lord, is Thy anger strong against Thy people, whom Thou didst bring up from the land of Mizraim with great power and with might hand? Where fore should the Mizraee speak to say, With evil (purpose) He led them out to kill them among the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from the strength of Thine anger, and revert from the evil which Thou hast threatened to do unto Thy people. Remember Avraham, Izhak, and Yisrael, Thy servants to whom Thou hast sworn by Thy Word, and to whom Thou hast said, I will multiply your sons as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give unto your sons, and they shall own it for ever.
And the Lord did turn from the evil which He had threatened to do unto the people. And Mosheh returned and went down from the Mount, and the two tablets of testimony were in his hand: the tablets were inscribed on their two sides, here and there were they inscribed. And the tablets were the work of the Lord, and the writing was the writing of the Lord set forth distinctly upon the tablets.
And Jehoshua heard the voice of the people as they made outcry, and he said to Mosheh, The voice of war is in the camp. But he said, It is not the voice of men who are victorious, nor is it the voice of the weak who are beaten, but it is the voice of revelers that I hear. And it was that as he drew nigh the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that the anger of Mosheh grew strong, and he cast from his hands the tablets, and brake them at the declivity of the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in fire, and ground it until it was powder, and spread it on the face of the water, and made the sons of Yisrael drink it. And Mosheh said to Aharon, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought upon them so great a sin? And Aharon said, Let not my lord’s anger be violent: thou knowest the people, that it is prone to evil. And they said to me, Make us gods that shall go before us: for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up form the land of Mizraim, we know not what hath been done to him. And I said to them, Whoever hath gold let him deliver, and give it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came forth. And Mosheh saw that the people were undone (or, made empty); for Aharon had undone them, to defile them with an evil name in their generations; and Mosheh stood at the gate of the camp, and said, Let those who fear the Lord come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. And he said to them., Thus saith the Lord the Elohim of Yisrael, Let every man put his sword upon his thigh, pass through, and return, from gate to gate in the camp, and slay, a man his brother, and a man his companion, and a man his neighbour. And the sons of Levi did according to the word fo Mosheh, and there fell of the people in that day as three thousand men. And Mosheh said, Present your hands[5] this day an offering before the Lord, every man with (or, on account of) his son and his brother, that you may bring blessings upon you this day.
And it was on the day following that Mosheh said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; but now I will go up before the Lord, if haply I may propitiate for your sin. And Mosheh returned before the Lord, and said in his prayer, This people have sinned a great sin, for they have made to them gods of gold. But now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin! But if not, blot me now out of the Book which Thou hast written. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Him who hath sinned before Me, will I blot from My book. But now, go, lead the people to the place that I have told thee of: behold, My Angel shall proceed before thee; and in the day that I visit, I will visit upon them their sin. And the Lord smote the people because they had worshipped (or served) the calf which Aharon had made.
XXXIII. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go, descend from hence, thou and the people thou hast brought up from the land of Mizraim, unto the land which I have covenanted unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, saying, To thy sons will I give it. Arid I will send My Angel before thee, and will drive oat the Kenaanaee, the Amoraee, and Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, the Hivaee, and the Jebusaee; to the land producing milk and honey: for My Shekinah shall not go up among you, because thou art a hard‑necked people, lest I destroy thee in the way. And the people heard these words of evil, and lamented, and no man put on his usual ornaments. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Say to the children of Yisrael, Ye are a hard‑necked people; if one hour My Shekinah go up among thee, I should destroy thee. And now take off thy garnishing from thee, and it will appear before me what I shall do with thee. Arid the children of Yisrael removed their usual ornaments (on their return) from the mount of Horeb. Arid Mosheh took a tabernacle, and spread it for himself without the camp, at a distance from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the House of Instruction: and it was that every one who sought instruction from before the Lord, went forth to the tabernacle of the house of instruction without the camp. And it came to pass that when Mosheh went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and stood, every man at the door of his tent, and looked after Mosheh until he had entered into the tabernacle. And it was when Mosheh had entered the tabernacle, the column of the Cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and (He) spake with Mosheh. And all the people saw the column of the Cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle, and all the people arose and worshipped, every man at the door of his tent. And the Lord spake with Mosheh word with word, as a man speaketh with his companion. And he returned to the camp; but his minister, Jehoshua bar Nun, a young man, did not remove from the tabernacle.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, See, Thou hast said to me, Take this people up; but Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me; yet Thou hast said, I have ordained thee by name, and thou hast found mercy before Me. And if now I have found mercy before Thee, show me, I pray, Thy good way,[6] that I may know Thy loving‑kindness, and may find mercy before Thee, and make it manifest before Thee that this people is Thy people. And He said, My Shekinah shall go, and I will give thee rest. And he said before Him, If Thy Shekinah goeth not among us, let us not ascend from hence. And in what shall it be known that I and Thy people have found mercy before Thee, if Thy Shekinah go not up with us, to make for us the distinction, and to distinguish me and Thy people from every people that is upon the face of the earth? And the Lord said to Mosheh, This thing that thou hast spoken will I do, because thou hast found mercy before Me, and I have ordained thee by mane. And he said, Show me, I pray, Thy Glory! And He said, I will make all My Goodness pass before thy face,[7] and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And He said, Thou canst not see the Face of My Shekinah; for no man can see Me and abide alive. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place prepared before Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock, and it shall be, when My Glory passeth, I will put thee in a cavern of the rock, and My Word shall overshadow thee until I have passed; and I will take away the word (dibberath) of My Glory, and thou shalt see that which is after Me,[8] bu My Aspect[9] shall not be seen.
XXXIV. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Hew thee two tablets of stone as the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the former tablets which thou hast broken. And be ready in the morning, and go up at morn to Mount Sinai, and stand there before Me on the summit of the mountain. Let no man ascend with thee; let no man be seen upon all the mountain, nor sheep nor oxen be grazing upon the mountain. And hew two tablets of stone like the former ones.
And Mosheh arose in the morning, and ascended Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. And the Lord was revealed in the Cloud, and He stood with him there, and He proclaimed the Name of the Lord.[10] And the Lord made His Shekinah pass before his face; and he proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord Elohim, Merciful and Gracious, slow to anger, and making goodness and truth to abound; Keeping goodness for thousands of generations; Forgiving iniquity and rebellion and guilt; Pardoning them who convert unto His Torah, but acquitting not them who convert not; Visiting the guilt of fathers upon the children and upon the children’s children of the rebellious, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. And Mosheh made haste, and bowed upon the ground and worshipped.
And he said, If now I have found mercy before Thee, O Lord, let, I pray, the Shekinah of the Lord go among us; for it is a hard-necked people; but forgive Thou our guilty and our sin, and take possession of us. And He said, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people that I will do wonders which were never created upon all the earth, nor among any of the people; and all peoples among whom thou art shall see the work of the Lord; for terrible shall that be which I will do with thee. Observe thou that which I command thee this day. Behold, I will drive out from before thee the Amoraee, and Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee. Beware lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land upon which thou shalt enter, lest it become a stumbling-block in the midst of thee: but their altars thou shalt destroy, and their statues break, and their groves cut down;[11] for thou shalt not worship the idols of the peoples; for the Lord, Zealous is His Name, a zealous Elohim is He. Lest thou strike a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and go erring after their idols, and to their idols offer sacrifices, and they invite thee, and thou eat of their sacrifices, and thou take of their daughters for thy sons, and they make thy daughters go erring after their idols, and thy sons to go erring after their idols. Molten gods thou shalt not make to thee.
The feast of the unleavened thou shalt keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened (bread) as I have commanded thee, in the time of the month of Abiva; for in the month of Abiva thou didst come out of Mizraim. All that openeth the womb is Mine; all males of cattle thou shalt sanctify, the first‑born of oxen and of sheep. But the firstling of an ass thou mayest redeem with a lamb; but if thou redeem him not, thou shalt cut him off. All the first‑born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.
And let none appear before Me empty. Six days thou shalt labour, and on the seventh day rest; in sowing (time) and in reaping thou shalt rest. And the feast of Weeks thou shalt make to thee, of the firsts of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering in the cycle of the year. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Master of the World, the Lord Elohim of Yisrael. For I will drive out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders, and no man shall covet thy land when thou goest up to appear before the Lord thy Elohim three times in the year. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of My Pascha with leaven, nor shall the fat of the sacrifices of the Paschal feast be left without the altar till the morning. The chief of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the sanctuary of the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not eat flesh with milk. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Write for thee these words; for upon the expression of these words I make covenant with thee and with Yisrael.
And he was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; bread he ate not, nor water did he drink; and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant., the Ten Words. And it was when Mosheh descended from the mountain of Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Mosheh, in his descending from the mount, that Mosheh knew not how great was the splendour of the glory of his countenance through His speaking with him. And Aharon and all the sons of Yisrael saw Mosheh, and, behold, great was the splendour of the glory of his countenance, and they were afraid to approach him. But Mosheh called to them, and Aharon and all the chiefs of the congregation returned to him, and Mosheh conversed with them. And afterward all the sons of Yisrael drew near, and he taught them all that the Lord had said to him on Mount Sinai. And when Mosheh had completed to speak with them, he put a veil upon his face. But when Mosheh went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he removed the veil until he came out. And he went forth and spake with the sons of Yisrael of that which was commanded. And the children of Yisrael saw the face of Mosheh, that the splendour of the glory of Mosheh's face was great; and Mosheh put the veil again upon his face until he went in to speak with Him.
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[1] Sam. Vers., “balsam.”
[2] Sam. Vers., “breathed.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “as it may please us.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “feared.”
[5] Some copies omit “your hands,” and read, “Present your offerings.”
[6] Or, “the way of Thy Goodness.”
[7] Sam. Vers., “My loving-kindness shall go before, and will lead thee.”
[8] De-bathrai.
[9] De-kadamai.
[10] Or, “proclaimed in the Name of the Lord,”
[11] Sam. Vers., “root up.”
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Ch. 16-18
SECTION XXXVIII.
KORACH.
XVI. But Korach bar Tizhar bar Kehath, bar Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On bar Peleth, of the Beni‑Reuben, took his robe which was all of hyacinth, and rose up boldly, and in the face of Mosheh appointed a (different) observance in the matter of the hyacinth. [JERUSALEM. And Korach took counsel, and made division.] Mosheh had said, I have heard from the mouth of the Holy One, whose Name be Blessed, that the fringes are to be of white, with one filament of hyacinth; O but Korach and his companions made garments with their fringes altogether of hyacinth, which the Lord had not commanded; and two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Yisrael, who had been made leaders of the congregation at the time when the journeys and encampments were appointed, by expression of their names, supported him. And they gathered together against Mosheh and Aharon, and said to them: Let the authority you have (hitherto had) suffice you, for all the congregation are holy, and the Lord's Shekinah dwelleth among them; and why should you be magnified over the church of the Lord?
And Mosheh heard, as if every one of them was jealous of his wife, and would have them drink of the trial‑water on account of Mosheh; and he fell on his face for shame. And he spake with Korach and all the company who supported him, saying: In the morning the Lord will make known him whom He hath approved, and hath consecrated to approach unto His service, and who it hath pleased Him should come nigh in ministering, unto Him. Do this: Let Korach and all the company of his helpers take censers, put fire in them, and lay incense upon them before the Lord, to‑morrow; and the man whom the Lord shall make known, he it is who is consecrated. Let it suffice to you, sons of Levi.
And Mosheh said to Korach and his kindred: Hear now, ye sons of Levi: Is it too little For you that the Elohim of Yisrael hath set you apart from the congregation of Yisrael to draw near to do His service to fulfil the ministry of the Lord's tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? But so hath he brought nigh thee and all the sons of Levi with thee and now do ye demand the high‑priesthood also? Therefore art thou and all the company of thy helpers gathered together against the Word of the Lord: and Aharon, what is he, that you murmur against him?
And Mosheh sent men to summon Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, to the house of the great judgment; but they said, We will not come up. Is it a little thing, that thou hast brought us from Mizraim, a land that produceth milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that ruling thou mayest domineer over us? Neither hast thou brought us into the land producing milk and honey to give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Wilt thou blind the eyes of the men of that land, that thou mayest overcome them? We shall not go up thither. And Mosheh was very wroth, and said before the Lord: I beseech thee, look not upon their offering, the portion of their hands; for not an ass have I taken from one of them, nor to any of them done an injury, [JERUSALEM. And it was very grievous to Mosheh, and he said before the Lord: Regard not the portion of their hands; for not an ass have I taken from one of them, nor to one of them done wrong.]
And Mosheh said to Korach, Thou, and all the company of thy helpers, come together to the house of judgment before the Lord to‑morrow, thou, they, and Aharon. And take every one his censer, and put incense upon them; and let each offer his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aharon, each man his censer. And they took every one his censer, and put fire in them and sweet incense with it, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance on one side; but Mosheh and Aharon on the other side. And Korach gathered to them the whole congregation at the door of the tabernacle. And he had brought forth, from his riches, two treasures which he had found among the treasures of Joseph filled with silver and gold, and sought with them to drive the riches of Mosheh and Aharon out of the world; but the glory of the Lord revealed itself to all the congregation.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and Aharon, saying: Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may destroy them quickly. But they bowed down upon their faces in prayer, and said: El Eloha, who hast put the spirit of life in the bodies of the children of men, and from whom is given the spirit of all flesh,‑if one man hath sinned, wilt Thou be angry with all the congregation [JERUSALEM. And they bowed on their faces, and said: O Elohim, who rulest over the spirit of all flesh,‑if one man hath sinned, wilt Thou be wroth against all the people:] And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: I have accepted thy prayer for the congregation. Now speak thou with them, saying: Remove away from the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram.
And Mosheh arose, and went to remonstrate with Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Yisrael followed. And he said to the congregation, Remove now away from the tents of these men of sin, who have been worthy of death from (the days of) their youth in Mizraim, for they betrayed my secret when I slew the Mizraite; they provoked the Lord at the sea; at Alush they profaned the Shabbat, and now are they gathered together against the Word of the Lord; and therefore is it fit that their wealth should be scattered abroad and destroyed. Touch not, then, anything that is theirs, nor be smitten on account of their sins. And they went apart from the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram round about. But Dathan and Abiram came out, with reviling words, and arose and provoked Mosheh at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
And Mosheh said, By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, and that (I do them) not from the thoughts of my heart. If these men die after the manner of dying in which all men die, and the (common) account of all men be accounted upon them, the Lord hath not sent me. [JERUSALEM. For not with my own heart have I devised them. If these die by the death with which the sons of men die, and the account of all men be accounted upon them, the Lord hath not sent me.] But if a death which hath not been created since the days of the world be now created for them, and if a mouth for the earth, which hath not been made from the beginning, be created now, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all they have, and they go down alive into Sheul, you will understand that these men have provoked the Lord to anger.
And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking these words, the earth beneath them clave asunder; and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and the men of their houses, and all the men who adhered to Korach, and all their substance. And they went down with all that they had alive into Sheul; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation. And all Yisrael who were round about them fled from the terror of their voice, as they cried and said, Righteous is the Lord, and His judgment is truth, and the words of His servant Mosheh are truth; but we are wicked who have rebelled against him: and the children of Yisrael fled when they heard; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. And a fire came out in wrath from before the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bid Elazar bar Aharon the priest to take away the censers from among the burnings, and scatter the fire hither and thither; for the censers of these guilty men who have been punished by the destruction of their lives are consecrated; and make of them broad plates for the covering of the altar, because they bare them before the Lord, therefore they are consecrate; and they shall be for a sign to the children of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. For a sign.] And Elazar the priest took the brasen censers which they who had been burned had carried, and beat them out for a covering for the body of the altar, as they had before used them for the service of the altar: for a memorial to the sons of Yisrael, that no common man, who is not of the sons of Aharon, may offer incense before the Lord; and that no man should behave himself factiously to obtain the priesthood, as did Korach and the company of his helpers; and whose end would be to perish, not (indeed) with a death like that of Korach and his company, by being burned by fire, and being swallowed up by the earth, but punished with leprosy:[1] as when the Lord said to Mosheh, Put thy hand into thy bosom, and his hand was stricken with leprosy; so would it be with him.
But on the following day the whole congregation murmured against Mosheh and Aharon, saying: You have been the occasion of the judgment of death against the people of the Lord. And it was, that when the congregation had gathered against Mosheh and Aharon to kill them, they looked towards the Tabernacle of Ordinance, and, behold, the Cloud of the Glory of the Shekinah covered it, and the Glory of the Lord was revealed there. And Mosheh and Aharon went from the congregation to the door of the tabernacle.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Separate from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. But they bowed themselves on their faces in prayer. [JERUSALEM. Separate from the people of this congregation, and I will destroy them in a brief moment. But they bowed down on their faces in prayer.]
And Mosheh said to Aharon, Take the censer, put fire in it from the altar, and sweet incense on the fire; bear it quickly into the congregation, and make atonement for them: for a destruction like that which consumed them in Horeb, whose name is Burning, hath begun by commandment to kill, from the presence of the Lord. And Aharon took, as Mosheh had said, and ran into the midst of the congregation, and, behold the destructive burning had begun to destroy the people: but he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. And Aharon stood in the midst, between the dead and the living with the censer, and interceded in prayer; and the plague was restrained. But the number who had died by the plague was fourteeen thousand and seven hundred, beside those who had died in the schism of Korach. And Aharon returned to Mosheh at the door of the tabernacle; and the plague was stayed.
XVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and take of them severally a rod, according to the house of their fathers; twelve rods; and upon each rod thou shalt inscribe its (tribe) name. But on the rod of Levi thou shalt write the name of Aharon: for there is but one rod for each head of their father's house. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle before the testimony, where My Word is appointed to meet you. And the man whose rod germinateth shall be he whom I approve to minister before Me; and I will make the murmurings of the sons of Yisrael with which they have murmured against you to cease from Me.
Mosheh spake, therefore, with the sons of Yisrael, and the chiefs of them gave him severally their rods, according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods; and Aharon's rod was among theirs. And Mosheh laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of ordinance. And it came to pass, the day after, when Mosheh went into the tabernacle of the testimony, that, behold, the rod of Aharon had germinated; it had shot forth branches, blossomed with flowers, and, in the same night, produced and ripened almonds. [JERUSALEM. And the day following Mosheh went into the tabernacle of testimony, and, behold, the rod of Aharon, of his house of Levi, had germinated, put forth buds, bloomed with flowers, and ripened almonds, the fruit of the almond.]
And Mosheh brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the sons of Yisrael, who recognised and took severally their rods. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take back the rod of Aharon, before the testimony, to be kept for a sign for the rebellious children, that their murmurings may cease from before Me, lest they die. And Mosheh did so; as the Lord commanded so did he.
And the sons of Yisrael spake with Mosheh, saying: Behold, some of us have been
consumed with the flaming fire; some of us have been swallowed up by the earth, and have perished! Behold, we are accounted as if all of us are to be destroyed. Any one who approaches the tabernacle must die: are we not doomed to destruction? [JERUSALEM. And the sons of Yisrael spake, saying: Behold, we are consumed, and are all of us as if destroyed. Some of us have died of the plague, and some of us the earth, opening her mouth, hath swallowed up.]
XVIII. And the Lord said unto Aharon, Thou, and thy sons, and the house of thy fathers with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the consecrated things, when you nave not been heedful in offering them; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood, when you have not been heedful of their separations. And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, who are called by the name of Amram thy father, shalt thou bring near to thee, that they may consociate with and minister to thee. But thou, and thy sons with thee, (only) shall stand before the tabernacle of the testimony And they shall keep thy charge, and have charge of all the tabernacle; yet to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar they are not to come near, lest both they and you die. And they shall have appointment from thee without, and keep charge of the tabernacle of ordinance for all its service; and a stranger shall not come near you. And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and of the altar, that there may be no more the wrath that hath been upon the children of Yisrael. And, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the sons of Yisrael; to you they are given, a gift before the Lord, to perform the work of the tabernacle of ordinance. But thou, and thy sons with thee, shall keep the charge of your priesthood in all things that pertain to the altar, and (those) within the veil, and shall minister by lots, according to the service. So, provision of food have I given you, on account of the anointing of your priesthood; and the stranger who cometh near shall die.
And the Lord said to Aharon, And I have been pleased to give you the charge of My separated offerings; the cakes of the firstfruits, and all the consecrated things of the children of Yisrael, to thee have I given them, on account of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an everlasting statute. They shall be to thee most sacred; whatsoever remaineth of the sheep offered by fire, all their oblations, of all their minchas, of all their sin offerings, and of all their trespass offerings which they present before Me, they are most sacred for thee and for thy sons. Thou mayest eat it in the sanctuary; every male may eat thereof; on account of the holy anointing it shall be thine. And this is what I have set apart to thee of their separated minchas, and of all the uplifted things of the sons of Yisrael, to thee have I given them, and to thy sons and thy daughters with thee by an everlasting statute. Whoever is clean in thy house may eat of it. All the best of the olive oil, of the grape wine, and of the wheat of their firstfruits which they present before the Lord, I have given unto thee. [JERUSALEM. All the best of the wheat, of the wine, and of the oil of their firstfruits.] The firsts of all the trees of their ground which they present before the Lord shall be thine; every one who is clean in thy house may eat them. Every devoted thin, in Yisrael shall be thine. Whatever openeth the womb, of all flesh among animals which they offer before the Lord, as the regulation concerning men, so the regulation concerning cattle, it is to be thine: only thou art to redeem the firstborn of man by the five shekels, and the firstlings of the unclean animal thou shalt redeem with lambs. And the redemption of a man child of a month old thou shalt make, according to thy estimation of him, by five shekels of silver in the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty meahs. But the firstlings of oxen, of sheep, or of goats thou mayest not redeem, for they are sacred; but thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and burn their fat for an oblation to be accepted before, the Lord. And their flesh shall be thine, for food; as the breast of the elevation, and as the right shoulder, it shall be thine. Every thing set apart of the sacred things which the sons of Yisrael consecrate to the Lord have I given to thee, to thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a perpetual statute not to be abolished; as the salt which seasoneth the flesh of the oblation, because it is an everlasting statute before the Lord, so shall it be for thee and for thy children.
And the Lord said to Aharon, Thou wilt not receive a possession in their land as the rest of the tribes, nor wilt thou have a portion among them: I am thy Portion and thy Inheritance in the midst of the children of Yisrael. And, behold, I have given to the sons of Levi all the tenths in Yisrael for a possession, on account of their service with which they serve in the work of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the sons of Yisrael shall no more come near the tabernacle to incur the sin unto death; but the Levites shall minister in the work of the tabernacle, and shall bear their sin if they be not diligent in their work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations; but among the sons of Yisrael they shall have no possession. Therefore the tenths of the children of Yisrael, which they set apart for a separation before the Lord, have I given to the Levites for a possession, because I have said to them that among the sons of Yisrael they shall possess no inheritance.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak to the Levites, and bid them take from the sons of Yisrael the tenth which I have given them for their possession; and (then) shall you separate from it a separation before the Lord, a tenth from the tenth; and your separation shall be reckoned to you as the corn from the threshing floor, and as the wine from the fulness of the winepress: so shall you set apart your separation before the Lord from all your tenths, which you may receive from the sons of Yisrael, and give thereof a separation before the Lord unto Aharon the priest. Of all your gifts you shall set apart a separation before the Lord, of all the finest and the best therein. And say thou to the priests, When you have set apart the finest and the best of it and in it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as the setting apart of corn from the threshing‑floor, and of wine from the wine‑press. And you may eat it, you, the priests, in any place, you and the men of your house; for it is your remuneration for your service in the tabernacle of ordinance. And you shall not contract guilt by it, at what time you set apart the finest and best of it, by any one eating of it who is unclean; neither shall you profane the consecrated things of the children of Yisrael, lest you die.
[1] Compare the case of King Uzziah.
[1] Compare the case of King Uzziah.
SECTION XXXVIII.
KORACH.
XVI. BUT Korack bar zhar bar Kahath bar Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On bar Pelath of the Beni Reuben, made a division. And they rose up in the presence of Mosheh with (other) men of the sons of Yisrael, two hundred and fifty, chiefs of the congregation, who at the time of the convocation had been men of name.[1] And they gathered together against Mosheh, and against Aharon, and said to them, You are too great;[2] for the whole of the congregation are all of them holy, and the Lord's Shekinah dwelleth among them: wherefore then are you lifted up above the church of the Lord?
And Mosheh heard, and fell upon his face. And he spake with Korach, and with all the congregation, saying: In the morning the Lord will make blown who it is who pertaineth to Him, and who bath been consecrated to approach to His presence; and whosoever He shall appoint shall go near unto His service. This do: Take you censers, Korach and all his congregation; and put fire in them, and put sweet incense upon it before the Lord to-morrow: and the man whom the Lord will choose, he shall be holy. You have too much,[3] sons of Levi.
And Mosheh said to Korach, Hear now, sons of Levi: Is it a little thing with you that the Elohim of Yisrael hath separated you from the congregation of Yisrael to bring you near before Him to perform the service of the Lord's tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? But He hath brought thee nigh, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek you now the High Priesthood also? Therefore thou and all thy company have gathered together against the Lord. And Aharon, what is he, that you murmur against him?
And Mosheh, sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, We will not come up. Is it a trifle that thou hast brought us from a land making milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou mayest domineer and rule over us? Neither hast thou brought us into the land that maketh milk and honey, to give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou blind the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
And Mosheh was greatly angered, and said before the Lord, Receive not Thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I injured one of them. And Mosheh said to Korach, Be thou and all thy company prepared before the Lord, thou and they and Aharon to-morrow. And take every man his censer, and put sweet incense upon them, each man to offer before the Lord (with) his censer. And they took every man his censer, and set fire in it, and put sweet incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, with Mosheh and Aharon. And Korach assembled with him all the company at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance.
And the glory of the Lord was revealed to all the congregation; and the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying: Separate yourselves from among this company, and I will consume them at once. But they fell upon their faces, and said, O Elohim, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and thou be wroth with all the congregation? And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the congregation, saying: Get you up from among the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram. And Mosheh arose and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Yisrael followed him. And he spake with the congregation, saying: Remove now from the tents of these guilty men, and touch not anything that is theirs, lest you be stricken with all their sins. And they gat up from the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram round about; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their families.
And Mosheh said: By this shall you know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, because (I do them) not of my own will: If these men die the death of all men, and the visitation of all men be visited upon them, the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord create a creation, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, and all that is theirs, and they go down alive into Sheul, then you will know that these men have caused anger before the Lord.
And it was, when he had finished to speak all these words, that the ground under them clave asunder, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and the men of their houses; and all the men of Korach, and all their substance, they, and all who were theirs, went down alive into Sheul; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
And all Yisrael who stood round about them fled from their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us. And fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who had offered the sweet incense.
XV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak to Elazar bar Aharon the priest, that he take out the censers from among the burnings, and throwaway the fire, for they are consecrated. The censers of those guilty men who sinned against their souls, let him make of them beaten plates, to cover the altar; for they had offered them before the Lord, and they are consecrated; and they shall be for a sign unto the children of Yisrael. And Elazar the priest took the golden censers, with which they who were burned had offered, and beat them abroad, for a covering for the altar, to be a memorial to the sons of Yisrael, that no strange man who is not of the seed of Aharon shall approach to burn sweet incense before the Lord, and that he be not as Korach and his company, as the Lord had said to him by the hand of Mosheh.
But on the day which followed, all the congregation of t he sons of Yisrael murmured against Mosheh and against Aharon, saying: You have caused the death of the Lord's people. And it was, while the congregation gathered against Mosheh and against Aharon, that they looked toward the tabernacle of ordinance; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord was revealed. And Mosheh and Aharon went up before the tabernacle of ordinance;
and the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, that I may now consume them. But they fell upon their faces.
And Mosheh said to Aharon: Take the censer, and put fire upon it from the altar, and lay on sweet incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for anger hath gone forth from before the Lord, the plague hath begun. And Aharon took, as Mosheh had said, and ran into the midst of the congregation, and, behold, the plague had begun among the people; and he put on sweet incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased.
But they who died of the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside those who died on account of the matter of Korach. And Aharon returned to Mosheh, unto the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the plague ceased.
XVII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and take from them severally a rod, according the house of their fathers, twelve rods, and write thou the name of each man upon his rod. And upon the rod of Levi thou shalt write the name of Aharon; for one rod (only) there shall be for (each) chief of their father's house. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of ordinance before the testimony, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee.
And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I will choose shall bud; and I will make to cease from before Me the murmuring; of the sons of Yisrael, with which they have murmured against you. And Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael; and all their chiefs gave to him, every chief one rod, according to the house of their fathers, twelve rods. And Aharon's rod was among their rods.And Mosheh laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony.
And it came to pass on the following day, that Mosheh went into the tabernacle of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aharon of the house of Levi had germinated, and produced branches, and had blossomed, and ripened almonds. And Mosheh brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the sons of Yisrael, and they recognised and took every man his rod.
And the Lord said to Mosheh: Take back Aharon's rod before the testimony, to be kept for a sign unto the rebellious people, that their murmurings before Me may come to an end, and they die not. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded, so did he.
And the children of Yisrael spake to Mosheh, saying: Behold, some of us are slain with the sword; and, behold, some are swallowed up by the earth; and, behold, some perish with the plague. Whoever, approaching, approacheth the tabernacle of the Lord dieth; behold, we are consumed with death.
XVIII. And the Lord said to Aharon: Thou and thy sons, and the house of thy fathers with thee, shall make reconciliation on account of transgressions (against) the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall make atonement for the sins of your priesthood. And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring with thee, and let them be added with thee, to serve thee; but thou and, thy sons with thee (shall minister) before the tabernacle of the testimony. And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle; but to the vessels of the sanctuary and of the altar they (the Levites) shall not approach, that neither they nor you may die. And they shall be joined, with thee, and keep charge of the tabernacle of ordinance for all the service of the tabernacle, and a stranger shall not come near you. And they shall keep charge of the sanctuary and of the altar, that there may be no more wrath upon the sons of Yisrael. And, behold, I have taken your brethren, the Levites, from among the sons of Yisrael; as a gift are they given to you before the Lord, to perform the service of the tabernacle of ordinance. But thou, and thy sons with thee, take charge of your priesthood, for every thing about the altar and within the veil you shall fulfil the service; the ministry of the priesthood I have given you as a gift, and the stranger who cometh near shall die.
And the Lord said to Aharon: Behold, I have given to thee the charge of My separated things; of all that are consecrated by the sons of Yisrael unto thee have I given them, and to thy sons, on account of the anointing, by an everlasting statute. This shall be thine of the most holy things which remain from the fire, of all their oblations, and of all their minchas, and of all their sin offerings, and of all their trespass offerings which they render before Me; they are most sacred to thee and to thy sons. In the sanctuary thou mayest eat thereof, every male may eat it, to thee it shall be consecrated.
And this is thine: the separated things of their minchas, of all the elevations of the sons of Yisrael, to thee have I given them, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute:[4] everyone who is clean in thy house may eat thereof all the best of the oil,[5] and all the best of the wine,[6] and the wheat, the first fruits of them which they present before the Lord, unto thee I have given them. The first fruits of all that is on their land which they present before the Lord shall be thine; everyone in thy house who is clean may eat thereof. Every thing devoted in Yisrael shall be thine. Whatever openeth the womb of all flesh which they offer before the Lord, of man, or of beast, shall be for thee; but thou shalt surely redeem the firstborn of man, and the firstling of an unclean animal thou shalt redeem; and his redemption shall be at the age of one month; thou shalt redeem with the price of five shekes, in the shekel of the sanctuary it is ten meahs: but the firstling of an ox, or of a sheep, or of a goat, thou mayest not redeem, they are consecrated; thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and burn their fat, an oblation to be accepted before the Lord. But their flesh shall be for thee, as the breast of the elevation, and the right shoulder, they shall be thine.
All the consecrated separations which the sons of Yisrael set apart before the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy children with thee by an everlasting covenant; an everlasting covenant of salt it is before the Lord, with thee, and thy children with thee.
And the Lord said to Aharon: In their land thou wilt not have possession, nor will thine be a portion among them; the gifts that I have given thee, they are thy portion and thy inheritance among the children of Yisrael. And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tenths in Yisrael for a possession, on account of the service[7] with which they serve in the ministry of the tabernacle of ordinance.
But the children of Yisrael must no more come nigh to the tabernacle of ordinance, to contract guilt and to die. But the Levites shall perform the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, and shall bear their iniquity; a statute for ever unto your generations. And among the sons of Yisrael they shall not possess an inheritance;
for the tenths of the children of Yisrael which they set apart before the Lord for a separation, I have given to the Levites for a possession; therefore have I said to them, Among the sons of Yisrael you shall not possess an inheritance.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak also to the Levites, and say to them, When you take from the sons of Yisrael the tenths which I have given you of theirs, you shall set apart from them a separation before the Lord, a tenth of the tenth. And your separation shall be reckoned to you as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the wine of the wine-press; so shall you set apart the separation before the Lord of all your tenths that you receive from the sons of Yisrael, and give thereof a separation before the Lord unto Aharon the priest. Of all that is given to you ye shall set apart every separation for the Lord, of all the best of it, to be the hallowed portion thereof. And say thou to them, When you have set apart the finest of it, it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the produce of the threshing-floor, and as the fruitage for the wine-press; and you may eat it in every place, you and the men of your house; for it is a remuneration to you on account of your service in the tabernacle of ordinance. And you shall not contract guilt by it in your setting apart the finest of it, nor profane the consecrated things of the children of Yisrael.
[1] Heb., “called to the council, men of name.” Syr., “who were at the time called men of name.”
[2] Sagi lekun. Heb. text, Rab lakem, “Too much for you.” Syriac, “Is it not sufficient for you that all the congregation are consecrated?”
[3] Or, “are too great;” Sagi lekun.
[4] Sam. Vers., “for a perpetual portion.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “of the new oil.”
[6] Sam. Vers., “the dry juice, or the old.”
[7] Sam. Vers., “for the wages of the ministry.”
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She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations!
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<dt>
She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V2" id="C251V2">1:2</a> She weeps sore in the night, and her
tears are on her cheeks;
</dt>
<dt>
among all her lovers she has none to comfort her:
</dt>
<dt>
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her
enemies.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V3" id="C251V3">1:3</a> Yehudah is gone into captivity because of
affliction, and because of great servitude;
</dt>
<dt>
she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest:
</dt>
<dt>
all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V4" id="C251V4">1:4</a> The ways of Zion do mourn, because none
come to the solemn assembly;
</dt>
<dt>
all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh:
</dt>
<dt>
her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V5" id="C251V5">1:5</a> Her adversaries are become the head,
her enemies prosper;
</dt>
<dt>
for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:
</dt>
<dt>
her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V6" id="C251V6">1:6</a> From the daughter of Zion all her
majesty is departed:
</dt>
<dt>
her princes are become like harts that find no pasture,
</dt>
<dt>
they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V7" id="C251V7">1:7</a> Yerushalayim remembers in the days of her
affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from
the days of old:
</dt>
<dt>
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help
her,
</dt>
<dt>
The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V8" id="C251V8">1:8</a> Yerushalayim has grievously sinned;
therefore she is become as an unclean thing;
</dt>
<dt>
all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
</dt>
<dt>
yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V9" id="C251V9">1:9</a> Her filthiness was in her skirts; she
didn't remember her latter end;
</dt>
<dt>
therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter:
</dt>
<dt>
see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V10" id="C251V10">1:10</a> The adversary has spread out his
hand on all her pleasant things:
</dt>
<dt>
for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary,
</dt>
<dt>
concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your
assembly.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V11" id="C251V11">1:11</a> All her people sigh, they seek
bread;
</dt>
<dt>
they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul:
</dt>
<dt>
look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V12" id="C251V12">1:12</a> Is it nothing to you, all you who
pass by?
</dt>
<dt>
Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on
me,
</dt>
<dt>
With which Yahweh has afflicted <i>me</i> in the day of his fierce
anger.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V13" id="C251V13">1:13</a> From on high has he sent fire into
my bones, and it prevails against them;
</dt>
<dt>
He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back:
</dt>
<dt>
He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V14" id="C251V14">1:14</a> The yoke of my transgressions is
bound by his hand;
</dt>
<dt>
They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my
strength to fail:
</dt>
<dt>
The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able
to stand.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V15" id="C251V15">1:15</a> The Lord has set at nothing all my
mighty men in the midst of me;
</dt>
<dt>
He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men:
</dt>
<dt>
The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Yehudah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V16" id="C251V16">1:16</a> For these things I weep; my eye, my
eye runs down with water;
</dt>
<dt>
Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me:
</dt>
<dt>
My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V17" id="C251V17">1:17</a> Zion spreads forth her hands; there
is none to comfort her;
</dt>
<dt>
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him
should be his adversaries:
</dt>
<dt>
Yerushalayim is among them as an unclean thing.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V18" id="C251V18">1:18</a> Yahweh is righteous; for I have
rebelled against his commandment:
</dt>
<dt>
Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow:
</dt>
<dt>
My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V19" id="C251V19">1:19</a> I called for my lovers, <i>but</i>
they deceived me:
</dt>
<dt>
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
</dt>
<dt>
While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V20" id="C251V20">1:20</a> See, Yahweh; for I am in distress;
my heart is troubled;
</dt>
<dt>
My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:
</dt>
<dt>
Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V21" id="C251V21">1:21</a> They have heard that I sigh; there
is none to comfort me;
</dt>
<dt>
All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have
done it:
</dt>
<dt>
You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like
me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C251V22" id="C251V22">1:22</a> Let all their wickedness come before
you;
</dt>
<dt>
Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions:
</dt>
<dt>
For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C252V1" id="C252V1">2:1</a> How has the Lord covered the daughter
of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
</dt>
<dt>
He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dt>
And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V2" id="C252V2">2:2</a> The Lord has swallowed up all the
habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied:
</dt>
<dt>
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of
Yehudah;
</dt>
<dt>
He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and
its princes.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V3" id="C252V3">2:3</a> He has cut off in fierce anger all the
horn of Yisrael;
</dt>
<dt>
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:
</dt>
<dt>
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V4" id="C252V4">2:4</a> He has bent his bow like an enemy, he
has stood with his right hand as an adversary,
</dt>
<dt>
Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye:
</dt>
<dt>
In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like
fire.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V5" id="C252V5">2:5</a> The Lord is become as an enemy, he has
swallowed up Yisrael;
</dt>
<dt>
He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds;
</dt>
<dt>
He has multiplied in the daughter of Yehudah mourning and lamentation.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V6" id="C252V6">2:6</a> He has violently taken away his tent,
as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly:
</dt>
<dt>
Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Shabbat to be forgotten in Zion,
</dt>
<dt>
Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V7" id="C252V7">2:7</a> The Lord has cast off his altar, he has
abhorred his sanctuary;
</dt>
<dt>
He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces:
</dt>
<dt>
They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn
assembly.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V8" id="C252V8">2:8</a> Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall
of the daughter of Zion;
</dt>
<dt>
He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from
destroying;
</dt>
<dt>
He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V9" id="C252V9">2:9</a> Her gates are sunk into the ground; he
has destroyed and broken her bars:
</dt>
<dt>
Her king and her princes are among the nations where the Torah is not;
</dt>
<dt>
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V10" id="C252V10">2:10</a> The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit on the ground, they keep silence;
</dt>
<dt>
They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with
sackcloth:
</dt>
<dt>
The virgins of Yerushalayim hang down their heads to the ground.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V11" id="C252V11">2:11</a> My eyes do fail with tears, my heart
is troubled;
</dt>
<dt>
My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the
daughter of my people,
</dt>
<dt>
Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the
city.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V12" id="C252V12">2:12</a> They tell their mothers, Where is
grain and wine?
</dt>
<dt>
When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
</dt>
<dt>
When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V13" id="C252V13">2:13</a> What shall I testify to you? what
shall I liken to you, daughter of Yerushalayim?
</dt>
<dt>
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of
Zion?
</dt>
<dt>
For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V14" id="C252V14">2:14</a> Your prophets have seen for you
false and foolish visions;
</dt>
<dt>
They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity,
</dt>
<dt>
But have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V15" id="C252V15">2:15</a> All that pass by clap their hands at
you;
</dt>
<dt>
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Yerushalayim, <i>saying</i>,
</dt>
<dt>
Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of
the whole earth?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V16" id="C252V16">2:16</a> All your enemies have opened their
mouth wide against you;
</dt>
<dt>
They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up;
</dt>
<dt>
Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have
seen it.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V17" id="C252V17">2:17</a> Yahweh has done that which he
purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of
old;
</dt>
<dt>
He has thrown down, and has not pitied:
</dt>
<dt>
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of
your adversaries.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V18" id="C252V18">2:18</a> Their heart cried to the Lord:
</dt>
<dt>
wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and
night;
</dt>
<dt>
Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V19" id="C252V19">2:19</a> Arise, cry out in the night, at the
beginning of the watches;
</dt>
<dt>
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord:
</dt>
<dt>
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that
faint for hunger at the head of every street.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V20" id="C252V20">2:20</a> Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you
have done thus!
</dt>
<dt>
Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the
hands?
</dt>
<dt>
Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V21" id="C252V21">2:21</a> The youth and the old man lie on the
ground in the streets;
</dt>
<dt>
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:
</dt>
<dt>
You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, <i>and</i>
not pitied.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C252V22" id="C252V22">2:22</a> You have called, as in the day of a
solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;
</dt>
<dt>
There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger:
</dt>
<dt>
Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C253V1" id="C253V1">3:1</a> I am the man that has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V2" id="C253V2">3:2</a> He has led me and caused me to walk in
darkness, and not in light.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V3" id="C253V3">3:3</a> Surely against me he turns his hand
again and again all the day.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V4" id="C253V4">3:4</a> My flesh and my skin has he made old;
he has broken my bones.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V5" id="C253V5">3:5</a> He has built against me, and surrounded
me with gall and travail.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V6" id="C253V6">3:6</a> He has made me to dwell in dark places,
as those that have been long dead.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V7" id="C253V7">3:7</a> He has walled me about, that I can't go
forth; he has made my chain heavy.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V8" id="C253V8">3:8</a> Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he
shuts out my prayer.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V9" id="C253V9">3:9</a> He has walled up my ways with cut
stone; he has made my paths crooked.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V10" id="C253V10">3:10</a> He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in secret places.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V11" id="C253V11">3:11</a> He has turned aside my ways, and
pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V12" id="C253V12">3:12</a> He has bent his bow, and set me as a
mark for the arrow.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V13" id="C253V13">3:13</a> He has caused the shafts of his
quiver to enter into my kidneys.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V14" id="C253V14">3:14</a> I am become a derision to all my
people, and their song all the day.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V15" id="C253V15">3:15</a> He has filled me with bitterness, he
has sated me with wormwood.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V16" id="C253V16">3:16</a> He has also broken my teeth with
gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V17" id="C253V17">3:17</a> You have removed my soul far off
from peace; I forgot prosperity.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V18" id="C253V18">3:18</a> I said, My strength is perished, and
my expectation from Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V19" id="C253V19">3:19</a> Remember my affliction and my
misery, the wormwood and the gall.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V20" id="C253V20">3:20</a> My soul still remembers them, and is
bowed down within me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V21" id="C253V21">3:21</a> This I recall to my mind; therefore
have I hope.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V22" id="C253V22">3:22</a> <i>It is of</i> Yahweh's loving
kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't
fail.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V23" id="C253V23">3:23</a> They are new every morning; great is
your faithfulness.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V24" id="C253V24">3:24</a> Yahweh is my portion, says my soul;
therefore will I hope in him.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V25" id="C253V25">3:25</a> Yahweh is good to those who wait for
him, to the soul that seeks him.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V26" id="C253V26">3:26</a> It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V27" id="C253V27">3:27</a> It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V28" id="C253V28">3:28</a> Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V29" id="C253V29">3:29</a> Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if so be there may be hope.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V30" id="C253V30">3:30</a> Let him give his cheek to him who
strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V31" id="C253V31">3:31</a> For the Lord will not cast off
forever.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V32" id="C253V32">3:32</a> For though he cause grief, yet he
will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving
kindnesses.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V33" id="C253V33">3:33</a> For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V34" id="C253V34">3:34</a> To crush under foot all the
prisoners of the earth,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V35" id="C253V35">3:35</a> To turn aside the right of a man
before the face of the Most High,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V36" id="C253V36">3:36</a> To subvert a man in his cause, the
Lord doesn't approve.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V37" id="C253V37">3:37</a> Who is he who says, and it comes to
pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V38" id="C253V38">3:38</a> Doesn't evil and good come out of
the mouth of the Most High?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V39" id="C253V39">3:39</a> Why does a living man complain, a
man for the punishment of his sins?
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V40" id="C253V40">3:40</a> Let us search and try our ways, and
turn again to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V41" id="C253V41">3:41</a> Let us lift up our heart with our
hands to Elohim in the heavens.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V42" id="C253V42">3:42</a> We have transgressed and have
rebelled; you have not pardoned.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V43" id="C253V43">3:43</a> You have covered with anger and
pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V44" id="C253V44">3:44</a> You have covered yourself with a
cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V45" id="C253V45">3:45</a> You have made us an off-scouring and
refuse in the midst of the peoples.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V46" id="C253V46">3:46</a> All our enemies have opened their
mouth wide against us.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V47" id="C253V47">3:47</a> Fear and the pit are come on us,
devastation and destruction.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V48" id="C253V48">3:48</a> My eye runs down with streams of
water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V49" id="C253V49">3:49</a> My eye pours down, and doesn't
cease, without any intermission,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V50" id="C253V50">3:50</a> Until Yahweh look down, and see from
heaven.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V51" id="C253V51">3:51</a> My eye affects my soul, because of
all the daughters of my city.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V52" id="C253V52">3:52</a> They have chased me sore like a
bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V53" id="C253V53">3:53</a> They have cut off my life in the
dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V54" id="C253V54">3:54</a> Waters flowed over my head; I said,
I am cut off.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V55" id="C253V55">3:55</a> I called on your name, Yahweh, out
of the lowest dungeon.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V56" id="C253V56">3:56</a> You heard my voice; don't hide your
ear at my breathing, at my cry.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V57" id="C253V57">3:57</a> You drew near in the day that I
called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V58" id="C253V58">3:58</a> Lord, you have pleaded the causes of
my soul; you have redeemed my life.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V59" id="C253V59">3:59</a> Yahweh, you have seen my wrong;
judge you my cause.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V60" id="C253V60">3:60</a> You have seen all their vengeance
and all their devices against me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V61" id="C253V61">3:61</a> You have heard their reproach,
Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V62" id="C253V62">3:62</a> The lips of those that rose up
against me, and their device against me all the day.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V63" id="C253V63">3:63</a> See you their sitting down, and
their rising up; I am their song.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V64" id="C253V64">3:64</a> You will render to them a
recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V65" id="C253V65">3:65</a> You will give them hardness of
heart, your curse to them.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C253V66" id="C253V66">3:66</a> You will pursue them in anger, and
destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C254V1" id="C254V1">4:1</a> How is the gold become dim! <i>how</i>
is the most pure gold changed!
</dt>
<dt>
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V2" id="C254V2">4:2</a> The precious sons of Zion, comparable
to fine gold,
</dt>
<dt>
How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the
potter!
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V3" id="C254V3">4:3</a> Even the jackals draw out the breast,
they give suck to their young ones:
</dt>
<dt>
The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the
wilderness.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V4" id="C254V4">4:4</a> The tongue of the sucking child cleaves
to the roof of his mouth for thirst:
</dt>
<dt>
The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V5" id="C254V5">4:5</a> Those who did feed delicately are
desolate in the streets:
</dt>
<dt>
Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V6" id="C254V6">4:6</a> For the iniquity of the daughter of my
people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
</dt>
<dt>
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V7" id="C254V7">4:7</a> Her nobles were purer than snow, they
were whiter than milk;
</dt>
<dt>
They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of
sapphire.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V8" id="C254V8">4:8</a> Their visage is blacker than a coal;
they are not known in the streets:
</dt>
<dt>
Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a
stick.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V9" id="C254V9">4:9</a> Those who are killed with the sword are
better than those who are killed with hunger;
</dt>
<dt>
For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the
field.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V10" id="C254V10">4:10</a> The hands of the pitiful women have
boiled their own children;
</dt>
<dt>
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V11" id="C254V11">4:11</a> Yahweh has accomplished his wrath,
he has poured out his fierce anger;
</dt>
<dt>
He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V12" id="C254V12">4:12</a> The kings of the earth didn't
believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world,
</dt>
<dt>
That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of
Yerushalayim.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V13" id="C254V13">4:13</a> <i>It is</i> because of the sins of
her prophets, <i>and</i> the iniquities of her priests,
</dt>
<dt>
That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V14" id="C254V14">4:14</a> They wander as blind men in the
streets, they are polluted with blood,
</dt>
<dt>
So that men can't touch their garments.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V15" id="C254V15">4:15</a> Depart you, they cried to them,
Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch!
</dt>
<dt>
When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall
no more sojourn <i>here</i>.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V16" id="C254V16">4:16</a> The anger of Yahweh has scattered
them; he will no more regard them:
</dt>
<dt>
They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the
elders.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V17" id="C254V17">4:17</a> Our eyes do yet fail <i>in looking</i>
for our vain help:
</dt>
<dt>
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V18" id="C254V18">4:18</a> They hunt our steps, so that we
can't go in our streets:
</dt>
<dt>
Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V19" id="C254V19">4:19</a> Our pursuers were swifter than the
eagles of the sky:
</dt>
<dt>
They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the
wilderness.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V20" id="C254V20">4:20</a> The breath of our nostrils, the
anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits;
</dt>
<dt>
Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V21" id="C254V21">4:21</a> Rejoice and be glad, daughter of
Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz:
</dt>
<dt>
The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall
make yourself naked.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C254V22" id="C254V22">4:22</a> The punishment of your iniquity is
accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into
captivity:
</dt>
<dt>
He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your
sins.
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C255V1" id="C255V1">5:1</a> Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us:
</dt>
<dt>
Look, and see our reproach.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V2" id="C255V2">5:2</a> Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
</dt>
<dt>
Our houses to aliens.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V3" id="C255V3">5:3</a> We are orphans and fatherless;
</dt>
<dt>
Our mothers are as widows.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V4" id="C255V4">5:4</a> We have drunken our water for money;
</dt>
<dt>
Our wood is sold to us.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V5" id="C255V5">5:5</a> Our pursuers are on our necks:
</dt>
<dt>
We are weary, and have no rest.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V6" id="C255V6">5:6</a> We have given the hand to the
Egyptians,
</dt>
<dt>
To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V7" id="C255V7">5:7</a> Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
</dt>
<dt>
We have borne their iniquities.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V8" id="C255V8">5:8</a> Servants rule over us:
</dt>
<dt>
There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V9" id="C255V9">5:9</a> We get our bread at the peril of our
lives,
</dt>
<dt>
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V10" id="C255V10">5:10</a> Our skin is black like an oven,
</dt>
<dt>
Because of the burning heat of famine.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V11" id="C255V11">5:11</a> They ravished the women in Zion,
</dt>
<dt>
The virgins in the cities of Yehudah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V12" id="C255V12">5:12</a> Princes were hanged up by their
hand:
</dt>
<dt>
The faces of elders were not honored.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V13" id="C255V13">5:13</a> The young men bare the mill;
</dt>
<dt>
The children stumbled under the wood.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V14" id="C255V14">5:14</a> The elders have ceased from the
gate,
</dt>
<dt>
The young men from their music.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V15" id="C255V15">5:15</a> The joy of our heart is ceased;
</dt>
<dt>
Our dance is turned into mourning.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V16" id="C255V16">5:16</a> The crown is fallen from our head:
</dt>
<dt>
Woe to us! for we have sinned.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V17" id="C255V17">5:17</a> For this our heart is faint;
</dt>
<dt>
For these things our eyes are dim;
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V18" id="C255V18">5:18</a> For the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate:
</dt>
<dt>
The foxes walk on it.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V19" id="C255V19">5:19</a> You, Yahweh, abide forever;
</dt>
<dt>
Your throne is from generation to generation.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V20" id="C255V20">5:20</a> Why do you forget us forever,
</dt>
<dt>
<i>And</i> forsake us so long time?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V21" id="C255V21">5:21</a> Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we
shall be turned;
</dt>
<dt>
Renew our days as of old.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C255V22" id="C255V22">5:22</a> But you have utterly rejected us;
</dt>
<dt>
You are very angry against us.
</dt>
</dl>
SECTION III.
LECH LECHA.
XII. AND the Lord said to Avram, Go thou from thy land; separate thyself from thy kindred; go forth from the house of thy father; go into the land which I will show thee. And I will make thee a great people, and will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
[JERUSALEM. And I will constitute thee a great people, and I will bless thee; and Avram shall be strengthened with many blessings.]
And I will bless the priests who will spread forth their hands in prayer, and bless thy sons; and Bileam, who will curse them, I will curse, and they shall slay him with the mouth of the sword; and in thee shall be blessed all the generations of the earth. [JERUSALEM. And I will bless him who blesseth thee, and he who curseth thee shall be accursed; and in thy righteousness shall all the generations of the earth be blessed.] And Avram went, according as the Lord had spoken with him, and Lot went with him. And Avram was the son of seventy and five years at his going forth from Haran. And Avram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had acquired, and the souls whom they had proselyted in Haran, and went forth to go to the land of Kenaan. And they came to the land of Kenaan. [JERUSALEM. And the souls of the proselytes.] And Avram passed through the land unto the place of Shekem, unto the plain which had been showed. [JERUSALEM. The plain (or valley) of vision.] And the Kenaanites were then in the land; for the time had not yet come that the sons of Yisrael should possess it. And the Lord was revealed unto Avram, and said, To thy sons will I give this land. And he builded there an altar before the Lord, who was revealed to him. And he went up from thence to a mountain which was eastward of Bethel, and outspread his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar before the Lord, and prayed in the Name of the Lord. And Avram migrated, going and migrating unto the south.
And there was a famine in the land, and Avram went down into Mizraim to be a dweller there, because the famine was strong in the land. And it was, as he approached to enter the limit of Mizraim, and they had come to the river, and were uncovering their flesh to pass over, that Avram, said to Sara his wife, Behold, until this I have not beheld thy flesh; but now I know that thou art a woman of fair aspect. It will be, therefore, when the Mizraee see thee, and view thy beauty, that they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee will keep alive. Say, I pray, that thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my life may be spared on thy account. And it was when Avram had entered Mizraim, the Mizraee saw the woman to be very fair; and the princes of Pharoh beheld her, and praised her to Pharoh; and the woman was conducted to the royal house of Pharoh. [JERUSALEM. And the woman was conducted to the palace of Pharoh.] And Pharoh did good to Avram for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and asses, and servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels. And the Word of the Lord sent great plagues against Pharoh and the men of his house, on account of Sara, Avram's wife. And Pharoh called Avram, and said, What is this that thou hast done to me? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? When I would take her to me to wife, plagues were at once sent against me, and I went not unto her. And now behold thy wife, take (her) and go. And Pharoh commanded men concerning him, and they led him forth, and his wife, and all that he had.
XIII. And Avram went up from Mizraim, he and his wife (and) all that he had; and Lot with him, to go to the south. And Avram had become very strong in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he proceeded in his journeyings from the south unto Bethel, and returned to the place where he had outspread his tabernacle at the first, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar which he had made there at the beginning; and Avram prayed there in the Name of the Lord. And also unto Lot, who was remembered through the righteousness of Avram, there were sheep and oxen and tents. And the land could not sustain them to dwell together, because their possessions were great, and they were not able to dwell together. And contentions arose between the shepherds of Avram's flock, and the shepherds of the flocks of Lot; for the shepherds of Avram had been instructed by him not to go among the Kenaanaee and the Pherizaee, who, as yet, had power in the land, and to restrain the cattle that they should make no depredation in going to the place of their pasture: but the shepherds of Lot would go and feed in the grounds of the Kenaanaee and Pherizaee who yet dwelt in the land. [JERUSALEM. 6. Their treasures. 7. And there was strife between the shepherds of Avram's cattle and the shepherds of the cattle of Lot. The shepherds of Avram restrained their beasts until the time of their coming to the place of their pasture; but the shepherds of Lot did not restrain their beasts, but turned them free, and went. But Avram's shepherds had been instructed by Avram their righteous master, Go not to the Kenaanaee and Pherizaee; for as yet they have possession in the land.]
And Avram said to Lot, Between me and thee let there not now be controversy, nor between my shepherds and thy shepherds; for we are brother-men. Is not all the land before thee? Separate then from me. If thou to the north, I to the south: if thou to the south, I to the north. And Lot uplifted his eyes towards (the place of) fornication; and beheld all the plain of Jardena that it was altogether well watered, before the Lord in his wrath had destroyed Sedom and Amorah; a land admirable for trees, as the garden of the Lord, and for fruitage, as the land of Mizraim as thou goest up to Zoar. And Lot chose to him all the plain of Jardena; and Lot journeyed from the east, and they separated the one man from his brother. Avram dwelt in the land of Kenaan, and Lot dwelt in the towns of the plain, and spread his tabernacle towards Sedom. And the men of Sedom were depraved in their wealth one with another, and they sinned in their bodies; they sinned with open nakedness, and the shedding of innocent blood, and practised strange worship, and rebelled greatly against the name of the Lord.
And the Lord said to Avram, after that Lot had separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look, from the place where thou art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west: for all the land that thou seest will I give unto thee, and to thy sons, for ever. And I will make thy sons manifold as the dust of the earth, as that, as it is impossible for a man to number the dust of the earth, so also it shall be impossible to number thy sons. Arise journey in the land, and make occupation of it in length and breadth; for to thee will I give it. And Avram stretched his tent (and made folds) for oxen and sheep, and came and dwelt in the vale of Mamre which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar before the Lord.
XIV. And it was in the days of Amraphel,--he is Nimrod, who commanded Avram to be cast into the furnace; he was then king of Pontos; Ariok, (so called) because he was (arik) tall among the giants, king of Thalasar, Kedarlaomer, (so called) because he had bound himself (or gone over) among the bondmen of the king of Elam, and Thidal, crafty as a fox, king of the peoples subjected to him, --made war with Bera, whose deeds were evil, king of Sedom, and with Birsha, whose deeds were with the wicked, king of Amora: Shinab, who had hated his father, king of Admah, and Shemebar, who had corrupted himself with fornication, king of Zeboim; and the king of the city which consumed (Bela) the dwellers thereof, which is Zoar. All these were joined in the vale of the gardens (paredesaia), the place that produced the streamlets of waters that empty themselves into the sea of salt. Twelve years they had served Kedarlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they had rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Kedarlaomer and the kings who were with him, and smote the Giants (gibboraia) which were in Ashtaroth-Karniam, and the Strong who were in Hametha, and the Terrible who were in the plain of Kiriathaim, and the Choraee (dwellers in caverns) who were in the high mountains of Begala, unto the valley of Pharan, which was nigh upon the edge of the desert. [JERUSALEM. 3. All these were joined in the valley of the gardens. 5. And they slew the giants who were in Ashtaroth-Karnaim, the famed who were among them, and the formidable who inhabited the city which they had built, and the cavern people who dwelt in the mountain of Gebala, unto the valley of vision which is nigh upon the desert.]
And they returned, and came to the place where was rendered the judgment of Mosheh the prophet, to the fountain of the waters of Strife, which is Requam. And they smote all the fields of the Amalkaee, and also the Emoraee, who dwelt in En-gedi. And the king of Sedom, and the king of Amorah, and the kind of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of the city which consumed its inhabitants, which is Zoar, went forth, and set the array of battle against them in the valley of the gardens; with Kedarlaomer king of Elam, and Thidal king of the nations obedient to him, and Amraphel king of Pontos, and Ariok king of Thelasar; four kings arrayed in battle against five. [JERUSALEM. And Amraphel king of Pontos, and Ariok king of Elasar: four kings against five spread out the array of war.] And the valley of the gardens had many pits filled with bitumen: [JERUSALEM. The valley of the gardens was full of pits of bitumen:] and the kings of Sedom and Amora fled away, and fell there; and they who were left fled to the mountains. And they took all the property of Sedom and Amora, and all their food, and went. And they made captive Lot the son of Avram's brother, and his property, and went. And he had dwelt in Sedom.
And Og came, who had been spared from the giants that died in the deluge, and had ridden protected upon the top of the ark, and sustained with food by Noah; not being spared through high righteousness, but that the inhabitants of the world might see the power of the Lord, and say, Were there not giants who in the first times rebelled against the Lord of the world, and perished from the earth? But when these kings made war, behold, Og, who was with them, said in his heart, I will go and show Avram concerning Lot, who is led captive, that he may come and deliver him from the hands of the kings into whose hands he has been delivered. And he arose and came, upon the eve of the day of the Pascha, and found him making the unleavened cakes. Then showed he to Avram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the valleys of Mamre Amoraah, brother of Eshkol and brother of Aner, who were men of covenant with Avram. And when Avram heard that his brother was made captive, he armed his young men who were trained for war, grown up in his house; but they willed not to go with him. And he chose from them Eliezer the son of Nimrod, who was equal in strength to all the three hundred and eighteen; and he pursued unto Dan. [JERUSALEM. Domestics (marbitsi, down-liers) of his house, eighteen and three hundred, and pursued after them unto Dan of Kisarion.] And he divided them at night in the way; a part were to engage with the kings, and a part were hidden to smite the firstborn of Egypt. And he arose, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them which remained of them unto (the place) of the memorial of sin which was to be in Dan, from the north of Darmesek. [JERUSALEM. And he pursued them unto Havetha, which is from the north of Darmesek.] And he brought back all the substance, and also Lot his brother and his substance he brought back, and also the women and the people. And the king of Sedom came forth, after that he returned from destroying Kedarlaomer and the kings who were with him, to meet him at the plain of Mephana, which was the king's race-course. [JERUSALEM. And the kings who were with him, at the plain of vision which was the house of the king's plain.]
And Malka Zadika, who was Shem bar Noah, the king of Yerushalem, came forth to meet Avram, and brought forth to him bread and wine; and in that time he ministered before Eloha Ilaha. [JERUSALEM. And Malki Zedek, king of Yerushalem, who was Shem, who was the great priest of the Most High.] And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Avram of the Lord Elohim Most High, who for the righteous possesseth the heavens and the earth. And blessed be Eloha Ilaha, who hath made thine enemies as a shield which receiveth a blow. And he gave to him one of ten, of all which he brought back.
And the king of Sedom said to Aram, Give me the souls of the men of my people whom thou hast brought back, and the substance take to thyself. [JERUSALEM. And the treasure take to thee.] And Avram siad to the king of Sedom, I have uplifted my hands in an oath before the Lord Elohim the Most High, who for the just possesseth his possession of the heavens and the earth, if from a thread to the latchet of a sandal I receive any thing of all that is thine; lest thou magnify thyself in saying, I have enriched Avram from mine own. Have I not power over all the spoil?&emdash;Apart from what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre, they also receiving their portion. [JERUSALEM. If from a thread to the latchet of a sandal I receive of all that is thing: that thou magnify not thyself and say, I have enriched Avram.]
XV. After these words, when the kings had gathered together, and had fallen before Avram; and four kings had been slain, and nine hosts brought back, Avram reasoned in his heart, and said, Woe to me, because I have received the reward of my appointments in this world, and have no portion in the world to come. Or peradventure the brethren and friends of those who have been slain will combine in legions and come against me; or that at that time there was found with me the reward of a little righteousness, so that they fell before me; but the second time reward may not be found with me, and by me the name of the Heavens may be profaned. Thereupon was the word (pithgama) of the Lord with Avram in a vision, saying, Fear not; for if these men should gather together in legions and come against thee, My Word (Memra) will be thy shield: and also if these fall before thee in this world, the reward of thy good works shall be kept, and be prepared before Me in the world to come, great exceedingly.
And Avram said, Lord Elohim, great blessings hast Thou given me, and great (are they which it is) before Thee to give me: nevertheless, what profit is to me, when I pass from the world without children, and Eliezer the manager (bar pharnasath, the son of sustenance) of my house, by whose hands signs were wrought for (or to) me in Darmasek, expects to be my heir? And Avram said, Behold, to me Thou hast not given a son; and, behold, the manager of my house will be my heir. And, behold, a word from before the Lord was to him, saying, He shall not be thine heir; but a son whom thou wilt beget shall be thy heir. And He brought him forth without, and said, Look up now to the heavens, and number the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said, So will be thy sons. And he believed in the Lord, and had faith in the (Memra) Word of the Lord, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness (lizeku), because he parleyed not before him with words. And He said to him, I am the Lord who brought thee out of the fiery furnace of the Kasdai, to give thee this land to inherit. And he said, Lord Elohim, by what may I know that I shall be the heir of it? And He said, Bring Me oblations, and offer before Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, a ram of three years, and a dove, and the young of a pigeon. And he brought all these before Him, and divided them in the midst, and set in order every division over against its fellow; but the fowl he divided not. And there came down idolatrous peoples which are like to unclean birds, to steal away the sacrifices of Yisrael; but the righteousness of Avram was a shield over them. And when the sun was nearing to set, a deep sleep was thrown upon Avram: and, behold, four kingdoms arose to enslave his children: Terror, which is Bavel; Darkness, which is Madai; Greatness, which is Javan; Decline, which is Pheras, which is to fall, and to have no uplifting, and from whence it is to be that the children of Yisrael will come up. And he said to Avram, Knowing, thou must know, that thy sons shall dwell in a land not their own, because thou hast not believed, and they will subjugate and afflict them four hundred years; and also that the people whom they shall serve I will judge with two hundred and fifty plagues, and afterwards they shall go forth into liberty with great riches. And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers, thy soul shall rest in peace, and thou shalt be buried in a good old age. And in the fourth generation of thy sons they will return hither to inherit; because the guilt of the Amoraah is not yet complete. And when the sun had set there was darkness. And, behold, Avram saw Gehinnam ascending, smoke with flaming coals and burning flakes of fire, werewith the wicked are to be judged. And, behold, He passed between those divisions.
[JERUSALEM. 1. After these words, when all the kings of the lands, and the sultans of the provinces, had gathered together, and had made war against Avram the Just, and had fallen before him, and he had slain of them four kings, and had brought back nine hosts, did Avram the Just reason in his heart, and say, Woe, now, to me, because I have received the reward ordained in the present world, and have no portion in the world to come. Or peradventure the brethren and kindred of the slain who have fallen before me, who are in their cities and provinces, will combine in great legions, and come against me; or peradventure there were in my hand a few commandments in the former times, so that they fell before me when they had risen up against me; or it may be that righteousness was found in me at the former times, that they fell before me, but at the second time it may not be found, and the Heavenly Name will be profaned in me. Then was the word of prophecy from the Lord unto Avram the Righteous, saying, Fear not, Avram, though they should gather together and come against thee with many legions, My Word shall be thy reward and thy shield in this world, and a protector over thee all the days of the world to come. And though I deliver up thy adversaries before thee in this world, the reward of thy good works is prepared for thee also before Me in the world to come.
2. And Avram said, Before Thee I supplicate mercy, O Lord Elohim. Manifold blessings Thou hast given me, and many hast Thou before Thee still to give: nevertheless, what profit have I who go from the world childless, and Eliezer, the son of my house, by whose hands signs were wrought for me in Damasek, expecteth in himself to be my heir? 7. And He said to him, I am the Lord who brought thee out of the fiery furance from Ur of the Kasdai. 9. And a turtle and young pigeon. 10-12. And He brought before him all these, and divided them into divisions, and set one part over against its fellow; but the fowl He divided not. And when the birds descended, they came not nigh the divisions: those birds are unclean fowl, and those unclean fowl are the kingdoms of the earth which are worshippers of idols, and which counsel evil counsels against the sons of Yisrael; but the integrity of the righteous Avram hindered them. And when the sun was going to set, a sleep profound and sweet fell upon Avram. And, behold, Avram saw four kingdoms which should arise to being his sons into subjection (and) Terror&emdash;the Greatness&emdash;of Darkness&emdash;Fell&emdash;upon him: Terror, that is Bavel; Darkness, that is Media; Greatness, that is Greece; Fell, that is Edom, (Rome,) that fourth kingdom which is to Fall, and never to rise again for ever and ever. 17. And, behold, the sun went to set, and there was darkness, and Avram beheld till the seats were arrayed and the thrones set forth. And lo, Gehinam, which was prepared for the wicked in the world to come, enveloped in burning flakes and flames of fire, into which the wicked had fallen when in their lives they rebelled against the Torah, while the just who had kept it had been delivered from affliction. And all were seen by Avram while He passed between those divisions.]
In that day the Lord ordained a covenant with Avram, that He would not judge therein his sons, but would deliver them from the kingdom, saying, To thy sons will I give this land, from Nilos of Mizraim unto the great river, the river Pherath, the Shalmia, and the Kenizah, and Kadmonaah, and the Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, and Gibaraee, and the Emoraee, and the Kinaanaee, and the Girgeshaee, and the Jebusaee. [JERUSALEM. And all the sons of the East.]
XVI. But Sara, the wife of Avram, had not borne to him. But he had a handmaid, a Mizreitha, and her name was Hagar, a daughter of Pharoh, whom he gave to him as a handmaid at the time that he received her, being struck by the word from before the Lord. And Sara said to Avram, Behold, now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing, go to my handmaid and set her free; perhaps I may be builded by her. And Avram hearkened to the word of Sara. And Sara the wife of Avram took Hagar the Mizreitha handmaid, when Avram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kenaan, and set her free, and gave her to Avram her husband to wife. And he went unto Hagar, and she conceived; and she saw that she had conceived, and the honour of her mistress was despised in her eyes.
And Sara said to Avram, All my affliction is from thee. Being secure that thou wouldst do me justice, I left the land and house of my father, and came up with thee to a foreign land; and forasmuch as I was not able to become a mother, I set free my handmaid, and gave her to lie in thy bosom; and she seeth that she had conceived, and mine honour is despised before her. But now is my affliction manifest before the Lord, who will spread peace between me and thee, and the land shall be replenished from us, nor shall we need the help of the progeny of Hagar the daughter of Pharoh bar Nimrod, who threw thee into the furnace of fire.
[JERUSALEM. And Sara said, My judgment and my affliction are delivered into thine hand. I left the house of my birth, and the house of my father, and came with thee in the faith of the Heavens. I have gone in with thee before kings; before Pharoh King of Mizraim, and before Avimelek king of the Philistaee; and I have said of thee, he is my brother, so that they might not kill thee. And when I saw that I was not made fruitful, I took Hagar the Mizreitha, my handmaid, and gave her to thee to wife, and said, She shall bring forth, and I will bring up whom she may bear, that I may be builded, be it only from her. But now seeing that she hath conceived, my honour is contemned and despised in her sight. Now may the Lord appear, and judge between me and thee, and fulfil mercies upon me and thee, and spread His peace between me and thee, and replenish the world from me and from thee, that we may not heed the son of Hagar the Mizreitha handmaid, who is of the children of the people who cast thee into the burning furnace of the Kasdin.]
And Avram said to Sara, Behold, thy handmaid is under thy authority: do to her what is right in thine eyes. And Sara afflicted her, and she escaped from before her. And the Angel of the Lord found her at the fountain of waters in the desert; at the fountain of waters which is in the way to Chagra. [JERUSALEM. Chalitza.] And He said, Hagar, handmaid of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither does thou go? And she said, From before Sara my mistress I have escaped. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and be subject under her hand. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, Multiplying I will multiply thy sons, and they shall not be numbered for multitude. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and thou wilt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because thy affliction is revealed before the Lord. And he shall be like the wild ass among men: his hands shall take vengeance of his adversaries, and the hands of his adversaries be put forth to do him evil; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he be commingled, (yitharbeb, Arabized,) and shall dwell. And she gave thanks before the Lord whose Word spake to her, and thus said, Thou art He who livest and art eternal; who seest, but art not seen! · for she said, For, behold, here is revealed the glory of the Shekina of the Lord after a vision. (JERUSALEM. And Hagar gave thanks, and prayed in the Name of the Word of the Lord, who had been manifested to her, saying, Blessed be Thou, Eloha, the Living One of all Ages, who hast looked upon my affliction. For she said, Behold, Thou art manifested also unto me, even as Thou wast manifested to Sara my mistress.] Wherefore she called the well, The Well at which the Living and Eternal One was revealed; and, behold, it is situate between Rekam and Chalutsa. And Hagar bare Avram a son, and Avram called the name of his son whom Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Avram was the son of eighty-six years when Hagar bare Ishmael to Avram.
XVII. And Avram was the son of ninety and nine years, and the Lord appeared to Avram, and said to him, I am El Shadai; serve before Me and be perfect (shelim) in thy flesh. And I will set My covenant between My Word and thee, and will multiply thee very greatly. And because Avram was not circumcised, he was not able to stand, but he bowed himself upon his face; and the Lord spake with him, saying, Behold, I have confirmed (or divided) my convenant with thee; and thou shalt be the father of many peoples. And thy name shall be no more called Avram, but Avraham shall be thy name, because to be the father of a great multitude of peoples have I appointed thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and will set thee for congregations; and kings ruling over peoples shall come forth from thee. And I have established My covenant between My Word and thee, and thy sons after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a Elohim to thee and to thy sons after thee. And I will give to thee and to thy sons after thee the land of thy habitation, all the land of Kenaan, for an everlasting possession: and I will be to them Eloha. And the Lord said to Avraham, And thou shalt observe my covenant, thou and thy sons after thee in their generations. This is My covenant, that you shall observe between My Word and you, and your sons after you:--Every male of you being circumcised, though he have not a father to circumcise him. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, as a sign of the covenant between My Word and you. And the son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male in your generations; from him who is brought up in your house, or bought with your silver, unto every son of the peoples who is not of you. He who is circumcised shall circumcise him who is brought up among you, or bought with your silver; and it shall be My covenant in your flesh for a covenant for ever. And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, unless he have some one to circumcise him, that man shall be cut off from his people; he hath made My covenent to pass away. And the Lord said to Avraham, The name of Sara thy wife shall be no more called Sara; for Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless in her body, and will also give from her a son to thee, and I will bless, him, and he shall be for assemblies, and kings ruling over nations shall be from her.
And Avraham fell on his face, and wondered, and said in his heart, Shall the son of a hundred years have progeny, and Sarah, the daughter of ninety years, bear a child? [JERUSALEM. And Avraham bowed upon his face, and wondered.] And Avraham said before the Lord, May not Ishmael be established, and serve before Thee? And the Lord said, In truth Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Izhak; and with him I will confirm My convenant for an everlasting covenant to his sons after him. And concerning Ishmael I have heard thy prayer. Behold, I have blessed him; and I will spread him abroad, and multiply him very greatly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will give him to be a great people. But My COVENANT will I establish with Izhak, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this time in the year after. And He ceased speaking with him; and the Glory of the Lord ascended from Avraham.
And Avraham took Ishmael his son, and all brought up in his house, and all bought with money, every male among the household people of Avraham, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day in which the Lord spake with him. And Avraham was the son of ninety and nine years when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. In the same day, in the fourteenth year, was Avraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. And every man of his house, the house-trained, and the purchased with money of the sons of the people, was circumcised with him.
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Ch. 12-17
SECTION III.
LECH LECHA.
XII. AND the Lord said to ABRAM, Go thou away from thy country, and from the house of thy father, to the land which I will show thee. And I will make thee to (be) a great people, and will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. And I will bless him who blesseth thee, and him who curseth thee I will curse; and through thee all the progenies of the earth shall be blessed. And Avram went away, according as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Avram was a son of seventy and five years in his forthgoing from Charan. And Avram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the possessions which they possessed, and the souls whom they had made subject to the Torah in Charan, and went forth to go into the land of Kenaan; and they came unto the land of Kenaan. And Avram traversed through the land unto the place of Shekim[1] unto the plain of Moreh;[2] and the Kenaanah was then in the land. And the Lord revealed Himself unto Avram, and said, To thy sons will I give this land. And he builded there an altar before the Lord who had been revealed to him. And he ascended from thence to the mountain east of Beth El, and spread out his tabernacle, having Beth El on the west and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar before the Lord, and prayed in the name of the Lord. And Avram migrated, going and migrating to the south.
And there was a famine in the land, and Avram went down to Mizraim, to sojourn there, because the famine was strong in the land. And it was that as he drew nigh to enter Mizraim he said to Sara his wife, Behold, now I know that thou art a woman beautiful in sight; and it will be that when the Mizraee see thee they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee will they reserve. Say now, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me through thee, and my life may be preserved through thy words. And it was that when Avram had entered into Mizraim, the Mizraee saw the woman that she was singularly fair; and the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and extolled her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh. And Avram was well treated on account of her. And he had sheep, and oxen, and asses, and servants, and maidens, and camels. And the Lord brought upon Pharaoh great plagues, and upon the men of his house, for the affair of Sara the wife of Avram. And Pharaoh called Avram and said, What is this that thou hast done to me ? Why didst thou not show me that she is thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister,‑so that I would have taken her to me to wife? And now, behold thy wife: take, and go. And Pharaoh instructed the men concerning him, and they, conducted him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
XIII. And Avram went up from Mizraim, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, unto the south. And Avram was exceeding strong in cattle, in silver, and in gold; and he proceeded according to his encampments from the south, and unto Bethel, unto the place where he had spread his tabernacle at the first, between Bethel[3] and Ai; to the place of the altar which he had there made at the first: and Avram prayed there in the Name of the Lord. And Lot also, who went with Avram, had sheep and oxen and tents. And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together. And there was contention between the shepherds of the flock of Avram and the shepherds of the flock of Lot; and the Kenaanah and: the Pherizaah then dwelt in the land. And Avram said to Lot, Let there not now be contention between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds; for men, brethren, are we. Is not all the land before thee? Separate now from me: if thou to the north, I to the south; and if thou to the south, I to the north. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Yardena that it was altogether a watered place, before the Lord had destroyed Sedom and Amorah,‑as the garden of the Lord, as the land of Mizraim coming unto Zoar. And Lot chose to him all the plain of Yardena; and Lot went forth before, and they were separated each man from his brother. Avram dwelt in the land of Kenaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and extended unto Sedom. And the men of Sedom were wicked in their riches, and guilty in their bodies before the Lord greatly. And the Lord said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes and see, from the place where thou art, thence to the north and to the south, and to the east and to the west; for all this land that thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy children for ever. And I will place thy children numerous as the dust of the earth; so that as it is not possible for a man to number the dust of the earth, so also thy sons shall not be numbered. Arise, go through the land, in its length and in its breadth; for unto thee will I give it. And Avram spread (his tent), and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which is near Hebron,[4] and builded there an altar before the Lord.
XIV. And it was in the days of Amraphel, king of Babel, Ariok, king of Elasar, Kedar‑laomer, king of Elam, and Thidal, king of peoples, (that) they made war with Bera, king of Sedom, and with Birsha, king of Amora, Shenab, king of Admah, Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. All these were assembled at the plain of the field, which is (now) the place of the sea of salt. Twelve years they had served Kedar‑laomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Kedar‑laomer, and the kings who were with him, and smote the giants who were in Ashtaroth Karnaim, and the mighty who were in Chemta, and the terrible ones who were in Shaveh Kiryathaim, and the Horaee who were in the mountain of Seir, unto the plain of Paran which lieth upon the desert. And they turned, and came to the plain of the division of judgment, which is Rekam, and smote all the fields of the Amalkaah, and also the Amoraah who dwelt in Ein‑gadey.[5] And the king of Sedom, and the king of Amoraah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and tile king of Bela, which is Zoar, went forth and set the battle in array against them in the plain of the field, with Kedar‑laomer king of Elam, and Thidal,[6] king of peoples, and Amraphel, king of Babel, and Ariok, king of Elasar; four kings against five. And the plain of the field had many pits, from which, they raised asphalta; and the kings of Sedom and Amorah fled, and they fell there; and they who remained fled to the mountain. And they took all the possession of Sedom and Amorah, and, all their food, and went. And they captured Lot and his substance, son of the brother of Avram, and went. And he had dwelt in Sedom. And (one) came from those escaped, and showed to Avram the Ivraah; and he had remained in the plain of Moreh Amoraah, the brother of Eshkol and brother of Aner; and they were Avram's men of covenant. And Avram heard that his brother had been captured; and he armed the young men born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued unto Dan. And he divided against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hoba,[7] which was northward of Damasek. And he recovered all the substance, and Lot also, the son of his brother; and his substance he recovered, the women also, and the people. And the king of Sedom came out to meet him after returning from the smiting of Kedar‑laomer and the kings who were with him, at the plain of Mephana, which was the king's place of racing. And Malki‑zedek, king of Yerushelem,[8] brought forth bread and wine (chemar), and he was minister (meshamesh) before EL ILLAAH,[9] and he blessed him, and said:
"Blessed be Avram before El Illah,
Whose possession is heaven and earth;
And blessed be El Illah,[10]
Who hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand."
And he gave him one in ten of the whole. And the king of Sedom said to Avram, Give me the souls, and the substance take thou. And Avram said to the king of Sedom, I have uplifted my hands in prayer before the Lord Elohim most high, whose possession is heaven and earth: if from a thread unto the sole of a sandal I take of all that is thine, (and not that thou shouldst say, I have enriched Avram,) except of the food for the young men, and the share of the men who went with me, Amer, Eshkol, and Mamre, these will receive their shares.
XV. After these things the word (pithgama) of the Lord came to Avram in prophecy,[11] saying, Fear not, Avram: My Word (Memra) shall be thy strength, and thy exceeding great reward. And Avram said, Lord Elohim, what wilt Thou give me, and I go without a child: and this son of business (bar phargama) who is in My house is the Damasekah Elieser? And Avram said, Behold, Thou hast not given me a child, and, behold, the son of my house is my heir. And, lo, the word (pithgama) of the Lord was with him, saying, This shall not be thy heir, but a son whom thou shalt beget will be thine heir. And He led him without, and said, Behold now the heavens, and number the stars, if thou art able to number them; and He said to him, So will be thy sons.[12] And he believed in the Word of the Lord, (Memra da Yeya,) and He reckoned it to him unto justification. And He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought thee forth from Ura of the Kasdaee, to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord Elohim, by what may I know that I shall inherit it? And He said to him, Bring Me three calves, and three goats, and three rams, and a turtle dove, and the young of a pigeon. And he brought before Him all these. And be divided them equally, and set the divisions a division against his fellow; but the birds he did not divide. And the fowl descended upon the divisions, and Avram drave them away. And it was sunset, and sleep fell upon Avram: and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. And He said unto Avram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy sons will be sojourners (or aliens) in a land not theirs, and they will serve among them; and they will afflict them four hundred years. And the people whom they will serve I will judge, and go forth with much substance. And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried[13] in good old age. And in the fourth age (or generation) they will return hither; because not (yet) complete is the guilt of the Amoraah. And it was at the going away of the sun, and there was darkness. And behold a furnace that burned, and a flame of fire which passed between those divisions. In that day the Lord compacted with Avram a covenant, saying, To thy sons will I give this land; from the river of Mizraim unto the great river, the river of Pherat,[14] the Shalmaee, and the Kenizaee, and the Kadmonaee, and the Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, and the Gibbaraee, and the Amoraee, and the Kenaanaee, and the Girgashaee, and the Yebusaee.
XVI. And Sara wife of Avram had no child; and she had an handmaid, a Mizretha, and her name was Hagar. And Sara said to Avram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from childbearing; go in now to my handmaid, if, perhaps, I may have sons from her. And Avram received the word of Sara. And Sara wife of Avram took Hagar her handmaid, the Mizretha, at the end of ten years of Avram's dwelling in the land of Kenaan, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife; and he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived, and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes. And Sara said to Avram, I have (a cause of) judgment[15] against thee. I have given my handmaid to thee, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee. And Avram said to Sara, Behold, thy handmaid is in thy hand, do to her as is pleasing in thine eyes: and Sara afflicted her, and she fled from before her. And the Angel of the Lord found her at the fountain of water in the wilderness, at the fountain in the way of Hagra. And he said, Hagar handmaid of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither art thou going? And she said, From before Sara my mistress do I escape. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress and be subject[16] under her hand. And the Angel of the Lord said to her: Multiplying I will multiply thy sons, and they shall not be numbered for multitude. And the Angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou hast conceived, and shalt give birth to a son, and thou shalt call his name Yishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy prayer. And he will be untameable by man, and he will be needy to every one, and also all men will be needy to him, and before the face of all his brethren will he dwell. And she prayed in the Name of the Lord who had spoken with her; and she said: Thou art Eloha, seeing all:[17] for she said, I also have begun to see after that He hath been revealed to me. Therefore she called the name of the well, The well at which appeared the Angel of the Covenant: behold, it is between Rekam and Hagra. And Hagar bare to Avram a son, and Avram called the name of his son whom Hagar bare Yishmael. And Avram was son of eighty and six years when Hagar bare Yishmael unto Avram.
XVII. And Avram was son of ninety and nine years: and the Lord was revealed to Avram, and said to him, I am EI‑shadai ;[18] serve before Me, and be perfect;[19] I and I will set a covenant between My Word and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly much. And Avram fell on his face: and the Lord spake with him, saying, Behold, I have dedicated My covenant with thee, and thou shalt be the father of many peoples, and thy name shall no more be called Avram; but thy name shall be Avraham, because the father of many peoples have I appointed (given) thee. And I will spread thee abroad very greatly, and I will appoint to thee that assemblies and kings who shall rule the peoples, from thee shall come forth. And I will establish My covenant between My Word and thee, and thy sons after thee unto perpetual generations, to be unto thee a Elohim, and to thy sons after thee. And I will give to thee and to thy sons after thee the land of thy habitation, all the land of Kenaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be unto them Eloha. And the Lord said to Avraham, And thou My covenant shalt keep, thou and thy sons after thee in their generations. This is My covenant which you shall keep between My Word and you and thy sons after thee, to circumcise every male that is among you. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between My Word and you. And the son of eight days shall be circumcised among you; every male in your generations, born in the house, or bought with money, of every son of the peoples, who is not of thy sons, circumcising you shall circumcise the one born in the house, and him bought with money; and it shall be My covenant in your flesh for a covenant for ever. And the male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man shall perish from the people (because) he hath made void My covenant.
And the Lord said to Avraham, The name of Sara thy wife shall not be called Sara, for Sarah shall be her name: and I will bless her, and I will also give thee a son from her; and I will bless her, and assemblies and kings which have dominion over peoples from her shall be. And Avraham fell upon his face and rejoiced, and said in his heart, Will the son of a hundred years have a child, and Sarah the daughter of ninety years bring forth? And Avraham said before the Lord, O that Yishmael may be established before thee! And the Lord said, In verity Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Izhak; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to his sons after him. And concerning Yishmael I have accepted thy prayer. Behold, I have blessed him, and I will spread him abroad very greatly. Twelve princes will he beget, and I will set him (as) a great people. But My covenant I will establish with Izhak, whom Sarah shall bear to thee, at this time, in the year following. And when He had ended to speak with him, the Glory of the Lord[20] ascended up from Avraham. And Avraham took Yishmael his son, and every one born in his house, and every one bought with his money, every male, the men of the house of Avraham, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that very same day when the Lord had spoken with him. And Avraham was son of ninety and nine years, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. And Yishmael his son was son of thirteen years, when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised. In that same day Avraham was circumcised, and Yishmael his son, and all the men of his house, (whether) born in his house, or bought with money from the sons of the Gentiles, were circumcised with him.
[1] Sam. Ver. "unto the city of Shekam."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the plain or valley of vision."
[1] Sam. Vers. "between Beth-chaila and Kaphrah."
[1] Peschito Syr. 'And Avraham dwelt among the oak groves of Mare Amuroyo, which is Hebron."
[1] Sam. Ver. "Haphinith."
[1] Sam. Ver. "Thidal, king-shultan of the Chaimai."
[1] Sam. Ver. "Phoga."
[1] Sam. Ver. Malek Shalem.
[1] Sam. Ver. "And he was Kohen of the Most Mighty."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the Most Mighty, who, a shield, hath delivered," &c.
[1] The Sam. has also benabia, "in prophecy."
[1] Sam. Vers. chalipik, "thy successors."
[1] Sam. Vers. "gathered.'
[1] Sam. Vers. "the river of Shalmah."
[1] Sam. Vers "oppression."
[1] Sam. Vers. "humble thyself."
[1] Sam. Vers. Ath chiulah chezuah, "Thou the Mighty seest." The Syriac has, "Thou art Aloha in vision."
[1] Sam. Vers. Anah Chiulah Sapukah, "I am the Mighty, the Sufficient." Syr. El Shadai Aloha.
[1] Shelim.
[1] Sam. Vers. "the Angel of the Lord."
[1] Sam. Ver. "unto the city of Shekam."
[2] Sam. Vers. "the plain or valley of vision."
[3] Sam. Vers. "between Beth-chaila and Kaphrah."
[4] Peschito Syr. 'And Avraham dwelt among the oak groves of Mare Amuroyo, which is Hebron."
[5] Sam. Ver. "Haphinith."
[6] Sam. Ver. "Thidal, king-shultan of the Chaimai."
[7] Sam. Ver. "Phoga."
[8] Sam. Ver. Malek Shalem.
[9] Sam. Ver. "And he was Kohen of the Most Mighty."
[10] Sam. Vers. "the Most Mighty, who, a shield, hath delivered," &c.
[11] The Sam. has also benabia, "in prophecy."
[12] Sam. Vers. chalipik, "thy successors."
[13] Sam. Vers. "gathered.'
[14] Sam. Vers. "the river of Shalmah."
[15] Sam. Vers "oppression."
[16] Sam. Vers. "humble thyself."
[17] Sam. Vers. Ath chiulah chezuah, "Thou the Mighty seest." The Syriac has, "Thou art Aloha in vision."
[18] Sam. Vers. Anah Chiulah Sapukah, "I am the Mighty, the Sufficient." Syr. El Shadai Aloha.
[19] Shelim.
[20] Sam. Vers. "the Angel of the Lord."
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| [[Chapter 11|Leviticus11]] | [[Chapter 12|Leviticus12]] | [[Chapter 13|Leviticus13]] | [[Chapter 14|Leviticus14]] | [[Chapter 15|Leviticus15]] |
| [[Chapter 16|Leviticus16]] | [[Chapter 17|Leviticus17]] | [[Chapter 18|Leviticus18]] | [[Chapter 19|Leviticus19]] | [[Chapter 20|Leviticus20]] |
| [[Chapter 21|Leviticus21]] | [[Chapter 22|Leviticus22]] | [[Chapter 23|Leviticus23]] | [[Chapter 24|Leviticus24]] | [[Chapter 25|Leviticus25]] |
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<p>
<a name="C031V1" id="C031V1">1:1</a> Yahweh called to Moshe, and spoke to him
out of the Tent of Meeting, saying, <a name="C031V2" id="C031V2">1:2</a>
"Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them, 'When anyone of you
offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the
livestock, from the herd and from the flock.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C031V3" id="C031V3">1:3</a> "'If his offering is a burnt
offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall
offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted
before Yahweh. <a name="C031V4" id="C031V4">1:4</a> He shall lay his hand on
the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make
atonement for him. <a name="C031V5" id="C031V5">1:5</a> He shall kill the bull
before Yahweh. Aharon's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and
sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. <a name="C031V6" id="C031V6">1:6</a> He shall flay the burnt
offering, and cut it into pieces. <a name="C031V7" id="C031V7">1:7</a> The
sons of Aharon the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in
order on the fire; <a name="C031V8" id="C031V8">1:8</a> and Aharon's sons, the
priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood
that is on the fire which is on the altar; <a name="C031V9" id="C031V9">1:9</a>
but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall
burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C031V10" id="C031V10">1:10</a> "'If his offering is from the
flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall
offer a male without blemish. <a name="C031V11" id="C031V11">1:11</a> He shall
kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aharon's sons, the
priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. <a name="C031V12"
id="C031V12">1:12</a> He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its
fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire
which is on the altar, <a name="C031V13" id="C031V13">1:13</a> but the innards
and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole,
and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C031V14" id="C031V14">1:14</a> "'If his offering to Yahweh is a
burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves,
or of young pigeons. <a name="C031V15" id="C031V15">1:15</a> The priest shall
bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar;
and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; <a
name="C031V16" id="C031V16">1:16</a> and he shall take away its crop with its
filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the
ashes. <a name="C031V17" id="C031V17">1:17</a> He shall tear it by its wings,
but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on
the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C032V1" id="C032V1">2:1</a> "'When anyone offers an offering of
a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he
shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it. <a name="C032V2" id="C032V2">2:2</a>
He shall bring it to Aharon's sons, the priests; and he shall take his
handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and
the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire,
of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a name="C032V3" id="C032V3">2:3</a> That which
is left of the meal offering shall be Aharon's and his sons'. It is a most
holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C032V4" id="C032V4">2:4</a> "'When you offer an offering of a
meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine
flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. <a
name="C032V5" id="C032V5">2:5</a> If your offering is a meal offering of the
griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil. <a
name="C032V6" id="C032V6">2:6</a> You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on
it. It is a meal offering. <a name="C032V7" id="C032V7">2:7</a> If your
offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour
with oil. <a name="C032V8" id="C032V8">2:8</a> You shall bring the meal
offering that is made of these things to Yahweh: and it shall be presented
to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. <a name="C032V9" id="C032V9">2:9</a>
The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn
it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
<a name="C032V10" id="C032V10">2:10</a> That which is left of the meal
offering shall be Aharon's and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C032V11" id="C032V11">2:11</a> "'No meal offering, which you
shall offer to Yahweh, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no
yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a
name="C032V12" id="C032V12">2:12</a> As an offering of firstfruits you shall
offer them to Yahweh: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on
the altar. <a name="C032V13" id="C032V13">2:13</a> Every offering of your meal
offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of
the covenant of your Elohim to be lacking from your meal offering. With all
your offerings you shall offer salt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C032V14" id="C032V14">2:14</a> "'If you offer a meal offering of
first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your
first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the
fresh ear. <a name="C032V15" id="C032V15">2:15</a> You shall put oil on it,
and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering. <a name="C032V16"
id="C032V16">2:16</a> The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its
bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is
an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C033V1" id="C033V1">3:1</a> "'If his offering is a sacrifice of
peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he
shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh. <a name="C033V2" id="C033V2">3:2</a>
He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door
of the Tent of Meeting: and Aharon's sons, the priests shall sprinkle the
blood around on the altar. <a name="C033V3" id="C033V3">3:3</a> He shall offer
of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh;
the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
<a name="C033V4" id="C033V4">3:4</a> and the two kidneys, and the fat that is
on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the
kidneys, he shall take away. <a name="C033V5" id="C033V5">3:5</a> Aharon's sons
shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood
that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma
to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C033V6" id="C033V6">3:6</a> "'If his offering for a sacrifice of
peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish. <a name="C033V7" id="C033V7">3:7</a> If he offers a
lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh; <a name="C033V8"
id="C033V8">3:8</a> and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering,
and kill it before the Tent of Meeting: and Aharon's sons shall sprinkle
its blood around on the altar. <a name="C033V9" id="C033V9">3:9</a> He shall
offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to
Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the
backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on
the inwards, <a name="C033V10" id="C033V10">3:10</a> and the two kidneys, and
the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the
liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. <a name="C033V11" id="C033V11">3:11</a>
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made
by fire to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C033V12" id="C033V12">3:12</a> "'If his offering is a goat, then
he shall offer it before Yahweh: <a name="C033V13" id="C033V13">3:13</a> and
he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting;
and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. <a
name="C033V14" id="C033V14">3:14</a> He shall offer from it as his offering,
an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and
all the fat that is on the innards, <a name="C033V15" id="C033V15">3:15</a>
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins,
and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. <a
name="C033V16" id="C033V16">3:16</a> The priest shall burn them on the altar:
it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the
fat is Yahweh's.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C033V17" id="C033V17">3:17</a> "'It shall be a perpetual statute
throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat
neither fat nor blood.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C034V1" id="C034V1">4:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C034V2" id="C034V2">4:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh
has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: <a name="C034V3"
id="C034V3">4:3</a> if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the
people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull
without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering. <a name="C034V4" id="C034V4">4:4</a>
He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh;
and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull
before Yahweh. <a name="C034V5" id="C034V5">4:5</a> The anointed priest shall
take some of the blood of the bull, and bring it to the Tent of Meeting.
<a name="C034V6" id="C034V6">4:6</a> The priest shall dip his finger in the
blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before
the veil of the sanctuary. <a name="C034V7" id="C034V7">4:7</a> The priest
shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense
before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all
of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt
offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C034V8"
id="C034V8">4:8</a> He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin
offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that
is on the innards, <a name="C034V9" id="C034V9">4:9</a> and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the
liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away, <a name="C034V10" id="C034V10">4:10</a>
as it is taken off of the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The
priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. <a name="C034V11"
id="C034V11">4:11</a> The bull's skin, all its flesh, with its head, and
with its legs, its innards, and its dung, <a name="C034V12" id="C034V12">4:12</a>
even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean
place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire.
Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C034V13" id="C034V13">4:13</a> "'If the whole congregation of
Yisrael sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and
they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be
done, and are guilty; <a name="C034V14" id="C034V14">4:14</a> when the sin in
which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young
bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C034V15" id="C034V15">4:15</a> The elders of the congregation shall lay
their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be
killed before Yahweh. <a name="C034V16" id="C034V16">4:16</a> The anointed
priest shall bring of the blood of the bull to the Tent of Meeting: <a
name="C034V17" id="C034V17">4:17</a> and the priest shall dip his finger in
the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil. <a
name="C034V18" id="C034V18">4:18</a> He shall put some of the blood on the
horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting;
and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of
burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C034V19" id="C034V19">4:19</a> All its fat he shall take from it, and
burn it on the altar. <a name="C034V20" id="C034V20">4:20</a> Thus shall he do
with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do
with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be
forgiven. <a name="C034V21" id="C034V21">4:21</a> He shall carry forth the
bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the
sin offering for the assembly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C034V22" id="C034V22">4:22</a> "'When a ruler sins, and
unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his Elohim has
commanded not to be done, and is guilty; <a name="C034V23" id="C034V23">4:23</a>
if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring
as his offering a goat, a male without blemish. <a name="C034V24" id="C034V24">4:24</a>
He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place
where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering. <a
name="C034V25" id="C034V25">4:25</a> The priest shall take some of the blood
of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar
of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of
the altar of burnt offering. <a name="C034V26" id="C034V26">4:26</a> All its
fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin,
and he will be forgiven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C034V27" id="C034V27">4:27</a> "'If anyone of the common people
sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded
not to be done, and is guilty; <a name="C034V28" id="C034V28">4:28</a> if his
sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for
his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has
sinned. <a name="C034V29" id="C034V29">4:29</a> He shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt
offering. <a name="C034V30" id="C034V30">4:30</a> The priest shall take some
of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of
burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of
the altar. <a name="C034V31" id="C034V31">4:31</a> All its fat he shall take
away, like the fat is taken away from off of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma
to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be
forgiven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C034V32" id="C034V32">4:32</a> "'If he brings a lamb as his
offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish. <a
name="C034V33" id="C034V33">4:33</a> He shall lay his hand on the head of the
sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill
the burnt offering. <a name="C034V34" id="C034V34">4:34</a> The priest shall
take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on
the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he
shall pour out at the base of the altar. <a name="C034V35" id="C034V35">4:35</a>
All its fat he shall take away, like the fat of the lamb is taken away
from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on
the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest shall
make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will
be forgiven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V1" id="C035V1">5:1</a> "'If anyone sins, in that he hears
the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known,
if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V2" id="C035V2">5:2</a> "'Or if anyone touches any unclean
thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of
unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is
hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V3" id="C035V3">5:3</a> "'Or if he touches the uncleanness
of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is
hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V4" id="C035V4">5:4</a> "'Or if anyone swears rashly with
his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter
rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then
he shall be guilty of one of these. <a name="C035V5" id="C035V5">5:5</a> It
shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in
which he has sinned: <a name="C035V6" id="C035V6">5:6</a> and he shall bring
his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female
from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall
make atonement for him concerning his sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V7" id="C035V7">5:7</a> "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he
shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering. <a name="C035V8" id="C035V8">5:8</a> He shall
bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the
sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it
completely. <a name="C035V9" id="C035V9">5:9</a> He shall sprinkle some of the
blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the
blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
<a name="C035V10" id="C035V10">5:10</a> He shall offer the second for a burnt
offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement
for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V11" id="C035V11">5:11</a> "'But if he can't afford two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for
that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for
a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any
frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. <a name="C035V12" id="C035V12">5:12</a>
He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of
it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering. <a name="C035V13" id="C035V13">5:13</a>
The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has
sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall
be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V14" id="C035V14">5:14</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C035V15" id="C035V15">5:15</a> "If anyone commits a trespass, and
sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his
trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock,
according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for a trespass offering. <a name="C035V16" id="C035V16">5:16</a> He
shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing,
and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the
priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering,
and he will be forgiven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C035V17" id="C035V17">5:17</a> "If anyone sins, and does any of
the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done; though he didn't
know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. <a name="C035V18"
id="C035V18">5:18</a> He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the
flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the
priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing
in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven. <a
name="C035V19" id="C035V19">5:19</a> It is a trespass offering. He is
certainly guilty before Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C036V1" id="C036V1">6:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C036V2" id="C036V2">6:2</a> "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass
against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of
deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, <a
name="C036V3" id="C036V3">6:3</a> or has found that which was lost, and dealt
falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a
man does, sinning therein; <a name="C036V4" id="C036V4">6:4</a> then it shall
be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took
by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit
which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, <a
name="C036V5" id="C036V5">6:5</a> or any thing about which he has sworn
falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more
to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being
found guilty. <a name="C036V6" id="C036V6">6:6</a> He shall bring his trespass
offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to
your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest. <a name="C036V7"
id="C036V7">6:7</a> The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh,
and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C036V8" id="C036V8">6:8</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C036V9" id="C036V9">6:9</a> "Command Aharon and his sons, saying,
'This is the Torah of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the
hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar
shall be kept burning on it. <a name="C036V10" id="C036V10">6:10</a> The
priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen
breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire
has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside
the altar. <a name="C036V11" id="C036V11">6:11</a> He shall take off his
garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp
to a clean place. <a name="C036V12" id="C036V12">6:12</a> The fire on the
altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest
shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering
in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. <a
name="C036V13" id="C036V13">6:13</a> Fire shall be kept burning on the altar
continually; it shall not go out.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C036V14" id="C036V14">6:14</a> "'This is the Torah of the meal
offering: the sons of Aharon shall offer it before Yahweh, before the
altar. <a name="C036V15" id="C036V15">6:15</a> He shall take from there his
handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all
the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the
altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial, to Yahweh. <a name="C036V16"
id="C036V16">6:16</a> That which is left of it Aharon and his sons shall eat.
It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the
court of the Tent of Meeting <a name="C036V17" id="C036V17">6:17</a> It shall
not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings
made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass
offering. <a name="C036V18" id="C036V18">6:18</a> Every male among the
children of Aharon shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout
your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever
touches them shall be holy.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C036V19" id="C036V19">6:19</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C036V20" id="C036V20">6:20</a> "This is the offering of Aharon and
of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is
anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. <a
name="C036V21" id="C036V21">6:21</a> It shall be made with oil in a griddle.
When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal
offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a name="C036V22"
id="C036V22">6:22</a> The anointed priest that will be in his place from
among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly
burnt to Yahweh. <a name="C036V23" id="C036V23">6:23</a> Every meal offering
of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C036V24" id="C036V24">6:24</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C036V25" id="C036V25">6:25</a> "Speak to Aharon and to his sons,
saying, 'This is the Torah of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt
offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is
most holy. <a name="C036V26" id="C036V26">6:26</a> The priest who offers it
for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of
the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C036V27" id="C036V27">6:27</a> Whatever shall
touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on
a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
<a name="C036V28" id="C036V28">6:28</a> But the earthen vessel in which it is
boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall
be scoured, and rinsed in water. <a name="C036V29" id="C036V29">6:29</a> Every
male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy. <a name="C036V30"
id="C036V30">6:30</a> No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought
into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be
eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V1" id="C037V1">7:1</a> "'This is the Torah of the trespass
offering. It is most holy. <a name="C037V2" id="C037V2">7:2</a> In the place
where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering;
and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. <a name="C037V3"
id="C037V3">7:3</a> He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat
that covers the innards, <a name="C037V4" id="C037V4">7:4</a> and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; <a name="C037V5"
id="C037V5">7:5</a> and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an
offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering. <a name="C037V6"
id="C037V6">7:6</a> Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be
eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V7" id="C037V7">7:7</a> "'As is the sin offering, so is the
trespass offering; there is one Torah for them. The priest who makes
atonement with them shall have it. <a name="C037V8" id="C037V8">7:8</a> The
priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered. <a name="C037V9"
id="C037V9">7:9</a> Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all
that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who
offers it. <a name="C037V10" id="C037V10">7:10</a> Every meal offering, mixed
with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aharon, one as well as another.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V11" id="C037V11">7:11</a> "'This is the Torah of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh. <a
name="C037V12" id="C037V12">7:12</a> If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then
he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with
oil. <a name="C037V13" id="C037V13">7:13</a> With cakes of leavened bread he
shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving. <a name="C037V14" id="C037V14">7:14</a> Of it he shall offer one
out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the
priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. <a name="C037V15"
id="C037V15">7:15</a> The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave
any of it until the morning.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V16" id="C037V16">7:16</a> "'But if the sacrifice of his
offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day
that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall
be eaten: <a name="C037V17" id="C037V17">7:17</a> but what remains of the
flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. <a
name="C037V18" id="C037V18">7:18</a> If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of
his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an
abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V19" id="C037V19">7:19</a> "'The flesh that touches any
unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the
flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it; <a name="C037V20" id="C037V20">7:20</a>
but the soul who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings,
that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be
cut off from his people. <a name="C037V21" id="C037V21">7:21</a> When anyone
touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal,
or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from
his people.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V22" id="C037V22">7:22</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C037V23" id="C037V23">7:23</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
saying, 'You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. <a name="C037V24"
id="C037V24">7:24</a> The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of
that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you
shall in no way eat of it. <a name="C037V25" id="C037V25">7:25</a> For whoever
eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people. <a
name="C037V26" id="C037V26">7:26</a> You shall not eat any blood, whether it
is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. <a name="C037V27"
id="C037V27">7:27</a> Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be
cut off from his people.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V28" id="C037V28">7:28</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C037V29" id="C037V29">7:29</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh
shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings. <a name="C037V30" id="C037V30">7:30</a> With his own hands he shall
bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with
the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before
Yahweh. <a name="C037V31" id="C037V31">7:31</a> The priest shall burn the fat
on the altar, but the breast shall be Aharon's and his sons'. <a
name="C037V32" id="C037V32">7:32</a> The right thigh you shall give to the
priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
<a name="C037V33" id="C037V33">7:33</a> He among the sons of Aharon who offers
the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh
for a portion. <a name="C037V34" id="C037V34">7:34</a> For the waved breast
and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Yisrael out of the
sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aharon the
priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of
Yisrael.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C037V35" id="C037V35">7:35</a> This is the anointing portion of
Aharon, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to
Yahweh in the priest's office; <a name="C037V36" id="C037V36">7:36</a> which
Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Yisrael, in the day
that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their
generations. <a name="C037V37" id="C037V37">7:37</a> This is the Torah of the
burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the
trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; <a name="C037V38" id="C037V38">7:38</a> which Yahweh commanded
Moshe in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Yisrael
to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C038V1" id="C038V1">8:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C038V2" id="C038V2">8:2</a> "Take Aharon and his sons with him, and
the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and
the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; <a name="C038V3" id="C038V3">8:3</a>
and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C038V4" id="C038V4">8:4</a> Moshe did as Yahweh commanded him; and
the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C038V5" id="C038V5">8:5</a> Moshe said to the congregation, "This
is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done." <a name="C038V6"
id="C038V6">8:6</a> Moshe brought Aharon and his sons, and washed them with
water. <a name="C038V7" id="C038V7">8:7</a> He put the coat on him, tied the
sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied
the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with
it. <a name="C038V8" id="C038V8">8:8</a> He placed the breastplate on him; and
in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. <a name="C038V9"
id="C038V9">8:9</a> He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in
front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
<a name="C038V10" id="C038V10">8:10</a> Moshe took the anointing oil, and
anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. <a
name="C038V11" id="C038V11">8:11</a> He sprinkled it on the altar seven times,
and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to
sanctify them. <a name="C038V12" id="C038V12">8:12</a> He poured some of the
anointing oil on Aharon's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. <a
name="C038V13" id="C038V13">8:13</a> Moshe brought Aharon's sons, and clothed
them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as
Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C038V14" id="C038V14">8:14</a> He brought the bull of the sin
offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull
of the sin offering. <a name="C038V15" id="C038V15">8:15</a> He killed it; and
Moshe took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his
finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of
the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. <a name="C038V16"
id="C038V16">8:16</a> He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the
cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moshe burned
it on the altar. <a name="C038V17" id="C038V17">8:17</a> But the bull, and its
skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp;
as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C038V18" id="C038V18">8:18</a> He
presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aharon and his sons laid their
hands on the head of the ram. <a name="C038V19" id="C038V19">8:19</a> He
killed it; and Moshe sprinkled the blood around on the altar. <a
name="C038V20" id="C038V20">8:20</a> He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moshe
burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat. <a name="C038V21" id="C038V21">8:21</a>
He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moshe burned the whole
ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an
offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C038V22"
id="C038V22">8:22</a> He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration:
and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. <a
name="C038V23" id="C038V23">8:23</a> He killed it; and Moshe took some of its
blood, and put it on the tip of Aharon's right ear, and on the thumb of his
right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot. <a name="C038V24"
id="C038V24">8:24</a> He brought Aharon's sons; and Moshe put some of the
blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand,
and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moshe sprinkled the blood
around on the altar. <a name="C038V25" id="C038V25">8:25</a> He took the fat,
and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover
of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh; <a
name="C038V26" id="C038V26">8:26</a> and out of the basket of unleavened
bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake
of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the
right thigh. <a name="C038V27" id="C038V27">8:27</a> He put all these in
Aharon's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering
before Yahweh. <a name="C038V28" id="C038V28">8:28</a> Moshe took them from
their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were
a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to
Yahweh. <a name="C038V29" id="C038V29">8:29</a> Moshe took the breast, and
waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moshe' portion of the
ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C038V30" id="C038V30">8:30</a>
Moshe took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on
the altar, and sprinkled it on Aharon, on his garments, and on his sons,
and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aharon, his garments,
and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C038V31" id="C038V31">8:31</a> Moshe said to Aharon and to his sons,
"Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it
and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded,
saying, 'Aharon and his sons shall eat it.' <a name="C038V32" id="C038V32">8:32</a>
What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire. <a
name="C038V33" id="C038V33">8:33</a> You shall not go out from the door of the
Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are
fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. <a name="C038V34"
id="C038V34">8:34</a> What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded
to do, to make atonement for you. <a name="C038V35" id="C038V35">8:35</a> You
shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days,
and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."
<a name="C038V36" id="C038V36">8:36</a> Aharon and his sons did all the things
which Yahweh commanded by Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C039V1" id="C039V1">9:1</a> It happened on the eighth day, that Moshe
called Aharon and his sons, and the elders of Yisrael; <a name="C039V2"
id="C039V2">9:2</a> and he said to Aharon, "Take a calf from the herd
for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and
offer them before Yahweh. <a name="C039V3" id="C039V3">9:3</a> You shall speak
to the children of Yisrael, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering;
and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt
offering; <a name="C039V4" id="C039V4">9:4</a> and a bull and a ram for peace
offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil:
for today Yahweh appears to you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C039V5" id="C039V5">9:5</a> They brought what Moshe commanded before
the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before
Yahweh. <a name="C039V6" id="C039V6">9:6</a> Moshe said, "This is the
thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh
shall appear to you." <a name="C039V7" id="C039V7">9:7</a> Moshe said to
Aharon, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your
burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and
offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh
commanded."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C039V8" id="C039V8">9:8</a> So Aharon drew near to the altar, and
killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. <a name="C039V9"
id="C039V9">9:9</a> The sons of Aharon presented the blood to him; and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and
poured out the blood at the base of the altar: <a name="C039V10" id="C039V10">9:10</a>
but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin
offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a
name="C039V11" id="C039V11">9:11</a> The flesh and the skin he burned with
fire outside the camp. <a name="C039V12" id="C039V12">9:12</a> He killed the
burnt offering; and Aharon's sons delivered the blood to him, and he
sprinkled it around on the altar. <a name="C039V13" id="C039V13">9:13</a> They
delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he
burned them upon the altar. <a name="C039V14" id="C039V14">9:14</a> He washed
the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the
altar. <a name="C039V15" id="C039V15">9:15</a> He presented the people's
offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people,
and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first. <a name="C039V16"
id="C039V16">9:16</a> He presented the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the ordinance. <a name="C039V17" id="C039V17">9:17</a> He
presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it
upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning. <a name="C039V18"
id="C039V18">9:18</a> He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of
peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aharon's sons delivered to
him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar, <a name="C039V19"
id="C039V19">9:19</a> and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail,
and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the
liver: <a name="C039V20" id="C039V20">9:20</a> and they put the fat upon the
breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar: <a name="C039V21" id="C039V21">9:21</a>
and the breasts and the right thigh Aharon waved for a wave offering before
Yahweh, as Moshe commanded. <a name="C039V22" id="C039V22">9:22</a> Aharon
lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down
from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C039V23" id="C039V23">9:23</a> Moshe and Aharon went into the Tent of
Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh
appeared to all the people. <a name="C039V24" id="C039V24">9:24</a> There came
forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat
upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on
their faces.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V1" id="C0310V1">10:1</a> Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aharon,
each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and
offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. <a
name="C0310V2" id="C0310V2">10:2</a> And fire came forth from before Yahweh,
and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V3" id="C0310V3">10:3</a> Then Moshe said to Aharon, "This
is what Yahweh spoke of, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
</dt>
<dd>
and before all the people I will be glorified.'"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
Aharon held his peace. <a name="C0310V4" id="C0310V4">10:4</a> Moshe called
Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aharon, and said to
them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out
of the camp." <a name="C0310V5" id="C0310V5">10:5</a> So they drew near,
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moshe had said.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V6" id="C0310V6">10:6</a> Moshe said to Aharon, and to Eleazar
and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose,
neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry
with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of
Yisrael, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled. <a name="C0310V7"
id="C0310V7">10:7</a> You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of
Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you."
They did according to the word of Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V8" id="C0310V8">10:8</a> Yahweh spoke to Aharon, saying, <a
name="C0310V9" id="C0310V9">10:9</a> "Drink no wine nor strong drink,
you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that
you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
<a name="C0310V10" id="C0310V10">10:10</a> and that you are to make a
distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and
the clean; <a name="C0310V11" id="C0310V11">10:11</a> and that you are to
teach the children of Yisrael all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to
them by Moshe."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V12" id="C0310V12">10:12</a> Moshe spoke to Aharon, and to
Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal
offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it
without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; <a name="C0310V13"
id="C0310V13">10:13</a> and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is
your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire: for so I am commanded. <a name="C0310V14" id="C0310V14">10:14</a> The
waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and
your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your
portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace
offerings of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0310V15" id="C0310V15">10:15</a>
The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings
made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and
it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as
Yahweh has commanded."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V16" id="C0310V16">10:16</a> Moshe diligently inquired about the
goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry
with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aharon who were left, saying, <a
name="C0310V17" id="C0310V17">10:17</a> "Why haven't you eaten the sin
offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has
given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement
for them before Yahweh? <a name="C0310V18" id="C0310V18">10:18</a> Behold, its
blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly
should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V19" id="C0310V19">10:19</a> Aharon spoke to Moshe, "Behold,
this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering
before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had
eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of
Yahweh?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0310V20" id="C0310V20">10:20</a> When Moshe heard that, it was
pleasing in his sight.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V1" id="C0311V1">11:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying to them, <a name="C0311V2" id="C0311V2">11:2</a> "Speak to the
children of Yisrael, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat
among all the animals that are on the earth. <a name="C0311V3" id="C0311V3">11:3</a>
Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the
animals, that you may eat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V4" id="C0311V4">11:4</a> "'Nevertheless these you shall
not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the
camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is
unclean to you. <a name="C0311V5" id="C0311V5">11:5</a> The coney, because he
chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. <a
name="C0311V6" id="C0311V6">11:6</a> The hare, because she chews the cud but
doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you. <a name="C0311V7" id="C0311V7">11:7</a>
The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't
chew the cud, he is unclean to you. <a name="C0311V8" id="C0311V8">11:8</a> Of
their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch;
they are unclean to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V9" id="C0311V9">11:9</a> "'These you may eat of all that
are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the
seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. <a name="C0311V10" id="C0311V10">11:10</a>
All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all
that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the
waters, they are an abomination to you, <a name="C0311V11" id="C0311V11">11:11</a>
and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall
detest their carcasses. <a name="C0311V12" id="C0311V12">11:12</a> Whatever
has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V13" id="C0311V13">11:13</a> "'These you shall detest among
the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle,
and the vulture, and the black vulture, <a name="C0311V14" id="C0311V14">11:14</a>
and the red kite, any kind of black kite, <a name="C0311V15" id="C0311V15">11:15</a>
any kind of raven, <a name="C0311V16" id="C0311V16">11:16</a> the horned owl,
the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk, <a name="C0311V17"
id="C0311V17">11:17</a> the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, <a
name="C0311V18" id="C0311V18">11:18</a> the white owl, the desert owl, the
osprey, <a name="C0311V19" id="C0311V19">11:19</a> the stork, any kind of
heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V20" id="C0311V20">11:20</a> "'All flying insects that walk
on all fours are an abomination to you. <a name="C0311V21" id="C0311V21">11:21</a>
Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours,
which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth. <a
name="C0311V22" id="C0311V22">11:22</a> Even of these you may eat: any kind of
locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of
grasshopper. <a name="C0311V23" id="C0311V23">11:23</a> But all winged
creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V24" id="C0311V24">11:24</a> "'By these you will become
unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the
evening. <a name="C0311V25" id="C0311V25">11:25</a> Whoever carries any part
of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V26" id="C0311V26">11:26</a> "'Every animal which parts the
hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you.
Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. <a name="C0311V27" id="C0311V27">11:27</a>
Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they
are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until
the evening. <a name="C0311V28" id="C0311V28">11:28</a> He who carries their
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are
unclean to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V29" id="C0311V29">11:29</a> "'These are they which are
unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the
weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, <a name="C0311V30" id="C0311V30">11:30</a>
the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the
chameleon. <a name="C0311V31" id="C0311V31">11:31</a> These are they which are
unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are
dead, shall be unclean until the evening. <a name="C0311V32" id="C0311V32">11:32</a>
On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean;
whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever
vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and
it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean. <a
name="C0311V33" id="C0311V33">11:33</a> Every earthen vessel, into which any
of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
<a name="C0311V34" id="C0311V34">11:34</a> All food which may be eaten, that
on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in
every such vessel shall be unclean. <a name="C0311V35" id="C0311V35">11:35</a>
Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether
oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean,
and shall be unclean to you. <a name="C0311V36" id="C0311V36">11:36</a>
Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be
clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean. <a
name="C0311V37" id="C0311V37">11:37</a> If part of their carcass falls on any
sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. <a name="C0311V38" id="C0311V38">11:38</a>
But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it
is unclean to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V39" id="C0311V39">11:39</a> "'If any animal, of which you
may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. <a name="C0311V40" id="C0311V40">11:40</a> He who eats of its carcass
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who
carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V41" id="C0311V41">11:41</a> "'Every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. <a
name="C0311V42" id="C0311V42">11:42</a> Whatever goes on its belly, and
whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping
things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an
abomination. <a name="C0311V43" id="C0311V43">11:43</a> You shall not make
yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall
you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.
<a name="C0311V44" id="C0311V44">11:44</a> For I am Yahweh your Elohim. Sanctify
yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile
yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. <a
name="C0311V45" id="C0311V45">11:45</a> For I am Yahweh who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt, to be your Elohim. You shall therefore be holy, for I
am holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0311V46" id="C0311V46">11:46</a> "'This is the Torah of the
animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the
waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth, <a name="C0311V47"
id="C0311V47">11:47</a> to make a distinction between the unclean and the
clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing
that may not be eaten.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0312V1" id="C0312V1">12:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0312V2" id="C0312V2">12:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
saying, 'If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be
unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be
unclean. <a name="C0312V3" id="C0312V3">12:3</a> In the eighth day the flesh
of his foreskin shall be circumcised. <a name="C0312V4" id="C0312V4">12:4</a>
She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She
shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the
days of her purifying are completed. <a name="C0312V5" id="C0312V5">12:5</a>
But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as
in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification
sixty-six days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0312V6" id="C0312V6">12:6</a> "'When the days of her
purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring
to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a
burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
<a name="C0312V7" id="C0312V7">12:7</a> and he shall offer it before Yahweh,
and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of
her blood.
</p>
<p>
"'This is the Torah for her who bears, whether a male or a female. <a
name="C0312V8" id="C0312V8">12:8</a> If she cannot afford a lamb, then she
shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt
offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make
atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V1" id="C0313V1">13:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C0313V2" id="C0313V2">13:2</a> "When a man shall have a
rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in
the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to
Aharon the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests: <a name="C0313V3"
id="C0313V3">13:3</a> and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of
the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the
appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague
of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.
<a name="C0313V4" id="C0313V4">13:4</a> If the bright spot is white in the
skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its
hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected
person for seven days. <a name="C0313V5" id="C0313V5">13:5</a> The priest
shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the
plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the
priest shall isolate him for seven more days. <a name="C0313V6" id="C0313V6">13:6</a>
The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the
plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes,
and be clean. <a name="C0313V7" id="C0313V7">13:7</a> But if the scab spreads
on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing,
he shall show himself to the priest again. <a name="C0313V8" id="C0313V8">13:8</a>
The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V9" id="C0313V9">13:9</a> "When the plague of leprosy is in
a man, then he shall be brought to the priest; <a name="C0313V10" id="C0313V10">13:10</a>
and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in
the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the
rising, <a name="C0313V11" id="C0313V11">13:11</a> it is a chronic leprosy in
the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall
not isolate him, for he is unclean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V12" id="C0313V12">13:12</a> "If the leprosy breaks out all
over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person
from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest; <a
name="C0313V13" id="C0313V13">13:13</a> then the priest shall examine him;
and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce
him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean. <a
name="C0313V14" id="C0313V14">13:14</a> But whenever raw flesh appears in him,
he shall be unclean. <a name="C0313V15" id="C0313V15">13:15</a> The priest
shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is
unclean. It is leprosy. <a name="C0313V16" id="C0313V16">13:16</a> Or if the
raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the
priest; <a name="C0313V17" id="C0313V17">13:17</a> and the priest shall
examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest
shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V18" id="C0313V18">13:18</a> "When the body has a boil on
its skin, and it has healed, <a name="C0313V19" id="C0313V19">13:19</a> and in
the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot,
reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest; <a name="C0313V20"
id="C0313V20">13:20</a> and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its
appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has
broken out in the boil. <a name="C0313V21" id="C0313V21">13:21</a> But if the
priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it
isn't deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him
seven days. <a name="C0313V22" id="C0313V22">13:22</a> If it spreads in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. <a
name="C0313V23" id="C0313V23">13:23</a> But if the bright spot stays in its
place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V24" id="C0313V24">13:24</a> "Or when the body has a burn
from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright
spot, reddish-white, or white, <a name="C0313V25" id="C0313V25">13:25</a> then
the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot
has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is
leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce
him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. <a name="C0313V26" id="C0313V26">13:26</a>
But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the
bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the
priest shall isolate him seven days. <a name="C0313V27" id="C0313V27">13:27</a>
The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of
leprosy. <a name="C0313V28" id="C0313V28">13:28</a> If the bright spot stays
in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the
swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it
is the scar from the burn.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V29" id="C0313V29">13:29</a> "When a man or woman has a
plague on the head or on the beard, <a name="C0313V30" id="C0313V30">13:30</a>
then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is
deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the
head or of the beard. <a name="C0313V31" id="C0313V31">13:31</a> If the priest
examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper
than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall
isolate him the person infected with itching seven days. <a name="C0313V32"
id="C0313V32">13:32</a> On the seventh day the priest shall examine the
plague; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair
in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin, <a
name="C0313V33" id="C0313V33">13:33</a> then he shall be shaved, but he shall
not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch
seven more days. <a name="C0313V34" id="C0313V34">13:34</a> On the seventh
day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn't
spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be
clean. <a name="C0313V35" id="C0313V35">13:35</a> But if the itch spreads in
the skin after his cleansing, <a name="C0313V36" id="C0313V36">13:36</a> then
the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the
skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. <a
name="C0313V37" id="C0313V37">13:37</a> But if in his eyes the itch is
arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean.
The priest shall pronounce him clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V38" id="C0313V38">13:38</a> "When a man or a woman has
bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots; <a
name="C0313V39" id="C0313V39">13:39</a> then the priest shall examine them;
and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull
white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V40" id="C0313V40">13:40</a> "If a man's hair has fallen
from his head, he is bald. He is clean. <a name="C0313V41" id="C0313V41">13:41</a>
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead
bald. He is clean. <a name="C0313V42" id="C0313V42">13:42</a> But if there is
in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is
leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. <a
name="C0313V43" id="C0313V43">13:43</a> Then the priest shall examine him;
and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald
head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin
of the flesh, <a name="C0313V44" id="C0313V44">13:44</a> he is a leprous man.
He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague
is on his head.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V45" id="C0313V45">13:45</a> "The leper in whom the plague
is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He
shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!' <a
name="C0313V46" id="C0313V46">13:46</a> All the days in which the plague is in
him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of
the camp shall be his dwelling.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V47" id="C0313V47">13:47</a> "The garment also that the
plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen
garment; <a name="C0313V48" id="C0313V48">13:48</a> whether it is in warp, or
woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of
skin; <a name="C0313V49" id="C0313V49">13:49</a> if the plague is greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or
in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown
to the priest. <a name="C0313V50" id="C0313V50">13:50</a> The priest shall
examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days. <a name="C0313V51"
id="C0313V51">13:51</a> He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If
the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof,
or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a
destructive mildew. It is unclean. <a name="C0313V52" id="C0313V52">13:52</a>
He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in
linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a
destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V53" id="C0313V53">13:53</a> "If the priest examines it,
and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp,
or in the woof, or in anything of skin; <a name="C0313V54" id="C0313V54">13:54</a>
then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague
is, and he shall isolate it seven more days. <a name="C0313V55" id="C0313V55">13:55</a>
Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold,
if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it
is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether
the bareness is inside or outside. <a name="C0313V56" id="C0313V56">13:56</a>
If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed,
then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of
the warp, or out of the woof: <a name="C0313V57" id="C0313V57">13:57</a> and
if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in
which the plague is. <a name="C0313V58" id="C0313V58">13:58</a> The garment,
either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you
shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed
the second time, and it will be clean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0313V59" id="C0313V59">13:59</a> This is the Torah of the plague of
mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or
in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V1" id="C0314V1">14:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying,
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V2" id="C0314V2">14:2</a> "This shall be the Torah of the
leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, <a
name="C0314V3" id="C0314V3">14:3</a> and the priest shall go forth out of the
camp. The priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of leprosy
is healed in the leper, <a name="C0314V4" id="C0314V4">14:4</a> then the
priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living
clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. <a name="C0314V5"
id="C0314V5">14:5</a> The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds
in an earthen vessel over running water. <a name="C0314V6" id="C0314V6">14:6</a>
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the
blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. <a name="C0314V7"
id="C0314V7">14:7</a> He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from
the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird go into the open field.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V8" id="C0314V8">14:8</a> "He who is to be cleansed shall
wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water;
and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall
dwell outside his tent seven days. <a name="C0314V9" id="C0314V9">14:9</a> It
shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head
and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He
shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he
shall be clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V10" id="C0314V10">14:10</a> "On the eighth day he shall
take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without
blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil. <a name="C0314V11" id="C0314V11">14:11</a>
The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and
those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V12" id="C0314V12">14:12</a> "The priest shall take one of
the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of
oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. <a name="C0314V13"
id="C0314V13">14:13</a> He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they
kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the
sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass
offering. It is most holy. <a name="C0314V14" id="C0314V14">14:14</a> The
priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the
priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his
right foot. <a name="C0314V15" id="C0314V15">14:15</a> The priest shall take
some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. <a
name="C0314V16" id="C0314V16">14:16</a> The priest shall dip his right finger
in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil
with his finger seven times before Yahweh. <a name="C0314V17" id="C0314V17">14:17</a>
The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on
the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of
the trespass offering. <a name="C0314V18" id="C0314V18">14:18</a> The rest of
the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who
is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V19" id="C0314V19">14:19</a> "The priest shall offer the
sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of
his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering; <a
name="C0314V20" id="C0314V20">14:20</a> and the priest shall offer the burnt
offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V21" id="C0314V21">14:21</a> "If he is poor, and can't
afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering
to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil; <a
name="C0314V22" id="C0314V22">14:22</a> and two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin
offering, and the other a burnt offering.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V23" id="C0314V23">14:23</a> "On the eighth day he shall
bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, before Yahweh. <a name="C0314V24" id="C0314V24">14:24</a> The priest
shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the
priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. <a name="C0314V25"
id="C0314V25">14:25</a> He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The
priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on
the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. <a name="C0314V26"
id="C0314V26">14:26</a> The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm
of his own left hand; <a name="C0314V27" id="C0314V27">14:27</a> and the
priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his
left hand seven times before Yahweh. <a name="C0314V28" id="C0314V28">14:28</a>
Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip
of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his
right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the
blood of the trespass offering. <a name="C0314V29" id="C0314V29">14:29</a> The
rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of
him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh. <a
name="C0314V30" id="C0314V30">14:30</a> He shall offer one of the turtledoves,
or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, <a name="C0314V31"
id="C0314V31">14:31</a> even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The
priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V32" id="C0314V32">14:32</a> This is the Torah for him in whom is
the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his
cleansing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V33" id="C0314V33">14:33</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C0314V34" id="C0314V34">14:34</a> "When you have come
into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a
spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, <a
name="C0314V35" id="C0314V35">14:35</a> then he who owns the house shall come
and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague
in the house.' <a name="C0314V36" id="C0314V36">14:36</a> The priest shall
command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine
the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and
afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. <a name="C0314V37"
id="C0314V37">14:37</a> He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the
plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or
reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall; <a name="C0314V38"
id="C0314V38">14:38</a> then the priest shall go out of the house to the
door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. <a name="C0314V39"
id="C0314V39">14:39</a> The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and
look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, <a name="C0314V40"
id="C0314V40">14:40</a> then the priest shall command that they take out the
stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside
of the city: <a name="C0314V41" id="C0314V41">14:41</a> and he shall cause the
inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the
mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
<a name="C0314V42" id="C0314V42">14:42</a> They shall take other stones, and
put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and
shall plaster the house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V43" id="C0314V43">14:43</a> "If the plague comes again,
and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after
he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered; <a name="C0314V44"
id="C0314V44">14:44</a> then the priest shall come in and look; and behold,
if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the
house. It is unclean. <a name="C0314V45" id="C0314V45">14:45</a> He shall
break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's
mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V46" id="C0314V46">14:46</a> "Moreover he who goes into the
house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. <a
name="C0314V47" id="C0314V47">14:47</a> He who lies down in the house shall
wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V48" id="C0314V48">14:48</a> "If the priest shall come in,
and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after
the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean,
because the plague is healed. <a name="C0314V49" id="C0314V49">14:49</a> To
cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet,
and hyssop. <a name="C0314V50" id="C0314V50">14:50</a> He shall kill one of
the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. <a name="C0314V51"
id="C0314V51">14:51</a> He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and
the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain
bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. <a
name="C0314V52" id="C0314V52">14:52</a> He shall cleanse the house with the
blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with
the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet; <a name="C0314V53"
id="C0314V53">14:53</a> but he shall let the living bird go out of the city
into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it
shall be clean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0314V54" id="C0314V54">14:54</a> This is the Torah for any plague of
leprosy, and for an itch, <a name="C0314V55" id="C0314V55">14:55</a> and for
the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, <a name="C0314V56"
id="C0314V56">14:56</a> and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright
spot; <a name="C0314V57" id="C0314V57">14:57</a> to teach when it is unclean,
and when it is clean.
</p>
<p>
This is the Torah of leprosy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V1" id="C0315V1">15:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C0315V2" id="C0315V2">15:2</a> "Speak to the children of
Yisrael, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body,
because of his discharge he is unclean. <a name="C0315V3" id="C0315V3">15:3</a>
This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with
his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his
uncleanness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V4" id="C0315V4">15:4</a> "'Every bed whereon he who has
the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be
unclean. <a name="C0315V5" id="C0315V5">15:5</a> Whoever touches his bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. <a name="C0315V6" id="C0315V6">15:6</a> He who sits on anything
whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V7" id="C0315V7">15:7</a> "'He who touches the body of him
who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V8" id="C0315V8">15:8</a> "'If he who has the discharge
spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V9" id="C0315V9">15:9</a> "'Whatever saddle he who has the
discharge rides on shall be unclean. <a name="C0315V10" id="C0315V10">15:10</a>
Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the
evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V11" id="C0315V11">15:11</a> "'Whoever he who has the
discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V12" id="C0315V12">15:12</a> "'The earthen vessel, which he
who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood
shall be rinsed in water.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V13" id="C0315V13">15:13</a> "'When he who has a discharge
is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days
for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in
running water, and shall be clean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V14" id="C0315V14">15:14</a> "'On the eighth day he shall
take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest: <a name="C0315V15"
id="C0315V15">15:15</a> and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make
atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V16" id="C0315V16">15:16</a> "'If any man has an emission
of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until
the evening. <a name="C0315V17" id="C0315V17">15:17</a> Every garment, and
every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be
unclean until the evening. <a name="C0315V18" id="C0315V18">15:18</a> If a man
lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe
themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V19" id="C0315V19">15:19</a> "'If a woman has a discharge,
and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity
seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V20" id="C0315V20">15:20</a> "'Everything that she lies on
in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall
be unclean. <a name="C0315V21" id="C0315V21">15:21</a> Whoever touches her bed
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the evening. <a name="C0315V22" id="C0315V22">15:22</a> Whoever touches
anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening. <a name="C0315V23" id="C0315V23">15:23</a>
If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it,
he shall be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V24" id="C0315V24">15:24</a> "'If any man lies with her,
and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every
bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V25" id="C0315V25">15:25</a> "'If a woman has a discharge
of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a
discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of
her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean. <a
name="C0315V26" id="C0315V26">15:26</a> Every bed whereon she lies all the
days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and
everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
period. <a name="C0315V27" id="C0315V27">15:27</a> Whoever touches these
things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V28" id="C0315V28">15:28</a> "'But if she is cleansed of
her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that
she shall be clean. <a name="C0315V29" id="C0315V29">15:29</a> On the eighth
day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them
to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0315V30"
id="C0315V30">15:30</a> The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement
for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V31" id="C0315V31">15:31</a> "'Thus you shall separate the
children of Yisrael from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their
uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0315V32" id="C0315V32">15:32</a> This is the Torah of him who has a
discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean
thereby; <a name="C0315V33" id="C0315V33">15:33</a> and of her who has her
period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies
with her who is unclean.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V1" id="C0316V1">16:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, after the death
of the two sons of Aharon, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died; <a
name="C0316V2" id="C0316V2">16:2</a> and Yahweh said to Moshe, "Tell
Aharon your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place
within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die:
for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V3" id="C0316V3">16:3</a> "Herewith shall Aharon come into
the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering. <a name="C0316V4" id="C0316V4">16:4</a> He shall put on the holy
linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall
put on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They
are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
<a name="C0316V5" id="C0316V5">16:5</a> He shall take from the congregation of
the children of Yisrael two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for
a burnt offering.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V6" id="C0316V6">16:6</a> "Aharon shall offer the bull of
the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and
for his house. <a name="C0316V7" id="C0316V7">16:7</a> He shall take the two
goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C0316V8" id="C0316V8">16:8</a> Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats;
one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat. <a name="C0316V9"
id="C0316V9">16:9</a> Aharon shall present the goat on which the lot fell for
Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering. <a name="C0316V10" id="C0316V10">16:10</a>
But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented
alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the
scapegoat into the wilderness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V11" id="C0316V11">16:11</a> "Aharon shall present the bull
of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for
himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering
which is for himself. <a name="C0316V12" id="C0316V12">16:12</a> He shall take
a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two
handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil: <a
name="C0316V13" id="C0316V13">16:13</a> and he shall put the incense on the
fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat
that is on the testimony, so that he will not die. <a name="C0316V14"
id="C0316V14">16:14</a> He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and
sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the
mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven
times.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V15" id="C0316V15">16:15</a> "Then he shall kill the goat
of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within
the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and
sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: <a name="C0316V16"
id="C0316V16">16:16</a> and he shall make atonement for the Holy Place,
because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael, and because of their
transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of
Meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness. <a
name="C0316V17" id="C0316V17">16:17</a> There shall be no one in the Tent of
Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes
out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all
the assembly of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V18" id="C0316V18">16:18</a> "He shall go out to the altar
that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of
the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it around on the
horns of the altar. <a name="C0316V19" id="C0316V19">16:19</a> He shall
sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse
it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V20" id="C0316V20">16:20</a> "When he has made an end of
atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall
present the live goat. <a name="C0316V21" id="C0316V21">16:21</a> Aharon shall
lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all
the iniquities of the children of Yisrael, and all their transgressions,
even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and
shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in
readiness. <a name="C0316V22" id="C0316V22">16:22</a> The goat shall carry all
their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat
go in the wilderness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V23" id="C0316V23">16:23</a> "Aharon shall come into the
Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on
when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. <a
name="C0316V24" id="C0316V24">16:24</a> Then he shall bathe himself in water
in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt
offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for
himself and for the people. <a name="C0316V25" id="C0316V25">16:25</a> The fat
of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V26" id="C0316V26">16:26</a> "He who lets the goat go for
the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp. <a name="C0316V27" id="C0316V27">16:27</a>
The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose
blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried
forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and
their dung with fire. <a name="C0316V28" id="C0316V28">16:28</a> He who burns
them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward
he shall come into the camp.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V29" id="C0316V29">16:29</a> "It shall be a statute to you
forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall
afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or
the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: <a name="C0316V30"
id="C0316V30">16:30</a> for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to
cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh. <a
name="C0316V31" id="C0316V31">16:31</a> It is a Shabbat of solemn rest to you,
and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever. <a name="C0316V32"
id="C0316V32">16:32</a> The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated
to be priest in his father's place, shall make the atonement, and shall
put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. <a name="C0316V33"
id="C0316V33">16:33</a> Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary;
and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and
he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the
assembly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0316V34" id="C0316V34">16:34</a> "This shall be an everlasting
statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Yisrael once in the
year because of all their sins."
</p>
<p>
It was done as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0317V1" id="C0317V1">17:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0317V2" id="C0317V2">17:2</a> "Speak to Aharon, and to his sons,
and to all the children of Yisrael, and say to them: 'This is the thing
which Yahweh has commanded, <a name="C0317V3" id="C0317V3">17:3</a> Whatever
man there is of the house of Yisrael, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat,
in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, <a name="C0317V4" id="C0317V4">17:4</a>
and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as
an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be
imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from
among his people. <a name="C0317V5" id="C0317V5">17:5</a> This is to the end
that the children of Yisrael may bring their sacrifices, which they
sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for
sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh. <a name="C0317V6" id="C0317V6">17:6</a>
The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the door of
the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a
name="C0317V7" id="C0317V7">17:7</a> They shall no more sacrifice their
sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This
shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0317V8" id="C0317V8">17:8</a> "You shall say to them, 'Any man
there is of the house of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, <a
name="C0317V9" id="C0317V9">17:9</a> and doesn't bring it to the door of the
Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from
his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0317V10" id="C0317V10">17:10</a> "'Any man of the house of
Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats
any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood,
and will cut him off from among his people. <a name="C0317V11" id="C0317V11">17:11</a>
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on
the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes
atonement by reason of the life. <a name="C0317V12" id="C0317V12">17:12</a>
Therefore I have said to the children of Yisrael, "No person among you
shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among
you eat blood."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0317V13" id="C0317V13">17:13</a> "'Whatever man there is of the
children of Yisrael, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them,
who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour
out its blood, and cover it with dust. <a name="C0317V14" id="C0317V14">17:14</a>
For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I
said to the children of Yisrael, "You shall not eat the blood of any
kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it
shall be cut off."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0317V15" id="C0317V15">17:15</a> "'Every person that eats what
dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is
native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean. <a
name="C0317V16" id="C0317V16">17:16</a> But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe
his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V1" id="C0318V1">18:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, <a name="C0318V2"
id="C0318V2">18:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael, and say to
them, 'I am Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0318V3" id="C0318V3">18:3</a> You shall
not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not
do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither
shall you walk in their statutes. <a name="C0318V4" id="C0318V4">18:4</a> You
shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them:
I am Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0318V5" id="C0318V5">18:5</a> You shall
therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he
shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V6" id="C0318V6">18:6</a> "'None of you shall approach
anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V7" id="C0318V7">18:7</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your
mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V8" id="C0318V8">18:8</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V9" id="C0318V9">18:9</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of
your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V10" id="C0318V10">18:10</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even
their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V11" id="C0318V11">18:11</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father,
since she is your sister.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V12" id="C0318V12">18:12</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V13" id="C0318V13">18:13</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near
kinswoman.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V14" id="C0318V14">18:14</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she
is your aunt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V15" id="C0318V15">18:15</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not
uncover her nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V16" id="C0318V16">18:16</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V17" id="C0318V17">18:17</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's
daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are
near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V18" id="C0318V18">18:18</a> "'You shall not take a wife to
her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is
yet alive.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V19" id="C0318V19">18:19</a> "'You shall not approach a
woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her
uncleanness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V20" id="C0318V20">18:20</a> "'You shall not lie carnally
with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V21" id="C0318V21">18:21</a> "'You shall not give any of
your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name
of your Elohim: I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V22" id="C0318V22">18:22</a> "'You shall not lie with a
man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V23" id="C0318V23">18:23</a> "'You shall not lie with any
animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to
an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V24" id="C0318V24">18:24</a> "'Don't defile yourselves in
any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out
before you were defiled. <a name="C0318V25" id="C0318V25">18:25</a> The land
was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out
her inhabitants. <a name="C0318V26" id="C0318V26">18:26</a> You therefore
shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these
abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a
foreigner among you; <a name="C0318V27" id="C0318V27">18:27</a> (for all these
abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the
land became defiled); <a name="C0318V28" id="C0318V28">18:28</a> that the land
not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation
that was before you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0318V29" id="C0318V29">18:29</a> "'For whoever shall do any of
these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from
among their people. <a name="C0318V30" id="C0318V30">18:30</a> Therefore you
shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these
abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not
defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V1" id="C0319V1">19:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0319V2" id="C0319V2">19:2</a> "Speak to all the congregation of
the children of Yisrael, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh
your Elohim am holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V3" id="C0319V3">19:3</a> "'Each one of you shall respect
his mother and his father. You shall keep my Shabbats. I am Yahweh your
Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V4" id="C0319V4">19:4</a> "'Don't turn to idols, nor make
molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V5" id="C0319V5">19:5</a> "'When you offer a sacrifice of
peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
<a name="C0319V6" id="C0319V6">19:6</a> It shall be eaten the same day you
offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third
day, it shall be burned with fire. <a name="C0319V7" id="C0319V7">19:7</a> If
it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be
accepted; <a name="C0319V8" id="C0319V8">19:8</a> but everyone who eats it
shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh,
and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V9" id="C0319V9">19:9</a> "'When you reap the harvest of
your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither
shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. <a name="C0319V10"
id="C0319V10">19:10</a> You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you
gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the
poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V11" id="C0319V11">19:11</a> "'You shall not steal; neither
shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V12" id="C0319V12">19:12</a> "'You shall not swear by my
name falsely, and profane the name of your Elohim. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V13" id="C0319V13">19:13</a> "'You shall not oppress your
neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with
you all night until the morning.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V14" id="C0319V14">19:14</a> "'You shall not curse the
deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your
Elohim. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V15" id="C0319V15">19:15</a> "'You shall do no injustice in
judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the
great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V16" id="C0319V16">19:16</a> "'You shall not go up and down
as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the <a
href="#N031">life</a> of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V17" id="C0319V17">19:17</a> "'You shall not hate your
brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear
sin because of him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V18" id="C0319V18">19:18</a> "'You shall not take
vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but
you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V19" id="C0319V19">19:19</a> "'You shall keep my statutes.
</p>
<p>
"'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals.
</p>
<p>
"'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
</p>
<p>
"'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of
material.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V20" id="C0319V20">19:20</a> "'If a man lies carnally with
a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not
ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be
put to death, because she was not free. <a name="C0319V21" id="C0319V21">19:21</a>
He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering. <a name="C0319V22" id="C0319V22">19:22</a>
The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass
offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: and the sin
which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V23" id="C0319V23">19:23</a> "'When you come into the land,
and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their
fruit as <a href="#N032">forbidden.</a> Three years shall they be
forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. <a name="C0319V24" id="C0319V24">19:24</a>
But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to
Yahweh. <a name="C0319V25" id="C0319V25">19:25</a> In the fifth year you shall
eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your
Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V26" id="C0319V26">19:26</a> "'You shall not eat any meat
with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor
practice sorcery.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V27" id="C0319V27">19:27</a> "'You shall not cut the hair
on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your
beard.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V28" id="C0319V28">19:28</a> "'You shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V29" id="C0319V29">19:29</a> "'Don't profane your daughter,
to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land
become full of wickedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V30" id="C0319V30">19:30</a> "'You shall keep my Shabbats,
and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V31" id="C0319V31">19:31</a> "'Don't turn to those who are
mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I
am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V32" id="C0319V32">19:32</a> "'You shall rise up before the
gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your Elohim.
I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V33" id="C0319V33">19:33</a> "'If a stranger lives as a
foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. <a
name="C0319V34" id="C0319V34">19:34</a> The stranger who lives as a foreigner
with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love
him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am
Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0319V35" id="C0319V35">19:35</a> "'You shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of
quantity. <a name="C0319V36" id="C0319V36">19:36</a> You shall have just
balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your
Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C0319V37" id="C0319V37">19:37</a>
You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I
am Yahweh.'"
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N031" id="N031">[1]</a> <a href="#C0319V16">back to 19:16</a>
literally, "blood"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N032" id="N032">[2]</a> <a href="#C0319V23">back to 19:23</a>
literally, "uncircumcised"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V1" id="C0320V1">20:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0320V2" id="C0320V2">20:2</a> "Moreover, you shall tell the
children of Yisrael, 'Anyone of the children of Yisrael, or of the strangers
who live as foreigners in Yisrael, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he
shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with
stones. <a name="C0320V3" id="C0320V3">20:3</a> I also will set my face
against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he
has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my
holy name. <a name="C0320V4" id="C0320V4">20:4</a> If the people of the land
all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech,
and don't put him to death; <a name="C0320V5" id="C0320V5">20:5</a> then I
will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut
him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute
with Molech, from among their people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V6" id="C0320V6">20:6</a> "'The person that turns to those
who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I
will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among
his people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V7" id="C0320V7">20:7</a> "'Sanctify yourselves therefore,
and be holy; for I am Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0320V8" id="C0320V8">20:8</a>
You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V9" id="C0320V9">20:9</a> "'For everyone who curses his
father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his
father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V10" id="C0320V10">20:10</a> "'The man who commits adultery
with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's
wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. <a
name="C0320V11" id="C0320V11">20:11</a> The man who lies with his father's
wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V12" id="C0320V12">20:12</a> "'If a man lies with his
daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have
committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V13" id="C0320V13">20:13</a> "'If a man lies with a male,
as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V14" id="C0320V14">20:14</a> "'If a man takes a wife and
her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and
they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V15" id="C0320V15">20:15</a> "'If a man lies with an
animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V16" id="C0320V16">20:16</a> "'If a woman approaches any
animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal:
they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V17" id="C0320V17">20:17</a> "'If a man takes his sister,
his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness,
and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut
off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his
sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V18" id="C0320V18">20:18</a> "'If a man lies with a woman
having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked
her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of
them shall be cut off from among their people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V19" id="C0320V19">20:19</a> "'You shall not uncover the
nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has
made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity. <a
name="C0320V20" id="C0320V20">20:20</a> If a man lies with his uncle's wife,
he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they
shall die childless.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V21" id="C0320V21">20:21</a> "'If a man takes his brother's
wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they
shall be childless.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V22" id="C0320V22">20:22</a> "'You shall therefore keep all
my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am
bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out. <a name="C0320V23" id="C0320V23">20:23</a>
You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out
before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
<a name="C0320V24" id="C0320V24">20:24</a> But I have said to you, "You
shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land
flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your Elohim, who has separated
you from the peoples.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V25" id="C0320V25">20:25</a> "'You shall therefore make a
distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the
unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable
by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I
have separated from you as unclean for you. <a name="C0320V26" id="C0320V26">20:26</a>
You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart
from the peoples, that you should be mine.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0320V27" id="C0320V27">20:27</a> "'A man or a woman that is a
medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone
them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V1" id="C0321V1">21:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Speak to
the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them, 'A priest shall not
defile himself for the dead among his people; <a name="C0321V2" id="C0321V2">21:2</a>
except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his
father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, <a name="C0321V3"
id="C0321V3">21:3</a> and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has
had no husband; for her he may defile himself. <a name="C0321V4" id="C0321V4">21:4</a>
He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to
profane himself.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V5" id="C0321V5">21:5</a> "'They shall not shave their
heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make
any cuttings in their flesh. <a name="C0321V6" id="C0321V6">21:6</a> They
shall be holy to their Elohim, and not profane the name of their Elohim; for
they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their Elohim;
therefore they shall be holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V7" id="C0321V7">21:7</a> "'They shall not marry a woman
who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced
from her husband: for he is holy to his Elohim. <a name="C0321V8" id="C0321V8">21:8</a>
You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your Elohim: he
shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V9" id="C0321V9">21:9</a> "'The daughter of any priest, if
she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father:
she shall be burned with fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V10" id="C0321V10">21:10</a> "'He who is the high priest
among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that
is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head
hang loose, nor tear his clothes; <a name="C0321V11" id="C0321V11">21:11</a>
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his
father, or for his mother; <a name="C0321V12" id="C0321V12">21:12</a> neither
shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his Elohim;
for the crown of the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V13" id="C0321V13">21:13</a> "'He shall take a wife in her
virginity. <a name="C0321V14" id="C0321V14">21:14</a> A widow, or one
divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall
not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. <a
name="C0321V15" id="C0321V15">21:15</a> He shall not profane his seed among
his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V16" id="C0321V16">21:16</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0321V17" id="C0321V17">21:17</a> "Say to Aharon, 'None of your seed
throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the
bread of his Elohim. <a name="C0321V18" id="C0321V18">21:18</a> For whatever man
he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame,
or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, <a name="C0321V19" id="C0321V19">21:19</a>
or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand, <a name="C0321V20"
id="C0321V20">21:20</a> or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect
in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles;
<a name="C0321V21" id="C0321V21">21:21</a> no man of the seed of Aharon the
priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer
the bread of his Elohim. <a name="C0321V22" id="C0321V22">21:22</a> He shall eat
the bread of his Elohim, both of the most holy, and of the holy. <a
name="C0321V23" id="C0321V23">21:23</a> He shall not come near to the veil,
nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not
profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0321V24" id="C0321V24">21:24</a> So Moshe spoke to Aharon, and to his
sons, and to all the children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V1" id="C0322V1">22:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0322V2" id="C0322V2">22:2</a> "Tell Aharon and his sons to separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Yisrael, which they make
holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V3" id="C0322V3">22:3</a> "Tell them, 'If anyone of all
your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which
the children of Yisrael make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him,
that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V4" id="C0322V4">22:4</a> "'Whoever of the seed of Aharon is
a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is
clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man
whose seed goes from him; <a name="C0322V5" id="C0322V5">22:5</a> or whoever
touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of
whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; <a name="C0322V6"
id="C0322V6">22:6</a> the person that touches any such shall be unclean
until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe
his body in water. <a name="C0322V7" id="C0322V7">22:7</a> When the sun is
down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things,
because it is his bread. <a name="C0322V8" id="C0322V8">22:8</a> That which
dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself
by it. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V9" id="C0322V9">22:9</a> "'They shall therefore follow my
requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane
it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V10" id="C0322V10">22:10</a> "'No stranger shall eat of the
holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall
not eat of the holy thing. <a name="C0322V11" id="C0322V11">22:11</a> But if a
priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such
as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. <a name="C0322V12"
id="C0322V12">22:12</a> If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider,
she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things. <a
name="C0322V13" id="C0322V13">22:13</a> But if a priest's daughter is a widow,
or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as
in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat
any of it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V14" id="C0322V14">22:14</a> "'If a man eats something holy
unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and
shall give the holy thing to the priest. <a name="C0322V15" id="C0322V15">22:15</a>
The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Yisrael,
which they offer to Yahweh, <a name="C0322V16" id="C0322V16">22:16</a> and so
cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their
holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V17" id="C0322V17">22:17</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0322V18" id="C0322V18">22:18</a> "Speak to Aharon, and to his sons,
and to all the children of Yisrael, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the
house of Yisrael, or of the foreigners in Yisrael, who offers his offering,
whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which
they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering; <a name="C0322V19" id="C0322V19">22:19</a>
that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, of the
bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. <a name="C0322V20" id="C0322V20">22:20</a>
But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be
acceptable for you. <a name="C0322V21" id="C0322V21">22:21</a> Whoever offers
a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a
freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be
accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. <a name="C0322V22" id="C0322V22">22:22</a>
Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running
sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of
them on the altar to Yahweh. <a name="C0322V23" id="C0322V23">22:23</a> Either
a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you
may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
<a name="C0322V24" id="C0322V24">22:24</a> That which has its testicles
bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither
shall you do thus in your land. <a name="C0322V25" id="C0322V25">22:25</a>
Neither shall you offer the bread of your Elohim from the hand of a foreigner
of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish
in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V26" id="C0322V26">22:26</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0322V27" id="C0322V27">22:27</a> "When a bull, or a sheep, or a
goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from
the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an
offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0322V28" id="C0322V28">22:28</a>
Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in
one day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V29" id="C0322V29">22:29</a> "When you sacrifice a
sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you
may be accepted. <a name="C0322V30" id="C0322V30">22:30</a> It shall be eaten
on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0322V31" id="C0322V31">22:31</a> "Therefore you shall keep my
commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh. <a name="C0322V32" id="C0322V32">22:32</a>
You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the
children of Yisrael. I am Yahweh who makes you holy, <a name="C0322V33"
id="C0322V33">22:33</a> who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
Elohim. I am Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V1" id="C0323V1">23:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0323V2" id="C0323V2">23:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and tell them, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be
holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V3" id="C0323V3">23:3</a> "'Six days shall work be done:
but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, a holy convocation;
you shall do no manner of work. It is a Shabbat to Yahweh in all your
dwellings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V4" id="C0323V4">23:4</a> "'These are the set feasts of
Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their
appointed season. <a name="C0323V5" id="C0323V5">23:5</a> In the first month,
on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
<a name="C0323V6" id="C0323V6">23:6</a> On the fifteenth day of the same month
is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread. <a name="C0323V7" id="C0323V7">23:7</a> In the first day you
shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. <a
name="C0323V8" id="C0323V8">23:8</a> But you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you
shall do no regular work.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V9" id="C0323V9">23:9</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0323V10" id="C0323V10">23:10</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and
shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first
fruits of your harvest to the priest: <a name="C0323V11" id="C0323V11">23:11</a>
and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the
next day after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it. <a name="C0323V12"
id="C0323V12">23:12</a> On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer
a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. <a
name="C0323V13" id="C0323V13">23:13</a> The meal offering with it shall be two
tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made
by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it
shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. <a name="C0323V14" id="C0323V14">23:14</a>
You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until
this same day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim. This is a
statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V15" id="C0323V15">23:15</a> "'You shall count from the
next day after the Shabbat, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the
wave offering; seven Shabbats shall be completed: <a name="C0323V16"
id="C0323V16">23:16</a> even to the next day after the seventh Shabbat you
shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to
Yahweh. <a name="C0323V17" id="C0323V17">23:17</a> You shall bring out of your
habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth
parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first
fruits to Yahweh. <a name="C0323V18" id="C0323V18">23:18</a> You shall present
with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and
two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal
offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a
sweet aroma to Yahweh. <a name="C0323V19" id="C0323V19">23:19</a> You shall
offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for
a sacrifice of peace offerings. <a name="C0323V20" id="C0323V20">23:20</a> The
priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave
offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh
for the priest. <a name="C0323V21" id="C0323V21">23:21</a> You shall make
proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you;
you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V22" id="C0323V22">23:22</a> "'When you reap the harvest of
your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field,
neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave
them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V23" id="C0323V23">23:23</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0323V24" id="C0323V24">23:24</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a
solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
<a name="C0323V25" id="C0323V25">23:25</a> You shall do no regular work; and
you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V26" id="C0323V26">23:26</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0323V27" id="C0323V27">23:27</a> "However on the tenth day of this
seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to
you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0323V28" id="C0323V28">23:28</a> You shall
do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to
make atonement for you before Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0323V29" id="C0323V29">23:29</a>
For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be
cut off from his people. <a name="C0323V30" id="C0323V30">23:30</a> Whoever it
is who does any manner of work in that same day, that person I will
destroy from among his people. <a name="C0323V31" id="C0323V31">23:31</a> You
shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. <a name="C0323V32" id="C0323V32">23:32</a>
It shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny
yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to
evening, you shall keep your Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V33" id="C0323V33">23:33</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0323V34" id="C0323V34">23:34</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and say, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents
for seven days to Yahweh. <a name="C0323V35" id="C0323V35">23:35</a> On the
first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work. <a
name="C0323V36" id="C0323V36">23:36</a> Seven days you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to
you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a
solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V37" id="C0323V37">23:37</a> "'These are the appointed
feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to
offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; <a
name="C0323V38" id="C0323V38">23:38</a> besides the Shabbats of Yahweh, and
besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your
freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V39" id="C0323V39">23:39</a> "'So on the fifteenth day of
the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you
shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a
solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. <a name="C0323V40"
id="C0323V40">23:40</a> You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly
trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of
the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim seven days. <a
name="C0323V41" id="C0323V41">23:41</a> You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh
seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your
generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. <a name="C0323V42"
id="C0323V42">23:42</a> You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are
native-born in Yisrael shall dwell in booths, <a name="C0323V43" id="C0323V43">23:43</a>
that your generations may know that I made the children of Yisrael to dwell
in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your
Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0323V44" id="C0323V44">23:44</a> Moshe declared to the children of
Yisrael the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V1" id="C0324V1">24:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0324V2" id="C0324V2">24:2</a> "Command the children of Yisrael,
that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a
lamp to burn continually. <a name="C0324V3" id="C0324V3">24:3</a> Outside of
the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aharon keep it in
order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a
statute forever throughout your generations. <a name="C0324V4" id="C0324V4">24:4</a>
He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh
continually.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V5" id="C0324V5">24:5</a> "You shall take fine flour, and
bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
<a name="C0324V6" id="C0324V6">24:6</a> You shall set them in two rows, six on
a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. <a name="C0324V7" id="C0324V7">24:7</a>
You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread
for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0324V8"
id="C0324V8">24:8</a> Every Shabbat day he shall set it in order before
Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Yisrael an
everlasting covenant. <a name="C0324V9" id="C0324V9">24:9</a> It shall be for
Aharon and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most
holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual
statute."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V10" id="C0324V10">24:10</a> The son of an Israelite woman,
whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Yisrael; and
the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Yisrael strove together in the
camp. <a name="C0324V11" id="C0324V11">24:11</a> The son of the Israelite
woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moshe. His
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
<a name="C0324V12" id="C0324V12">24:12</a> They put him in custody, until the
will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V13" id="C0324V13">24:13</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0324V14" id="C0324V14">24:14</a> "Bring out of the camp him who
cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all
the congregation stone him. <a name="C0324V15" id="C0324V15">24:15</a> You
shall speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, 'Whoever curses his Elohim
shall bear his sin. <a name="C0324V16" id="C0324V16">24:16</a> He who
blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the
congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the
native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V17" id="C0324V17">24:17</a> "'He who strikes any man
mortally shall surely be put to death. <a name="C0324V18" id="C0324V18">24:18</a>
He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life. <a
name="C0324V19" id="C0324V19">24:19</a> If anyone injures his neighbor; as he
has done, so shall it be done to him: <a name="C0324V20" id="C0324V20">24:20</a>
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured
someone, so shall it be done to him. <a name="C0324V21" id="C0324V21">24:21</a>
He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be
put to death. <a name="C0324V22" id="C0324V22">24:22</a> You shall have one
kind of Torah, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Yahweh
your Elohim.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0324V23" id="C0324V23">24:23</a> Moshe spoke to the children of
Yisrael; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and
stoned him with stones. The children of Yisrael did as Yahweh commanded
Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V1" id="C0325V1">25:1</a> Yahweh said to Moshe in Mount Sinai,
<a name="C0325V2" id="C0325V2">25:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the
land shall keep a Shabbat to Yahweh. <a name="C0325V3" id="C0325V3">25:3</a>
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your
vineyard, and gather in its fruits; <a name="C0325V4" id="C0325V4">25:4</a>
but in the seventh year there shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for the
land, a Shabbat to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your
vineyard. <a name="C0325V5" id="C0325V5">25:5</a> What grows of itself in your
harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you
shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. <a
name="C0325V6" id="C0325V6">25:6</a> The Shabbat of the land shall be for food
for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired
servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. <a
name="C0325V7" id="C0325V7">25:7</a> For your livestock also, and for the
animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V8" id="C0325V8">25:8</a> "'You shall count off seven
Shabbats of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the
days of seven Shabbats of years, even forty-nine years. <a name="C0325V9"
id="C0325V9">25:9</a> Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day
of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet
throughout all your land. <a name="C0325V10" id="C0325V10">25:10</a> You shall
make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to
all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall
return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. <a
name="C0325V11" id="C0325V11">25:11</a> That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee
to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself,
nor gather from the undressed vines. <a name="C0325V12" id="C0325V12">25:12</a>
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its
increase out of the field.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V13" id="C0325V13">25:13</a> "'In this Year of Jubilee each
of you shall return to his property.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V14" id="C0325V14">25:14</a> "'If you sell anything to your
neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. <a
name="C0325V15" id="C0325V15">25:15</a> According to the number of years after
the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of
years of the crops he shall sell to you. <a name="C0325V16" id="C0325V16">25:16</a>
According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and
according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for
he is selling the number of the crops to you. <a name="C0325V17" id="C0325V17">25:17</a>
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your Elohim: for I am
Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V18" id="C0325V18">25:18</a> "'Therefore you shall do my
statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the
land in safety. <a name="C0325V19" id="C0325V19">25:19</a> The land shall
yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
<a name="C0325V20" id="C0325V20">25:20</a> If you said, "What shall we
eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our
increase;" <a name="C0325V21" id="C0325V21">25:21</a> then I will command
my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for
the three years. <a name="C0325V22" id="C0325V22">25:22</a> You shall sow the
eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year,
until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V23" id="C0325V23">25:23</a> "'The land shall not be sold
in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as
foreigners with me. <a name="C0325V24" id="C0325V24">25:24</a> In all the land
of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V25" id="C0325V25">25:25</a> "'If your brother becomes
poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to
him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. <a
name="C0325V26" id="C0325V26">25:26</a> If a man has no one to redeem it, and
he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it; <a
name="C0325V27" id="C0325V27">25:27</a> then let him reckon the years since
its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he
shall return to his property. <a name="C0325V28" id="C0325V28">25:28</a> But
if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall
remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and
in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V29" id="C0325V29">25:29</a> "'If a man sells a dwelling
house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it
has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. <a
name="C0325V30" id="C0325V30">25:30</a> If it isn't redeemed within the space
of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made
sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It
shall not be released in the Jubilee. <a name="C0325V31" id="C0325V31">25:31</a>
But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be
reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they
shall be released in the Jubilee.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V32" id="C0325V32">25:32</a> "'Nevertheless the cities of
the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may
redeem at any time. <a name="C0325V33" id="C0325V33">25:33</a> The Levites may
redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it
shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the
Levites are their possession among the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0325V34"
id="C0325V34">25:34</a> But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not
be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V35" id="C0325V35">25:35</a> "'If your brother has become
poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him.
As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. <a name="C0325V36"
id="C0325V36">25:36</a> Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your
Elohim; that your brother may live among you. <a name="C0325V37" id="C0325V37">25:37</a>
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for
profit. <a name="C0325V38" id="C0325V38">25:38</a> I am Yahweh your Elohim, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, and to be your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V39" id="C0325V39">25:39</a> "'If your brother has grown
poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve
as a slave. <a name="C0325V40" id="C0325V40">25:40</a> As a hired servant, and
as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the
Year of Jubilee: <a name="C0325V41" id="C0325V41">25:41</a> then he shall go
out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own
family, and to the possession of his fathers. <a name="C0325V42" id="C0325V42">25:42</a>
For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as slaves. <a name="C0325V43" id="C0325V43">25:43</a>
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V44" id="C0325V44">25:44</a> "'As for your male and your
female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from
them you may buy male and female slaves. <a name="C0325V45" id="C0325V45">25:45</a>
Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them
you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have
conceived in your land; and they will be your property. <a name="C0325V46"
id="C0325V46">25:46</a> You may make them an inheritance for your children
after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves
forever: but over your brothers the children of Yisrael you shall not rule,
one over another, with harshness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0325V47" id="C0325V47">25:47</a> "'If a stranger or sojourner
with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and
sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a
member of the stranger's family; <a name="C0325V48" id="C0325V48">25:48</a>
after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
<a name="C0325V49" id="C0325V49">25:49</a> or his uncle, or his uncle's son,
may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may
redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. <a
name="C0325V50" id="C0325V50">25:50</a> He shall reckon with him who bought
him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and
the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according
to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. <a name="C0325V51"
id="C0325V51">25:51</a> If there are yet many years, according to them he
shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was
bought for. <a name="C0325V52" id="C0325V52">25:52</a> If there remain but a
few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according
to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. <a
name="C0325V53" id="C0325V53">25:53</a> As a servant hired year by year shall
he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
<a name="C0325V54" id="C0325V54">25:54</a> If he isn't redeemed by these
means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his
children with him. <a name="C0325V55" id="C0325V55">25:55</a> For to me the
children of Yisrael are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth
out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V1" id="C0326V1">26:1</a> "'You shall make for yourselves
no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar,
neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it:
for I am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V2" id="C0326V2">26:2</a> "'You shall keep my Shabbats, and
have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V3" id="C0326V3">26:3</a> "'If you walk in my statutes, and
keep my commandments, and do them; <a name="C0326V4" id="C0326V4">26:4</a>
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield
its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. <a
name="C0326V5" id="C0326V5">26:5</a> Your threshing shall reach to the
vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V6" id="C0326V6">26:6</a> "'I will give peace in the land,
and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove
evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your
land. <a name="C0326V7" id="C0326V7">26:7</a> You shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you by the sword. <a name="C0326V8" id="C0326V8">26:8</a>
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten
thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V9" id="C0326V9">26:9</a> "'I will have respect for you,
and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant
with you. <a name="C0326V10" id="C0326V10">26:10</a> You shall eat old store
long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. <a
name="C0326V11" id="C0326V11">26:11</a> I will set my tent among you: and my
soul won't abhor you. <a name="C0326V12" id="C0326V12">26:12</a> I will walk
among you, and will be your Elohim, and you will be my people. <a
name="C0326V13" id="C0326V13">26:13</a> I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I
have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V14" id="C0326V14">26:14</a> "'But if you will not listen
to me, and will not do all these commandments; <a name="C0326V15" id="C0326V15">26:15</a>
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my
ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my
covenant; <a name="C0326V16" id="C0326V16">26:16</a> I also will do this to
you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that
shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow
your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. <a name="C0326V17"
id="C0326V17">26:17</a> I will set my face against you, and you will be
struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you
will flee when no one pursues you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V18" id="C0326V18">26:18</a> "'If you in spite of these
things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more
for your sins. <a name="C0326V19" id="C0326V19">26:19</a> I will break the
pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil
like brass; <a name="C0326V20" id="C0326V20">26:20</a> and your strength will
be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the
trees of the land yield their fruit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V21" id="C0326V21">26:21</a> "'If you walk contrary to me,
and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you
according to your sins. <a name="C0326V22" id="C0326V22">26:22</a> I will send
the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy
your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become
desolate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V23" id="C0326V23">26:23</a> "'If by these things you won't
be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; <a name="C0326V24"
id="C0326V24">26:24</a> then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will
strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. <a name="C0326V25" id="C0326V25">26:25</a>
I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the
covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will
send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of
the enemy. <a name="C0326V26" id="C0326V26">26:26</a> When I break your staff
of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V27" id="C0326V27">26:27</a> "'If you in spite of this
won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me; <a name="C0326V28" id="C0326V28">26:28</a>
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you
seven times for your sins. <a name="C0326V29" id="C0326V29">26:29</a> You will
eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
<a name="C0326V30" id="C0326V30">26:30</a> I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the
bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. <a name="C0326V31"
id="C0326V31">26:31</a> I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your
sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet
fragrance of your offerings. <a name="C0326V32" id="C0326V32">26:32</a> I will
bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will
be astonished at it. <a name="C0326V33" id="C0326V33">26:33</a> I will scatter
you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your
land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. <a
name="C0326V34" id="C0326V34">26:34</a> Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths
as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then
the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. <a name="C0326V35" id="C0326V35">26:35</a>
As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it
didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V36" id="C0326V36">26:36</a> "'As for those of you who are
left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they
shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one
pursues. <a name="C0326V37" id="C0326V37">26:37</a> They will stumble over one
another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will
have no power to stand before your enemies. <a name="C0326V38" id="C0326V38">26:38</a>
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat
you up. <a name="C0326V39" id="C0326V39">26:39</a> Those of you who are left
will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V40" id="C0326V40">26:40</a> "'If they confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
<a name="C0326V41" id="C0326V41">26:41</a> I also walked contrary to them, and
brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised
heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
<a name="C0326V42" id="C0326V42">26:42</a> then I will remember my covenant
with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Avraham; and I will remember the land. <a name="C0326V43" id="C0326V43">26:43</a>
The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it
lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their
iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their
soul abhorred my statutes. <a name="C0326V44" id="C0326V44">26:44</a> Yet for
all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject
them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my
covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their Elohim; <a name="C0326V45" id="C0326V45">26:45</a>
but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I
might be their Elohim. I am Yahweh.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0326V46" id="C0326V46">26:46</a> These are the statutes, ordinances
and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Yisrael in
Mount Sinai by Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V1" id="C0327V1">27:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0327V2" id="C0327V2">27:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh
by your valuation. <a name="C0327V3" id="C0327V3">27:3</a> Your valuation
shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even
your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the
sanctuary. <a name="C0327V4" id="C0327V4">27:4</a> If it is a female, then
your valuation shall be thirty shekels. <a name="C0327V5" id="C0327V5">27:5</a>
If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your
valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten
shekels. <a name="C0327V6" id="C0327V6">27:6</a> If the person is from a month
old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five
shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels
of silver. <a name="C0327V7" id="C0327V7">27:7</a> If the person is from sixty
years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be
fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. <a name="C0327V8" id="C0327V8">27:8</a>
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the
priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him
who vowed shall the priest value him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V9" id="C0327V9">27:9</a> "'If it is an animal, of which
men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh
becomes holy. <a name="C0327V10" id="C0327V10">27:10</a> He shall not alter
it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall
at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is
changed shall be holy. <a name="C0327V11" id="C0327V11">27:11</a> If it is any
unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then
he shall set the animal before the priest; <a name="C0327V12" id="C0327V12">27:12</a>
and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the
priest values it, so shall it be. <a name="C0327V13" id="C0327V13">27:13</a>
But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to
its valuation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V14" id="C0327V14">27:14</a> "'When a man dedicates his
house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it
is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. <a
name="C0327V15" id="C0327V15">27:15</a> If he who dedicates it will redeem his
house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to
it, and it shall be his.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V16" id="C0327V16">27:16</a> "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh
part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be
according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be
valued at fifty shekels of silver. <a name="C0327V17" id="C0327V17">27:17</a>
If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your
valuation it shall stand. <a name="C0327V18" id="C0327V18">27:18</a> But if he
dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him
the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and
an abatement shall be made from your valuation. <a name="C0327V19"
id="C0327V19">27:19</a> If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and
it shall remain his. <a name="C0327V20" id="C0327V20">27:20</a> If he will not
redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not
be redeemed any more; <a name="C0327V21" id="C0327V21">27:21</a> but the
field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a
field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V22" id="C0327V22">27:22</a> "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a
field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, <a
name="C0327V23" id="C0327V23">27:23</a> then the priest shall reckon to him
the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give
your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. <a name="C0327V24"
id="C0327V24">27:24</a> In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him
from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land
belongs. <a name="C0327V25" id="C0327V25">27:25</a> All your valuations shall
be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V26" id="C0327V26">27:26</a> "'Only the firstborn among
animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it;
whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's. <a name="C0327V27" id="C0327V27">27:27</a>
If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your
valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't
redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V28" id="C0327V28">27:28</a> "'Notwithstanding, no devoted
thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of
man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or
redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V29" id="C0327V29">27:29</a> "'No one devoted, who shall be
devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to
death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V30" id="C0327V30">27:30</a> "'All the tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's.
It is holy to Yahweh. <a name="C0327V31" id="C0327V31">27:31</a> If a man
redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. <a
name="C0327V32" id="C0327V32">27:32</a> All the tithe of the herds or the
flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
<a name="C0327V33" id="C0327V33">27:33</a> He shall not search whether it is
good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then
both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be
redeemed.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0327V34" id="C0327V34">27:34</a> These are the commandments which
Yahweh commanded Moshe for the children of Yisrael on Mount Sinai.
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C421V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C422V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C423V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C424V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C425V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C426V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C427V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C428V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C429V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4210V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4211V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4212V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4213V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4214V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4215V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4216V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C4217V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C4218V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C4219V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C4220V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C4221V1>Chapter 21</a>
<a href=#C4222V1>Chapter 22</a>
<a href=#C4223V1>Chapter 23</a>
<a href=#C4224V1>Chapter 24</a>
<p>
<a name="C421V1" id="C421V1">1:1</a> Since many have undertaken to set in
order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among
us, <a name="C421V2" id="C421V2">1:2</a> even as those who from the beginning
were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, <a
name="C421V3" id="C421V3">1:3</a> it seemed good to me also, having traced the
course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order,
most excellent Theophilus; <a name="C421V4" id="C421V4">1:4</a> that you might
know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V5" id="C421V5">1:5</a> There was in the days of Herod, the king
of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of
Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aharon, and her name was
Elizabeth. <a name="C421V6" id="C421V6">1:6</a> They were both righteous
before Elohim, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of
the Lord. <a name="C421V7" id="C421V7">1:7</a> But they had no child, because
Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years. <a
name="C421V8" id="C421V8">1:8</a> Now it happened, while he executed the
priest's office before Elohim in the order of his division, <a name="C421V9"
id="C421V9">1:9</a> according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot
was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. <a name="C421V10"
id="C421V10">1:10</a> The whole multitude of the people were praying outside
at the hour of incense.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V11" id="C421V11">1:11</a> An angel of the Lord appeared to him,
standing on the right side of the altar of incense. <a name="C421V12"
id="C421V12">1:12</a> Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell
upon him. <a name="C421V13" id="C421V13">1:13</a> But the angel said to him,
"Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and
your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name
John. <a name="C421V14" id="C421V14">1:14</a> You will have joy and gladness;
and many will rejoice at his birth. <a name="C421V15" id="C421V15">1:15</a>
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine
nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his
mother's womb. <a name="C421V16" id="C421V16">1:16</a> He will turn many of
the children of Yisrael to the Lord, their Elohim. <a name="C421V17" id="C421V17">1:17</a>
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the
hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom
of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V18" id="C421V18">1:18</a> Zacharias said to the angel, "How
can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced
in years."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V19" id="C421V19">1:19</a> The angel answered him, "I am
Gabriel, who stands in the presence of Elohim. I was sent to speak to you,
and to bring you this good news. <a name="C421V20" id="C421V20">1:20</a>
Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these
things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be
fulfilled in their proper time."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V21" id="C421V21">1:21</a> The people were waiting for Zacharias,
and they marveled that he delayed in the temple. <a name="C421V22" id="C421V22">1:22</a>
When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he
had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and
remained mute. <a name="C421V23" id="C421V23">1:23</a> It happened, when the
days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house. <a
name="C421V24" id="C421V24">1:24</a> After these days Elizabeth, his wife,
conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, <a name="C421V25"
id="C421V25">1:25</a> "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in
which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V26" id="C421V26">1:26</a> Now in the sixth month, the angel
Gabriel was sent from Elohim to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, <a
name="C421V27" id="C421V27">1:27</a> to a virgin pledged to be married to a
man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was
Mary. <a name="C421V28" id="C421V28">1:28</a> Having come in, the angel said
to her, "Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V29" id="C421V29">1:29</a> But when she saw him, she was greatly
troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might
be. <a name="C421V30" id="C421V30">1:30</a> The angel said to her, "Don't
be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with Elohim. <a name="C421V31"
id="C421V31">1:31</a> Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring
forth a son, and will call his name 'Yeshua.' <a name="C421V32" id="C421V32">1:32</a>
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord
Elohim will give him the throne of his father, David, <a name="C421V33"
id="C421V33">1:33</a> and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
There will be no end to his Kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V34" id="C421V34">1:34</a> Mary said to the angel, "How can
this be, seeing I am a virgin?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V35" id="C421V35">1:35</a> The angel answered her, "The Holy
Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow
you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the
Son of Elohim. <a name="C421V36" id="C421V36">1:36</a> Behold, Elizabeth, your
relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth
month with her who was called barren. <a name="C421V37" id="C421V37">1:37</a>
For everything spoken by Elohim is possible."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V38" id="C421V38">1:38</a> Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid
of the Lord; be it to me according to your word."
</p>
<p>
The angel departed from her. <a name="C421V39" id="C421V39">1:39</a> Mary
arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city
of Yehudah, <a name="C421V40" id="C421V40">1:40</a> and entered into the house
of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. <a name="C421V41" id="C421V41">1:41</a> It
happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in
her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. <a name="C421V42"
id="C421V42">1:42</a> She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed
are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! <a name="C421V43"
id="C421V43">1:43</a> Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should
come to me? <a name="C421V44" id="C421V44">1:44</a> For behold, when the voice
of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! <a
name="C421V45" id="C421V45">1:45</a> Blessed is she who believed, for there
will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the
Lord!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V46" id="C421V46">1:46</a> Mary said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"My soul magnifies the Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C421V47" id="C421V47">1:47</a> My spirit has rejoiced in Elohim my
Savior,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V48" id="C421V48">1:48</a> for he has looked at the humble
state of his handmaid.
</dd>
<dt>
For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C421V49" id="C421V49">1:49</a> For he who is mighty has done great
things for me.
</dd>
<dd>
Holy is his name.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V50" id="C421V50">1:50</a> His mercy is for generations of
generations on those who fear him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V51" id="C421V51">1:51</a> He has shown strength with his arm.
</dt>
<dd>
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V52" id="C421V52">1:52</a> He has put down princes from their
thrones.
</dt>
<dd>
And has exalted the lowly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V53" id="C421V53">1:53</a> He has filled the hungry with good
things.
</dt>
<dd>
He has sent the rich away empty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V54" id="C421V54">1:54</a> He has given help to Yisrael, his
servant, that he might remember mercy,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C421V55" id="C421V55">1:55</a> As he spoke to our fathers,
</dd>
<dd>
to Avraham and his seed forever."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C421V56" id="C421V56">1:56</a> Mary stayed with her about three
months, and then returned to her house. <a name="C421V57" id="C421V57">1:57</a>
Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she
brought forth a son. <a name="C421V58" id="C421V58">1:58</a> Her neighbors and
her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and
they rejoiced with her. <a name="C421V59" id="C421V59">1:59</a> It happened on
the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would
have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father. <a name="C421V60"
id="C421V60">1:60</a> His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be
called John."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V61" id="C421V61">1:61</a> They said to her, "There is no
one among your relatives who is called by this name." <a name="C421V62"
id="C421V62">1:62</a> They made signs to his father, what he would have him
called.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C421V63" id="C421V63">1:63</a> He asked for a writing tablet, and
wrote, "His name is John."
</p>
<p>
They all marveled. <a name="C421V64" id="C421V64">1:64</a> His mouth was
opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing Elohim. <a
name="C421V65" id="C421V65">1:65</a> Fear came on all who lived around them,
and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of
Judea. <a name="C421V66" id="C421V66">1:66</a> All who heard them laid them up
in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand
of the Lord was with him. <a name="C421V67" id="C421V67">1:67</a> His father,
Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C421V68" id="C421V68">1:68</a> "Blessed be the Lord, the Elohim
of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
for he has visited and worked redemption for his people;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V69" id="C421V69">1:69</a> and has raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant David
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C421V70" id="C421V70">1:70</a> (as he spoke by the mouth of his
holy prophets who have been from of old),
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V71" id="C421V71">1:71</a> salvation from our enemies, and from
the hand of all who hate us;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V72" id="C421V72">1:72</a> to show mercy towards our fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
to remember his holy covenant,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V73" id="C421V73">1:73</a> the oath which he spoke to Avraham,
our father,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C421V74" id="C421V74">1:74</a> to grant to us that we, being
delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
</dd>
<dd>
should serve him without fear,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V75" id="C421V75">1:75</a> In holiness and righteousness before
him all the days of our life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V76" id="C421V76">1:76</a> And you, child, will be called a
prophet of the Most High,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V77" id="C421V77">1:77</a> to give knowledge of salvation to
his people by the remission of their sins,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C421V78" id="C421V78">1:78</a> because of the tender mercy of our
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C421V79" id="C421V79">1:79</a> to shine on those who sit in
darkness and the shadow of death;
</dd>
<dd>
to guide our feet into the way of peace."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C421V80" id="C421V80">1:80</a> The child was growing, and becoming
strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public
appearance to Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V1" id="C422V1">2:1</a> Now it happened in those days, that a
decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be
enrolled. <a name="C422V2" id="C422V2">2:2</a> This was the first enrollment
made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. <a name="C422V3" id="C422V3">2:3</a>
All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. <a name="C422V4"
id="C422V4">2:4</a> Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of
Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and family of David; <a name="C422V5" id="C422V5">2:5</a>
to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife,
being pregnant.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V6" id="C422V6">2:6</a> It happened, while they were there, that
the day had come that she should give birth. <a name="C422V7" id="C422V7">2:7</a>
She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of
cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for
them in the inn. <a name="C422V8" id="C422V8">2:8</a> There were shepherds in
the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over
their flock. <a name="C422V9" id="C422V9">2:9</a> Behold, an angel of the Lord
stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were
terrified. <a name="C422V10" id="C422V10">2:10</a> The angel said to them,
"Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy
which will be to all the people. <a name="C422V11" id="C422V11">2:11</a> For
there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is
Messiah the Lord. <a name="C422V12" id="C422V12">2:12</a> This is the sign to
you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding
trough." <a name="C422V13" id="C422V13">2:13</a> Suddenly, there was with
the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising Elohim, and saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C422V14" id="C422V14">2:14</a> "Glory to Elohim in the highest,
</dt>
<dd>
on earth peace, good will toward men."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C422V15" id="C422V15">2:15</a> It happened, when the angels went away
from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's
go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord
has made known to us." <a name="C422V16" id="C422V16">2:16</a> They came
with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the
feeding trough. <a name="C422V17" id="C422V17">2:17</a> When they saw it, they
publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child. <a
name="C422V18" id="C422V18">2:18</a> All who heard it wondered at the things
which were spoken to them by the shepherds. <a name="C422V19" id="C422V19">2:19</a>
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. <a
name="C422V20" id="C422V20">2:20</a> The shepherds returned, glorifying and
praising Elohim for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it
was told them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V21" id="C422V21">2:21</a> When eight days were fulfilled for the
circumcision of the child, his name was called Yeshua, which was given by
the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V22" id="C422V22">2:22</a> When the days of their purification
according to the Torah of Moshe were fulfilled, they brought him up to
Yerushalayim, to present him to the Lord <a name="C422V23" id="C422V23">2:23</a>
(as it is written in the Torah of the Lord, "Every male who opens the
womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),<sup><a href="#N421">*</a></sup>
<a name="C422V24" id="C422V24">2:24</a> and to offer a sacrifice according to
that which is said in the Torah of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or
two young pigeons."<sup><a href="#N422">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V25" id="C422V25">2:25</a> Behold, there was a man in Yerushalayim
whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the
consolation of Yisrael, and the Holy Spirit was on him. <a name="C422V26"
id="C422V26">2:26</a> It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he
should not see death before he had seen the Lord's <a href="#N423">Messiah.</a>
<a name="C422V27" id="C422V27">2:27</a> He came in the Spirit into the temple.
When the parents brought in the child, Yeshua, that they might do
concerning him according to the custom of the Torah, <a name="C422V28"
id="C422V28">2:28</a> then he received him into his arms, and blessed Elohim,
and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C422V29" id="C422V29">2:29</a> "Now you are releasing your
servant, Master,
</dt>
<dd>
according to your word, in peace;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C422V30" id="C422V30">2:30</a> for my eyes have seen your
salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C422V31" id="C422V31">2:31</a> which you have prepared before the
face of all peoples;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C422V32" id="C422V32">2:32</a> a light for revelation to the
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and the glory of your people Yisrael."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C422V33" id="C422V33">2:33</a> Joseph and his mother were marveling
at the things which were spoken concerning him, <a name="C422V34" id="C422V34">2:34</a>
and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this
child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Yisrael, and for a
sign which is spoken against. <a name="C422V35" id="C422V35">2:35</a> Yes, a
sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts
may be revealed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V36" id="C422V36">2:36</a> There was one Anna, a prophetess, the
daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having
lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, <a name="C422V37"
id="C422V37">2:37</a> and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years),
who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions
night and day. <a name="C422V38" id="C422V38">2:38</a> Coming up at that very
hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were
looking for redemption in Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V39" id="C422V39">2:39</a> When they had accomplished all things
that were according to the Torah of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to
their own city, Nazareth. <a name="C422V40" id="C422V40">2:40</a> The child
was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom,
and the grace of Elohim was upon him. <a name="C422V41" id="C422V41">2:41</a> His
parents went every year to Yerushalayim at the feast of the Passover.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V42" id="C422V42">2:42</a> When he was twelve years old, they
went up to Yerushalayim according to the custom of the feast, <a name="C422V43"
id="C422V43">2:43</a> and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were
returning, the boy Yeshua stayed behind in Yerushalayim. Joseph and his mother
didn't know it, <a name="C422V44" id="C422V44">2:44</a> but supposing him to
be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him
among their relatives and acquaintances. <a name="C422V45" id="C422V45">2:45</a>
When they didn't find him, they returned to Yerushalayim, looking for him. <a
name="C422V46" id="C422V46">2:46</a> It happened after three days they found
him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to
them, and asking them questions. <a name="C422V47" id="C422V47">2:47</a> All
who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. <a
name="C422V48" id="C422V48">2:48</a> When they saw him, they were astonished,
and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way?
Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C422V49" id="C422V49">2:49</a> He said to them, "Why were you
looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"
<a name="C422V50" id="C422V50">2:50</a> They didn't understand the saying
which he spoke to them. <a name="C422V51" id="C422V51">2:51</a> And he went
down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his
mother kept all these sayings in her heart. <a name="C422V52" id="C422V52">2:52</a>
And Yeshua increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with Elohim and men.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V1" id="C423V1">3:1</a> Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of
Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, <a name="C423V2"
id="C423V2">3:2</a> in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word
of Elohim came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. <a
name="C423V3" id="C423V3">3:3</a> He came into all the region around the
Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. <a
name="C423V4" id="C423V4">3:4</a> As it is written in the book of the words of
Isaiah the prophet,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
'Make ready the way of the Lord.
</dd>
<dt>
Make his paths straight.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C423V5" id="C423V5">3:5</a> Every valley will be filled.
</dd>
<dt>
Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
</dt>
<dd>
The crooked will become straight,
</dd>
<dd>
and the rough ways smooth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C423V6" id="C423V6">3:6</a> All flesh will see Elohim's salvation.'"<sup><a
href="#N424">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C423V7" id="C423V7">3:7</a> He said therefore to the multitudes who
went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned
you to flee from the wrath to come? <a name="C423V8" id="C423V8">3:8</a> Bring
forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among
yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our father;' for I tell you that Elohim is
able to raise up children to Avraham from these stones! <a name="C423V9"
id="C423V9">3:9</a> Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees.
Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and
thrown into the fire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V10" id="C423V10">3:10</a> The multitudes asked him, "What
then must we do?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V11" id="C423V11">3:11</a> He answered them, "He who has two
coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do
likewise."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V12" id="C423V12">3:12</a> Tax collectors also came to be
baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V13" id="C423V13">3:13</a> He said to them, "Collect no more
than that which is appointed to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V14" id="C423V14">3:14</a> Soldiers also asked him, saying,
"What about us? What must we do?"
</p>
<p>
He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse
anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V15" id="C423V15">3:15</a> As the people were in expectation, and
all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was
the Messiah, <a name="C423V16" id="C423V16">3:16</a> John answered them all,
"I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than
I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize
you in the Holy Spirit and fire, <a name="C423V17" id="C423V17">3:17</a> whose
fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor,
and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V18" id="C423V18">3:18</a> Then with many other exhortations he
preached good news to the people, <a name="C423V19" id="C423V19">3:19</a> but
Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his <a href="#N425">brother's</a>
wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, <a name="C423V20"
id="C423V20">3:20</a> added this also to them all, that he shut up John in
prison. <a name="C423V21" id="C423V21">3:21</a> Now it happened, when all the
people were baptized, Yeshua also had been baptized, and was praying. The
sky was opened, <a name="C423V22" id="C423V22">3:22</a> and the Holy Spirit
descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the
sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C423V23" id="C423V23">3:23</a> Yeshua himself, when he began to teach,
was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the
son of Heli, <a name="C423V24" id="C423V24">3:24</a> the son of Matthat, the
son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, <a
name="C423V25" id="C423V25">3:25</a> the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, <a name="C423V26"
id="C423V26">3:26</a> the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of
Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Yehudah, <a name="C423V27" id="C423V27">3:27</a>
the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of
Shealtiel, the son of Neri, <a name="C423V28" id="C423V28">3:28</a> the son of
Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of
Er, <a name="C423V29" id="C423V29">3:29</a> the son of Jose, the son of
Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, <a
name="C423V30" id="C423V30">3:30</a> the son of Simeon, the son of Yehudah, the
son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, <a name="C423V31"
id="C423V31">3:31</a> the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of
Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, <a name="C423V32" id="C423V32">3:32</a>
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the
son of Nahshon, <a name="C423V33" id="C423V33">3:33</a> the son of Amminadab,
the son of <a href="#N426">Aram,</a> the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,
the son of Yehudah, <a name="C423V34" id="C423V34">3:34</a> the son of Jacob,
the son of Isaac, the son of Avraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
<a name="C423V35" id="C423V35">3:35</a> the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the
son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, <a name="C423V36"
id="C423V36">3:36</a> the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of
Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, <a name="C423V37" id="C423V37">3:37</a>
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of
Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, <a name="C423V38" id="C423V38">3:38</a> the son
of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V1" id="C424V1">4:1</a> Yeshua, full of the Holy Spirit, returned
from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness <a
name="C424V2" id="C424V2">4:2</a> for forty days, being tempted by the devil.
He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was
hungry. <a name="C424V3" id="C424V3">4:3</a> The devil said to him, "If
you are the Son of Elohim, command this stone to become bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V4" id="C424V4">4:4</a> Yeshua answered him, saying, "It is
written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of Elohim.'"<sup><a
href="#N427">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V5" id="C424V5">4:5</a> The devil, leading him up on a high
mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. <a
name="C424V6" id="C424V6">4:6</a> The devil said to him, "I will give you
all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and
I give it to whomever I want. <a name="C424V7" id="C424V7">4:7</a> If you
therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V8" id="C424V8">4:8</a> Yeshua answered him, "Get behind me
Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your Elohim, and you
shall serve him only.'"<sup><a href="#N428">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V9" id="C424V9">4:9</a> He led him to Yerushalayim, and set him on
the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of
Elohim, cast yourself down from here, <a name="C424V10" id="C424V10">4:10</a> for
it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;'
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C424V11" id="C424V11">4:11</a> and,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'On their hands they will bear you up,
</dt>
<dd>
lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"<sup><a href="#N429">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C424V12" id="C424V12">4:12</a> Yeshua answering, said to him, "It
has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your Elohim.'"<sup><a
href="#N4210">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V13" id="C424V13">4:13</a> When the devil had completed every
temptation, he departed from him until another time.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V14" id="C424V14">4:14</a> Yeshua returned in the power of the
Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding
area. <a name="C424V15" id="C424V15">4:15</a> He taught in their synagogues,
being glorified by all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V16" id="C424V16">4:16</a> He came to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the
Shabbat day, and stood up to read. <a name="C424V17" id="C424V17">4:17</a> The
book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and
found the place where it was written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C424V18" id="C424V18">4:18</a> "The Spirit of the Lord is on
me,
</dt>
<dd>
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
</dd>
<dt>
He has sent me <a href="#N4211">to heal the brokenhearted,</a>
</dt>
<dd>
to proclaim release to the captives,
</dd>
<dd>
recovering of sight to the blind,
</dd>
<dd>
to deliver those who are crushed,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C424V19" id="C424V19">4:19</a> and to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord."<sup><a href="#N4212">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C424V20" id="C424V20">4:20</a> He closed the book, gave it back to
the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were
fastened on him. <a name="C424V21" id="C424V21">4:21</a> He began to tell
them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V22" id="C424V22">4:22</a> All testified about him, and wondered
at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said,
"Isn't this Joseph's son?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V23" id="C424V23">4:23</a> He said to them, "Doubtless you
will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have
heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'" <a
name="C424V24" id="C424V24">4:24</a> He said, "Most certainly I tell you,
no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. <a name="C424V25" id="C424V25">4:25</a>
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Yisrael in the days of
Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great
famine came over all the land. <a name="C424V26" id="C424V26">4:26</a> Elijah
was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a
woman who was a widow. <a name="C424V27" id="C424V27">4:27</a> There were many
lepers in Yisrael in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them
was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V28" id="C424V28">4:28</a> They were all filled with wrath in the
synagogue, as they heard these things. <a name="C424V29" id="C424V29">4:29</a>
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the
hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the
cliff. <a name="C424V30" id="C424V30">4:30</a> But he, passing through the
midst of them, went his way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V31" id="C424V31">4:31</a> He came down to Capernaum, a city of
Galilee. He was teaching them on the Shabbat day, <a name="C424V32"
id="C424V32">4:32</a> and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word
was with authority. <a name="C424V33" id="C424V33">4:33</a> In the synagogue
there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out
with a loud voice, <a name="C424V34" id="C424V34">4:34</a> saying, "Ah!
what have we to do with you, Yeshua of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy
us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V35" id="C424V35">4:35</a> Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be
silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in
their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V36" id="C424V36">4:36</a> Amazement came on all, and they spoke
together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with
authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
<a name="C424V37" id="C424V37">4:37</a> News about him went out into every
place of the surrounding region.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V38" id="C424V38">4:38</a> He rose up from the synagogue, and
entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a
great fever, and they begged him for her. <a name="C424V39" id="C424V39">4:39</a>
He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she
rose up and served them. <a name="C424V40" id="C424V40">4:40</a> When the sun
was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them
to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. <a
name="C424V41" id="C424V41">4:41</a> Demons also came out from many, crying
out, and saying, "You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim!" Rebuking
them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the
Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C424V42" id="C424V42">4:42</a> When it was day, he departed and went
into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to
him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them. <a
name="C424V43" id="C424V43">4:43</a> But he said to them, "I must preach
the good news of the Kingdom of Elohim to the other cities also. For this
reason I have been sent." <a name="C424V44" id="C424V44">4:44</a> He was
preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V1" id="C425V1">5:1</a> Now it happened, while the multitude
pressed on him and heard the word of Elohim, that he was standing by the lake
of Gennesaret. <a name="C425V2" id="C425V2">5:2</a> He saw two boats standing
by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing
their nets. <a name="C425V3" id="C425V3">5:3</a> He entered into one of the
boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land.
He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. <a name="C425V4"
id="C425V4">5:4</a> When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put
out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V5" id="C425V5">5:5</a> Simon answered him, "Master, we
worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the
net." <a name="C425V6" id="C425V6">5:6</a> When they had done this, they
caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking. <a
name="C425V7" id="C425V7">5:7</a> They beckoned to their partners in the other
boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both
boats, so that they began to sink. <a name="C425V8" id="C425V8">5:8</a> But
Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Yeshua' knees, saying, "Depart
from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord." <a name="C425V9" id="C425V9">5:9</a>
For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which
they had caught; <a name="C425V10" id="C425V10">5:10</a> and so also were
James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be
catching people alive."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V11" id="C425V11">5:11</a> When they had brought their boats to
land, they left everything, and followed him. <a name="C425V12" id="C425V12">5:12</a>
It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man
full of leprosy. When he saw Yeshua, he fell on his face, and begged him,
saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V13" id="C425V13">5:13</a> He stretched out his hand, and touched
him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean."
</p>
<p>
Immediately the leprosy left him. <a name="C425V14" id="C425V14">5:14</a> He
commanded him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to
the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moshe
commanded, for a testimony to them." <a name="C425V15" id="C425V15">5:15</a>
But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came
together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. <a
name="C425V16" id="C425V16">5:16</a> But he withdrew himself into the desert,
and prayed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V17" id="C425V17">5:17</a> It happened on one of those days, that
he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the Torah sitting
by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Yerushalayim.
The power of the Lord was with him to heal them. <a name="C425V18" id="C425V18">5:18</a>
Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him
in to lay before Yeshua. <a name="C425V19" id="C425V19">5:19</a> Not finding a
way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the
housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst
before Yeshua. <a name="C425V20" id="C425V20">5:20</a> Seeing their faith, he
said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V21" id="C425V21">5:21</a> The scribes and the Pharisees began to
reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive
sins, but Elohim alone?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V22" id="C425V22">5:22</a> But Yeshua, perceiving their thoughts,
answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? <a
name="C425V23" id="C425V23">5:23</a> Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are
forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?' <a name="C425V24" id="C425V24">5:24</a>
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you,
arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V25" id="C425V25">5:25</a> Immediately he rose up before them,
and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house,
glorifying Elohim. <a name="C425V26" id="C425V26">5:26</a> Amazement took hold on
all, and they glorified Elohim. They were filled with fear, saying, "We
have seen strange things today."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V27" id="C425V27">5:27</a> After these things he went out, and
saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him,
"Follow me!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V28" id="C425V28">5:28</a> He left everything, and rose up and
followed him. <a name="C425V29" id="C425V29">5:29</a> Levi made a great feast
for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others
who were reclining with them. <a name="C425V30" id="C425V30">5:30</a> Their
scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why
do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" <a
name="C425V31" id="C425V31">5:31</a> Yeshua answered them, "Those who are
healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. <a
name="C425V32" id="C425V32">5:32</a> I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V33" id="C425V33">5:33</a> They said to him, "Why do John's
disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the
Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C425V34" id="C425V34">5:34</a> He said to them, "Can you make
the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? <a
name="C425V35" id="C425V35">5:35</a> But the days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those
days." <a name="C425V36" id="C425V36">5:36</a> He also told a parable to
them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or
else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match
the old. <a name="C425V37" id="C425V37">5:37</a> No one puts new wine into old
wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be
spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. <a name="C425V38" id="C425V38">5:38</a>
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. <a
name="C425V39" id="C425V39">5:39</a> No man having drunk old wine immediately
desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V1" id="C426V1">6:1</a> Now it happened on the second Shabbat
after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples
plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. <a
name="C426V2" id="C426V2">6:2</a> But some of the Pharisees said to them,
"Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Shabbat day?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V3" id="C426V3">6:3</a> Yeshua, answering them, said, "Haven't
you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with
him; <a name="C426V4" id="C426V4">6:4</a> how he entered into the house of
Elohim, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with
him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?" <a
name="C426V5" id="C426V5">6:5</a> He said to them, "The Son of Man is
lord of the Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V6" id="C426V6">6:6</a> It also happened on another Shabbat that
he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his
right hand was withered. <a name="C426V7" id="C426V7">6:7</a> The scribes and
the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Shabbat,
that they might find an accusation against him. <a name="C426V8" id="C426V8">6:8</a>
But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered
hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood. <a
name="C426V9" id="C426V9">6:9</a> Then Yeshua said to them, "I will ask
you something: Is it lawful on the Shabbat to do good, or to do harm? To
save a life, or to kill?" <a name="C426V10" id="C426V10">6:10</a> He
looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out your
hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other. <a
name="C426V11" id="C426V11">6:11</a> But they were filled with rage, and
talked with one another about what they might do to Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V12" id="C426V12">6:12</a> It happened in these days, that he
went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to
Elohim. <a name="C426V13" id="C426V13">6:13</a> When it was day, he called his
disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: <a
name="C426V14" id="C426V14">6:14</a> Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew,
his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; <a name="C426V15" id="C426V15">6:15</a>
Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the
Zealot; <a name="C426V16" id="C426V16">6:16</a> Judas the son of James; and
Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor. <a name="C426V17" id="C426V17">6:17</a>
He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his
disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Yerushalayim,
and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed
of their diseases; <a name="C426V18" id="C426V18">6:18</a> as well as those
who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. <a
name="C426V19" id="C426V19">6:19</a> All the multitude sought to touch him,
for power came out from him and healed them all.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V20" id="C426V20">6:20</a> He lifted up his eyes to his
disciples, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Blessed are you who are poor,
</dt>
<dd>
for yours is the Kingdom of Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C426V21" id="C426V21">6:21</a> Blessed are you who hunger now,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will be filled.
</dd>
<dt>
Blessed are you who weep now,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will laugh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C426V22" id="C426V22">6:22</a> Blessed are you when men shall hate
you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name
as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C426V23" id="C426V23">6:23</a> Rejoice in that day, and leap for
joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did
the same thing to the prophets.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C426V24" id="C426V24">6:24</a> "But woe to you who are rich!
</dt>
<dd>
For you have received your consolation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C426V25" id="C426V25">6:25</a> Woe to you, you who are full now,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will be hungry.
</dd>
<dt>
Woe to you who laugh now,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will mourn and weep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C426V26" id="C426V26">6:26</a> Woe,<sup><a href="#N4213">*</a></sup>
when<sup><a href="#N4214">*</a></sup> men speak well of you,
</dt>
<dd>
for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C426V27" id="C426V27">6:27</a> "But I tell you who hear: love
your enemies, do good to those who hate you, <a name="C426V28" id="C426V28">6:28</a>
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. <a
name="C426V29" id="C426V29">6:29</a> To him who strikes you on the cheek,
offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't
withhold your coat also. <a name="C426V30" id="C426V30">6:30</a> Give to
everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give
them back again.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V31" id="C426V31">6:31</a> "As you would like people to do
to you, do exactly so to them. <a name="C426V32" id="C426V32">6:32</a> If you
love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love
those who love them. <a name="C426V33" id="C426V33">6:33</a> If you do good to
those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do
the same. <a name="C426V34" id="C426V34">6:34</a> If you lend to those from
whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to
sinners, to receive back as much. <a name="C426V35" id="C426V35">6:35</a> But
love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your
reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is
kind toward the unthankful and evil.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C426V36" id="C426V36">6:36</a> Therefore be merciful,
</dt>
<dd>
even as your Father is also merciful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C426V37" id="C426V37">6:37</a> Don't judge,
</dt>
<dd>
and you won't be judged.
</dd>
<dt>
Don't condemn,
</dt>
<dd>
and you won't be condemned.
</dd>
<dt>
Set free,
</dt>
<dd>
and you will be set free.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C426V38" id="C426V38">6:38</a> "Give, and it will be given to
you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will
be given <a href="#N4215">to you.</a> For with the same measure you measure
it will be measured back to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V39" id="C426V39">6:39</a> He spoke a parable to them. "Can
the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit? <a name="C426V40"
id="C426V40">6:40</a> A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when
he is fully trained will be like his teacher. <a name="C426V41" id="C426V41">6:41</a>
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't
consider the beam that is in your own eye? <a name="C426V42" id="C426V42">6:42</a>
Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of
chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is
in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye,
and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your
brother's eye. <a name="C426V43" id="C426V43">6:43</a> For there is no good
tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings
forth good fruit. <a name="C426V44" id="C426V44">6:44</a> For each tree is
known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do
they gather grapes from a bramble bush. <a name="C426V45" id="C426V45">6:45</a>
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which
is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out
that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth
speaks.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C426V46" id="C426V46">6:46</a> "Why do you call me, 'Lord,
Lord,' and don't do the things which I say? <a name="C426V47" id="C426V47">6:47</a>
Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show
you who he is like. <a name="C426V48" id="C426V48">6:48</a> He is like a man
building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the
rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could
not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. <a name="C426V49"
id="C426V49">6:49</a> But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who
built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream
broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V1" id="C427V1">7:1</a> After he had finished speaking in the
hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. <a name="C427V2" id="C427V2">7:2</a>
A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the
point of death. <a name="C427V3" id="C427V3">7:3</a> When he heard about
Yeshua, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his
servant. <a name="C427V4" id="C427V4">7:4</a> When they came to Yeshua, they
begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for
him, <a name="C427V5" id="C427V5">7:5</a> for he loves our nation, and he
built our synagogue for us." <a name="C427V6" id="C427V6">7:6</a> Yeshua
went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent
friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I
am not worthy for you to come under my roof. <a name="C427V7" id="C427V7">7:7</a>
Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the
word, and my servant will be healed. <a name="C427V8" id="C427V8">7:8</a> For
I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I
tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes;
and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V9" id="C427V9">7:9</a> When Yeshua heard these things, he
marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him,
"I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Yisrael."
<a name="C427V10" id="C427V10">7:10</a> Those who were sent, returning to the
house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V11" id="C427V11">7:11</a> It happened soon afterwards, that he
went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great
multitude, went with him. <a name="C427V12" id="C427V12">7:12</a> Now when he
drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried
out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the
city were with her. <a name="C427V13" id="C427V13">7:13</a> When the Lord saw
her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don't cry." <a
name="C427V14" id="C427V14">7:14</a> He came near and touched the coffin, and
the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
<a name="C427V15" id="C427V15">7:15</a> He who was dead sat up, and began to
speak. And he gave him to his mother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V16" id="C427V16">7:16</a> Fear took hold of all, and they
glorified Elohim, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!"
and, "Elohim has visited his people!" <a name="C427V17" id="C427V17">7:17</a>
This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the
surrounding region.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V18" id="C427V18">7:18</a> The disciples of John told him about
all these things. <a name="C427V19" id="C427V19">7:19</a> John, calling to
himself two of his disciples, sent them to Yeshua, saying, "Are you
the one who is coming, or should we look for another?" <a name="C427V20"
id="C427V20">7:20</a> When the men had come to him, they said, "John
the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should
we look for another?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V21" id="C427V21">7:21</a> In that hour he cured many of diseases
and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight. <a
name="C427V22" id="C427V22">7:22</a> Yeshua answered them, "Go and tell
John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive
their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. <a
name="C427V23" id="C427V23">7:23</a> Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V24" id="C427V24">7:24</a> When John's messengers had departed,
he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into
the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? <a name="C427V25"
id="C427V25">7:25</a> But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft
clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately,
are in kings' courts. <a name="C427V26" id="C427V26">7:26</a> But what did you
go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
<a name="C427V27" id="C427V27">7:27</a> This is he of whom it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
</dt>
<dd>
who will prepare your way before you.'<sup><a href="#N4216">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C427V28" id="C427V28">7:28</a> "For I tell you, among those who
are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer,
yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Elohim is greater than he."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V29" id="C427V29">7:29</a> When all the people and the tax
collectors heard this, they declared Elohim to be just, having been baptized
with John's baptism. <a name="C427V30" id="C427V30">7:30</a> But the Pharisees
and the lawyers rejected the counsel of Elohim, not being baptized by him
themselves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V31" id="C427V31">7:31</a> <sup><a href="#N4217">*</a></sup>"To
what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
<a name="C427V32" id="C427V32">7:32</a> They are like children who sit in the
marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you
didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.' <a name="C427V33" id="C427V33">7:33</a>
For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you
say, 'He has a demon.' <a name="C427V34" id="C427V34">7:34</a> The Son of Man
has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and
a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' <a name="C427V35"
id="C427V35">7:35</a> Wisdom is justified by all her children."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V36" id="C427V36">7:36</a> One of the Pharisees invited him to
eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
<a name="C427V37" id="C427V37">7:37</a> Behold, a woman in the city who was a
sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she
brought an alabaster jar of ointment. <a name="C427V38" id="C427V38">7:38</a>
Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her
tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the ointment. <a name="C427V39" id="C427V39">7:39</a> Now
when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This
man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman
this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V40" id="C427V40">7:40</a> Yeshua answered him, "Simon, I
have something to tell you."
</p>
<p>
He said, "Teacher, say on."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V41" id="C427V41">7:41</a> "A certain lender had two
debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. <a
name="C427V42" id="C427V42">7:42</a> When they couldn't pay, he forgave them
both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V43" id="C427V43">7:43</a> Simon answered, "He, I suppose,
to whom he forgave the most."
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "You have judged correctly." <a name="C427V44"
id="C427V44">7:44</a> Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you
see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my
feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair
of her head. <a name="C427V45" id="C427V45">7:45</a> You gave me no kiss, but
she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. <a
name="C427V46" id="C427V46">7:46</a> You didn't anoint my head with oil, but
she has anointed my feet with ointment. <a name="C427V47" id="C427V47">7:47</a>
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she
loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
<a name="C427V48" id="C427V48">7:48</a> He said to her, "Your sins are
forgiven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V49" id="C427V49">7:49</a> Those who sat at the table with him
began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C427V50" id="C427V50">7:50</a> He said to the woman, "Your faith
has saved you. Go in peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V1" id="C428V1">8:1</a> It happened soon afterwards, that he went
about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of
the Kingdom of Elohim. With him were the twelve, <a name="C428V2" id="C428V2">8:2</a>
and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities:
Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; <a
name="C428V3" id="C428V3">8:3</a> and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's
steward; Susanna; and many others; who served <a href="#N4218">them</a> from
their possessions. <a name="C428V4" id="C428V4">8:4</a> When a great multitude
came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by
a parable. <a name="C428V5" id="C428V5">8:5</a> "The farmer went out to
sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled
under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. <a name="C428V6" id="C428V6">8:6</a>
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away,
because it had no moisture. <a name="C428V7" id="C428V7">8:7</a> Other fell
amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. <a name="C428V8"
id="C428V8">8:8</a> Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought
forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called
out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V9" id="C428V9">8:9</a> Then his disciples asked him, "What
does this parable mean?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V10" id="C428V10">8:10</a> He said, "To you it is given to
know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Elohim, but to the rest in parables;
that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'<sup><a
href="#N4219">*</a></sup> <a name="C428V11" id="C428V11">8:11</a> Now the
parable is this: The seed is the word of Elohim. <a name="C428V12" id="C428V12">8:12</a>
Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes
away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. <a
name="C428V13" id="C428V13">8:13</a> Those on the rock are they who, when they
hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a
while, then fall away in time of temptation. <a name="C428V14" id="C428V14">8:14</a>
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as
they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of
life, and bring no fruit to maturity. <a name="C428V15" id="C428V15">8:15</a>
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart,
having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with
patience.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V16" id="C428V16">8:16</a> "No one, when he has lit a lamp,
covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a
stand, that those who enter in may see the light. <a name="C428V17"
id="C428V17">8:17</a> For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor
anything secret, that will not be known and come to light. <a name="C428V18"
id="C428V18">8:18</a> Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to
him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away
even that which he thinks he has."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V19" id="C428V19">8:19</a> His mother and brothers came to him,
and they could not come near him for the crowd. <a name="C428V20" id="C428V20">8:20</a>
It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers stand
outside, desiring to see you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V21" id="C428V21">8:21</a> But he answered them, "My mother
and my brothers are these who hear the word of Elohim, and do it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V22" id="C428V22">8:22</a> Now it happened on one of those days,
that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to
them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." So they
launched out. <a name="C428V23" id="C428V23">8:23</a> But as they sailed, he
fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on
dangerous amounts of water. <a name="C428V24" id="C428V24">8:24</a> They came
to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!"
He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they
ceased, and it was calm. <a name="C428V25" id="C428V25">8:25</a> He said to
them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying
one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds
and the water, and they obey him?" <a name="C428V26" id="C428V26">8:26</a>
They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V27" id="C428V27">8:27</a> When Yeshua stepped ashore, a certain
man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no
clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs. <a name="C428V28"
id="C428V28">8:28</a> When he saw Yeshua, he cried out, and fell down before
him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you,
Yeshua, you Son of the Most High Elohim? I beg you, don't torment me!" <a
name="C428V29" id="C428V29">8:29</a> For Yeshua was commanding the unclean
spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the
man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking
the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V30" id="C428V30">8:30</a> Yeshua asked him, "What is your
name?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. <a
name="C428V31" id="C428V31">8:31</a> They begged him that he would not command
them to go into the abyss. <a name="C428V32" id="C428V32">8:32</a> Now there
was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him
that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them. <a
name="C428V33" id="C428V33">8:33</a> The demons came out from the man, and
entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the
lake, and were drowned. <a name="C428V34" id="C428V34">8:34</a> When those who
fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in
the country.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V35" id="C428V35">8:35</a> People went out to see what had
happened. They came to Yeshua, and found the man from whom the demons had
gone out, sitting at Yeshua' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they
were afraid. <a name="C428V36" id="C428V36">8:36</a> Those who saw it told
them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. <a name="C428V37"
id="C428V37">8:37</a> All the people of the surrounding country of the
Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid.
He entered into the boat, and returned. <a name="C428V38" id="C428V38">8:38</a>
But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go
with him, but Yeshua sent him away, saying, <a name="C428V39" id="C428V39">8:39</a>
"Return to your house, and declare what great things Elohim has done for
you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what
great things Yeshua had done for him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V40" id="C428V40">8:40</a> It happened, when Yeshua returned, that
the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. <a
name="C428V41" id="C428V41">8:41</a> Behold, there came a man named Jairus,
and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Yeshua' feet, and
begged him to come into his house, <a name="C428V42" id="C428V42">8:42</a> for
he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But
as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. <a name="C428V43" id="C428V43">8:43</a>
A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her
living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, <a name="C428V44"
id="C428V44">8:44</a> came behind him, and touched the <a href="#N4220">fringe</a>
of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped. <a
name="C428V45" id="C428V45">8:45</a> Yeshua said, "Who touched me?"
</p>
<p>
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the
multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V46" id="C428V46">8:46</a> But Yeshua said, "Someone did
touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me." <a
name="C428V47" id="C428V47">8:47</a> When the woman saw that she was not
hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in
the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how
she was healed immediately. <a name="C428V48" id="C428V48">8:48</a> He said to
her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V49" id="C428V49">8:49</a> While he still spoke, one from the
ruler of the synagogue's house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is
dead. Don't trouble the Teacher."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V50" id="C428V50">8:50</a> But Yeshua hearing it, answered him,
"Don't be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V51" id="C428V51">8:51</a> When he came to the house, he didn't
allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the
child, and her mother. <a name="C428V52" id="C428V52">8:52</a> All were
weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead,
but sleeping."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C428V53" id="C428V53">8:53</a> They were ridiculing him, knowing that
she was dead. <a name="C428V54" id="C428V54">8:54</a> But he put them all
outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child,
arise!" <a name="C428V55" id="C428V55">8:55</a> Her spirit returned, and
she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to
eat. <a name="C428V56" id="C428V56">8:56</a> Her parents were amazed, but he
commanded them to tell no one what had been done.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V1" id="C429V1">9:1</a> He called <a href="#N4221">the twelve</a>
together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure
diseases. <a name="C429V2" id="C429V2">9:2</a> He sent them forth to preach
the Kingdom of Elohim, and to heal the sick. <a name="C429V3" id="C429V3">9:3</a>
He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor
wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece. <a name="C429V4"
id="C429V4">9:4</a> Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart
from there. <a name="C429V5" id="C429V5">9:5</a> As many as don't receive you,
when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for
a testimony against them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V6" id="C429V6">9:6</a> They departed, and went throughout the
villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere. <a name="C429V7"
id="C429V7">9:7</a> Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by
him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had
risen from the dead, <a name="C429V8" id="C429V8">9:8</a> and by some that
Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen
again. <a name="C429V9" id="C429V9">9:9</a> Herod said, "John I beheaded,
but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see
him. <a name="C429V10" id="C429V10">9:10</a> The apostles, when they had
returned, told him what things they had done.
</p>
<p>
He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called
Bethsaida. <a name="C429V11" id="C429V11">9:11</a> But the multitudes,
perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the
Kingdom of Elohim, and he cured those who needed healing. <a name="C429V12"
id="C429V12">9:12</a> The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and
said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here
in a deserted place."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V13" id="C429V13">9:13</a> But he said to them, "You give
them something to eat."
</p>
<p>
They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we
should go and buy food for all these people." <a name="C429V14"
id="C429V14">9:14</a> For they were about five thousand men.
</p>
<p>
He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about
fifty each." <a name="C429V15" id="C429V15">9:15</a> They did so, and
made them all sit down. <a name="C429V16" id="C429V16">9:16</a> He took the
five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them,
and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the
multitude. <a name="C429V17" id="C429V17">9:17</a> They ate, and were all
filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left
over.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V18" id="C429V18">9:18</a> It happened, as he was praying alone,
that the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the
multitudes say that I am?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V19" id="C429V19">9:19</a> They answered, "'John the
Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,' and others, that one of the old
prophets is risen again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V20" id="C429V20">9:20</a> He said to them, "But who do you
say that I am?"
</p>
<p>
Peter answered, "The Messiah of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V21" id="C429V21">9:21</a> But he warned them, and commanded them
to tell this to no one, <a name="C429V22" id="C429V22">9:22</a> saying, "The
Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief
priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V23" id="C429V23">9:23</a> He said to all, "If anyone
desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,<sup><a
href="#N4222">*</a></sup> and follow me. <a name="C429V24" id="C429V24">9:24</a>
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose
his life for my sake, the same will save it. <a name="C429V25" id="C429V25">9:25</a>
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or
forfeits his own self? <a name="C429V26" id="C429V26">9:26</a> For whoever
will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be
ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of
the holy angels. <a name="C429V27" id="C429V27">9:27</a> But I tell you the
truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of
death, until they see the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V28" id="C429V28">9:28</a> It happened about eight days after
these sayings, that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up
onto the mountain to pray. <a name="C429V29" id="C429V29">9:29</a> As he was
praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became
white and dazzling. <a name="C429V30" id="C429V30">9:30</a> Behold, two men
were talking with him, who were Moshe and Elijah, <a name="C429V31"
id="C429V31">9:31</a> who appeared in glory, and spoke of his <a href="#N4223">departure,</a>
which he was about to accomplish at Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V32" id="C429V32">9:32</a> Now Peter and those who were with him
were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory,
and the two men who stood with him. <a name="C429V33" id="C429V33">9:33</a> It
happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Yeshua, "Master,
it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one
for Moshe, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V34" id="C429V34">9:34</a> While he said these things, a cloud
came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the
cloud. <a name="C429V35" id="C429V35">9:35</a> A voice came out of the cloud,
saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!" <a name="C429V36"
id="C429V36">9:36</a> When the voice came, Yeshua was found alone. They were
silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had
seen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V37" id="C429V37">9:37</a> It happened on the next day, when they
had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him. <a
name="C429V38" id="C429V38">9:38</a> Behold, a man from the crowd called out,
saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only
child. <a name="C429V39" id="C429V39">9:39</a> Behold, a spirit takes him, he
suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly
departs from him, bruising him severely. <a name="C429V40" id="C429V40">9:40</a>
I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V41" id="C429V41">9:41</a> Yeshua answered, "Faithless and
perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring
your son here."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V42" id="C429V42">9:42</a> While he was still coming, the demon
threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Yeshua rebuked the unclean
spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. <a
name="C429V43" id="C429V43">9:43</a> They were all astonished at the majesty
of Elohim.
</p>
<p>
But while all were marveling at all the things which Yeshua did, he said to
his disciples, <a name="C429V44" id="C429V44">9:44</a> "Let these words
sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the
hands of men." <a name="C429V45" id="C429V45">9:45</a> But they didn't
understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not
perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V46" id="C429V46">9:46</a> There arose an argument among them
about which of them was the greatest. <a name="C429V47" id="C429V47">9:47</a>
Yeshua, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and
set him by his side, <a name="C429V48" id="C429V48">9:48</a> and said to them,
"Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever
receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all,
this one will be great."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V49" id="C429V49">9:49</a> John answered, "Master, we saw
someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he
doesn't follow with us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V50" id="C429V50">9:50</a> Yeshua said to him, "Don't forbid
him, for he who is not against us is for us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V51" id="C429V51">9:51</a> It came to pass, when the days were
near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to
Yerushalayim, <a name="C429V52" id="C429V52">9:52</a> and sent messengers before
his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as
to prepare for him. <a name="C429V53" id="C429V53">9:53</a> They didn't
receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Yerushalayim.
<a name="C429V54" id="C429V54">9:54</a> When his disciples, James and John,
saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come
down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V55" id="C429V55">9:55</a> But he turned and rebuked them, "You
don't know of what kind of spirit you are. <a name="C429V56" id="C429V56">9:56</a>
For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."
</p>
<p>
They went to another village. <a name="C429V57" id="C429V57">9:57</a> As they
went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you
wherever you go, Lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V58" id="C429V58">9:58</a> Yeshua said to him, "The foxes
have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no
place to lay his head."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V59" id="C429V59">9:59</a> He said to another, "Follow me!"
</p>
<p>
But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V60" id="C429V60">9:60</a> But Yeshua said to him, "Leave the
dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V61" id="C429V61">9:61</a> Another also said, "I want to
follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at
my house."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C429V62" id="C429V62">9:62</a> But Yeshua said to him, "No one,
having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom
of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V1" id="C4210V1">10:1</a> Now after these things, the Lord also
appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two <a href="#N4224">ahead of
him</a> into every city and place, where he was about to come. <a
name="C4210V2" id="C4210V2">10:2</a> Then he said to them, "The harvest
is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord
of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest. <a
name="C4210V3" id="C4210V3">10:3</a> Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as
lambs among wolves. <a name="C4210V4" id="C4210V4">10:4</a> Carry no purse,
nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. <a name="C4210V5"
id="C4210V5">10:5</a> Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to
this house.' <a name="C4210V6" id="C4210V6">10:6</a> If a son of peace is
there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. <a
name="C4210V7" id="C4210V7">10:7</a> Remain in that same house, eating and
drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
Don't go from house to house. <a name="C4210V8" id="C4210V8">10:8</a> Into
whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set
before you. <a name="C4210V9" id="C4210V9">10:9</a> Heal the sick who are
therein, and tell them, 'The Kingdom of Elohim has come near to you.' <a
name="C4210V10" id="C4210V10">10:10</a> But into whatever city you enter, and
they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say, <a name="C4210V11"
id="C4210V11">10:11</a> 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we
wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of Elohim has
come near to you.' <a name="C4210V12" id="C4210V12">10:12</a> I tell you, it
will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V13" id="C4210V13">10:13</a> "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to
you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon
which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes. <a name="C4210V14" id="C4210V14">10:14</a> But it will be
more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. <a
name="C4210V15" id="C4210V15">10:15</a> You, Capernaum, who are exalted to
heaven, will be brought down to <a href="#N4225">Hades.</a> <a name="C4210V16"
id="C4210V16">10:16</a> Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever
rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V17" id="C4210V17">10:17</a> The seventy returned with joy,
saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V18" id="C4210V18">10:18</a> He said to them, "I saw Satan
having fallen like lightning from heaven. <a name="C4210V19" id="C4210V19">10:19</a>
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. <a
name="C4210V20" id="C4210V20">10:20</a> Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this,
that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are
written in heaven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V21" id="C4210V21">10:21</a> In that same hour Yeshua rejoiced in
the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding,
and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was
well-pleasing in your sight."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V22" id="C4210V22">10:22</a> Turning to the disciples, he said,
"All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who
the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and
he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V23" id="C4210V23">10:23</a> Turning to the disciples, he said
privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
<a name="C4210V24" id="C4210V24">10:24</a> for I tell you that many prophets
and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them,
and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V25" id="C4210V25">10:25</a> Behold, a certain lawyer stood up
and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal
life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V26" id="C4210V26">10:26</a> He said to him, "What is
written in the Torah? How do you read it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V27" id="C4210V27">10:27</a> He answered, "You shall love
the Lord your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
strength, and with all your mind;<sup><a href="#N4226">*</a></sup> and your
neighbor as yourself."<sup><a href="#N4227">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V28" id="C4210V28">10:28</a> He said to him, "You have
answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V29" id="C4210V29">10:29</a> But he, desiring to justify
himself, asked Yeshua, "Who is my neighbor?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V30" id="C4210V30">10:30</a> Yeshua answered, "A certain man
was going down from Yerushalayim to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who
both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. <a
name="C4210V31" id="C4210V31">10:31</a> By chance a certain priest was going
down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. <a
name="C4210V32" id="C4210V32">10:32</a> In the same way a Levite also, when he
came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. <a
name="C4210V33" id="C4210V33">10:33</a> But a certain Samaritan, as he
traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with
compassion, <a name="C4210V34" id="C4210V34">10:34</a> came to him, and bound
up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and
brought him to an inn, and took care of him. <a name="C4210V35" id="C4210V35">10:35</a>
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them
to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond
that, I will repay you when I return.' <a name="C4210V36" id="C4210V36">10:36</a>
Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who
fell among the robbers?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V37" id="C4210V37">10:37</a> He said, "He who showed mercy
on him."
</p>
<p>
Then Yeshua said to him, "Go and do likewise."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V38" id="C4210V38">10:38</a> It happened as they went on their
way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha
received him into her house. <a name="C4210V39" id="C4210V39">10:39</a> She
had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Yeshua' feet, and heard his word.
<a name="C4210V40" id="C4210V40">10:40</a> But Martha was distracted with much
serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that
my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4210V41" id="C4210V41">10:41</a> Yeshua answered her, "Martha,
Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, <a name="C4210V42"
id="C4210V42">10:42</a> but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good
part, which will not be taken away from her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V1" id="C4211V1">11:1</a> It happened, that when he finished
praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord,
teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V2" id="C4211V2">11:2</a> He said to them, "When you pray,
say,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'Our Father in heaven,
</dt>
<dd>
may your name be kept holy.
</dd>
<dt>
May your Kingdom come.
</dt>
<dd>
May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4211V3" id="C4211V3">11:3</a> Give us day by day our daily bread.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C4211V4" id="C4211V4">11:4</a> Forgive us our sins,
</dt>
<dd>
for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
</dd>
<dt>
Bring us not into temptation,
</dt>
<dd>
but deliver us from the evil one.'"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4211V5" id="C4211V5">11:5</a> He said to them, "Which of you,
if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three
loaves of bread, <a name="C4211V6" id="C4211V6">11:6</a> for a friend of mine
has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,' <a
name="C4211V7" id="C4211V7">11:7</a> and he from within will answer and say,
'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in
bed. I can't get up and give it to you'? <a name="C4211V8" id="C4211V8">11:8</a>
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his
friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as
many as he needs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V9" id="C4211V9">11:9</a> "I tell you, keep asking, and it
will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it
will be opened to you. <a name="C4211V10" id="C4211V10">11:10</a> For everyone
who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be
opened.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V11" id="C4211V11">11:11</a> "Which of you fathers, if your
son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he
won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? <a name="C4211V12"
id="C4211V12">11:12</a> Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a
scorpion, will he? <a name="C4211V13" id="C4211V13">11:13</a> If you then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V14" id="C4211V14">11:14</a> He was casting out a demon, and it
was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke;
and the multitudes marveled. <a name="C4211V15" id="C4211V15">11:15</a> But
some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of
the demons." <a name="C4211V16" id="C4211V16">11:16</a> Others, testing
him, sought from him a sign from heaven. <a name="C4211V17" id="C4211V17">11:17</a>
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself
falls. <a name="C4211V18" id="C4211V18">11:18</a> If Satan also is divided
against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out
demons by Beelzebul. <a name="C4211V19" id="C4211V19">11:19</a> But if I cast
out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore
will they be your judges. <a name="C4211V20" id="C4211V20">11:20</a> But if I
by the finger of Elohim cast out demons, then the Kingdom of Elohim has come to
you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V21" id="C4211V21">11:21</a> "When the strong man, fully
armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. <a name="C4211V22"
id="C4211V22">11:22</a> But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes
him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides
his spoils.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V23" id="C4211V23">11:23</a> "He that is not with me is
against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters. <a name="C4211V24"
id="C4211V24">11:24</a> The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man,
passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I
will turn back to my house from which I came out.' <a name="C4211V25"
id="C4211V25">11:25</a> When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
<a name="C4211V26" id="C4211V26">11:26</a> Then he goes, and takes seven other
spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The
last state of that man becomes worse than the first."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V27" id="C4211V27">11:27</a> It came to pass, as he said these
things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said
to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which
nursed you!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V28" id="C4211V28">11:28</a> But he said, "On the contrary,
blessed are those who hear the word of Elohim, and keep it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V29" id="C4211V29">11:29</a> When the multitudes were gathering
together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It
seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the
prophet. <a name="C4211V30" id="C4211V30">11:30</a> For even as Jonah became a
sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.
<a name="C4211V31" id="C4211V31">11:31</a> The Queen of the South will rise up
in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them:
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and
behold, one greater than Solomon is here. <a name="C4211V32" id="C4211V32">11:32</a>
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and
will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold,
one greater than Jonah is here.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V33" id="C4211V33">11:33</a> "No one, when he has lit a
lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those
who come in may see the light. <a name="C4211V34" id="C4211V34">11:34</a> The
lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole
body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of
darkness. <a name="C4211V35" id="C4211V35">11:35</a> Therefore see whether the
light that is in you isn't darkness. <a name="C4211V36" id="C4211V36">11:36</a>
If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it
will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining
gives you light."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V37" id="C4211V37">11:37</a> Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee
asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table. <a
name="C4211V38" id="C4211V38">11:38</a> When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled
that he had not first washed himself before dinner. <a name="C4211V39"
id="C4211V39">11:39</a> The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees
cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is
full of extortion and wickedness. <a name="C4211V40" id="C4211V40">11:40</a>
You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also? <a
name="C4211V41" id="C4211V41">11:41</a> But give for gifts to the needy those
things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you. <a
name="C4211V42" id="C4211V42">11:42</a> But woe to you Pharisees! For you
tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of
Elohim. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
<a name="C4211V43" id="C4211V43">11:43</a> Woe to you Pharisees! For you love
the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
<a name="C4211V44" id="C4211V44">11:44</a> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them
don't know it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V45" id="C4211V45">11:45</a> One of the lawyers answered him,
"Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V46" id="C4211V46">11:46</a> He said, "Woe to you lawyers
also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you
yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. <a
name="C4211V47" id="C4211V47">11:47</a> Woe to you! For you build the tombs of
the prophets, and your fathers killed them. <a name="C4211V48" id="C4211V48">11:48</a>
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed
them, and you build their tombs. <a name="C4211V49" id="C4211V49">11:49</a>
Therefore also the wisdom of Elohim said, 'I will send to them prophets and
apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, <a name="C4211V50"
id="C4211V50">11:50</a> that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed
from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; <a
name="C4211V51" id="C4211V51">11:51</a> from the blood of Abel to the blood of
Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell
you, it will be required of this generation. <a name="C4211V52" id="C4211V52">11:52</a>
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't
enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4211V53" id="C4211V53">11:53</a> As he said these things to them,
the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many
things out of him; <a name="C4211V54" id="C4211V54">11:54</a> lying in wait
for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they
might accuse him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V1" id="C4212V1">12:1</a> Meanwhile, when a multitude of many
thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each
other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the
yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. <a name="C4212V2" id="C4212V2">12:2</a>
But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden,
that will not be known. <a name="C4212V3" id="C4212V3">12:3</a> Therefore
whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What
you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the
housetops.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V4" id="C4212V4">12:4</a> "I tell you, my friends, don't be
afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they
can do. <a name="C4212V5" id="C4212V5">12:5</a> But I will warn you whom you
should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into <a
href="#N4228">Gehenna.</a> Yes, I tell you, fear him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V6" id="C4212V6">12:6</a> "Aren't five sparrows sold for
two <a href="#N4229">assaria coins</a>? Not one of them is forgotten by Elohim.
<a name="C4212V7" id="C4212V7">12:7</a> But the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many
sparrows.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V8" id="C4212V8">12:8</a> "I tell you, everyone who
confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the
angels of Elohim; <a name="C4212V9" id="C4212V9">12:9</a> but he who denies me in
the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of Elohim.
<a name="C4212V10" id="C4212V10">12:10</a> Everyone who speaks a word against
the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy
Spirit will not be forgiven. <a name="C4212V11" id="C4212V11">12:11</a> When
they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities,
don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say; <a
name="C4212V12" id="C4212V12">12:12</a> for the Holy Spirit will teach you in
that same hour what you must say."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V13" id="C4212V13">12:13</a> One of the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V14" id="C4212V14">12:14</a> But he said to him, "Man, who
made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" <a name="C4212V15"
id="C4212V15">12:15</a> He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from
covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the
things which he possesses."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V16" id="C4212V16">12:16</a> He spoke a parable to them, saying,
"The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. <a
name="C4212V17" id="C4212V17">12:17</a> He reasoned within himself, saying,
'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' <a
name="C4212V18" id="C4212V18">12:18</a> He said, 'This is what I will do. I
will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all
my grain and my goods. <a name="C4212V19" id="C4212V19">12:19</a> I will tell
my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your
ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V20" id="C4212V20">12:20</a> "But Elohim said to him, 'You
foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you
have prepared--whose will they be?' <a name="C4212V21" id="C4212V21">12:21</a>
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V22" id="C4212V22">12:22</a> He said to his disciples, "Therefore
I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for
your body, what you will wear. <a name="C4212V23" id="C4212V23">12:23</a> Life
is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. <a name="C4212V24"
id="C4212V24">12:24</a> Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't
reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and Elohim feeds them. How much more
valuable are you than birds! <a name="C4212V25" id="C4212V25">12:25</a> Which
of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? <a name="C4212V26"
id="C4212V26">12:26</a> If then you aren't able to do even the least things,
why are you anxious about the rest? <a name="C4212V27" id="C4212V27">12:27</a>
Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin;
yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. <a name="C4212V28" id="C4212V28">12:28</a> But if this is how Elohim
clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast
into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? <a
name="C4212V29" id="C4212V29">12:29</a> Don't seek what you will eat or what
you will drink; neither be anxious. <a name="C4212V30" id="C4212V30">12:30</a>
For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your
Father knows that you need these things. <a name="C4212V31" id="C4212V31">12:31</a>
But seek Elohim's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. <a
name="C4212V32" id="C4212V32">12:32</a> Don't be afraid, little flock, for it
is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. <a name="C4212V33"
id="C4212V33">12:33</a> Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the
needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the
heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth
destroys. <a name="C4212V34" id="C4212V34">12:34</a> For where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V35" id="C4212V35">12:35</a> "Let your waist be girded and
your lamps burning. <a name="C4212V36" id="C4212V36">12:36</a> Be like men
watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that,
when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. <a
name="C4212V37" id="C4212V37">12:37</a> Blessed are those servants, whom the
lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he
will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
<a name="C4212V38" id="C4212V38">12:38</a> They will be blessed if he comes in
the second or third watch, and finds them so. <a name="C4212V39" id="C4212V39">12:39</a>
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the
thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be
broken into. <a name="C4212V40" id="C4212V40">12:40</a> Therefore be ready
also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V41" id="C4212V41">12:41</a> Peter said to him, "Lord, are
you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V42" id="C4212V42">12:42</a> The Lord said, "Who then is
the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the right times? <a name="C4212V43"
id="C4212V43">12:43</a> Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find
doing so when he comes. <a name="C4212V44" id="C4212V44">12:44</a> Truly I
tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. <a name="C4212V45"
id="C4212V45">12:45</a> But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord
delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the
maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, <a name="C4212V46"
id="C4212V46">12:46</a> then the lord of that servant will come in a day
when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will
cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful. <a name="C4212V47"
id="C4212V47">12:47</a> That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't
prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, <a
name="C4212V48" id="C4212V48">12:48</a> but he who didn't know, and did things
worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is
given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of
him more will be asked.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V49" id="C4212V49">12:49</a> "I came to throw fire on the
earth. I wish it were already kindled. <a name="C4212V50" id="C4212V50">12:50</a>
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it
is accomplished! <a name="C4212V51" id="C4212V51">12:51</a> Do you think that
I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather
division. <a name="C4212V52" id="C4212V52">12:52</a> For from now on, there
will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against
three. <a name="C4212V53" id="C4212V53">12:53</a> They will be divided, father
against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter
against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4212V54" id="C4212V54">12:54</a> He said to the multitudes also,
"When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A
shower is coming,' and so it happens. <a name="C4212V55" id="C4212V55">12:55</a>
When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it
happens. <a name="C4212V56" id="C4212V56">12:56</a> You hypocrites! You know
how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it
that you don't interpret this time? <a name="C4212V57" id="C4212V57">12:57</a>
Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right? <a name="C4212V58"
id="C4212V58">12:58</a> For when you are going with your adversary before
the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest
perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the
officer, and the officer throw you into prison. <a name="C4212V59"
id="C4212V59">12:59</a> I tell you, you will by no means get out of there,
until you have paid the very last <a href="#N4230">penny.</a>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V1" id="C4213V1">13:1</a> Now there were some present at the
same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed
with their sacrifices. <a name="C4213V2" id="C4213V2">13:2</a> Yeshua answered
them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all
the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? <a name="C4213V3"
id="C4213V3">13:3</a> I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all
perish in the same way. <a name="C4213V4" id="C4213V4">13:4</a> Or those
eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think
that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Yerushalayim? <a
name="C4213V5" id="C4213V5">13:5</a> I tell you, no, but, unless you repent,
you will all perish in the same way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V6" id="C4213V6">13:6</a> He spoke this parable. "A certain
man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on
it, and found none. <a name="C4213V7" id="C4213V7">13:7</a> He said to the
vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on
this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
<a name="C4213V8" id="C4213V8">13:8</a> He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone
this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. <a name="C4213V9"
id="C4213V9">13:9</a> If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you
can cut it down.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V10" id="C4213V10">13:10</a> He was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the Shabbat day. <a name="C4213V11" id="C4213V11">13:11</a>
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years,
and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up. <a
name="C4213V12" id="C4213V12">13:12</a> When Yeshua saw her, he called her, and
said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." <a
name="C4213V13" id="C4213V13">13:13</a> He laid his hands on her, and
immediately she stood up straight, and glorified Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V14" id="C4213V14">13:14</a> The ruler of the synagogue, being
indignant because Yeshua had healed on the Shabbat, said to the multitude,
"There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on
those days and be healed, and not on the Shabbat day!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V15" id="C4213V15">13:15</a> Therefore the Lord answered him,
"You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey
from the stall on the Shabbat, and lead him away to water? <a name="C4213V16"
id="C4213V16">13:16</a> Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Avraham,
whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on
the Shabbat day?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V17" id="C4213V17">13:17</a> As he said these things, all his
adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the
glorious things that were done by him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V18" id="C4213V18">13:18</a> He said, "What is the Kingdom
of Elohim like? To what shall I compare it? <a name="C4213V19" id="C4213V19">13:19</a>
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own
garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged
in its branches."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V20" id="C4213V20">13:20</a> Again he said, "To what shall
I compare the Kingdom of Elohim? <a name="C4213V21" id="C4213V21">13:21</a> It is
like yeast, which a woman took and hid in <a href="#N4231">three measures</a>
of flour, until it was all leavened."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V22" id="C4213V22">13:22</a> He went on his way through cities
and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Yerushalayim. <a name="C4213V23"
id="C4213V23">13:23</a> One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are
saved?"
</p>
<p>
He said to them, <a name="C4213V24" id="C4213V24">13:24</a> "Strive to
enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in,
and will not be able. <a name="C4213V25" id="C4213V25">13:25</a> When once the
master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to
stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!'
then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come
from.' <a name="C4213V26" id="C4213V26">13:26</a> Then you will begin to say,
'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' <a
name="C4213V27" id="C4213V27">13:27</a> He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know
where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' <a
name="C4213V28" id="C4213V28">13:28</a> There will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth, when you see Avraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the
Kingdom of Elohim, and yourselves being thrown outside. <a name="C4213V29"
id="C4213V29">13:29</a> They will come from the east, west, north, and
south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of Elohim. <a name="C4213V30"
id="C4213V30">13:30</a> Behold, there are some who are last who will be
first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V31" id="C4213V31">13:31</a> On that same day, some Pharisees
came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants
to kill you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V32" id="C4213V32">13:32</a> He said to them, "Go and tell
that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow,
and the third day I complete my mission. <a name="C4213V33" id="C4213V33">13:33</a>
Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for
it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Yerushalayim.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4213V34" id="C4213V34">13:34</a> "Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, that
kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I
wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood
under her wings, and you refused! <a name="C4213V35" id="C4213V35">13:35</a>
Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see
me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"<sup><a
href="#N4232">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V1" id="C4214V1">14:1</a> It happened, when he went into the
house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Shabbat to eat bread,
that they were watching him. <a name="C4214V2" id="C4214V2">14:2</a> Behold, a
certain man who had dropsy was in front of him. <a name="C4214V3" id="C4214V3">14:3</a>
Yeshua, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it
lawful to heal on the Shabbat?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V4" id="C4214V4">14:4</a> But they were silent.
</p>
<p>
He took him, and healed him, and let him go. <a name="C4214V5" id="C4214V5">14:5</a>
He answered them, "Which of you, if your <a href="#N4233">son</a> or an
ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Shabbat day?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V6" id="C4214V6">14:6</a> They couldn't answer him regarding
these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V7" id="C4214V7">14:7</a> He spoke a parable to those who were
invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
<a name="C4214V8" id="C4214V8">14:8</a> "When you are invited by anyone
to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone
more honorable than you might be invited by him, <a name="C4214V9" id="C4214V9">14:9</a>
and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for
this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
<a name="C4214V10" id="C4214V10">14:10</a> But when you are invited, go and
sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may
tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the
presence of all who sit at the table with you. <a name="C4214V11" id="C4214V11">14:11</a>
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles
himself will be exalted."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V12" id="C4214V12">14:12</a> He also said to the one who had
invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your
friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or
perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. <a
name="C4214V13" id="C4214V13">14:13</a> But when you make a feast, ask the
poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; <a name="C4214V14" id="C4214V14">14:14</a>
and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay
you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V15" id="C4214V15">14:15</a> When one of those who sat at the
table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who
will feast in the Kingdom of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V16" id="C4214V16">14:16</a> But he said to him, "A certain
man made a great supper, and he invited many people. <a name="C4214V17"
id="C4214V17">14:17</a> He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those
who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.' <a name="C4214V18"
id="C4214V18">14:18</a> They all as one began to make excuses.
</p>
<p>
"The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see
it. Please have me excused.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V19" id="C4214V19">14:19</a> "Another said, 'I have bought
five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V20" id="C4214V20">14:20</a> "Another said, 'I have married
a wife, and therefore I can't come.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V21" id="C4214V21">14:21</a> "That servant came, and told
his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to
his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and
bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V22" id="C4214V22">14:22</a> "The servant said, 'Lord, it
is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V23" id="C4214V23">14:23</a> "The lord said to the servant,
'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my
house may be filled. <a name="C4214V24" id="C4214V24">14:24</a> For I tell you
that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4214V25" id="C4214V25">14:25</a> Now great multitudes were going
with him. He turned and said to them, <a name="C4214V26" id="C4214V26">14:26</a>
"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother,
wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he
can't be my disciple. <a name="C4214V27" id="C4214V27">14:27</a> Whoever
doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple. <a
name="C4214V28" id="C4214V28">14:28</a> For which of you, desiring to build a
tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough
to complete it? <a name="C4214V29" id="C4214V29">14:29</a> Or perhaps, when he
has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins
to mock him, <a name="C4214V30" id="C4214V30">14:30</a> saying, 'This man
began to build, and wasn't able to finish.' <a name="C4214V31" id="C4214V31">14:31</a>
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit
down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him
who comes against him with twenty thousand? <a name="C4214V32" id="C4214V32">14:32</a>
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and
asks for conditions of peace. <a name="C4214V33" id="C4214V33">14:33</a> So
therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be
my disciple. <a name="C4214V34" id="C4214V34">14:34</a> Salt is good, but if
the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? <a
name="C4214V35" id="C4214V35">14:35</a> It is fit neither for the soil nor for
the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V1" id="C4215V1">15:1</a> Now all the tax collectors and sinners
were coming close to him to hear him. <a name="C4215V2" id="C4215V2">15:2</a>
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes
sinners, and eats with them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V3" id="C4215V3">15:3</a> He told them this parable. <a
name="C4215V4" id="C4215V4">15:4</a> "Which of you men, if you had one
hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the
wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? <a
name="C4215V5" id="C4215V5">15:5</a> When he has found it, he carries it on
his shoulders, rejoicing. <a name="C4215V6" id="C4215V6">15:6</a> When he
comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to
them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' <a
name="C4215V7" id="C4215V7">15:7</a> I tell you that even so there will be
more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine
righteous people who need no repentance. <a name="C4215V8" id="C4215V8">15:8</a>
Or what woman, if she had ten <a href="#N4234">drachma</a> coins, if she
lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she found it? <a name="C4215V9" id="C4215V9">15:9</a> When
she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying,
'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.' <a
name="C4215V10" id="C4215V10">15:10</a> Even so, I tell you, there is joy in
the presence of the angels of Elohim over one sinner repenting."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V11" id="C4215V11">15:11</a> He said, "A certain man had
two sons. <a name="C4215V12" id="C4215V12">15:12</a> The younger of them said
to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his
livelihood between them. <a name="C4215V13" id="C4215V13">15:13</a> Not many
days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled
into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. <a
name="C4215V14" id="C4215V14">15:14</a> When he had spent all of it, there
arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. <a
name="C4215V15" id="C4215V15">15:15</a> He went and joined himself to one of
the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed
pigs. <a name="C4215V16" id="C4215V16">15:16</a> He wanted to fill his belly
with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. <a name="C4215V17"
id="C4215V17">15:17</a> But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with
hunger! <a name="C4215V18" id="C4215V18">15:18</a> I will get up and go to my
father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and
in your sight. <a name="C4215V19" id="C4215V19">15:19</a> I am no more worthy
to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V20" id="C4215V20">15:20</a> "He arose, and came to his
father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved
with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. <a
name="C4215V21" id="C4215V21">15:21</a> The son said to him, 'Father, I have
sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be
called your son.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V22" id="C4215V22">15:22</a> "But the father said to his
servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his
hand, and shoes on his feet. <a name="C4215V23" id="C4215V23">15:23</a> Bring
the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate; <a name="C4215V24"
id="C4215V24">15:24</a> for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He
was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V25" id="C4215V25">15:25</a> "Now his elder son was in the
field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. <a
name="C4215V26" id="C4215V26">15:26</a> He called one of the servants to him,
and asked what was going on. <a name="C4215V27" id="C4215V27">15:27</a> He
said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the
fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.' <a
name="C4215V28" id="C4215V28">15:28</a> But he was angry, and would not go in.
Therefore his father came out, and begged him. <a name="C4215V29" id="C4215V29">15:29</a>
But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you,
and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a
goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. <a name="C4215V30" id="C4215V30">15:30</a>
But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with
prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4215V31" id="C4215V31">15:31</a> "He said to him, 'Son, you are
always with me, and all that is mine is yours. <a name="C4215V32" id="C4215V32">15:32</a>
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother,
was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V1" id="C4216V1">16:1</a> He also said to his disciples, "There
was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him
that this man was wasting his possessions. <a name="C4216V2" id="C4216V2">16:2</a>
He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give
an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V3" id="C4216V3">16:3</a> "The manager said within himself,
'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management
position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. <a
name="C4216V4" id="C4216V4">16:4</a> I know what I will do, so that when I am
removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.' <a
name="C4216V5" id="C4216V5">16:5</a> Calling each one of his lord's debtors to
him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?' <a
name="C4216V6" id="C4216V6">16:6</a> He said, 'A <a href="#N4235">hundred batos</a>
of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write
fifty.' <a name="C4216V7" id="C4216V7">16:7</a> Then said he to another, 'How
much do you owe?' He said, 'A <a href="#N4236">hundred cors</a> of wheat.'
He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V8" id="C4216V8">16:8</a> "His lord commended the dishonest
manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in
their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. <a name="C4216V9"
id="C4216V9">16:9</a> I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of
unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the
eternal tents. <a name="C4216V10" id="C4216V10">16:10</a> He who is faithful
in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very
little is also dishonest in much. <a name="C4216V11" id="C4216V11">16:11</a>
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who
will commit to your trust the true riches? <a name="C4216V12" id="C4216V12">16:12</a>
If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give
you that which is your own? <a name="C4216V13" id="C4216V13">16:13</a> No
servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love
the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't
able to serve Elohim and <a href="#N4237">mammon</a>."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V14" id="C4216V14">16:14</a> The Pharisees, who were lovers of
money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. <a
name="C4216V15" id="C4216V15">16:15</a> He said to them, "You are those
who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but Elohim knows your hearts. For
that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim. <a
name="C4216V16" id="C4216V16">16:16</a> The Torah and the prophets were until
John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of Elohim is preached, and
everyone is forcing his way into it. <a name="C4216V17" id="C4216V17">16:17</a>
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny
stroke of a pen in the Torah to fall. <a name="C4216V18" id="C4216V18">16:18</a>
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He
who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V19" id="C4216V19">16:19</a> "Now there was a certain rich
man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every
day. <a name="C4216V20" id="C4216V20">16:20</a> A certain beggar, named
Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, <a name="C4216V21" id="C4216V21">16:21</a>
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's
table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. <a name="C4216V22"
id="C4216V22">16:22</a> It happened that the beggar died, and that he was
carried away by the angels to Avraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and
was buried. <a name="C4216V23" id="C4216V23">16:23</a> In <a href="#N4238">Hades</a>,
he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Avraham far off, and
Lazarus at his bosom. <a name="C4216V24" id="C4216V24">16:24</a> He cried and
said, 'Father Avraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip
the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in
this flame.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V25" id="C4216V25">16:25</a> "But Avraham said, 'Son,
remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and
Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you
are in anguish. <a name="C4216V26" id="C4216V26">16:26</a> Besides all this,
between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to
pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from
there to us.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V27" id="C4216V27">16:27</a> "He said, 'I ask you
therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; <a
name="C4216V28" id="C4216V28">16:28</a> for I have five brothers, that he may
testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V29" id="C4216V29">16:29</a> "But Avraham said to him,
'They have Moshe and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V30" id="C4216V30">16:30</a> "He said, 'No, father Avraham,
but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4216V31" id="C4216V31">16:31</a> "He said to him, 'If they
don't listen to Moshe and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if
one rises from the dead.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V1" id="C4217V1">17:1</a> He said to the disciples, "It is
impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him
through whom they come! <a name="C4217V2" id="C4217V2">17:2</a> It would be
better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were
thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little
ones to stumble. <a name="C4217V3" id="C4217V3">17:3</a> Be careful. If your
brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. <a
name="C4217V4" id="C4217V4">17:4</a> If he sins against you seven times in the
day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V5" id="C4217V5">17:5</a> The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase
our faith."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V6" id="C4217V6">17:6</a> The Lord said, "If you had faith
like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be
uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. <a
name="C4217V7" id="C4217V7">17:7</a> But who is there among you, having a
servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the
field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' <a name="C4217V8"
id="C4217V8">17:8</a> and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper,
clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward
you shall eat and drink'? <a name="C4217V9" id="C4217V9">17:9</a> Does he
thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think
not. <a name="C4217V10" id="C4217V10">17:10</a> Even so you also, when you
have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy
servants. We have done our duty.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V11" id="C4217V11">17:11</a> It happened as he was on his way to
Yerushalayim, that he was passing along the borders of Shomron and Galilee.
<a name="C4217V12" id="C4217V12">17:12</a> As he entered into a certain
village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. <a
name="C4217V13" id="C4217V13">17:13</a> They lifted up their voices, saying,
"Yeshua, Master, have mercy on us!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V14" id="C4217V14">17:14</a> When he saw them, he said to them,
"Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as
they went, they were cleansed. <a name="C4217V15" id="C4217V15">17:15</a> One
of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying Elohim with
a loud voice. <a name="C4217V16" id="C4217V16">17:16</a> He fell on his face
at Yeshua' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. <a name="C4217V17"
id="C4217V17">17:17</a> Yeshua answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But
where are the nine? <a name="C4217V18" id="C4217V18">17:18</a> Were there none
found who returned to give glory to Elohim, except this stranger?" <a
name="C4217V19" id="C4217V19">17:19</a> Then he said to him, "Get up, and
go your way. Your faith has healed you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V20" id="C4217V20">17:20</a> Being asked by the Pharisees when
the Kingdom of Elohim would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of Elohim
doesn't come with observation; <a name="C4217V21" id="C4217V21">17:21</a>
neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the
Kingdom of Elohim is within you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V22" id="C4217V22">17:22</a> He said to the disciples, "The
days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of
Man, and you will not see it. <a name="C4217V23" id="C4217V23">17:23</a> They
will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow
after them, <a name="C4217V24" id="C4217V24">17:24</a> for as the lightning,
when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other
part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. <a name="C4217V25"
id="C4217V25">17:25</a> But first, he must suffer many things and be
rejected by this generation. <a name="C4217V26" id="C4217V26">17:26</a> As it
happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the
Son of Man. <a name="C4217V27" id="C4217V27">17:27</a> They ate, they drank,
they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered
into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. <a name="C4217V28"
id="C4217V28">17:28</a> Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot:
they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; <a
name="C4217V29" id="C4217V29">17:29</a> but in the day that Lot went out from
Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. <a
name="C4217V30" id="C4217V30">17:30</a> It will be the same way in the day
that the Son of Man is revealed. <a name="C4217V31" id="C4217V31">17:31</a> In
that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let
him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise
not turn back. <a name="C4217V32" id="C4217V32">17:32</a> Remember Lot's wife!
<a name="C4217V33" id="C4217V33">17:33</a> Whoever seeks to save his life
loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. <a name="C4217V34"
id="C4217V34">17:34</a> I tell you, in that night there will be two people
in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. <a
name="C4217V35" id="C4217V35">17:35</a> There will be two grinding grain
together. One will be taken, and the other will be left." <a
name="C4217V36" id="C4217V36">17:36</a> <sup><a href="#N4239">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4217V37" id="C4217V37">17:37</a> They, answering, asked him, "Where,
Lord?"
</p>
<p>
He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be
gathered together."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V1" id="C4218V1">18:1</a> He also spoke a parable to them that
they must always pray, and not give up, <a name="C4218V2" id="C4218V2">18:2</a>
saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear Elohim, and
didn't respect man. <a name="C4218V3" id="C4218V3">18:3</a> A widow was in
that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my
adversary!' <a name="C4218V4" id="C4218V4">18:4</a> He wouldn't for a while,
but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear Elohim, nor respect
man, <a name="C4218V5" id="C4218V5">18:5</a> yet because this widow bothers
me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual
coming.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V6" id="C4218V6">18:6</a> The Lord said, "Listen to what
the unrighteous judge says. <a name="C4218V7" id="C4218V7">18:7</a> Won't Elohim
avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet
he exercises patience with them? <a name="C4218V8" id="C4218V8">18:8</a> I
tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of
Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V9" id="C4218V9">18:9</a> He spoke also this parable to certain
people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all
others. <a name="C4218V10" id="C4218V10">18:10</a> "Two men went up into
the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
<a name="C4218V11" id="C4218V11">18:11</a> The Pharisee stood and prayed to
himself like this: 'Elohim, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men,
extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. <a
name="C4218V12" id="C4218V12">18:12</a> I fast twice a week. I give tithes of
all that I get.' <a name="C4218V13" id="C4218V13">18:13</a> But the tax
collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven,
but beat his breast, saying, 'Elohim, be merciful to me, a sinner!' <a
name="C4218V14" id="C4218V14">18:14</a> I tell you, this man went down to his
house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V15" id="C4218V15">18:15</a> They were also bringing their
babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it,
they rebuked them. <a name="C4218V16" id="C4218V16">18:16</a> Yeshua summoned
them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't
hinder them, for the Kingdom of Elohim belongs to such as these. <a
name="C4218V17" id="C4218V17">18:17</a> Most certainly, I tell you, whoever
doesn't receive the Kingdom of Elohim like a little child, he will in no way
enter into it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V18" id="C4218V18">18:18</a> A certain ruler asked him, saying,
"Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V19" id="C4218V19">18:19</a> Yeshua asked him, "Why do you
call me good? No one is good, except one--Elohim. <a name="C4218V20" id="C4218V20">18:20</a>
You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't
steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"<sup><a
href="#N4240">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V21" id="C4218V21">18:21</a> He said, "I have observed all
these things from my youth up."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V22" id="C4218V22">18:22</a> When Yeshua heard these things, he
said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and
distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow
me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V23" id="C4218V23">18:23</a> But when he heard these things, he
became very sad, for he was very rich.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V24" id="C4218V24">18:24</a> Yeshua, seeing that he became very
sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into
the Kingdom of Elohim! <a name="C4218V25" id="C4218V25">18:25</a> For it is
easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man
to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V26" id="C4218V26">18:26</a> Those who heard it said, "Then
who can be saved?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V27" id="C4218V27">18:27</a> But he said, "The things which
are impossible with men are possible with Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V28" id="C4218V28">18:28</a> Peter said, "Look, we have
left everything, and followed you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V29" id="C4218V29">18:29</a> He said to them, "Most
certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or
brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of Elohim's sake, <a
name="C4218V30" id="C4218V30">18:30</a> who will not receive many times more
in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V31" id="C4218V31">18:31</a> He took the twelve aside, and said
to them, "Behold, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and all the things
that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be
completed. <a name="C4218V32" id="C4218V32">18:32</a> For he will be delivered
up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. <a
name="C4218V33" id="C4218V33">18:33</a> They will scourge and kill him. On the
third day, he will rise again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V34" id="C4218V34">18:34</a> They understood none of these
things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the
things that were said. <a name="C4218V35" id="C4218V35">18:35</a> It happened,
as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. <a
name="C4218V36" id="C4218V36">18:36</a> Hearing a multitude going by, he asked
what this meant. <a name="C4218V37" id="C4218V37">18:37</a> They told him that
Yeshua of Nazareth was passing by. <a name="C4218V38" id="C4218V38">18:38</a>
He cried out, "Yeshua, you son of David, have mercy on me!" <a
name="C4218V39" id="C4218V39">18:39</a> Those who led the way rebuked him,
that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of
David, have mercy on me!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V40" id="C4218V40">18:40</a> Standing still, Yeshua commanded him
to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, <a name="C4218V41"
id="C4218V41">18:41</a> "What do you want me to do?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V42" id="C4218V42">18:42</a> Yeshua said to him, "Receive
your sight. Your faith has healed you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4218V43" id="C4218V43">18:43</a> Immediately he received his sight,
and followed him, glorifying Elohim. All the people, when they saw it,
praised Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V1" id="C4219V1">19:1</a> He entered and was passing through
Jericho. <a name="C4219V2" id="C4219V2">19:2</a> There was a man named
Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. <a name="C4219V3"
id="C4219V3">19:3</a> He was trying to see who Yeshua was, and couldn't
because of the crowd, because he was short. <a name="C4219V4" id="C4219V4">19:4</a>
He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he
was to pass that way. <a name="C4219V5" id="C4219V5">19:5</a> When Yeshua came
to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus,
hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." <a
name="C4219V6" id="C4219V6">19:6</a> He hurried, came down, and received him
joyfully. <a name="C4219V7" id="C4219V7">19:7</a> When they saw it, they all
murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a
sinner."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V8" id="C4219V8">19:8</a> Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord,
"Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have
wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V9" id="C4219V9">19:9</a> Yeshua said to him, "Today,
salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Avraham. <a
name="C4219V10" id="C4219V10">19:10</a> For the Son of Man came to seek and to
save that which was lost."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V11" id="C4219V11">19:11</a> As they heard these things, he went
on and told a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and they supposed
that the Kingdom of Elohim would be revealed immediately. <a name="C4219V12"
id="C4219V12">19:12</a> He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went
into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. <a
name="C4219V13" id="C4219V13">19:13</a> He called ten servants of his, and
gave them <a href="#N4241">ten mina coins,</a> and told them, 'Conduct
business until I come.' <a name="C4219V14" id="C4219V14">19:14</a> But his
citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want
this man to reign over us.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V15" id="C4219V15">19:15</a> "It happened when he had come
back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants,
to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know
what they had gained by conducting business. <a name="C4219V16" id="C4219V16">19:16</a>
The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more
minas.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V17" id="C4219V17">19:17</a> "He said to him, 'Well done,
you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you
shall have authority over ten cities.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V18" id="C4219V18">19:18</a> "The second came, saying,
'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V19" id="C4219V19">19:19</a> "So he said to him, 'And you
are to be over five cities.' <a name="C4219V20" id="C4219V20">19:20</a>
Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in
a handkerchief, <a name="C4219V21" id="C4219V21">19:21</a> for I feared you,
because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay
down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V22" id="C4219V22">19:22</a> "He said to him, 'Out of your
own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an
exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that
which I didn't sow. <a name="C4219V23" id="C4219V23">19:23</a> Then why didn't
you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned
interest on it?' <a name="C4219V24" id="C4219V24">19:24</a> He said to those
who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the
ten minas.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V25" id="C4219V25">19:25</a> "They said to him, 'Lord, he
has ten minas!' <a name="C4219V26" id="C4219V26">19:26</a> 'For I tell you
that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't
have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. <a name="C4219V27"
id="C4219V27">19:27</a> But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me
to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'" <a name="C4219V28"
id="C4219V28">19:28</a> Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up
to Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V29" id="C4219V29">19:29</a> It happened, when he drew near to
<a href="#N4242">Bethsphage</a> and Bethany, at the mountain that is called
Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, <a name="C4219V30" id="C4219V30">19:30</a>
saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as
you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie
it, and bring it. <a name="C4219V31" id="C4219V31">19:31</a> If anyone asks
you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V32" id="C4219V32">19:32</a> Those who were sent went away, and
found things just as he had told them. <a name="C4219V33" id="C4219V33">19:33</a>
As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you
untying the colt?" <a name="C4219V34" id="C4219V34">19:34</a> They said,
"The Lord needs it." <a name="C4219V35" id="C4219V35">19:35</a> They
brought it to Yeshua. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Yeshua on
them. <a name="C4219V36" id="C4219V36">19:36</a> As he went, they spread their
cloaks in the way. <a name="C4219V37" id="C4219V37">19:37</a> As he was now
getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude
of the disciples began to rejoice and praise Elohim with a loud voice for all
the mighty works which they had seen, <a name="C4219V38" id="C4219V38">19:38</a>
saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!<sup><a
href="#N4243">*</a></sup> Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V39" id="C4219V39">19:39</a> Some of the Pharisees from the
multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V40" id="C4219V40">19:40</a> He answered them, "I tell you
that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V41" id="C4219V41">19:41</a> When he drew near, he saw the city
and wept over it, <a name="C4219V42" id="C4219V42">19:42</a> saying, "If
you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But
now, they are hidden from your eyes. <a name="C4219V43" id="C4219V43">19:43</a>
For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade
against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, <a name="C4219V44"
id="C4219V44">19:44</a> and will dash you and your children within you to
the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you
didn't know the time of your visitation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V45" id="C4219V45">19:45</a> He entered into the temple, and
began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, <a name="C4219V46"
id="C4219V46">19:46</a> saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a
house of prayer,'<sup><a href="#N4244">*</a></sup> but you have made it a
'den of robbers'!"<sup><a href="#N4245">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4219V47" id="C4219V47">19:47</a> He was teaching daily in the
temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among
the people sought to destroy him. <a name="C4219V48" id="C4219V48">19:48</a>
They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every
word that he said.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V1" id="C4220V1">20:1</a> It happened on one of those days, as
he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that
the <sup><a href="#N4246">*</a></sup>priests and scribes came to him with
the elders. <a name="C4220V2" id="C4220V2">20:2</a> They asked him, "Tell
us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this
authority?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V3" id="C4220V3">20:3</a> He answered them, "I also will
ask you one question. Tell me: <a name="C4220V4" id="C4220V4">20:4</a> the
baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V5" id="C4220V5">20:5</a> They reasoned with themselves, saying,
"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
<a name="C4220V6" id="C4220V6">20:6</a> But if we say, 'From men,' all the
people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
<a name="C4220V7" id="C4220V7">20:7</a> They answered that they didn't know
where it was from.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V8" id="C4220V8">20:8</a> Yeshua said to them, "Neither will
I tell you by what authority I do these things."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V9" id="C4220V9">20:9</a> He began to tell the people this
parable. "A <sup><a href="#N4247">*</a></sup>man planted a vineyard,
and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a
long time. <a name="C4220V10" id="C4220V10">20:10</a> At the proper season, he
sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the
vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. <a
name="C4220V11" id="C4220V11">20:11</a> He sent yet another servant, and they
also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. <a
name="C4220V12" id="C4220V12">20:12</a> He sent yet a third, and they also
wounded him, and threw him out. <a name="C4220V13" id="C4220V13">20:13</a> The
lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son.
It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V14" id="C4220V14">20:14</a> "But when the farmers saw him,
they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's
kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' <a name="C4220V15" id="C4220V15">20:15</a>
They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will
the lord of the vineyard do to them? <a name="C4220V16" id="C4220V16">20:16</a>
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to
others."
</p>
<p>
When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V17" id="C4220V17">20:17</a> But he looked at them, and said,
"Then what is this that is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The stone which the builders rejected,
</dt>
<dd>
the same was made the chief cornerstone?'<sup><a href="#N4248">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4220V18" id="C4220V18">20:18</a> Everyone who falls on that stone
will be broken to pieces,
</dt>
<dd>
but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4220V19" id="C4220V19">20:19</a> The chief priests and the scribes
sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for
they knew he had spoken this parable against them. <a name="C4220V20"
id="C4220V20">20:20</a> They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended
to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to
deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. <a name="C4220V21"
id="C4220V21">20:21</a> They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say
and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the
way of Elohim. <a name="C4220V22" id="C4220V22">20:22</a> Is it lawful for us to
pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V23" id="C4220V23">20:23</a> But he perceived their craftiness,
and said to them, "Why do you test me? <a name="C4220V24" id="C4220V24">20:24</a>
Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
</p>
<p>
They answered, "Caesar's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V25" id="C4220V25">20:25</a> He said to them, "Then give to
Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to Elohim the things that are Elohim's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V26" id="C4220V26">20:26</a> They weren't able to trap him in
his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
<a name="C4220V27" id="C4220V27">20:27</a> Some of the Sadducees came to him,
those who deny that there is a resurrection. <a name="C4220V28" id="C4220V28">20:28</a>
They asked him, "Teacher, Moshe wrote to us that if a man's brother
dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife,
and raise up children for his brother. <a name="C4220V29" id="C4220V29">20:29</a>
There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died
childless. <a name="C4220V30" id="C4220V30">20:30</a> The second took her as
wife, and he died childless. <a name="C4220V31" id="C4220V31">20:31</a> The
third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. <a
name="C4220V32" id="C4220V32">20:32</a> Afterward the woman also died. <a
name="C4220V33" id="C4220V33">20:33</a> Therefore in the resurrection whose
wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V34" id="C4220V34">20:34</a> Yeshua said to them, "The
children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. <a name="C4220V35"
id="C4220V35">20:35</a> But those who are considered worthy to attain to
that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given
in marriage. <a name="C4220V36" id="C4220V36">20:36</a> For they can't die any
more, for they are like the angels, and are children of Elohim, being
children of the resurrection. <a name="C4220V37" id="C4220V37">20:37</a> But
that the dead are raised, even Moshe showed at the bush, when he called
the Lord 'The Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.'<sup><a
href="#N4249">*</a></sup> <a name="C4220V38" id="C4220V38">20:38</a> Now he is
not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V39" id="C4220V39">20:39</a> Some of the scribes answered,
"Teacher, you speak well." <a name="C4220V40" id="C4220V40">20:40</a>
They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V41" id="C4220V41">20:41</a> He said to them, "Why do they
say that the Messiah is David's son? <a name="C4220V42" id="C4220V42">20:42</a>
David himself says in the book of Psalms,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The Lord said to my Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
"Sit at my right hand,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C4220V43" id="C4220V43">20:43</a> until I make your enemies the
footstool of your feet."'<sup><a href="#N4250">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4220V44" id="C4220V44">20:44</a> "David therefore calls him
Lord, so how is he his son?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4220V45" id="C4220V45">20:45</a> In the hearing of all the people,
he said to his disciples, <a name="C4220V46" id="C4220V46">20:46</a> "Beware
of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the
marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at
feasts; <a name="C4220V47" id="C4220V47">20:47</a> who devour widows' houses,
and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater
condemnation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V1" id="C4221V1">21:1</a> He looked up, and saw the rich people
who were putting their gifts into the treasury. <a name="C4221V2" id="C4221V2">21:2</a>
He saw a certain poor widow casting in <a href="#N4251">two small brass
coins.</a> <a name="C4221V3" id="C4221V3">21:3</a> He said, "Truly I tell
you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, <a name="C4221V4"
id="C4221V4">21:4</a> for all these put in gifts for Elohim from their
abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live
on."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V5" id="C4221V5">21:5</a> As some were talking about the temple
and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, <a
name="C4221V6" id="C4221V6">21:6</a> "As for these things which you see,
the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on
another that will not be thrown down."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V7" id="C4221V7">21:7</a> They asked him, "Teacher, so when
will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to
happen?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V8" id="C4221V8">21:8</a> He said, "Watch out that you
don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, '<a
href="#N4252">I am he</a>,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't
follow them. <a name="C4221V9" id="C4221V9">21:9</a> When you hear of wars and
disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but
the end won't come immediately."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V10" id="C4221V10">21:10</a> Then he said to them, "Nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. <a name="C4221V11"
id="C4221V11">21:11</a> There will be great earthquakes, famines, and
plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from
heaven. <a name="C4221V12" id="C4221V12">21:12</a> But before all these
things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you,
delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and
governors for my name's sake. <a name="C4221V13" id="C4221V13">21:13</a> It
will turn out as a testimony for you. <a name="C4221V14" id="C4221V14">21:14</a>
Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to
answer, <a name="C4221V15" id="C4221V15">21:15</a> for I will give you a mouth
and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to
contradict. <a name="C4221V16" id="C4221V16">21:16</a> You will be handed over
even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of
you to be put to death. <a name="C4221V17" id="C4221V17">21:17</a> You will be
hated by all men for my name's sake. <a name="C4221V18" id="C4221V18">21:18</a>
And not a hair of your head will perish.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V19" id="C4221V19">21:19</a> "By your endurance you will
win your lives.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V20" id="C4221V20">21:20</a> "But when you see Yerushalayim
surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. <a
name="C4221V21" id="C4221V21">21:21</a> Then let those who are in Judea flee
to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those
who are in the country not enter therein. <a name="C4221V22" id="C4221V22">21:22</a>
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be
fulfilled. <a name="C4221V23" id="C4221V23">21:23</a> Woe to those who are
pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be
great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. <a name="C4221V24"
id="C4221V24">21:24</a> They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be
led captive into all the nations. Yerushalayim will be trampled down by the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. <a name="C4221V25"
id="C4221V25">21:25</a> There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and
on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea
and the waves; <a name="C4221V26" id="C4221V26">21:26</a> men fainting for
fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for
the powers of the heavens will be shaken. <a name="C4221V27" id="C4221V27">21:27</a>
Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great
glory. <a name="C4221V28" id="C4221V28">21:28</a> But when these things begin
to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is
near."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V29" id="C4221V29">21:29</a> He told them a parable. "See
the fig tree, and all the trees. <a name="C4221V30" id="C4221V30">21:30</a>
When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that
the summer is already near. <a name="C4221V31" id="C4221V31">21:31</a> Even so
you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of
Elohim is near. <a name="C4221V32" id="C4221V32">21:32</a> Most certainly I tell
you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.
<a name="C4221V33" id="C4221V33">21:33</a> Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will by no means pass away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V34" id="C4221V34">21:34</a> "So be careful, or your hearts
will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life,
and that day will come on you suddenly. <a name="C4221V35" id="C4221V35">21:35</a>
For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all
the earth. <a name="C4221V36" id="C4221V36">21:36</a> Therefore be watchful
all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these
things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4221V37" id="C4221V37">21:37</a> Every day Yeshua was teaching in the
temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the
mountain that is called Olivet. <a name="C4221V38" id="C4221V38">21:38</a> All
the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V1" id="C4222V1">22:1</a> Now the feast of unleavened bread,
which is called the Passover, drew near. <a name="C4222V2" id="C4222V2">22:2</a>
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death,
for they feared the people. <a name="C4222V3" id="C4222V3">22:3</a> Satan
entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the
twelve. <a name="C4222V4" id="C4222V4">22:4</a> He went away, and talked with
the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. <a
name="C4222V5" id="C4222V5">22:5</a> They were glad, and agreed to give him
money. <a name="C4222V6" id="C4222V6">22:6</a> He consented, and sought an
opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. <a
name="C4222V7" id="C4222V7">22:7</a> The day of unleavened bread came, on
which the Passover must be sacrificed. <a name="C4222V8" id="C4222V8">22:8</a>
He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us,
that we may eat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V9" id="C4222V9">22:9</a> They said to him, "Where do you
want us to prepare?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V10" id="C4222V10">22:10</a> He said to them, "Behold, when
you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will
meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. <a name="C4222V11"
id="C4222V11">22:11</a> Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to
you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my
disciples?"' <a name="C4222V12" id="C4222V12">22:12</a> He will show you
a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V13" id="C4222V13">22:13</a> They went, found things as he had
told them, and they prepared the Passover. <a name="C4222V14" id="C4222V14">22:14</a>
When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. <a
name="C4222V15" id="C4222V15">22:15</a> He said to them, "I have
earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, <a
name="C4222V16" id="C4222V16">22:16</a> for I tell you, I will no longer by
any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of Elohim." <a
name="C4222V17" id="C4222V17">22:17</a> He received a cup, and when he had
given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves, <a
name="C4222V18" id="C4222V18">22:18</a> for I tell you, I will not drink at
all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of Elohim comes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V19" id="C4222V19">22:19</a> He took bread, and when he had
given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body
which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." <a name="C4222V20"
id="C4222V20">22:20</a> Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for
you. <a name="C4222V21" id="C4222V21">22:21</a> But behold, the hand of him
who betrays me is with me on the table. <a name="C4222V22" id="C4222V22">22:22</a>
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man
through whom he is betrayed!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V23" id="C4222V23">22:23</a> They began to question among
themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing. <a name="C4222V24"
id="C4222V24">22:24</a> There arose also a contention among them, which of
them was considered to be greatest. <a name="C4222V25" id="C4222V25">22:25</a>
He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and
those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.' <a
name="C4222V26" id="C4222V26">22:26</a> But not so with you. But one who is
the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is
governing, as one who serves. <a name="C4222V27" id="C4222V27">22:27</a> For
who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he
who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves. <a
name="C4222V28" id="C4222V28">22:28</a> But you are those who have continued
with me in my trials. <a name="C4222V29" id="C4222V29">22:29</a> I confer on
you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, <a name="C4222V30"
id="C4222V30">22:30</a> that you may eat and drink at my table in my
Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisrael."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V31" id="C4222V31">22:31</a> The Lord said, "Simon, Simon,
behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, <a
name="C4222V32" id="C4222V32">22:32</a> but I prayed for you, that your faith
wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your <a
href="#N4253">brothers</a>."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V33" id="C4222V33">22:33</a> He said to him, "Lord, I am
ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V34" id="C4222V34">22:34</a> He said, "I tell you, Peter,
the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me
three times."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V35" id="C4222V35">22:35</a> He said to them, "When I sent
you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Nothing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V36" id="C4222V36">22:36</a> Then he said to them, "But
now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever
has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. <a name="C4222V37"
id="C4222V37">22:37</a> For I tell you that this which is written must still
be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.'<sup><a href="#N4254">*</a></sup>
For that which concerns me has an end."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V38" id="C4222V38">22:38</a> They said, "Lord, behold, here
are two swords."
</p>
<p>
He said to them, "That is enough."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V39" id="C4222V39">22:39</a> He came out, and went, as his
custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. <a
name="C4222V40" id="C4222V40">22:40</a> When he was at the place, he said to
them, "Pray that you don't enter into temptation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V41" id="C4222V41">22:41</a> He was withdrawn from them about a
stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed, <a name="C4222V42" id="C4222V42">22:42</a>
saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V43" id="C4222V43">22:43</a> An angel from heaven appeared to
him, strengthening him. <a name="C4222V44" id="C4222V44">22:44</a> Being in
agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood
falling down on the ground.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V45" id="C4222V45">22:45</a> When he rose up from his prayer, he
came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, <a
name="C4222V46" id="C4222V46">22:46</a> and said to them, "Why do you
sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V47" id="C4222V47">22:47</a> While he was still speaking,
behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was
leading them. He came near to Yeshua to kiss him. <a name="C4222V48"
id="C4222V48">22:48</a> But Yeshua said to him, "Judas, do you betray
the Son of Man with a kiss?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V49" id="C4222V49">22:49</a> When those who were around him saw
what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike
with the sword?" <a name="C4222V50" id="C4222V50">22:50</a> A certain one
of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V51" id="C4222V51">22:51</a> But Yeshua answered, "Let me at
least do this"--and he touched his ear, and healed him. <a
name="C4222V52" id="C4222V52">22:52</a> Yeshua said to the chief priests,
captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have
you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? <a name="C4222V53"
id="C4222V53">22:53</a> When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't
stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of
darkness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V54" id="C4222V54">22:54</a> They seized him, and led him away,
and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a
distance. <a name="C4222V55" id="C4222V55">22:55</a> When they had kindled a
fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat
among them. <a name="C4222V56" id="C4222V56">22:56</a> A certain servant girl
saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This
man also was with him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V57" id="C4222V57">22:57</a> He denied Yeshua, saying, "Woman,
I don't know him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V58" id="C4222V58">22:58</a> After a little while someone else
saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!"
</p>
<p>
But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V59" id="C4222V59">22:59</a> After about one hour passed,
another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with
him, for he is a Galilean!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V60" id="C4222V60">22:60</a> But Peter said, "Man, I don't
know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still
speaking, a rooster crowed. <a name="C4222V61" id="C4222V61">22:61</a> The
Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word,
how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three
times." <a name="C4222V62" id="C4222V62">22:62</a> He went out, and wept
bitterly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V63" id="C4222V63">22:63</a> The men who held Yeshua mocked him
and beat him. <a name="C4222V64" id="C4222V64">22:64</a> Having blindfolded
him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the
one who struck you?" <a name="C4222V65" id="C4222V65">22:65</a> They
spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V66" id="C4222V66">22:66</a> As soon as it was day, the assembly
of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and
scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying, <a name="C4222V67"
id="C4222V67">22:67</a> "If you are the Messiah, tell us."
</p>
<p>
But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe, <a
name="C4222V68" id="C4222V68">22:68</a> and if I ask, you will in no way
answer me or let me go. <a name="C4222V69" id="C4222V69">22:69</a> From now
on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V70" id="C4222V70">22:70</a> They all said, "Are you then
the Son of Elohim?"
</p>
<p>
He said to them, "You say it, because I am."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4222V71" id="C4222V71">22:71</a> They said, "Why do we need any
more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V1" id="C4223V1">23:1</a> The whole company of them rose up and
brought him before Pilate. <a name="C4223V2" id="C4223V2">23:2</a> They began
to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation,
forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Messiah, a
king."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V3" id="C4223V3">23:3</a> Pilate asked him, "Are you the
King of the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
He answered him, "So you say."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V4" id="C4223V4">23:4</a> Pilate said to the chief priests and
the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V5" id="C4223V5">23:5</a> But they insisted, saying, "He
stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee
even to this place." <a name="C4223V6" id="C4223V6">23:6</a> But when
Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. <a
name="C4223V7" id="C4223V7">23:7</a> When he found out that he was in Herod's
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Yerushalayim during those
days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V8" id="C4223V8">23:8</a> Now when Herod saw Yeshua, he was
exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he
had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
<a name="C4223V9" id="C4223V9">23:9</a> He questioned him with many words, but
he gave no answers. <a name="C4223V10" id="C4223V10">23:10</a> The chief
priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. <a name="C4223V11"
id="C4223V11">23:11</a> Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked
him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. <a
name="C4223V12" id="C4223V12">23:12</a> Herod and Pilate became friends with
each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each
other.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V13" id="C4223V13">23:13</a> Pilate called together the chief
priests and the rulers and the people, <a name="C4223V14" id="C4223V14">23:14</a>
and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts
the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis
for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse
him. <a name="C4223V15" id="C4223V15">23:15</a> Neither has Herod, for I sent
you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. <a
name="C4223V16" id="C4223V16">23:16</a> I will therefore chastise him and
release him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V17" id="C4223V17">23:17</a> Now he had to release one prisoner
to them at the feast. <a name="C4223V18" id="C4223V18">23:18</a> But they all
cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us
Barabbas!"-- <a name="C4223V19" id="C4223V19">23:19</a> one who was
thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V20" id="C4223V20">23:20</a> Then Pilate spoke to them again,
wanting to release Yeshua, <a name="C4223V21" id="C4223V21">23:21</a> but they
shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V22" id="C4223V22">23:22</a> He said to them the third time,
"Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in
him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." <a name="C4223V23"
id="C4223V23">23:23</a> But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that
he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests
prevailed. <a name="C4223V24" id="C4223V24">23:24</a> Pilate decreed that what
they asked for should be done. <a name="C4223V25" id="C4223V25">23:25</a> He
released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder,
for whom they asked, but he delivered Yeshua up to their will.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V26" id="C4223V26">23:26</a> When they led him away, they
grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the
cross, to carry it after Yeshua. <a name="C4223V27" id="C4223V27">23:27</a> A
great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also
mourned and lamented him. <a name="C4223V28" id="C4223V28">23:28</a> But
Yeshua, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't weep for
me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. <a name="C4223V29"
id="C4223V29">23:29</a> For behold, the days are coming in which they will
say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts
that never nursed.' <a name="C4223V30" id="C4223V30">23:30</a> Then they will
begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'<sup><a
href="#N4255">*</a></sup> <a name="C4223V31" id="C4223V31">23:31</a> For if they
do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V32" id="C4223V32">23:32</a> There were also others, two
criminals, led with him to be put to death. <a name="C4223V33" id="C4223V33">23:33</a>
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him
there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V34" id="C4223V34">23:34</a> Yeshua said, "Father, forgive
them, for they don't know what they are doing."
</p>
<p>
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. <a name="C4223V35"
id="C4223V35">23:35</a> The people stood watching. The rulers with them also
scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if
this is the Messiah of Elohim, his chosen one!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V36" id="C4223V36">23:36</a> The soldiers also mocked him,
coming to him and offering him vinegar, <a name="C4223V37" id="C4223V37">23:37</a>
and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V38" id="C4223V38">23:38</a> An inscription was also written
over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V39" id="C4223V39">23:39</a> One of the criminals who was hanged
insulted him, saying, "If you are the Messiah, save yourself and us!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V40" id="C4223V40">23:40</a> But the other answered, and
rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear Elohim, seeing you are under the
same condemnation? <a name="C4223V41" id="C4223V41">23:41</a> And we indeed
justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done
nothing wrong." <a name="C4223V42" id="C4223V42">23:42</a> He said to
Yeshua, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V43" id="C4223V43">23:43</a> Yeshua said to him, "Assuredly
I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V44" id="C4223V44">23:44</a> It was now <a href="#N4256">about the
sixth hour</a>, and darkness came over the whole land until <a href="#N4257">the
ninth hour.</a> <a name="C4223V45" id="C4223V45">23:45</a> The sun was
darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. <a name="C4223V46"
id="C4223V46">23:46</a> Yeshua, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed
his last.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V47" id="C4223V47">23:47</a> When the centurion saw what was
done, he glorified Elohim, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
<a name="C4223V48" id="C4223V48">23:48</a> All the multitudes that came
together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned
home beating their breasts. <a name="C4223V49" id="C4223V49">23:49</a> All his
acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at
a distance, watching these things.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4223V50" id="C4223V50">23:50</a> Behold, a man named Joseph, who was
a member of the council, a good and righteous man <a name="C4223V51"
id="C4223V51">23:51</a> (he had not consented to their counsel and deed),
from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom
of Elohim: <a name="C4223V52" id="C4223V52">23:52</a> this man went to Pilate,
and asked for Yeshua' body. <a name="C4223V53" id="C4223V53">23:53</a> He took
it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was
cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. <a name="C4223V54" id="C4223V54">23:54</a>
It was the day of the Preparation, and the Shabbat was drawing near. <a
name="C4223V55" id="C4223V55">23:55</a> The women, who had come with him out
of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
<a name="C4223V56" id="C4223V56">23:56</a> They returned, and prepared spices
and ointments. On the Shabbat they rested according to the commandment.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V1" id="C4224V1">24:1</a> But on the first day of the week, at
early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices
which they had prepared. <a name="C4224V2" id="C4224V2">24:2</a> They found
the stone rolled away from the tomb. <a name="C4224V3" id="C4224V3">24:3</a>
They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Yeshua' body. <a name="C4224V4"
id="C4224V4">24:4</a> It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about
this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. <a name="C4224V5"
id="C4224V5">24:5</a> Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the
earth.
</p>
<p>
They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? <a
name="C4224V6" id="C4224V6">24:6</a> He isn't here, but is risen. Remember
what he told you when he was still in Galilee, <a name="C4224V7" id="C4224V7">24:7</a>
saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful
men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V8" id="C4224V8">24:8</a> They remembered his words, <a
name="C4224V9" id="C4224V9">24:9</a> returned from the tomb, and told all
these things to the eleven, and to all the rest. <a name="C4224V10"
id="C4224V10">24:10</a> Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the
mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the
apostles. <a name="C4224V11" id="C4224V11">24:11</a> These words seemed to
them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them. <a name="C4224V12"
id="C4224V12">24:12</a> But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and
looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he
departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V13" id="C4224V13">24:13</a> Behold, two of them were going that
very day to a village named Emmaus, which was <a href="#N4258">sixty stadia</a>
from Yerushalayim. <a name="C4224V14" id="C4224V14">24:14</a> They talked with
each other about all of these things which had happened. <a name="C4224V15"
id="C4224V15">24:15</a> It happened, while they talked and questioned
together, that Yeshua himself came near, and went with them. <a
name="C4224V16" id="C4224V16">24:16</a> But their eyes were kept from
recognizing him. <a name="C4224V17" id="C4224V17">24:17</a> He said to them,
"What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V18" id="C4224V18">24:18</a> One of them, named Cleopas,
answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Yerushalayim who doesn't
know the things which have happened there in these days?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V19" id="C4224V19">24:19</a> He said to them, "What things?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "The things concerning Yeshua, the Nazarene, who was
a prophet mighty in deed and word before Elohim and all the people; <a
name="C4224V20" id="C4224V20">24:20</a> and how the chief priests and our
rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. <a
name="C4224V21" id="C4224V21">24:21</a> But we were hoping that it was he who
would redeem Yisrael. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day
since these things happened. <a name="C4224V22" id="C4224V22">24:22</a> Also,
certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;
<a name="C4224V23" id="C4224V23">24:23</a> and when they didn't find his body,
they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that
he was alive. <a name="C4224V24" id="C4224V24">24:24</a> Some of us went to
the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see
him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V25" id="C4224V25">24:25</a> He said to them, "Foolish men,
and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! <a
name="C4224V26" id="C4224V26">24:26</a> Didn't the Messiah have to suffer these
things and to enter into his glory?" <a name="C4224V27" id="C4224V27">24:27</a>
Beginning from Moshe and from all the prophets, he explained to them in
all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. <a name="C4224V28"
id="C4224V28">24:28</a> They drew near to the village, where they were
going, and he acted like he would go further.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V29" id="C4224V29">24:29</a> They urged him, saying, "Stay
with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over."
</p>
<p>
He went in to stay with them. <a name="C4224V30" id="C4224V30">24:30</a> It
happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the
bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. <a name="C4224V31"
id="C4224V31">24:31</a> Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and
he vanished out of their sight. <a name="C4224V32" id="C4224V32">24:32</a>
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us,
while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to
us?" <a name="C4224V33" id="C4224V33">24:33</a> They rose up that very
hour, returned to Yerushalayim, and found the eleven gathered together, and
those who were with them, <a name="C4224V34" id="C4224V34">24:34</a> saying,
"The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" <a
name="C4224V35" id="C4224V35">24:35</a> They related the things that happened
along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the
bread.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V36" id="C4224V36">24:36</a> As they said these things, Yeshua
himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V37" id="C4224V37">24:37</a> But they were terrified and filled
with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V38" id="C4224V38">24:38</a> He said to them, "Why are you
troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? <a name="C4224V39" id="C4224V39">24:39</a>
See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a
spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." <a
name="C4224V40" id="C4224V40">24:40</a> When he had said this, he showed them
his hands and his feet. <a name="C4224V41" id="C4224V41">24:41</a> While they
still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you
have anything here to eat?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V42" id="C4224V42">24:42</a> They gave him a piece of a broiled
fish and some honeycomb. <a name="C4224V43" id="C4224V43">24:43</a> He took
them, and ate in front of them. <a name="C4224V44" id="C4224V44">24:44</a> He
said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you,
that all things which are written in the Torah of Moshe, the prophets, and
the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V45" id="C4224V45">24:45</a> Then he opened their minds, that
they might understand the Scriptures. <a name="C4224V46" id="C4224V46">24:46</a>
He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for
the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, <a
name="C4224V47" id="C4224V47">24:47</a> and that repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at
Yerushalayim. <a name="C4224V48" id="C4224V48">24:48</a> You are witnesses of
these things. <a name="C4224V49" id="C4224V49">24:49</a> Behold, I send forth
the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Yerushalayim until
you are clothed with power from on high."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4224V50" id="C4224V50">24:50</a> He led them out as far as Bethany,
and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. <a name="C4224V51" id="C4224V51">24:51</a>
It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was
carried up into heaven. <a name="C4224V52" id="C4224V52">24:52</a> They
worshiped him, and returned to Yerushalayim with great joy, <a name="C4224V53"
id="C4224V53">24:53</a> and were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing Elohim. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N421" id="N421">[1]</a> <a href="#C422V23">back to 2:23</a> Exodus
13:2,12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N422" id="N422">[2]</a> <a href="#C422V24">back to 2:24</a> Leviticus
12:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N423" id="N423">[3]</a> <a href="#C422V26">back to 2:26</a> "Messiah"
(Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N424" id="N424">[4]</a> <a href="#C423V6">back to 3:6</a> Isaiah 40:3-5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N425" id="N425">[5]</a> <a href="#C423V19">back to 3:19</a> TR reads
"brother Philip's" instead of "brother's"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N426" id="N426">[6]</a> <a href="#C423V33">back to 3:33</a> NU reads
"Admin, the son of Arni" instead of "Aram"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N427" id="N427">[7]</a> <a href="#C424V4">back to 4:4</a> Deuteronomy
8:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N428" id="N428">[8]</a> <a href="#C424V8">back to 4:8</a> Deuteronomy
6:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N429" id="N429">[9]</a> <a href="#C424V11">back to 4:11</a> Psalm
91:11-12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4210" id="N4210">[10]</a> <a href="#C424V12">back to 4:12</a>
Deuteronomy 6:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4211" id="N4211">[11]</a> <a href="#C424V18">back to 4:18</a> NU omits
"to heal the brokenhearted"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4212" id="N4212">[12]</a> <a href="#C424V19">back to 4:19</a> Isaiah
61:1-2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4213" id="N4213">[13]</a> <a href="#C426V26">back to 6:26</a> TR adds
"to you"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4214" id="N4214">[14]</a> <a href="#C426V26">back to 6:26</a> TR adds
"all"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4215" id="N4215">[15]</a> <a href="#C426V38">back to 6:38</a>
literally, into your bosom.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4216" id="N4216">[16]</a> <a href="#C427V27">back to 7:27</a> Malachi
3:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4217" id="N4217">[17]</a> <a href="#C427V31">back to 7:31</a> TR adds
"But the Lord said,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4218" id="N4218">[18]</a> <a href="#C428V3">back to 8:3</a> TR reads
"him" instead of "them"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4219" id="N4219">[19]</a> <a href="#C428V10">back to 8:10</a> Isaiah
6:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4220" id="N4220">[20]</a> <a href="#C428V44">back to 8:44</a> or,
tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4221" id="N4221">[21]</a> <a href="#C429V1">back to 9:1</a> TR reads
"his twelve disciples" instead of "the twelve"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4222" id="N4222">[22]</a> <a href="#C429V23">back to 9:23</a> TR, NU
add "daily"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4223" id="N4223">[23]</a> <a href="#C429V31">back to 9:31</a>
literally, "exodus"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4224" id="N4224">[24]</a> <a href="#C4210V1">back to 10:1</a>
literally, "before his face"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4225" id="N4225">[25]</a> <a href="#C4210V15">back to 10:15</a> Hades
is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4226" id="N4226">[26]</a> <a href="#C4210V27">back to 10:27</a>
Deuteronomy 6:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4227" id="N4227">[27]</a> <a href="#C4210V27">back to 10:27</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4228" id="N4228">[28]</a> <a href="#C4212V5">back to 12:5</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4229" id="N4229">[29]</a> <a href="#C4212V6">back to 12:6</a> An
assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an
agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4230" id="N4230">[30]</a> <a href="#C4212V59">back to 12:59</a>
literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a
Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion.
Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4231" id="N4231">[31]</a> <a href="#C4213V21">back to 13:21</a>
literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a
bushel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4232" id="N4232">[32]</a> <a href="#C4213V35">back to 13:35</a> Psalm
118:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4233" id="N4233">[33]</a> <a href="#C4214V5">back to 14:5</a> TR reads
"donkey" instead of "son"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4234" id="N4234">[34]</a> <a href="#C4215V8">back to 15:8</a> A
drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4235" id="N4235">[35]</a> <a href="#C4216V6">back to 16:6</a> 100
batos is about 395 litres, 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4236" id="N4236">[36]</a> <a href="#C4216V7">back to 16:7</a> 100 cors
= about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4237" id="N4237">[37]</a> <a href="#C4216V13">back to 16:13</a> "Mammon"
refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4238" id="N4238">[38]</a> <a href="#C4216V23">back to 16:23</a> or,
Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4239" id="N4239">[39]</a> <a href="#C4217V36">back to 17:36</a> Some
Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field: the one taken, and
the other left."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4240" id="N4240">[40]</a> <a href="#C4218V20">back to 18:20</a> Exodus
20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4241" id="N4241">[41]</a> <a href="#C4219V13">back to 19:13</a> 10
minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4242" id="N4242">[42]</a> <a href="#C4219V29">back to 19:29</a> TR, NU
read "Bethpage" instead of "Bethsphage"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4243" id="N4243">[43]</a> <a href="#C4219V38">back to 19:38</a> Psalm
118:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4244" id="N4244">[44]</a> <a href="#C4219V46">back to 19:46</a> Isaiah
56:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4245" id="N4245">[45]</a> <a href="#C4219V46">back to 19:46</a>
Jeremiah 7:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4246" id="N4246">[46]</a> <a href="#C4220V1">back to 20:1</a> TR adds
"chief"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4247" id="N4247">[47]</a> <a href="#C4220V9">back to 20:9</a> NU (in
brackets) and TR add "certain"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4248" id="N4248">[48]</a> <a href="#C4220V17">back to 20:17</a> Psalm
118:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4249" id="N4249">[49]</a> <a href="#C4220V37">back to 20:37</a> Exodus
3:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4250" id="N4250">[50]</a> <a href="#C4220V43">back to 20:43</a> Psalm
110:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4251" id="N4251">[51]</a> <a href="#C4221V2">back to 21:2</a>
literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages
for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4252" id="N4252">[52]</a> <a href="#C4221V8">back to 21:8</a> or, I AM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4253" id="N4253">[53]</a> <a href="#C4222V32">back to 22:32</a> The
word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers
and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4254" id="N4254">[54]</a> <a href="#C4222V37">back to 22:37</a> Isaiah
53:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4255" id="N4255">[55]</a> <a href="#C4223V30">back to 23:30</a> Hosea
10:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4256" id="N4256">[56]</a> <a href="#C4223V44">back to 23:44</a> Time
was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4257" id="N4257">[57]</a> <a href="#C4223V44">back to 23:44</a> 3:00
PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4258" id="N4258">[58]</a> <a href="#C4224V13">back to 24:13</a> 60
stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.
</p>
</html>
<p>
<a name="C391V1" id="C391V1">1:1</a> An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Yisrael
by Malachi.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V2" id="C391V2">1:2</a> "I have loved you," says
Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
Yet you say, "How have you loved us?"
</p>
<p>
"Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved
Jacob; <a name="C391V3" id="C391V3">1:3</a> but Esau I hated, and made his
mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the
wilderness." <a name="C391V4" id="C391V4">1:4</a> Whereas Edom says,
"We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;"
thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down;
and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom
Yahweh shows wrath forever."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V5" id="C391V5">1:5</a> Your eyes will see, and you will say,
"Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Yisrael!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V6" id="C391V6">1:6</a> "A son honors his father, and a
servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am
a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you,
priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
<a name="C391V7" id="C391V7">1:7</a> You offer polluted bread on my altar. You
say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table
contemptible.' <a name="C391V8" id="C391V8">1:8</a> When you offer the blind
for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick,
isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with
you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V9" id="C391V9">1:9</a> "Now, please entreat the favor of
Elohim, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?"
says Yahweh of Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V10" id="C391V10">1:10</a> "Oh that there were one among you
who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in
vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither
will I accept an offering at your hand. <a name="C391V11" id="C391V11">1:11</a>
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name
is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to
my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,"
says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C391V12" id="C391V12">1:12</a> "But you
profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit,
even its food, is contemptible.' <a name="C391V13" id="C391V13">1:13</a> You
say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it,"
says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by
violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I
accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C391V14" id="C391V14">1:14</a> "But the deceiver is cursed, who
has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished
thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my
name is awesome among the nations."
</p>
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<p>
<a name="C392V1" id="C392V1">2:1</a> "Now, you priests, this commandment
is for you. <a name="C392V2" id="C392V2">2:2</a> If you will not listen, and
if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says
Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will
curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do
not lay it to heart. <a name="C392V3" id="C392V3">2:3</a> Behold, I will
rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of
your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. <a name="C392V4" id="C392V4">2:4</a>
You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant
may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C392V5" id="C392V5">2:5</a>
"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him
who he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and
stood in awe of my name. <a name="C392V6" id="C392V6">2:6</a> The Torah of truth
was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked
with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. <a
name="C392V7" id="C392V7">2:7</a> For the priest's lips should keep knowledge,
and they should seek the Torah at his mouth; for he is the messenger of
Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C392V8" id="C392V8">2:8</a> But you have turned
aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have
corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C392V9"
id="C392V9">2:9</a> "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and
base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my
ways, but have had respect for persons in the Torah. <a name="C392V10"
id="C392V10">2:10</a> Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one Elohim created
us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning
the covenant of our fathers? <a name="C392V11" id="C392V11">2:11</a> Yehudah has
dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Yisrael and in
Yerushalayim; for Yehudah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves,
and has married the daughter of a foreign god. <a name="C392V12" id="C392V12">2:12</a>
Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who
answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to
Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C392V13" id="C392V13">2:13</a> This again you do:
you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing,
because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with
good will at your hand. <a name="C392V14" id="C392V14">2:14</a> Yet you say,
'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your
youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your
companion, and the wife of your covenant. <a name="C392V15" id="C392V15">2:15</a>
Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one?
He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none
deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. <a name="C392V16"
id="C392V16">2:16</a> For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says
Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't
deal treacherously. <a name="C392V17" id="C392V17">2:17</a> You have wearied
Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that
you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he
delights in them;' or 'Where is the Elohim of justice?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C393V1" id="C393V1">3:1</a> "Behold, I send my messenger, and he
will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly
come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire,
behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C393V2" id="C393V2">3:2</a>
"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he
appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; <a
name="C393V3" id="C393V3">3:3</a> and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and
silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. <a
name="C393V4" id="C393V4">3:4</a> Then the offering of Yehudah and Yerushalayim
will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient
years. <a name="C393V5" id="C393V5">3:5</a> I will come near to you to
judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress
the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive
the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
<a name="C393V6" id="C393V6">3:6</a> "For I, Yahweh, don't change;
therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. <a name="C393V7" id="C393V7">3:7</a>
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances,
and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says
Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?' <a name="C393V8"
id="C393V8">3:8</a> Will a man rob Elohim? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How
have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. <a name="C393V9" id="C393V9">3:9</a>
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. <a
name="C393V10" id="C393V10">3:10</a> Bring the whole tithe into the
storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,"
says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for. <a
name="C393V11" id="C393V11">3:11</a> I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh
of Armies. <a name="C393V12" id="C393V12">3:12</a> "All nations shall
call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of
Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C393V13" id="C393V13">3:13</a> "Your words have been stout
against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken
against you?' <a name="C393V14" id="C393V14">3:14</a> You have said, 'It is
vain to serve Elohim;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his
instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
<a name="C393V15" id="C393V15">3:15</a> Now we call the proud happy; yes,
those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt Elohim, and escape.'
<a name="C393V16" id="C393V16">3:16</a> Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one
with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was
written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
<a name="C393V17" id="C393V17">3:17</a> They shall be mine," says Yahweh
of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will
spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. <a name="C393V18"
id="C393V18">3:18</a> Then you shall return and discern between the
righteous and the wicked, between him who serves Elohim and him who doesn't
serve him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C394V1" id="C394V1">4:1</a> "For, behold, the day comes, it
burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will
be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of
Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. <a
name="C394V2" id="C394V2">4:2</a> But to you who fear my name shall the sun of
righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap
like calves of the stall. <a name="C394V3" id="C394V3">4:3</a> You shall tread
down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in
the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C394V4" id="C394V4">4:4</a> "Remember the Torah of Moshe my
servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Yisrael, even statutes
and ordinances. <a name="C394V5" id="C394V5">4:5</a> Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. <a
name="C394V6" id="C394V6">4:6</a> He will turn the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come
and strike the earth with a curse."
</p>
<html>
<a href=#C411V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C412V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C413V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C414V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C415V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C416V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C417V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C418V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C419V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4110V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4111V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4112V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4113V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4114V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4115V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4116V1>Chapter 16</a>
<p>
<a name="C411V1" id="C411V1">1:1</a> The beginning of the Good News of Yeshua
Messiah, the Son of Elohim. <a name="C411V2" id="C411V2">1:2</a> As it is written
in the prophets,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
</dt>
<dd>
who will prepare your way before you.<sup><a href="#N411">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C411V3" id="C411V3">1:3</a> The voice of one crying in the
wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
'Make ready the way of the Lord!
</dd>
<dd>
Make his paths straight!'"<sup><a href="#N412">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C411V4" id="C411V4">1:4</a> John came <a href="#N413">baptizing</a> in
the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of
sins. <a name="C411V5" id="C411V5">1:5</a> All the country of Judea and all
those of Yerushalayim went out to him. They were baptized by him in the
Jordan river, confessing their sins. <a name="C411V6" id="C411V6">1:6</a> John
was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate
locusts and wild honey. <a name="C411V7" id="C411V7">1:7</a> He preached,
saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose
sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. <a name="C411V8" id="C411V8">1:8</a>
I baptized you <a href="#N414">in</a> water, but he will baptize you in the
Holy Spirit."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V9" id="C411V9">1:9</a> It happened in those days, that Yeshua
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. <a
name="C411V10" id="C411V10">1:10</a> Immediately coming up from the water, he
saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. <a
name="C411V11" id="C411V11">1:11</a> A voice came out of the sky, "You
are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V12" id="C411V12">1:12</a> Immediately the Spirit drove him out
into the wilderness. <a name="C411V13" id="C411V13">1:13</a> He was there in
the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals;
and the angels were serving him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V14" id="C411V14">1:14</a> Now after John was taken into custody,
Yeshua came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of Elohim, <a
name="C411V15" id="C411V15">1:15</a> and saying, "The time is fulfilled,
and the Kingdom of Elohim is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V16" id="C411V16">1:16</a> Passing along by the sea of Galilee,
he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea,
for they were fishermen. <a name="C411V17" id="C411V17">1:17</a> Yeshua said to
them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V18" id="C411V18">1:18</a> Immediately they left their nets, and
followed him. <a name="C411V19" id="C411V19">1:19</a> Going on a little
further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his
brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. <a name="C411V20"
id="C411V20">1:20</a> Immediately he called them, and they left their
father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
<a name="C411V21" id="C411V21">1:21</a> They went into Capernaum, and
immediately on the Shabbat day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
<a name="C411V22" id="C411V22">1:22</a> They were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. <a
name="C411V23" id="C411V23">1:23</a> Immediately there was in their synagogue
a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, <a name="C411V24" id="C411V24">1:24</a>
saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Yeshua, you Nazarene?
Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V25" id="C411V25">1:25</a> Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be
quiet, and come out of him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V26" id="C411V26">1:26</a> The unclean spirit, convulsing him and
crying with a loud voice, came out of him. <a name="C411V27" id="C411V27">1:27</a>
They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying,
"What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even
the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" <a name="C411V28" id="C411V28">1:28</a>
The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of
Galilee and its surrounding area.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V29" id="C411V29">1:29</a> Immediately, when they had come out of
the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James
and John. <a name="C411V30" id="C411V30">1:30</a> Now Simon's wife's mother
lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. <a
name="C411V31" id="C411V31">1:31</a> He came and took her by the hand, and
raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them. <a name="C411V32"
id="C411V32">1:32</a> At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him
all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. <a name="C411V33"
id="C411V33">1:33</a> All the city was gathered together at the door. <a
name="C411V34" id="C411V34">1:34</a> He healed many who were sick with various
diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak,
because they knew him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V35" id="C411V35">1:35</a> Early in the morning, while it was
still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place,
and prayed there. <a name="C411V36" id="C411V36">1:36</a> Simon and those who
were with him followed after him; <a name="C411V37" id="C411V37">1:37</a> and
they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V38" id="C411V38">1:38</a> He said to them, "Let's go
elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I
came out for this reason." <a name="C411V39" id="C411V39">1:39</a> He
went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting
out demons.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V40" id="C411V40">1:40</a> A leper came to him, begging him,
kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can
make me clean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V41" id="C411V41">1:41</a> Being moved with compassion, he
stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to.
Be made clean." <a name="C411V42" id="C411V42">1:42</a> When he had said
this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. <a
name="C411V43" id="C411V43">1:43</a> He strictly warned him, and immediately
sent him out, <a name="C411V44" id="C411V44">1:44</a> and said to him, "See
you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer
for your cleansing the things which Moshe commanded, for a testimony to
them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C411V45" id="C411V45">1:45</a> But he went out, and began to proclaim
it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Yeshua could no more
openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came
to him from everywhere.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V1" id="C412V1">2:1</a> When he entered again into Capernaum
after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. <a name="C412V2"
id="C412V2">2:2</a> Immediately many were gathered together, so that there
was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
<a name="C412V3" id="C412V3">2:3</a> Four people came, carrying a paralytic to
him. <a name="C412V4" id="C412V4">2:4</a> When they could not come near to him
for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it
up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on. <a name="C412V5"
id="C412V5">2:5</a> Yeshua, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son,
your sins are forgiven you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V6" id="C412V6">2:6</a> But there were some of the scribes
sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, <a name="C412V7" id="C412V7">2:7</a>
"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins
but Elohim alone?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V8" id="C412V8">2:8</a> Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his
spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do
you reason these things in your hearts? <a name="C412V9" id="C412V9">2:9</a>
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to
say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' <a name="C412V10" id="C412V10">2:10</a>
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic-- <a name="C412V11" id="C412V11">2:11</a>
"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V12" id="C412V12">2:12</a> He arose, and immediately took up the
mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and
glorified Elohim, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V13" id="C412V13">2:13</a> He went out again by the seaside. All
the multitude came to him, and he taught them. <a name="C412V14" id="C412V14">2:14</a>
As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax
office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and
followed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V15" id="C412V15">2:15</a> It happened, that he was reclining at
the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with
Yeshua and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. <a
name="C412V16" id="C412V16">2:16</a> The scribes and the Pharisees, when they
saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his
disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and
sinners?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V17" id="C412V17">2:17</a> When Yeshua heard it, he said to them,
"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who
are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V18" id="C412V18">2:18</a> John's disciples and the Pharisees
were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples
and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V19" id="C412V19">2:19</a> Yeshua said to them, "Can the
groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the
bridegroom with them, they can't fast. <a name="C412V20" id="C412V20">2:20</a>
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
and then will they fast in that day. <a name="C412V21" id="C412V21">2:21</a>
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch
shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. <a
name="C412V22" id="C412V22">2:22</a> No one puts new wine into old wineskins,
or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the
skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V23" id="C412V23">2:23</a> It happened that he was going on the
Shabbat day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they
went, to pluck the ears of grain. <a name="C412V24" id="C412V24">2:24</a> The
Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not
lawful on the Shabbat day?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C412V25" id="C412V25">2:25</a> He said to them, "Did you never
read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and those who
were with him? <a name="C412V26" id="C412V26">2:26</a> How he entered into the
house of Elohim when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which
is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who
were with him?" <a name="C412V27" id="C412V27">2:27</a> He said to them,
"The Shabbat was made for man, not man for the Shabbat. <a
name="C412V28" id="C412V28">2:28</a> Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of
the Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V1" id="C413V1">3:1</a> He entered again into the synagogue, and
there was a man there who had his hand withered. <a name="C413V2" id="C413V2">3:2</a>
They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Shabbat day, that they
might accuse him. <a name="C413V3" id="C413V3">3:3</a> He said to the man who
had his hand withered, "Stand up." <a name="C413V4" id="C413V4">3:4</a>
He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Shabbat day to do good, or to
do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent. <a
name="C413V5" id="C413V5">3:5</a> When he had looked around at them with
anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man,
"Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was
restored as healthy as the other. <a name="C413V6" id="C413V6">3:6</a> The
Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against
him, how they might destroy him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V7" id="C413V7">3:7</a> Yeshua withdrew to the sea with his
disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, <a
name="C413V8" id="C413V8">3:8</a> from Yerushalayim, from Idumaea, beyond the
Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing
what great things he did, came to him. <a name="C413V9" id="C413V9">3:9</a> He
spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of
the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. <a name="C413V10" id="C413V10">3:10</a>
For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him
that they might touch him. <a name="C413V11" id="C413V11">3:11</a> The unclean
spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You
are the Son of Elohim!" <a name="C413V12" id="C413V12">3:12</a> He sternly
warned them that they should not make him known.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V13" id="C413V13">3:13</a> He went up into the mountain, and
called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. <a
name="C413V14" id="C413V14">3:14</a> He appointed twelve, that they might be
with him, and that he might send them out to preach, <a name="C413V15"
id="C413V15">3:15</a> and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast
out demons: <a name="C413V16" id="C413V16">3:16</a> Simon, to whom he gave the
name Peter; <a name="C413V17" id="C413V17">3:17</a> James the son of Zebedee;
John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means,
Sons of Thunder; <a name="C413V18" id="C413V18">3:18</a> Andrew; Philip;
Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon
the Zealot; <a name="C413V19" id="C413V19">3:19</a> and Judas Iscariot, who
also betrayed him.
</p>
<p>
He came into a house. <a name="C413V20" id="C413V20">3:20</a> The multitude
came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. <a
name="C413V21" id="C413V21">3:21</a> When his friends heard it, they went out
to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." <a name="C413V22"
id="C413V22">3:22</a> The scribes who came down from Yerushalayim said, "He
has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out
the demons."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V23" id="C413V23">3:23</a> He summoned them, and said to them in
parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? <a name="C413V24" id="C413V24">3:24</a>
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. <a
name="C413V25" id="C413V25">3:25</a> If a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand. <a name="C413V26" id="C413V26">3:26</a> If Satan has
risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.
<a name="C413V27" id="C413V27">3:27</a> But no one can enter into the house of
the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then
he will plunder his house. <a name="C413V28" id="C413V28">3:28</a> Most
certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven,
including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; <a name="C413V29"
id="C413V29">3:29</a> but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" <a
name="C413V30" id="C413V30">3:30</a> --because they said, "He has an
unclean spirit."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V31" id="C413V31">3:31</a> His mother and his brothers came, and
standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. <a name="C413V32" id="C413V32">3:32</a>
A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your
mother, your brothers, and <a href="#N415">your sisters</a> are outside
looking for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C413V33" id="C413V33">3:33</a> He answered them, "Who are my
mother and my brothers?" <a name="C413V34" id="C413V34">3:34</a> Looking
around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and
my brothers! <a name="C413V35" id="C413V35">3:35</a> For whoever does the will
of Elohim, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V1" id="C414V1">4:1</a> Again he began to teach by the seaside. A
great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the
sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. <a
name="C414V2" id="C414V2">4:2</a> He taught them many things in parables, and
told them in his teaching, <a name="C414V3" id="C414V3">4:3</a> "Listen!
Behold, the farmer went out to sow, <a name="C414V4" id="C414V4">4:4</a> and
it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds<sup><a
href="#N416">*</a></sup> came and devoured it. <a name="C414V5" id="C414V5">4:5</a>
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately
it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. <a name="C414V6" id="C414V6">4:6</a>
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it
withered away. <a name="C414V7" id="C414V7">4:7</a> Others fell among the
thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. <a
name="C414V8" id="C414V8">4:8</a> Others fell into the good ground, and
yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times,
some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." <a name="C414V9"
id="C414V9">4:9</a> He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V10" id="C414V10">4:10</a> When he was alone, those who were
around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. <a name="C414V11"
id="C414V11">4:11</a> He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of
the Kingdom of Elohim, but to those who are outside, all things are done in
parables, <a name="C414V12" id="C414V12">4:12</a> that 'seeing they may see,
and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest
perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"<sup><a
href="#N417">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V13" id="C414V13">4:13</a> He said to them, "Don't you
understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? <a
name="C414V14" id="C414V14">4:14</a> The farmer sows the word. <a name="C414V15"
id="C414V15">4:15</a> The ones by the road are the ones where the word is
sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away
the word which has been sown in them. <a name="C414V16" id="C414V16">4:16</a>
These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when
they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. <a name="C414V17"
id="C414V17">4:17</a> They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived.
When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately
they stumble. <a name="C414V18" id="C414V18">4:18</a> Others are those who are
sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, <a
name="C414V19" id="C414V19">4:19</a> and the cares of this age, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke
the word, and it becomes unfruitful. <a name="C414V20" id="C414V20">4:20</a>
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and
accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some
one hundred times."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V21" id="C414V21">4:21</a> He said to them, "Is the lamp
brought to be put under a <a href="#N418">basket</a> or under a bed? Isn't
it put on a stand? <a name="C414V22" id="C414V22">4:22</a> For there is
nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything
made secret, but that it should come to light. <a name="C414V23" id="C414V23">4:23</a>
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V24" id="C414V24">4:24</a> He said to them, "Take heed what
you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you,
and more will be given to you who hear. <a name="C414V25" id="C414V25">4:25</a>
For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even
that which he has will be taken away from him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V26" id="C414V26">4:26</a> He said, "The Kingdom of Elohim is
as if a man should cast seed on the earth, <a name="C414V27" id="C414V27">4:27</a>
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and
grow, he doesn't know how. <a name="C414V28" id="C414V28">4:28</a> For the
earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in
the ear. <a name="C414V29" id="C414V29">4:29</a> But when the fruit is ripe,
immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V30" id="C414V30">4:30</a> He said, "How will we liken the
Kingdom of Elohim? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? <a name="C414V31"
id="C414V31">4:31</a> It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is
sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the
earth, <a name="C414V32" id="C414V32">4:32</a> yet when it is sown, grows up,
and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so
that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V33" id="C414V33">4:33</a> With many such parables he spoke the
word to them, as they were able to hear it. <a name="C414V34" id="C414V34">4:34</a>
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own
disciples he explained everything.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V35" id="C414V35">4:35</a> On that day, when evening had come, he
said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." <a name="C414V36"
id="C414V36">4:36</a> Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even
as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. <a
name="C414V37" id="C414V37">4:37</a> A big wind storm arose, and the waves
beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. <a
name="C414V38" id="C414V38">4:38</a> He himself was in the stern, asleep on
the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you
care that we are dying?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V39" id="C414V39">4:39</a> He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and
said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there
was a great calm. <a name="C414V40" id="C414V40">4:40</a> He said to them,
"Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C414V41" id="C414V41">4:41</a> They were greatly afraid, and said to
one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey
him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V1" id="C415V1">5:1</a> They came to the other side of the sea,
into the country of the Gadarenes. <a name="C415V2" id="C415V2">5:2</a> When
he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a
man with an unclean spirit, <a name="C415V3" id="C415V3">5:3</a> who had his
dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with
chains, <a name="C415V4" id="C415V4">5:4</a> because he had been often bound
with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and
the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. <a
name="C415V5" id="C415V5">5:5</a> Always, night and day, in the tombs and in
the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. <a
name="C415V6" id="C415V6">5:6</a> When he saw Yeshua from afar, he ran and
bowed down to him, <a name="C415V7" id="C415V7">5:7</a> and crying out with a
loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Yeshua, you Son of
the Most High Elohim? I adjure you by Elohim, don't torment me." <a
name="C415V8" id="C415V8">5:8</a> For he said to him, "Come out of the
man, you unclean spirit!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V9" id="C415V9">5:9</a> He asked him, "What is your name?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." <a
name="C415V10" id="C415V10">5:10</a> He begged him much that he would not send
them away out of the country. <a name="C415V11" id="C415V11">5:11</a> Now
there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. <a name="C415V12"
id="C415V12">5:12</a> All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into
the pigs, that we may enter into them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V13" id="C415V13">5:13</a> At once Yeshua gave them permission.
The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about
two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were
drowned in the sea. <a name="C415V14" id="C415V14">5:14</a> Those who fed them
fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
</p>
<p>
The people came to see what it was that had happened. <a name="C415V15"
id="C415V15">5:15</a> They came to Yeshua, and saw him who had been possessed
by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the
legion; and they were afraid. <a name="C415V16" id="C415V16">5:16</a> Those
who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by
demons, and about the pigs. <a name="C415V17" id="C415V17">5:17</a> They began
to beg him to depart from their region.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V18" id="C415V18">5:18</a> As he was entering into the boat, he
who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. <a
name="C415V19" id="C415V19">5:19</a> He didn't allow him, but said to him,
"Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things
the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V20" id="C415V20">5:20</a> He went his way, and began to proclaim
in Decapolis how Yeshua had done great things for him, and everyone
marveled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V21" id="C415V21">5:21</a> When Yeshua had crossed back over in
the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he
was by the sea. <a name="C415V22" id="C415V22">5:22</a> Behold, one of the
rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at
his feet, <a name="C415V23" id="C415V23">5:23</a> and begged him much, saying,
"My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay
your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V24" id="C415V24">5:24</a> He went with him, and a great
multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. <a
name="C415V25" id="C415V25">5:25</a> A certain woman, who had an issue of
blood for twelve years, <a name="C415V26" id="C415V26">5:26</a> and had
suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had,
and was no better, but rather grew worse, <a name="C415V27" id="C415V27">5:27</a>
having heard the things concerning Yeshua, came up behind him in the crowd,
and touched his clothes. <a name="C415V28" id="C415V28">5:28</a> For she said,
"If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." <a
name="C415V29" id="C415V29">5:29</a> Immediately the flow of her blood was
dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V30" id="C415V30">5:30</a> Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in
himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd,
and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V31" id="C415V31">5:31</a> His disciples said to him, "You
see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V32" id="C415V32">5:32</a> He looked around to see her who had
done this thing. <a name="C415V33" id="C415V33">5:33</a> But the woman,
fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell
down before him, and told him all the truth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V34" id="C415V34">5:34</a> He said to her, "Daughter, your
faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V35" id="C415V35">5:35</a> While he was still speaking, they came
from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why
bother the Teacher any more?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V36" id="C415V36">5:36</a> But Yeshua, when he heard the message
spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be
afraid, only believe." <a name="C415V37" id="C415V37">5:37</a> He allowed
no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
<a name="C415V38" id="C415V38">5:38</a> He came to the synagogue ruler's
house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. <a name="C415V39"
id="C415V39">5:39</a> When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do
you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C415V40" id="C415V40">5:40</a> They ridiculed him. But he, having put
them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who
were with him, and went in where the child was lying. <a name="C415V41"
id="C415V41">5:41</a> Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha
cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get
up." <a name="C415V42" id="C415V42">5:42</a> Immediately the girl rose
up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great
amazement. <a name="C415V43" id="C415V43">5:43</a> He strictly ordered them
that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given
to her to eat.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V1" id="C416V1">6:1</a> He went out from there. He came into his
own country, and his disciples followed him. <a name="C416V2" id="C416V2">6:2</a>
When the Shabbat had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many
hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these
things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man,
that such mighty works come about by his hands? <a name="C416V3" id="C416V3">6:3</a>
Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses,
Yehudah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were
offended at him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V4" id="C416V4">6:4</a> Yeshua said to them, "A prophet is
not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives,
and in his own house." <a name="C416V5" id="C416V5">6:5</a> He could do
no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people,
and healed them. <a name="C416V6" id="C416V6">6:6</a> He marveled because of
their unbelief.
</p>
<p>
He went around the villages teaching. <a name="C416V7" id="C416V7">6:7</a> He
called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and
he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. <a name="C416V8" id="C416V8">6:8</a>
He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except
a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, <a name="C416V9"
id="C416V9">6:9</a> but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. <a
name="C416V10" id="C416V10">6:10</a> He said to them, "Wherever you enter
into a house, stay there until you depart from there. <a name="C416V11"
id="C416V11">6:11</a> Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you
depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a
testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V12" id="C416V12">6:12</a> They went out and preached that people
should repent. <a name="C416V13" id="C416V13">6:13</a> They cast out many
demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. <a
name="C416V14" id="C416V14">6:14</a> King Herod heard this, for his name had
become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the
dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." <a name="C416V15"
id="C416V15">6:15</a> But others said, "He is Elijah." Others
said, "He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets." <a
name="C416V16" id="C416V16">6:16</a> But Herod, when he heard this, said,
"This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." <a
name="C416V17" id="C416V17">6:17</a> For Herod himself had sent out and
arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his
brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. <a name="C416V18" id="C416V18">6:18</a>
For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your
brother's wife." <a name="C416V19" id="C416V19">6:19</a> Herodias set
herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't, <a
name="C416V20" id="C416V20">6:20</a> for Herod feared John, knowing that he
was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did
many things, and he heard him gladly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V21" id="C416V21">6:21</a> Then a convenient day came, that Herod
on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the
chief men of Galilee. <a name="C416V22" id="C416V22">6:22</a> When the
daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and
those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me
whatever you want, and I will give it to you." <a name="C416V23"
id="C416V23">6:23</a> He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I
will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V24" id="C416V24">6:24</a> She went out, and said to her mother,
"What shall I ask?"
</p>
<p>
She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V25" id="C416V25">6:25</a> She came in immediately with haste to
the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of
John the Baptizer on a platter."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V26" id="C416V26">6:26</a> The king was exceedingly sorry, but
for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to
refuse her. <a name="C416V27" id="C416V27">6:27</a> Immediately the king sent
out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he
went and beheaded him in the prison, <a name="C416V28" id="C416V28">6:28</a>
and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the
young lady gave it to her mother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V29" id="C416V29">6:29</a> When his disciples heard this, they
came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V30" id="C416V30">6:30</a> The apostles gathered themselves
together to Yeshua, and they told him all things, whatever they had done,
and whatever they had taught. <a name="C416V31" id="C416V31">6:31</a> He said
to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile."
For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as
to eat. <a name="C416V32" id="C416V32">6:32</a> They went away in the boat to
a deserted place by themselves. <a name="C416V33" id="C416V33">6:33</a> <a
href="#N419">They</a> saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there
on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to
him. <a name="C416V34" id="C416V34">6:34</a> Yeshua came out, saw a great
multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep
without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. <a name="C416V35"
id="C416V35">6:35</a> When it was late in the day, his disciples came to
him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. <a
name="C416V36" id="C416V36">6:36</a> Send them away, that they may go into the
surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have
nothing to eat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V37" id="C416V37">6:37</a> But he answered them, "You give
them something to eat."
</p>
<p>
They asked him, "Shall we go and buy <a href="#N4110">two hundred
denarii</a> worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V38" id="C416V38">6:38</a> He said to them, "How many loaves
do you have? Go see."
</p>
<p>
When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V39" id="C416V39">6:39</a> He commanded them that everyone should
sit down in groups on the green grass. <a name="C416V40" id="C416V40">6:40</a>
They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. <a name="C416V41"
id="C416V41">6:41</a> He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking
up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his
disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
<a name="C416V42" id="C416V42">6:42</a> They all ate, and were filled. <a
name="C416V43" id="C416V43">6:43</a> They took up twelve baskets full of
broken pieces and also of the fish. <a name="C416V44" id="C416V44">6:44</a>
Those who ate the loaves were<sup><a href="#N4111">*</a></sup> five thousand
men.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V45" id="C416V45">6:45</a> Immediately he made his disciples get
into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he
himself sent the multitude away. <a name="C416V46" id="C416V46">6:46</a> After
he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V47" id="C416V47">6:47</a> When evening had come, the boat was in
the midst of the sea, and he was alone on the land. <a name="C416V48"
id="C416V48">6:48</a> Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was
contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them,
walking on the sea,<sup><a href="#N4112">*</a></sup> and he would have
passed by them, <a name="C416V49" id="C416V49">6:49</a> but they, when they
saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;
<a name="C416V50" id="C416V50">6:50</a> for they all saw him, and were
troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer
up! <a href="#N4113">It is I!</a> Don't be afraid." <a name="C416V51"
id="C416V51">6:51</a> He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased,
and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled; <a name="C416V52"
id="C416V52">6:52</a> for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their
hearts were hardened.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C416V53" id="C416V53">6:53</a> When they had crossed over, they came
to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. <a name="C416V54" id="C416V54">6:54</a>
When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,
<a name="C416V55" id="C416V55">6:55</a> and ran around that whole region, and
began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he
was. <a name="C416V56" id="C416V56">6:56</a> Wherever he entered, into
villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the
marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the <a href="#N4114">fringe</a>
of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V1" id="C417V1">7:1</a> Then the Pharisees, and some of the
scribes gathered together to him, having come from Yerushalayim. <a
name="C417V2" id="C417V2">7:2</a> Now when they saw some of his disciples
eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. <a
name="C417V3" id="C417V3">7:3</a> (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't
eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of
the elders. <a name="C417V4" id="C417V4">7:4</a> They don't eat when they come
from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many
other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups,
pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.) <a name="C417V5" id="C417V5">7:5</a>
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples
walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with
unwashed hands?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V6" id="C417V6">7:6</a> He answered them, "Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'This people honors me with their lips,
</dt>
<dd>
but their heart is far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C417V7" id="C417V7">7:7</a> But in vain do they worship me,
</dt>
<dd>
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'<sup><a href="#N4115">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C417V8" id="C417V8">7:8</a> "For you set aside the commandment
of Elohim, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers
and cups, and you do many other such things." <a name="C417V9" id="C417V9">7:9</a>
He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of Elohim,
that you may keep your tradition. <a name="C417V10" id="C417V10">7:10</a> For
Moshe said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'<sup><a href="#N4116">*</a></sup>
and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'<sup><a
href="#N4117">*</a></sup> <a name="C417V11" id="C417V11">7:11</a> But you say,
'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might
have received from me is <a href="#N4118">Corban</a>, that is to say, given
to Elohim;"' <a name="C417V12" id="C417V12">7:12</a> then you no longer
allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, <a name="C417V13"
id="C417V13">7:13</a> making void the word of Elohim by your tradition, which
you have handed down. You do many things like this."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V14" id="C417V14">7:14</a> He called all the multitude to
himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. <a
name="C417V15" id="C417V15">7:15</a> There is nothing from outside of the man,
that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of
the man are those that defile the man. <a name="C417V16" id="C417V16">7:16</a>
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V17" id="C417V17">7:17</a> When he had entered into a house away
from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. <a
name="C417V18" id="C417V18">7:18</a> He said to them, "Are you thus
without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the
man from outside can't defile him, <a name="C417V19" id="C417V19">7:19</a>
because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the
latrine, thus making all foods clean?" <a name="C417V20" id="C417V20">7:20</a>
He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
<a name="C417V21" id="C417V21">7:21</a> For from within, out of the hearts of
men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, <a
name="C417V22" id="C417V22">7:22</a> covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful
desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. <a name="C417V23"
id="C417V23">7:23</a> All these evil things come from within, and defile the
man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V24" id="C417V24">7:24</a> From there he arose, and went away
into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't
want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice. <a name="C417V25"
id="C417V25">7:25</a> For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean
spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. <a
name="C417V26" id="C417V26">7:26</a> Now the woman was a Greek, a
Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of
her daughter. <a name="C417V27" id="C417V27">7:27</a> But Yeshua said to her,
"Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take
the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V28" id="C417V28">7:28</a> But she answered him, "Yes, Lord.
Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V29" id="C417V29">7:29</a> He said to her, "For this saying,
go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V30" id="C417V30">7:30</a> She went away to her house, and found
the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C417V31" id="C417V31">7:31</a> Again he departed from the borders of
Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the
region of Decapolis. <a name="C417V32" id="C417V32">7:32</a> They brought to
him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him
to lay his hand on him. <a name="C417V33" id="C417V33">7:33</a> He took him
aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears,
and he spat, and touched his tongue. <a name="C417V34" id="C417V34">7:34</a>
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"
that is, "Be opened!" <a name="C417V35" id="C417V35">7:35</a>
Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was
released, and he spoke clearly. <a name="C417V36" id="C417V36">7:36</a> He
commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded
them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. <a name="C417V37"
id="C417V37">7:37</a> They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He
has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V1" id="C418V1">8:1</a> In those days, when there was a very
great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Yeshua called his disciples
to himself, and said to them, <a name="C418V2" id="C418V2">8:2</a> "I
have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now
three days, and have nothing to eat. <a name="C418V3" id="C418V3">8:3</a> If I
send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some
of them have come a long way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V4" id="C418V4">8:4</a> His disciples answered him, "From
where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V5" id="C418V5">8:5</a> He asked them, "How many loaves do
you have?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Seven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V6" id="C418V6">8:6</a> He commanded the multitude to sit down on
the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke
them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the
multitude. <a name="C418V7" id="C418V7">8:7</a> They had a few small fish.
Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. <a name="C418V8" id="C418V8">8:8</a>
They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces
that were left over. <a name="C418V9" id="C418V9">8:9</a> Those who had eaten
were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V10" id="C418V10">8:10</a> Immediately he entered into the boat
with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha. <a name="C418V11"
id="C418V11">8:11</a> The Pharisees came out and began to question him,
seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him. <a name="C418V12"
id="C418V12">8:12</a> He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why
does this <a href="#N4119">generation</a> seek a sign? Most certainly I tell
you, no sign will be given to this generation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V13" id="C418V13">8:13</a> He left them, and again entering into
the boat, departed to the other side. <a name="C418V14" id="C418V14">8:14</a>
They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in the
boat with them. <a name="C418V15" id="C418V15">8:15</a> He warned them,
saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the
yeast of Herod."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V16" id="C418V16">8:16</a> They reasoned with one another,
saying, "It's because we have no bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V17" id="C418V17">8:17</a> Yeshua, perceiving it, said to them,
"Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you
perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? <a
name="C418V18" id="C418V18">8:18</a> Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears,
don't you hear? Don't you remember? <a name="C418V19" id="C418V19">8:19</a>
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets
full of broken pieces did you take up?"
</p>
<p>
They told him, "Twelve."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V20" id="C418V20">8:20</a> "When the seven loaves fed the
four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
</p>
<p>
They told him, "Seven."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V21" id="C418V21">8:21</a> He asked them, "Don't you
understand, yet?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V22" id="C418V22">8:22</a> He came to Bethsaida. They brought a
blind man to him, and begged him to touch him. <a name="C418V23" id="C418V23">8:23</a>
He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the
village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked
him if he saw anything.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V24" id="C418V24">8:24</a> He looked up, and said, "I see
men; for I see them like trees walking."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V25" id="C418V25">8:25</a> Then again he laid his hands on his
eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. <a
name="C418V26" id="C418V26">8:26</a> He sent him away to his house, saying,
"Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V27" id="C418V27">8:27</a> Yeshua went out, with his disciples,
into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples,
"Who do men say that I am?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V28" id="C418V28">8:28</a> They told him, "John the
Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V29" id="C418V29">8:29</a> He said to them, "But who do you
say that I am?"
</p>
<p>
Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V30" id="C418V30">8:30</a> He commanded them that they should
tell no one about him. <a name="C418V31" id="C418V31">8:31</a> He began to
teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by
the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after
three days rise again. <a name="C418V32" id="C418V32">8:32</a> He spoke to
them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. <a name="C418V33"
id="C418V33">8:33</a> But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples,
rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind
not the things of Elohim, but the things of men."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C418V34" id="C418V34">8:34</a> He called the multitude to himself
with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. <a
name="C418V35" id="C418V35">8:35</a> For whoever wants to save his life will
lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the
Good News will save it. <a name="C418V36" id="C418V36">8:36</a> For what does
it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? <a
name="C418V37" id="C418V37">8:37</a> For what will a man give in exchange for
his life? <a name="C418V38" id="C418V38">8:38</a> For whoever will be ashamed
of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of
Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V1" id="C419V1">9:1</a> He said to them, "Most certainly I
tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death
until they see the Kingdom of Elohim come with power."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V2" id="C419V2">9:2</a> After six days Yeshua took with him Peter,
James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by
themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. <a
name="C419V3" id="C419V3">9:3</a> His clothing became glistening, exceedingly
white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. <a
name="C419V4" id="C419V4">9:4</a> Elijah and Moshe appeared to them, and they
were talking with Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V5" id="C419V5">9:5</a> Peter answered Yeshua, "Rabbi, it is
good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for
Moshe, and one for Elijah." <a name="C419V6" id="C419V6">9:6</a> For he
didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V7" id="C419V7">9:7</a> A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a
voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V8" id="C419V8">9:8</a> Suddenly looking around, they saw no one
with them any more, except Yeshua only.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V9" id="C419V9">9:9</a> As they were coming down from the
mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they
had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. <a
name="C419V10" id="C419V10">9:10</a> They kept this saying to themselves,
questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V11" id="C419V11">9:11</a> They asked him, saying, "Why do
the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V12" id="C419V12">9:12</a> He said to them, "Elijah indeed
comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of
Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? <a name="C419V13"
id="C419V13">9:13</a> But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have
also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V14" id="C419V14">9:14</a> Coming to the disciples, he saw a
great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. <a name="C419V15"
id="C419V15">9:15</a> Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were
greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him. <a name="C419V16" id="C419V16">9:16</a>
He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V17" id="C419V17">9:17</a> One of the multitude answered, "Teacher,
I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; <a name="C419V18" id="C419V18">9:18</a>
and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth,
and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it
out, and they weren't able."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V19" id="C419V19">9:19</a> He answered him, "Unbelieving
generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?
Bring him to me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V20" id="C419V20">9:20</a> They brought him to him, and when he
saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground,
wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V21" id="C419V21">9:21</a> He asked his father, "How long
has it been since this has come to him?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "From childhood. <a name="C419V22" id="C419V22">9:22</a> Often
it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But
if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V23" id="C419V23">9:23</a> Yeshua said to him, "If you can
believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V24" id="C419V24">9:24</a> Immediately the father of the child
cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V25" id="C419V25">9:25</a> When Yeshua saw that a multitude came
running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You
mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him
again!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V26" id="C419V26">9:26</a> Having cried out, and convulsed
greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that
most of them said, "He is dead." <a name="C419V27" id="C419V27">9:27</a>
But Yeshua took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V28" id="C419V28">9:28</a> When he had come into the house, his
disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" <a
name="C419V29" id="C419V29">9:29</a> He said to them, "This kind can come
out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V30" id="C419V30">9:30</a> They went out from there, and passed
through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it. <a name="C419V31"
id="C419V31">9:31</a> For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them,
"The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they
will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V32" id="C419V32">9:32</a> But they didn't understand the saying,
and were afraid to ask him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V33" id="C419V33">9:33</a> He came to Capernaum, and when he was
in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves
on the way?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V34" id="C419V34">9:34</a> But they were silent, for they had
disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V35" id="C419V35">9:35</a> He sat down, and called the twelve;
and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last
of all, and servant of all." <a name="C419V36" id="C419V36">9:36</a> He
took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his
arms, he said to them, <a name="C419V37" id="C419V37">9:37</a> "Whoever
receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever
receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V38" id="C419V38">9:38</a> John said to him, "Teacher, we
saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we
forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C419V39" id="C419V39">9:39</a> But Yeshua said, "Don't forbid
him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able
quickly to speak evil of me. <a name="C419V40" id="C419V40">9:40</a> For
whoever is not against us is on our side. <a name="C419V41" id="C419V41">9:41</a>
For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you
are Messiah's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his
reward. <a name="C419V42" id="C419V42">9:42</a> Whoever will cause one of
these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him
if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. <a
name="C419V43" id="C419V43">9:43</a> If your hand causes you to stumble, cut
it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having
your two hands to go into <a href="#N4120">Gehenna,</a> into the
unquenchable fire, <a name="C419V44" id="C419V44">9:44</a> 'where their worm
doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' <a name="C419V45" id="C419V45">9:45</a>
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to
enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into <a
href="#N4121">Gehenna,</a> into the fire that will never be quenched-- <a
name="C419V46" id="C419V46">9:46</a> 'where their worm doesn't die, and the
fire is not quenched.' <a name="C419V47" id="C419V47">9:47</a> If your eye
causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the
Kingdom of Elohim with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into
the <a href="#N4122">Gehenna</a> of fire, <a name="C419V48" id="C419V48">9:48</a>
'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'<sup><a
href="#N4123">*</a></sup> <a name="C419V49" id="C419V49">9:49</a> For everyone
will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
<a name="C419V50" id="C419V50">9:50</a> Salt is good, but if the salt has lost
its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and
be at peace with one another."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V1" id="C4110V1">10:1</a> He arose from there and came into the
borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him
again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. <a name="C4110V2"
id="C4110V2">10:2</a> Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him,
"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V3" id="C4110V3">10:3</a> He answered, "What did Moshe
command you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V4" id="C4110V4">10:4</a> They said, "Moshe allowed a
certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V5" id="C4110V5">10:5</a> But Yeshua said to them, "For your
hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. <a name="C4110V6"
id="C4110V6">10:6</a> But from the beginning of the creation, Elohim made them
male and female.<sup><a href="#N4124">*</a></sup> <a name="C4110V7" id="C4110V7">10:7</a>
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to
his wife, <a name="C4110V8" id="C4110V8">10:8</a> and the two will become one
flesh,<sup><a href="#N4125">*</a></sup> so that they are no longer two, but
one flesh. <a name="C4110V9" id="C4110V9">10:9</a> What therefore Elohim has
joined together, let no man separate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V10" id="C4110V10">10:10</a> In the house, his disciples asked
him again about the same matter. <a name="C4110V11" id="C4110V11">10:11</a> He
said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another,
commits adultery against her. <a name="C4110V12" id="C4110V12">10:12</a> If a
woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits
adultery."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V13" id="C4110V13">10:13</a> They were bringing to him little
children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who
were bringing them. <a name="C4110V14" id="C4110V14">10:14</a> But when Yeshua
saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the
little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of Elohim
belongs to such as these. <a name="C4110V15" id="C4110V15">10:15</a> Most
certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of Elohim like a
little child, he will in no way enter into it." <a name="C4110V16"
id="C4110V16">10:16</a> He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying
his hands on them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V17" id="C4110V17">10:17</a> As he was going out into the way,
one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V18" id="C4110V18">10:18</a> Yeshua said to him, "Why do you
call me good? No one is good except one--Elohim. <a name="C4110V19" id="C4110V19">10:19</a>
You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do
not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your
father and mother.'"<sup><a href="#N4126">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V20" id="C4110V20">10:20</a> He said to him, "Teacher, I
have observed all these things from my youth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V21" id="C4110V21">10:21</a> Yeshua looking at him loved him, and
said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and
give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow
me, taking up the cross."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V22" id="C4110V22">10:22</a> But his face fell at that saying,
and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. <a
name="C4110V23" id="C4110V23">10:23</a> Yeshua looked around, and said to his
disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter
into the Kingdom of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V24" id="C4110V24">10:24</a> The disciples were amazed at his
words. But Yeshua answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those
who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim! <a name="C4110V25"
id="C4110V25">10:25</a> It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's
eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V26" id="C4110V26">10:26</a> They were exceedingly astonished,
saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V27" id="C4110V27">10:27</a> Yeshua, looking at them, said,
"With men it is impossible, but not with Elohim, for all things are
possible with Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V28" id="C4110V28">10:28</a> Peter began to tell him, "Behold,
we have left all, and have followed you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V29" id="C4110V29">10:29</a> Yeshua said, "Most certainly I
tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the
sake of the Good News, <a name="C4110V30" id="C4110V30">10:30</a> but he will
receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers,
sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to
come eternal life. <a name="C4110V31" id="C4110V31">10:31</a> But many who are
first will be last; and the last first."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V32" id="C4110V32">10:32</a> They were on the way, going up to
Yerushalayim; and Yeshua was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and
those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to
tell them the things that were going to happen to him. <a name="C4110V33"
id="C4110V33">10:33</a> "Behold, we are going up to Yerushalayim. The Son
of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will
condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. <a
name="C4110V34" id="C4110V34">10:34</a> They will mock him, spit on him,
scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V35" id="C4110V35">10:35</a> James and John, the sons of
Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us
whatever we will ask."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V36" id="C4110V36">10:36</a> He said to them, "What do you
want me to do for you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V37" id="C4110V37">10:37</a> They said to him, "Grant to us
that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in
your glory."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V38" id="C4110V38">10:38</a> But Yeshua said to them, "You
don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I
drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V39" id="C4110V39">10:39</a> They said to him, "We are
able."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and
you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; <a
name="C4110V40" id="C4110V40">10:40</a> but to sit at my right hand and at my
left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V41" id="C4110V41">10:41</a> When the ten heard it, they began
to be indignant towards James and John.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V42" id="C4110V42">10:42</a> Yeshua summoned them, and said to
them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the
nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over
them. <a name="C4110V43" id="C4110V43">10:43</a> But it shall not be so among
you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. <a
name="C4110V44" id="C4110V44">10:44</a> Whoever of you wants to become first
among you, shall be bondservant of all. <a name="C4110V45" id="C4110V45">10:45</a>
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V46" id="C4110V46">10:46</a> They came to Jericho. As he went
out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of
Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. <a
name="C4110V47" id="C4110V47">10:47</a> When he heard that it was Yeshua the
Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Yeshua, you son of David,
have mercy on me!" <a name="C4110V48" id="C4110V48">10:48</a> Many
rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You
son of David, have mercy on me!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V49" id="C4110V49">10:49</a> Yeshua stood still, and said, "Call
him."
</p>
<p>
They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is
calling you!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V50" id="C4110V50">10:50</a> He, casting away his cloak, sprang
up, and came to Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V51" id="C4110V51">10:51</a> Yeshua asked him, "What do you
want me to do for you?"
</p>
<p>
The blind man said to him, "<a href="#N4127">Rhabboni,</a> that I may
see again."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4110V52" id="C4110V52">10:52</a> Yeshua said to him, "Go your
way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his
sight, and followed Yeshua in the way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V1" id="C4111V1">11:1</a> When they drew near to Yerushalayim, to
<a href="#N4128">Bethsphage</a> and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent
two of his disciples, <a name="C4111V2" id="C4111V2">11:2</a> and said to
them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately
as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one
has sat. Untie him, and bring him. <a name="C4111V3" id="C4111V3">11:3</a> If
anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and
immediately he will send him back here."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V4" id="C4111V4">11:4</a> They went away, and found a young
donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
<a name="C4111V5" id="C4111V5">11:5</a> Some of those who stood there asked
them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?" <a
name="C4111V6" id="C4111V6">11:6</a> They said to them just as Yeshua had said,
and they let them go.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V7" id="C4111V7">11:7</a> They brought the young donkey to
Yeshua, and threw their garments on it, and Yeshua sat on it. <a name="C4111V8"
id="C4111V8">11:8</a> Many spread their garments on the way, and others were
cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. <a
name="C4111V9" id="C4111V9">11:9</a> Those who went in front, and those who
followed, cried out, "<a href="#N4129">Hosanna</a>! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord!<sup><a href="#N4130">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4111V10" id="C4111V10">11:10</a> Blessed is the kingdom of our father
David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V11" id="C4111V11">11:11</a> Yeshua entered into the temple in
Yerushalayim. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening,
he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V12" id="C4111V12">11:12</a> The next day, when they had come
out from Bethany, he was hungry. <a name="C4111V13" id="C4111V13">11:13</a>
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he
might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but
leaves, for it was not the season for figs. <a name="C4111V14" id="C4111V14">11:14</a>
Yeshua told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and
his disciples heard it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V15" id="C4111V15">11:15</a> They came to Yerushalayim, and Yeshua
entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those
who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers,
and the seats of those who sold the doves. <a name="C4111V16" id="C4111V16">11:16</a>
He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. <a
name="C4111V17" id="C4111V17">11:17</a> He taught, saying to them, "Isn't
it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the
nations?'<sup><a href="#N4131">*</a></sup> But you have made it a den of
robbers!"<sup><a href="#N4132">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V18" id="C4111V18">11:18</a> The chief priests and the scribes
heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him,
because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V19" id="C4111V19">11:19</a> When evening came, he went out of
the city. <a name="C4111V20" id="C4111V20">11:20</a> As they passed by in the
morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. <a
name="C4111V21" id="C4111V21">11:21</a> Peter, remembering, said to him,
"Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V22" id="C4111V22">11:22</a> Yeshua answered them, "Have
faith in Elohim. <a name="C4111V23" id="C4111V23">11:23</a> For most certainly I
tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the
sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is
happening; he shall have whatever he says. <a name="C4111V24" id="C4111V24">11:24</a>
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe
that you have received them, and you shall have them. <a name="C4111V25"
id="C4111V25">11:25</a> Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have
anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also
forgive you your transgressions. <a name="C4111V26" id="C4111V26">11:26</a>
But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your
transgressions."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V27" id="C4111V27">11:27</a> They came again to Yerushalayim, and
as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and
the elders came to him, <a name="C4111V28" id="C4111V28">11:28</a> and they
began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or
who gave you this authority to do these things?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V29" id="C4111V29">11:29</a> Yeshua said to them, "I will
ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I
do these things. <a name="C4111V30" id="C4111V30">11:30</a> The baptism of
John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4111V31" id="C4111V31">11:31</a> They reasoned with themselves,
saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did
you not believe him?' <a name="C4111V32" id="C4111V32">11:32</a> If we should
say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really
be a prophet. <a name="C4111V33" id="C4111V33">11:33</a> They answered Yeshua,
"We don't know."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do
these things."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V1" id="C4112V1">12:1</a> He began to speak to them in parables.
"A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the
winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another
country. <a name="C4112V2" id="C4112V2">12:2</a> When it was time, he sent a
servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the
vineyard. <a name="C4112V3" id="C4112V3">12:3</a> They took him, beat him, and
sent him away empty. <a name="C4112V4" id="C4112V4">12:4</a> Again, he sent
another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the
head, and sent him away shamefully treated. <a name="C4112V5" id="C4112V5">12:5</a>
Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some,
and killing some. <a name="C4112V6" id="C4112V6">12:6</a> Therefore still
having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will
respect my son.' <a name="C4112V7" id="C4112V7">12:7</a> But those farmers
said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the
inheritance will be ours.' <a name="C4112V8" id="C4112V8">12:8</a> They took
him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. <a name="C4112V9"
id="C4112V9">12:9</a> What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He
will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
<a name="C4112V10" id="C4112V10">12:10</a> Haven't you even read this
Scripture:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The stone which the builders rejected,
</dt>
<dd>
the same was made the head of the corner.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4112V11" id="C4112V11">12:11</a> This was from the Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<sup><a href="#N4133">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V12" id="C4112V12">12:12</a> They tried to seize him, but they
feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against
them. They left him, and went away. <a name="C4112V13" id="C4112V13">12:13</a>
They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they
might trap him with words. <a name="C4112V14" id="C4112V14">12:14</a> When
they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest,
and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly
teach the way of Elohim. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? <a
name="C4112V15" id="C4112V15">12:15</a> Shall we give, or shall we not give?"
</p>
<p>
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me?
Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V16" id="C4112V16">12:16</a> They brought it.
</p>
<p>
He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "Caesar's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V17" id="C4112V17">12:17</a> Yeshua answered them, "Render
to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to Elohim the things that are
Elohim's."
</p>
<p>
They marveled greatly at him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V18" id="C4112V18">12:18</a> There came to him Sadducees, who
say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying, <a name="C4112V19"
id="C4112V19">12:19</a> "Teacher, Moshe wrote to us, 'If a man's
brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that
his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
<a name="C4112V20" id="C4112V20">12:20</a> There were seven brothers. The
first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. <a name="C4112V21"
id="C4112V21">12:21</a> The second took her, and died, leaving no children
behind him. The third likewise; <a name="C4112V22" id="C4112V22">12:22</a> and
the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
<a name="C4112V23" id="C4112V23">12:23</a> In the resurrection, when they
rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V24" id="C4112V24">12:24</a> Yeshua answered them, "Isn't
this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power
of Elohim? <a name="C4112V25" id="C4112V25">12:25</a> For when they will rise
from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like
angels in heaven. <a name="C4112V26" id="C4112V26">12:26</a> But about the
dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moshe, about
the Bush, how Elohim spoke to him, saying, 'I am the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim
of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob'<sup><a href="#N4134">*</a></sup>? <a
name="C4112V27" id="C4112V27">12:27</a> He is not the Elohim of the dead, but of
the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V28" id="C4112V28">12:28</a> One of the scribes came, and heard
them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked
him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V29" id="C4112V29">12:29</a> Yeshua answered, "The greatest
is, 'Hear, Yisrael, the Lord our Elohim, the Lord is one: <a name="C4112V30"
id="C4112V30">12:30</a> you shall love the Lord your Elohim with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your
strength.'<sup><a href="#N4135">*</a></sup> This is the first commandment.
<a name="C4112V31" id="C4112V31">12:31</a> The second is like this, 'You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.'<sup><a href="#N4136">*</a></sup> There is
no other commandment greater than these."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V32" id="C4112V32">12:32</a> The scribe said to him, "Truly,
teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but
he, <a name="C4112V33" id="C4112V33">12:33</a> and to love him with all the
heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the
strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all
whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V34" id="C4112V34">12:34</a> When Yeshua saw that he answered
wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
No one dared ask him any question after that. <a name="C4112V35" id="C4112V35">12:35</a>
Yeshua responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the
scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David? <a name="C4112V36"
id="C4112V36">12:36</a> For David himself said in the Holy Spirit,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The Lord said to my Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
"Sit at my right hand,
</dd>
<dd>
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'<sup><a
href="#N4137">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4112V37" id="C4112V37">12:37</a> Therefore David himself calls him
Lord, so how can he be his son?"
</p>
<p>
The common people heard him gladly. <a name="C4112V38" id="C4112V38">12:38</a>
In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to
walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, <a
name="C4112V39" id="C4112V39">12:39</a> and the best seats in the synagogues,
and the best places at feasts: <a name="C4112V40" id="C4112V40">12:40</a>
those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.
These will receive greater condemnation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4112V41" id="C4112V41">12:41</a> Yeshua sat down opposite the
treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who
were rich cast in much. <a name="C4112V42" id="C4112V42">12:42</a> A poor
widow came, and she cast in two <a href="#N4138">small brass coins,</a>
which equal a <a href="#N4139">quadrans coin.</a> <a name="C4112V43"
id="C4112V43">12:43</a> He called his disciples to himself, and said to
them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all
those who are giving into the treasury, <a name="C4112V44" id="C4112V44">12:44</a>
for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty,
gave all that she had to live on."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V1" id="C4113V1">13:1</a> As he went out of the temple, one of
his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what
kind of buildings!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V2" id="C4113V2">13:2</a> Yeshua said to him, "Do you see
these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another,
which will not be thrown down."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V3" id="C4113V3">13:3</a> As he sat on the Mount of Olives
opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
<a name="C4113V4" id="C4113V4">13:4</a> "Tell us, when will these things
be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V5" id="C4113V5">13:5</a> Yeshua, answering, began to tell them,
"Be careful that no one leads you astray. <a name="C4113V6" id="C4113V6">13:6</a>
For many will come in my name, saying, '<a href="#N4140">I am he!</a>' and
will lead many astray.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V7" id="C4113V7">13:7</a> "When you hear of wars and rumors
of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
<a name="C4113V8" id="C4113V8">13:8</a> For nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places.
There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of
birth pains. <a name="C4113V9" id="C4113V9">13:9</a> But watch yourselves, for
they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues.
You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to
them. <a name="C4113V10" id="C4113V10">13:10</a> The Good News must first be
preached to all the nations. <a name="C4113V11" id="C4113V11">13:11</a> When
they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or
premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that
hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V12" id="C4113V12">13:12</a> "Brother will deliver up
brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against
parents, and cause them to be put to death. <a name="C4113V13" id="C4113V13">13:13</a>
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the
end, the same will be saved. <a name="C4113V14" id="C4113V14">13:14</a> But
when you see the abomination of desolation,<sup><a href="#N4141">*</a></sup>
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the
reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
<a name="C4113V15" id="C4113V15">13:15</a> and let him who is on the housetop
not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house. <a
name="C4113V16" id="C4113V16">13:16</a> Let him who is in the field not return
back to take his cloak. <a name="C4113V17" id="C4113V17">13:17</a> But woe to
those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! <a
name="C4113V18" id="C4113V18">13:18</a> Pray that your flight won't be in the
winter. <a name="C4113V19" id="C4113V19">13:19</a> For in those days there
will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning
of the creation which Elohim created until now, and never will be. <a
name="C4113V20" id="C4113V20">13:20</a> Unless the Lord had shortened the
days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones,
whom he picked out, he shortened the days. <a name="C4113V21" id="C4113V21">13:21</a>
Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there!'
don't believe it. <a name="C4113V22" id="C4113V22">13:22</a> For there will
arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders,
that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. <a
name="C4113V23" id="C4113V23">13:23</a> But you watch.
</p>
<p>
"Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. <a name="C4113V24"
id="C4113V24">13:24</a> But in those days, after that oppression, the sun
will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, <a name="C4113V25"
id="C4113V25">13:25</a> the stars will be falling from the sky, and the
powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.<sup><a href="#N4142">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4113V26" id="C4113V26">13:26</a> Then they will see the Son of Man
coming in clouds with great power and glory. <a name="C4113V27" id="C4113V27">13:27</a>
Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones
from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V28" id="C4113V28">13:28</a> "Now from the fig tree, learn
this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its
leaves, you know that the summer is near; <a name="C4113V29" id="C4113V29">13:29</a>
even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it
is near, at the doors. <a name="C4113V30" id="C4113V30">13:30</a> Most
certainly I say to you, this <a href="#N4143">generation</a> will not pass
away until all these things happen. <a name="C4113V31" id="C4113V31">13:31</a>
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. <a
name="C4113V32" id="C4113V32">13:32</a> But of that day or that hour no one
knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. <a
name="C4113V33" id="C4113V33">13:33</a> Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you
don't know when the time is.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4113V34" id="C4113V34">13:34</a> "It is like a man, traveling
to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his
servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to
keep watch. <a name="C4113V35" id="C4113V35">13:35</a> Watch therefore, for
you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening,
or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; <a
name="C4113V36" id="C4113V36">13:36</a> lest coming suddenly he might find you
sleeping. <a name="C4113V37" id="C4113V37">13:37</a> What I tell you, I tell
all: Watch."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V1" id="C4114V1">14:1</a> It was now two days before the feast
of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the
scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him. <a
name="C4114V2" id="C4114V2">14:2</a> For they said, "Not during the
feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V3" id="C4114V3">14:3</a> While he was at Bethany, in the house
of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an
alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar,
and poured it over his head. <a name="C4114V4" id="C4114V4">14:4</a> But there
were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this
ointment been wasted? <a name="C4114V5" id="C4114V5">14:5</a> For this might
have been sold for more than <a href="#N4144">three hundred denarii,</a> and
given to the poor." They grumbled against her.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V6" id="C4114V6">14:6</a> But Yeshua said, "Leave her alone.
Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. <a name="C4114V7"
id="C4114V7">14:7</a> For you always have the poor with you, and whenever
you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. <a
name="C4114V8" id="C4114V8">14:8</a> She has done what she could. She has
anointed my body beforehand for the burying. <a name="C4114V9" id="C4114V9">14:9</a>
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached
throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be
spoken of for a memorial of her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V10" id="C4114V10">14:10</a> Judas Iscariot, who was one of the
twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
<a name="C4114V11" id="C4114V11">14:11</a> They, when they heard it, were
glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently
deliver him. <a name="C4114V12" id="C4114V12">14:12</a> On the first day of
unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked
him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the
Passover?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V13" id="C4114V13">14:13</a> He sent two of his disciples, and
said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man
carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, <a name="C4114V14" id="C4114V14">14:14</a>
and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher
says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my
disciples?"' <a name="C4114V15" id="C4114V15">14:15</a> He will himself
show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V16" id="C4114V16">14:16</a> His disciples went out, and came
into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared
the Passover.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V17" id="C4114V17">14:17</a> When it was evening he came with
the twelve. <a name="C4114V18" id="C4114V18">14:18</a> As they sat and were
eating, Yeshua said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will
betray me--he who eats with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V19" id="C4114V19">14:19</a> They began to be sorrowful, and to
ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely
not I?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V20" id="C4114V20">14:20</a> He answered them, "It is one
of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. <a name="C4114V21"
id="C4114V21">14:21</a> For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about
him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be
better for that man if he had not been born."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V22" id="C4114V22">14:22</a> As they were eating, Yeshua took
bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said,
"Take, eat. This is my body."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V23" id="C4114V23">14:23</a> He took the cup, and when he had
given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. <a name="C4114V24"
id="C4114V24">14:24</a> He said to them, "This is my blood of the new
covenant, which is poured out for many. <a name="C4114V25" id="C4114V25">14:25</a>
Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of Elohim." <a
name="C4114V26" id="C4114V26">14:26</a> When they had sung a hymn, they went
out to the Mount of Olives.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V27" id="C4114V27">14:27</a> Yeshua said to them, "All of
you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I
will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'<sup><a
href="#N4145">*</a></sup> <a name="C4114V28" id="C4114V28">14:28</a> However,
after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V29" id="C4114V29">14:29</a> But Peter said to him, "Although
all will be offended, yet I will not."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V30" id="C4114V30">14:30</a> Yeshua said to him, "Most
certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster
crows twice, you will deny me three times."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V31" id="C4114V31">14:31</a> But he spoke all the more, "If
I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same
thing.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V32" id="C4114V32">14:32</a> They came to a place which was
named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."
<a name="C4114V33" id="C4114V33">14:33</a> He took with him Peter, James, and
John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. <a name="C4114V34"
id="C4114V34">14:34</a> He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly
sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V35" id="C4114V35">14:35</a> He went forward a little, and fell
on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass
away from him. <a name="C4114V36" id="C4114V36">14:36</a> He said, "Abba,
Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me.
However, not what I desire, but what you desire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V37" id="C4114V37">14:37</a> He came and found them sleeping,
and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one
hour? <a name="C4114V38" id="C4114V38">14:38</a> Watch and pray, that you may
not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is
weak."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V39" id="C4114V39">14:39</a> Again he went away, and prayed,
saying the same words. <a name="C4114V40" id="C4114V40">14:40</a> Again he
returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and
they didn't know what to answer him. <a name="C4114V41" id="C4114V41">14:41</a>
He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take
your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners. <a name="C4114V42" id="C4114V42">14:42</a>
Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V43" id="C4114V43">14:43</a> Immediately, while he was still
speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came--and with him a multitude with
swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. <a
name="C4114V44" id="C4114V44">14:44</a> Now he who betrayed him had given them
a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead
him away safely." <a name="C4114V45" id="C4114V45">14:45</a> When he had
come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and
kissed him. <a name="C4114V46" id="C4114V46">14:46</a> They laid their hands
on him, and seized him. <a name="C4114V47" id="C4114V47">14:47</a> But a
certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant
of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V48" id="C4114V48">14:48</a> Yeshua answered them, "Have you
come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? <a
name="C4114V49" id="C4114V49">14:49</a> I was daily with you in the temple
teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures
might be fulfilled."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V50" id="C4114V50">14:50</a> They all left him, and fled. <a
name="C4114V51" id="C4114V51">14:51</a> A certain young man followed him,
having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young
men grabbed him, <a name="C4114V52" id="C4114V52">14:52</a> but he left the
linen cloth, and fled from them naked. <a name="C4114V53" id="C4114V53">14:53</a>
They led Yeshua away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders,
and the scribes came together with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V54" id="C4114V54">14:54</a> Peter had followed him from a
distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting
with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire. <a
name="C4114V55" id="C4114V55">14:55</a> Now the chief priests and the whole
council sought witnesses against Yeshua to put him to death, and found
none. <a name="C4114V56" id="C4114V56">14:56</a> For many gave false testimony
against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other. <a
name="C4114V57" id="C4114V57">14:57</a> Some stood up, and gave false
testimony against him, saying, <a name="C4114V58" id="C4114V58">14:58</a>
"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with
hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"
<a name="C4114V59" id="C4114V59">14:59</a> Even so, their testimony did not
agree.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V60" id="C4114V60">14:60</a> The high priest stood up in the
midst, and asked Yeshua, "Have you no answer? What is it which these
testify against you?" <a name="C4114V61" id="C4114V61">14:61</a> But he
stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him,
"Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V62" id="C4114V62">14:62</a> Yeshua said, "I am. You will
see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the
clouds of the sky."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V63" id="C4114V63">14:63</a> The high priest tore his clothes,
and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? <a name="C4114V64"
id="C4114V64">14:64</a> You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?"
They all condemned him to be worthy of death. <a name="C4114V65" id="C4114V65">14:65</a>
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with
fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with
the palms of their hands.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V66" id="C4114V66">14:66</a> As Peter was in the courtyard
below, one of the maids of the high priest came, <a name="C4114V67"
id="C4114V67">14:67</a> and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him,
and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Yeshua!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V68" id="C4114V68">14:68</a> But he denied it, saying, "I
neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the
porch, and the rooster crowed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4114V69" id="C4114V69">14:69</a> The maid saw him, and began again
to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." <a
name="C4114V70" id="C4114V70">14:70</a> But he again denied it. After a little
while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of
them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." <a
name="C4114V71" id="C4114V71">14:71</a> But he began to curse, and to swear,
"I don't know this man of whom you speak!" <a name="C4114V72"
id="C4114V72">14:72</a> The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered
the word, how that Yeshua said to him, "Before the rooster crows
twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he
wept.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V1" id="C4115V1">15:1</a> Immediately in the morning the chief
priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a
consultation, and bound Yeshua, and carried him away, and delivered him up
to Pilate. <a name="C4115V2" id="C4115V2">15:2</a> Pilate asked him, "Are
you the King of the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
He answered, "So you say."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V3" id="C4115V3">15:3</a> The chief priests accused him of many
things. <a name="C4115V4" id="C4115V4">15:4</a> Pilate again asked him, "Have
you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V5" id="C4115V5">15:5</a> But Yeshua made no further answer, so
that Pilate marveled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V6" id="C4115V6">15:6</a> Now at the feast he used to release to
them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. <a name="C4115V7" id="C4115V7">15:7</a>
There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection,
men who in the insurrection had committed murder. <a name="C4115V8"
id="C4115V8">15:8</a> The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as
he always did for them. <a name="C4115V9" id="C4115V9">15:9</a> Pilate
answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of
the Jews?" <a name="C4115V10" id="C4115V10">15:10</a> For he perceived
that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. <a name="C4115V11"
id="C4115V11">15:11</a> But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that
he should release Barabbas to them instead. <a name="C4115V12" id="C4115V12">15:12</a>
Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call
the King of the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V13" id="C4115V13">15:13</a> They cried out again, "Crucify
him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V14" id="C4115V14">15:14</a> Pilate said to them, "Why,
what evil has he done?"
</p>
<p>
But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V15" id="C4115V15">15:15</a> Pilate, wishing to please the
multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Yeshua, when he had
flogged him, to be crucified. <a name="C4115V16" id="C4115V16">15:16</a> The
soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they
called together the whole cohort. <a name="C4115V17" id="C4115V17">15:17</a>
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it
on him. <a name="C4115V18" id="C4115V18">15:18</a> They began to salute him,
"Hail, King of the Jews!" <a name="C4115V19" id="C4115V19">15:19</a>
They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees,
did homage to him. <a name="C4115V20" id="C4115V20">15:20</a> When they had
mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on
him. They led him out to crucify him. <a name="C4115V21" id="C4115V21">15:21</a>
They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene,
the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his
cross. <a name="C4115V22" id="C4115V22">15:22</a> They brought him to the
place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a
skull." <a name="C4115V23" id="C4115V23">15:23</a> They offered him wine
mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn't take it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V24" id="C4115V24">15:24</a> Crucifying him, they parted his
garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take. <a
name="C4115V25" id="C4115V25">15:25</a> It was <a href="#N4146">the third hour,</a>
and they crucified him. <a name="C4115V26" id="C4115V26">15:26</a> The
superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF
THE JEWS." <a name="C4115V27" id="C4115V27">15:27</a> With him they
crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left. <a
name="C4115V28" id="C4115V28">15:28</a> The Scripture was fulfilled, which
says, "He was numbered with transgressors."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V29" id="C4115V29">15:29</a> Those who passed by blasphemed him,
wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and
build it in three days, <a name="C4115V30" id="C4115V30">15:30</a> save
yourself, and come down from the cross!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V31" id="C4115V31">15:31</a> Likewise, also the chief priests
mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He
can't save himself. <a name="C4115V32" id="C4115V32">15:32</a> Let the Messiah,
the King of Yisrael, now come down from the cross, that we may see and
believe <a href="#N4147">him.</a>" Those who were crucified with him
insulted him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V33" id="C4115V33">15:33</a> When the <a href="#N4148">sixth hour</a>
had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the <a href="#N4149">ninth
hour.</a> <a name="C4115V34" id="C4115V34">15:34</a> At the ninth hour Yeshua
cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"
which is, being interpreted, "My Elohim, my Elohim, why have you forsaken
me?"<sup><a href="#N4150">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V35" id="C4115V35">15:35</a> Some of those who stood by, when
they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V36" id="C4115V36">15:36</a> One ran, and filling a sponge full
of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let
him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V37" id="C4115V37">15:37</a> Yeshua cried out with a loud voice,
and gave up the spirit. <a name="C4115V38" id="C4115V38">15:38</a> The veil of
the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. <a name="C4115V39"
id="C4115V39">15:39</a> When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw
that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly
this man was the Son of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V40" id="C4115V40">15:40</a> There were also women watching from
afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
the less and of Joses, and Salome; <a name="C4115V41" id="C4115V41">15:41</a>
who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other
women who came up with him to Yerushalayim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4115V42" id="C4115V42">15:42</a> When evening had now come, because
it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Shabbat, <a
name="C4115V43" id="C4115V43">15:43</a> Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent
council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of Elohim, came.
He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua' body. <a name="C4115V44"
id="C4115V44">15:44</a> Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and
summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. <a
name="C4115V45" id="C4115V45">15:45</a> When he found out from the centurion,
he granted the body to Joseph. <a name="C4115V46" id="C4115V46">15:46</a> He
bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth,
and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone
against the door of the tomb. <a name="C4115V47" id="C4115V47">15:47</a> Mary
Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4116V1" id="C4116V1">16:1</a> When the Shabbat was past, Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that
they might come and anoint him. <a name="C4116V2" id="C4116V2">16:2</a> Very
early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had
risen. <a name="C4116V3" id="C4116V3">16:3</a> They were saying among
themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb
for us?" <a name="C4116V4" id="C4116V4">16:4</a> for it was very big.
Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4116V5" id="C4116V5">16:5</a> Entering into the tomb, they saw a
young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they
were amazed. <a name="C4116V6" id="C4116V6">16:6</a> He said to them, "Don't
be amazed. You seek Yeshua, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has
risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him! <a
name="C4116V7" id="C4116V7">16:7</a> But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He
goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4116V8" id="C4116V8">16:8</a> They went out,<sup><a href="#N4151">*</a></sup>
and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them.
They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. <a name="C4116V9"
id="C4116V9">16:9</a> Now when he had risen early on the first day of the
week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven
demons. <a name="C4116V10" id="C4116V10">16:10</a> She went and told those who
had been with him, as they mourned and wept. <a name="C4116V11" id="C4116V11">16:11</a>
When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they
disbelieved. <a name="C4116V12" id="C4116V12">16:12</a> After these things he
was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way
into the country. <a name="C4116V13" id="C4116V13">16:13</a> They went away
and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4116V14" id="C4116V14">16:14</a> Afterward he was revealed to the
eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their
unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had
seen him after he had risen. <a name="C4116V15" id="C4116V15">16:15</a> He
said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the
whole creation. <a name="C4116V16" id="C4116V16">16:16</a> He who believes and
is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. <a
name="C4116V17" id="C4116V17">16:17</a> These signs will accompany those who
believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new
languages; <a name="C4116V18" id="C4116V18">16:18</a> they will take up
serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them;
they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4116V19" id="C4116V19">16:19</a> So then the Lord Yeshua, after he
had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right
hand of Elohim. <a name="C4116V20" id="C4116V20">16:20</a> They went out, and
preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word
by the signs that followed. Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N411" id="N411">[1]</a> <a href="#C411V2">back to 1:2</a> Malachi 3:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N412" id="N412">[2]</a> <a href="#C411V3">back to 1:3</a> Isaiah 40:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N413" id="N413">[3]</a> <a href="#C411V4">back to 1:4</a> or, immersing
</p>
<p>
<a name="N414" id="N414">[4]</a> <a href="#C411V8">back to 1:8</a> The Greek
word (en) translated here as "in" could also be translated as
"with" in some contexts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N415" id="N415">[5]</a> <a href="#C413V32">back to 3:32</a> TR omits
"your sisters"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N416" id="N416">[6]</a> <a href="#C414V4">back to 4:4</a> TR adds
"of the air"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N417" id="N417">[7]</a> <a href="#C414V12">back to 4:12</a> Isaiah
6:9-10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N418" id="N418">[8]</a> <a href="#C414V21">back to 4:21</a> literally,
a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N419" id="N419">[9]</a> <a href="#C416V33">back to 6:33</a> TR reads
"The multitudes" instead of "They"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4110" id="N4110">[10]</a> <a href="#C416V37">back to 6:37</a> 200
denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4111" id="N4111">[11]</a> <a href="#C416V44">back to 6:44</a> TR adds
"about"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4112" id="N4112">[12]</a> <a href="#C416V48">back to 6:48</a> see Job
9:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4113" id="N4113">[13]</a> <a href="#C416V50">back to 6:50</a> or,
"I AM!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4114" id="N4114">[14]</a> <a href="#C416V56">back to 6:56</a> or,
tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4115" id="N4115">[15]</a> <a href="#C417V7">back to 7:7</a> Isaiah
29:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4116" id="N4116">[16]</a> <a href="#C417V10">back to 7:10</a> Exodus
20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4117" id="N4117">[17]</a> <a href="#C417V10">back to 7:10</a> Exodus
21:17; Leviticus 20:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4118" id="N4118">[18]</a> <a href="#C417V11">back to 7:11</a> Corban
is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4119" id="N4119">[19]</a> <a href="#C418V12">back to 8:12</a> The word
translated "generation" here (genea) could also be translated
"people," "race," or "family."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4120" id="N4120">[20]</a> <a href="#C419V43">back to 9:43</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4121" id="N4121">[21]</a> <a href="#C419V45">back to 9:45</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4122" id="N4122">[22]</a> <a href="#C419V47">back to 9:47</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4123" id="N4123">[23]</a> <a href="#C419V48">back to 9:48</a> Isaiah
66:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4124" id="N4124">[24]</a> <a href="#C4110V6">back to 10:6</a> Genesis
1:27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4125" id="N4125">[25]</a> <a href="#C4110V8">back to 10:8</a> Genesis
2:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4126" id="N4126">[26]</a> <a href="#C4110V19">back to 10:19</a> Exodus
20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4127" id="N4127">[27]</a> <a href="#C4110V51">back to 10:51</a>
Rhabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4128" id="N4128">[28]</a> <a href="#C4111V1">back to 11:1</a> TR &
NU read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4129" id="N4129">[29]</a> <a href="#C4111V9">back to 11:9</a> "Hosanna"
means "save us" or "help us, we pray."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4130" id="N4130">[30]</a> <a href="#C4111V9">back to 11:9</a> Psalm
118:25-26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4131" id="N4131">[31]</a> <a href="#C4111V17">back to 11:17</a> Isaiah
56:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4132" id="N4132">[32]</a> <a href="#C4111V17">back to 11:17</a>
Jeremiah 7:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4133" id="N4133">[33]</a> <a href="#C4112V11">back to 12:11</a> Psalm
118:22-23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4134" id="N4134">[34]</a> <a href="#C4112V26">back to 12:26</a> Exodus
3:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4135" id="N4135">[35]</a> <a href="#C4112V30">back to 12:30</a>
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4136" id="N4136">[36]</a> <a href="#C4112V31">back to 12:31</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4137" id="N4137">[37]</a> <a href="#C4112V36">back to 12:36</a> Psalm
110:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4138" id="N4138">[38]</a> <a href="#C4112V42">back to 12:42</a>
literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins
worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion.
Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4139" id="N4139">[39]</a> <a href="#C4112V42">back to 12:42</a> A
quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one
day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4140" id="N4140">[40]</a> <a href="#C4113V6">back to 13:6</a> or,
"I AM!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4141" id="N4141">[41]</a> <a href="#C4113V14">back to 13:14</a> Daniel
9:17; 11:31; 12:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4142" id="N4142">[42]</a> <a href="#C4113V25">back to 13:25</a> Isaiah
13:10; 34:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4143" id="N4143">[43]</a> <a href="#C4113V30">back to 13:30</a> The
word translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated
"race," "family," or "people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4144" id="N4144">[44]</a> <a href="#C4114V5">back to 14:5</a> 300
denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4145" id="N4145">[45]</a> <a href="#C4114V27">back to 14:27</a>
Zechariah 13:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4146" id="N4146">[46]</a> <a href="#C4115V25">back to 15:25</a> 9:00
A. M.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4147" id="N4147">[47]</a> <a href="#C4115V32">back to 15:32</a> TR
omits "him"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4148" id="N4148">[48]</a> <a href="#C4115V33">back to 15:33</a> or,
noon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4149" id="N4149">[49]</a> <a href="#C4115V33">back to 15:33</a> 3:00
PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4150" id="N4150">[50]</a> <a href="#C4115V34">back to 15:34</a> Psalm
22:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4151" id="N4151">[51]</a> <a href="#C4116V8">back to 16:8</a> TR adds
"quickly"
</p>
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Pgs. 459-471
Ch. 33-36
SECTION XLIII.
MASEY.
XXXIII. These are the journeys of the Beni Yisrael who came out from Mizraim by
their hosts, after the miracles bad been wrought for them by the hand of Mosheh and Aharon. And Mosheh recorded their outgoings by their journeys by the Word of the Lord; and these are their journeys by their goings forth.
They departed from Pelusin in the mouth of Nisan, on the fifteenth day of the month; after they had eaten the sacrifice of the Pascha did the children of Yisrael go forth, with uncovered head, in sight of all the Mizraee. [JERUSALEM. And they went out from Pelusin in the first month.] And the Mizraee buried those whom the Lord had killed among them, even all the first‑born; and upon their idols did the Word of the Lord do judgments; their molten idols were dissolved, their idols of stone were mutilated, their idols of earthenware broken in pieces, their wooden idols turned to ashes, and their cattle gods were slain with death.
And the sons of Yisrael went forth from Pelusin, and encamped in Sukkoth, a place where they were protected by seven glorious clouds. And they removed from Sukkoth, and encamped in Etham, on the side of the wilderness. They removed from Etham, and returned unto Pumey Hiratha, which lie in front of the idol of Zephon, and encamped before Migdol. [JERUSALEM. And removing from Etham. they returned to the caravansaries of Hiratha, which are in front of the idols.] Arid from the caravansaries of Hiratha they removed, and passed through the midst of the sea, and went upon the shore of the sea, collecting onyx stones and pearls. Afterwards they proceeded three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah. Lind they removed from Marah, and came to Elim; in Elim were twelve fountains of water for the twelve tribes, and seventy palm trees, answering to the seventy sages; and they encamped there by the waters. [JERUSALEM And they removed from Marah and came to Elim: in Elim were twelve fountains of water, answering to the twelve tribes of Yisrael, and seventy palm trees, answering to the seventy elders of the Sanhedrin of Yisrael; and they encamped there.] And they removed from Elim, and camped on the banks of the Sea of Suph; and they removed from the banks of the sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; thence[1] to Dopheka, Kerak Takiph (the strong tower), Rephidim, where, because their hands were (raphin) neglectful of the words of the Torah, there was no water for the people to drink; thence to the Graves of those who desired flesh; thence to Hazeroth, where Miriam the prophetess was struck, with leprosy; thence to Rithema, the place of many juniper trees; thence to Rumana, whose fruit is hard;[2] thence to Libnah, whose borders are built of bricks (Iibnetha); thence to Beth Rissa; thence to Kebelath, where Korach and his companions banded together against Mosheh and Aharon; thence to the mountain whose fruit is good; thence to Harada, where they were confounded by the evil plague; thence to Makheloth, the place of congregation; thence to the lower Makheloth; thence to Tharach, and Muka, whose waters were sweet; thence to Hasmona; thence to Meredotha, the place of rebellion (or chastisement); thence to Bere‑Haktha, Gudgad, at the Rocks, Jotebath, a good and quiet place; thence to the Fords; thence to Tarnegolla, the tower of the cock; thence to the wilderness of Zin; at the Iron Mount, which is Rekem; thence to Mount Umano, on the borders of the Land of Edom. And Aharon the priest went up to Mount Umano by the Word of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year from the going out of the children of Yisrael from Mizraim, in the fifth month, on the first of the month. And Aharon was one hundred and twenty‑three years old when he died on Mount Umano.
And Amalek the wicked, who was combined with the Kenaanites, and reigned in Arad,‑the house of his abode was in the land of the south,‑heard that the sons of Yisrael were coming to wage war against them, and utterly to destroy their cities.
And they removed from Mount Umano, and encamped in Zalmona, a place of thorns, and narrow (or squalid), in the land of the Edomaee; and there the soul of the people was distressed on account of the way; thence to Punon, where the Lord sent burning serpents among them, and their cry went up to heaven. And they removed to Oboth; thence to the passage of the Fords, on the border of the Moabaee; thence to Dibon, the place of fortune;[3] thence to Almon Diblathaimah, where the well was hidden from them, because they had forsaken the words of the Torah, which are as delicious as figs (diblatha); thence to the Mount Ibraee, in front of the place of the burial of Mosheh; thence they removed and encamped in the fields of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho; and they encamped by the Jordan, from Bethjeshimon unto the plain of Sillan in the fields of Moab.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, in the fields of Moab, at the Jordan, by Jericho, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have passed over the Jordan into the land of Kenaan, you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the country from before you, and lay waste all the houses of their worship, destroy all their molten images, and overthrow all their high places. [JERUSALEM. You shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, make an end of all their idols, break their molten images, and overthrow all their high places.] And you shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein, for I have given you the land to possess it. And you shall inherit the land by lots, according to your families; to the tribe whose people are many you shall enlarge, and to the tribe whose people are few, you shall diminish. According to the place where one's lot falleth, there shall his place be; you shall inherit by the tribes of your fathers.
But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, it will be that the residue whom you have spared looking at you with an evil eye will surround you as shields (terisin) on your sides, and afflict you in the land wherein you dwell; and it shall be that as I had thought to do to them I will do to you.
XXXIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land of Kenaan, this shall be the land that shall be divided to you for an inheritance, the land of Kenaan by its limits. Your south border (shall be) from the Wilderness of Palms, by the iron mountain, at the confines of Edom, even the south border at the extremities of the Sea of Salt, eastward. And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbith, and pass on to the palms of the mountain of iron, and the going forth thereof shall be southward of Rekem Giah, and shall go onward to the tower of Adar, and pass over to Kesam. And the border shall wind round from Kesam unto Nilos, of the Mizraee, and its outgoings shall be to the west.
And for the western border you shall have the Great Ocean Sea; its limits are the waters of the beginning[4] with the waters of old which are in its depth; its capes and havens, its creeks and its cities, its islands and ports, its ships and its recesses:[5] this shall be your border westward.
And this shall be your northern border;‑from the Great Sea you shall appoint to you unto Mount Umanis.[6] From Mount Umanis you shall appoint to you (a line) as thou goest up to the entrance of Tebaria, and the outgoings of the border at its two sides, unto Kadkor Of Bar Zahama, and to Kadkol of Bar Sanigora, and Divakinos and Tarnegola unto Kesarin, where thou goest up to Abelas of Cilicia. And the border shall go on unto Keren Zekutha, and to Gibra Hatmona, and its outgoings shall be at Keria Bethsekel, and to the midst of the great court (darela rabtha), which is at Mizeha, between the towers of Hinvetha and Darmeshek: this shall be your northern limit.
And you shall appoint your eastern border from the of Hinvetba unto Apamea; and the border shall descend from Apamea to Dophne, eastward of Hinvetha; thence the border shall go down to the cavern of Panias, and from the cavern of Panias to the mountain of snow, and from the mountain of snow to Henan, and from Henan the border shall go down and encompass the plain of the river of Arnon, and arrive at the wilderness and the palms of the mountain of iron, take in the Waters of Contention, and rest at Ginesar, a city of the kings of the Edomites, the inheritance of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh; and the border shall descend and encompass the Sea of Genesar on the east.
[JERUSALEM. And your border shall be southward, from the wilderness of Rekem, over against the frontier of the Edomaee, and southward shall it be to you unto the extremity of the Sea of Salt, eastward. And your South border shall go round from the ascent of Akrabim, which passeth over by the mountain of iron, and its outgoings shall be from the south unto Rekem Giah, and proceed to the buildings of the threshing floors, and pass on to Kesam. And the border shall wind round from Kesam unto Nilos Mizraim,[7] and the going out of it shall be at the sea.
And the (west) border shall be the Great Ocean Sea; its isles, ports, and ships, with the ancient waters that are in it, the waters of the beginning; this shall be your western border.
And this shall be your northern limit: from the Great Sea you shall appoint to you unto Mount Manos. From Mount Manos you shall extend to the entrance of Antiochia, and the outgoing shall be unto Abelas of the Cilicians; and the border shall go to Zapherin, and its outgoing be at the dwellings of Hainutha, unto Apamea, unto Dopline, east of Hainutha, and shall descend and come down upon the Sea of Ginesar at the west.] And the border shall descend to the Jordan, and its outgoing be at the Sea of Salt. Rekem Giah on the south, Mount Umanos on the north, the Great Sea on the west, the Sea of Salt on the east,‑this shall be your country, the Land of Yisrael, by the extent of its borders round about. [JERUSALEM. And it shall descend to Jordan, and have its outgoings at the Sea of Salt. This shall be your land by its limits round about.] And Mosheh commanded the sons of Yisrael, saying: This is the land which you are to inherit by lot, which the Lord hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half tribe. For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the house of their fathers, and tribe of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the eastern side. [JERUSALEM. The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan‑Jericho first. Their border goeth forth on the east from the plain of the Salt Sea to Kinnereth, the city of the kingdom of the Amorites, and thence to the mountain of snow, and to Hamatha of Lebanon; thence to Hoba, on the northern side of Hainutha, of Damasek, and from Hoba to Divakinos, at the snowy mount of Kisarion, eastward of (the town of) Dan, on the west, and from thence to the Great River, the river Phrat, upon which is the order of the victories of the wars of the Lord, which are to be wrought there. And from the Great River, the Phrat, their border goeth forth to the cities of Zavatha, beyond all the Tarkon (Trechonites), unto Zimra, the royal house of Sihon, king of the Amoraee, and the royal house of Og, king of Mathnan, going to Raphiach and to Shokmezai, until thou comest to the shore of the Salt Sea. This is the portion of the two tribes and the half tribe.]
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: These are the names of the men who shall make to you the inheritance of the land: Elazar the priest, and Jehoshua bar Nun, and one prince from each of the tribes you shall choose to give you the inheritance of the land. And these are the names of the men. Of the tribe of Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephunneh; for Shemeon, Shemuel bar Ammihud; Benjamin, Elidad bar Kiselon; Dan, Buki bar Jageli; Joseph,J1enasheh, Haniel bar Ephod; Ephraim, Kemuel bar Shipbtan; Zebulon, Elizaphan bar Parnak; Issakar, Paltiel bar Azan; Asher, Abihud bar Shelomi; Naphtali, Pedahael bar Ammihud. These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance of the land of Kenaan to the children of Yisrael.
XXXV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the plains of Moab, by Jordan‑Jericho, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael that they give to the Levites from their inheritance cities to dwell in, and suburbs (open spaces) to the cities round about shall you give to the Levites. [JERUSALEM. And suburbs to the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.] And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and the suburbs for their cattle, their property, and all their needful things. But of the cities which you give to the Levites the suburbs round the city shalt be one thousand cubits without the city round about. [JERUSALEM. But the suburbs.] And you shall measure outside the city, on the east side, two thousand cubits; on the South two thousatid, on the west two thousand, and on the north two thousand cubits, with the city in the midst; these shall be to you the suburbs of the cities. And of the cities you give to the Levites, six shall be for refuges to manslayers, that the manslayer may escape thither. Beside these you shall give them forty‑two other cities. All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be fortyeiaht cities with their suburbs. But when you give the cities from the inheritance of the Beni Yisrael, from the tribe wbose people are many you shall give many, and from the tribe whose people are few you shall diminish; every one shall give of his cities to the Levites, according to the inheritance he possesses.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan unto the land of Kenaan, you shall provide you cities with streets and houses of living (boarding houses), cities of refuge shall they be to you, that thither the maiislayer may flee who hath killed a man inadvertently. And they shall be to you for cities of refuge for the manslayer from the avenger of blood, that the man may not be put to death till he shall have stood before the congregation for judgment. And these cities which yougive shall be six cities of refuge for the manslayer; three you shall appoint beyond Jordan, and three in the land of Kenaan; cities of refuge shall they be. For the sons of Yisrael and the sojourners among you shall be these six cities of refuge, that thither whoever hath killed a man through ignorance may flee.
But if he smote him with an instrument of iron and killed him, he is a murderer; and the murderer shall be surely put to death. Or if, filling his hand with a stone large enough to kill any one, he struck him, and killed him, he is a murderer, and the murderer dying shall die. Or if, filling his hand with an instrument of wood sufficient to kill any one, he struck him, and killed him, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. The avenger of blood may himself kill the manslayer, if he meet him outside of these cities; he may kill him in judgment.
But if (the manslayer) had assaulted in enmity and intentionally with a club or staff, or thrown stones upon him with purpose of heart, and killed him; or cherishing enmity had struck him with his hand and killed him; he is a murderer; dying he shall die. The avenger of blood may slay the homicide when he hath been condemned. But if in ignorance, without keeping of malice, he let any thing fall upon him, having no intention to kill; or if without intention he let a stone sufficient to kill any one, or any other thing, fall upon him, and kill him, without having hated, or purposed to do him harm, then the congregation shall judge between him who had smitten him, and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments; and the congregation shall release the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and make him return to his city of refuge whither he had fled; and he shall dwell there until the time that the high priest die, whom the multitude (sagia) had anointed with the oil of anointing;‑because he did not pray on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies concerning the three great transgressions, that the people of the house of Yisrael might not be smitten for strange worship, or impure connexions, or the shedding of innocent blood, when it was in his power to obviate them by his prayer, and he prayed not, therefore hath he been condemned to die in that year.
But if, while the high priest is yet alive, the manslayer goeth out indeed from the bounds, of his city of refuge whither he had fled, and the avenger of blood find him without the bounds of his city of refuge, he may kill the manslayer, without being guilty of death, for he should have abode in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the high priest is dead he may return to the land of his inheritance.
And these indications shall be to you a decree of judgment for your generations in all your dwellings: Whosoever killeth a man, according to the word of witnesses fit to give testimony against him, the avenger of blood, or the house of judgment, shall put him to death. But one witness only shall not testify against a man to put him to death. You may not take a ransom for the release of a murderer who is guilty of death, for dying he shall die. Neither may you take ransom for him who hath fled to his city of refuge, so as that he may return to dwell in the land before the time of the high priest's decease. Nor contaminate ye the land in which you are, because innocent blood which hath not been avenged will overflow the land, and there is no atonement made for the land upon which innocent blood hath been shed, but by the shedding of the blood of him who shed it. Therefore defile not the land in which you are; for My Shekinah dwelleth in the midst of it; for I am the Lord whose Shekinah dwelleth among the children of Yisrael.
XXXVI. And the heads of the fathers of the family of the Beni Gilead bar Makir bar Menasheh, even the family of the Beni Gilead bar Joseph, came to the house of judgment, and spake before Mosheh and the princes, the chief fathers of the Beni Yisrael, and said: The Lord commanded Rabboni to give the land an inheritance by lot to the children of Yisrael, and Rabboni was commanded before the Lord to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. But if these marry into any of the tribes of the children of Yisrael, their inheritance will be withdrawn from that of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe which will have become theirs, and our lot will be diminished. And at the Jubilee of the Beni Yisrael their inheritance will be added to that of their tribe in which they will be; and their possession will have been withdrawn from the inheritance of our father's tribe.
Then Mosheh commanded the children of Yisrael by the Word of the Lord, saying: The tribe of the Beni Joseph have said well. This is the thing which the Lord hath cornmanded,‑not for the generations that shall arise after the division of the land, but for the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: They may be the wives of them who are proper in their eyes, only such must be of the families of their father's tribe. That the inheritance of the children of Yisrael may not pass about from one tribe to another: for the children of Yisrael shall every one keep to the inheritance of their father's tribe. (Verses 9 and 10 are wanting.) As the Lord commanded Mosheh, so did the daughters of Zelophehad; and Mahalah, Thirzah, Hogelab, Milchah and Nohah, the daughters of Zelophehad, became wives of sons of their kindred; of the family of the children of Menasheh bar Joseph were they wives, and their inheritance was with the tribe of their father's family.
These are the commandments and orders of judgmengts which the Lord commanded the children of Yisrael, by Mosheh, in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.
END OF THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM ON THE
SEPHER BEMIDBAR.
[1] The expression "and they removed from" such a place occurs in the recital of all these stages. I have henceforward omitted it, and given only the place of each encampment in succession.
[1] From rimmon, "a pomegranante." (?)
[1] Beth Mazala, "the house of the planet."
[1] Or, "the creation."
[1] Or , "interior."
[1] This name is here given to Mount Lebanon.
[1] Not the Nile, but a small river falling into the Mediterranean, a little below Gaza. Compare Joshua xv. 47.
[1] The expression "and they removed from" such a place occurs in the recital of all these stages. I have henceforward omitted it, and given only the place of each encampment in succession.
[2] From rimmon, "a pomegranante." (?)
[3] Beth Mazala, "the house of the planet."
[4] Or, "the creation
[5] Or , "interior."
[6] This name is here given to Mount Lebanon.
[7] Not the Nile, but a small river falling into the Mediterranean, a little below Gaza. Compare Joshua xv. 47.
SECTION XLIII.
MASEY.
XXXIII. These are the journeys of the Beni Yisrael who went forth from the land of Mizraim in their hosts, by the hand of Mosheh and Aharon. And Mosheh wrote their goings out, and by their journeys by the Word of the Lord; and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
And they went forth from Ramesis in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, after the day of the Pascha, the children of Yisrael went out in full view of the eves of all the Mizraee. And the Mizraee buried all the firstborn which the Lord had slain among them, and upon their idols had the Lord wrought judgments.
And the children of Yisrael proceeded from Ramesis, and encamped in Succoth. And they went on from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is on the side of the wilderness.And they removed from Etham, and returned upon PumHiratha, before Baal-Zephon, and pitched before Migdol. And they departed from Pum-Hiratha, and went through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went, going three days in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. And they removed from Marah, and came to Elim; and in Elim were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. And they removed from Elim, and pitched by the Sea of Suph. And they removed from the Sea of Suph, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin. And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and pitched in Dapheka; and they removed from Dapheka, and encamped in Alush. And they removed from Alush, and pitched in Rephidin; and there was no water for the people to drink. And they removed from Rephidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they removed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at the Sepulchres of Desire. And they removed from the Sepulchres of Desire, and pitched in Hazeroth; and they removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithema. And they removed from Rithema, and pitched in Rimmon-pharez. And they removed from Rimmon-pharez, and encamped in Libnah. And they removed from Libnah, and pitched in Resah. And they removed from Resah, and pitched in Kehelatha. And they removed from Kehelatha, and encamped at Mount Shapher. And they removed from Mount Shapher, and encamped in Harada. And they removed from Harada, and pitched in Makheloth. And they removed from Makheloth, and pitched in Tachath. And they removed from Tachath, and pitched in Tharah. And they removed from Tharah, and pitched in Mitheka. And they removed from Mitheka, and encamped in Hashmona. And they removed from Hashmona, and pitched in Moseroth. And they removed from Moseroth, and encamped in Beni Jaakan. And they removed from Beni Jaakan, and pitched at Mount Hagidgad. And they removed from Mount Hagidgad, and pitched in Jetbatha. And they removed from Jetbatha, and pitched in Ebrona. And they removed from Ebrona, and pitched in Ezion-Geber. And they removed from Ezion-Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Rekem. And they removed from Rekem, and encamped at Mount Hor, on the borders of the land of Edom. And Aharon the priest went up on Mount Hor by the Word of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year of the outgoing of the children of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim, in the fifth month, on the first of the month. And Aharon was a son of one hundred and twenty-three years when he died on Mount Hor.
And the Kenaanite, king of Harad, who dwelt in the south, in the land of Kenaan, heard of the coming of the Beni Yisrael.
And they removed from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmona. And they removed from Zalmona, and pitched in Phunon. And they removed from Phunon, and pitched in Aboth. And they removed from Aboth, and encamped at the Passing Fords on the border of Moab. And they removed from the Fords, and pitched at Dibon Gad. And they removed from Dibon Gad, and pitched in Elmon Diblathaimah. And they removed from Elmon Diblathaimah, and pitched at the mountains of Abaraee, which are before Nebo. And they removed from the mountains of Abaraee, and encamped in the plains of Moab by Jordan (over against) Jericho. And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth unto the vale of Sittin in the fields of Moab.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the fields of Moaba by the Jordan (near) Jericho, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have passed over Jordan to the land of Kenaan, you shall cast out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, demolish all the houses of their worship, destroy all their molten images, and lay waste all their high places. And you shall cast out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell in it; for I have given you the land to inherit.
And you shall possess the land by lot, according to your families; to the many you shall make their possession large, and to the few diminish the possession: where the lot falleth to anyone, there shall he be; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall possess. But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the country from before you, it will be that those who remain of them, combining, will take arms against you, and surrounding you with camps they will distress you in the land wherein you dwell. And it shall be that what I had thought to do unto them, I will do unto you.
XXXIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land of Kenaan, that land which shall be divided to you for a possession, the land of Kenaan by its coasts, then your south border shall be from the wilderness of Zin on the frontier of Edom, and your south border shall be from the extremities of the Sea of Salt eastward.
And your border shall turn from the south to the going up of Akrabbim, and shall pass over to Zin; and the going out of it shall be from the south unto Rekem Giah, and go on to Hazar-Adar, and pass over to Azemon.
And the border shall turn from Azemon to the stream of Mizraim, and its goings out shall be toward the west, (Heb., the sea,) and for the western border you shall have the Great Sea; this shall be your western border.
And this shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall appoint for you Mount Hor; from Mount Hor you shall appoint to the entrance of Hamath, and the goings forth of the border shall be unto Zedad. And the border shall be unto Zaphron, and its goings forth to Ezarenan; this shall be your north border.
And you shall appoint your eastern border from Ezarenan to Shepham;[1] and the border shall go down from Shepham unto Riblah, eastward of the fountain, and the border shall go down and come to the bank of the Sea of Genesar on the east. And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its going out be at the Sea of Salt. This shall be your land with its confines round about.
And Mosheh commanded the sons of Yisrael, saying: This shall be the land which you are to possess by lot, which the Lord hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe. For the tribe of the Beni Reuben by the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the Beni Gad by the house of their fathers, and the half tribe of Menasheh, have received their inheritance. The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance across the Jordan by Jericho towards the east.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you: Elazar the priest, and Jehoshua bar Nun. And you shall take of each tribe one prince to apportion the land, and these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephuneh; of the tribe of the Beni Shemeon,. Shemuel bar Ammihud; of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad bar Kiselon; of the tribe of the Beni Dan, Rabba Bokki bar Jagli; of the Beni Joseph, of the tribe of the Beni Menasheh, Rabba Haniel bar Ephod; of the tribe of the Beni Ephraim, Rabba Kemuel bar Shiphtan; of the tribe of the Beni Zebulon, Rabba Elizaphan bar Parnak; of the tribe of the Beni Issakar, Rabba Peltiel bar Ezar; and of that of the Beni Asher, Rabba Ahihud bar Shelomi; and of that of the Beni Naphtali, Rabba Phadael bar Ammihud. These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance of the children of Yisrael in the land of Kenaan.
XXXV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the plains of Moab, on the Jordan-Jericho, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to inhabit, and a space (suburb) with the cities round about shall they give to the Levites. And the cities they shall have to inhabit, and their spaces, shall be for their cattle, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. And the spaces of the cities which you give to the Levites (shall extend) from the wall of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.
And you shall measure without the city, on the east side[2] two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, and the city in the midst; this shall be for you the spaces of the cities.
And (of) the cities which you give to the Levites, six shall be cities of refuge, which you shall appoint for the (man) slayer[3] to flee thereunto, and to them you shall add forty-two cities. All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs. And the cities that you give shall be of the inheritance of the Beni Yisrael; of those who have many you shall give many, and of the few you shall give few; each according to his possession he inherits shall he give of his cities to the Levites.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have passed the Jordan to the land of Kenaan, then shall you appoint to you cities, cities of refuge shall they be for you, that the slayer who hath killed a life unawares may flee thither. And they shall be for you cities of refuge from the avenger of blood, that the slayer may not die until he hath stood before the congregation for judgment. And of those cities that you give you shall have six cities of refuge: three cities you shall give beyond Jordan, and three cities in the land of Kenaan; cities of refuge shall they be. For the sons of Yisrael, and for the sojourner among you, there shall be these six cities of refuge, that thither may flee everyone who bath slain a person unawares.
But if he hath smitten him with a weapon of iron and killed him, he is a murderer; and the murderer is to be surely put to death. Or, if with a stone which he carried in his hand, that he who was struck with it should die, he who killed him is a murderer, and the murderer is to be surely put to death. Or, if with a weapon of wood which he carried in his hand that he who was struck with it might die, and he killeth him, he is a murderer, and the murderer shall be verily put to death. The avenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer, when condemned by the judgment he shall kill him. And if he smote him in enmity, or threw at him in concealment and killed him, or in enmity smote him with his hand and killed him, the smiter is a murderer, he shall be surely put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the slayer when he is condemned.
But if he have struck him suddenly without enmity, or have thrown anything upon him without lying in wait for him, or struck him with a stone sufficient to kill him, but cast it upon him without seeing, and have killed him without hating him or seeking to do him evil, then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments. And the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the avenger of blood, and return him to the city of his refuge to which he had fled, and he shall dwell in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
But if the slayer shall come out of the boundary of the city of his retreat to which he hath fled, and the avenger of blood find him outside of the bounds of the city of his retreat, and the avenger of blood slay the slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. Because he should have abode within the city of his retreat until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his inheritance.
And these shall be to you a decree of judgment for your generations in all your dwellings. Whosoever killeth a person shall die, by the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against a man to put (him) to death. Neither may you take money on account of a manslayer who is guilty of death, for dying he shall die. Nor may you take money for him who hath fled to his city of refuge, so that he may return to dwell in the land till the high priest shall die. But you shall not make guilty the land in which you are; for blood maketh the land guilty; and the land is not expiated for innocent blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him who shed it. Defile not then the land in which you dwell, for My Shekinah dwelleth in the midst of it; for I, the Lord, by My Shekinah dwell among the children of Yisrael.
XXXVI. And the chief fathers of the families of the Beni Gilead, bar Makir, bar Menasheh, of the family of the Beni Joseph, came and spake before Mosheh, the princes and chief fathers of the Beni Yisrael, and said: The Lord commanded Rabboni to give the land an inheritance by lot to the children of Yisrael; and Rabboni was commanded by the Word of the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophechad our brother to his daughters. But if they become wives to any of the sons of the (other) tribes of the Beni Yisrael, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and added to the inheritance of the tribe which will have become theirs, and be (thus) diminished from the portion of our inheritance. And when the Jubela of the children of Yisrael come, their inheritance will be added to the possession of the tribe that hath become theirs, and our possession will pass away from the inheritance of our father's tribe.
And Mosheh commanded the sons of Yisrael by the Word of the Lord, saying: The tribe of the sons of Joseph have spoken well. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded for the daughters of Zelophechad, saying: Let them become the wives of those who are proper in their eyes, only of (men) of their father's tribe may they become wives. And the inheritance of the children of Yisrael shall not turn from tribe to tribe; for every man of the Beni Yisrael shall keep himself to the inheritance of his father's tribe.
And every daughter inheriting a possession (in one) of the tribes of the children of Yisrael shall be wife of one of the families of her father's tribe: that the sons of Yisrael may each man inherit the possession of his fathers. And the inheritance shall not pass from one tribe to another tribe, but every one of the tribes of the Beni Yisrael shall keep to its own inheritance.
As the Lord commanded Mosheh, so did the daughters of Zelophechad: and Maalah, and Thirzah, and Hegela, and Milchah, and Nohah, the daughters of Zelophechad, became wives of sons of their father's brethren. They were married into the family of the Beni Menasheh bar Joseph, and their inheritance (remained) with the tribe of their father's family.
These are the commandments and judgments which the Lord commanded by the hand of Mosheh to the children of Yisrael, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho.
END OF THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE
SEPHER BEMIDBAR.
[1] Sam. Vers., “Apamea.”
[2] “The suburbs of the cities are said in the Torah to be three thousand cubits on every side, from the wall of the city and outwards. The first thousand cubits are the suburbs, and the two thousand which they measured without the suburbs were for fields and vineyards.”- MAIMONIDES
[3] Syr., “who hath killed his neighbor without willing it.”
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<a href=#C014V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C015V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C016V1>Chapter 06</a>
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<a href=#C0110V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
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<a href=#C0124V1>Chapter 24</a>
<a href=#C0125V1>Chapter 25</a>
<a href=#C0126V1>Chapter 26</a>
<a href=#C0127V1>Chapter 27</a>
<a href=#C0128V1>Chapter 28</a>
<p>
<a name="C011V1" id="C011V1">1:1</a> The book of the genealogy of <a href="#N400">Yeshua</a> <a
href="#N401">Messiah</a>, the son of David, the son of Avraham. <a
name="C011V2" id="C011V2">1:2</a> Avraham became the father of Isaac.
Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Yehudah and his
brothers. <a name="C011V3" id="C011V3">1:3</a> Yehudah became the father of
Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became
the father of Ram. <a name="C011V4" id="C011V4">1:4</a> Ram became the
father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon
became the father of Salmon. <a name="C011V5" id="C011V5">1:5</a> Salmon
became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by
Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse. <a name="C011V6" id="C011V6">1:6</a>
Jesse became the father of David the king. David became the father of
Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. <a name="C011V7" id="C011V7">1:7</a>
Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of
Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa. <a name="C011V8" id="C011V8">1:8</a>
Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of
Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah. <a name="C011V9" id="C011V9">1:9</a>
Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz
became the father of Hezekiah. <a name="C011V10" id="C011V10">1:10</a>
Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of
Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah. <a name="C011V11" id="C011V11">1:11</a>
Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the
exile to Babylon. <a name="C011V12" id="C011V12">1:12</a> After the exile
to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the
father of Zerubbabel. <a name="C011V13" id="C011V13">1:13</a> Zerubbabel
became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim
became the father of Azor. <a name="C011V14" id="C011V14">1:14</a> Azor
became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of Achim. Achim became
the father of Eliud. <a name="C011V15" id="C011V15">1:15</a> Eliud became
the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan
became the father of Jacob. <a name="C011V16" id="C011V16">1:16</a> Jacob
became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born <a
href="#N402">Yeshua</a>, who is called Messiah. <a name="C011V17"
id="C011V17">1:17</a> So all the generations from Avraham to David are
fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen
generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen
generations.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V18" id="C011V18">1:18</a> Now the birth of Yeshua Messiah was
like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they
came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. <a name="C011V19"
id="C011V19">1:19</a> Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not
willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
<a name="C011V20" id="C011V20">1:20</a> But when he thought about these
things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
"Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your
wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. <a
name="C011V21" id="C011V21">1:21</a> She shall bring forth a son. You
shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he who shall save his people from
their sins."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C011V22" id="C011V22">1:22</a> Now all this has happened, that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet,
saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C011V23" id="C011V23">1:23</a> "Behold, the virgin shall
be with child,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall bring forth a son.
</dd>
<dt>
They shall call his name Immanuel;"
</dt>
<dd>
which is, being interpreted, "Elohim with us."<sup><a href="#N403">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C011V24" id="C011V24">1:24</a> Joseph arose from his sleep, and
did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
<a name="C011V25" id="C011V25">1:25</a> and didn't know her sexually until
she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V1" id="C012V1">2:1</a> Now when Yeshua was born in Bethlehem
of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, <a href="#N404">wise men</a>
from the east came to Yerushalayim, saying, <a name="C012V2" id="C012V2">2:2</a>
"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the
east, and have come to worship him." <a name="C012V3" id="C012V3">2:3</a>
When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Yerushalayim with him.
<a name="C012V4" id="C012V4">2:4</a> Gathering together all the chief
priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Messiah would be
born. <a name="C012V5" id="C012V5">2:5</a> They said to him, "In
Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C012V6" id="C012V6">2:6</a> 'You Bethlehem, land of Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
are in no way least among the princes of Yehudah:
</dd>
<dt>
for out of you shall come forth a governor,
</dt>
<dd>
who shall shepherd my people, Yisrael.'"<sup><a href="#N405">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C012V7" id="C012V7">2:7</a> Then Herod secretly called the wise
men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. <a
name="C012V8" id="C012V8">2:8</a> He sent them to Bethlehem, and said,
"Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found
him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V9" id="C012V9">2:9</a> They, having heard the king, went
their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before
them, until it came and stood over where the young child was. <a
name="C012V10" id="C012V10">2:10</a> When they saw the star, they rejoiced
with exceedingly great joy. <a name="C012V11" id="C012V11">2:11</a> They
came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and
they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to
him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. <a name="C012V12" id="C012V12">2:12</a>
Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went
back to their own country another way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V13" id="C012V13">2:13</a> Now when they had departed,
behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise
and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay
there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy
him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V14" id="C012V14">2:14</a> He arose and took the young child
and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, <a name="C012V15"
id="C012V15">2:15</a> and was there until the death of Herod; that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet,
saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."<sup><a href="#N406">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V16" id="C012V16">2:16</a> Then Herod, when he saw that he
was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and
killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the
surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the
exact time which he had learned from the wise men. <a name="C012V17"
id="C012V17">2:17</a> Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet
was fulfilled, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C012V18" id="C012V18">2:18</a> "A voice was heard in
Ramah,
</dt>
<dd>
lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
</dd>
<dt>
Rachel weeping for her children;
</dt>
<dd>
she wouldn't be comforted,
</dd>
<dd>
because they are no more."<sup><a href="#N407">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C012V19" id="C012V19">2:19</a> But when Herod was dead, behold,
an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, <a
name="C012V20" id="C012V20">2:20</a> "Arise and take the young child
and his mother, and go into the land of Yisrael, for those who sought the
young child's life are dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C012V21" id="C012V21">2:21</a> He arose and took the young child
and his mother, and came into the land of Yisrael. <a name="C012V22"
id="C012V22">2:22</a> But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over
Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being
warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, <a
name="C012V23" id="C012V23">2:23</a> and came and lived in a city called
Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the
prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V1" id="C013V1">3:1</a> In those days, John the Baptizer
came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, <a name="C013V2"
id="C013V2">3:2</a> "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
<a name="C013V3" id="C013V3">3:3</a> For this is he who was spoken of by
Isaiah the prophet, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
make ready the way of the Lord.
</dd>
<dd>
Make his paths straight."<sup><a href="#N408">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C013V4" id="C013V4">3:4</a> Now John himself wore clothing made
of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was
locusts and wild honey. <a name="C013V5" id="C013V5">3:5</a> Then people
from Yerushalayim, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went
out to him. <a name="C013V6" id="C013V6">3:6</a> They were <a href="#N409">baptized</a>
by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. <a name="C013V7" id="C013V7">3:7</a>
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his <a
href="#N4010">baptism,</a> he said to them, "You offspring of vipers,
who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? <a name="C013V8" id="C013V8">3:8</a>
Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance! <a name="C013V9"
id="C013V9">3:9</a> Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our
father,' for I tell you that Elohim is able to raise up children to Avraham
from these stones.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V10" id="C013V10">3:10</a> "Even now the axe lies at the
root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good
fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire. <a name="C013V11" id="C013V11">3:11</a>
I indeed <a href="#N4011">baptize</a> you in water for repentance, but he
who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.<sup><a href="#N4012">*</a></sup>
<a name="C013V12" id="C013V12">3:12</a> His winnowing fork is in his hand,
and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his
wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V13" id="C013V13">3:13</a> Then Yeshua came from Galilee to
the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. <a name="C013V14" id="C013V14">3:14</a>
But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by
you, and you come to me?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C013V15" id="C013V15">3:15</a> But Yeshua, answering, said to him,
"Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all
righteousness." Then he allowed him. <a name="C013V16" id="C013V16">3:16</a>
Yeshua, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold,
the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of Elohim descending as a
dove, and coming on him. <a name="C013V17" id="C013V17">3:17</a> Behold, a
voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I
am well pleased."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V1" id="C014V1">4:1</a> Then Yeshua was led up by the Spirit
into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. <a name="C014V2"
id="C014V2">4:2</a> When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
hungry afterward. <a name="C014V3" id="C014V3">4:3</a> The tempter came
and said to him, "If you are the Son of Elohim, command that these
stones become bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V4" id="C014V4">4:4</a> But he answered, "It is written,
'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of
the mouth of Elohim.'"<sup><a href="#N4013">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V5" id="C014V5">4:5</a> Then the devil took him into the holy
city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, <a name="C014V6"
id="C014V6">4:6</a> and said to him, "If you are the Son of Elohim,
throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge
of you.' and,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'On their hands they will bear you up,
</dt>
<dd>
so that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"<sup><a
href="#N4014">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C014V7" id="C014V7">4:7</a> Yeshua said to him, "Again, it is
written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your Elohim.'"<sup><a
href="#N4015">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V8" id="C014V8">4:8</a> Again, the devil took him to an
exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world,
and their glory. <a name="C014V9" id="C014V9">4:9</a> He said to him,
"I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and
worship me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V10" id="C014V10">4:10</a> Then Yeshua said to him, "<a
href="#N4016">Get behind me,</a> Satan! For it is written, 'You shall
worship the Lord your Elohim, and you shall serve him only.'"<sup><a
href="#N4017">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V11" id="C014V11">4:11</a> Then the devil left him, and
behold, angels came and served him. <a name="C014V12" id="C014V12">4:12</a>
Now when Yeshua heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
<a name="C014V13" id="C014V13">4:13</a> Leaving Nazareth, he came and
lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and
Naphtali, <a name="C014V14" id="C014V14">4:14</a> that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C014V15" id="C014V15">4:15</a> "The land of Zebulun and
the land of Naphtali,
</dt>
<dd>
toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
</dd>
<dd>
Galilee of the Gentiles,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C014V16" id="C014V16">4:16</a> the people who sat in darkness
saw a great light,
</dt>
<dd>
to those who sat in the region and shadow of death,
</dd>
<dd>
to them light has dawned."<sup><a href="#N4018">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C014V17" id="C014V17">4:17</a> From that time, Yeshua began to
preach, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V18" id="C014V18">4:18</a> Walking by the sea of Galilee, <a
href="#N4019">he</a> saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and
Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
<a name="C014V19" id="C014V19">4:19</a> He said to them, "Come after
me, and I will make you fishers for men."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V20" id="C014V20">4:20</a> They immediately left their nets
and followed him. <a name="C014V21" id="C014V21">4:21</a> Going on from
there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He
called them. <a name="C014V22" id="C014V22">4:22</a> They immediately left
the boat and their father, and followed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C014V23" id="C014V23">4:23</a> Yeshua went about in all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and
healing every disease and every sickness among the people. <a
name="C014V24" id="C014V24">4:24</a> The report about him went out into
all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various
diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics;
and he healed them. <a name="C014V25" id="C014V25">4:25</a> Great
multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Yerushalayim, Judea and from beyond the
Jordan followed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V1" id="C015V1">5:1</a> Seeing the multitudes, he went up
onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. <a
name="C015V2" id="C015V2">5:2</a> He opened his mouth and taught them,
saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C015V3" id="C015V3">5:3</a> "Blessed are the poor in
spirit,
</dt>
<dd>
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.<sup><a href="#N4020">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V4" id="C015V4">5:4</a> Blessed are those who mourn,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall be comforted.<sup><a href="#N4021">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V5" id="C015V5">5:5</a> Blessed are the gentle,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall inherit the <a href="#N4022">earth.</a>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V6" id="C015V6">5:6</a> Blessed are those who hunger and
thirst after righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall be filled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V7" id="C015V7">5:7</a> Blessed are the merciful,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall obtain mercy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V8" id="C015V8">5:8</a> Blessed are the pure in heart,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall see Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V9" id="C015V9">5:9</a> Blessed are the peacemakers,
</dt>
<dd>
for they shall be called children of Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C015V10" id="C015V10">5:10</a> Blessed are those who have been
persecuted for righteousness' sake,
</dt>
<dd>
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C015V11" id="C015V11">5:11</a> "Blessed are you when people
reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you
falsely, for my sake. <a name="C015V12" id="C015V12">5:12</a> Rejoice, and
be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how
they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V13" id="C015V13">5:13</a> "You are the salt of the
earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted?
It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet
of men. <a name="C015V14" id="C015V14">5:14</a> You are the light of the
world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden. <a name="C015V15"
id="C015V15">5:15</a> Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a
measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the
house. <a name="C015V16" id="C015V16">5:16</a> Even so, let your light
shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father who is in heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V17" id="C015V17">5:17</a> "Don't think that I came to
destroy the Torah or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.
<a name="C015V18" id="C015V18">5:18</a> For most certainly, I tell you,
until heaven and earth pass away, not even one <a href="#N4023">smallest
letter</a> or one <a href="#N4024">tiny pen stroke</a> shall in any way
pass away from the Torah, until all things are accomplished. <a
name="C015V19" id="C015V19">5:19</a> Whoever, therefore, shall break one
of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called
least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall
be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. <a name="C015V20" id="C015V20">5:20</a>
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes
and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V21" id="C015V21">5:21</a> "You have heard that it was
said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;'<sup><a href="#N4025">*</a></sup>
and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.' <a
name="C015V22" id="C015V22">5:22</a> But I tell you, that everyone who is
angry with his brother <a href="#N4026">without a cause</a> shall be in
danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, '<a
href="#N4027">Raca</a>!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever
shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of <a href="#N4028">Gehenna.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V23" id="C015V23">5:23</a> "If therefore you are
offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has
anything against you, <a name="C015V24" id="C015V24">5:24</a> leave your
gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your
brother, and then come and offer your gift. <a name="C015V25" id="C015V25">5:25</a>
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest
perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you
to the officer, and you be cast into prison. <a name="C015V26" id="C015V26">5:26</a>
Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until
you have paid the last <a href="#N4029">penny.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V27" id="C015V27">5:27</a> "You have heard that it was
said, <sup><a href="#N4030">*</a></sup> 'You shall not commit adultery;'<sup><a
href="#N4031">*</a></sup> <a name="C015V28" id="C015V28">5:28</a> but I
tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has
committed adultery with her already in his heart. <a name="C015V29"
id="C015V29">5:29</a> If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it
out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one
of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into <a
href="#N4032">Gehenna.</a> <a name="C015V30" id="C015V30">5:30</a> If your
right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you.
For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish,
than for your whole body to be cast into <a href="#N4033">Gehenna.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V31" id="C015V31">5:31</a> "It was also said, 'Whoever
shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'<sup><a
href="#N4034">*</a></sup> <a name="C015V32" id="C015V32">5:32</a> but I
tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual
immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is
put away commits adultery.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V33" id="C015V33">5:33</a> "Again you have heard that it
was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall
perform to the Lord your vows,' <a name="C015V34" id="C015V34">5:34</a>
but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the
throne of Elohim; <a name="C015V35" id="C015V35">5:35</a> nor by the earth,
for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the city
of the great King. <a name="C015V36" id="C015V36">5:36</a> Neither shall
you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black. <a
name="C015V37" id="C015V37">5:37</a> But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your
'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V38" id="C015V38">5:38</a> "You have heard that it was
said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'<sup><a href="#N4035">*</a></sup>
<a name="C015V39" id="C015V39">5:39</a> But I tell you, don't resist him
who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the
other also. <a name="C015V40" id="C015V40">5:40</a> If anyone sues you to
take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. <a name="C015V41"
id="C015V41">5:41</a> Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
<a name="C015V42" id="C015V42">5:42</a> Give to him who asks you, and
don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C015V43" id="C015V43">5:43</a> "You have heard that it was
said, 'You shall love your neighbor,<sup><a href="#N4036">*</a></sup> and
hate your enemy.<sup><a href="#N4037">*</a></sup>' <a name="C015V44"
id="C015V44">5:44</a> But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who
curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat
you and persecute you, <a name="C015V45" id="C015V45">5:45</a> that you
may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to
rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
<a name="C015V46" id="C015V46">5:46</a> For if you love those who love
you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
<a name="C015V47" id="C015V47">5:47</a> If you only greet your friends,
what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the
same? <a name="C015V48" id="C015V48">5:48</a> Therefore you shall be
perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V1" id="C016V1">6:1</a> "Be careful that you don't do
your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no
reward from your Father who is in heaven. <a name="C016V2" id="C016V2">6:2</a>
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before
yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that
they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received
their reward. <a name="C016V3" id="C016V3">6:3</a> But when you do
merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,
<a name="C016V4" id="C016V4">6:4</a> so that your merciful deeds may be in
secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V5" id="C016V5">6:5</a> "When you pray, you shall not be
as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most
certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. <a name="C016V6"
id="C016V6">6:6</a> But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber,
and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your
Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. <a name="C016V7"
id="C016V7">6:7</a> In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the
Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much
speaking. <a name="C016V8" id="C016V8">6:8</a> Therefore don't be like
them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. <a
name="C016V9" id="C016V9">6:9</a> Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven,
may your name be kept holy. <a name="C016V10" id="C016V10">6:10</a> Let
your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. <a
name="C016V11" id="C016V11">6:11</a> Give us today our daily bread. <a
name="C016V12" id="C016V12">6:12</a> Forgive us our debts, as we also
forgive our debtors. <a name="C016V13" id="C016V13">6:13</a> Bring us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. <a href="#N4038">For
yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.</a>'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V14" id="C016V14">6:14</a> "For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. <a name="C016V15"
id="C016V15">6:15</a> But if you don't forgive men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V16" id="C016V16">6:16</a> "Moreover when you fast,
don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their
faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell
you, they have received their reward. <a name="C016V17" id="C016V17">6:17</a>
But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; <a
name="C016V18" id="C016V18">6:18</a> so that you are not seen by men to be
fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in
secret, will reward you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V19" id="C016V19">6:19</a> "Don't lay up treasures for
yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves
break through and steal; <a name="C016V20" id="C016V20">6:20</a> but lay
up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal; <a name="C016V21"
id="C016V21">6:21</a> for where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V22" id="C016V22">6:22</a> "The lamp of the body is the
eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of
light. <a name="C016V23" id="C016V23">6:23</a> But if your eye is evil,
your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V24" id="C016V24">6:24</a> "No one can serve two
masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he
will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both Elohim and
Mammon. <a name="C016V25" id="C016V25">6:25</a> Therefore, I tell you,
don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink;
nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and
the body more than clothing? <a name="C016V26" id="C016V26">6:26</a> See
the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much
more value than they?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V27" id="C016V27">6:27</a> "Which of you, by being
anxious, can add one <a href="#N4039">moment</a> to his lifespan? <a
name="C016V28" id="C016V28">6:28</a> Why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin, <a name="C016V29" id="C016V29">6:29</a> yet I tell you that
even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. <a
name="C016V30" id="C016V30">6:30</a> But if Elohim so clothes the grass of
the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't
he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C016V31" id="C016V31">6:31</a> "Therefore don't be anxious,
saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we
be clothed?' <a name="C016V32" id="C016V32">6:32</a> For the Gentiles seek
after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all
these things. <a name="C016V33" id="C016V33">6:33</a> But seek first Elohim's
Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you
as well. <a name="C016V34" id="C016V34">6:34</a> Therefore don't be
anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's
own evil is sufficient.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V1" id="C017V1">7:1</a> "Don't judge, so that you won't
be judged. <a name="C017V2" id="C017V2">7:2</a> For with whatever judgment
you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it
will be measured to you. <a name="C017V3" id="C017V3">7:3</a> Why do you
see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam
that is in your own eye? <a name="C017V4" id="C017V4">7:4</a> Or how will
you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and
behold, the beam is in your own eye? <a name="C017V5" id="C017V5">7:5</a>
You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can
see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V6" id="C017V6">7:6</a> "Don't give that which is holy
to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they
trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V7" id="C017V7">7:7</a> "Ask, and it will be given you.
Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. <a
name="C017V8" id="C017V8">7:8</a> For everyone who asks receives. He who
seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. <a name="C017V9"
id="C017V9">7:9</a> Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him
for bread, will give him a stone? <a name="C017V10" id="C017V10">7:10</a>
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? <a name="C017V11"
id="C017V11">7:11</a> If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give
good things to those who ask him! <a name="C017V12" id="C017V12">7:12</a>
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to
them; for this is the Torah and the prophets.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V13" id="C017V13">7:13</a> "Enter in by the narrow gate;
for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and
many are those who enter in by it. <a name="C017V14" id="C017V14">7:14</a>
<a href="#N4040">How</a> narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way
that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V15" id="C017V15">7:15</a> "Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. <a
name="C017V16" id="C017V16">7:16</a> By their fruits you will know them.
Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? <a name="C017V17"
id="C017V17">7:17</a> Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but
the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. <a name="C017V18" id="C017V18">7:18</a>
A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce
good fruit. <a name="C017V19" id="C017V19">7:19</a> Every tree that
doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. <a
name="C017V20" id="C017V20">7:20</a> Therefore, by their fruits you will
know them. <a name="C017V21" id="C017V21">7:21</a> Not everyone who says
to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who
does the will of my Father who is in heaven. <a name="C017V22" id="C017V22">7:22</a>
Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your
name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty
works?' <a name="C017V23" id="C017V23">7:23</a> Then I will tell them, 'I
never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V24" id="C017V24">7:24</a> "Everyone therefore who hears
these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who
built his house on a rock. <a name="C017V25" id="C017V25">7:25</a> The
rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that
house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. <a
name="C017V26" id="C017V26">7:26</a> Everyone who hears these words of
mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house
on the sand. <a name="C017V27" id="C017V27">7:27</a> The rain came down,
the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it
fell--and great was its fall."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C017V28" id="C017V28">7:28</a> It happened, when Yeshua had
finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his
teaching, <a name="C017V29" id="C017V29">7:29</a> for he taught them with
authority, and not like the scribes.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V1" id="C018V1">8:1</a> When he came down from the mountain,
great multitudes followed him. <a name="C018V2" id="C018V2">8:2</a>
Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you
want to, you can make me clean."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V3" id="C018V3">8:3</a> Yeshua stretched out his hand, and
touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his
leprosy was cleansed. <a name="C018V4" id="C018V4">8:4</a> Yeshua said to
him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest,
and offer the gift that Moshe commanded, as a testimony to them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V5" id="C018V5">8:5</a> When he came into Capernaum, a
centurion came to him, asking him, <a name="C018V6" id="C018V6">8:6</a>
and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously
tormented."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V7" id="C018V7">8:7</a> Yeshua said to him, "I will come
and heal him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V8" id="C018V8">8:8</a> The centurion answered, "Lord,
I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my
servant will be healed. <a name="C018V9" id="C018V9">8:9</a> For I am also
a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,
'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my
servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V10" id="C018V10">8:10</a> When Yeshua heard it, he marveled,
and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't
found so great a faith, not even in Yisrael. <a name="C018V11" id="C018V11">8:11</a>
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit
down with Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, <a
name="C018V12" id="C018V12">8:12</a> but the children of the Kingdom will
be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth." <a name="C018V13" id="C018V13">8:13</a> Yeshua said to the
centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed."
His servant was healed in that hour.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V14" id="C018V14">8:14</a> When Yeshua came into Peter's
house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. <a name="C018V15"
id="C018V15">8:15</a> He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got
up and served <a href="#N4041">him.</a> <a name="C018V16" id="C018V16">8:16</a>
When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast
out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick; <a
name="C018V17" id="C018V17">8:17</a> that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities,
and bore our diseases."<sup><a href="#N4042">*</a></sup> <a
name="C018V18" id="C018V18">8:18</a> Now when Yeshua saw great multitudes
around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V19" id="C018V19">8:19</a> A scribe came, and said to him,
"Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V20" id="C018V20">8:20</a> Yeshua said to him, "The foxes
have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has
nowhere to lay his head."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V21" id="C018V21">8:21</a> Another of his disciples said to
him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V22" id="C018V22">8:22</a> But Yeshua said to him, "Follow
me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V23" id="C018V23">8:23</a> When he got into a boat, his
disciples followed him. <a name="C018V24" id="C018V24">8:24</a> Behold, a
violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with
the waves, but he was asleep. <a name="C018V25" id="C018V25">8:25</a> They
came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V26" id="C018V26">8:26</a> He said to them, "Why are you
fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and
the sea, and there was a great calm.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V27" id="C018V27">8:27</a> The men marveled, saying, "What
kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V28" id="C018V28">8:28</a> When he came to the other side,
into the country of the <a href="#N4043">Gergesenes,</a> two people
possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly
fierce, so that nobody could pass that way. <a name="C018V29" id="C018V29">8:29</a>
Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you,
Yeshua, Son of Elohim? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
<a name="C018V30" id="C018V30">8:30</a> Now there was a herd of many pigs
feeding far away from them. <a name="C018V31" id="C018V31">8:31</a> The
demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away
into the herd of pigs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C018V32" id="C018V32">8:32</a> He said to them, "Go!"
</p>
<p>
They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd
of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. <a
name="C018V33" id="C018V33">8:33</a> Those who fed them fled, and went
away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those
who were possessed with demons. <a name="C018V34" id="C018V34">8:34</a>
Behold, all the city came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, they
begged that he would depart from their borders.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V1" id="C019V1">9:1</a> He entered into a boat, and crossed
over, and came into his own city. <a name="C019V2" id="C019V2">9:2</a>
Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed.
Yeshua, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up!
Your sins are forgiven you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V3" id="C019V3">9:3</a> Behold, some of the scribes said to
themselves, "This man blasphemes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V4" id="C019V4">9:4</a> Yeshua, knowing their thoughts, said,
"Why do you think evil in your hearts? <a name="C019V5" id="C019V5">9:5</a>
For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Get up,
and walk?' <a name="C019V6" id="C019V6">9:6</a> But that you may know that
the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." (then he
said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to
your house."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V7" id="C019V7">9:7</a> He arose and departed to his house.
<a name="C019V8" id="C019V8">9:8</a> But when the multitudes saw it, they
marveled and glorified Elohim, who had given such authority to men.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V9" id="C019V9">9:9</a> As Yeshua passed by from there, he saw
a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him,
"Follow me." He got up and followed him. <a name="C019V10"
id="C019V10">9:10</a> It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax
collectors and sinners came and sat down with Yeshua and his disciples. <a
name="C019V11" id="C019V11">9:11</a> When the Pharisees saw it, they said
to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and
sinners?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V12" id="C019V12">9:12</a> When Yeshua heard it, he said to
them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those
who are sick do. <a name="C019V13" id="C019V13">9:13</a> But you go and
learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'<sup><a
href="#N4044">*</a></sup> for I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners <a href="#N4045">to repentance.</a>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V14" id="C019V14">9:14</a> Then John's disciples came to him,
saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples
don't fast?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V15" id="C019V15">9:15</a> Yeshua said to them, "Can the
friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,
and then they will fast. <a name="C019V16" id="C019V16">9:16</a> No one
puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear
away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. <a name="C019V17"
id="C019V17">9:17</a> Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins,
or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins
ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are
preserved."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V18" id="C019V18">9:18</a> While he told these things to
them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter
has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V19" id="C019V19">9:19</a> Yeshua got up and followed him, as
did his disciples. <a name="C019V20" id="C019V20">9:20</a> Behold, a woman
who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched
the <a href="#N4046">fringe</a> of his garment; <a name="C019V21"
id="C019V21">9:21</a> for she said within herself, "If I just touch
his garment, I will be made well."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V22" id="C019V22">9:22</a> But Yeshua, turning around and
seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well."
And the woman was made well from that hour.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V23" id="C019V23">9:23</a> When Yeshua came into the ruler's
house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder, <a
name="C019V24" id="C019V24">9:24</a> he said to them, "Make room,
because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping."
</p>
<p>
They were ridiculing him. <a name="C019V25" id="C019V25">9:25</a> But when
the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl
arose. <a name="C019V26" id="C019V26">9:26</a> The report of this went out
into all that land. <a name="C019V27" id="C019V27">9:27</a> As Yeshua
passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying,
"Have mercy on us, son of David!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V28" id="C019V28">9:28</a> When he had come into the house,
the blind men came to him. Yeshua said to them, "Do you believe that I
am able to do this?"
</p>
<p>
They told him, "Yes, Lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V29" id="C019V29">9:29</a> Then he touched their eyes,
saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." <a
name="C019V30" id="C019V30">9:30</a> Their eyes were opened. Yeshua
strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this."
<a name="C019V31" id="C019V31">9:31</a> But they went out and spread
abroad his fame in all that land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V32" id="C019V32">9:32</a> As they went out, behold, a mute
man who was demon possessed was brought to him. <a name="C019V33"
id="C019V33">9:33</a> When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The
multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in
Yisrael!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V34" id="C019V34">9:34</a> But the Pharisees said, "By
the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C019V35" id="C019V35">9:35</a> Yeshua went about all the cities
and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good
News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among
the people. <a name="C019V36" id="C019V36">9:36</a> But when he saw the
multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were <a
href="#N4047">harassed</a> and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
<a name="C019V37" id="C019V37">9:37</a> Then he said to his disciples,
"The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. <a
name="C019V38" id="C019V38">9:38</a> Pray therefore that the Lord of the
harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V1" id="C0110V1">10:1</a> He called to himself his twelve
disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal every disease and every sickness. <a name="C0110V2"
id="C0110V2">10:2</a> Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The
first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of
Zebedee; John, his brother; <a name="C0110V3" id="C0110V3">10:3</a>
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of
Alphaeus; <a href="#N4048">Lebbaeus, whose surname was</a> Thaddaeus; <a
name="C0110V4" id="C0110V4">10:4</a> Simon the Canaanite; and Judas
Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V5" id="C0110V5">10:5</a> Yeshua sent these twelve out, and
commanded them, saying, "Don't go among the Gentiles, and don't enter
into any city of the Samaritans. <a name="C0110V6" id="C0110V6">10:6</a>
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Yisrael. <a name="C0110V7"
id="C0110V7">10:7</a> As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand!' <a name="C0110V8" id="C0110V8">10:8</a> Heal the sick, cleanse
the lepers<sup><a href="#N4049">*</a></sup>, and cast out demons. Freely
you received, so freely give. <a name="C0110V9" id="C0110V9">10:9</a>
Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. <a
name="C0110V10" id="C0110V10">10:10</a> Take no bag for your journey,
neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his
food. <a name="C0110V11" id="C0110V11">10:11</a> Into whatever city or
village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you
go on. <a name="C0110V12" id="C0110V12">10:12</a> As you enter into the
household, greet it. <a name="C0110V13" id="C0110V13">10:13</a> If the
household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy,
let your peace return to you. <a name="C0110V14" id="C0110V14">10:14</a>
Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that
house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet. <a name="C0110V15"
id="C0110V15">10:15</a> Most certainly I tell you, it will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than
for that city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V16" id="C0110V16">10:16</a> "Behold, I send you out as
sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless
as doves. <a name="C0110V17" id="C0110V17">10:17</a> But beware of men:
for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they
will scourge you. <a name="C0110V18" id="C0110V18">10:18</a> Yes, and you
will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to
them and to the nations. <a name="C0110V19" id="C0110V19">10:19</a> But
when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for
it will be given you in that hour what you will say. <a name="C0110V20"
id="C0110V20">10:20</a> For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of
your Father who speaks in you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V21" id="C0110V21">10:21</a> "Brother will deliver up
brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against
parents, and cause them to be put to death. <a name="C0110V22"
id="C0110V22">10:22</a> You will be hated by all men for my name's sake,
but he who endures to the end will be saved. <a name="C0110V23"
id="C0110V23">10:23</a> But when they persecute you in this city, flee
into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone
through the cities of Yisrael, until the Son of Man has come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V24" id="C0110V24">10:24</a> "A disciple is not above
his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. <a name="C0110V25" id="C0110V25">10:25</a>
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant
like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how
much more those of his household! <a name="C0110V26" id="C0110V26">10:26</a>
Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will
not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known. <a name="C0110V27"
id="C0110V27">10:27</a> What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the
light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
<a name="C0110V28" id="C0110V28">10:28</a> Don't be afraid of those who
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is
able to destroy both soul and body in <a href="#N4050">Gehenna.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V29" id="C0110V29">10:29</a> "Aren't two sparrows sold
for an <a href="#N4051">assarion coin</a>? Not one of them falls on the
ground apart from your Father's will, <a name="C0110V30" id="C0110V30">10:30</a>
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. <a name="C0110V31"
id="C0110V31">10:31</a> Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value
than many sparrows. <a name="C0110V32" id="C0110V32">10:32</a> Everyone
therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my
Father who is in heaven. <a name="C0110V33" id="C0110V33">10:33</a> But
whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is
in heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0110V34" id="C0110V34">10:34</a> "Don't think that I came
to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword. <a
name="C0110V35" id="C0110V35">10:35</a> For I came to set a man at odds
against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. <a name="C0110V36" id="C0110V36">10:36</a>
A man's foes will be those of his own household.<sup><a href="#N4052">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0110V37" id="C0110V37">10:37</a> He who loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more
than me isn't worthy of me. <a name="C0110V38" id="C0110V38">10:38</a> He
who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. <a
name="C0110V39" id="C0110V39">10:39</a> He who seeks his life will lose
it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. <a name="C0110V40"
id="C0110V40">10:40</a> He who receives you receives me, and he who
receives me receives him who sent me. <a name="C0110V41" id="C0110V41">10:41</a>
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a
prophet's reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a
righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. <a name="C0110V42"
id="C0110V42">10:42</a> Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup
of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell
you he will in no way lose his reward."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V1" id="C0111V1">11:1</a> It happened that when Yeshua had
finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach
and preach in their cities. <a name="C0111V2" id="C0111V2">11:2</a> Now
when John heard in the prison the works of Messiah, he sent two of his
disciples <a name="C0111V3" id="C0111V3">11:3</a> and said to him, "Are
you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V4" id="C0111V4">11:4</a> Yeshua answered them, "Go and
tell John the things which you hear and see: <a name="C0111V5" id="C0111V5">11:5</a>
the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the
deaf hear,<sup><a href="#N4053">*</a></sup> the dead are raised up, and
the poor have good news preached to them.<sup><a href="#N4054">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0111V6" id="C0111V6">11:6</a> Blessed is he who finds no
occasion for stumbling in me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V7" id="C0111V7">11:7</a> As these went their way, Yeshua
began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out
into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? <a name="C0111V8"
id="C0111V8">11:8</a> But what did you go out to see? A man in soft
clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses. <a
name="C0111V9" id="C0111V9">11:9</a> But why did you go out? To see a
prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet. <a name="C0111V10"
id="C0111V10">11:10</a> For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I
send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'<sup><a
href="#N4055">*</a></sup> <a name="C0111V11" id="C0111V11">11:11</a> Most
certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not
arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the
Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. <a name="C0111V12" id="C0111V12">11:12</a>
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven
suffers violence, and the violent <a href="#N4056">take it by force.</a>
<a name="C0111V13" id="C0111V13">11:13</a> For all the prophets and the
Torah prophesied until John. <a name="C0111V14" id="C0111V14">11:14</a> If
you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. <a
name="C0111V15" id="C0111V15">11:15</a> He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V16" id="C0111V16">11:16</a> "But to what shall I
compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces,
who call to their companions <a name="C0111V17" id="C0111V17">11:17</a>
and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned
for you, and you didn't lament.' <a name="C0111V18" id="C0111V18">11:18</a>
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
<a name="C0111V19" id="C0111V19">11:19</a> The Son of Man came eating and
drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend
of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her <a
href="#N4057">children.</a>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V20" id="C0111V20">11:20</a> Then he began to denounce the
cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they
didn't repent. <a name="C0111V21" id="C0111V21">11:21</a> "Woe to
you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been
done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes. <a name="C0111V22" id="C0111V22">11:22</a>
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of
judgment than for you. <a name="C0111V23" id="C0111V23">11:23</a> You,
Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to <a href="#N4058">Hades.</a>
For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it
would have remained until this day. <a name="C0111V24" id="C0111V24">11:24</a>
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on
the day of judgment, than for you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V25" id="C0111V25">11:25</a> At that time, Yeshua answered,
"I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these
things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. <a
name="C0111V26" id="C0111V26">11:26</a> Yes, Father, for so it was
well-pleasing in your sight. <a name="C0111V27" id="C0111V27">11:27</a>
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son,
except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son,
and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0111V28" id="C0111V28">11:28</a> "Come to me, all you who
labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. <a
name="C0111V29" id="C0111V29">11:29</a> Take my yoke upon you, and learn
from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for
your souls. <a name="C0111V30" id="C0111V30">11:30</a> For my yoke is
easy, and my burden is light."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V1" id="C0112V1">12:1</a> At that time, Yeshua went on the
Shabbat day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began
to pluck heads of grain and to eat. <a name="C0112V2" id="C0112V2">12:2</a>
But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your
disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V3" id="C0112V3">12:3</a> But he said to them, "Haven't
you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;
<a name="C0112V4" id="C0112V4">12:4</a> how he entered into the house of
Elohim, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither
for those who were with him, but only for the priests?<sup><a href="#N4059">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0112V5" id="C0112V5">12:5</a> Or have you not read in the Torah,
that on the Shabbat day, the priests in the temple profane the Shabbat,
and are guiltless? <a name="C0112V6" id="C0112V6">12:6</a> But I tell you
that one greater than the temple is here. <a name="C0112V7" id="C0112V7">12:7</a>
But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'<sup><a
href="#N4060">*</a></sup> you would not have condemned the guiltless. <a
name="C0112V8" id="C0112V8">12:8</a> For the Son of Man is Lord of the
Shabbat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V9" id="C0112V9">12:9</a> He departed there, and went into
their synagogue. <a name="C0112V10" id="C0112V10">12:10</a> And behold
there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful
to heal on the Shabbat day?" that they might accuse him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V11" id="C0112V11">12:11</a> He said to them, "What man
is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on
the Shabbat day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out? <a
name="C0112V12" id="C0112V12">12:12</a> Of how much more value then is a
man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Shabbat day."
<a name="C0112V13" id="C0112V13">12:13</a> Then he told the man, "Stretch
out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just
like the other. <a name="C0112V14" id="C0112V14">12:14</a> But the
Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
<a name="C0112V15" id="C0112V15">12:15</a> Yeshua, perceiving that,
withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them
all, <a name="C0112V16" id="C0112V16">12:16</a> and commanded them that
they should not make him known: <a name="C0112V17" id="C0112V17">12:17</a>
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet,
saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0112V18" id="C0112V18">12:18</a> "Behold, my servant whom
I have chosen;
</dt>
<dd>
my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased:
</dd>
<dt>
I will put my Spirit on him.
</dt>
<dd>
He will proclaim justice to the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0112V19" id="C0112V19">12:19</a> He will not strive, nor
shout;
</dt>
<dd>
neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0112V20" id="C0112V20">12:20</a> He won't break a bruised
reed.
</dt>
<dd>
He won't quench a smoking flax,
</dd>
<dt>
until he leads justice to victory.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C0112V21" id="C0112V21">12:21</a> In his name, the nations will
hope."<sup><a href="#N4061">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0112V22" id="C0112V22">12:22</a> Then one possessed by a demon,
blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind
and mute man both spoke and saw. <a name="C0112V23" id="C0112V23">12:23</a>
All the multitudes were amazed, and said, "Can this be the son of
David?" <a name="C0112V24" id="C0112V24">12:24</a> But when the
Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons,
except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V25" id="C0112V25">12:25</a> Knowing their thoughts, Yeshua
said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
<a name="C0112V26" id="C0112V26">12:26</a> If Satan casts out Satan, he is
divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? <a
name="C0112V27" id="C0112V27">12:27</a> If I by Beelzebul cast out demons,
by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your
judges. <a name="C0112V28" id="C0112V28">12:28</a> But if I by the Spirit
of Elohim cast out demons, then the Kingdom of Elohim has come upon you. <a
name="C0112V29" id="C0112V29">12:29</a> Or how can one enter into the
house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the
strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V30" id="C0112V30">12:30</a> "He who is not with me is
against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters. <a name="C0112V31"
id="C0112V31">12:31</a> Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will
be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven
men. <a name="C0112V32" id="C0112V32">12:32</a> Whoever speaks a word
against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks
against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age,
nor in that which is to come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V33" id="C0112V33">12:33</a> "Either make the tree
good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt;
for the tree is known by its fruit. <a name="C0112V34" id="C0112V34">12:34</a>
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. <a name="C0112V35"
id="C0112V35">12:35</a> The good man out of his good treasure brings out
good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure<sup><a href="#N4062">*</a></sup>
brings out evil things. <a name="C0112V36" id="C0112V36">12:36</a> I tell
you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in
the day of judgment. <a name="C0112V37" id="C0112V37">12:37</a> For by
your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V38" id="C0112V38">12:38</a> Then certain of the scribes and
Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V39" id="C0112V39">12:39</a> But he answered them, "An
evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be
given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. <a name="C0112V40"
id="C0112V40">12:40</a> For as Jonah was three days and three nights in
the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. <a name="C0112V41" id="C0112V41">12:41</a>
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and
will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold,
someone greater than Jonah is here. <a name="C0112V42" id="C0112V42">12:42</a>
The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation,
and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here. <a
name="C0112V43" id="C0112V43">12:43</a> But the unclean spirit, when he is
gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and
doesn't find it. <a name="C0112V44" id="C0112V44">12:44</a> Then he says,
'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come
back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. <a name="C0112V45"
id="C0112V45">12:45</a> Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other
spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last
state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to
this evil generation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V46" id="C0112V46">12:46</a> While he was yet speaking to
the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking
to speak to him. <a name="C0112V47" id="C0112V47">12:47</a> One said to
him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to
speak to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0112V48" id="C0112V48">12:48</a> But he answered him who spoke
to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" <a
name="C0112V49" id="C0112V49">12:49</a> He stretched out his hand towards
his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! <a
name="C0112V50" id="C0112V50">12:50</a> For whoever does the will of my
Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V1" id="C0113V1">13:1</a> On that day Yeshua went out of the
house, and sat by the seaside. <a name="C0113V2" id="C0113V2">13:2</a>
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat,
and all the multitude stood on the beach. <a name="C0113V3" id="C0113V3">13:3</a>
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer
went out to sow. <a name="C0113V4" id="C0113V4">13:4</a> As he sowed, some
seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. <a
name="C0113V5" id="C0113V5">13:5</a> Others fell on rocky ground, where
they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they
had no depth of earth. <a name="C0113V6" id="C0113V6">13:6</a> When the
sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered
away. <a name="C0113V7" id="C0113V7">13:7</a> Others fell among thorns.
The thorns grew up and choked them: <a name="C0113V8" id="C0113V8">13:8</a>
and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as
much, some sixty, and some thirty. <a name="C0113V9" id="C0113V9">13:9</a>
He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V10" id="C0113V10">13:10</a> The disciples came, and said to
him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V11" id="C0113V11">13:11</a> He answered them, "To you
it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not
given to them. <a name="C0113V12" id="C0113V12">13:12</a> For whoever has,
to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't
have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. <a
name="C0113V13" id="C0113V13">13:13</a> Therefore I speak to them in
parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear,
neither do they understand. <a name="C0113V14" id="C0113V14">13:14</a> In
them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'By hearing you will hear,
</dt>
<dd>
and will in no way understand;
</dd>
<dt>
Seeing you will see,
</dt>
<dd>
and will in no way perceive:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0113V15" id="C0113V15">13:15</a> for this people's heart has
grown callous,
</dt>
<dd>
their ears are dull of hearing,
</dd>
<dd>
they have closed their eyes;
</dd>
<dt>
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
hear with their ears,
</dd>
<dd>
understand with their heart,
</dd>
<dt>
and should turn again;
</dt>
<dd>
and I would heal them.'<sup><a href="#N4063">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0113V16" id="C0113V16">13:16</a> "But blessed are your
eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. <a name="C0113V17"
id="C0113V17">13:17</a> For most certainly I tell you that many prophets
and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see
them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V18" id="C0113V18">13:18</a> "Hear, then, the parable
of the farmer. <a name="C0113V19" id="C0113V19">13:19</a> When anyone
hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one
comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is
what was sown by the roadside. <a name="C0113V20" id="C0113V20">13:20</a>
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and
immediately with joy receives it; <a name="C0113V21" id="C0113V21">13:21</a>
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or
persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. <a
name="C0113V22" id="C0113V22">13:22</a> What was sown among the thorns,
this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the
deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. <a
name="C0113V23" id="C0113V23">13:23</a> What was sown on the good ground,
this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly
bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty,
and some thirty."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V24" id="C0113V24">13:24</a> He set another parable before
them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good
seed in his field, <a name="C0113V25" id="C0113V25">13:25</a> but while
people slept, his enemy came and sowed <a href="#N4064">darnel weeds</a>
also among the wheat, and went away. <a name="C0113V26" id="C0113V26">13:26</a>
But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel
weeds appeared also. <a name="C0113V27" id="C0113V27">13:27</a> The
servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow
good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V28" id="C0113V28">13:28</a> "He said to them, 'An
enemy has done this.'
</p>
<p>
"The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V29" id="C0113V29">13:29</a> "But he said, 'No, lest
perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with
them. <a name="C0113V30" id="C0113V30">13:30</a> Let both grow together
until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First,
gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but
gather the wheat into my barn."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V31" id="C0113V31">13:31</a> He set another parable before
them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and sowed in his field; <a name="C0113V32" id="C0113V32">13:32</a>
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is
greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air
come and lodge in its branches."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V33" id="C0113V33">13:33</a> He spoke another parable to
them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and
hid in three <a href="#N4065">measures</a> of meal, until it was all
leavened."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V34" id="C0113V34">13:34</a> Yeshua spoke all these things in
parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to
them, <a name="C0113V35" id="C0113V35">13:35</a> that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will open my mouth in parables;
</dt>
<dd>
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."<sup><a
href="#N4066">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0113V36" id="C0113V36">13:36</a> Then Yeshua sent the multitudes
away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain
to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V37" id="C0113V37">13:37</a> He answered them, "He who
sows the good seed is the Son of Man, <a name="C0113V38" id="C0113V38">13:38</a>
the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the
Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one. <a
name="C0113V39" id="C0113V39">13:39</a> The enemy who sowed them is the
devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. <a
name="C0113V40" id="C0113V40">13:40</a> As therefore the darnel weeds are
gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age. <a
name="C0113V41" id="C0113V41">13:41</a> The Son of Man will send out his
angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause
stumbling, and those who do iniquity, <a name="C0113V42" id="C0113V42">13:42</a>
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the
gnashing of teeth. <a name="C0113V43" id="C0113V43">13:43</a> Then the
righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He
who has ears to hear, let him hear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V44" id="C0113V44">13:44</a> "Again, the Kingdom of
Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid.
In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V45" id="C0113V45">13:45</a> "Again, the Kingdom of
Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, <a
name="C0113V46" id="C0113V46">13:46</a> who having found one pearl of
great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V47" id="C0113V47">13:47</a> "Again, the Kingdom of
Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some
fish of every kind, <a name="C0113V48" id="C0113V48">13:48</a> which, when
it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the
good into containers, but the bad they threw away. <a name="C0113V49"
id="C0113V49">13:49</a> So will it be in the end of the world. The angels
will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, <a
name="C0113V50" id="C0113V50">13:50</a> and will cast them into the
furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
<a name="C0113V51" id="C0113V51">13:51</a> Yeshua said to them, "Have
you understood all these things?"
</p>
<p>
They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V52" id="C0113V52">13:52</a> He said to them, "Therefore,
every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like
a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old
things."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0113V53" id="C0113V53">13:53</a> It happened that when Yeshua had
finished these parables, he departed from there. <a name="C0113V54"
id="C0113V54">13:54</a> Coming into his own country, he taught them in
their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did
this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works? <a name="C0113V55"
id="C0113V55">13:55</a> Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother
called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and <a href="#N4067">Judas</a>?
<a name="C0113V56" id="C0113V56">13:56</a> Aren't all of his sisters with
us? Where then did this man get all of these things?" <a
name="C0113V57" id="C0113V57">13:57</a> They were offended by him.
</p>
<p>
But Yeshua said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in
his own country, and in his own house." <a name="C0113V58"
id="C0113V58">13:58</a> He didn't do many mighty works there because of
their unbelief.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V1" id="C0114V1">14:1</a> At that time, Herod the tetrarch
heard the report concerning Yeshua, <a name="C0114V2" id="C0114V2">14:2</a>
and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen
from the dead. That is why these powers work in him." <a
name="C0114V3" id="C0114V3">14:3</a> For Herod had laid hold of John, and
bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother
Philip's wife. <a name="C0114V4" id="C0114V4">14:4</a> For John said to
him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." <a name="C0114V5"
id="C0114V5">14:5</a> When he would have put him to death, he feared the
multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. <a name="C0114V6"
id="C0114V6">14:6</a> But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of
Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod. <a name="C0114V7"
id="C0114V7">14:7</a> Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her
whatever she should ask. <a name="C0114V8" id="C0114V8">14:8</a> She,
being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the
head of John the Baptizer."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V9" id="C0114V9">14:9</a> The king was grieved, but for the
sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he
commanded it to be given, <a name="C0114V10" id="C0114V10">14:10</a> and
he sent and beheaded John in the prison. <a name="C0114V11" id="C0114V11">14:11</a>
His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she
brought it to her mother. <a name="C0114V12" id="C0114V12">14:12</a> His
disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told
Yeshua. <a name="C0114V13" id="C0114V13">14:13</a> Now when Yeshua heard
this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When
the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V14" id="C0114V14">14:14</a> Yeshua went out, and he saw a
great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick. <a
name="C0114V15" id="C0114V15">14:15</a> When evening had come, his
disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour
is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the
villages, and buy themselves food."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V16" id="C0114V16">14:16</a> But Yeshua said to them, "They
don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V17" id="C0114V17">14:17</a> They told him, "We only
have here five loaves and two fish."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V18" id="C0114V18">14:18</a> He said, "Bring them here
to me." <a name="C0114V19" id="C0114V19">14:19</a> He commanded the
multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the
two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves
to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes. <a
name="C0114V20" id="C0114V20">14:20</a> They all ate, and were filled.
They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the
broken pieces. <a name="C0114V21" id="C0114V21">14:21</a> Those who ate
were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V22" id="C0114V22">14:22</a> Immediately Yeshua made the
disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side,
while he sent the multitudes away. <a name="C0114V23" id="C0114V23">14:23</a>
After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by
himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone. <a
name="C0114V24" id="C0114V24">14:24</a> But the boat was now in the middle
of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. <a
name="C0114V25" id="C0114V25">14:25</a> In <a href="#N4068">the fourth
watch of the night,</a> Yeshua came to them, walking on the sea.<sup><a
href="#N4069">*</a></sup> <a name="C0114V26" id="C0114V26">14:26</a> When
the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying,
"It's a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. <a name="C0114V27"
id="C0114V27">14:27</a> But immediately Yeshua spoke to them, saying "Cheer
up! <a href="#N4070">It is I!</a> Don't be afraid."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V28" id="C0114V28">14:28</a> Peter answered him and said,
"Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V29" id="C0114V29">14:29</a> He said, "Come!"
</p>
<p>
Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to
Yeshua. <a name="C0114V30" id="C0114V30">14:30</a> But when he saw that the
wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out,
saying, "Lord, save me!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V31" id="C0114V31">14:31</a> Immediately Yeshua stretched out
his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith,
why did you doubt?" <a name="C0114V32" id="C0114V32">14:32</a> When
they got up into the boat, the wind ceased. <a name="C0114V33"
id="C0114V33">14:33</a> Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him,
saying, "You are truly the Son of Elohim!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0114V34" id="C0114V34">14:34</a> When they had crossed over,
they came to the land of Gennesaret. <a name="C0114V35" id="C0114V35">14:35</a>
When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that
surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick, <a
name="C0114V36" id="C0114V36">14:36</a> and they begged him that they
might just touch the <a href="#N4071">fringe</a> of his garment. As many
as touched it were made whole.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V1" id="C0115V1">15:1</a> Then Pharisees and scribes came to
Yeshua from Yerushalayim, saying, <a name="C0115V2" id="C0115V2">15:2</a>
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they
don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V3" id="C0115V3">15:3</a> He answered them, "Why do you
also disobey the commandment of Elohim because of your tradition? <a
name="C0115V4" id="C0115V4">15:4</a> For Elohim commanded, 'Honor your father
and your mother,'<sup><a href="#N4072">*</a></sup> and, 'He who speaks
evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'<sup><a href="#N4073">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0115V5" id="C0115V5">15:5</a> But you say, 'Whoever may tell his
father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten
from me is a gift devoted to Elohim," <a name="C0115V6" id="C0115V6">15:6</a>
he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of
Elohim void because of your tradition. <a name="C0115V7" id="C0115V7">15:7</a>
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0115V8" id="C0115V8">15:8</a> 'These people draw near to me
with their mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and honor me with their lips;
</dd>
<dd>
but their heart is far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0115V9" id="C0115V9">15:9</a> And in vain do they worship me,
</dt>
<dd>
teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"<sup><a href="#N4074">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0115V10" id="C0115V10">15:10</a> He summoned the multitude, and
said to them, "Hear, and understand. <a name="C0115V11" id="C0115V11">15:11</a>
That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which
proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V12" id="C0115V12">15:12</a> Then the disciples came, and
said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they
heard this saying?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V13" id="C0115V13">15:13</a> But he answered, "Every
plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted. <a
name="C0115V14" id="C0115V14">15:14</a> Leave them alone. They are blind
guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a
pit."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V15" id="C0115V15">15:15</a> Peter answered him, "Explain
the parable to us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V16" id="C0115V16">15:16</a> So Yeshua said, "Do you
also still not understand? <a name="C0115V17" id="C0115V17">15:17</a>
Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the
belly, and then out of the body? <a name="C0115V18" id="C0115V18">15:18</a>
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and
they defile the man. <a name="C0115V19" id="C0115V19">15:19</a> For out of
the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins,
thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. <a name="C0115V20" id="C0115V20">15:20</a>
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands
doesn't defile the man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V21" id="C0115V21">15:21</a> Yeshua went out from there, and
withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. <a name="C0115V22"
id="C0115V22">15:22</a> Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those
borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of
David! My daughter is severely demonized!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V23" id="C0115V23">15:23</a> But he answered her not a word.
</p>
<p>
His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she
cries after us."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V24" id="C0115V24">15:24</a> But he answered, "I wasn't
sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Yisrael."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V25" id="C0115V25">15:25</a> But she came and worshiped him,
saying, "Lord, help me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V26" id="C0115V26">15:26</a> But he answered, "It is
not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V27" id="C0115V27">15:27</a> But she said, "Yes, Lord,
but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V28" id="C0115V28">15:28</a> Then Yeshua answered her, "Woman,
great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her
daughter was healed from that hour.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V29" id="C0115V29">15:29</a> Yeshua departed there, and came
near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat
there. <a name="C0115V30" id="C0115V30">15:30</a> Great multitudes came to
him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and
they put them down at his feet. He healed them, <a name="C0115V31"
id="C0115V31">15:31</a> so that the multitude wondered when they saw the
mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they
glorified the Elohim of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V32" id="C0115V32">15:32</a> Yeshua summoned his disciples
and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue
with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them
away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V33" id="C0115V33">15:33</a> The disciples said to him,
"Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy
so great a multitude?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V34" id="C0115V34">15:34</a> Yeshua said to them, "How
many loaves do you have?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0115V35" id="C0115V35">15:35</a> He commanded the multitude to
sit down on the ground; <a name="C0115V36" id="C0115V36">15:36</a> and he
took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and
gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. <a
name="C0115V37" id="C0115V37">15:37</a> They all ate, and were filled.
They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
<a name="C0115V38" id="C0115V38">15:38</a> Those who ate were four
thousand men, besides women and children. <a name="C0115V39" id="C0115V39">15:39</a>
Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the
borders of Magdala.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V1" id="C0116V1">16:1</a> The Pharisees and Sadducees came,
and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. <a
name="C0116V2" id="C0116V2">16:2</a> But he answered them, "When it
is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' <a
name="C0116V3" id="C0116V3">16:3</a> In the morning, 'It will be foul
weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know
how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs
of the times! <a name="C0116V4" id="C0116V4">16:4</a> An evil and
adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given
to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah."
</p>
<p>
He left them, and departed. <a name="C0116V5" id="C0116V5">16:5</a> The
disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. <a
name="C0116V6" id="C0116V6">16:6</a> Yeshua said to them, "Take heed
and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V7" id="C0116V7">16:7</a> They reasoned among themselves,
saying, "We brought no bread."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V8" id="C0116V8">16:8</a> Yeshua, perceiving it, said, "Why
do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have
brought no bread?' <a name="C0116V9" id="C0116V9">16:9</a> Don't you yet
perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how
many baskets you took up? <a name="C0116V10" id="C0116V10">16:10</a> Nor
the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
<a name="C0116V11" id="C0116V11">16:11</a> How is it that you don't
perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the
yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V12" id="C0116V12">16:12</a> Then they understood that he
didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of
the Pharisees and Sadducees. <a name="C0116V13" id="C0116V13">16:13</a>
Now when Yeshua came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V14" id="C0116V14">16:14</a> They said, "Some say John
the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V15" id="C0116V15">16:15</a> He said to them, "But who
do you say that I am?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V16" id="C0116V16">16:16</a> Simon Peter answered, "You
are the Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V17" id="C0116V17">16:17</a> Yeshua answered him, "Blessed
are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to
you, but my Father who is in heaven. <a name="C0116V18" id="C0116V18">16:18</a>
I also tell you that you are <a href="#N4075">Peter,</a> and on this <a
href="#N4076">rock</a> I will build my assembly, and the gates of <a
href="#N4077">Hades</a> will not prevail against it. <a name="C0116V19"
id="C0116V19">16:19</a> I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and
whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven." <a
name="C0116V20" id="C0116V20">16:20</a> Then he commanded the disciples
that they should tell no one that he is Yeshua the Messiah. <a
name="C0116V21" id="C0116V21">16:21</a> From that time, Yeshua began to
show his disciples that he must go to Yerushalayim and suffer many things
from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third
day be raised up.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V22" id="C0116V22">16:22</a> Peter took him aside, and began
to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be
done to you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0116V23" id="C0116V23">16:23</a> But he turned, and said to
Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for
you are not setting your mind on the things of Elohim, but on the things of
men." <a name="C0116V24" id="C0116V24">16:24</a> Then Yeshua said to
his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. <a name="C0116V25"
id="C0116V25">16:25</a> For whoever desires to save his life will lose it,
and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. <a name="C0116V26"
id="C0116V26">16:26</a> For what will it profit a man, if he gains the
whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange
for his life? <a name="C0116V27" id="C0116V27">16:27</a> For the Son of
Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will
render to everyone according to his deeds. <a name="C0116V28" id="C0116V28">16:28</a>
Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way
taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V1" id="C0117V1">17:1</a> After six days, Yeshua took with
him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high
mountain by themselves. <a name="C0117V2" id="C0117V2">17:2</a> He was
transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments
became as white as the light. <a name="C0117V3" id="C0117V3">17:3</a>
Behold, Moshe and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V4" id="C0117V4">17:4</a> Peter answered, and said to Yeshua,
"Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three
tents here: one for you, one for Moshe, and one for Elijah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V5" id="C0117V5">17:5</a> While he was still speaking,
behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the
cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Listen to him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V6" id="C0117V6">17:6</a> When the disciples heard it, they
fell on their faces, and were very afraid. <a name="C0117V7" id="C0117V7">17:7</a>
Yeshua came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don't be afraid."
<a name="C0117V8" id="C0117V8">17:8</a> Lifting up their eyes, they saw no
one, except Yeshua alone. <a name="C0117V9" id="C0117V9">17:9</a> As they
were coming down from the mountain, Yeshua commanded them, saying, "Don't
tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V10" id="C0117V10">17:10</a> His disciples asked him,
saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V11" id="C0117V11">17:11</a> Yeshua answered them, "Elijah
indeed comes first, and will restore all things, <a name="C0117V12"
id="C0117V12">17:12</a> but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and
they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so
the Son of Man will also suffer by them." <a name="C0117V13"
id="C0117V13">17:13</a> Then the disciples understood that he spoke to
them of John the Baptizer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V14" id="C0117V14">17:14</a> When they came to the
multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying, <a
name="C0117V15" id="C0117V15">17:15</a> "Lord, have mercy on my son,
for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the
fire, and often into the water. <a name="C0117V16" id="C0117V16">17:16</a>
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V17" id="C0117V17">17:17</a> Yeshua answered, "Faithless
and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear
with you? Bring him here to me." <a name="C0117V18" id="C0117V18">17:18</a>
Yeshua rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from
that hour.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V19" id="C0117V19">17:19</a> Then the disciples came to
Yeshua privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V20" id="C0117V20">17:20</a> He said to them, "Because
of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a
grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to
there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. <a
name="C0117V21" id="C0117V21">17:21</a> But this kind doesn't go out
except by prayer and fasting."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V22" id="C0117V22">17:22</a> While they were staying in
Galilee, Yeshua said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered
up into the hands of men, <a name="C0117V23" id="C0117V23">17:23</a> and
they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."
</p>
<p>
They were exceedingly sorry. <a name="C0117V24" id="C0117V24">17:24</a>
When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the <a href="#N4078">didrachma
coins</a> came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the
didrachma?" <a name="C0117V25" id="C0117V25">17:25</a> He said,
"Yes."
</p>
<p>
When he came into the house, Yeshua anticipated him, saying, "What do
you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or
tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0117V26" id="C0117V26">17:26</a> Peter said to him, "From
strangers."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt. <a
name="C0117V27" id="C0117V27">17:27</a> But, lest we cause them to
stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes
up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a <a href="#N4079">stater
coin.</a> Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V1" id="C0118V1">18:1</a> In that hour the disciples came to
Yeshua, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V2" id="C0118V2">18:2</a> Yeshua called a little child to
himself, and set him in the midst of them, <a name="C0118V3" id="C0118V3">18:3</a>
and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as
little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. <a
name="C0118V4" id="C0118V4">18:4</a> Whoever therefore humbles himself as
this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. <a
name="C0118V5" id="C0118V5">18:5</a> Whoever receives one such little
child in my name receives me, <a name="C0118V6" id="C0118V6">18:6</a> but
whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it
would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his
neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V7" id="C0118V7">18:7</a> "Woe to the world because of
occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to
that person through whom the occasion comes! <a name="C0118V8" id="C0118V8">18:8</a>
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it
from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled,
rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
<a name="C0118V9" id="C0118V9">18:9</a> If your eye causes you to stumble,
pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into
life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the <a
href="#N4080">Gehenna</a> of fire. <a name="C0118V10" id="C0118V10">18:10</a>
See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that
in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
<a name="C0118V11" id="C0118V11">18:11</a> For the Son of Man came to save
that which was lost.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V12" id="C0118V12">18:12</a> "What do you think? If a
man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave
the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
<a name="C0118V13" id="C0118V13">18:13</a> If he finds it, most certainly
I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have
not gone astray. <a name="C0118V14" id="C0118V14">18:14</a> Even so it is
not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones
should perish.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V15" id="C0118V15">18:15</a> "If your brother sins
against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he
listens to you, you have gained back your brother. <a name="C0118V16"
id="C0118V16">18:16</a> But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more
with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established.<sup><a href="#N4081">*</a></sup> <a name="C0118V17"
id="C0118V17">18:17</a> If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the
assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a
Gentile or a tax collector. <a name="C0118V18" id="C0118V18">18:18</a>
Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have
been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have
been released in heaven. <a name="C0118V19" id="C0118V19">18:19</a> Again,
assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning
anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is
in heaven. <a name="C0118V20" id="C0118V20">18:20</a> For where two or
three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V21" id="C0118V21">18:21</a> Then Peter came and said to
him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive
him? Until seven times?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V22" id="C0118V22">18:22</a> Yeshua said to him, "I
don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. <a
name="C0118V23" id="C0118V23">18:23</a> Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
<a name="C0118V24" id="C0118V24">18:24</a> When he had begun to reconcile,
one was brought to him who owed him <a href="#N4082">ten thousand talents.</a>
<a name="C0118V25" id="C0118V25">18:25</a> But because he couldn't pay,
his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all
that he had, and payment to be made. <a name="C0118V26" id="C0118V26">18:26</a>
The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord,
have patience with me, and I will repay you all!' <a name="C0118V27"
id="C0118V27">18:27</a> The lord of that servant, being moved with
compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V28" id="C0118V28">18:28</a> "But that servant went
out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him <a href="#N4083">one
hundred denarii,</a> and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat,
saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0118V29" id="C0118V29">18:29</a> "So his fellow servant
fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and
I will repay you!' <a name="C0118V30" id="C0118V30">18:30</a> He would
not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that
which was due. <a name="C0118V31" id="C0118V31">18:31</a> So when his
fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came
and told to their lord all that was done. <a name="C0118V32" id="C0118V32">18:32</a>
Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I
forgave you all that debt, because you begged me. <a name="C0118V33"
id="C0118V33">18:33</a> Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow
servant, even as I had mercy on you?' <a name="C0118V34" id="C0118V34">18:34</a>
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should
pay all that was due to him. <a name="C0118V35" id="C0118V35">18:35</a> So
my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your
brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V1" id="C0119V1">19:1</a> It happened when Yeshua had
finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders
of Judea beyond the Jordan. <a name="C0119V2" id="C0119V2">19:2</a> Great
multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. <a name="C0119V3"
id="C0119V3">19:3</a> Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying,
"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V4" id="C0119V4">19:4</a> He answered, "Haven't you
read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,<sup><a
href="#N4084">*</a></sup> <a name="C0119V5" id="C0119V5">19:5</a> and
said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall
join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'<sup><a href="#N4085">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0119V6" id="C0119V6">19:6</a> So that they are no more two, but
one flesh. What therefore Elohim has joined together, don't let man tear
apart."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V7" id="C0119V7">19:7</a> They asked him, "Why then did
Moshe command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V8" id="C0119V8">19:8</a> He said to them, "Moshe,
because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it has not been so. <a name="C0119V9" id="C0119V9">19:9</a>
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,
and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is
divorced commits adultery."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V10" id="C0119V10">19:10</a> His disciples said to him,
"If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to
marry."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V11" id="C0119V11">19:11</a> But he said to them, "Not
all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. <a
name="C0119V12" id="C0119V12">19:12</a> For there are eunuchs who were
born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were
made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for
the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him
receive it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V13" id="C0119V13">19:13</a> Then little children were
brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the
disciples rebuked them. <a name="C0119V14" id="C0119V14">19:14</a> But
Yeshua said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come
to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these." <a
name="C0119V15" id="C0119V15">19:15</a> He laid his hands on them, and
departed from there.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V16" id="C0119V16">19:16</a> Behold, one came to him and
said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have
eternal life?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V17" id="C0119V17">19:17</a> He said to him, "Why do
you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, Elohim. But if you want to
enter into life, keep the commandments."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V18" id="C0119V18">19:18</a> He said to him, "Which
ones?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.'
'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.' <a
name="C0119V19" id="C0119V19">19:19</a> 'Honor your father and mother.'<sup><a
href="#N4086">*</a></sup> And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"<sup><a
href="#N4087">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V20" id="C0119V20">19:20</a> The young man said to him,
"All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still
lack?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V21" id="C0119V21">19:21</a> Yeshua said to him, "If you
want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." <a name="C0119V22"
id="C0119V22">19:22</a> But when the young man heard the saying, he went
away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. <a name="C0119V23"
id="C0119V23">19:23</a> Yeshua said to his disciples, "Most certainly
I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with
difficulty. <a name="C0119V24" id="C0119V24">19:24</a> Again I tell you,
it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man
to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V25" id="C0119V25">19:25</a> When the disciples heard it,
they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V26" id="C0119V26">19:26</a> Looking at them, Yeshua said,
"With men this is impossible, but with Elohim all things are possible."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V27" id="C0119V27">19:27</a> Then Peter answered, "Behold,
we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0119V28" id="C0119V28">19:28</a> Yeshua said to them, "Most
certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration
when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit
on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisrael. <a name="C0119V29"
id="C0119V29">19:29</a> Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal
life. <a name="C0119V30" id="C0119V30">19:30</a> But many will be last who
are first; and first who are last.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V1" id="C0120V1">20:1</a> "For the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the
morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. <a name="C0120V2" id="C0120V2">20:2</a>
When he had agreed with the laborers for a <a href="#N4088">denarius</a> a
day, he sent them into his vineyard. <a name="C0120V3" id="C0120V3">20:3</a>
He went out about the <a href="#N4089">third hour,</a> and saw others
standing idle in the marketplace. <a name="C0120V4" id="C0120V4">20:4</a>
To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I
will give you.' So they went their way. <a name="C0120V5" id="C0120V5">20:5</a>
Again he went out about the <a href="#N4090">sixth and the ninth hour,</a>
and did likewise. <a name="C0120V6" id="C0120V6">20:6</a> About the <a
href="#N4091">eleventh hour</a> he went out, and found others standing
idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V7" id="C0120V7">20:7</a> "They said to him, 'Because
no one has hired us.'
</p>
<p>
"He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will
receive whatever is right.' <a name="C0120V8" id="C0120V8">20:8</a> When
evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the
laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V9" id="C0120V9">20:9</a> "When those who were hired at
about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. <a
name="C0120V10" id="C0120V10">20:10</a> When the first came, they supposed
that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
<a name="C0120V11" id="C0120V11">20:11</a> When they received it, they
murmured against the master of the household, <a name="C0120V12"
id="C0120V12">20:12</a> saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you
have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the
scorching heat!'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V13" id="C0120V13">20:13</a> "But he answered one of
them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a
denarius? <a name="C0120V14" id="C0120V14">20:14</a> Take that which is
yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much
as to you. <a name="C0120V15" id="C0120V15">20:15</a> Isn't it lawful for
me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am
good?' <a name="C0120V16" id="C0120V16">20:16</a> So the last will be
first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V17" id="C0120V17">20:17</a> As Yeshua was going up to
Yerushalayim, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to
them, <a name="C0120V18" id="C0120V18">20:18</a> "Behold, we are
going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief
priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, <a name="C0120V19"
id="C0120V19">20:19</a> and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to
scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V20" id="C0120V20">20:20</a> Then the mother of the sons of
Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of
him. <a name="C0120V21" id="C0120V21">20:21</a> He said to her, "What
do you want?"
</p>
<p>
She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on
your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V22" id="C0120V22">20:22</a> But Yeshua answered, "You
don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am
about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "We are able."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V23" id="C0120V23">20:23</a> He said to them, "You will
indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized
with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give;
but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V24" id="C0120V24">20:24</a> When the ten heard it, they
were indignant with the two brothers.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V25" id="C0120V25">20:25</a> But Yeshua summoned them, and
said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and
their great ones exercise authority over them. <a name="C0120V26"
id="C0120V26">20:26</a> It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires
to become great among you <a href="#N4092">shall be</a> your servant. <a
name="C0120V27" id="C0120V27">20:27</a> Whoever desires to be first among
you shall be your bondservant, <a name="C0120V28" id="C0120V28">20:28</a>
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V29" id="C0120V29">20:29</a> As they went out from Jericho,
a great multitude followed him. <a name="C0120V30" id="C0120V30">20:30</a>
Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Yeshua was
passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"
<a name="C0120V31" id="C0120V31">20:31</a> The multitude rebuked them,
telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more,
"Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V32" id="C0120V32">20:32</a> Yeshua stood still, and called
them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V33" id="C0120V33">20:33</a> They told him, "Lord, that
our eyes may be opened."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0120V34" id="C0120V34">20:34</a> Yeshua, being moved with
compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their
sight, and they followed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V1" id="C0121V1">21:1</a> When they drew near to Yerushalayim,
and came to <a href="#N4093">Bethsphage,</a> to the Mount of Olives, then
Yeshua sent two disciples, <a name="C0121V2" id="C0121V2">21:2</a> saying
to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately
you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring
them to me. <a name="C0121V3" id="C0121V3">21:3</a> If anyone says
anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he
will send them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V4" id="C0121V4">21:4</a> All this was done, that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0121V5" id="C0121V5">21:5</a> "Tell the daughter of Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
behold, your King comes to you,
</dd>
<dd>
humble, and riding on a donkey,
</dd>
<dd>
on a colt, the foal of a donkey."<sup><a href="#N4094">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0121V6" id="C0121V6">21:6</a> The disciples went, and did just
as Yeshua commanded them, <a name="C0121V7" id="C0121V7">21:7</a> and
brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he
sat on them. <a name="C0121V8" id="C0121V8">21:8</a> A very great
multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the
trees, and spread them on the road. <a name="C0121V9" id="C0121V9">21:9</a>
The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "<a
href="#N4095">Hosanna</a> to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"<sup><a href="#N4096">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V10" id="C0121V10">21:10</a> When he had come into
Yerushalayim, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"
<a name="C0121V11" id="C0121V11">21:11</a> The multitudes said, "This
is the prophet, Yeshua, from Nazareth of Galilee."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V12" id="C0121V12">21:12</a> Yeshua entered into the temple
of Elohim, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the
doves. <a name="C0121V13" id="C0121V13">21:13</a> He said to them, "It
is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,'<sup><a
href="#N4097">*</a></sup> but you have made it a den of robbers!"<sup><a
href="#N4098">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V14" id="C0121V14">21:14</a> The blind and the lame came to
him in the temple, and he healed them. <a name="C0121V15" id="C0121V15">21:15</a>
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that
he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna
to the son of David!" they were indignant, <a name="C0121V16"
id="C0121V16">21:16</a> and said to him, "Do you hear what these are
saying?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of
babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"<sup><a
href="#N4099">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V17" id="C0121V17">21:17</a> He left them, and went out of
the city to Bethany, and lodged there. <a name="C0121V18" id="C0121V18">21:18</a>
Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. <a
name="C0121V19" id="C0121V19">21:19</a> Seeing a fig tree by the road, he
came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let
there be no fruit from you forever!"
</p>
<p>
Immediately the fig tree withered away. <a name="C0121V20" id="C0121V20">21:20</a>
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig
tree immediately wither away?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V21" id="C0121V21">21:21</a> Yeshua answered them, "Most
certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not
only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain,
'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. <a name="C0121V22"
id="C0121V22">21:22</a> All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing,
you will receive."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V23" id="C0121V23">21:23</a> When he had come into the
temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he
was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things?
Who gave you this authority?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V24" id="C0121V24">21:24</a> Yeshua answered them, "I
also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell
you by what authority I do these things. <a name="C0121V25" id="C0121V25">21:25</a>
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?"
</p>
<p>
They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he
will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' <a name="C0121V26"
id="C0121V26">21:26</a> But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude,
for all hold John as a prophet." <a name="C0121V27" id="C0121V27">21:27</a>
They answered Yeshua, and said, "We don't know."
</p>
<p>
He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do
these things. <a name="C0121V28" id="C0121V28">21:28</a> But what do you
think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go
work today in my vineyard.' <a name="C0121V29" id="C0121V29">21:29</a> He
answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. <a
name="C0121V30" id="C0121V30">21:30</a> He came to the second, and said
the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. <a
name="C0121V31" id="C0121V31">21:31</a> Which of the two did the will of
his father?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "The first."
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax
collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of Elohim before
you. <a name="C0121V32" id="C0121V32">21:32</a> For John came to you in
the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax
collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't
even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V33" id="C0121V33">21:33</a> "Hear another parable.
There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard,
set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out
to farmers, and went into another country. <a name="C0121V34" id="C0121V34">21:34</a>
When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
farmers, to receive his fruit. <a name="C0121V35" id="C0121V35">21:35</a>
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned
another. <a name="C0121V36" id="C0121V36">21:36</a> Again, he sent other
servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. <a
name="C0121V37" id="C0121V37">21:37</a> But afterward he sent to them his
son, saying, 'They will respect my son.' <a name="C0121V38" id="C0121V38">21:38</a>
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is
the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.' <a
name="C0121V39" id="C0121V39">21:39</a> So they took him, and threw him
out of the vineyard, and killed him. <a name="C0121V40" id="C0121V40">21:40</a>
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
farmers?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V41" id="C0121V41">21:41</a> They told him, "He will
miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to
other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V42" id="C0121V42">21:42</a> Yeshua said to them, "Did
you never read in the Scriptures,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
'The stone which the builders rejected,
</dt>
<dd>
the same was made the head of the corner.
</dd>
<dt>
This was from the Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
It is marvelous in our eyes?'<sup><a href="#N40100">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0121V43" id="C0121V43">21:43</a> "Therefore I tell you, the
Kingdom of Elohim will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation
bringing forth its fruit. <a name="C0121V44" id="C0121V44">21:44</a> He
who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will
fall, it will scatter him as dust."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0121V45" id="C0121V45">21:45</a> When the chief priests and the
Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. <a
name="C0121V46" id="C0121V46">21:46</a> When they sought to seize him,
they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V1" id="C0122V1">22:1</a> Yeshua answered and spoke again in
parables to them, saying, <a name="C0122V2" id="C0122V2">22:2</a> "The
Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for
his son, <a name="C0122V3" id="C0122V3">22:3</a> and sent out his servants
to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not
come. <a name="C0122V4" id="C0122V4">22:4</a> Again he sent out other
servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made
ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are
ready. Come to the marriage feast!"' <a name="C0122V5" id="C0122V5">22:5</a>
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm,
another to his merchandise, <a name="C0122V6" id="C0122V6">22:6</a> and
the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed
them. <a name="C0122V7" id="C0122V7">22:7</a> When the king heard that, he
was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned
their city.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V8" id="C0122V8">22:8</a> "Then he said to his
servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't
worthy. <a name="C0122V9" id="C0122V9">22:9</a> Go therefore to the
intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the
marriage feast.' <a name="C0122V10" id="C0122V10">22:10</a> Those servants
went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found,
both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests. <a name="C0122V11"
id="C0122V11">22:11</a> But when the king came in to see the guests, he
saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing, <a name="C0122V12"
id="C0122V12">22:12</a> and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in
here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless. <a name="C0122V13"
id="C0122V13">22:13</a> Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand
and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is
where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' <a name="C0122V14"
id="C0122V14">22:14</a> For many are called, but few chosen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V15" id="C0122V15">22:15</a> Then the Pharisees went and
took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. <a name="C0122V16"
id="C0122V16">22:16</a> They sent their disciples to him, along with the
Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach
the way of Elohim in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial
to anyone. <a name="C0122V17" id="C0122V17">22:17</a> Tell us therefore,
what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V18" id="C0122V18">22:18</a> But Yeshua perceived their
wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? <a
name="C0122V19" id="C0122V19">22:19</a> Show me the tax money."
</p>
<p>
They brought to him a denarius.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V20" id="C0122V20">22:20</a> He asked them, "Whose is
this image and inscription?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V21" id="C0122V21">22:21</a> They said to him, "Caesar's."
</p>
<p>
Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to Elohim the things that are Elohim's."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V22" id="C0122V22">22:22</a> When they heard it, they
marveled, and left him, and went away.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V23" id="C0122V23">22:23</a> On that day Sadducees (those
who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, <a
name="C0122V24" id="C0122V24">22:24</a> saying, "Teacher, Moshe said,
'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and
raise up seed for his brother.' <a name="C0122V25" id="C0122V25">22:25</a>
Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and
having no seed left his wife to his brother. <a name="C0122V26"
id="C0122V26">22:26</a> In like manner the second also, and the third, to
the seventh. <a name="C0122V27" id="C0122V27">22:27</a> After them all,
the woman died. <a name="C0122V28" id="C0122V28">22:28</a> In the
resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all
had her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V29" id="C0122V29">22:29</a> But Yeshua answered them, "You
are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of Elohim. <a
name="C0122V30" id="C0122V30">22:30</a> For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like Elohim's angels in
heaven. <a name="C0122V31" id="C0122V31">22:31</a> But concerning the
resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by
Elohim, saying, <a name="C0122V32" id="C0122V32">22:32</a> 'I am the Elohim of
Avraham, and the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob?'<sup><a href="#N40101">*</a></sup>
Elohim is not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V33" id="C0122V33">22:33</a> When the multitudes heard it,
they were astonished at his teaching. <a name="C0122V34" id="C0122V34">22:34</a>
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,
gathered themselves together. <a name="C0122V35" id="C0122V35">22:35</a>
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. <a
name="C0122V36" id="C0122V36">22:36</a> "Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the Torah?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V37" id="C0122V37">22:37</a> Yeshua said to him, "'You
shall love the Lord your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your mind.'<sup><a href="#N40102">*</a></sup> <a name="C0122V38"
id="C0122V38">22:38</a> This is the first and great commandment. <a
name="C0122V39" id="C0122V39">22:39</a> A second likewise is this, 'You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.'<sup><a href="#N40103">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0122V40" id="C0122V40">22:40</a> The whole Torah and the prophets
depend on these two commandments."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V41" id="C0122V41">22:41</a> Now while the Pharisees were
gathered together, Yeshua asked them a question, <a name="C0122V42"
id="C0122V42">22:42</a> saying, "What do you think of the Messiah?
Whose son is he?"
</p>
<p>
They said to him, "Of David."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V43" id="C0122V43">22:43</a> He said to them, "How then
does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C0122V44" id="C0122V44">22:44</a> 'The Lord said to my Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
sit on my right hand,
</dd>
<dd>
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'<sup><a
href="#N40104">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0122V45" id="C0122V45">22:45</a> "If then David calls him
Lord, how is he his son?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0122V46" id="C0122V46">22:46</a> No one was able to answer him a
word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day
forth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V1" id="C0123V1">23:1</a> Then Yeshua spoke to the multitudes
and to his disciples, <a name="C0123V2" id="C0123V2">23:2</a> saying,
"The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moshe' seat. <a name="C0123V3"
id="C0123V3">23:3</a> All things therefore whatever they tell you to
observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't
do. <a name="C0123V4" id="C0123V4">23:4</a> For they bind heavy burdens
that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they
themselves will not lift a finger to help them. <a name="C0123V5"
id="C0123V5">23:5</a> But all their works they do to be seen by men. They
make their <a href="#N40105">phylacteries</a> broad, enlarge the <a
href="#N40106">fringes</a> of their garments, <a name="C0123V6"
id="C0123V6">23:6</a> and love the place of honor at feasts, the best
seats in the synagogues, <a name="C0123V7" id="C0123V7">23:7</a> the
salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.
<a name="C0123V8" id="C0123V8">23:8</a> But don't you be called 'Rabbi,'
for one is your teacher, the Messiah, and all of you are brothers. <a
name="C0123V9" id="C0123V9">23:9</a> Call no man on the earth your father,
for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. <a name="C0123V10"
id="C0123V10">23:10</a> Neither be called masters, for one is your master,
the Messiah. <a name="C0123V11" id="C0123V11">23:11</a> But he who is
greatest among you will be your servant. <a name="C0123V12" id="C0123V12">23:12</a>
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will
be exalted.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V13" id="C0123V13">23:13</a> <a href="#N40107">"Woe to
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and
as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater
condemnation. </a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V14" id="C0123V14">23:14</a> "But woe to you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven
against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those
who are entering in to enter. <a name="C0123V15" id="C0123V15">23:15</a>
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by
sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him
twice as much of a son of <a href="#N40108">Gehenna</a> as yourselves.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V16" id="C0123V16">23:16</a> "Woe to you, you blind
guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever
swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.' <a name="C0123V17"
id="C0123V17">23:17</a> You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold,
or the temple that sanctifies the gold? <a name="C0123V18" id="C0123V18">23:18</a>
'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the
gift that is on it, he is obligated?' <a name="C0123V19" id="C0123V19">23:19</a>
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that
sanctifies the gift? <a name="C0123V20" id="C0123V20">23:20</a> He
therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.
<a name="C0123V21" id="C0123V21">23:21</a> He who swears by the temple,
swears by it, and by him who was living in it. <a name="C0123V22"
id="C0123V22">23:22</a> He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of
Elohim, and by him who sits on it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V23" id="C0123V23">23:23</a> "Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and <a href="#N40109">cumin,</a>
and have left undone the weightier matters of the Torah: justice, mercy, and
faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other
undone. <a name="C0123V24" id="C0123V24">23:24</a> You blind guides, who
strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V25" id="C0123V25">23:25</a> "Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full of extortion and <a href="#N40110">unrighteousness.</a>
<a name="C0123V26" id="C0123V26">23:26</a> You blind Pharisee, first clean
the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become
clean also.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V27" id="C0123V27">23:27</a> "Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly
appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness. <a name="C0123V28" id="C0123V28">23:28</a> Even so you also
outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy
and iniquity.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V29" id="C0123V29">23:29</a> "Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and
decorate the tombs of the righteous, <a name="C0123V30" id="C0123V30">23:30</a>
and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have
been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' <a name="C0123V31"
id="C0123V31">23:31</a> Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are
children of those who killed the prophets. <a name="C0123V32" id="C0123V32">23:32</a>
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. <a name="C0123V33"
id="C0123V33">23:33</a> You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will
you escape the judgment of <a href="#N40111">Gehenna</a>? <a
name="C0123V34" id="C0123V34">23:34</a> Therefore, behold, I send to you
prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify;
and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from
city to city; <a name="C0123V35" id="C0123V35">23:35</a> that on you may
come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of
righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed
between the sanctuary and the altar. <a name="C0123V36" id="C0123V36">23:36</a>
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this
generation.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0123V37" id="C0123V37">23:37</a> "Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, who
kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I
would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her
chicks under her wings, and you would not! <a name="C0123V38" id="C0123V38">23:38</a>
Behold, your house is left to you desolate. <a name="C0123V39"
id="C0123V39">23:39</a> For I tell you, you will not see me from now on,
until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"<sup><a
href="#N40112">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V1" id="C0124V1">24:1</a> Yeshua went out from the temple,
and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the
buildings of the temple. <a name="C0124V2" id="C0124V2">24:2</a> But he
answered them, "Don't you see all of these things? Most certainly I
tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not
be thrown down."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V3" id="C0124V3">24:3</a> As he sat on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will
these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the
age?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V4" id="C0124V4">24:4</a> Yeshua answered them, "Be
careful that no one leads you astray. <a name="C0124V5" id="C0124V5">24:5</a>
For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Messiah,' and will lead
many astray. <a name="C0124V6" id="C0124V6">24:6</a> You will hear of wars
and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must
happen, but the end is not yet. <a name="C0124V7" id="C0124V7">24:7</a>
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and
there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. <a
name="C0124V8" id="C0124V8">24:8</a> But all these things are the
beginning of birth pains. <a name="C0124V9" id="C0124V9">24:9</a> Then
they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be
hated by all of the nations for my name's sake. <a name="C0124V10"
id="C0124V10">24:10</a> Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one
another, and will hate one another. <a name="C0124V11" id="C0124V11">24:11</a>
Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. <a
name="C0124V12" id="C0124V12">24:12</a> Because iniquity will be
multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. <a name="C0124V13"
id="C0124V13">24:13</a> But he who endures to the end, the same will be
saved. <a name="C0124V14" id="C0124V14">24:14</a> This Good News of the
Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the
nations, and then the end will come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V15" id="C0124V15">24:15</a> "When, therefore, you see
the abomination of desolation,<sup><a href="#N40113">*</a></sup> which was
spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the
reader understand), <a name="C0124V16" id="C0124V16">24:16</a> then let
those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. <a name="C0124V17"
id="C0124V17">24:17</a> Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take
out things that are in his house. <a name="C0124V18" id="C0124V18">24:18</a>
Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. <a
name="C0124V19" id="C0124V19">24:19</a> But woe to those who are with
child and to nursing mothers in those days! <a name="C0124V20"
id="C0124V20">24:20</a> Pray that your flight will not be in the winter,
nor on a Shabbat, <a name="C0124V21" id="C0124V21">24:21</a> for then
there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of
the world until now, no, nor ever will be. <a name="C0124V22" id="C0124V22">24:22</a>
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But
for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V23" id="C0124V23">24:23</a> "Then if any man tells
you, 'Behold, here is the Messiah,' or, 'There,' don't believe it. <a
name="C0124V24" id="C0124V24">24:24</a> For there will arise false
christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders,
so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V25" id="C0124V25">24:25</a> "Behold, I have told you
beforehand. <a name="C0124V26" id="C0124V26">24:26</a> If therefore they
tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is
in the inner chambers,' don't believe it. <a name="C0124V27" id="C0124V27">24:27</a>
For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west,
so will be the coming of the Son of Man. <a name="C0124V28" id="C0124V28">24:28</a>
For wherever the carcass is, there is where the <a href="#N40114">vultures</a>
gather together. <a name="C0124V29" id="C0124V29">24:29</a> But
immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened,
the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and
the powers of the heavens will be shaken;<sup><a href="#N40115">*</a></sup>
<a name="C0124V30" id="C0124V30">24:30</a> and then the sign of the Son of
Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn,
and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with
power and great glory. <a name="C0124V31" id="C0124V31">24:31</a> He will
send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather
together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to
the other.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V32" id="C0124V32">24:32</a> "Now from the fig tree
learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth
its leaves, you know that the summer is near. <a name="C0124V33"
id="C0124V33">24:33</a> Even so you also, when you see all these things,
know that it is near, even at the doors. <a name="C0124V34" id="C0124V34">24:34</a>
Most certainly I tell you, this <a href="#N40116">generation</a> will not
pass away, until all these things are accomplished. <a name="C0124V35"
id="C0124V35">24:35</a> Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will
not pass away. <a name="C0124V36" id="C0124V36">24:36</a> But no one knows
of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V37" id="C0124V37">24:37</a> "As the days of Noah were,
so will be the coming of the Son of Man. <a name="C0124V38" id="C0124V38">24:38</a>
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered
into the ship, <a name="C0124V39" id="C0124V39">24:39</a> and they didn't
know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming
of the Son of Man. <a name="C0124V40" id="C0124V40">24:40</a> Then two men
will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left; <a
name="C0124V41" id="C0124V41">24:41</a> two women grinding at the mill,
one will be taken and one will be left. <a name="C0124V42" id="C0124V42">24:42</a>
Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. <a
name="C0124V43" id="C0124V43">24:43</a> But know this, that if the master
of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he
would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken
into. <a name="C0124V44" id="C0124V44">24:44</a> Therefore also be ready,
for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0124V45" id="C0124V45">24:45</a> "Who then is the faithful
and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them
their food in due season? <a name="C0124V46" id="C0124V46">24:46</a>
Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. <a
name="C0124V47" id="C0124V47">24:47</a> Most certainly I tell you that he
will set him over all that he has. <a name="C0124V48" id="C0124V48">24:48</a>
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his
coming,' <a name="C0124V49" id="C0124V49">24:49</a> and begins to beat his
fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, <a name="C0124V50"
id="C0124V50">24:50</a> the lord of that servant will come in a day when
he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it, <a
name="C0124V51" id="C0124V51">24:51</a> and will cut him in pieces, and
appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and
grinding of teeth will be.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V1" id="C0125V1">25:1</a> "Then the Kingdom of Heaven
will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the
bridegroom. <a name="C0125V2" id="C0125V2">25:2</a> Five of them were
foolish, and five were wise. <a name="C0125V3" id="C0125V3">25:3</a> Those
who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, <a
name="C0125V4" id="C0125V4">25:4</a> but the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps. <a name="C0125V5" id="C0125V5">25:5</a> Now
while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. <a
name="C0125V6" id="C0125V6">25:6</a> But at midnight there was a cry,
'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!' <a name="C0125V7"
id="C0125V7">25:7</a> Then all those virgins arose, and <a href="#N40117">trimmed
their lamps.</a> <a name="C0125V8" id="C0125V8">25:8</a> The foolish said
to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' <a
name="C0125V9" id="C0125V9">25:9</a> But the wise answered, saying, 'What
if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and
buy for yourselves.' <a name="C0125V10" id="C0125V10">25:10</a> While they
went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in
with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. <a name="C0125V11"
id="C0125V11">25:11</a> Afterward the other virgins also came, saying,
'Lord, Lord, open to us.' <a name="C0125V12" id="C0125V12">25:12</a> But
he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.' <a
name="C0125V13" id="C0125V13">25:13</a> Watch therefore, for you don't
know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V14" id="C0125V14">25:14</a> "For it is like a man,
going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his
goods to them. <a name="C0125V15" id="C0125V15">25:15</a> To one he gave
five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own
ability. Then he went on his journey. <a name="C0125V16" id="C0125V16">25:16</a>
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them,
and made another five talents. <a name="C0125V17" id="C0125V17">25:17</a>
In like manner he also who got the two gained another two. <a
name="C0125V18" id="C0125V18">25:18</a> But he who received the one went
away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V19" id="C0125V19">25:19</a> "Now after a long time the
lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them. <a
name="C0125V20" id="C0125V20">25:20</a> He who received the five talents
came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me
five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V21" id="C0125V21">25:21</a> "His lord said to him,
'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few
things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V22" id="C0125V22">25:22</a> "He also who got the two
talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I
have gained another two talents besides them.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V23" id="C0125V23">25:23</a> "His lord said to him,
'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few
things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V24" id="C0125V24">25:24</a> "He also who had received
the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man,
reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. <a
name="C0125V25" id="C0125V25">25:25</a> I was afraid, and went away and
hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V26" id="C0125V26">25:26</a> "But his lord answered
him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't
sow, and gather where I didn't scatter. <a name="C0125V27" id="C0125V27">25:27</a>
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my
coming I should have received back my own with interest. <a name="C0125V28"
id="C0125V28">25:28</a> Take away therefore the talent from him, and give
it to him who has the ten talents. <a name="C0125V29" id="C0125V29">25:29</a>
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but
from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away. <a
name="C0125V30" id="C0125V30">25:30</a> Throw out the unprofitable servant
into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V31" id="C0125V31">25:31</a> "But when the Son of Man
comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on
the throne of his glory. <a name="C0125V32" id="C0125V32">25:32</a> Before
him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from
another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. <a
name="C0125V33" id="C0125V33">25:33</a> He will set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left. <a name="C0125V34" id="C0125V34">25:34</a>
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my
Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world; <a name="C0125V35" id="C0125V35">25:35</a> for I was hungry, and
you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a
stranger, and you took me in; <a name="C0125V36" id="C0125V36">25:36</a>
naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in
prison, and you came to me.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V37" id="C0125V37">25:37</a> "Then the righteous will
answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or
thirsty, and give you a drink? <a name="C0125V38" id="C0125V38">25:38</a>
When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe
you? <a name="C0125V39" id="C0125V39">25:39</a> When did we see you sick,
or in prison, and come to you?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V40" id="C0125V40">25:40</a> "The King will answer
them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the
least of these my <a href="#N40118">brothers</a>, you did it to me.' <a
name="C0125V41" id="C0125V41">25:41</a> Then he will say also to those on
the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is
prepared for the devil and his angels; <a name="C0125V42" id="C0125V42">25:42</a>
for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and
you gave me no drink; <a name="C0125V43" id="C0125V43">25:43</a> I was a
stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me;
sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V44" id="C0125V44">25:44</a> "Then they will also
answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0125V45" id="C0125V45">25:45</a> "Then he will answer them,
saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of
the least of these, you didn't do it to me.' <a name="C0125V46"
id="C0125V46">25:46</a> These will go away into eternal punishment, but
the righteous into eternal life."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V1" id="C0126V1">26:1</a> It happened, when Yeshua had
finished all these words, that he said to his disciples, <a name="C0126V2"
id="C0126V2">26:2</a> "You know that after two days the Passover is
coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V3" id="C0126V3">26:3</a> Then the chief priests, the
scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court
of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. <a name="C0126V4" id="C0126V4">26:4</a>
They took counsel together that they might take Yeshua by deceit, and kill
him. <a name="C0126V5" id="C0126V5">26:5</a> But they said, "Not
during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V6" id="C0126V6">26:6</a> Now when Yeshua was in Bethany, in
the house of Simon the leper, <a name="C0126V7" id="C0126V7">26:7</a> a
woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and
she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. <a name="C0126V8"
id="C0126V8">26:8</a> But when his disciples saw this, they were
indignant, saying, "Why this waste? <a name="C0126V9" id="C0126V9">26:9</a>
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V10" id="C0126V10">26:10</a> However, knowing this, Yeshua
said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a
good work for me. <a name="C0126V11" id="C0126V11">26:11</a> For you
always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me. <a
name="C0126V12" id="C0126V12">26:12</a> For in pouring this ointment on my
body, she did it to prepare me for burial. <a name="C0126V13" id="C0126V13">26:13</a>
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the
whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial
of her."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V14" id="C0126V14">26:14</a> Then one of the twelve, who was
called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, <a name="C0126V15"
id="C0126V15">26:15</a> and said, "What are you willing to give me,
that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty
pieces of silver. <a name="C0126V16" id="C0126V16">26:16</a> From that
time he sought opportunity to betray him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V17" id="C0126V17">26:17</a> Now on the first day of
unleavened bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to him, "Where
do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V18" id="C0126V18">26:18</a> He said, "Go into the city
to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at
hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V19" id="C0126V19">26:19</a> The disciples did as Yeshua
commanded them, and they prepared the Passover. <a name="C0126V20"
id="C0126V20">26:20</a> Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the
table with the twelve disciples. <a name="C0126V21" id="C0126V21">26:21</a>
As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of
you will betray me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V22" id="C0126V22">26:22</a> They were exceedingly
sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn't me, is it, Lord?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V23" id="C0126V23">26:23</a> He answered, "He who
dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me. <a
name="C0126V24" id="C0126V24">26:24</a> The Son of Man goes, even as it is
written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is
betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V25" id="C0126V25">26:25</a> Judas, who betrayed him,
answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?"
</p>
<p>
He said to him, "You said it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V26" id="C0126V26">26:26</a> As they were eating, Yeshua took
bread, <a href="#N40119">gave thanks for</a> it, and broke it. He gave to
the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." <a
name="C0126V27" id="C0126V27">26:27</a> He took the cup, gave thanks, and
gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it, <a name="C0126V28"
id="C0126V28">26:28</a> for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is
poured out for many for the remission of sins. <a name="C0126V29"
id="C0126V29">26:29</a> But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit
of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in
my Father's Kingdom." <a name="C0126V30" id="C0126V30">26:30</a> When
they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V31" id="C0126V31">26:31</a> Then Yeshua said to them, "All
of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written,
'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be
scattered.'<sup><a href="#N40120">*</a></sup> <a name="C0126V32"
id="C0126V32">26:32</a> But after I am raised up, I will go before you
into Galilee."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V33" id="C0126V33">26:33</a> But Peter answered him, "Even
if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to
stumble."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V34" id="C0126V34">26:34</a> Yeshua said to him, "Most
certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny
me three times."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V35" id="C0126V35">26:35</a> Peter said to him, "Even
if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples
also said likewise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V36" id="C0126V36">26:36</a> Then Yeshua came with them to a
place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while
I go there and pray." <a name="C0126V37" id="C0126V37">26:37</a> He
took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful
and severely troubled. <a name="C0126V38" id="C0126V38">26:38</a> Then he
said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay
here, and watch with me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V39" id="C0126V39">26:39</a> He went forward a little, fell
on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let
this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you
desire."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V40" id="C0126V40">26:40</a> He came to the disciples, and
found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch
with me for one hour? <a name="C0126V41" id="C0126V41">26:41</a> Watch and
pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V42" id="C0126V42">26:42</a> Again, a second time he went
away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away
from me unless I drink it, your desire be done." <a name="C0126V43"
id="C0126V43">26:43</a> He came again and found them sleeping, for their
eyes were heavy. <a name="C0126V44" id="C0126V44">26:44</a> He left them
again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words. <a
name="C0126V45" id="C0126V45">26:45</a> Then he came to his disciples, and
said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is
at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. <a
name="C0126V46" id="C0126V46">26:46</a> Arise, let's be going. Behold, he
who betrays me is at hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V47" id="C0126V47">26:47</a> While he was still speaking,
behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude
with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people. <a
name="C0126V48" id="C0126V48">26:48</a> Now he who betrayed him gave them
a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him." <a
name="C0126V49" id="C0126V49">26:49</a> Immediately he came to Yeshua, and
said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V50" id="C0126V50">26:50</a> Yeshua said to him, "Friend,
why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Yeshua, and took
him. <a name="C0126V51" id="C0126V51">26:51</a> Behold, one of those who
were with Yeshua stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the
servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear. <a name="C0126V52"
id="C0126V52">26:52</a> Then Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back
into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. <a
name="C0126V53" id="C0126V53">26:53</a> Or do you think that I couldn't
ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of
angels? <a name="C0126V54" id="C0126V54">26:54</a> How then would the
Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V55" id="C0126V55">26:55</a> In that hour Yeshua said to the
multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and
clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't
arrest me. <a name="C0126V56" id="C0126V56">26:56</a> But all this has
happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled."
</p>
<p>
Then all the disciples left him, and fled. <a name="C0126V57" id="C0126V57">26:57</a>
Those who had taken Yeshua led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where
the scribes and the elders were gathered together. <a name="C0126V58"
id="C0126V58">26:58</a> But Peter followed him from a distance, to the
court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see
the end. <a name="C0126V59" id="C0126V59">26:59</a> Now the chief priests,
the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua,
that they might put him to death; <a name="C0126V60" id="C0126V60">26:60</a>
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they
found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward, <a
name="C0126V61" id="C0126V61">26:61</a> and said, "This man said, 'I
am able to destroy the temple of Elohim, and to build it in three days.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V62" id="C0126V62">26:62</a> The high priest stood up, and
said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify
against you?" <a name="C0126V63" id="C0126V63">26:63</a> But Yeshua
held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the
living Elohim, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V64" id="C0126V64">26:64</a> Yeshua said to him, "You
have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of
Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the
sky."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V65" id="C0126V65">26:65</a> Then the high priest tore his
clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more
witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. <a name="C0126V66"
id="C0126V66">26:66</a> What do you think?"
</p>
<p>
They answered, "He is worthy of death!" <a name="C0126V67"
id="C0126V67">26:67</a> Then they spit in his face and beat him with their
fists, and some slapped him, <a name="C0126V68" id="C0126V68">26:68</a>
saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V69" id="C0126V69">26:69</a> Now Peter was sitting outside
in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with
Yeshua, the Galilean!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V70" id="C0126V70">26:70</a> But he denied it before them
all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V71" id="C0126V71">26:71</a> When he had gone out onto the
porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This
man also was with Yeshua of Nazareth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V72" id="C0126V72">26:72</a> Again he denied it with an
oath, "I don't know the man."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V73" id="C0126V73">26:73</a> After a little while those who
stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them,
for your speech makes you known."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0126V74" id="C0126V74">26:74</a> Then he began to curse and to
swear, "I don't know the man!"
</p>
<p>
Immediately the rooster crowed. <a name="C0126V75" id="C0126V75">26:75</a>
Peter remembered the word which Yeshua had said to him, "Before the
rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept
bitterly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V1" id="C0127V1">27:1</a> Now when morning had come, all the
chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Yeshua to
put him to death: <a name="C0127V2" id="C0127V2">27:2</a> and they bound
him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the
governor. <a name="C0127V3" id="C0127V3">27:3</a> Then Judas, who betrayed
him, when he saw that Yeshua was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back
the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, <a
name="C0127V4" id="C0127V4">27:4</a> saying, "I have sinned in that I
betrayed innocent blood."
</p>
<p>
But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V5" id="C0127V5">27:5</a> He threw down the pieces of silver
in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself. <a
name="C0127V6" id="C0127V6">27:6</a> The chief priests took the pieces of
silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury,
since it is the price of blood." <a name="C0127V7" id="C0127V7">27:7</a>
They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury
strangers in. <a name="C0127V8" id="C0127V8">27:8</a> Therefore that field
was called "The Field of Blood" to this day. <a name="C0127V9"
id="C0127V9">27:9</a> Then that which was spoken through <a href="#N40121">Jeremiah</a>
the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"They took the thirty pieces of silver,
</dt>
<dd>
the price of him upon whom a price had been set,
</dd>
<dd>
whom some of the children of Yisrael priced,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0127V10" id="C0127V10">27:10</a> and they gave them for the
potter's field,
</dt>
<dd>
as the Lord commanded me."<sup><a href="#N40122">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0127V11" id="C0127V11">27:11</a> Now Yeshua stood before the
governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of
the Jews?"
</p>
<p>
Yeshua said to him, "So you say."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V12" id="C0127V12">27:12</a> When he was accused by the
chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. <a name="C0127V13"
id="C0127V13">27:13</a> Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how
many things they testify against you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V14" id="C0127V14">27:14</a> He gave him no answer, not even
one word, so that the governor marveled greatly. <a name="C0127V15"
id="C0127V15">27:15</a> Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to
release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired. <a
name="C0127V16" id="C0127V16">27:16</a> They had then a notable prisoner,
called Barabbas. <a name="C0127V17" id="C0127V17">27:17</a> When therefore
they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want
me to release to you? Barabbas, or Yeshua, who is called Messiah?" <a
name="C0127V18" id="C0127V18">27:18</a> For he knew that because of envy
they had delivered him up.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V19" id="C0127V19">27:19</a> While he was sitting on the
judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with
that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream
because of him." <a name="C0127V20" id="C0127V20">27:20</a> Now the
chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas,
and destroy Yeshua. <a name="C0127V21" id="C0127V21">27:21</a> But the
governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release
to you?"
</p>
<p>
They said, "Barabbas!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V22" id="C0127V22">27:22</a> Pilate said to them, "What
then shall I do to Yeshua, who is called Messiah?"
</p>
<p>
They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V23" id="C0127V23">27:23</a> But the governor said, "Why?
What evil has he done?"
</p>
<p>
But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V24" id="C0127V24">27:24</a> So when Pilate saw that nothing
was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took
water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am
innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V25" id="C0127V25">27:25</a> All the people answered, "May
his blood be on us, and on our children!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V26" id="C0127V26">27:26</a> Then he released to them
Barabbas, but Yeshua he flogged and delivered to be crucified. <a
name="C0127V27" id="C0127V27">27:27</a> Then the governor's soldiers took
Yeshua into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together
against him. <a name="C0127V28" id="C0127V28">27:28</a> They stripped him,
and put a scarlet robe on him. <a name="C0127V29" id="C0127V29">27:29</a>
They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his
right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying,
"Hail, King of the Jews!" <a name="C0127V30" id="C0127V30">27:30</a>
They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. <a
name="C0127V31" id="C0127V31">27:31</a> When they had mocked him, they
took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to
crucify him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V32" id="C0127V32">27:32</a> As they came out, they found a
man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that
he might carry his cross. <a name="C0127V33" id="C0127V33">27:33</a> They
came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, "The
place of a skull." <a name="C0127V34" id="C0127V34">27:34</a> They
gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he
would not drink. <a name="C0127V35" id="C0127V35">27:35</a> When they had
crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,<sup><a
href="#N40123">*</a></sup> <a name="C0127V36" id="C0127V36">27:36</a> and
they sat and watched him there. <a name="C0127V37" id="C0127V37">27:37</a>
They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS
IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V38" id="C0127V38">27:38</a> Then there were two robbers
crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left. <a
name="C0127V39" id="C0127V39">27:39</a> Those who passed by blasphemed
him, wagging their heads, <a name="C0127V40" id="C0127V40">27:40</a> and
saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save
yourself! If you are the Son of Elohim, come down from the cross!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V41" id="C0127V41">27:41</a> Likewise the chief priests also
mocking, with the scribes, <a href="#N40124">the Pharisees,</a> and the
elders, said, <a name="C0127V42" id="C0127V42">27:42</a> "He saved
others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Yisrael, let him
come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. <a
name="C0127V43" id="C0127V43">27:43</a> He trusts in Elohim. Let Elohim deliver
him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of Elohim.'" <a
name="C0127V44" id="C0127V44">27:44</a> The robbers also who were
crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V45" id="C0127V45">27:45</a> Now from the <a href="#N40125">sixth
hour</a> there was darkness over all the land until the <a href="#N40126">ninth
hour.</a> <a name="C0127V46" id="C0127V46">27:46</a> About the ninth hour
Yeshua cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, <a href="#N40127">lima</a>
sabachthani?" That is, "My Elohim, my Elohim, why have you forsaken
me?"<sup><a href="#N40128">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V47" id="C0127V47">27:47</a> Some of them who stood there,
when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V48" id="C0127V48">27:48</a> Immediately one of them ran,
and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and
gave him a drink. <a name="C0127V49" id="C0127V49">27:49</a> The rest
said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save him."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V50" id="C0127V50">27:50</a> Yeshua cried again with a loud
voice, and yielded up his spirit. <a name="C0127V51" id="C0127V51">27:51</a>
Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
The earth quaked and the rocks were split. <a name="C0127V52" id="C0127V52">27:52</a>
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep
were raised; <a name="C0127V53" id="C0127V53">27:53</a> and coming out of
the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and
appeared to many. <a name="C0127V54" id="C0127V54">27:54</a> Now the
centurion, and those who were with him watching Yeshua, when they saw the
earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying,
"Truly this was the Son of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V55" id="C0127V55">27:55</a> Many women were there watching
from afar, who had followed Yeshua from Galilee, serving him. <a
name="C0127V56" id="C0127V56">27:56</a> Among them were Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
<a name="C0127V57" id="C0127V57">27:57</a> When evening had come, a rich
man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Yeshua' disciple
came. <a name="C0127V58" id="C0127V58">27:58</a> This man went to Pilate,
and asked for Yeshua' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
<a name="C0127V59" id="C0127V59">27:59</a> Joseph took the body, and
wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, <a name="C0127V60" id="C0127V60">27:60</a>
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he
rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. <a
name="C0127V61" id="C0127V61">27:61</a> Mary Magdalene was there, and the
other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. <a name="C0127V62" id="C0127V62">27:62</a>
Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the
chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate, <a
name="C0127V63" id="C0127V63">27:63</a> saying, "Sir, we remember
what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will
rise again.' <a name="C0127V64" id="C0127V64">27:64</a> Command therefore
that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his
disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is
risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0127V65" id="C0127V65">27:65</a> Pilate said to them, "You
have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can." <a name="C0127V66"
id="C0127V66">27:66</a> So they went with the guard and made the tomb
secure, sealing the stone.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V1" id="C0128V1">28:1</a> Now after the Shabbat, as it began
to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
came to see the tomb. <a name="C0128V2" id="C0128V2">28:2</a> Behold,
there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the
sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it. <a
name="C0128V3" id="C0128V3">28:3</a> His appearance was like lightning,
and his clothing white as snow. <a name="C0128V4" id="C0128V4">28:4</a>
For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men. <a
name="C0128V5" id="C0128V5">28:5</a> The angel answered the women, "Don't
be afraid, for I know that you seek Yeshua, who has been crucified. <a
name="C0128V6" id="C0128V6">28:6</a> He is not here, for he has risen,
just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying. <a
name="C0128V7" id="C0128V7">28:7</a> Go quickly and tell his disciples,
'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee;
there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V8" id="C0128V8">28:8</a> They departed quickly from the
tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word. <a
name="C0128V9" id="C0128V9">28:9</a> As they went to tell his disciples,
behold, Yeshua met them, saying, "Rejoice!"
</p>
<p>
They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V10" id="C0128V10">28:10</a> Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't
be afraid. Go tell my <a href="#N40129">brothers</a> that they should go
into Galilee, and there they will see me."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V11" id="C0128V11">28:11</a> Now while they were going,
behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests
all the things that had happened. <a name="C0128V12" id="C0128V12">28:12</a>
When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave
a large amount of silver to the soldiers, <a name="C0128V13" id="C0128V13">28:13</a>
saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away
while we slept. <a name="C0128V14" id="C0128V14">28:14</a> If this comes
to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry."
<a name="C0128V15" id="C0128V15">28:15</a> So they took the money and did
as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and
continues until this day.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0128V16" id="C0128V16">28:16</a> But the eleven disciples went
into Galilee, to the mountain where Yeshua had sent them. <a name="C0128V17"
id="C0128V17">28:17</a> When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but
some doubted. <a name="C0128V18" id="C0128V18">28:18</a> Yeshua came to
them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me
in heaven and on earth. <a name="C0128V19" id="C0128V19">28:19</a>
Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, <a
name="C0128V20" id="C0128V20">28:20</a> teaching them to observe all
things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end
of the age." Amen.
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N400" id="N400">[0]</a> <a href="#C011V1">back to 1:1</a> Yeshua is the Hebrew name for Yeshua
</p>
<p>
<a name="N401" id="N401">[1]</a> <a href="#C011V1">back to 1:1</a> Messiah
(Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean "Anointed One"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N402" id="N402">[2]</a> <a href="#C011V16">back to 1:16</a>
"Yeshua" means "Salvation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N403" id="N403">[3]</a> <a href="#C011V23">back to 1:23</a>
Isaiah 7:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N404" id="N404">[4]</a> <a href="#C012V1">back to 2:1</a> The
word for "wise men" (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists,
physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers. Probably refers to Jewish scholars from
Babylon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N405" id="N405">[5]</a> <a href="#C012V6">back to 2:6</a> Micah
5:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N406" id="N406">[6]</a> <a href="#C012V15">back to 2:15</a> Hosea
11:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N407" id="N407">[7]</a> <a href="#C012V18">back to 2:18</a>
Jeremiah 31:15
</p>
<p>
<a name="N408" id="N408">[8]</a> <a href="#C013V3">back to 3:3</a> Isaiah
40:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N409" id="N409">[9]</a> <a href="#C013V6">back to 3:6</a> or,
immersed
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4010" id="N4010">[10]</a> <a href="#C013V7">back to 3:7</a> or,
immersion
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4011" id="N4011">[11]</a> <a href="#C013V11">back to 3:11</a>
or, immerse
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4012" id="N4012">[12]</a> <a href="#C013V11">back to 3:11</a> TR
and NU add "and with fire"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4013" id="N4013">[13]</a> <a href="#C014V4">back to 4:4</a>
Deuteronomy 8:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4014" id="N4014">[14]</a> <a href="#C014V6">back to 4:6</a>
Psalm 91:11-12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4015" id="N4015">[15]</a> <a href="#C014V7">back to 4:7</a>
Deuteronomy 6:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4016" id="N4016">[16]</a> <a href="#C014V10">back to 4:10</a> TR
and NU read "Go away" instead of "Get behind me"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4017" id="N4017">[17]</a> <a href="#C014V10">back to 4:10</a>
Deuteronomy 6:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4018" id="N4018">[18]</a> <a href="#C014V16">back to 4:16</a>
Isaiah 9:1-2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4019" id="N4019">[19]</a> <a href="#C014V18">back to 4:18</a> TR
reads "Yeshua" instead of "he"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4020" id="N4020">[20]</a> <a href="#C015V3">back to 5:3</a>
Isaiah 57:15; 66:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4021" id="N4021">[21]</a> <a href="#C015V4">back to 5:4</a>
Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4022" id="N4022">[22]</a> <a href="#C015V5">back to 5:5</a> or,
land. Psalm 37:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4023" id="N4023">[23]</a> <a href="#C015V18">back to 5:18</a>
literally, iota
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4024" id="N4024">[24]</a> <a href="#C015V18">back to 5:18</a>
or, serif
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4025" id="N4025">[25]</a> <a href="#C015V21">back to 5:21</a>
Exodus 20:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4026" id="N4026">[26]</a> <a href="#C015V22">back to 5:22</a> NU
omits "without a cause".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4027" id="N4027">[27]</a> <a href="#C015V22">back to 5:22</a>
"Raca" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty"
and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4028" id="N4028">[28]</a> <a href="#C015V22">back to 5:22</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4029" id="N4029">[29]</a> <a href="#C015V26">back to 5:26</a>
literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2
lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4030" id="N4030">[30]</a> <a href="#C015V27">back to 5:27</a> TR
adds "to the ancients,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4031" id="N4031">[31]</a> <a href="#C015V27">back to 5:27</a>
Exodus 20:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4032" id="N4032">[32]</a> <a href="#C015V29">back to 5:29</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4033" id="N4033">[33]</a> <a href="#C015V30">back to 5:30</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4034" id="N4034">[34]</a> <a href="#C015V31">back to 5:31</a>
Deuteronomy 24:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4035" id="N4035">[35]</a> <a href="#C015V38">back to 5:38</a>
Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4036" id="N4036">[36]</a> <a href="#C015V43">back to 5:43</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4037" id="N4037">[37]</a> <a href="#C015V43">back to 5:43</a>
not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4038" id="N4038">[38]</a> <a href="#C016V13">back to 6:13</a> NU
omits "For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.
Amen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4039" id="N4039">[39]</a> <a href="#C016V27">back to 6:27</a>
literally, cubit
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4040" id="N4040">[40]</a> <a href="#C017V14">back to 7:14</a> TR
reads "Because" instead of "How"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4041" id="N4041">[41]</a> <a href="#C018V15">back to 8:15</a> TR
reads "them" instead of "him"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4042" id="N4042">[42]</a> <a href="#C018V17">back to 8:17</a>
Isaiah 53:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4043" id="N4043">[43]</a> <a href="#C018V28">back to 8:28</a> NU
reads "Gadarenes"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4044" id="N4044">[44]</a> <a href="#C019V13">back to 9:13</a>
Hosea 6:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4045" id="N4045">[45]</a> <a href="#C019V13">back to 9:13</a> NU
omits "to repentance".
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4046" id="N4046">[46]</a> <a href="#C019V20">back to 9:20</a>
or, tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4047" id="N4047">[47]</a> <a href="#C019V36">back to 9:36</a> TR
reads "weary" instead of "harassed"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4048" id="N4048">[48]</a> <a href="#C0110V3">back to 10:3</a> NU
omits "Lebbaeus, whose surname was"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4049" id="N4049">[49]</a> <a href="#C0110V8">back to 10:8</a> TR
adds ", raise the dead"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4050" id="N4050">[50]</a> <a href="#C0110V28">back to 10:28</a>
or, Hell.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4051" id="N4051">[51]</a> <a href="#C0110V29">back to 10:29</a>
An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of
a denarius (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural
labor).
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4052" id="N4052">[52]</a> <a href="#C0110V36">back to 10:36</a>
Micah 7:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4053" id="N4053">[53]</a> <a href="#C0111V5">back to 11:5</a>
Isaiah 35:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4054" id="N4054">[54]</a> <a href="#C0111V5">back to 11:5</a>
Isaiah 61:1-4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4055" id="N4055">[55]</a> <a href="#C0111V10">back to 11:10</a>
Malachi 3:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4056" id="N4056">[56]</a> <a href="#C0111V12">back to 11:12</a>
or, plunder it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4057" id="N4057">[57]</a> <a href="#C0111V19">back to 11:19</a>
NU reads "actions" instead of "children"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4058" id="N4058">[58]</a> <a href="#C0111V23">back to 11:23</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4059" id="N4059">[59]</a> <a href="#C0112V4">back to 12:4</a> 1
Samuel 21:3-6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4060" id="N4060">[60]</a> <a href="#C0112V7">back to 12:7</a>
Hosea 6:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4061" id="N4061">[61]</a> <a href="#C0112V21">back to 12:21</a>
Isaiah 42:1-4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4062" id="N4062">[62]</a> <a href="#C0112V35">back to 12:35</a>
TR adds "of the heart"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4063" id="N4063">[63]</a> <a href="#C0113V15">back to 13:15</a>
Isaiah 6:9-10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4064" id="N4064">[64]</a> <a href="#C0113V25">back to 13:25</a>
darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that
looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes
very apparent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4065" id="N4065">[65]</a> <a href="#C0113V33">back to 13:33</a>
literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a
bushel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4066" id="N4066">[66]</a> <a href="#C0113V35">back to 13:35</a>
Psalm 78:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4067" id="N4067">[67]</a> <a href="#C0113V55">back to 13:55</a>
or, Yehudah
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4068" id="N4068">[68]</a> <a href="#C0114V25">back to 14:25</a>
The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is
approximately 3:00 A. M. to sunrise.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4069" id="N4069">[69]</a> <a href="#C0114V25">back to 14:25</a>
see Job 9:8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4070" id="N4070">[70]</a> <a href="#C0114V27">back to 14:27</a>
or, I AM!
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4071" id="N4071">[71]</a> <a href="#C0114V36">back to 14:36</a>
or, tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4072" id="N4072">[72]</a> <a href="#C0115V4">back to 15:4</a>
Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4073" id="N4073">[73]</a> <a href="#C0115V4">back to 15:4</a>
Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4074" id="N4074">[74]</a> <a href="#C0115V9">back to 15:9</a>
Isaiah 29:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4075" id="N4075">[75]</a> <a href="#C0116V18">back to 16:18</a>
Peter's name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4076" id="N4076">[76]</a> <a href="#C0116V18">back to 16:18</a>
Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4077" id="N4077">[77]</a> <a href="#C0116V18">back to 16:18</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4078" id="N4078">[78]</a> <a href="#C0117V24">back to 17:24</a>
A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2
Roman denarii, or about 2 days' wages. It was commonly used to pay the
half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of
silver.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4079" id="N4079">[79]</a> <a href="#C0117V27">back to 17:27</a>
A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian
drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel
temple tax for two people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4080" id="N4080">[80]</a> <a href="#C0118V9">back to 18:9</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4081" id="N4081">[81]</a> <a href="#C0118V16">back to 18:16</a>
Deuteronomy 19:15
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4082" id="N4082">[82]</a> <a href="#C0118V24">back to 18:24</a>
Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money,
equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of
one day's wages for agricultural labor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4083" id="N4083">[83]</a> <a href="#C0118V28">back to 18:28</a>
100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4084" id="N4084">[84]</a> <a href="#C0119V4">back to 19:4</a>
Genesis 1:27
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4085" id="N4085">[85]</a> <a href="#C0119V5">back to 19:5</a>
Genesis 2:24
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4086" id="N4086">[86]</a> <a href="#C0119V19">back to 19:19</a>
Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4087" id="N4087">[87]</a> <a href="#C0119V19">back to 19:19</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4088" id="N4088">[88]</a> <a href="#C0120V2">back to 20:2</a> A
denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a
common wage for a day of farm labor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4089" id="N4089">[89]</a> <a href="#C0120V3">back to 20:3</a>
Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about
9:00 AM.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4090" id="N4090">[90]</a> <a href="#C0120V5">back to 20:5</a>
noon and 3:00 P. M.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4091" id="N4091">[91]</a> <a href="#C0120V6">back to 20:6</a>
5:00 PM
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4092" id="N4092">[92]</a> <a href="#C0120V26">back to 20:26</a>
TR reads "let him be" instead of "shall be"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4093" id="N4093">[93]</a> <a href="#C0121V1">back to 21:1</a> TR
& NU read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4094" id="N4094">[94]</a> <a href="#C0121V5">back to 21:5</a>
Zechariah 9:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4095" id="N4095">[95]</a> <a href="#C0121V9">back to 21:9</a>
"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4096" id="N4096">[96]</a> <a href="#C0121V9">back to 21:9</a>
Psalm 118:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4097" id="N4097">[97]</a> <a href="#C0121V13">back to 21:13</a>
Isaiah 56:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4098" id="N4098">[98]</a> <a href="#C0121V13">back to 21:13</a>
Jeremiah 7:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4099" id="N4099">[99]</a> <a href="#C0121V16">back to 21:16</a>
Psalm 8:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40100" id="N40100">[100]</a> <a href="#C0121V42">back to 21:42</a>
Psalm 118:22-23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40101" id="N40101">[101]</a> <a href="#C0122V32">back to 22:32</a>
Exodus 3:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40102" id="N40102">[102]</a> <a href="#C0122V37">back to 22:37</a>
Deuteronomy 6:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40103" id="N40103">[103]</a> <a href="#C0122V39">back to 22:39</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40104" id="N40104">[104]</a> <a href="#C0122V44">back to 22:44</a>
Psalm 110:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40105" id="N40105">[105]</a> <a href="#C0123V5">back to 23:5</a>
phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are small leather pouches that some
Jewish men wear on their forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to
carry a small scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40106" id="N40106">[106]</a> <a href="#C0123V5">back to 23:5</a>
or, tassels
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40107" id="N40107">[107]</a> <a href="#C0123V14">back to 23:14</a>
Some Greek manuscripts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some
omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40108" id="N40108">[108]</a> <a href="#C0123V15">back to 23:15</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40109" id="N40109">[109]</a> <a href="#C0123V23">back to 23:23</a>
cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in
flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40110" id="N40110">[110]</a> <a href="#C0123V25">back to 23:25</a>
TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40111" id="N40111">[111]</a> <a href="#C0123V33">back to 23:33</a>
or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40112" id="N40112">[112]</a> <a href="#C0123V39">back to 23:39</a>
Psalm 118:26
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40113" id="N40113">[113]</a> <a href="#C0124V15">back to 24:15</a>
Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40114" id="N40114">[114]</a> <a href="#C0124V28">back to 24:28</a>
or, eagles
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40115" id="N40115">[115]</a> <a href="#C0124V29">back to 24:29</a>
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40116" id="N40116">[116]</a> <a href="#C0124V34">back to 24:34</a>
The word for "generation" (genea) can also be translated as
"race."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40117" id="N40117">[117]</a> <a href="#C0125V7">back to 25:7</a>
The end of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically to
avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. The wick height is
also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly and gives good light without
producing a lot of smoke.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40118" id="N40118">[118]</a> <a href="#C0125V40">back to 25:40</a>
The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated
"brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40119" id="N40119">[119]</a> <a href="#C0126V26">back to 26:26</a>
TR reads "blessed" instead of "gave thanks for"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40120" id="N40120">[120]</a> <a href="#C0126V31">back to 26:31</a>
Zechariah 13:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40121" id="N40121">[121]</a> <a href="#C0127V9">back to 27:9</a>
some manuscripts omit "Jeremiah"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40122" id="N40122">[122]</a> <a href="#C0127V10">back to 27:10</a>
Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40123" id="N40123">[123]</a> <a href="#C0127V35">back to 27:35</a>
TR adds "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet:
'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots;'"
[see Psalm 22:18 and John 19:24]
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40124" id="N40124">[124]</a> <a href="#C0127V41">back to 27:41</a>
TR omits "the Pharisees"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40125" id="N40125">[125]</a> <a href="#C0127V45">back to 27:45</a>
noon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40126" id="N40126">[126]</a> <a href="#C0127V45">back to 27:45</a>
3:00 P. M.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40127" id="N40127">[127]</a> <a href="#C0127V46">back to 27:46</a>
TR reads "lama" instead of "lima"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40128" id="N40128">[128]</a> <a href="#C0127V46">back to 27:46</a>
Psalm 22:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N40129" id="N40129">[129]</a> <a href="#C0128V10">back to 28:10</a>
The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated
"brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
</html>
Pgs. 449-459
Ch, 30-32
SECTION XLII
MATTOTH.
AND Mosheh spake with the chiefs of the Tribes of the Beni Yisrael, saying: This is the Word which the Lord hath spoken, saying: A man, a son of thirteen when he shall have vowed a vow before the Lord, or have sworn an oath, saying, I will withhold from such a thing which is permitted to me, shall not be allowed to relax his word (at his own will): nevertheless, the house of judgment (beth dina) can absolve him; but if they absolve him not, whatsoever hath gone out of his mouth he shall perform.
And a female who hath not passed twelve years when she hath vowed a vow before the Lord, and hath bound herself in her father's house until her thirteenth year; and her father hear her vow, and whatever bond she hath bound upon her soul, and her father be acquiescent, and speak not to her; then every vow and every bond which she hath bound upon her soul shall be confirmed. But if her father prohibit her on the day that he heareth, or, not being prepared to confirm, annulleth after he hath heard, (then) no vow or bond that she hath bound upon her soul shall be confirmed; but is remitted and forgiven her before the Lord, because her father hath made her free from the authority of the vow, (or, nullified to her the power of the vow.) And if when she hath been taken by a husband a vow be upon her, or her lips have expressed that which is binding upon her soul while in her father's house, and her father had not absolved her while unmarried, then, when she hath been married, it shall be confirmed. But if after she is married she make a vow, and her husband hear it, and on the day that he heareth it he is minded to confirm it, and is silent to her, then the vow and the bond which she hath bound upon her soul shall be ratified. But if her husband prohibit her on the day that he heareth, then the vow which is upon her, and the utterance of her lips which bound her soul, are remitted and forgiven her. Yet the vow of a widow, or a divorced, whatever hath bound her soul, shall be confirmed upon her. But if, while she was in her husband's house, or while she had not attained to marriage years, she had vowed, or bound her soul with the bond of an oath which her husband had heard of, and had neither spoken nor prohibited her, or had died before she was married, then all her vows shall be confirmed, and all the obligations with which she had bound her soul be ratified, and her father shall have no power to absolve her. But if her husband released her [JERUSALEM. Her husband released her] on the day that he heard, then, whatever her lips had pronounced to be a vow, or a bond upon her soul, shall not be confirmed; and if her husband had annulled them, [JERUSALEM. Her husband had released them,] and she, not knowing, had performed, it shall be forgiven her before the Lord. Every vow, every oath‑bond to chasten the soul, her husband may ratify or annul. But if her husband was silent and consented when he heard from one day to the next, then all her vows and all the bonds upon her are ratified; by his silence he hath confirmed them; for be was silent to her on the day, and consented, and absolved her not on the day that he heard. But if, absolving, he would absolve her one day after he had heard, there is no force in the absolution; and if he then nullify the word, her husband or her father shall bear her sin. These are the publications of the statutes which the Lord commanded Mosheh (on these matters) between a man and his wife, and a father and his daughter in the day of her youth in her father's house; [JERUSALEM. In the time of her youth in her father's house;] but not in the time of her youth, and she be in the house of her husband.
XXXI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take retribution for the children of Yisrael from the Midianites; and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people. And Moshe spake with the people, saying: Arm of you men, [JERUSALEM. Arm of you,] for the host to make war against Midian, to give the people of the Lord avengement upon Midian; a thousand of each tribe of all the tribes of Yisrael send ye to the war. And of the thousands of Yisrael fit men were chosen who gave up themselves, a thousand of a tribe, twelve thousand, armed for the war. And Mosheh sent them, a thousand of each tribe to the war, them and Phinehas bar Elazar the priest unto the war, with the Uraia and Thummaia consecrated to inquire for them, and the Jubilee trumpets in his hand for assembling, encamping, and ordering forward the host of Yisrael. And they warred against Midian, circumventing them from three corners, as the Lord had instructed Mosheh, and they killed every male; and they slew the kings of the Midianites with the slain of their armies, Evi, Rekem, Zur, who is Balak, and Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Bileam bar Beor they killed with the sword. And it was when Bileam the guilty saw Phinehas the priest pursuing him, he made use of his magical arts, (lit., made words of enchantment,) and flew in the air of the heavens; but Phinehas forthwith pronounced the Great and Holy Name, and flew after him, and seized him by his head, and bringing him down drew the sword, and sought to kill him; but he opened his mouth with words of deprecation, and said to Phinehas: If thou wilt spare my life, I swear to thee that all the days I live I will not curse thy people. He answered him, and said: Art thou not Laban the Amarite who didst seek to destroy Jakob our father, who wentest down into Mizraim, to destroy his children, and, after they had come out of Mizraim, didst send the wicked Amalek against them; and hast thou not now been sent to curse them? But after thou hadst seen that thy works did not prosper, and that the Word of the Lord would not hear thee, thou didst give the evil counsel to Balak to set his daughters in the way to make them go wrong, when there fell of them twentyfour thousand. Therefore, it cannot be that thy life may be spared; and at once he drew the sword and slew him.
And the sons of Yisrael led captive the wives of the Midianites, their children, their cattle, and all their flocks, and destroyed all their goods; and all their towns, the houses, of their rulers, and the high places of their houses of worship, they burned with fire; but they took all the spoil and the prey both of men and beasts, and brought to Mosheh, Elazar the priest, and all the congregation of Yisrael, the captives, the prey, and the spoils, at the camp in the fields of Moab, by the Jordan, near Jericho.
And Mosheh and Elazar the priest, with all the heads of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. But Mosheh was angry with the leaders appointed over the host, the chiefs of thousands and of hundreds who came from the war with the host; and Mosheh said to them, Why have you spared all the women? These are they who caused the offence of the sons of Yisrael, by the counsel of Bileam, to do wrongly before the Lord in the matter of Peor, so that pestilence came upon the congregation of the Lord. Now, therefore, slay every male among the children, and every woman who hath known a man; but every female child you shall stand before the Crown of Holiness, (the priest's tiara,) and look upon her: she who is not a virgin will be pallid in the face, but she who is a virgin child will blush in the face, like fire; them you shall spare. But as for you, abide without the camp seven days; whoever hath slain a man, or touched the dead, you shall sprinkle on the third; and on the seventh day both you and your captives, and every garment, and whatever is made of skin, goats' hair, horn, or bone, and every vessel of wood, you shall sprinkle.
And Elazar the priest said to the men of the host who had returned from the war: This is the manifestation of the decree of the Torah which the Lord hath commanded to Mosheh. Nevertheless, these (articles) without their rust, the gold, silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead, [JERUSALEM. Tin and lead,] their vessels, but not the unformed and simple (metals), every thing whose nature it is to abide the fire, of the pans, pots, spits, and gridirons, you shall make to pass through fire to purify them, and afterward (sprinkle them) with water such as is used to purify the unclean; but whatever will not abide the fire coverlids, cups flagons, and utensils, you shall make to pass through forty sata of water; and you shall wash your raiment on the seventh day to be clean, and afterwards come into the camp.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh saying: Take the sum of the prey of the captives, both of man and beast, and take their amount, thou and Elazar the priest, and the chiefs of the fathers of the congregation; and divide the spoil between the men of war who took the spoil in the conflict of battle, having gone forth with the host, and between all the congregation; and separate that which is to be given up to the Name of the Lord by the men of war who went forth with the host: one woman out of five hundred; so, likewise, of oxen, asses, and sheep. From their half, the portion of the men of war, shalt thou take them, and give to Elazar the priest, as a separation unto the Name of the Lord; but of the half (falling to) the children of Yisrael thou shalt take one out of fifty of the women, and of the oxen, the asses, and of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the Lord's tabernacle; and Mosheh and Elazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And the amount of the prey, the rest of the spoil which had been taken by the people who went forth in the host,‑the number of the sheep was six hundred and seventy‑five thousand; oxen, seventy‑two thousand; asses, sixty‑one thousand; persons, the women who had not known man, all the persons thirty‑two thousand. And the half of the portion for the men who had gone to the war, the number of the sheep was three hundred and thirty‑seven thousand five hundred; and the amount of that brought up for the Name of the Lord was of sheep six hundred and seventy‑five; oxen thirty‑six thousand, those for the Name of the Lord seventy‑two; asses thirty thousand five hundred, for the Name of the Lord sixty‑one; persons sixteen thousand, for the Name of the Lord thirty‑two. And Mosheh gave the number separated to the Name of the Lord unto Elazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And the half part for the children of Yisrael which Mosheh divided from the men's who went forth to the war, the amount was three hundred and thirty‑seven thousand five hundred sheep, thirty‑six thousand oxen, thirty thousand five hundred asses, and sixteen thousand women. And Mosheh took from the half part for the children of Yisrael of that which bad been captured, one out of fifty, whether of man or beast, and gave it to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And the officers who had been appointed over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, drew near to Mosheh, and they said to Mosheh, Thy servants have taken the account of the men of war who have been with us, and not any of them are wanting. And we have brought a gift unto the Name of the Lord, forasmuch as the Lord hath delivered the Midianites into our hands, and we have been able to subdue their land and their cities. And we entered into their chambers, and there saw their daughters, fair, tender, and delicate; and every man who found on them jewels of gold, loosened the coronets from their heads, the earrings from their ears, the necklaces from their necks, the bracelets from their arms, the rings from their fingers, and the brooches from their bosoms;‑but in all this we abstained from lifting our eyes upon themselves, or gazing on one of them, lest we should sin with any one of them, and die the death which the wicked die in the world to come. And may this be had in memorial for us in the day of the great judgment, to make propitiation for our souls before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. And we have brought the oblation of the Lord. When we entered into the houses of the Midianite kings, and into their sleeping‑chambers, and saw there the fair and delicate daughters of the Midianite kings, we took from their beads their golden coronets, the earrings from their ears, the rings from their fingers, the bracelets from their arms, and the jewels from their bosoms; yet, Mosheh our master! far was it from us,‑not one of us was united with any one of them, neither will he be companion with her in Gehinnom. In the world to come may it stand to us, in the day of the great judgment, to propitiate for our souls before the Lord.]
And Mosheh and Elazar the priest took the gold from them, every article fabricated; and the sum of all the gold of the separation which they had separated unto the Name of the Lord was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the captains of thousands and of hundreds. For the men of the host had taken spoil, every man for himself. And Mosheh and Elazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of ordinance, a good memorial of the sons of Yisrael before the Lord.
XXXII. Now the sons of Reuben and of Gad possessed much cattle, exceeding much: and they surveyed the land of Mikvar and of Gilead, and, behold, it was a region suitable for cattle folds. [JERUSALEM. And they saw the land of Mikvar and of Gilead, and, behold, it was a place of wealth.] And the sons of Gad and Reuben came and spoke to Mosheh, Elazar, and the princes of the congregation, saying: Makelta, Madbeshta, Mikvar, Beth Nimre, Beth Hoshbane, Maalath Meda, Shiran, Beth Kebureth, de Moshe, and Behon, [JERUSALEM. Makalta, Madbeshta, Mikvar, Beth Nimrin, Heshbon, Elhala, Shebam, Nebo, and Behan,] the land which the Lord hath subdued, and whose inhabitants he hath smitten before the congregation of Yisrael, is a land suitable for cattle, and thy servants have cattle. [JERUSALEM. Wealth.] They said therefore, If we have found grace before thee, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and let us not pass over Jordan.
But Mosheh said to the sons of Gad and Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and you sit down here? And why should you enfeeble [JERUSALEM. And why do you break] the will of the sons of Yisrael from going over to the land which the Lord hath given to them? So did your fathers when I sent them from Rekem Giah to survey the land: they went up to the brook of Ethkela, and saw the land, [JERUSALEM. They went unto Segola, and saw the land,] but enfeebled the will of Yisrael's heart, that they would not enter into the land which the Lord had given to them. And the anger of the Lord was that day moved, and He sware, saying If these men who came out of Mizraim from twenty years old and up ard shall see the land which I covenanted to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, because they have not fully (walked) according to My fear; except Kaleb bar Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Jehoshua bar Nun, for they have fully (walked) after the fear of the Lord. And the anger of the Lord was moved against Yisrael, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation which did evil before the Lord have been consumed. And, behold, you are risen up after your fathers, disciples of wicked men, to increase yet the anger of the Lord against Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. You have multiplied the men of sin yet to increase the strength of His displeasure.] For if you go back from fearing Him, He will still make them abide in the wilderness, and so will you destroy all this people.
And they drew near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds for our flocks, and towns for our families; but we will go armed among the sons of Yisrael until we have brought them into their place: but our families shall dwell in towns defended against the inhabitants of the land. [JERUSALEM. In cities fortified against the (former) masters of the land.] We will not return to our homes until the sons of Yisrael possess every one his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them over the Jordan and beyond; for our inheritance cometh to us beyond Jordan eastward.
And Mosheh said to them, If you will perform this thing; if you will go forth armed before the people of the Lord to the war, if some of you armed will pass over Jordan before the Lord's people to go on with the war until He hath driven out the enemy before Him, and the land be subdued before the people of the Lord, then afterwards you shall return, and be acquitted before the Lord and by Yisrael; and this land shall be yours for an inheritance before the Lord. But if you will not perform this, behold, ye will have sinned before the Lord your God, and know that your sin will meet you. Build (then) cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath proceeded from your mouth. [JERUSALEM. Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath come out of your mouth.]
And the sons of Gad and Reuben spake to Mosheh with one consent, saying, Thy servants will do whatever my lord hath commanded: our children, wives, flocks, and all our cattle shall be here in the cities of Gilead; but thy servants will go over, every one armed for the host, before the people of the Lord to the war, as my lord hath said.
And Mosheh commanded concerning them Elazar the priest, and Jehoshua bar Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the Beni Yisrael, and said to them: If the sons of Gad and of Reuben go over the Jordan with you, every one armed for the war, before the people of the Lord, and the land be subdued before you, then shall you give to them the land of Gilead for a possession. But if they will not pass over armed with you, then they shall receive an inheritance among you in the land of Kenaan. But the sons of Gad and Reuben answered and said: Whatsoever the Lord hath spoken to thy servants so will we do. We will go over armed before the Lord's people into the land of Kenaan, that our inheritance may be on this side the Jordan.
And Mosheh gave to them, the sons of Gad and of Reuben, and to the half tribe of Menasheh bar Joseph, the kingdom. of Sihon king of the Amoraee, and the kingdom of Og king of Mathnan, the land with its cities by the limits of the cities of the land round about. And the sons of Gad built (rebuilt) Madbashta and Maklalta and Lechaiath, [JERUSALEM. And the sons of Gad built Debeshta, and Maklalta, and Lechaiath,] and Maklelath, Shophena, and Mikvar Geramatha, [JERUSALEM. And Maklalta of Shophan, and Makvar, and Jegbeha,] and the strong city of Beth Nimrin, and Beth Haran, fenced cities (with) folds for sheep. And the sons of Reuben built (rebuilt) Beth Heshbon and Mahalath Mera, and the city of the two streets paved with marble which is Beresha, and the place of the sepulchre of Mosheh, and (rebuilt) the city of Balak, destroying out of it the idol of Peor, in the house of his high places, and the city whose walls surrounded it, inscribed with the names of his heroes, and Shiran. And after they had built them they called their names after the names of the men who had built them.
And the sons of Makir bar Menasheh went to Gilead and subdued it, and drave out the Amoraee who were therein. And Mosheh gave Gilead to Makir bar Menasheh, and he dwelt in it. And Jair bar Menasheh went and subdued their villages, and called them the villages of Jair. And Nobach went and subdued Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobach, after his own name.
SECTION XLII.
MATTOTH.
AND Mosheh spake with the heads of the tribes of the Beni Yisrael, saying: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: When a man shall make a vow before the Lord, or swear an oath to bind a bond upon his soul, he shall not make void his word; according to all that hath come out of his mouth he shall perform. And if a woman make a vow before the Lord, and bind (herself) with a bond in her father's house, (being) in her youth, and her father shall hear her vow, and the obligation she hath bound upon her soul, and her father be silent to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond that she hath bound upon her soul shall be confirmed. But if her father prohibit (or undo) them on the day that he heareth, all the vows and the bonds that she hath bound upon her soul shall not stand, and she shall be forgiven before the Lord, because her father undid them. And if she hath a husband, and taketh a vow upon her, or if her lips pronounce that which becometh binding upon her soul, and her husband heard and was silent to her on the day that he heard, her vows shall stand, and the obligation she hath bound upon her soul be confirmed: but if her husband on the day that he heareth shall prohibit them, the vows which are on her and the utterance of her lips which became binding on her soul shall be void, and be forgiven her before the Lord.
But every vow of the widow, or of one divorced, which she hath bound upon her soul, shall be confirmed upon her. And if (while in her husband's house) she had vowed, or had bound aught upon her soul with an oath, and her husband heard and was silent to her, and did not prohibit them, all her vows shall be confirmed, every bond with which she hath bound her soul shall be confirmed.
But if indeed her husband shall make them void in the day that he heard, that which her lips expressed in her vow and in the binding of her soul shall not be confirmed; her husband hath made them void, and she shall be absolved before the Lord. Every vow and every covenant (oath) to chastise the soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void. But if her husband was entirely silent to her from day to day, then he hath confirmed all her vows, or whatever bonds (she taketh) upon her, he confirmeth them, because he was silent to her on the day that he heard. But if he shall indeed make them void after (the day that) he had heard, then he shall bear her sin. These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Mosheh between a man and his wife, (and) between a father and his daughter, in her youth in her father's house.
XXXI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Avenge the children of Yisrael of the Midianites; afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people. And Mosheh spake with the people, saying: Arm, of you, men for the host against Midian, to avenge this people of the Lord upon Midian: a thousand of a tribe, a thousand of a tribe, of all the tribes or Yisrael, shall you send to the host.
And from the thousands of Yisrael there were chosen a thousand of a tribe, twelve thousand armed for the host. And Mosheh sent them one thousand of a tribe to array them, and Phinehas bar Elazar the priest, with the host, and the holy vessels, and the Jubela trumpets in his hand. And the host gathered against Midian, as tile Lord had commanded Mosheh; and they slaughtered every male.
But the kings of Midian they killed with their slain, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Chur, and Reba, five kings of Midian, and Bileam bar Beor, they killed with the sword. And the sons of Yisrael took the women of Midian captives, with their children and all their cattle, and all their flocks and all their goods they despoiled.
And all their cities where they dwelt, and their houses of worship, they burned with fire. And they took all the spoil, and all the prey of man and of cattle, and brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Mosheh, and to Elazar the priest, and to all the congregation of the Beni Yisrael, to the camp in the fields of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.
And Mosheh and Elazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went out to meet them, without the camp. But Mosheh was angry with those who had been appointed over the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the battle. And Mosheh said to them, Have you spared every woman? Behold, these it was (who caused) the sons of Yisrael, through the counsel of Bileam, to do wickedly before the Lord in the matter of Peor, and the plague came upon the congregation of the Lord. But now, slay every male among the children, and every woman who hath known a man you shall slay.
But all the females who have not known a man ye may preserve alive unto you.
And you, abide without the camp seven days; whoever have destroyed life or touched the dead, sprinkle yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day yourselves and your captives. And every garment, and whatever is made of skin, and every work of goat's hair, and every vessel of wood you shall sprinkle.
And Elazar the priest said to the men of war who came from the battle, This is the decree of the Torah which the Lord hath commanded Mosheh: Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, iron, tin, and lead, everything that can abide in the fire, you shall make to go through fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be sprinkled with the water of sprinkling; and whatever may not abide the fire you shall make to pass through water. And cleanse your garments on the seventh day; purify yourselves, and afterwards come into the camp.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take the account of the spoil of the captives, man and beast; thou, Elazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation, and divide the spoil among the men who fought the battle, who went forth in the host, and among all the congregation: and separate a portion before the Lord from (that of) the men who fought the battle, who went forth in the host, one living thing in five hundred, of man and beast, oxen, asses, and sheep. Take it of their half, and give it to Elazar the priest, for a separation before the Lord. And of the half (belonging) to the children of Yisrael, take one of every fifty, of man, of oxen, sheep, and all cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.
And Mosheh and Elazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Mosheh; and the booty, the rest of the prey which the people who went forth to the war had taken, was, sheep six hundred and seventy-five thousand, oxen seventy-two thousand, asses sixty-one thousand, persons, women who had not known man, every soul thirty-two thousand. And the half portion of the men who had gone out to the war, the number was, sheep three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred; and that which was brought up before the Lord, of the sheep six hundred and seventy-five; and of the thirty-six thousand oxen, the portion brought before the Lord seventy-two. And the asses, thirty thousand five hundred, of which the portion brought before the Lord sixty-one. And the persons sixteen thousand, those of them brought before the Lord thirty-two persons. And Mosheh gave the separation brought up before the Lord to Elazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And of the children of Yisrael's half, which Mosheh divided from (that) of the men who had gone out in the host,and the half part for the congregation as, sheep three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred, oxen thirty-six thousand, and asses thirty thousand five hundred, and persons sixteen thousand: and Mosheh took from the children of Yisrael's half one portion of fifty of man and beast, and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the Lord's tabernacle, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
And they who had been appointed over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came to Mosheh, and said to Mosheh, Thy servants have taken the account of the men who went forth to the war with us, and there is not wanting one man of us. And we bring an oblation before the Lord of what each man hath found, vessels of gold, chains, bracelets, rings, amulets, and brooches, to make atonement for our souls before the Lord. And Mosheh and Elazar the priest took the gold of them, every fabricated vessel. And all the gold of the separation which the captains of thousands and of hundreds separated before the Lord was: sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels; for the men of the host had taken spoil, every man for himself. And Mosheh and Elazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of ordinance, a memorial of the sons of Yisrael before the Lord.
XXXII. Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad possessed much cattle, exceedingly many; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and, behold, the region was a place fit for folds of cattle. And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spake to Mosheh and to Elazar the priest, and to the heads of the congregation, saying: Maklelta and Malbasta and the Priests of Beth-Nemrin, and Beth-Hesh-bena,[1] and Baale Debaba, and Seath, (the sepulchre of Mosheh,)[2] and Beon, the land which the Lord smote before the congregation of Yisrael, is a country fitted for cattle folds, and thy servants have cattle. And they said, If we have found grace in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and let us not go over the Jordan.
But Mosheh said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brethren go in to fight, and you sit down here? And why turn you away the heart[3] of the sons of Yisrael from going over to the land which the Lord hath given to them? Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Rekem Giah to survey the land. They went up to the stream of Ethkela, and saw the land, and subverted[4] the heart of the sons of Yisrael, that they might not go in unto the land that the Lord had given to them; and the Lord's anger was kindled that day, and He sware, saying: If the men who have come out of Mizraim, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I covenanted to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; for they have not been wholly after my fear. Only Kaleb bar Jephuneh, the Kenezite, and Jehoshua bar Nun, for they have been wholly after the fear of the Lord. And the Lord's anger was strong against Yisrael, and he made them linger in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that did wickedly before the Lord had been consumed. And, behold, you have risen up after your fathers, the disciples of the men of sin, to add yet to the fierce displeasure of the Lord against Yisrael. For if you turn again from (following) after His service, He will yet make you remain in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.
And they came near to him, and said: We will build here sheepfolds for our cattle and cities for our families; and we will go forth eagerly, armed, before the sons of Yisrael, to bring them into their place; and our families shall abide in cities defenced against the inhabitants of the land: nor will we return to our homes till the sons of Yisrael shall possess every man his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them over the Jordan and beyond; for we receive our possession on the eastward side of the Jordan.
And Mosheh said to them: If you will do this; if you will go armed before the people of the Lord to war, and (a host) of you all armed will pass the Jordan before the people of the Lord, until He shall have driven out the enemy before Him, and the land have been subdued before the Lord's people, then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord and with Yisrael, and this land shall be to you for an inheritance before the Lord. But if you do it not, behold, you have sinned before the Lord; and know, that your sin will find you. Build you cities for your families, and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath come from your mouth. And the tribe of the Beni Gad and of the Beni Reuben spake to Mosheh, saying: Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle shall be here in the cities of Gilead; but thy servants, a host all armed, will pass over before the people of the Lord to war, as our lord speaketh.
And Mosheh commanded concerning them Elazar the priest, and Jehoshua bar Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the Beni Yisrael. And Mosheh said to them, If the sons of Gad and of Reuben pass over the Jordan with you, all armed for war, before the Lord's people, and the land be subdued before you, then shall you give them the land of Gilead for a possession. But if they go not over armed with you, they shall inherit among you in the land of Kenaan. But the sons of Gad and of Reuben answered, saying: As the Lord hath spoken to thy servants, so will we do. We will pass over armed before the people of the Lord into the land of Kenaan, that the possession of our inheritance may be on the other side Jordan. And Mosheh gave to them, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half tribe of Menasheh bar Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amoraah, and the kingdom of Og the king of Mathanan,[5] the land with the cities thereof in the coasts, (even) the cities of the country round about.
And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, and Ataroth Shophan, and Jazer, and Jagbeha, and Beth-nimra, and Beth-haran, fenced cities and sheepfolds. And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elhala, and Kirjathaim, and Nebo,[6] and Baal Meon, changing their names, and Sibama; and they called by their names the names of the cities which they built.
And the sons of Makir bar Menasheh went unto Gilead, and subdued it, and cast out the Amoraah who were in it. And Mosheh gave Gilead to Makir bar Menasheh, and he dwelt therein. And Jair bar Menasheh went and subdued their villages, and called them the villages of Jair. And Nobach went and subdued Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobach after his name.
[1] Kumerin de beth Nimrin.
[2] Seath beth keburta de Mosheh.
[3] Syr., “break.” Sam. Vers., “bring down the heart.”
[4] Syr., “broke.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “Batania.”
[6] Syr., “Jabok and Nobu.”
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Ch. 14-15
SECTION XXVIII.
METSORA
XIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, This shall be the Torah for the leper: on the day of his purification he shall be brought to the priest. And the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and look, and behold, the leper hath been healed of his leprosy. Then the priest shall direct that he who is to be cleansed take two birds, alive and clean, and wood of the cedar, and scarlet (wool), and hyssop. And the priest shall instruct the killer to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel with spring water. Let him take the living bird with the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that had been killed, and in the spring water. And let him sprinkle it upon the face of him who is to be cleansed of the leprosy seven times, and cleanse him; and send forth. the living bird over the face of the field. And it will be that if that man is again to be stricken with leprosy, the living bird will come back to his house on that day, and may be held fit to be eaten. But the bird that had been killed the priest shall bury in the presence of the leper. And he who is cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, and be clean; and afterward he may enter the camp, but shall dwell without his tent, the house of his habitation, and come not to the side of his wife for seven days. And on the seventh day he shall again shave off all the hair of his head, of the beard, and of the eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave, and dip his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and he is clean.
And on the eighth day let him take two lambs unblemished, and one ewe lamb of the year unblemished; and three‑tenths of flour for the mincha mingled with olive oil, and one log of olive oil. And the priest who purifieth the man who is to be cleansed shall make him stand with the lambs before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall take one lamb, and offer him as an oblation for trespass, with the log of oil, and uplift them all elevation before the Lord. And the slayer shall kill the lamb in the place where the sin offering is killed, and the burnt offering, in the holy place; because, as the sin offering, so the trespass offering is the priest's; it is most sacred. And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and shall put it upon the middle point of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and upon the middle joint of his right hand, and on the middle joint of his right foot. And the priest, with his right hand, shall take (some) from the log of oil, and pour it upon the priest's left hand; and the priest shall dip his right hand finger in the oil which is in his left hand, and sprinkle the oil with his finger seven times. And of what remaineth of the oil that is in his hand the priest shall put some upon the cartilage of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and upon the middle finger of his right hand, and on the middle toe of his right foot upon the spot whereon he had first put the blood of the trespass offering. And that which yet remaineth of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. And the priest shall perform the oblation of the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his defilement; and afterwards shall he kill the burnt offering. And the priest shall offer the burnt offering with the mincha at the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
But if he be a poor man, and his hand have not sufficiency, let him take one lamb for the trespass offering to be an elevation to make atonement for him, and one tenth of flour mingled with olive oil for the mincha, and a log of olive oil. And two large turtle doves, or two young pigeons, of the sufficiency of his hand, and let one be for the sin and one for the burnt offering. And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his purification unto the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall take the lamb for the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and uplift them, an elevation before the Lord. And the slayer shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take the blood of the trespass offering, and. put it upon the middle cartilage of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the middle joint of his right hand, and on the middle joint of his right foot. And the priest shall pour some of the oil with his right hand into the priest's left band, and the priest with the finger of his right band shall sprinkle of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. And the priest shall. put of the oil that is in his hand on the middle cartilage of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the middle joint of his right hand, and on the middle joint of his right foot, upon the spot whereon he first put the blood of the trespass offering. And what remaineth of the oil that is upon the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him who is to be cleansed, to atone for him before the Lord. And the priest shall perform (the offering of) one of the large turtle doves, or of the pigeons of which his hand had sufficiency. That which his hand was sufficient to bring, let him bring, one for the sin, and one for the burnt offering, with the oblation of the mincha, and let the priest make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the Lord. This is the decree of instruction for him in whom is the plague of leprosy. If there be not sufficiency in his hands to bring the greater oblations, let him bring of these oblations which are easier (and) which are here explained, on the day of his purification.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying, When you have entered upon the land of Kenaan which I will give you for a possession, and a man who hath builded a house by rapine finds that I have put the plague of leprosy in the house of the land of your inheritance; and he who owneth the house shall come to the priest, saying, There is a plague, as it appeareth to me, in the house: then the priest shall direct that they make the house empty before the priest cometh to inspect the house, that all that is in the house may not be (condemned as) unclean; and after that the priest shall go in to inspect the house. And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague be like (the colour of) two beans crushed with stones, and goeth lower than the four walls, green or red, and its appearance be deeper than the walls; the priest shall go out from the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. And the priest, returning on the seventh day, shall look, and, behold, if the breadth of the plague hath increased in the wall of the house, then the priest shall direct that they break out the stones which have the plague in them, and throw them without the city into an unclean place. And they shall scrape the inside of the house round about, and throw the dust which they have scraped off without the city into an unclean place. And they shall take other stones, and insert them in the place of the (former) stones, and let other mortar be taken, and the house be replastered. [JERUSALEM. And they shall plaster the house.] But if the plague return and increase in the house, after the stones have been broken out, and after the house hath been scraped, and after that it hath been replastered, then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, (if) the breadth of the plague hath increased in the house, it a plain leprosy in the house, it is unclean. Then shall they destroy that house, and its stones, and its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and lie shall remove it without the city to an unclean place. And whoever goeth into the house in the days that it is shut up, shall be unclean until evening. And whoever sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
But if, having gone in, the priest looketh, and, behold the breadth of the plague hath not increased in the house, after the house hath been plastered, then the priest shall make the house to be clean, for the plague hath healed. And he shall take, for the purification plague of the house, two turtle doves and cedarwood and scarlet and hyssop; and the slayer shall kill one turtle dove in a vessel of earthenware with spring water; and he shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that had been killed and in the spring water, and sprinkle the house seven times. And he shall purify the house with the blood, with the living bird, and with the cedarwood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet. And the living bird he shall send forth out of the town upon the face of the field, and shall atone for the house, and it shall be clean. But if it is to be that the house will be again struck with leprosy, the bird on that day will return, and may be fit for food. But the bird that was killed shall the priest bury in the presence of the owner of the house. This is the decree of instruction in the Torah for every plague of leprosy and scorbutus, and for leprosy in apparel, or in a house; and for and for tumours, scars, and inflamed blotches. [JERUSALEM. And for tomours, scars, and inflamed blotches.] That the priest may teach the people to discern between the day of darkness in which they may not be able to see the plague, and the day of light; and between a man who is unclean and a man who is clean. This shall be the decree of instruction for the leprosy.
XV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: A man, whether young or old, who hath a defluxion from his flesh, when he hath seen it three times, is unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness, the appearance of the colour of white in his defluxion inflaming, the defluxion of his flesh; or when his flesh hath stopped from his defluxion, it is his uncleanness. Every bed on which one who hath such defluxion lieth shall be unclean; and every thing on which such an one sitteth shall be unclean. And the man who toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in forty seahs of water, and shall be unclean until evening. And whoever may sit upon a thing whereon such an one who hath an issue hath sat, let him wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And whoever may touch the flesh of one having an issue, let him wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And if he who hath an issue spit upon any one who is clean, let him wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And every girdle or saddle upon which he who hath an issue rideth shall be unclean. And whoever toucheth any thing that hath been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he who carrieth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And whoever toucheth him who hath the issue, and washeth not his hands in water, shall be unclean; if he be a man, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until the evening. And any vessel of earthenware whose inside may have been touched by him who hath the issue shall be broken; and any vessel of wood shall be washed in water.
But if he who hath had the issue shall have ceased from it, he shall number to himself seven days for his purification, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in spring water, to be clean. And on the eighth day let him take for himself two large turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them before the Lord at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance, and deliver them to the priest. And the priest shall make one a sin offering and one a burnt offering, and the priest shall atone for him before the Lord, and he shall be cleansed from his issue. But if a man sin through ignorance and seed goeth from him, let him wash all his flesh in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And any garment or skin on which seed may be shall be washed in water, and be unclean until evening; and secondly, a woman with whom a man lieth shall wash in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And if a woman hath an issue of blood, red or dark, yellow as saffron, or water of clay, or as red wine mixed with two parts of water, she hath an uncleanness of blood in her flesh; she shall dwell apart seven days; any one who toucheth her shall be unclean until evening. Whatever such an one shall lie upon during the time of her separation shall be unclean; and whatever such an one sitteth upon during the time of her separation shall be unclean. And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself with forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And whoever toucheth any thing upon which such an one hath sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until evening. And if the effusion of her body be upon her bed, or on a thing upon any part of which she sitteth, what time any one toucheth it, he shall be unclean until evening. If a man lie with her in the time of her separation, he shall be unclean seven days; and any bed upon which he lieth shall be unclean. But a woman who hath a defluxion of blood three days beyond the time of her separation, or when it floweth after the days of her separation, all the days of the uncleanness of her defluxion shall she be unclean; he who lieth with her shall be unclean. And any bed upon which such any one lieth all the days of her defluxion shall be as the bed which was accounted hers during the time of her separation, and any thing upon which such an one sitteth shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation. And whoever toucheth those (things) shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in forty seahs of water, and be unclean until the evening.
But when she is cleansed from her issue, let her number to herself seven days, and afterwards wash in forty seahs of water, and be clean. And on the seventh day, let her take for herself two turtle doves, or two young pigeons eons, and bring them to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the priest shall make one a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering and the priest shall make atonement before the Lord, on account of the defluxion of her uncleanness. So shall you separate the children of Yisrael from their uncleanness, and make them to be separate from their wives at the time of their seclusion, and to give not occasion that they die for their uncleanness in defiling My tabernacle, where the glory of My Shekinah dwelleth among them.
This is the decree of instruction for him who hath a defluxion, and for him whose seed goeth forth and defileth him; and for her who is unclean in the time of her separation, and for any one who hath an issue, whether male or female, and for a man who lieth with the unclean. All these shall be advised of their uncleanness, and, when purified, shall bring the oblations that make atonement for them.
SECTION XXVIII.
METSORA.
XIV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: This shall be the Torah for the leper on the day of his purification: He shall be brought to the priest; and the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the leper be healed of his leprosy, then the priest shall direct that there be brought for him who is to be cleansed two birds, alive, clean, and wood of cedar and scarlet (wood) and hyssop. And the priest shall direct that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel with spring water. And he shall take the living bird with the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that had been killed over the spring water. And he shall sprinkle it on him who is to be cleansed form leprosy seven times, and he shall be clean: and the living bird he shall send forth upon the face of the field. And he who is cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself clean with water, and afterward he may come into the camp; but he shall dwell without his tent seven days. And on the seventh day he shall (again) shave off all the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, the whole of his hair shall he shave off, and wash his clothes, and wash his flesh with water, and he shall be clean. And on the eighth day let him take two (he) lambs unblemished, and one ewe lamb of the year unblemished, and three tenths of flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha, and one loga of oil. And the priest who maketh him clean shall make the man who is cleansed to stand with them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall take one lamb and offer him for a trespass offering, and the loga of oil, and shall uplift them an elevation before the Lord. And he shall slay the lamb on the place where the sin offering is killed, and the burnt offering, (namely,) in the holy place; for as the sin, so the trespass, offering is the priest’s: it is most sacred. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the tow of his right foot. And the priest shall take of the log of oil and pour it on the priest’s left hand. And the priest shall dip the finger of his right hand in the oil which is upon his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. And of the rest of the oil which is upon his hand the priest shall put upon the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the tow of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering. And the remainder of the oil which is upon the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him who is cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. And the priest shall perform the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is cleansed from his defilement, and afterwards shall he kill the burnt offering. And the priest shall sacrifice the burnt offering with the mincha at the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
But should he be a poor man, and his hand have not (so much) pertaining (to him), let him take one lamb for the trespass offering for the elevation to atone for him, and one-tenth of flour sprinkled with oil for the mincha, and a loga of oil and two turtle doves or two young pigeons which his hand may possess; and one shall be the sin offering, and one the burnt offering. And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his purification unto the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance before the Lord. And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall uplift them, an elevation before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and on the finger of his right hand, and on the tow of his right foot. And of the oil the priest shall pour (some) upon the priest’s left hand; and the priest shall put of the oil which is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him who is cleansed, and on the finger of his right hand, and on the tow of his right foot, upon the spot of the blood of the trespass offering. And the remainder of the oil which is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him who is cleansed, to propitiate for him before the Lord. And he shall offer (perform) one of the turtle doves, or of the young pigeons, which his hand may possess, the one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt offering, with the mincha; and the priest shall make atonement for him who is cleansed, before the Lord. This is the Torah for him in whom hath been the plague of leprosy, whose hand hath not had sufficiency for (the sacrifices of) his purification.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying: When you have entered the land of Kenaan, which I will give unto you for a possession; and I have put the plague of leprosy upon a house in the land of your possession; and he who owns the house shall come and show to the priest, saying, There is a plague, as it appeareth to me, in the house: the priest shall direct that they turn out (all that is in) the house before the priest goeth in to inspect the plague; that all that is in the house be not (condemned as) unclean; and afterward the priest shall enter to survey the house. Then he shall look at the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house in seams, green or red, and they appear to be deeper than the (surface of the) wall, then the priest shall go out from the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and look, and, behold, if the plague hath increased in the walls of the house, then the priest shall order that they take down the stones of the house in which the plague is, and cast them without the town into an unclean place. And they shall scrape the house within round about, and throw the plaster (dust) which they have scraped off without the town, into an unclean place. And they shall take other stones, and insert them in the place of the former stones, and shall take other plaster and cover the house. And if the plague return and increase in the house after that the stones have been taken down, nad after they have scraped the house, and after it hath been plastered (anew); then the priest shall enter, and, behold, if the plague hath increased in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house, it is unclean. And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, the timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them[1] (have them carried) without the town unto an unclean place. And whoso goeth into the house all the days that it is shut up, shall be unclean until the evening. And he who may sleep in the house shall wash his clothes, and he who eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. But if the priest, having entered, shall look, and, behold, the plague hath not increased in the house after the house hath been plastered, the priest shall make (pronounce) the house to be clean, for the plague hath been cured. And he shall take, to purify the house, two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. And he shall kill the one bird in a vessel of pottery with spring water, and take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird; and dip them in the blood of the bird which had been killed and in the spring water, and sprinkle the house seven times. And he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with the spring water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet. But he shall send forth the living bird out of town, upon the face of the field, and make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
This is the Torah for every plague of leprosy and of scorbutics, and for leprosy in clothing, and in a house: and for abscess, and scar, and inflamed spot: to teach on what day it is unclean, and on what day it is purified. This is the Torah for the leprosy.
XV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When any man hath a defluxion by the running of his flesh, he is unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness by his defluxion, when his defluxion floweth form his flesh, or his flesh hath ceased from its flowing, it is (the cause) of his uncleanness. Every bed whereon he lieth who hath the defluxion shall be unclean; and anything whereon he sitteth shall be unclean. And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. And he who sitteth on a thing whereon he who hath the issue hath sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. And he who toucheth the flesh of him who hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. And if he who hath the issue spit upon one who is clean, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. And any saddle (or carriage) that he who hath the issue may ride upon shall be unclean; and whoever toucheth any things that have been under him shall be unclean until evening. And whomsoever he who hath the issue toucheth, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. And every vessel of earthenware which he who hath the issue may have touched shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
And when he who hath had a defluxion shall be cleansed of his issue, he shall number to himself seven days for his purification, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in spring water, and be clean. And on the eighth day let him take two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and give them to the priest. And the priest shall perform (the offering of) them; one for the sin, and one for the burnt, offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, for his issue. And if seed of copulation go out from a man, he shall wash all his flesh with water, and be unclean until evening. The woman with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall bathe themselves with water, and be unclean until evening.
If a woman have a defluxion of blood in her flesh, seven days shall be for her separation, and whoso toucheth her shall be unclean until evening. And every thing on which she lieth in her separation shall be unclean, and any thing that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And any one who toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; and any one who toucheth a thing upon which she hath sat shall was his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. And if it be on her bed, or any thing on which she hath sat, when he hath touched it, he shall be unclean until the evening. And if a man lie with her, and her separation be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and any bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
And if a woman hath a defluxion of blood many days beyond the time of her separation, if it run beyond (the time) of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation; she shall be unclean. Any bed on which she lieth all the days of her defluxion shall be as the bed of her separation, and every thing on which she sitteth shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation. And whoso toucheth them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
But if she be cleansed form her defluxion, then let her number to herself seven days, and afterward she is clean. And on the eighth day let her take or herself two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall make the one a sin offering, and one burnt offering, and the priest shall atone before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness. And (thus) shall you separate the children of Yisrael form their uncleanness, that they die not, by defiling My Tabernacle which is among them. This is the Torah for him who
[1] Sam. Vers., “they shall destroy.”
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<a name="C331V1" id="C331V1">1:1</a> The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the
Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Yehudah,
which he saw concerning Shomron and Yerushalayim.
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<a name="C331V2" id="C331V2">1:2</a> Hear, you peoples, all of you.
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Listen, O earth, and all that is therein:
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and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you,
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the Lord from his holy temple.
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<a name="C331V3" id="C331V3">1:3</a> For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of
his place,
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and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
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<a name="C331V4" id="C331V4">1:4</a> The mountains melt under him,
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and the valleys split apart,
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like wax before the fire,
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like waters that are poured down a steep place.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C331V5" id="C331V5">1:5</a> "All this is for the disobedience
of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and for the sins of the house of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
What is the disobedience of Jacob?
</dt>
<dd>
Isn't it Shomron?
</dd>
<dt>
And what are the high places of Yehudah?
</dt>
<dd>
Aren't they Yerushalayim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V6" id="C331V6">1:6</a> Therefore I will make Shomron like a
rubble heap of the field,
</dt>
<dd>
like places for planting vineyards;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will pour down its stones into the valley,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will uncover its foundations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V7" id="C331V7">1:7</a> All her idols will be beaten to pieces,
</dt>
<dd>
and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire,
</dd>
<dd>
and all her images I will destroy;
</dd>
<dt>
for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them,
</dt>
<dd>
and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C331V8" id="C331V8">1:8</a> For this I will lament and wail;
</dt>
<dd>
I will go stripped and naked;
</dd>
<dd>
I will howl like the jackals,
</dd>
<dd>
and moan like the daughters of owls.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V9" id="C331V9">1:9</a> For her wounds are incurable;
</dt>
<dd>
for it has come even to Yehudah.
</dd>
<dt>
It reaches to the gate of my people,
</dt>
<dd>
even to Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V10" id="C331V10">1:10</a> Don't tell it in Gath.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't weep at all.
</dd>
<dd>
At <a href="#N331">Beth Ophrah</a> I have rolled myself in the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V11" id="C331V11">1:11</a> Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in
nakedness and shame.
</dt>
<dd>
The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out.
</dd>
<dd>
The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V12" id="C331V12">1:12</a> For the inhabitant of Maroth waits
anxiously for good,
</dt>
<dd>
because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V13" id="C331V13">1:13</a> Harness the chariot to the swift
steed, inhabitant of Lachish.
</dt>
<dd>
She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion;
</dd>
<dd>
For the transgressions of Yisrael were found in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V14" id="C331V14">1:14</a> Therefore you will give a parting
gift to Moresheth Gath.
</dt>
<dd>
The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V15" id="C331V15">1:15</a> I will yet bring to you, inhabitant
of Mareshah.
</dt>
<dd>
He who is the glory of Yisrael will come to Adullam.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C331V16" id="C331V16">1:16</a> Shave your heads,
</dt>
<dd>
and cut off your hair for the children of your delight.
</dd>
<dt>
Enlarge your baldness like the vulture;
</dt>
<dd>
for they have gone into captivity from you!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N331" id="N331">[1]</a> <a href="#C331V10">back to 1:10</a> Beth Ophrah
means literally "House of Dust."
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C332V1" id="C332V1">2:1</a> Woe to those who devise iniquity
</dt>
<dd>
and work evil on their beds!
</dd>
<dt>
When the morning is light, they practice it,
</dt>
<dd>
because it is in the power of their hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V2" id="C332V2">2:2</a> They covet fields, and seize them;
</dt>
<dd>
and houses, and take them away:
</dd>
<dd>
and they oppress a man and his house,
</dd>
<dd>
even a man and his heritage.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V3" id="C332V3">2:3</a> Therefore thus says Yahweh:
</dt>
<dt>
"Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,
</dt>
<dd>
from which you will not remove your necks,
</dd>
<dd>
neither will you walk haughtily;
</dd>
<dd>
for it is an evil time.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V4" id="C332V4">2:4</a> In that day they will take up a parable
against you,
</dt>
<dd>
and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,
</dd>
<dd>
'We are utterly ruined!
</dd>
<dd>
My people's possession is divided up.
</dd>
<dd>
Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V5" id="C332V5">2:5</a> Therefore you will have no one who
divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C332V6" id="C332V6">2:6</a> "Don't prophesy!"
</dt>
<dd>
They prophesy.
</dd>
<dt>
"Don't prophesy about these things.
</dt>
<dd>
Disgrace won't overtake us."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V7" id="C332V7">2:7</a> Shall it be said, O house of Jacob:
</dt>
<dd>
"Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry?
</dd>
<dd>
Are these his doings?
</dd>
<dd>
Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V8" id="C332V8">2:8</a> But lately my people have risen up as
an enemy.
</dt>
<dd>
You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care,
returning from battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V9" id="C332V9">2:9</a> You drive the women of my people out
from their pleasant houses;
</dt>
<dd>
from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V10" id="C332V10">2:10</a> Arise, and depart!
</dt>
<dd>
For this is not your resting place,
</dd>
<dd>
because of uncleanness that destroys,
</dd>
<dd>
even with a grievous destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V11" id="C332V11">2:11</a> If a man walking in a spirit of
falsehood lies:
</dt>
<dd>
"I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;"
</dd>
<dd>
he would be the prophet of this people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V12" id="C332V12">2:12</a> I will surely assemble, Jacob, all
of you;
</dt>
<dd>
I will surely gather the remnant of Yisrael;
</dd>
<dt>
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
</dt>
<dd>
as a flock in the midst of their pasture;
</dd>
<dd>
they will swarm with people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C332V13" id="C332V13">2:13</a> He who breaks open the way goes up
before them.
</dt>
<dd>
They break through the gate, and go out.
</dd>
<dd>
And their king passes on before them,
</dd>
<dd>
with Yahweh at their head.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C333V1" id="C333V1">3:1</a> I said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Please listen, you heads of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and rulers of the house of Yisrael:
</dd>
<dd>
Isn't it for you to know justice?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V2" id="C333V2">3:2</a> You who hate the good,
</dt>
<dd>
and love the evil;
</dd>
<dd>
who tear off their skin,
</dd>
<dd>
and their flesh from off their bones;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C333V3" id="C333V3">3:3</a> who also eat the flesh of my people,
</dd>
<dd>
and flay their skin from off them,
</dd>
<dd>
and break their bones,
</dd>
<dd>
and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
</dd>
<dd>
and as flesh within the caldron.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V4" id="C333V4">3:4</a> Then they will cry to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but he will not answer them.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
</dt>
<dd>
because they made their deeds evil."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C333V5" id="C333V5">3:5</a> Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim,
"Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they
prepare war against him:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C333V6" id="C333V6">3:6</a> "Therefore night is over you, with
no vision,
</dt>
<dd>
and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;
</dd>
<dd>
and the sun will go down on the prophets,
</dd>
<dd>
and the day will be black over them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V7" id="C333V7">3:7</a> The seers shall be disappointed,
</dt>
<dd>
and the diviners confounded.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, they shall all cover their lips;
</dt>
<dd>
for there is no answer from God."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V8" id="C333V8">3:8</a> But as for me, I am full of power by
the Spirit of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and of judgment, and of might,
</dd>
<dd>
to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
</dd>
<dd>
and to Yisrael his sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V9" id="C333V9">3:9</a> Please listen to this, you heads of the
house of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and rulers of the house of Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
who abhor justice,
</dd>
<dd>
and pervert all equity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V10" id="C333V10">3:10</a> They build up Zion with blood,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yerushalayim with iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V11" id="C333V11">3:11</a> Her leaders judge for bribes,
</dt>
<dd>
and her priests teach for a price,
</dd>
<dd>
and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:
</dd>
<dt>
yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
</dt>
<dd>
"Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us?
</dd>
<dd>
No disaster will come on us."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C333V12" id="C333V12">3:12</a> Therefore Zion for your sake will be
plowed like a field,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yerushalayim will become heaps of rubble,
</dd>
<dd>
and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C334V1" id="C334V1">4:1</a> But in the latter days,
</dt>
<dd>
it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established
on the top of the mountains,
</dd>
<dd>
and it will be exalted above the hills;
</dd>
<dd>
and peoples will stream to it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V2" id="C334V2">4:2</a> Many nations will go and say,
</dt>
<dd>
"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
and to the house of the God of Jacob;
</dd>
<dd>
and he will teach us of his ways,
</dd>
<dd>
and we will walk in his paths."
</dd>
<dt>
For out of Zion will go forth the Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
and the word of Yahweh from Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V3" id="C334V3">4:3</a> and he will judge between many peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
and will decide concerning strong nations afar off.
</dd>
<dd>
They will beat their swords into plowshares,
</dd>
<dd>
and their spears into pruning hooks.
</dd>
<dt>
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will they learn war any more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V4" id="C334V4">4:4</a> But they will sit every man under his
vine and under his fig tree;
</dt>
<dd>
and no one will make them afraid:
</dd>
<dd>
For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken. <a name="C334V5" id="C334V5">4:5</a>
Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods;
</dd>
<dd>
but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V6" id="C334V6">4:6</a> "In that day," says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"I will assemble that which is lame,
</dd>
<dd>
and I will gather that which is driven away,
</dd>
<dd>
and that which I have afflicted;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C334V7" id="C334V7">4:7</a> and I will make that which was lame a
remnant,
</dd>
<dd>
and that which was cast far off a strong nation:
</dd>
<dd>
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even
forever."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V8" id="C334V8">4:8</a> You, tower of the flock, the hill of
the daughter of Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
to you it will come,
</dd>
<dd>
yes, the former dominion will come,
</dd>
<dd>
the kingdom of the daughter of Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V9" id="C334V9">4:9</a> Now why do you cry out aloud?
</dt>
<dd>
Is there no king in you?
</dd>
<dd>
Has your counselor perished,
</dd>
<dd>
that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V10" id="C334V10">4:10</a> Be in pain, and labor to bring
forth, daughter of Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
like a woman in travail;
</dd>
<dd>
for now you will go forth out of the city,
</dd>
<dd>
and will dwell in the field,
</dd>
<dd>
and will come even to Babylon.
</dd>
<dt>
There you will be rescued.
</dt>
<dd>
There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V11" id="C334V11">4:11</a> Now many nations have assembled
against you, that say,
</dt>
<dd>
"Let her be defiled,
</dd>
<dd>
and let our eye gloat over Zion."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V12" id="C334V12">4:12</a> But they don't know the thoughts of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
neither do they understand his counsel;
</dd>
<dd>
for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C334V13" id="C334V13">4:13</a> Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion;
</dt>
<dd>
for I will make your horn iron,
</dd>
<dd>
and I will make your hoofs brass;
</dd>
<dt>
and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
</dt>
<dt>
and I will devote their gain to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C335V1" id="C335V1">5:1</a> Now you shall gather yourself in
troops,
</dt>
<dd>
daughter of troops.
</dd>
<dt>
He has laid siege against us.
</dt>
<dd>
They will strike the judge of Yisrael with a rod on the cheek.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V2" id="C335V2">5:2</a> But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
</dt>
<dd>
being small among the clans of Yehudah,
</dd>
<dd>
out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Yisrael;
</dd>
<dd>
whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V3" id="C335V3">5:3</a> Therefore he will abandon them until
the time that she who is in labor gives birth.
</dt>
<dd>
Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V4" id="C335V4">5:4</a> He shall stand, and shall shepherd in
the strength of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God:
</dd>
<dd>
and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V5" id="C335V5">5:5</a> He will be our peace when Assyria
invades our land,
</dt>
<dd>
and when he marches through our fortresses,
</dd>
<dd>
then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
</dd>
<dd>
and eight leaders of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V6" id="C335V6">5:6</a> They will rule the land of Assyria with
the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
</dd>
<dt>
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
</dt>
<dd>
when he invades our land,
</dd>
<dd>
and when he marches within our border.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V7" id="C335V7">5:7</a> The remnant of Jacob will be in the
midst of many peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
like dew from Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
like showers on the grass,
</dd>
<dd>
that don't wait for man,
</dd>
<dd>
nor wait for the sons of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V8" id="C335V8">5:8</a> The remnant of Jacob will be among the
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of many peoples,
</dd>
<dd>
like a lion among the animals of the forest,
</dd>
<dd>
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
</dd>
<dd>
who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces,
</dd>
<dd>
and there is no one to deliver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V9" id="C335V9">5:9</a> Let your hand be lifted up above your
adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
and let all of your enemies be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V10" id="C335V10">5:10</a> "It will happen in that day,"
says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you,
</dd>
<dd>
and will destroy your chariots.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V11" id="C335V11">5:11</a> I will cut off the cities of your
land,
</dt>
<dd>
and will tear down all your strongholds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V12" id="C335V12">5:12</a> I will destroy witchcraft from your
hand;
</dt>
<dd>
and you shall have no soothsayers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V13" id="C335V13">5:13</a> I will cut off your engraved images
and your pillars out of your midst;
</dt>
<dd>
and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V14" id="C335V14">5:14</a> I will uproot your Asherim out of
your midst;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will destroy your cities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C335V15" id="C335V15">5:15</a> I will execute vengeance in anger,
</dt>
<dd>
and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C336V1" id="C336V1">6:1</a> Listen now to what Yahweh says:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V2" id="C336V2">6:2</a> Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's
controversy,
</dt>
<dd>
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh has a controversy with his people,
</dd>
<dd>
and he will contend with Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V3" id="C336V3">6:3</a> My people, what have I done to you?
</dt>
<dd>
How have I burdened you?
</dd>
<dd>
Answer me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V4" id="C336V4">6:4</a> For I brought you up out of the land of
Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
</dd>
<dd>
I sent before you Moshe, Aharon, and Miriam.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V5" id="C336V5">6:5</a> My people, remember now what Balak king
of Moab devised,
</dt>
<dd>
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C336V6" id="C336V6">6:6</a> How shall I come before Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and bow myself before the exalted God?
</dd>
<dt>
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
</dt>
<dd>
with calves a year old?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V7" id="C336V7">6:7</a> Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands
of rams?
</dt>
<dd>
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
</dd>
<dt>
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
</dt>
<dd>
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V8" id="C336V8">6:8</a> He has shown you, O man, what is good.
</dt>
<dd>
What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,
</dd>
<dd>
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C336V9" id="C336V9">6:9</a> Yahweh's voice calls to the city,
</dt>
<dd>
and wisdom sees your name:
</dd>
<dt>
"Listen to the rod,
</dt>
<dd>
and he who appointed it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V10" id="C336V10">6:10</a> Are there yet treasures of
wickedness in the house of the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
and a <a href="#N332">short ephah</a> that is accursed?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V11" id="C336V11">6:11</a> Shall I be pure with dishonest
scales,
</dt>
<dd>
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V12" id="C336V12">6:12</a> Her rich men are full of violence,
</dt>
<dd>
her inhabitants speak lies,
</dd>
<dd>
and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V13" id="C336V13">6:13</a> Therefore I also have struck you
with a grievous wound.
</dt>
<dd>
I have made you desolate because of your sins.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V14" id="C336V14">6:14</a> You shall eat, but not be satisfied.
</dt>
<dd>
Your humiliation will be in your midst.
</dd>
<dd>
You will store up, but not save;
</dd>
<dd>
and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V15" id="C336V15">6:15</a> You will sow, but won't reap.
</dt>
<dd>
You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil;
</dd>
<dd>
and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C336V16" id="C336V16">6:16</a> For the statutes of Omri are kept,
</dt>
<dd>
and all the works of the house of Ahab.
</dd>
<dd>
You walk in their counsels,
</dd>
<dd>
that I may make you a ruin,
</dd>
<dd>
and her inhabitants a hissing;
</dd>
<dd>
And you will bear the reproach of my people."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N332" id="N332">[2]</a> <a href="#C336V10">back to 6:10</a> An ephah is
a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah
for the purpose of cheating customers.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C337V1" id="C337V1">7:1</a> Misery is mine!
</dt>
<dd>
Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the
vineyard:
</dd>
<dd>
There is no cluster of grapes to eat.
</dd>
<dd>
My soul desires to eat the early fig.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V2" id="C337V2">7:2</a> The godly man has perished out of the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and there is no one upright among men.
</dd>
<dd>
They all lie in wait for blood;
</dd>
<dd>
every man hunts his brother with a net.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V3" id="C337V3">7:3</a> Their hands are on that which is evil
to do it diligently.
</dt>
<dd>
The ruler and judge ask for a bribe;
</dd>
<dd>
and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul.
</dd>
<dd>
Thus they conspire together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V4" id="C337V4">7:4</a> The best of them is like a brier.
</dt>
<dd>
The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.
</dd>
<dt>
The day of your watchmen,
</dt>
<dd>
even your visitation, has come;
</dd>
<dd>
now is the time of their confusion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V5" id="C337V5">7:5</a> Don't trust in a neighbor.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't put confidence in a friend.
</dd>
<dd>
With the woman lying in your embrace,
</dd>
<dd>
be careful of the words of your mouth!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V6" id="C337V6">7:6</a> For the son dishonors the father,
</dt>
<dd>
the daughter rises up against her mother,
</dd>
<dd>
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
</dd>
<dd>
a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V7" id="C337V7">7:7</a> But as for me, I will look to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
</dd>
<dd>
My God will hear me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V8" id="C337V8">7:8</a> Don't rejoice against me, my enemy.
</dt>
<dd>
When I fall, I will arise.
</dd>
<dd>
When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V9" id="C337V9">7:9</a> I will bear the indignation of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
because I have sinned against him,
</dd>
<dd>
until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me.
</dd>
<dd>
He will bring me forth to the light.
</dd>
<dd>
I will see his righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V10" id="C337V10">7:10</a> Then my enemy will see it,
</dt>
<dd>
and shame will cover her who said to me,
</dd>
<dd>
where is Yahweh your God?
</dd>
<dt>
Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame.
</dt>
<dd>
Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V11" id="C337V11">7:11</a> A day to build your walls--
</dt>
<dd>
In that day, he will extend your boundary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V12" id="C337V12">7:12</a> In that day they will come to you
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and from Egypt even to the River,
</dd>
<dd>
and from sea to sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and mountain to mountain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V13" id="C337V13">7:13</a> Yet the land will be desolate
because of those who dwell therein,
</dt>
<dd>
for the fruit of their doings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V14" id="C337V14">7:14</a> Shepherd your people with your
staff,
</dt>
<dd>
the flock of your heritage,
</dd>
<dd>
who dwell by themselves in a forest,
</dd>
<dd>
in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed;
</dd>
<dd>
in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V15" id="C337V15">7:15</a> "As in the days of your coming
forth out of the land of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
I will show them marvelous things."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V16" id="C337V16">7:16</a> The nations will see and be ashamed
of all their might.
</dt>
<dd>
They will lay their hand on their mouth.
</dd>
<dd>
Their ears will be deaf.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V17" id="C337V17">7:17</a> They will lick the dust like a
serpent.
</dt>
<dd>
Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their
dens.
</dd>
<dd>
They will come with fear to Yahweh our Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and will be afraid because of you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V18" id="C337V18">7:18</a> Who is a Elohim like you, who pardons
iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
</dd>
<dt>
He doesn't retain his anger forever,
</dt>
<dd>
because he delights in loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V19" id="C337V19">7:19</a> He will again have compassion on us.
</dt>
<dd>
He will tread our iniquities under foot;
</dd>
<dd>
and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C337V20" id="C337V20">7:20</a> You will give truth to Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and mercy to Avraham,
</dd>
<dd>
as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
</dd>
</dl>
Ch. 21-24
Pgs. 515-527
SECTION XVIII.
MISHPATIM.
XXI. AND these are the orders of judgments which thou shalt order before them. If thou shalt have bought a son of Yisrael, on account of his theft, six years he shall serve, and at the incoming of the seventh he shall go out free without price. If he came in alone, he shall go out alone: but if (he be) the husband of a wife, a daughter of Yisrael, his wife shall go out with him. If his master give him a wife, an handmaid, and she bear him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to his master, and he may go out alone. But if the servant shall affirm and say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, (and) I will not go out free, then his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall receive from them the power, and bring him to the door that hath posts; and his master shall pierce his right ear with an awl; and he shall be a servant to serve him until the jubela. And if a man of Yisrael sell his daughter, a little handmaid, she shall not go forth according to the going forth of the servants of the Kenaanaee, who are set at liberty on account of the tooth or the eye; but in the years of remission, and with tokens, and at the jubela, and on the death of her master, and by redemption with money. If she hath not found favour before her master who bought her, then her father may redeem her; but to a foreigner he shall not have power to sell her; for as a vessel of her Lord he hath power over her. And if he had intended her for the side of his son, he shall do by her after the manner of the daughters of Yisrael. If he take another daughter of Yisrael to him beside her, her food, her adorning, and her conjugal rights, he shall not withhold from her. [JERUSALEM. And if he take another wife beside her, of her food, her adorning, and her going in and coming out with him, he shall not deprive her.] And if these three things he doth not for her, to covenant her to himself, or to his son, or to release her into the hand of her father, she shall go free without payment, and a writing of release he shall give her.
Whosoever smiteth a son or a daughter of Yisrael, so as to cause death, shall be put to death with the sword. But he who did not attack him, but mischance from before the Lord befell him at his hand, I will appoint thee a place where he may flee. But if a man come maliciously upon his neighbour to kill him with craft, though the priests are ministering at My altar, thence thou shalt take him, and slay him with the sword. [JERUSALEM. But if a man deviseth against his neighbour to kill him by guile, though the high priest were standing to minister before Me, from thence thou shalt bring him, and put him to death.] And he who woundeth his father or his mother shall die by strangling.[1] And he who stealeth a soul of the children of Yisrael, and selleth him, or if he be found in his possession, shall die by strangling. And he who curseth his father or his mother by the Great Name,[2] dying he shall die by being stoned with stones. And when men strive together, and one smite his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, so that he die not, but fall ill, if he rise again from his illness, and walk in the street upon his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted from the penalty of death; only for his cessation from labour, his affliction, his injury, his disgrace, and the hire of the physician, he shall make good until he be cured. And when a man hath smitten his Kenaanite man‑servant or maid‑servant with a staff, and he die the same day under his hand, he shall be judged with the judgment of death by the sword. But if the wounded person continue one or two days from time to time, he shall not be (so) judged; because with money he had bought him. If men when striving strike a woman with child, and cause her to miscarry, but not to lose her life, the fine on account of the infant which the husband of the woman shall lay upon him, he shall pay according to the sentence of the judges. But if death befall her, then thou shalt judge the life of the killer for the life of the woman. The value of an eye for an eye, the value of a tooth for a tooth, the value of a hand for a hand, the value of a foot for a foot, all equivalent of the pain of burning for burning, and of wounding for wounding, and of blow for blow. And when a man strikes the eye of his Kenaanite servant or handmaid, and causeth blindness, he shall let him go free, on account of the eye. And if he strike out the tooth of his Kenaanite man or maid‑servant, he shall make the servant free on account of the tooth.
And if an ox goreth a man or woman to cause death, the ox must be stoned, but shall not be killed that his flesh may be eaten; and the owner of the ox shall be exempt from the condemnation of death, and also from the price of the servant or handmaid. But if the ox (had been wont) to gore yesterday and before, and it had been attested before his owner three times, and he (had neglected) to restrain him, the ox, when he killeth man or woman, shall be stoned, and his master also shall die with a death sent upon him from heaven. Yet if a fine of money be laid upon him, he may give a ransom for his life, according to what shall be imposed on him by the sanhedrin of Yisrael. Whether the ox hath gored a son or a daughter of Yisrael, according to that judgment it shall be done to him. If an ox goreth a Kenaanite man‑servant or handmaid, the master of the man or woman‑servant shall give thirty sileen[3] of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. And if a man openeth a pit in the street, and doth not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; the master of the pit shall deliver silver to give to its owner the price of the ox or the ass, and the dead body shall be his. And when an ox woundeth his neighbour's ox, and he die, they shall sell the living ox, and divide the price, and the price of the dead one shall they also divide. But if it hath been known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his master did not restrain him, he shall surely deliver ox for ox; but the carcase and the skin shall be his. When a man stealeth an ox or a sheep, and killeth or selleth it, five oxen shall he make good for one ox, because he hath hindered him from his ploughing; and four sheep for one, because he hath impoverished him by his theft, and not done service by it.
XXII. If a thief be found in a window of the wall, and be smitten and die, there shall not be on his account the guilt of the shedding of innocent blood. If the thing be as clear as the sun that he was not entering to destroy life, and one hath killed him, the guilt of the shedding of innocent blood is upon him; and if spared from his hand, restoring he shall restore. If he have not wherewith to restore, the beth din shall sell him for his theft until the year of release. If before witnesses, the thing stolen was found in his possession, from an ox or an ass, unto a sheep alive, he shall restore two for one. If a man break in upon a field or a vineyard, and send in his beast to feed in another man's field, the best of his field and the best of his vineyard he shall restore. If fire break out, and catch thorns, and consume the sheaves, or whatever is standing, or the field, whoever kindled the fire shall surely restore.
When a man confideth to his neighbour silver, or vessels to keep, without recompense for the care, and they be stolen from the man's house, if the thief be found, he shall restore two for one. If the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, and shall swear that he hath not put forth his own hand upon the property of his neighbour. And about whatever is injured covertly, whether ox, or ass, or sheep, or raiment, of whatever is (so) lost, he shall make oath when he saith that so it is; and when the thing stolen shall be afterward found in the hand of the thief, the cause of both shall be brought before the judges, the cause of the householder and the cause of the thief; and whom the judges shall condemn, the thief shall restore twofold to his neighbour If a man deliver to his neighbour all ox, or a sheep, or any animal to keep, (if) he is to keep it without recompense, and it die, or be torn by wild beast, or be carried off, and no witness seeing who can testify it; an oath of the Lord shall be between them both, that he hath not put forth his hand upon the property of his neighbour; and the owner of the thing shall accept his oath, and he shall not (be required to) make it good. But if it be stolen from him who was to receive recompense for the care, he shall make it good to its owner. If it hath been torn by a wild beast, let him bring witnesses, or bring him to the carcase: because for that which is (so) torn he shall not make restitution. [JERUSALEM. 12. If it hath been really killed, he shall bring of its members, as a testimony, and for that which is killed he shall not make restitution.] And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and the vessel be broken, or the animal die, and the owner be not with it, lie shall certainly make it good. If the owner be with it, he shall not make it good: if it had been lent for profit, its loss came on account of its hire.
If a man seduce a virgin unbetrothed, and have criminal conduct with her, endowing, he shall endow her to be his wife. [JERUSALEM. 15. If a man seduce a virgin, unbetrothed, and have criminal conduct with her, endowing, he shall endow her to be a wife.] If this doth not appear to him (to be desirable), or if her father be not willing to give her to him fifty sileen of silver shall be laid upon him, according to the endowment of a virgin. Sons of My people Yisrael, whosoever practiseth witchcraft you shall not suffer to live. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall be stoned to death. Whosoever sacrificeth to the idols of the Gentiles shall be slain with the sword, and his goods be destroyed; for ye shall worship only the Name of the Lord. And the stranger you shall not vex with words, nor distress him by taking his goods: Remember, sons of Yisrael, My people, that you were strangers in the land of Mizraim. You shall not impoverish the widow or the orphan. If thou impoverish her, beware; for if they rise up and cry against you in prayer before Me, I will hear the voice of their prayer, and will avenge them, and My anger will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children be orphans.
If thou lend money to (one of) My people, to (one of) the humble of My people, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither lay it upon him that there shall be witnesses against him, or that he give pledges, or equivalents, or usury. [JERUSALEM. 24. If thou lend money to My people, to the poor of your people, you shall not be to him an oppressive creditor, or lay upon him either equivalents or usury.] If thou take (at all) for a pledge the garment of thy neighbour, thou shalt restore it to him before sunset; for it may be his taleth which alone covereth him; (or) it is his only garment in which he rests, which falleth upon his skin; and if thou take the coverlet of the bed whereon he lies, and he be heard before Me, I will hearken to his prayer; for I am Eloah the Merciful.
Sons of Yisrael My people, ye shall not revile your judges, nor curse the rabbans who are appointed rulers among thy people. The firsts[4] of thy fruits, and the firsts of thy wine‑press, thou shalt not delay to bring up in their time to the place of My habitation. The firstlings of thy males thou shalt separate before Me. So shalt thou do with the firstlings of thy oxen and sheep; seven days it shall be suckled by its mother, and on the eighth day thou shalt separate it before Me. And holy men, tasting unconsecrated things innocently, shall you be before Me; but flesh torn by wild beasts alive you may not eat, but throw it to the dog as his portion.
XXIII. Sons of Yisrael My people, take not up lying words from a man who accuseth his neighbour before thee, nor put thine hand with the wicked to become a false witness. Sons of Yisrael My people, you shall not go after the many to do evil, but to do good; and no one among you shall restrain himself from affirming justly concerning his neighbour in the judgment, by saying, Behold, the judgment sides with the many. [JERUSALEM. Sons of Yisrael My people, you shall not go after the multitude to do evil, but to do good; and no one of you shall restrain himself from setting forth the just cause of his neighbour in the judgment, nor say in your heart, The judgment sides with the many.] And to the poor man who is guilty in his cause, thou shalt not be partial in having compassion upon him; for there must not be respect of persons in judgment. If thou meet the ox of thine enemy whom thou dislikest on account of the wickedness which thou only knowest is in him, or an ass that wandereth from the way, thou shalt surely bring it to him. If thou seest the ass of thy enemy whom thou dislikest on account of the wickedness which thou only knowest to be in him, lying under his burden, and thou wouldst refrain thyself from going near him, thou shalt relinquish at once the dislike of thy heart against (thy enemy), and release and take care of the ass (or, charge thyself with him).
Sons of Yisrael My people, ye shall not warp the judgment of the poor in his cause. From a false matter keep distant. And when one hath gone forth from thy house of justice acquitted, and they (afterwards) find out his guilt; or one hath been brought out condemned, and they (afterward) find out his innocence,-thou shalt not put him to death; for I will not hold (the former) innocent, nor the latter guilty. And thou mayest not receive a bribe; for a bribe blindeth their eyes who have taken it, and casteth down the wise from their seats, and perverteth the right words which are written in the Torah, and confoundeth the words that are in the mouth of the innocent in the hour of judgment. Thou shalt not oppress the stranger; for ye know the sigh of a stranger's soul; because ye were sojourners in the land of Mizraim.
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather the produce; but the seventh year thou shalt exempt it from labour, and give up the fruit of it to be eaten by the poor of My people; and what they leave shall be eaten by the beasts of the field. And in like manner shalt thou do with thy vine and olive grounds. Six days do thy work, and on the seventh day repose, that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and that the uncircumcised son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may rest. And of all the precepts that I have spoken to you, be carefull; and the names of the idols of the Gentiles remember not, nor let them be heard upon your lips.
Three times in the year thou shalt keep festival before Me. The feast of unleavened cakes thou shalt keep. Seven days thou art to eat unleavened bread, as I have instructed thee, in the time of the month of Abiba, because in it thou camest forth from Mizraim; and you shall not appear before Me empty. And the feast of the harvest first‑fruits of the work thou didst sow in the field; and the feast of gathering, at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy work from the field. Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord the Ruler of the world.
Sons of Yisrael My people, while there is leaven in your houses you may not immolate the bloody sacrifice of My Pascha; nor shall the fat of the sacrifice of My Pascha remain without the altar until morning, nor of the flesh that you eat in the evening. The first of the choice fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring to the sanctuary of the Lord thy Elohim. My people of the house of Yisrael, you are not permitted to dress or to eat of flesh and milk mingled together, lest I be greatly displeased; and I prepare you the wheat and the straw together for your food.
Behold, I will send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in to the place of My habitation which I have prepared. Be circumspect before Him, and obey His word, and be not rebellious against His words; for He will not forgive your sins, because His word is in My Name. For if thou wilt indeed hearken to His word, and do all that I speak by Him, I will be the enemy of thy enemy, and will trouble them who trouble thee. For My Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amoraee, and Pherizaee, and Kenaanaee, Hivaee, and Jebusaee; and I will destroy them. Thou shalt not worship their idols, nor serve them, nor do after their evil works; but thou shalt utterly demolish the house of their worship, and break the statues of their images. And you shall do service before the Lord our Elohim and He will bless the provision of thy food and thy drinks, and remove the bitter plague from among thee. None shall be abortive or barren in thy land; the number of the days of thy life I will fulfil from day to day. My terror will I send before thee, and will perturb all the peoples to whom thou comest, that thou mayest wage battle against them; and I will make all thy enemies turn back before thee. And I will send the hornet before thee to drive out the Hivaee, and Kenaanaee, and Hitaee, from before thee. I will not expel them before thee in one year, lest the land become a wilderness, and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee, when they come to eat their carcasses, and injure thee. By little and little I will drive them out before thee, until thou art increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy boundary from the sea of Suph, to the sea of the Philistaee, and from the desert unto the Pherat; for I will deliver into your hand all the inhabitants of the land, and thou shalt drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their idols. Thou shalt not let them dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to err, and to sin before Me, when thou dost worship their idols; for they will be a stumbling‑block to thee.
XXIV. And Michael, the Prince of Wisdom, said to Mosheh on the seventh day of the month, Come up before the Lord, thou and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael, and worship at a distance. And Mosheh alone shall approach before the Lord; but they shall not draw nigh, nor may the people come up with him.
And Mosheh came and set before the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Mosheh wrote the words of the Lord, and arose in the morning and builded an altar at the lower part of the mountain; and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Yisrael. And he sent the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael,-for until that hour had the firstborn had the (office of performing) worship, the tabernacle of ordinance not (as yet) being made, nor the priesthood given unto Aharon; and they offered burnt offerings and consecrated oblations of oxen before the Lord. And Mosheh took half of the blood of the offering, and put it in basins, and half of the blood of the offering he sprinkled upon the altar. And he took the Book of the Covenant of the Torah and read before the people; and they said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will perform and obey. And Mosheh took half of the blood which was in the basins, and sprinkled upon the altar, to expiate the people, and said, Behold, this is the blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you upon all these words.
And Mosheh and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael, went up. And Nadab and Abihu lifted up their eyes, and saw the glory of the Elohim of Yisrael; and under the footstool of His feet which was placed beneath His throne, was like the work of sapphire stone a memorial of the servitude with which the Mizraee had made the children of Yisrael to serve in clay and bricks, (what time) there were women treading clay with their husbands; the delicate young woman with child was also there, and made abortive by being beaten down with the clay. And thereof did Gabriel, descending, make brick, and, going up to the heavens on high, set it, a footstool under the cathedra of the Lord of the world whose splendour was as the work of a precious stone, and as the power of the beauty of the heavens when they are clear from clouds. [JERUSALEM. The footstool of His feet as the work of pure sapphire stones, and as the aspect of the heavens when they are cleared from clouds.]
But upon Nadab and Abihu, the comely young men, was the stroke not sent in that hour, but it awaited them on the eighth day for a retribution to destroy them; but they saw the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord, and rejoiced that their oblations were received with favour, and so did eat and drink.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Ascend before Me at the mount, and I will there give thee the tables of stone on which I have set forth the rest of the words of the Torah, and the six hundred and thirteen precepts which I have written for their instruction. And Mosheh arose and Jehoshua his minister; and Mosheh went up to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord. And to the sages he had said, Expect us here, at the time of our return to you; and, behold, Aharon and Hur are with you; if there be any matter of judgment, bring it to them. And Mosheh went up into the mount, and the Cloud of Glory covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord's Shekinah abode upon the mountain of Sinai, and the Cloud of Glory covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Mosheh from the midst of the Cloud. And the appearance of the splendour of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire with flashes of devouring fire; and the sons of Yisrael beheld and were awe-struck. And Mosheh entered into the midst of the Cloud, and ascended the mountain; and Mosheh was upon the mountain forty days and forty nights, learning the words of the Torah from the mouth of the Holy One, whose Name be praised.
[1] Lit., "by suffocation with the towel."
[2] Or, "by thr Name of Manifestation;" the Shem Hamephirash.
[3] Shekels.
[4] Bekurey.
SECTION XVIII.
MISHPATIM.
AND these are the judgments which thou shalt set In order before them. When thou dost purchase a servant, a son of Yisrael, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh go forth free, for nothing. If he came in alone, he shall go out alone; if the husband of a wife, his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and the children are the master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the servant saying shall say, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free; his master shall bring him before the judges, and shall take him to the door, even to the post, and his master shall bore his ear with an awl; and he shall be to him a working servant for ever.
And when a man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid, she shall not go out as at the outgoing of the men servants. If she be evil in the eyes of the master who had covenanted with her to be his, then shall he make her free; to another man he shall not have ability to sell her to domineer over her. And if he hath covenanted her to his son, after the custom of the daughters of Yisrael shall he act towards her. And if he take another to him, her food, her raiment, and her marriage due he shall not restrain. And if these three he doth not perform to her, he shall release her freely without money.
Whosoever striketh a man and killeth him, being killed he shall be killed. But if it was not (done) covertly to him, but he was delivered into his hand from before the Lord, then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee. But when a wicked man acts toward his neighbour with deceitfulness to kill him, even from Mine altar thou shalt bring him away to put him to death. Whosoever striketh his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. And whosoever stealeth a soul of the house of Yisrael and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall be surely put to death. And he who curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. And when men contend, and a man smiteth his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but fall upon his bed; ‑if he rise (again) and walk about upon his staff, he who smote him shall be acquitted; only he shall make good his loss of labour, and defray the charge of the physician.
And when a man smiteth his servant or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, condemned he shall be condemned. But if he survive one day, or two, he shall not be condemned, because he was his money. If men contending strike a woman with child and she miscarry, but die not, fined he shall be fined, as the husband of the woman may set upon him, and he shall give according to the sentence of judgment. But if death take place, thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot., burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. And if a man smite the eye of his servant or his handmaid and destroy it, he shall let him go free, for the sake of his eye. Or if he beat out (cause to fall) a tooth of his servant or a tooth of his handmaid, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.
If an ox gore a man or woman unto death, the ox being stoned shall be stoned, and his flesh must not be eaten; but the master of the ox shall be acquitted. But if the ox had gored in time before (yesterday and the day before), and it had been attested to his master, and he not keeping him he hath killed man or woman, the ox shall be stoned and the owner be put to death. If a fine of money[1] (if mammon) be laid upon him, he may give redemption for his life according to all that is laid upon him. If the ox gore a son or daughter of Yisrael, after this judgment shall it be done to him. If an ox gore a man‑servant or a maidservant, (the owner) shall give to his master thirty sileen of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
And if a man open a pit, or dig a pit, and doth not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, the master of the pit shall pay: he shall give silver to his owner, and the carcass shall be his own. And if the ox of one man hurt a neighbour's ox that it die, they shall sell the living ox and divide the money; and that which is dead they shall also divide. But if it be known that the ox gored in time past and his owner did not keep him in, paying he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead one shall be his. If a man steal an ox or a lamb, and kill or sell it, he shall repay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the lamb.
XXII. If a thief be found breaking through, and he be smitten and die, there shall be no blood due to him. If the eyes of witnesses fall upon him, blood shall be due to him, paying he shall pay. If he have nothing, he shall be sold for his robbery. If the thing stolen, from an ox to an ass, be found in his possession, they being alive, he shall restore two for one. If a man make waste a field or vineyard, or send his cattle to consume another's field, the best of his field and the best of his vineyard he shall restore. If fire break out, and it find thorns, so that sheaves or standing corn or the field be consumed, he who kindled the fire paying shall pay.
When a man giveth his neighbour silver or vessels to keep, and they be stolen from the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall repay double. If the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges (to make oath) that he hath not put forth his hand upon that which his neighbour had delivered to him. Upon every matter of guiltiness about ox or ass or lamb, or raiment, or anything destroyed of which it may be said, This is it, the cause of both shall be brought before the judges, and he whom the judges shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbour. If a man deliver to his neighbour an ass or an ox or a lamb or any cattle to keep, and it die, or be injured, or be carried away, no one seeing; an oath of the Lord shall be between them that he bath not put forth his hand against that which his neighbour had delivered, and the owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not repay. But if it be stolen from him, he shall repay its owner; and if it be torn, and he bring witnesses that it was torn, he shall not repay. And if a man borrow of his neighbour and it be injured or die, the owner of it not being with it, repaying he shall repay. But if the owner be with it, he shall not repay. If it were hired, let it be (considered) for its hire.
And if a man seduce a virgin who is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely establish her to be his wife. If her father be unwilling to give her to him, he shall weigh down silver according to the dowry of virgins. An enchantress[2] shall not live. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall be surely put to death. Whosoever sacrificeth to the idols of the Gentiles shall be put to death : ‑but to the Name of the Lord alone.
And a stranger thou shalt not trouble nor oppress; for you were sojourners in the land of Mizraim. Afflict not the widow or the orphan: if you indeed afflict them, and they cry before Me, I will surely hearken to their cry; and My displeasure shall be strong, and will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. If thou lend money to My people, to the poor who is with thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer,[3] neither shalt thou inflict an injury upon him. If, (as) a pledge, thou take thy neighbour's garment, at the going away of the sun thou shalt return it unto him. For it may be his only covering; for (then) it is the clothing for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? And it shall be that when he crieth before Me I will hearken; for I am merciful.
Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse the ruler of My people. Thy firstfruits and thy tithes thou shalt not delay (to offer:) the firstborn of thy children thou shalt separate before Me; so shalt thou do with thy oxen and with thy sheep. Seven days shall (the firstling) be with its mother; on the eighth day thou shalt separate it before Me. And ye shall be holy men before Me; and the flesh torn from a living animal you may not eat; you shall cast it to the dogs.
Thou shalt not take up a false report, nor set thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness for him. Thou shalt not follow the many to wickedness, neither shalt thou fail to teach that which in thine eyes is judgment;[4] after the many (majority?) thou shalt fulfil judgment. And upon the poor thou shalt not be pitiful in judging him.
If thou meet the ox of thy enemy, or his ass, wandering away, thou shalt surely bring it back to him. When thou seest thine enemy’s ass prostrate beneath his burden, thou shalt forbear from forsaking him;[5] thou shalt surely abandon what is in thy heart against him, and shalt deliver it unto him. Thou shalt not warp the judgment of the poor man in his cause. From a false matter keep distant; and him who has been acquitted and has come forth from judgment uncondemned thou shalt not kill; for I will not justify the guilty. And thou art not to receive a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the just. And thou shalt not distress the sojourner; for you know the mind of a sojourner; for you were dwellers in the land of Mizraim.
Six years thou shalt sow the land and gather in its produce, but the seventh year thou shalt let it alone and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beast of the field may eat. So also shalt thou do with thy vineyard and with thy olive ground. Six days shalt thou do thy work, and in the seventh day have rest, that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid and thy sojourner may be quiet. And of all that I have spoken to you be mindful, and the name of the idols of the Gentiles remember not; let it not be heard upon thy lips.
Three times thou shalt solemnize festival before Me in the year. Thou shalt keep the festival of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened cake, as I have commanded thee, in the time of the moon of Abiba, for therein you went forth from Mizraim; and you shall not appear before Me empty. And the festival of harvest, the first fruits of thy labours which thou hast sowed in thy fields; and the festival of gathering, at the end of the year when thou gatherest in thy labours from the field. Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord, the Ruler of the world. Thou shalt not offer with unleavened bread the blood of My pascha, neither shall the fat of the sacrifice of the feast remain without on the altar until morning. The beginning of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the sanctuary of the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not eat flesh with milk.
Behold, I send My Angel[6] before thee, to protect thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Take heed before Him, and hearken to His words; rebel not against Him, for He will not forgive your sins; for in My Name are His words. For if thou wilt truly hearken to His words, and do all that I shall speak, I will be a foe to thy enemies, and
will afflict them that afflict thee. For My Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in, to the Amoraee and Hittaee, and Perizaee and Kenaanaee, Hivaee and Jebusaee; and I will destroy them. Thou shalt not worship their idols, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but shalt utterly demolish them, and break their images; and you shall serve before the Lord your Elohim, and He will bless thy food and thy drink, and will take away grievous evils from among thee. There shall be none abortive or barren in thy land; the number of thy days will I complete. I will send My terror before thee, and will perturb all the people among whom thou shalt come to fight against them, and I will make all thy adversaries turn their back before thee. I will send the hornet before thee, and it shall drive out the Hivaee and Kenaanaee and the Hittaee from before thee. I will not expel them before thee in one year, lest the land be made desolate., and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land. And I will appoint thy boundary from the sea of Suph unto the sea of the Philistaee, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt strike no covenant with them nor with their idols. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to commit sin before Me; for if thou serve their idols, it will be a stumbling‑block to thee.
XXIV. And He said to Mosheh, Come up before the Lord, thou and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael; and they shall worship at a distance. And Mosheh shall draw nigh alone before the Lord, but they shall not draw nigh, nor shall the people ascend with them. And Mosheh came and recited to the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words that the Lord hath spoken will we do. And Mosheh wrote all the words of the Lord. And he arose in the morning, and builded an altar at the lower part of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Yisrael. And he sent the firstborn sons of Yisrael, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed oxen (as) consecrated victims before the Lord. And Mosheh took half of the blood and set it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled upon the altar. And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read before the people; and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and obey. And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it upon the altar to propitiate for the people, and said, Behold the Blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath ratified with you upon all these words.
And Mosheh and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisrael went up. And they saw the Glory of the Elohim of Yisrael, and under the throne of His glory as the work of a precious stone, and as the face of heaven for its clearness. Yet the princes of the sons of Yisrael were not hurt; and they saw the Glory of the Lord, and rejoiced in their sacrifices which were accepted with favour, as though they had eaten and drunk. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Come up into My Presence in the mountain, and be there, and I will give thee the tablets of stone, and the Torah and the precepts, as I have written (them), that thou mayest teach them.
And Mosheh arose and Jehoshua his minister, and Mosheh ascended the mountain on which was revealed the Glory of the Lord. But to the elders he said, Wait for us here until we return to you: and, behold, Aharon and Hur are with you: whosoever hath a (matter for) judgment, let him bring it before them. And Mosheh ascended the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain; and the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud enveloped it six days. And He called to Mosheh on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud. And the appearance of the Glory of the Lord was as the appearance of devouring fire on the summit of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Yisrael. And Mosheh entered into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount; and Mosheh was in the mount forty day and forty nights.
[1] Sam. Vers., “If a price of expiation.”
[2] Sam. Vers., “a pythoness.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “an extactor.”
[4] Other copies, “what thou hast sought out concerning judgment.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “wilt thou turn away to abandon him?”
[6] Sam. Vers., shelachi, “my apostle.”
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<a name="C341V1" id="C341V1">1:1</a> An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the
vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. <a name="C341V2" id="C341V2">1:2</a> Yahweh is
a jealous Elohim and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh
takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his
enemies. <a name="C341V3" id="C341V3">1:3</a> Yahweh is slow to anger, and
great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh
has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust
of his feet. <a name="C341V4" id="C341V4">1:4</a> He rebukes the sea, and
makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel;
and the flower of Lebanon languishes. <a name="C341V5" id="C341V5">1:5</a> The
mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at
his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. <a name="C341V6"
id="C341V6">1:6</a> Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the
fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks
are broken apart by him. <a name="C341V7" id="C341V7">1:7</a> Yahweh is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in
him. <a name="C341V8" id="C341V8">1:8</a> But with an overflowing flood, he
will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into
darkness. <a name="C341V9" id="C341V9">1:9</a> What do you plot against
Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
<a name="C341V10" id="C341V10">1:10</a> For entangled like thorns, and drunken
as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. <a
name="C341V11" id="C341V11">1:11</a> There is one gone forth out of you, who
devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness. <a name="C341V12"
id="C341V12">1:12</a> Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full
strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall
pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. <a
name="C341V13" id="C341V13">1:13</a> Now will I break his yoke from off you,
and will burst your bonds apart." <a name="C341V14" id="C341V14">1:14</a>
Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear
your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved
image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C341V15" id="C341V15">1:15</a> Behold, on the mountains the feet of
him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Yehudah!
Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is
utterly cut off.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C342V1" id="C342V1">2:1</a> He who dashes in pieces has come up
against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist!
Fortify your power mightily! <a name="C342V2" id="C342V2">2:2</a> For Yahweh
restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Yisrael; for the
destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches. <a
name="C342V3" id="C342V3">2:3</a> The shield of his mighty men is made red.
The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day
of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. <a name="C342V4"
id="C342V4">2:4</a> The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and
forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like
the lightnings. <a name="C342V5" id="C342V5">2:5</a> He summons his picked
troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the
protective shield is put in place. <a name="C342V6" id="C342V6">2:6</a> The
gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. <a name="C342V7"
id="C342V7">2:7</a> It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away;
and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their
breasts. <a name="C342V8" id="C342V8">2:8</a> But Nineveh has been from of old
like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they
cry, but no one looks back. <a name="C342V9" id="C342V9">2:9</a> Take the
spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store,
the glory of all goodly furniture. <a name="C342V10" id="C342V10">2:10</a> She
is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together,
their bodies and faces have grown pale. <a name="C342V11" id="C342V11">2:11</a>
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions,
where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made
them afraid? <a name="C342V12" id="C342V12">2:12</a> The lion tore in pieces
enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves
with the kill, and his dens with prey. <a name="C342V13" id="C342V13">2:13</a>
"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I
will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young
lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your
messengers will no longer be heard."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C343V1" id="C343V1">3:1</a> Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of
lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart. <a name="C343V2" id="C343V2">3:2</a>
The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing
horses, and bounding chariots, <a name="C343V3" id="C343V3">3:3</a> the
horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a
multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of
the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, <a name="C343V4" id="C343V4">3:4</a>
because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute,
the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution,
and families through her witchcraft. <a name="C343V5" id="C343V5">3:5</a>
"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I
will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your
nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. <a name="C343V6" id="C343V6">3:6</a> I
will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a
spectacle. <a name="C343V7" id="C343V7">3:7</a> It will happen that all those
who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who
will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C343V8" id="C343V8">3:8</a> Are you better than <a href="#N341">No-Amon,</a>
who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose
rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? <a name="C343V9" id="C343V9">3:9</a>
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her
helpers. <a name="C343V10" id="C343V10">3:10</a> Yet was she carried away. She
went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the
head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all
her great men were bound in chains. <a name="C343V11" id="C343V11">3:11</a>
You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a
stronghold because of the enemy. <a name="C343V12" id="C343V12">3:12</a> All
your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they
are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. <a name="C343V13"
id="C343V13">3:13</a> Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates
of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your
bars. <a name="C343V14" id="C343V14">3:14</a> Draw water for the siege.
Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make
the brick kiln strong. <a name="C343V15" id="C343V15">3:15</a> There the fire
will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the
grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. <a
name="C343V16" id="C343V16">3:16</a> You have increased your merchants more
than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away. <a
name="C343V17" id="C343V17">3:17</a> Your guards are like the locusts, and
your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a
cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not
known where they are. <a name="C343V18" id="C343V18">3:18</a> Your shepherds
slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered
on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. <a name="C343V19"
id="C343V19">3:19</a> There is no healing your wound, for your injury is
fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who
hasn't felt your endless cruelty?
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<p>
<a name="N341" id="N341">[1]</a> <a href="#C343V8">back to 3:8</a> or, Thebes
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Pgs. 351-362
Ch. 4-7
SECTION XXXV.
NASA.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take the account of the Beni Gershon also, from thirty years to fifty years, of all who come by bands to do the work of the tabernacle of ordinance. And this is the service of the family of Gershon, to serve and to carry. They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance, its covering, and the hyacinth covering which is upon it above; and the hanging of the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the curtains of the court, and the hanging for the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle round about, and their cords and all the vessels of their service, and all that is delivered to them to serve with. Upon the word of Aharon and his sons shall be all the service of the Beni Gershon, for all their burdens and service, and of their whole work shalt thou ordain the charge upon them. This is the ministry of the family of the Beni Gershon, in the tabernacle of ordinance; and the care of them shall be in the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest.
The sons of Merari shalt thou number, from thirty years to fifty years, everyone who cometh with the band to minister in the work of the tabernacle of ordinance. And this shall be the charge of the burdens of all their service in the tabernacle of ordinance, the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, and bases; the pillars of the court also round about, their pins and their cords, with all the instruments of their whole service, and all those of the charge of their burdens, thou shalt number by their names. This is the work of the family of Merari, according to all their service in the tabernacle of ordinance, under the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest.
And Mosheh arid Aharon numbered the sons of Kehath by their families, and by the house of their fathers, from thirty years to fifty years; every one who came with the band to serve in the tabernacle of ordinance; and the sums of them were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. These are the numbers of the family of Kehath, of all who ministered in the tabernacle of ordinance; whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered upon the mouth of the Word of the Lord by Mosheh.
The numbers of the Beni Gershon, after the families of their father's house from thirty years to fifty years, every one who who came with the band to serve in the tabernacle of ordinance; the sums of them were two thousand six hundred and thirty. These are the numbers of the Beni Gershon, of all who ministered in the tabernacle of ordinance, whom Mosheh arid Aharon numbered upon the mouth of the Word of the Lord by Mosheh.
And the numbers of the Beni Merari, by the families of their father's house, from thirty to fifty years, every one who came with the band to the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, were three thousand two hundred. These are the numbers of the Beni Merari, whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered upon the mouth of the Word of the Lord by Mosheh.
The whole sum of the Levites whom Mosheh arid Aharon and the princes of Yisrael numbered, from thirty to fifty years, all coming by bands to fulfil the charge and service of the porterage of the tabernacle of ordinance, was eight thousand five hundred arid eighty. By the mouth of the Word of the Lord were they numbered by Mosheh, every man according to his service and burden; and the numbering of them was as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
V. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael to send away from the camp every one who is leprous, or who hath an issue, or is unclean by having defiled himself (by touching) the dead. From a male to a female thou shalt send them away, and separate them without the camp, that they may not defile their tents; for the Shekinah of My Holiness dwelleth among you. And the sons of Yisrael did so, and sent them away from the camp; as the Lord had commanded Mosheh, so did the sons of Yisrael.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Say to the children of Yisrael: A man or a woman who committeth any human sin, in acting perversely before the Lord, and hath become guilty; they shall make confession of their sins which they have committed. If he hath extorted money from his neighbour, he shall restore (the amount of) his sin in the principal thereof, and add to it a fifth of its value, and give (both) principal and fifth to him against whom be hath sinned. And if the man (hath died and) hath no kinsman to whom the debt may be rendered, the debt to be restored (shall he render) before the Lord; he shall give it to the priest, besides the ram for his atonement, by which atonement is to be made for him. And every separation of all consecrated things of the children of Yisrael which they bring to the priest shall be his. The consecrated tithe, also, of any man shall be his, that his substance may not fail; whatever a man giveth unto the priest shall be his.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: If the wife of any man go astray and commit wrongness against him, and another man lie with her, and it be hidden from her husband's eyes, and be concealed, and she be contaminated: or, if the testimony be not clear which is witnessed against her, and she be not convicted; or, if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, that she hath been defiled, or the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, though she hath not been defiled; and though that man may have not brought separation or tythe, there is constraint upon him to bring his wife unto the priest. Now, because she may have brought delicacies to the adulterer, she ought to bring an appointed oblation of her own, a tenth of three sata of barley flour, that being the food of beasts: he shall not pour oil, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a mincha (on account) of jealousy, a mincha of a memorial which calleth guilt to mind.
And the priest shall bring her near, and cause her to stand before the Lord.
And the priest shall take holy water from the laver with an ewer, and pour it into an earthen vessel; because she may have brought the adulterer sweet wine to drink in precious vases; and he shall take of the dust that is upon the ground of the tabernacle,-because the end of all flesh is dust,- and put it into the water. And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and bind a cord over her loins and upon her breast,- because she should have bound her loins with a girdle; and he shall uncover the woman's head, because she had tied a fillet upon her hair.
And he shall put the mincha of memorial, the mincha of jealousy, into her hand; while in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water of the trial.
And the priest shall adjure her by the adjuration of the Great and Glorious Name, and shall say to the woman:
If thou hast not turned aside, to defile thyself by acting against the right of thy husband, be thou unhurt by these bitter waters of trial. [JERUSALEM. Be thou made innocent by these waters of trial by their probation.] But if thou hast turned aside against the right of thy husband, and art defiled in having shared the bed with a man against thy husband's right:-Then shall the priest adjure the woman by the oath of malediction, and say to the woman,-The Lord make thee a curse and an execration among the children of thy people, in causing thy thigh to corrupt, and thy belly to swell;. and may these waters of trial enter into thy bowels, to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to corrupt.
And the woman shall answer and say: Amen, if I was polluted when betrothed; Amen, if I have been polluted since my marriage. [JERUSALEM. And the woman shall answer, Amen, because I have not been unclean; Amen, if ever I shall have wrought uncleanness.]
And the priest shall write these maledictions upon a parchment, and wash it out with the water of trial, and cause the woman to drink the bitter trial water: the trial water of malediction shall be received by her. But the priest shall (first) take from the woman's hand the mincha of jealousy, and uplift the mincha before the Lord, and lay it on the side of the altar. And the priest shall take a handful of the portion for its memorial, and burn it at the altar; and after that the woman shall drink the water.
And when he hath caused her to drink the water, it will be that if she hath been defiled by adultery, and hath acted with wrongness against her husband, those proving waters will enter into her with a curse, and her belly will swell, and her thigh become corrupt, and the woman will be an execration among the children of her people. The adulterer as well will be detected by these waters of probation, in whatever place he may be. But if the woman hath not been defiled by adultery, but is innocent, they will enter without harm, and her brightness will shine forth, and she will find affection before her husband, and become the mother of a son.
This is the declaration of the Torah of jealousy, when a woman hath fallen away from the right of her husband, and become defiled by adultery; or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, that he be so jealous of his wife as to make her stand before the Lord, then shall the priest perform all this Torah. But if the man be innocent of transgressions, then let that woman bear her iniquity.
VI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When a man or, woman, seeing her who had gone astray in her corruption, shall (resolve to) become abstinent from wine, or for any other cause shall make the vow of a Nazir in separating one'- self unto the Name of the Lord, he shall abstain from wine, new and old, he shall drink neither vinegar of old wine or new; neither may he drink liquor in which grapes have been crushed, nor eat of grapes either fresh or dried. [JERUSALEM. From wine, new or old, be shall abstain, (keep apart,) and vinegar of old wine he may not drink, nor any liquor. of grapes.] All the days of his vow he shall not eat of the tree which maketh wine, from the husks of grapes even to the kernels within them. All the days of his nazir‑vow the razor shall not pass upon his head until the time when the days of his separation to the Name of the Lord be fulfilled; he shall be consecrate, letting the hair of his head grow. All the days of his separation to the Name of the Lord he shall not go in where there is a dead man. For his father, or his mother, his brother, or his sister, he shall not make himself unclean through their decease; for the crown of Eloah is upon his head; all the days in which he is a Nazir lie shall be sacred before the Lord.
But if a person die near him suddenly, and he unawares defile the head of his vow, let him shave his head on the day of his purification; on the seventh day let him shave it. And on the eighth day let him bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, unto the priest at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall make one a sin offering, and one a burnt offering, and atone for him on account of that in which be hath sinned, in defiling himself by the dead: and he shall consecrate his head on that day. And let him dedicate before the Lord the days of his nazirate (afresh), and bring a lamb of the year for a trespass offering; but the former days will have been in vain, because he had defiled his nazirate.
And this is the Torah of the Nazir on the day when his separation days are fulfilled: Let him present himself at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and bring his oblation before the Lord, one lamb of the year unblemished for a burnt offering, and one ewe Iamb of the year unblemished for a sin offering, and one ram unblemished for the consecrated oblation; and a basket of unleavened cakes of flour with olive oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with olive oil, their minchas and libations. And the priest shall offer before the Lord, and perform the sin offering, and the burnt sacrifice; and make the ram a consecrated victim (peace offering) before the Lord, with the basket of unleavened; and the priest shall make its mincha and its libation. And the Nazir shall shave his consecrated head, without, after the offering of the holy oblations at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and take the hair of his consecrated head, and lay it on the fire that is under the cauldron of the peace offering. And the priest shall take the shoulder that is boiled, entire from the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaved his head of the consecration. And the priest shall uplift them for an elevation. It is sacred; it belongeth to the priest, with the breast of the elevation, and the separated shoulder. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
This is the declaration of the Torah of the Nazir who shall have vowed his oblation before the Lord for his separation, besides what may come into his hand according to the rule (or measure) of his vow, to bring that which he had vowed; so shall he do according to the Torah of his nazirate.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and his sons, saying: Thus shall you bless the children of Yisrael, while spreading forth the hands from the high place;[1] in this tongue.[2] The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make His face to shine upon thee, and gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and grant thee peace. The Lord bless thee in all thy business, and keep) thee from demons[3] of the night, and things that cause terror, and from demons of the noon[4] and of the morning, and from malignant spirits arid phantoms. The Lord make His face to shine upon thee, when occupied in the Torah, and reveal to thee its secrets, and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee in thy prayer, and grant thee peace in thy end. And they shall bestow the benediction of My Name upon the children of Yisrael, and I, by My Word, will bless them.
VII. And it was on the day which begins the month of Nisan, when Mosheh had finished to uprear the tabernacle, he took it not in pieces again, but anointed and consecrated it and all its vessels, the altar and all the vessels thereof, and he anointed them and hallowed them; then the leaders of Yisrael, who were the chiefs of the house of their fathers, brought their offerings. These were they who had been appointed in Mizraim chiefs over the numbered, and they brought their offering before the Lord; six waggons covered and fitted up, and twelve oxen; one waggon for two princes and one ox for each. [JERUSALEM. Six waggons yoked.] But Mosheh was not willing to receive them, and they brought them before the tabernacle. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Take them, and let them be used for the need of the appointed (work), and let the oxen and the waggons be for the work of the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, and give them to the Levites, to each according to the measure of his work. And Mosheh took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. Two waggons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to the amount of their service, and four waggons and eight oxen gave be to the sons of Merari, according to the measure of their service, by the band of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest. But to the sons of Kehath he gave neither waggons nor oxen, because on them was laid the service of the sanctuary, to be carried on their shoulders. And the princes offered at the dedication of the altar by anointing, on the day that he anointed it did the princes present their oblations before the altar. And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Let the princes offer each, one prince on one day, their oblations at the dedication of the altar by anointing.
He who on the first day presented his oblation was Nachshon bar Amminadab, prince of the house of the fathers of the tribe Jehudah: and his oblation which he offered was one silver bow, thickly embossed, (or, crusted,) in weight one hundred and thirty shekels, in shekels of the sanctuary; one silver vase, slightly embossed, of seventy shekels, in shekels of the sanctuary; both of these vessels he brought filled with flour of the separation, sprinkled with olive oil for a mincha; one pan (censer) weighing ten silver shekels, but it was itself of good gold; and he brought it full of good sweet incense of the separation; one young bullock of three years, one ram of two years, and one lamb of the year. These three did the chief of the tribe Jehudah bring for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats he brought for a sin offering; and for consecrated victims, two oxen, five rams, five goats, lambs of the year five: this is the order of the oblation which Nachshon bar Amminadab offered of his wealth. [JERUSALEM. And the oblation which he offered was one silver dish, &c., in the same words as above.]
On the second day, Nethanel bar Zuar, chief of the house of the fathers of the tribe Issakar, brought his oblation. He brought his oblation after Jehudah by commandment of the Holy: one silver dish thickly embossed, one hundred and thirty shekels, &c., as the first.[5]
On the third day, Eliab bar Helon, prince of the Beni Zebulon, offered. On the fourth, Elizur bar Shedeur, prince of the Beni Reuben; on the fifth, Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai, prince of Shemeon; on the sixth, Eljasaph bar Dehuel, prince of the Beni Gad; on the seventh, Elishama bar Ammihud, prince of the Beni Ephraim; on the eighth, Gamaliel bar Pedazur, prince of Menasheh; on the ninth, Abidan bar Gideoni, prince of Benjamin; on the tenth, Achiezer bar Amishaddai, prince of the Beni Dan; on the eleventh, Pagiel bar Achran, prince of Asher; and on the twelfth day, Achira bar Enan, prince of the Beni Naphtali, offered.
This is the oblation at the anointing of the altar, on the day that they anointed it, from the riches of the princes of Yisrael: twelve silver bowls, answering to the twelve tribes; twelve silver vases, answering to the twelve princes of the Beni Yisrael; twelve golden pans, answering to the twelve signs (mazalia[6]). One hundred and thirty shekels was the weight of each silver bowl, answering to the years of Jokebed when she bare Mosheh; and seventy shekels was the weight of each vase, answering to the seventy elders of the great Sanhedrin: all the silver vessels, two thousand four hundred shekels, in shekels of the sanctuary. The golden pans were twelve, answering to the princes of Yisrael, full of good sweet incense; the weight of ten shekels was the weight of each pan, answering to the Ten Words; all the gold of the pans, one hundred and and twenty (shekels), answering to the years lived by Mosheh the prophet. All the bullocks for the burnt offering, twelve, a bullock for a prince of the house of the fathers; twelve rams, because the twelve princes of Ishmael would perish; twelve lambs of the year, because the twelve princes of Persia would perish; and their minchas, that famine might be removed from the world; and twelve kids of the goats for the sin offering, to atone for the sins of the twelve tribes. And all the oxen for consecrated victims, twenty‑four, answering to the twenty‑four orders (of the priests); the rams, sixty, answering, to the sixty years which Izhak had lived when he begat Jakob; the goats, sixty, answering to the sixty letters in the benediction of the priests; lambs of the year, sixty, to atone for the sixty myriads of Yisrael. This was the dedication of the altar by anointment on the day that they anointed it.
And when Mosheh entered into the tabernacle of ordinance to speak with Him, he heard the voice of the Spirit who spake with him descending from the heaven of heavens upon the Mercy Seat which was upon the Ark of the Testimony between the two Cherubim, and from thence was the Oracle speaking with him.
[1] Or, "place of speaking."
[1] The Hebrew, which the Targumist gives textually, and then paraphrases in Chaldee. See the Glossary.
[1] Liliths
[1] Psalm xci. 6. Vulg. et Sept.
[1] The oblation of each of the twelve tribes was precisely the same. I have therefore omitteds the details after the first, and given only the name of the offerer. The Targumist abridges here, also.
[1] Signs of the Zodiac.
[1] Or, "place of speaking."
[2] The Hebrew, which the Targumist gives textually, and then paraphrases in Chaldee. See Glossary.
[3] Lihths
[4] Psalm xci. 6. Vulg. et Sept.
[5] The oblation of each of the twelve tribes was precisely the same. I have therefore omitteds the details after the first, and given only the name of the offerer. The Targumist abridges here, also.
[6] Signs of the Zodiac.
SECTION XXXV.
NASO
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:Take the account of the sons of Gershon also, after the house of their fathers, by their families; from thirty years and upwards to fifty years shalt thou number them, of all who come by companies to perform service in the tabernacle of ordinance. This is the service or the family of Gershon, to serve and to carry. And they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of the tabernacle of ordinance, its covering, and the covering of hyacinth which is over it above, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the curtains of the court, and the hanging that is at the entrance of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service; and with all that is delivered to them they shall perform their service. By the word of Aharon and his sons shall be all the service of the Beni-Gershon, with all their burdens, and all their employment; and you shall appoint them in charge with all their burdens. This is the service of the family of the Beni-Gershon in the tabernacle of ordinance, and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest.
The sons of Merari number thou after the families of their father's house; from a son of thirty years and upward unto fifty years, shalt thou number them, of all who come by companies to perform the service of the tabernacle of ordinance.
And this is the charge of their burthen of all the service in the tabernacle of ordinance; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and their bases; and the columns of the court round about, their bases, pins, and cords of all the instruments of all their service; and by their names you shall number the instruments of the charge of their burthen. This is the ministry of the family of the Beni-Merari, after all their service in the tabernacle of ordinance under the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest.
And Mosheh and Aharon and the chiefs of the congregation numbered the sons of Kehath, by their families, and by the house of their fathers; from a son
of thirty years and upward to fifty years; everyone who came with the band to the service in the tabernacle of ordinance. And they who were numbered of them by their families, were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. These are the numbered of the family of Kehath, everyone serving in the tabernacle of ordinance, whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered upon the Word of the Lord, by the hand of Mosheh.
And the numbered of the sons of Gershon after the families of their father's house, from thirty years and upwards to fifty years, everyone who cometh with the band to the service of the tabernacle of ordinance, even those who were numbered of them by their families of their father's house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty. These are the numbered of the Beni- Gershon, everyone who did service in the tabernacle of ordinance, whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered by the mouth of the Word of the Lord.
And the numbered of the Beni-Merari, by the families of their father's house,
from thirty years and upward to fifty years, all who come by bands to serve in the tabernacle of ordinance, even they who were numbered by their families, were three thousand and two hundred. These are they who were numbered in the families of the Beni-Merari, whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered by the mouth of the Word of the Lord, by the hand of Mosheh. All the numbered ones of the Levites whom Mosheh and Aharon and the chiefs of Yisrael numbered, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, from thirty years and upward to fifty years, all who came to minister the ministry of the service, and the work of carrying in the tabernacle of ordinance, even the numbered of them were eight thousand five hundred and eighty. Upon the Word of the Lord they were numbered by the hand of Mosheh; every man according to his service and his burthen they were numbered, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
V. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Command the sons of Yisrael to send away from the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone who hath an issue, and everyone who is defiled with the pollution of the life of man: from male to female you. shall send them away, that they defile not their camps; for My Shekinah dwelleth among you. And the sons of Yisrael did so; as the Lord spake with Mosheh, so did the sons of Yisrael.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: When a man or a woman hath committed any of the sins of mankind to prevaricate prevarication before the Lord, and that man hath become guilty; they shall make confession of the sin which they have committed, and restore the principal of (the property of) the trespass, and add a fifth part thereto, and give to him against whom the sin was committed; but if the man (hath deceased, or) hath no kinsman unto whom the trespass should be returned, let the trespass be restored before the Lord unto the priest, besides the ram of atonement which shall be offered to atone for him. And all separated things of all the consecrations of the sons of Yisrael which are offered by the priest are his. And the consecrated tenths of every man shall be his, and whatsoever a man giveth unto the priest shall be his.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: If a man's wife go astray and prevaricate against him prevarication,
and a man lie with her, and it be hidden from her husband's eyes, and she be contaminated, and there be no witness against her, and she be not convicted (or apprehended); but the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife that she hath been defiled; or the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he become jealous of his wife, though she be not defiled; then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and bring her offering for her, a tenth part of three seins of barley flour; he shall pour no oil thereon, nor put frankincense upon it, because it is a mincha of jealousy, a mincha of remembrance, bringing sins to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and make her stand before the Lord. And the priest shall take water from the laver in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take from the dust which is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water. And the priest shall make the woman stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the woman's head, and put the mincha of remembrance, the mincha of jealousy, upon her hands; and in the priest's hand shall be the bitter waters of cursing.[1]
And the priest shall adjure her, and say to the woman: If no man hath lain with thee, and if thou bast not gone astray to uncleanness (with another) instead of thy husband, be thou unhurt (zakaah, innocent, clean) from these bitter waters of cursing. But if thou hast gone astray (to another) instead of thy husband, and art defiled; and another man hath lain with thee, besides thy husband, the priest shall adjure the woman by the oath of the curse; and the priest shall say to the woman: The Lord set thee for a curse and an execration in the midst of thy people, by the Lord making thy thigh to be corrupt, and thy bowels to swell. And these waters of cursing shall enter thy inside, to make thy bowels to swell, and thy thigh to become corrupt.
And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen!
And the priest shall write these maledictions upon a book,[2] and shall wash them out with the bitter waters. And he shall make the woman to drink the bitter waters of cursing; and the waters of the curse shall enter into her unto bitterness.
And the priest shall take from the woman's hand the mincha of jealousy; and wave the mincha before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar. And the priest shall take with a full hand from the mincha the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar; and afterward the woman shall drink the water.
And when he hath made her drink the water, it shall be that if she hath been defiled and hath wrought perverseness with her husband, the waters of the execration will enter into her with bitterness, and her bowels will swell, and her thigh become corrupt: and the woman shall be for an execration among her people.
But if the woman hath not been defiled, but is innocent, they shall enter harmlessly, and she shall conceive with conception.
This is the Torah of jealousy, when a woman hath gone astray from her husband, or when the spirit of jealousy passeth upon a man, and he become jealous of his wife. He shall make the wife stand before the Lord; and the priest shall do for him (according to) all this Torah. And the man shall be innocent from guilt,[3] but the woman shall bear her sin.
VI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When a man or a woman would be separated by a vow of the Nazira, to be devoted before the Lord; he shall abstain from wine, (whether) new or old; vinegar of new wine or vinegar of old wine he may not drink; neither of anything expressed from grapes may he drink; nor of grapes, either fresh or dried, may he eat. All the days of his nazirate he may not eat of aught that is produced by the vine (wine tree), from its kernels to its expressed juice. All the days of his nazir vow a razor shall not pass upon his head; until the days be fulfilled which he should devote before the Lord, he shall be consecrate; he shall let the hair of his head grow, all the days of his vow before the Lord; he shall come near no dead person: for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, should they die, he shall not make himself unclean; because the consecration[4] of Eloha is upon his head: all the days of his nazirhood shall he be consecrate before the Lord.
And if anyone with him die suddenly (to him) unawares, and he defile the head of his vow, let him shave his head on the day of his purification, on the seventh day let him shave it: and on the eighth day let him bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance.
And let the priest make one a sin offering, and one a burnt offering, to atone for him; for that he had sinned by the dead; and let him consecrate his head (anew) on that day. And he shall devote before the Lord the days of his nazirhood, and bring a lamb of the year for a trespass offering: but the former days have been in vain, because he hath defiled his vow.
And this is the Torah of the Nazirite on the day that the days of his vow are fulfilled. He shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance;
and shall present his oblation before the Lord, a lamb of the year, one unblemished, for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the year, unblemished, for a sin offering; and one ram unblemished for a consecrated oblation; and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, their minchas and their libations. And the priest shall present them before the Lord; and make the sin offering and the burnt offering,
and the ram he shall make a consecrated oblation before the Lord with the basket of unleavened cakes; and the priest shall make the mincha, and the libation therewith.
And let the Nazirite, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, shave his consecrated head; and take the hair of his consecrated head and lay it upon the fire which is under the cauldron, for the peace offerings. And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one of the unleavened cakes from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put (them) upon the hands of the Nazirite after the shaving of his consecration. And the priest shall uplift them, an elevation before the Lord. It shall be dedicated to the priest, with the breast of the elevation, and the shoulder of the separation; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
This is the Torah of the Nazirite, who hath vowed his oblation before the Lord, for his consecration, besides those which may come to his hand; according to the vow which he hath vowed, so shall he do according to the Torah of his consecration.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, saying: Thus shall you bless the children of Yisrael, and shall say unto them:
The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make His Shekinah to shine upon thee, and be merciful to thee. The Lord turn away His displeasure from thee, and bestow upon thee peace.[5]
And they shall bestow the benediction of My Name upon the sons of Yisrael, and I will bless them.
VII. And it was on the day when Mosheh had completed to set up the tabernacle, and to anoint it, and to consecrate it, and all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them, that the princes of Yisrael, heads of the house of their fathers, the chiefs of the tribes, who had been appointed over them who were numbered, came near, and brought their oblations before the Lord. Six covered waggons and twelve oxen; a waggon for two of the princes, and an ox for each one: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying: Take (the waggons) from them, that they may be for the work of the service of the tabernacle of ordinance; and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to each man according to the need of his work.[6]
And Mosheh took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
Two waggons and four oxen gave he to the sons of Gershon, according to the need of their work; and four waggons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to the need of their work, by the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest. But to the sons of Kehath he gave not, because they had the work of the sanctuary, and carried upon their shoulders.
And the princes offered at the dedication (chanucha) of the altar on the day that they anointed it, and the princes presented their oblations before the altar.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, One prince shall offer, on each day of the dedication of the altar.
And he who offered his oblation on the first day was Nachshon bar Aminadab, of the tribe of Jehudah: And his offering was, one bowl of silver, a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight; one silver vase, seventy shekels in weight, in shekels of the sanctuary; both of them filled with flour, mingled with oil, for a mincha; one pan (censer) weighing ten shekels; it was of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Nachshon bar Aminadab.
On the second day offered Nethanel bar Zuar, prince of the tribe of Issakar.
He offered his oblation, one silver bowl, a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight; one silver vase, its weight seventy shekels, in the shekels of the sanctuary; both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels; it was of gold, full of fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering, one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for a sacrifice of consecrated things, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Nethanel bar Zuar.
On the third day, the prince of the Beni Zebulon, Eliab bar Chelon.
His offering, one silver bowl, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels; one silver vase, its weight seventy shekels in the shekels of the sanctuary; both of them filled with flour mingled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels; it was of gold, and filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering, one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated offerings, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Eliab bar Chelon.
On the fourth day the prince of the sons of Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur.
His offering, one silver bowl, one hundred and thirty shekels its weight, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in the shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels; it was of gold, and filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering, one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for the consecrated oblation, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Elizur bar Shedeur.
On the fifth day the prince of the Beni Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai.
His offering, one silver bowl, one hundred and thirty, shekels was its weight, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in the shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour mingled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels; it was of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering, one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Shelumiel bar Zurishaddai.
On the sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eljasaph bar Dehuel. His offering, one silver bowl, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, full of fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering, one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Eljasaph bar Dehuel.
On the seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama bar Ammihud. His offering, one silver bowl weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one Iamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five Iambs of the year. This was the oblation of Elishama bar Ammihud.
On the eighth day the prince of the Beni Menashe, Gamliel bar Phedazur.
His offering, one silver bowl, weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Gamliel bar Phedazur.
On the ninth day the prince of the sons of Benyamin, Abidan bar Gideoni.
His oblation, one silver bowl, weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pall weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Abidan bar Gideoni.
On the tenth day the prince of the sons of Dan, Achiezer bar Amishaddai.
His oblation, one silver bowl, weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations, two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Achiezer bar Amishaddai.
On the eleventh day the prince of the Beni Asher, Phagiel bar Akran. His oblation, one silver bowl, weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Phagiel bar Akran.
On the twelfth day, the prince of the Beni Naphtali, Achira bar Enan.
His oblation, one silver bowl, weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver vase, weighing seventy shekels in shekels of the sanctuary, both of them filled with flour sprinkled with oil for a mincha; one pan weighing ten shekels of gold, filled with fragrant incense; one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year, for a burnt offering; one kid of the goats for a sin offering; and for consecrated oblations two oxen, five rams, five goats, five lambs of the year. This was the oblation of Achira bar Enan.
This was the dedication of the altar, on the day that they anointed it. By the princes of Yisrael (were offered) twelve silver bowls, twelve silver vases, twelve golden censers; one hundred and thirty shekels was the weight of one silver bowl, and seventy that of one silver vase: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand four hundred shekels in shekels of the sanctuary. The golden censers were twelve, full of fragrant incense, weighing each ten shekels; the weight of the censers was, in shekels of the sanctuary, all the gold of the censers one hundred and twenty (shekels). All the bullocks for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, rams twelve, lambs of the year twelve, and their minchas. And for the sin offering twelve kids of the goats. And all the oxen for consecrated victims were twenty-four oxen, rams sixty, goats sixty, lambs of the year sixty. This was the Dedication of the Altar after they had anointed it.
And when Mosheh had gone into the tabernacle of ordinance to speak with Him, then heard he the Voice of Him who spake with him from above the Mercy Seat over the Ark of the Testimony, between the two Kerubaia; and He spake unto him.
[1] Sam. Vers., “the waters of proof, or probation.”
[2] “Parchment,” Mishna.
[3] The husband will not be guilty, though the guilty wife may die from the effects of the water.
[4] Or, “the crown.” So also the Sam. Vers. Peschito, kelila, “the diadem.”
[5] Glossary, page 74.
[6] Contrast with the recent discovery of the “higher” critics, that the priest had to carry the carcase of an ox upon his own back.
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<a name="C161V1" id="C161V1">1:1</a> The words of Nehemiah the son of
Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as
I was in Shushan the palace, <a name="C161V2" id="C161V2">1:2</a> that Hanani,
one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Yehudah; and I asked
them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity,
and concerning Yerushalayim. <a name="C161V3" id="C161V3">1:3</a> They said to
me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in
great affliction and reproach: the wall of Yerushalayim also is broken down,
and its gates are burned with fire. <a name="C161V4" id="C161V4">1:4</a> It
happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned
certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the Elohim of heaven, <a
name="C161V5" id="C161V5">1:5</a> and said, I beg you, Yahweh, the Elohim of
heaven, the great and awesome Elohim, who keeps covenant and loving kindness
with those who love him and keep his commandments: <a name="C161V6" id="C161V6">1:6</a>
Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to
the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and
night, for the children of Yisrael your servants while I confess the sins
of the children of Yisrael, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my
father's house have sinned: <a name="C161V7" id="C161V7">1:7</a> we have dealt
very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the
statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moshe. <a
name="C161V8" id="C161V8">1:8</a> Remember, I beg you, the word that you
commanded your servant Moshe, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you
abroad among the peoples: <a name="C161V9" id="C161V9">1:9</a> but if you
return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts
were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from
there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my
name to dwell there. <a name="C161V10" id="C161V10">1:10</a> Now these are
your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power,
and by your strong hand. <a name="C161V11" id="C161V11">1:11</a> Lord, I beg
you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to
the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please
prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this
man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.
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<a name="C162V1" id="C162V1">2:1</a> It happened in the month Nisan, in the
twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I
took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been <i>before</i>
sad in his presence. <a name="C162V2" id="C162V2">2:2</a> The king said to me,
Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but
sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid. <a name="C162V3" id="C162V3">2:3</a>
I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be
sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its
gates are consumed with fire? <a name="C162V4" id="C162V4">2:4</a> Then the
king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the Elohim of
heaven. <a name="C162V5" id="C162V5">2:5</a> I said to the king, If it please
the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you
would send me to Yehudah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build
it. <a name="C162V6" id="C162V6">2:6</a> The king said to me (the queen also
sitting by him), For how long shall your journey be? and when will you
return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. <a
name="C162V7" id="C162V7">2:7</a> Moreover I said to the king, If it please
the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that
they may let me pass through until I come to Yehudah; <a name="C162V8"
id="C162V8">2:8</a> and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest,
that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which
appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house
that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand
of my Elohim on me. <a name="C162V9" id="C162V9">2:9</a> Then I came to the
governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king
had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen. <a name="C162V10"
id="C162V10">2:10</a> When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant,
the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had
come to seek the welfare of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C162V11"
id="C162V11">2:11</a> So I came to Yerushalayim, and was there three days. <a
name="C162V12" id="C162V12">2:12</a> I arose in the night, I and some few men
with me; neither told I any man what my Elohim put into my heart to do for
Yerushalayim; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I
rode on. <a name="C162V13" id="C162V13">2:13</a> I went out by night by the
valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and
viewed the walls of Yerushalayim, which were broken down, and its gates were
consumed with fire. <a name="C162V14" id="C162V14">2:14</a> Then I went on to
the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the
animal that was under me to pass. <a name="C162V15" id="C162V15">2:15</a> Then
went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned
back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned. <a name="C162V16"
id="C162V16">2:16</a> The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did;
neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the
nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. <a
name="C162V17" id="C162V17">2:17</a> Then said I to them, You see the evil
case that we are in, how Yerushalayim lies waste, and its gates are burned
with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Yerushalayim, that we be no
more a reproach. <a name="C162V18" id="C162V18">2:18</a> I told them of the
hand of my Elohim which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he
had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise up and build. So they
strengthened their hands for the good <i>work</i>. <a name="C162V19"
id="C162V19">2:19</a> But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed
us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you
rebel against the king? <a name="C162V20" id="C162V20">2:20</a> Then answered
I them, and said to them, The Elohim of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore
we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right,
nor memorial, in Yerushalayim.
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<p>
<a name="C163V1" id="C163V1">3:1</a> Then Eliashib the high priest rose up
with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they
sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they
sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel. <a name="C163V2" id="C163V2">3:2</a>
Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built Zaccur the son of
Imri. <a name="C163V3" id="C163V3">3:3</a> The fish gate did the sons of
Hassenaah build; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and
its bars. <a name="C163V4" id="C163V4">3:4</a> Next to them repaired Meremoth
the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. Next to them repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the
son of Baana. <a name="C163V5" id="C163V5">3:5</a> Next to them the Tekoites
repaired; but their nobles didn't put their necks to the work of their
lord. <a name="C163V6" id="C163V6">3:6</a> The old gate repaired Joiada the
son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid its beams, and
set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars. <a name="C163V7" id="C163V7">3:7</a>
Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite,
the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, <i>that appertained</i> to the throne of
the governor beyond the River. <a name="C163V8" id="C163V8">3:8</a> Next to
him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. Next to him repaired
Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Yerushalayim even to the
broad wall. <a name="C163V9" id="C163V9">3:9</a> Next to them repaired
Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Yerushalayim. <a
name="C163V10" id="C163V10">3:10</a> Next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of
Harumaph, over against his house. Next to him repaired Hattush the son of
Hashabneiah. <a name="C163V11" id="C163V11">3:11</a> Malchijah the son of
Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and
the tower of the furnaces. <a name="C163V12" id="C163V12">3:12</a> Next to him
repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of
Yerushalayim, he and his daughters. <a name="C163V13" id="C163V13">3:13</a> The
valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it,
and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of
the wall to the dung gate. <a name="C163V14" id="C163V14">3:14</a> The dung
gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of
Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its
bars. <a name="C163V15" id="C163V15">3:15</a> The spring gate repaired Shallun
the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and
covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of
the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down
from the city of David. <a name="C163V16" id="C163V16">3:16</a> After him
repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth
Zur, to the place over against the tombs of David, and to the pool that
was made, and to the house of the mighty men. <a name="C163V17" id="C163V17">3:17</a>
After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him
repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his
district. <a name="C163V18" id="C163V18">3:18</a> After him repaired their
brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of
Keilah. <a name="C163V19" id="C163V19">3:19</a> Next to him repaired Ezer the
son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another portion, over against the
ascent to the armory at the turning <i>of the wall</i>. <a name="C163V20"
id="C163V20">3:20</a> After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired
another portion, from the turning <i>of the wall</i> to the door of the
house of Eliashib the high priest. <a name="C163V21" id="C163V21">3:21</a>
After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another
portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the
house of Eliashib. <a name="C163V22" id="C163V22">3:22</a> After him repaired
the priests, the men of the Plain. <a name="C163V23" id="C163V23">3:23</a>
After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. After
them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his
own house. <a name="C163V24" id="C163V24">3:24</a> After him repaired Binnui
the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah to the
turning <i>of the wall</i>, and to the corner. <a name="C163V25" id="C163V25">3:25</a>
Palal the son of Uzai <i>repaired</i> over against the turning <i>of the
wall</i>, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king,
which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh <i>repaired</i>.
<a name="C163V26" id="C163V26">3:26</a> (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to
the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that
stands out.) <a name="C163V27" id="C163V27">3:27</a> After him the Tekoites
repaired another portion, over against the great tower that stands out,
and to the wall of Ophel. <a name="C163V28" id="C163V28">3:28</a> Above the
horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over against his own house. <a
name="C163V29" id="C163V29">3:29</a> After them repaired Zadok the son of
Immer over against his own house. After him repaired Shemaiah the son of
Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate. <a name="C163V30" id="C163V30">3:30</a>
After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son
of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam the son of
Berechiah over against his chamber. <a name="C163V31" id="C163V31">3:31</a>
After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the
Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and
to the ascent of the corner. <a name="C163V32" id="C163V32">3:32</a> Between
the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and
the merchants.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C164V1" id="C164V1">4:1</a> But it happened that when Sanballat heard
that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation,
and mocked the Jews. <a name="C164V2" id="C164V2">4:2</a> He spoke before his
brothers and the army of Shomron, and said, What are these feeble Jews
doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make
an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish,
seeing they are burned? <a name="C164V3" id="C164V3">4:3</a> Now Tobiah the
Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a
fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. <a name="C164V4" id="C164V4">4:4</a>
Hear, our Elohim; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their
own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; <a
name="C164V5" id="C164V5">4:5</a> and don't cover their iniquity, and don't
let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked <i>you</i>
to anger before the builders. <a name="C164V6" id="C164V6">4:6</a> So we built
the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half <i>the height</i>
of it: for the people had a mind to work. <a name="C164V7" id="C164V7">4:7</a>
But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites,
and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Yerushalayim went
forward, <i>and</i> that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were
very angry; <a name="C164V8" id="C164V8">4:8</a> and they conspired all of
them together to come and fight against Yerushalayim, and to cause confusion
therein. <a name="C164V9" id="C164V9">4:9</a> But we made our prayer to our
Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. <a
name="C164V10" id="C164V10">4:10</a> Yehudah said, The strength of the bearers
of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able
to build the wall. <a name="C164V11" id="C164V11">4:11</a> Our adversaries
said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of
them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease. <a name="C164V12"
id="C164V12">4:12</a> It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came,
they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us. <a
name="C164V13" id="C164V13">4:13</a> Therefore set I in the lowest parts of
the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set <i>there</i> the
people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their
bows. <a name="C164V14" id="C164V14">4:14</a> I looked, and rose up, and said
to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Don't be
you afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight
for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your
houses. <a name="C164V15" id="C164V15">4:15</a> It happened, when our enemies
heard that it was known to us, and Elohim had brought their counsel to
nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work. <a
name="C164V16" id="C164V16">4:16</a> It happened from that time forth, that
half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears,
the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were
behind all the house of Yehudah. <a name="C164V17" id="C164V17">4:17</a> They
all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone
with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his
weapon; <a name="C164V18" id="C164V18">4:18</a> and the builders, everyone had
his sword girded by his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was
by me. <a name="C164V19" id="C164V19">4:19</a> I said to the nobles, and to
the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and
we are separated on the wall, one far from another: <a name="C164V20"
id="C164V20">4:20</a> in whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet,
resort you there to us; our Elohim will fight for us. <a name="C164V21"
id="C164V21">4:21</a> So we worked in the work: and half of them held the
spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. <a
name="C164V22" id="C164V22">4:22</a> Likewise at the same time said I to the
people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Yerushalayim, that in the
night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day. <a name="C164V23"
id="C164V23">4:23</a> So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor
the men of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes,
everyone <i>went with</i> his weapon <i>to</i> the water.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C165V1" id="C165V1">5:1</a> Then there arose a great cry of the
people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. <a name="C165V2"
id="C165V2">5:2</a> For there were that said, We, our sons and our
daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live. <a
name="C165V3" id="C165V3">5:3</a> Some also there were that said, We are
mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get
grain, because of the dearth. <a name="C165V4" id="C165V4">5:4</a> There were
also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute <i>on</i>
our fields and our vineyards. <a name="C165V5" id="C165V5">5:5</a> Yet now our
flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and
behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants,
and some of our daughters are brought into bondage <i>already</i>: neither
is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our
vineyards. <a name="C165V6" id="C165V6">5:6</a> I was very angry when I heard
their cry and these words. <a name="C165V7" id="C165V7">5:7</a> Then I
consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and
said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great
assembly against them. <a name="C165V8" id="C165V8">5:8</a> I said to them, We
after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to
the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be
sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word. <a
name="C165V9" id="C165V9">5:9</a> Also I said, The thing that you do is not
good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our Elohim, because of the
reproach of the nations our enemies? <a name="C165V10" id="C165V10">5:10</a> I
likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain.
Please let us leave off this usury. <a name="C165V11" id="C165V11">5:11</a>
Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards,
their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the
money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of
them. <a name="C165V12" id="C165V12">5:12</a> Then said they, We will restore
them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say.
Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do
according to this promise. <a name="C165V13" id="C165V13">5:13</a> Also I
shook out my lap, and said, So Elohim shake out every man from his house, and
from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken
out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The
people did according to this promise. <a name="C165V14" id="C165V14">5:14</a>
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the
land of Yehudah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year
of Artaxerxes the king, <i>that is</i>, twelve years, I and my brothers
have not eaten the bread of the governor. <a name="C165V15" id="C165V15">5:15</a>
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people,
and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes,
even their servants ruled over the people: but I didn't do so, because of
the fear of Elohim. <a name="C165V16" id="C165V16">5:16</a> Yes, also I continued
in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants
were gathered there to the work. <a name="C165V17" id="C165V17">5:17</a>
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred
fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were
around us. <a name="C165V18" id="C165V18">5:18</a> Now that which was prepared
for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for
me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I
didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on
this people. <a name="C165V19" id="C165V19">5:19</a> Remember to me, my Elohim,
for good, all that I have done for this people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C166V1" id="C166V1">6:1</a> Now it happened, when it was reported to
Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our
enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left
therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the
gates;) <a name="C166V2" id="C166V2">6:2</a> that Sanballat and Geshem sent to
me, saying, Come, let us meet together in <i>one of</i> the villages in
the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. <a name="C166V3"
id="C166V3">6:3</a> I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great
work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave
it, and come down to you? <a name="C166V4" id="C166V4">6:4</a> They sent to me
four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. <a
name="C166V5" id="C166V5">6:5</a> Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in
like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand, <a name="C166V6"
id="C166V6">6:6</a> in which was written, It is reported among the nations,
and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause
you are building the wall: and you would be their king, according to these
words. <a name="C166V7" id="C166V7">6:7</a> You have also appointed prophets
to preach of you at Yerushalayim, saying, There is a king in Yehudah: and now
shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now
therefore, and let us take counsel together. <a name="C166V8" id="C166V8">6:8</a>
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but
you feign them out of your own heart. <a name="C166V9" id="C166V9">6:9</a> For
they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened
from the work, that it not be done. But now, <i>Elohim</i>, strengthen you my
hands. <a name="C166V10" id="C166V10">6:10</a> I went to the house of Shemaiah
the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let
us meet together in the house of Elohim, within the temple, and let us shut
the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night
will they come to kill you. <a name="C166V11" id="C166V11">6:11</a> I said,
Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, being such as I, would
go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. <a name="C166V12"
id="C166V12">6:12</a> I discerned, and behold, Elohim had not sent him; but he
pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired
him. <a name="C166V13" id="C166V13">6:13</a> For this cause was he hired, that
I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter
for an evil report, that they might reproach me. <a name="C166V14" id="C166V14">6:14</a>
Remember, my Elohim, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and
also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have
put me in fear. <a name="C166V15" id="C166V15">6:15</a> So the wall was
finished in the twenty-fifth <i>day</i> of <i>the month</i> Elul, in
fifty-two days. <a name="C166V16" id="C166V16">6:16</a> It happened, when all
our enemies heard <i>of it</i>, that all the nations that were about us
feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that
this work was worked of our Elohim. <a name="C166V17" id="C166V17">6:17</a>
Moreover in those days the nobles of Yehudah sent many letters to Tobiah,
and <i>the letters</i> of Tobiah came to them. <a name="C166V18" id="C166V18">6:18</a>
For there were many in Yehudah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law
of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter
of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife. <a name="C166V19" id="C166V19">6:19</a>
Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him.
Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C167V1" id="C167V1">7:1</a> Now it happened, when the wall was built,
and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the
Levites were appointed, <a name="C167V2" id="C167V2">7:2</a> that I put my
brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge of
Yerushalayim; for he was a faithful man, and feared Elohim above many. <a
name="C167V3" id="C167V3">7:3</a> I said to them, Don't let the gates of
Yerushalayim be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand <i>on guard</i>,
let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, everyone in his watch, and everyone <i>to be</i>
over against his house. <a name="C167V4" id="C167V4">7:4</a> Now the city was
wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not
built. <a name="C167V5" id="C167V5">7:5</a> My Elohim put into my heart to gather
together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be
reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came
up at the first, and I found written therein: <a name="C167V6" id="C167V6">7:6</a>
These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity
of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Yerushalayim and to Yehudah,
everyone to his city; <a name="C167V7" id="C167V7">7:7</a> who came with
Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai,
Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the
people of Yisrael: <a name="C167V8" id="C167V8">7:8</a> The children of Parosh,
two thousand one hundred seventy-two. <a name="C167V9" id="C167V9">7:9</a> The
children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. <a name="C167V10"
id="C167V10">7:10</a> The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two. <a
name="C167V11" id="C167V11">7:11</a> The children of Pahathmoab, of the
children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred <i>and</i>
eighteen. <a name="C167V12" id="C167V12">7:12</a> The children of Elam, one
thousand two hundred fifty-four. <a name="C167V13" id="C167V13">7:13</a> The
children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five. <a name="C167V14" id="C167V14">7:14</a>
The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. <a name="C167V15" id="C167V15">7:15</a>
The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight. <a name="C167V16" id="C167V16">7:16</a>
The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight. <a name="C167V17" id="C167V17">7:17</a>
The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two. <a
name="C167V18" id="C167V18">7:18</a> The children of Adonikam, six hundred
sixty-seven. <a name="C167V19" id="C167V19">7:19</a> The children of Bigvai,
two thousand sixty-seven. <a name="C167V20" id="C167V20">7:20</a> The children
of Adin, six hundred fifty-five. <a name="C167V21" id="C167V21">7:21</a> The
children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. <a name="C167V22" id="C167V22">7:22</a>
The children of Hashum, three hundred Twenty-eight. <a name="C167V23"
id="C167V23">7:23</a> The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four. <a
name="C167V24" id="C167V24">7:24</a> The children of Hariph, one hundred
twelve. <a name="C167V25" id="C167V25">7:25</a> The children of Gibeon,
ninety-five. <a name="C167V26" id="C167V26">7:26</a> The men of Bethlehem and
Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight. <a name="C167V27" id="C167V27">7:27</a>
The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. <a name="C167V28" id="C167V28">7:28</a>
The men of Beth Azmaveth, forty-two. <a name="C167V29" id="C167V29">7:29</a>
The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred
forty-three. <a name="C167V30" id="C167V30">7:30</a> The men of Ramah and
Geba, six hundred twenty-one. <a name="C167V31" id="C167V31">7:31</a> The men
of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two. <a name="C167V32" id="C167V32">7:32</a>
The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three. <a name="C167V33"
id="C167V33">7:33</a> The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. <a name="C167V34"
id="C167V34">7:34</a> The children of the other Elam, one thousand two
hundred fifty-four. <a name="C167V35" id="C167V35">7:35</a> The children of
Harim, three hundred twenty. <a name="C167V36" id="C167V36">7:36</a> The
children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. <a name="C167V37" id="C167V37">7:37</a>
The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. <a
name="C167V38" id="C167V38">7:38</a> The children of Senaah, three thousand
nine hundred thirty. <a name="C167V39" id="C167V39">7:39</a> The priests: The
children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
<a name="C167V40" id="C167V40">7:40</a> The children of Immer, one thousand
fifty-two. <a name="C167V41" id="C167V41">7:41</a> The children of Pashhur,
one thousand two hundred forty-seven. <a name="C167V42" id="C167V42">7:42</a>
The children of Harim, one thousand <i>and</i> seventeen. <a name="C167V43"
id="C167V43">7:43</a> The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of
the children of Hodevah, seventy-four. <a name="C167V44" id="C167V44">7:44</a>
The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred forty-eight. <a
name="C167V45" id="C167V45">7:45</a> The porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight. <a
name="C167V46" id="C167V46">7:46</a> The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the
children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, <a name="C167V47" id="C167V47">7:47</a>
the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, <a
name="C167V48" id="C167V48">7:48</a> the children of Lebana, the children of
Hagaba, the children of Salmai, <a name="C167V49" id="C167V49">7:49</a> the
children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, <a
name="C167V50" id="C167V50">7:50</a> the children of Reaiah, the children of
Rezin, the children of Nekoda, <a name="C167V51" id="C167V51">7:51</a> the
children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah. <a
name="C167V52" id="C167V52">7:52</a> The children of Besai, the children of
Meunim, the children of Nephushesim, <a name="C167V53" id="C167V53">7:53</a>
the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
<a name="C167V54" id="C167V54">7:54</a> the children of Bazlith, the children
of Mehida, the children of Harsha, <a name="C167V55" id="C167V55">7:55</a> the
children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, <a
name="C167V56" id="C167V56">7:56</a> the children of Neziah, the children of
Hatipha. <a name="C167V57" id="C167V57">7:57</a> The children of Solomon's
servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children
of Perida, <a name="C167V58" id="C167V58">7:58</a> the children of Jaala, the
children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, <a name="C167V59" id="C167V59">7:59</a>
the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon. <a name="C167V60" id="C167V60">7:60</a>
All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three
hundred ninety-two. <a name="C167V61" id="C167V61">7:61</a> These were those
who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they
could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of
Yisrael: <a name="C167V62" id="C167V62">7:62</a> The children of Delaiah, the
children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two. <a
name="C167V63" id="C167V63">7:63</a> Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah,
the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the
daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. <a
name="C167V64" id="C167V64">7:64</a> These sought their register <i>among</i>
those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were
they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. <a name="C167V65"
id="C167V65">7:65</a> The governor said to them, that they should not eat of
the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
<a name="C167V66" id="C167V66">7:66</a> The whole assembly together was
forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, <a name="C167V67" id="C167V67">7:67</a>
besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were
seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred
forty-five singing men and singing women. <a name="C167V68" id="C167V68">7:68</a>
Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred
forty-five; <a name="C167V69" id="C167V69">7:69</a> <i>their</i> camels, four
hundred thirty-five; <i>their</i> donkeys, six thousand seven hundred
twenty. <a name="C167V70" id="C167V70">7:70</a> Some from among the heads of
fathers' <i>houses</i> gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury
one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty
priests' garments. <a name="C167V71" id="C167V71">7:71</a> Some of the heads
of fathers' <i>houses</i> gave into the treasury of the work twenty
thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver. <a
name="C167V72" id="C167V72">7:72</a> That which the rest of the people gave
was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and
sixty-seven priests' garments. <a name="C167V73" id="C167V73">7:73</a> So the
priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of
the people, and the Nethinim, and all Yisrael, lived in their cities. When
the seventh month was come, the children of Yisrael were in their cities.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C168V1" id="C168V1">8:1</a> All the people gathered themselves
together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate;
and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Torah of Moshe,
which Yahweh had commanded to Yisrael. <a name="C168V2" id="C168V2">8:2</a>
Ezra the priest brought the Torah before the assembly, both men and women,
and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh
month. <a name="C168V3" id="C168V3">8:3</a> He read therein before the broad
place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in
the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand;
and the ears of all the people were <i>attentive</i> to the book of the
Torah. <a name="C168V4" id="C168V4">8:4</a> Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of
wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah,
on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and
Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, <i>and</i> Meshullam.
<a name="C168V5" id="C168V5">8:5</a> Ezra opened the book in the sight of all
the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all
the people stood up: <a name="C168V6" id="C168V6">8:6</a> and Ezra blessed
Yahweh, the great Elohim. All the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the
lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshiped
Yahweh with their faces to the ground. <a name="C168V7" id="C168V7">8:7</a>
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah,
Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites,
caused the people to understand the Torah: and the people <i>stood</i> in
their place. <a name="C168V8" id="C168V8">8:8</a> They read in the book, in
the Torah of Elohim, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they
understood the reading. <a name="C168V9" id="C168V9">8:9</a> Nehemiah, who was
the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught
the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your Elohim;
don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words
of the Torah. <a name="C168V10" id="C168V10">8:10</a> Then he said to them, Go
your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to him for
whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be
grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength. <a name="C168V11" id="C168V11">8:11</a>
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the
day is holy; neither be you grieved. <a name="C168V12" id="C168V12">8:12</a>
All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions,
and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were
declared to them. <a name="C168V13" id="C168V13">8:13</a> On the second day
were gathered together the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i> of all the
people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give
attention to the words of the Torah. <a name="C168V14" id="C168V14">8:14</a>
They found written in the Torah, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moshe,
that the children of Yisrael should dwell in booths in the feast of the
seventh month; <a name="C168V15" id="C168V15">8:15</a> and that they should
publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Yerushalayim, saying, Go
forth to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive,
and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to
make booths, as it is written. <a name="C168V16" id="C168V16">8:16</a> So the
people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, everyone
on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the
house of Elohim, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad
place of the gate of Ephraim. <a name="C168V17" id="C168V17">8:17</a> All the
assembly of those who were come again out of the captivity made booths,
and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to
that day the children of Yisrael had not done so. There was very great
gladness. <a name="C168V18" id="C168V18">8:18</a> Also day by day, from the
first day to the last day, he read in the book of the Torah of Elohim. They
kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly,
according to the ordinance.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C169V1" id="C169V1">9:1</a> Now in the twenty-fourth day of this
month the children of Yisrael were assembled with fasting, and with
sackcloth, and earth on them. <a name="C169V2" id="C169V2">9:2</a> The seed of
Yisrael separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed
their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. <a name="C169V3" id="C169V3">9:3</a>
They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Torah of Yahweh
their Elohim a fourth part of the day; and <i>another</i> fourth part they
confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their Elohim. <a name="C169V4" id="C169V4">9:4</a>
Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel,
Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, <i>and</i> Chenani, and cried with a
loud voice to Yahweh their Elohim. <a name="C169V5" id="C169V5">9:5</a> Then the
Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah,
Shebaniah, <i>and</i> Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your Elohim
from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which
is exalted above all blessing and praise. <a name="C169V6" id="C169V6">9:6</a>
You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are thereon,
the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all; and the army
of heaven worships you. <a name="C169V7" id="C169V7">9:7</a> You are Yahweh
the Elohim, who did choose Avram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the
Chaldees, and gave him the name of Avraham, <a name="C169V8" id="C169V8">9:8</a>
and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to
give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the
Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed,
and have performed your words; for you are righteous. <a name="C169V9"
id="C169V9">9:9</a> You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
heard their cry by the <a href="#N161">Red Sea</a>, <a name="C169V10"
id="C169V10">9:10</a> and showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all
his servants, and on all the people of his land; for you knew that they
dealt proudly against them, and did get you a name, as it is this day. <a
name="C169V11" id="C169V11">9:11</a> You divided the sea before them, so that
they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers
you did cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters. <a
name="C169V12" id="C169V12">9:12</a> Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led
them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the
way in which they should go. <a name="C169V13" id="C169V13">9:13</a> You came
down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them
right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, <a
name="C169V14" id="C169V14">9:14</a> and made known to them your holy Shabbat,
and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a Torah, by Moshe your
servant, <a name="C169V15" id="C169V15">9:15</a> and gave them bread from the
sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for
their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the
land which you had sworn to give them. <a name="C169V16" id="C169V16">9:16</a>
But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't
listen to your commandments, <a name="C169V17" id="C169V17">9:17</a> and
refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among
them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain
to return to their bondage. But you are a Elohim ready to pardon, gracious
and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't
forsake them. <a name="C169V18" id="C169V18">9:18</a> Yes, when they had made
them a molten calf, and said, This is your Elohim who brought you up out of
Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies; <a name="C169V19" id="C169V19">9:19</a>
yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness:
the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in
the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the
way in which they should go. <a name="C169V20" id="C169V20">9:20</a> You gave
also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna
from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. <a name="C169V21"
id="C169V21">9:21</a> Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the
wilderness, <i>and</i> they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old,
and their feet didn't swell. <a name="C169V22" id="C169V22">9:22</a> Moreover
you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot after their
portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king
of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. <a name="C169V23" id="C169V23">9:23</a>
Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought
them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that
they should go in to possess it. <a name="C169V24" id="C169V24">9:24</a> So
the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them
the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their
hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do
with them as they would. <a name="C169V25" id="C169V25">9:25</a> They took
fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good
things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in
abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted
themselves in your great goodness. <a name="C169V26" id="C169V26">9:26</a>
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast
your Torah behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified
against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful
blasphemies. <a name="C169V27" id="C169V27">9:27</a> Therefore you delivered
them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the
time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and
according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them
out of the hand of their adversaries. <a name="C169V28" id="C169V28">9:28</a>
But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left
you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over
them: yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and
many times did you deliver them according to your mercies, <a name="C169V29"
id="C169V29">9:29</a> and testified against them, that you might bring them
again to your Torah. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your
commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he
shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck,
and would not hear. <a name="C169V30" id="C169V30">9:30</a> Yet many years did
you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your
prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the
hand of the peoples of the lands. <a name="C169V31" id="C169V31">9:31</a>
Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them,
nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful Elohim. <a name="C169V32"
id="C169V32">9:32</a> Now therefore, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and the
awesome Elohim, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the
travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our
princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and
on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. <a
name="C169V33" id="C169V33">9:33</a> However you are just in all that is come
on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; <a name="C169V34"
id="C169V34">9:34</a> neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor
our fathers, kept your Torah, nor listened to your commandments and your
testimonies with which you did testify against them. <a name="C169V35"
id="C169V35">9:35</a> For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in
your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land
which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
<a name="C169V36" id="C169V36">9:36</a> Behold, we are servants this day, and
as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its
good, behold, we are servants in it. <a name="C169V37" id="C169V37">9:37</a>
It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of
our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at
their pleasure, and we are in great distress. <a name="C169V38" id="C169V38">9:38</a>
Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes,
our Levites, <i>and</i> our priests, seal to it.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N161" id="N161">[1]</a> <a href="#C169V9">back to 9:9</a> or, Sea of
Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1610V1" id="C1610V1">10:1</a> Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah
the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, <a name="C1610V2" id="C1610V2">10:2</a>
Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, <a name="C1610V3" id="C1610V3">10:3</a> Pashhur,
Amariah, Malchijah, <a name="C1610V4" id="C1610V4">10:4</a> Hattush,
Shebaniah, Malluch, <a name="C1610V5" id="C1610V5">10:5</a> Harim, Meremoth,
Obadiah, <a name="C1610V6" id="C1610V6">10:6</a> Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, <a
name="C1610V7" id="C1610V7">10:7</a> Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, <a
name="C1610V8" id="C1610V8">10:8</a> Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the
priests. <a name="C1610V9" id="C1610V9">10:9</a> The Levites: namely, Jeshua
the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; <a
name="C1610V10" id="C1610V10">10:10</a> and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah,
Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, <a name="C1610V11" id="C1610V11">10:11</a> Mica,
Rehob, Hashabiah, <a name="C1610V12" id="C1610V12">10:12</a> Zaccur,
Sherebiah, Shebaniah, <a name="C1610V13" id="C1610V13">10:13</a> Hodiah, Bani,
Beninu. <a name="C1610V14" id="C1610V14">10:14</a> The chiefs of the people:
Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, <a name="C1610V15" id="C1610V15">10:15</a>
Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, <a name="C1610V16" id="C1610V16">10:16</a> Adonijah,
Bigvai, Adin, <a name="C1610V17" id="C1610V17">10:17</a> Ater, Hezekiah,
Azzur, <a name="C1610V18" id="C1610V18">10:18</a> Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, <a
name="C1610V19" id="C1610V19">10:19</a> Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, <a
name="C1610V20" id="C1610V20">10:20</a> Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, <a
name="C1610V21" id="C1610V21">10:21</a> Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, <a
name="C1610V22" id="C1610V22">10:22</a> Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, <a
name="C1610V23" id="C1610V23">10:23</a> Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, <a
name="C1610V24" id="C1610V24">10:24</a> Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, <a
name="C1610V25" id="C1610V25">10:25</a> Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, <a
name="C1610V26" id="C1610V26">10:26</a> and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, <a
name="C1610V27" id="C1610V27">10:27</a> Malluch, Harim, Baanah. <a
name="C1610V28" id="C1610V28">10:28</a> The rest of the people, the priests,
the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had
separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Torah of Elohim,
their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge,
and understanding; <a name="C1610V29" id="C1610V29">10:29</a> They joined with
their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath,
to walk in Elohim's Torah, which was given by Moshe the servant of Elohim, and to
observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances
and his statutes; <a name="C1610V30" id="C1610V30">10:30</a> and that we would
not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their
daughters for our sons; <a name="C1610V31" id="C1610V31">10:31</a> and if the
peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Shabbat day to sell,
that we would not buy of them on the Shabbat, or on a holy day; and that
we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. <a
name="C1610V32" id="C1610V32">10:32</a> Also we made ordinances for us, to
charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of
the house of our Elohim; <a name="C1610V33" id="C1610V33">10:33</a> for the show
bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt
offering, for the Shabbats, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for
the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Yisrael,
and for all the work of the house of our Elohim. <a name="C1610V34" id="C1610V34">10:34</a>
We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood
offering, to bring it into the house of our Elohim, according to our fathers'
houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh
our Elohim, as it is written in the Torah; <a name="C1610V35" id="C1610V35">10:35</a>
and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all
fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh; <a
name="C1610V36" id="C1610V36">10:36</a> also the firstborn of our sons, and of
our livestock, as it is written in the Torah, and the firstborn of our herds
and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our Elohim, to the priests who
minister in the house of our Elohim; <a name="C1610V37" id="C1610V37">10:37</a>
and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave
offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil,
to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our Elohim; and the tithes of
our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all
the cities of our tillage. <a name="C1610V38" id="C1610V38">10:38</a> The
priest the son of Aharon shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take
tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the
house of our Elohim, to the chambers, into the treasure house. <a
name="C1610V39" id="C1610V39">10:39</a> For the children of Yisrael and the
children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new
wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the
sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers:
and we will not forsake the house of our Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1611V1" id="C1611V1">11:1</a> The princes of the people lived in
Yerushalayim: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to
dwell in Yerushalayim the holy city, and nine parts in the <i>other</i>
cities. <a name="C1611V2" id="C1611V2">11:2</a> The people blessed all the men
who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1611V3"
id="C1611V3">11:3</a> Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in
Yerushalayim: but in the cities of Yehudah lived everyone in his possession in
their cities, <i>to wit</i>, Yisrael, the priests, and the Levites, and the
Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. <a name="C1611V4"
id="C1611V4">11:4</a> In Yerushalayim lived certain of the children of Yehudah,
and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Yehudah: Athaiah the son
of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of
Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; <a name="C1611V5"
id="C1611V5">11:5</a> and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh,
the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of
Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. <a name="C1611V6" id="C1611V6">11:6</a>
All the sons of Perez who lived in Yerushalayim were four hundred sixty-eight
valiant men. <a name="C1611V7" id="C1611V7">11:7</a> These are the sons of
Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah,
the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of
Jeshaiah. <a name="C1611V8" id="C1611V8">11:8</a> After him Gabbai, Sallai,
nine hundred twenty-eight. <a name="C1611V9" id="C1611V9">11:9</a> Joel the
son of Zichri was their overseer; and Yehudah the son of Hassenuah was
second over the city. <a name="C1611V10" id="C1611V10">11:10</a> Of the
priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, <a name="C1611V11" id="C1611V11">11:11</a>
Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the
son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of Elohim, <a
name="C1611V12" id="C1611V12">11:12</a> and their brothers who did the work of
the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the
son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of
Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, <a name="C1611V13" id="C1611V13">11:13</a> and
his brothers, chiefs of fathers' <i>houses</i>, two hundred forty-two; and
Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the
son of Immer, <a name="C1611V14" id="C1611V14">11:14</a> and their brothers,
mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was
Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim. <a name="C1611V15" id="C1611V15">11:15</a> Of
the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of
Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; <a name="C1611V16" id="C1611V16">11:16</a> and
Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the
oversight of the outward business of the house of Elohim; <a name="C1611V17"
id="C1611V17">11:17</a> and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the
son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and
Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the
son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. <a name="C1611V18" id="C1611V18">11:18</a>
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four. <a
name="C1611V19" id="C1611V19">11:19</a> Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon,
and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred
seventy-two. <a name="C1611V20" id="C1611V20">11:20</a> The residue of Yisrael,
of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Yehudah, everyone in
his inheritance. <a name="C1611V21" id="C1611V21">11:21</a> But the Nethinim
lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim. <a
name="C1611V22" id="C1611V22">11:22</a> The overseer also of the Levites at
Yerushalayim was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the
business of the house of Elohim. <a name="C1611V23" id="C1611V23">11:23</a> For
there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled
provision for the singers, as every day required. <a name="C1611V24"
id="C1611V24">11:24</a> Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of
Zerah the son of Yehudah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning
the people. <a name="C1611V25" id="C1611V25">11:25</a> As for the villages,
with their fields, some of the children of Yehudah lived in Kiriath Arba and
its towns, and in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,
<a name="C1611V26" id="C1611V26">11:26</a> and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and
Beth Pelet, <a name="C1611V27" id="C1611V27">11:27</a> and in Hazar Shual, and
in Beersheba and its towns, <a name="C1611V28" id="C1611V28">11:28</a> and in
Ziklag, and in Meconah and in its towns, <a name="C1611V29" id="C1611V29">11:29</a>
and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, <a name="C1611V30"
id="C1611V30">11:30</a> Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its
fields, Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the
valley of Hinnom. <a name="C1611V31" id="C1611V31">11:31</a> The children of
Benjamin also <i>lived</i> from Geba <i>onward</i>, at Michmash and Aija,
and at Bethel and its towns, <a name="C1611V32" id="C1611V32">11:32</a> at
Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, <a name="C1611V33" id="C1611V33">11:33</a> Hazor,
Ramah, Gittaim, <a name="C1611V34" id="C1611V34">11:34</a> Hadid, Zeboim,
Neballat, <a name="C1611V35" id="C1611V35">11:35</a> Lod, and Ono, the valley
of craftsmen. <a name="C1611V36" id="C1611V36">11:36</a> Of the Levites,
certain divisions in Yehudah <i>were joined</i> to Benjamin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1612V1" id="C1612V1">12:1</a> Now these are the priests and the
Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua:
Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, <a name="C1612V2" id="C1612V2">12:2</a> Amariah,
Malluch, Hattush, <a name="C1612V3" id="C1612V3">12:3</a> Shecaniah, Rehum,
Meremoth, <a name="C1612V4" id="C1612V4">12:4</a> Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, <a
name="C1612V5" id="C1612V5">12:5</a> Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, <a name="C1612V6"
id="C1612V6">12:6</a> Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah. <a name="C1612V7"
id="C1612V7">12:7</a> Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs
of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua. <a name="C1612V8"
id="C1612V8">12:8</a> Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Yehudah, <i>and</i> Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he
and his brothers. <a name="C1612V9" id="C1612V9">12:9</a> Also Bakbukiah and
Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.
<a name="C1612V10" id="C1612V10">12:10</a> Jeshua became the father of
Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became
the father of Joiada, <a name="C1612V11" id="C1612V11">12:11</a> and Joiada
became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.
<a name="C1612V12" id="C1612V12">12:12</a> In the days of Joiakim were
priests, heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of
Jeremiah, Hananiah; <a name="C1612V13" id="C1612V13">12:13</a> of Ezra,
Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; <a name="C1612V14" id="C1612V14">12:14</a>
of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; <a name="C1612V15" id="C1612V15">12:15</a>
of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; <a name="C1612V16" id="C1612V16">12:16</a>
of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; <a name="C1612V17" id="C1612V17">12:17</a>
of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; <a name="C1612V18"
id="C1612V18">12:18</a> of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; <a
name="C1612V19" id="C1612V19">12:19</a> and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah,
Uzzi; <a name="C1612V20" id="C1612V20">12:20</a> of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok,
Eber; <a name="C1612V21" id="C1612V21">12:21</a> of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of
Jedaiah, Nethanel. <a name="C1612V22" id="C1612V22">12:22</a> As for the
Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there
were recorded the heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>; also the priests, in
the reign of Darius the Persian. <a name="C1612V23" id="C1612V23">12:23</a>
The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' <i>houses</i>, were written in the
book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of
Eliashib. <a name="C1612V24" id="C1612V24">12:24</a> The chiefs of the
Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their
brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the
commandment of David the man of Elohim, watch next to watch. <a name="C1612V25"
id="C1612V25">12:25</a> Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam,
Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the
gates. <a name="C1612V26" id="C1612V26">12:26</a> These were in the days of
Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah
the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe. <a name="C1612V27"
id="C1612V27">12:27</a> At the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they
sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Yerushalayim, to
keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with
singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps. <a
name="C1612V28" id="C1612V28">12:28</a> The sons of the singers gathered
themselves together, both out of the plain around Yerushalayim, and from the
villages of the Netophathites; <a name="C1612V29" id="C1612V29">12:29</a> also
from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the
singers had built them villages around Yerushalayim. <a name="C1612V30"
id="C1612V30">12:30</a> The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and
they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. <a name="C1612V31"
id="C1612V31">12:31</a> Then I brought up the princes of Yehudah on the wall,
and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession.
<i>One went</i> on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate; <a
name="C1612V32" id="C1612V32">12:32</a> and after them went Hoshaiah, and half
of the princes of Yehudah, <a name="C1612V33" id="C1612V33">12:33</a> and
Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, <a name="C1612V34" id="C1612V34">12:34</a>
Yehudah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, <a name="C1612V35"
id="C1612V35">12:35</a> and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets:
Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah,
the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph; <a name="C1612V36"
id="C1612V36">12:36</a> and his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai,
Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Yehudah, Hanani, with the musical instruments
of David the man of Elohim; and Ezra the scribe was before them. <a
name="C1612V37" id="C1612V37">12:37</a> By the spring gate, and straight
before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the
ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate
eastward. <a name="C1612V38" id="C1612V38">12:38</a> The other company of
those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half
of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the
broad wall, <a name="C1612V39" id="C1612V39">12:39</a> and above the gate of
Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of
Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood
still in the gate of the guard. <a name="C1612V40" id="C1612V40">12:40</a> So
stood the two companies of those who gave thanks in the house of Elohim, and
I, and the half of the rulers with me; <a name="C1612V41" id="C1612V41">12:41</a>
and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai,
Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; <a name="C1612V42" id="C1612V42">12:42</a>
and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and
Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their
overseer. <a name="C1612V43" id="C1612V43">12:43</a> They offered great
sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for Elohim had made them rejoice with
great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy
of Yerushalayim was heard even afar off. <a name="C1612V44" id="C1612V44">12:44</a>
On that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for
the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather
into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed
by the Torah for the priests and Levites: for Yehudah rejoiced for the priests
and for the Levites who waited. <a name="C1612V45" id="C1612V45">12:45</a>
They performed the duty of their Elohim, and the duty of the purification,
and <i>so did</i> the singers and the porters, according to the
commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. <a name="C1612V46" id="C1612V46">12:46</a>
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the
singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to Elohim. <a name="C1612V47"
id="C1612V47">12:47</a> All Yisrael in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the
days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as
every day required: and they set apart <i>that which was</i> for the
Levites; and the Levites set apart <i>that which was</i> for the sons of
Aharon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C1613V1" id="C1613V1">13:1</a> On that day they read in the book of
Moshe in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that
an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of Elohim
forever, <a name="C1613V2" id="C1613V2">13:2</a> because they didn't meet the
children of Yisrael with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against
them, to curse them: however our Elohim turned the curse into a blessing. <a
name="C1613V3" id="C1613V3">13:3</a> It came to pass, when they had heard the
Torah, that they separated from Yisrael all the mixed multitude. <a
name="C1613V4" id="C1613V4">13:4</a> Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who
was appointed over the chambers of the house of our Elohim, being allied to
Tobiah, <a name="C1613V5" id="C1613V5">13:5</a> had prepared for him a great
chamber, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and
the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which
were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the
porters; and the wave offerings for the priests. <a name="C1613V6" id="C1613V6">13:6</a>
But in all this <i>time</i> I was not at Yerushalayim; for in the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after
certain days asked I leave of the king, <a name="C1613V7" id="C1613V7">13:7</a>
and I came to Yerushalayim, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done
for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of Elohim.
<a name="C1613V8" id="C1613V8">13:8</a> It grieved me sore: therefore I cast
forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. <a name="C1613V9"
id="C1613V9">13:9</a> Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and
there brought I again the vessels of the house of Elohim, with the meal
offerings and the frankincense. <a name="C1613V10" id="C1613V10">13:10</a> I
perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so
that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to
his field. <a name="C1613V11" id="C1613V11">13:11</a> Then contended I with
the rulers, and said, Why is the house of Elohim forsaken? I gathered them
together, and set them in their place. <a name="C1613V12" id="C1613V12">13:12</a>
Then brought all Yehudah the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil
to the treasuries. <a name="C1613V13" id="C1613V13">13:13</a> I made
treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the
scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of
Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their
business was to distribute to their brothers. <a name="C1613V14" id="C1613V14">13:14</a>
Remember me, my Elohim, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds
that I have done for the house of my Elohim, and for its observances. <a
name="C1613V15" id="C1613V15">13:15</a> In those days saw I in Yehudah some men
treading winepresses on the Shabbat, and bringing in sheaves, and loading
donkeys <i>therewith</i>; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner
of burdens, which they brought into Yerushalayim on the Shabbat day: and I
testified <i>against them</i> in the day in which they sold food. <a
name="C1613V16" id="C1613V16">13:16</a> There lived men of Tyre also therein,
who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the Shabbat to
the children of Yehudah, and in Yerushalayim. <a name="C1613V17" id="C1613V17">13:17</a>
Then I contended with the nobles of Yehudah, and said to them, What evil
thing is this that you do, and profane the Shabbat day? <a name="C1613V18"
id="C1613V18">13:18</a> Didn't your fathers do thus, and did not our Elohim
bring all this evil on us, and on this city? yet you bring more wrath on
Yisrael by profaning the Shabbat. <a name="C1613V19" id="C1613V19">13:19</a> It
came to pass that, when the gates of Yerushalayim began to be dark before the
Shabbat, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that
they should not be opened until after the Shabbat. I set some of my
servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the
Shabbat day. <a name="C1613V20" id="C1613V20">13:20</a> So the merchants and
sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside of Yerushalayim once or twice.
<a name="C1613V21" id="C1613V21">13:21</a> Then I testified against them, and
said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay
hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Shabbat. <a
name="C1613V22" id="C1613V22">13:22</a> I commanded the Levites that they
should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to
sanctify the Shabbat day. Remember to me, my Elohim, this also, and spare me
according to the greatness of your loving kindness. <a name="C1613V23"
id="C1613V23">13:23</a> In those days also saw I the Jews who had married
women of Ashdod, of Ammon, <i>and</i> of Moab: <a name="C1613V24" id="C1613V24">13:24</a>
and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak
in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. <a
name="C1613V25" id="C1613V25">13:25</a> I contended with them, and cursed
them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made
them swear by Elohim, <i>saying</i>, You shall not give your daughters to
their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. <a
name="C1613V26" id="C1613V26">13:26</a> Did not Solomon king of Yisrael sin by
these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he
was beloved of his Elohim, and Elohim made him king over all Yisrael:
nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. <a name="C1613V27"
id="C1613V27">13:27</a> Shall we then listen to you to do all this great
evil, to trespass against our Elohim in marrying foreign women? <a
name="C1613V28" id="C1613V28">13:28</a> One of the sons of Joiada, the son of
Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite:
therefore I chased him from me. <a name="C1613V29" id="C1613V29">13:29</a>
Remember them, my Elohim, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the
covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. <a name="C1613V30"
id="C1613V30">13:30</a> Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and
appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his
work; <a name="C1613V31" id="C1613V31">13:31</a> and for the wood offering, at
times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my Elohim, for good.
</p>
Pgs. 650-655
Ch.29-30
SECTION LI.
NITSTSABIM.
MOSHEH the prophet said: I have called you not in secret, but while standing this day all of you before the Lord your Elohim; the princes of your sanhedrin, the chiefs of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all men of Yisrael, your little ones, your wives, and your sojourners who are in your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the filler of your water, that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your Elohim, and may have in remembrance the oath which the Lord your Elohim doth ratify with you this day: [JERUSALEM. Your little ones, wives, and sojourners within your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the filler of your water, that you may not transgress the covenant of the Lord your Elohim, nor the oath which He confirmeth with you this day:] that you may stand to‑day before Him a purified people; and that He may be a Elohim to you, as He hath spoken to you, and as He did swear unto Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob.
And not with you only do I ratify this covenant, and attest this adjuration; but all the generations which have arisen from the days of old stand with us to‑day before the Lord our Elohim, and all the generations which are to arise unto the end of the world, all of them stand with us here this day. [JERUSALEM. All the generations which have arisen from the days of old until now stand with thee to‑day before the Lord your Elohim, and all the generations which are to arise after us stand also here with us to‑day.] For you know the number of the years that we dwelt in the land of Mizraim, and the mighty works which were wrought for us among the nations through which you have passed. You have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone which they have set forth in the streets, and the idols of silver and gold that they have placed with themselves in the houses, shutting the doors after them lest they should be stolen. Beware, then, lest there be among you now or hereafter a man, woman, family, or tribe, whose heart may be turned away to wander any day from the service of the Lord our Elohim to worship the idols of those nations; or lest there be among you the error which striketh root (in them) whose heart wandereth after his sin; for the beginning of sin may be sweet, but its end is bitter as the deadly wormwood; [JERUSALEM. You have seen their hateful things and their abominations, the idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold; idols of wood and stone set forth in the streets, but those of silver and gold kept with themselves in the house because they were afraid they would be stolen. . . . . . . Lest there be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our Elohim to go and worship the idols of these people, or there be a man among you whose heart pondereth upon sin, which is like a root struck into the earth; for its beginning may be sweet as honey, but its end will be bitter as the deadly wormwood;] or it be that when he heareth the words of this curse he become reprobate in his heart, saying: I shall have peace, though I go on in the strength of the evil desires of my heart: so that he will add presumption to the sins of ignorance. It will not be pleasing to the Lord to forgive him; for the Lord's anger and indignation will wax hot against that man, and all the words of the curses written in this book will rest upon him, and the Lord will blot out the memorial of his name from under the heavens. And the Lord will separate him unto evil, from all the tribes of Yisrael, according to all the maledictions of the covenant which are written in this book. And the generations of your children who will arise after you, and the stranger who will come from a far‑off land, when they see the plagues of that land, and the afflictions which the Lord will have sent upon it, the whole land burnt with brimstone, salt, and fierce heat, no longer fit for sowing, nor productive of a blade of any springing herbage; ruined, as Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim, were overthrown by the Word of the Lord in His wrath and indignation; then all people will say, Why hath the Lord done so unto this land? What meaneth the strength of this great anger? And they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the Elohim of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Mizraim. But they went after their evil desires, and served the gods of the Gentiles, and worshipped gods which they had not known nor had any part with. And the anger of the Lord waxed strong against this land, to bring upon it all the curses written in this book. And the Lord hath made them to wander forth from their country with anger, indignation, and wrath, and hath cast them into captivity in another land until this day.
The secret things are manifest before the Lord our Elohim, and He will take vengeance for them; but the things that are revealed are delivered unto us and to our children for ever, to perform by them the thing that is right, for the confirmation of all the words of this Torah.
XXX. And it will be, when all these words of blessings, or their contraries, which I have set in order before you shall have come upon you, you will be converted in your hearts to return unto My fear, in all the dispersions (among) the nations where the Lord will have scattered you. The upright of you will be favoured with a blessed repentance; and though you have sinned, yet shall your repentance come up unto the glorious throne of the Lord your Elohim, if you will hearken to His Word according to all that I have commanded you this day, you, and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul. And His Word will accept your repentance with favour, and will have mercy upon you, and He will gather you again from all the nations whither the Lord your Elohim had scattered you. Though you may be dispersed unto the ends of the heavens, from thence will the Word of the Lord gather you together by the hand of Elijah the great priest, and from thence will He bring you by the hand of the King Meshiha. And the Word of the Lord your Elohim will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed by inheritance, and you shall possess it, and He will bless you and increase you more than your fathers. And the Lord your Elohim will take away the foolishness of your heart, and of your children's heart; for He will abolish evil desire from the world, and create good desire, which will give you the dictate to love the Lord your Elohim with all your heart and soul, that your lives may flow on for evermore. And the Word of the Lord your Elohim will send these curses upon your enemies who have oppressed you in your captivities, and such as have hated and persecuted, to destroy you. But you shall return, and be obedient to the Word of the Lord, and do all His commandments that I command you this day. And the Lord your Elohim will make you to abound in good; for you shall prosper in all the works of your hands, in the offspring of thy womb, the increase of thy cattle, and the produce of your land, for good; for the Word of the Lord will return, to rejoice over you, to bless you, as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you will hearken to the Word of the Lord your Elohim in keeping His commandments and statutes which are written in the book of this Torah, when you have returned to the fear of the Lord your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.
For this commandment which I command you to‑day is not hidden from you, nor afar off. It is not in the heavens, that thou shouldst say, Who will ascend for us into heaven, and bring it to us to make us hear, that we may do it? Neither is it beyond the great sea, that thou shouldst say, Who will go beyond the sea for us, and fetch it for us to make us hear, that we may do it? For the Word is nigh you, in your schools;[1] open your mouth, that you may meditate on it; purify your hearts, that you may perform it. Behold, I have set before you this day the way of life, wherein is the recompense of the reward of good unto the righteous, and the way of death, wherein is the retribution of the wages of evil unto the wicked. [JERUSALEM. The Torah is not in the heavens, that thou shouldst say, O that we had one like Mosheh the prophet to ascend into heaven, and bring it to us, and make us hear its commands, that we may do them! Neither is the Torah beyond the great sea, that thou shouldst say, O that we had one like Jonah the prophet, who could descend into the depths of the sea, and bring it to us, and make us hear its commands, that we may do them! For the word is very nigh you, in your mouth, that you may meditate upon it, and in your hearts, that you may perform it. See, behold, I have set before you this day the way of life, which is the path of the good, and the way of death, which is the path of the evil.] For I teach you to‑day to love the Lord your Elohim, and to walk in the ways that are right before Him, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, and live and multiply; that the Lord your Elohim may bless you in the land into which you are entering to possess it. But if you think in your heart that you will not obey, but will go astray to worship the idols of the nations, and serve them, I proclaim to you this day, that you will perish, and will not prolong your days on the land to which you are to pass over the Jordan to possess it. I attest this day, not only you, who are to pass away from this world, but the heavens and the earth, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and its reverse. Choose therefore the way of life, even the Torah, that you and your children may live the life of the world to come; that you may love the Lord thy Elohim, to obey His Word, and keep close unto His fear; for the Torah in which you occupy yourselves will be your life in this world,[2] and the prolongment of your days in the world that cometh; and you shall be gathered together at the end of the scattering,[3] and dwell upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers, to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, to give it unto them.
[1] Be-beth medreashkun.
[2] Or, "age."
[3] Or, "captivity."
SECTION LI.
NITSTSABIM
YOU stand this day an of you before the Lord your Elohim, the princes of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Yisrael; your children, your wives, and thy sojourner who is within thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood to the filler of thy water; to enter into the covenant of the Lord thy Elohim, and into His oath which the Lord thy Elohim doth ratify with thee this day, that He may establish thee this day to be a people before Him, and that He may be a Elohim unto thee, as He promised thee, and as He sware unto Avraham, and to Izhak, and to Jakob.
And I ratify this covenant and oath not with you only, but with him who is standing here with us this day: before the Lord our Elohim, and with him also who is not here with us this day. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Mizraim, and how we came through the midst of the nations by whom we have passed. And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which (were found) among them; lest there should be among you a man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart is turned away this day from the fear of the Lord our Elohim, to go after the worship of these Gentiles; lest there should be with you a man who imagineth wickedness or pride, that, when he heareth the words of this oath, he should reckon in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I go on in the imagination of my heart to multiply sins of ignorance with (sin of) presumption. The Lord will not absolve him, but now will the anger and indignation of the Lord break forth against that man, and ail the curses which are written in this book will cleave to him, and his name will be blotted out from under the heavens. And the Lord will separate him from all the tribes of Yisrael unto evil, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in the book of this Torah. And the generation that cometh after, and your children who will arise after you, and the son of the Gentiles who may come from a land afar off, when they see the plagues of that land, and the afflictions with which the Lord will afflict it,
the whole land, brimstone and salt and burning, with no sowing, or growth, or any herbage springing up therein, even as the overthrow of Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and indignation,
even all the nations will say, Why did the Lord thus to this land ? What caused the fury of this wrath? Then shall they say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the Elohim of their fathers, which He ratified with them when He brought them out of the land of Mizraim. For they went and served the idols of the Gentiles, and worshipped fearful things which they knew not, and which could do them no good. And the anger of the Lord waxed strong against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. And the Lord cast them away from off their land in anger, indignation, and great violence, and drave them captive into another land as at this day. The things which are secret are before the Lord our Elohim; and those which are revealed are ours, and our children's for ever, that we may do all the words of this Torah.
XXX. And it will be that when all these words of blessings or of maledictions which I have set before thee have come upon thee, and thou turn unto thy heart among all the nations whither the Lord thy Elohim will have led thee captive, and return to the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, and obey His Word, according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart and all thy soul, that the Lord thy Elohim will turn thy captivity, and have mercy upon thee, and will return, and gather thee from all the nations among which the Lord thy Elohim hath dispersed thee. If any of thy dispersed be (scattered) unto the ends of the heavens, from thence will the Lord thy Elohim gather thee, and lead thee.
And the Lord thy Elohim will bring thee into the land which thy fathers did inherit, and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the Lord thy Elohim will take away the foolishness of thy heart, and the foolishness of thy children's heart, to love the Lord thy Elohim with all thy heart and all thy soul, that thou mayest live.And the Lord thy Elohim will put all these curses upon thy enemies and upon them who hated and persecuted thee; but thou shalt return and be obedient to the Word of the Lord, and do all the commandments which I command thee this day.
And the Lord thy Elohim will make thee to abound in all the works of thy hand, the offspring of thy womb, the increase of thy cattle, and the produce of thy land, unto good; for the Lord will return to rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers; when thou shalt be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, to keep His commandments and statutes which are written in the book of this Torah, if thou return unto the fear of the Lord thy Elohim with all thy heart and all thy soul.
For this commandment which I command thee this day is not apart from thee, nor is it far away. It is not in the heavens, that thou shouldst say, Who shall ascend for us into heaven, that he may bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?
nor is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldst. say, Who will go over for us beyond the sea, and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it ? For the word is very nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Behold, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
for I command thee this day to love the Lord thy Elohim, to walk in the ways that are right in His presence, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply, and the Lord Elohim may bless thee in the land into which thou art going, to possess it. But if thy heart be averse, and thou wilt not obey, but wilt go astray, and worship the idols of the Gentiles, and serve them, I have shown you this day that perishing you shall perish. You will not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to enter in and possess it. I call heaven and earth to attest in you this day that I have set before thee life and death, blessings and curses: but choose for life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy children, to love the Lord thy Elohim, to be obedient to His word, and to keep close unto His fear, for He is thy life, and the prolonged of thy days, to abide upon the land which the Lord sware to thy fathers, to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, to give unto them.
Pg. 47-57
Ch. 6-11
SECTION II
ELEH TOLEDOTH NOACH.
These are the memorials of Noach. Noach was a man righteous and perfect in his generation; in the fear of the Lord walked Noach. And Noach begat three sons, Shem, Cham, and Yapeth. And the earth was corrupted before the Lord, and the earth was filled with violences.[1] And the Lord saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted, each one, his way upon the earth.
And the Lord said to Noach, The end of all flesh cometh before Me, because the earth is filled with violences from the face of their wicked works; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark with the wood of cedar; dwellings shalt thou make in the ark, and overlay it within and without with pitch. And thus shalt thou make it: three hundred cubits shall be the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. A light shalt thou make to the ark, and at a cubit shalt thou complete it above, and the door of the ark thou shalt place in its side. Lower dwellings, second and third, shalt thou make in it. And I, behold, I do bring the deluge of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Every thing that is on the earth shall die. And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. And of all that liveth of all flesh two and two of all that enter into the ark to abide with thee, male and female shall they be. Of fowl according to its kind, and of cattle according to her kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of all shall enter with thee to abide. And thou, take with thee of all food which is eaten, and gather to be with thee; and it shall be for thee and for them to eat. And Noach did according to all which the Lord had commanded him, so did he.
VII. And the Lord said to Noach, Enter thou and all the men of thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation. Of all clean animals take thou seven and seven, male and female; and of animals not clean, two and two, male and female. Also of the fowls of heaven, seven and seven, male and female, to continue the seed upon the face of all the earth. Because yet a time of seven days and I will cause rain to descend upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every subsistence[2] which I have made upon all the face of the earth. And Noach did according to all that the Lord had instructed him. And Noach was a son of six hundred years; and the deluge[3] of waters was upon the earth. And Noach entered, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, into the ark from before the water of the deluge. Of animals clean, and of animals not clean, and of birds, and of all which creepeth upon the earth, two and two, they entered with Noach into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had instructed Noach. And it was at the time of seven days, and the waters of the deluge were upon the earth. In the six‑hundredth year of the life of Noach, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in that day were all the springs of the great abyss upbroken, and the windows of heaven opened, and the rain came down upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In that very day entered Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yapheth, sons of Noach, and the wife of Noach, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every animal after his kind, and all cattle after its kind, and every, reptile which creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every one that flieth: and they entered with Noach oach into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life; and they, entering, male and female of all flesh, entered, as the Lord had commanded him, and the Lord protected them by His Word.[4] And there was a deluge forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and took up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed and increased mightily upon the earth, and the ark went upon the faces of the waters. And the waters prevailed most mightily over the earth, and all the high hills were covered which were under all the heavens. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered; and all flesh died which moved upon the earth, of fowl, and of cattle, and of the wild beast, and of every reptile which creepeth upon the earth, and every man. Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the Spirit of life, of all which was upon the dry ground, died. And every subsistence was blotted out that was upon the faces of the earth, from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the fowl of heaven, it was blotted out from the earth, and Noach was left alone, and they who were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
VIII. And the Lord remembered Noach, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark; and the Lord caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters rested, and the springs of the abyss were shut, and the windows of the heavens, and the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters turned from on the earth, going and returning; and the waters diminished from the end of a hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested on the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Kardu.[5] And the waters went and diminished until the tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the mouth, the heads of the mountains appeared. And it was at the end of forty days, and Noach opened the windows of the ark which he had made. And he sent forth a raven, and going he went out, and returned until the waters were dried upon the earth. And he sent forth a dove from (being) with him, to see whether the waters were lightened (or consumed) from the surface of the earth. But the dove found no rest for the dividing of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, because the waters were upon all the earth; and he stretched forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to be with him in the ark. And he prolonged[6] yet seven days, and afterward added to send forth the dove from the ark. And the dove came to him at the time of evening, and, behold, a leaf of olive broken off was in her mouth; and Noach knew that the waters were lightened from upon the earth. And he prolonged yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, and she added not to return to be with him again. And it was in the six‑hundredth and first year, in the beginning of the first month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noach removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the faces of the ground were dry. And in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the earth was fully dry.
And the Lord spake with Noach, saying: Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee. Every living thing which is with thee of all flesh, of fowl, and of cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee, and they shall generate in the earth, and spread abroad and multiply upon the earth. And Noach went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him; every animal, every reptile and bird, everything which moveth upon the earth after their kind, went forth from the ark.
And Noach builded an altar before the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the altar. And the Lord received with approval his oblation; and the Lord said in His Word,[7] I will not add to curse again the earth on account of the guilt of man, because the creations of the heart of man[8] are evil from his infancy;[9] and I will not add again to smite every living thing as I have done. Yet all the days of the earth, seed‑time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
IX. And the Lord blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, Spread abroad, and multiply, and fill the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heavens, in all which creepeth upon the earth, and in all fish of the sea; into your hands shall they be delivered. Every moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat; as the green herb I have given you the whole. But the flesh with its life‑blood you shall not eat. And also your blood of your lives will I require, from every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of the man who sheddeth the blood of his brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth the blood of man, by witnesses, upon the sentence of the judges, his blood shall be shed; because in the image of the Lord[10] made He man. And you, spread abroad and multiply; bring forth in the earth and multiply therein.
And the Lord spake to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your children after you, and with every living thing which is with you, of fowl, of cattle, and of every beast of the field that is with you, of all going forth from the ark of every animal of the earth. And I will establish My covenant with you, and all flesh shall not again be consumed by the waters of a deluge, nor shall there be again a deluge to destroy the earth. And the Lord said, This is the sign of the covenant which I appoint (give) between My Word, and between you, and between every living soul that is with you unto perpetual generations. I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between My Word and between the earth. And it shall be that when clouding I becloud the earth, the bow shall be seen in the cloud,and I will remember the covenant which is between My Word, and between You, and between every living soul of all flesh; and there shall not be again the waters of a deluge to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between the Word of the Lord andbetween every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth. And the Lord said, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between My Word and between all flesh which is upon the earth.
And the sons of Noach who went forth from the ark were Shem and Cham and Yapheth: and Cham is the father of Kenaan. These three are the sons of Noach and from them was the whole earth Overspread. And Noach began to be a man working on the earth;[11] and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine,[12] and was drunk; and he was uncovered in the midst of his tent. And Cham the father of Kenaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he showed to his two brethren without. And Shem and Yapheth took a mantle, and laid it upon the shoulders of both, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were averted, and the nakedness of their father they saw not. And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew that which his youngest son had done unto him; and he said:--
Accursed be Kenaan,
A working servant shall he be to his brethren. And he said:--
Blessed be the Lord the Elohim of Shem,
And Kenaan shall be servant unto them.
The Lord shall enlarge Yapheth,[13]
And be shall make his Shekinah to dwell in the tabernacles of Shem:
And Kenaan shall be servant unto them.
And Noach lived after the deluge three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
X. And these are the generations of the sons of Noach, Shem, Cham, and Yapheth; and sons were born to them after the deluge. The sons of Yepheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Yavan, and Thuval, and Meshek, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Rephath, and Thogarmah. And the sons of Yavan, Elishah and Tharshish, and Dodanim. From these were the isles (nagvath) of the peoples divided in their lands, each according to his language, according to their families in their nations. And the sons of Cham, Kush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Kenaan. And the sons of Kush, Seba, and Chavilah, and Sabetha, and Raamah, and Sabtekah. And the sons of Raamah, Sheba and Dedan. And Kush begat Nimrod: he began to be a powerful man in the earth. He was a powerful man before the Lord: therefore it is said, Like Nimrod the man of might before the Lord. And the head (beginning) of his kingdom was Bavel, and Erek, and Akad, and Kalneh in the land of Bavel.[14] From that land he went forth to Athura,[15] and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechov,[16] and Kalach,[17] and Resen,[18] between Nineveh and Kalach, which was a great city. And Mizraim begat the Ludaee, and Anamaee, and Lehabaee,[19] and Naphtuhaee, and Pathrusaee, and Kasluchaee, from whom came forth the Pelishtaee and Kaputkaee.
And Kenaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Cheth, and the Jebusaee, and Amoraee, and Girgashee, and Hivaaee, and Arkaee, and Antasaee, and Arvadaee, and Zemaraee, and Chamathaee: and afterwards the seed of the Kenaanaee were scattered abroad. And the frontier of Kenaanaah was from Zidon, coming to Gerar and to Azza, coming unto Sedom, and Amorah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha. These are the sons of Cham, according to their progenies, to their languages, in their lands, in their peoples.
And of Shem was born: (also he is the father of all the sons of Eber, and the brother of Yapheth the Great:) the sons of Shem, Elim, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram, Uz, and Chul, and Gether, and Mash. And Arphaxad begat Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber. And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg: because in his day the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Yoktan. And Yoktan begat Almodad, and Shaleph, and Chatsarmaveth, and Yarech, and Chadoram, and Uzal, and Dikelah, and Obal, and Avimael, and Sheba, and Ophir, and Chavilah, and Yobab: all these are the sons of Yoktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha,[20] coming to Sephar, an eastern mountain. These are the sons of Shem,[21] according to their progenies, according to their languages, in their lands, in their peoples. These are the progenies of the sons of Noach, by their generations, in their peoples: and by them were the peoples outspread in the earth after the deluge.
XI. And all the earth was of one language and one speech. And it was in their migrations[22] at the beginning, that they found a plain in the land of Babel., and dwelt there. And they said, a man to his companion, Come, let us cast bricks and bake them in the fire. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. And they said, Come, let us build a city, and a tower, the bead of it coming to the pinnacle of the heavens. And we will make to us a name, lest we be dispersed upon the face of all the earth. And the Lord was revealed to punish the work of the city and the tower which the sons of men had builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one and the language one with all of them: and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained from them of what they imagine to do. Come, We will be manifest, and will confuse their language there, that a man shall not bear the language of his companion. And the Lord dispersed them from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they were restrained from building the city. Therefore the name of it is called Confusion,[23] because the Lord there confused the tongue of all the earth, and from thence the Lord dispersed them upon the face of all the earth.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begat Arphaxad, two years after the deluge. And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived thirty and five years, and begat Shelach. And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber. And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived thirty and four years, and begat Peleg. And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Reu lived thirty and two years, and begat Serug. And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor. And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nachor lived twenty and nine years, and begat Terach. And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Avram, Nachor, and Haran. And these are the generations of Terach. Terach begat Avram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before Terach his father in the land of his nativity, in Ura of the Kasdaee. And Avram and Nachor took to them wives: the name of the wife of Avram, Sara; and the name of the wife of Nachor, Milcha, daughter of Haran the father of Milcha and the father of Yiska. And Sara was barren, she had no child. And Terach took Avram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter‑in‑Torah, wife of Avram his son, and went forth with them from Ura of the Kasdaee to go to the land of Kenaan. And they came to Charan, and dwelt there. And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years, and Terach died in Charan.
[1]Or, "rapines." Sam Ver. "oppressions."
[1] Yekuma.
[1] Tuphana.
[1] Or, "The Lord overshadowed them by His Word." The Samaritan has, "And the Lord sealed over them."
[1] Sam Vers. Al teborah Sarnedib, "Upon the mountains Sarnedib." The Peschito Syriac, "Upon the mountians of Kardu" (Armenia).
[1] Veorik: the Samaritan text has, Vajichel, "And he expected;" the Samaritan Version, Veamen, "And he believed, or confided yet," &c.
[1] "Unto (rozch) his mystery." --Sam. Vers.
[1] "The secret of the heart of man." --Sam Vers.
[1] "His smallness," zeireia.
[1] Sam. Vers. "of angels."
[1] Sam. "A man of husbandry."
[1] Chamra, "red wine;" Heb. Hayayin; Sam. Amrah.
[1] Yaphti Leia l'Yepheth. Yapheth signifies "enlargement."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Zopha."
[1] "Astun."
[1] "Satkan."
[1] "Lakisa."
[1] "Aspa."
[1] "Enamim."
[1] "Misbal." --Sam.
[1] Sam. Vers. "This is the portion of the sons."
[1] Heb. "their removal from the east." Syriac, "It was while they ascended from the east."
[1] "Babel." Sam. Vers. "Lilaq."
[1]Or, "rapines." Sam Ver. "oppressions."
[2] Yekuma.
[3] Tuphana.
[4] Or, "The Lord overshadowed them by His Word." The Samaritan has, "And the Lord sealed over them."
[5] Sam Vers. Al teborah Sarnedib, "Upon the mountains Sarnedib." The Peschito Syriac, "Upon the mountians of Kardu" (Armenia).
[6] Veorik: the Samaritan text has, Vajichel, "And he expected;" the Samaritan Version, Veamen, "And he believed, or confided yet," &c.
[7] "Unto (rozch) his mystery." --Sam. Vers.
[8] "The secret of the heart of man." --Sam Vers.
[9] "His smallness," zeireia.
[10] Sam. Vers. "of angels."
[11] Sam. "A man of husbandry."
[12] Chamra, "red wine;" Heb. Hayayin; Sam. Amrah.
[13] Yaphti Leia l'Yepheth. Yapheth signifies "enlargement."
[14] Sam. Vers. "Zopha."
[15] "Astun."
[16] "Satkan."
[17] "Lakisa."
[18] "Aspa."
[19] "Enamim."
[20] "Misbal." --Sam.
[21] Sam. Vers. "This is the portion of the sons."
[22] Heb. "their removal from the east." Syriac, "It was while they ascended from the east."
[23] "Babel." Sam. Vers. "Lilaq."
SECTION II.
NOAH
VI. (9) These are the genealogies of the race of Noah. Noah was a just man, complete in good works in his generation, (and) in the fear of the Lord walked Noah. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Cham, and Japheth.
And the earth was corrupted through the inhabitants thereof, who had declined from the ways of righteousness before the Lord; and the earth was filled with rapine. [JERUSALEM. And the earth was filled with violences and frauds.] And the Lord beheld the earth; and, lo, it was corrupt; for all flesh had every one corrupted his way upon the earth.
And the Lord said to Noah, The end of all flesh cometh before Me, because the earth is filled with rapine by their evil works; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of the wood of cedars; a hundred and fifty cells shalt thou make to the ark in its left side, and thirty and six in its breadth; and ten cabins in the midst, to lay up in them provision; and five repositories on the right, and five on the left; and thou shalt protect it within and without a pitch. Go thou unto Phison, and take from thence a precious stone, and fix it in the ark to illuminate you: with the measure of a cubit (or span) shalt thou complete it above. And a door shalt thou set in the side of the ark; and with dwelling-places, inferior, second, and third, shalt thou make it. And I, behold, I bring a flood of waters upon the earth to swallow up all flesh which hath in it the spirit of life from under the heavens: whatever is upon the earth shall be swept away. But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. And of all that liveth of all flesh, two of every (kind) shall go into the ark, to be preserved alive with thee: male and female shall they be. Of the fowl after its kind, and of all cattle after its kind, and of every reptile of the earth after its kind, two of every (sort) shall enter to thee by the hand of the angel, who will take and cause them to enter to thee, to be preserved. And thou, take to thee of all food that is eaten, and let it be to thee and to them for food. And Noah did according to all that the Lord had instructed him.
VII. And the Lord said to Noah, Enter, thou, and every one of thy house, into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of all clean cattle take thou seven by seven, male and female, and of all cattle not clean, two (and two), male and female. But of birds of the heaven, seven by seven, male and female, to preserve from them seed upon the earth. For, behold, I give you space of seven days; if they will be converted, it shall be forgiven them; but if they will not be converted, after a time of days yet seven, I will cause rain to come down upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and will destroy all bodies of man and of beast upon the earth. And Noah did acccording to all that the Lord had commanded him. And Noah was the son of six hundred years when the deluge of waters was upon the earth. And Noah entered, with his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him, into the ark, from before the waters of the deluge. Of all cattle clean, and of cattle unclean, of birds, and of whatever creepeth upon the earth, two and two they entered unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had instructed Noah.
And it was at the time of seven days after the conclusion of the mourning for Methushelach, that the Lord beheld, and, lo, the sons of men had not turned. And the waters of the deluge came down hotly from the heavens upon the earth. In the six-hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, which was the month of Marchesvan, for hitherto the months had been numbered from Tishri which was the beginning of the year at the completion of the world, in the seventeenth day of the month, in that day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. And the giants were gathered there together with their sons and perturbed them, and afterwards the windows of heaven were opened. [JERUSALEM. And the windows of heaven were opened.] And the rain came down upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In that same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Cham, and Yapheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him, into the ark: they, and every animal after his kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird which flieth. And they entered to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which was the breath of life. And they coming entered, male and female, of all flesh unto him, as the Lord had instructed him; and the Word of the Lord covered over the door of the ark upon the face thereof. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord was merciful upon him.] And there was a flood forty days upon the earth, and the waters were multiplied and bare up the ark, and it was lifted from the earth. And the waters waxed mighty and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went floating upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed greatly upon the earth, and all the high hills which were under the heavens were covered: fifteen cubits higher did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh expired which moveth upon the earth; of fowl, and of cattle, and of wild beasts, and every moving thing that moveth upon the earth, and all the sons of men,--every thing in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all on the dry land, died. And all the bodies of men and of beasts upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle, to creeping thing, and to the fowl which wingeth in the air of heaven, perished from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they who were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
VIII. And the Lord in His Word remembered Noah, and all the animals and the cattle which were with him in the ark; and the Lord caused the wind of mercies to pass over the earth, and the waters were dried. [JERUSALEM. And He remembered in His mercies the good which was with Noah. And the Lord caused the wind of mercies.] And the fountains of the deep were shut up, and the windows of heaven, and the rain was forbidden to descend from heaven. And the waters returned from being on the earth, going and returning. And the waters were minished at the end of a hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested in the seventh month, which is the month of Nisan, in the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Qadron; the name of the one mountain is Qardania, and the name of the other mountain Irmenia; and there was builded the city of Armenia in the land of the east. And the waters went and diminished until the tenth month, the month Tammuz. In Tammuz, in the first of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen. And it was at the end of forty days, and Noah opened the aperture of the ark which he had made. And he sent out a raven; and it went forth, going forth and returning, until the waters had dried from the earth. And he sent forth a house-dove from being with him, to see whether the waters were lightened from off the faces of the earth. And the dove found no rest for the sole of the foot, and returned unto him to the ark; and he knew that the waters were (yet) upon the face of all the earth. And he reached out his hand, and took and brought her unto him into the ark. And he prolonged (waited) yet seven days, [JERUSALEM. And he began to number,] and again he sent the dove from the ark. And the dove came to him at the evening time, and, behold, a leaf of olive gathered, broken off, she brought in her mouth, and which she had taken from the Mount of the Meshiha. And Noah understood that the waters had lightened from being on the earth. And he prolonged yet seven days, and added to send forth the dove; but she added not to return to him again. And it was in the six hundred and first year, in Tishri, in the first of the month, in the beginning of the year, that the waters were dried from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw the faces of the ground to be dried. And in the month Marchesvan, in the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
And the Lord spake with Noah, saying: Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons, with thee. Every living animal that is with thee of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every reptile that creepeth on the earth, bring forth with thee, that they may produce in the earth, and spread abroad and multiply on the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons, with him. Every animal, every reptile, and every bird, which moveth upon the earth, according to its seed, went forth from the ark.
And Noah builded the altar before the Lord; that altar which Adam had builded in the time when he was cast forth from the garden of Eden, and had offered an oblation upon it; and upon it had Kain and Habel offered their oblations. But when the waters of the deluge descended, it was destroyed, and Noah rebuilded it; and he took of all clean cattle, and of all clean fowl, and sacrificed four upon that altar. And the Lord accepted his oblation with favour: and the Lord said in His Word, I will not add again to curse the earth on account of the sin of the children of men; for the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; neither will I add to destroy whatever liveth as I have done. Until all the days of the earth, sowing in the season of Tishri, and harvest in the season of Nisan, and coldness in the season of Tebeth, and warmth in the season of Tammuz, and summer and winter, and days and nights shall not fail. [JERUSALEM. Until all the days of the earth from now, sowing and reaping, and cold and heat, and days and nights shall not cease.]
IX. And the Lord blessed Noah, and his sons, and said to them, Spread forth and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens; of all that the earth swarmeth forth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing which liveth to you shall be for food: as the green herb have I given to you the whole. But flesh which is torn of the living beast, what time the life is in it, or that torn from a slaughtered animal before all the breath has gone forth, you shall not eat. But the blood of your lives I will I require of every animal which hath killed a man, I will require that it be put to death on his account. And from the hand of the human being, from the hand of the man who hath shed the blood of his brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth the blood of man, the judges, by witnesses, shall condemn him unto death; but he who sheddeth it without witnesses, the Lord of the world will bring punishment on him in the day of the great judgment; because in the image of the Lord He made man. And you, spread yourselves abroad and multiply; bring forth in the earth, and increase in it.
And the Lord spake to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your children after you; and with every living soul that is with you, of birds, and of cattle, and of every beast of the earth that is with you, of all that go forth from the ark, of every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, and will not again cause all flesh to perish by the waters of a flood; and there shall not again be a flood to destroy the earth.
And the Lord said, This is the sign of the covenant which I establish between My Word and between you and every living soul that is with you, unto the generations of the world. I have set My Bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between My Word and the earth. And it shall be that when I spread forth My glorious cloud over the earth, the bow shall be seen in the day (time), while the sun is not sunk (or hidden) in a cloud. And I will remember My covenant which is between My Word and between you and every living soul of all flesh, that there shall not be the waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between the Word of the Lord and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth. And the Lord said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant that I have covenanted between My Word and between the word for all flesh that is upon the earth.
And the sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Cham, and Japhet; and Cham is the father of Kenaan. These are the three sons of Noah, and from them they were spread abroad to dwell in all the earth.
And Noah began to be a man working in the earth. [JERUSALEM. And Noah began to be a righteous man, and he planted a vineyard.] And he found a vine which the river had brought away from the garden of Eden; and he planted it in a vineyard, and it flouished in a day; and its grapes became ripe, and he pressed them out. And he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he made himself naked in the midst of his tent. And Cham, the father of Kenaan, beheld the nakedness of his father, and showed to his brethren without. And Shem and Japhet took a mantle, and bare it upon the shoulders of each, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned back, and the nakedness of their father they did not behold. And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew, by the relation of a dream, what had been done to him by Cham his son, who was inferior in worth, on the account that he had not begotten a fourth son. And he said, Accursed is Kenaan who is his fourth son, a serving servant shall he be to his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the Elohim of Shem, whose work is righteous; and therefore shall Kenaan be servant unto him. The Lord shall beautify the borders of Japhet, and his sons shall be proselyted and dwell in the schools of Shem, and Kenaan shall be a servant to them. And Noach lived after the deluge three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
X. These are the generations of the sons of Noach, and (of the) sons (who) were born to them after the deluge. The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Meshek, and Thiras. And the names of their provinces, Afriki, and Germania, and Medi, and Makadonia, and Iatinia, and Asia, and Tharki. And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarma. And the sons of Javan, Elisha, Alas, and Tarsas, Akazia, and Dordonia.
[JERUSALEM. The sons of Japheth, Gomer; and the name of their provinces, Afriki, and Garmania, and Madai, and Mokdonia, and Yatania, and Asia, and Tharki. And the sons of Gomer, and the name of their provinces, Asia and Pharkui (Phrygia?) and Barberia. And the sons of Javan, Elisha, and the name of their provinces, Alastarasom, Italia, and Dordonia.]
From these were distributed the tribes of the islands of the Gentiles, every one according to his language, to his kindred in their nations. And the sons of Cham, Kush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Kenaan. And the name of their provinces, Arabia, and Mizraim, and Alichrok, and Kenaan. And the sons of Kush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteka, and the name of their provinces, Sinirai, and Hindiki, and Semadi, and Lubai, and Zingai. And the sons of Mauritinos, Zmargad and Mezag. And Kush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty in sin, and to rebel before the Lord in the earth. He was a mighty rebel before the Lord; therefore it is said, From the day that the world was created there hath not been as Nimrod, mighty in hunting, and a rebel before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Bavel the Great, and Hadas, and Netsibin, and Ketispon, in the land of Pontos. From that land went forth Nimrod, and reigned in Athur, because he would not be in the counsel of a divided generation. And he left those four cities; and the Lord thereupon gave him a place; and he builded four other cities, Nineveh and Pelatiath, Kartha and Parioth. And Talesar, which was builded between Nineveh and Hadiath; that is a great city. And Mizraim begat the Nivatee, and the Mariotee, and the Livakee, and the Pantascinee, and the Pathrosim, and the Nasiotaee, and the Pantapolotee, from whom went forth the Philistaee and the Kaphodikaee.
[JERUSALEM. 9. He was mighty in hunting and in sin before the Lord; for he was a hunter of the sons of men in their languages. And he said to them, Leave the judgments of Shem, and adhere to the judgments of Nimrod. On this account it is said, As Nimrod the mighty, mighty in hunting and in sin before the Lord 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, and Hadas, and Netsibin, and Katispa in the land of Bavel. 11. From that land he went out towards Athur, and builded Nineveh, and Pelatiath-Kartha, and Hadiath......And Talesar, between Nineveh and Hadiath, which is a great city......13. And Mizraim begat the Mariotaee, and Pentepolitaee, and Lusetaee, and Pelusaee, and the Pantaskenaee, from whom went forth the Philistaee and Kapodekaee.]
And Kenaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusaee, and the Emoraee, and the Gergeshaee, and the Hivaee, and the Irkaee, and the Antosaee, and the Lutasaee, and the Chomtsaee, and the Antekoee; and after then the seed of the Kenaanaee were scattered.
[JERUSALEM. 17. And the Tripolaee, and the Arkaee, and the Kaphrusaee. And the Antridanaee, and the Chamatsaee, and the Antukeia: from Bavel, after then, were distinguished the islands of the peoples.] And the limit of the Kenaanaee was from Kothanis, going up to Gerar, unto Azah, unto Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim, unto Kaldahi. These are the sons of Cham, according to the seed of their genealogies, after their languages, in the dwelling of their lands, in the kindred of their people.]
And to Shem also was born a son. He is the father of all the sons of the Hebrews, the brother of Japheth, great in the fear of the Lord. The sons of Shem: Elim, and Athur, and Arphakshad, and Lud, and Aram. Arphakshad begat Shelach, and Shelach begat Eber. And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided; and the name of the other Joktan. And Joktan begat Elmodad, who measured (or lined) the earth with lines; and Shaleph, who led forth the waters of rivers, and Chatsarmaveth, and Jarach, and Harodam, and Uzal, and Dikla, and Oval, and Avimael, and Sheba, and Ophir, and Havila, and Jobab. All these are the sons of Joktan. And the house of their dwelling was from Mesha, by which thou goest up to Sepharvae, a mountain of the east. These are the sons of Shem, according to their houses, in the dwelling of their lands, according to the kindred of their people. These are the houses of the sons of Noah, according to their houses in their peoples, and from them are the peoples distinguished in the earth after the deluge.
XI. And all the earth was (of) one language, and one speech, and one counsel. In the holy language spake they, that by which the world had been created at the beginning. And it was while they were journeying from the east that they found a plain in the land of Bavel, and dwelt there.
[JERUSALEM. And all the inhabiters of the earth were (of) one language, and of one speech, and one counsel: for they spake the holy language by which the world was created at the beginning: while their hearts erred afterwards from the Word of Him who spake, and the world was, at the beginning; and they found a plain in the land of Pontos and dwelt there.]
And they said, a man to his fellow, Come, we will cast bricks, and put them in the furnace. And they had brick for stone, and slime for cement. And they said, Come, we will build us a city and a tower, and the head of it shall come to the summit of the heavens; and we will make us (an image for) worship on the top of it, and put a sword in his hand to act against the array of war, before that we be scattered on the face of the earth. And the Lord was revealed to punish them for the work of the city and the tower which the sons of men builded.
[JERUSALEM. And they said, Come now, and we will build us a city and a tower, and the head of it shall reach to the summit of the heavens, and we will make us in it a house of worship at the top,......and we will put a sword in his hand, lest there be set against him the array of war, before we be scattered upon the face of all the earth.]
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and the language of all of them one: and this they have thought to do: and now they will not be restrained from doing whatever they imagine. And the Lord said to the seventy angels which stand before Him, Come, we will descend and will there commingle their language, that a man shall not understand the speech of his neighbour. And the Word of the Lord was revealed against the city, and with Him seventy angels, having reference to seventy nations, each having its own language, and thence the writing of its own hand: and He dispersed them from thence upon the face of all the earth into seventy languages. And one knew not what his neighbour would say: but one slew the other; and they ceased from building the city. Therefore He called the name of it Bavel, because there did the Lord commingle the speech of all the inhabitants of the earth, and from thence did the Lord disperse them upon the faces of all the earth.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begat Arphakshad, two years after the deluge. And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphakshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphakshad lived thirty and five years, and begat Shelach. And Arphakshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber. And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begat Peleg. And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begat Serug. And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begat Terah. And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah one hundred and sixteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Avram and Nahor and Haran.
These are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Avram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And it was when Nimrod had cast Avram into the furnace of fire because he would not worship his idol, and the fire had no power to burn him, that Haran's heart became doubtful, saying, If Nimrod overcome, I will be on his side: but if Avram overcome, I will be on his side. And when all the people who were there saw that the fire had no power over Avram, they said in their hearts, Is not Haran the brother of Avram full of divinations and charms, and has he not uttered spells over the fire that it should not burn his brother? Immediately (min yad, out of hand) there fell fire from the high heavens and consumed him; and Haran died in the sight of Terah his father, where he was burned in the land of his nativity, in the furnace of fire which the Kasdai had made for Avram his brother.
And Avram and Nahor took to them wives: the name of Avram's wife was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha and the father of Iska, who is Sara. And Sara was barren, she had no child. [JERUSALEM. And Sara was barren, she had no son.] And Terah took Avram his son, and Lot bar Haran, the son of his son, and his daughter-in-law Sara the wife of Avram his son, and went forth with them from Ura of the Kasdai, to go to the land of Kenaan. And they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
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<a name="C041V1" id="C041V1">1:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the wilderness
of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in
the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, <a
name="C041V2" id="C041V2">1:2</a> "Take a census of all the congregation
of the children of Yisrael, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; <a
name="C041V3" id="C041V3">1:3</a> from twenty years old and upward, all who
are able to go out to war in Yisrael. You and Aharon shall number them by
their divisions. <a name="C041V4" id="C041V4">1:4</a> With you there shall be
a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house. <a name="C041V5"
id="C041V5">1:5</a> These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:<br />
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.<br /> <a name="C041V6" id="C041V6">1:6</a>
Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.<br /> <a name="C041V7" id="C041V7">1:7</a>
Of Yehudah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.<br /> <a name="C041V8" id="C041V8">1:8</a>
Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.<br /> <a name="C041V9" id="C041V9">1:9</a>
Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.<br /> <a name="C041V10" id="C041V10">1:10</a>
Of the children of Joseph:<br /> Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud.<br />
Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.<br /> <a name="C041V11" id="C041V11">1:11</a>
Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.<br /> <a name="C041V12" id="C041V12">1:12</a>
Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.<br /> <a name="C041V13" id="C041V13">1:13</a>
Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.<br /> <a name="C041V14" id="C041V14">1:14</a>
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.<br /> <a name="C041V15" id="C041V15">1:15</a>
Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
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<a name="C041V16" id="C041V16">1:16</a> These are those who were called of the
congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the
heads of the thousands of Yisrael. <a name="C041V17" id="C041V17">1:17</a>
Moshe and Aharon took these men who are mentioned by name. <a name="C041V18"
id="C041V18">1:18</a> They assembled all the congregation together on the
first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and upward, one by one. <a name="C041V19" id="C041V19">1:19</a>
As Yahweh commanded Moshe, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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<a name="C041V20" id="C041V20">1:20</a> The children of Reuben, Yisrael's
firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty
years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; <a name="C041V21"
id="C041V21">1:21</a> those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V22" id="C041V22">1:22</a> Of the children of Simeon, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were
numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every
male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
<a name="C041V23" id="C041V23">1:23</a> those who were numbered of them, of
the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V24" id="C041V24">1:24</a> Of the children of Gad, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V25" id="C041V25">1:25</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six
hundred fifty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V26" id="C041V26">1:26</a> Of the children of Yehudah, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V27" id="C041V27">1:27</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Yehudah, were sixty-four thousand six
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V28" id="C041V28">1:28</a> Of the children of Issachar, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V29" id="C041V29">1:29</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V30" id="C041V30">1:30</a> Of the children of Zebulun, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V31" id="C041V31">1:31</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four
hundred. <a name="C041V32" id="C041V32">1:32</a> Of the children of Joseph, of
the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years
old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; <a name="C041V33"
id="C041V33">1:33</a> those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V34" id="C041V34">1:34</a> Of the children of Manasseh, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V35" id="C041V35">1:35</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V36" id="C041V36">1:36</a> Of the children of Benjamin, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go out to war; <a name="C041V37" id="C041V37">1:37</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V38" id="C041V38">1:38</a> Of the children of Dan, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go forth to war; <a name="C041V39" id="C041V39">1:39</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V40" id="C041V40">1:40</a> Of the children of Asher, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go forth to war; <a name="C041V41" id="C041V41">1:41</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V42" id="C041V42">1:42</a> Of the children of Naphtali, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able
to go forth to war; <a name="C041V43" id="C041V43">1:43</a> those who were
numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four
hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V44" id="C041V44">1:44</a> These are those who were numbered,
whom Moshe and Aharon numbered, and the princes of Yisrael, being twelve
men: they were each one for his fathers' house. <a name="C041V45" id="C041V45">1:45</a>
So all those who were numbered of the children of Yisrael by their fathers'
houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to
war in Yisrael; <a name="C041V46" id="C041V46">1:46</a> even all those who were
numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. <a
name="C041V47" id="C041V47">1:47</a> But the Levites after the tribe of their
fathers were not numbered among them. <a name="C041V48" id="C041V48">1:48</a>
For Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C041V49" id="C041V49">1:49</a>
"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take
a census of them among the children of Yisrael; <a name="C041V50" id="C041V50">1:50</a>
but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all
its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the
tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and
shall encamp around it. <a name="C041V51" id="C041V51">1:51</a> When the
tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the
tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who
comes near shall be put to death. <a name="C041V52" id="C041V52">1:52</a> The
children of Yisrael shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and
every man by his own standard, according to their divisions. <a
name="C041V53" id="C041V53">1:53</a> But the Levites shall encamp around the
Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the
congregation of the children of Yisrael: and the Levites shall be
responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C041V54" id="C041V54">1:54</a> Thus the children of Yisrael did.
According to all that Yahweh commanded Moshe, so they did.
</p>
Numbers01'
<p>
<a name="C042V1" id="C042V1">2:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C042V2" id="C042V2">2:2</a> "The children of Yisrael
shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their
fathers' houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp
around it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V3" id="C042V3">2:3</a> Those who encamp on the east side toward
the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Yehudah, according to
their divisions: and the prince of the children of Yehudah shall be Nahshon
the son of Amminadab. <a name="C042V4" id="C042V4">2:4</a> His division, and
those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V5" id="C042V5">2:5</a> Those who encamp next to him shall be the
tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be
Nethanel the son of Zuar. <a name="C042V6" id="C042V6">2:6</a> His division,
and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V7" id="C042V7">2:7</a> The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of
the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon. <a name="C042V8"
id="C042V8">2:8</a> His division, and those who were numbered of it, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V9" id="C042V9">2:9</a> All who were numbered of the camp of
Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to
their divisions. They shall set out first.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V10" id="C042V10">2:10</a> "On the south side shall be the
standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of
the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. <a name="C042V11"
id="C042V11">2:11</a> His division, and those who were numbered of it, were
forty-six thousand five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V12" id="C042V12">2:12</a> "Those who encamp next to him
shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall
be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. <a name="C042V13" id="C042V13">2:13</a>
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine
thousand three hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V14" id="C042V14">2:14</a> "The tribe of Gad: and the prince
of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. <a name="C042V15"
id="C042V15">2:15</a> His division, and those who were numbered of them,
were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V16" id="C042V16">2:16</a> "All who were numbered of the
camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty,
according to their armies. They shall set out second.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V17" id="C042V17">2:17</a> "Then the Tent of Meeting shall
set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they
encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V18" id="C042V18">2:18</a> "On the west side shall be the
standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the
prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. <a
name="C042V19" id="C042V19">2:19</a> His division, and those who were numbered
of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V20" id="C042V20">2:20</a> "Next to him shall be the tribe
of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel
the son of Pedahzur. <a name="C042V21" id="C042V21">2:21</a> His division, and
those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V22" id="C042V22">2:22</a> "The tribe of Benjamin: and the
prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. <a
name="C042V23" id="C042V23">2:23</a> His army, and those who were numbered of
them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V24" id="C042V24">2:24</a> "All who were numbered of the
camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to
their divisions. They shall set out third.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V25" id="C042V25">2:25</a> "On the north side shall be the
standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince
of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. <a
name="C042V26" id="C042V26">2:26</a> His division, and those who were numbered
of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V27" id="C042V27">2:27</a> "Those who encamp next to him
shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall
be Pagiel the son of Ochran. <a name="C042V28" id="C042V28">2:28</a> His
division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and
five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V29" id="C042V29">2:29</a> "The tribe of Naphtali: and the
prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. <a
name="C042V30" id="C042V30">2:30</a> His division, and those who were numbered
of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V31" id="C042V31">2:31</a> "All who were numbered of the
camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall
set out last by their standards."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V32" id="C042V32">2:32</a> These are those who were numbered of
the children of Yisrael by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of
the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five
hundred fifty. <a name="C042V33" id="C042V33">2:33</a> But the Levites were
not numbered among the children of Yisrael; as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C042V34" id="C042V34">2:34</a> Thus the children of Yisrael did.
According to all that Yahweh commanded Moshe, so they encamped by their
standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to
their fathers' houses.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V1" id="C043V1">3:1</a> Now this is the history of the
generations of Aharon and Moshe in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moshe in
Mount Sinai. <a name="C043V2" id="C043V2">3:2</a> These are the names of the
sons of Aharon: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V3" id="C043V3">3:3</a> These are the names of the sons of Aharon,
the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the
priest's office. <a name="C043V4" id="C043V4">3:4</a> Nadab and Abihu died
before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh, in the
wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar
ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aharon their father.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V5" id="C043V5">3:5</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C043V6" id="C043V6">3:6</a> "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set
them before Aharon the priest, that they may minister to him. <a name="C043V7"
id="C043V7">3:7</a> They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements
of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of
the tabernacle. <a name="C043V8" id="C043V8">3:8</a> They shall keep all the
furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of
Yisrael, to do the service of the tabernacle. <a name="C043V9" id="C043V9">3:9</a>
You shall give the Levites to Aharon and to his sons. They are wholly given
to him on the behalf of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C043V10" id="C043V10">3:10</a>
You shall appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall keep their
priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V11" id="C043V11">3:11</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C043V12" id="C043V12">3:12</a> "Behold, I have taken the Levites
from among the children of Yisrael instead of all the firstborn who open
the womb among the children of Yisrael; and the Levites shall be mine: <a
name="C043V13" id="C043V13">3:13</a> for all the firstborn are mine. On the
day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy
to me all the firstborn in Yisrael, both man and animal. They shall be
mine. I am Yahweh."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V14" id="C043V14">3:14</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the
wilderness of Sinai, saying, <a name="C043V15" id="C043V15">3:15</a> "Count
the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You
shall count every male from a month old and upward."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V16" id="C043V16">3:16</a> Moshe numbered them according to the
word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V17" id="C043V17">3:17</a> These were the sons of Levi by their
names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V18" id="C043V18">3:18</a> These are the names of the sons of
Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V19" id="C043V19">3:19</a> The sons of Kohath by their families:
Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V20" id="C043V20">3:20</a> The sons of Merari by their families:
Mahli and Mushi.
</p>
<p>
These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V21" id="C043V21">3:21</a> Of Gershon was the family of the
Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the
Gershonites.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V22" id="C043V22">3:22</a> Those who were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V23" id="C043V23">3:23</a> The families of the Gershonites shall
encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V24" id="C043V24">3:24</a> The prince of the fathers' house of
the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. <a name="C043V25"
id="C043V25">3:25</a> The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting
shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for
the door of the Tent of Meeting, <a name="C043V26" id="C043V26">3:26</a> and
the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which
is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its
service.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V27" id="C043V27">3:27</a> Of Kohath was the family of the
Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the
Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of
the Kohathites. <a name="C043V28" id="C043V28">3:28</a> According to the
number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight
thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V29" id="C043V29">3:29</a> The families of the sons of Kohath
shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle. <a name="C043V30"
id="C043V30">3:30</a> The prince of the fathers' house of the families of
the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. <a name="C043V31"
id="C043V31">3:31</a> Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp
stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister,
and the screen, and all its service. <a name="C043V32" id="C043V32">3:32</a>
Eleazar the son of Aharon the priest shall be prince of the princes of the
Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the
sanctuary.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V33" id="C043V33">3:33</a> Of Merari was the family of the
Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of
Merari. <a name="C043V34" id="C043V34">3:34</a> Those who were numbered of
them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and
upward, were six thousand two hundred.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V35" id="C043V35">3:35</a> The prince of the fathers' house of
the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on
the north side of the tabernacle. <a name="C043V36" id="C043V36">3:36</a> The
appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its
bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service, <a
name="C043V37" id="C043V37">3:37</a> the pillars of the court around it, their
sockets, their pins, and their cords. <a name="C043V38" id="C043V38">3:38</a>
Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of
Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moshe, and Aharon and his sons,
keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of
Yisrael. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death. <a name="C043V39"
id="C043V39">3:39</a> All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moshe and
Aharon numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the
males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V40" id="C043V40">3:40</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "Number all
the firstborn males of the children of Yisrael from a month old and upward,
and take the number of their names. <a name="C043V41" id="C043V41">3:41</a>
You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Yisrael; and the livestock of the Levites
instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of
Yisrael."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V42" id="C043V42">3:42</a> Moshe numbered, as Yahweh commanded
him, all the firstborn among the children of Yisrael. <a name="C043V43"
id="C043V43">3:43</a> All the firstborn males according to the number of
names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them,
were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V44" id="C043V44">3:44</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C043V45" id="C043V45">3:45</a> "Take the Levites instead of all the
firstborn among the children of Yisrael, and the livestock of the Levites
instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh. <a
name="C043V46" id="C043V46">3:46</a> For the redemption of the two hundred
seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Yisrael, who exceed the
number of the Levites, <a name="C043V47" id="C043V47">3:47</a> you shall take
five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you
shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs): <a name="C043V48" id="C043V48">3:48</a>
and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is
redeemed, to Aharon and to his sons."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C043V49" id="C043V49">3:49</a> Moshe took the redemption money from
those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
<a name="C043V50" id="C043V50">3:50</a> from the firstborn of the children of
Yisrael he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary: <a name="C043V51" id="C043V51">3:51</a> and
Moshe gave the redemption money to Aharon and to his sons, according to the
word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V1" id="C044V1">4:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C044V2" id="C044V2">4:2</a> "Take a census of the sons
of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their
fathers' houses, <a name="C044V3" id="C044V3">4:3</a> from thirty years old
and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to
do the work in the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C044V4" id="C044V4">4:4</a> This
is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy
things. <a name="C044V5" id="C044V5">4:5</a> When the camp moves forward,
Aharon shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the
screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, <a name="C044V6"
id="C044V6">4:6</a> and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall
spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. <a
name="C044V7" id="C044V7">4:7</a> On the table of show bread they shall spread
a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the
cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. <a
name="C044V8" id="C044V8">4:8</a> They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth,
and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its
poles. <a name="C044V9" id="C044V9">4:9</a> They shall take a blue cloth, and
cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its
snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. <a
name="C044V10" id="C044V10">4:10</a> They shall put it and all its vessels
within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. <a
name="C044V11" id="C044V11">4:11</a> On the golden altar they shall spread a
blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its
poles. <a name="C044V12" id="C044V12">4:12</a> They shall take all the vessels
of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a
blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them
on the frame. <a name="C044V13" id="C044V13">4:13</a> They shall take away the
ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. <a name="C044V14"
id="C044V14">4:14</a> They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they
minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the
basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a
covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V15" id="C044V15">4:15</a> "When Aharon and his sons have
finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary,
as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to
carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These
things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V16" id="C044V16">4:16</a> "The duty of Eleazar the son of
Aharon the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the
continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all
the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its
furnishings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V17" id="C044V17">4:17</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C044V18" id="C044V18">4:18</a> "Don't cut off the tribe
of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; <a name="C044V19"
id="C044V19">4:19</a> but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die,
when they approach to the most holy things: Aharon and his sons shall go
in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; <a
name="C044V20" id="C044V20">4:20</a> but they shall not go in to see the
sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V21" id="C044V21">4:21</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C044V22" id="C044V22">4:22</a> "Take a census of the sons of
Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; <a name="C044V23"
id="C044V23">4:23</a> you shall count them from thirty years old and upward
until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the
work in the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C044V24" id="C044V24">4:24</a> This is
the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing
burdens: <a name="C044V25" id="C044V25">4:25</a> they shall carry the curtains
of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering
of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent
of Meeting, <a name="C044V26" id="C044V26">4:26</a> and the hangings of the
court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by
the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the
instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them.
Therein shall they serve. <a name="C044V27" id="C044V27">4:27</a> At the
commandment of Aharon and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of
the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you
shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities. <a
name="C044V28" id="C044V28">4:28</a> This is the service of the families of
the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall
be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aharon the priest.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V29" id="C044V29">4:29</a> "As for the sons of Merari, you
shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; <a
name="C044V30" id="C044V30">4:30</a> you shall count them from thirty years
old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the
service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C044V31" id="C044V31">4:31</a>
This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the
Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its
sockets, <a name="C044V32" id="C044V32">4:32</a> and the pillars of the court
around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all
their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall
appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden. <a name="C044V33"
id="C044V33">4:33</a> This is the service of the families of the sons of
Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aharon the priest."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V34" id="C044V34">4:34</a> Moshe and Aharon and the princes of the
congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by
their fathers' houses, <a name="C044V35" id="C044V35">4:35</a> from thirty
years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into
the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C044V36" id="C044V36">4:36</a>
Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven
hundred fifty. <a name="C044V37" id="C044V37">4:37</a> These are those who
were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the
Tent of Meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh by Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C044V38" id="C044V38">4:38</a> Those who were numbered of the sons of
Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, <a name="C044V39"
id="C044V39">4:39</a> from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years
old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of
Meeting, <a name="C044V40" id="C044V40">4:40</a> even those who were numbered
of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand
six hundred thirty. <a name="C044V41" id="C044V41">4:41</a> These are those
who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served
in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh. <a name="C044V42" id="C044V42">4:42</a> Those who were
numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by
their fathers' houses, <a name="C044V43" id="C044V43">4:43</a> from thirty
years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into
the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, <a name="C044V44" id="C044V44">4:44</a>
even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three
thousand two hundred. <a name="C044V45" id="C044V45">4:45</a> These are those
who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moshe and
Aharon numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moshe. <a
name="C044V46" id="C044V46">4:46</a> All those who were numbered of the
Levites, whom Moshe and Aharon and the princes of Yisrael numbered, by their
families, and by their fathers' houses, <a name="C044V47" id="C044V47">4:47</a>
from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who
entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in
the Tent of Meeting, <a name="C044V48" id="C044V48">4:48</a> even those who
were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. <a
name="C044V49" id="C044V49">4:49</a> According to the commandment of Yahweh
they were numbered by Moshe, everyone according to his service, and
according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh
commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V1" id="C045V1">5:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C045V2" id="C045V2">5:2</a> "Command the children of Yisrael that
they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and
whoever is unclean by the dead. <a name="C045V3" id="C045V3">5:3</a> Both you
shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their
camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V4" id="C045V4">5:4</a> The children of Yisrael did so, and put
them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moshe, so did the
children of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V5" id="C045V5">5:5</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C045V6" id="C045V6">5:6</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael: When
a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against
Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; <a name="C045V7" id="C045V7">5:7</a> then he
shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for
his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him
in respect of whom he has been guilty. <a name="C045V8" id="C045V8">5:8</a>
But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the
guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the
priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be
made for him. <a name="C045V9" id="C045V9">5:9</a> Every heave offering of all
the holy things of the children of Yisrael, which they present to the
priest, shall be his. <a name="C045V10" id="C045V10">5:10</a> Every man's holy
things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V11" id="C045V11">5:11</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C045V12" id="C045V12">5:12</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael,
and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him, <a
name="C045V13" id="C045V13">5:13</a> and a man lies with her carnally, and it
is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is
defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the
act; <a name="C045V14" id="C045V14">5:14</a> and the spirit of jealousy comes
on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the
spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she
isn't defiled: <a name="C045V15" id="C045V15">5:15</a> then the man shall
bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the
tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put
frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering
of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. <a name="C045V16" id="C045V16">5:16</a>
The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh; <a name="C045V17"
id="C045V17">5:17</a> and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen
vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put it into the water. <a name="C045V18" id="C045V18">5:18</a>
The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the
woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands,
which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand
the water of bitterness that brings a curse. <a name="C045V19" id="C045V19">5:19</a>
The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, 'If no man
has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being
under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a
curse. <a name="C045V20" id="C045V20">5:20</a> But if you have gone astray,
being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain
with you besides your husband:' <a name="C045V21" id="C045V21">5:21</a> then
the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and
the priest shall tell the woman, 'Yahweh make you a curse and an oath
among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your
body to swell; <a name="C045V22" id="C045V22">5:22</a> and this water that
brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and
your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V23" id="C045V23">5:23</a> "The priest shall write these
curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
<a name="C045V24" id="C045V24">5:24</a> He shall make the woman drink the
water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the
curse shall enter into her and become bitter. <a name="C045V25" id="C045V25">5:25</a>
The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's
hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the
altar. <a name="C045V26" id="C045V26">5:26</a> The priest shall take a handful
of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and
afterward shall make the woman drink the water. <a name="C045V27" id="C045V27">5:27</a>
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is
defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water
that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body
will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse
among her people. <a name="C045V28" id="C045V28">5:28</a> If the woman isn't
defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C045V29" id="C045V29">5:29</a> "This is the Torah of jealousy,
when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled; <a
name="C045V30" id="C045V30">5:30</a> or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a
man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before
Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this Torah. <a name="C045V31"
id="C045V31">5:31</a> The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman
shall bear her iniquity."
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers06' <p>
<a name="C046V1" id="C046V1">6:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C046V2" id="C046V2">6:2</a> "Speak to the children of Yisrael, and
tell them: When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a
Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, <a name="C046V3" id="C046V3">6:3</a>
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any
juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. <a name="C046V4" id="C046V4">6:4</a>
All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the
grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V5" id="C046V5">6:5</a> "All the days of his vow of
separation there shall no razor come on his head, until the days are
fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He
shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V6" id="C046V6">6:6</a> "All the days that he separates
himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body. <a name="C046V7"
id="C046V7">6:7</a> He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for
his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his
separation to Elohim is on his head. <a name="C046V8" id="C046V8">6:8</a> All the
days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V9" id="C046V9">6:9</a> "If any man dies very suddenly
beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave
his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave
it. <a name="C046V10" id="C046V10">6:10</a> On the eighth day he shall bring
two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the
Tent of Meeting. <a name="C046V11" id="C046V11">6:11</a> The priest shall
offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make
atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make
his head holy that same day. <a name="C046V12" id="C046V12">6:12</a> He shall
separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb
a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void,
because his separation was defiled.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V13" id="C046V13">6:13</a> "This is the Torah of the Nazirite:
when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, <a name="C046V14" id="C046V14">6:14</a> and he
shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without
blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish
for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, <a
name="C046V15" id="C046V15">6:15</a> and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes
of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and
their meal offering, and their drink offerings. <a name="C046V16" id="C046V16">6:16</a>
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin
offering, and his burnt offering. <a name="C046V17" id="C046V17">6:17</a> He
shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the
basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering,
and its drink offering. <a name="C046V18" id="C046V18">6:18</a> The Nazirite
shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting,
and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the
fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. <a name="C046V19"
id="C046V19">6:19</a> The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram,
and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and
shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head
of his separation; <a name="C046V20" id="C046V20">6:20</a> and the priest
shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the
priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is
offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V21" id="C046V21">6:21</a> "This is the Torah of the Nazirite
who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that
which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do
after the Torah of his separation."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C046V22" id="C046V22">6:22</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C046V23" id="C046V23">6:23</a> "Speak to Aharon and to his sons,
saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Yisrael.' You shall
tell them,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C046V24" id="C046V24">6:24</a> 'Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C046V25" id="C046V25">6:25</a> Yahweh make his face to shine on
you,
</dd>
<dd>
and be gracious to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C046V26" id="C046V26">6:26</a> Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
</dt>
<dd>
and give you peace.'
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C046V27" id="C046V27">6:27</a> "So they shall put my name on the
children of Yisrael; and I will bless them."
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers07' <p>
<a name="C047V1" id="C047V1">7:1</a> It happened on the day that Moshe had
finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it,
with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had
anointed and sanctified them; <a name="C047V2" id="C047V2">7:2</a> that the
princes of Yisrael, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were
the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were
numbered: <a name="C047V3" id="C047V3">7:3</a> and they brought their offering
before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two
of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the
tabernacle. <a name="C047V4" id="C047V4">7:4</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe,
saying, <a name="C047V5" id="C047V5">7:5</a> "Accept these from them,
that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you
shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V6" id="C047V6">7:6</a> Moshe took the wagons and the oxen, and
gave them to the Levites. <a name="C047V7" id="C047V7">7:7</a> He gave two
wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
<a name="C047V8" id="C047V8">7:8</a> and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to
the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of
Ithamar the son of Aharon the priest. <a name="C047V9" id="C047V9">7:9</a> But
to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary
belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V10" id="C047V10">7:10</a> The princes gave offerings for the
dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes
gave their offerings before the altar.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V11" id="C047V11">7:11</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, "They shall
offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the
altar."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V12" id="C047V12">7:12</a> He who offered his offering the first
day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Yehudah, <a
name="C047V13" id="C047V13">7:13</a> and his offering was:<br /> one silver
platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one
silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;<br /> <a
name="C047V14" id="C047V14">7:14</a> one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of
incense;<br /> <a name="C047V15" id="C047V15">7:15</a> one young bull,<br /> one
ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;<br /> <a
name="C047V16" id="C047V16">7:16</a> one male goat for a sin offering;<br /> <a
name="C047V17" id="C047V17">7:17</a> and for the sacrifice of peace offerings,
two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year
old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V18" id="C047V18">7:18</a> On the second day Nethanel the son of
Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering. <a name="C047V19" id="C047V19">7:19</a>
He offered for his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which
was one hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed
with oil for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V20" id="C047V20">7:20</a> one
golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V21"
id="C047V21">7:21</a> one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a
year old, for a burnt offering;<br /> <a name="C047V22" id="C047V22">7:22</a>
one male goat for a sin offering;<br /> <a name="C047V23" id="C047V23">7:23</a>
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams,
five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Nethanel the son of Zuar.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V24" id="C047V24">7:24</a> On the third day Eliab the son of
Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun <a name="C047V25" id="C047V25">7:25</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was a
hundred and thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with
oil for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V26" id="C047V26">7:26</a> one
golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V27"
id="C047V27">7:27</a> one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a
year old, for a burnt offering;<br /> <a name="C047V28" id="C047V28">7:28</a>
one male goat for a sin offering;<br /> <a name="C047V29" id="C047V29">7:29</a>
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams,
five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Eliab the son of Helon.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V30" id="C047V30">7:30</a> On the fourth day Elizur the son of
Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben <a name="C047V31" id="C047V31">7:31</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V32" id="C047V32">7:32</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V33" id="C047V33">7:33</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V34" id="C047V34">7:34</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V35" id="C047V35">7:35</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V36" id="C047V36">7:36</a> On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon <a name="C047V37" id="C047V37">7:37</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V38" id="C047V38">7:38</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V39" id="C047V39">7:39</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V40" id="C047V40">7:40</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V41" id="C047V41">7:41</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V42" id="C047V42">7:42</a> On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of
Deuel, prince of the children of Gad <a name="C047V43" id="C047V43">7:43</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V44" id="C047V44">7:44</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V45" id="C047V45">7:45</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V46" id="C047V46">7:46</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V47" id="C047V47">7:47</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of
Deuel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V48" id="C047V48">7:48</a> On the seventh day Elishama the son of
Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim <a name="C047V49" id="C047V49">7:49</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V50" id="C047V50">7:50</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V51" id="C047V51">7:51</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V52" id="C047V52">7:52</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V53" id="C047V53">7:53</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of
Ammihud.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V54" id="C047V54">7:54</a> On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh <a name="C047V55" id="C047V55">7:55</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V56" id="C047V56">7:56</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V57" id="C047V57">7:57</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V58" id="C047V58">7:58</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V59" id="C047V59">7:59</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V60" id="C047V60">7:60</a> On the ninth day Abidan the son of
Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin <a name="C047V61" id="C047V61">7:61</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V62" id="C047V62">7:62</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V63" id="C047V63">7:63</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V64" id="C047V64">7:64</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V65" id="C047V65">7:65</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of
Gideoni.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V66" id="C047V66">7:66</a> On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan <a name="C047V67" id="C047V67">7:67</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V68" id="C047V68">7:68</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V69" id="C047V69">7:69</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V70" id="C047V70">7:70</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V71" id="C047V71">7:71</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V72" id="C047V72">7:72</a> On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of
Ochran, prince of the children of Asher <a name="C047V73" id="C047V73">7:73</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V74" id="C047V74">7:74</a> one golden
ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V75" id="C047V75">7:75</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V76" id="C047V76">7:76</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V77" id="C047V77">7:77</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of
Ochran.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V78" id="C047V78">7:78</a> On the twelfth day Ahira the son of
Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali <a name="C047V79" id="C047V79">7:79</a>
gave his offering:<br /> one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<br /> one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil
for a meal offering;<br /> <a name="C047V80" id="C047V80">7:80</a> one golden
spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;<br /> <a name="C047V81" id="C047V81">7:81</a>
one young bull,<br /> one ram,<br /> one male lamb a year old, for a burnt
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V82" id="C047V82">7:82</a> one male goat for a sin
offering;<br /> <a name="C047V83" id="C047V83">7:83</a> and for the sacrifice
of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and
five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of
Enan.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V84" id="C047V84">7:84</a> This was the dedication of the altar,
on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Yisrael: twelve silver
platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles; <a name="C047V85"
id="C047V85">7:85</a> each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty
shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand
four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; <a name="C047V86"
id="C047V86">7:86</a> the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing
ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the
ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; <a name="C047V87" id="C047V87">7:87</a>
all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the
male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats
for a sin offering twelve; <a name="C047V88" id="C047V88">7:88</a> and all the
cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams
sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the
dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C047V89" id="C047V89">7:89</a> When Moshe went into the Tent of
Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from
above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between
the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers08' <p>
<a name="C048V1" id="C048V1">8:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C048V2" id="C048V2">8:2</a> "Speak to Aharon, and tell him, 'When
you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the
lampstand.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C048V3" id="C048V3">8:3</a> Aharon did so. He lit its lamps to light
the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a
name="C048V4" id="C048V4">8:4</a> This was the workmanship of the lampstand,
beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work:
according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moshe, so he made the
lampstand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C048V5" id="C048V5">8:5</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C048V6" id="C048V6">8:6</a> "Take the Levites from among the
children of Yisrael, and cleanse them. <a name="C048V7" id="C048V7">8:7</a> You
shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on
them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash
their clothes, and cleanse themselves. <a name="C048V8" id="C048V8">8:8</a>
Then let them take a young bull, and its meal offering, fine flour mixed
with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering. <a
name="C048V9" id="C048V9">8:9</a> You shall present the Levites before the
Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children
of Yisrael. <a name="C048V10" id="C048V10">8:10</a> You shall present the
Levites before Yahweh. The children of Yisrael shall lay their hands on the
Levites, <a name="C048V11" id="C048V11">8:11</a> and Aharon shall offer the
Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children
of Yisrael, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh. <a
name="C048V12" id="C048V12">8:12</a> The Levites shall lay their hands on the
heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the
Levites. <a name="C048V13" id="C048V13">8:13</a> You shall set the Levites
before Aharon, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to
Yahweh. <a name="C048V14" id="C048V14">8:14</a> Thus you shall separate the
Levites from among the children of Yisrael, and the Levites shall be mine.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C048V15" id="C048V15">8:15</a> "After that, the Levites shall go
in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them,
and offer them as a wave offering. <a name="C048V16" id="C048V16">8:16</a> For
they are wholly given to me from among the children of Yisrael; instead of
all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Yisrael, I
have taken them to me. <a name="C048V17" id="C048V17">8:17</a> For all the
firstborn among the children of Yisrael are mine, both man and animal. On
the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified
them for myself. <a name="C048V18" id="C048V18">8:18</a> I have taken the
Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C048V19" id="C048V19">8:19</a> I have given the Levites as a gift to
Aharon and to his sons from among the children of Yisrael, to do the service
of the children of Yisrael in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement
for the children of Yisrael; that there be no plague among the children of
Yisrael, when the children of Yisrael come near to the sanctuary."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C048V20" id="C048V20">8:20</a> Moshe, and Aharon, and all the
congregation of the children of Yisrael did so to the Levites. According to
all that Yahweh commanded Moshe concerning the Levites, so the children of
Yisrael did to them. <a name="C048V21" id="C048V21">8:21</a> The Levites
purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aharon
offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aharon made atonement
for them to cleanse them. <a name="C048V22" id="C048V22">8:22</a> After that,
the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before
Aharon, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moshe concerning the
Levites, so they did to them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C048V23" id="C048V23">8:23</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C048V24" id="C048V24">8:24</a> "This is that which belongs to the
Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on
the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; <a name="C048V25" id="C048V25">8:25</a>
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and
shall serve no more, <a name="C048V26" id="C048V26">8:26</a> but shall
minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty,
and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their
duties."
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers09' <p>
<a name="C049V1" id="C049V1">9:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the wilderness
of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of
the land of Egypt, saying, <a name="C049V2" id="C049V2">9:2</a> "Moreover
let the children of Yisrael keep the Passover in its appointed season. <a
name="C049V3" id="C049V3">9:3</a> On the fourteenth day of this month, at
evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season--according to all its
statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C049V4" id="C049V4">9:4</a> Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael,
that they should keep the Passover. <a name="C049V5" id="C049V5">9:5</a> They
kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month,
at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh
commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisrael did. <a name="C049V6" id="C049V6">9:6</a>
There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a
man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came
before Moshe and before Aharon on that day. <a name="C049V7" id="C049V7">9:7</a>
Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a
man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in
its appointed season among the children of Yisrael?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C049V8" id="C049V8">9:8</a> Moshe answered them, "Wait, that I
may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C049V9" id="C049V9">9:9</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C049V10" id="C049V10">9:10</a> "Say to the children of Yisrael, 'If
any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body,
or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
<a name="C049V11" id="C049V11">9:11</a> In the second month, on the fourteenth
day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread
and bitter herbs. <a name="C049V12" id="C049V12">9:12</a> They shall leave
none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the
statute of the Passover they shall keep it. <a name="C049V13" id="C049V13">9:13</a>
But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the
Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't
offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear
his sin. <a name="C049V14" id="C049V14">9:14</a> If a foreigner lives among
you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute
of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall
have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the
land.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C049V15" id="C049V15">9:15</a> On the day that the tabernacle was
raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the
Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until morning. <a name="C049V16" id="C049V16">9:16</a> So
it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by
night. <a name="C049V17" id="C049V17">9:17</a> Whenever the cloud was taken up
from over the Tent, then after that the children of Yisrael traveled; and
in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Yisrael
encamped. <a name="C049V18" id="C049V18">9:18</a> At the commandment of
Yahweh, the children of Yisrael traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh
they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they
remained encamped. <a name="C049V19" id="C049V19">9:19</a> When the cloud
stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Yisrael kept
Yahweh's command, and didn't travel. <a name="C049V20" id="C049V20">9:20</a>
Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to
the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the
commandment of Yahweh they traveled. <a name="C049V21" id="C049V21">9:21</a>
Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was
taken up in the morning, they traveled: or by day and by night, when the
cloud was taken up, they traveled. <a name="C049V22" id="C049V22">9:22</a>
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on
the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Yisrael remained encamped,
and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. <a name="C049V23"
id="C049V23">9:23</a> At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the
commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh's command, at the
commandment of Yahweh by Moshe.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers10' <p>
<a name="C0410V1" id="C0410V1">10:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0410V2" id="C0410V2">10:2</a> Make two trumpets of silver. You shall
make them of beaten work: and you shall use them for the calling of the
congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. <a name="C0410V3"
id="C0410V3">10:3</a> When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall
gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a
name="C0410V4" id="C0410V4">10:4</a> If they blow but one, then the princes,
the heads of the thousands of Yisrael, shall gather themselves to you. <a
name="C0410V5" id="C0410V5">10:5</a> When you blow an alarm, the camps that
lie on the east side shall take their journey. <a name="C0410V6" id="C0410V6">10:6</a>
When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south
side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their
journeys. <a name="C0410V7" id="C0410V7">10:7</a> But when the assembly is to
be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. <a
name="C0410V8" id="C0410V8">10:8</a> The sons of Aharon, the priests, shall
blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever
throughout your generations. <a name="C0410V9" id="C0410V9">10:9</a> When you
go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you
shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before
Yahweh your Elohim, and you shall be saved from your enemies. <a name="C0410V10"
id="C0410V10">10:10</a> Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set
feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets
over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace
offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohim: I am
Yahweh your Elohim. <a name="C0410V11" id="C0410V11">10:11</a> It happened in the
second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that
the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony. <a
name="C0410V12" id="C0410V12">10:12</a> The children of Yisrael set forward
according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud
abode in the wilderness of Paran. <a name="C0410V13" id="C0410V13">10:13</a>
They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by
Moshe. <a name="C0410V14" id="C0410V14">10:14</a> In the first <i>place</i>
the standard of the camp of the children of Yehudah set forward according to
their armies: and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. <a
name="C0410V15" id="C0410V15">10:15</a> Over the army of the tribe of the
children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. <a name="C0410V16"
id="C0410V16">10:16</a> Over the army of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. <a name="C0410V17" id="C0410V17">10:17</a>
The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari,
who bore the tent, set forward. <a name="C0410V18" id="C0410V18">10:18</a> The
standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and
over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. <a name="C0410V19" id="C0410V19">10:19</a>
Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai. <a name="C0410V20" id="C0410V20">10:20</a> Over the army of
the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. <a
name="C0410V21" id="C0410V21">10:21</a> The Kohathites set forward, bearing
the sanctuary: and <i>the others</i> did set up the tent against their
coming. <a name="C0410V22" id="C0410V22">10:22</a> The standard of the camp of
the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over
his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud. <a name="C0410V23" id="C0410V23">10:23</a>
Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur. <a name="C0410V24" id="C0410V24">10:24</a> Over the army of
the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. <a
name="C0410V25" id="C0410V25">10:25</a> The standard of the camp of the
children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward
according to their armies: and over his army was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai. <a name="C0410V26" id="C0410V26">10:26</a> Over the army of the
tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. <a
name="C0410V27" id="C0410V27">10:27</a> Over the army of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. <a name="C0410V28"
id="C0410V28">10:28</a> Thus were the travels of the children of Yisrael
according to their armies; and they set forward. <a name="C0410V29"
id="C0410V29">10:29</a> Moshe said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite,
Moshe' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said,
I will give it to you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for
Yahweh has spoken good concerning Yisrael. <a name="C0410V30" id="C0410V30">10:30</a>
He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my
relatives. <a name="C0410V31" id="C0410V31">10:31</a> He said, Don't leave us,
please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you
shall be to us instead of eyes. <a name="C0410V32" id="C0410V32">10:32</a> It
shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh
shall do to us, the same will we do to you. <a name="C0410V33" id="C0410V33">10:33</a>
They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek
out a resting place for them. <a name="C0410V34" id="C0410V34">10:34</a> The
cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
<a name="C0410V35" id="C0410V35">10:35</a> It happened, when the ark set
forward, that Moshe said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be
scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you. <a name="C0410V36"
id="C0410V36">10:36</a> When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten
thousands of the thousands of Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0411V1" id="C0411V1">11:1</a> The people were as murmurers, <i>speaking</i>
evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was
kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the
uttermost part of the camp. <a name="C0411V2" id="C0411V2">11:2</a> The people
cried to Moshe; and Moshe prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated. <a
name="C0411V3" id="C0411V3">11:3</a> The name of that place was called
Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them. <a name="C0411V4"
id="C0411V4">11:4</a> The mixed multitude that was among them lusted
exceedingly: and the children of Yisrael also wept again, and said, Who
shall give us flesh to eat? <a name="C0411V5" id="C0411V5">11:5</a> We
remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and
the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: <a name="C0411V6"
id="C0411V6">11:6</a> but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at
all save this manna to look on. <a name="C0411V7" id="C0411V7">11:7</a> The
manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance as the appearance of
bdellium. <a name="C0411V8" id="C0411V8">11:8</a> The people went about, and
gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it
in pots, and made cakes of it: and its taste was as the taste of fresh
oil. <a name="C0411V9" id="C0411V9">11:9</a> When the dew fell on the camp in
the night, the manna fell on it. <a name="C0411V10" id="C0411V10">11:10</a>
Moshe heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the
door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moshe
was displeased. <a name="C0411V11" id="C0411V11">11:11</a> Moshe said to
Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found
favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? <a
name="C0411V12" id="C0411V12">11:12</a> Have I conceived all this people? Have
I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom,
as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their
fathers? <a name="C0411V13" id="C0411V13">11:13</a> Where should I get meat to
give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that
we may eat. <a name="C0411V14" id="C0411V14">11:14</a> I am not able to bear
all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. <a name="C0411V15"
id="C0411V15">11:15</a> If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of
hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my
wretchedness. <a name="C0411V16" id="C0411V16">11:16</a> Yahweh said to Moshe,
Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Yisrael, whom you know to be the
elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent
of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. <a name="C0411V17"
id="C0411V17">11:17</a> I will come down and talk with you there: and I will
take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they
shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it
yourself alone. <a name="C0411V18" id="C0411V18">11:18</a> Say you to the
people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for
you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to
eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you
flesh, and you shall eat. <a name="C0411V19" id="C0411V19">11:19</a> You shall
not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty
days, <a name="C0411V20" id="C0411V20">11:20</a> but a whole month, until it
come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you; because that you
have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
Why came we forth out of Egypt? <a name="C0411V21" id="C0411V21">11:21</a>
Moshe said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen;
and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole
month. <a name="C0411V22" id="C0411V22">11:22</a> Shall flocks and herds be
slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be
gathered together for them, to suffice them? <a name="C0411V23" id="C0411V23">11:23</a>
Yahweh said to Moshe, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now you will see
whether my word shall happen to you or not. <a name="C0411V24" id="C0411V24">11:24</a>
Moshe went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent. <a
name="C0411V25" id="C0411V25">11:25</a> Yahweh came down in the cloud, and
spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the
seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they
prophesied, but they did so no more. <a name="C0411V26" id="C0411V26">11:26</a>
But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and
the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were
of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they
prophesied in the camp. <a name="C0411V27" id="C0411V27">11:27</a> There ran a
young man, and told Moshe, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the
camp. <a name="C0411V28" id="C0411V28">11:28</a> Joshua the son of Nun, the
minister of Moshe, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moshe, forbid
them. <a name="C0411V29" id="C0411V29">11:29</a> Moshe said to him, Are you
jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that
Yahweh would put his Spirit on them! <a name="C0411V30" id="C0411V30">11:30</a>
Moshe got him into the camp, he and the elders of Yisrael. <a name="C0411V31"
id="C0411V31">11:31</a> There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought
quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey
on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and
about two cubits above the surface of the earth. <a name="C0411V32"
id="C0411V32">11:32</a> The people rose up all that day, and all the night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least
gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves around
the camp. <a name="C0411V33" id="C0411V33">11:33</a> While the flesh was yet
between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled
against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
<a name="C0411V34" id="C0411V34">11:34</a> The name of that place was called
Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. <a
name="C0411V35" id="C0411V35">11:35</a> From Kibrothhattaavah the people
traveled to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers12' <p>
<a name="C0412V1" id="C0412V1">12:1</a> Miriam and Aharon spoke against Moshe
because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a
Cushite woman. <a name="C0412V2" id="C0412V2">12:2</a> They said, Has Yahweh
indeed spoken only with Moshe? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard
it. <a name="C0412V3" id="C0412V3">12:3</a> Now the man Moshe was very humble,
above all the men who were on the surface of the earth. <a name="C0412V4"
id="C0412V4">12:4</a> Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to
Miriam, Come out you three to the Tent of Meeting. They three came out. <a
name="C0412V5" id="C0412V5">12:5</a> Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud,
and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miriam; and they
both came forth. <a name="C0412V6" id="C0412V6">12:6</a> He said, Hear now my
words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to
him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. <a name="C0412V7"
id="C0412V7">12:7</a> My servant Moshe is not so; he is faithful in all my
house: <a name="C0412V8" id="C0412V8">12:8</a> with him will I speak mouth to
mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh
shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant,
against Moshe? <a name="C0412V9" id="C0412V9">12:9</a> The anger of Yahweh was
kindled against them; and he departed. <a name="C0412V10" id="C0412V10">12:10</a>
The cloud removed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as
<i>white as</i> snow: and Aharon looked at Miriam, and behold, she was
leprous. <a name="C0412V11" id="C0412V11">12:11</a> Aharon said to Moshe, Oh,
my lord, please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and
for that we have sinned. <a name="C0412V12" id="C0412V12">12:12</a> Let her
not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he
comes out of his mother's womb. <a name="C0412V13" id="C0412V13">12:13</a>
Moshe cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, Elohim, I beg you. <a name="C0412V14"
id="C0412V14">12:14</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, If her father had but spit in
her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside
of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again. <a
name="C0412V15" id="C0412V15">12:15</a> Miriam was shut up outside of the camp
seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in
again. <a name="C0412V16" id="C0412V16">12:16</a> Afterward the people
traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0413V1" id="C0413V1">13:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0413V2" id="C0413V2">13:2</a> Send you men, that they may spy out the
land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Yisrael: of every tribe of
their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a prince among them. <a
name="C0413V3" id="C0413V3">13:3</a> Moshe sent them from the wilderness of
Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were
heads of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0413V4" id="C0413V4">13:4</a> These
were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. <a
name="C0413V5" id="C0413V5">13:5</a> Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son
of Hori. <a name="C0413V6" id="C0413V6">13:6</a> Of the tribe of Yehudah, Caleb
the son of Jephunneh. <a name="C0413V7" id="C0413V7">13:7</a> Of the tribe of
Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. <a name="C0413V8" id="C0413V8">13:8</a> Of
the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. <a name="C0413V9" id="C0413V9">13:9</a>
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. <a name="C0413V10"
id="C0413V10">13:10</a> Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. <a
name="C0413V11" id="C0413V11">13:11</a> Of the tribe of Joseph, <i>namely</i>,
of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. <a name="C0413V12"
id="C0413V12">13:12</a> Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. <a
name="C0413V13" id="C0413V13">13:13</a> Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son
of Michael. <a name="C0413V14" id="C0413V14">13:14</a> Of the tribe of
Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. <a name="C0413V15" id="C0413V15">13:15</a>
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. <a name="C0413V16" id="C0413V16">13:16</a>
These are the names of the men who Moshe sent to spy out the land. Moshe
called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. <a name="C0413V17" id="C0413V17">13:17</a>
Moshe sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up
this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: <a name="C0413V18"
id="C0413V18">13:18</a> and see the land, what it is; and the people who
dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or
many; <a name="C0413V19" id="C0413V19">13:19</a> and what the land is that
they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that
they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; <a name="C0413V20"
id="C0413V20">13:20</a> and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean,
whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of
the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
<a name="C0413V21" id="C0413V21">13:21</a> So they went up, and spied out the
land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. <a
name="C0413V22" id="C0413V22">13:22</a> They went up by the South, and came to
Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there.
(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) <a name="C0413V23"
id="C0413V23">13:23</a> They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from
there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff
between two; <i>they brought</i> also of the pomegranates, and of the
figs. <a name="C0413V24" id="C0413V24">13:24</a> That place was called the
valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisrael cut
down from there. <a name="C0413V25" id="C0413V25">13:25</a> They returned from
spying out the land at the end of forty days. <a name="C0413V26" id="C0413V26">13:26</a>
They went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of
the children of Yisrael, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought
back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit
of the land. <a name="C0413V27" id="C0413V27">13:27</a> They told him, and
said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk
and honey; and this is its fruit. <a name="C0413V28" id="C0413V28">13:28</a>
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are
fortified, <i>and</i> very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak
there. <a name="C0413V29" id="C0413V29">13:29</a> Amalek dwells in the land of
the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in
the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the
side of the Jordan. <a name="C0413V30" id="C0413V30">13:30</a> Caleb stilled
the people before Moshe, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it;
for we are well able to overcome it. <a name="C0413V31" id="C0413V31">13:31</a>
But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the
people; for they are stronger than we. <a name="C0413V32" id="C0413V32">13:32</a>
They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the
children of Yisrael, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it
out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw
in it are men of great stature. <a name="C0413V33" id="C0413V33">13:33</a>
There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and
we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers14' <p>
<a name="C0414V1" id="C0414V1">14:1</a> All the congregation lifted up their
voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. <a name="C0414V2"
id="C0414V2">14:2</a> All the children of Yisrael murmured against Moshe and
against Aharon: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had
died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
<a name="C0414V3" id="C0414V3">14:3</a> Why does Yahweh bring us to this land,
to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey:
wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt? <a name="C0414V4"
id="C0414V4">14:4</a> They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and
let us return into Egypt. <a name="C0414V5" id="C0414V5">14:5</a> Then Moshe
and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation
of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0414V6" id="C0414V6">14:6</a> Joshua the
son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out
the land, tore their clothes: <a name="C0414V7" id="C0414V7">14:7</a> and they
spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, saying, The land,
which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. <a
name="C0414V8" id="C0414V8">14:8</a> If Yahweh delight in us, then he will
bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk
and honey. <a name="C0414V9" id="C0414V9">14:9</a> Only don't rebel against
Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us:
their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear
them. <a name="C0414V10" id="C0414V10">14:10</a> But all the congregation bade
stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of
Meeting to all the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0414V11" id="C0414V11">14:11</a>
Yahweh said to Moshe, How long will this people despise me? and how long
will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among
them? <a name="C0414V12" id="C0414V12">14:12</a> I will strike them with the
pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and
mightier than they. <a name="C0414V13" id="C0414V13">14:13</a> Moshe said to
Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in
your might from among them; <a name="C0414V14" id="C0414V14">14:14</a> and
they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that
you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face
to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a
pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. <a name="C0414V15"
id="C0414V15">14:15</a> Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then
the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, <a
name="C0414V16" id="C0414V16">14:16</a> Because Yahweh was not able to bring
this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain
them in the wilderness. <a name="C0414V17" id="C0414V17">14:17</a> Now please
let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
<a name="C0414V18" id="C0414V18">14:18</a> Yahweh is slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that
will by no means clear <i>the guilty</i>, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation. <a
name="C0414V19" id="C0414V19">14:19</a> Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this
people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according
as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. <a
name="C0414V20" id="C0414V20">14:20</a> Yahweh said, I have pardoned according
to your word: <a name="C0414V21" id="C0414V21">14:21</a> but in very deed, as
I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh; <a
name="C0414V22" id="C0414V22">14:22</a> because all those men who have seen my
glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet
have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; <a
name="C0414V23" id="C0414V23">14:23</a> surely they shall not see the land
which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me
see it: <a name="C0414V24" id="C0414V24">14:24</a> but my servant Caleb,
because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him
will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess
it. <a name="C0414V25" id="C0414V25">14:25</a> Now the Amalekite and the
Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the
wilderness by the way to the <a href="#N041">Red Sea</a>. <a name="C0414V26"
id="C0414V26">14:26</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying, <a
name="C0414V27" id="C0414V27">14:27</a> How long <i>shall I bear</i> with this
evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Yisrael, which they murmur against me. <a name="C0414V28"
id="C0414V28">14:28</a> Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you
have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: <a name="C0414V29" id="C0414V29">14:29</a>
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered
of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward,
who have murmured against me, <a name="C0414V30" id="C0414V30">14:30</a>
surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I
would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua
the son of Nun. <a name="C0414V31" id="C0414V31">14:31</a> But your little
ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall
know the land which you have rejected. <a name="C0414V32" id="C0414V32">14:32</a>
But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. <a
name="C0414V33" id="C0414V33">14:33</a> Your children shall be wanderers in
the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your
dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. <a name="C0414V34" id="C0414V34">14:34</a>
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty
days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty
years, and you will know my alienation. <a name="C0414V35" id="C0414V35">14:35</a>
I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil
congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. <a name="C0414V36"
id="C0414V36">14:36</a> The men, whom Moshe sent to spy out the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing
up an evil report against the land, <a name="C0414V37" id="C0414V37">14:37</a>
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the
plague before Yahweh. <a name="C0414V38" id="C0414V38">14:38</a> But Joshua
the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those
men who went to spy out the land. <a name="C0414V39" id="C0414V39">14:39</a>
Moshe told these words to all the children of Yisrael: and the people
mourned greatly. <a name="C0414V40" id="C0414V40">14:40</a> They rose up early
in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying,
Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has
promised: for we have sinned. <a name="C0414V41" id="C0414V41">14:41</a> Moshe
said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall
not prosper? <a name="C0414V42" id="C0414V42">14:42</a> Don't go up, for
Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.
<a name="C0414V43" id="C0414V43">14:43</a> For there the Amalekite and the
Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are
turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you.
<a name="C0414V44" id="C0414V44">14:44</a> But they presumed to go up to the
top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and
Moshe, didn't depart out of the camp. <a name="C0414V45" id="C0414V45">14:45</a>
Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that
mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N041" id="N041">[1]</a> <a href="#C0414V25">back to 14:25</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0415V1" id="C0415V1">15:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0415V2" id="C0415V2">15:2</a> Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell
them, When you are come into the land of your habitations, which I give to
you, <a name="C0415V3" id="C0415V3">15:3</a> and will make an offering by fire
to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a
freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock; <a name="C0415V4" id="C0415V4">15:4</a>
then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of a
tenth part <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of
a hin of oil: <a name="C0415V5" id="C0415V5">15:5</a> and wine for the drink
offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt
offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. <a name="C0415V6" id="C0415V6">15:6</a>
Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts <i>of
an ephah</i> of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil: <a
name="C0415V7" id="C0415V7">15:7</a> and for the drink offering you shall
offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a
name="C0415V8" id="C0415V8">15:8</a> When you prepare a bull for a burnt
offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings
to Yahweh; <a name="C0415V9" id="C0415V9">15:9</a> then shall he offer with
the bull a meal offering of three tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine
flour mixed with half a hin of oil: <a name="C0415V10" id="C0415V10">15:10</a>
and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an
offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a name="C0415V11"
id="C0415V11">15:11</a> Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each
ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. <a name="C0415V12"
id="C0415V12">15:12</a> According to the number that you shall prepare, so
you shall do to everyone according to their number. <a name="C0415V13"
id="C0415V13">15:13</a> All who are native-born shall do these things after
this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh. <a name="C0415V14" id="C0415V14">15:14</a> If a stranger lives as a
foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your
generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma
to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do. <a name="C0415V15" id="C0415V15">15:15</a>
For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner <i>with you</i>, a statute forever throughout
your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh. <a
name="C0415V16" id="C0415V16">15:16</a> One Torah and one ordinance shall be for
you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you. <a
name="C0415V17" id="C0415V17">15:17</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0415V18" id="C0415V18">15:18</a> Speak to the children of Yisrael, and
tell them, When you come into the land where I bring you, <a name="C0415V19"
id="C0415V19">15:19</a> then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of
the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. <a name="C0415V20"
id="C0415V20">15:20</a> Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake
for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you
shall heave it. <a name="C0415V21" id="C0415V21">15:21</a> Of the first of
your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your
generations. <a name="C0415V22" id="C0415V22">15:22</a> When you shall err,
and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moshe,
<a name="C0415V23" id="C0415V23">15:23</a> even all that Yahweh has commanded
you by Moshe, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward
throughout your generations; <a name="C0415V24" id="C0415V24">15:24</a> then
it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a
burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with the meal offering of
it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male
goat for a sin offering. <a name="C0415V25" id="C0415V25">15:25</a> The priest
shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisrael,
and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought
their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering
before Yahweh, for their error: <a name="C0415V26" id="C0415V26">15:26</a> and
all the congregation of the children of Yisrael shall be forgiven, and the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the
people it was done unwittingly. <a name="C0415V27" id="C0415V27">15:27</a> If
one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old
for a sin offering. <a name="C0415V28" id="C0415V28">15:28</a> The priest
shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly,
before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. <a
name="C0415V29" id="C0415V29">15:29</a> You shall have one Torah for him who
does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children
of Yisrael, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them. <a
name="C0415V30" id="C0415V30">15:30</a> But the soul who does anything with a
high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes
Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. <a
name="C0415V31" id="C0415V31">15:31</a> Because he has despised the word of
Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity shall be on him. <a name="C0415V32" id="C0415V32">15:32</a>
While the children of Yisrael were in the wilderness, they found a man
gathering sticks on the Shabbat day. <a name="C0415V33" id="C0415V33">15:33</a>
Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moshe and Aharon, and
to all the congregation. <a name="C0415V34" id="C0415V34">15:34</a> They put
him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to
him. <a name="C0415V35" id="C0415V35">15:35</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, The man
shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with
stones outside of the camp. <a name="C0415V36" id="C0415V36">15:36</a> All the
congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with
stones; as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0415V37" id="C0415V37">15:37</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0415V38" id="C0415V38">15:38</a>
Speak to the children of Yisrael, and tell them that they should make them
<a href="#N042">fringes</a> in the borders of their garments throughout
their generations, and that they put on the <a href="#N043">fringe</a> of
each border a cord of blue: <a name="C0415V39" id="C0415V39">15:39</a> and it
shall be to you for a <a href="#N044">fringe</a>, that you may look on it,
and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not
follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play
the prostitute; <a name="C0415V40" id="C0415V40">15:40</a> that you may
remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your Elohim. <a
name="C0415V41" id="C0415V41">15:41</a> I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, to be your Elohim: I am Yahweh your Elohim.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N042" id="N042">[2]</a> <a href="#C0415V38">back to 15:38</a> or,
tassels (Hebrew tzitzit)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N043" id="N043">[3]</a> <a href="#C0415V38">back to 15:38</a> or,
tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="N044" id="N044">[4]</a> <a href="#C0415V39">back to 15:39</a> or,
tassel
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0416V1" id="C0416V1">16:1</a> Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son
of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and
On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took <i>men</i>: <a name="C0416V2"
id="C0416V2">16:2</a> and they rose up before Moshe, with certain of the
children of Yisrael, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called
to the assembly, men of renown; <a name="C0416V3" id="C0416V3">16:3</a> and
they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon, and
said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are
holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves
up above the assembly of Yahweh? <a name="C0416V4" id="C0416V4">16:4</a> When
Moshe heard it, he fell on his face: <a name="C0416V5" id="C0416V5">16:5</a>
and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning
Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come
near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to
him. <a name="C0416V6" id="C0416V6">16:6</a> This do: take you censers, Korah,
and all his company; <a name="C0416V7" id="C0416V7">16:7</a> and put fire in
them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that
the man whom Yahweh does choose, he <i>shall be</i> holy: you take too
much on you, you sons of Levi. <a name="C0416V8" id="C0416V8">16:8</a> Moshe
said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi: <a name="C0416V9" id="C0416V9">16:9</a>
<i>seems it but</i> a small thing to you, that the Elohim of Yisrael has
separated you from the congregation of Yisrael, to bring you near to
himself, to do the service of the tent of Yahweh, and to stand before the
congregation to minister to them; <a name="C0416V10" id="C0416V10">16:10</a>
and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi
with you? and seek you the priesthood also? <a name="C0416V11" id="C0416V11">16:11</a>
Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh:
and Aharon, what is he who you murmur against him? <a name="C0416V12"
id="C0416V12">16:12</a> Moshe sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab; and they said, We won't come up: <a name="C0416V13" id="C0416V13">16:13</a>
is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with
milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make
yourself also a prince over us? <a name="C0416V14" id="C0416V14">16:14</a>
Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey,
nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the
eyes of these men? we won't come up. <a name="C0416V15" id="C0416V15">16:15</a>
Moshe was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their
offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one
of them." <a name="C0416V16" id="C0416V16">16:16</a> Moshe said to Korah,
You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aharon,
tomorrow: <a name="C0416V17" id="C0416V17">16:17</a> and take every man his
censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before Yahweh every man his
censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aharon, each his censer.
<a name="C0416V18" id="C0416V18">16:18</a> They took every man his censer, and
put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the
Tent of Meeting with Moshe and Aharon. <a name="C0416V19" id="C0416V19">16:19</a>
Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent
of Meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. <a
name="C0416V20" id="C0416V20">16:20</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C0416V21" id="C0416V21">16:21</a> Separate yourselves from
among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. <a
name="C0416V22" id="C0416V22">16:22</a> They fell on their faces, and said,
Elohim, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you
be angry with all the congregation? <a name="C0416V23" id="C0416V23">16:23</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0416V24" id="C0416V24">16:24</a>
Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram. <a name="C0416V25" id="C0416V25">16:25</a> Moshe rose up
and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Yisrael followed him. <a
name="C0416V26" id="C0416V26">16:26</a> He spoke to the congregation, saying,
Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing
of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins. <a name="C0416V27"
id="C0416V27">16:27</a> So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at
the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little
ones. <a name="C0416V28" id="C0416V28">16:28</a> Moshe said, Hereby you shall
know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for <i>I have</i> not
<i>done them</i> of my own mind. <a name="C0416V29" id="C0416V29">16:29</a> If
these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the
visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me. <a name="C0416V30"
id="C0416V30">16:30</a> But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open
its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they
go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have
despised Yahweh. <a name="C0416V31" id="C0416V31">16:31</a> It happened, as he
made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that
was under them; <a name="C0416V32" id="C0416V32">16:32</a> and the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the
men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. <a name="C0416V33"
id="C0416V33">16:33</a> So they, and all that appertained to them, went down
alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from
among the assembly. <a name="C0416V34" id="C0416V34">16:34</a> All Yisrael that
were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth
swallow us up. <a name="C0416V35" id="C0416V35">16:35</a> Fire came forth from
Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. <a
name="C0416V36" id="C0416V36">16:36</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0416V37" id="C0416V37">16:37</a> Speak to Eleazar the son of Aharon the
priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you
the fire yonder; for they are holy, <a name="C0416V38" id="C0416V38">16:38</a>
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be
made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them
before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the
children of Yisrael. <a name="C0416V39" id="C0416V39">16:39</a> Eleazar the
priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered;
and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, <a name="C0416V40"
id="C0416V40">16:40</a> to be a memorial to the children of Yisrael, to the
end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aharon, comes near to burn
incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as
Yahweh spoke to him by Moshe. <a name="C0416V41" id="C0416V41">16:41</a> But
on the next day all the congregation of the children of Yisrael murmured
against Moshe and against Aharon, saying, You have killed the people of
Yahweh. <a name="C0416V42" id="C0416V42">16:42</a> It happened, when the
congregation was assembled against Moshe and against Aharon, that they
looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and
the glory of Yahweh appeared. <a name="C0416V43" id="C0416V43">16:43</a> Moshe
and Aharon came to the front of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0416V44"
id="C0416V44">16:44</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0416V45"
id="C0416V45">16:45</a> Get away from among this congregation, that I may
consume them in a moment. They fell on their faces. <a name="C0416V46"
id="C0416V46">16:46</a> Moshe said to Aharon, Take your censer, and put fire
therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly
to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone
out from Yahweh; the plague is begun. <a name="C0416V47" id="C0416V47">16:47</a>
Aharon took as Moshe spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and
behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense,
and made atonement for the people. <a name="C0416V48" id="C0416V48">16:48</a>
He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. <a
name="C0416V49" id="C0416V49">16:49</a> Now those who died by the plague were
fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the
matter of Korah. <a name="C0416V50" id="C0416V50">16:50</a> Aharon returned to
Moshe to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0417V1" id="C0417V1">17:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0417V2" id="C0417V2">17:2</a> Speak to the children of Yisrael, and take
of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according
to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's name on his
rod. <a name="C0417V3" id="C0417V3">17:3</a> You shall write Aharon's name on
the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their
fathers' houses. <a name="C0417V4" id="C0417V4">17:4</a> You shall lay them up
in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. <a
name="C0417V5" id="C0417V5">17:5</a> It shall happen, that the rod of the man
whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the
murmurings of the children of Yisrael, which they murmur against you. <a
name="C0417V6" id="C0417V6">17:6</a> Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael;
and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aharon was among
their rods. <a name="C0417V7" id="C0417V7">17:7</a> Moshe laid up the rods
before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony. <a name="C0417V8" id="C0417V8">17:8</a>
It happened on the next day, that Moshe went into the tent of the
testimony; and behold, the rod of Aharon for the house of Levi was budded,
and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. <a
name="C0417V9" id="C0417V9">17:9</a> Moshe brought out all the rods from
before Yahweh to all the children of Yisrael: and they looked, and took
every man his rod. <a name="C0417V10" id="C0417V10">17:10</a> Yahweh said to
Moshe, Put back the rod of Aharon before the testimony, to be kept for a
token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their
murmurings against me, that they not die. <a name="C0417V11" id="C0417V11">17:11</a>
Moshe did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did. <a name="C0417V12"
id="C0417V12">17:12</a> The children of Yisrael spoke to Moshe, saying,
Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. <a name="C0417V13"
id="C0417V13">17:13</a> Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent
of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0418V1" id="C0418V1">18:1</a> Yahweh said to Aharon, You and your
sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood. <a name="C0418V2" id="C0418V2">18:2</a> Your brothers also, the
tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near with you, that
they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with
you shall be before the tent of the testimony. <a name="C0418V3" id="C0418V3">18:3</a>
They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they
shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that
they not die, neither they, nor you. <a name="C0418V4" id="C0418V4">18:4</a>
They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of
Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come
near to you. <a name="C0418V5" id="C0418V5">18:5</a> You shall perform the
duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no
more on the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0418V6" id="C0418V6">18:6</a> I,
behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of
Yisrael: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the
Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0418V7" id="C0418V7">18:7</a> You and your sons
with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for
that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a
service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. <a
name="C0418V8" id="C0418V8">18:8</a> Yahweh spoke to Aharon, I, behold, I have
given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of
the children of Yisrael; to you have I given them by reason of the
anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. <a name="C0418V9"
id="C0418V9">18:9</a> This shall be your of the most holy things, <i>reserved</i>
from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of
theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of
theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for
your sons. <a name="C0418V10" id="C0418V10">18:10</a> You shall eat of it like
the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
<a name="C0418V11" id="C0418V11">18:11</a> This is yours, too: the wave
offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of
Yisrael. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters
with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall
eat of it. <a name="C0418V12" id="C0418V12">18:12</a> All the best of the oil,
and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of
them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. <a name="C0418V13"
id="C0418V13">18:13</a> The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land,
which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your
house shall eat of it. <a name="C0418V14" id="C0418V14">18:14</a> Everything
devoted in Yisrael shall be yours. <a name="C0418V15" id="C0418V15">18:15</a>
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh,
both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely
redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean
animals. <a name="C0418V16" id="C0418V16">18:16</a> You shall redeem those who
are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation,
for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is
twenty gerahs). <a name="C0418V17" id="C0418V17">18:17</a> But you shall not
redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the
firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the
altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a name="C0418V18" id="C0418V18">18:18</a> Their
flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh,
it shall be yours. <a name="C0418V19" id="C0418V19">18:19</a> All the wave
offerings of the holy things, which the children of Yisrael offer to
Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a
portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and
to your seed with you. <a name="C0418V20" id="C0418V20">18:20</a> Yahweh said
to Aharon, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you
have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among
the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0418V21" id="C0418V21">18:21</a> To the
children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Yisrael for an
inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the
service of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0418V22" id="C0418V22">18:22</a>
Henceforth the children of Yisrael shall not come near the Tent of Meeting,
lest they bear sin, and die. <a name="C0418V23" id="C0418V23">18:23</a> But
the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall
bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations; and among the children of Yisrael they shall have no
inheritance. <a name="C0418V24" id="C0418V24">18:24</a> For the tithe of the
children of Yisrael, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have
given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them,
Among the children of Yisrael they shall have no inheritance. <a
name="C0418V25" id="C0418V25">18:25</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0418V26" id="C0418V26">18:26</a> Moreover you shall speak to the
Levites, and tell them, When you take of the children of Yisrael the tithe
which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall
offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. <a
name="C0418V27" id="C0418V27">18:27</a> Your wave offering shall be reckoned
to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the
fullness of the winepress. <a name="C0418V28" id="C0418V28">18:28</a> Thus you
also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you
receive of the children of Yisrael; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave
offering to Aharon the priest. <a name="C0418V29" id="C0418V29">18:29</a> Out
of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all
its best, even the holy part of it out of it. <a name="C0418V30" id="C0418V30">18:30</a>
Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave its best from it, then it
shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor,
and as the increase of the winepress. <a name="C0418V31" id="C0418V31">18:31</a>
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your
reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0418V32"
id="C0418V32">18:32</a> You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have
heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Yisrael, that you not die.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0419V1" id="C0419V1">19:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying, <a name="C0419V2" id="C0419V2">19:2</a> This is the statute of the Torah
which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Yisrael, that
they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, <i>and</i>
on which never came yoke. <a name="C0419V3" id="C0419V3">19:3</a> You shall
give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of
the camp, and one shall kill her before his face: <a name="C0419V4"
id="C0419V4">19:4</a> and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with
his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting
seven times. <a name="C0419V5" id="C0419V5">19:5</a> One shall burn the heifer
in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall
he burn: <a name="C0419V6" id="C0419V6">19:6</a> and the priest shall take
cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the
burning of the heifer. <a name="C0419V7" id="C0419V7">19:7</a> Then the priest
shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean
until the even. <a name="C0419V8" id="C0419V8">19:8</a> He who burns her shall
wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be
unclean until the even. <a name="C0419V9" id="C0419V9">19:9</a> A man who is
clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of
the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of
the children of Yisrael for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering. <a
name="C0419V10" id="C0419V10">19:10</a> He who gathers the ashes of the heifer
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to
the children of Yisrael, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among
them, for a statute forever. <a name="C0419V11" id="C0419V11">19:11</a> He who
touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: <a
name="C0419V12" id="C0419V12">19:12</a> the same shall purify himself
therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but
if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall
not be clean. <a name="C0419V13" id="C0419V13">19:13</a> Whoever touches a
dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself,
defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Yisrael:
because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be
unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him. <a name="C0419V14" id="C0419V14">19:14</a>
This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the
tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. <a
name="C0419V15" id="C0419V15">19:15</a> Every open vessel, which has no
covering bound on it, is unclean. <a name="C0419V16" id="C0419V16">19:16</a>
Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead
body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. <a
name="C0419V17" id="C0419V17">19:17</a> For the unclean they shall take of the
ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put
thereto in a vessel: <a name="C0419V18" id="C0419V18">19:18</a> and a clean
person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the
tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on
him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave: <a
name="C0419V19" id="C0419V19">19:19</a> and the clean person shall sprinkle on
the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh
day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and shall be clean at even. <a name="C0419V20" id="C0419V20">19:20</a>
But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul
shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled
the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on
him; he is unclean. <a name="C0419V21" id="C0419V21">19:21</a> It shall be a
perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity
shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be
unclean until even. <a name="C0419V22" id="C0419V22">19:22</a> Whatever the
unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it
shall be unclean until even.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers20' <p>
<a name="C0420V1" id="C0420V1">20:1</a> The children of Yisrael, even the whole
congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the
people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. <a
name="C0420V2" id="C0420V2">20:2</a> There was no water for the congregation:
and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon. <a
name="C0420V3" id="C0420V3">20:3</a> The people strove with Moshe, and spoke,
saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! <a
name="C0420V4" id="C0420V4">20:4</a> Why have you brought the assembly of
Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
<a name="C0420V5" id="C0420V5">20:5</a> Why have you made us to come up out of
Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of
figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to
drink. <a name="C0420V6" id="C0420V6">20:6</a> Moshe and Aharon went from the
presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on
their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. <a name="C0420V7"
id="C0420V7">20:7</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0420V8"
id="C0420V8">20:8</a> Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and
Aharon your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes, that it
give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the
rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink. <a
name="C0420V9" id="C0420V9">20:9</a> Moshe took the rod from before Yahweh, as
he commanded him. <a name="C0420V10" id="C0420V10">20:10</a> Moshe and Aharon
gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear
now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? <a
name="C0420V11" id="C0420V11">20:11</a> Moshe lifted up his hand, and struck
the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their livestock. <a name="C0420V12" id="C0420V12">20:12</a>
Yahweh said to Moshe and Aharon, Because you didn't believe in me, to
sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Yisrael, therefore you shall not
bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. <a name="C0420V13"
id="C0420V13">20:13</a> These are the waters of Meribah; because the
children of Yisrael strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. <a
name="C0420V14" id="C0420V14">20:14</a> Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to
the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Yisrael, You know all the travail
that has happened to us: <a name="C0420V15" id="C0420V15">20:15</a> how our
fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the
Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: <a name="C0420V16" id="C0420V16">20:16</a>
and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and
brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the
uttermost of your border. <a name="C0420V17" id="C0420V17">20:17</a> Please
let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through
vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go
along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to
the left, until we have passed your border. <a name="C0420V18" id="C0420V18">20:18</a>
Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the
sword against you. <a name="C0420V19" id="C0420V19">20:19</a> The children of
Yisrael said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your
water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only,
without <i>doing</i> anything <i>else</i>, pass through on my feet. <a
name="C0420V20" id="C0420V20">20:20</a> He said, You shall not pass through.
Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. <a
name="C0420V21" id="C0420V21">20:21</a> Thus Edom refused to give Yisrael
passage through his border: why Yisrael turned away from him. <a
name="C0420V22" id="C0420V22">20:22</a> They traveled from Kadesh: and the
children of Yisrael, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. <a
name="C0420V23" id="C0420V23">20:23</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe and Aharon in
Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, <a name="C0420V24"
id="C0420V24">20:24</a> Aharon shall be gathered to his people; for he shall
not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael,
because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. <a
name="C0420V25" id="C0420V25">20:25</a> Take Aharon and Eleazar his son, and
bring them up to Mount Hor; <a name="C0420V26" id="C0420V26">20:26</a> and
strip Aharon of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aharon
shall be gathered <i>to his people</i>, and shall die there. <a
name="C0420V27" id="C0420V27">20:27</a> Moshe did as Yahweh commanded: and
they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. <a
name="C0420V28" id="C0420V28">20:28</a> Moshe stripped Aharon of his garments,
and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aharon died there on the top of the
mountain: and Moshe and Eleazar came down from the mountain. <a
name="C0420V29" id="C0420V29">20:29</a> When all the congregation saw that
Aharon was dead, they wept for Aharon thirty days, even all the house of
Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0421V1" id="C0421V1">21:1</a> The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who
lived in the South, heard tell that Yisrael came by the way of Atharim; and
he fought against Yisrael, and took some of them captive. <a name="C0421V2"
id="C0421V2">21:2</a> Yisrael vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will
indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their
cities. <a name="C0421V3" id="C0421V3">21:3</a> Yahweh listened to the voice
of Yisrael, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed
them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah. <a
name="C0421V4" id="C0421V4">21:4</a> They traveled from Mount Hor by the way
to the <a href="#N045">Red Sea</a>, to compass the land of Edom: and the
soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. <a name="C0421V5"
id="C0421V5">21:5</a> The people spoke against Elohim, and against Moshe, Why
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is
no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread. <a
name="C0421V6" id="C0421V6">21:6</a> Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the
people, and they bit the people; and much people of Yisrael died. <a
name="C0421V7" id="C0421V7">21:7</a> The people came to Moshe, and said, We
have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray
to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moshe prayed for the
people. <a name="C0421V8" id="C0421V8">21:8</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, Make you
a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that
everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. <a name="C0421V9"
id="C0421V9">21:9</a> Moshe made a serpent of brass, and set it on the
standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he
looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. <a name="C0421V10" id="C0421V10">21:10</a>
The children of Yisrael traveled, and encamped in Oboth. <a name="C0421V11"
id="C0421V11">21:11</a> They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim,
in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. <a
name="C0421V12" id="C0421V12">21:12</a> From there they traveled, and encamped
in the valley of Zered. <a name="C0421V13" id="C0421V13">21:13</a> From there
they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in
the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the
Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. <a
name="C0421V14" id="C0421V14">21:14</a> Therefore it is said in the book of
the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, <a
name="C0421V15" id="C0421V15">21:15</a> the slope of the valleys that incline
toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0421V16" id="C0421V16">21:16</a> From there they traveled to Beer:
that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moshe, Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0421V17" id="C0421V17">21:17</a> Then sang Yisrael this song:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Spring up, well; sing to it:
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C0421V18" id="C0421V18">21:18</a> the well, which the princes dug,
</dd>
<dd>
which the nobles of the people dug,
</dd>
<dt>
with the scepter, and with their poles."
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
From the wilderness <i>they traveled</i> to Mattanah; <a name="C0421V19"
id="C0421V19">21:19</a> and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to
Bamoth; <a name="C0421V20" id="C0421V20">21:20</a> and from Bamoth to the
valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks
down on the desert. <a name="C0421V21" id="C0421V21">21:21</a> Yisrael sent
messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, <a name="C0421V22"
id="C0421V22">21:22</a> Let me pass through your land: we will not turn
aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the
wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.
<a name="C0421V23" id="C0421V23">21:23</a> Sihon would not allow Yisrael to
pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and
went out against Yisrael into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he
fought against Yisrael. <a name="C0421V24" id="C0421V24">21:24</a> Yisrael
struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the
Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the
children of Ammon was strong. <a name="C0421V25" id="C0421V25">21:25</a>
Yisrael took all these cities: and Yisrael lived in all the cities of the
Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. <a name="C0421V26" id="C0421V26">21:26</a>
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought
against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand,
even to the Arnon. <a name="C0421V27" id="C0421V27">21:27</a> Therefore those
who speak in proverbs say,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Come to Heshbon.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0421V28" id="C0421V28">21:28</a> for a fire has gone out of
Heshbon,
</dt>
<dd>
a flame from the city of Sihon.
</dd>
<dt>
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
</dt>
<dd>
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0421V29" id="C0421V29">21:29</a> Woe to you, Moab!
</dt>
<dd>
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
</dd>
<dt>
He has given his sons as fugitives,
</dt>
<dd>
and his daughters into captivity,
</dd>
<dd>
to Sihon king of the Amorites.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0421V30" id="C0421V30">21:30</a> We have shot at them.
</dt>
<dd>
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
</dd>
<dt>
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
</dt>
<dd>
Which reaches to Medeba."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0421V31" id="C0421V31">21:31</a> Thus Yisrael lived in the land of
the Amorites. <a name="C0421V32" id="C0421V32">21:32</a> Moshe sent to spy out
Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
<a name="C0421V33" id="C0421V33">21:33</a> They turned and went up by the way
of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei. <a name="C0421V34" id="C0421V34">21:34</a> Yahweh
said to Moshe, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand,
and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to
Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. <a name="C0421V35"
id="C0421V35">21:35</a> So they struck him, and his sons and all his people,
until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N045" id="N045">[5]</a> <a href="#C0421V4">back to 21:4</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0422V1" id="C0422V1">22:1</a> The children of Yisrael traveled, and
encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. <a
name="C0422V2" id="C0422V2">22:2</a> Balak the son of Zippor saw all that
Yisrael had done to the Amorites. <a name="C0422V3" id="C0422V3">22:3</a> Moab
was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was
distressed because of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0422V4" id="C0422V4">22:4</a>
Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all
that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the
son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. <a name="C0422V5" id="C0422V5">22:5</a>
He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the
River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying,
Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the
surface of the earth, and they abide over against me. <a name="C0422V6"
id="C0422V6">22:6</a> Please come now therefore curse me this people; for
they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may
strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he
whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed. <a name="C0422V7"
id="C0422V7">22:7</a> The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed
with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and
spoke to him the words of Balak. <a name="C0422V8" id="C0422V8">22:8</a> He
said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as
Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. <a
name="C0422V9" id="C0422V9">22:9</a> Elohim came to Balaam, and said, What men
are these with you? <a name="C0422V10" id="C0422V10">22:10</a> Balaam said to
Elohim, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, <i>saying</i>,
<a name="C0422V11" id="C0422V11">22:11</a> Behold, the people that is come out
of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them;
peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them
out. <a name="C0422V12" id="C0422V12">22:12</a> Elohim said to Balaam, You shall
not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed. <a
name="C0422V13" id="C0422V13">22:13</a> Balaam rose up in the morning, and
said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses
to give me leave to go with you. <a name="C0422V14" id="C0422V14">22:14</a>
The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam
refuses to come with us. <a name="C0422V15" id="C0422V15">22:15</a> Balak sent
yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. <a name="C0422V16"
id="C0422V16">22:16</a> They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says
Balak the son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
<a name="C0422V17" id="C0422V17">22:17</a> for I will promote you to very
great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore,
and curse this people for me. <a name="C0422V18" id="C0422V18">22:18</a>
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my Elohim, to
do less or more. <a name="C0422V19" id="C0422V19">22:19</a> Now therefore,
please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak
to me more. <a name="C0422V20" id="C0422V20">22:20</a> Elohim came to Balaam at
night, and said to him, If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with
them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do. <a
name="C0422V21" id="C0422V21">22:21</a> Balaam rose up in the morning, and
saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. <a name="C0422V22"
id="C0422V22">22:22</a> Elohim's anger was kindled because he went; and the
angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him.
Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. <a
name="C0422V23" id="C0422V23">22:23</a> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck
the donkey, to turn her into the way. <a name="C0422V24" id="C0422V24">22:24</a>
Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a
wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. <a name="C0422V25"
id="C0422V25">22:25</a> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust
herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he
struck her again. <a name="C0422V26" id="C0422V26">22:26</a> The angel of
Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way
to turn either to the right hand or to the left. <a name="C0422V27"
id="C0422V27">22:27</a> The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down
under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey
with his staff. <a name="C0422V28" id="C0422V28">22:28</a> Yahweh opened the
mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that
you have struck me these three times? <a name="C0422V29" id="C0422V29">22:29</a>
Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were
a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you. <a name="C0422V30" id="C0422V30">22:30</a>
The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden
all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he
said, No. <a name="C0422V31" id="C0422V31">22:31</a> Then Yahweh opened the
eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with
his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
<a name="C0422V32" id="C0422V32">22:32</a> The angel of Yahweh said to him,
Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth
for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: <a name="C0422V33"
id="C0422V33">22:33</a> and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me
these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had
even slain you, and saved her alive. <a name="C0422V34" id="C0422V34">22:34</a>
Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that
you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I
will get me back again. <a name="C0422V35" id="C0422V35">22:35</a> The angel
of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall
speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of
Balak. <a name="C0422V36" id="C0422V36">22:36</a> When Balak heard that Balaam
was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the
border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. <a
name="C0422V37" id="C0422V37">22:37</a> Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I
earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not
able indeed to promote you to honor? <a name="C0422V38" id="C0422V38">22:38</a>
Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at
all to speak anything? the word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that shall I
speak. <a name="C0422V39" id="C0422V39">22:39</a> Balaam went with Balak, and
they came to Kiriath Huzoth. <a name="C0422V40" id="C0422V40">22:40</a> Balak
sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who
were with him. <a name="C0422V41" id="C0422V41">22:41</a> It happened in the
morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places
of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0423V1" id="C0423V1">23:1</a> Balaam said to Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. <a
name="C0423V2" id="C0423V2">23:2</a> Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak
and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. <a name="C0423V3"
id="C0423V3">23:3</a> Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering,
and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows
me I will tell you. He went to a bare height. <a name="C0423V4" id="C0423V4">23:4</a>
Elohim met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and
I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. <a name="C0423V5"
id="C0423V5">23:5</a> Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
to Balak, and thus you shall speak. <a name="C0423V6" id="C0423V6">23:6</a> He
returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he,
and all the princes of Moab. <a name="C0423V7" id="C0423V7">23:7</a> He took
up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab
from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Yisrael.
<a name="C0423V8" id="C0423V8">23:8</a> How shall I curse, whom Elohim has not
cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied? <a name="C0423V9"
id="C0423V9">23:9</a> For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the
hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not
be reckoned among the nations. <a name="C0423V10" id="C0423V10">23:10</a> Who
can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Yisrael? Let me
die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his! <a
name="C0423V11" id="C0423V11">23:11</a> Balak said to Balaam, What have you
done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed
them altogether. <a name="C0423V12" id="C0423V12">23:12</a> He answered and
said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth? <a
name="C0423V13" id="C0423V13">23:13</a> Balak said to him, Please come with me
to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the
utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from
there. <a name="C0423V14" id="C0423V14">23:14</a> He took him into the field
of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a
bull and a ram on every altar. <a name="C0423V15" id="C0423V15">23:15</a> He
said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet <i>Yahweh</i>
yonder. <a name="C0423V16" id="C0423V16">23:16</a> Yahweh met Balaam, and put
a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and say this. <a
name="C0423V17" id="C0423V17">23:17</a> He came to him, and behold, he was
standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak
said to him, What has Yahweh spoken? <a name="C0423V18" id="C0423V18">23:18</a>
He took up his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Rise up, Balak, and hear!
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V19" id="C0423V19">23:19</a> Elohim is not a man, that he should
lie,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the son of man, that he should repent.
</dd>
<dt>
Has he said, and will he not do it?
</dt>
<dd>
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V20" id="C0423V20">23:20</a> Behold, I have received a command
to bless.
</dt>
<dd>
He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V21" id="C0423V21">23:21</a> He has not seen iniquity in
Jacob.
</dt>
<dd>
Neither has he seen perverseness in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh his Elohim is with him.
</dt>
<dd>
The shout of a king is among them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V22" id="C0423V22">23:22</a> Elohim brings them out of Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V23" id="C0423V23">23:23</a> Surely there is no enchantment
with Jacob;
</dt>
<dd>
Neither is there any divination with Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
What has Elohim done!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0423V24" id="C0423V24">23:24</a> Behold, the people rises up as a
lioness,
</dt>
<dd>
As a lion he lifts himself up.
</dd>
<dt>
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
</dt>
<dd>
and drinks the blood of the slain.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0423V25" id="C0423V25">23:25</a> Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse
them at all, nor bless them at all. <a name="C0423V26" id="C0423V26">23:26</a>
But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh
speaks, that I must do? <a name="C0423V27" id="C0423V27">23:27</a> Balak said
to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it
will please Elohim that you may curse me them from there. <a name="C0423V28"
id="C0423V28">23:28</a> Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks
down on the desert. <a name="C0423V29" id="C0423V29">23:29</a> Balaam said to
Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and
seven rams. <a name="C0423V30" id="C0423V30">23:30</a> Balak did as Balaam had
said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers24' <p>
<a name="C0424V1" id="C0424V1">24:1</a> When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh
to bless Yisrael, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with
enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. <a name="C0424V2"
id="C0424V2">24:2</a> Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yisrael dwelling
according to their tribes; and the Spirit of Elohim came on him. <a
name="C0424V3" id="C0424V3">24:3</a> He took up his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Balaam the son of Beor says,
</dt>
<dd>
the man whose eye was closed says;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V4" id="C0424V4">24:4</a> he says, who hears the words of Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
who sees the vision of the Almighty,
</dd>
<dd>
falling down, and having his eyes open:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V5" id="C0424V5">24:5</a> How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and your tents, Yisrael!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V6" id="C0424V6">24:6</a> As valleys they are spread forth,
</dt>
<dd>
as gardens by the riverside,
</dd>
<dd>
as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
</dd>
<dd>
as cedar trees beside the waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V7" id="C0424V7">24:7</a> Water shall flow from his buckets.
</dt>
<dd>
His seed shall be in many waters.
</dd>
<dt>
His king shall be higher than Agag.
</dt>
<dd>
His kingdom shall be exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V8" id="C0424V8">24:8</a> Elohim brings him out of Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
</dd>
<dt>
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
shall break their bones in pieces,
</dd>
<dd>
and pierce them with his arrows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V9" id="C0424V9">24:9</a> He couched, he lay down as a lion,
</dt>
<dd>
as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
</dd>
<dt>
Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
</dt>
<dd>
Everyone who curses you is cursed.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0424V10" id="C0424V10">24:10</a> Balak's anger was kindled against
Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I
called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed
them these three times. <a name="C0424V11" id="C0424V11">24:11</a> Therefore
now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but,
behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor. <a name="C0424V12" id="C0424V12">24:12</a>
Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to
me, saying, <a name="C0424V13" id="C0424V13">24:13</a> If Balak would give me
his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh,
to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I
speak? <a name="C0424V14" id="C0424V14">24:14</a> Now, behold, I go to my
people: come, <i>and</i> I will advertise you what this people shall do to
your people in the latter days. <a name="C0424V15" id="C0424V15">24:15</a> He
took up his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Balaam the son of Beor says,
</dt>
<dd>
the man whose eye was closed says;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C0424V16" id="C0424V16">24:16</a> he says, who hears the words of
Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
knows the knowledge of the Most High,
</dd>
<dd>
and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
</dd>
<dd>
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V17" id="C0424V17">24:17</a> I see him, but not now.
</dt>
<dd>
I see him, but not near.
</dd>
<dt>
A star will come out of Jacob.
</dt>
<dd>
A scepter will rise out of Yisrael,
</dd>
<dt>
and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
</dt>
<dd>
and break down all the sons of Sheth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V18" id="C0424V18">24:18</a> Edom shall be a possession.
</dt>
<dd>
Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
</dd>
<dd>
while Yisrael does valiantly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V19" id="C0424V19">24:19</a> Out of Jacob shall one have
dominion,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall destroy the remnant from the city.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0424V20" id="C0424V20">24:20</a> He looked at Amalek, and took up
his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Amalek was the first of the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
But his latter end shall come to destruction.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0424V21" id="C0424V21">24:21</a> He looked at the Kenite, and took
up his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Your dwelling place is strong.
</dt>
<dd>
Your nest is set in the rock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C0424V22" id="C0424V22">24:22</a> Nevertheless Kain shall be
wasted,
</dt>
<dd>
until Asshur carries you away captive.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0424V23" id="C0424V23">24:23</a> He took up his parable, and said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
Alas, who shall live when Elohim does this?
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C0424V24" id="C0424V24">24:24</a> But ships <i>shall come</i> from
the coast of Kittim.
</dd>
<dt>
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
</dt>
<dd>
He also shall come to destruction.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C0424V25" id="C0424V25">24:25</a> Balaam rose up, and went and
returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0425V1" id="C0425V1">25:1</a> Yisrael abode in Shittim; and the
people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: <a
name="C0425V2" id="C0425V2">25:2</a> for they called the people to the
sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their
gods. <a name="C0425V3" id="C0425V3">25:3</a> Yisrael joined himself to Baal
Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Yisrael. <a name="C0425V4"
id="C0425V4">25:4</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, Take all the chiefs of the
people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger
of Yahweh may turn away from Yisrael. <a name="C0425V5" id="C0425V5">25:5</a>
Moshe said to the judges of Yisrael, Kill you everyone his men who have
joined themselves to Baal Peor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0425V6" id="C0425V6">25:6</a> Behold, one of the children of Yisrael
came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moshe,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, while
they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <a name="C0425V7"
id="C0425V7">25:7</a> When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon
the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and
took a spear in his hand; <a name="C0425V8" id="C0425V8">25:8</a> and he went
after the man of Yisrael into the pavilion, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Yisrael, and the woman through her body. So the plague
was stayed from the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0425V9" id="C0425V9">25:9</a>
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. <a name="C0425V10"
id="C0425V10">25:10</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0425V11"
id="C0425V11">25:11</a> Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the
priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisrael, in that he
was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the
children of Yisrael in my jealousy. <a name="C0425V12" id="C0425V12">25:12</a>
Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: <a name="C0425V13"
id="C0425V13">25:13</a> and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him,
the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his
Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0425V14"
id="C0425V14">25:14</a> Now the name of the man of Yisrael that was slain,
who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a
prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. <a name="C0425V15"
id="C0425V15">25:15</a> The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house
in Midian. <a name="C0425V16" id="C0425V16">25:16</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe,
saying, <a name="C0425V17" id="C0425V17">25:17</a> Harass the Midianites, and
strike them; <a name="C0425V18" id="C0425V18">25:18</a> for they harassed you
with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor,
and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their
sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0426V1" id="C0426V1">26:1</a> It happened after the plague, that
Yahweh spoke to Moshe and to Eleazar the son of Aharon the priest, saying,
<a name="C0426V2" id="C0426V2">26:2</a> Take the sum of all the congregation
of the children of Yisrael, from twenty years old and upward, by their
fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Yisrael. <a
name="C0426V3" id="C0426V3">26:3</a> Moshe and Eleazar the priest spoke with
them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, <a
name="C0426V4" id="C0426V4">26:4</a> <i>Take the sum of the people</i>, from
twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moshe and the children of
Yisrael, that came forth out of the land of Egypt. <a name="C0426V5"
id="C0426V5">26:5</a> Reuben, the firstborn of Yisrael; the sons of Reuben:
<i>of</i> Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of
the Palluites; <a name="C0426V6" id="C0426V6">26:6</a> of Hezron, the family
of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. <a name="C0426V7"
id="C0426V7">26:7</a> These are the families of the Reubenites; and those
who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
<a name="C0426V8" id="C0426V8">26:8</a> The sons of Pallu: Eliab. <a
name="C0426V9" id="C0426V9">26:9</a> The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan,
and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the
congregation, who strove against Moshe and against Aharon in the company of
Korah, when they strove against Yahweh, <a name="C0426V10" id="C0426V10">26:10</a>
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah,
when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men,
and they became a sign. <a name="C0426V11" id="C0426V11">26:11</a>
Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die. <a name="C0426V12" id="C0426V12">26:12</a>
The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the
Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family
of the Jachinites; <a name="C0426V13" id="C0426V13">26:13</a> of Zerah, the
family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. <a
name="C0426V14" id="C0426V14">26:14</a> These are the families of the
Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. <a name="C0426V15" id="C0426V15">26:15</a>
The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the
Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of
the Shunites; <a name="C0426V16" id="C0426V16">26:16</a> of Ozni, the family
of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; <a name="C0426V17"
id="C0426V17">26:17</a> of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the
family of the Arelites. <a name="C0426V18" id="C0426V18">26:18</a> These are
the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of
them, forty thousand and five hundred. <a name="C0426V19" id="C0426V19">26:19</a>
The sons of Yehudah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. <a name="C0426V20" id="C0426V20">26:20</a> The sons of Yehudah after
their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez,
the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. <a
name="C0426V21" id="C0426V21">26:21</a> The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. <a
name="C0426V22" id="C0426V22">26:22</a> These are the families of Yehudah
according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five
hundred. <a name="C0426V23" id="C0426V23">26:23</a> The sons of Issachar after
their families: <i>of</i> Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the
family of the Punites; <a name="C0426V24" id="C0426V24">26:24</a> of Jashub,
the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
<a name="C0426V25" id="C0426V25">26:25</a> These are the families of Issachar
according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three
hundred. <a name="C0426V26" id="C0426V26">26:26</a> The sons of Zebulun after
their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family
of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. <a
name="C0426V27" id="C0426V27">26:27</a> These are the families of the
Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand
five hundred. <a name="C0426V28" id="C0426V28">26:28</a> The sons of Joseph
after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. <a name="C0426V29" id="C0426V29">26:29</a>
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir
became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. <a
name="C0426V30" id="C0426V30">26:30</a> These are the sons of Gilead: <i>of</i>
Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
<a name="C0426V31" id="C0426V31">26:31</a> and <i>of</i> Asriel, the family of
the Asrielites; and <i>of</i> Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; <a
name="C0426V32" id="C0426V32">26:32</a> and <i>of</i> Shemida, the family of
the Shemidaites; and <i>of</i> Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. <a
name="C0426V33" id="C0426V33">26:33</a> Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no
sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. <a name="C0426V34" id="C0426V34">26:34</a>
These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them
were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. <a name="C0426V35" id="C0426V35">26:35</a>
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the
family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of
Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. <a name="C0426V36" id="C0426V36">26:36</a>
These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. <a
name="C0426V37" id="C0426V37">26:37</a> These are the families of the sons of
Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand
five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. <a
name="C0426V38" id="C0426V38">26:38</a> The sons of Benjamin after their
families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of
the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; <a name="C0426V39"
id="C0426V39">26:39</a> of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of
Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. <a name="C0426V40" id="C0426V40">26:40</a>
The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: <i>of Ard</i>, the family of the
Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. <a name="C0426V41"
id="C0426V41">26:41</a> These are the sons of Benjamin after their families;
and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
<a name="C0426V42" id="C0426V42">26:42</a> These are the sons of Dan after
their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the
families of Dan after their families. <a name="C0426V43" id="C0426V43">26:43</a>
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered
of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. <a name="C0426V44"
id="C0426V44">26:44</a> The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah,
the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of
Beriah, the family of the Berites. <a name="C0426V45" id="C0426V45">26:45</a>
Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel,
the family of the Malchielites. <a name="C0426V46" id="C0426V46">26:46</a> The
name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. <a name="C0426V47" id="C0426V47">26:47</a>
These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were
numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred. <a name="C0426V48"
id="C0426V48">26:48</a> The sons of Naphtali after their families: of
Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the
Gunites; <a name="C0426V49" id="C0426V49">26:49</a> of Jezer, the family of
the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. <a name="C0426V50"
id="C0426V50">26:50</a> These are the families of Naphtali according to
their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five
thousand four hundred. <a name="C0426V51" id="C0426V51">26:51</a> These are
those who were numbered of the children of Yisrael, six hundred one
thousand seven hundred thirty. <a name="C0426V52" id="C0426V52">26:52</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0426V53" id="C0426V53">26:53</a> To
these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number
of names. <a name="C0426V54" id="C0426V54">26:54</a> To the more you shall
give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less
inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall
his inheritance be given. <a name="C0426V55" id="C0426V55">26:55</a>
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names
of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. <a name="C0426V56"
id="C0426V56">26:56</a> According to the lot shall their inheritance be
divided between the more and the fewer. <a name="C0426V57" id="C0426V57">26:57</a>
These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of
Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the
Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. <a name="C0426V58"
id="C0426V58">26:58</a> These are the families of Levi: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the
family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the
father of Amram. <a name="C0426V59" id="C0426V59">26:59</a> The name of
Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in
Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aharon and Moshe, and Miriam their sister. <a
name="C0426V60" id="C0426V60">26:60</a> To Aharon were born Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar. <a name="C0426V61" id="C0426V61">26:61</a> Nadab and
Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh. <a name="C0426V62"
id="C0426V62">26:62</a> Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three
thousand, every male from a month old and upward: for they were not
numbered among the children of Yisrael, because there was no inheritance
given them among the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0426V63" id="C0426V63">26:63</a>
These are those who were numbered by Moshe and Eleazar the priest, who
numbered the children of Yisrael in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho. <a name="C0426V64" id="C0426V64">26:64</a> But among these there was
not a man of them who were numbered by Moshe and Aharon the priest, who
numbered the children of Yisrael in the wilderness of Sinai. <a
name="C0426V65" id="C0426V65">26:65</a> For Yahweh had said of them, They
shall surely die in the wilderness. There was not left a man of them, save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0427V1" id="C0427V1">27:1</a> Then drew near the daughters of
Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these
are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Tirzah. <a name="C0427V2" id="C0427V2">27:2</a> They stood before Moshe, and
before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the
congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying, <a name="C0427V3"
id="C0427V3">27:3</a> Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not
among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh
in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
<a name="C0427V4" id="C0427V4">27:4</a> Why should the name of our father be
taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a
possession among the brothers of our father. <a name="C0427V5" id="C0427V5">27:5</a>
Moshe brought their cause before Yahweh. <a name="C0427V6" id="C0427V6">27:6</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0427V7" id="C0427V7">27:7</a> The
daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a
possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall
cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. <a name="C0427V8"
id="C0427V8">27:8</a> You shall speak to the children of Yisrael, saying, If
a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass
to his daughter. <a name="C0427V9" id="C0427V9">27:9</a> If he have no
daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. <a
name="C0427V10" id="C0427V10">27:10</a> If he have no brothers, then you shall
give his inheritance to his father's brothers. <a name="C0427V11" id="C0427V11">27:11</a>
If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his
kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it
shall be to the children of Yisrael a statute <i>and</i> ordinance, as
Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0427V12" id="C0427V12">27:12</a> Yahweh said
to Moshe, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I
have given to the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0427V13" id="C0427V13">27:13</a>
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aharon
your brother was gathered; <a name="C0427V14" id="C0427V14">27:14</a> because
you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of
the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These
are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) <a
name="C0427V15" id="C0427V15">27:15</a> Moshe spoke to Yahweh, saying, <a
name="C0427V16" id="C0427V16">27:16</a> Let Yahweh, the Elohim of the spirits of
all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, <a name="C0427V17"
id="C0427V17">27:17</a> who may go out before them, and who may come in
before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that
the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd. <a
name="C0427V18" id="C0427V18">27:18</a> Yahweh said to Moshe, Take Joshua the
son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; <a
name="C0427V19" id="C0427V19">27:19</a> and set him before Eleazar the priest,
and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight. <a
name="C0427V20" id="C0427V20">27:20</a> You shall put of your honor on him,
that all the congregation of the children of Yisrael may obey. <a
name="C0427V21" id="C0427V21">27:21</a> He shall stand before Eleazar the
priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before
Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in,
both he, and all the children of Yisrael with him, even all the
congregation. <a name="C0427V22" id="C0427V22">27:22</a> Moshe did as Yahweh
commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest,
and before all the congregation: <a name="C0427V23" id="C0427V23">27:23</a>
and he laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by
Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0428V1" id="C0428V1">28:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0428V2" id="C0428V2">28:2</a> Command the children of Yisrael, and tell
them, My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season. <a
name="C0428V3" id="C0428V3">28:3</a> You shall tell them, This is the offering
made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old
without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering. <a
name="C0428V4" id="C0428V4">28:4</a> You shall offer the one lamb in the
morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening; <a name="C0428V5"
id="C0428V5">28:5</a> with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a
meal offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. <a
name="C0428V6" id="C0428V6">28:6</a> It is a continual burnt offering, which
was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire
to Yahweh. <a name="C0428V7" id="C0428V7">28:7</a> Its drink offering shall be
the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink
offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place. <a name="C0428V8"
id="C0428V8">28:8</a> The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal
offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer
it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <a
name="C0428V9" id="C0428V9">28:9</a> On the Shabbat day two male lambs a year
old without blemish, and two tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine flour
for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it: <a
name="C0428V10" id="C0428V10">28:10</a> this is the burnt offering of every
Shabbat, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of
it. <a name="C0428V11" id="C0428V11">28:11</a> In the beginnings of your
months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and
one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0428V12"
id="C0428V12">28:12</a> and three tenth parts <i>of an ephah</i> of fine
flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth
parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
<a name="C0428V13" id="C0428V13">28:13</a> and a tenth part of fine flour
mixed with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of
a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0428V14"
id="C0428V14">28:14</a> Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine
for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part
of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout
the months of the year. <a name="C0428V15" id="C0428V15">28:15</a> One male
goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the
continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. <a name="C0428V16"
id="C0428V16">28:16</a> In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month, is Yahweh's Passover. <a name="C0428V17" id="C0428V17">28:17</a> On the
fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened
bread be eaten. <a name="C0428V18" id="C0428V18">28:18</a> In the first day
shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work; <a name="C0428V19"
id="C0428V19">28:19</a> but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a
burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male
lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; <a name="C0428V20"
id="C0428V20">28:20</a> and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil:
you shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the
ram. <a name="C0428V21" id="C0428V21">28:21</a> You shall offer a tenth part
for every lamb of the seven lambs; <a name="C0428V22" id="C0428V22">28:22</a>
and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. <a
name="C0428V23" id="C0428V23">28:23</a> You shall offer these besides the
burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. <a
name="C0428V24" id="C0428V24">28:24</a> After this manner you shall offer
daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt
offering, and the drink offering of it. <a name="C0428V25" id="C0428V25">28:25</a>
On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no
servile work. <a name="C0428V26" id="C0428V26">28:26</a> Also in the day of
the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your <i>feast
of</i> weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile
work; <a name="C0428V27" id="C0428V27">28:27</a> but you shall offer a burnt
offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven
male lambs a year old; <a name="C0428V28" id="C0428V28">28:28</a> and their
meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull,
two tenth parts for the one ram, <a name="C0428V29" id="C0428V29">28:29</a> a
tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; <a name="C0428V30" id="C0428V30">28:30</a>
one male goat, to make atonement for you. <a name="C0428V31" id="C0428V31">28:31</a>
Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you
shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink
offerings.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0429V1" id="C0429V1">29:1</a> In the seventh month, on the first day
of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile
work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. <a name="C0429V2" id="C0429V2">29:2</a>
You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young
bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0429V3"
id="C0429V3">29:3</a> and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil,
three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, <a
name="C0429V4" id="C0429V4">29:4</a> and one tenth part for every lamb of the
seven lambs; <a name="C0429V5" id="C0429V5">29:5</a> and one male goat for a
sin offering, to make atonement for you; <a name="C0429V6" id="C0429V6">29:6</a>
besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering of it,
and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their
drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh. <a name="C0429V7" id="C0429V7">29:7</a> On
the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and
you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner of work; <a
name="C0429V8" id="C0429V8">29:8</a> but you shall offer a burnt offering to
Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a
year old; they shall be to you without blemish; <a name="C0429V9" id="C0429V9">29:9</a>
and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for
the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, <a name="C0429V10" id="C0429V10">29:10</a>
a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: <a name="C0429V11"
id="C0429V11">29:11</a> one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal
offering of it, and their drink offerings. <a name="C0429V12" id="C0429V12">29:12</a>
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to
Yahweh seven days: <a name="C0429V13" id="C0429V13">29:13</a> and you shall
offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old;
they shall be without blemish; <a name="C0429V14" id="C0429V14">29:14</a> and
their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for
every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two
rams, <a name="C0429V15" id="C0429V15">29:15</a> and a tenth part for every
lamb of the fourteen lambs; <a name="C0429V16" id="C0429V16">29:16</a> and one
male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the
meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. <a name="C0429V17"
id="C0429V17">29:17</a> On the second day <i>you shall offer</i> twelve
young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; <a
name="C0429V18" id="C0429V18">29:18</a> and their meal offering and their
drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according
to their number, after the ordinance; <a name="C0429V19" id="C0429V19">29:19</a>
and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt
offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. <a
name="C0429V20" id="C0429V20">29:20</a> On the third day eleven bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0429V21"
id="C0429V21">29:21</a> and their meal offering and their drink offerings
for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance; <a name="C0429V22" id="C0429V22">29:22</a> and one male
goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. <a name="C0429V23"
id="C0429V23">29:23</a> On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0429V24" id="C0429V24">29:24</a>
their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; <a
name="C0429V25" id="C0429V25">29:25</a> and one male goat for a sin offering;
besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the
drink offering of it. <a name="C0429V26" id="C0429V26">29:26</a> On the fifth
day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
<a name="C0429V27" id="C0429V27">29:27</a> and their meal offering and their
drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according
to their number, after the ordinance; <a name="C0429V28" id="C0429V28">29:28</a>
and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt
offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. <a
name="C0429V29" id="C0429V29">29:29</a> On the sixth day eight bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0429V30"
id="C0429V30">29:30</a> and their meal offering and their drink offerings
for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance; <a name="C0429V31" id="C0429V31">29:31</a> and one male
goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal
offering of it, and the drink offerings of it. <a name="C0429V32" id="C0429V32">29:32</a>
On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old
without blemish; <a name="C0429V33" id="C0429V33">29:33</a> and their meal
offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; <a name="C0429V34"
id="C0429V34">29:34</a> and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the
continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering
of it. <a name="C0429V35" id="C0429V35">29:35</a> On the eighth day you shall
have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; <a name="C0429V36"
id="C0429V36">29:36</a> but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male
lambs a year old without blemish; <a name="C0429V37" id="C0429V37">29:37</a>
their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram,
and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the
ordinance: <a name="C0429V38" id="C0429V38">29:38</a> and one male goat for a
sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering
of it, and the drink offering of it. <a name="C0429V39" id="C0429V39">29:39</a>
These you shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and
your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal
offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. <a
name="C0429V40" id="C0429V40">29:40</a> Moshe told the children of Yisrael
according to all that Yahweh commanded Moshe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0430V1" id="C0430V1">30:1</a> Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes
of the children of Yisrael, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded. <a name="C0430V2" id="C0430V2">30:2</a> When a man vows a vow to
Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break
his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. <a
name="C0430V3" id="C0430V3">30:3</a> Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh,
and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, <a
name="C0430V4" id="C0430V4">30:4</a> and her father hears her vow, and her
bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at
her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has
bound her soul shall stand. <a name="C0430V5" id="C0430V5">30:5</a> But if her
father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her
bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will
forgive her, because her father disallowed her. <a name="C0430V6" id="C0430V6">30:6</a>
If she be <i>married</i> to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the
rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, <a
name="C0430V7" id="C0430V7">30:7</a> and her husband hear it, and hold his
peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and
her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. <a name="C0430V8"
id="C0430V8">30:8</a> But if her husband disallow her in the day that he
hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash
utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will
forgive her. <a name="C0430V9" id="C0430V9">30:9</a> But the vow of a widow,
or of her who is divorced, <i>even</i> everything with which she has bound
her soul, shall stand against her. <a name="C0430V10" id="C0430V10">30:10</a>
If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an
oath, <a name="C0430V11" id="C0430V11">30:11</a> and her husband heard it, and
held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall
stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. <a
name="C0430V12" id="C0430V12">30:12</a> But if her husband made them null and
void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not
stand: her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her. <a
name="C0430V13" id="C0430V13">30:13</a> Every vow, and every binding oath to
afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it
void. <a name="C0430V14" id="C0430V14">30:14</a> But if her husband altogether
hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows,
or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he
held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. <a name="C0430V15"
id="C0430V15">30:15</a> But if he shall make them null and void after that
he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. <a name="C0430V16"
id="C0430V16">30:16</a> These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded
Moshe, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter,
being in her youth, in her father's house.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0431V1" id="C0431V1">31:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0431V2" id="C0431V2">31:2</a> Avenge the children of Yisrael of the
Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people. <a name="C0431V3"
id="C0431V3">31:3</a> Moshe spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from
among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute
Yahweh's vengeance on Midian. <a name="C0431V4" id="C0431V4">31:4</a> Of every
tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Yisrael, you shall send to
the war. <a name="C0431V5" id="C0431V5">31:5</a> So there were delivered, out
of the thousands of Yisrael, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand
armed for war. <a name="C0431V6" id="C0431V6">31:6</a> Moshe sent them, one
thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets
for the alarm in his hand. <a name="C0431V7" id="C0431V7">31:7</a> They warred
against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moshe; and they killed every male. <a
name="C0431V8" id="C0431V8">31:8</a> They killed the kings of Midian with the
rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
<a name="C0431V9" id="C0431V9">31:9</a> The children of Yisrael took captive
the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and
all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. <a
name="C0431V10" id="C0431V10">31:10</a> All their cities in the places in
which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. <a
name="C0431V11" id="C0431V11">31:11</a> They took all the spoil, and all the
prey, both of man and of animal. <a name="C0431V12" id="C0431V12">31:12</a>
They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moshe, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Yisrael, to
the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. <a
name="C0431V13" id="C0431V13">31:13</a> Moshe, and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the
camp. <a name="C0431V14" id="C0431V14">31:14</a> Moshe was angry with the
officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of
hundreds, who came from the service of the war. <a name="C0431V15"
id="C0431V15">31:15</a> Moshe said to them, Have you saved all the women
alive? <a name="C0431V16" id="C0431V16">31:16</a> Behold, these caused the
children of Yisrael, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass
against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the
congregation of Yahweh. <a name="C0431V17" id="C0431V17">31:17</a> Now
therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who
has known man by lying with him. <a name="C0431V18" id="C0431V18">31:18</a>
But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves. <a name="C0431V19" id="C0431V19">31:19</a> Encamp you outside
of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has
touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh
day, you and your captives. <a name="C0431V20" id="C0431V20">31:20</a> As to
every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' <i>hair</i>,
and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves. <a name="C0431V21"
id="C0431V21">31:21</a> Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went
to the battle, This is the statute of the Torah which Yahweh has commanded
Moshe: <a name="C0431V22" id="C0431V22">31:22</a> however the gold, and the
silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, <a name="C0431V23"
id="C0431V23">31:23</a> everything that may abide the fire, you shall make
to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be
purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the
fire you shall make to go through the water. <a name="C0431V24" id="C0431V24">31:24</a>
You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean;
and afterward you shall come into the camp. <a name="C0431V25" id="C0431V25">31:25</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0431V26" id="C0431V26">31:26</a> Take
the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and
Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the
congregation; <a name="C0431V27" id="C0431V27">31:27</a> and divide the prey
into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle,
and all the congregation. <a name="C0431V28" id="C0431V28">31:28</a> Levy a
tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred, <i>both</i> of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the
donkeys, and of the flocks: <a name="C0431V29" id="C0431V29">31:29</a> take it
of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave
offering. <a name="C0431V30" id="C0431V30">31:30</a> Of the children of
Yisrael's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the
persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, <i>even</i> of
all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of
the tent of Yahweh. <a name="C0431V31" id="C0431V31">31:31</a> Moshe and
Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0431V32"
id="C0431V32">31:32</a> Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men
of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, <a name="C0431V33"
id="C0431V33">31:33</a> and seventy-two thousand head of cattle, <a
name="C0431V34" id="C0431V34">31:34</a> and sixty-one thousand donkeys, <a
name="C0431V35" id="C0431V35">31:35</a> and thirty-two thousand persons in
all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. <a name="C0431V36"
id="C0431V36">31:36</a> The half, which was the portion of those who went
out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred
sheep: <a name="C0431V37" id="C0431V37">31:37</a> and Yahweh's tribute of the
sheep was six hundred seventy-five. <a name="C0431V38" id="C0431V38">31:38</a>
The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was
seventy-two. <a name="C0431V39" id="C0431V39">31:39</a> The donkeys were
thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one. <a
name="C0431V40" id="C0431V40">31:40</a> The persons were sixteen thousand; of
whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons. <a name="C0431V41" id="C0431V41">31:41</a>
Moshe gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the
priest, as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0431V42" id="C0431V42">31:42</a>
Of the children of Yisrael's half, which Moshe divided off from the men who
warred <a name="C0431V43" id="C0431V43">31:43</a> (now the congregation's half
was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, <a
name="C0431V44" id="C0431V44">31:44</a> and thirty-six thousand head of
cattle, <a name="C0431V45" id="C0431V45">31:45</a> and thirty thousand five
hundred donkeys, <a name="C0431V46" id="C0431V46">31:46</a> and sixteen
thousand persons), <a name="C0431V47" id="C0431V47">31:47</a> even of the
children of Yisrael's half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both
of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty
of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moshe. <a name="C0431V48"
id="C0431V48">31:48</a> The officers who were over the thousands of the
army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near
to Moshe; <a name="C0431V49" id="C0431V49">31:49</a> and they said to Moshe,
Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our
command, and there lacks not one man of us. <a name="C0431V50" id="C0431V50">31:50</a>
We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of
gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to
make atonement for our souls before Yahweh. <a name="C0431V51" id="C0431V51">31:51</a>
Moshe and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked
jewels. <a name="C0431V52" id="C0431V52">31:52</a> All the gold of the wave
offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and
of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty
shekels. <a name="C0431V53" id="C0431V53">31:53</a> (<i>For</i> the men of war
had taken booty, every man for himself.) <a name="C0431V54" id="C0431V54">31:54</a>
Moshe and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial
for the children of Yisrael before Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0432V1" id="C0432V1">32:1</a> Now the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw
the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a
place for livestock; <a name="C0432V2" id="C0432V2">32:2</a> the children of
Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moshe, and to Eleazar the
priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, <a name="C0432V3"
id="C0432V3">32:3</a> Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, <a name="C0432V4"
id="C0432V4">32:4</a> the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation
of Yisrael, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock. <a
name="C0432V5" id="C0432V5">32:5</a> They said, If we have found favor in your
sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't
bring us over the Jordan. <a name="C0432V6" id="C0432V6">32:6</a> Moshe said
to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers
go to the war, and shall you sit here? <a name="C0432V7" id="C0432V7">32:7</a>
Why discourage you the heart of the children of Yisrael from going over
into the land which Yahweh has given them? <a name="C0432V8" id="C0432V8">32:8</a>
Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
<a name="C0432V9" id="C0432V9">32:9</a> For when they went up to the valley of
Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of
Yisrael, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
<a name="C0432V10" id="C0432V10">32:10</a> Yahweh's anger was kindled in that
day, and he swore, saying, <a name="C0432V11" id="C0432V11">32:11</a> Surely
none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land which I swore to Avraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: <a name="C0432V12"
id="C0432V12">32:12</a> save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and
Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh. <a
name="C0432V13" id="C0432V13">32:13</a> Yahweh's anger was kindled against
Yisrael, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty
years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh,
was consumed. <a name="C0432V14" id="C0432V14">32:14</a> Behold, you are risen
up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the
fierce anger of Yahweh toward Yisrael. <a name="C0432V15" id="C0432V15">32:15</a>
For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. <a name="C0432V16"
id="C0432V16">32:16</a> They came near to him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones: <a
name="C0432V17" id="C0432V17">32:17</a> but we ourselves will be ready armed
to go before the children of Yisrael, until we have brought them to their
place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of
the inhabitants of the land. <a name="C0432V18" id="C0432V18">32:18</a> We
will not return to our houses, until the children of Yisrael have inherited
every man his inheritance. <a name="C0432V19" id="C0432V19">32:19</a> For we
will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward;
because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan
eastward. <a name="C0432V20" id="C0432V20">32:20</a> Moshe said to them, If
you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to
the war, <a name="C0432V21" id="C0432V21">32:21</a> and every armed man of you
will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his
enemies from before him, <a name="C0432V22" id="C0432V22">32:22</a> and the
land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be
guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Yisrael; and this land shall be to
you for a possession before Yahweh. <a name="C0432V23" id="C0432V23">32:23</a>
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be
sure your sin will find you out. <a name="C0432V24" id="C0432V24">32:24</a>
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do
that which has proceeded out of your mouth. <a name="C0432V25" id="C0432V25">32:25</a>
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moshe, saying,
Your servants will do as my lord commands. <a name="C0432V26" id="C0432V26">32:26</a>
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be
there in the cities of Gilead; <a name="C0432V27" id="C0432V27">32:27</a> but
your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before
Yahweh to battle, as my lord says. <a name="C0432V28" id="C0432V28">32:28</a>
So Moshe commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua
the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i> of the
tribes of the children of Yisrael. <a name="C0432V29" id="C0432V29">32:29</a>
Moshe said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will
pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before
Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them
the land of Gilead for a possession: <a name="C0432V30" id="C0432V30">32:30</a>
but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions
among you in the land of Canaan. <a name="C0432V31" id="C0432V31">32:31</a>
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh
has said to your servants, so will we do. <a name="C0432V32" id="C0432V32">32:32</a>
We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance <i>shall remain</i> with us beyond the
Jordan. <a name="C0432V33" id="C0432V33">32:33</a> Moshe gave to them, even to
the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of
it with <i>their</i> borders, even the cities of the surrounding land. <a
name="C0432V34" id="C0432V34">32:34</a> The children of Gad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer, <a name="C0432V35" id="C0432V35">32:35</a> and
Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, <a name="C0432V36" id="C0432V36">32:36</a>
and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep. <a
name="C0432V37" id="C0432V37">32:37</a> The children of Reuben built Heshbon,
and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, <a name="C0432V38" id="C0432V38">32:38</a> and
Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they
gave other names to the cities which they built. <a name="C0432V39"
id="C0432V39">32:39</a> The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. <a
name="C0432V40" id="C0432V40">32:40</a> Moshe gave Gilead to Machir the son of
Manasseh; and he lived therein. <a name="C0432V41" id="C0432V41">32:41</a>
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth
Jair. <a name="C0432V42" id="C0432V42">32:42</a> Nobah went and took Kenath,
and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0433V1" id="C0433V1">33:1</a> These are the journeys of the children
of Yisrael, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies
under the hand of Moshe and Aharon. <a name="C0433V2" id="C0433V2">33:2</a>
Moshe wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the
commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their
goings out. <a name="C0433V3" id="C0433V3">33:3</a> They traveled from Rameses
in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next
day after the Passover the children of Yisrael went out with a high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians, <a name="C0433V4" id="C0433V4">33:4</a> while
the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck
among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments. <a name="C0433V5"
id="C0433V5">33:5</a> The children of Yisrael traveled from Rameses, and
encamped in Succoth. <a name="C0433V6" id="C0433V6">33:6</a> They traveled
from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the
wilderness. <a name="C0433V7" id="C0433V7">33:7</a> They traveled from Etham,
and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they
encamped before Migdol. <a name="C0433V8" id="C0433V8">33:8</a> They traveled
from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the
wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham,
and encamped in Marah. <a name="C0433V9" id="C0433V9">33:9</a> They traveled
from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water,
and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there. <a name="C0433V10"
id="C0433V10">33:10</a> They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the <a
href="#N046">Red Sea</a>. <a name="C0433V11" id="C0433V11">33:11</a> They
traveled from the <a href="#N047">Red Sea</a>, and encamped in the
wilderness of Sin. <a name="C0433V12" id="C0433V12">33:12</a> They traveled
from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. <a name="C0433V13"
id="C0433V13">33:13</a> They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
<a name="C0433V14" id="C0433V14">33:14</a> They traveled from Alush, and
encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. <a
name="C0433V15" id="C0433V15">33:15</a> They traveled from Rephidim, and
encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. <a name="C0433V16" id="C0433V16">33:16</a>
They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth
Hattaavah. <a name="C0433V17" id="C0433V17">33:17</a> They traveled from
Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth. <a name="C0433V18" id="C0433V18">33:18</a>
They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. <a name="C0433V19"
id="C0433V19">33:19</a> They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon
Perez. <a name="C0433V20" id="C0433V20">33:20</a> They traveled from Rimmon
Perez, and encamped in Libnah. <a name="C0433V21" id="C0433V21">33:21</a> They
traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah. <a name="C0433V22" id="C0433V22">33:22</a>
They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. <a name="C0433V23"
id="C0433V23">33:23</a> They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount
Shepher. <a name="C0433V24" id="C0433V24">33:24</a> They traveled from Mount
Shepher, and encamped in Haradah. <a name="C0433V25" id="C0433V25">33:25</a>
They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. <a name="C0433V26"
id="C0433V26">33:26</a> They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in
Tahath. <a name="C0433V27" id="C0433V27">33:27</a> They traveled from Tahath,
and encamped in Terah. <a name="C0433V28" id="C0433V28">33:28</a> They
traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah. <a name="C0433V29" id="C0433V29">33:29</a>
They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah. <a name="C0433V30"
id="C0433V30">33:30</a> They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in
Moseroth. <a name="C0433V31" id="C0433V31">33:31</a> They traveled from
Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan. <a name="C0433V32" id="C0433V32">33:32</a>
They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad. <a
name="C0433V33" id="C0433V33">33:33</a> They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and
encamped in Jotbathah. <a name="C0433V34" id="C0433V34">33:34</a> They
traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah. <a name="C0433V35"
id="C0433V35">33:35</a> They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion
Geber. <a name="C0433V36" id="C0433V36">33:36</a> They traveled from Ezion
Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh). <a
name="C0433V37" id="C0433V37">33:37</a> They traveled from Kadesh, and
encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. <a name="C0433V38"
id="C0433V38">33:38</a> Aharon the priest went up into Mount Hor at the
commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
children of Yisrael were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month,
on the first day of the month. <a name="C0433V39" id="C0433V39">33:39</a>
Aharon was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor. <a
name="C0433V40" id="C0433V40">33:40</a> The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who
lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the
children of Yisrael. <a name="C0433V41" id="C0433V41">33:41</a> They traveled
from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah. <a name="C0433V42" id="C0433V42">33:42</a>
They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. <a name="C0433V43"
id="C0433V43">33:43</a> They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. <a
name="C0433V44" id="C0433V44">33:44</a> They traveled from Oboth, and encamped
in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab. <a name="C0433V45" id="C0433V45">33:45</a>
They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad. <a name="C0433V46"
id="C0433V46">33:46</a> They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon
Diblathaim. <a name="C0433V47" id="C0433V47">33:47</a> They traveled from
Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. <a
name="C0433V48" id="C0433V48">33:48</a> They traveled from the mountains of
Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. <a
name="C0433V49" id="C0433V49">33:49</a> They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth
Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab. <a name="C0433V50"
id="C0433V50">33:50</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho, saying, <a name="C0433V51" id="C0433V51">33:51</a> Speak to
the children of Yisrael, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into
the land of Canaan, <a name="C0433V52" id="C0433V52">33:52</a> then you shall
drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all
their figured <i>stones</i>, and destroy all their molten images, and
demolish all their high places: <a name="C0433V53" id="C0433V53">33:53</a> and
you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you have
I given the land to possess it. <a name="C0433V54" id="C0433V54">33:54</a> You
shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you
shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less
inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You
shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. <a name="C0433V55"
id="C0433V55">33:55</a> But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the
land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks
in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the
land in which you dwell. <a name="C0433V56" id="C0433V56">33:56</a> It shall
happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.
</p>
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<p>
<a name="N046" id="N046">[6]</a> <a href="#C0433V10">back to 33:10</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N047" id="N047">[7]</a> <a href="#C0433V11">back to 33:11</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0434V1" id="C0434V1">34:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a
name="C0434V2" id="C0434V2">34:2</a> Command the children of Yisrael, and tell
them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall
fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its
borders), <a name="C0434V3" id="C0434V3">34:3</a> then your south quarter
shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your
south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward; <a
name="C0434V4" id="C0434V4">34:4</a> and your border shall turn about
southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings
out of it shall be southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to
Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon; <a name="C0434V5" id="C0434V5">34:5</a>
and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the
goings out of it shall be at the sea. <a name="C0434V6" id="C0434V6">34:6</a>
For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border <i>of
it</i>: this shall be your west border. <a name="C0434V7" id="C0434V7">34:7</a>
This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for
you Mount Hor; <a name="C0434V8" id="C0434V8">34:8</a> from Mount Hor you
shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border
shall be at Zedad; <a name="C0434V9" id="C0434V9">34:9</a> and the border
shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar
Enan: this shall be your north border. <a name="C0434V10" id="C0434V10">34:10</a>
You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham; <a
name="C0434V11" id="C0434V11">34:11</a> and the border shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down,
and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; <a
name="C0434V12" id="C0434V12">34:12</a> and the border shall go down to the
Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be
your land according to its borders around it. <a name="C0434V13" id="C0434V13">34:13</a>
Moshe commanded the children of Yisrael, saying, This is the land which you
shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine
tribes, and to the half-tribe; <a name="C0434V14" id="C0434V14">34:14</a> for
the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses,
and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses,
have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their
inheritance: <a name="C0434V15" id="C0434V15">34:15</a> the two tribes and the
half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho
eastward, toward the sunrise. <a name="C0434V16" id="C0434V16">34:16</a>
Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, <a name="C0434V17" id="C0434V17">34:17</a>
These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for
inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. <a
name="C0434V18" id="C0434V18">34:18</a> You shall take one prince of every
tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. <a name="C0434V19" id="C0434V19">34:19</a>
These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Yehudah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh. <a name="C0434V20" id="C0434V20">34:20</a> Of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. <a name="C0434V21"
id="C0434V21">34:21</a> Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
<a name="C0434V22" id="C0434V22">34:22</a> Of the tribe of the children of Dan
a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. <a name="C0434V23" id="C0434V23">34:23</a>
Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a
prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. <a name="C0434V24" id="C0434V24">34:24</a>
Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of
Shiphtan. <a name="C0434V25" id="C0434V25">34:25</a> Of the tribe of the
children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. <a
name="C0434V26" id="C0434V26">34:26</a> Of the tribe of the children of
Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. <a name="C0434V27" id="C0434V27">34:27</a>
Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
<a name="C0434V28" id="C0434V28">34:28</a> Of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. <a name="C0434V29" id="C0434V29">34:29</a>
These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the
children of Yisrael in the land of Canaan.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C0435V1" id="C0435V1">35:1</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, <a name="C0435V2" id="C0435V2">35:2</a>
Command the children of Yisrael that they give to the Levites of the
inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and You shall give
suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites. <a name="C0435V3"
id="C0435V3">35:3</a> The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their
suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all
their animals. <a name="C0435V4" id="C0435V4">35:4</a> The suburbs of the
cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the
city and outward one thousand cubits around it. <a name="C0435V5" id="C0435V5">35:5</a>
You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand
cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side
two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city
being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. <a
name="C0435V6" id="C0435V6">35:6</a> The cities which you shall give to the
Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for
the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two
cities. <a name="C0435V7" id="C0435V7">35:7</a> All the cities which you shall
give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their
suburbs. <a name="C0435V8" id="C0435V8">35:8</a> Concerning the cities which
you shall give of the possession of the children of Yisrael, from the many
you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone
according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to
the Levites. <a name="C0435V9" id="C0435V9">35:9</a> Yahweh spoke to Moshe,
saying, <a name="C0435V10" id="C0435V10">35:10</a> Speak to the children of
Yisrael, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of
Canaan, <a name="C0435V11" id="C0435V11">35:11</a> then you shall appoint you
cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any
person unwittingly may flee there. <a name="C0435V12" id="C0435V12">35:12</a>
The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer
not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment. <a
name="C0435V13" id="C0435V13">35:13</a> The cities which you shall give shall
be for you six cities of refuge. <a name="C0435V14" id="C0435V14">35:14</a>
You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three
cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. <a
name="C0435V15" id="C0435V15">35:15</a> For the children of Yisrael, and for
the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six
cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may
flee there. <a name="C0435V16" id="C0435V16">35:16</a> But if he struck him
with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death. <a name="C0435V17" id="C0435V17">35:17</a>
If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he
died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. <a
name="C0435V18" id="C0435V18">35:18</a> Or if he struck him with a weapon of
wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer:
the murderer shall surely be put to death. <a name="C0435V19" id="C0435V19">35:19</a>
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he
meets him, he shall put him to death. <a name="C0435V20" id="C0435V20">35:20</a>
If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he
died, <a name="C0435V21" id="C0435V21">35:21</a> or in enmity struck him with
his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death;
he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death,
when he meets him. <a name="C0435V22" id="C0435V22">35:22</a> But if he thrust
him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in
wait, <a name="C0435V23" id="C0435V23">35:23</a> or with any stone, by which a
man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he
was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; <a name="C0435V24" id="C0435V24">35:24</a>
then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of
blood according to these ordinances; <a name="C0435V25" id="C0435V25">35:25</a>
and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the
avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of
refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of
the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. <a name="C0435V26"
id="C0435V26">35:26</a> But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the
border of his city of refuge, where he flees, <a name="C0435V27" id="C0435V27">35:27</a>
and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of
refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be
guilty of blood, <a name="C0435V28" id="C0435V28">35:28</a> because he should
have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest:
but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the
land of his possession. <a name="C0435V29" id="C0435V29">35:29</a> These
things shall be for a statute <i>and</i> ordinance to you throughout your
generations in all your dwellings. <a name="C0435V30" id="C0435V30">35:30</a>
Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of
witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he
die. <a name="C0435V31" id="C0435V31">35:31</a> Moreover you shall take no
ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall
surely be put to death. <a name="C0435V32" id="C0435V32">35:32</a> You shall
take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come
again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. <a name="C0435V33"
id="C0435V33">35:33</a> So you shall not pollute the land in which you are:
for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land
for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
<a name="C0435V34" id="C0435V34">35:34</a> You shall not defile the land which
you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the
midst of the children of Yisrael.
</p>
Type the text for the tiddler 'Numbers36' <p>
<a name="C0436V1" id="C0436V1">36:1</a> The heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke
before Moshe, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' <i>houses</i>
of the children of Yisrael: <a name="C0436V2" id="C0436V2">36:2</a> and they
said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to
the children of Yisrael: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the
inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. <a name="C0436V3"
id="C0436V3">36:3</a> If they be married to any of the sons of the <i>other</i>
tribes of the children of Yisrael, then will their inheritance be taken
away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the
inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken
away from the lot of our inheritance. <a name="C0436V4" id="C0436V4">36:4</a>
When the jubilee of the children of Yisrael shall be, then will their
inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall
belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of
the tribe of our fathers. <a name="C0436V5" id="C0436V5">36:5</a> Moshe
commanded the children of Yisrael according to the word of Yahweh, saying,
The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right. <a name="C0436V6" id="C0436V6">36:6</a>
This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into
the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. <a
name="C0436V7" id="C0436V7">36:7</a> So shall no inheritance of the children
of Yisrael remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Yisrael shall
cleave everyone to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. <a
name="C0436V8" id="C0436V8">36:8</a> Every daughter, who possesses an
inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisrael, shall be wife to one
of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Yisrael may
possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. <a name="C0436V9"
id="C0436V9">36:9</a> So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to
another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Yisrael shall cleave
everyone to his own inheritance. <a name="C0436V10" id="C0436V10">36:10</a>
Even as Yahweh commanded Moshe, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: <a
name="C0436V11" id="C0436V11">36:11</a> for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their
father's brothers' sons. <a name="C0436V12" id="C0436V12">36:12</a> They were
married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and
their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. <a
name="C0436V13" id="C0436V13">36:13</a> These are the commandments and the
ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisrael in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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<a name="C311V1" id="C311V1">1:1</a> The vision of Obadiah. This is what the
Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an
ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise
up against her in battle. <a name="C311V2" id="C311V2">1:2</a> Behold, I have
made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. <a name="C311V3"
id="C311V3">1:3</a> The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell
in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his
heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' <a name="C311V4" id="C311V4">1:4</a>
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among
the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh. <a
name="C311V5" id="C311V5">1:5</a> "If thieves came to you, if robbers by
night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they
had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some
gleaning grapes? <a name="C311V6" id="C311V6">1:6</a> How Esau will be
ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out! <a name="C311V7"
id="C311V7">1:7</a> All the men of your alliance have brought you on your
way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived
you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare
under you. There is no understanding in him."
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<a name="C311V8" id="C311V8">1:8</a> "Won't I in that day," says
Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of
the mountain of Esau? <a name="C311V9" id="C311V9">1:9</a> Your mighty men,
Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the
mountain of Esau by slaughter. <a name="C311V10" id="C311V10">1:10</a> For the
violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be
cut off forever. <a name="C311V11" id="C311V11">1:11</a> In the day that you
stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his
substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for
Yerushalayim, even you were like one of them. <a name="C311V12" id="C311V12">1:12</a>
But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't
rejoice over the children of Yehudah in the day of their destruction. Don't
speak proudly in the day of distress. <a name="C311V13" id="C311V13">1:13</a>
Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't
look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize
their wealth on the day of their calamity. <a name="C311V14" id="C311V14">1:14</a>
Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't
deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. <a name="C311V15"
id="C311V15">1:15</a> For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you
have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own
head. <a name="C311V16" id="C311V16">1:16</a> For as you have drunk on my holy
mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink,
swallow down, and will be as though they had not been. <a name="C311V17"
id="C311V17">1:17</a> But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and
it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. <a
name="C311V18" id="C311V18">1:18</a> The house of Jacob will be a fire, the
house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn
among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house
of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
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<a name="C311V19" id="C311V19">1:19</a> Those of the South will possess the
mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will
possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Shomron. Benjamin will
possess Gilead. <a name="C311V20" id="C311V20">1:20</a> The captives of this
army of the children of Yisrael, who are among the Canaanites, will possess
even to Zarephath; and the captives of Yerushalayim, who are in Sepharad,
will possess the cities of the Negev. <a name="C311V21" id="C311V21">1:21</a>
Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the
kingdom will be Yahweh's.
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Pgs. 571-580
Ch. 38-40
SECTION XXIII.
PEKUDEY.
These are the sums, weights, and numbers of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, which were counted by the word of the mouth of Mosheh. But the service of the Levites was by the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest. And Bezalel bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, made all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh; and with him, Ahaliab bar Achisamak, of the tribe of Dan, a worker in wood, and an artificer, and an embroiderer in hyacinth, and in purple, and in crimson, and in fine linen.
All the gold that was used in making the whole work of the sanctuary, and it was the amount of the gold of the oblation, (was) twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary. This was the gold of the oblation, which every man of the sons of Yisrael, whose heart was willing, had offered as a separation. And the silver of them who were numbered of the sons of Yisrael, who gave at the time when Mosheh numbered them, every one for the redemption of his soul, a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, of the shekel of the sanctuary. A drachma for (each) head, a half shekel of the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one who passed to the numberments, from twenty years and upwards, for six hundred and thirty thousand and five hundred and fifty (men). And there were a hundred talents of silver for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil, a hundred bases, answering to the talents, a talent for a base. And with the thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and the overlaying of their capitals and their rods. And the brass of the oblation was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. And he made with it the bases of the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar. And the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
XXXIX. And of the hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, they made the vestments of ministration, to minister in the sanctuary. And they made the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he made the ephoda of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and fine linen twined. And they beat out the plates of gold, and cut them into threads to inwork with the hyacinth, and the purple, and the crimson, and the fine linen, the work of the artificer. Shoulderpieces made they for it conjoined; upon its two sides were they conjoined. And its ordered band[1] that was upon it was of the same; it was according to its work, of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, even as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And they wrought the jewels of onyx, enchased, set, inwrought, graved with graven writing, setting forth the names of the sons of Yisrael. And he set them on the shoulders of the ephoda, as stones of memorial for the sons of Yisrael, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And he made the Breastplate, the work of the artificer, according to the work of the ephoda, of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined. Foursquare was it; doubled they made the breastplate, a span its length, and a span its breadth. [JERUSALEM. A palm its length, and a palm its breadth, doubled.] And they filled it with four rows of precious gems, (margalyan,) corresponding with the four corners of the world. The first row, carnelian, topaz, and carbuncle, row one: and upon them were engraven and expressed the names of three tribes, Reuben, Shimeon, and Levi. And the name of the second row, smarag, and sapphire, and chalcedony: and upon them was inscribed and set forth the name of three tribes, Jehudah, Dan, and Naphtali. And the name of the third row, ligure, agate, and amethyst: and upon them inscribed and set forth the name of three tribes, Gad, Asher, and Issakar. And the name of the fourth row, chrysolite, and onyx, and jasper: and upon them inscribed and set forth the name of three tribes, Zebulon, Joseph, and Benjamin: enchased and set in gold in their infillings. And the gems were according to the names of the sons of Yisrael, twelve, according to their names; the writing engraven, inscribed, and set forth as the engraving of a ring; each man's gem according to his name in the twelve tribes. And they made upon the breastplate wreathen chains, entwined work, of pure gold. And they made two sockets of gold, and two golden rings, and set the two rings on the two sides of the breastplate. And they put the two entwinements of gold within the two rings upon the two sides of the breastplate, and the two chains that were arranged on the two sides they fastened upon the two sockets, and set them on the shoulders of the ephoda, toward its front. And they made two golden rings and set them upon the two sides of the breastplate, upon its edge, that was on the border of the ephod inward. And they made two golden rings, and arranged them upon the two shoulders of the ephod below, toward its front, over against the place of conjoinment above the band of the ephod, and fitted the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod by a ribbon of hyacinth, that it might adhere to the band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosened from being upon the ephod, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And he made the mantle‑robe, a work of the weaver, of twined thread of hyacinth. And the aperture of the upper robe (was) double in the midst, like the opening of a piece of armour, with a border round about its edge, that it might not be torn. And they made upon the bottom of the upper robe pomegranates of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and (fine linen) entwined. And they made golden bells, and set the bells among the pomegranates upon the border of the mantle‑robe, round about among the pomegranates; a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all of them seventy upon the bottom of the upper robe round about to minister in; as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And they made the plate of the crown of holiness of pure gold, and wrote upon it, inscribed, engraven, and set forth, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And they set upon it a twined ribbon of hyacinth, to put it upon the tiara above the forehead; as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And all the work of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance, was completed: and the sons of Yisrael did as the Lord commanded Mosheh, so did they. And they brought the tabernacle to Mosheh at his house of instruction, (beth Midrash,) where sat Mosheh and his sons, where he gave direction to them concerning the order of the priesthood; and there, and Aharon, (also) sat the elders of Yisrael. And they brought to him the tabernacle and all its vessels: its taches, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; and the covering of reddened rams' skins, and the covering of purple skins, and the veil that was to be spread; and the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy-seat, and the kerubaia produced of beaten work of the same, the one here, and the other there; and the table, and all its vessels, and the bread of faces; and the candelabrum, and its lamps, the lamps of order, which were ordained to correspond to the seven stars, that rule in their prescribed places in the firmament by day and by night; and the oil for the lights, and the golden altar, and the consecration oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle; and the brasen altar, and its brasen grate, and its staves, and all its utensils; and the laver, and its base; the curtain‑work of the court, and its pillars, and the bases and the veil of the gate of the court, its cords, and pins, and all the vessels for the service of the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of ordinance; and the vestments of ministration for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons, to minister. According to all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh, so had the sons of Yisrael made all the service, and, behold, they had made it as the Lord had commanded, so had they made it. And Mosheh blessed them, and said, May the Shekinah of the Lord dwell within the work of your hands!
XL. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, On the day of the first month, that is the month of Nisan, on the first of the month, thou shalt rear up the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance. And thou shalt set there the ark of the testimony, and overlay the ark with the mercy seat. And thou shalt bring in the table on the north side, because, from thence are given riches; for from thence distil the drops of the latter rain upon the herbs, for the food of the inhabiters of the world; and thou shalt arrange its orders, two rows of bread, comprising six cakes in a row, answering to the tribes of Jakob. And thou shalt bring in the candelabrum, on the south side, because there are the paths of the sun and of the moon, and the pathways of the luminaries; and thence are the treasures of the wisdom which resembleth the light. And thou shalt kindle the seven lamps, corresponding to the seven stars which resemble the just, who shine unto eternity in their righteousness. And thou shalt place the golden altar for sweet incense before the ark of the testimony; because the wise who are diligent in the Torah have a perfume fragrant as the sweet incense. And thou shalt set the veil at the gate of the tabernacle; because the righteous so covereth with their righteousness the people of the house of Yisrael. And thou shalt place the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; because the rich, who spread the table before their doors and feed the poor, shall have their sins forgiven what time they make the offering upon the altar. And thou shalt place the laver between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein for the sins of such as convert by repentance, and pour off their perversity like water. And thou shalt place the court round about, because of the merit of the fathers of the world, which encompasseth the people of the house of Yisrael round about. And thou shalt set the hanging of the gate of the court on account of the merit of the mothers of the world, which spreadeth at the gate of Gehennam, that none may enter there of the souls of the children of the people of Yisrael. And thou shalt take the consecration‑oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt sanctify it, on account of the crown of the kingdom of the house of Jehudah, and of the King Meshiha, who is to redeem Yisrael at the end of the days. And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and consecrate the altar, that it may be an altar most holy, on account of the crown of the priesthood of Aharon, and his sons, and of Elijah, the great Priest who is to be sent at the end of the captivity. And thou shalt anoint the laver, and its base, and consecrate it, on account of Jehoshua thy minister, chief of the sanhedrin of his people; by whose hand the land of Yisrael is to be partitioned: and of Meshiha bar Ephraim, who shall spring from him, by whose hand the house of Yisrael is to vanquish Gog and his confederates at the end of the days.
And thou shalt bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and wash them with water, and clothe Aharon with the holy vestments, and anoint him, and consecrate him; that he may minister before Me. And his sons thou shalt bring near, and dress them with tunics, and anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister before Me; and their consecration shall be for a perpetual priesthood in their generations.
And Mosheh did all that the Lord commanded, so did he. And it was in the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the second year, in the first of the month, that he reared up the tabernacle. And Mosheh reared the tabernacle, and placed its bases, and set its boards, and placed its bars, and reared its pillars. And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and placed the covering of the tabernacle upon it above, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he took the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which were given to him in Horeb, and set them up for a sign in the House of Instruction: they are the tables of the testimony. And the broken tables (he deposited) in the ark. And he set the staves in the ark, and placed the mercy seat, with the kerubaia that were produced for it of beaten work, upon the ark above. And be brought the ark into the tabernacle and set the veil of the covering and shadowed there with the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And he placed the table in the tabernacle of ordinance, at the side of the tabernacle northward without the veil, and set in order upon it the rows of bread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. [JERUSALEM. And he set in order upon it the order of the bread of faces before the Lord.] And he placed the candelabrum in the tabernacle of ordinance, over against the table upon the side of the tabernacle southward, and kindled the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the golden altar in the tabernacle of ordinance before the veil, and burned sweet incense upon it, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the hanging at the gate of the tabernacle. And the altar of burnt offering he placed at the gate of the tabernacle, and offered thereon the burnt offering and the oblation, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the layer upon its foundation between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put living water therein for purification, that it may not fail, nor become corrupt all the days. And Mosheh, and Aharon, and his sons, took from it for their ablutions, and sanctified therewith their hands and their feet; at the time they entered into the tabernacle of ordinance, or approached unto the altar, they purified themselves, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and placed the hanging which was for the gate of the tabernacle. And Mosheh completed the work.
Then the Cloud of Glory overspread the tabernacle of ordinance, and the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Mosheh was not able to enter the tabernacle of ordinance, because the Cloud of Glory rested upon it, and the glory of the Lord's Shekinah filled the tabernacle.
At the time when the Cloud of Glory ascended from the tabernacle, the sons of Yisrael went forward in all their journeys; but if the Cloud of Glory went not up, they did not go forward until the day when it ascended. For the Cloud of the Glory of the Lord overspread the tabernacle by day, and (as) a column of fire it gave light in the night, that all the sons of Yisrael might see in all their journeys. [JERUSALEM. Because the Cloud of the Glory of the Lord's Shekinah overspread the tabernacle by day, and a fire shined upon it all the nights; all the sons of Yisrael seeing in all their journeys.]
[1] Or, "girdle of ordination."
END OF THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM
ON THE SEPHER SHEMOTH.
[1] Or, "girdle of ordination."
SECTION XXIII.
PEKUDEY.
THESE are the admeasurements[1] of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were numbered upon the word of Mosheh: the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar bar Aharon the priest. And Bezalel bar Uri bar Hur of the tribe of Jehudah made all that the Lord commanded Mosheh. And with him Ahaliab bar Achisamak, of the tribe of Dan, a woodworker, and artificer, and embroiderer in hyacinth, and in purple, and in crimson, and in fine linen. And all the gold which was used in making all the work of the sanctuary, and which had been a separation[2] (thereunto), was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, of the shekels of the sanctuary. And the silver of the numbered ones of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, in the shekels of the sanctuary. The weight was (appointed) by capitation; a half shekel, in the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one who passed to the adnumberments from twenty years (old) and upward, for six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil (or tent), a hundred bases with a hundred talents, a talent for a base. And with the thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five (shekels) he made the hooks for the pillars, and covered their capitals, and made their uniting rods. And the brass of the oblation was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. And with it he made the bases of the door of the Tabernacle of Ordinance, and the altar of brass, and the brasen grate which pertained to it, and all the vessels of the altar; and the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the door of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
XXXIX. And of the hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, they made the vestments of ministration to minister in the sanctuary, and they made the holy vestments of Aharon, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he made the ephoda of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined. And they beat out[3] the plates of gold, and cut (them) into threads, to insert into the hyacinth, and the purple, and the crimson, and the fine linen, the work of the artificer. Shoulder‑pieces made they for it, conjoined; at the two sides were they conjoined. And the band of its fastening which is upon it was of the same according to its work, of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
And they wrought the onyx stones, inset in sockets of gold, engraven in distinct writing, with the names of the sons of Yisrael. And he set them upon the shoulders of the ephoda, stones of memorial of the sons of Yisrael, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And he made the BREASTPLATE (chushena), the work of the artificer, according to the work of the ephoda, of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined. Four‑square was it, doubled made they the breastplate; a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled. And they filled it[4] with four rows of precious stones: the first row carnelian, topaz, and carbuncle, row one; the second row, smaragud, sapphire, and emerald; and the third row, jacinth, agate, and amethyst; and the fourth row, chrysolite, beryl, and jasper: they were set in sockets of gold, in their infillings. And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Yisrael, twelve, according to their names, written distinctly, as the engraving of a ring, each according to his name for the twelve tribes. And they made upon the breastplate chains enwreathed,[5] a work of braiding, of pure gold. And they made two sockets of gold, and two golden rings, and put the two rings upon the two sides of the breastplate. And they put the two golden wreaths upon the two rings upon the sides of the breastplate, and the two wreaths which were upon the two sides they put upon the two sockets, and set them upon the shoulders of the ephoda towards its face. And they made two rings of gold, and set them on the two sides of the breastplate, upon its edge which was on the side of the ephoda inward. And they made two golden rings, and set them on the two shoulders of the ephoda underneath towards its front, toward the place of its conjoinment, above the band of the ephoda. And they adunited the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephoda, by a ribbon of hyacinth, to be upon the band of the ephoda, that the breastplate might not be loosened from the ephoda, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.[6]
And he made the ROBE of the ephoda, the work of the embroiderer, altogether of hyacinth. And the opening (mouth) of the robe in the middle of it like the opening of a corslet, with a binding going about its border, that it might not be torn. And they made upon the hem of the robe pomegranates of hyacinth and purple and crimson inwoven. And they made bells of pure gold, and set the bells among the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe round about among the pomegranates. A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about, to minister, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of the weaver, for Aharon and for his sons. And the .tiara of fine linen, and the mitres of beauty of fine linen; and the drawers of linen, of fine linen twined. And the girdle of fine linen twined, and hyacinth and purple and crimson, the work of the embroiderer, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And they made the plate of the diadem of holiness of pure gold, and wrote upon it as the engraving of a ring in distinct writing, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. And they put upon it a ribbon of hyacinth, that it might be upon the tiara above, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
Arid completed was all the work of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance; and the sons of Yisrael did according to all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh, so did they. And they brought the tabernacle to Mosheh, the tabernacle and all its vessels, its taches, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases. And the covering of rams' skins reddened, and the covering of purple skins, and the veil for the hanging; and the ark of the testimony and its staves, and the mercy seat; the table and all its vessels, and the bread of the Presence; the pure candelabrum and its lamps, the lamps of order, and all its vessels; and the oil for the light and the golden altar, and the oil of consecration, and the sweet incense; and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle; and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it; its staves and all its vessels; and the laver and its base, the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tabernacle of ordinance; the vestments of ministration to minister in the sanctuary, and the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons to minister: according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheh, so made the sons of Yisrael all the service. And Mosheh surveyed all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, so had they done; and Mosheh blessed them.
XL. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, In the day of the first month, in the first of the month, thou shalt uprear the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance. And thou shalt set there the ark of the testimony, and outspread the veil before the ark; and thou shalt bring in the table, and arrange the order thereof. And thou shalt bring in the candelabrum, and kindle its lamps. And thou shalt put the golden altar of sweet incense before the ark of the testimony, and set the veil of the door of the tabernacle. And thou shalt put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of ordinance. And thou shalt place the laver between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein. And thou shalt set the court round about, and put the hanging at the gate of the court. And thou shalt take the oil of consecration, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is therein, and sanctify it, and all its vessels, and it shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar; and it shall be an altar most holy. And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. And thou shalt bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and lave them with water, and shalt clothe Aharon with the holy vestments, and anoint him, and consecrate him, that he may minister before Me. And thou shalt bring his sons and clothe them with the tunics, and consecrate them, as thou didst consecrate their father, that they may minister before Me, and that it may be to them the consecration[7] of a perpetual priesthood in their generations.
And Mosheh did according to all which the Lord commanded, so did he. And it was in the first month, in the second year, on the first of the month, that the tabernacle was reared. And Mosheh reared the tabernacle, and placed its bases, and set its boards, and fixed its bars, and reared its pillars; arid he spread the tent upon the tabernacle, and set the covering of the tabernacle over it, above, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he took and placed the testimony in the ark, and set the staves upon the ark, and placed the mercy seat upon the ark above. And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and placed the veil which was spread to overshadow the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he placed the table in the tabernacle of ordinance upon the side of the tabernacle northward without the veil. And he set in order upon it the rows of bread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the candelabrum in the tabernacle of ordinance over against the table on the side of the tabernacle southward. And he kindled the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the golden altar in the tabernacle of ordinance before the veil, and burned thereon sweet incense, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set the hanging of the door of the tabernacle, and the altar of burnt offering set he at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and offered upon it the burnt offering, and the oblation, (mincha,) as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he set the laver between the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar, and put water therein for purifying. And Mosheh and Aharon and his sons purified with it their hands and their feet. In their going into the tabernacle of ordinance and in their approachment to the altar, they purified (themselves), as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he set up the court, round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set the hanging of the gate of the court: and Mosheh completed the work.
And the Cloud covered the tabernacle of ordinance, and the Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Mosheh was not able to enter into the tabernacle of ordinance, because the Cloud abode upon it, and the Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And when the Cloud ascended above the tabernacle, the sons of Yisrael went forward in all their journeys. And if the Cloud did not ascend, they did not proceed, until the day of its uprising. For the Cloud of the Glory of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and the vision of fire was in it by night, in the eyes of all the house of Yisrael in all their journeys.
END OF THE TARGUM OF ONTKELOS ON SHEMOTH.
[1] Or, Ònumerations.Ó
[2] Some copies, Ògold of the offering.Ó
[3] Sam. Vers., Òbroadened.Ó
[4] Sam. Vers., Òfitted.Ó
[5] Sam. Vers., Òwreathed chains.Ó
[6] The Samaritan Text adds here: ÒAnd they made the Urim and the ThummimÓ (Version, Òelucidations and perfectionsÓ) Òas the Lord commanded Mosheh.Ó
[7] Sam. Vers., Òexcellence.Ó
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<p>
<a name="C571V1" id="C571V1">1:1</a> Paul, a prisoner of Messiah Yeshua, and
Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, <a name="C571V2"
id="C571V2">1:2</a> to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier,
and to the assembly in your house: <a name="C571V3" id="C571V3">1:3</a> Grace
to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C571V4" id="C571V4">1:4</a> I thank my Elohim always, making mention of
you in my prayers, <a name="C571V5" id="C571V5">1:5</a> hearing of your love,
and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Yeshua, and toward all the
saints; <a name="C571V6" id="C571V6">1:6</a> that the fellowship of your faith
may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us
in Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C571V7" id="C571V7">1:7</a> For we have much joy and
comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed
through you, brother.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C571V8" id="C571V8">1:8</a> Therefore, though I have all boldness in
Messiah to command you that which is appropriate, <a name="C571V9" id="C571V9">1:9</a>
yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but
also a prisoner of Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C571V10" id="C571V10">1:10</a> I beg
you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, <a
href="#N571">Onesimus,</a> <a name="C571V11" id="C571V11">1:11</a> who once was
useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me. <a name="C571V12"
id="C571V12">1:12</a> I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is,
my own heart, <a name="C571V13" id="C571V13">1:13</a> whom I desired to keep
with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good
News. <a name="C571V14" id="C571V14">1:14</a> But I was willing to do nothing
without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but
of free will. <a name="C571V15" id="C571V15">1:15</a> For perhaps he was
therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
<a name="C571V16" id="C571V16">1:16</a> no longer as a slave, but more than a
slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you,
both in the flesh and in the Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C571V17" id="C571V17">1:17</a> If then you count me a partner,
receive him as you would receive me. <a name="C571V18" id="C571V18">1:18</a>
But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my
account. <a name="C571V19" id="C571V19">1:19</a> I, Paul, write this with my
own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even
your own self besides). <a name="C571V20" id="C571V20">1:20</a> Yes, brother,
let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord. <a
name="C571V21" id="C571V21">1:21</a> Having confidence in your obedience, I
write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C571V22" id="C571V22">1:22</a> Also, prepare a guest room for me, for
I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C571V23" id="C571V23">1:23</a> Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Messiah
Yeshua, greets you, <a name="C571V24" id="C571V24">1:24</a> as do Mark,
Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. <a name="C571V25" id="C571V25">1:25</a>
The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be with your spirit. Amen.
</p>
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<p>
Notes:
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<p>
<a name="N571" id="N571">[1]</a> <a href="#C571V10">back to 1:10</a> Onesimus
means "useful."
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<a href=#C501V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C502V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C503V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C504V1>Chapter 04</a>
<p>
<a name="C501V1" id="C501V1">1:1</a> Paul and Timothy, servants of Yeshua
Messiah;
</p>
<p>
To all the saints in Messiah Yeshua who are at Philippi, with the <a
href="#N501">overseers</a> and <a href="#N502">servants</a>: <a name="C501V2"
id="C501V2">1:2</a> Grace to you, and peace from Elohim, our Father, and the
Lord Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C501V3" id="C501V3">1:3</a> I thank my Elohim
whenever I remember you, <a name="C501V4" id="C501V4">1:4</a> always in every
request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy, <a
name="C501V5" id="C501V5">1:5</a> for your <a href="#N503">partnership</a> in
furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; <a name="C501V6"
id="C501V6">1:6</a> being confident of this very thing, that he who began a
good work in you will complete it until the day of Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C501V7" id="C501V7">1:7</a> It is even right for me to think this way on
behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my
bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are
partakers with me of grace. <a name="C501V8" id="C501V8">1:8</a> For Elohim is my
witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Messiah
Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C501V9" id="C501V9">1:9</a> This I pray, that your love may abound
yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; <a name="C501V10"
id="C501V10">1:10</a> so that you may approve the things that are excellent;
that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Messiah; <a
name="C501V11" id="C501V11">1:11</a> being filled with the fruits of
righteousness, which are through Yeshua Messiah, to the glory and praise of
Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C501V12" id="C501V12">1:12</a> Now I desire to have you know, <a
href="#N504">brothers,</a> that the things which happened to me have turned
out rather to the progress of the Good News; <a name="C501V13" id="C501V13">1:13</a>
so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the
rest, that my bonds are in Messiah; <a name="C501V14" id="C501V14">1:14</a> and
that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds,
are more abundantly bold to speak the word of Elohim without fear. <a
name="C501V15" id="C501V15">1:15</a> Some indeed preach Messiah even out of
envy and strife, and some also out of good will. <a name="C501V16" id="C501V16">1:16</a>
The former insincerely preach Messiah from selfish ambition, thinking that
they add affliction to my chains; <a name="C501V17" id="C501V17">1:17</a> but
the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the
Good News.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C501V18" id="C501V18">1:18</a> What does it matter? Only that in
every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Messiah is proclaimed. I
rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice. <a name="C501V19" id="C501V19">1:19</a>
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your
supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Yeshua Messiah, <a name="C501V20"
id="C501V20">1:20</a> according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I
will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also
Messiah will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. <a
name="C501V21" id="C501V21">1:21</a> For to me to live is Messiah, and to die
is gain. <a name="C501V22" id="C501V22">1:22</a> But if I live on in the
flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I
will choose. <a name="C501V23" id="C501V23">1:23</a> But I am in a dilemma
between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is
far better. <a name="C501V24" id="C501V24">1:24</a> Yet, to remain in the
flesh is more needful for your sake. <a name="C501V25" id="C501V25">1:25</a>
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with
you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, <a name="C501V26" id="C501V26">1:26</a>
that your rejoicing may abound in Messiah Yeshua in me through my presence
with you again.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C501V27" id="C501V27">1:27</a> Only let your manner of life be worthy
of the Good News of Messiah, that, whether I come and see you or am absent,
I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul
striving for the faith of the Good News; <a name="C501V28" id="C501V28">1:28</a>
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of
destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from Elohim. <a name="C501V29"
id="C501V29">1:29</a> Because it has been granted to you on behalf of
Messiah, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, <a
name="C501V30" id="C501V30">1:30</a> having the same conflict which you saw in
me, and now hear is in me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C502V1" id="C502V1">2:1</a> If there is therefore any exhortation in
Messiah, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if
any tender mercies and compassion, <a name="C502V2" id="C502V2">2:2</a> make
my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one
accord, of one mind; <a name="C502V3" id="C502V3">2:3</a> doing nothing
through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others
better than himself; <a name="C502V4" id="C502V4">2:4</a> each of you not just
looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C502V5" id="C502V5">2:5</a> Have this in your mind, which was also in
Messiah Yeshua, <a name="C502V6" id="C502V6">2:6</a> who, existing in the form
of Elohim, didn't consider equality with Elohim a thing to be grasped, <a
name="C502V7" id="C502V7">2:7</a> but emptied himself, taking the form of a
servant, being made in the likeness of men. <a name="C502V8" id="C502V8">2:8</a>
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to
death, yes, the death of the cross. <a name="C502V9" id="C502V9">2:9</a>
Therefore Elohim also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is
above every name; <a name="C502V10" id="C502V10">2:10</a> that at the name of
Yeshua every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those
under the earth, <a name="C502V11" id="C502V11">2:11</a> and that every tongue
should confess that Yeshua Messiah is Lord, to the glory of Elohim the Father.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C502V12" id="C502V12">2:12</a> So then, my beloved, even as you have
always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. <a name="C502V13"
id="C502V13">2:13</a> For it is Elohim who works in you both to will and to
work, for his good pleasure. <a name="C502V14" id="C502V14">2:14</a> Do all
things without murmurings and disputes, <a name="C502V15" id="C502V15">2:15</a>
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of Elohim without
blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you
are seen as lights in the world, <a name="C502V16" id="C502V16">2:16</a>
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day
of Messiah, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain. <a name="C502V17"
id="C502V17">2:17</a> Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and
service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. <a name="C502V18"
id="C502V18">2:18</a> In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with
me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C502V19" id="C502V19">2:19</a> But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send
Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are
doing. <a name="C502V20" id="C502V20">2:20</a> For I have no one else
like-minded, who will truly care about you. <a name="C502V21" id="C502V21">2:21</a>
For they all seek their own, not the things of Yeshua Messiah. <a
name="C502V22" id="C502V22">2:22</a> But you know the proof of him, that, as a
child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good
News. <a name="C502V23" id="C502V23">2:23</a> Therefore I hope to send him at
once, as soon as I see how it will go with me. <a name="C502V24" id="C502V24">2:24</a>
But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly. <a
name="C502V25" id="C502V25">2:25</a> But I counted it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle
and servant of my need; <a name="C502V26" id="C502V26">2:26</a> since he
longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he
was sick. <a name="C502V27" id="C502V27">2:27</a> For indeed he was sick,
nearly to death, but Elohim had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me
also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. <a name="C502V28" id="C502V28">2:28</a>
I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him
again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. <a
name="C502V29" id="C502V29">2:29</a> Receive him therefore in the Lord with
all joy, and hold such in honor, <a name="C502V30" id="C502V30">2:30</a>
because for the work of Messiah he came near to death, risking his life to
supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C503V1" id="C503V1">3:1</a> Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the
Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but
for you it is safe. <a name="C503V2" id="C503V2">3:2</a> Beware of the dogs,
beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision. <a
name="C503V3" id="C503V3">3:3</a> For we are the circumcision, who worship Elohim
in the Spirit, and rejoice in Messiah Yeshua, and have no confidence in the
flesh; <a name="C503V4" id="C503V4">3:4</a> though I myself might have
confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has
confidence in the flesh, I yet more: <a name="C503V5" id="C503V5">3:5</a>
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Yisrael, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the Torah, a Pharisee; <a
name="C503V6" id="C503V6">3:6</a> concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly;
concerning the righteousness which is in the Torah, found blameless.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C503V7" id="C503V7">3:7</a> However, what things were gain to me,
these have I counted loss for Messiah. <a name="C503V8" id="C503V8">3:8</a> Yes
most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of
the knowledge of Messiah Yeshua, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of
all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Messiah <a
name="C503V9" id="C503V9">3:9</a> and be found in him, not having a
righteousness of my own, that which is of the Torah, but that which is
through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim by faith; <a
name="C503V10" id="C503V10">3:10</a> that I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to
his death; <a name="C503V11" id="C503V11">3:11</a> if by any means I may
attain to the resurrection from the dead. <a name="C503V12" id="C503V12">3:12</a>
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press
on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken
hold of by Messiah Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C503V13" id="C503V13">3:13</a> Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet
having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are
behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, <a
name="C503V14" id="C503V14">3:14</a> I press on toward the goal for the prize
of the high calling of Elohim in Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C503V15" id="C503V15">3:15</a>
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything
you think otherwise, Elohim will also reveal that to you. <a name="C503V16"
id="C503V16">3:16</a> Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already
attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. <a
name="C503V17" id="C503V17">3:17</a> Brothers, be imitators together of me,
and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example. <a
name="C503V18" id="C503V18">3:18</a> For many walk, of whom I told you often,
and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah, <a
name="C503V19" id="C503V19">3:19</a> whose end is destruction, whose god is
the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly
things. <a name="C503V20" id="C503V20">3:20</a> For our citizenship is in
heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua Messiah; <a
name="C503V21" id="C503V21">3:21</a> who will change the body of our
humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the
working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C504V1" id="C504V1">4:1</a> Therefore, my brothers, beloved and
longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. <a
name="C504V2" id="C504V2">4:2</a> I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to
think the same way in the Lord. <a name="C504V3" id="C504V3">4:3</a> Yes, I
beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me
in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers,
whose names are in the book of life. <a name="C504V4" id="C504V4">4:4</a>
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! <a name="C504V5"
id="C504V5">4:5</a> Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at
hand. <a name="C504V6" id="C504V6">4:6</a> In nothing be anxious, but in
everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be
made known to Elohim. <a name="C504V7" id="C504V7">4:7</a> And the peace of Elohim,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your
thoughts in Messiah Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C504V8" id="C504V8">4:8</a> Finally, brothers, whatever things are
true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever
things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good
report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about
these things. <a name="C504V9" id="C504V9">4:9</a> The things which you
learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the Elohim of
peace will be with you. <a name="C504V10" id="C504V10">4:10</a> But I rejoice
in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for
me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity. <a
name="C504V11" id="C504V11">4:11</a> Not that I speak in respect to lack, for
I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. <a name="C504V12"
id="C504V12">4:12</a> I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to
abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to
be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. <a
name="C504V13" id="C504V13">4:13</a> I can do all things through Messiah, who
strengthens me. <a name="C504V14" id="C504V14">4:14</a> However you did well
that you shared in my affliction. <a name="C504V15" id="C504V15">4:15</a> You
yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good
News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the
matter of giving and receiving but you only. <a name="C504V16" id="C504V16">4:16</a>
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. <a
name="C504V17" id="C504V17">4:17</a> Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek
for the fruit that increases to your account. <a name="C504V18" id="C504V18">4:18</a>
But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from
Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an
acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to Elohim. <a name="C504V19" id="C504V19">4:19</a>
My Elohim will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in
Messiah Yeshua. <a name="C504V20" id="C504V20">4:20</a> Now to our Elohim and
Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C504V21" id="C504V21">4:21</a> Greet every saint in Messiah Yeshua. The
brothers who are with me greet you. <a name="C504V22" id="C504V22">4:22</a>
All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar's household.
<a name="C504V23" id="C504V23">4:23</a> The grace of the Lord Yeshua Messiah be
with you all. Amen.
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Notes:
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<p>
<a name="N501" id="N501">[1]</a> <a href="#C501V1">back to 1:1</a> or,
superintendents, or bishops
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<p>
<a name="N502" id="N502">[2]</a> <a href="#C501V1">back to 1:1</a> Or, deacons
</p>
<p>
<a name="N503" id="N503">[3]</a> <a href="#C501V5">back to 1:5</a> The word
translated "partnership" (koinonia) also means "fellowship"
and "sharing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N504" id="N504">[4]</a> <a href="#C501V12">back to 1:12</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
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Pgs. 435-449
Ch. 25-30
SECTION XLI.
PHINEHAS.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Phinehas the zealous, the son of Elazar bar Aharon, the priest, hath turned away mine anger from the children of Yisrael, in that, when zealous with My zeal, he hath slain the sinners who were among them; and for his sake I have not destroyed the children of Yisrael in My indignation. Swearing by My Name, I say to him, Behold, I decree to him My covenant of peace, and will make him an angel of the covenant, that he may ever live, to announce the Redemption at the end of the days. [JERUSALEM. With the oath went Mosheh, and said unto Phinehas, Behold, I give to him.] And because they defamed him, saying, Is he not the son of Phuti, the Midianite? behold, I will make him to possess the high priesthood; and because he took the lance with his arm, and struck the Midianitess in her body, and prayed with his mouth for the people of the house of Yisrael, the priests shall be held worthy of the three gifts of the shoulder, the cheek‑bone, and the inwards; and it shall be to him, and to his sons after him, an everlasting covenant of consecration, because he was zealous for the Lord, and propitiated for the children of Yisrael. Now the name of the man of Yisrael who was slain with the Midianitha was Zimri bar Salu, a chief of the house of his fathers of the tribe of Shemeon. And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kosbi, daughter of Zur, who was called Shelonae, a daughter of Balak, the prince of the people of Moab, whose dwelling‑place was in Midian.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Trouble the Midianites and slay them, because they troubled you by their deceitful counsels when they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and of Kosbi their sister, daughter of the prince of Midian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor. [JERUSALEM. For their false dealings.]
XXVI. And it came to pass after the plague, that the compassions of the heavens were turned to avenge His people with judgment. And the Lord spake to Mosheh and Elazar bar Aharon the priest, saying: Take the sum of the account of the whole congregation of the Beni Yisrael, from twenty years old and upward, according to the house of their fathers, of every one who goeth forth with the host in Yisrael. And Mosheh and Elazar the priest spake with the leaders, and commanded that they should number them in the plain of Moab, by the Jordan (over against) Jericho, saying (You are to number them) from a son of twenty years and upward, as the Lord commanded Mosheh and the sons of Yisrael when they came out of the land of Mizraim.
Reuben, the first‑born of Yisrael: the sons of Reuben, Hanok, the family of Hanok; of Phallu, the family of Phallu; of Hezron, the family of Hezron; of Karmi, the family of Karmi. These are the families of Reuben, and their numbers were forty‑three thousand seven hundred and thirty. And the sons of Phallu Eliab; the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. The same were Dathan and Abiram who brought together the congregation that gathered and made the division against Mosheh and Aharon in the congregation of Korach, when they gathered together and made division against the Lord, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korach, when the congrergation of the wicked died, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty men, and they were made an example. But the sons of Korach were not in the counsel of their father, but followed the doctrine of Mosheh the prophet; and therefore they died not by the plague, nor were smitten by the fire, nor engulphed in the yawning of the earth. [JERUSALEM. But the sons of Korach, who were not in the counsel of their father did not die.]
The Beni Shemeon,[1] Nemuel, Jamin, Jakin, Zerach, Shaul, with their families, twenty‑two thousand two hundred.
Of Gad, the families of Zephon, Haggi, Suni, Ozni, Heri, Arod, Areli, forty thousand five hundred.
Of Jehudah, Her and Onan. But Her and Onan died, on account of their sins, in the land of Kenaan. Of the Beni Jehudah, the families of Shela, Pherez, Zerach. The sons of Pherez, Hezron, Amul. The numbers of the families of Jehudah, seventy‑six thousand five hundred.
Of Issakar, the families of Thola, Puah, Jashub, Shimron, sixty‑four thousand three hundred. Of Zebulon, the families of Sered, Elon, Jahleel, sixty thousand five hundred. Of Joseph, the Beni Menasheh, Makir, Gilead, Thezar, Helek, Asriel, Shekem, Shemida, Hepher. But Zelophehad bar Hepher had no sons, but daughters only; and the names of the daughters of Zelophebad were, Mahelah, Nohah, Hogelah, Milchah, and Thirzah. These are the families of Menasheh, and their number fifty‑two thousand seven hundred.
The Beni Ephraim, Shuthelah, Bekir, Tachan, Heran the son of Shuthelah, their numbers thirty‑two thousand five hundred.
The families of Benjamin, Bela, Ashbel, Abiram, Shephuphia, (the sons of Bela, Ared and Naaman,) forty‑five thousand six hundred.
The Beni Dan, the families of Shuham, sixty‑four thousand four hundred.
Those of Asher, Jimnah, Jishvah, Beriah, and of the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malkiel. The name of the daughter of Asher was Sarach, who was conducted by six myriads of angels, and taken into the Garden of Eden alive, because she bad made known to Jacob that Joseph was living. The numbers of Asher, fiftythree thousand four hundred. The Beni Naphtali, according to their families, Jaczeel, Guni, Jezer, Shillem, forty‑five thousand four hundred. These are the numbers of the sons of Yisrael, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Unto these tribes shall the land be divided by inheritances according to their names. To that tribe whose people are many thou shalt make their inheritance large, and to the tribe whose people are few thou shalt give a smaller inheritance; to each his heritage shall be given according to the number of his names. Yet the land shall be divided by lots; according to the names of their fathers tribes they shall inherit. Their heritage shall be divided by lots, whether great or small.
But these are the names of the Levites after their families, the families of Gershon, Kehath, Merari. These are the families of the Levites: the family of Lebni, Hebron, Maheli, Mushi, Korach. And Kehath begat Amram; and the Dame of Amram's wife was Jokebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi when they had come into Mizraim, within the walls; and she bare to Amram Aharon, and Mushe, and Miriam their sister. And to Aharon were born Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered the strange fire from the hearth‑pots before the Lord. And the number of them (the Levites) was twenty‑three thousand, every male from a month old, and upward; for they were not reckoned among the children of Yisrael, as no possession was given them among the sons of Yisrael. These are the numbers when Mosheh and Elazar the priest numbered the sons of Yisrael in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, (over against) Jericho. And among them was not a man of the numbers when Mosheh and Aharon the priest took the sum of the children of Yisrael in the wilderness of Sinai, because the Lord had said that dying they should die in the wilderness; and none of them remained except Kaleb bar Jephunneh, and Jehoshua bar Nun.
XXVII. And the daughters of Zelophehad bar Hepher, bar Gilead, bar Makir, bar Menasheh, of the family of Menasheh bar Joseph, when they heard that the land was to be divided to the males, came to the beth din, trusting in the compassions of the Lord of the world. And these are the names of the daughters, Mahelah, Nohah, Hogela, Milchah, and Thirzah. And they stood before Mosheh, after that they had stood before Elazar the priest, the princes, and all the congregation, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, saying: Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the congregation who murmured and gathered to rebel against the Lord in the congregation of Korach, but died for his own sin; nor made he others to sin; but he had no male children. Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family because he had not a male child? if we are not reckoned as a son, and our mother claim (or observe) the Jebam,[2] our mother will take the portion of our father and of our father's brother. But if we be reckoned as a son, give us an inheritance among our father's brethren.
This is one of the four cases of judgment brought before Mosheh the prophet, and which he resolved in the manner above said. Of them some were judgments, &c.[3] And Mosheh brought their cause before the Lord.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: The daughters of Zelophehad have fitly spoken: this hath been written before Me: but they are worthy that it be said of them, Give them possession and inheritance among the brethren of their father, and make over their father's possession unto them. And when a son of Yisrael shall speak, and say, A man hath died without having a male child, then you shall make over his inheritance to his daughter: if he have no daughter, you shall give his possession to his brothers: if he have no brothers, you shall give his possession to the brethren of his fattier: but if his father had no brothers, then you shall give his possession to his kinsman who is nearest to him of his father's family to inherit. And this shall be the publication of a decree of judgment to the children of Yisrael, as the Lord hath commanded Mosheh.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go up to this mount, of Abaraee, and survey the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael. And thou shalt see it, but thou thyself self shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aharon thy brother hath been gathered: because you were disobedient against My Word in the desert of Zin, in the congregation at the Waters of Strife, to sanctify Me at the waters in their sight: these are the Waters of Strife in the desert of Zin.
And Mosheh spake before the Lord, saying May the Word of the Lord, who ruleth over the souls of men, and by whom hath been given the inspiration of the spirit of all flesh, appoint a faithful man over the congregation, [JERUSALEM. The Word of the Lord the Elohim who ruleth over the spirit of all flesh, appoint a praiseworthy man over the people of the conaregation,] who may go out before them to set battle in array, and may come in before them from the he battle who may bring them out from the bands of their enemies, and bring them into the land of Yisrael; that the congregation of the Lord may not be without the wise, nor go astray among the nations as sheep who go astray, having no shepherd. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take to thee Jehoshua bar Nun, a man upon whom abideth the Spirit of prophecy from before the Lord, and lay thy hand upon him, and make him stand before Elazar the priest and the whole congregation, and instruct him in their presence. And thou shalt confer a ray of thy brightness upon him, that all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael may be obedient to him. And he shall minister before Elazar the priest; and when any matter is hidden from him, he shall inquire for him before the Lord by Uraia. According to the word of Elazar the priest they shall go forth to battle, and come in to do judgment be and all the sons of Yisrael with him, even all the congregation. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him, and took Jehoshua and caused him to stand before Elazar the priest and all the congregation; and he laid his hands upon him and instructed him, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
XXVIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct the children of Yisrael, and say to them: The priests may eat of My oblation the bread of the order of My table; but that which you offer upon My altar may no man eat. Is there not a fire that will consume it? And it shall be accepted before Me as a pleasant smell. Sons of Yisrael, My people, be admonished to offer it from the firstlings on the Shabbat, an oblation before Me in its time. [JERUSALEM. Instruct the children of Yisrael, and say to them, My oblation, the bread of the order of My table. That which you offer upon the altar. Is there not a fire that will consume it? To be received from you before Me for a pleasant smell. Sons of Yisrael, My people, be admonished to offer it before Me in its season.]
And say to them: This is the order of the oblations you shall offer before the Lord; two lambs of the year, unblemished, daily, a perpetual burnt offering. The one lamb thou shalt perform in the morning to make atonement for the sins of the night; and the second lamb thou shalt perform between the suns to atone for the sins of the day; and the tenth of three seahs of wheaten flour as a mincha mingled with beaten olive oil, the fourth of a hin. It is a perpetual burnt offering, such as was (ordained to be) offered at Mount Sinai, to be received with favour as an oblation before the Lord. And its libation shall be the fourth of a hin for one lamb; from the vessels of the house of the sanctuary shall it be outpoured, a libation of old wine. [JERUSALEM. From the vessels of the house of holiness, it shall be poured out a libation of choice wine unto the Name of the Lord.] But if old wine may not be found, bring wine of forty days to pour out before the Lord. And the second lamb thou shalt perform between the suns, according to the presentation of the morning, and according to its oblation shalt thou make the offering, that it may be accepted with favour before the Lord but on the day of Shabbatha two lambs of the year without blemish, and two‑tenths of flour mixed with olive oil for the mincha and its libation. On the Shabbat thou shalt make a Shabbat burnt sacrifice in addition to the perpetual burnt sacrifice and its libation.
And at the beginning of your months you shall offer a burnt sacrifice before the Lord; two young bullocks, without mixture, one ram, lambs of the year seven, unblemished; and three tenths of flour mingled with oil for the mincha for one bullock; two tenths of flour with olive oil for the mincha of the one ram; and one tenth of flour with olive oil for the mincha for each lamb of the burnt offering, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. And for their libation to be offered with them, the half of a bin for a bullock, the third of a bin for the ram, and the fourth of a hin for a lamb, of the wine of grapes. This burnt sacrifice shall be offered at the beginning of every month in the time of the removal of the beginning of every month in the year; and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering before the Lord at the disappearing (failure) of the moon, with the perpetual burnt sacrifice shalt thou perform with its libation.
And in the month of Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the sacrifice of the Pascha before the Lord. On the fifteenth day of this month is a festival; seven days shall unleavened be eaten. On the first day of the festival a holy convocation; no servile work shall ye do; but offer an oblation of a burnt sacrifice before the Lord, two young bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of the year, unblemished, shall you have. And their minchas of wheat flour, mingled with olive oil, three tenths for each bullock, two tenths for the ram, and for a single lamb a tenth, so for the seven; and one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you: beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning, the perpetual burnt sacrifice, you shall make these offerings. According to these oblations of the first day you shall do daily through the seven days of the festival. It is the bread of the oblation which is received with favour before the Lord; it shall be made beside the perpetual burnt offering, with its libation. And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; no servile work shall you do.
Likewise on the day of your firstlings, when you offer the gift from the new produce before the Lord in your ingatherings, after the seven weeks are completed, you shall have a holy convocation, no servile work shall you do; but offer a burnt sacrifice to be received with favour before the Lord, two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the year; also their mincha of wheaten flour mingled with olive oil, three tenths for each bullock, two tenths for the ram, a tenth to a lamb; so for the seven lambs one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you; beside the perpetual burnt offering you shall make these; they shall be unblemished, with their libation of wine.
XXIX. And in the seventh month, the month of Tishri, on the first of the month you shall have a holy convocation, you may not do any servile work; it shall be to you a day for the sounding of the trumpet, that by the voice of your trumpets you may disturb Satana who cometh to accuse you. And you shall make a burnt sacrifice to be received with favour before the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, lambs of the year seven, unblemished; and their mincha of wheaten flour mingled with olive oil, three tenths for the bullock, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each of the seven lambs; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you; besides the sacrifice for the beginning of the month and its mincha, and the perpetual sacrifice and its mincha; and their libations according to the order of their appointments, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord.
And on the tenth of the seventh month, the month of Tishri, you shall have a holy convocation, and chasten your souls (by abstaining) from food and drink, the bath, friction, sandals, and the marriage bed; and you shall do no servile labour, but offer a sacrifice before the Lord to be received with favour; one young bullock, one ram, lambs of the year seven, unblemished, shall you have; and their mincha of wheat flour mingled with olive oil, three tenths for the bullock, two tenths for one ram, a singIe tenth for a lamb, so for the seven lambs one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of the expiations, (Lev. xvi.,) and the perpetual sacrifice and their minchas, and the wine of their libations.
And on the fifth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, no servile work shall you do; but shall celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles before the Lord seven days, and offer a sacrifice, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord: thirteen young bullocks proceeding daily and diminishing their number, (in all) seventy for the seventy nations, and offering them by thirteen orders;[4] two rams, which you shall offer by two orders; lambs of the year fourteen, unblemished, to be offered by eight orders, offering six of them, by two and two, and two of them one by one, they shall be perfect. Their mincha also of wheat flour, with olive oil, three tenths for each bullock of the thirteen, two tenths for each ram, a single tenth for each of the fourteen lambs, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, which shall be offered by one order, beside the perpetual sacrifice, the wheat flour for the mincha, and the wine of the libation.
On the second day of the Feast of Tabernacles you shall offer twelve young bullocks, by twelve orders; two rams, by two orders; fourteen lambs of the year unblemished by nine orders, five of them shall offer two by two, and four of them one by one. And their mincha of wheat flour, and the wine of their libation which shall be offered with the bullocks, rams, and lambs, by their number according to the order of their appointment; and one ram by one order, a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, and the wheat flour of their minchas, and their libations of wine.
On the third day of the Feast of Tabernacles you shall offer twelve bullocks by twelve orders; two rams by two orders, fourteen unblemished lambs of the year, by ten orders; four of them shall offer two and two, and six of them one by one; and their mincha of wheat flour, and their libations of wine, you shall offer with the bullocks, rams, and lambs, by the number in their appointed order; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering by one order; beside the perpetual sacrifice the wheat flour for the mincha, and its libation of wine.
On the fourth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, ten young bullocks by ten orders; two rams by two orders; fourteen unblemished lambs of the year by twelve orders; three of them shall be offered at two times, and eight of them singly; their mincha of wheaten flour, and their libations of wine, which you shall offer with the the bullocks, rams, and lambs by their number, after their appointed order, and one kid for a sin offering, by one order; beside the perpetual sacrifice, the wheat flour for the mincha, and its libation of wine.
On the fifth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, nine young bullocks by nine orders; two rams by two orders lambs of the year fourteen, perfect by twelve orders two of them in a pair, twelve singly; and the wheat flour for their mincha, and the libation wine for the bullocks, the rams, and lambs by their number after the order of their appointment; and one kid for a sin offering by one order; beside the perpetual sacrifice and the wheat flour for the mincha, and the wine of its libation.
On the sixth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, eight young bullocks by eight orders; two rams by two orders; fourteen unblemished lambs of the year by thirteen orders; a pair of them together, and twelve of them singly. Their mincha of wheat flour, and their libation of wine you shall offer with the bullocks, rams, and lambs, by their number in the order appointed; Land one kid for a sin offering by one order, besides the perpetual sacrifice, the wheat flour for the mincha, the wine of its libation, and a vase of water to be outpoured on the day of the Feast of Tabernacles in grateful acknowledgment (for a good memorial) of the showers of rain.
On the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles you shall offer seven bullocks by seven orders; two rams by two orders; fourteen unblemished lambs of the year by fourteen orders: the number of all these lambs ninety‑eight, to make atonement against the ninety‑eight male dictions. And their mincha of wheat flour and libations of wine you shall offer with the bullocks, rains, and lambs, by their number, according to the order appointed one kid by one order, beside the perpetual sacrifice, the wheat flour for the mincha, and its libation of wine.
And on the eighth day you shall gather together joyfully from your tabernacles, in your houses, a gladsome company, a festal day, and a holy convocation shall you have, no servile work shall you do but offer a sacrifice an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord; light oblations; one bullock before the one Elohim, one ram for the one people, lambs of the year unblemished, seven, for the joy of the seven days. Their mincha of wheat flour, and their libations of wine which you shall offer with the bullocks, rams, and Iambs, by their number, After the order of their appointment; land one kid for a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, the flour for its mincha, and the wine for its libation. These you shall offer before the Lord in the time of your festivals, beside your vows which you vow at the festival, and which you shall bring on the day of the feast, with your free‑will oblation for your burnt sacrifice, your mincha, libations, and consecrated victims.
XXX. And Mosheh spake to the sons of Yisrael, according to all that the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
[1] I have omitted the form of the words recited under the name of the first tribe, and repeated it in the other eleven, and have given the names and numbers without it.
[1] Vide Glossary, p. 69.
[1] The same words as recited before p. 389
[1] Mattata: thirteen of the twenty-four orders or classes of priests. Vide Mishna, Succah, 5,6.
[1] I have omitted the form of the words recited under the name of the first tribe, and repeated it in the other eleven, and have given the names and numbers without it.
[2] Vide Glossary, p. 69.
[3] The same words as recited before p. 389
[4] Mattata: thirteen of the twenty-four orders or classes of priests. Vide Mishna, Succah, 5,6.
SECTION XLI.
PHINEHAS.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Phinehas the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon, the priest, hath turned away My anger from the children of Yisrael, in that he was zealous with My zeal among them; and I have not consumed the children of Yisrael in My jealousy. Say therefore to him (that), behold, I decree unto him My covenant of peace; and he shall have it and his sons after him; a covenant of priesthood for ever, because he hath been zealous before his Elohim, and hath propitiated for the children of Yisrael.
And the name of the man of Yisrael who was slain with the Midianitess was Zimri bar Salu, a chief of the house of his fathers of the house of Shemeon; and the name of the woman, the Midianitess, was Kosbe, the daughter of Zur, who was chief of the people of his father's house in Midian.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Punish the Midianites and slay them, for they afflict you with their snares, with which they ensnare you; as by the occasion of Pheor, and by that of Kosbe, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the pestilence in the matter of Pheor.
XXVI. And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake to Mosheh and to Elazar bar Aharon the priest, saying: Take the account of all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, from a son of twenty years and upwards by the house of their fathers, everyone that goeth out with the host in Yisrael. And Mosheh and Elazar the priest spake with them, and directed to number them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan (over against) Jericho, saying: From a son of twenty years and upward, as the Lord commanded Mosheh, and the sons of Yisrael who went forth from the land of Mizraim.
Reuben, the first-born of Yisrael: the sons of Reuben, Hanok, the family of Hanok; Phallu, and the family of Phallu; of Hezron, the family of Hezron; of Karmi, the family of Karmi. These are the families of Reuben, and they who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. And of the sons of Phallu, Eliab; and the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram: these are Dathan and Abiram who called the congregation that gathered against Mosheh and Aharon in the congregation of Korach, in their gathering against the Lord, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with Korach, and the congregation died, being devoured by the fire, two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign; but the sons of Korach died not.
The sons of Shimeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of Nemuel; of Jamin, the family of Jamin; of Zerach, the family of Zerach; of Shaul, the family of Shaul. These are the families of Shemeon, twenty-two thousand two hundred. The sons of Gad after their families; of Zephon, the family of Zephon; of Haggi, the family of Haggi; of Shumi, the family of Shumi; of Aggi, the family of Aggi; of Ozni, the family of Ozni; of Heri, the family of Heri; of Arod, the family of the Arodi of Areli, the family of Areli. These are the families of the Beni Gad, the number of whom was forty thousand five hundred.
Of the sons of Jehudah, Her and Onan: but Her and Onan died in the land of Kenaan; of the sons of Jehudah after their families: of Shelah, the family of Shelah; of Pherez, the family of Pherez; of Zerach, the family of Zerach. Of the sons of Pherez: of Hezron, the family of Hezron; of Hamul, the family of Hamul.
These are the families of Jehudah; the number of them seventy-six thousand five hundred.
The sons of Issakar by their families: Tola, the family of Tola; of Phua, the family of the Phuni;of Jasub, the family of Jasub; of Shimron, the family of Shimron. These are the families of Issakar; their number sixty- four thousand three hundred.
The sons of Zebulon by their families: of Sared, the family of Sared; of Elon, the family of Elon; of Jahleel, the family of Jahleel. These are the families of Zebulon, by their number sixty thousand five hundred.
The sons of Joseph by their families, Menasheh and Ephraim, the sons of Menasheh: of Makir, the family of Makir; and Makir begat Gilead; of Gilead, the family of Gilead. These are the children of Gilead: of Jezar, the family of Jezar; of Helek, the family of Helek; and of Asriel, the family of Asrieli; and of Shekem, the family of Shekem; and of Shemida, the family of Shemida; and of Hepher, the family of Hepher. And Zelophechad[1] bar Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophechad were Mahali, and Nohah, Hegelah, Milchah, and Thirzah. These are the families of Menasheh, and their number fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of Shuthelah; of Bekir, the family of Bekir; of Tachan, the family of Tachan. And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Heran, the family of Heran. These are the families of the Beni-Ephraim, the number of whom was thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.
The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of Bela; of Ashbal, the family of Ashbal; of Ahiram, the family of Ahiram; of Shefuphim, the family of Shefuphim; of Hupham, the family of Hupham. And the sons of Bela, Arede and Naaman; the family of the Aredi; and of Naaman, the family of Naaman. These are the sons of Benjamin after their families, and their number forty-five thousand six hundred.
These are the children of Dan, after their families: of Shuham, the families of Shuham. These are the families of Dan after their families, and the number of the families of Shuham sixty-four thousand four hundred.
The sons of Asher, after their families: of Jimna, the families of Jimna; of Jeshvi, the families of Jeshvi; of Beriah, the family of Beriah. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of Heber; of Malkiel, the family of Malkiel. But the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarach. These are the families of the Beni Asher, by their number fifty-three thousand four hundred.
The sons of Naphtali, after their families: of Jahziel, the families of Jahziel; of Gunni, the families of Gunni; of Jezer, the family of Jezer; of Shelem, the family of Shelem. These are the families of Naphtali by their families, and their number forty-five thousand four hundred.
These were the numbered of the sons of Yisrael, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Unto these thou shalt divide the land for a possession, according to the number of their names. To the many thou shalt make large their possession, and to the few thou shalt make their possession small; to each according to his number shalt thou give his inheritance. Nevertheless the land shall be divided by lot, according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. By the lot shall their inheritance be divided among the many and the few.
And these are the sons of Levi, after their families: of Gershon, the families of Gershon; of Kehath, the family of Kehath; of Merari, the families of Merari. These are the families of Levi: the family of Libni, the family of Hebron, the family of Machli, the family of Mushi, the family of Korach. And Kehath begat Amram. And the name of Amram's wife was Jokebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi, in Mizraim; and she bare unto Amram Aharon, and Mosheh, and Miriam their sister. And unto Aharon were born Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar.
But Nadab and Abihu died in their offering strange fire before the Lord. And the numbered of them were twenty-three thousand of all the males from a month old and upwards: for they were not numbered among the children of Yisrael, because no possession was given to them among the children of Yisrael.
These (are they whom) Mosheh and Elazar the priest numbered of the sons of Yisrael, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, (over against) Jericho. But among these there was not a man of them whom Mosheh and Aharon the priest numbered when they counted the children of Yisrael in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord had said to them that dying they should die in the wilderness; and not a man of them remained, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh and Jehoshua bar Nun.
XXVII. And the daughters of Zelophechad bar Hepher, bar Gilead, bar Makir, bar Menasheh, of the families of Menasheh, bar Joseph, -and these are the names of his daughters, Mahelah, Nohah, and Hegelah, and Milchah, and Thirzah, came and stood before Mosheh and Elazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, saying: Our father died in the wilderness; but he was not among the company which gathered against the Lord in the congregation of Korach, but died through his ( own) sin; and he had no sons. Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his kindred, because he had no son? Give us an inheritance among the brethren of our father.
And Mosheh brought their cause before the Lord. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: The daughters of Zelophechad have spoken properly. Give thou to them the possession of an inheritance among the brethren of their father, and transfer to them their father's inheritance. And speak with the children of Yisrael, saying: If a man die, having no son, you shall make over his inheritance to his daughter; and if he have no daughter, you shall give his inheritance to his brethren; but if he have no brothers, you shall give his inheritance to the brethren of his father;and if his father have no brothers, then shall you give his inheritance to his relative who is next (of kin) to him of his family, and he shall inherit it. And this shall be to the children of Yisrael for a decree of judgment, as the Lord hath commanded Mosheh.
And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Go up to this mountain of the Abaraee, and see the land which I have given to the children of Yisrael; and thou shalt see it, and be gathered to thy people, thou also, as Aharon thy brother was gathered.
As ye rebelled against My Word in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes; these are the waters of strife, at Rekem, in the desert of Zin.
And Mosheh spake before the Lord, saying; Let the Lord, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who may go out and go in before them, and may lead them out and bring them in; that this congregation may not be as a flock which hath no shepherd. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take to thee Jehoshua bar Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of prophecy, and lay thy hand upon him. And make him stand before Elazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and give him charge in their sight. And thou shalt confer some of thy honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Yisrael may obey him. And he shall stand before Elazar the priest, that he may ask (counsel) for him by the judgment of Uraia before the Lord: upon his word shall they go out, and upon his word shall they come in, he and all the sons of Yisrael with him, even all the congregation.
And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him, and took Jehoshua, and made him to stand before Elazar the priest, and all the congregation; and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him charge, as the Lord spake by Mosheh.
XXVIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct the children of Yisrael, and say to them: My oblation, the ordained bread for My oblations to be received with acceptance, shall you observe to offer in its time. And thou shalt say to them: This is the oblation which you shall offer before the Lord; two lambs of the year unblemished daily, for a perpetual burnt offering. The one lamb shalt thou perform in the morning, and the second lamb between the suns. And with one tenth of three seahs of flour for the mincha sprinkled with the fourth of a hin of beaten oil. It is a perpetual burnt offering, which was made in the mountain of Sinai, to be received with acceptance (as) an oblation before the Lord. And its libation shall be the fourth of a hin for each lamb; in the sanctuary shall the libation of old wine be poured out before the Lord. And the second lamb shalt thou perform between the suns, as the morning offering; and thou shalt make its libation (in like manner) an oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord.
But on the Shabbat day two lambs of the year unblemished, and two tenths of flour for the mincha sprinkled with oil, and its libation. It is the Shabbat burnt offering which shall be performed on the Shabbat, together with the perpetual burnt offering and its libation.
And in the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering before the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, lambs of the year, seven, unblemished. And three tenths of flour sprinkled with oil for each bullock, and two tenths of flour for a mincha sprinkled with oil for the one ram, and a tenth of flour for a mincha sprinkled with oil for each lamb: it is a burnt offering to be received with acceptance as an oblation before the Lord. And their libations a half hina of wine shall be for the bullock, and the third of a hina for the ram, and a quarter of a hina for a lamb: this is the burnt offering for the beginning of the month, at its renewal; so shall it be for all the beginnings of the months of the year. And one kid of the goats for a sin offering before the Lord, beside the perpetual burnt offering, shalt thou make with its libation.
And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Pascha before the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days you shall eat unleavened (bread). On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any servile work; but offer the oblation of a burnt offering before the Lord; two young bullocks and one ram, and seven lambs of the year without blemish shall you have; and their mincha of flour mingled with oil, three tenths for the bullock and two tenths for the ram you shall make; a tenth shall you make for one lamb, so for the seven lambs. And one goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you; besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning which is the perpetual burnt sacrifice, you shall make these. After the manner of these you shall do by the day for seven days; it is the bread of the oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord; (with) the perpetual burnt offering and its libation shall it be made. And on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation, (when) you may do no servile work.
But on the day of the First Fruits, when you bring the new thank offering before the Lord in your expletion,[2] there shall be a holy convocation; no servile work shall you do, but offer a burnt offering to be received with favour before the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the year; and their mincha of flour mingled with oil, three tenths for one bullock, two tenths for the ram, a tenth for each lamb of the seven lambs; one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you; beside the perpetual burnt sacrifice and its mincha you shall (make) them unblemished, and their libations.
XXIX. And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a holy convocation, and do no servile work; it shall be a day of the sounding of the trumpet to you. And you shall make a burnt sacrifice to be received with favour before the Lord: one young bullock, one ram, lambs of the year seven, unblemished, and their mincha of flour mingled with oil, three tenths for the bullock, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each of the seven lambs; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you; beside the offering of the month, and its mincha, and the perpetual sacrifice and its mincha, and their libations, as proper for them, to be received with favour, an oblation before the Lord.
And on the tenth of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict your souls;[3] you shall do no labour, but offer a burnt offering before the Lord to be received with favour: one young bullock, one ram, lambs of the year seven, unblemished shall you have; and their mincha of flour mingled with oil; three tenths for the bullock, two tenths for the ram, and a single tenth for each of the seven lambs; one kid of the goats for a sin offering, beside the sin offering of the expiations,[4] and the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and their libations.
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; no servile labour shall you do, but celebrate a festival before the Lord seven days; and offer a burnt sacrifice, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, lambs of the year fourteen, unblemished shall they be; and their mincha of flour mingled with oil, three tenths to one bullock for the thirteen bullocks, two tenths for each ram, and one tenth for each of the fourteen lambs, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen unblemished lambs of the year, and the minchas and libations for the bullocks, for the rams and the lambs, as is proper for their number; and one kid of the goats, a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen unblemished lambs of the year; and their minchas and libations for the bullocks, the rams, and the lambs, as befitteth their number; and one kid for a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
On the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, lambs of the year unblemished fourteen; their minchas and libations for the bullocks, rams, and lambs by their number, as it is proper; and one kid of the goats for a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, lambs of the year unblemished fourteen; the minchas and libations for the bullocks, rams, and lambs after their number, as it is proper; and one kid for a sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice and its libation.
And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, lambs of the year unblemished fourteen; the minchas and libations for the bullocks, rams, and lambs by their number, as is proper; and one kid for the sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the year unblemished; the minchas and libations for the bullocks, rams, and lambs by their number, as is proper; and one kid for the sin offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
On the eighth day you shall have all assembly; no servile work shall you do,
but offer a sacrifice, all oblation to be received with favour before the Lord; one bullock, one ram, seven Iambs of the year unblemished; the minchas and libations for the bullock, the ram, and the lambs, as proper, according to their number; and one kid for a sill offering, beside the perpetual sacrifice, its mincha and libation.
These shall you offer before the Lord in your solemnities, beside your vows and your free-will offerings with your burnt sacrifices, their minchas and their libations, and with your sanctified victims. XXX. And Mosheh spake to the sons of Yisrael according to all that the Lord commanded Mosheh.
[1] Or, Zelophchad.
[2] Beatsrathekun. Qu., “When your time of threshing and wine-making is out.” Heb. text, Beshabuothekem, rendered by Mendelssohn, “Wenn eure Wochen zu ende sind.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “You shall fast.”
[4] This being the day of atonement.
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| !Proverbs |>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Proverbs01]] | [[Chapter 2|Proverbs02]] | [[Chapter 3|Proverbs03]] | [[Chapter 4|Proverbs04]] | [[Chapter 5|Proverbs05]] |
| [[Chapter 6|Proverbs06]] | [[Chapter 7|Proverbs07]] | [[Chapter 8|Proverbs08]] | [[Chapter 9|Proverbs09]] | [[Chapter 10|Proverbs10]] |
| [[Chapter 11|Proverbs11]] | [[Chapter 12|Proverbs12]] | [[Chapter 13|Proverbs13]] | [[Chapter 14|Proverbs14]] | [[Chapter 15|Proverbs15]] |
| [[Chapter 16|Proverbs16]] | [[Chapter 17|Proverbs17]] | [[Chapter 18|Proverbs18]] | [[Chapter 19|Proverbs19]] | [[Chapter 20|Proverbs20]] |
| [[Chapter 21|Proverbs21]] | [[Chapter 22|Proverbs22]] | [[Chapter 23|Proverbs23]] | [[Chapter 24|Proverbs24]] | [[Chapter 25|Proverbs25]] |
| [[Chapter 26|Proverbs26]] | [[Chapter 27|Proverbs27]] | [[Chapter 28|Proverbs28]] | [[Chapter 29|Proverbs29]] | [[Chapter 30|Proverbs30]] |
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<p>
<a name="C201V1" id="C201V1">1:1</a> The proverbs of Solomon, the son of
David, king of Yisrael:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C201V2" id="C201V2">1:2</a> to know wisdom and instruction;
</dt>
<dd>
to discern the words of understanding;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V3" id="C201V3">1:3</a> to receive instruction in wise dealing,
</dt>
<dd>
in righteousness, justice, and equity;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V4" id="C201V4">1:4</a> to give prudence to the simple,
</dt>
<dd>
knowledge and discretion to the young man:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V5" id="C201V5">1:5</a> that the wise man may hear, and
increase in learning;
</dt>
<dd>
that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V6" id="C201V6">1:6</a> to understand a proverb, and parables,
</dt>
<dd>
the words and riddles of the wise.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C201V7" id="C201V7">1:7</a> The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of
knowledge;
</dt>
<dd>
but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V8" id="C201V8">1:8</a> My son, listen to your father's
instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V9" id="C201V9">1:9</a> for they will be a garland to grace
your head,
</dt>
<dd>
and chains around your neck.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V10" id="C201V10">1:10</a> My son, if sinners entice you, don't
consent.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C201V11" id="C201V11">1:11</a> If they say, "Come with us,
</dt>
<dd>
Let's lay in wait for blood;
</dd>
<dd>
let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V12" id="C201V12">1:12</a> let's swallow them up alive like
Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V13" id="C201V13">1:13</a> We'll find all valuable wealth.
</dt>
<dd>
We'll fill our houses with spoil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V14" id="C201V14">1:14</a> You shall cast your lot among us.
</dt>
<dd>
We'll all have one purse."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V15" id="C201V15">1:15</a> My son, don't walk in the way with
them.
</dt>
<dd>
Keep your foot from their path,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V16" id="C201V16">1:16</a> for their feet run to evil.
</dt>
<dd>
They hurry to shed blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V17" id="C201V17">1:17</a> For in vain is the net spread in the
sight of any bird:
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C201V18" id="C201V18">1:18</a> but these lay wait for their own
blood.
</dt>
<dd>
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V19" id="C201V19">1:19</a> So are the ways of everyone who is
greedy for gain.
</dt>
<dd>
It takes away the life of its owners.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C201V20" id="C201V20">1:20</a> Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
</dt>
<dd>
She utters her voice in the public squares.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V21" id="C201V21">1:21</a> She calls at the head of noisy
places.
</dt>
<dd>
At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V22" id="C201V22">1:22</a> "How long, you simple ones,
will you love simplicity?
</dt>
<dd>
How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery,
</dd>
<dd>
and fools hate knowledge?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V23" id="C201V23">1:23</a> Turn at my reproof.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you.
</dd>
<dd>
I will make known my words to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V24" id="C201V24">1:24</a> Because I have called, and you have
refused;
</dt>
<dd>
I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V25" id="C201V25">1:25</a> but you have ignored all my counsel,
</dt>
<dd>
and wanted none of my reproof;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V26" id="C201V26">1:26</a> I also will laugh at your disaster.
</dt>
<dd>
I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V27" id="C201V27">1:27</a> when calamity overtakes you like a
storm,
</dt>
<dd>
when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind;
</dd>
<dd>
when distress and anguish come on you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V28" id="C201V28">1:28</a> Then will they call on me, but I
will not answer.
</dt>
<dd>
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V29" id="C201V29">1:29</a> because they hated knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V30" id="C201V30">1:30</a> They wanted none of my counsel.
</dt>
<dd>
They despised all my reproof.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V31" id="C201V31">1:31</a> Therefore they will eat of the fruit
of their own way,
</dt>
<dd>
and be filled with their own schemes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V32" id="C201V32">1:32</a> For the backsliding of the simple
will kill them.
</dt>
<dd>
The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C201V33" id="C201V33">1:33</a> But whoever listens to me will dwell
securely,
</dt>
<dd>
and will be at ease, without fear of harm."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C202V1" id="C202V1">2:1</a> My son, if you will receive my words,
</dt>
<dd>
and store up my commandments within you;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V2" id="C202V2">2:2</a> So as to turn your ear to wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
and apply your heart to understanding;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V3" id="C202V3">2:3</a> Yes, if you call out for discernment,
</dt>
<dd>
and lift up your voice for understanding;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V4" id="C202V4">2:4</a> If you seek her as silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and search for her as for hidden treasures:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V5" id="C202V5">2:5</a> then you will understand the fear of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and find the knowledge of Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V6" id="C202V6">2:6</a> For Yahweh gives wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V7" id="C202V7">2:7</a> He lays up sound wisdom for the
upright.
</dt>
<dd>
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V8" id="C202V8">2:8</a> that he may guard the paths of justice,
</dt>
<dd>
and preserve the way of his saints.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V9" id="C202V9">2:9</a> Then you will understand righteousness
and justice,
</dt>
<dd>
equity and every good path.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V10" id="C202V10">2:10</a> For wisdom will enter into your
heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V11" id="C202V11">2:11</a> Discretion will watch over you.
</dt>
<dd>
Understanding will keep you,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V12" id="C202V12">2:12</a> to deliver you from the way of evil,
</dt>
<dd>
from the men who speak perverse things;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V13" id="C202V13">2:13</a> who forsake the paths of
uprightness,
</dt>
<dd>
to walk in the ways of darkness;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V14" id="C202V14">2:14</a> who rejoice to do evil,
</dt>
<dd>
and delight in the perverseness of evil;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V15" id="C202V15">2:15</a> who are crooked in their ways,
</dt>
<dd>
and wayward in their paths:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V16" id="C202V16">2:16</a> To deliver you from the strange
woman,
</dt>
<dd>
even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V17" id="C202V17">2:17</a> who forsakes the friend of her
youth,
</dt>
<dd>
and forgets the covenant of her Elohim:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V18" id="C202V18">2:18</a> for her house leads down to death,
</dt>
<dd>
her paths to the dead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V19" id="C202V19">2:19</a> None who go to her return again,
</dt>
<dd>
neither do they attain to the paths of life:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V20" id="C202V20">2:20</a> that you may walk in the way of good
men,
</dt>
<dd>
and keep the paths of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V21" id="C202V21">2:21</a> For the upright will dwell in the
land.
</dt>
<dd>
The perfect will remain in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C202V22" id="C202V22">2:22</a> But the wicked will be cut off from
the land.
</dt>
<dd>
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C203V1" id="C203V1">3:1</a> My son, don't forget my teaching;
</dt>
<dd>
but let your heart keep my commandments:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V2" id="C203V2">3:2</a> for length of days, and years of life,
</dt>
<dd>
and peace, will they add to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V3" id="C203V3">3:3</a> Don't let kindness and truth forsake
you.
</dt>
<dd>
Bind them around your neck.
</dd>
<dd>
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V4" id="C203V4">3:4</a> So you will find favor,
</dt>
<dd>
and good understanding in the sight of Elohim and man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V5" id="C203V5">3:5</a> Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't lean on your own understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V6" id="C203V6">3:6</a> In all your ways acknowledge him,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will make your paths straight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V7" id="C203V7">3:7</a> Don't be wise in your own eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V8" id="C203V8">3:8</a> It will be health to your body,
</dt>
<dd>
and nourishment to your bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V9" id="C203V9">3:9</a> Honor Yahweh with your substance,
</dt>
<dd>
with the first fruits of all your increase:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V10" id="C203V10">3:10</a> so your barns will be filled with
plenty,
</dt>
<dd>
and your vats will overflow with new wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V11" id="C203V11">3:11</a> My son, don't despise Yahweh's
discipline,
</dt>
<dd>
neither be weary of his reproof:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V12" id="C203V12">3:12</a> for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves;
</dt>
<dd>
even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C203V13" id="C203V13">3:13</a> Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
the man who gets understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V14" id="C203V14">3:14</a> For her good profit is better than
getting silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and her return is better than fine gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V15" id="C203V15">3:15</a> She is more precious than rubies.
</dt>
<dd>
None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V16" id="C203V16">3:16</a> Length of days is in her right hand.
</dt>
<dd>
In her left hand are riches and honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V17" id="C203V17">3:17</a> Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
</dt>
<dd>
All her paths are peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V18" id="C203V18">3:18</a> She is a tree of life to those who
lay hold of her.
</dt>
<dd>
Happy is everyone who retains her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V19" id="C203V19">3:19</a> By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
By understanding, he established the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V20" id="C203V20">3:20</a> By his knowledge, the depths were
broken up,
</dt>
<dd>
and the skies drop down the dew.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V21" id="C203V21">3:21</a> My son, let them not depart from
your eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V22" id="C203V22">3:22</a> so they will be life to your soul,
</dt>
<dd>
and grace for your neck.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V23" id="C203V23">3:23</a> Then you shall walk in your way
securely.
</dt>
<dd>
Your foot won't stumble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V24" id="C203V24">3:24</a> When you lie down, you will not be
afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V25" id="C203V25">3:25</a> Don't be afraid of sudden fear,
</dt>
<dd>
neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V26" id="C203V26">3:26</a> for Yahweh will be your confidence,
</dt>
<dd>
and will keep your foot from being taken.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C203V27" id="C203V27">3:27</a> Don't withhold good from those to
whom it is due,
</dt>
<dd>
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V28" id="C203V28">3:28</a> Don't say to your neighbor, "Go,
and come again;
</dt>
<dd>
tomorrow I will give it to you,"
</dd>
<dd>
when you have it by you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V29" id="C203V29">3:29</a> Don't devise evil against your
neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing he dwells securely by you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V30" id="C203V30">3:30</a> Don't strive with a man without
cause,
</dt>
<dd>
if he has done you no harm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V31" id="C203V31">3:31</a> Don't envy the man of violence.
</dt>
<dd>
Choose none of his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V32" id="C203V32">3:32</a> For the perverse is an abomination
to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but his friendship is with the upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V33" id="C203V33">3:33</a> Yahweh's curse is in the house of
the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V34" id="C203V34">3:34</a> Surely he mocks the mockers,
</dt>
<dd>
but he gives grace to the humble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C203V35" id="C203V35">3:35</a> The wise will inherit glory,
</dt>
<dd>
but shame will be the promotion of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C204V1" id="C204V1">4:1</a> Listen, sons, to a father's
instruction.
</dt>
<dd>
Pay attention and know understanding;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V2" id="C204V2">4:2</a> for I give you sound learning.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't forsake my Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V3" id="C204V3">4:3</a> For I was a son to my father,
</dt>
<dd>
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V4" id="C204V4">4:4</a> He taught me, and said to me:
</dt>
<dd>
"Let your heart retain my words.
</dd>
<dd>
Keep my commandments, and live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V5" id="C204V5">4:5</a> Get wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Get understanding.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V6" id="C204V6">4:6</a> Don't forsake her, and she will
preserve you.
</dt>
<dd>
Love her, and she will keep you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V7" id="C204V7">4:7</a> Wisdom is supreme.
</dt>
<dd>
Get wisdom.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V8" id="C204V8">4:8</a> Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
</dt>
<dd>
She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V9" id="C204V9">4:9</a> She will give to your head a garland of
grace.
</dt>
<dd>
She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C204V10" id="C204V10">4:10</a> Listen, my son, and receive my
sayings.
</dt>
<dd>
The years of your life will be many.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V11" id="C204V11">4:11</a> I have taught you in the way of
wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
I have led you in straight paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V12" id="C204V12">4:12</a> When you go, your steps will not be
hampered.
</dt>
<dd>
When you run, you will not stumble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V13" id="C204V13">4:13</a> Take firm hold of instruction.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let her go.
</dd>
<dd>
Keep her, for she is your life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V14" id="C204V14">4:14</a> Don't enter into the path of the
wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't walk in the way of evil men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V15" id="C204V15">4:15</a> Avoid it, and don't pass by it.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn from it, and pass on.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V16" id="C204V16">4:16</a> For they don't sleep, unless they do
evil.
</dt>
<dd>
Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V17" id="C204V17">4:17</a> For they eat the bread of
wickedness,
</dt>
<dd>
and drink the wine of violence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V18" id="C204V18">4:18</a> But the path of the righteous is
like the dawning light,
</dt>
<dd>
that shines more and more until the perfect day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V19" id="C204V19">4:19</a> The way of the wicked is like
darkness.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't know what they stumble over.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C204V20" id="C204V20">4:20</a> My son, attend to my words.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to my sayings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V21" id="C204V21">4:21</a> Let them not depart from your eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V22" id="C204V22">4:22</a> For they are life to those who find
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and health to their whole body.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V23" id="C204V23">4:23</a> Keep your heart with all diligence,
</dt>
<dd>
for out of it is the wellspring of life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V24" id="C204V24">4:24</a> Put away from yourself a perverse
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Put corrupt lips far from you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V25" id="C204V25">4:25</a> Let your eyes look straight ahead.
</dt>
<dd>
Fix your gaze directly before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V26" id="C204V26">4:26</a> Make the path of your feet level.
</dt>
<dd>
Let all of your ways be established.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C204V27" id="C204V27">4:27</a> Don't turn to the right hand nor to
the left.
</dt>
<dd>
Remove your foot from evil.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C205V1" id="C205V1">5:1</a> My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to my understanding:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V2" id="C205V2">5:2</a> that you may maintain discretion,
</dt>
<dd>
that your lips may preserve knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V3" id="C205V3">5:3</a> For the lips of an adulteress drip
honey.
</dt>
<dd>
Her mouth is smoother than oil,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V4" id="C205V4">5:4</a> But in the end she is as bitter as
wormwood,
</dt>
<dd>
and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V5" id="C205V5">5:5</a> Her feet go down to death.
</dt>
<dd>
Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V6" id="C205V6">5:6</a> She gives no thought to the way of
life.
</dt>
<dd>
Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C205V7" id="C205V7">5:7</a> Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't depart from the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V8" id="C205V8">5:8</a> Remove your way far from her.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't come near the door of her house,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V9" id="C205V9">5:9</a> lest you give your honor to others,
</dt>
<dd>
and your years to the cruel one;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V10" id="C205V10">5:10</a> lest strangers feast on your wealth,
</dt>
<dd>
and your labors enrich another man's house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V11" id="C205V11">5:11</a> You will groan at your latter end,
</dt>
<dd>
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V12" id="C205V12">5:12</a> and say, "How I have hated
instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and my heart despised reproof;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V13" id="C205V13">5:13</a> neither have I obeyed the voice of
my teachers,
</dt>
<dd>
nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V14" id="C205V14">5:14</a> I have come to the brink of utter
ruin,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of the gathered assembly."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C205V15" id="C205V15">5:15</a> Drink water out of your own cistern,
</dt>
<dd>
running water out of your own well.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V16" id="C205V16">5:16</a> Should your springs overflow in the
streets,
</dt>
<dd>
streams of water in the public squares?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V17" id="C205V17">5:17</a> Let them be for yourself alone,
</dt>
<dd>
not for strangers with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V18" id="C205V18">5:18</a> Let your spring be blessed.
</dt>
<dd>
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V19" id="C205V19">5:19</a> A loving doe and a graceful deer--
</dt>
<dd>
let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
</dd>
<dd>
Be captivated always with her love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V20" id="C205V20">5:20</a> For why should you, my son, be
captivated with an adulteress?
</dt>
<dd>
Why embrace the bosom of another?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V21" id="C205V21">5:21</a> For the ways of man are before the
eyes of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He examines all his paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V22" id="C205V22">5:22</a> The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare
him.
</dt>
<dd>
The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C205V23" id="C205V23">5:23</a> He will die for lack of instruction.
</dt>
<dd>
In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C206V1" id="C206V1">6:1</a> My son, if you have become collateral
for your neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V2" id="C206V2">6:2</a> You are trapped by the words of your
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V3" id="C206V3">6:3</a> Do this now, my son, and deliver
yourself,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
</dd>
<dt>
Go, humble yourself.
</dt>
<dd>
Press your plea with your neighbor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V4" id="C206V4">6:4</a> Give no sleep to your eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
nor slumber to your eyelids.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V5" id="C206V5">6:5</a> Free yourself, like a gazelle from the
hand of the hunter,
</dt>
<dd>
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C206V6" id="C206V6">6:6</a> Go to the ant, you sluggard.
</dt>
<dd>
Consider her ways, and be wise;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V7" id="C206V7">6:7</a> which having no chief, overseer, or
ruler,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C206V8" id="C206V8">6:8</a> provides her bread in the summer,
</dd>
<dd>
and gathers her food in the harvest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V9" id="C206V9">6:9</a> How long will you sleep, sluggard?
</dt>
<dd>
When will you arise out of your sleep?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V10" id="C206V10">6:10</a> A little sleep, a little slumber,
</dt>
<dd>
a little folding of the hands to sleep:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V11" id="C206V11">6:11</a> so your poverty will come as a
robber,
</dt>
<dd>
and your scarcity as an armed man.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C206V12" id="C206V12">6:12</a> A worthless person, a man of
iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V13" id="C206V13">6:13</a> who winks with his eyes, who signals
with his feet,
</dt>
<dd>
who motions with his fingers;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V14" id="C206V14">6:14</a> in whose heart is perverseness,
</dt>
<dd>
who devises evil continually,
</dd>
<dd>
who always sows discord.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V15" id="C206V15">6:15</a> Therefore his calamity will come
suddenly.
</dt>
<dd>
He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C206V16" id="C206V16">6:16</a> There are six things which Yahweh
hates;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V17" id="C206V17">6:17</a> haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
</dt>
<dd>
hands that shed innocent blood;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V18" id="C206V18">6:18</a> a heart that devises wicked schemes,
</dt>
<dd>
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V19" id="C206V19">6:19</a> a false witness who utters lies,
</dt>
<dd>
and he who sows discord among brothers.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C206V20" id="C206V20">6:20</a> My son, keep your father's
commandment,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V21" id="C206V21">6:21</a> Bind them continually on your heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Tie them around your neck.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V22" id="C206V22">6:22</a> When you walk, it will lead you.
</dt>
<dd>
When you sleep, it will watch over you.
</dd>
<dd>
When you awake, it will talk with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V23" id="C206V23">6:23</a> For the commandment is a lamp,
</dt>
<dd>
and the Torah is light.
</dd>
<dd>
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V24" id="C206V24">6:24</a> to keep you from the immoral woman,
</dt>
<dd>
from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V25" id="C206V25">6:25</a> Don't lust after her beauty in your
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V26" id="C206V26">6:26</a> For a prostitute reduces you to a
piece of bread.
</dt>
<dd>
The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V27" id="C206V27">6:27</a> Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
</dt>
<dd>
and his clothes not be burned?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V28" id="C206V28">6:28</a> Or can one walk on hot coals,
</dt>
<dd>
and his feet not be scorched?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V29" id="C206V29">6:29</a> So is he who goes in to his
neighbor's wife.
</dt>
<dd>
Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V30" id="C206V30">6:30</a> Men don't despise a thief,
</dt>
<dd>
if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V31" id="C206V31">6:31</a> but if he is found, he shall restore
seven times.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall give all the wealth of his house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V32" id="C206V32">6:32</a> He who commits adultery with a woman
is void of understanding.
</dt>
<dd>
He who does it destroys his own soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V33" id="C206V33">6:33</a> He will get wounds and dishonor.
</dt>
<dd>
His reproach will not be wiped away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V34" id="C206V34">6:34</a> For jealousy arouses the fury of the
husband.
</dt>
<dd>
He won't spare in the day of vengeance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C206V35" id="C206V35">6:35</a> He won't regard any ransom,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C207V1" id="C207V1">7:1</a> My son, keep my words.
</dt>
<dd>
Lay up my commandments within you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V2" id="C207V2">7:2</a> Keep my commandments and live!
</dt>
<dd>
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V3" id="C207V3">7:3</a> Bind them on your fingers.
</dt>
<dd>
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V4" id="C207V4">7:4</a> Tell wisdom, "You are my sister."
</dt>
<dd>
Call understanding your relative,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V5" id="C207V5">7:5</a> that they may keep you from the strange
woman,
</dt>
<dd>
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V6" id="C207V6">7:6</a> For at the window of my house,
</dt>
<dd>
I looked out through my lattice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V7" id="C207V7">7:7</a> I saw among the simple ones.
</dt>
<dd>
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V8" id="C207V8">7:8</a> passing through the street near her
corner,
</dt>
<dd>
he went the way to her house,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V9" id="C207V9">7:9</a> in the twilight, in the evening of the
day,
</dt>
<dd>
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V10" id="C207V10">7:10</a> Behold, there a woman met him with
the attire of a prostitute,
</dt>
<dd>
and with crafty intent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V11" id="C207V11">7:11</a> She is loud and defiant.
</dt>
<dd>
Her feet don't stay in her house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V12" id="C207V12">7:12</a> Now she is in the streets, now in
the squares,
</dt>
<dd>
and lurking at every corner.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V13" id="C207V13">7:13</a> So she caught him, and kissed him.
</dt>
<dd>
With an impudent face she said to him:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V14" id="C207V14">7:14</a> "Sacrifices of peace offerings
are with me.
</dt>
<dd>
This day I have paid my vows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V15" id="C207V15">7:15</a> Therefore I came out to meet you,
</dt>
<dd>
to diligently seek your face,
</dd>
<dd>
and I have found you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V16" id="C207V16">7:16</a> I have spread my couch with carpets
of tapestry,
</dt>
<dd>
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V17" id="C207V17">7:17</a> I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C207V18" id="C207V18">7:18</a> Come, let's take our fill of loving
until the morning.
</dt>
<dd>
Let's solace ourselves with loving.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V19" id="C207V19">7:19</a> For my husband isn't at home.
</dt>
<dd>
He has gone on a long journey.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V20" id="C207V20">7:20</a> He has taken a bag of money with
him.
</dt>
<dd>
He will come home at the full moon."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V21" id="C207V21">7:21</a> With persuasive words, she led him
astray.
</dt>
<dd>
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V22" id="C207V22">7:22</a> He followed her immediately,
</dt>
<dd>
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
</dd>
<dd>
as a fool stepping into a noose.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V23" id="C207V23">7:23</a> Until an arrow strikes through his
liver,
</dt>
<dd>
as a bird hurries to the snare,
</dd>
<dd>
and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V24" id="C207V24">7:24</a> Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V25" id="C207V25">7:25</a> Don't let your heart turn to her
ways.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't go astray in her paths,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V26" id="C207V26">7:26</a> for she has thrown down many
wounded.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C207V27" id="C207V27">7:27</a> Her house is the way to Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
going down to the chambers of death.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C208V1" id="C208V1">8:1</a> Doesn't wisdom cry out?
</dt>
<dd>
Doesn't understanding raise her voice?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V2" id="C208V2">8:2</a> On the top of high places by the way,
</dt>
<dd>
where the paths meet, she stands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V3" id="C208V3">8:3</a> Beside the gates, at the entry of the
city,
</dt>
<dd>
at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V4" id="C208V4">8:4</a> "To you men, I call!
</dt>
<dd>
I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V5" id="C208V5">8:5</a> You simple, understand prudence.
</dt>
<dd>
You fools, be of an understanding heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V6" id="C208V6">8:6</a> Hear, for I will speak excellent
things.
</dt>
<dd>
The opening of my lips is for right things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V7" id="C208V7">8:7</a> For my mouth speaks truth.
</dt>
<dd>
Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V8" id="C208V8">8:8</a> All the words of my mouth are in
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V9" id="C208V9">8:9</a> They are all plain to him who
understands,
</dt>
<dd>
right to those who find knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V10" id="C208V10">8:10</a> Receive my instruction rather than
silver;
</dt>
<dd>
knowledge rather than choice gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V11" id="C208V11">8:11</a> For wisdom is better than rubies.
</dt>
<dd>
All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C208V12" id="C208V12">8:12</a> "I, wisdom, have made prudence
my dwelling.
</dt>
<dd>
Find out knowledge and discretion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V13" id="C208V13">8:13</a> The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
</dt>
<dd>
I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V14" id="C208V14">8:14</a> Counsel and sound knowledge are
mine.
</dt>
<dd>
I have understanding and power.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V15" id="C208V15">8:15</a> By me kings reign,
</dt>
<dd>
and princes decree justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V16" id="C208V16">8:16</a> By me princes rule;
</dt>
<dd>
nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V17" id="C208V17">8:17</a> I love those who love me.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who seek me diligently will find me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V18" id="C208V18">8:18</a> With me are riches, honor,
</dt>
<dd>
enduring wealth, and prosperity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V19" id="C208V19">8:19</a> My fruit is better than gold, yes,
than fine gold;
</dt>
<dd>
my yield than choice silver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V20" id="C208V20">8:20</a> I walk in the way of righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of the paths of justice;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V21" id="C208V21">8:21</a> That I may give wealth to those who
love me.
</dt>
<dd>
I fill their treasuries.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C208V22" id="C208V22">8:22</a> "Yahweh possessed me in the
beginning of his work,
</dt>
<dd>
before his deeds of old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V23" id="C208V23">8:23</a> I was set up from everlasting, from
the beginning,
</dt>
<dd>
before the earth existed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V24" id="C208V24">8:24</a> When there were no depths, I was
brought forth,
</dt>
<dd>
when there were no springs abounding with water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V25" id="C208V25">8:25</a> Before the mountains were settled in
place,
</dt>
<dd>
before the hills, I was brought forth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V26" id="C208V26">8:26</a> while as yet he had not made the
earth, nor the fields,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V27" id="C208V27">8:27</a> When he established the heavens, I
was there;
</dt>
<dd>
when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V28" id="C208V28">8:28</a> when he established the clouds
above,
</dt>
<dd>
when the springs of the deep became strong,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V29" id="C208V29">8:29</a> when he gave to the sea its
boundary,
</dt>
<dd>
that the waters should not violate his commandment,
</dd>
<dd>
when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V30" id="C208V30">8:30</a> then I was the craftsman by his
side.
</dt>
<dd>
I was a delight day by day,
</dd>
<dd>
always rejoicing before him,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V31" id="C208V31">8:31</a> Rejoicing in his whole world.
</dt>
<dd>
My delight was with the sons of men.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C208V32" id="C208V32">8:32</a> "Now therefore, my sons, listen
to me,
</dt>
<dd>
for blessed are those who keep my ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V33" id="C208V33">8:33</a> Hear instruction, and be wise.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't refuse it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V34" id="C208V34">8:34</a> Blessed is the man who hears me,
</dt>
<dd>
watching daily at my gates,
</dd>
<dd>
waiting at my door posts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V35" id="C208V35">8:35</a> For whoever finds me, finds life,
</dt>
<dd>
and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C208V36" id="C208V36">8:36</a> But he who sins against me wrongs
his own soul.
</dt>
<dd>
All those who hate me love death."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C209V1" id="C209V1">9:1</a> Wisdom has built her house.
</dt>
<dd>
She has carved out her seven pillars.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V2" id="C209V2">9:2</a> She has prepared her meat.
</dt>
<dd>
She has mixed her wine.
</dd>
<dd>
She has also set her table.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V3" id="C209V3">9:3</a> She has sent out her maidens.
</dt>
<dd>
She cries from the highest places of the city:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V4" id="C209V4">9:4</a> "Whoever is simple, let him turn
in here!"
</dt>
<dd>
As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V5" id="C209V5">9:5</a> "Come, eat some of my bread,
</dt>
<dd>
Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V6" id="C209V6">9:6</a> Leave your simple ways, and live.
</dt>
<dd>
Walk in the way of understanding."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C209V7" id="C209V7">9:7</a> He who corrects a mocker invites
insult.
</dt>
<dd>
He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V8" id="C209V8">9:8</a> Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate
you.
</dt>
<dd>
Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V9" id="C209V9">9:9</a> Instruct a wise man, and he will be
still wiser.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V10" id="C209V10">9:10</a> The fear of Yahweh is the beginning
of wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V11" id="C209V11">9:11</a> For by me your days will be
multiplied.
</dt>
<dd>
The years of your life will be increased.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V12" id="C209V12">9:12</a> If you are wise, you are wise for
yourself.
</dt>
<dd>
If you mock, you alone will bear it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C209V13" id="C209V13">9:13</a> The foolish woman is loud,
</dt>
<dd>
Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V14" id="C209V14">9:14</a> She sits at the door of her house,
</dt>
<dd>
on a seat in the high places of the city,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V15" id="C209V15">9:15</a> To call to those who pass by,
</dt>
<dd>
who go straight on their ways,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V16" id="C209V16">9:16</a> "Whoever is simple, let him
turn in here."
</dt>
<dd>
as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V17" id="C209V17">9:17</a> "Stolen water is sweet.
</dt>
<dd>
Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C209V18" id="C209V18">9:18</a> But he doesn't know that the dead
are there,
</dt>
<dd>
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2010V1" id="C2010V1">10:1</a> The proverbs of Solomon.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
A wise son makes a glad father;
</dt>
<dd>
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V2" id="C2010V2">10:2</a> Treasures of wickedness profit
nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
but righteousness delivers from death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V3" id="C2010V3">10:3</a> Yahweh will not allow the soul of
the righteous to go hungry,
</dt>
<dd>
but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V4" id="C2010V4">10:4</a> He becomes poor who works with a
lazy hand,
</dt>
<dd>
but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V5" id="C2010V5">10:5</a> He who gathers in summer is a wise
son,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V6" id="C2010V6">10:6</a> Blessings are on the head of the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V7" id="C2010V7">10:7</a> The memory of the righteous is
blessed,
</dt>
<dd>
but the name of the wicked will rot.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V8" id="C2010V8">10:8</a> The wise in heart accept
commandments,
</dt>
<dd>
but a chattering fool will fall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V9" id="C2010V9">10:9</a> He who walks blamelessly walks
surely,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V10" id="C2010V10">10:10</a> One winking with the eye causes
sorrow,
</dt>
<dd>
but a chattering fool will fall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V11" id="C2010V11">10:11</a> The mouth of the righteous is a
spring of life,
</dt>
<dd>
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V12" id="C2010V12">10:12</a> Hatred stirs up strife,
</dt>
<dd>
but love covers all wrongs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V13" id="C2010V13">10:13</a> Wisdom is found on the lips of
him who has discernment,
</dt>
<dd>
but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V14" id="C2010V14">10:14</a> Wise men lay up knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V15" id="C2010V15">10:15</a> The rich man's wealth is his
strong city.
</dt>
<dd>
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V16" id="C2010V16">10:16</a> The labor of the righteous leads
to life.
</dt>
<dd>
The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V17" id="C2010V17">10:17</a> He is in the way of life who
heeds correction,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V18" id="C2010V18">10:18</a> He who hides hatred has lying
lips.
</dt>
<dd>
He who utters a slander is a fool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V19" id="C2010V19">10:19</a> In the multitude of words there
is no lack of disobedience,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V20" id="C2010V20">10:20</a> The tongue of the righteous is
like choice silver.
</dt>
<dd>
The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V21" id="C2010V21">10:21</a> The lips of the righteous feed
many,
</dt>
<dd>
but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V22" id="C2010V22">10:22</a> Yahweh's blessing brings wealth,
</dt>
<dd>
and he adds no trouble to it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V23" id="C2010V23">10:23</a> It is a fool's pleasure to do
wickedness,
</dt>
<dd>
but wisdom is a man of understanding's pleasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V24" id="C2010V24">10:24</a> What the wicked fear, will
overtake them,
</dt>
<dd>
but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V25" id="C2010V25">10:25</a> When the whirlwind passes, the
wicked is no more;
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous stand firm forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V26" id="C2010V26">10:26</a> As vinegar to the teeth, and as
smoke to the eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V27" id="C2010V27">10:27</a> The fear of Yahweh prolongs days,
</dt>
<dd>
but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V28" id="C2010V28">10:28</a> The prospect of the righteous is
joy,
</dt>
<dd>
but the hope of the wicked will perish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V29" id="C2010V29">10:29</a> The way of Yahweh is a stronghold
to the upright,
</dt>
<dd>
but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V30" id="C2010V30">10:30</a> The righteous will never be
removed,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V31" id="C2010V31">10:31</a> The mouth of the righteous brings
forth wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2010V32" id="C2010V32">10:32</a> The lips of the righteous know
what is acceptable,
</dt>
<dd>
but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V1" id="C2011V1">11:1</a> A false balance is an abomination to
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but accurate weights are his delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V2" id="C2011V2">11:2</a> When pride comes, then comes shame,
</dt>
<dd>
but with humility comes wisdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V3" id="C2011V3">11:3</a> The integrity of the upright shall
guide them,
</dt>
<dd>
but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V4" id="C2011V4">11:4</a> Riches don't profit in the day of
wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
but righteousness delivers from death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V5" id="C2011V5">11:5</a> The righteousness of the blameless
will direct his way,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V6" id="C2011V6">11:6</a> The righteousness of the upright
shall deliver them,
</dt>
<dd>
but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V7" id="C2011V7">11:7</a> When a wicked man dies, hope
perishes,
</dt>
<dd>
and expectation of power comes to nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V8" id="C2011V8">11:8</a> A righteous person is delivered out
of trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
and the wicked takes his place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V9" id="C2011V9">11:9</a> With his mouth the godless man
destroys his neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V10" id="C2011V10">11:10</a> When it goes well with the
righteous, the city rejoices.
</dt>
<dd>
When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V11" id="C2011V11">11:11</a> By the blessing of the upright,
the city is exalted,
</dt>
<dd>
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V12" id="C2011V12">11:12</a> One who despises his neighbor is
void of wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
but a man of understanding holds his peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V13" id="C2011V13">11:13</a> One who brings gossip betrays a
confidence,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V14" id="C2011V14">11:14</a> Where there is no wise guidance,
the nation falls,
</dt>
<dd>
but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V15" id="C2011V15">11:15</a> He who is collateral for a
stranger will suffer for it,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V16" id="C2011V16">11:16</a> A gracious woman obtains honor,
</dt>
<dd>
but violent men obtain riches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V17" id="C2011V17">11:17</a> The merciful man does good to his
own soul,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V18" id="C2011V18">11:18</a> Wicked people earn deceitful
wages,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V19" id="C2011V19">11:19</a> He who is truly righteous gets
life.
</dt>
<dd>
He who pursues evil gets death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V20" id="C2011V20">11:20</a> Those who are perverse in heart
are an abomination to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V21" id="C2011V21">11:21</a> Most certainly, the evil man will
not be unpunished,
</dt>
<dd>
but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V22" id="C2011V22">11:22</a> Like a gold ring in a pig's
snout,
</dt>
<dd>
is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V23" id="C2011V23">11:23</a> The desire of the righteous is
only good.
</dt>
<dd>
The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V24" id="C2011V24">11:24</a> There is one who scatters, and
increases yet more.
</dt>
<dd>
There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V25" id="C2011V25">11:25</a> The liberal soul shall be made
fat.
</dt>
<dd>
He who waters shall be watered also himself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V26" id="C2011V26">11:26</a> People curse someone who
withholds grain,
</dt>
<dd>
but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V27" id="C2011V27">11:27</a> He who diligently seeks good
seeks favor,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V28" id="C2011V28">11:28</a> He who trusts in his riches will
fall,
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V29" id="C2011V29">11:29</a> He who troubles his own house
shall inherit the wind.
</dt>
<dd>
The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V30" id="C2011V30">11:30</a> The fruit of the righteous is a
tree of life.
</dt>
<dd>
He who is wise wins souls.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2011V31" id="C2011V31">11:31</a> Behold, the righteous shall be
repaid in the earth;
</dt>
<dd>
how much more the wicked and the sinner!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V1" id="C2012V1">12:1</a> Whoever loves correction loves
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who hates reproof is stupid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V2" id="C2012V2">12:2</a> A good man shall obtain favor from
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V3" id="C2012V3">12:3</a> A man shall not be established by
wickedness,
</dt>
<dd>
but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V4" id="C2012V4">12:4</a> A worthy woman is the crown of her
husband,
</dt>
<dd>
but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V5" id="C2012V5">12:5</a> The thoughts of the righteous are
just,
</dt>
<dd>
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V6" id="C2012V6">12:6</a> The words of the wicked are about
lying in wait for blood,
</dt>
<dd>
but the speech of the upright rescues them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V7" id="C2012V7">12:7</a> The wicked are overthrown, and are
no more,
</dt>
<dd>
but the house of the righteous shall stand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V8" id="C2012V8">12:8</a> A man shall be commended according
to his wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V9" id="C2012V9">12:9</a> Better is he who is lightly
esteemed, and has a servant,
</dt>
<dd>
than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V10" id="C2012V10">12:10</a> A righteous man regards the life
of his animal,
</dt>
<dd>
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V11" id="C2012V11">12:11</a> He who tills his land shall have
plenty of bread,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V12" id="C2012V12">12:12</a> The wicked desires the plunder of
evil men,
</dt>
<dd>
but the root of the righteous flourishes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V13" id="C2012V13">12:13</a> An evil man is trapped by
sinfulness of lips,
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V14" id="C2012V14">12:14</a> A man shall be satisfied with
good by the fruit of his mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
The work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V15" id="C2012V15">12:15</a> The way of a fool is right in his
own eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is wise listens to counsel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V16" id="C2012V16">12:16</a> A fool shows his annoyance the
same day,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V17" id="C2012V17">12:17</a> He who is truthful testifies
honestly,
</dt>
<dd>
but a false witness lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V18" id="C2012V18">12:18</a> There is one who speaks rashly
like the piercing of a sword,
</dt>
<dd>
but the tongue of the wise heals.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V19" id="C2012V19">12:19</a> Truth's lips will be established
forever,
</dt>
<dd>
but a lying tongue is only momentary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V20" id="C2012V20">12:20</a> Deceit is in the heart of those
who plot evil,
</dt>
<dd>
but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V21" id="C2012V21">12:21</a> No mischief shall happen to the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V22" id="C2012V22">12:22</a> Lying lips are an abomination to
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but those who do the truth are his delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V23" id="C2012V23">12:23</a> A prudent man keeps his
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V24" id="C2012V24">12:24</a> The hands of the diligent ones
shall rule,
</dt>
<dd>
but laziness ends in slave labor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V25" id="C2012V25">12:25</a> Anxiety in a man's heart weighs
it down,
</dt>
<dd>
but a kind word makes it glad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V26" id="C2012V26">12:26</a> A righteous person is cautious in
friendship,
</dt>
<dd>
but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V27" id="C2012V27">12:27</a> The slothful man doesn't roast
his game,
</dt>
<dd>
but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2012V28" id="C2012V28">12:28</a> In the way of righteousness is
life;
</dt>
<dd>
in its path there is no death.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2013V1" id="C2013V1">13:1</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
A wise son listens to his father's instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V2" id="C2013V2">13:2</a> By the fruit of his lips, a man
enjoys good things;
</dt>
<dd>
but the unfaithful crave violence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V3" id="C2013V3">13:3</a> He who guards his mouth guards his
soul.
</dt>
<dd>
One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V4" id="C2013V4">13:4</a> The soul of the sluggard desires,
and has nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V5" id="C2013V5">13:5</a> A righteous man hates lies,
</dt>
<dd>
but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V6" id="C2013V6">13:6</a> Righteousness guards the way of
integrity,
</dt>
<dd>
but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V7" id="C2013V7">13:7</a> There are some who pretend to be
rich, yet have nothing.
</dt>
<dd>
There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V8" id="C2013V8">13:8</a> The ransom of a man's life is his
riches,
</dt>
<dd>
but the poor hear no threats.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V9" id="C2013V9">13:9</a> The light of the righteous shines
brightly,
</dt>
<dd>
but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V10" id="C2013V10">13:10</a> Pride only breeds quarrels,
</dt>
<dd>
but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V11" id="C2013V11">13:11</a> Wealth gained dishonestly
dwindles away,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V12" id="C2013V12">13:12</a> Hope deferred makes the heart
sick,
</dt>
<dd>
but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V13" id="C2013V13">13:13</a> Whoever despises instruction will
pay for it,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V14" id="C2013V14">13:14</a> The teaching of the wise is a
spring of life,
</dt>
<dd>
to turn from the snares of death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V15" id="C2013V15">13:15</a> Good understanding wins favor;
</dt>
<dd>
but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V16" id="C2013V16">13:16</a> Every prudent man acts from
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but a fool exposes folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V17" id="C2013V17">13:17</a> A wicked messenger falls into
trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V18" id="C2013V18">13:18</a> Poverty and shame come to him who
refuses discipline,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V19" id="C2013V19">13:19</a> Longing fulfilled is sweet to the
soul,
</dt>
<dd>
but fools detest turning from evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V20" id="C2013V20">13:20</a> One who walks with wise men grows
wise,
</dt>
<dd>
but a companion of fools suffers harm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V21" id="C2013V21">13:21</a> Misfortune pursues sinners,
</dt>
<dd>
but prosperity rewards the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V22" id="C2013V22">13:22</a> A good man leaves an inheritance
to his children's children,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V23" id="C2013V23">13:23</a> An abundance of food is in poor
people's fields,
</dt>
<dd>
but injustice sweeps it away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V24" id="C2013V24">13:24</a> One who spares the rod hates his
son,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2013V25" id="C2013V25">13:25</a> The righteous one eats to the
satisfying of his soul,
</dt>
<dd>
but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V1" id="C2014V1">14:1</a> Every wise woman builds her house,
</dt>
<dd>
but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V2" id="C2014V2">14:2</a> He who walks in his uprightness
fears Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V3" id="C2014V3">14:3</a> The fool's talk brings a rod to his
back,
</dt>
<dd>
but the lips of the wise protect them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V4" id="C2014V4">14:4</a> Where no oxen are, the crib is
clean,
</dt>
<dd>
but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V5" id="C2014V5">14:5</a> A truthful witness will not lie,
</dt>
<dd>
but a false witness pours out lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V6" id="C2014V6">14:6</a> A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't
find it,
</dt>
<dd>
but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V7" id="C2014V7">14:7</a> Stay away from a foolish man,
</dt>
<dd>
for you won't find knowledge on his lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V8" id="C2014V8">14:8</a> The wisdom of the prudent is to
think about his way,
</dt>
<dd>
but the folly of fools is deceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V9" id="C2014V9">14:9</a> Fools mock at making atonement for
sins,
</dt>
<dd>
but among the upright there is good will.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V10" id="C2014V10">14:10</a> The heart knows its own
bitterness and joy;
</dt>
<dd>
he will not share these with a stranger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V11" id="C2014V11">14:11</a> The house of the wicked will be
overthrown,
</dt>
<dd>
but the tent of the upright will flourish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V12" id="C2014V12">14:12</a> There is a way which seems right
to a man,
</dt>
<dd>
but in the end it leads to death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V13" id="C2014V13">14:13</a> Even in laughter the heart may be
sorrowful,
</dt>
<dd>
and mirth may end in heaviness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V14" id="C2014V14">14:14</a> The unfaithful will be repaid for
his own ways;
</dt>
<dd>
likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V15" id="C2014V15">14:15</a> A simple man believes everything,
</dt>
<dd>
but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V16" id="C2014V16">14:16</a> A wise man fears, and shuns evil,
</dt>
<dd>
but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V17" id="C2014V17">14:17</a> He who is quick to become angry
will commit folly,
</dt>
<dd>
and a crafty man is hated.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V18" id="C2014V18">14:18</a> The simple inherit folly,
</dt>
<dd>
but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V19" id="C2014V19">14:19</a> The evil bow down before the
good,
</dt>
<dd>
and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V20" id="C2014V20">14:20</a> The poor person is shunned even
by his own neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
but the rich person has many friends.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V21" id="C2014V21">14:21</a> He who despises his neighbor
sins,
</dt>
<dd>
but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V22" id="C2014V22">14:22</a> Don't they go astray who plot
evil?
</dt>
<dd>
But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V23" id="C2014V23">14:23</a> In all hard work there is profit,
</dt>
<dd>
but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V24" id="C2014V24">14:24</a> The crown of the wise is their
riches,
</dt>
<dd>
but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V25" id="C2014V25">14:25</a> A truthful witness saves souls,
</dt>
<dd>
but a false witness is deceitful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V26" id="C2014V26">14:26</a> In the fear of Yahweh is a secure
fortress,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will be a refuge for his children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V27" id="C2014V27">14:27</a> The fear of Yahweh is a fountain
of life,
</dt>
<dd>
turning people from the snares of death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V28" id="C2014V28">14:28</a> In the multitude of people is the
king's glory,
</dt>
<dd>
but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V29" id="C2014V29">14:29</a> He who is slow to anger has great
understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V30" id="C2014V30">14:30</a> The life of the body is a heart
at peace,
</dt>
<dd>
but envy rots the bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V31" id="C2014V31">14:31</a> He who oppresses the poor shows
contempt for his Maker,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V32" id="C2014V32">14:32</a> The wicked is brought down in his
calamity,
</dt>
<dd>
but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V33" id="C2014V33">14:33</a> Wisdom rests in the heart of one
who has understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V34" id="C2014V34">14:34</a> Righteousness exalts a nation,
</dt>
<dd>
but sin is a disgrace to any people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2014V35" id="C2014V35">14:35</a> The king's favor is toward a
servant who deals wisely,
</dt>
<dd>
but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V1" id="C2015V1">15:1</a> A gentle answer turns away wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V2" id="C2015V2">15:2</a> The tongue of the wise commends
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V3" id="C2015V3">15:3</a> Yahweh's eyes are everywhere,
</dt>
<dd>
keeping watch on the evil and the good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V4" id="C2015V4">15:4</a> A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
</dt>
<dd>
but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V5" id="C2015V5">15:5</a> A fool despises his father's
correction,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V6" id="C2015V6">15:6</a> In the house of the righteous is
much treasure,
</dt>
<dd>
but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V7" id="C2015V7">15:7</a> The lips of the wise spread
knowledge;
</dt>
<dd>
not so with the heart of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V8" id="C2015V8">15:8</a> The sacrifice made by the wicked is
an abomination to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V9" id="C2015V9">15:9</a> The way of the wicked is an
abomination to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V10" id="C2015V10">15:10</a> There is stern discipline for one
who forsakes the way:
</dt>
<dd>
whoever hates reproof shall die.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V11" id="C2015V11">15:11</a> Sheol and Abaddon are before
Yahweh--
</dt>
<dd>
how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V12" id="C2015V12">15:12</a> A scoffer doesn't love to be
reproved;
</dt>
<dd>
he will not go to the wise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V13" id="C2015V13">15:13</a> A glad heart makes a cheerful
face;
</dt>
<dd>
but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V14" id="C2015V14">15:14</a> The heart of one who has
understanding seeks knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V15" id="C2015V15">15:15</a> All the days of the afflicted are
wretched,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V16" id="C2015V16">15:16</a> Better is little, with the fear
of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
than great treasure with trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V17" id="C2015V17">15:17</a> Better is a dinner of herbs,
where love is,
</dt>
<dd>
than a fattened calf with hatred.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V18" id="C2015V18">15:18</a> A wrathful man stirs up
contention,
</dt>
<dd>
but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V19" id="C2015V19">15:19</a> The way of the sluggard is like a
thorn patch,
</dt>
<dd>
but the path of the upright is a highway.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V20" id="C2015V20">15:20</a> A wise son makes a father glad,
</dt>
<dd>
but a foolish man despises his mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V21" id="C2015V21">15:21</a> Folly is joy to one who is void
of wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V22" id="C2015V22">15:22</a> Where there is no counsel, plans
fail;
</dt>
<dd>
but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V23" id="C2015V23">15:23</a> Joy comes to a man with the reply
of his mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
How good is a word at the right time!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V24" id="C2015V24">15:24</a> The path of life leads upward for
the wise,
</dt>
<dd>
to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V25" id="C2015V25">15:25</a> Yahweh will uproot the house of
the proud,
</dt>
<dd>
but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V26" id="C2015V26">15:26</a> Yahweh detests the thoughts of
the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V27" id="C2015V27">15:27</a> He who is greedy for gain
troubles his own house,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who hates bribes will live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V28" id="C2015V28">15:28</a> The heart of the righteous weighs
answers,
</dt>
<dd>
but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V29" id="C2015V29">15:29</a> Yahweh is far from the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V30" id="C2015V30">15:30</a> The light of the eyes rejoices
the heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Good news gives health to the bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V31" id="C2015V31">15:31</a> The ear that listens to reproof
lives,
</dt>
<dd>
and will be at home among the wise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V32" id="C2015V32">15:32</a> He who refuses correction
despises his own soul,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2015V33" id="C2015V33">15:33</a> The fear of Yahweh teaches
wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Before honor is humility.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V1" id="C2016V1">16:1</a> The plans of the heart belong to
man,
</dt>
<dd>
but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V2" id="C2016V2">16:2</a> All the ways of a man are clean in
his own eyes;
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh weighs the motives.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V3" id="C2016V3">16:3</a> Commit your deeds to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and your plans shall succeed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V4" id="C2016V4">16:4</a> Yahweh has made everything for its
own end--
</dt>
<dd>
yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V5" id="C2016V5">16:5</a> Everyone who is proud in heart is an
abomination to Yahweh:
</dt>
<dd>
they shall certainly not be unpunished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V6" id="C2016V6">16:6</a> By mercy and truth iniquity is
atoned for.
</dt>
<dd>
By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V7" id="C2016V7">16:7</a> When a man's ways please Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V8" id="C2016V8">16:8</a> Better is a little with
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
than great revenues with injustice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V9" id="C2016V9">16:9</a> A man's heart plans his course,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh directs his steps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V10" id="C2016V10">16:10</a> Inspired judgments are on the
lips of the king.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall not betray his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V11" id="C2016V11">16:11</a> Honest balances and scales are
Yahweh's;
</dt>
<dd>
all the weights in the bag are his work.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V12" id="C2016V12">16:12</a> It is an abomination for kings to
do wrong,
</dt>
<dd>
for the throne is established by righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V13" id="C2016V13">16:13</a> Righteous lips are the delight of
kings.
</dt>
<dd>
They value one who speaks the truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V14" id="C2016V14">16:14</a> The king's wrath is a messenger
of death,
</dt>
<dd>
but a wise man will pacify it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V15" id="C2016V15">16:15</a> In the light of the king's face
is life.
</dt>
<dd>
His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V16" id="C2016V16">16:16</a> How much better it is to get
wisdom than gold!
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V17" id="C2016V17">16:17</a> The highway of the upright is to
depart from evil.
</dt>
<dd>
He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V18" id="C2016V18">16:18</a> Pride goes before destruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V19" id="C2016V19">16:19</a> It is better to be of a lowly
spirit with the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
than to divide the plunder with the proud.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V20" id="C2016V20">16:20</a> He who heeds the Word finds
prosperity.
</dt>
<dd>
Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V21" id="C2016V21">16:21</a> The wise in heart shall be called
prudent.
</dt>
<dd>
Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V22" id="C2016V22">16:22</a> Understanding is a fountain of
life to one who has it,
</dt>
<dd>
but the punishment of fools is their folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V23" id="C2016V23">16:23</a> The heart of the wise instructs
his mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and adds learning to his lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V24" id="C2016V24">16:24</a> Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
</dt>
<dd>
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V25" id="C2016V25">16:25</a> There is a way which seems right
to a man,
</dt>
<dd>
but in the end it leads to death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V26" id="C2016V26">16:26</a> The appetite of the laboring man
labors for him;
</dt>
<dd>
for his mouth urges him on.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V27" id="C2016V27">16:27</a> A worthless man devises mischief.
</dt>
<dd>
His speech is like a scorching fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V28" id="C2016V28">16:28</a> A perverse man stirs up strife.
</dt>
<dd>
A whisperer separates close friends.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V29" id="C2016V29">16:29</a> A man of violence entices his
neighbor,
</dt>
<dd>
and leads him in a way that is not good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V30" id="C2016V30">16:30</a> One who winks his eyes to plot
perversities,
</dt>
<dd>
one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V31" id="C2016V31">16:31</a> Gray hair is a crown of glory.
</dt>
<dd>
It is attained by a life of righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V32" id="C2016V32">16:32</a> One who is slow to anger is
better than the mighty;
</dt>
<dd>
one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2016V33" id="C2016V33">16:33</a> The lot is cast into the lap,
</dt>
<dd>
but its every decision is from Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V1" id="C2017V1">17:1</a> Better is a dry morsel with
quietness,
</dt>
<dd>
than a house full of feasting with strife.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V2" id="C2017V2">17:2</a> A servant who deals wisely will rule
over a son who causes shame,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V3" id="C2017V3">17:3</a> The refining pot is for silver, and
the furnace for gold,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh tests the hearts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V4" id="C2017V4">17:4</a> An evil-doer heeds wicked lips.
</dt>
<dd>
A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V5" id="C2017V5">17:5</a> Whoever mocks the poor reproaches
his Maker.
</dt>
<dd>
He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V6" id="C2017V6">17:6</a> Children's children are the crown of
old men;
</dt>
<dd>
the glory of children are their parents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V7" id="C2017V7">17:7</a> Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a
fool,
</dt>
<dd>
much less do lying lips fit a prince.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V8" id="C2017V8">17:8</a> A bribe is a precious stone in the
eyes of him who gives it;
</dt>
<dd>
wherever he turns, he prospers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V9" id="C2017V9">17:9</a> He who covers an offense promotes
love;
</dt>
<dd>
but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V10" id="C2017V10">17:10</a> A rebuke enters deeper into one
who has understanding
</dt>
<dd>
than a hundred lashes into a fool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V11" id="C2017V11">17:11</a> An evil man seeks only rebellion;
</dt>
<dd>
therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V12" id="C2017V12">17:12</a> Let a bear robbed of her cubs
meet a man,
</dt>
<dd>
rather than a fool in his folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V13" id="C2017V13">17:13</a> Whoever rewards evil for good,
</dt>
<dd>
evil shall not depart from his house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V14" id="C2017V14">17:14</a> The beginning of strife is like
breaching a dam,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V15" id="C2017V15">17:15</a> He who justifies the wicked, and
he who condemns the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V16" id="C2017V16">17:16</a> Why is there money in the hand of
a fool to buy wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing he has no understanding?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V17" id="C2017V17">17:17</a> A friend loves at all times;
</dt>
<dd>
and a brother is born for adversity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V18" id="C2017V18">17:18</a> A man void of understanding
strikes hands,
</dt>
<dd>
and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V19" id="C2017V19">17:19</a> He who loves disobedience loves
strife.
</dt>
<dd>
One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V20" id="C2017V20">17:20</a> One who has a perverse heart
doesn't find prosperity,
</dt>
<dd>
and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V21" id="C2017V21">17:21</a> He who becomes the father of a
fool grieves.
</dt>
<dd>
The father of a fool has no joy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V22" id="C2017V22">17:22</a> A cheerful heart makes good
medicine,
</dt>
<dd>
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V23" id="C2017V23">17:23</a> A wicked man receives a bribe in
secret,
</dt>
<dd>
to pervert the ways of justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V24" id="C2017V24">17:24</a> Wisdom is before the face of one
who has understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V25" id="C2017V25">17:25</a> A foolish son brings grief to his
father,
</dt>
<dd>
and bitterness to her who bore him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V26" id="C2017V26">17:26</a> Also to punish the righteous is
not good,
</dt>
<dd>
nor to flog officials for their integrity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V27" id="C2017V27">17:27</a> He who spares his words has
knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2017V28" id="C2017V28">17:28</a> Even a fool, when he keeps
silent, is counted wise.
</dt>
<dd>
When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V1" id="C2018V1">18:1</a> An unfriendly man pursues
selfishness,
</dt>
<dd>
and defies all sound judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V2" id="C2018V2">18:2</a> A fool has no delight in
understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
but only in revealing his own opinion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V3" id="C2018V3">18:3</a> When wickedness comes, contempt also
comes,
</dt>
<dd>
and with shame comes disgrace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V4" id="C2018V4">18:4</a> The words of a man's mouth are like
deep waters.
</dt>
<dd>
The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V5" id="C2018V5">18:5</a> To be partial to the faces of the
wicked is not good,
</dt>
<dd>
nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V6" id="C2018V6">18:6</a> A fool's lips come into strife,
</dt>
<dd>
and his mouth invites beatings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V7" id="C2018V7">18:7</a> A fool's mouth is his destruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and his lips are a snare to his soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V8" id="C2018V8">18:8</a> The words of a gossip are like
dainty morsels:
</dt>
<dd>
they go down into a person's innermost parts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V9" id="C2018V9">18:9</a> One who is slack in his work
</dt>
<dd>
is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V10" id="C2018V10">18:10</a> The name of Yahweh is a strong
tower:
</dt>
<dd>
the righteous run to him, and are safe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V11" id="C2018V11">18:11</a> The rich man's wealth is his
strong city,
</dt>
<dd>
like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V12" id="C2018V12">18:12</a> Before destruction the heart of
man is proud,
</dt>
<dd>
but before honor is humility.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V13" id="C2018V13">18:13</a> He who gives answer before he
hears,
</dt>
<dd>
that is folly and shame to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V14" id="C2018V14">18:14</a> A man's spirit will sustain him
in sickness,
</dt>
<dd>
but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V15" id="C2018V15">18:15</a> The heart of the discerning gets
knowledge.
</dt>
<dd>
The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V16" id="C2018V16">18:16</a> A man's gift makes room for him,
</dt>
<dd>
and brings him before great men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V17" id="C2018V17">18:17</a> He who pleads his cause first
seems right;
</dt>
<dd>
until another comes and questions him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V18" id="C2018V18">18:18</a> The lot settles disputes,
</dt>
<dd>
and keeps strong ones apart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V19" id="C2018V19">18:19</a> A brother offended is more
difficult than a fortified city;
</dt>
<dd>
and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V20" id="C2018V20">18:20</a> A man's stomach is filled with
the fruit of his mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V21" id="C2018V21">18:21</a> Death and life are in the power
of the tongue;
</dt>
<dd>
those who love it will eat its fruit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V22" id="C2018V22">18:22</a> Whoever finds a wife finds a good
thing,
</dt>
<dd>
and obtains favor of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V23" id="C2018V23">18:23</a> The poor plead for mercy,
</dt>
<dd>
but the rich answer harshly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2018V24" id="C2018V24">18:24</a> A man of many companions may be
ruined,
</dt>
<dd>
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V1" id="C2019V1">19:1</a> Better is the poor who walks in his
integrity
</dt>
<dd>
than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V2" id="C2019V2">19:2</a> It isn't good to have zeal without
knowledge;
</dt>
<dd>
nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V3" id="C2019V3">19:3</a> The foolishness of man subverts his
way;
</dt>
<dd>
his heart rages against Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V4" id="C2019V4">19:4</a> Wealth adds many friends,
</dt>
<dd>
but the poor is separated from his friend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V5" id="C2019V5">19:5</a> A false witness shall not be
unpunished.
</dt>
<dd>
He who pours out lies shall not go free.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V6" id="C2019V6">19:6</a> Many will entreat the favor of a
ruler,
</dt>
<dd>
and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V7" id="C2019V7">19:7</a> All the relatives of the poor shun
him:
</dt>
<dd>
how much more do his friends avoid him!
</dd>
<dd>
He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V8" id="C2019V8">19:8</a> He who gets wisdom loves his own
soul.
</dt>
<dd>
He who keeps understanding shall find good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V9" id="C2019V9">19:9</a> A false witness shall not be
unpunished.
</dt>
<dd>
He who utters lies shall perish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V10" id="C2019V10">19:10</a> Delicate living is not
appropriate for a fool,
</dt>
<dd>
much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V11" id="C2019V11">19:11</a> The discretion of a man makes him
slow to anger.
</dt>
<dd>
It is his glory to overlook an offense.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V12" id="C2019V12">19:12</a> The king's wrath is like the
roaring of a lion,
</dt>
<dd>
but his favor is like dew on the grass.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V13" id="C2019V13">19:13</a> A foolish son is the calamity of
his father.
</dt>
<dd>
A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V14" id="C2019V14">19:14</a> House and riches are an
inheritance from fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V15" id="C2019V15">19:15</a> Slothfulness casts into a deep
sleep.
</dt>
<dd>
The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V16" id="C2019V16">19:16</a> He who keeps the commandment
keeps his soul,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V17" id="C2019V17">19:17</a> He who has pity on the poor lends
to Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
he will reward him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V18" id="C2019V18">19:18</a> Discipline your son, for there is
hope;
</dt>
<dd>
don't be a willing party to his death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V19" id="C2019V19">19:19</a> A hot-tempered man must pay the
penalty,
</dt>
<dd>
for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V20" id="C2019V20">19:20</a> Listen to counsel and receive
instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
that you may be wise in your latter end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V21" id="C2019V21">19:21</a> There are many plans in a man's
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V22" id="C2019V22">19:22</a> That which makes a man to be
desired is his kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
A poor man is better than a liar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V23" id="C2019V23">19:23</a> The fear of Yahweh leads to life,
then contentment;
</dt>
<dd>
he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V24" id="C2019V24">19:24</a> The sluggard buries his hand in
the dish;
</dt>
<dd>
he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V25" id="C2019V25">19:25</a> Flog a scoffer, and the simple
will learn prudence;
</dt>
<dd>
rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V26" id="C2019V26">19:26</a> He who robs his father and drives
away his mother,
</dt>
<dd>
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V27" id="C2019V27">19:27</a> If you stop listening to
instruction, my son,
</dt>
<dd>
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V28" id="C2019V28">19:28</a> A corrupt witness mocks justice,
</dt>
<dd>
and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2019V29" id="C2019V29">19:29</a> Penalties are prepared for
scoffers,
</dt>
<dd>
and beatings for the backs of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V1" id="C2020V1">20:1</a> Wine is a mocker, and beer is a
brawler.
</dt>
<dd>
Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V2" id="C2020V2">20:2</a> The terror of a king is like the
roaring of a lion.
</dt>
<dd>
He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V3" id="C2020V3">20:3</a> It is an honor for a man to keep
aloof from strife;
</dt>
<dd>
but every fool will be quarreling.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V4" id="C2020V4">20:4</a> The sluggard will not plow by reason
of the winter;
</dt>
<dd>
therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V5" id="C2020V5">20:5</a> Counsel in the heart of man is like
deep water;
</dt>
<dd>
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V6" id="C2020V6">20:6</a> Many men claim to be men of
unfailing love,
</dt>
<dd>
but who can find a faithful man?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V7" id="C2020V7">20:7</a> A righteous man walks in integrity.
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed are his children after him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V8" id="C2020V8">20:8</a> A king who sits on the throne of
judgment
</dt>
<dd>
scatters away all evil with his eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V9" id="C2020V9">20:9</a> Who can say, "I have made my
heart pure.
</dt>
<dd>
I am clean and without sin?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V10" id="C2020V10">20:10</a> Differing weights and differing
measures,
</dt>
<dd>
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V11" id="C2020V11">20:11</a> Even a child makes himself known
by his doings,
</dt>
<dd>
whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V12" id="C2020V12">20:12</a> The hearing ear, and the seeing
eye,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh has made even both of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V13" id="C2020V13">20:13</a> Don't love sleep, lest you come
to poverty.
</dt>
<dd>
Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V14" id="C2020V14">20:14</a> "It's no good, it's no good,"
says the buyer;
</dt>
<dd>
but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V15" id="C2020V15">20:15</a> There is gold and abundance of
rubies;
</dt>
<dd>
but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V16" id="C2020V16">20:16</a> Take the garment of one who puts
up collateral for a stranger;
</dt>
<dd>
and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V17" id="C2020V17">20:17</a> Fraudulent food is sweet to a
man,
</dt>
<dd>
but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V18" id="C2020V18">20:18</a> Plans are established by advice;
</dt>
<dd>
by wise guidance you wage war!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V19" id="C2020V19">20:19</a> He who goes about as a
tale-bearer reveals secrets;
</dt>
<dd>
therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V20" id="C2020V20">20:20</a> Whoever curses his father or his
mother,
</dt>
<dd>
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V21" id="C2020V21">20:21</a> An inheritance quickly gained at
the beginning,
</dt>
<dd>
won't be blessed in the end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V22" id="C2020V22">20:22</a> Don't say, "I will pay back
evil."
</dt>
<dd>
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V23" id="C2020V23">20:23</a> Yahweh detests differing weights,
</dt>
<dd>
and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V24" id="C2020V24">20:24</a> A man's steps are from Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
how then can man understand his way?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V25" id="C2020V25">20:25</a> It is a snare to a man to make a
rash dedication,
</dt>
<dd>
then later to consider his vows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V26" id="C2020V26">20:26</a> A wise king winnows out the
wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
and drives the threshing wheel over them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V27" id="C2020V27">20:27</a> The spirit of man is Yahweh's
lamp,
</dt>
<dd>
searching all his innermost parts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V28" id="C2020V28">20:28</a> Love and faithfulness keep the
king safe.
</dt>
<dd>
His throne is sustained by love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V29" id="C2020V29">20:29</a> The glory of young men is their
strength.
</dt>
<dd>
The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2020V30" id="C2020V30">20:30</a> Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
</dt>
<dd>
and beatings purge the innermost parts.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V1" id="C2021V1">21:1</a> The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand
like the watercourses.
</dt>
<dd>
He turns it wherever he desires.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V2" id="C2021V2">21:2</a> Every way of a man is right in his
own eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V3" id="C2021V3">21:3</a> To do righteousness and justice
</dt>
<dd>
is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V4" id="C2021V4">21:4</a> A high look, and a proud heart,
</dt>
<dd>
the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V5" id="C2021V5">21:5</a> The plans of the diligent surely
lead to profit;
</dt>
<dd>
and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V6" id="C2021V6">21:6</a> Getting treasures by a lying tongue
</dt>
<dd>
is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V7" id="C2021V7">21:7</a> The violence of the wicked will
drive them away,
</dt>
<dd>
because they refuse to do what is right.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V8" id="C2021V8">21:8</a> The way of the guilty is devious,
</dt>
<dd>
but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V9" id="C2021V9">21:9</a> It is better to dwell in the corner
of the housetop,
</dt>
<dd>
than to share a house with a contentious woman.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V10" id="C2021V10">21:10</a> The soul of the wicked desires
evil;
</dt>
<dd>
his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V11" id="C2021V11">21:11</a> When the mocker is punished, the
simple gains wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V12" id="C2021V12">21:12</a> The Righteous One considers the
house of the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
and brings the wicked to ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V13" id="C2021V13">21:13</a> Whoever stops his ears at the cry
of the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V14" id="C2021V14">21:14</a> A gift in secret pacifies anger;
</dt>
<dd>
and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V15" id="C2021V15">21:15</a> It is joy to the righteous to do
justice;
</dt>
<dd>
but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V16" id="C2021V16">21:16</a> The man who wanders out of the
way of understanding
</dt>
<dd>
shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V17" id="C2021V17">21:17</a> He who loves pleasure shall be a
poor man.
</dt>
<dd>
He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V18" id="C2021V18">21:18</a> The wicked is a ransom for the
righteous;
</dt>
<dd>
the treacherous for the upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V19" id="C2021V19">21:19</a> It is better to dwell in a desert
land,
</dt>
<dd>
than with a contentious and fretful woman.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V20" id="C2021V20">21:20</a> There is precious treasure and
oil in the dwelling of the wise;
</dt>
<dd>
but a foolish man swallows it up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V21" id="C2021V21">21:21</a> He who follows after
righteousness and kindness
</dt>
<dd>
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V22" id="C2021V22">21:22</a> A wise man scales the city of the
mighty,
</dt>
<dd>
and brings down the strength of its confidence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V23" id="C2021V23">21:23</a> Whoever guards his mouth and his
tongue
</dt>
<dd>
keeps his soul from troubles.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V24" id="C2021V24">21:24</a> The proud and haughty man, "scoffer"
is his name;
</dt>
<dd>
he works in the arrogance of pride.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V25" id="C2021V25">21:25</a> The desire of the sluggard kills
him,
</dt>
<dd>
for his hands refuse to labor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V26" id="C2021V26">21:26</a> There are those who covet
greedily all day long;
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous give and don't withhold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V27" id="C2021V27">21:27</a> The sacrifice of the wicked is an
abomination:
</dt>
<dd>
how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V28" id="C2021V28">21:28</a> A false witness will perish,
</dt>
<dd>
and a man who listens speaks to eternity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V29" id="C2021V29">21:29</a> A wicked man hardens his face;
</dt>
<dd>
but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V30" id="C2021V30">21:30</a> There is no wisdom nor
understanding
</dt>
<dd>
nor counsel against Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2021V31" id="C2021V31">21:31</a> The horse is prepared for the day
of battle;
</dt>
<dd>
but victory is with Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V1" id="C2022V1">22:1</a> A good name is more desirable than
great riches,
</dt>
<dd>
and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V2" id="C2022V2">22:2</a> The rich and the poor have this in
common:
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is the maker of them all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V3" id="C2022V3">22:3</a> A prudent man sees danger, and hides
himself;
</dt>
<dd>
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V4" id="C2022V4">22:4</a> The result of humility and the fear
of Yahweh
</dt>
<dd>
is wealth, honor, and life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V5" id="C2022V5">22:5</a> Thorns and snares are in the path of
the wicked:
</dt>
<dd>
whoever guards his soul stays from them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V6" id="C2022V6">22:6</a> Train up a child in the way he
should go,
</dt>
<dd>
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V7" id="C2022V7">22:7</a> The rich rule over the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
The borrower is servant to the lender.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V8" id="C2022V8">22:8</a> He who sows wickedness reaps
trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V9" id="C2022V9">22:9</a> He who has a generous eye will be
blessed;
</dt>
<dd>
for he shares his food with the poor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V10" id="C2022V10">22:10</a> Drive out the mocker, and strife
will go out;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V11" id="C2022V11">22:11</a> He who loves purity of heart and
speaks gracefully
</dt>
<dd>
is the king's friend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V12" id="C2022V12">22:12</a> The eyes of Yahweh watch over
knowledge;
</dt>
<dd>
but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V13" id="C2022V13">22:13</a> The sluggard says, "There is
a lion outside!
</dt>
<dd>
I will be killed in the streets!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V14" id="C2022V14">22:14</a> The mouth of an adulteress is a
deep pit:
</dt>
<dd>
he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V15" id="C2022V15">22:15</a> Folly is bound up in the heart of
a child:
</dt>
<dd>
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V16" id="C2022V16">22:16</a> Whoever oppresses the poor for
his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
</dt>
<dd>
both come to poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V17" id="C2022V17">22:17</a> Turn your ear, and listen to the
words of the wise.
</dt>
<dd>
Apply your heart to my teaching.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V18" id="C2022V18">22:18</a> For it is a pleasant thing if you
keep them within you,
</dt>
<dd>
if all of them are ready on your lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V19" id="C2022V19">22:19</a> That your trust may be in Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
I teach you today, even you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V20" id="C2022V20">22:20</a> Haven't I written to you thirty
excellent things
</dt>
<dd>
of counsel and knowledge,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V21" id="C2022V21">22:21</a> To teach you truth, reliable
words,
</dt>
<dd>
to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V22" id="C2022V22">22:22</a> Don't exploit the poor, because
he is poor;
</dt>
<dd>
and don't crush the needy in court;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V23" id="C2022V23">22:23</a> for Yahweh will plead their case,
</dt>
<dd>
and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V24" id="C2022V24">22:24</a> Don't befriend a hot-tempered
man,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't associate with one who harbors anger:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V25" id="C2022V25">22:25</a> lest you learn his ways,
</dt>
<dd>
and ensnare your soul.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V26" id="C2022V26">22:26</a> Don't you be one of those who
strike hands,
</dt>
<dd>
of those who are collateral for debts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V27" id="C2022V27">22:27</a> If you don't have means to pay,
</dt>
<dd>
why should he take away your bed from under you?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V28" id="C2022V28">22:28</a> Don't move the ancient boundary
stone,
</dt>
<dd>
which your fathers have set up.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2022V29" id="C2022V29">22:29</a> Do you see a man skilled in his
work?
</dt>
<dd>
He will serve kings.
</dd>
<dd>
He won't serve obscure men.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V1" id="C2023V1">23:1</a> When you sit to eat with a ruler,
</dt>
<dd>
consider diligently what is before you;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V2" id="C2023V2">23:2</a> put a knife to your throat,
</dt>
<dd>
if you are a man given to appetite.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V3" id="C2023V3">23:3</a> Don't be desirous of his dainties,
</dt>
<dd>
seeing they are deceitful food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V4" id="C2023V4">23:4</a> Don't weary yourself to be rich.
</dt>
<dd>
In your wisdom, show restraint.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V5" id="C2023V5">23:5</a> Why do you set your eyes on that
which is not?
</dt>
<dd>
For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V6" id="C2023V6">23:6</a> Don't eat the food of him who has a
stingy eye,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't crave his delicacies:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2023V7" id="C2023V7">23:7</a> for as he thinks about the cost, so
he is.
</dd>
<dd>
"Eat and drink!" he says to you,
</dd>
<dd>
but his heart is not with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V8" id="C2023V8">23:8</a> The morsel which you have eaten you
shall vomit up,
</dt>
<dd>
and lose your good words.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V9" id="C2023V9">23:9</a> Don't speak in the ears of a fool,
</dt>
<dd>
for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V10" id="C2023V10">23:10</a> Don't move the ancient boundary
stone.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V11" id="C2023V11">23:11</a> for their Defender is strong.
</dt>
<dd>
He will plead their case against you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V12" id="C2023V12">23:12</a> Apply your heart to instruction,
</dt>
<dd>
and your ears to the words of knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V13" id="C2023V13">23:13</a> Don't withhold correction from a
child.
</dt>
<dd>
If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V14" id="C2023V14">23:14</a> Punish him with the rod,
</dt>
<dd>
and save his soul from Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V15" id="C2023V15">23:15</a> My son, if your heart is wise,
</dt>
<dd>
then my heart will be glad, even mine:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V16" id="C2023V16">23:16</a> yes, my heart will rejoice,
</dt>
<dd>
when your lips speak what is right.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V17" id="C2023V17">23:17</a> Don't let your heart envy
sinners;
</dt>
<dd>
but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V18" id="C2023V18">23:18</a> Indeed surely there is a future
hope,
</dt>
<dd>
and your hope will not be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V19" id="C2023V19">23:19</a> Listen, my son, and be wise,
</dt>
<dd>
and keep your heart on the right path!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V20" id="C2023V20">23:20</a> Don't be among ones drinking too
much wine,
</dt>
<dd>
or those who gorge themselves on meat:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V21" id="C2023V21">23:21</a> for the drunkard and the glutton
shall become poor;
</dt>
<dd>
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V22" id="C2023V22">23:22</a> Listen to your father who gave
you life,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't despise your mother when she is old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V23" id="C2023V23">23:23</a> Buy the truth, and don't sell it.
</dt>
<dd>
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V24" id="C2023V24">23:24</a> The father of the righteous has
great joy.
</dt>
<dd>
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V25" id="C2023V25">23:25</a> Let your father and your mother
be glad!
</dt>
<dd>
Let her who bore you rejoice!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V26" id="C2023V26">23:26</a> My son, give me your heart;
</dt>
<dd>
and let your eyes keep in my ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V27" id="C2023V27">23:27</a> For a prostitute is a deep pit;
</dt>
<dd>
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V28" id="C2023V28">23:28</a> Yes, she lies in wait like a
robber,
</dt>
<dd>
and increases the unfaithful among men.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V29" id="C2023V29">23:29</a> Who has woe?
</dt>
<dd>
Who has sorrow?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has strife?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has complaints?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has needless bruises?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has bloodshot eyes?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V30" id="C2023V30">23:30</a> Those who stay long at the wine;
</dt>
<dd>
those who go to seek out mixed wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V31" id="C2023V31">23:31</a> Don't look at the wine when it is
red,
</dt>
<dd>
when it sparkles in the cup,
</dd>
<dd>
when it goes down smoothly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V32" id="C2023V32">23:32</a> In the end, it bites like a
snake,
</dt>
<dd>
and poisons like a viper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V33" id="C2023V33">23:33</a> Your eyes will see strange
things,
</dt>
<dd>
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V34" id="C2023V34">23:34</a> Yes, you will be as he who lies
down in the midst of the sea,
</dt>
<dd>
or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2023V35" id="C2023V35">23:35</a> "They hit me, and I was not
hurt!
</dt>
<dd>
They beat me, and I don't feel it!
</dd>
<dd>
When will I wake up? I can do it again.
</dd>
<dd>
I can find another."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V1" id="C2024V1">24:1</a> Don't be envious of evil men;
</dt>
<dd>
neither desire to be with them:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V2" id="C2024V2">24:2</a> for their hearts plot violence,
</dt>
<dd>
and their lips talk about mischief.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V3" id="C2024V3">24:3</a> Through wisdom a house is built;
</dt>
<dd>
by understanding it is established;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V4" id="C2024V4">24:4</a> by knowledge the rooms are filled
</dt>
<dd>
with all rare and beautiful treasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V5" id="C2024V5">24:5</a> A wise man has great power;
</dt>
<dd>
and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V6" id="C2024V6">24:6</a> for by wise guidance you wage your
war;
</dt>
<dd>
and victory is in many advisors.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V7" id="C2024V7">24:7</a> Wisdom is too high for a fool:
</dt>
<dd>
he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V8" id="C2024V8">24:8</a> One who plots to do evil
</dt>
<dd>
will be called a schemer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V9" id="C2024V9">24:9</a> The schemes of folly are sin.
</dt>
<dd>
The mocker is detested by men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V10" id="C2024V10">24:10</a> If you falter in the time of
trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
your strength is small.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V11" id="C2024V11">24:11</a> Rescue those who are being led
away to death!
</dt>
<dd>
Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V12" id="C2024V12">24:12</a> If you say, "Behold, we
didn't know this;"
</dt>
<dd>
doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it?
</dd>
<dt>
He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it?
</dt>
<dd>
Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V13" id="C2024V13">24:13</a> My son, eat honey, for it is
good;
</dt>
<dd>
the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V14" id="C2024V14">24:14</a> so you shall know wisdom to be to
your soul;
</dt>
<dd>
if you have found it, then there will be a reward,
</dd>
<dd>
your hope will not be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V15" id="C2024V15">24:15</a> Don't lay in wait, wicked man,
against the habitation of the righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't destroy his resting place:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V16" id="C2024V16">24:16</a> for a righteous man falls seven
times, and rises up again;
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V17" id="C2024V17">24:17</a> Don't rejoice when your enemy
falls.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V18" id="C2024V18">24:18</a> lest Yahweh see it, and it
displease him,
</dt>
<dd>
and he turn away his wrath from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V19" id="C2024V19">24:19</a> Don't fret yourself because of
evildoers;
</dt>
<dd>
neither be envious of the wicked:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V20" id="C2024V20">24:20</a> for there will be no reward to
the evil man;
</dt>
<dd>
and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V21" id="C2024V21">24:21</a> My son, fear Yahweh and the king.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't join those who are rebellious:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V22" id="C2024V22">24:22</a> for their calamity will rise
suddenly;
</dt>
<dd>
the destruction from them both--who knows?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2024V23" id="C2024V23">24:23</a> These also are sayings of the wise.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
To show partiality in judgment is not good.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V24" id="C2024V24">24:24</a> He who says to the wicked, "You
are righteous;"
</dt>
<dd>
peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V25" id="C2024V25">24:25</a> but it will go well with those
who convict the guilty,
</dt>
<dd>
and a rich blessing will come on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V26" id="C2024V26">24:26</a> An honest answer
</dt>
<dd>
is like a kiss on the lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V27" id="C2024V27">24:27</a> Prepare your work outside,
</dt>
<dd>
and get your fields ready.
</dd>
<dd>
Afterwards, build your house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V28" id="C2024V28">24:28</a> Don't be a witness against your
neighbor without cause.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't deceive with your lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V29" id="C2024V29">24:29</a> Don't say, "I will do to him
as he has done to me;
</dt>
<dd>
I will render to the man according to his work."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V30" id="C2024V30">24:30</a> I went by the field of the
sluggard,
</dt>
<dd>
by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V31" id="C2024V31">24:31</a> Behold, it was all grown over
with thorns.
</dt>
<dd>
Its surface was covered with nettles,
</dd>
<dd>
and its stone wall was broken down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V32" id="C2024V32">24:32</a> Then I saw, and considered well.
</dt>
<dd>
I saw, and received instruction:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V33" id="C2024V33">24:33</a> a little sleep, a little slumber,
</dt>
<dd>
a little folding of the hands to sleep;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2024V34" id="C2024V34">24:34</a> so your poverty will come as a
robber,
</dt>
<dd>
and your want as an armed man.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2025V1" id="C2025V1">25:1</a> These also are proverbs of Solomon,
which the men of Hezekiah king of Yehudah copied out.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V2" id="C2025V2">25:2</a> It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a
thing,
</dt>
<dd>
but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V3" id="C2025V3">25:3</a> As the heavens for height, and the
earth for depth,
</dt>
<dd>
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V4" id="C2025V4">25:4</a> Take away the dross from the silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and material comes out for the refiner;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V5" id="C2025V5">25:5</a> Take away the wicked from the king's
presence,
</dt>
<dd>
and his throne will be established in righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V6" id="C2025V6">25:6</a> Don't exalt yourself in the presence
of the king,
</dt>
<dd>
or claim a place among great men;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V7" id="C2025V7">25:7</a> for it is better that it be said to
you, "Come up here,"
</dt>
<dd>
than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,
</dd>
<dd>
whom your eyes have seen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V8" id="C2025V8">25:8</a> Don't be hasty in bringing charges
to court.
</dt>
<dd>
What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2025V9" id="C2025V9">25:9</a> Debate your case with your neighbor,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't betray the confidence of another;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2025V10" id="C2025V10">25:10</a> lest one who hears it put you to
shame,
</dd>
<dd>
and your bad reputation never depart.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V11" id="C2025V11">25:11</a> A word fitly spoken
</dt>
<dd>
is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V12" id="C2025V12">25:12</a> As an earring of gold, and an
ornament of fine gold,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V13" id="C2025V13">25:13</a> As the cold of snow in the time
of harvest,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
</dd>
<dd>
for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V14" id="C2025V14">25:14</a> As clouds and wind without rain,
</dt>
<dd>
so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V15" id="C2025V15">25:15</a> By patience a ruler is persuaded.
</dt>
<dd>
A soft tongue breaks the bone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V16" id="C2025V16">25:16</a> Have you found honey?
</dt>
<dd>
Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
</dd>
<dd>
lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V17" id="C2025V17">25:17</a> Let your foot be seldom in your
neighbor's house,
</dt>
<dd>
lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V18" id="C2025V18">25:18</a> A man who gives false testimony
against his neighbor
</dt>
<dd>
is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V19" id="C2025V19">25:19</a> Confidence in someone unfaithful
in time of trouble
</dt>
<dd>
is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V20" id="C2025V20">25:20</a> As one who takes away a garment
in cold weather,
</dt>
<dd>
or vinegar on soda,
</dd>
<dd>
so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V21" id="C2025V21">25:21</a> If your enemy is hungry, give him
food to eat.
</dt>
<dd>
If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V22" id="C2025V22">25:22</a> for you will heap coals of fire
on his head,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yahweh will reward you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V23" id="C2025V23">25:23</a> The north wind brings forth rain:
</dt>
<dd>
so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V24" id="C2025V24">25:24</a> It is better to dwell in the
corner of the housetop,
</dt>
<dd>
than to share a house with a contentious woman.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V25" id="C2025V25">25:25</a> Like cold water to a thirsty
soul,
</dt>
<dd>
so is good news from a far country.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V26" id="C2025V26">25:26</a> Like a muddied spring, and a
polluted well,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V27" id="C2025V27">25:27</a> It is not good to eat much honey;
</dt>
<dd>
nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2025V28" id="C2025V28">25:28</a> Like a city that is broken down
and without walls
</dt>
<dd>
is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V1" id="C2026V1">26:1</a> Like snow in summer, and as rain in
harvest,
</dt>
<dd>
so honor is not fitting for a fool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V2" id="C2026V2">26:2</a> Like a fluttering sparrow,
</dt>
<dd>
like a darting swallow,
</dd>
<dd>
so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V3" id="C2026V3">26:3</a> A whip is for the horse,
</dt>
<dd>
a bridle for the donkey,
</dd>
<dd>
and a rod for the back of fools!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V4" id="C2026V4">26:4</a> Don't answer a fool according to his
folly,
</dt>
<dd>
lest you also be like him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V5" id="C2026V5">26:5</a> Answer a fool according to his
folly,
</dt>
<dd>
lest he be wise in his own eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V6" id="C2026V6">26:6</a> One who sends a message by the hand
of a fool
</dt>
<dd>
is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V7" id="C2026V7">26:7</a> Like the legs of the lame that hang
loose:
</dt>
<dd>
so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V8" id="C2026V8">26:8</a> As one who binds a stone in a sling,
</dt>
<dd>
so is he who gives honor to a fool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V9" id="C2026V9">26:9</a> Like a thornbush that goes into the
hand of a drunkard,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V10" id="C2026V10">26:10</a> As an archer who wounds all,
</dt>
<dd>
so is he who hires a fool
</dd>
<dd>
or he who hires those who pass by.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V11" id="C2026V11">26:11</a> As a dog that returns to his
vomit,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a fool who repeats his folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V12" id="C2026V12">26:12</a> Do you see a man wise in his own
eyes?
</dt>
<dd>
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V13" id="C2026V13">26:13</a> The sluggard says, "There is
a lion in the road!
</dt>
<dd>
A fierce lion roams the streets!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V14" id="C2026V14">26:14</a> As the door turns on its hinges,
</dt>
<dd>
so does the sluggard on his bed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V15" id="C2026V15">26:15</a> The sluggard buries his hand in
the dish.
</dt>
<dd>
He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V16" id="C2026V16">26:16</a> The sluggard is wiser in his own
eyes
</dt>
<dd>
than seven men who answer with discretion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V17" id="C2026V17">26:17</a> Like one who grabs a dog's ears
</dt>
<dd>
is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V18" id="C2026V18">26:18</a> Like a madman who shoots
firebrands, arrows, and death,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C2026V19" id="C2026V19">26:19</a> is the man who deceives his
neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V20" id="C2026V20">26:20</a> For lack of wood a fire goes out.
</dt>
<dd>
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V21" id="C2026V21">26:21</a> As coals are to hot embers,
</dt>
<dd>
and wood to fire,
</dd>
<dd>
so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V22" id="C2026V22">26:22</a> The words of a whisperer are as
dainty morsels,
</dt>
<dd>
they go down into the innermost parts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V23" id="C2026V23">26:23</a> Like silver dross on an earthen
vessel
</dt>
<dd>
are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V24" id="C2026V24">26:24</a> A malicious man disguises himself
with his lips,
</dt>
<dd>
but he harbors evil in his heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V25" id="C2026V25">26:25</a> When his speech is charming,
don't believe him;
</dt>
<dd>
for there are seven abominations in his heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V26" id="C2026V26">26:26</a> His malice may be concealed by
deception,
</dt>
<dd>
but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V27" id="C2026V27">26:27</a> Whoever digs a pit shall fall
into it.
</dt>
<dd>
Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2026V28" id="C2026V28">26:28</a> A lying tongue hates those it
hurts;
</dt>
<dd>
and a flattering mouth works ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V1" id="C2027V1">27:1</a> Don't boast about tomorrow;
</dt>
<dd>
for you don't know what a day may bring forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V2" id="C2027V2">27:2</a> Let another man praise you,
</dt>
<dd>
and not your own mouth;
</dd>
<dd>
a stranger, and not your own lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V3" id="C2027V3">27:3</a> A stone is heavy,
</dt>
<dd>
and sand is a burden;
</dd>
<dd>
but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V4" id="C2027V4">27:4</a> Wrath is cruel,
</dt>
<dd>
and anger is overwhelming;
</dd>
<dd>
but who is able to stand before jealousy?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V5" id="C2027V5">27:5</a> Better is open rebuke
</dt>
<dd>
than hidden love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V6" id="C2027V6">27:6</a> Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
</dt>
<dd>
although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V7" id="C2027V7">27:7</a> A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
</dt>
<dd>
but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V8" id="C2027V8">27:8</a> As a bird that wanders from her
nest,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a man who wanders from his home.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V9" id="C2027V9">27:9</a> Perfume and incense bring joy to the
heart;
</dt>
<dd>
so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V10" id="C2027V10">27:10</a> Don't forsake your friend and
your father's friend.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster:
</dd>
<dd>
better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V11" id="C2027V11">27:11</a> Be wise, my son,
</dt>
<dd>
and bring joy to my heart,
</dd>
<dd>
then I can answer my tormentor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V12" id="C2027V12">27:12</a> A prudent man sees danger and
takes refuge;
</dt>
<dd>
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V13" id="C2027V13">27:13</a> Take his garment when he puts up
collateral for a stranger.
</dt>
<dd>
Hold it for a wayward woman!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V14" id="C2027V14">27:14</a> He who blesses his neighbor with
a loud voice early in the morning,
</dt>
<dd>
it will be taken as a curse by him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V15" id="C2027V15">27:15</a> A continual dropping on a rainy
day
</dt>
<dd>
and a contentious wife are alike:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V16" id="C2027V16">27:16</a> restraining her is like
restraining the wind,
</dt>
<dd>
or like grasping oil in his right hand.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V17" id="C2027V17">27:17</a> Iron sharpens iron;
</dt>
<dd>
so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V18" id="C2027V18">27:18</a> Whoever tends the fig tree shall
eat its fruit.
</dt>
<dd>
He who looks after his master shall be honored.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V19" id="C2027V19">27:19</a> As water reflects a face,
</dt>
<dd>
so a man's heart reflects the man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V20" id="C2027V20">27:20</a> Sheol and Abaddon are never
satisfied;
</dt>
<dd>
and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V21" id="C2027V21">27:21</a> The crucible is for silver,
</dt>
<dd>
and the furnace for gold;
</dd>
<dd>
but man is refined by his praise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V22" id="C2027V22">27:22</a> Though you grind a fool in a
mortar with a pestle along with grain,
</dt>
<dd>
yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V23" id="C2027V23">27:23</a> Know well the state of your
flocks,
</dt>
<dd>
and pay attention to your herds:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V24" id="C2027V24">27:24</a> for riches are not forever,
</dt>
<dd>
nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V25" id="C2027V25">27:25</a> The hay is removed, and the new
growth appears,
</dt>
<dd>
the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V26" id="C2027V26">27:26</a> The lambs are for your clothing,
</dt>
<dd>
and the goats are the price of a field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2027V27" id="C2027V27">27:27</a> There will be plenty of goats'
milk for your food,
</dt>
<dd>
for your family's food,
</dd>
<dd>
and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V1" id="C2028V1">28:1</a> The wicked flee when no one pursues;
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V2" id="C2028V2">28:2</a> In rebellion, a land has many
rulers,
</dt>
<dd>
but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V3" id="C2028V3">28:3</a> A needy man who oppresses the poor
</dt>
<dd>
is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V4" id="C2028V4">28:4</a> Those who forsake the Torah praise the
wicked;
</dt>
<dd>
but those who keep the Torah contend with them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V5" id="C2028V5">28:5</a> Evil men don't understand justice;
</dt>
<dd>
but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V6" id="C2028V6">28:6</a> Better is the poor who walks in his
integrity,
</dt>
<dd>
than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V7" id="C2028V7">28:7</a> Whoever keeps the Torah is a wise son;
</dt>
<dd>
but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V8" id="C2028V8">28:8</a> He who increases his wealth by
excessive interest
</dt>
<dd>
gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V9" id="C2028V9">28:9</a> He who turns away his ear from
hearing the Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
even his prayer is an abomination.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V10" id="C2028V10">28:10</a> Whoever causes the upright to go
astray in an evil way,
</dt>
<dd>
he will fall into his own trap;
</dd>
<dd>
but the blameless will inherit good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V11" id="C2028V11">28:11</a> The rich man is wise in his own
eyes;
</dt>
<dd>
but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V12" id="C2028V12">28:12</a> When the righteous triumph, there
is great glory;
</dt>
<dd>
but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V13" id="C2028V13">28:13</a> He who conceals his sins doesn't
prosper,
</dt>
<dd>
but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V14" id="C2028V14">28:14</a> Blessed is the man who always
fears;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V15" id="C2028V15">28:15</a> As a roaring lion or a charging
bear,
</dt>
<dd>
so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V16" id="C2028V16">28:16</a> A tyrannical ruler lacks
judgment.
</dt>
<dd>
One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V17" id="C2028V17">28:17</a> A man who is tormented by life
blood will be a fugitive until death;
</dt>
<dd>
no one will support him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V18" id="C2028V18">28:18</a> Whoever walks blamelessly is kept
safe;
</dt>
<dd>
but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V19" id="C2028V19">28:19</a> One who works his land will have
an abundance of food;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V20" id="C2028V20">28:20</a> A faithful man is rich with
blessings;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V21" id="C2028V21">28:21</a> To show partiality is not good;
</dt>
<dd>
yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V22" id="C2028V22">28:22</a> A stingy man hurries after
riches,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V23" id="C2028V23">28:23</a> One who rebukes a man will
afterward find more favor
</dt>
<dd>
than one who flatters with the tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V24" id="C2028V24">28:24</a> Whoever robs his father or his
mother, and says, "It's not wrong."
</dt>
<dd>
He is a partner with a destroyer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V25" id="C2028V25">28:25</a> One who is greedy stirs up
strife;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V26" id="C2028V26">28:26</a> One who trusts in himself is a
fool;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V27" id="C2028V27">28:27</a> One who gives to the poor has no
lack;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2028V28" id="C2028V28">28:28</a> When the wicked rise, men hide
themselves;
</dt>
<dd>
but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V1" id="C2029V1">29:1</a> He who is often rebuked and stiffens
his neck
</dt>
<dd>
will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V2" id="C2029V2">29:2</a> When the righteous thrive, the
people rejoice;
</dt>
<dd>
but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V3" id="C2029V3">29:3</a> Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to
his father;
</dt>
<dd>
but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V4" id="C2029V4">29:4</a> The king by justice makes the land
stable,
</dt>
<dd>
but he who takes bribes tears it down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V5" id="C2029V5">29:5</a> A man who flatters his neighbor
</dt>
<dd>
spreads a net for his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V6" id="C2029V6">29:6</a> An evil man is snared by his sin,
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous can sing and be glad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V7" id="C2029V7">29:7</a> The righteous care about justice for
the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V8" id="C2029V8">29:8</a> Mockers stir up a city,
</dt>
<dd>
but wise men turn away anger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V9" id="C2029V9">29:9</a> If a wise man goes to court with a
foolish man,
</dt>
<dd>
the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V10" id="C2029V10">29:10</a> The bloodthirsty hate a man of
integrity;
</dt>
<dd>
and they seek the life of the upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V11" id="C2029V11">29:11</a> A fool vents all of his anger,
</dt>
<dd>
but a wise man brings himself under control.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V12" id="C2029V12">29:12</a> If a ruler listens to lies,
</dt>
<dd>
all of his officials are wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V13" id="C2029V13">29:13</a> The poor man and the oppressor
have this in common:
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V14" id="C2029V14">29:14</a> The king who fairly judges the
poor,
</dt>
<dd>
his throne shall be established forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V15" id="C2029V15">29:15</a> The rod of correction gives
wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V16" id="C2029V16">29:16</a> When the wicked increase, sin
increases;
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous will see their downfall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V17" id="C2029V17">29:17</a> Correct your son, and he will
give you peace;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V18" id="C2029V18">29:18</a> Where there is no revelation, the
people cast off restraint;
</dt>
<dd>
but one who keeps the Torah is blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V19" id="C2029V19">29:19</a> A servant can't be corrected by
words.
</dt>
<dd>
Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V20" id="C2029V20">29:20</a> Do you see a man who is hasty in
his words?
</dt>
<dd>
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V21" id="C2029V21">29:21</a> He who pampers his servant from
youth
</dt>
<dd>
will have him become a son in the end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V22" id="C2029V22">29:22</a> An angry man stirs up strife,
</dt>
<dd>
and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V23" id="C2029V23">29:23</a> A man's pride brings him low,
</dt>
<dd>
but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V24" id="C2029V24">29:24</a> Whoever is an accomplice of a
thief is an enemy of his own soul.
</dt>
<dd>
He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V25" id="C2029V25">29:25</a> The fear of man proves to be a
snare,
</dt>
<dd>
but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V26" id="C2029V26">29:26</a> Many seek the ruler's favor,
</dt>
<dd>
but a man's justice comes from Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2029V27" id="C2029V27">29:27</a> A dishonest man detests the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2030V1" id="C2030V1">30:1</a> The words of Agur the son of Jakeh,
the oracle:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
the man says to Ithiel,
</dt>
<dd>
to Ithiel and Ucal:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V2" id="C2030V2">30:2</a> "Surely I am the most ignorant
man,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't have a man's understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V3" id="C2030V3">30:3</a> I have not learned wisdom,
</dt>
<dd>
neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V4" id="C2030V4">30:4</a> Who has ascended up into heaven, and
descended?
</dt>
<dd>
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has bound the waters in his garment?
</dd>
<dd>
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
</dd>
<dd>
What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V5" id="C2030V5">30:5</a> "Every word of Elohim is flawless.
</dt>
<dd>
He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V6" id="C2030V6">30:6</a> Don't you add to his words,
</dt>
<dd>
lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V7" id="C2030V7">30:7</a> "Two things I have asked of
you;
</dt>
<dd>
don't deny me before I die:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V8" id="C2030V8">30:8</a> Remove far from me falsehood and
lies.
</dt>
<dd>
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
</dd>
<dd>
Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V9" id="C2030V9">30:9</a> lest I be full, deny you, and say,
'Who is Yahweh?'
</dt>
<dd>
or lest I be poor, and steal,
</dd>
<dd>
and so dishonor the name of my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V10" id="C2030V10">30:10</a> "Don't slander a servant to
his master,
</dt>
<dd>
lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V11" id="C2030V11">30:11</a> There is a generation that curses
their father,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't bless their mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V12" id="C2030V12">30:12</a> There is a generation that is
pure in their own eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
yet are not washed from their filthiness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V13" id="C2030V13">30:13</a> There is a generation, oh how
lofty are their eyes!
</dt>
<dd>
Their eyelids are lifted up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V14" id="C2030V14">30:14</a> There is a generation whose teeth
are like swords,
</dt>
<dd>
and their jaws like knives,
</dd>
<dd>
to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V15" id="C2030V15">30:15</a> "The leach has two
daughters:
</dt>
<dd>
'Give, give.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
"There are three things that are never satisfied;
</dt>
<dd>
four that don't say, 'Enough:'
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V16" id="C2030V16">30:16</a> Sheol,
</dd>
<dd>
the barren womb;
</dd>
<dd>
the earth that is not satisfied with water;
</dd>
<dd>
and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V17" id="C2030V17">30:17</a> "The eye that mocks at his
father,
</dt>
<dd>
and scorns obedience to his mother:
</dd>
<dd>
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
</dd>
<dd>
the young eagles shall eat it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V18" id="C2030V18">30:18</a> "There are three things
which are too amazing for me,
</dt>
<dd>
four which I don't understand:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V19" id="C2030V19">30:19</a> The way of an eagle in the air;
</dd>
<dd>
the way of a serpent on a rock;
</dd>
<dd>
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea;
</dd>
<dd>
and the way of a man with a maiden.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V20" id="C2030V20">30:20</a> "So is the way of an
adulterous woman:
</dt>
<dd>
she eats and wipes her mouth,
</dd>
<dd>
and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V21" id="C2030V21">30:21</a> "For three things the earth
tremble,
</dt>
<dd>
and under four, it can't bear up:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V22" id="C2030V22">30:22</a> For a servant when he is king;
</dd>
<dd>
a fool when he is filled with food;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V23" id="C2030V23">30:23</a> for an unloved woman when she is
married;
</dd>
<dd>
and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V24" id="C2030V24">30:24</a> "There are four things which
are little on the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
but they are exceedingly wise:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V25" id="C2030V25">30:25</a> the ants are not a strong people,
</dd>
<dd>
yet they provide their food in the summer.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V26" id="C2030V26">30:26</a> The conies are but a feeble folk,
</dd>
<dd>
yet make they their houses in the rocks.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V27" id="C2030V27">30:27</a> The locusts have no king,
</dd>
<dd>
yet they advance in ranks.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V28" id="C2030V28">30:28</a> You can catch a lizard with your
hands,
</dd>
<dd>
yet it is in kings' palaces.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V29" id="C2030V29">30:29</a> "There are three things
which are stately in their march,
</dt>
<dd>
four which are stately in going:
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V30" id="C2030V30">30:30</a> The lion, which is mightiest
among animals,
</dd>
<dd>
and doesn't turn away for any;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V31" id="C2030V31">30:31</a> the greyhound,
</dd>
<dd>
the male goat also;
</dd>
<dd>
and the king against whom there is no rising up.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2030V32" id="C2030V32">30:32</a> "If you have done foolishly
in lifting up yourself,
</dt>
<dd>
or if you have thought evil,
</dd>
<dt>
put your hand over your mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C2030V33" id="C2030V33">30:33</a> For as the churning of milk
brings forth butter,
</dd>
<dd>
and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood;
</dd>
<dd>
so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C2031V1" id="C2031V1">31:1</a> The words of king Lemuel; the oracle
which his mother taught him.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V2" id="C2031V2">31:2</a> "Oh, my son!
</dt>
<dd>
Oh, son of my womb!
</dd>
<dd>
Oh, son of my vows!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V3" id="C2031V3">31:3</a> Don't give your strength to women,
</dt>
<dd>
nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V4" id="C2031V4">31:4</a> It is not for kings, Lemuel;
</dt>
<dd>
it is not for kings to drink wine;
</dd>
<dd>
nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V5" id="C2031V5">31:5</a> lest they drink, and forget the Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V6" id="C2031V6">31:6</a> Give strong drink to him who is
ready to perish;
</dt>
<dd>
and wine to the bitter in soul:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V7" id="C2031V7">31:7</a> Let him drink, and forget his
poverty,
</dt>
<dd>
and remember his misery no more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V8" id="C2031V8">31:8</a> Open your mouth for the mute,
</dt>
<dd>
in the cause of all who are left desolate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V9" id="C2031V9">31:9</a> Open your mouth, judge righteously,
</dt>
<dd>
and serve justice to the poor and needy."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V10" id="C2031V10">31:10</a> <sup><a href="#N201">[1]</a></sup>Who
can find a worthy woman?
</dt>
<dd>
For her price is far above rubies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V11" id="C2031V11">31:11</a> The heart of her husband trusts
in her.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall have no lack of gain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V12" id="C2031V12">31:12</a> She does him good, and not harm,
</dt>
<dd>
all the days of her life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V13" id="C2031V13">31:13</a> She seeks wool and flax,
</dt>
<dd>
and works eagerly with her hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V14" id="C2031V14">31:14</a> She is like the merchant ships.
</dt>
<dd>
She brings her bread from afar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V15" id="C2031V15">31:15</a> She rises also while it is yet
night,
</dt>
<dd>
gives food to her household,
</dd>
<dd>
and portions for her servant girls.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V16" id="C2031V16">31:16</a> She considers a field, and buys
it.
</dt>
<dd>
With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V17" id="C2031V17">31:17</a> She girds her waist with
strength,
</dt>
<dd>
and makes her arms strong.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V18" id="C2031V18">31:18</a> She perceives that her
merchandise is profitable.
</dt>
<dd>
Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V19" id="C2031V19">31:19</a> She lays her hands to the
distaff,
</dt>
<dd>
and her hands hold the spindle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V20" id="C2031V20">31:20</a> She opens her arms to the poor;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V21" id="C2031V21">31:21</a> She is not afraid of the snow for
her household;
</dt>
<dd>
for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V22" id="C2031V22">31:22</a> She makes for herself carpets of
tapestry.
</dt>
<dd>
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V23" id="C2031V23">31:23</a> Her husband is respected in the
gates,
</dt>
<dd>
when he sits among the elders of the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V24" id="C2031V24">31:24</a> She makes linen garments and
sells them,
</dt>
<dd>
and delivers sashes to the merchant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V25" id="C2031V25">31:25</a> Strength and dignity are her
clothing.
</dt>
<dd>
She laughs at the time to come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V26" id="C2031V26">31:26</a> She opens her mouth with wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V27" id="C2031V27">31:27</a> She looks well to the ways of her
household,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V28" id="C2031V28">31:28</a> Her children rise up and call her
blessed.
</dt>
<dd>
Her husband also praises her:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V29" id="C2031V29">31:29</a> "Many women do noble things,
</dt>
<dd>
but you excel them all."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V30" id="C2031V30">31:30</a> Charm is deceitful, and beauty is
vain;
</dt>
<dd>
but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C2031V31" id="C2031V31">31:31</a> Give her of the fruit of her
hands!
</dt>
<dd>
Let her works praise her in the gates!
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N201" id="N201">[1]</a> <a href="#C2031V10">back to 31:10</a> Proverbs
31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of
the Hebrew alphabet, in order.
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 100
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19100V1" id="C19100V1">100:1</a> Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you
lands!
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19100V2" id="C19100V2">100:2</a> Serve Yahweh with gladness.
</dd>
<dd>
Come before his presence with singing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19100V3" id="C19100V3">100:3</a> Know that Yahweh, he is Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
It is he who has made us, and we are his.
</dd>
<dd>
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19100V4" id="C19100V4">100:4</a> Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving,
</dt>
<dd>
into his courts with praise.
</dd>
<dd>
Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19100V5" id="C19100V5">100:5</a> For Yahweh is good.
</dt>
<dd>
His loving kindness endures forever,
</dd>
<dd>
his faithfulness to all generations.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 101
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V1" id="C19101V1">101:1</a> I will sing of loving kindness
and justice.
</dt>
<dd>
To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V2" id="C19101V2">101:2</a> I will be careful to live a
blameless life.
</dt>
<dd>
When will you come to me?
</dd>
<dd>
I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V3" id="C19101V3">101:3</a> I will set no vile thing before
my eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
I hate the deeds of faithless men.
</dd>
<dd>
They will not cling to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V4" id="C19101V4">101:4</a> A perverse heart will be far from
me.
</dt>
<dd>
I will have nothing to do with evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V5" id="C19101V5">101:5</a> I will silence whoever secretly
slanders his neighbor.
</dt>
<dd>
I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V6" id="C19101V6">101:6</a> My eyes will be on the faithful
of the land,
</dt>
<dd>
that they may dwell with me.
</dd>
<dt>
He who walks in a perfect way,
</dt>
<dd>
he will serve me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V7" id="C19101V7">101:7</a> He who practices deceit won't
dwell within my house.
</dt>
<dd>
He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19101V8" id="C19101V8">101:8</a> Morning by morning, I will
destroy all the wicked of the land;
</dt>
<dd>
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 102
</h2>
<p>
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his
complaint before Yahweh.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V1" id="C19102V1">102:1</a> Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Let my cry come to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V2" id="C19102V2">102:2</a> Don't hide your face from me in
the day of my distress.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to me.
</dd>
<dd>
Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V3" id="C19102V3">102:3</a> For my days consume away like
smoke.
</dt>
<dd>
My bones are burned as a firebrand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V4" id="C19102V4">102:4</a> My heart is blighted like grass,
and withered,
</dt>
<dd>
for I forget to eat my bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V5" id="C19102V5">102:5</a> By reason of the voice of my
groaning,
</dt>
<dd>
my bones stick to my skin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V6" id="C19102V6">102:6</a> I am like a pelican of the
wilderness.
</dt>
<dd>
I have become as an owl of the waste places.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19102V7" id="C19102V7">102:7</a> I watch, and have become like a
sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V8" id="C19102V8">102:8</a> My enemies reproach me all day.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V9" id="C19102V9">102:9</a> For I have eaten ashes like
bread,
</dt>
<dd>
and mixed my drink with tears,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V10" id="C19102V10">102:10</a> Because of your indignation
and your wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V11" id="C19102V11">102:11</a> My days are like a long
shadow.
</dt>
<dd>
I have withered like grass.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V12" id="C19102V12">102:12</a> But you, Yahweh, will abide
forever;
</dt>
<dd>
your renown endures to all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V13" id="C19102V13">102:13</a> You will arise and have mercy
on Zion;
</dt>
<dd>
for it is time to have pity on her.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, the set time has come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V14" id="C19102V14">102:14</a> For your servants take
pleasure in her stones,
</dt>
<dd>
and have pity on her dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V15" id="C19102V15">102:15</a> So the nations will fear the
name of Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
all the kings of the earth your glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V16" id="C19102V16">102:16</a> For Yahweh has built up Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
He has appeared in his glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V17" id="C19102V17">102:17</a> He has responded to the prayer
of the destitute,
</dt>
<dd>
and has not despised their prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V18" id="C19102V18">102:18</a> This will be written for the
generation to come.
</dt>
<dd>
A people which will be created will praise Yah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V19" id="C19102V19">102:19</a> For he has looked down from
the height of his sanctuary.
</dt>
<dd>
From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V20" id="C19102V20">102:20</a> to hear the groans of the
prisoner;
</dt>
<dd>
to free those who are condemned to death;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V21" id="C19102V21">102:21</a> that men may declare the name
of Yahweh in Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and his praise in Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V22" id="C19102V22">102:22</a> when the peoples are gathered
together,
</dt>
<dd>
the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V23" id="C19102V23">102:23</a> He weakened my strength along
the course.
</dt>
<dd>
He shortened my days.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V24" id="C19102V24">102:24</a> I said, "My Elohim, don't
take me away in the midst of my days.
</dt>
<dd>
Your years are throughout all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V25" id="C19102V25">102:25</a> Of old, you laid the
foundation of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The heavens are the work of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V26" id="C19102V26">102:26</a> They will perish, but you will
endure.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
</dd>
<dd>
You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V27" id="C19102V27">102:27</a> But you are the same.
</dt>
<dd>
Your years will have no end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19102V28" id="C19102V28">102:28</a> The children of your servants
will continue.
</dt>
<dd>
Their seed will be established before you."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 103
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V1" id="C19103V1">103:1</a> Praise Yahweh, my soul!
</dt>
<dd>
All that is within me, praise his holy name!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V2" id="C19103V2">103:2</a> Praise Yahweh, my soul,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't forget all his benefits;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V3" id="C19103V3">103:3</a> who forgives all your sins;
</dt>
<dd>
who heals all your diseases;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V4" id="C19103V4">103:4</a> who redeems your life from
destruction;
</dt>
<dd>
who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V5" id="C19103V5">103:5</a> who satisfies your desire with
good things,
</dt>
<dd>
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V6" id="C19103V6">103:6</a> Yahweh executes righteous acts,
</dt>
<dd>
and justice for all who are oppressed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V7" id="C19103V7">103:7</a> He made known his ways to Moshe,
</dt>
<dd>
his deeds to the children of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V8" id="C19103V8">103:8</a> Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
</dt>
<dd>
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V9" id="C19103V9">103:9</a> He will not always accuse;
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he stay angry forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V10" id="C19103V10">103:10</a> He has not dealt with us
according to our sins,
</dt>
<dd>
nor repaid us for our iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V11" id="C19103V11">103:11</a> For as the heavens are high
above the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V12" id="C19103V12">103:12</a> As far as the east is from the
west,
</dt>
<dd>
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V13" id="C19103V13">103:13</a> Like a father has compassion
on his children,
</dt>
<dd>
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V14" id="C19103V14">103:14</a> For he knows how we are made.
</dt>
<dd>
He remembers that we are dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V15" id="C19103V15">103:15</a> As for man, his days are like
grass.
</dt>
<dd>
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V16" id="C19103V16">103:16</a> For the wind passes over it,
and it is gone.
</dt>
<dd>
Its place remembers it no more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V17" id="C19103V17">103:17</a> But Yahweh's loving kindness
is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
</dt>
<dd>
his righteousness to children's children;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V18" id="C19103V18">103:18</a> to those who keep his
covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
to those who remember to obey his precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V19" id="C19103V19">103:19</a> Yahweh has established his
throne in the heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
His kingdom rules over all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V20" id="C19103V20">103:20</a> Praise Yahweh, you angels of
his,
</dt>
<dd>
who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,
</dd>
<dd>
obeying the voice of his word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V21" id="C19103V21">103:21</a> Praise Yahweh, all you armies
of his,
</dt>
<dd>
you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19103V22" id="C19103V22">103:22</a> Praise Yahweh, all you works
of his,
</dt>
<dd>
in all places of his dominion.
</dd>
<dd>
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 104
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V1" id="C19104V1">104:1</a> Bless Yahweh, my soul.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, my Elohim, you are very great.
</dd>
<dd>
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V2" id="C19104V2">104:2</a> He covers himself with light as
with a garment.
</dt>
<dd>
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V3" id="C19104V3">104:3</a> He lays the beams of his chambers
in the waters.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes the clouds his chariot.
</dd>
<dd>
He walks on the wings of the wind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V4" id="C19104V4">104:4</a> He makes his <a href="#N198">messengers</a>
winds;
</dt>
<dd>
his servants flames of fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V5" id="C19104V5">104:5</a> He laid the foundations of the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
that it should not be moved forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V6" id="C19104V6">104:6</a> You covered it with the deep as
with a cloak.
</dt>
<dd>
The waters stood above the mountains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V7" id="C19104V7">104:7</a> At your rebuke they fled.
</dt>
<dd>
At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V8" id="C19104V8">104:8</a> The mountains rose,
</dt>
<dd>
the valleys sank down,
</dd>
<dd>
to the place which you had assigned to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V9" id="C19104V9">104:9</a> You have set a boundary that they
may not pass over;
</dt>
<dd>
that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V10" id="C19104V10">104:10</a> He sends forth springs into
the valleys.
</dt>
<dd>
They run among the mountains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V11" id="C19104V11">104:11</a> They give drink to every
animal of the field.
</dt>
<dd>
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V12" id="C19104V12">104:12</a> The birds of the sky nest by
them.
</dt>
<dd>
They sing among the branches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V13" id="C19104V13">104:13</a> He waters the mountains from
his chambers.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V14" id="C19104V14">104:14</a> He causes the grass to grow
for the livestock,
</dt>
<dd>
and plants for man to cultivate,
</dd>
<dd>
that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V15" id="C19104V15">104:15</a> wine that makes glad the heart
of man,
</dt>
<dd>
oil to make his face to shine,
</dd>
<dd>
and bread that strengthens man's heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V16" id="C19104V16">104:16</a> Yahweh's trees are well
watered,
</dt>
<dd>
the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V17" id="C19104V17">104:17</a> where the birds make their
nests.
</dt>
<dd>
The stork makes its home in the fir trees.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V18" id="C19104V18">104:18</a> The high mountains are for the
wild goats.
</dt>
<dd>
The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V19" id="C19104V19">104:19</a> He appointed the moon for
seasons.
</dt>
<dd>
The sun knows when to set.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V20" id="C19104V20">104:20</a> You make darkness, and it is
night,
</dt>
<dd>
in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V21" id="C19104V21">104:21</a> The young lions roar after
their prey,
</dt>
<dd>
and seek their food from Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V22" id="C19104V22">104:22</a> The sun rises, and they steal
away,
</dt>
<dd>
and lay down in their dens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V23" id="C19104V23">104:23</a> Man goes forth to his work,
</dt>
<dd>
to his labor until the evening.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V24" id="C19104V24">104:24</a> Yahweh, how many are your
works!
</dt>
<dd>
In wisdom have you made them all.
</dd>
<dd>
The earth is full of your riches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V25" id="C19104V25">104:25</a> There is the sea, great and
wide,
</dt>
<dd>
in which are innumerable living things,
</dd>
<dd>
both small and large animals.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V26" id="C19104V26">104:26</a> There the ships go,
</dt>
<dd>
and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V27" id="C19104V27">104:27</a> These all wait for you,
</dt>
<dd>
that you may give them their food in due season.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V28" id="C19104V28">104:28</a> You give to them; they gather.
</dt>
<dd>
You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V29" id="C19104V29">104:29</a> You hide your face: they are
troubled;
</dt>
<dd>
you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V30" id="C19104V30">104:30</a> You send forth your Spirit:
they are created.
</dt>
<dd>
You renew the face of the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V31" id="C19104V31">104:31</a> Let the glory of Yahweh endure
forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V32" id="C19104V32">104:32</a> He looks at the earth, and it
trembles.
</dt>
<dd>
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V33" id="C19104V33">104:33</a> I will sing to Yahweh as long
as I live.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praise to my Elohim while I have any being.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V34" id="C19104V34">104:34</a> Let your meditation be sweet
to him.
</dt>
<dd>
I will rejoice in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19104V35" id="C19104V35">104:35</a> Let sinners be consumed out of
the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the wicked be no more.
</dd>
<dd>
Bless Yahweh, my soul.
</dd>
<dd>
Praise Yah!
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N198" id="N198">[8]</a> <a href="#C19104V4">back to 104:4</a> or,
angels
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 105
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V1" id="C19105V1">105:1</a> Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on
his name!
</dt>
<dd>
Make his doings known among the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V2" id="C19105V2">105:2</a> Sing to him, sing praises to him!
</dt>
<dd>
Tell of all his marvelous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V3" id="C19105V3">105:3</a> Glory in his holy name.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V4" id="C19105V4">105:4</a> Seek Yahweh and his strength.
</dt>
<dd>
Seek his face forever more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V5" id="C19105V5">105:5</a> Remember his marvelous works that
he has done;
</dt>
<dd>
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V6" id="C19105V6">105:6</a> you seed of Avraham, his servant,
</dt>
<dd>
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V7" id="C19105V7">105:7</a> He is Yahweh, our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
His judgments are in all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V8" id="C19105V8">105:8</a> He has remembered his covenant
forever,
</dt>
<dd>
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V9" id="C19105V9">105:9</a> the covenant which he made with
Avraham,
</dt>
<dd>
his oath to Isaac,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V10" id="C19105V10">105:10</a> and confirmed the same to
Jacob for a statute;
</dt>
<dd>
to Yisrael for an everlasting covenant,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V11" id="C19105V11">105:11</a> saying, "To you I will
give the land of Canaan,
</dt>
<dd>
the lot of your inheritance;"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V12" id="C19105V12">105:12</a> when they were but a few men
in number,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V13" id="C19105V13">105:13</a> They went about from nation to
nation,
</dt>
<dd>
from one kingdom to another people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V14" id="C19105V14">105:14</a> He allowed no one to do them
wrong.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V15" id="C19105V15">105:15</a> "Don't touch my anointed
ones!
</dt>
<dd>
Do my prophets no harm!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V16" id="C19105V16">105:16</a> He called for a famine on the
land.
</dt>
<dd>
He destroyed the food supplies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V17" id="C19105V17">105:17</a> He sent a man before them.
</dt>
<dd>
Joseph was sold for a slave.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V18" id="C19105V18">105:18</a> They bruised his feet with
shackles.
</dt>
<dd>
His neck was locked in irons,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V19" id="C19105V19">105:19</a> until the time that his word
happened,
</dt>
<dd>
and Yahweh's word proved him true.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V20" id="C19105V20">105:20</a> The king sent and freed him;
</dt>
<dd>
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V21" id="C19105V21">105:21</a> He made him lord of his house,
</dt>
<dd>
and ruler of all of his possessions;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V22" id="C19105V22">105:22</a> to discipline his princes at
his pleasure,
</dt>
<dd>
and to teach his elders wisdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V23" id="C19105V23">105:23</a> Yisrael also came into Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V24" id="C19105V24">105:24</a> He increased his people
greatly,
</dt>
<dd>
and made them stronger than their adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V25" id="C19105V25">105:25</a> He turned their heart to hate
his people,
</dt>
<dd>
to conspire against his servants.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V26" id="C19105V26">105:26</a> He sent Moshe, his servant,
</dt>
<dd>
and Aharon, whom he had chosen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V27" id="C19105V27">105:27</a> They performed miracles among
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and wonders in the land of Ham.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V28" id="C19105V28">105:28</a> He sent darkness, and made it
dark.
</dt>
<dd>
They didn't rebel against his words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V29" id="C19105V29">105:29</a> He turned their waters into
blood,
</dt>
<dd>
and killed their fish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V30" id="C19105V30">105:30</a> Their land swarmed with frogs,
</dt>
<dd>
even in the chambers of their kings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V31" id="C19105V31">105:31</a> He spoke, and swarms of flies
came,
</dt>
<dd>
and lice in all their borders.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V32" id="C19105V32">105:32</a> He gave them hail for rain,
</dt>
<dd>
with lightning in their land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V33" id="C19105V33">105:33</a> He struck their vines and also
their fig trees,
</dt>
<dd>
and shattered the trees of their country.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V34" id="C19105V34">105:34</a> He spoke, and the locusts
came,
</dt>
<dd>
and the grasshoppers, without number,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V35" id="C19105V35">105:35</a> ate up every plant in their
land;
</dt>
<dd>
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V36" id="C19105V36">105:36</a> He struck also all the
firstborn in their land,
</dt>
<dd>
the first fruits of all their manhood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V37" id="C19105V37">105:37</a> He brought them forth with
silver and gold.
</dt>
<dd>
There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V38" id="C19105V38">105:38</a> Egypt was glad when they
departed,
</dt>
<dd>
for the fear of them had fallen on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V39" id="C19105V39">105:39</a> He spread a cloud for a
covering,
</dt>
<dd>
fire to give light in the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V40" id="C19105V40">105:40</a> They asked, and he brought
quails,
</dt>
<dd>
and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V41" id="C19105V41">105:41</a> He opened the rock, and waters
gushed out.
</dt>
<dd>
They ran as a river in the dry places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V42" id="C19105V42">105:42</a> For he remembered his holy
word,
</dt>
<dd>
and Avraham, his servant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V43" id="C19105V43">105:43</a> He brought forth his people
with joy,
</dt>
<dd>
his chosen with singing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V44" id="C19105V44">105:44</a> He gave them the lands of the
nations.
</dt>
<dd>
They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19105V45" id="C19105V45">105:45</a> that they might keep his
statutes,
</dt>
<dd>
and observe his laws.
</dd>
<dd>
Praise Yah!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 106
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V1" id="C19106V1">106:1</a> Praise Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
</dd>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V2" id="C19106V2">106:2</a> Who can utter the mighty acts of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
or fully declare all his praise?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V3" id="C19106V3">106:3</a> Blessed are those who keep
justice.
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V4" id="C19106V4">106:4</a> Remember me, Yahweh, with the
favor that you show to your people.
</dt>
<dd>
Visit me with your salvation,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V5" id="C19106V5">106:5</a> that I may see the prosperity of
your chosen,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
</dd>
<dd>
that I may glory with your inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V6" id="C19106V6">106:6</a> We have sinned with our fathers.
</dt>
<dd>
We have committed iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
We have done wickedly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V7" id="C19106V7">106:7</a> Our fathers didn't understand
your wonders in Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,
</dd>
<dd>
but were rebellious at the sea, even at the <a href="#N199">Red Sea</a>.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V8" id="C19106V8">106:8</a> Nevertheless he saved them for
his name's sake,
</dt>
<dd>
that he might make his mighty power known.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V9" id="C19106V9">106:9</a> He rebuked the <a href="#N1910">Red
Sea</a> also, and it was dried up;
</dt>
<dd>
so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V10" id="C19106V10">106:10</a> He saved them from the hand of
him who hated them,
</dt>
<dd>
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V11" id="C19106V11">106:11</a> The waters covered their
adversaries.
</dt>
<dd>
There was not one of them left.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V12" id="C19106V12">106:12</a> Then they believed his words.
</dt>
<dd>
They sang his praise.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V13" id="C19106V13">106:13</a> They soon forgot his works.
</dt>
<dd>
They didn't wait for his counsel,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V14" id="C19106V14">106:14</a> but gave in to craving in the
desert,
</dd>
<dd>
and tested Elohim in the wasteland.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V15" id="C19106V15">106:15</a> He gave them their request,
</dt>
<dd>
but sent leanness into their soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V16" id="C19106V16">106:16</a> They envied Moshe also in the
camp,
</dt>
<dd>
and Aharon, Yahweh's saint.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V17" id="C19106V17">106:17</a> The earth opened and swallowed
up Dathan,
</dt>
<dd>
and covered the company of Abiram.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V18" id="C19106V18">106:18</a> A fire was kindled in their
company.
</dt>
<dd>
The flame burned up the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V19" id="C19106V19">106:19</a> They made a calf in Horeb,
</dt>
<dd>
and worshiped a molten image.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V20" id="C19106V20">106:20</a> Thus they exchanged their
glory
</dt>
<dd>
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V21" id="C19106V21">106:21</a> They forgot Elohim, their Savior,
</dt>
<dd>
who had done great things in Egypt,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V22" id="C19106V22">106:22</a> Wondrous works in the land of
Ham,
</dd>
<dd>
and awesome things by the <a href="#N1911">Red Sea</a>.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V23" id="C19106V23">106:23</a> Therefore he said that he
would destroy them,
</dt>
<dd>
had Moshe, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
</dd>
<dd>
to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V24" id="C19106V24">106:24</a> Yes, they despised the
pleasant land.
</dt>
<dd>
They didn't believe his word,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V25" id="C19106V25">106:25</a> but murmured in their tents,
</dd>
<dd>
and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V26" id="C19106V26">106:26</a> Therefore he swore to them
</dt>
<dd>
that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V27" id="C19106V27">106:27</a> that he would overthrow their
seed among the nations,
</dd>
<dd>
and scatter them in the lands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V28" id="C19106V28">106:28</a> They joined themselves also to
Baal Peor,
</dt>
<dd>
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V29" id="C19106V29">106:29</a> Thus they provoked him to
anger with their deeds.
</dt>
<dd>
The plague broke in on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V30" id="C19106V30">106:30</a> Then Phinehas stood up, and
executed judgment,
</dt>
<dd>
so the plague was stopped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V31" id="C19106V31">106:31</a> That was credited to him for
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
for all generations to come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V32" id="C19106V32">106:32</a> They angered him also at the
waters of Meribah,
</dt>
<dd>
so that Moshe was troubled for their sakes;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V33" id="C19106V33">106:33</a> because they were rebellious
against his spirit,
</dt>
<dd>
he spoke rashly with his lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V34" id="C19106V34">106:34</a> They didn't destroy the
peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
as Yahweh commanded them,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V35" id="C19106V35">106:35</a> but mixed themselves with the
nations,
</dd>
<dd>
and learned their works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V36" id="C19106V36">106:36</a> They served their idols,
</dt>
<dd>
which became a snare to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V37" id="C19106V37">106:37</a> Yes, they sacrificed their
sons and their daughters to demons.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19106V38" id="C19106V38">106:38</a> They shed innocent blood,
</dd>
<dd>
even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
</dd>
<dd>
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
</dd>
<dd>
The land was polluted with blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V39" id="C19106V39">106:39</a> Thus were they defiled with
their works,
</dt>
<dd>
and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V40" id="C19106V40">106:40</a> Therefore Yahweh burned with
anger against his people.
</dt>
<dd>
He abhorred his inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V41" id="C19106V41">106:41</a> He gave them into the hand of
the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who hated them ruled over them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V42" id="C19106V42">106:42</a> Their enemies also oppressed
them.
</dt>
<dd>
They were brought into subjection under their hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V43" id="C19106V43">106:43</a> Many times he delivered them,
</dt>
<dd>
but they were rebellious in their counsel,
</dd>
<dd>
and were brought low in their iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V44" id="C19106V44">106:44</a> Nevertheless he regarded their
distress,
</dt>
<dd>
when he heard their cry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V45" id="C19106V45">106:45</a> He remembered for them his
covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V46" id="C19106V46">106:46</a> He made them also to be pitied
</dt>
<dd>
by all those who carried them captive.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V47" id="C19106V47">106:47</a> Save us, Yahweh, our Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
gather us from among the nations,
</dd>
<dd>
to give thanks to your holy name,
</dd>
<dd>
to triumph in your praise!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19106V48" id="C19106V48">106:48</a> Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
from everlasting even to everlasting!
</dd>
<dt>
Let all the people say, "Amen."
</dt>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N199" id="N199">[9]</a> <a href="#C19106V7">back to 106:7</a> or, Sea
of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N1910" id="N1910">[10]</a> <a href="#C19106V9">back to 106:9</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N1911" id="N1911">[11]</a> <a href="#C19106V22">back to 106:22</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
BOOK V
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 107
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V1" id="C19107V1">107:1</a> Give thanks to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for he is good,
</dd>
<dt>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V2" id="C19107V2">107:2</a> Let the redeemed by Yahweh say
so,
</dt>
<dd>
whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19107V3" id="C19107V3">107:3</a> And gathered out of the lands,
</dd>
<dd>
from the east and from the west,
</dd>
<dd>
from the north and from the south.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V4" id="C19107V4">107:4</a> They wandered in the wilderness
in a desert way.
</dt>
<dd>
They found no city to live in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V5" id="C19107V5">107:5</a> Hungry and thirsty,
</dt>
<dd>
their soul fainted in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V6" id="C19107V6">107:6</a> Then they cried to Yahweh in
their trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
and he delivered them out of their distresses,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V7" id="C19107V7">107:7</a> he led them also by a straight
way,
</dt>
<dd>
that they might go to a city to live in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V8" id="C19107V8">107:8</a> Let them praise Yahweh for his
loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V9" id="C19107V9">107:9</a> For he satisfies the longing
soul.
</dt>
<dd>
He fills the hungry soul with good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V10" id="C19107V10">107:10</a> Some sat in darkness and in
the shadow of death,
</dt>
<dd>
being bound in affliction and iron,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19107V11" id="C19107V11">107:11</a> because they rebelled against
the words of Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V12" id="C19107V12">107:12</a> Therefore he brought down
their heart with labor.
</dt>
<dd>
They fell down, and there was none to help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V13" id="C19107V13">107:13</a> Then they cried to Yahweh in
their trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
and he saved them out of their distresses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V14" id="C19107V14">107:14</a> He brought them out of
darkness and the shadow of death,
</dt>
<dd>
and broke their bonds in sunder.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V15" id="C19107V15">107:15</a> Let them praise Yahweh for his
loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V16" id="C19107V16">107:16</a> For he has broken the gates of
brass,
</dt>
<dd>
and cut through bars of iron.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V17" id="C19107V17">107:17</a> Fools are afflicted because of
their disobedience,
</dt>
<dd>
and because of their iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V18" id="C19107V18">107:18</a> Their soul abhors all kinds of
food.
</dt>
<dd>
They draw near to the gates of death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V19" id="C19107V19">107:19</a> Then they cry to Yahweh in
their trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
he saves them out of their distresses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V20" id="C19107V20">107:20</a> He sends his word, and heals
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and delivers them from their graves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V21" id="C19107V21">107:21</a> Let them praise Yahweh for his
loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V22" id="C19107V22">107:22</a> Let them offer the sacrifices
of thanksgiving,
</dt>
<dd>
and declare his works with singing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V23" id="C19107V23">107:23</a> Those who go down to the sea
in ships,
</dt>
<dd>
who do business in great waters;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19107V24" id="C19107V24">107:24</a> These see Yahweh's works,
</dd>
<dd>
and his wonders in the deep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V25" id="C19107V25">107:25</a> For he commands, and raises
the stormy wind,
</dt>
<dd>
which lifts up its waves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V26" id="C19107V26">107:26</a> They mount up to the sky; they
go down again to the depths.
</dt>
<dd>
Their soul melts away because of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V27" id="C19107V27">107:27</a> They reel back and forth, and
stagger like a drunken man,
</dt>
<dd>
and are at their wits' end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V28" id="C19107V28">107:28</a> Then they cry to Yahweh in
their trouble,
</dt>
<dd>
and he brings them out of their distress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V29" id="C19107V29">107:29</a> He makes the storm a calm,
</dt>
<dd>
so that its waves are still.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V30" id="C19107V30">107:30</a> Then they are glad because it
is calm,
</dt>
<dd>
so he brings them to their desired haven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V31" id="C19107V31">107:31</a> Let them praise Yahweh for his
loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for his wonderful works for the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V32" id="C19107V32">107:32</a> Let them exalt him also in the
assembly of the people,
</dt>
<dd>
and praise him in the seat of the elders.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V33" id="C19107V33">107:33</a> He turns rivers into a desert,
</dt>
<dd>
water springs into a thirsty ground,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19107V34" id="C19107V34">107:34</a> and a fruitful land into a
salt waste,
</dd>
<dd>
for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V35" id="C19107V35">107:35</a> He turns a desert into a pool
of water,
</dt>
<dd>
and a dry land into water springs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V36" id="C19107V36">107:36</a> There he makes the hungry
live,
</dt>
<dd>
that they may prepare a city to live in,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19107V37" id="C19107V37">107:37</a> sow fields, plant vineyards,
</dd>
<dd>
and reap the fruits of increase.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V38" id="C19107V38">107:38</a> He blesses them also, so that
they are multiplied greatly.
</dt>
<dd>
He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V39" id="C19107V39">107:39</a> Again, they are diminished and
bowed down
</dt>
<dd>
through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V40" id="C19107V40">107:40</a> He pours contempt on princes,
</dt>
<dd>
and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V41" id="C19107V41">107:41</a> Yet he lifts the needy out of
their affliction,
</dt>
<dd>
and increases their families like a flock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V42" id="C19107V42">107:42</a> The upright will see it, and
be glad.
</dt>
<dd>
All the wicked will shut their mouths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19107V43" id="C19107V43">107:43</a> Whoever is wise will pay
attention to these things.
</dt>
<dd>
They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 108
</h2>
<p>
A Song. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V1" id="C19108V1">108:1</a> My heart is steadfast, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V2" id="C19108V2">108:2</a> Wake up, harp and lyre!
</dt>
<dd>
I will wake up the dawn.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V3" id="C19108V3">108:3</a> I will give thanks to you,
Yahweh, among the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V4" id="C19108V4">108:4</a> For your loving kindness is great
above the heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V5" id="C19108V5">108:5</a> Be exalted, Elohim, above the
heavens!
</dt>
<dd>
Let your glory be over all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V6" id="C19108V6">108:6</a> That your beloved may be
delivered,
</dt>
<dd>
save with your right hand, and answer us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V7" id="C19108V7">108:7</a> Elohim has spoken from his
sanctuary: "In triumph,
</dt>
<dd>
I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V8" id="C19108V8">108:8</a> Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.
</dt>
<dd>
Ephraim also is my helmet.
</dd>
<dd>
Yehudah is my scepter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V9" id="C19108V9">108:9</a> Moab is my wash pot.
</dt>
<dd>
I will toss my sandal on Edom.
</dd>
<dd>
I will shout over Philistia."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V10" id="C19108V10">108:10</a> Who will bring me into the
fortified city?
</dt>
<dd>
Who has led me to Edom?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V11" id="C19108V11">108:11</a> Haven't you rejected us, Elohim?
</dt>
<dd>
You don't go forth, Elohim, with our armies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V12" id="C19108V12">108:12</a> Give us help against the
enemy,
</dt>
<dd>
for the help of man is vain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19108V13" id="C19108V13">108:13</a> Through Elohim, we will do
valiantly.
</dt>
<dd>
For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 109
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V1" id="C19109V1">109:1</a> Elohim of my praise, don't remain
silent,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19109V2" id="C19109V2">109:2</a> for they have opened the mouth of
the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.
</dd>
<dd>
They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V3" id="C19109V3">109:3</a> They have also surrounded me with
words of hatred,
</dt>
<dd>
and fought against me without a cause.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V4" id="C19109V4">109:4</a> In return for my love, they are
my adversaries;
</dt>
<dd>
but I am in prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V5" id="C19109V5">109:5</a> They have rewarded me evil for
good,
</dt>
<dd>
and hatred for my love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V6" id="C19109V6">109:6</a> Set a wicked man over him.
</dt>
<dd>
Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V7" id="C19109V7">109:7</a> When he is judged, let him come
forth guilty.
</dt>
<dd>
Let his prayer be turned into sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V8" id="C19109V8">109:8</a> Let his days be few.
</dt>
<dd>
Let another take his office.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V9" id="C19109V9">109:9</a> Let his children be fatherless,
</dt>
<dd>
and his wife a widow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V10" id="C19109V10">109:10</a> Let his children be wandering
beggars.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be sought from their ruins.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V11" id="C19109V11">109:11</a> Let the creditor seize all
that he has.
</dt>
<dd>
Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V12" id="C19109V12">109:12</a> Let there be none to extend
kindness to him,
</dt>
<dd>
neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V13" id="C19109V13">109:13</a> Let his posterity be cut off.
</dt>
<dd>
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V14" id="C19109V14">109:14</a> Let the iniquity of his
fathers be remembered by Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V15" id="C19109V15">109:15</a> Let them be before Yahweh
continually,
</dt>
<dd>
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V16" id="C19109V16">109:16</a> because he didn't remember to
show kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
</dd>
<dd>
the broken in heart, to kill them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V17" id="C19109V17">109:17</a> Yes, he loved cursing, and it
came to him.
</dt>
<dd>
He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V18" id="C19109V18">109:18</a> He clothed himself also with
cursing as with his garment.
</dt>
<dd>
It came into his inward parts like water,
</dd>
<dd>
like oil into his bones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V19" id="C19109V19">109:19</a> Let it be to him as the
clothing with which he covers himself,
</dt>
<dd>
for the belt that is always around him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V20" id="C19109V20">109:20</a> This is the reward of my
adversaries from Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
of those who speak evil against my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V21" id="C19109V21">109:21</a> But deal with me, Yahweh the
Lord, for your name's sake,
</dt>
<dd>
because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19109V22" id="C19109V22">109:22</a> for I am poor and needy.
</dd>
<dd>
My heart is wounded within me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V23" id="C19109V23">109:23</a> I fade away like an evening
shadow.
</dt>
<dd>
I am shaken off like a locust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V24" id="C19109V24">109:24</a> My knees are weak through
fasting.
</dt>
<dd>
My body is thin and lacks fat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V25" id="C19109V25">109:25</a> I have also become a reproach
to them.
</dt>
<dd>
When they see me, they shake their head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V26" id="C19109V26">109:26</a> Help me, Yahweh, my Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Save me according to your loving kindness;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V27" id="C19109V27">109:27</a> that they may know that this
is your hand;
</dt>
<dd>
that you, Yahweh, have done it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V28" id="C19109V28">109:28</a> They may curse, but you bless.
</dt>
<dd>
When they arise, they will be shamed,
</dd>
<dd>
but your servant shall rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V29" id="C19109V29">109:29</a> Let my adversaries be clothed
with dishonor.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V30" id="C19109V30">109:30</a> I will give great thanks to
Yahweh with my mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19109V31" id="C19109V31">109:31</a> For he will stand at the right
hand of the needy,
</dt>
<dd>
to save him from those who judge his soul.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 110
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V1" id="C19110V1">110:1</a> Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit
at my right hand,
</dt>
<dd>
until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V2" id="C19110V2">110:2</a> Yahweh will send forth the rod of
your strength out of Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
Rule in the midst of your enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V3" id="C19110V3">110:3</a> Your people offer themselves
willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.
</dt>
<dd>
Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V4" id="C19110V4">110:4</a> Yahweh has sworn, and will not
change his mind:
</dt>
<dd>
"You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V5" id="C19110V5">110:5</a> The Lord is at your right hand.
</dt>
<dd>
He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V6" id="C19110V6">110:6</a> He will judge among the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
He will heap up dead bodies.
</dd>
<dd>
He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19110V7" id="C19110V7">110:7</a> He will drink of the brook in the
way;
</dt>
<dt>
therefore he will lift up his head.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 111
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V1" id="C19111V1">111:1</a> Praise Yah!<sup><a href="#N1912">*</a></sup>
</dt>
<dd>
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart,
</dd>
<dd>
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V2" id="C19111V2">111:2</a> Yahweh's works are great,
</dt>
<dd>
pondered by all those who delight in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V3" id="C19111V3">111:3</a> His work is honor and majesty.
</dt>
<dd>
His righteousness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V4" id="C19111V4">111:4</a> He has caused his wonderful works
to be remembered.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V5" id="C19111V5">111:5</a> He has given food to those who
fear him.
</dt>
<dd>
He always remembers his covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V6" id="C19111V6">111:6</a> He has shown his people the power
of his works,
</dt>
<dd>
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V7" id="C19111V7">111:7</a> The works of his hands are truth
and justice.
</dt>
<dd>
All his precepts are sure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V8" id="C19111V8">111:8</a> They are established forever and
ever.
</dt>
<dd>
They are done in truth and uprightness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V9" id="C19111V9">111:9</a> He has sent redemption to his
people.
</dt>
<dd>
He has ordained his covenant forever.
</dd>
<dd>
His name is holy and awesome!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19111V10" id="C19111V10">111:10</a> The fear of Yahweh is the
beginning of wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
All those who do his work have a good understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
His praise endures forever!
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N1912" id="N1912">[12]</a> <a href="#C19111V1">back to 111:1</a> Psalm
111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial "Praise
Yah!" starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to
Tav).
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 112
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V1" id="C19112V1">112:1</a> Praise Yah!<sup><a href="#N1913">*</a></sup>
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
who delights greatly in his commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V2" id="C19112V2">112:2</a> His seed will be mighty in the
land.
</dt>
<dd>
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V3" id="C19112V3">112:3</a> Wealth and riches are in his
house.
</dt>
<dd>
His righteousness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V4" id="C19112V4">112:4</a> Light dawns in the darkness for
the upright,
</dt>
<dd>
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V5" id="C19112V5">112:5</a> It is well with the man who deals
graciously and lends.
</dt>
<dd>
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V6" id="C19112V6">112:6</a> For he will never be shaken.
</dt>
<dd>
The righteous will be remembered forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V7" id="C19112V7">112:7</a> He will not be afraid of evil
news.
</dt>
<dd>
His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V8" id="C19112V8">112:8</a> His heart is established.
</dt>
<dd>
He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V9" id="C19112V9">112:9</a> He has dispersed, he has given to
the poor.
</dt>
<dd>
His righteousness endures forever.
</dd>
<dd>
His horn will be exalted with honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19112V10" id="C19112V10">112:10</a> The wicked will see it, and be
grieved.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.
</dd>
<dd>
The desire of the wicked will perish.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N1913" id="N1913">[13]</a> <a href="#C19112V1">back to 112:1</a> Psalm
112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial "Praise
Yah!" starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to
Tav).
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 113
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V1" id="C19113V1">113:1</a> Praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
praise the name of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V2" id="C19113V2">113:2</a> Blessed be the name of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
from this time forth and forevermore.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V3" id="C19113V3">113:3</a> From the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's name is to be praised.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V4" id="C19113V4">113:4</a> Yahweh is high above all nations,
</dt>
<dd>
his glory above the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V5" id="C19113V5">113:5</a> Who is like Yahweh, our Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
who has his seat on high,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19113V6" id="C19113V6">113:6</a> Who stoops down to see in heaven
and in the earth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V7" id="C19113V7">113:7</a> He raises up the poor out of the
dust.
</dt>
<dd>
Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V8" id="C19113V8">113:8</a> that he may set him with princes,
</dt>
<dd>
even with the princes of his people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19113V9" id="C19113V9">113:9</a> He settles the barren woman in
her home,
</dt>
<dd>
as a joyful mother of children.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 114
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V1" id="C19114V1">114:1</a> When Yisrael went forth out of
Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V2" id="C19114V2">114:2</a> Yehudah became his sanctuary,
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael his dominion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V3" id="C19114V3">114:3</a> The sea saw it, and fled.
</dt>
<dd>
The Jordan was driven back.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V4" id="C19114V4">114:4</a> The mountains skipped like rams,
</dt>
<dd>
the little hills like lambs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V5" id="C19114V5">114:5</a> What was it, you sea, that you
fled?
</dt>
<dd>
You Jordan, that you turned back?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V6" id="C19114V6">114:6</a> You mountains, that you skipped
like rams;
</dt>
<dd>
you little hills, like lambs?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V7" id="C19114V7">114:7</a> Tremble, you earth, at the
presence of the Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
at the presence of the Elohim of Jacob,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19114V8" id="C19114V8">114:8</a> who turned the rock into a pool
of water,
</dt>
<dd>
the flint into a spring of waters.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 115
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V1" id="C19115V1">115:1</a> Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
</dt>
<dd>
but to your name give glory,
</dd>
<dd>
for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V2" id="C19115V2">115:2</a> Why should the nations say,
</dt>
<dd>
"Where is their Elohim, now?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V3" id="C19115V3">115:3</a> But our Elohim is in the heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
He does whatever he pleases.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V4" id="C19115V4">115:4</a> Their idols are silver and gold,
</dt>
<dd>
the work of men's hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V5" id="C19115V5">115:5</a> They have mouths, but they don't
speak.
</dt>
<dd>
They have eyes, but they don't see.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V6" id="C19115V6">115:6</a> They have ears, but they don't
hear.
</dt>
<dd>
They have noses, but they don't smell.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V7" id="C19115V7">115:7</a> They have hands, but they don't
feel.
</dt>
<dd>
They have feet, but they don't walk,
</dd>
<dd>
neither do they speak through their throat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V8" id="C19115V8">115:8</a> Those who make them will be like
them;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V9" id="C19115V9">115:9</a> Yisrael, trust in Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
He is their help and their shield.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V10" id="C19115V10">115:10</a> House of Aharon, trust in
Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
He is their help and their shield.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V11" id="C19115V11">115:11</a> You who fear Yahweh, trust in
Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
He is their help and their shield.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V12" id="C19115V12">115:12</a> Yahweh remembers us. He will
bless us.
</dt>
<dd>
He will bless the house of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dd>
He will bless the house of Aharon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V13" id="C19115V13">115:13</a> He will bless those who fear
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
both small and great.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V14" id="C19115V14">115:14</a> May Yahweh increase you more
and more,
</dt>
<dd>
you and your children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V15" id="C19115V15">115:15</a> Blessed are you by Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who made heaven and earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V16" id="C19115V16">115:16</a> The heavens are the heavens of
Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
but the earth has he given to the children of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V17" id="C19115V17">115:17</a> The dead don't praise Yah,
</dt>
<dd>
neither any who go down into silence;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19115V18" id="C19115V18">115:18</a> But we will bless Yah,
</dt>
<dd>
from this time forth and forevermore.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 116
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V1" id="C19116V1">116:1</a> I love Yahweh, because he listens
to my voice,
</dt>
<dd>
and my cries for mercy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V2" id="C19116V2">116:2</a> Because he has turned his ear to
me,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V3" id="C19116V3">116:3</a> The cords of death surrounded me,
</dt>
<dd>
the pains of Sheol got a hold of me.
</dd>
<dd>
I found trouble and sorrow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V4" id="C19116V4">116:4</a> Then I called on the name of
Yahweh:
</dt>
<dd>
"Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V5" id="C19116V5">116:5</a> Yahweh is Gracious and righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, our Elohim is merciful.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V6" id="C19116V6">116:6</a> Yahweh preserves the simple.
</dt>
<dd>
I was brought low, and he saved me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V7" id="C19116V7">116:7</a> Return to your rest, my soul,
</dt>
<dd>
for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V8" id="C19116V8">116:8</a> For you have delivered my soul
from death,
</dt>
<dd>
my eyes from tears,
</dd>
<dd>
and my feet from falling.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V9" id="C19116V9">116:9</a> I will walk before Yahweh in the
land of the living.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V10" id="C19116V10">116:10</a> I believed, therefore I said,
</dt>
<dd>
"I was greatly afflicted."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V11" id="C19116V11">116:11</a> I said in my haste,
</dt>
<dd>
"All men are liars."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V12" id="C19116V12">116:12</a> What will I give to Yahweh for
all his benefits toward me?
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19116V13" id="C19116V13">116:13</a> I will take the cup of
salvation, and call on the name of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V14" id="C19116V14">116:14</a> I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, in the presence of all his people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V15" id="C19116V15">116:15</a> Precious in the sight of
Yahweh is the death of his saints.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V16" id="C19116V16">116:16</a> Yahweh, truly I am your
servant.
</dt>
<dd>
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid.
</dd>
<dd>
You have freed me from my chains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V17" id="C19116V17">116:17</a> I will offer to you the
sacrifice of thanksgiving,
</dt>
<dd>
and will call on the name of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V18" id="C19116V18">116:18</a> I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, in the presence of all his people,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19116V19" id="C19116V19">116:19</a> in the courts of Yahweh's
house,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of you, Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 117
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19117V1" id="C19117V1">117:1</a> Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
</dt>
<dd>
Extol him, all you peoples!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19117V2" id="C19117V2">117:2</a> For his loving kindness is great
toward us.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's faithfulness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 118
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V1" id="C19118V1">118:1</a> Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is
good,
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V2" id="C19118V2">118:2</a> Let Yisrael now say
</dt>
<dd>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V3" id="C19118V3">118:3</a> Let the house of Aharon now say
</dt>
<dd>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V4" id="C19118V4">118:4</a> Now let those who fear Yahweh say
</dt>
<dd>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V5" id="C19118V5">118:5</a> Out of my distress, I called on
Yah.
</dt>
<dd>
Yah answered me with freedom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V6" id="C19118V6">118:6</a> Yahweh is on my side. I will not
be afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
What can man do to me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V7" id="C19118V7">118:7</a> Yahweh is on my side among those
who help me.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V8" id="C19118V8">118:8</a> It is better to take refuge in
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
than to put confidence in man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V9" id="C19118V9">118:9</a> It is better to take refuge in
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
than to put confidence in princes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V10" id="C19118V10">118:10</a> All the nations surrounded me,
</dt>
<dd>
but in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V11" id="C19118V11">118:11</a> They surrounded me, yes, they
surrounded me.
</dt>
<dd>
In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V12" id="C19118V12">118:12</a> They surrounded me like bees.
</dt>
<dd>
They are quenched like the burning thorns.
</dd>
<dd>
In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V13" id="C19118V13">118:13</a> You pushed me back hard, to
make me fall,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh helped me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V14" id="C19118V14">118:14</a> Yah is my strength and song.
</dt>
<dd>
He has become my salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V15" id="C19118V15">118:15</a> The voice of rejoicing and
salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
"The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V16" id="C19118V16">118:16</a> The right hand of Yahweh is
exalted!
</dt>
<dd>
The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V17" id="C19118V17">118:17</a> I will not die, but live,
</dt>
<dd>
and declare Yah's works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V18" id="C19118V18">118:18</a> Yah has punished me severely,
</dt>
<dd>
but he has not given me over to death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V19" id="C19118V19">118:19</a> Open to me the gates of
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
I will enter into them.
</dd>
<dd>
I will give thanks to Yah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V20" id="C19118V20">118:20</a> This is the gate of Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
the righteous will enter into it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V21" id="C19118V21">118:21</a> I will give thanks to you, for
you have answered me,
</dt>
<dd>
and have become my salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V22" id="C19118V22">118:22</a> The stone which the builders
rejected has become the head of the corner.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V23" id="C19118V23">118:23</a> This is Yahweh's doing.
</dt>
<dd>
It is marvelous in our eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V24" id="C19118V24">118:24</a> This is the day that Yahweh
has made.
</dt>
<dd>
We will rejoice and be glad in it!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V25" id="C19118V25">118:25</a> Save us now, we beg you,
Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V26" id="C19118V26">118:26</a> Blessed is he who comes in the
name of Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
We have blessed you out of the house of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V27" id="C19118V27">118:27</a> Yahweh is Elohim, and he has
given us light.
</dt>
<dd>
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V28" id="C19118V28">118:28</a> You are my Elohim, and I will
give thanks to you.
</dt>
<dd>
You are my Elohim, I will exalt you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19118V29" id="C19118V29">118:29</a> Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for
he is good,
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 119
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
ALEPH
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V1" id="C19119V1">119:1</a> Blessed are those whose ways are
blameless,
</dt>
<dd>
who walk according to Yahweh's Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V2" id="C19119V2">119:2</a> Blessed are those who keep his
statutes,
</dt>
<dd>
who seek him with their whole heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V3" id="C19119V3">119:3</a> Yes, they do nothing wrong.
</dt>
<dd>
They walk in his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V4" id="C19119V4">119:4</a> You have commanded your precepts,
</dt>
<dd>
that we should fully obey them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V5" id="C19119V5">119:5</a> Oh that my ways were steadfast
</dt>
<dd>
to obey your statutes!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V6" id="C19119V6">119:6</a> Then I wouldn't be disappointed,
</dt>
<dd>
when I consider all of your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V7" id="C19119V7">119:7</a> I will give thanks to you with
uprightness of heart,
</dt>
<dd>
when I learn your righteous judgments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V8" id="C19119V8">119:8</a> I will observe your statutes.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't utterly forsake me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
BET
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V9" id="C19119V9">119:9</a> How can a young man keep his way
pure?
</dt>
<dd>
By living according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V10" id="C19119V10">119:10</a> With my whole heart, I have
sought you.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let me wander from your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V11" id="C19119V11">119:11</a> I have hidden your word in my
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
that I might not sin against you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V12" id="C19119V12">119:12</a> Blessed are you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V13" id="C19119V13">119:13</a> With my lips,
</dt>
<dd>
I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V14" id="C19119V14">119:14</a> I have rejoiced in the way of
your testimonies,
</dt>
<dd>
as much as in all riches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V15" id="C19119V15">119:15</a> I will meditate on your
precepts,
</dt>
<dd>
and consider your ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V16" id="C19119V16">119:16</a> I will delight myself in your
statutes.
</dt>
<dd>
I will not forget your word.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
GIMEL
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V17" id="C19119V17">119:17</a> Do good to your servant.
</dt>
<dd>
I will live and I will obey your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V18" id="C19119V18">119:18</a> Open my eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may see wondrous things out of your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V19" id="C19119V19">119:19</a> I am a stranger on the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't hide your commandments from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V20" id="C19119V20">119:20</a> My soul is consumed with
longing for your ordinances at all times.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V21" id="C19119V21">119:21</a> You have rebuked the proud who
are cursed,
</dt>
<dd>
who wander from your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V22" id="C19119V22">119:22</a> Take reproach and contempt
away from me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I have kept your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V23" id="C19119V23">119:23</a> Though princes sit and slander
me,
</dt>
<dd>
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V24" id="C19119V24">119:24</a> Indeed your statutes are my
delight,
</dt>
<dd>
and my counselors.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
DALED
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V25" id="C19119V25">119:25</a> My soul is laid low in the
dust.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me according to your word!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V26" id="C19119V26">119:26</a> I declared my ways, and you
answered me.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V27" id="C19119V27">119:27</a> Let me understand the teaching
of your precepts!
</dt>
<dd>
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V28" id="C19119V28">119:28</a> My soul is weary with sorrow:
</dt>
<dd>
strengthen me according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V29" id="C19119V29">119:29</a> Keep me from the way of
deceit.
</dt>
<dd>
Grant me your Torah graciously!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V30" id="C19119V30">119:30</a> I have chosen the way of
truth.
</dt>
<dd>
I have set your ordinances before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V31" id="C19119V31">119:31</a> I cling to your statutes,
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let me be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V32" id="C19119V32">119:32</a> I run in the path of your
commandments,
</dt>
<dd>
for you have set my heart free.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
HEY
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V33" id="C19119V33">119:33</a> Teach me, Yahweh, the way of
your statutes.
</dt>
<dd>
I will keep them to the end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V34" id="C19119V34">119:34</a> Give me understanding, and I
will keep your Torah.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V35" id="C19119V35">119:35</a> Direct me in the path of your
commandments,
</dt>
<dd>
for I delight in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V36" id="C19119V36">119:36</a> Turn my heart toward your
statutes,
</dt>
<dd>
not toward selfish gain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V37" id="C19119V37">119:37</a> Turn my eyes away from looking
at worthless things.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me in your ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V38" id="C19119V38">119:38</a> Fulfill your promise to your
servant,
</dt>
<dd>
that you may be feared.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V39" id="C19119V39">119:39</a> Take away my disgrace that I
dread,
</dt>
<dd>
for your ordinances are good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V40" id="C19119V40">119:40</a> Behold, I long for your
precepts!
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me in your righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
WAW
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V41" id="C19119V41">119:41</a> Let your loving kindness also
come to me, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
your salvation, according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V42" id="C19119V42">119:42</a> So I will have an answer for
him who reproaches me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I trust in your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V43" id="C19119V43">119:43</a> Don't snatch the word of truth
out of my mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V44" id="C19119V44">119:44</a> So I will obey your Torah
continually,
</dt>
<dd>
forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V45" id="C19119V45">119:45</a> I will walk in liberty,
</dt>
<dd>
for I have sought your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V46" id="C19119V46">119:46</a> I will also speak of your
statutes before kings,
</dt>
<dd>
and will not be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V47" id="C19119V47">119:47</a> I will delight myself in your
commandments,
</dt>
<dd>
because I love them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V48" id="C19119V48">119:48</a> I reach out my hands for your
commandments, which I love.
</dt>
<dd>
I will meditate on your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
ZAYIN
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V49" id="C19119V49">119:49</a> Remember your word to your
servant,
</dt>
<dd>
because you gave me hope.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V50" id="C19119V50">119:50</a> This is my comfort in my
affliction,
</dt>
<dd>
for your word has revived me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V51" id="C19119V51">119:51</a> The arrogant mock me
excessively,
</dt>
<dd>
but I don't swerve from your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V52" id="C19119V52">119:52</a> I remember your ordinances of
old, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and have comforted myself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V53" id="C19119V53">119:53</a> Indignation has taken hold on
me,
</dt>
<dd>
because of the wicked who forsake your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V54" id="C19119V54">119:54</a> Your statutes have been my
songs,
</dt>
<dd>
in the house where I live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V55" id="C19119V55">119:55</a> I have remembered your name,
Yahweh, in the night,
</dt>
<dd>
and I obey your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V56" id="C19119V56">119:56</a> This is my way,
</dt>
<dd>
that I keep your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
CHET
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V57" id="C19119V57">119:57</a> Yahweh is my portion.
</dt>
<dd>
I promised to obey your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V58" id="C19119V58">119:58</a> I sought your favor with my
whole heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Be merciful to me according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V59" id="C19119V59">119:59</a> I considered my ways,
</dt>
<dd>
and turned my steps to your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V60" id="C19119V60">119:60</a> I will hurry, and not delay,
</dt>
<dd>
to obey your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V61" id="C19119V61">119:61</a> The ropes of the wicked bind
me,
</dt>
<dd>
but I won't forget your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V62" id="C19119V62">119:62</a> At midnight I will rise to
give thanks to you,
</dt>
<dd>
because of your righteous ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V63" id="C19119V63">119:63</a> I am a friend of all those who
fear you,
</dt>
<dd>
of those who observe your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V64" id="C19119V64">119:64</a> The earth is full of your
loving kindness, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
TET
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V65" id="C19119V65">119:65</a> Do good to your servant,
</dt>
<dd>
according to your word, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V66" id="C19119V66">119:66</a> Teach me good judgment and
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
for I believe in your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V67" id="C19119V67">119:67</a> Before I was afflicted, I went
astray;
</dt>
<dd>
but now I observe your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V68" id="C19119V68">119:68</a> You are good, and do good.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V69" id="C19119V69">119:69</a> The proud have smeared a lie
upon me.
</dt>
<dd>
With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V70" id="C19119V70">119:70</a> Their heart is as callous as
the fat,
</dt>
<dd>
but I delight in your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V71" id="C19119V71">119:71</a> It is good for me that I have
been afflicted,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may learn your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V72" id="C19119V72">119:72</a> The Torah of your mouth is
better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
YUD
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V73" id="C19119V73">119:73</a> Your hands have made me and
formed me.
</dt>
<dd>
Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V74" id="C19119V74">119:74</a> Those who fear you will see me
and be glad,
</dt>
<dd>
because I have put my hope in your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V75" id="C19119V75">119:75</a> Yahweh, I know that your
judgments are righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V76" id="C19119V76">119:76</a> Please let your loving
kindness be for my comfort,
</dt>
<dd>
according to your word to your servant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V77" id="C19119V77">119:77</a> Let your tender mercies come
to me, that I may live;
</dt>
<dd>
for your Torah is my delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V78" id="C19119V78">119:78</a> Let the proud be disappointed,
for they have overthrown me wrongfully.
</dt>
<dd>
I will meditate on your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V79" id="C19119V79">119:79</a> Let those who fear you turn to
me.
</dt>
<dd>
They will know your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V80" id="C19119V80">119:80</a> Let my heart be blameless
toward your decrees,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may not be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
KAF
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V81" id="C19119V81">119:81</a> My soul faints for your
salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
I hope in your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V82" id="C19119V82">119:82</a> My eyes fail for your word.
</dt>
<dd>
I say, "When will you comfort me?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V83" id="C19119V83">119:83</a> For I have become like a
wineskin in the smoke.
</dt>
<dd>
I don't forget your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V84" id="C19119V84">119:84</a> How many are the days of your
servant?
</dt>
<dd>
When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V85" id="C19119V85">119:85</a> The proud have dug pits for
me,
</dt>
<dd>
contrary to your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V86" id="C19119V86">119:86</a> All of your commandments are
faithful.
</dt>
<dd>
They persecute me wrongfully.
</dd>
<dd>
Help me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V87" id="C19119V87">119:87</a> They had almost wiped me from
the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
but I didn't forsake your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V88" id="C19119V88">119:88</a> Preserve my life according to
your loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
LAMED
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V89" id="C19119V89">119:89</a> Yahweh, your word is settled
in heaven forever.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V90" id="C19119V90">119:90</a> Your faithfulness is to all
generations.
</dt>
<dd>
You have established the earth, and it remains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V91" id="C19119V91">119:91</a> Your laws remain to this day,
</dt>
<dd>
for all things serve you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V92" id="C19119V92">119:92</a> Unless your Torah had been my
delight,
</dt>
<dd>
I would have perished in my affliction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V93" id="C19119V93">119:93</a> I will never forget your
precepts,
</dt>
<dd>
for with them, you have revived me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V94" id="C19119V94">119:94</a> I am yours.
</dt>
<dd>
Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V95" id="C19119V95">119:95</a> The wicked have waited for me,
to destroy me.
</dt>
<dd>
I will consider your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V96" id="C19119V96">119:96</a> I have seen a limit to all
perfection,
</dt>
<dd>
but your commands are boundless.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
MEM
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V97" id="C19119V97">119:97</a> How I love your Torah!
</dt>
<dd>
It is my meditation all day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V98" id="C19119V98">119:98</a> Your commandments make me
wiser than my enemies,
</dt>
<dd>
for your commandments are always with me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V99" id="C19119V99">119:99</a> I have more understanding than
all my teachers,
</dt>
<dd>
for your testimonies are my meditation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V100" id="C19119V100">119:100</a> I understand more than the
aged,
</dt>
<dd>
because I have kept your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V101" id="C19119V101">119:101</a> I have kept my feet from
every evil way,
</dt>
<dd>
that I might observe your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V102" id="C19119V102">119:102</a> I have not turned aside
from your ordinances,
</dt>
<dd>
for you have taught me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V103" id="C19119V103">119:103</a> How sweet are your promises
to my taste,
</dt>
<dd>
more than honey to my mouth!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V104" id="C19119V104">119:104</a> Through your precepts, I
get understanding;
</dt>
<dd>
therefore I hate every false way.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
NUN
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V105" id="C19119V105">119:105</a> Your word is a lamp to my
feet,
</dt>
<dd>
and a light for my path.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V106" id="C19119V106">119:106</a> I have sworn, and have
confirmed it,
</dt>
<dd>
that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V107" id="C19119V107">119:107</a> I am afflicted very much.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V108" id="C19119V108">119:108</a> Accept, I beg you, the
willing offerings of my mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V109" id="C19119V109">119:109</a> My soul is continually in
my hand,
</dt>
<dd>
yet I won't forget your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V110" id="C19119V110">119:110</a> The wicked have laid a
snare for me,
</dt>
<dd>
yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V111" id="C19119V111">119:111</a> I have taken your
testimonies as a heritage forever,
</dt>
<dd>
for they are the joy of my heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V112" id="C19119V112">119:112</a> I have set my heart to
perform your statutes forever,
</dt>
<dd>
even to the end.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
SAMEKH
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V113" id="C19119V113">119:113</a> I hate double-minded men,
</dt>
<dd>
but I love your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V114" id="C19119V114">119:114</a> You are my hiding place and
my shield.
</dt>
<dd>
I hope in your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V115" id="C19119V115">119:115</a> Depart from me, you
evildoers,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may keep the commandments of my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V116" id="C19119V116">119:116</a> Uphold me according to your
word, that I may live.
</dt>
<dd>
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V117" id="C19119V117">119:117</a> Hold me up, and I will be
safe,
</dt>
<dd>
and will have respect for your statutes continually.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V118" id="C19119V118">119:118</a> You reject all those who
stray from your statutes,
</dt>
<dd>
for their deceit is in vain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V119" id="C19119V119">119:119</a> You put away all the wicked
of the earth like dross.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I love your testimonies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V120" id="C19119V120">119:120</a> My flesh trembles for fear
of you.
</dt>
<dd>
I am afraid of your judgments.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
AYIN
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V121" id="C19119V121">119:121</a> I have done what is just
and righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't leave me to my oppressors.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V122" id="C19119V122">119:122</a> Ensure your servant's
well-being.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let the proud oppress me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V123" id="C19119V123">119:123</a> My eyes fail looking for
your salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
for your righteous word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V124" id="C19119V124">119:124</a> Deal with your servant
according to your loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V125" id="C19119V125">119:125</a> I am your servant. Give me
understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may know your testimonies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V126" id="C19119V126">119:126</a> It is time to act, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for they break your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V127" id="C19119V127">119:127</a> Therefore I love your
commandments more than gold,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, more than pure gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V128" id="C19119V128">119:128</a> Therefore I consider all of
your precepts to be right.
</dt>
<dd>
I hate every false way.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
PEY
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V129" id="C19119V129">119:129</a> Your testimonies are
wonderful,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore my soul keeps them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V130" id="C19119V130">119:130</a> The entrance of your words
gives light.
</dt>
<dd>
It gives understanding to the simple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V131" id="C19119V131">119:131</a> I opened my mouth wide and
panted,
</dt>
<dd>
for I longed for your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V132" id="C19119V132">119:132</a> Turn to me, and have mercy
on me,
</dt>
<dd>
as you always do to those who love your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V133" id="C19119V133">119:133</a> Establish my footsteps in
your word.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V134" id="C19119V134">119:134</a> Redeem me from the
oppression of man,
</dt>
<dd>
so I will observe your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V135" id="C19119V135">119:135</a> Make your face shine on
your servant.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V136" id="C19119V136">119:136</a> Streams of tears run down
my eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
because they don't observe your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
TZADI
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V137" id="C19119V137">119:137</a> You are righteous, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Your judgments are upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V138" id="C19119V138">119:138</a> You have commanded your
statutes in righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
They are fully trustworthy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V139" id="C19119V139">119:139</a> My zeal wears me out,
</dt>
<dd>
because my enemies ignore your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V140" id="C19119V140">119:140</a> Your promises have been
thoroughly tested,
</dt>
<dd>
and your servant loves them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V141" id="C19119V141">119:141</a> I am small and despised.
</dt>
<dd>
I don't forget your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V142" id="C19119V142">119:142</a> Your righteousness is an
everlasting righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Your Torah is truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V143" id="C19119V143">119:143</a> Trouble and anguish have
taken hold of me.
</dt>
<dd>
Your commandments are my delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V144" id="C19119V144">119:144</a> Your testimonies are
righteous forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Give me understanding, that I may live.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
KUF
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V145" id="C19119V145">119:145</a> I have called with my whole
heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Answer me, Yahweh!
</dd>
<dd>
I will keep your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V146" id="C19119V146">119:146</a> I have called to you. Save
me!
</dt>
<dd>
I will obey your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V147" id="C19119V147">119:147</a> I rise before dawn and cry
for help.
</dt>
<dd>
I put my hope in your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V148" id="C19119V148">119:148</a> My eyes stay open through
the night watches,
</dt>
<dd>
that I might meditate on your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V149" id="C19119V149">119:149</a> Hear my voice according to
your loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V150" id="C19119V150">119:150</a> They draw near who follow
after wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
They are far from your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V151" id="C19119V151">119:151</a> You are near, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
All your commandments are truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V152" id="C19119V152">119:152</a> Of old I have known from
your testimonies,
</dt>
<dd>
that you have founded them forever.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
RESH
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V153" id="C19119V153">119:153</a> Consider my affliction, and
deliver me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I don't forget your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V154" id="C19119V154">119:154</a> Plead my cause, and redeem
me!
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me according to your promise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V155" id="C19119V155">119:155</a> Salvation is far from the
wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
for they don't seek your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V156" id="C19119V156">119:156</a> Great are your tender
mercies, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me according to your ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V157" id="C19119V157">119:157</a> Many are my persecutors and
my adversaries.
</dt>
<dd>
I haven't swerved from your testimonies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V158" id="C19119V158">119:158</a> I look at the faithless
with loathing,
</dt>
<dd>
because they don't observe your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V159" id="C19119V159">119:159</a> Consider how I love your
precepts.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V160" id="C19119V160">119:160</a> All of your words are
truth.
</dt>
<dd>
Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
SIN AND SHIN
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V161" id="C19119V161">119:161</a> Princes have persecuted me
without a cause,
</dt>
<dd>
but my heart stands in awe of your words.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V162" id="C19119V162">119:162</a> I rejoice at your word,
</dt>
<dd>
as one who finds great spoil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V163" id="C19119V163">119:163</a> I hate and abhor falsehood.
</dt>
<dd>
I love your Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V164" id="C19119V164">119:164</a> Seven times a day, I praise
you,
</dt>
<dd>
because of your righteous ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V165" id="C19119V165">119:165</a> Those who love your Torah
have great peace.
</dt>
<dd>
Nothing causes them to stumble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V166" id="C19119V166">119:166</a> I have hoped for your
salvation, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I have done your commandments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V167" id="C19119V167">119:167</a> My soul has observed your
testimonies.
</dt>
<dd>
I love them exceedingly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V168" id="C19119V168">119:168</a> I have obeyed your precepts
and your testimonies,
</dt>
<dd>
for all my ways are before you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
TAV
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V169" id="C19119V169">119:169</a> Let my cry come before you,
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Give me understanding according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V170" id="C19119V170">119:170</a> Let my supplication come
before you.
</dt>
<dd>
Deliver me according to your word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V171" id="C19119V171">119:171</a> Let my lips utter praise,
</dt>
<dd>
for you teach me your statutes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V172" id="C19119V172">119:172</a> Let my tongue sing of your
word,
</dt>
<dd>
for all your commandments are righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V173" id="C19119V173">119:173</a> Let your hand be ready to
help me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I have chosen your precepts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V174" id="C19119V174">119:174</a> I have longed for your
salvation, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Your Torah is my delight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V175" id="C19119V175">119:175</a> Let my soul live, that I
may praise you.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your ordinances help me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19119V176" id="C19119V176">119:176</a> I have gone astray like a
lost sheep.
</dt>
<dd>
Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 120
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V1" id="C19120V1">120:1</a> In my distress, I cried to
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He answered me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V2" id="C19120V2">120:2</a> Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from
lying lips,
</dt>
<dd>
from a deceitful tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V3" id="C19120V3">120:3</a> What will be given to you, and
what will be done more to you,
</dt>
<dd>
you deceitful tongue?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V4" id="C19120V4">120:4</a> Sharp arrows of the mighty,
</dt>
<dd>
with coals of juniper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V5" id="C19120V5">120:5</a> Woe is me, that I live in
Meshech,
</dt>
<dd>
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V6" id="C19120V6">120:6</a> My soul has had her dwelling too
long
</dt>
<dd>
with him who hates peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19120V7" id="C19120V7">120:7</a> I am for peace,
</dt>
<dd>
but when I speak, they are for war.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 121
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V1" id="C19121V1">121:1</a> I will lift up my eyes to the
hills.
</dt>
<dd>
Where does my help come from?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V2" id="C19121V2">121:2</a> My help comes from Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who made heaven and earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V3" id="C19121V3">121:3</a> He will not allow your foot to be
moved.
</dt>
<dd>
He who keeps you will not slumber.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V4" id="C19121V4">121:4</a> Behold, he who keeps Yisrael
</dt>
<dd>
will neither slumber nor sleep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V5" id="C19121V5">121:5</a> Yahweh is your keeper.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V6" id="C19121V6">121:6</a> The sun will not harm you by day,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the moon by night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V7" id="C19121V7">121:7</a> Yahweh will keep you from all
evil.
</dt>
<dd>
He will keep your soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19121V8" id="C19121V8">121:8</a> Yahweh will keep your going out
and your coming in,
</dt>
<dd>
from this time forth, and forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 122
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V1" id="C19122V1">122:1</a> I was glad when they said to me,
</dt>
<dd>
"Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V2" id="C19122V2">122:2</a> Our feet are standing within your
gates, Yerushalayim;
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19122V3" id="C19122V3">122:3</a> Yerushalayim, that is built as a
city that is compact together;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V4" id="C19122V4">122:4</a> where the tribes go up, even
Yah's tribes,
</dt>
<dd>
according to an ordinance for Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V5" id="C19122V5">122:5</a> For there are set thrones for
judgment,
</dt>
<dd>
the thrones of David's house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V6" id="C19122V6">122:6</a> Pray for the peace of Yerushalayim.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who love you will prosper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V7" id="C19122V7">122:7</a> Peace be within your walls,
</dt>
<dd>
and prosperity within your palaces.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V8" id="C19122V8">122:8</a> For my brothers' and companions'
sakes,
</dt>
<dd>
I will now say, "Peace be within you."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19122V9" id="C19122V9">122:9</a> For the sake of the house of
Yahweh our Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
I will seek your good.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 123
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19123V1" id="C19123V1">123:1</a> To you I do lift up my eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
you who sit in the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19123V2" id="C19123V2">123:2</a> Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
</dt>
<dd>
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress;
</dd>
<dd>
so our eyes look to Yahweh, our Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
until he has mercy on us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19123V3" id="C19123V3">123:3</a> Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have
mercy on us,
</dt>
<dd>
for we have endured much contempt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19123V4" id="C19123V4">123:4</a> Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
</dt>
<dd>
with the contempt of the proud.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 124
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V1" id="C19124V1">124:1</a> If it had not been Yahweh who was
on our side,
</dt>
<dd>
let Yisrael now say,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V2" id="C19124V2">124:2</a> if it had not been Yahweh who was
on our side,
</dt>
<dd>
when men rose up against us;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V3" id="C19124V3">124:3</a> then they would have swallowed us
up alive,
</dt>
<dd>
when their wrath was kindled against us;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V4" id="C19124V4">124:4</a> then the waters would have
overwhelmed us,
</dt>
<dd>
the stream would have gone over our soul;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V5" id="C19124V5">124:5</a> then the proud waters would have
gone over our soul.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V6" id="C19124V6">124:6</a> Blessed be Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V7" id="C19124V7">124:7</a> Our soul has escaped like a bird
out of the fowler's snare.
</dt>
<dd>
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19124V8" id="C19124V8">124:8</a> Our help is in the name of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who made heaven and earth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 125
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19125V1" id="C19125V1">125:1</a> Those who trust in Yahweh are as
Mount Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
which can't be moved, but remains forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19125V2" id="C19125V2">125:2</a> As the mountains surround
Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19125V3" id="C19125V3">125:3</a> For the scepter of wickedness
won't remain over the allotment of the righteous;
</dt>
<dd>
so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19125V4" id="C19125V4">125:4</a> Do good, Yahweh, to those who are
good,
</dt>
<dd>
to those who are upright in their hearts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19125V5" id="C19125V5">125:5</a> But as for those who turn aside
to their crooked ways,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
Peace be on Yisrael.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 126
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19126V1" id="C19126V1">126:1</a> When Yahweh brought back those
who returned to Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
we were like those who dream.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19126V2" id="C19126V2">126:2</a> Then our mouth was filled with
laughter,
</dt>
<dd>
and our tongue with singing.
</dd>
<dt>
Then they said among the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
"Yahweh has done great things for them."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19126V3" id="C19126V3">126:3</a> Yahweh has done great things for
us,
</dt>
<dd>
and we are glad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19126V4" id="C19126V4">126:4</a> Restore our fortunes again,
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
like the streams in the Negev.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19126V5" id="C19126V5">126:5</a> Those who sow in tears will reap
in joy.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19126V6" id="C19126V6">126:6</a> He who goes out weeping, carrying
seed for sowing,
</dd>
<dd>
will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 127
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19127V1" id="C19127V1">127:1</a> Unless Yahweh builds the house,
</dt>
<dd>
they labor in vain who build it.
</dd>
<dt>
Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
</dt>
<dd>
the watchman guards it in vain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19127V2" id="C19127V2">127:2</a> It is vain for you to rise up
early,
</dt>
<dd>
to stay up late,
</dd>
<dd>
eating the bread of toil;
</dd>
<dd>
for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19127V3" id="C19127V3">127:3</a> Behold, children are a heritage
of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
The fruit of the womb is his reward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19127V4" id="C19127V4">127:4</a> As arrows in the hand of a mighty
man,
</dt>
<dd>
so are the children of youth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19127V5" id="C19127V5">127:5</a> Happy is the man who has his
quiver full of them.
</dt>
<dd>
They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the
gate.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 128
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19128V1" id="C19128V1">128:1</a> Blessed is everyone who fears
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who walks in his ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19128V2" id="C19128V2">128:2</a> For you will eat the labor of
your hands.
</dt>
<dd>
You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19128V3" id="C19128V3">128:3</a> Your wife will be as a fruitful
vine,
</dt>
<dd>
in the innermost parts of your house;
</dd>
<dd>
your children like olive plants,
</dd>
<dd>
around your table.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19128V4" id="C19128V4">128:4</a> Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19128V5" id="C19128V5">128:5</a> May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
</dd>
<dd>
and may you see the good of Yerushalayim all the days of your life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19128V6" id="C19128V6">128:6</a> Yes, may you see your children's
children.
</dt>
<dd>
Peace be upon Yisrael.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 129
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V1" id="C19129V1">129:1</a> Many times they have afflicted me
from my youth up.
</dt>
<dd>
Let Yisrael now say,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V2" id="C19129V2">129:2</a> many times they have afflicted me
from my youth up,
</dt>
<dd>
yet they have not prevailed against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V3" id="C19129V3">129:3</a> The plowers plowed on my back.
</dt>
<dd>
They made their furrows long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V4" id="C19129V4">129:4</a> Yahweh is righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V5" id="C19129V5">129:5</a> Let them be disappointed and
turned backward,
</dt>
<dd>
all those who hate Zion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V6" id="C19129V6">129:6</a> Let them be as the grass on the
housetops,
</dt>
<dd>
which withers before it grows up;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V7" id="C19129V7">129:7</a> with which the reaper doesn't
fill his hand,
</dt>
<dd>
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19129V8" id="C19129V8">129:8</a> Neither do those who go by say,
</dt>
<dd>
"The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
</dd>
<dd>
We bless you in the name of Yahweh."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 130
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V1" id="C19130V1">130:1</a> Out of the depths I have cried to
you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V2" id="C19130V2">130:2</a> Lord, hear my voice.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V3" id="C19130V3">130:3</a> If you, Yah, kept a record of
sins,
</dt>
<dd>
Lord, who could stand?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V4" id="C19130V4">130:4</a> But there is forgiveness with
you,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore you are feared.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V5" id="C19130V5">130:5</a> I wait for Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My soul waits.
</dd>
<dd>
I hope in his word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V6" id="C19130V6">130:6</a> My soul longs for the Lord more
than watchmen long for the morning;
</dt>
<dd>
more than watchmen for the morning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V7" id="C19130V7">130:7</a> Yisrael, hope in Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for with Yahweh there is loving kindness.
</dd>
<dd>
With him is abundant redemption.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19130V8" id="C19130V8">130:8</a> He will redeem Yisrael from all
their sins.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 131
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19131V1" id="C19131V1">131:1</a> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty,
nor my eyes lofty;
</dt>
<dd>
nor do I concern myself with great matters,
</dd>
<dd>
or things too wonderful for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19131V2" id="C19131V2">131:2</a> Surely I have stilled and quieted
my soul,
</dt>
<dd>
like a weaned child with his mother,
</dd>
<dd>
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19131V3" id="C19131V3">131:3</a> Yisrael, hope in Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
from this time forth and forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 132
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V1" id="C19132V1">132:1</a> Yahweh, remember David and all
his affliction,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V2" id="C19132V2">132:2</a> how he swore to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V3" id="C19132V3">132:3</a> "Surely I will not come into
the structure of my house,
</dt>
<dd>
nor go up into my bed;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V4" id="C19132V4">132:4</a> I will not give sleep to my eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
or slumber to my eyelids;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V5" id="C19132V5">132:5</a> until I find out a place for
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V6" id="C19132V6">132:6</a> Behold, we heard of it in
Ephrathah.
</dt>
<dd>
We found it in the field of Jaar:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V7" id="C19132V7">132:7</a> "We will go into his
dwelling place.
</dt>
<dd>
We will worship at his footstool.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V8" id="C19132V8">132:8</a> Arise, Yahweh, into your resting
place;
</dt>
<dd>
you, and the ark of your strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V9" id="C19132V9">132:9</a> Let your priest be clothed with
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your saints shout for joy!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V10" id="C19132V10">132:10</a> For your servant David's sake,
</dt>
<dd>
don't turn away the face of your anointed one.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V11" id="C19132V11">132:11</a> Yahweh has sworn to David in
truth.
</dt>
<dd>
He will not turn from it:
</dd>
<dd>
"I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V12" id="C19132V12">132:12</a> If your children will keep my
covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
my testimony that I will teach them,
</dd>
<dd>
their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V13" id="C19132V13">132:13</a> For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
He has desired it for his habitation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V14" id="C19132V14">132:14</a> "This is my resting place
forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Here I will live, for I have desired it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V15" id="C19132V15">132:15</a> I will abundantly bless her
provision.
</dt>
<dd>
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V16" id="C19132V16">132:16</a> Her priests I will also clothe
with salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V17" id="C19132V17">132:17</a> There I will make the horn of
David to bud.
</dt>
<dd>
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19132V18" id="C19132V18">132:18</a> I will clothe his enemies with
shame,
</dt>
<dd>
but on himself, his crown will be resplendent."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 133
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19133V1" id="C19133V1">133:1</a> See how good and how pleasant it
is
</dt>
<dd>
for brothers to live together in unity!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19133V2" id="C19133V2">133:2</a> It is like the precious oil on
the head,
</dt>
<dd>
that ran down on the beard,
</dd>
<dd>
even Aharon's beard;
</dd>
<dd>
that came down on the edge of his robes;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19133V3" id="C19133V3">133:3</a> like the dew of Hermon,
</dt>
<dd>
that comes down on the hills of Zion:
</dd>
<dd>
for there Yahweh gives the blessing,
</dd>
<dd>
even life forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 134
</h2>
<p>
A Song of Ascents.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19134V1" id="C19134V1">134:1</a> Look! Praise Yahweh, all you
servants of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19134V2" id="C19134V2">134:2</a> Lift up your hands in the
sanctuary.
</dt>
<dd>
Praise Yahweh!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19134V3" id="C19134V3">134:3</a> May Yahweh bless you from Zion;
</dt>
<dd>
even he who made heaven and earth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 135
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V1" id="C19135V1">135:1</a> Praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise the name of Yahweh!
</dd>
<dd>
Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V2" id="C19135V2">135:2</a> you who stand in the house of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
in the courts of our Elohim's house.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V3" id="C19135V3">135:3</a> Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V4" id="C19135V4">135:4</a> For Yah has chosen Jacob for
himself;
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael for his own possession.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V5" id="C19135V5">135:5</a> For I know that Yahweh is great,
</dt>
<dd>
that our Lord is above all gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V6" id="C19135V6">135:6</a> Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he
has done,
</dt>
<dd>
in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V7" id="C19135V7">135:7</a> who causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth;
</dt>
<dd>
who makes lightnings with the rain;
</dd>
<dd>
who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V8" id="C19135V8">135:8</a> Who struck the firstborn of
Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
both of man and animal;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V9" id="C19135V9">135:9</a> Who sent signs and wonders into
the midst of you, Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V10" id="C19135V10">135:10</a> who struck many nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and killed mighty kings,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V11" id="C19135V11">135:11</a> Sihon king of the Amorites,
</dt>
<dd>
Og king of Bashan,
</dd>
<dd>
and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V12" id="C19135V12">135:12</a> and gave their land for a
heritage,
</dt>
<dd>
a heritage to Yisrael, his people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V13" id="C19135V13">135:13</a> Your name, Yahweh, endures
forever;
</dt>
<dd>
your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V14" id="C19135V14">135:14</a> For Yahweh will judge his
people,
</dt>
<dd>
and have compassion on his servants.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V15" id="C19135V15">135:15</a> The idols of the nations are
silver and gold,
</dt>
<dd>
the work of men's hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V16" id="C19135V16">135:16</a> They have mouths, but they
can't speak.
</dt>
<dd>
They have eyes, but they can't see.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V17" id="C19135V17">135:17</a> They have ears, but they can't
hear;
</dt>
<dd>
neither is there any breath in their mouths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V18" id="C19135V18">135:18</a> Those who make them will be
like them;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V19" id="C19135V19">135:19</a> House of Yisrael, praise
Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
House of Aharon, praise Yahweh!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V20" id="C19135V20">135:20</a> House of Levi, praise Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19135V21" id="C19135V21">135:21</a> Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
Who dwells at Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 136
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V1" id="C19136V1">136:1</a> Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is
good;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V2" id="C19136V2">136:2</a> Give thanks to the Elohim of gods;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V3" id="C19136V3">136:3</a> Give thanks to the Lord of lords;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V4" id="C19136V4">136:4</a> To him who alone does great
wonders;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V5" id="C19136V5">136:5</a> To him who by understanding made
the heavens;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V6" id="C19136V6">136:6</a> To him who spread out the earth
above the waters;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V7" id="C19136V7">136:7</a> To him who made the great lights;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V8" id="C19136V8">136:8</a> The sun to rule by day;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V9" id="C19136V9">136:9</a> The moon and stars to rule by
night;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V10" id="C19136V10">136:10</a> To him who struck down the
Egyptian firstborn;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V11" id="C19136V11">136:11</a> And brought out Yisrael from
among them;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V12" id="C19136V12">136:12</a> With a strong hand, and with
an outstretched arm;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V13" id="C19136V13">136:13</a> To him who divided the <a
href="#N1914">Red Sea</a> apart;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V14" id="C19136V14">136:14</a> And made Yisrael to pass
through its midst;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V15" id="C19136V15">136:15</a> But overthrew Pharaoh and his
army in the <a href="#N1915">Red Sea</a>;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V16" id="C19136V16">136:16</a> To him who led his people
through the wilderness;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V17" id="C19136V17">136:17</a> To him who struck great kings;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V18" id="C19136V18">136:18</a> And killed mighty kings;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V19" id="C19136V19">136:19</a> Sihon king of the Amorites;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V20" id="C19136V20">136:20</a> Og king of Bashan;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V21" id="C19136V21">136:21</a> And gave their land as an
inheritance;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V22" id="C19136V22">136:22</a> Even a heritage to Yisrael his
servant;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V23" id="C19136V23">136:23</a> Who remembered us in our low
estate;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V24" id="C19136V24">136:24</a> And has delivered us from our
adversaries;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V25" id="C19136V25">136:25</a> Who gives food to every
creature;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19136V26" id="C19136V26">136:26</a> Oh give thanks to the Elohim of
heaven;
</dt>
<dd>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N1914" id="N1914">[14]</a> <a href="#C19136V13">back to 136:13</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N1915" id="N1915">[15]</a> <a href="#C19136V15">back to 136:15</a> or,
Sea of Reeds
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 137
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V1" id="C19137V1">137:1</a> By the rivers of Babylon, there
we sat down.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V2" id="C19137V2">137:2</a> On the willows in its midst,
</dt>
<dd>
we hung up our harps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V3" id="C19137V3">137:3</a> For there, those who led us
captive asked us for songs.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:
</dd>
<dd>
"Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V4" id="C19137V4">137:4</a> How can we sing Yahweh's song in
a foreign land?
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V5" id="C19137V5">137:5</a> If I forget you, Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
let my right hand forget its skill.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V6" id="C19137V6">137:6</a> Let my tongue stick to the roof
of my mouth if I don't remember you;
</dt>
<dd>
if I don't prefer Yerushalayim above my chief joy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V7" id="C19137V7">137:7</a> Remember, Yahweh, against the
children of Edom,
</dt>
<dd>
the day of Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dd>
who said, "Raze it!
</dd>
<dd>
Raze it even to its foundation!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V8" id="C19137V8">137:8</a> Daughter of Babylon, doomed to
destruction,
</dt>
<dd>
he will be happy who rewards you,
</dd>
<dd>
as you have served us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19137V9" id="C19137V9">137:9</a> Happy shall he be,
</dt>
<dd>
who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 138
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V1" id="C19138V1">138:1</a> I will give you thanks with my
whole heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Before the <a href="#N1916">gods</a>, I will sing praises to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V2" id="C19138V2">138:2</a> I will bow down toward your holy
temple,
</dt>
<dd>
and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your
truth;
</dd>
<dd>
for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V3" id="C19138V3">138:3</a> In the day that I called, you
answered me.
</dt>
<dd>
You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V4" id="C19138V4">138:4</a> All the kings of the earth will
give you thanks, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for they have heard the words of your mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V5" id="C19138V5">138:5</a> Yes, they will sing of the ways
of Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
for great is Yahweh's glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V6" id="C19138V6">138:6</a> For though Yahweh is high, yet he
looks after the lowly;
</dt>
<dd>
but the proud, he knows from afar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V7" id="C19138V7">138:7</a> Though I walk in the midst of
trouble, you will revive me.
</dt>
<dd>
You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
</dd>
<dd>
Your right hand will save me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19138V8" id="C19138V8">138:8</a> Yahweh will fulfill that which
concerns me;
</dt>
<dd>
your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't forsake the works of your own hands.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N1916" id="N1916">[16]</a> <a href="#C19138V1">back to 138:1</a> The
word elohim, used here, usually means "Elohim," but can also mean
"gods," "princes," or "angels."
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 139
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V1" id="C19139V1">139:1</a> Yahweh, you have searched me,
</dt>
<dd>
and you know me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V2" id="C19139V2">139:2</a> You know my sitting down and my
rising up.
</dt>
<dd>
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V3" id="C19139V3">139:3</a> You search out my path and my
lying down,
</dt>
<dd>
and are acquainted with all my ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V4" id="C19139V4">139:4</a> For there is not a word on my
tongue,
</dt>
<dd>
but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V5" id="C19139V5">139:5</a> You hem me in behind and before.
</dt>
<dd>
You laid your hand on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V6" id="C19139V6">139:6</a> This knowledge is beyond me.
</dt>
<dd>
It's lofty.
</dd>
<dd>
I can't attain it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V7" id="C19139V7">139:7</a> Where could I go from your
Spirit?
</dt>
<dd>
Or where could I flee from your presence?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V8" id="C19139V8">139:8</a> If I ascend up into heaven, you
are there.
</dt>
<dd>
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V9" id="C19139V9">139:9</a> If I take the wings of the dawn,
</dt>
<dd>
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V10" id="C19139V10">139:10</a> Even there your hand will lead
me,
</dt>
<dd>
and your right hand will hold me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V11" id="C19139V11">139:11</a> If I say, "Surely the
darkness will overwhelm me;
</dt>
<dd>
the light around me will be night;"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V12" id="C19139V12">139:12</a> even the darkness doesn't hide
from you,
</dt>
<dd>
but the night shines as the day.
</dd>
<dd>
The darkness is like light to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V13" id="C19139V13">139:13</a> For you formed my inmost
being.
</dt>
<dd>
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V14" id="C19139V14">139:14</a> I will give thanks to you,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
</dd>
<dt>
Your works are wonderful.
</dt>
<dd>
My soul knows that very well.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V15" id="C19139V15">139:15</a> My frame wasn't hidden from
you,
</dt>
<dd>
when I was made in secret,
</dd>
<dd>
woven together in the depths of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V16" id="C19139V16">139:16</a> Your eyes saw my body.
</dt>
<dd>
In your book they were all written,
</dd>
<dd>
the days that were ordained for me,
</dd>
<dd>
when as yet there were none of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V17" id="C19139V17">139:17</a> How precious to me are your
thoughts, Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
How vast is the sum of them!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V18" id="C19139V18">139:18</a> If I would count them, they
are more in number than the sand.
</dt>
<dd>
When I wake up, I am still with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V19" id="C19139V19">139:19</a> If only you, Elohim, would kill
the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V20" id="C19139V20">139:20</a> For they speak against you
wickedly.
</dt>
<dd>
Your enemies take your name in vain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V21" id="C19139V21">139:21</a> Yahweh, don't I hate those who
hate you?
</dt>
<dd>
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V22" id="C19139V22">139:22</a> I hate them with perfect
hatred.
</dt>
<dd>
They have become my enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V23" id="C19139V23">139:23</a> Search me, Elohim, and know my
heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Try me, and know my thoughts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19139V24" id="C19139V24">139:24</a> See if there is any wicked way
in me,
</dt>
<dd>
and lead me in the everlasting way.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 140
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V1" id="C19140V1">140:1</a> Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil
man.
</dt>
<dd>
Preserve me from the violent man;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V2" id="C19140V2">140:2</a> those who devise mischief in
their hearts.
</dt>
<dd>
They continually gather themselves together for war.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V3" id="C19140V3">140:3</a> They have sharpened their tongues
like a serpent.
</dt>
<dd>
Viper's poison is under their lips.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V4" id="C19140V4">140:4</a> Yahweh, keep me from the hands of
the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V5" id="C19140V5">140:5</a> The proud have hidden a snare for
me,
</dt>
<dd>
they have spread the cords of a net by the path.
</dd>
<dd>
They have set traps for me.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V6" id="C19140V6">140:6</a> I said to Yahweh, "You are
my Elohim."
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V7" id="C19140V7">140:7</a> Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of
my salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V8" id="C19140V8">140:8</a> Yahweh, don't grant the desires
of the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V9" id="C19140V9">140:9</a> As for the head of those who
surround me,
</dt>
<dd>
let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V10" id="C19140V10">140:10</a> Let burning coals fall on
them.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be thrown into the fire,
</dd>
<dd>
into miry pits, from where they never rise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V11" id="C19140V11">140:11</a> An evil speaker won't be
established in the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V12" id="C19140V12">140:12</a> I know that Yahweh will
maintain the cause of the afflicted,
</dt>
<dd>
and justice for the needy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19140V13" id="C19140V13">140:13</a> Surely the righteous will give
thanks to your name.
</dt>
<dd>
The upright will dwell in your presence.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 141
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V1" id="C19141V1">141:1</a> Yahweh, I have called on you.
</dt>
<dd>
Come to me quickly!
</dd>
<dd>
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V2" id="C19141V2">141:2</a> Let my prayer be set before you
like incense;
</dt>
<dd>
the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V3" id="C19141V3">141:3</a> Set a watch, Yahweh, before my
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Keep the door of my lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V4" id="C19141V4">141:4</a> Don't incline my heart to any
evil thing,
</dt>
<dd>
to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V5" id="C19141V5">141:5</a> Let the righteous strike me, it
is kindness;
</dt>
<dd>
let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;
</dd>
<dd>
don't let my head refuse it;
</dd>
<dd>
Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V6" id="C19141V6">141:6</a> Their judges are thrown down by
the sides of the rock.
</dt>
<dd>
They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V7" id="C19141V7">141:7</a> "As when one plows and
breaks up the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V8" id="C19141V8">141:8</a> For my eyes are on you, Yahweh,
the Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
In you, I take refuge.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't leave my soul destitute.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V9" id="C19141V9">141:9</a> Keep me from the snare which they
have laid for me,
</dt>
<dd>
from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19141V10" id="C19141V10">141:10</a> Let the wicked fall together
into their own nets,
</dt>
<dd>
while I pass by.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 142
</h2>
<p>
A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V1" id="C19142V1">142:1</a> I cry with my voice to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V2" id="C19142V2">142:2</a> I pour out my complaint before
him.
</dt>
<dd>
I tell him my troubles.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V3" id="C19142V3">142:3</a> When my spirit was overwhelmed
within me,
</dt>
<dd>
you knew my path.
</dd>
<dt>
In the way in which I walk,
</dt>
<dd>
they have hidden a snare for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V4" id="C19142V4">142:4</a> Look on my right, and see;
</dt>
<dd>
for there is no one who is concerned for me.
</dd>
<dd>
Refuge has fled from me.
</dd>
<dd>
No one cares for my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V5" id="C19142V5">142:5</a> I cried to you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I said, "You are my refuge,
</dd>
<dd>
my portion in the land of the living."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V6" id="C19142V6">142:6</a> Listen to my cry,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am in desperate need.
</dd>
<dt>
deliver me from my persecutors,
</dt>
<dd>
For they are stronger than me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19142V7" id="C19142V7">142:7</a> Bring my soul out of prison,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may give thanks to your name.
</dd>
<dt>
The righteous will surround me,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will be good to me.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 143
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V1" id="C19143V1">143:1</a> Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to my petitions.
</dd>
<dd>
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V2" id="C19143V2">143:2</a> Don't enter into judgment with
your servant,
</dt>
<dd>
for in your sight no man living is righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V3" id="C19143V3">143:3</a> For the enemy pursues my soul.
</dt>
<dd>
He has struck my life down to the ground.
</dd>
<dd>
He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V4" id="C19143V4">143:4</a> Therefore my spirit is
overwhelmed within me.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart within me is desolate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V5" id="C19143V5">143:5</a> I remember the days of old.
</dt>
<dd>
I meditate on all your doings.
</dd>
<dd>
I contemplate the work of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V6" id="C19143V6">143:6</a> I spread forth my hands to you.
</dt>
<dd>
My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V7" id="C19143V7">143:7</a> Hurry to answer me, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My spirit fails.
</dd>
<dt>
Don't hide your face from me,
</dt>
<dd>
so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V8" id="C19143V8">143:8</a> Cause me to hear your loving
kindness in the morning,
</dt>
<dd>
for I trust in you.
</dd>
<dt>
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
</dt>
<dd>
for I lift up my soul to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V9" id="C19143V9">143:9</a> Deliver me, Yahweh, from my
enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
I flee to you to hide me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V10" id="C19143V10">143:10</a> Teach me to do your will,
</dt>
<dd>
for you are my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
Your Spirit is good.
</dt>
<dd>
Lead me in the land of uprightness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V11" id="C19143V11">143:11</a> Revive me, Yahweh, for your
name's sake.
</dt>
<dd>
In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19143V12" id="C19143V12">143:12</a> In your loving kindness, cut
off my enemies,
</dt>
<dd>
and destroy all those who afflict my soul,
</dd>
<dd>
For I am your servant.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 144
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V1" id="C19144V1">144:1</a> Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
</dt>
<dd>
who teaches my hands to war,
</dd>
<dd>
and my fingers to battle:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V2" id="C19144V2">144:2</a> my loving kindness, my fortress,
</dt>
<dd>
my high tower, my deliverer,
</dd>
<dd>
my shield, and he in whom I take refuge;
</dd>
<dd>
who subdues my people under me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V3" id="C19144V3">144:3</a> Yahweh, what is man, that you
care for him?
</dt>
<dd>
Or the son of man, that you think of him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V4" id="C19144V4">144:4</a> Man is like a breath.
</dt>
<dd>
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V5" id="C19144V5">144:5</a> Part your heavens, Yahweh, and
come down.
</dt>
<dd>
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V6" id="C19144V6">144:6</a> Throw out lightning, and scatter
them.
</dt>
<dd>
Send out your arrows, and rout them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V7" id="C19144V7">144:7</a> Stretch out your hand from above,
</dt>
<dd>
rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
</dd>
<dd>
out of the hands of foreigners;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C19144V8" id="C19144V8">144:8</a> whose mouths speak deceit,
</dd>
<dd>
Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V9" id="C19144V9">144:9</a> I will sing a new song to you,
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V10" id="C19144V10">144:10</a> You are he who gives salvation
to kings,
</dt>
<dd>
who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V11" id="C19144V11">144:11</a> Rescue me, and deliver me out
of the hands of foreigners,
</dt>
<dd>
whose mouths speak deceit,
</dd>
<dd>
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V12" id="C19144V12">144:12</a> Then our sons will be like
well-nurtured plants,
</dt>
<dd>
our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V13" id="C19144V13">144:13</a> Our barns are full, filled
with all kinds of provision.
</dt>
<dd>
Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V14" id="C19144V14">144:14</a> Our oxen will pull heavy
loads.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no breaking in, and no going away,
</dd>
<dd>
and no outcry in our streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19144V15" id="C19144V15">144:15</a> Happy are the people who are
in such a situation.
</dt>
<dd>
Happy are the people whose Elohim is Yahweh.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 145
</h2>
<p>
A praise psalm by David.<sup><a href="#N1917">*</a></sup>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V1" id="C19145V1">145:1</a> I will exalt you, my Elohim, the
King.
</dt>
<dd>
I will praise your name forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V2" id="C19145V2">145:2</a> Every day I will praise you.
</dt>
<dd>
I will extol your name forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V3" id="C19145V3">145:3</a> Great is Yahweh, and greatly to
be praised!
</dt>
<dd>
His greatness is unsearchable.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V4" id="C19145V4">145:4</a> One generation will commend your
works to another,
</dt>
<dd>
and will declare your mighty acts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V5" id="C19145V5">145:5</a> Of the glorious majesty of your
honor,
</dt>
<dd>
of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V6" id="C19145V6">145:6</a> Men will speak of the might of
your awesome acts.
</dt>
<dd>
I will declare your greatness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V7" id="C19145V7">145:7</a> They will utter the memory of
your great goodness,
</dt>
<dd>
and will sing of your righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V8" id="C19145V8">145:8</a> Yahweh is gracious, merciful,
</dt>
<dd>
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V9" id="C19145V9">145:9</a> Yahweh is good to all.
</dt>
<dd>
His tender mercies are over all his works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V10" id="C19145V10">145:10</a> All your works will give
thanks to you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Your saints will extol you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V11" id="C19145V11">145:11</a> They will speak of the glory
of your kingdom,
</dt>
<dd>
and talk about your power;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V12" id="C19145V12">145:12</a> to make known to the sons of
men his mighty acts,
</dt>
<dd>
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V13" id="C19145V13">145:13</a> Your kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom.
</dt>
<dd>
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a href="#N1918">Yahweh is faithful in all his words, </a>
</dt>
<dd>
and loving in all his deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V14" id="C19145V14">145:14</a> Yahweh upholds all who fall,
</dt>
<dd>
and raises up all those who are bowed down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V15" id="C19145V15">145:15</a> The eyes of all wait for you.
</dt>
<dd>
You give them their food in due season.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V16" id="C19145V16">145:16</a> You open your hand,
</dt>
<dd>
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V17" id="C19145V17">145:17</a> Yahweh is righteous in all his
ways,
</dt>
<dd>
and gracious in all his works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V18" id="C19145V18">145:18</a> Yahweh is near to all those
who call on him,
</dt>
<dd>
to all who call on him in truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V19" id="C19145V19">145:19</a> He will fulfill the desire of
those who fear him.
</dt>
<dd>
He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V20" id="C19145V20">145:20</a> Yahweh preserves all those who
love him,
</dt>
<dd>
but all the wicked he will destroy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19145V21" id="C19145V21">145:21</a> My mouth will speak the praise
of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
</dd>
</dl>
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<p>
<a name="N1917" id="N1917">[17]</a> <a href="#C19145V0">back to 145:0</a> This
is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse
13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N1918" id="N1918">[18]</a> <a href="#C19145V13">back to 145:13</a> Some
manuscripts omit these last two lines.
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 146
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V1" id="C19146V1">146:1</a> Praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise Yahweh, my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V2" id="C19146V2">146:2</a> While I live, I will praise
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praises to my Elohim as long as I exist.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V3" id="C19146V3">146:3</a> Don't put your trust in princes,
</dt>
<dd>
each a son of man in whom there is no help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V4" id="C19146V4">146:4</a> His spirit departs, and he
returns to the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
In that very day, his thoughts perish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V5" id="C19146V5">146:5</a> Happy is he who has the Elohim of
Jacob for his help,
</dt>
<dd>
whose hope is in Yahweh, his Elohim:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V6" id="C19146V6">146:6</a> who made heaven and earth,
</dt>
<dd>
the sea, and all that is in them;
</dd>
<dd>
who keeps truth forever;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V7" id="C19146V7">146:7</a> who executes justice for the
oppressed;
</dt>
<dd>
who gives food to the hungry.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh frees the prisoners.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C19146V8" id="C19146V8">146:8</a> Yahweh opens the eyes of the
blind.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh loves the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V9" id="C19146V9">146:9</a> Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
</dt>
<dd>
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
</dd>
<dd>
but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19146V10" id="C19146V10">146:10</a> Yahweh will reign forever;
</dt>
<dd>
your Elohim, O Zion, to all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 147
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V1" id="C19147V1">147:1</a> Praise Yah,
</dt>
<dd>
for it is good to sing praises to our Elohim;
</dd>
<dd>
for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V2" id="C19147V2">147:2</a> Yahweh builds up Yerushalayim.
</dt>
<dd>
He gathers together the outcasts of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V3" id="C19147V3">147:3</a> He heals the broken in heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and binds up their wounds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V4" id="C19147V4">147:4</a> He counts the number of the
stars.
</dt>
<dd>
He calls them all by their names.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V5" id="C19147V5">147:5</a> Great is our Lord, and mighty in
power.
</dt>
<dd>
His understanding is infinite.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V6" id="C19147V6">147:6</a> Yahweh upholds the humble.
</dt>
<dd>
He brings the wicked down to the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V7" id="C19147V7">147:7</a> Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises on the harp to our Elohim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V8" id="C19147V8">147:8</a> who covers the sky with clouds,
</dt>
<dd>
who prepares rain for the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
who makes grass grow on the mountains.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V9" id="C19147V9">147:9</a> He provides food for the
livestock,
</dt>
<dd>
and for the young ravens when they call.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V10" id="C19147V10">147:10</a> He doesn't delight in the
strength of the horse.
</dt>
<dd>
He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V11" id="C19147V11">147:11</a> Yahweh takes pleasure in those
who fear him,
</dt>
<dd>
in those who hope in his loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V12" id="C19147V12">147:12</a> Praise Yahweh, Yerushalayim!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise your Elohim, Zion!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V13" id="C19147V13">147:13</a> For he has strengthened the
bars of your gates.
</dt>
<dd>
He has blessed your children within you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V14" id="C19147V14">147:14</a> He makes peace in your
borders.
</dt>
<dd>
He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V15" id="C19147V15">147:15</a> He sends out his commandment
to the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
His word runs very swiftly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V16" id="C19147V16">147:16</a> He gives snow like wool,
</dt>
<dd>
and scatters frost like ashes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V17" id="C19147V17">147:17</a> He hurls down his hail like
pebbles.
</dt>
<dd>
Who can stand before his cold?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V18" id="C19147V18">147:18</a> He sends out his word, and
melts them.
</dt>
<dd>
He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V19" id="C19147V19">147:19</a> He shows his word to Jacob;
</dt>
<dd>
his statutes and his ordinances to Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19147V20" id="C19147V20">147:20</a> He has not done this for just
any nation.
</dt>
<dd>
They don't know his ordinances.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 148
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V1" id="C19148V1">148:1</a> Praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise Yahweh from the heavens!
</dd>
<dd>
Praise him in the heights!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V2" id="C19148V2">148:2</a> Praise him, all his angels!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him, all his army!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V3" id="C19148V3">148:3</a> Praise him, sun and moon!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him, all you shining stars!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V4" id="C19148V4">148:4</a> Praise him, you heavens of
heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
You waters that are above the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V5" id="C19148V5">148:5</a> Let them praise the name of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
For he commanded, and they were created.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V6" id="C19148V6">148:6</a> He has also established them
forever and ever.
</dt>
<dd>
He has made a decree which will not pass away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V7" id="C19148V7">148:7</a> Praise Yahweh from the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
you great sea creatures, and all depths!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V8" id="C19148V8">148:8</a> Lightning and hail, snow and
clouds;
</dt>
<dd>
stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V9" id="C19148V9">148:9</a> mountains and all hills;
</dt>
<dd>
fruit trees and all cedars;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V10" id="C19148V10">148:10</a> wild animals and all
livestock;
</dt>
<dd>
small creatures and flying birds;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V11" id="C19148V11">148:11</a> kings of the earth and all
peoples;
</dt>
<dd>
princes and all judges of the earth;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V12" id="C19148V12">148:12</a> both young men and maidens;
</dt>
<dd>
old men and children:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V13" id="C19148V13">148:13</a> let them praise the name of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for his name alone is exalted.
</dd>
<dd>
His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19148V14" id="C19148V14">148:14</a> He has lifted up the horn of
his people,
</dt>
<dd>
the praise of all his saints;
</dd>
<dd>
even of the children of Yisrael, a people near to him.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 149
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V1" id="C19149V1">149:1</a> Praise Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
</dd>
<dd>
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V2" id="C19149V2">149:2</a> Let Yisrael rejoice in him who
made them.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V3" id="C19149V3">149:3</a> Let them praise his name in the
dance!
</dt>
<dd>
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V4" id="C19149V4">149:4</a> For Yahweh takes pleasure in his
people.
</dt>
<dd>
He crowns the humble with salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V5" id="C19149V5">149:5</a> Let the saints rejoice in honor.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V6" id="C19149V6">149:6</a> May the high praises of Elohim be in
their mouths,
</dt>
<dd>
and a two-edged sword in their hand;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V7" id="C19149V7">149:7</a> To execute vengeance on the
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and punishments on the peoples;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V8" id="C19149V8">149:8</a> To bind their kings with chains,
</dt>
<dd>
and their nobles with fetters of iron;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19149V9" id="C19149V9">149:9</a> to execute on them the written
judgment.
</dt>
<dd>
All his saints have this honor.
</dd>
<dt>
Praise Yah!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 150
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V1" id="C19150V1">150:1</a> Praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise Elohim in his sanctuary!
</dd>
<dd>
Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V2" id="C19150V2">150:2</a> Praise him for his mighty acts!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V3" id="C19150V3">150:3</a> Praise him with the sounding of
the trumpet!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him with harp and lyre!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V4" id="C19150V4">150:4</a> Praise him with tambourine and
dancing!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V5" id="C19150V5">150:5</a> Praise him with loud cymbals!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise him with resounding cymbals!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C19150V6" id="C19150V6">150:6</a> Let everything that has breath
praise Yah!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise Yah!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 28
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V1" id="C1928V1">28:1</a> To you, Yahweh, I call.
</dt>
<dd>
My rock, don't be deaf to me;
</dd>
<dd>
lest, if you are silent to me,
</dd>
<dd>
I would become like those who go down into the pit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V2" id="C1928V2">28:2</a> Hear the voice of my petitions, when
I cry to you,
</dt>
<dd>
when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V3" id="C1928V3">28:3</a> Don't draw me away with the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,
</dd>
<dd>
but mischief is in their hearts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V4" id="C1928V4">28:4</a> Give them according to their work,
and according to the wickedness of their doings.
</dt>
<dd>
Give them according to the operation of their hands.
</dd>
<dd>
Bring back on them what they deserve.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V5" id="C1928V5">28:5</a> Because they don't regard the works
of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the operation of his hands,
</dd>
<dd>
he will break them down and not build them up.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V6" id="C1928V6">28:6</a> Blessed be Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V7" id="C1928V7">28:7</a> Yahweh is my strength and my shield.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.
</dd>
<dt>
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
</dt>
<dd>
With my song I will thank him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V8" id="C1928V8">28:8</a> Yahweh is their strength.
</dt>
<dd>
He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1928V9" id="C1928V9">28:9</a> Save your people,
</dt>
<dd>
and bless your inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
Be their shepherd also,
</dt>
<dd>
and bear them up forever.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 29
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V1" id="C1929V1">29:1</a> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the
mighty,
</dt>
<dd>
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V2" id="C1929V2">29:2</a> Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to
his name.
</dt>
<dd>
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V3" id="C1929V3">29:3</a> Yahweh's voice is on the waters.
</dt>
<dd>
The Elohim of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V4" id="C1929V4">29:4</a> Yahweh's voice is powerful.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V5" id="C1929V5">29:5</a> The voice of Yahweh breaks the
cedars.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V6" id="C1929V6">29:6</a> He makes them also to skip like a
calf;
</dt>
<dd>
Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V7" id="C1929V7">29:7</a> Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes
of lightning.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1929V8" id="C1929V8">29:8</a> Yahweh's voice shakes the
wilderness.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V9" id="C1929V9">29:9</a> Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve,
</dt>
<dd>
and strips the forests bare.
</dd>
<dd>
In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V10" id="C1929V10">29:10</a> Yahweh sat enthroned at the
Flood.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1929V11" id="C1929V11">29:11</a> Yahweh will give strength to his
people.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 30
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V1" id="C1930V1">30:1</a> I will extol you, Yahweh, for you
have raised me up,
</dt>
<dd>
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V2" id="C1930V2">30:2</a> Yahweh my Elohim, I cried to you,
</dt>
<dt>
and you have healed me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V3" id="C1930V3">30:3</a> Yahweh, you have brought up my soul
from Sheol.
</dt>
<dd>
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V4" id="C1930V4">30:4</a> Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of
his.
</dt>
<dd>
Give thanks to his holy name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V5" id="C1930V5">30:5</a> For his anger is but for a moment.
</dt>
<dd>
His favor is for a lifetime.
</dd>
<dt>
Weeping may stay for the night,
</dt>
<dd>
but joy comes in the morning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V6" id="C1930V6">30:6</a> As for me, I said in my prosperity,
</dt>
<dd>
"I shall never be moved."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V7" id="C1930V7">30:7</a> You, Yahweh, when you favored me,
made my mountain stand strong;
</dt>
<dd>
but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V8" id="C1930V8">30:8</a> I cried to you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
To Yahweh I made supplication:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V9" id="C1930V9">30:9</a> "What profit is there in my
destruction, if I go down to the pit?
</dt>
<dd>
Shall the dust praise you?
</dd>
<dd>
Shall it declare your truth?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V10" id="C1930V10">30:10</a> Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on
me.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, be my helper."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1930V11" id="C1930V11">30:11</a> You have turned my mourning into
dancing for me.
</dt>
<dd>
You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1930V12" id="C1930V12">30:12</a> To the end that my heart may sing
praise to you, and not be silent.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh my Elohim, I will give thanks to you forever!
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 31
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V1" id="C1931V1">31:1</a> In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
</dt>
<dd>
Let me never be disappointed.
</dd>
<dd>
Deliver me in your righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V2" id="C1931V2">31:2</a> Bow down your ear to me.
</dt>
<dd>
Deliver me speedily.
</dd>
<dt>
Be to me a strong rock,
</dt>
<dd>
a house of defense to save me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V3" id="C1931V3">31:3</a> For you are my rock and my fortress,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V4" id="C1931V4">31:4</a> Pluck me out of the net that they
have laid secretly for me,
</dt>
<dd>
for you are my stronghold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V5" id="C1931V5">31:5</a> Into your hand I commend my spirit.
</dt>
<dd>
You redeem me, Yahweh, Elohim of truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V6" id="C1931V6">31:6</a> I hate those who regard lying
vanities,
</dt>
<dd>
but I trust in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V7" id="C1931V7">31:7</a> I will be glad and rejoice in your
loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for you have seen my affliction.
</dd>
<dd>
You have known my soul in adversities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V8" id="C1931V8">31:8</a> You have not shut me up into the
hand of the enemy.
</dt>
<dd>
You have set my feet in a large place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V9" id="C1931V9">31:9</a> Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am
in distress.
</dt>
<dd>
My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V10" id="C1931V10">31:10</a> For my life is spent with sorrow,
</dt>
<dd>
my years with sighing.
</dd>
<dt>
My strength fails because of my iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
My bones are wasted away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V11" id="C1931V11">31:11</a> Because of all my adversaries I
have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
</dt>
<dd>
A fear to my acquaintances.
</dd>
<dd>
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V12" id="C1931V12">31:12</a> I am forgotten from their hearts
like a dead man.
</dt>
<dd>
I am like broken pottery.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V13" id="C1931V13">31:13</a> For I have heard the slander of
many, terror on every side,
</dt>
<dd>
while they conspire together against me,
</dd>
<dd>
they plot to take away my life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V14" id="C1931V14">31:14</a> But I trust in you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I said, "You are my Elohim."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V15" id="C1931V15">31:15</a> My times are in your hand.
</dt>
<dd>
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V16" id="C1931V16">31:16</a> Make your face to shine on your
servant.
</dt>
<dd>
Save me in your loving kindness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V17" id="C1931V17">31:17</a> Let me not be disappointed,
Yahweh, for I have called on you.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the wicked be disappointed.
</dd>
<dd>
Let them be silent in Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V18" id="C1931V18">31:18</a> Let the lying lips be mute,
</dt>
<dd>
which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V19" id="C1931V19">31:19</a> Oh how great is your goodness,
</dt>
<dd>
which you have laid up for those who fear you,
</dd>
<dd>
which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,
</dd>
<dd>
before the sons of men!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V20" id="C1931V20">31:20</a> In the shelter of your presence
you will hide them from the plotting of man.
</dt>
<dd>
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of
tongues.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V21" id="C1931V21">31:21</a> Praise be to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V22" id="C1931V22">31:22</a> As for me, I said in my haste,
"I am cut off from before your eyes."
</dt>
<dd>
Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V23" id="C1931V23">31:23</a> Oh love Yahweh, all you his
saints!
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh preserves the faithful,
</dd>
<dt>
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1931V24" id="C1931V24">31:24</a> Be strong, and let your heart
take courage,
</dt>
<dd>
all you who hope in Yahweh.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 32
</h2>
<p>
By David. A contemplative psalm.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V1" id="C1932V1">32:1</a> Blessed is he whose disobedience is
forgiven,
</dt>
<dd>
whose sin is covered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V2" id="C1932V2">32:2</a> Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh
doesn't impute iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V3" id="C1932V3">32:3</a> When I kept silence, my bones wasted
away through my groaning all day long.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V4" id="C1932V4">32:4</a> For day and night your hand was
heavy on me.
</dt>
<dd>
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V5" id="C1932V5">32:5</a> I acknowledged my sin to you.
</dt>
<dd>
I didn't hide my iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V6" id="C1932V6">32:6</a> For this, let everyone who is godly
pray to you in a time when you may be found.
</dt>
<dd>
Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V7" id="C1932V7">32:7</a> You are my hiding place.
</dt>
<dd>
You will preserve me from trouble.
</dd>
<dd>
You will surround me with songs of deliverance.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V8" id="C1932V8">32:8</a> I will instruct you and teach you in
the way which you shall go.
</dt>
<dd>
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V9" id="C1932V9">32:9</a> Don't be like the horse, or like the
mule, which have no understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to
you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V10" id="C1932V10">32:10</a> Many sorrows come to the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1932V11" id="C1932V11">32:11</a> Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice,
you righteous!
</dt>
<dd>
Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 33
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V1" id="C1933V1">33:1</a> Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
</dt>
<dd>
Praise is fitting for the upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V2" id="C1933V2">33:2</a> Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V3" id="C1933V3">33:3</a> Sing to him a new song.
</dt>
<dd>
Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V4" id="C1933V4">33:4</a> For the word of Yahweh is right.
</dt>
<dd>
All his work is done in faithfulness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V5" id="C1933V5">33:5</a> He loves righteousness and justice.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V6" id="C1933V6">33:6</a> By Yahweh's word, the heavens were
made;
</dt>
<dd>
all their army by the breath of his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V7" id="C1933V7">33:7</a> He gathers the waters of the sea
together as a heap.
</dt>
<dd>
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V8" id="C1933V8">33:8</a> Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V9" id="C1933V9">33:9</a> For he spoke, and it was done.
</dt>
<dd>
He commanded, and it stood firm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V10" id="C1933V10">33:10</a> Yahweh brings the counsel of the
nations to nothing.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V11" id="C1933V11">33:11</a> The counsel of Yahweh stands fast
forever,
</dt>
<dd>
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V12" id="C1933V12">33:12</a> Blessed is the nation whose Elohim
is Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V13" id="C1933V13">33:13</a> Yahweh looks from heaven.
</dt>
<dd>
He sees all the sons of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V14" id="C1933V14">33:14</a> From the place of his habitation
he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1933V15" id="C1933V15">33:15</a> he who fashions all of their
hearts;
</dd>
<dd>
and he considers all of their works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V16" id="C1933V16">33:16</a> There is no king saved by the
multitude of an army.
</dt>
<dd>
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V17" id="C1933V17">33:17</a> A horse is a vain thing for
safety,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does he deliver any by his great power.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V18" id="C1933V18">33:18</a> Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those
who fear him,
</dt>
<dd>
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1933V19" id="C1933V19">33:19</a> to deliver their soul from death,
</dd>
<dd>
to keep them alive in famine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V20" id="C1933V20">33:20</a> Our soul has waited for Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He is our help and our shield.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V21" id="C1933V21">33:21</a> For our heart rejoices in him,
</dt>
<dd>
because we have trusted in his holy name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1933V22" id="C1933V22">33:22</a> Let your loving kindness be on
us, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
since we have hoped in you.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 34
</h2>
<p>
By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him
away, and he departed.<sup><a href="#N195">*</a></sup>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V1" id="C1934V1">34:1</a> I will bless Yahweh at all times.
</dt>
<dd>
His praise will always be in my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V2" id="C1934V2">34:2</a> My soul shall boast in Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V3" id="C1934V3">34:3</a> Oh magnify Yahweh with me.
</dt>
<dd>
Let us exalt his name together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V4" id="C1934V4">34:4</a> I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
</dt>
<dd>
and delivered me from all my fears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V5" id="C1934V5">34:5</a> They looked to him, and were
radiant.
</dt>
<dd>
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V6" id="C1934V6">34:6</a> This poor man cried, and Yahweh
heard him,
</dt>
<dd>
and saved him out of all his troubles.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V7" id="C1934V7">34:7</a> The angel of Yahweh encamps around
those who fear him,
</dt>
<dd>
and delivers them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V8" id="C1934V8">34:8</a> Oh taste and see that Yahweh is
good.
</dt>
<dd>
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V9" id="C1934V9">34:9</a> Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints,
</dt>
<dd>
for there is no lack with those who fear him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V10" id="C1934V10">34:10</a> The young lions do lack, and
suffer hunger,
</dt>
<dd>
but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V11" id="C1934V11">34:11</a> Come, you children, listen to me.
</dt>
<dd>
I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V12" id="C1934V12">34:12</a> Who is someone who desires life,
</dt>
<dd>
and loves many days, that he may see good?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V13" id="C1934V13">34:13</a> Keep your tongue from evil,
</dt>
<dd>
and your lips from speaking lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V14" id="C1934V14">34:14</a> Depart from evil, and do good.
</dt>
<dd>
seek peace, and pursue it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V15" id="C1934V15">34:15</a> Yahweh's eyes are toward the
righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
His ears listen to their cry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V16" id="C1934V16">34:16</a> Yahweh's face is against those
who do evil,
</dt>
<dd>
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V17" id="C1934V17">34:17</a> The righteous cry, and Yahweh
hears,
</dt>
<dd>
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V18" id="C1934V18">34:18</a> Yahweh is near to those who have
a broken heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V19" id="C1934V19">34:19</a> Many are the afflictions of the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V20" id="C1934V20">34:20</a> He protects all of his bones.
</dt>
<dd>
Not one of them is broken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V21" id="C1934V21">34:21</a> Evil shall kill the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1934V22" id="C1934V22">34:22</a> Yahweh redeems the soul of his
servants.
</dt>
<dd>
None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N195" id="N195">[5]</a> <a href="#C1934V0">back to 34:0</a> Psalm 34 is
an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet
(ordered from Alef to Tav).
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 35
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V1" id="C1935V1">35:1</a> Contend, Yahweh, with those who
contend with me.
</dt>
<dd>
Fight against those who fight against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V2" id="C1935V2">35:2</a> Take hold of shield and buckler,
</dt>
<dd>
and stand up for my help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V3" id="C1935V3">35:3</a> Brandish the spear and block those
who pursue me.
</dt>
<dd>
Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V4" id="C1935V4">35:4</a> Let those who seek after my soul be
disappointed and brought to dishonor.
</dt>
<dd>
Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V5" id="C1935V5">35:5</a> Let them be as chaff before the
wind,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's angel driving them on.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V6" id="C1935V6">35:6</a> Let their way be dark and slippery,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V7" id="C1935V7">35:7</a> For without cause they have hidden
their net in a pit for me.
</dt>
<dd>
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V8" id="C1935V8">35:8</a> Let destruction come on him
unawares.
</dt>
<dd>
Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.
</dd>
<dd>
Let him fall into that destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V9" id="C1935V9">35:9</a> My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V10" id="C1935V10">35:10</a> All my bones shall say, "Yahweh,
who is like you,
</dt>
<dd>
who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him;
</dd>
<dd>
yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V11" id="C1935V11">35:11</a> Unrighteous witnesses rise up.
</dt>
<dd>
They ask me about things that I don't know about.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V12" id="C1935V12">35:12</a> They reward me evil for good,
</dt>
<dd>
to the bereaving of my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V13" id="C1935V13">35:13</a> But as for me, when they were
sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
</dt>
<dd>
I afflicted my soul with fasting.
</dd>
<dd>
My prayer returned into my own bosom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V14" id="C1935V14">35:14</a> I behaved myself as though it had
been my friend or my brother.
</dt>
<dd>
I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V15" id="C1935V15">35:15</a> But in my adversity, they
rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
</dt>
<dd>
The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know
it.
</dd>
<dd>
They tore at me, and didn't cease.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V16" id="C1935V16">35:16</a> Like the profane mockers in
feasts,
</dt>
<dd>
they gnashed their teeth at me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V17" id="C1935V17">35:17</a> Lord, how long will you look on?
</dt>
<dd>
Rescue my soul from their destruction,
</dd>
<dd>
my precious life from the lions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V18" id="C1935V18">35:18</a> I will give you thanks in the
great assembly.
</dt>
<dd>
I will praise you among many people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V19" id="C1935V19">35:19</a> Don't let those who are my
enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
</dt>
<dd>
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V20" id="C1935V20">35:20</a> For they don't speak peace,
</dt>
<dd>
but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V21" id="C1935V21">35:21</a> Yes, they opened their mouth wide
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V22" id="C1935V22">35:22</a> You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't
keep silent.
</dt>
<dd>
Lord, don't be far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V23" id="C1935V23">35:23</a> Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my
Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
My Lord, contend for me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V24" id="C1935V24">35:24</a> Vindicate me, Yahweh my Elohim,
according to your righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let them gloat over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V25" id="C1935V25">35:25</a> Don't let them say in their
heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!"
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V26" id="C1935V26">35:26</a> Let them be disappointed and
confounded together who rejoice at my calamity.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves
against me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V27" id="C1935V27">35:27</a> Let them shout for joy and be
glad, who favor my righteous cause.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified,
</dd>
<dd>
who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1935V28" id="C1935V28">35:28</a> My tongue shall talk about your
righteousness and about your praise all day long.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 36
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V1" id="C1936V1">36:1</a> An oracle is within my heart about
the disobedience of the wicked:
</dt>
<dd>
"There is no fear of Elohim before his eyes."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V2" id="C1936V2">36:2</a> For he flatters himself in his own
eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
too much to detect and hate his sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V3" id="C1936V3">36:3</a> The words of his mouth are iniquity
and deceit.
</dt>
<dd>
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V4" id="C1936V4">36:4</a> He plots iniquity on his bed.
</dt>
<dd>
He sets himself in a way that is not good.
</dd>
<dd>
He doesn't abhor evil.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V5" id="C1936V5">36:5</a> Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in
the heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V6" id="C1936V6">36:6</a> Your righteousness is like the
mountains of Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Your judgments are like a great deep.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V7" id="C1936V7">36:7</a> How precious is your loving
kindness, Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V8" id="C1936V8">36:8</a> They shall be abundantly satisfied
with the abundance of your house.
</dt>
<dd>
You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V9" id="C1936V9">36:9</a> For with you is the spring of life.
</dt>
<dd>
In your light shall we see light.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V10" id="C1936V10">36:10</a> Oh continue your loving kindness
to those who know you,
</dt>
<dd>
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V11" id="C1936V11">36:11</a> Don't let the foot of pride come
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1936V12" id="C1936V12">36:12</a> There the workers of iniquity are
fallen.
</dt>
<dd>
They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 37
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V1" id="C1937V1">37:1</a> Don't fret because of evil-doers,
</dt>
<dd>
neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V2" id="C1937V2">37:2</a> For they shall soon be cut down like
the grass,
</dt>
<dd>
and wither like the green herb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V3" id="C1937V3">37:3</a> Trust in Yahweh, and do good.
</dt>
<dd>
Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V4" id="C1937V4">37:4</a> Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V5" id="C1937V5">37:5</a> Commit your way to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V6" id="C1937V6">37:6</a> he will make your righteousness go
forth as the light,
</dt>
<dd>
and your justice as the noon day sun.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V7" id="C1937V7">37:7</a> Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently
for him.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way,
</dd>
<dd>
because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V8" id="C1937V8">37:8</a> Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V9" id="C1937V9">37:9</a> For evildoers shall be cut off,
</dt>
<dd>
but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V10" id="C1937V10">37:10</a> For yet a little while, and the
wicked will be no more.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V11" id="C1937V11">37:11</a> But the humble shall inherit the
land,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V12" id="C1937V12">37:12</a> The wicked plots against the
just,
</dt>
<dd>
and gnashes at him with his teeth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V13" id="C1937V13">37:13</a> The Lord will laugh at him,
</dt>
<dd>
for he sees that his day is coming.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V14" id="C1937V14">37:14</a> The wicked have drawn out the
sword, and have bent their bow,
</dt>
<dd>
to cast down the poor and needy,
</dd>
<dd>
to kill those who are upright in the way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V15" id="C1937V15">37:15</a> Their sword shall enter into
their own heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Their bows shall be broken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V16" id="C1937V16">37:16</a> Better is a little that the
righteous has,
</dt>
<dd>
than the abundance of many wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V17" id="C1937V17">37:17</a> For the arms of the wicked shall
be broken,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V18" id="C1937V18">37:18</a> Yahweh knows the days of the
perfect.
</dt>
<dd>
Their inheritance shall be forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V19" id="C1937V19">37:19</a> They shall not be disappointed in
the time of evil.
</dt>
<dd>
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V20" id="C1937V20">37:20</a> But the wicked shall perish.
</dt>
<dd>
The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields.
</dd>
<dd>
They will vanish--
</dd>
<dd>
vanish like smoke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V21" id="C1937V21">37:21</a> The wicked borrow, and don't pay
back,
</dt>
<dd>
but the righteous give generously.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V22" id="C1937V22">37:22</a> For such as are blessed by him
shall inherit the land.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V23" id="C1937V23">37:23</a> A man's goings are established by
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He delights in his way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V24" id="C1937V24">37:24</a> Though he stumble, he shall not
fall,
</dt>
<dd>
for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V25" id="C1937V25">37:25</a> I have been young, and now am
old,
</dt>
<dd>
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
</dd>
<dd>
nor his children begging for bread.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V26" id="C1937V26">37:26</a> All day long he deals graciously,
and lends.
</dt>
<dd>
His seed is blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V27" id="C1937V27">37:27</a> Depart from evil, and do good.
</dt>
<dd>
Live securely forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V28" id="C1937V28">37:28</a> For Yahweh loves justice,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't forsake his saints.
</dd>
<dd>
They are preserved forever,
</dd>
<dd>
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V29" id="C1937V29">37:29</a> The righteous shall inherit the
land,
</dt>
<dd>
and live in it forever.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V30" id="C1937V30">37:30</a> The mouth of the righteous talks
of wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
His tongue speaks justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V31" id="C1937V31">37:31</a> The Torah of his Elohim is in his
heart.
</dt>
<dd>
None of his steps shall slide.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V32" id="C1937V32">37:32</a> The wicked watches the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and seeks to kill him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V33" id="C1937V33">37:33</a> Yahweh will not leave him in his
hand,
</dt>
<dd>
nor condemn him when he is judged.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V34" id="C1937V34">37:34</a> Wait for Yahweh, and keep his
way,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
</dd>
<dd>
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V35" id="C1937V35">37:35</a> I have seen the wicked in great
power,
</dt>
<dd>
spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V36" id="C1937V36">37:36</a> But he passed away, and behold,
he was not.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V37" id="C1937V37">37:37</a> Mark the perfect man, and see the
upright,
</dt>
<dd>
for there is a future for the man of peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V38" id="C1937V38">37:38</a> As for transgressors, they shall
be destroyed together.
</dt>
<dd>
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V39" id="C1937V39">37:39</a> But the salvation of the
righteous is from Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1937V40" id="C1937V40">37:40</a> Yahweh helps them, and rescues
them.
</dt>
<dd>
He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them,
</dd>
<dd>
Because they have taken refuge in him.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 38
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David, for a memorial.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V1" id="C1938V1">38:1</a> Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your
wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V2" id="C1938V2">38:2</a> For your arrows have pierced me,
</dt>
<dd>
your hand presses hard on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V3" id="C1938V3">38:3</a> There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation,
</dt>
<dd>
neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V4" id="C1938V4">38:4</a> For my iniquities have gone over my
head.
</dt>
<dd>
As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V5" id="C1938V5">38:5</a> My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,
</dt>
<dd>
because of my foolishness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V6" id="C1938V6">38:6</a> I am pained and bowed down greatly.
</dt>
<dd>
I go mourning all day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V7" id="C1938V7">38:7</a> For my waist is filled with burning.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no soundness in my flesh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V8" id="C1938V8">38:8</a> I am faint and severely bruised.
</dt>
<dd>
I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V9" id="C1938V9">38:9</a> Lord, all my desire is before you.
</dt>
<dd>
My groaning is not hidden from you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V10" id="C1938V10">38:10</a> My heart throbs.
</dt>
<dd>
My strength fails me.
</dd>
<dd>
As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V11" id="C1938V11">38:11</a> My lovers and my friends stand
aloof from my plague.
</dt>
<dd>
My kinsmen stand far away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V12" id="C1938V12">38:12</a> They also who seek after my life
lay snares.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
</dd>
<dd>
and meditate deceits all day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V13" id="C1938V13">38:13</a> But I, as a deaf man, don't hear.
</dt>
<dd>
I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V14" id="C1938V14">38:14</a> Yes, I am as a man who doesn't
hear,
</dt>
<dd>
in whose mouth are no reproofs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V15" id="C1938V15">38:15</a> For in you, Yahweh, do I hope.
</dt>
<dd>
You will answer, Lord my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V16" id="C1938V16">38:16</a> For I said, "Don't let them
gloat over me,
</dt>
<dd>
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V17" id="C1938V17">38:17</a> For I am ready to fall.
</dt>
<dd>
My pain is continually before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V18" id="C1938V18">38:18</a> For I will declare my iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
I will be sorry for my sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V19" id="C1938V19">38:19</a> But my enemies are vigorous and
many.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V20" id="C1938V20">38:20</a> They who also render evil for
good are adversaries to me,
</dt>
<dd>
because I follow what is good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V21" id="C1938V21">38:21</a> Don't forsake me, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My Elohim, don't be far from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1938V22" id="C1938V22">38:22</a> Hurry to help me,
</dt>
<dd>
Lord, my salvation.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 39
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V1" id="C1939V1">39:1</a> I said, "I will watch my ways,
so that I don't sin with my tongue.
</dt>
<dd>
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V2" id="C1939V2">39:2</a> I was mute with silence.
</dt>
<dd>
I held my peace, even from good.
</dd>
<dd>
My sorrow was stirred.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V3" id="C1939V3">39:3</a> My heart was hot within me.
</dt>
<dd>
While I meditated, the fire burned:
</dd>
<dt>
I spoke with my tongue:
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1939V4" id="C1939V4">39:4</a> "Yahweh, show me my end,
</dd>
<dd>
what is the measure of my days.
</dd>
<dd>
Let me know how frail I am.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V5" id="C1939V5">39:5</a> Behold, you have made my days
handbreadths.
</dt>
<dd>
My lifetime is as nothing before you.
</dd>
<dt>
Surely every man stands as a breath."
</dt>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V6" id="C1939V6">39:6</a> "Surely every man walks like a
shadow.
</dt>
<dd>
Surely they busy themselves in vain.
</dd>
<dd>
He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V7" id="C1939V7">39:7</a> Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
</dt>
<dd>
My hope is in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V8" id="C1939V8">39:8</a> Deliver me from all my
transgressions.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V9" id="C1939V9">39:9</a> I was mute.
</dt>
<dd>
I didn't open my mouth,
</dd>
<dd>
because you did it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V10" id="C1939V10">39:10</a> Remove your scourge away from me.
</dt>
<dd>
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V11" id="C1939V11">39:11</a> When you rebuke and correct man
for iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
You consume his wealth like a moth.
</dd>
<dt>
Surely every man is but a breath."
</dt>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V12" id="C1939V12">39:12</a> "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and
give ear to my cry.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't be silent at my tears.
</dd>
<dt>
For I am a stranger with you,
</dt>
<dd>
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1939V13" id="C1939V13">39:13</a> Oh spare me, that I may recover
strength,
</dt>
<dd>
before I go away, and exist no more."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 40
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V1" id="C1940V1">40:1</a> I waited patiently for Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V2" id="C1940V2">40:2</a> He brought me up also out of a
horrible pit,
</dt>
<dd>
out of the miry clay.
</dd>
<dt>
He set my feet on a rock,
</dt>
<dd>
and gave me a firm place to stand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V3" id="C1940V3">40:3</a> He has put a new song in my mouth,
even praise to our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V4" id="C1940V4">40:4</a> Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh
his trust,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V5" id="C1940V5">40:5</a> Many, Yahweh, my Elohim, are the
wonderful works which you have done,
</dt>
<dd>
and your thoughts which are toward us.
</dd>
<dt>
They can't be declared back to you.
</dt>
<dd>
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be
numbered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V6" id="C1940V6">40:6</a> Sacrifice and offering you didn't
desire.
</dt>
<dd>
You have opened my ears.
</dd>
<dd>
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V7" id="C1940V7">40:7</a> Then I said, "Behold, I have
come.
</dt>
<dd>
It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V8" id="C1940V8">40:8</a> I delight to do your will, my Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, your Torah is within my heart."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V9" id="C1940V9">40:9</a> I have proclaimed glad news of
righteousness in the great assembly.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V10" id="C1940V10">40:10</a> I have not hidden your
righteousness within my heart.
</dt>
<dd>
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
</dd>
<dd>
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great
assembly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V11" id="C1940V11">40:11</a> Don't withhold your tender
mercies from me, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V12" id="C1940V12">40:12</a> For innumerable evils have
surrounded me.
</dt>
<dd>
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.
</dd>
<dt>
They are more than the hairs of my head.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart has failed me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V13" id="C1940V13">40:13</a> Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver
me.
</dt>
<dd>
Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V14" id="C1940V14">40:14</a> Let them be disappointed and
confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my
hurt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V15" id="C1940V15">40:15</a> Let them be desolate by reason of
their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V16" id="C1940V16">40:16</a> Let all those who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you.
</dt>
<dd>
Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let Yahweh be
exalted!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1940V17" id="C1940V17">40:17</a> But I am poor and needy.
</dt>
<dd>
May the Lord think about me.
</dd>
<dt>
You are my help and my deliverer.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't delay, my Elohim.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 41
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V1" id="C1941V1">41:1</a> Blessed is he who considers the
poor.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V2" id="C1941V2">41:2</a> Yahweh will preserve him, and keep
him alive.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall be blessed on the earth,
</dd>
<dd>
and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V3" id="C1941V3">41:3</a> Yahweh will sustain him on his
sickbed,
</dt>
<dd>
and restore him from his bed of illness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V4" id="C1941V4">41:4</a> I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on
me!
</dt>
<dd>
Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V5" id="C1941V5">41:5</a> My enemies speak evil against me:
</dt>
<dd>
"When will he die, and his name perish?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V6" id="C1941V6">41:6</a> If he comes to see me, he speaks
falsehood.
</dt>
<dd>
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
</dd>
<dd>
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V7" id="C1941V7">41:7</a> All who hate me whisper together
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
They imagine the worst for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V8" id="C1941V8">41:8</a> "An evil disease," they
say, "has afflicted him.
</dt>
<dd>
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V9" id="C1941V9">41:9</a> Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom
I trusted,
</dt>
<dd>
who ate bread with me,
</dd>
<dd>
has lifted up his heel against me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V10" id="C1941V10">41:10</a> But you, Yahweh, have mercy on
me, and raise me up,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may repay them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V11" id="C1941V11">41:11</a> By this I know that you delight
in me,
</dt>
<dd>
because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V12" id="C1941V12">41:12</a> As for me, you uphold me in my
integrity,
</dt>
<dd>
and set me in your presence forever.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1941V13" id="C1941V13">41:13</a> Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of
Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
from everlasting and to everlasting!
</dd>
<dt>
Amen and amen.
</dt>
</dl>
<h1>
BOOK II
</h1>
<h2>
Psalm 42
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V1" id="C1942V1">42:1</a> As the deer pants for the water
brooks,
</dt>
<dd>
so my soul pants after you, Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V2" id="C1942V2">42:2</a> My soul thirsts for Elohim, for the
living Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
When shall I come and appear before Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V3" id="C1942V3">42:3</a> My tears have been my food day and
night,
</dt>
<dd>
while they continually ask me, "Where is your Elohim?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V4" id="C1942V4">42:4</a> These things I remember, and pour
out my soul within me,
</dt>
<dd>
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V5" id="C1942V5">42:5</a> Why are you in despair, my soul?
</dt>
<dd>
Why are you disturbed within me?
</dd>
<dt>
Hope in Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V6" id="C1942V6">42:6</a> My Elohim, my soul is in despair within
me.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,
</dd>
<dd>
the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V7" id="C1942V7">42:7</a> Deep calls to deep at the noise of
your waterfalls.
</dt>
<dd>
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V8" id="C1942V8">42:8</a> Yahweh will command his loving
kindness in the daytime.
</dt>
<dd>
In the night his song shall be with me:
</dd>
<dd>
a prayer to the Elohim of my life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V9" id="C1942V9">42:9</a> I will ask Elohim, my rock, "Why
have you forgotten me?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V10" id="C1942V10">42:10</a> As with a sword in my bones, my
adversaries reproach me,
</dt>
<dd>
while they continually ask me, "Where is your Elohim?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1942V11" id="C1942V11">42:11</a> Why are you in despair, my soul?
</dt>
<dd>
Why are you disturbed within me?
</dd>
<dt>
Hope in Elohim! For I shall still praise him,
</dt>
<dd>
the saving help of my countenance, and my Elohim.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 43
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1943V1" id="C1943V1">43:1</a> Vindicate me, Elohim, and plead my
cause against an ungodly nation.
</dt>
<dd>
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1943V2" id="C1943V2">43:2</a> For you are the Elohim of my strength.
Why have you rejected me?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1943V3" id="C1943V3">43:3</a> Oh, send out your light and your
truth.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them lead me.
</dd>
<dd>
Let them bring me to your holy hill,
</dd>
<dd>
To your tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1943V4" id="C1943V4">43:4</a> Then I will go to the altar of Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
to Elohim, my exceeding joy.
</dd>
<dt>
I will praise you on the harp, Elohim, my Elohim.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1943V5" id="C1943V5">43:5</a> Why are you in despair, my soul?
</dt>
<dd>
Why are you disturbed within me?
</dd>
<dt>
Hope in Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
For I shall still praise him:
</dd>
<dd>
my Savior, my helper, and my Elohim.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 44
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V1" id="C1944V1">44:1</a> We have heard with our ears, Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
our fathers have told us,
</dd>
<dd>
what work you did in their days,
</dd>
<dd>
in the days of old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V2" id="C1944V2">44:2</a> You drove out the nations with your
hand,
</dt>
<dd>
but you planted them.
</dd>
<dt>
You afflicted the peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
but you spread them abroad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V3" id="C1944V3">44:3</a> For they didn't get the land in
possession by their own sword,
</dt>
<dd>
neither did their own arm save them;
</dd>
<dt>
but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face,
</dt>
<dd>
because you were favorable to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V4" id="C1944V4">44:4</a> You are my King, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Command victories for Jacob!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V5" id="C1944V5">44:5</a> Through you, will we push down our
adversaries.
</dt>
<dd>
Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V6" id="C1944V6">44:6</a> For I will not trust in my bow,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall my sword save me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V7" id="C1944V7">44:7</a> But you have saved us from our
adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
and have shamed those who hate us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V8" id="C1944V8">44:8</a> In Elohim we have made our boast all
day long,
</dt>
<dd>
we will give thanks to your name forever.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V9" id="C1944V9">44:9</a> But now you rejected us, and brought
us to dishonor,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't go out with our armies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V10" id="C1944V10">44:10</a> You make us turn back from the
adversary.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V11" id="C1944V11">44:11</a> You have made us like sheep for
food,
</dt>
<dd>
and have scattered us among the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V12" id="C1944V12">44:12</a> You sell your people for nothing,
</dt>
<dd>
and have gained nothing from their sale.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V13" id="C1944V13">44:13</a> You make us a reproach to our
neighbors,
</dt>
<dd>
a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V14" id="C1944V14">44:14</a> You make us a byword among the
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
a shaking of the head among the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V15" id="C1944V15">44:15</a> All day long my dishonor is
before me,
</dt>
<dd>
and shame covers my face,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1944V16" id="C1944V16">44:16</a> At the taunt of one who
reproaches and verbally abuses,
</dd>
<dd>
because of the enemy and the avenger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V17" id="C1944V17">44:17</a> All this has come on us,
</dt>
<dd>
yet have we not forgotten you,
</dd>
<dd>
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V18" id="C1944V18">44:18</a> Our heart has not turned back,
</dt>
<dd>
neither have our steps strayed from your path,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1944V19" id="C1944V19">44:19</a> Though you have crushed us in the
haunt of jackals,
</dd>
<dd>
and covered us with the shadow of death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V20" id="C1944V20">44:20</a> If we have forgotten the name of
our Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1944V21" id="C1944V21">44:21</a> won't Elohim search this out?
</dd>
<dd>
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V22" id="C1944V22">44:22</a> Yes, for your sake we are killed
all day long.
</dt>
<dd>
We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V23" id="C1944V23">44:23</a> Wake up!
</dt>
<dd>
Why do you sleep, Lord?
</dd>
<dt>
Arise!
</dt>
<dd>
Don't reject us forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V24" id="C1944V24">44:24</a> Why do you hide your face,
</dt>
<dd>
and forget our affliction and our oppression?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V25" id="C1944V25">44:25</a> For our soul is bowed down to the
dust.
</dt>
<dd>
Our body cleaves to the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1944V26" id="C1944V26">44:26</a> Rise up to help us.
</dt>
<dd>
Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 45
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by
the sons of Korah. A wedding song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V1" id="C1945V1">45:1</a> My heart overflows with a noble
theme.
</dt>
<dd>
I recite my verses for the king.
</dd>
<dd>
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V2" id="C1945V2">45:2</a> You are the most excellent of the
sons of men.
</dt>
<dd>
Grace has anointed your lips,
</dd>
<dd>
therefore Elohim has blessed you forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V3" id="C1945V3">45:3</a> Gird your sword on your thigh,
mighty one:
</dt>
<dd>
your splendor and your majesty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V4" id="C1945V4">45:4</a> In your majesty ride on victoriously
on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V5" id="C1945V5">45:5</a> Your arrows are sharp.
</dt>
<dd>
The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's
enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V6" id="C1945V6">45:6</a> Your throne, Elohim, is forever and
ever.
</dt>
<dd>
A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V7" id="C1945V7">45:7</a> You have loved righteousness, and
hated wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore Elohim, your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above
your fellows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V8" id="C1945V8">45:8</a> All your garments smell like myrrh,
aloes, and cassia.
</dt>
<dd>
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V9" id="C1945V9">45:9</a> Kings' daughters are among your
honorable women.
</dt>
<dd>
At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V10" id="C1945V10">45:10</a> Listen, daughter, consider, and
turn your ear.
</dt>
<dd>
Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1945V11" id="C1945V11">45:11</a> So the king will desire your
beauty,
</dd>
<dd>
honor him, for he is your lord.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V12" id="C1945V12">45:12</a> The daughter of Tyre comes with a
gift.
</dt>
<dd>
The rich among the people entreat your favor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V13" id="C1945V13">45:13</a> The princess inside is all
glorious.
</dt>
<dd>
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V14" id="C1945V14">45:14</a> She shall be led to the king in
embroidered work.
</dt>
<dd>
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V15" id="C1945V15">45:15</a> With gladness and rejoicing they
shall be led.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall enter into the king's palace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V16" id="C1945V16">45:16</a> Your sons will take the place of
your fathers.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall make them princes in all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1945V17" id="C1945V17">45:17</a> I will make your name to be
remembered in all generations.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 46
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to <a href="#N196">Alamoth.</a>
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V1" id="C1946V1">46:1</a> Elohim is our refuge and strength,
</dt>
<dd>
a very present help in trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V2" id="C1946V2">46:2</a> Therefore we won't be afraid, though
the earth changes,
</dt>
<dd>
though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1946V3" id="C1946V3">46:3</a> though its waters roar and are
troubled,
</dd>
<dd>
though the mountains tremble with their swelling.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V4" id="C1946V4">46:4</a> There is a river, the streams of
which make the city of Elohim glad,
</dt>
<dd>
the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V5" id="C1946V5">46:5</a> Elohim is in her midst. She shall not
be moved.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim will help her at dawn.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V6" id="C1946V6">46:6</a> The nations raged. The kingdoms were
moved.
</dt>
<dd>
He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V7" id="C1946V7">46:7</a> Yahweh of Armies is with us.
</dt>
<dd>
The Elohim of Jacob is our refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V8" id="C1946V8">46:8</a> Come, see Yahweh's works,
</dt>
<dd>
what desolations he has made in the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V9" id="C1946V9">46:9</a> He makes wars cease to the end of
the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.
</dd>
<dd>
He burns the chariots in the fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V10" id="C1946V10">46:10</a> "Be still, and know that I
am Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will be exalted among the nations.
</dd>
<dd>
I will be exalted in the earth."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1946V11" id="C1946V11">46:11</a> Yahweh of Armies is with us.
</dt>
<dd>
The Elohim of Jacob is our refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N196" id="N196">[6]</a> <a href="#C1946V0">back to 46:0</a> Alamoth is
a musical term.
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 47
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V1" id="C1947V1">47:1</a> Oh clap your hands, all you nations.
</dt>
<dd>
Shout to Elohim with the voice of triumph!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V2" id="C1947V2">47:2</a> For Yahweh Most High is awesome.
</dt>
<dd>
He is a great King over all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V3" id="C1947V3">47:3</a> He subdues nations under us,
</dt>
<dd>
and peoples under our feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V4" id="C1947V4">47:4</a> He chooses our inheritance for us,
</dt>
<dd>
the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V5" id="C1947V5">47:5</a> Elohim has gone up with a shout,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V6" id="C1947V6">47:6</a> Sing praise to Elohim, sing praises.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V7" id="C1947V7">47:7</a> For Elohim is the King of all the
earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises with understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V8" id="C1947V8">47:8</a> Elohim reigns over the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim sits on his holy throne.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1947V9" id="C1947V9">47:9</a> The princes of the peoples are
gathered together,
</dt>
<dt>
the people of the Elohim of Avraham.
</dt>
<dd>
For the shields of the earth belong to Elohim.
</dd>
<dd>
He is greatly exalted!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 48
</h2>
<p>
A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V1" id="C1948V1">48:1</a> Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be
praised,
</dt>
<dd>
in the city of our Elohim, in his holy mountain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V2" id="C1948V2">48:2</a> Beautiful in elevation, the joy of
the whole earth,
</dt>
<dd>
is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
</dd>
<dd>
the city of the great King.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V3" id="C1948V3">48:3</a> Elohim has shown himself in her
citadels as a refuge.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V4" id="C1948V4">48:4</a> For, behold, the kings assembled
themselves,
</dt>
<dd>
they passed by together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V5" id="C1948V5">48:5</a> They saw it, then they were amazed.
</dt>
<dd>
They were dismayed.
</dd>
<dd>
They hurried away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V6" id="C1948V6">48:6</a> Trembling took hold of them there,
</dt>
<dd>
pain, as of a woman in travail.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V7" id="C1948V7">48:7</a> With the east wind, you break the
ships of Tarshish.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V8" id="C1948V8">48:8</a> As we have heard, so we have seen,
</dt>
<dd>
in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
Elohim will establish it forever.
</dt>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V9" id="C1948V9">48:9</a> We have thought about your loving
kindness, Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of your temple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V10" id="C1948V10">48:10</a> As is your name, Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dd>
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V11" id="C1948V11">48:11</a> Let Mount Zion be glad!
</dt>
<dd>
Let the daughters of Yehudah rejoice,
</dd>
<dd>
Because of your judgments.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V12" id="C1948V12">48:12</a> Walk about Zion, and go around
her.
</dt>
<dd>
Number its towers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V13" id="C1948V13">48:13</a> Mark well her bulwarks.
</dt>
<dd>
Consider her palaces,
</dd>
<dd>
that you may tell it to the next generation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1948V14" id="C1948V14">48:14</a> For this Elohim is our Elohim forever
and ever.
</dt>
<dd>
He will be our guide even to death.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 49
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V1" id="C1949V1">49:1</a> Hear this, all you peoples.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1949V2" id="C1949V2">49:2</a> both low and high,
</dd>
<dd>
rich and poor together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V3" id="C1949V3">49:3</a> My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart shall utter understanding.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V4" id="C1949V4">49:4</a> I will incline my ear to a proverb.
</dt>
<dd>
I will open my riddle on the harp.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V5" id="C1949V5">49:5</a> Why should I fear in the days of
evil,
</dt>
<dd>
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V6" id="C1949V6">49:6</a> Those who trust in their wealth,
</dt>
<dd>
and boast in the multitude of their riches--
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1949V7" id="C1949V7">49:7</a> none of them can by any means redeem
his brother,
</dd>
<dd>
nor give Elohim a ransom for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V8" id="C1949V8">49:8</a> For the redemption of their life is
costly,
</dt>
<dd>
no payment is ever enough,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1949V9" id="C1949V9">49:9</a> That he should live on forever,
</dd>
<dd>
that he should not see corruption.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V10" id="C1949V10">49:10</a> For he sees that wise men die;
</dt>
<dd>
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
</dd>
<dd>
and leave their wealth to others.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V11" id="C1949V11">49:11</a> Their inward thought is that
their houses will endure forever,
</dt>
<dd>
and their dwelling places to all generations.
</dd>
<dd>
They name their lands after themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V12" id="C1949V12">49:12</a> But man, despite his riches,
doesn't endure.
</dt>
<dd>
He is like the animals that perish.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V13" id="C1949V13">49:13</a> This is the destiny of those who
are foolish,
</dt>
<dd>
and of those who approve their sayings.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V14" id="C1949V14">49:14</a> They are appointed as a flock for
Sheol.
</dt>
<dd>
Death shall be their shepherd.
</dd>
<dt>
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
</dt>
<dd>
Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
</dd>
<dd>
far from their mansion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V15" id="C1949V15">49:15</a> But Elohim will redeem my soul from
the power of Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
for he will receive me.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V16" id="C1949V16">49:16</a> Don't be afraid when a man is
made rich,
</dt>
<dd>
when the glory of his house is increased.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V17" id="C1949V17">49:17</a> For when he dies he shall carry
nothing away.
</dt>
<dd>
His glory shall not descend after him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V18" id="C1949V18">49:18</a> Though while he lived he blessed
his soul--
</dt>
<dd>
and men praise you when you do well for yourself--
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1949V19" id="C1949V19">49:19</a> he shall go to the generation of
his fathers.
</dd>
<dd>
They shall never see the light.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1949V20" id="C1949V20">49:20</a> A man who has riches without
understanding,
</dt>
<dd>
is like the animals that perish.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 50
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V1" id="C1950V1">50:1</a> The Mighty One, Elohim, Yahweh, speaks,
</dt>
<dd>
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V2" id="C1950V2">50:2</a> Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty,
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim shines forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V3" id="C1950V3">50:3</a> Our Elohim comes, and does not keep
silent.
</dt>
<dd>
A fire devours before him.
</dd>
<dd>
It is very stormy around him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V4" id="C1950V4">50:4</a> He calls to the heavens above,
</dt>
<dd>
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V5" id="C1950V5">50:5</a> "Gather my saints together to
me,
</dt>
<dd>
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V6" id="C1950V6">50:6</a> The heavens shall declare his
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
for Elohim himself is judge.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V7" id="C1950V7">50:7</a> "Hear, my people, and I will
speak;
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael, and I will testify against you.
</dd>
<dt>
I am Elohim, your Elohim.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V8" id="C1950V8">50:8</a> I don't rebuke you for your
sacrifices.
</dt>
<dd>
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V9" id="C1950V9">50:9</a> I have no need for a bull from your
stall,
</dt>
<dd>
nor male goats from your pens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V10" id="C1950V10">50:10</a> For every animal of the forest is
mine,
</dt>
<dd>
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V11" id="C1950V11">50:11</a> I know all the birds of the
mountains.
</dt>
<dd>
The wild animals of the field are mine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V12" id="C1950V12">50:12</a> If I were hungry, I would not
tell you,
</dt>
<dd>
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V13" id="C1950V13">50:13</a> Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
</dt>
<dd>
or drink the blood of goats?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V14" id="C1950V14">50:14</a> Offer to Elohim the sacrifice of
thanksgiving.
</dt>
<dd>
Pay your vows to the Most High.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V15" id="C1950V15">50:15</a> Call on me in the day of trouble.
</dt>
<dd>
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V16" id="C1950V16">50:16</a> But to the wicked Elohim says,
</dt>
<dd>
"What right do you have to declare my statutes,
</dd>
<dd>
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1950V17" id="C1950V17">50:17</a> seeing you hate instruction,
</dd>
<dd>
and throw my words behind you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V18" id="C1950V18">50:18</a> When you saw a thief, you
consented with him,
</dt>
<dd>
and have participated with adulterers.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V19" id="C1950V19">50:19</a> "You give your mouth to
evil.
</dt>
<dd>
Your tongue frames deceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V20" id="C1950V20">50:20</a> You sit and speak against your
brother.
</dt>
<dd>
You slander your own mother's son.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V21" id="C1950V21">50:21</a> You have done these things, and I
kept silent.
</dt>
<dd>
You thought that the I was just like you.
</dd>
<dd>
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V22" id="C1950V22">50:22</a> "Now consider this, you who
forget Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1950V23" id="C1950V23">50:23</a> Whoever offers the sacrifice of
thanksgiving glorifies me,
</dt>
<dd>
and prepares his way so that I will show Elohim's salvation to him."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 51
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to
him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V1" id="C1951V1">51:1</a> Have mercy on me, Elohim, according to
your loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my
transgressions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V2" id="C1951V2">51:2</a> Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
Cleanse me from my sin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V3" id="C1951V3">51:3</a> For I know my transgressions.
</dt>
<dd>
My sin is constantly before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V4" id="C1951V4">51:4</a> Against you, and you only, have I
sinned,
</dt>
<dd>
and done that which is evil in your sight;
</dd>
<dt>
that you may be proved right when you speak,
</dt>
<dd>
and justified when you judge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V5" id="C1951V5">51:5</a> Behold, I was brought forth in
iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
In sin my mother conceived me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V6" id="C1951V6">51:6</a> Behold, you desire truth in the
inward parts.
</dt>
<dd>
You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V7" id="C1951V7">51:7</a> Purify me with hyssop, and I will be
clean.
</dt>
<dd>
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V8" id="C1951V8">51:8</a> Let me hear joy and gladness,
</dt>
<dd>
That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V9" id="C1951V9">51:9</a> Hide your face from my sins,
</dt>
<dd>
and blot out all of my iniquities.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V10" id="C1951V10">51:10</a> Create in me a clean heart, O
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Renew a right spirit within me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V11" id="C1951V11">51:11</a> Don't throw me from your
presence,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't take your holy Spirit from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V12" id="C1951V12">51:12</a> Restore to me the joy of your
salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V13" id="C1951V13">51:13</a> Then I will teach transgressors
your ways.
</dt>
<dd>
Sinners shall be converted to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V14" id="C1951V14">51:14</a> Deliver me from bloodguiltiness,
O Elohim, the Elohim of my salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V15" id="C1951V15">51:15</a> Lord, open my lips.
</dt>
<dd>
My mouth shall declare your praise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V16" id="C1951V16">51:16</a> For you don't delight in
sacrifice, or else I would give it.
</dt>
<dd>
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V17" id="C1951V17">51:17</a> The sacrifices of Elohim are a
broken spirit.
</dt>
<dd>
A broken and contrite heart, O Elohim, you will not despise.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V18" id="C1951V18">51:18</a> Do well in your good pleasure to
Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
Build the walls of Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1951V19" id="C1951V19">51:19</a> Then you will delight in the
sacrifices of righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
</dd>
<dt>
Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 52
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite
came and told Sha'ul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V1" id="C1952V1">52:1</a> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty
man?
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim's loving kindness endures continually.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V2" id="C1952V2">52:2</a> Your tongue plots destruction,
</dt>
<dd>
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V3" id="C1952V3">52:3</a> You love evil more than good,
</dt>
<dd>
lying rather than speaking the truth.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V4" id="C1952V4">52:4</a> You love all devouring words,
</dt>
<dd>
you deceitful tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V5" id="C1952V5">52:5</a> Elohim will likewise destroy you
forever.
</dt>
<dd>
He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,
</dd>
<dd>
and root you out of the land of the living.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V6" id="C1952V6">52:6</a> The righteous also will see it, and
fear,
</dt>
<dd>
and laugh at him, saying,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V7" id="C1952V7">52:7</a> "Behold, this is the man who
didn't make Elohim his strength,
</dt>
<dd>
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
</dd>
<dd>
and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V8" id="C1952V8">52:8</a> But as for me, I am like a green
olive tree in Elohim's house.
</dt>
<dd>
I trust in Elohim's loving kindness forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1952V9" id="C1952V9">52:9</a> I will give you thanks forever,
because you have done it.
</dt>
<dd>
I will hope in your name, for it is good,
</dd>
<dd>
in the presence of your saints.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 53
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A
contemplation by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V1" id="C1953V1">53:1</a> The fool has said in his heart,
"There is no Elohim."
</dt>
<dd>
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
</dd>
<dd>
There is no one who does good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V2" id="C1953V2">53:2</a> Elohim looks down from heaven on the
children of men,
</dt>
<dd>
to see if there are any who understood,
</dd>
<dd>
who seek after Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V3" id="C1953V3">53:3</a> Every one of them has gone back.
</dt>
<dd>
They have become filthy together.
</dd>
<dd>
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V4" id="C1953V4">53:4</a> Have the workers of iniquity no
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't call on Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V5" id="C1953V5">53:5</a> There they were in great fear, where
no fear was,
</dt>
<dd>
for Elohim has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
</dd>
<dt>
You have put them to shame,
</dt>
<dd>
because Elohim has rejected them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1953V6" id="C1953V6">53:6</a> Oh that the salvation of Yisrael
would come out of Zion!
</dt>
<dd>
When Elohim brings back his people from captivity,
</dd>
<dd>
then Jacob shall rejoice,
</dd>
<dd>
and Yisrael shall be glad.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 54
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David,
when the Ziphites came and said to Sha'ul, "Isn't David hiding himself
among us?"
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V1" id="C1954V1">54:1</a> Save me, Elohim, by your name.
</dt>
<dd>
Vindicate me in your might.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V2" id="C1954V2">54:2</a> Hear my prayer, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V3" id="C1954V3">54:3</a> For strangers have risen up against
me.
</dt>
<dd>
Violent men have sought after my soul.
</dd>
<dd>
They haven't set Elohim before them.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V4" id="C1954V4">54:4</a> Behold, Elohim is my helper.
</dt>
<dd>
The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V5" id="C1954V5">54:5</a> He will repay the evil to my
enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
Destroy them in your truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V6" id="C1954V6">54:6</a> With a free will offering, I will
sacrifice to you.
</dt>
<dd>
I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1954V7" id="C1954V7">54:7</a> For he has delivered me out of all
trouble.
</dt>
<dd>
My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 55
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V1" id="C1955V1">55:1</a> Listen to my prayer, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V2" id="C1955V2">55:2</a> Attend to me, and answer me.
</dt>
<dd>
I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1955V3" id="C1955V3">55:3</a> Because of the voice of the enemy,
</dd>
<dd>
Because of the oppression of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
For they bring suffering on me.
</dt>
<dd>
In anger they hold a grudge against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V4" id="C1955V4">55:4</a> My heart is severely pained within
me.
</dt>
<dd>
The terrors of death have fallen on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V5" id="C1955V5">55:5</a> Fearfulness and trembling have come
on me.
</dt>
<dd>
Horror has overwhelmed me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V6" id="C1955V6">55:6</a> I said, "Oh that I had wings
like a dove!
</dt>
<dd>
Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V7" id="C1955V7">55:7</a> Behold, then I would wander far off.
</dt>
<dd>
I would lodge in the wilderness."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V8" id="C1955V8">55:8</a> "I would hurry to a shelter
from the stormy wind and storm."
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V9" id="C1955V9">55:9</a> Confuse them, Lord, and confound
their language,
</dt>
<dd>
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V10" id="C1955V10">55:10</a> Day and night they prowl around
on its walls.
</dt>
<dd>
Malice and abuse are also within her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V11" id="C1955V11">55:11</a> Destructive forces are within
her.
</dt>
<dd>
Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V12" id="C1955V12">55:12</a> For it was not an enemy who
insulted me,
</dt>
<dd>
then I could have endured it.
</dd>
<dt>
Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me,
</dt>
<dd>
then I would have hid myself from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V13" id="C1955V13">55:13</a> But it was you, a man like me,
</dt>
<dd>
my companion, and my familiar friend.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V14" id="C1955V14">55:14</a> We took sweet fellowship
together.
</dt>
<dd>
We walked in Elohim's house with company.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V15" id="C1955V15">55:15</a> Let death come suddenly on them.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them go down alive into Sheol.
</dd>
<dd>
For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V16" id="C1955V16">55:16</a> As for me, I will call on Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will save me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V17" id="C1955V17">55:17</a> Evening, morning, and at noon, I
will cry out in distress.
</dt>
<dd>
He will hear my voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V18" id="C1955V18">55:18</a> He has redeemed my soul in peace
from the battle that was against me,
</dt>
<dd>
although there are many who oppose me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V19" id="C1955V19">55:19</a> Elohim, who is enthroned forever,
</dt>
<dd>
will hear, and answer them.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
They never change,
</dt>
<dd>
who don't fear Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V20" id="C1955V20">55:20</a> He raises his hands against his
friends.
</dt>
<dd>
He has violated his covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V21" id="C1955V21">55:21</a> His mouth was smooth as butter,
</dt>
<dd>
but his heart was war.
</dd>
<dt>
His words were softer than oil,
</dt>
<dd>
yet they were drawn swords.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V22" id="C1955V22">55:22</a> Cast your burden on Yahweh, and
he will sustain you.
</dt>
<dd>
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1955V23" id="C1955V23">55:23</a> But you, Elohim, will bring them
down into the pit of destruction.
</dt>
<dd>
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,
</dd>
<dd>
but I will trust in you.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 56
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands."
A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V1" id="C1956V1">56:1</a> Be merciful to me, Elohim, for man
wants to swallow me up.
</dt>
<dd>
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V2" id="C1956V2">56:2</a> My enemies want to swallow me up all
day long,
</dt>
<dd>
for they are many who fight proudly against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V3" id="C1956V3">56:3</a> When I am afraid,
</dt>
<dd>
I will put my trust in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V4" id="C1956V4">56:4</a> In Elohim, I praise his word.
</dt>
<dd>
In Elohim, I put my trust.
</dd>
<dt>
I will not be afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
What can flesh do to me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V5" id="C1956V5">56:5</a> All day long they twist my words.
</dt>
<dd>
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V6" id="C1956V6">56:6</a> They conspire and lurk,
</dt>
<dd>
watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V7" id="C1956V7">56:7</a> Shall they escape by iniquity?
</dt>
<dd>
In anger cast down the peoples, Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V8" id="C1956V8">56:8</a> You number my wanderings.
</dt>
<dd>
You put my tears into your bottle.
</dd>
<dd>
Aren't they in your book?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V9" id="C1956V9">56:9</a> Then my enemies shall turn back in
the day that I call.
</dt>
<dd>
I know this, that Elohim is for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V10" id="C1956V10">56:10</a> In Elohim, I will praise his word.
</dt>
<dd>
In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V11" id="C1956V11">56:11</a> I have put my trust in Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will not be afraid.
</dd>
<dd>
What can man do to me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V12" id="C1956V12">56:12</a> Your vows are on me, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will give thank offerings to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1956V13" id="C1956V13">56:13</a> For you have delivered my soul
from death,
</dt>
<dd>
and prevented my feet from falling,
</dd>
<dd>
that I may walk before Elohim in the light of the living.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 57
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem
by David, when he fled from Sha'ul, in the cave.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V1" id="C1957V1">57:1</a> Be merciful to me, Elohim, be merciful
to me,
</dt>
<dd>
for my soul takes refuge in you.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
</dt>
<dd>
until disaster has passed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V2" id="C1957V2">57:2</a> I cry out to Elohim Most High,
</dt>
<dt>
to Elohim who accomplishes my requests for me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V3" id="C1957V3">57:3</a> He will send from heaven, and save
me,
</dt>
<dd>
he rebukes the one who is pursuing me.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
Elohim will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V4" id="C1957V4">57:4</a> My soul is among lions.
</dt>
<dd>
I lie among those who are set on fire,
</dd>
<dd>
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
</dd>
<dd>
and their tongue a sharp sword.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V5" id="C1957V5">57:5</a> Be exalted, Elohim, above the heavens!
</dt>
<dd>
Let your glory be above all the earth!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V6" id="C1957V6">57:6</a> They have prepared a net for my
steps.
</dt>
<dd>
My soul is bowed down.
</dd>
<dt>
They dig a pit before me.
</dt>
<dd>
They fall into its midst themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V7" id="C1957V7">57:7</a> My heart is steadfast, Elohim, my heart
is steadfast.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V8" id="C1957V8">57:8</a> Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery
and harp!
</dt>
<dd>
I will wake up the dawn.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V9" id="C1957V9">57:9</a> I will give thanks to you, Lord,
among the peoples.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V10" id="C1957V10">57:10</a> For your great loving kindness
reaches to the heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
and your truth to the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1957V11" id="C1957V11">57:11</a> Be exalted, Elohim, above the
heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your glory be over all the earth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 58
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem
by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V1" id="C1958V1">58:1</a> Do you indeed speak righteousness,
silent ones?
</dt>
<dd>
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V2" id="C1958V2">58:2</a> No, in your heart you plot
injustice.
</dt>
<dd>
You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V3" id="C1958V3">58:3</a> The wicked go astray from the womb.
</dt>
<dd>
They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V4" id="C1958V4">58:4</a> Their poison is like the poison of a
snake;
</dt>
<dd>
like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1958V5" id="C1958V5">58:5</a> which doesn't listen to the voice of
charmers,
</dd>
<dd>
no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V6" id="C1958V6">58:6</a> Break their teeth, Elohim, in their
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V7" id="C1958V7">58:7</a> Let them vanish as water that flows
away.
</dt>
<dd>
When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V8" id="C1958V8">58:8</a> Let them be like a snail which melts
and passes away,
</dt>
<dd>
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V9" id="C1958V9">58:9</a> Before your pots can feel the heat
of the thorns,
</dt>
<dd>
he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V10" id="C1958V10">58:10</a> The righteous shall rejoice when
he sees the vengeance.
</dt>
<dd>
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1958V11" id="C1958V11">58:11</a> so that men shall say, "Most
certainly there is a reward for the righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
Most certainly there is a Elohim who judges the earth."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 59
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem
by David, when Sha'ul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V1" id="C1959V1">59:1</a> Deliver me from my enemies, my Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V2" id="C1959V2">59:2</a> Deliver me from the workers of
iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V3" id="C1959V3">59:3</a> For, behold, they lie in wait for my
soul.
</dt>
<dd>
The mighty gather themselves together against me,
</dd>
<dd>
not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V4" id="C1959V4">59:4</a> I have done no wrong, yet they are
ready to attack me.
</dt>
<dd>
Rise up, behold, and help me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V5" id="C1959V5">59:5</a> You, Yahweh Elohim of Armies, the Elohim
of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
rouse yourself to punish the nations.
</dd>
<dd>
Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V6" id="C1959V6">59:6</a> They return at evening, howling like
dogs,
</dt>
<dd>
and prowl around the city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V7" id="C1959V7">59:7</a> Behold, they spew with their mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Swords are in their lips,
</dd>
<dd>
"For," they say, "who hears us?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V8" id="C1959V8">59:8</a> But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
</dt>
<dd>
You scoff at all the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V9" id="C1959V9">59:9</a> Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,
</dt>
<dd>
for Elohim is my high tower.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V10" id="C1959V10">59:10</a> My Elohim will go before me with his
loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V11" id="C1959V11">59:11</a> Don't kill them, or my people may
forget.
</dt>
<dd>
Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V12" id="C1959V12">59:12</a> For the sin of their mouth, and
the words of their lips,
</dt>
<dd>
let them be caught in their pride,
</dd>
<dd>
for the curses and lies which they utter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V13" id="C1959V13">59:13</a> Consume them in wrath.
</dt>
<dd>
Consume them, and they will be no more.
</dd>
<dt>
Let them know that Elohim rules in Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V14" id="C1959V14">59:14</a> At evening let them return.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V15" id="C1959V15">59:15</a> They shall wander up and down for
food,
</dt>
<dd>
and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V16" id="C1959V16">59:16</a> But I will sing of your strength.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.
</dd>
<dt>
For you have been my high tower,
</dt>
<dd>
a refuge in the day of my distress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1959V17" id="C1959V17">59:17</a> To you, my strength, I will sing
praises.
</dt>
<dd>
For Elohim is my high tower, the Elohim of my mercy.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 60
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant."
A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram
Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley
of Salt.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V1" id="C1960V1">60:1</a> Elohim, you have rejected us.
</dt>
<dd>
You have broken us down.
</dd>
<dt>
You have been angry.
</dt>
<dd>
Restore us, again.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V2" id="C1960V2">60:2</a> You have made the land tremble.
</dt>
<dd>
You have torn it.
</dd>
<dt>
Mend its fractures,
</dt>
<dd>
for it quakes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V3" id="C1960V3">60:3</a> You have shown your people hard
things.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V4" id="C1960V4">60:4</a> You have given a banner to those who
fear you,
</dt>
<dd>
that it may be displayed because of the truth.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V5" id="C1960V5">60:5</a> So that your beloved may be
delivered,
</dt>
<dd>
save with your right hand, and answer us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V6" id="C1960V6">60:6</a> Elohim has spoken from his sanctuary:
</dt>
<dd>
"I will triumph.
</dd>
<dd>
I will divide Shechem,
</dd>
<dd>
and measure out the valley of Succoth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V7" id="C1960V7">60:7</a> Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is
mine.
</dt>
<dd>
Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
</dd>
<dd>
Yehudah is my scepter.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V8" id="C1960V8">60:8</a> Moab is my wash basin.
</dt>
<dd>
I will throw my shoe on Edom.
</dd>
<dd>
I shout in triumph over Philistia."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V9" id="C1960V9">60:9</a> Who will bring me into the strong
city?
</dt>
<dd>
Who has led me to Edom?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V10" id="C1960V10">60:10</a> Haven't you, Elohim, rejected us?
</dt>
<dd>
You don't go out with our armies, Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V11" id="C1960V11">60:11</a> Give us help against the
adversary,
</dt>
<dd>
for the help of man is vain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1960V12" id="C1960V12">60:12</a> Through Elohim we shall do
valiantly,
</dt>
<dd>
for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 61
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V1" id="C1961V1">61:1</a> Hear my cry, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to my prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V2" id="C1961V2">61:2</a> From the end of the earth, I will
call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed.
</dt>
<dd>
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V3" id="C1961V3">61:3</a> For you have been a refuge for me,
</dt>
<dd>
a strong tower from the enemy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V4" id="C1961V4">61:4</a> I will dwell in your tent forever.
</dt>
<dd>
I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V5" id="C1961V5">61:5</a> For you, Elohim, have heard my vows.
</dt>
<dd>
You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V6" id="C1961V6">61:6</a> You will prolong the king's life;
</dt>
<dd>
his years shall be for generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V7" id="C1961V7">61:7</a> He shall be enthroned in Elohim's
presence forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1961V8" id="C1961V8">61:8</a> So I will sing praise to your name
forever,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may fulfill my vows daily.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 62
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V1" id="C1962V1">62:1</a> My soul rests in Elohim alone.
</dt>
<dd>
My salvation is from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V2" id="C1962V2">62:2</a> He alone is my rock and my
salvation, my fortress--
</dt>
<dd>
I will never be greatly shaken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V3" id="C1962V3">62:3</a> How long will you assault a man,
</dt>
<dd>
would all of you throw him down,
</dd>
<dd>
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V4" id="C1962V4">62:4</a> They fully intend to throw him down
from his lofty place.
</dt>
<dd>
They delight in lies.
</dd>
<dd>
They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V5" id="C1962V5">62:5</a> My soul, wait in silence for Elohim
alone,
</dt>
<dd>
for my expectation is from him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V6" id="C1962V6">62:6</a> He alone is my rock and my
salvation, my fortress.
</dt>
<dd>
I will not be shaken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V7" id="C1962V7">62:7</a> With Elohim is my salvation and my
honor.
</dt>
<dd>
The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V8" id="C1962V8">62:8</a> Trust in him at all times, you
people.
</dt>
<dd>
Pour out your heart before him.
</dd>
<dd>
Elohim is a refuge for us.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V9" id="C1962V9">62:9</a> Surely men of low degree are just a
breath,
</dt>
<dd>
and men of high degree are a lie.
</dd>
<dt>
In the balances they will go up.
</dt>
<dd>
They are together lighter than a breath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V10" id="C1962V10">62:10</a> Don't trust in oppression.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't become vain in robbery.
</dd>
<dt>
If riches increase,
</dt>
<dd>
don't set your heart on them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V11" id="C1962V11">62:11</a> Elohim has spoken once;
</dt>
<dd>
twice I have heard this,
</dd>
<dd>
that power belongs to Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1962V12" id="C1962V12">62:12</a> Also to you, Lord, belongs loving
kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for you reward every man according to his work.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 63
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Yehudah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V1" id="C1963V1">63:1</a> Elohim, you are my Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will earnestly seek you.
</dd>
<dt>
My soul thirsts for you.
</dt>
<dd>
My flesh longs for you,
</dd>
<dd>
in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V2" id="C1963V2">63:2</a> So I have seen you in the sanctuary,
</dt>
<dd>
watching your power and your glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V3" id="C1963V3">63:3</a> Because your loving kindness is
better than life,
</dt>
<dd>
my lips shall praise you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V4" id="C1963V4">63:4</a> So I will bless you while I live.
</dt>
<dd>
I will lift up my hands in your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V5" id="C1963V5">63:5</a> My soul shall be satisfied as with
the richest food.
</dt>
<dd>
My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1963V6" id="C1963V6">63:6</a> when I remember you on my bed,
</dd>
<dd>
and think about you in the night watches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V7" id="C1963V7">63:7</a> For you have been my help.
</dt>
<dd>
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V8" id="C1963V8">63:8</a> My soul stays close to you.
</dt>
<dd>
Your right hand holds me up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V9" id="C1963V9">63:9</a> But those who seek my soul, to
destroy it,
</dt>
<dd>
shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V10" id="C1963V10">63:10</a> They shall be given over to the
power of the sword.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall be jackal food.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1963V11" id="C1963V11">63:11</a> But the king shall rejoice in
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Everyone who swears by him will praise him,
</dd>
<dd>
for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 64
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V1" id="C1964V1">64:1</a> Hear my voice, Elohim, in my complaint.
</dt>
<dd>
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V2" id="C1964V2">64:2</a> Hide me from the conspiracy of the
wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V3" id="C1964V3">64:3</a> who sharpen their tongue like a
sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and aim their arrows, deadly words,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1964V4" id="C1964V4">64:4</a> to shoot innocent men from ambushes.
</dd>
<dd>
They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V5" id="C1964V5">64:5</a> They encourage themselves in evil
plans.
</dt>
<dd>
They talk about laying snares secretly.
</dd>
<dd>
They say, "Who will see them?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V6" id="C1964V6">64:6</a> They plot injustice, saying, "We
have made a perfect plan!"
</dt>
<dd>
Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V7" id="C1964V7">64:7</a> But Elohim will shoot at them.
</dt>
<dd>
They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V8" id="C1964V8">64:8</a> Their own tongues shall ruin them.
</dt>
<dd>
All who see them will shake their heads.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V9" id="C1964V9">64:9</a> All mankind shall be afraid.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall declare the work of Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1964V10" id="C1964V10">64:10</a> The righteous shall be glad in
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall take refuge in him.
</dd>
<dd>
All the upright in heart shall praise him!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 65
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V1" id="C1965V1">65:1</a> Praise waits for you, Elohim, in Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
To you shall vows be performed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V2" id="C1965V2">65:2</a> You who hear prayer,
</dt>
<dd>
to you all men will come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V3" id="C1965V3">65:3</a> Sins overwhelmed me,
</dt>
<dd>
but you atoned for our transgressions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V4" id="C1965V4">65:4</a> Blessed is one whom you choose, and
cause to come near,
</dt>
<dd>
that he may live in your courts.
</dd>
<dd>
We will be filled with the goodness of your house,
</dd>
<dd>
your holy temple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V5" id="C1965V5">65:5</a> By awesome deeds of righteousness,
you answer us,
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim of our salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
of those who are far away on the sea;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V6" id="C1965V6">65:6</a> Who by his power forms the
mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
having armed yourself with strength;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V7" id="C1965V7">65:7</a> who stills the roaring of the seas,
</dt>
<dd>
the roaring of their waves,
</dd>
<dd>
and the turmoil of the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V8" id="C1965V8">65:8</a> They also who dwell in far-away
places are afraid at your wonders.
</dt>
<dd>
You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V9" id="C1965V9">65:9</a> You visit the earth, and water it.
</dt>
<dd>
You greatly enrich it.
</dd>
<dt>
The river of Elohim is full of water.
</dt>
<dd>
You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V10" id="C1965V10">65:10</a> You drench its furrows.
</dt>
<dd>
You level its ridges.
</dd>
<dd>
You soften it with showers.
</dd>
<dd>
You bless it with a crop.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V11" id="C1965V11">65:11</a> You crown the year with your
bounty.
</dt>
<dd>
Your carts overflow with abundance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V12" id="C1965V12">65:12</a> The wilderness grasslands
overflow.
</dt>
<dd>
The hills are clothed with gladness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1965V13" id="C1965V13">65:13</a> The pastures are covered with
flocks.
</dt>
<dd>
The valleys also are clothed with grain.
</dd>
<dt>
They shout for joy!
</dt>
<dd>
They also sing.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 66
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V1" id="C1966V1">66:1</a> Make a joyful shout to Elohim, all the
earth!
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1966V2" id="C1966V2">66:2</a> Sing to the glory of his name!
</dd>
<dd>
Offer glory and praise!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V3" id="C1966V3">66:3</a> Tell Elohim, "How awesome are your
deeds!
</dt>
<dd>
Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to
you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V4" id="C1966V4">66:4</a> All the earth will worship you,
</dt>
<dd>
and will sing to you;
</dd>
<dd>
they will sing to your name."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V5" id="C1966V5">66:5</a> Come, and see Elohim's deeds--
</dt>
<dd>
awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V6" id="C1966V6">66:6</a> He turned the sea into dry land.
</dt>
<dd>
They went through the river on foot.
</dd>
<dd>
There, we rejoiced in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V7" id="C1966V7">66:7</a> He rules by his might forever.
</dt>
<dd>
His eyes watch the nations.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't let the rebellious rise up against him.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V8" id="C1966V8">66:8</a> Praise our Elohim, you peoples!
</dt>
<dd>
Make the sound of his praise heard,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V9" id="C1966V9">66:9</a> who preserves our life among the
living,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't allow our feet to be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V10" id="C1966V10">66:10</a> For you, Elohim, have tested us.
</dt>
<dd>
You have refined us, as silver is refined.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V11" id="C1966V11">66:11</a> You brought us into prison.
</dt>
<dd>
You laid a burden on our backs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V12" id="C1966V12">66:12</a> You allowed men to ride over our
heads.
</dt>
<dd>
We went through fire and through water,
</dd>
<dd>
but you brought us to the place of abundance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V13" id="C1966V13">66:13</a> I will come into your temple with
burnt offerings.
</dt>
<dd>
I will pay my vows to you, <a name="C1966V14" id="C1966V14">66:14</a> which
my lips promised,
</dd>
<dd>
and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V15" id="C1966V15">66:15</a> I will offer to you burnt
offerings of fat animals,
</dt>
<dd>
with the offering of rams,
</dd>
<dd>
I will offer bulls with goats.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V16" id="C1966V16">66:16</a> Come, and hear, all you who fear
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I will declare what he has done for my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V17" id="C1966V17">66:17</a> I cried to him with my mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
He was extolled with my tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V18" id="C1966V18">66:18</a> If I cherished sin in my heart,
</dt>
<dd>
the Lord wouldn't have listened.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V19" id="C1966V19">66:19</a> But most certainly, Elohim has
listened.
</dt>
<dd>
He has heard the voice of my prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1966V20" id="C1966V20">66:20</a> Blessed be Elohim, who has not
turned away my prayer,
</dt>
<dd>
nor his loving kindness from me.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 67
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V1" id="C1967V1">67:1</a> May Elohim be merciful to us, bless us,
</dt>
<dd>
and cause his face to shine on us.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V2" id="C1967V2">67:2</a> That your way may be known on earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and your salvation among all nations,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V3" id="C1967V3">67:3</a> let the peoples praise you, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Let all the peoples praise you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V4" id="C1967V4">67:4</a> Oh let the nations be glad and sing
for joy,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will judge the peoples with equity,
</dd>
<dd>
and govern the nations on earth.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V5" id="C1967V5">67:5</a> Let the peoples praise you, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Let all the peoples praise you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V6" id="C1967V6">67:6</a> The earth has yielded its increase.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim, even our own Elohim, will bless us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1967V7" id="C1967V7">67:7</a> Elohim will bless us.
</dt>
<dd>
All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 68
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V1" id="C1968V1">68:1</a> Let Elohim arise!
</dt>
<dd>
Let his enemies be scattered!
</dd>
<dd>
Let them who hate him also flee before him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V2" id="C1968V2">68:2</a> As smoke is driven away,
</dt>
<dd>
so drive them away.
</dd>
<dt>
As wax melts before the fire,
</dt>
<dd>
so let the wicked perish at the presence of Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V3" id="C1968V3">68:3</a> But let the righteous be glad.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them rejoice before Elohim.
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V4" id="C1968V4">68:4</a> Sing to Elohim! Sing praises to his
name!
</dt>
<dd>
Extol him who rides on the clouds:
</dd>
<dt>
to Yah, his name!
</dt>
<dd>
Rejoice before him!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V5" id="C1968V5">68:5</a> A father of the fatherless, and a
defender of the widows,
</dt>
<dd>
is Elohim in his holy habitation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V6" id="C1968V6">68:6</a> Elohim sets the lonely in families.
</dt>
<dt>
He brings out the prisoners with singing,
</dt>
<dd>
but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V7" id="C1968V7">68:7</a> Elohim, when you went forth before your
people,
</dt>
<dd>
when you marched through the wilderness...
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V8" id="C1968V8">68:8</a> The earth trembled.
</dt>
<dd>
The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the Elohim of Sinai--
</dd>
<dd>
at the presence of Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V9" id="C1968V9">68:9</a> You, Elohim, sent a plentiful rain.
</dt>
<dd>
You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V10" id="C1968V10">68:10</a> Your congregation lived therein.
</dt>
<dd>
You, Elohim, prepared your goodness for the poor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V11" id="C1968V11">68:11</a> The Lord announced the word.
</dt>
<dd>
The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V12" id="C1968V12">68:12</a> "Kings of armies flee! They
flee!"
</dt>
<dd>
She who waits at home divides the spoil,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1968V13" id="C1968V13">68:13</a> while you sleep among the
campfires,
</dd>
<dd>
the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,
</dd>
<dd>
her feathers with shining gold.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V14" id="C1968V14">68:14</a> When the Almighty scattered kings
in her,
</dt>
<dd>
it snowed on Zalmon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V15" id="C1968V15">68:15</a> The mountains of Bashan are
majestic mountains.
</dt>
<dd>
The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V16" id="C1968V16">68:16</a> Why do you look in envy, you
rugged mountains,
</dt>
<dd>
at the mountain where Elohim chooses to reign?
</dd>
<dd>
Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V17" id="C1968V17">68:17</a> The chariots of Elohim are tens of
thousands and thousands of thousands.
</dt>
<dd>
The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V18" id="C1968V18">68:18</a> You have ascended on high.
</dt>
<dd>
You have led away captives.
</dd>
<dt>
You have received gifts among men,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah Elohim might dwell there.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V19" id="C1968V19">68:19</a> Blessed be the Lord, who daily
bears our burdens,
</dt>
<dd>
even the Elohim who is our salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V20" id="C1968V20">68:20</a> Elohim is to us a Elohim of
deliverance.
</dt>
<dd>
To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V21" id="C1968V21">68:21</a> But Elohim will strike through the
head of his enemies,
</dt>
<dd>
the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V22" id="C1968V22">68:22</a> The Lord said, "I will bring
you again from Bashan,
</dt>
<dd>
I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V23" id="C1968V23">68:23</a> That you may crush them, dipping
your foot in blood,
</dt>
<dd>
that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V24" id="C1968V24">68:24</a> They have seen your processions,
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
even the processions of my Elohim, my King, into the sanctuary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V25" id="C1968V25">68:25</a> The singers went before, the
minstrels followed after,
</dt>
<dd>
in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V26" id="C1968V26">68:26</a> "Bless Elohim in the
congregations,
</dt>
<dd>
even the Lord in the assembly of Yisrael!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V27" id="C1968V27">68:27</a> There is little Benjamin, their
ruler,
</dt>
<dd>
the princes of Yehudah, their council,
</dd>
<dd>
the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V28" id="C1968V28">68:28</a> Your Elohim has commanded your
strength.
</dt>
<dd>
Strengthen, Elohim, that which you have done for us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V29" id="C1968V29">68:29</a> Because of your temple at
Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
kings shall bring presents to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V30" id="C1968V30">68:30</a> Rebuke the wild animal of the
reeds,
</dt>
<dd>
the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver.
</dt>
<dd>
Scatter the nations that delight in war.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V31" id="C1968V31">68:31</a> Princes shall come out of Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V32" id="C1968V32">68:32</a> Sing to Elohim, you kingdoms of the
earth!
</dt>
<dd>
Sing praises to the Lord!
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V33" id="C1968V33">68:33</a> To him who rides on the heaven of
heavens, which are of old;
</dt>
<dd>
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V34" id="C1968V34">68:34</a> Ascribe strength to Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
His excellency is over Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
his strength is in the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1968V35" id="C1968V35">68:35</a> You are awesome, Elohim, in your
sanctuaries.
</dt>
<dd>
The Elohim of Yisrael gives strength and power to his people.
</dd>
<dd>
Praise be to Elohim!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 69
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V1" id="C1969V1">69:1</a> Save me, Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
for the waters have come up to my neck!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V2" id="C1969V2">69:2</a> I sink in deep mire, where there is
no foothold.
</dt>
<dd>
I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V3" id="C1969V3">69:3</a> I am weary with my crying.
</dt>
<dd>
My throat is dry.
</dd>
<dd>
My eyes fail, looking for my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V4" id="C1969V4">69:4</a> Those who hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of my head.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty.
</dd>
<dd>
I have to restore what I didn't take away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V5" id="C1969V5">69:5</a> Elohim, you know my foolishness.
</dt>
<dd>
My sins aren't hidden from you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V6" id="C1969V6">69:6</a> Don't let those who wait for you be
shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, Elohim of
Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V7" id="C1969V7">69:7</a> Because for your sake, I have borne
reproach.
</dt>
<dd>
Shame has covered my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V8" id="C1969V8">69:8</a> I have become a stranger to my
brothers,
</dt>
<dd>
an alien to my mother's children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V9" id="C1969V9">69:9</a> For the zeal of your house consumes
me.
</dt>
<dd>
The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V10" id="C1969V10">69:10</a> When I wept and I fasted,
</dt>
<dd>
that was to my reproach.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V11" id="C1969V11">69:11</a> When I made sackcloth my
clothing,
</dt>
<dd>
I became a byword to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V12" id="C1969V12">69:12</a> Those who sit in the gate talk
about me.
</dt>
<dd>
I am the song of the drunkards.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V13" id="C1969V13">69:13</a> But as for me, my prayer is to
you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time.
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of
your salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V14" id="C1969V14">69:14</a> Deliver me out of the mire, and
don't let me sink.
</dt>
<dd>
Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V15" id="C1969V15">69:15</a> Don't let the flood waters
overwhelm me,
</dt>
<dd>
neither let the deep swallow me up.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V16" id="C1969V16">69:16</a> Answer me, Yahweh, for your
loving kindness is good.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V17" id="C1969V17">69:17</a> Don't hide your face from your
servant,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am in distress.
</dd>
<dd>
Answer me speedily!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V18" id="C1969V18">69:18</a> Draw near to my soul, and redeem
it.
</dt>
<dd>
Ransom me because of my enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V19" id="C1969V19">69:19</a> You know my reproach, my shame,
and my dishonor.
</dt>
<dd>
My adversaries are all before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V20" id="C1969V20">69:20</a> Reproach has broken my heart, and
I am full of heaviness.
</dt>
<dd>
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
</dd>
<dd>
for comforters, but I found none.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V21" id="C1969V21">69:21</a> They also gave me gall for my
food.
</dt>
<dd>
In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V22" id="C1969V22">69:22</a> Let their table before them
become a snare.
</dt>
<dd>
May it become a retribution and a trap.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V23" id="C1969V23">69:23</a> Let their eyes be darkened, so
that they can't see.
</dt>
<dd>
Let their backs be continually bent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V24" id="C1969V24">69:24</a> Pour out your indignation on
them.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V25" id="C1969V25">69:25</a> Let their habitation be desolate.
</dt>
<dd>
Let no one dwell in their tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V26" id="C1969V26">69:26</a> For they persecute him whom you
have wounded.
</dt>
<dd>
They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V27" id="C1969V27">69:27</a> Charge them with crime upon
crime.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let them come into your righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V28" id="C1969V28">69:28</a> Let them be blotted out of the
book of life,
</dt>
<dd>
and not be written with the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V29" id="C1969V29">69:29</a> But I am in pain and distress.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your salvation, Elohim, protect me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V30" id="C1969V30">69:30</a> I will praise the name of Elohim
with a song,
</dt>
<dd>
and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V31" id="C1969V31">69:31</a> It will please Yahweh better than
an ox,
</dt>
<dd>
or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V32" id="C1969V32">69:32</a> The humble have seen it, and are
glad.
</dt>
<dd>
You who seek after Elohim, let your heart live.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V33" id="C1969V33">69:33</a> For Yahweh hears the needy,
</dt>
<dd>
and doesn't despise his captive people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V34" id="C1969V34">69:34</a> Let heaven and earth praise him;
</dt>
<dd>
the seas, and everything that moves therein!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V35" id="C1969V35">69:35</a> For Elohim will save Zion, and build
the cities of Yehudah.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall settle there, and own it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1969V36" id="C1969V36">69:36</a> The children also of his servants
shall inherit it.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 70
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1970V1" id="C1970V1">70:1</a> Hurry, Elohim, to deliver me.
</dt>
<dd>
Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1970V2" id="C1970V2">70:2</a> Let them be disappointed and
confounded who seek my soul.
</dt>
<dd>
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1970V3" id="C1970V3">70:3</a> Let them be turned because of their
shame
</dt>
<dd>
Who say, "Aha! Aha!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1970V4" id="C1970V4">70:4</a> Let all those who seek you rejoice
and be glad in you.
</dt>
<dd>
Let those who love your salvation continually say,
</dd>
<dd>
"Let Elohim be exalted!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1970V5" id="C1970V5">70:5</a> But I am poor and needy.
</dt>
<dd>
Come to me quickly, Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
You are my help and my deliverer.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, don't delay.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 71
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V1" id="C1971V1">71:1</a> In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
</dt>
<dd>
Never let me be disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V2" id="C1971V2">71:2</a> Deliver me in your righteousness,
and rescue me.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V3" id="C1971V3">71:3</a> Be to me a rock of refuge to which I
may always go.
</dt>
<dd>
Give the command to save me,
</dd>
<dd>
for you are my rock and my fortress.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V4" id="C1971V4">71:4</a> Rescue me, my Elohim, from the hand of
the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V5" id="C1971V5">71:5</a> For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
my confidence from my youth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V6" id="C1971V6">71:6</a> I have relied on you from the womb.
</dt>
<dd>
You are he who took me out of my mother's womb.
</dd>
<dd>
I will always praise you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V7" id="C1971V7">71:7</a> I am a marvel to many,
</dt>
<dd>
but you are my strong refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V8" id="C1971V8">71:8</a> My mouth shall be filled with your
praise,
</dt>
<dd>
with your honor all the day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V9" id="C1971V9">71:9</a> Don't reject me in my old age.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V10" id="C1971V10">71:10</a> For my enemies talk about me.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1971V11" id="C1971V11">71:11</a> saying, "Elohim has forsaken
him.
</dd>
<dd>
Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V12" id="C1971V12">71:12</a> Elohim, don't be far from me.
</dt>
<dd>
My Elohim, hurry to help me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V13" id="C1971V13">71:13</a> Let my accusers be disappointed
and consumed.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V14" id="C1971V14">71:14</a> But I will always hope,
</dt>
<dd>
and will add to all of your praise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V15" id="C1971V15">71:15</a> My mouth will tell about your
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and of your salvation all day,
</dd>
<dd>
though I don't know its full measure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V16" id="C1971V16">71:16</a> I will come with the mighty acts
of the Lord Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V17" id="C1971V17">71:17</a> Elohim, you have taught me from my
youth.
</dt>
<dd>
Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V18" id="C1971V18">71:18</a> Yes, even when I am old and
gray-haired, Elohim, don't forsake me,
</dt>
<dd>
until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
</dd>
<dd>
your might to everyone who is to come.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V19" id="C1971V19">71:19</a> Your righteousness also, Elohim,
reaches to the heavens;
</dt>
<dd>
you have done great things.
</dd>
<dd>
Elohim, who is like you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V20" id="C1971V20">71:20</a> You, who have shown us many and
bitter troubles,
</dt>
<dd>
you will let me live.
</dd>
<dd>
You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V21" id="C1971V21">71:21</a> Increase my honor,
</dt>
<dd>
and comfort me again.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V22" id="C1971V22">71:22</a> I will also praise you with the
harp for your faithfulness, my Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V23" id="C1971V23">71:23</a> My lips shall shout for joy!
</dt>
<dd>
My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1971V24" id="C1971V24">71:24</a> My tongue will also talk about
your righteousness all day long,
</dt>
<dd>
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,
</dd>
<dd>
who want to harm me.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 72
</h2>
<p>
By Solomon.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V1" id="C1972V1">72:1</a> Elohim, give the king your justice;
</dt>
<dd>
your righteousness to the royal son.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V2" id="C1972V2">72:2</a> He will judge your people with
righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and your poor with justice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V3" id="C1972V3">72:3</a> The mountains shall bring prosperity
to the people.
</dt>
<dd>
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V4" id="C1972V4">72:4</a> He will judge the poor of the
people.
</dt>
<dd>
He will save the children of the needy,
</dd>
<dd>
and will break the oppressor in pieces.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V5" id="C1972V5">72:5</a> They shall fear you while the sun
endures;
</dt>
<dd>
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V6" id="C1972V6">72:6</a> He will come down like rain on the
mown grass,
</dt>
<dd>
as showers that water the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V7" id="C1972V7">72:7</a> In his days, the righteous shall
flourish,
</dt>
<dd>
and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V8" id="C1972V8">72:8</a> He shall have dominion also from sea
to sea,
</dt>
<dd>
from the River to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V9" id="C1972V9">72:9</a> Those who dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before him.
</dt>
<dd>
His enemies shall lick the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V10" id="C1972V10">72:10</a> The kings of Tarshish and of the
islands will bring tribute.
</dt>
<dd>
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V11" id="C1972V11">72:11</a> Yes, all kings shall fall down
before him.
</dt>
<dd>
All nations shall serve him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V12" id="C1972V12">72:12</a> For he will deliver the needy
when he cries;
</dt>
<dd>
the poor, who has no helper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V13" id="C1972V13">72:13</a> He will have pity on the poor and
needy.
</dt>
<dd>
He will save the souls of the needy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V14" id="C1972V14">72:14</a> He will redeem their soul from
oppression and violence.
</dt>
<dd>
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V15" id="C1972V15">72:15</a> They shall live, and to him shall
be given of the gold of Sheba.
</dt>
<dd>
Men shall pray for him continually.
</dd>
<dd>
They shall bless him all day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V16" id="C1972V16">72:16</a> There shall be abundance of grain
throughout the land.
</dt>
<dd>
Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
</dd>
<dd>
Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V17" id="C1972V17">72:17</a> His name endures forever.
</dt>
<dd>
His name continues as long as the sun.
</dd>
<dt>
Men shall be blessed by him.
</dt>
<dd>
All nations will call him blessed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V18" id="C1972V18">72:18</a> Praise be to Yahweh Elohim, the Elohim
of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
who alone does marvelous deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V19" id="C1972V19">72:19</a> Blessed be his glorious name
forever!
</dt>
<dd>
Let the whole earth be filled with his glory!
</dd>
<dt>
Amen and amen.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1972V20" id="C1972V20">72:20</a> This ends the prayers by David,
the son of Jesse.
</dt>
</dl>
<h1>
BOOK III
</h1>
<h2>
Psalm 73
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V1" id="C1973V1">73:1</a> Surely Elohim is good to Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
to those who are pure in heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V2" id="C1973V2">73:2</a> But as for me, my feet were almost
gone.
</dt>
<dd>
My steps had nearly slipped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V3" id="C1973V3">73:3</a> For I was envious of the arrogant,
</dt>
<dd>
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V4" id="C1973V4">73:4</a> For there are no struggles in their
death,
</dt>
<dd>
but their strength is firm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V5" id="C1973V5">73:5</a> They are free from burdens of men,
</dt>
<dd>
neither are they plagued like other men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V6" id="C1973V6">73:6</a> Therefore pride is like a chain
around their neck.
</dt>
<dd>
Violence covers them like a garment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V7" id="C1973V7">73:7</a> Their eyes bulge with fat.
</dt>
<dd>
Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V8" id="C1973V8">73:8</a> They scoff and speak with malice.
</dt>
<dd>
In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V9" id="C1973V9">73:9</a> They have set their mouth in the
heavens.
</dt>
<dd>
Their tongue walks through the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V10" id="C1973V10">73:10</a> Therefore their people return to
them,
</dt>
<dd>
and they drink up waters of abundance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V11" id="C1973V11">73:11</a> They say, "How does Elohim
know?
</dt>
<dd>
Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V12" id="C1973V12">73:12</a> Behold, these are the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V13" id="C1973V13">73:13</a> Surely in vain I have cleansed my
heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and washed my hands in innocence,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V14" id="C1973V14">73:14</a> For all day long have I been
plagued,
</dt>
<dd>
and punished every morning.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V15" id="C1973V15">73:15</a> If I had said, "I will speak
thus;"
</dt>
<dd>
behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V16" id="C1973V16">73:16</a> When I tried to understand this,
</dt>
<dd>
it was too painful for me;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V17" id="C1973V17">73:17</a> Until I entered Elohim's sanctuary,
</dt>
<dd>
and considered their latter end.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V18" id="C1973V18">73:18</a> Surely you set them in slippery
places.
</dt>
<dd>
You throw them down to destruction.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V19" id="C1973V19">73:19</a> How they are suddenly destroyed!
</dt>
<dd>
They are completely swept away with terrors.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V20" id="C1973V20">73:20</a> As a dream when one wakes up,
</dt>
<dd>
so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V21" id="C1973V21">73:21</a> For my soul was grieved.
</dt>
<dd>
I was embittered in my heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V22" id="C1973V22">73:22</a> I was so senseless and ignorant.
</dt>
<dd>
I was a brute beast before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V23" id="C1973V23">73:23</a> Nevertheless, I am continually
with you.
</dt>
<dd>
You have held my right hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V24" id="C1973V24">73:24</a> You will guide me with your
counsel,
</dt>
<dd>
and afterward receive me to glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V25" id="C1973V25">73:25</a> Who do I have in heaven?
</dt>
<dd>
There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V26" id="C1973V26">73:26</a> My flesh and my heart fails,
</dt>
<dd>
but Elohim is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V27" id="C1973V27">73:27</a> For, behold, those who are far
from you shall perish.
</dt>
<dd>
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1973V28" id="C1973V28">73:28</a> But it is good for me to come
close to Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge,
</dd>
<dd>
that I may tell of all your works.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 74
</h2>
<p>
A contemplation by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V1" id="C1974V1">74:1</a> Elohim, why have you rejected us
forever?
</dt>
<dd>
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V2" id="C1974V2">74:2</a> Remember your congregation, which
you purchased of old,
</dt>
<dd>
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance;
</dd>
<dd>
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V3" id="C1974V3">74:3</a> Lift up your feet to the perpetual
ruins,
</dt>
<dd>
all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V4" id="C1974V4">74:4</a> Your adversaries have roared in the
midst of your assembly.
</dt>
<dd>
They have set up their standards as signs.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V5" id="C1974V5">74:5</a> They behaved like men wielding axes,
</dt>
<dd>
cutting through a thicket of trees.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V6" id="C1974V6">74:6</a> Now they break all its carved work
down with hatchet and hammers.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1974V7" id="C1974V7">74:7</a> They have burned your sanctuary to
the ground.
</dd>
<dd>
They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V8" id="C1974V8">74:8</a> They said in their heart, "We
will crush them completely."
</dt>
<dd>
They have burned up all the places in the land where Elohim was worshiped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V9" id="C1974V9">74:9</a> We see no miraculous signs.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no longer any prophet,
</dd>
<dd>
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V10" id="C1974V10">74:10</a> How long, Elohim, shall the
adversary reproach?
</dt>
<dd>
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V11" id="C1974V11">74:11</a> Why do you draw back your hand,
even your right hand?
</dt>
<dd>
Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V12" id="C1974V12">74:12</a> Yet Elohim is my King of old,
</dt>
<dd>
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V13" id="C1974V13">74:13</a> You divided the sea by your
strength.
</dt>
<dd>
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V14" id="C1974V14">74:14</a> You broke the heads of Leviathan
in pieces.
</dt>
<dd>
You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V15" id="C1974V15">74:15</a> You opened up spring and stream.
</dt>
<dd>
You dried up mighty rivers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V16" id="C1974V16">74:16</a> The day is yours, the night is
also yours.
</dt>
<dd>
You have prepared the light and the sun.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V17" id="C1974V17">74:17</a> You have set all the boundaries
of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made summer and winter.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V18" id="C1974V18">74:18</a> Remember this, that the enemy has
mocked you, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V19" id="C1974V19">74:19</a> Don't deliver the soul of your
dove to wild beasts.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V20" id="C1974V20">74:20</a> Honor your covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V21" id="C1974V21">74:21</a> Don't let the oppressed return
ashamed.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the poor and needy praise your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V22" id="C1974V22">74:22</a> Arise, Elohim! Plead your own cause.
</dt>
<dd>
Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1974V23" id="C1974V23">74:23</a> Don't forget the voice of your
adversaries.
</dt>
<dd>
The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 75
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm
by Asaph. A song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V1" id="C1975V1">75:1</a> We give thanks to you, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
We give thanks, for your Name is near.
</dd>
<dd>
Men tell about your wondrous works.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V2" id="C1975V2">75:2</a> When I choose the appointed time,
</dt>
<dd>
I will judge blamelessly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V3" id="C1975V3">75:3</a> The earth and all its inhabitants
quake.
</dt>
<dd>
I firmly hold its pillars.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V4" id="C1975V4">75:4</a> I said to the arrogant, "Don't
boast!"
</dt>
<dd>
I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V5" id="C1975V5">75:5</a> Don't lift up your horn on high.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't speak with a stiff neck."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V6" id="C1975V6">75:6</a> For neither from the east, nor from
the west,
</dt>
<dd>
nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V7" id="C1975V7">75:7</a> But Elohim is the judge.
</dt>
<dd>
He puts down one, and lifts up another.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V8" id="C1975V8">75:8</a> For in the hand of Yahweh there is a
cup,
</dt>
<dd>
full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
</dd>
<dt>
He pours it out.
</dt>
<dd>
Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V9" id="C1975V9">75:9</a> But I will declare this forever:
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praises to the Elohim of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1975V10" id="C1975V10">75:10</a> I will cut off all the horns of
the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 76
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V1" id="C1976V1">76:1</a> In Yehudah, Elohim is known.
</dt>
<dd>
His name is great in Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V2" id="C1976V2">76:2</a> His tent is also in Salem;
</dt>
<dd>
His dwelling place in Zion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V3" id="C1976V3">76:3</a> There he broke the flaming arrows of
the bow,
</dt>
<dd>
the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V4" id="C1976V4">76:4</a> Glorious are you, and excellent,
</dt>
<dd>
more than mountains of game.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V5" id="C1976V5">76:5</a> Valiant men lie plundered,
</dt>
<dd>
they have slept their last sleep.
</dd>
<dd>
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V6" id="C1976V6">76:6</a> At your rebuke, Elohim of Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V7" id="C1976V7">76:7</a> You, even you, are to be feared.
</dt>
<dd>
Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V8" id="C1976V8">76:8</a> You pronounced judgment from heaven.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth feared, and was silent,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1976V9" id="C1976V9">76:9</a> when Elohim arose to judgment,
</dd>
<dd>
to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V10" id="C1976V10">76:10</a> Surely the wrath of man praises
you.
</dt>
<dd>
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V11" id="C1976V11">76:11</a> Make vows to Yahweh your Elohim, and
fulfill them!
</dt>
<dd>
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1976V12" id="C1976V12">76:12</a> He will cut off the spirit of
princes.
</dt>
<dd>
He is feared by the kings of the earth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 77
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V1" id="C1977V1">77:1</a> My cry goes to Elohim!
</dt>
<dd>
Indeed, I cry to Elohim for help,
</dd>
<dd>
and for him to listen to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V2" id="C1977V2">77:2</a> In the day of my trouble I sought
the Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
</dd>
<dd>
My soul refused to be comforted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V3" id="C1977V3">77:3</a> I remember Elohim, and I groan.
</dt>
<dd>
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V4" id="C1977V4">77:4</a> You hold my eyelids open.
</dt>
<dd>
I am so troubled that I can't speak.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V5" id="C1977V5">77:5</a> I have considered the days of old,
</dt>
<dd>
the years of ancient times.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V6" id="C1977V6">77:6</a> I remember my song in the night.
</dt>
<dd>
I consider in my own heart;
</dd>
<dd>
my spirit diligently inquires:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V7" id="C1977V7">77:7</a> "Will the Lord reject us
forever?
</dt>
<dd>
Will he be favorable no more?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V8" id="C1977V8">77:8</a> Has his loving kindness vanished
forever?
</dt>
<dd>
Does his promise fail for generations?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V9" id="C1977V9">77:9</a> Has Elohim forgotten to be gracious?
</dt>
<dd>
Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?"
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V10" id="C1977V10">77:10</a> Then I thought, "I will
appeal to this:
</dt>
<dd>
the years of the right hand of the Most High."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V11" id="C1977V11">77:11</a> I will remember Yah's deeds;
</dt>
<dd>
for I will remember your wonders of old.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V12" id="C1977V12">77:12</a> I will also meditate on all your
work,
</dt>
<dd>
and consider your doings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V13" id="C1977V13">77:13</a> Your way, Elohim, is in the
sanctuary.
</dt>
<dd>
What god is great like Elohim?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V14" id="C1977V14">77:14</a> You are the Elohim who does wonders.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made your strength known among the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V15" id="C1977V15">77:15</a> You have redeemed your people
with your arm,
</dt>
<dd>
the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V16" id="C1977V16">77:16</a> The waters saw you, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
The waters saw you, and they writhed.
</dd>
<dd>
The depths also convulsed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V17" id="C1977V17">77:17</a> The clouds poured out water.
</dt>
<dd>
The skies resounded with thunder.
</dd>
<dd>
Your arrows also flashed around.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V18" id="C1977V18">77:18</a> The voice of your thunder was in
the whirlwind.
</dt>
<dd>
The lightnings lit up the world.
</dd>
<dd>
The earth trembled and shook.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V19" id="C1977V19">77:19</a> Your way was through the sea;
</dt>
<dd>
your paths through the great waters.
</dd>
<dd>
Your footsteps were not known.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1977V20" id="C1977V20">77:20</a> You led your people like a flock,
</dt>
<dd>
by the hand of Moshe and Aharon.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 78
</h2>
<p>
A contemplation by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V1" id="C1978V1">78:1</a> Hear my teaching, my people.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V2" id="C1978V2">78:2</a> I will open my mouth in a parable.
</dt>
<dd>
I will utter dark sayings of old,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V3" id="C1978V3">78:3</a> Which we have heard and known,
</dt>
<dd>
and our fathers have told us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V4" id="C1978V4">78:4</a> We will not hide them from their
children,
</dt>
<dd>
telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V5" id="C1978V5">78:5</a> For he established a testimony in
Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and appointed a teaching in Yisrael,
</dd>
<dd>
which he commanded our fathers,
</dd>
<dd>
that they should make them known to their children;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V6" id="C1978V6">78:6</a> that the generation to come might
know, even the children who should be born;
</dt>
<dd>
who should arise and tell their children,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V7" id="C1978V7">78:7</a> that they might set their hope in
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and not forget the works of Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
but keep his commandments,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V8" id="C1978V8">78:8</a> and might not be as their fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
</dd>
<dd>
a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
</dd>
<dd>
whose spirit was not steadfast with Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V9" id="C1978V9">78:9</a> The children of Ephraim, being armed
and carrying bows,
</dt>
<dd>
turned back in the day of battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V10" id="C1978V10">78:10</a> They didn't keep Elohim's covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
and refused to walk in his Torah.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V11" id="C1978V11">78:11</a> They forgot his doings,
</dt>
<dd>
his wondrous works that he had shown them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V12" id="C1978V12">78:12</a> He did marvelous things in the
sight of their fathers,
</dt>
<dd>
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V13" id="C1978V13">78:13</a> He split the sea, and caused them
to pass through.
</dt>
<dd>
He made the waters stand as a heap.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V14" id="C1978V14">78:14</a> In the daytime he also led them
with a cloud,
</dt>
<dd>
and all night with a light of fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V15" id="C1978V15">78:15</a> He split rocks in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V16" id="C1978V16">78:16</a> He brought streams also out of
the rock,
</dt>
<dd>
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V17" id="C1978V17">78:17</a> Yet they still went on to sin
against him,
</dt>
<dd>
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V18" id="C1978V18">78:18</a> They tempted Elohim in their heart
</dt>
<dd>
by asking food according to their desire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V19" id="C1978V19">78:19</a> Yes, they spoke against Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
They said, "Can Elohim prepare a table in the wilderness?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V20" id="C1978V20">78:20</a> Behold, he struck the rock, so
that waters gushed out,
</dt>
<dd>
and streams overflowed.
</dd>
<dt>
Can he give bread also?
</dt>
<dd>
Will he provide flesh for his people?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V21" id="C1978V21">78:21</a> Therefore Yahweh heard, and was
angry.
</dt>
<dd>
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
</dd>
<dd>
anger also went up against Yisrael,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V22" id="C1978V22">78:22</a> because they didn't believe in
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and didn't trust in his salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V23" id="C1978V23">78:23</a> Yet he commanded the skies above,
</dt>
<dd>
and opened the doors of heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V24" id="C1978V24">78:24</a> He rained down manna on them to
eat,
</dt>
<dd>
and gave them food from the sky.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V25" id="C1978V25">78:25</a> Man ate the bread of angels.
</dt>
<dd>
He sent them food to the full.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V26" id="C1978V26">78:26</a> He caused the east wind to blow
in the sky.
</dt>
<dd>
By his power he guided the south wind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V27" id="C1978V27">78:27</a> He rained also flesh on them as
the dust;
</dt>
<dd>
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V28" id="C1978V28">78:28</a> He let them fall in the midst of
their camp,
</dt>
<dd>
around their habitations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V29" id="C1978V29">78:29</a> So they ate, and were well
filled.
</dt>
<dd>
He gave them their own desire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V30" id="C1978V30">78:30</a> They didn't turn from their
cravings.
</dt>
<dd>
Their food was yet in their mouths,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1978V31" id="C1978V31">78:31</a> when the anger of Elohim went up
against them,
</dd>
<dd>
killed some of the fattest of them,
</dd>
<dd>
and struck down the young men of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V32" id="C1978V32">78:32</a> For all this they still sinned,
</dt>
<dd>
and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V33" id="C1978V33">78:33</a> Therefore he consumed their days
in vanity,
</dt>
<dd>
and their years in terror.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V34" id="C1978V34">78:34</a> When he killed them, then they
inquired after him.
</dt>
<dd>
They returned and sought Elohim earnestly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V35" id="C1978V35">78:35</a> They remembered that Elohim was
their rock,
</dt>
<dd>
the Most High Elohim, their redeemer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V36" id="C1978V36">78:36</a> But they flattered him with their
mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and lied to him with their tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V37" id="C1978V37">78:37</a> For their heart was not right
with him,
</dt>
<dd>
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V38" id="C1978V38">78:38</a> But he, being merciful, forgave
iniquity, and didn't destroy them.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
</dd>
<dd>
and didn't stir up all his wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V39" id="C1978V39">78:39</a> He remembered that they were but
flesh,
</dt>
<dd>
a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V40" id="C1978V40">78:40</a> How often they rebelled against
him in the wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
and grieved him in the desert!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V41" id="C1978V41">78:41</a> They turned again and tempted
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and provoked the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V42" id="C1978V42">78:42</a> They didn't remember his hand,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V43" id="C1978V43">78:43</a> how he set his signs in Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V44" id="C1978V44">78:44</a> he turned their rivers into
blood,
</dt>
<dd>
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V45" id="C1978V45">78:45</a> He sent among them swarms of
flies, which devoured them;
</dt>
<dd>
and frogs, which destroyed them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V46" id="C1978V46">78:46</a> He gave also their increase to
the caterpillar,
</dt>
<dd>
and their labor to the locust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V47" id="C1978V47">78:47</a> He destroyed their vines with
hail,
</dt>
<dd>
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V48" id="C1978V48">78:48</a> He gave over their livestock also
to the hail,
</dt>
<dd>
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V49" id="C1978V49">78:49</a> He threw on them the fierceness
of his anger,
</dt>
<dd>
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
</dd>
<dd>
and a band of angels of evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V50" id="C1978V50">78:50</a> He made a path for his anger.
</dt>
<dd>
He didn't spare their soul from death,
</dd>
<dd>
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V51" id="C1978V51">78:51</a> and struck all the firstborn in
Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V52" id="C1978V52">78:52</a> But he led forth his own people
like sheep,
</dt>
<dd>
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V53" id="C1978V53">78:53</a> He led them safely, so that they
weren't afraid,
</dt>
<dd>
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V54" id="C1978V54">78:54</a> He brought them to the border of
his sanctuary,
</dt>
<dd>
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V55" id="C1978V55">78:55</a> He also drove out the nations
before them,
</dt>
<dd>
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
</dd>
<dd>
and made the tribes of Yisrael to dwell in their tents.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V56" id="C1978V56">78:56</a> Yet they tempted and rebelled
against the Most High Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and didn't keep his testimonies;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V57" id="C1978V57">78:57</a> but turned back, and dealt
treacherously like their fathers.
</dt>
<dd>
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V58" id="C1978V58">78:58</a> For they provoked him to anger
with their high places,
</dt>
<dd>
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V59" id="C1978V59">78:59</a> When Elohim heard this, he was
angry,
</dt>
<dd>
and greatly abhorred Yisrael;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V60" id="C1978V60">78:60</a> So that he forsook the tent of
Shiloh,
</dt>
<dd>
the tent which he placed among men;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V61" id="C1978V61">78:61</a> and delivered his strength into
captivity,
</dt>
<dd>
his glory into the adversary's hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V62" id="C1978V62">78:62</a> He also gave his people over to
the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and was angry with his inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V63" id="C1978V63">78:63</a> Fire devoured their young men.
</dt>
<dd>
Their virgins had no wedding song.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V64" id="C1978V64">78:64</a> Their priests fell by the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and their widows couldn't weep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V65" id="C1978V65">78:65</a> Then the Lord awakened as one out
of sleep,
</dt>
<dd>
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V66" id="C1978V66">78:66</a> He struck his adversaries
backward.
</dt>
<dd>
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V67" id="C1978V67">78:67</a> Moreover he rejected the tent of
Joseph,
</dt>
<dd>
and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V68" id="C1978V68">78:68</a> But chose the tribe of Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
Mount Zion which he loved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V69" id="C1978V69">78:69</a> He built his sanctuary like the
heights,
</dt>
<dd>
like the earth which he has established forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V70" id="C1978V70">78:70</a> He also chose David his servant,
</dt>
<dd>
and took him from the sheepfolds;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V71" id="C1978V71">78:71</a> from following the ewes that have
their young,
</dt>
<dd>
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
</dd>
<dd>
and Yisrael, his inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1978V72" id="C1978V72">78:72</a> So he was their shepherd
according to the integrity of his heart,
</dt>
<dd>
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 79
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V1" id="C1979V1">79:1</a> Elohim, the nations have come into your
inheritance.
</dt>
<dd>
They have defiled your holy temple.
</dd>
<dd>
They have laid Yerushalayim in heaps.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V2" id="C1979V2">79:2</a> They have given the dead bodies of
your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
</dt>
<dd>
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V3" id="C1979V3">79:3</a> Their blood they have shed like
water around Yerushalayim.
</dt>
<dd>
There was no one to bury them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V4" id="C1979V4">79:4</a> We have become a reproach to our
neighbors,
</dt>
<dd>
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V5" id="C1979V5">79:5</a> How long, Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you be angry forever?
</dd>
<dd>
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V6" id="C1979V6">79:6</a> Pour out your wrath on the nations
that don't know you;
</dt>
<dd>
on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V7" id="C1979V7">79:7</a> For they have devoured Jacob,
</dt>
<dd>
and destroyed his homeland.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V8" id="C1979V8">79:8</a> Don't hold the iniquities of our
forefathers against us.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
</dd>
<dd>
for we are in desperate need.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V9" id="C1979V9">79:9</a> Help us, Elohim of our salvation, for
the glory of your name.
</dt>
<dd>
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V10" id="C1979V10">79:10</a> Why should the nations say,
"Where is their Elohim?"
</dt>
<dd>
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V11" id="C1979V11">79:11</a> Let the sighing of the prisoner
come before you.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are
sentenced to death.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V12" id="C1979V12">79:12</a> Pay back to our neighbors seven
times into their bosom
</dt>
<dd>
their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1979V13" id="C1979V13">79:13</a> So we, your people and sheep of
your pasture,
</dt>
<dd>
will give you thanks forever.
</dd>
<dd>
We will praise you forever, to all generations.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 80
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant."
A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V1" id="C1980V1">80:1</a> Hear us, Shepherd of Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
you who lead Joseph like a flock,
</dd>
<dd>
you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V2" id="C1980V2">80:2</a> Before Ephraim and Benjamin and
Manasseh, stir up your might!
</dt>
<dd>
Come to save us!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V3" id="C1980V3">80:3</a> Turn us again, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Cause your face to shine,
</dd>
<dd>
and we will be saved.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V4" id="C1980V4">80:4</a> Yahweh Elohim of Armies,
</dt>
<dd>
How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V5" id="C1980V5">80:5</a> You have fed them with the bread of
tears,
</dt>
<dd>
and given them tears to drink in large measure.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V6" id="C1980V6">80:6</a> You make us a source of contention
to our neighbors.
</dt>
<dd>
Our enemies laugh among themselves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V7" id="C1980V7">80:7</a> Turn us again, Elohim of Armies.
</dt>
<dd>
Cause your face to shine,
</dd>
<dd>
and we will be saved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V8" id="C1980V8">80:8</a> You brought a vine out of Egypt.
</dt>
<dd>
You drove out the nations, and planted it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V9" id="C1980V9">80:9</a> You cleared the ground for it.
</dt>
<dd>
It took deep root, and filled the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V10" id="C1980V10">80:10</a> The mountains were covered with
its shadow.
</dt>
<dd>
Its boughs were like Elohim's cedars.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V11" id="C1980V11">80:11</a> It sent out its branches to the
sea,
</dt>
<dd>
Its shoots to the River.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V12" id="C1980V12">80:12</a> Why have you broken down its
walls,
</dt>
<dd>
so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V13" id="C1980V13">80:13</a> The boar out of the wood ravages
it.
</dt>
<dd>
The wild animals of the field feed on it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V14" id="C1980V14">80:14</a> Turn again, we beg you, Elohim of
Armies.
</dt>
<dd>
Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V15" id="C1980V15">80:15</a> the stock which your right hand
planted,
</dt>
<dd>
the branch that you made strong for yourself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V16" id="C1980V16">80:16</a> It's burned with fire.
</dt>
<dd>
It's cut down.
</dd>
<dd>
They perish at your rebuke.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V17" id="C1980V17">80:17</a> Let your hand be on the man of
your right hand,
</dt>
<dd>
on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V18" id="C1980V18">80:18</a> So we will not turn away from
you.
</dt>
<dd>
Revive us, and we will call on your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1980V19" id="C1980V19">80:19</a> Turn us again, Yahweh Elohim of
Armies.
</dt>
<dd>
Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 81
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V1" id="C1981V1">81:1</a> Sing aloud to Elohim, our strength!
</dt>
<dd>
Make a joyful shout to the Elohim of Jacob!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V2" id="C1981V2">81:2</a> Raise a song, and bring here the
tambourine,
</dt>
<dd>
the pleasant lyre with the harp.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V3" id="C1981V3">81:3</a> Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
</dt>
<dd>
at the full moon, on our feast day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V4" id="C1981V4">81:4</a> For it is a statute for Yisrael,
</dt>
<dd>
an ordinance of the Elohim of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V5" id="C1981V5">81:5</a> He appointed it in Joseph for a
testimony,
</dt>
<dd>
when he went out over the land of Egypt,
</dd>
<dd>
I heard a language that I didn't know.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V6" id="C1981V6">81:6</a> "I removed his shoulder from
the burden.
</dt>
<dd>
His hands were freed from the basket.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V7" id="C1981V7">81:7</a> You called in trouble, and I
delivered you.
</dt>
<dd>
I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
</dd>
<dd>
I tested you at the waters of Meribah."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V8" id="C1981V8">81:8</a> "Hear, my people, and I will
testify to you,
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael, if you would listen to me!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V9" id="C1981V9">81:9</a> There shall be no strange god in
you,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall you worship any foreign god.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V10" id="C1981V10">81:10</a> I am Yahweh, your Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
</dd>
<dd>
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V11" id="C1981V11">81:11</a> But my people didn't listen to my
voice.
</dt>
<dd>
Yisrael desired none of me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V12" id="C1981V12">81:12</a> So I let them go after the
stubbornness of their hearts,
</dt>
<dd>
that they might walk in their own counsels.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V13" id="C1981V13">81:13</a> Oh that my people would listen to
me,
</dt>
<dd>
that Yisrael would walk in my ways!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V14" id="C1981V14">81:14</a> I would soon subdue their
enemies,
</dt>
<dd>
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V15" id="C1981V15">81:15</a> The haters of Yahweh would cringe
before him,
</dt>
<dd>
and their punishment would last forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1981V16" id="C1981V16">81:16</a> But he would have also fed them
with the finest of the wheat.
</dt>
<dd>
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 82
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V1" id="C1982V1">82:1</a> Elohim presides in the great assembly.
</dt>
<dd>
He judges among the gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V2" id="C1982V2">82:2</a> "How long will you judge
unjustly,
</dt>
<dd>
and show partiality to the wicked?"
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V3" id="C1982V3">82:3</a> "Defend the weak, the poor, and
the fatherless.
</dt>
<dd>
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V4" id="C1982V4">82:4</a> Rescue the weak and needy.
</dt>
<dd>
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V5" id="C1982V5">82:5</a> They don't know, neither do they
understand.
</dt>
<dd>
They walk back and forth in darkness.
</dd>
<dd>
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V6" id="C1982V6">82:6</a> I said, "You are gods,
</dt>
<dd>
all of you are sons of the Most High.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V7" id="C1982V7">82:7</a> Nevertheless you shall die like men,
</dt>
<dd>
and fall like one of the rulers."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1982V8" id="C1982V8">82:8</a> Arise, Elohim, judge the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
for you inherit all of the nations.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 83
</h2>
<p>
A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V1" id="C1983V1">83:1</a> Elohim, don't keep silent.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't keep silent,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't be still, Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V2" id="C1983V2">83:2</a> For, behold, your enemies are
stirred up.
</dt>
<dd>
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V3" id="C1983V3">83:3</a> They conspire with cunning against
your people.
</dt>
<dd>
They plot against your cherished ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V4" id="C1983V4">83:4</a> "Come," they say, "and
let's destroy them as a nation,
</dt>
<dd>
that the name of Yisrael may be remembered no more."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V5" id="C1983V5">83:5</a> For they have conspired together
with one mind.
</dt>
<dd>
They form an alliance against you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V6" id="C1983V6">83:6</a> The tents of Edom and the
Ishmaelites;
</dt>
<dd>
Moab, and the Hagrites;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V7" id="C1983V7">83:7</a> Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
</dt>
<dd>
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V8" id="C1983V8">83:8</a> Assyria also is joined with them.
</dt>
<dd>
They have helped the children of Lot.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V9" id="C1983V9">83:9</a> Do to them as you did to Midian,
</dt>
<dd>
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V10" id="C1983V10">83:10</a> who perished at Endor,
</dt>
<dd>
who became as dung for the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V11" id="C1983V11">83:11</a> Make their nobles like Oreb and
Zeeb;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1983V12" id="C1983V12">83:12</a> who said, "Let us take
possession of Elohim's pasturelands."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V13" id="C1983V13">83:13</a> My Elohim, make them like
tumbleweed;
</dt>
<dd>
like chaff before the wind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V14" id="C1983V14">83:14</a> As the fire that burns the
forest,
</dt>
<dd>
as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1983V15" id="C1983V15">83:15</a> so pursue them with your tempest,
</dd>
<dd>
and terrify them with your storm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V16" id="C1983V16">83:16</a> Fill their faces with confusion,
</dt>
<dd>
that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V17" id="C1983V17">83:17</a> Let them be disappointed and
dismayed forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1983V18" id="C1983V18">83:18</a> that they may know that you
alone, whose name is Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
are the Most High over all the earth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 84
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of
Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V1" id="C1984V1">84:1</a> How lovely are your dwellings,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh of Armies!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V2" id="C1984V2">84:2</a> My soul longs, and even faints for
the courts of Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V3" id="C1984V3">84:3</a> Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
</dt>
<dd>
and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
</dd>
<dd>
near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V4" id="C1984V4">84:4</a> Blessed are those who dwell in your
house.
</dt>
<dd>
They are always praising you.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V5" id="C1984V5">84:5</a> Blessed are those whose strength is
in you;
</dt>
<dd>
who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V6" id="C1984V6">84:6</a> Passing through the valley of
Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V7" id="C1984V7">84:7</a> They go from strength to strength.
</dt>
<dd>
Everyone of them appears before Elohim in Zion.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V8" id="C1984V8">84:8</a> Yahweh, Elohim of Armies, hear my
prayer.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen, Elohim of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V9" id="C1984V9">84:9</a> Behold, Elohim our shield,
</dt>
<dd>
look at the face of your anointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V10" id="C1984V10">84:10</a> For a day in your courts is
better than a thousand.
</dt>
<dd>
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V11" id="C1984V11">84:11</a> For Yahweh Elohim is a sun and a
shield.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will give grace and glory.
</dd>
<dd>
He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1984V12" id="C1984V12">84:12</a> Yahweh of Armies,
</dt>
<dd>
blessed is the man who trusts in you.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 85
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V1" id="C1985V1">85:1</a> Yahweh, you have been favorable to
your land.
</dt>
<dd>
You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V2" id="C1985V2">85:2</a> You have forgiven the iniquity of
your people.
</dt>
<dd>
You have covered all their sin.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V3" id="C1985V3">85:3</a> You have taken away all your wrath.
</dt>
<dd>
You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V4" id="C1985V4">85:4</a> Turn us, Elohim of our salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V5" id="C1985V5">85:5</a> Will you be angry with us forever?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V6" id="C1985V6">85:6</a> Won't you revive us again,
</dt>
<dd>
that your people may rejoice in you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V7" id="C1985V7">85:7</a> Show us your loving kindness,
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Grant us your salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V8" id="C1985V8">85:8</a> I will hear what Elohim, Yahweh, will
speak,
</dt>
<dd>
for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;
</dd>
<dd>
but let them not turn again to folly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V9" id="C1985V9">85:9</a> Surely his salvation is near those
who fear him,
</dt>
<dd>
that glory may dwell in our land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V10" id="C1985V10">85:10</a> Mercy and truth meet together.
</dt>
<dd>
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V11" id="C1985V11">85:11</a> Truth springs out of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V12" id="C1985V12">85:12</a> Yes, Yahweh will give that which
is good.
</dt>
<dd>
Our land will yield its increase.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1985V13" id="C1985V13">85:13</a> Righteousness goes before him,
</dt>
<dd>
And prepares the way for his steps.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 86
</h2>
<p>
A Prayer by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V1" id="C1986V1">86:1</a> Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am poor and needy.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V2" id="C1986V2">86:2</a> Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
</dt>
<dd>
You, my Elohim, save your servant who trusts in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V3" id="C1986V3">86:3</a> Be merciful to me, Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
for I call to you all day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V4" id="C1986V4">86:4</a> Bring joy to the soul of your
servant,
</dt>
<dd>
for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V5" id="C1986V5">86:5</a> For you, Lord, are good, and ready
to forgive;
</dt>
<dd>
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V6" id="C1986V6">86:6</a> Hear, Yahweh, my prayer.
</dt>
<dd>
Listen to the voice of my petitions.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V7" id="C1986V7">86:7</a> In the day of my trouble I will call
on you,
</dt>
<dd>
for you will answer me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V8" id="C1986V8">86:8</a> There is no one like you among the
gods, Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
nor any deeds like your deeds.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V9" id="C1986V9">86:9</a> All nations you have made will come
and worship before you, Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall glorify your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V10" id="C1986V10">86:10</a> For you are great, and do
wondrous things.
</dt>
<dd>
You are Elohim alone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V11" id="C1986V11">86:11</a> Teach me your way, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
I will walk in your truth.
</dd>
<dd>
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V12" id="C1986V12">86:12</a> I will praise you, Lord my Elohim,
with my whole heart.
</dt>
<dd>
I will glorify your name forevermore.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V13" id="C1986V13">86:13</a> For your loving kindness is great
toward me.
</dt>
<dd>
You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V14" id="C1986V14">86:14</a> Elohim, the proud have risen up
against me.
</dt>
<dd>
A company of violent men have sought after my soul,
</dd>
<dd>
and they don't hold regard for you before them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V15" id="C1986V15">86:15</a> But you, Lord, are a merciful and
gracious Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V16" id="C1986V16">86:16</a> Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
</dt>
<dd>
Give your strength to your servant.
</dd>
<dd>
Save the son of your handmaid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1986V17" id="C1986V17">86:17</a> Show me a sign of your goodness,
</dt>
<dd>
that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed,
</dd>
<dd>
because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 87
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V1" id="C1987V1">87:1</a> His foundation is in the holy
mountains.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1987V2" id="C1987V2">87:2</a> Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V3" id="C1987V3">87:3</a> Glorious things are spoken about
you, city of Elohim.
</dt>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V4" id="C1987V4">87:4</a> I will record <a href="#N197">Rahab</a>
and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
</dd>
<dd>
"This one was born there."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V5" id="C1987V5">87:5</a> Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This
one and that one was born in her;"
</dt>
<dd>
the Most High himself will establish her.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V6" id="C1987V6">87:6</a> Yahweh will count, when he writes up
the peoples,
</dt>
<dd>
"This one was born there."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1987V7" id="C1987V7">87:7</a> Those who sing as well as those who
dance say,
</dt>
<dd>
"All my springs are in you."
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N197" id="N197">[7]</a> <a href="#C1987V4">back to 87:4</a> Rahab is a
reference to Egypt.
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 88
</h2>
<p>
A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune
of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the
Ezrahite.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V1" id="C1988V1">88:1</a> Yahweh, the Elohim of my salvation,
</dt>
<dd>
I have cried day and night before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V2" id="C1988V2">88:2</a> Let my prayer enter into your
presence.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to my cry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V3" id="C1988V3">88:3</a> For my soul is full of troubles.
</dt>
<dd>
My life draws near to Sheol.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V4" id="C1988V4">88:4</a> I am counted among those who go down
into the pit.
</dt>
<dd>
I am like a man who has no help,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1988V5" id="C1988V5">88:5</a> set apart among the dead,
</dd>
<dd>
like the slain who lie in the grave,
</dd>
<dd>
whom you remember no more.
</dd>
<dd>
They are cut off from your hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V6" id="C1988V6">88:6</a> You have laid me in the lowest pit,
</dt>
<dd>
in the darkest depths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V7" id="C1988V7">88:7</a> Your wrath lies heavily on me.
</dt>
<dd>
You have afflicted me with all your waves.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V8" id="C1988V8">88:8</a> You have taken my friends from me.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made me an abomination to them.
</dd>
<dd>
I am confined, and I can't escape.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V9" id="C1988V9">88:9</a> My eyes are dim from grief.
</dt>
<dd>
I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dd>
I have spread out my hands to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V10" id="C1988V10">88:10</a> Do you show wonders to the dead?
</dt>
<dd>
Do the dead rise up and praise you?
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V11" id="C1988V11">88:11</a> Is your loving kindness declared
in the grave?
</dt>
<dd>
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V12" id="C1988V12">88:12</a> Are your wonders made known in
the dark?
</dt>
<dd>
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V13" id="C1988V13">88:13</a> But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.
</dt>
<dd>
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V14" id="C1988V14">88:14</a> Yahweh, why do you reject my
soul?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do you hide your face from me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V15" id="C1988V15">88:15</a> I am afflicted and ready to die
from my youth up.
</dt>
<dd>
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V16" id="C1988V16">88:16</a> Your fierce wrath has gone over
me.
</dt>
<dd>
Your terrors have cut me off.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V17" id="C1988V17">88:17</a> They came around me like water
all day long.
</dt>
<dd>
They completely engulfed me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1988V18" id="C1988V18">88:18</a> You have put lover and friend far
from me,
</dt>
<dd>
and my friends into darkness.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 89
</h2>
<p>
A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V1" id="C1989V1">89:1</a> I will sing of the loving kindness
of Yahweh forever.
</dt>
<dd>
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V2" id="C1989V2">89:2</a> I indeed declare, "Love stands
firm forever.
</dt>
<dd>
You established the heavens.
</dd>
<dd>
Your faithfulness is in them."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V3" id="C1989V3">89:3</a> "I have made a covenant with my
chosen one,
</dt>
<dd>
I have sworn to David, my servant,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V4" id="C1989V4">89:4</a> 'I will establish your seed forever,
</dt>
<dd>
and build up your throne to all generations.'"
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V5" id="C1989V5">89:5</a> The heavens will praise your
wonders, Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V6" id="C1989V6">89:6</a> For who in the skies can be compared
to Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V7" id="C1989V7">89:7</a> a very awesome Elohim in the council of
the holy ones,
</dt>
<dd>
to be feared above all those who are around him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V8" id="C1989V8">89:8</a> Yahweh, Elohim of Armies, who is a
mighty one, like you?
</dt>
<dd>
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V9" id="C1989V9">89:9</a> You rule the pride of the sea.
</dt>
<dd>
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V10" id="C1989V10">89:10</a> You have broken Rahab in pieces,
like one of the slain.
</dt>
<dd>
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V11" id="C1989V11">89:11</a> The heavens are yours.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth also is yours;
</dd>
<dd>
the world and its fullness.
</dd>
<dd>
You have founded them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V12" id="C1989V12">89:12</a> The north and the south, you have
created them.
</dt>
<dd>
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V13" id="C1989V13">89:13</a> You have a mighty arm.
</dt>
<dd>
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V14" id="C1989V14">89:14</a> Righteousness and justice are the
foundation of your throne.
</dt>
<dd>
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V15" id="C1989V15">89:15</a> Blessed are the people who learn
to acclaim you.
</dt>
<dd>
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V16" id="C1989V16">89:16</a> In your name they rejoice all
day.
</dt>
<dd>
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V17" id="C1989V17">89:17</a> For you are the glory of their
strength.
</dt>
<dd>
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V18" id="C1989V18">89:18</a> For our shield belongs to Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
our king to the Holy One of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V19" id="C1989V19">89:19</a> Then you spoke in vision to your
saints,
</dt>
<dd>
and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
</dd>
<dd>
I have exalted a young man from the people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V20" id="C1989V20">89:20</a> I have found David, my servant.
</dt>
<dd>
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V21" id="C1989V21">89:21</a> with whom my hand shall be
established.
</dt>
<dd>
My arm will also strengthen him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V22" id="C1989V22">89:22</a> No enemy will tax him.
</dt>
<dd>
No wicked man will oppress him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V23" id="C1989V23">89:23</a> I will beat down his adversaries
before him,
</dt>
<dd>
and strike those who hate him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V24" id="C1989V24">89:24</a> But my faithfulness and my loving
kindness will be with him.
</dt>
<dd>
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V25" id="C1989V25">89:25</a> I will set his hand also on the
sea,
</dt>
<dd>
and his right hand on the rivers.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V26" id="C1989V26">89:26</a> He will call to me, 'You are my
Father,
</dt>
<dd>
my Elohim, and the rock of my salvation!'
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V27" id="C1989V27">89:27</a> I will also appoint him my
firstborn,
</dt>
<dd>
the highest of the kings of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V28" id="C1989V28">89:28</a> I will keep my loving kindness
for him forevermore.
</dt>
<dd>
My covenant will stand firm with him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V29" id="C1989V29">89:29</a> I will also make his seed endure
forever,
</dt>
<dd>
and his throne as the days of heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V30" id="C1989V30">89:30</a> If his children forsake my Torah,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't walk in my ordinances;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V31" id="C1989V31">89:31</a> if they break my statutes,
</dt>
<dd>
and don't keep my commandments;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V32" id="C1989V32">89:32</a> then I will punish their sin with
the rod,
</dt>
<dd>
and their iniquity with stripes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V33" id="C1989V33">89:33</a> But I will not completely take my
loving kindness from him,
</dt>
<dd>
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V34" id="C1989V34">89:34</a> I will not break my covenant,
</dt>
<dd>
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V35" id="C1989V35">89:35</a> Once have I sworn by my holiness,
</dt>
<dd>
I will not lie to David.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V36" id="C1989V36">89:36</a> His seed will endure forever,
</dt>
<dd>
his throne like the sun before me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V37" id="C1989V37">89:37</a> It will be established forever
like the moon,
</dt>
<dd>
the faithful witness in the sky."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V38" id="C1989V38">89:38</a> But you have rejected and
spurned.
</dt>
<dd>
You have been angry with your anointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V39" id="C1989V39">89:39</a> You have renounced the covenant
of your servant.
</dt>
<dd>
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V40" id="C1989V40">89:40</a> You have broken down all his
hedges.
</dt>
<dd>
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V41" id="C1989V41">89:41</a> All who pass by the way rob him.
</dt>
<dt>
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V42" id="C1989V42">89:42</a> You have exalted the right hand
of his adversaries.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V43" id="C1989V43">89:43</a> Yes, you turn back the edge of
his sword,
</dt>
<dd>
and haven't supported him in battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V44" id="C1989V44">89:44</a> You have ended his splendor,
</dt>
<dd>
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V45" id="C1989V45">89:45</a> You have shortened the days of
his youth.
</dt>
<dd>
You have covered him with shame.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V46" id="C1989V46">89:46</a> How long, Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you hide yourself forever?
</dd>
<dd>
Will your wrath burn like fire?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V47" id="C1989V47">89:47</a> Remember how short my time is!
</dt>
<dd>
For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V48" id="C1989V48">89:48</a> What man is he who shall live and
not see death,
</dt>
<dd>
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V49" id="C1989V49">89:49</a> Lord, where are your former
loving kindnesses,
</dt>
<dd>
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V50" id="C1989V50">89:50</a> Remember, Lord, the reproach of
your servants,
</dt>
<dd>
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V51" id="C1989V51">89:51</a> With which your enemies have
mocked, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1989V52" id="C1989V52">89:52</a> Blessed be Yahweh forevermore.
</dt>
<dt>
Amen, and Amen.
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
BOOK IV
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 90
</h2>
<p>
A Prayer by Moshe, the man of Elohim.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V1" id="C1990V1">90:1</a> Lord, you have been our dwelling
place for all generations.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1990V2" id="C1990V2">90:2</a> Before the mountains were brought
forth,
</dd>
<dd>
before you had formed the earth and the world,
</dd>
<dd>
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V3" id="C1990V3">90:3</a> You turn man to destruction, saying,
</dt>
<dd>
"Return, you children of men."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V4" id="C1990V4">90:4</a> For a thousand years in your sight
are just like yesterday when it is past,
</dt>
<dd>
like a watch in the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V5" id="C1990V5">90:5</a> You sweep them away as they sleep.
</dt>
<dd>
In the morning they sprout like new grass.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V6" id="C1990V6">90:6</a> In the morning it sprouts and
springs up.
</dt>
<dd>
By evening, it is withered and dry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V7" id="C1990V7">90:7</a> For we are consumed in your anger.
</dt>
<dd>
We are troubled in your wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V8" id="C1990V8">90:8</a> You have set our iniquities before
you,
</dt>
<dd>
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V9" id="C1990V9">90:9</a> For all our days have passed away in
your wrath.
</dt>
<dd>
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V10" id="C1990V10">90:10</a> The days of our years are
seventy,
</dt>
<dd>
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
</dd>
<dd>
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
</dd>
<dd>
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V11" id="C1990V11">90:11</a> Who knows the power of your
anger,
</dt>
<dd>
your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V12" id="C1990V12">90:12</a> So teach us to number our days,
</dt>
<dd>
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V13" id="C1990V13">90:13</a> Relent, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
How long?
</dd>
<dd>
Have compassion on your servants!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V14" id="C1990V14">90:14</a> Satisfy us in the morning with
your loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V15" id="C1990V15">90:15</a> Make us glad for as many days as
you have afflicted us,
</dt>
<dd>
for as many years as we have seen evil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V16" id="C1990V16">90:16</a> Let your work appear to your
servants;
</dt>
<dd>
your glory to their children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1990V17" id="C1990V17">90:17</a> Let the favor of the Lord our Elohim
be on us;
</dt>
<dd>
establish the work of our hands for us;
</dd>
<dd>
yes, establish the work of our hands.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 91
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V1" id="C1991V1">91:1</a> He who dwells in the secret place of
the Most High
</dt>
<dd>
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V2" id="C1991V2">91:2</a> I will say of Yahweh, "He is my
refuge and my fortress;
</dt>
<dd>
my Elohim, in whom I trust."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V3" id="C1991V3">91:3</a> For he will deliver you from the
snare of the fowler,
</dt>
<dd>
and from the deadly pestilence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V4" id="C1991V4">91:4</a> He will cover you with his feathers.
</dt>
<dd>
Under his wings you will take refuge.
</dd>
<dd>
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V5" id="C1991V5">91:5</a> You shall not be afraid of the
terror by night,
</dt>
<dd>
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1991V6" id="C1991V6">91:6</a> nor of the pestilence that walks in
darkness,
</dd>
<dd>
nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V7" id="C1991V7">91:7</a> A thousand may fall at your side,
</dt>
<dd>
and ten thousand at your right hand;
</dd>
<dd>
but it will not come near you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V8" id="C1991V8">91:8</a> You will only look with your eyes,
</dt>
<dd>
and see the recompense of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V9" id="C1991V9">91:9</a> Because you have made Yahweh your
refuge,
</dt>
<dd>
and the Most High your dwelling place,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V10" id="C1991V10">91:10</a> no evil shall happen to you,
</dt>
<dd>
neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V11" id="C1991V11">91:11</a> For he will put his angels in
charge of you,
</dt>
<dd>
to guard you in all your ways.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V12" id="C1991V12">91:12</a> They will bear you up in their
hands,
</dt>
<dd>
so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V13" id="C1991V13">91:13</a> You will tread on the lion and
cobra.
</dt>
<dd>
You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V14" id="C1991V14">91:14</a> "Because he has set his love
on me, therefore I will deliver him.
</dt>
<dd>
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V15" id="C1991V15">91:15</a> He will call on me, and I will
answer him.
</dt>
<dd>
I will be with him in trouble.
</dd>
<dd>
I will deliver him, and honor him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1991V16" id="C1991V16">91:16</a> I will satisfy him with long
life,
</dt>
<dd>
and show him my salvation."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 92
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm. A song for the Shabbat day.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V1" id="C1992V1">92:1</a> It is a good thing to give thanks to
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
to sing praises to your name, Most High;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V2" id="C1992V2">92:2</a> to proclaim your loving kindness in
the morning,
</dt>
<dd>
and your faithfulness every night,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V3" id="C1992V3">92:3</a> with the ten-stringed lute, with the
harp,
</dt>
<dd>
and with the melody of the lyre.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V4" id="C1992V4">92:4</a> For you, Yahweh, have made me glad
through your work.
</dt>
<dd>
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V5" id="C1992V5">92:5</a> How great are your works, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Your thoughts are very deep.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V6" id="C1992V6">92:6</a> A senseless man doesn't know,
</dt>
<dd>
neither does a fool understand this:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V7" id="C1992V7">92:7</a> though the wicked spring up as the
grass,
</dt>
<dd>
and all the evil-doers flourish,
</dd>
<dd>
they will be destroyed forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V8" id="C1992V8">92:8</a> But you, Yahweh, are on high
forevermore.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V9" id="C1992V9">92:9</a> For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for, behold, your enemies shall perish.
</dd>
<dd>
All the evil-doers will be scattered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V10" id="C1992V10">92:10</a> But you have exalted my horn like
that of the wild ox.
</dt>
<dd>
I am anointed with fresh oil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V11" id="C1992V11">92:11</a> My eye has also seen my enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V12" id="C1992V12">92:12</a> The righteous shall flourish like
the palm tree.
</dt>
<dd>
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V13" id="C1992V13">92:13</a> They are planted in Yahweh's
house.
</dt>
<dd>
They will flourish in our Elohim's courts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1992V14" id="C1992V14">92:14</a> They will still bring forth fruit
in old age.
</dt>
<dd>
They will be full of sap and green,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1992V15" id="C1992V15">92:15</a> to show that Yahweh is upright.
</dd>
<dt>
He is my rock,
</dt>
<dd>
and there is no unrighteousness in him.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 93
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1993V1" id="C1993V1">93:1</a> Yahweh reigns!
</dt>
<dd>
He is clothed with majesty!
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh is armed with strength.
</dd>
<dt>
The world also is established.
</dt>
<dd>
It can't be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1993V2" id="C1993V2">93:2</a> Your throne is established from long
ago.
</dt>
<dd>
You are from everlasting.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1993V3" id="C1993V3">93:3</a> The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
the floods have lifted up their voice.
</dd>
<dd>
The floods lift up their waves.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1993V4" id="C1993V4">93:4</a> Above the voices of many waters,
</dt>
<dd>
the mighty breakers of the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh on high is mighty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1993V5" id="C1993V5">93:5</a> Your statutes stand firm.
</dt>
<dd>
Holiness adorns your house,
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh, forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 94
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V1" id="C1994V1">94:1</a> Yahweh, you Elohim to whom vengeance
belongs,
</dt>
<dd>
you Elohim to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V2" id="C1994V2">94:2</a> Rise up, you judge of the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
Pay back the proud what they deserve.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V3" id="C1994V3">94:3</a> Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
how long will the wicked triumph?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V4" id="C1994V4">94:4</a> They pour out arrogant words.
</dt>
<dd>
All the evil-doers boast.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V5" id="C1994V5">94:5</a> They break your people in pieces,
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and afflict your heritage.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V6" id="C1994V6">94:6</a> They kill the widow and the alien,
</dt>
<dd>
and murder the fatherless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V7" id="C1994V7">94:7</a> They say, "Yah will not see,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will Jacob's Elohim consider."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V8" id="C1994V8">94:8</a> Consider, you senseless among the
people;
</dt>
<dd>
you fools, when will you be wise?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V9" id="C1994V9">94:9</a> He who implanted the ear, won't he
hear?
</dt>
<dd>
He who formed the eye, won't he see?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V10" id="C1994V10">94:10</a> He who disciplines the nations,
won't he punish?
</dt>
<dd>
He who teaches man knows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V11" id="C1994V11">94:11</a> Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
</dt>
<dd>
that they are futile.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V12" id="C1994V12">94:12</a> Blessed is the man whom you
discipline, Yah,
</dt>
<dd>
and teach out of your Torah;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V13" id="C1994V13">94:13</a> that you may give him rest from
the days of adversity,
</dt>
<dd>
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V14" id="C1994V14">94:14</a> For Yahweh won't reject his
people,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V15" id="C1994V15">94:15</a> For judgment will return to
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V16" id="C1994V16">94:16</a> Who will rise up for me against
the wicked?
</dt>
<dd>
Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V17" id="C1994V17">94:17</a> Unless Yahweh had been my help,
</dt>
<dd>
my soul would have soon lived in silence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V18" id="C1994V18">94:18</a> When I said, "My foot is
slipping!"
</dt>
<dd>
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V19" id="C1994V19">94:19</a> In the multitude of my thoughts
within me,
</dt>
<dd>
your comforts delight my soul.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V20" id="C1994V20">94:20</a> Shall the throne of wickedness
have fellowship with you,
</dt>
<dd>
which brings about mischief by statute?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V21" id="C1994V21">94:21</a> They gather themselves together
against the soul of the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and condemn the innocent blood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V22" id="C1994V22">94:22</a> But Yahweh has been my high
tower,
</dt>
<dd>
my Elohim, the rock of my refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1994V23" id="C1994V23">94:23</a> He has brought on them their own
iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh, our Elohim, will cut them off.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 95
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V1" id="C1995V1">95:1</a> Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V2" id="C1995V2">95:2</a> Let's come before his presence with
thanksgiving.
</dt>
<dd>
Let's extol him with songs!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V3" id="C1995V3">95:3</a> For Yahweh is a great Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
a great King above all gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V4" id="C1995V4">95:4</a> In his hand are the deep places of
the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The heights of the mountains are also his.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V5" id="C1995V5">95:5</a> The sea is his, and he made it.
</dt>
<dd>
His hands formed the dry land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V6" id="C1995V6">95:6</a> Oh come, let's worship and bow down.
</dt>
<dd>
Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V7" id="C1995V7">95:7</a> for he is our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
We are the people of his pasture,
</dd>
<dd>
and the sheep in his care.
</dd>
<dt>
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1995V8" id="C1995V8">95:8</a> Don't harden your heart, as at
Meribah,
</dd>
<dd>
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V9" id="C1995V9">95:9</a> when your fathers tempted me,
</dt>
<dd>
tested me, and saw my work.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V10" id="C1995V10">95:10</a> Forty long years I was grieved
with that generation,
</dt>
<dd>
and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart.
</dd>
<dd>
They have not known my ways."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1995V11" id="C1995V11">95:11</a> Therefore I swore in my wrath,
</dt>
<dd>
"They won't enter into my rest."
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 96
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V1" id="C1996V1">96:1</a> Sing to Yahweh a new song!
</dt>
<dd>
Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V2" id="C1996V2">96:2</a> Sing to Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Bless his name!
</dd>
<dd>
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V3" id="C1996V3">96:3</a> Declare his glory among the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
his marvelous works among all the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V4" id="C1996V4">96:4</a> For great is Yahweh, and greatly to
be praised!
</dt>
<dd>
He is to be feared above all gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V5" id="C1996V5">96:5</a> For all the gods of the peoples are
idols,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh made the heavens.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V6" id="C1996V6">96:6</a> Honor and majesty are before him.
</dt>
<dd>
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V7" id="C1996V7">96:7</a> Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of
nations,
</dt>
<dd>
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V8" id="C1996V8">96:8</a> Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to
his name.
</dt>
<dd>
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V9" id="C1996V9">96:9</a> Worship Yahweh in holy array.
</dt>
<dd>
Tremble before him, all the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V10" id="C1996V10">96:10</a> Say among the nations, "Yahweh
reigns."
</dt>
<dd>
The world is also established.
</dd>
<dd>
It can't be moved.
</dd>
<dd>
He will judge the peoples with equity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1996V11" id="C1996V11">96:11</a> Let the heavens be glad, and let
the earth rejoice.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1996V12" id="C1996V12">96:12</a> Let the field and all that is in
it exult!
</dd>
<dd>
Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1996V13" id="C1996V13">96:13</a> before Yahweh; for he comes,
</dd>
<dd>
for he comes to judge the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
He will judge the world with righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
the peoples with his truth.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 97
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V1" id="C1997V1">97:1</a> Yahweh reigns!
</dt>
<dd>
Let the earth rejoice!
</dd>
<dd>
Let the multitude of islands be glad!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V2" id="C1997V2">97:2</a> Clouds and darkness are around him.
</dt>
<dd>
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V3" id="C1997V3">97:3</a> A fire goes before him,
</dt>
<dd>
and burns up his adversaries on every side.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V4" id="C1997V4">97:4</a> His lightning lights up the world.
</dt>
<dd>
The earth sees, and trembles.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V5" id="C1997V5">97:5</a> The mountains melt like wax at the
presence of Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V6" id="C1997V6">97:6</a> The heavens declare his
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
All the peoples have seen his glory.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V7" id="C1997V7">97:7</a> Let all them be shamed who serve
engraved images,
</dt>
<dd>
who boast in their idols.
</dd>
<dd>
Worship him, all you gods!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V8" id="C1997V8">97:8</a> Zion heard and was glad.
</dt>
<dd>
The daughters of Yehudah rejoiced,
</dd>
<dd>
because of your judgments, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V9" id="C1997V9">97:9</a> For you, Yahweh, are most high above
all the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
You are exalted far above all gods.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V10" id="C1997V10">97:10</a> You who love Yahweh, hate evil.
</dt>
<dd>
He preserves the souls of his saints.
</dd>
<dd>
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V11" id="C1997V11">97:11</a> Light is sown for the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
and gladness for the upright in heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1997V12" id="C1997V12">97:12</a> Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous
people!
</dt>
<dd>
Give thanks to his holy Name.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 98
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V1" id="C1998V1">98:1</a> Sing to Yahweh a new song,
</dt>
<dd>
for he has done marvelous things!
</dd>
<dd>
His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V2" id="C1998V2">98:2</a> Yahweh has made known his salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V3" id="C1998V3">98:3</a> He has remembered his loving
kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Yisrael.
</dt>
<dd>
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V4" id="C1998V4">98:4</a> Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all
the earth!
</dt>
<dd>
Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V5" id="C1998V5">98:5</a> Sing praises to Yahweh with the
harp,
</dt>
<dd>
with the harp and the voice of melody.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V6" id="C1998V6">98:6</a> With trumpets and sound of the ram's
horn,
</dt>
<dd>
make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V7" id="C1998V7">98:7</a> Let the sea roar with its fullness;
</dt>
<dd>
the world, and those who dwell therein.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V8" id="C1998V8">98:8</a> Let the rivers clap their hands.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the mountains sing for joy together.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1998V9" id="C1998V9">98:9</a> Let them sing before Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for he comes to judge the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
He will judge the world with righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and the peoples with equity.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 99
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V1" id="C1999V1">99:1</a> Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples
tremble.
</dt>
<dd>
He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
</dd>
<dd>
Let the earth be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V2" id="C1999V2">99:2</a> Yahweh is great in Zion.
</dt>
<dd>
He is high above all the peoples.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V3" id="C1999V3">99:3</a> Let them praise your great and
awesome name.
</dt>
<dd>
He is Holy!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V4" id="C1999V4">99:4</a> The King's strength also loves
justice.
</dt>
<dd>
You do establish equity.
</dd>
<dd>
You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V5" id="C1999V5">99:5</a> Exalt Yahweh our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Worship at his footstool.
</dd>
<dd>
He is Holy!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V6" id="C1999V6">99:6</a> Moshe and Aharon were among his
priests,
</dt>
<dd>
Samuel among those who call on his name;
</dd>
<dd>
they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V7" id="C1999V7">99:7</a> He spoke to them in the pillar of
cloud.
</dt>
<dd>
They kept his testimonies,
</dd>
<dd>
the statute that he gave them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V8" id="C1999V8">99:8</a> You answered them, Yahweh our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
You are a Elohim who forgave them,
</dd>
<dd>
although you took vengeance for their doings.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1999V9" id="C1999V9">99:9</a> Exalt Yahweh, our Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Worship at his holy hill,
</dd>
<dd>
for Yahweh, our Elohim, is holy!
</dd>
</dl>
| !Psalms |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| !Book I |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Psalms01]] | [[Chapter 2|Psalms02]] | [[Chapter 3|Psalms03]] | [[Chapter 4|Psalms04]] | [[Chapter 5|Psalms05]] | [[Chapter 6|Psalms06]] | [[Chapter 7|Psalms07]] | [[Chapter 8|Psalms08]] | [[Chapter 9|Psalms09]] | [[Chapter 10|Psalms10]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 11|Psalms11]] | [[Chapter 12|Psalms12]] | [[Chapter 13|Psalms13]] | [[Chapter 14|Psalms14]] | [[Chapter 15|Psalms15]] | [[Chapter 16|Psalms16]] | [[Chapter 17|Psalms17]] | [[Chapter 18|Psalms18]] | [[Chapter 19|Psalms19]] | [[Chapter 20|Psalms20]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 21|Psalms21]] | [[Chapter 22|Psalms22]] | [[Chapter 23|Psalms23]] | [[Chapter 24|Psalms24]] | [[Chapter 25|Psalms25]] | [[Chapter 26|Psalms26]] | [[Chapter 27|Psalms27]] | [[Chapter 28|Psalm28]] | [[Chapter 29|Psalm29]] | [[Chapter 30|Psalm30]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 31|Psalm31]] | [[Chapter 32|Psalm32]] | [[Chapter 33|Psalm33]] | [[Chapter 34|Psalm34]] | [[Chapter 35|Psalm35]] | [[Chapter 36|Psalm36]] | [[Chapter 37|Psalm37]] | [[Chapter 38|Psalm38]] | [[Chapter 39|Psalm39]] | [[Chapter 40|Psalm40]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 41|Psalm41]] |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| !Book II |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 42|Psalm42]] | [[Chapter 43|Psalm43]] | [[Chapter 44|Psalm44]] | [[Chapter 45|Psalm45]] | [[Chapter 46|Psalm46]] | [[Chapter 47|Psalm47]] | [[Chapter 48|Psalm48]] | [[Chapter 49|Psalm49]] | [[Chapter 50|Psalm50]] |>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 51|Psalm51]] | [[Chapter 52|Psalm52]] | [[Chapter 53|Psalm53]] | [[Chapter 54|Psalm54]] | [[Chapter 55|Psalm55]] | [[Chapter 56|Psalm56]] | [[Chapter 57|Psalm57]] | [[Chapter 58|Psalm58]] | [[Chapter 59|Psalm59]] | [[Chapter 60|Psalm60]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 61|Psalm61]] | [[Chapter 62|Psalm62]] | [[Chapter 63|Psalm63]] | [[Chapter 64|Psalm64]] | [[Chapter 65|Psalm65]] | [[Chapter 66|Psalm66]] | [[Chapter 67|Psalm67]] | [[Chapter 68|Psalm68]] | [[Chapter 69|Psalm69]] | [[Chapter 70|Psalm70]] |>|>|
| [[Chapter 71|Psalm71]] |>|>|>|>| [[Chapter 72|Psalm72]] |>|>|>|>|
| !Book III |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 73|Psalm73]] | [[Chapter 74|Psalm74]] | [[Chapter 75|Psalm75]] | [[Chapter 76|Psalm76]] | [[Chapter 77|Psalm77]] | [[Chapter 78|Psalm78]] | [[Chapter 79|Psalm79]] | [[Chapter 80|Psalm80]] |>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 81|Psalm81]] | [[Chapter 82|Psalm82]] | [[Chapter 83|Psalm83]] | [[Chapter 84|Psalm84]] | [[Chapter 85|Psalm85]] | [[Chapter 86|Psalm86]] | [[Chapter 87|Psalm87]] | [[Chapter 88|Psalm88]] | [[Chapter 89|Psalm89]] |>|>|>|
| !Book IV |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 90|Psalm90]] |>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|>|
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| [[Chapter 111|Psalm111]] | [[Chapter 112|Psalm112]] | [[Chapter 113|Psalm113]] | [[Chapter 114|Psalm114]] | [[Chapter 115|Psalm115]] | [[Chapter 116|Psalm116]] | [[Chapter 117|Psalm117]] | [[Chapter 118|Psalm118]] | [[Chapter 119|Psalm119]] | [[Chapter 120|Psalm120]] |>|>|
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<h1>
BOOK I
</h1>
<h2>
Psalm 1
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C191V1" id="C191V1">1:1</a> Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in
the counsel of the wicked,
</dt>
<dd>
nor stand in the way of sinners,
</dd>
<dd>
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C191V2" id="C191V2">1:2</a> but his delight is in Yahweh's Torah.
</dt>
<dd>
On his Torah he meditates day and night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C191V3" id="C191V3">1:3</a> He will be like a tree planted by the
streams of water,
</dt>
<dd>
that brings forth its fruit in its season,
</dd>
<dd>
whose leaf also does not wither.
</dd>
<dd>
Whatever he does shall prosper.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C191V4" id="C191V4">1:4</a> The wicked are not so,
</dt>
<dd>
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C191V5" id="C191V5">1:5</a> Therefore the wicked shall not stand in
the judgment,
</dt>
<dd>
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C191V6" id="C191V6">1:6</a> For Yahweh knows the way of the
righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but the way of the wicked shall perish.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 2
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C192V1" id="C192V1">2:1</a> Why do the nations rage,
</dt>
<dd>
and the peoples plot a vain thing?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V2" id="C192V2">2:2</a> The kings of the earth take a stand,
</dt>
<dd>
and the rulers take counsel together,
</dd>
<dd>
against Yahweh, and against his <a href="#N191">Anointed,</a> saying,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V3" id="C192V3">2:3</a> "Let's break their bonds apart,
</dt>
<dd>
and cast their cords from us."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V4" id="C192V4">2:4</a> He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
</dt>
<dd>
The Lord will have them in derision.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V5" id="C192V5">2:5</a> Then he will speak to them in his
anger,
</dt>
<dd>
and terrify them in his wrath:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V6" id="C192V6">2:6</a> "Yet I have set my king on my holy
hill of Zion."
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C192V7" id="C192V7">2:7</a> I will tell of the decree.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh said to me, "You are my son.
</dt>
<dd>
Today I have become your father.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V8" id="C192V8">2:8</a> Ask of me, and I will give the nations
for your inheritance,
</dt>
<dd>
the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V9" id="C192V9">2:9</a> You shall break them with a rod of
iron.
</dt>
<dd>
You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V10" id="C192V10">2:10</a> Now therefore be wise, you kings.
</dt>
<dd>
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V11" id="C192V11">2:11</a> Serve Yahweh with fear,
</dt>
<dd>
and rejoice with trembling.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C192V12" id="C192V12">2:12</a> <a href="#N192">Give sincere homage</a>,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
</dt>
<dd>
for his wrath will soon be kindled.
</dd>
<dd>
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N191" id="N191">[1]</a> <a href="#C192V2">back to 2:2</a> The word
"Anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or
"Christ"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N192" id="N192">[2]</a> <a href="#C192V12">back to 2:12</a> or, Kiss
the son
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 3
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C193V1" id="C193V1">3:1</a> Yahweh, how my adversaries have
increased!
</dt>
<dd>
Many are those who rise up against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C193V2" id="C193V2">3:2</a> Many there are who say of my soul,
</dt>
<dd>
"There is no help for him in Elohim."
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C193V3" id="C193V3">3:3</a> But you, Yahweh, are a shield around
me,
</dt>
<dd>
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C193V4" id="C193V4">3:4</a> I cry to Yahweh with my voice,
</dt>
<dd>
and he answers me out of his holy hill.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C193V5" id="C193V5">3:5</a> I laid myself down and slept.
</dt>
<dd>
I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C193V6" id="C193V6">3:6</a> I will not be afraid of tens of
thousands of people
</dt>
<dd>
who have set themselves against me on every side.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C193V7" id="C193V7">3:7</a> Arise, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Save me, my Elohim!
</dd>
<dt>
For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone.
</dt>
<dd>
You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C193V8" id="C193V8">3:8</a> Salvation belongs to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Your blessing be on your people.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 4
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C194V1" id="C194V1">4:1</a> Answer me when I call, Elohim of my
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Give me relief from my distress.
</dd>
<dd>
Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C194V2" id="C194V2">4:2</a> You sons of men, how long shall my
glory be turned into dishonor?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood?
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C194V3" id="C194V3">4:3</a> But know that Yahweh has set apart for
himself him who is godly:
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C194V4" id="C194V4">4:4</a> Stand in awe, and don't sin.
</dt>
<dd>
Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C194V5" id="C194V5">4:5</a> Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
Put your trust in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C194V6" id="C194V6">4:6</a> Many say, "Who will show us any
good?"
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C194V7" id="C194V7">4:7</a> You have put gladness in my heart,
</dt>
<dd>
more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C194V8" id="C194V8">4:8</a> In peace I will both lay myself down
and sleep,
</dt>
<dd>
for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 5
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C195V1" id="C195V1">5:1</a> Give ear to my words, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Consider my meditation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V2" id="C195V2">5:2</a> Listen to the voice of my cry, my King
and my Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
for to you do I pray.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V3" id="C195V3">5:3</a> Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear
my voice.
</dt>
<dd>
In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch
expectantly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V4" id="C195V4">5:4</a> For you are not a Elohim who has pleasure
in wickedness.
</dt>
<dd>
Evil can't live with you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V5" id="C195V5">5:5</a> The arrogant shall not stand in your
sight.
</dt>
<dd>
You hate all workers of iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V6" id="C195V6">5:6</a> You will destroy those who speak lies.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V7" id="C195V7">5:7</a> But as for me, in the abundance of your
loving kindness I will come into your house.
</dt>
<dd>
I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V8" id="C195V8">5:8</a> Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness
because of my enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
Make your way straight before my face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V9" id="C195V9">5:9</a> For there is no faithfulness in their
mouth.
</dt>
<dd>
Their heart is destruction.
</dd>
<dd>
Their throat is an open tomb.
</dd>
<dd>
They flatter with their tongue.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V10" id="C195V10">5:10</a> Hold them guilty, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them fall by their own counsels;
</dd>
<dt>
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
</dt>
<dd>
for they have rebelled against you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C195V11" id="C195V11">5:11</a> But let all those who take refuge in
you rejoice,
</dt>
<dd>
Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them.
</dd>
<dt>
Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C195V12" id="C195V12">5:12</a> For you will bless the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 6
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed
lyre. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C196V1" id="C196V1">6:1</a> Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger,
</dt>
<dd>
neither discipline me in your wrath.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V2" id="C196V2">6:2</a> Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am
faint.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V3" id="C196V3">6:3</a> My soul is also in great anguish.
</dt>
<dd>
But you, Yahweh--how long?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V4" id="C196V4">6:4</a> Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul,
</dt>
<dd>
and save me for your loving kindness' sake.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V5" id="C196V5">6:5</a> For in death there is no memory of you.
</dt>
<dd>
In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V6" id="C196V6">6:6</a> I am weary with my groaning.
</dt>
<dd>
Every night I flood my bed.
</dd>
<dd>
I drench my couch with my tears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V7" id="C196V7">6:7</a> My eye wastes away because of grief.
</dt>
<dd>
It grows old because of all my adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V8" id="C196V8">6:8</a> Depart from me, all you workers of
iniquity,
</dt>
<dd>
for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V9" id="C196V9">6:9</a> Yahweh has heard my supplication.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh accepts my prayer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C196V10" id="C196V10">6:10</a> May all my enemies be ashamed and
dismayed.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 7
</h2>
<p>
A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of
Cush, the Benjamite.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C197V1" id="C197V1">7:1</a> Yahweh, my Elohim, I take refuge in you.
</dt>
<dd>
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V2" id="C197V2">7:2</a> lest they tear apart my soul like a
lion,
</dt>
<dd>
ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V3" id="C197V3">7:3</a> Yahweh, my Elohim, if I have done this,
</dt>
<dd>
if there is iniquity in my hands,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V4" id="C197V4">7:4</a> if I have rewarded evil to him who was
at peace with me
</dt>
<dd>
(yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C197V5" id="C197V5">7:5</a> let the enemy pursue my soul, and
overtake it;
</dd>
<dt>
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
and lay my glory in the dust.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C197V6" id="C197V6">7:6</a> Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
</dt>
<dd>
Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
</dd>
<dt>
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C197V7" id="C197V7">7:7</a> Let the congregation of the peoples
surround you.
</dd>
<dd>
Rule over them on high.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V8" id="C197V8">7:8</a> Yahweh administers judgment to the
peoples.
</dt>
<dd>
Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
</dd>
<dd>
and to my integrity that is in me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V9" id="C197V9">7:9</a> Oh let the wickedness of the wicked
come to an end,
</dt>
<dd>
but establish the righteous;
</dd>
<dd>
their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V10" id="C197V10">7:10</a> My shield is with Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
who saves the upright in heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V11" id="C197V11">7:11</a> Elohim is a righteous judge,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, a Elohim who has indignation every day.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V12" id="C197V12">7:12</a> If a man doesn't relent, he will
sharpen his sword;
</dt>
<dd>
he has bent and strung his bow.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V13" id="C197V13">7:13</a> He has also prepared for himself the
instruments of death.
</dt>
<dd>
He makes ready his flaming arrows.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V14" id="C197V14">7:14</a> Behold, he travails with iniquity.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
</dd>
<dd>
and brought forth falsehood.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V15" id="C197V15">7:15</a> He has dug a hole,
</dt>
<dd>
and has fallen into the pit which he made.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V16" id="C197V16">7:16</a> The trouble he causes shall return
to his own head.
</dt>
<dd>
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C197V17" id="C197V17">7:17</a> I will give thanks to Yahweh
according to his righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 8
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C198V1" id="C198V1">8:1</a> Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your
name in all the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
who has set your glory above the heavens!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V2" id="C198V2">8:2</a> From the lips of babes and infants you
have established strength,
</dt>
<dd>
because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the
avenger.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V3" id="C198V3">8:3</a> When I consider your heavens, the work
of your fingers,
</dt>
<dd>
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V4" id="C198V4">8:4</a> what is man, that you think of him?
</dt>
<dd>
What is the son of man, that you care for him?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V5" id="C198V5">8:5</a> For you have made him a little lower
than <a href="#N193">Elohim,</a>
</dt>
<dd>
and crowned him with glory and honor.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V6" id="C198V6">8:6</a> You make him ruler over the works of
your hands.
</dt>
<dd>
You have put all things under his feet:
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V7" id="C198V7">8:7</a> All sheep and cattle,
</dt>
<dd>
yes, and the animals of the field,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C198V8" id="C198V8">8:8</a> The birds of the sky, the fish of the
sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C198V9" id="C198V9">8:9</a> Yahweh, our Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N193" id="N193">[3]</a> <a href="#C198V5">back to 8:5</a> Hebrew:
Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means "Elohim," but can
also mean "gods," "princes," or "angels."
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 9
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." A Psalm
by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C199V1" id="C199V1">9:1</a> I will give thanks to Yahweh with my
whole heart.
</dt>
<dd>
I will tell of all your marvelous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V2" id="C199V2">9:2</a> I will be glad and rejoice in you.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V3" id="C199V3">9:3</a> When my enemies turn back,
</dt>
<dd>
they stumble and perish in your presence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V4" id="C199V4">9:4</a> For you have maintained my just cause.
</dt>
<dd>
You sit on the throne judging righteously.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V5" id="C199V5">9:5</a> You have rebuked the nations.
</dt>
<dd>
You have destroyed the wicked.
</dd>
<dd>
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V6" id="C199V6">9:6</a> The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
</dt>
<dd>
The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V7" id="C199V7">9:7</a> But Yahweh reigns forever.
</dt>
<dd>
He has prepared his throne for judgment.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V8" id="C199V8">9:8</a> He will judge the world in
righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V9" id="C199V9">9:9</a> Yahweh will also be a high tower for
the oppressed;
</dt>
<dd>
a high tower in times of trouble.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V10" id="C199V10">9:10</a> Those who know your name will put
their trust in you,
</dt>
<dd>
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V11" id="C199V11">9:11</a> Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells
in Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
and declare among the people what he has done.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V12" id="C199V12">9:12</a> For he who avenges blood remembers
them.
</dt>
<dd>
He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V13" id="C199V13">9:13</a> Have mercy on me, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
See my affliction by those who hate me,
</dd>
<dt>
and lift me up from the gates of death;
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C199V14" id="C199V14">9:14</a> that I may show forth all your
praise.
</dd>
<dd>
In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V15" id="C199V15">9:15</a> The nations have sunk down in the
pit that they made.
</dt>
<dd>
In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V16" id="C199V16">9:16</a> Yahweh has made himself known.
</dt>
<dd>
He has executed judgment.
</dd>
<dd>
The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.
</dd>
<dt>
Meditation. Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C199V17" id="C199V17">9:17</a> The wicked shall be turned back to
Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
even all the nations that forget Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V18" id="C199V18">9:18</a> For the needy shall not always be
forgotten,
</dt>
<dd>
nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V19" id="C199V19">9:19</a> Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man
prevail.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the nations be judged in your sight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C199V20" id="C199V20">9:20</a> Put them in fear, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Let the nations know that they are only men.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 10
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V1" id="C1910V1">10:1</a> Why do you stand far off, Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V2" id="C1910V2">10:2</a> In arrogance, the wicked hunt down
the weak.
</dt>
<dd>
They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V3" id="C1910V3">10:3</a> For the wicked boasts of his heart's
cravings.
</dt>
<dd>
He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V4" id="C1910V4">10:4</a> The wicked, in the pride of his
face,
</dt>
<dd>
has no room in his thoughts for Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V5" id="C1910V5">10:5</a> His ways are prosperous at all
times.
</dt>
<dd>
He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight.
</dd>
<dt>
As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1910V6" id="C1910V6">10:6</a> He says in his heart, "I shall
not be shaken.
</dd>
<dd>
For generations I shall have no trouble."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V7" id="C1910V7">10:7</a> His mouth is full of cursing,
deceit, and oppression.
</dt>
<dd>
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V8" id="C1910V8">10:8</a> He lies in wait near the villages.
</dt>
<dd>
From ambushes, he murders the innocent.
</dd>
<dt>
His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V9" id="C1910V9">10:9</a> He lurks in secret as a lion in his
ambush.
</dt>
<dd>
He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
</dd>
<dd>
He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V10" id="C1910V10">10:10</a> The helpless are crushed.
</dt>
<dd>
They collapse.
</dd>
<dd>
They fall under his strength.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V11" id="C1910V11">10:11</a> He says in his heart, "Elohim
has forgotten.
</dt>
<dd>
He hides his face.
</dd>
<dd>
He will never see it."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V12" id="C1910V12">10:12</a> Arise, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Elohim, lift up your hand!
</dd>
<dd>
Don't forget the helpless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V13" id="C1910V13">10:13</a> Why does the wicked person
condemn Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and say in his heart, "Elohim won't call me into account?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V14" id="C1910V14">10:14</a> But you do see trouble and grief.
</dt>
<dd>
You consider it to take it into your hand.
</dd>
<dd>
You help the victim and the fatherless.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V15" id="C1910V15">10:15</a> Break the arm of the wicked.
</dt>
<dd>
As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V16" id="C1910V16">10:16</a> Yahweh is King forever and ever!
</dt>
<dd>
The nations will perish out of his land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1910V17" id="C1910V17">10:17</a> Yahweh, you have heard the desire
of the humble.
</dt>
<dd>
You will prepare their heart.
</dd>
<dd>
You will cause your ear to hear,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1910V18" id="C1910V18">10:18</a> to judge the fatherless and the
oppressed,
</dd>
<dd>
that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 11
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V1" id="C1911V1">11:1</a> In Yahweh, I take refuge.
</dt>
<dd>
How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V2" id="C1911V2">11:2</a> For, behold, the wicked bend their
bows.
</dt>
<dd>
They set their arrows on the strings,
</dd>
<dd>
that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V3" id="C1911V3">11:3</a> If the foundations are destroyed,
</dt>
<dd>
what can the righteous do?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V4" id="C1911V4">11:4</a> Yahweh is in his holy temple.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
</dd>
<dt>
His eyes observe.
</dt>
<dd>
His eyes examine the children of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V5" id="C1911V5">11:5</a> Yahweh examines the righteous,
</dt>
<dd>
but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V6" id="C1911V6">11:6</a> On the wicked he will rain blazing
coals;
</dt>
<dd>
fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1911V7" id="C1911V7">11:7</a> For Yahweh is righteous.
</dt>
<dd>
He loves righteousness.
</dd>
<dd>
The upright shall see his face.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 12
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V1" id="C1912V1">12:1</a> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man
ceases.
</dt>
<dd>
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V2" id="C1912V2">12:2</a> Everyone lies to his neighbor.
</dt>
<dd>
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V3" id="C1912V3">12:3</a> May Yahweh cut off all flattering
lips,
</dt>
<dd>
and the tongue that boasts,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V4" id="C1912V4">12:4</a> who have said, "With our tongue
we will prevail.
</dt>
<dd>
Our lips are our own.
</dd>
<dd>
Who is lord over us?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V5" id="C1912V5">12:5</a> "Because of the oppression of
the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
</dt>
<dd>
I will now arise," says Yahweh;
</dd>
<dt>
"I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V6" id="C1912V6">12:6</a> The words of Yahweh are flawless
words,
</dt>
<dd>
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V7" id="C1912V7">12:7</a> You will keep them, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
You will preserve them from this generation forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1912V8" id="C1912V8">12:8</a> The wicked walk on every side,
</dt>
<dd>
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 13
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1913V1" id="C1913V1">13:1</a> How long, Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Will you forget me forever?
</dd>
<dd>
How long will you hide your face from me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1913V2" id="C1913V2">13:2</a> How long shall I take counsel in my
soul,
</dt>
<dd>
having sorrow in my heart every day?
</dd>
<dd>
How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1913V3" id="C1913V3">13:3</a> Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1913V4" id="C1913V4">13:4</a> Lest my enemy say, "I have
prevailed against him;"
</dd>
<dd>
Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1913V5" id="C1913V5">13:5</a> But I trust in your loving kindness.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart rejoices in your salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1913V6" id="C1913V6">13:6</a> I will sing to Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
because he has been good to me.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 14
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V1" id="C1914V1">14:1</a> The fool has said in his heart,
"There is no Elohim."
</dt>
<dd>
They are corrupt.
</dd>
<dd>
They have done abominable works.
</dd>
<dd>
There is none who does good.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V2" id="C1914V2">14:2</a> Yahweh looked down from heaven on
the children of men,
</dt>
<dd>
to see if there were any who did understand,
</dd>
<dd>
who did seek after Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V3" id="C1914V3">14:3</a> They have all gone aside.
</dt>
<dd>
They have together become corrupt.
</dd>
<dd>
There is none who does good, no, not one.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V4" id="C1914V4">14:4</a> Have all the workers of iniquity no
knowledge,
</dt>
<dd>
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
</dd>
<dd>
and don't call on Yahweh?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V5" id="C1914V5">14:5</a> There they were in great fear,
</dt>
<dd>
for Elohim is in the generation of the righteous.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V6" id="C1914V6">14:6</a> You frustrate the plan of the poor,
</dt>
<dd>
because Yahweh is his refuge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1914V7" id="C1914V7">14:7</a> Oh that the salvation of Yisrael
would come out of Zion!
</dt>
<dd>
When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people,
</dd>
<dd>
then Jacob shall rejoice, and Yisrael shall be glad.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 15
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1915V1" id="C1915V1">15:1</a> Yahweh, who shall dwell in your
sanctuary?
</dt>
<dd>
Who shall live on your holy hill?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1915V2" id="C1915V2">15:2</a> He who walks blamelessly does what
is right,
</dt>
<dd>
and speaks truth in his heart;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1915V3" id="C1915V3">15:3</a> He who doesn't slander with his
tongue,
</dt>
<dd>
nor does evil to his friend,
</dd>
<dd>
nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1915V4" id="C1915V4">15:4</a> In whose eyes a vile man is
despised,
</dt>
<dd>
but who honors those who fear Yahweh;
</dd>
<dd>
he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1915V5" id="C1915V5">15:5</a> he who doesn't lend out his money
for usury,
</dt>
<dd>
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
He who does these things shall never be shaken.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 16
</h2>
<p>
A Poem by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V1" id="C1916V1">16:1</a> Preserve me, Elohim, for in you do I
take refuge.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V2" id="C1916V2">16:2</a> My soul, you have said to Yahweh,
"You are my Lord.
</dt>
<dd>
Apart from you I have no good thing."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V3" id="C1916V3">16:3</a> As for the saints who are in the
earth,
</dt>
<dd>
they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V4" id="C1916V4">16:4</a> Their sorrows shall be multiplied
who give gifts to another god.
</dt>
<dd>
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
</dd>
<dd>
nor take their names on my lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V5" id="C1916V5">16:5</a> Yahweh assigned my portion and my
cup.
</dt>
<dd>
You made my lot secure.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V6" id="C1916V6">16:6</a> The lines have fallen to me in
pleasant places.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, I have a good inheritance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V7" id="C1916V7">16:7</a> I will bless Yahweh, who has given
me counsel.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V8" id="C1916V8">16:8</a> I have set Yahweh always before me.
</dt>
<dd>
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V9" id="C1916V9">16:9</a> Therefore my heart is glad, and my
tongue rejoices.
</dt>
<dd>
My body shall also dwell in safety.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V10" id="C1916V10">16:10</a> For you will not leave my soul in
Sheol,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1916V11" id="C1916V11">16:11</a> You will show me the path of
life.
</dt>
<dd>
In your presence is fullness of joy.
</dd>
<dt>
In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 17
</h2>
<p>
A Prayer by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V1" id="C1917V1">17:1</a> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
</dt>
<dd>
Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V2" id="C1917V2">17:2</a> Let my sentence come forth from your
presence.
</dt>
<dd>
Let your eyes look on equity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V3" id="C1917V3">17:3</a> You have proved my heart.
</dt>
<dd>
You have visited me in the night.
</dd>
<dd>
You have tried me, and found nothing.
</dd>
<dd>
I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V4" id="C1917V4">17:4</a> As for the works of men, by the word
of your lips,
</dt>
<dd>
I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V5" id="C1917V5">17:5</a> My steps have held fast to your
paths.
</dt>
<dd>
My feet have not slipped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V6" id="C1917V6">17:6</a> I have called on you, for you will
answer me, Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
Turn your ear to me.
</dd>
<dd>
Hear my speech.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V7" id="C1917V7">17:7</a> Show your marvelous loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their
enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V8" id="C1917V8">17:8</a> Keep me as the apple of your eye.
</dt>
<dd>
Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V9" id="C1917V9">17:9</a> from the wicked who oppress me,
</dt>
<dd>
my deadly enemies, who surround me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V10" id="C1917V10">17:10</a> They close up their callous
hearts.
</dt>
<dd>
With their mouth they speak proudly.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V11" id="C1917V11">17:11</a> They have now surrounded us in
our steps.
</dt>
<dd>
They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V12" id="C1917V12">17:12</a> He is like a lion that is greedy
of his prey,
</dt>
<dd>
as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V13" id="C1917V13">17:13</a> Arise, Yahweh, confront him.
</dt>
<dd>
Cast him down.
</dd>
<dd>
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1917V14" id="C1917V14">17:14</a> from men by your hand, Yahweh,
</dd>
<dt>
from men of the world, whose portion is in this life.
</dt>
<dt>
You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
</dt>
<dd>
Your sons have plenty,
</dd>
<dd>
and they store up wealth for their children.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1917V15" id="C1917V15">17:15</a> As for me, I shall see your face
in righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 18
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to
Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from
the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Sha'ul. He said,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V1" id="C1918V1">18:1</a> I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V2" id="C1918V2">18:2</a> Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and
my deliverer;
</dt>
<dd>
my Elohim, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
</dd>
<dd>
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V3" id="C1918V3">18:3</a> I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to
be praised;
</dt>
<dd>
and I am saved from my enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V4" id="C1918V4">18:4</a> The cords of death surrounded me.
</dt>
<dd>
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V5" id="C1918V5">18:5</a> The cords of Sheol were around me.
</dt>
<dd>
The snares of death came on me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V6" id="C1918V6">18:6</a> In my distress I called on Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and cried to my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
He heard my voice out of his temple.
</dt>
<dd>
My cry before him came into his ears.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V7" id="C1918V7">18:7</a> Then the earth shook and trembled.
</dt>
<dd>
The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
</dd>
<dd>
because he was angry.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V8" id="C1918V8">18:8</a> Smoke went out of his nostrils.
</dt>
<dd>
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
</dd>
<dd>
Coals were kindled by it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V9" id="C1918V9">18:9</a> He bowed the heavens also, and came
down.
</dt>
<dd>
Thick darkness was under his feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V10" id="C1918V10">18:10</a> He rode on a cherub, and flew.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V11" id="C1918V11">18:11</a> He made darkness his hiding
place, his pavilion around him,
</dt>
<dd>
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V12" id="C1918V12">18:12</a> At the brightness before him his
thick clouds passed,
</dt>
<dd>
hailstones and coals of fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V13" id="C1918V13">18:13</a> Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
</dt>
<dd>
The Most High uttered his voice:
</dd>
<dd>
hailstones and coals of fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V14" id="C1918V14">18:14</a> He sent out his arrows, and
scattered them;
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V15" id="C1918V15">18:15</a> Then the channels of waters
appeared.
</dt>
<dd>
The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,
</dd>
<dd>
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V16" id="C1918V16">18:16</a> He sent from on high.
</dt>
<dd>
He took me.
</dd>
<dd>
He drew me out of many waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V17" id="C1918V17">18:17</a> He delivered me from my strong
enemy,
</dt>
<dd>
from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V18" id="C1918V18">18:18</a> They came on me in the day of my
calamity,
</dt>
<dd>
but Yahweh was my support.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V19" id="C1918V19">18:19</a> He brought me forth also into a
large place.
</dt>
<dd>
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V20" id="C1918V20">18:20</a> Yahweh has rewarded me according
to my righteousness.
</dt>
<dd>
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V21" id="C1918V21">18:21</a> For I have kept the ways of
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
and have not wickedly departed from my Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V22" id="C1918V22">18:22</a> For all his ordinances were
before me.
</dt>
<dd>
I didn't put away his statutes from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V23" id="C1918V23">18:23</a> I was also blameless with him.
</dt>
<dd>
I kept myself from my iniquity.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V24" id="C1918V24">18:24</a> Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me
according to my righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V25" id="C1918V25">18:25</a> With the merciful you will show
yourself merciful.
</dt>
<dd>
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V26" id="C1918V26">18:26</a> With the pure, you will show
yourself pure.
</dt>
<dd>
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V27" id="C1918V27">18:27</a> For you will save the afflicted
people,
</dt>
<dd>
but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V28" id="C1918V28">18:28</a> For you will light my lamp,
Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
My Elohim will light up my darkness.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V29" id="C1918V29">18:29</a> For by you, I advance through a
troop.
</dt>
<dd>
By my Elohim, I leap over a wall.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V30" id="C1918V30">18:30</a> As for Elohim, his way is perfect.
</dt>
<dd>
The word of Yahweh is tried.
</dd>
<dd>
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V31" id="C1918V31">18:31</a> For who is Elohim, except Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
Who is a rock, besides our Elohim,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1918V32" id="C1918V32">18:32</a> the Elohim who arms me with
strength, and makes my way perfect?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V33" id="C1918V33">18:33</a> He makes my feet like deer's
feet,
</dt>
<dd>
and sets me on my high places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V34" id="C1918V34">18:34</a> He teaches my hands to war,
</dt>
<dd>
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V35" id="C1918V35">18:35</a> You have also given me the shield
of your salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
Your right hand sustains me.
</dd>
<dd>
Your gentleness has made me great.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V36" id="C1918V36">18:36</a> You have enlarged my steps under
me,
</dt>
<dd>
My feet have not slipped.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V37" id="C1918V37">18:37</a> I will pursue my enemies, and
overtake them.
</dt>
<dd>
Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V38" id="C1918V38">18:38</a> I will strike them through, so
that they will not be able to rise.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall fall under my feet.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V39" id="C1918V39">18:39</a> For you have girded me with
strength to the battle.
</dt>
<dd>
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V40" id="C1918V40">18:40</a> You have also made my enemies
turn their backs to me,
</dt>
<dd>
that I might cut off those who hate me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V41" id="C1918V41">18:41</a> They cried, but there was none to
save;
</dt>
<dd>
even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V42" id="C1918V42">18:42</a> Then I beat them small as the
dust before the wind.
</dt>
<dd>
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V43" id="C1918V43">18:43</a> You have delivered me from the
strivings of the people.
</dt>
<dd>
You have made me the head of the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1918V44" id="C1918V44">18:44</a> As soon as they hear of me they
shall obey me.
</dd>
<dd>
The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V45" id="C1918V45">18:45</a> The foreigners shall fade away,
</dt>
<dd>
and shall come trembling out of their close places.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V46" id="C1918V46">18:46</a> Yahweh lives; and blessed be my
rock.
</dt>
<dd>
Exalted be the Elohim of my salvation,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V47" id="C1918V47">18:47</a> even the Elohim who executes
vengeance for me,
</dt>
<dd>
and subdues peoples under me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V48" id="C1918V48">18:48</a> He rescues me from my enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
</dd>
<dd>
You deliver me from the violent man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V49" id="C1918V49">18:49</a> Therefore I will give thanks to
you, Yahweh, among the nations,
</dt>
<dd>
and will sing praises to your name.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1918V50" id="C1918V50">18:50</a> He gives great deliverance to his
king,
</dt>
<dd>
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
</dd>
<dd>
to David and to his seed, forevermore.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 19
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V1" id="C1919V1">19:1</a> The heavens declare the glory of
Elohim.
</dt>
<dd>
The expanse shows his handiwork.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V2" id="C1919V2">19:2</a> Day after day they pour forth
speech,
</dt>
<dd>
and night after night they display knowledge.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V3" id="C1919V3">19:3</a> There is no speech nor language,
</dt>
<dd>
where their voice is not heard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V4" id="C1919V4">19:4</a> Their voice has gone out through all
the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
their words to the end of the world.
</dd>
<dt>
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C1919V5" id="C1919V5">19:5</a> which is as a bridegroom coming out
of his chamber,
</dd>
<dd>
like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V6" id="C1919V6">19:6</a> His going forth is from the end of
the heavens,
</dt>
<dd>
his circuit to its ends;
</dd>
<dd>
There is nothing hidden from its heat.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V7" id="C1919V7">19:7</a> Yahweh's Torah is perfect, restoring
the soul.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V8" id="C1919V8">19:8</a> Yahweh's precepts are right,
rejoicing the heart.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V9" id="C1919V9">19:9</a> The fear of Yahweh is clean,
enduring forever.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V10" id="C1919V10">19:10</a> More to be desired are they than
gold, yes, than much fine gold;
</dt>
<dd>
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V11" id="C1919V11">19:11</a> Moreover by them is your servant
warned.
</dt>
<dd>
In keeping them there is great reward.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V12" id="C1919V12">19:12</a> Who can discern his errors?
</dt>
<dd>
Forgive me from hidden errors.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V13" id="C1919V13">19:13</a> Keep back your servant also from
presumptuous sins.
</dt>
<dd>
Let them not have dominion over me.
</dd>
<dt>
Then I will be upright.
</dt>
<dd>
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1919V14" id="C1919V14">19:14</a> Let the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart
</dt>
<dd>
be acceptable in your sight,
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 20
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V1" id="C1920V1">20:1</a> May Yahweh answer you in the day of
trouble.
</dt>
<dd>
May the name of the Elohim of Jacob set you up on high,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1920V2" id="C1920V2">20:2</a> send you help from the sanctuary,
</dd>
<dd>
grant you support from Zion,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1920V3" id="C1920V3">20:3</a> remember all your offerings,
</dd>
<dd>
and accept your burnt sacrifice.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V4" id="C1920V4">20:4</a> May He grant you your heart's
desire,
</dt>
<dd>
and fulfill all your counsel.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V5" id="C1920V5">20:5</a> We will triumph in your salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
In the name of our Elohim, we will set up our banners.
</dd>
<dd>
May Yahweh grant all your requests.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V6" id="C1920V6">20:6</a> Now I know that Yahweh saves his
anointed.
</dt>
<dd>
He will answer him from his holy heaven,
</dd>
<dd>
with the saving strength of his right hand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V7" id="C1920V7">20:7</a> Some trust in chariots, and some in
horses,
</dt>
<dd>
but we trust the name of Yahweh our Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V8" id="C1920V8">20:8</a> They are bowed down and fallen,
</dt>
<dd>
but we rise up, and stand upright.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1920V9" id="C1920V9">20:9</a> Save, Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
Let the King answer us when we call!
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 21
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V1" id="C1921V1">21:1</a> The king rejoices in your strength,
Yahweh!
</dt>
<dd>
How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V2" id="C1921V2">21:2</a> You have given him his heart's
desire,
</dt>
<dd>
and have not withheld the request of his lips.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V3" id="C1921V3">21:3</a> For you meet him with the blessings
of goodness.
</dt>
<dd>
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V4" id="C1921V4">21:4</a> He asked life of you, you gave it to
him,
</dt>
<dd>
even length of days forever and ever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V5" id="C1921V5">21:5</a> His glory is great in your
salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
You lay honor and majesty on him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V6" id="C1921V6">21:6</a> For you make him most blessed
forever.
</dt>
<dd>
You make him glad with joy in your presence.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V7" id="C1921V7">21:7</a> For the king trusts in Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V8" id="C1921V8">21:8</a> Your hand will find out all of your
enemies.
</dt>
<dd>
Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V9" id="C1921V9">21:9</a> You will make them as a fiery
furnace in the time of your anger.
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath.
</dd>
<dd>
The fire shall devour them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V10" id="C1921V10">21:10</a> You will destroy their
descendants from the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
their posterity from among the children of men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V11" id="C1921V11">21:11</a> For they intended evil against
you.
</dt>
<dd>
They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V12" id="C1921V12">21:12</a> For you will make them turn their
back,
</dt>
<dd>
when you aim drawn bows at their face.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1921V13" id="C1921V13">21:13</a> Be exalted, Yahweh, in your
strength,
</dt>
<dd>
so we will sing and praise your power.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 22
</h2>
<p>
For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm
by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V1" id="C1922V1">22:1</a> My Elohim, my Elohim, why have you
forsaken me?
</dt>
<dd>
Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V2" id="C1922V2">22:2</a> My Elohim, I cry in the daytime, but
you don't answer;
</dt>
<dd>
in the night season, and am not silent.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V3" id="C1922V3">22:3</a> But you are holy,
</dt>
<dd>
you who inhabit the praises of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V4" id="C1922V4">22:4</a> Our fathers trusted in you.
</dt>
<dd>
They trusted, and you delivered them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V5" id="C1922V5">22:5</a> They cried to you, and were
delivered.
</dt>
<dd>
They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V6" id="C1922V6">22:6</a> But I am a worm, and no man;
</dt>
<dd>
a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V7" id="C1922V7">22:7</a> All those who see me mock me.
</dt>
<dd>
They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1922V8" id="C1922V8">22:8</a> "He trusts in Yahweh;
</dd>
<dd>
let him deliver him.
</dd>
<dd>
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V9" id="C1922V9">22:9</a> But you brought me out of the womb.
</dt>
<dd>
You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V10" id="C1922V10">22:10</a> I was thrown on you from my
mother's womb.
</dt>
<dd>
You are my Elohim since my mother bore me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V11" id="C1922V11">22:11</a> Don't be far from me, for trouble
is near.
</dt>
<dd>
For there is none to help.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V12" id="C1922V12">22:12</a> Many bulls have surrounded me.
</dt>
<dd>
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V13" id="C1922V13">22:13</a> They open their mouths wide
against me,
</dt>
<dd>
lions tearing prey and roaring.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V14" id="C1922V14">22:14</a> I am poured out like water.
</dt>
<dd>
All my bones are out of joint.
</dd>
<dt>
My heart is like wax;
</dt>
<dd>
it is melted within me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V15" id="C1922V15">22:15</a> My strength is dried up like a
potsherd.
</dt>
<dd>
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
</dd>
<dt>
You have brought me into the dust of death.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V16" id="C1922V16">22:16</a> For dogs have surrounded me.
</dt>
<dd>
A company of evil-doers have enclosed me.
</dd>
<dd>
<a href="#N194">Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.</a>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V17" id="C1922V17">22:17</a> I can count all of my bones.
</dt>
<dt>
They look and stare at me.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V18" id="C1922V18">22:18</a> They divide my garments among
them.
</dt>
<dd>
They cast lots for my clothing.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V19" id="C1922V19">22:19</a> But don't be far off, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
You are my help: hurry to help me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V20" id="C1922V20">22:20</a> Deliver my soul from the sword,
</dt>
<dd>
my precious life from the power of the dog.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V21" id="C1922V21">22:21</a> Save me from the lion's mouth!
</dt>
<dd>
Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V22" id="C1922V22">22:22</a> I will declare your name to my
brothers.
</dt>
<dd>
In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V23" id="C1922V23">22:23</a> You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
</dt>
<dd>
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
</dd>
<dd>
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Yisrael!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V24" id="C1922V24">22:24</a> For he has not despised nor
abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,
</dt>
<dd>
Neither has he hidden his face from him;
</dd>
<dd>
but when he cried to him, he heard.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V25" id="C1922V25">22:25</a> Of you comes my praise in the
great assembly.
</dt>
<dd>
I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V26" id="C1922V26">22:26</a> The humble shall eat and be
satisfied.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him.
</dd>
<dd>
Let your hearts live forever.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V27" id="C1922V27">22:27</a> All the ends of the earth shall
remember and turn to Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V28" id="C1922V28">22:28</a> For the kingdom is Yahweh's.
</dt>
<dd>
He is the ruler over the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V29" id="C1922V29">22:29</a> All the rich ones of the earth
shall eat and worship.
</dt>
<dd>
All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
</dd>
<dd>
even he who can't keep his soul alive.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V30" id="C1922V30">22:30</a> Posterity shall serve him.
</dt>
<dd>
Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1922V31" id="C1922V31">22:31</a> They shall come and shall declare
his righteousness to a people that shall be born,
</dt>
<dd>
for he has done it.
</dd>
</dl>
----
<p>
<a name="N194" id="N194">[4]</a> <a href="#C1922V16">back to 22:16</a> or, They
have pierced my hands and feet. (DSS)
</p>
<h2>
Psalm 23
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V1" id="C1923V1">23:1</a> Yahweh is my shepherd:
</dt>
<dd>
I shall lack nothing.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V2" id="C1923V2">23:2</a> He makes me lie down in green
pastures.
</dt>
<dd>
He leads me beside still waters.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V3" id="C1923V3">23:3</a> He restores my soul.
</dt>
<dd>
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V4" id="C1923V4">23:4</a> Even though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
</dt>
<dd>
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
</dd>
<dd>
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V5" id="C1923V5">23:5</a> You prepare a table before me in the
presence of my enemies.
</dt>
<dt>
You anoint my head with oil.
</dt>
<dd>
My cup runs over.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1923V6" id="C1923V6">23:6</a> Surely goodness and loving kindness
shall follow me all the days of my life,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 24
</h2>
<p>
A Psalm by David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V1" id="C1924V1">24:1</a> The earth is Yahweh's, with its
fullness;
</dt>
<dd>
the world, and those who dwell therein.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V2" id="C1924V2">24:2</a> For he has founded it on the seas,
</dt>
<dd>
and established it on the floods.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V3" id="C1924V3">24:3</a> Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill?
</dt>
<dd>
Who may stand in his holy place?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V4" id="C1924V4">24:4</a> He who has clean hands and a pure
heart;
</dt>
<dd>
who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
</dd>
<dd>
and has not sworn deceitfully.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V5" id="C1924V5">24:5</a> He shall receive a blessing from
Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
righteousness from the Elohim of his salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V6" id="C1924V6">24:6</a> This is the generation of those who
seek Him,
</dt>
<dd>
who seek your face--even Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V7" id="C1924V7">24:7</a> Lift up your heads, you gates!
</dt>
<dd>
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
</dd>
<dd>
and the King of glory will come in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V8" id="C1924V8">24:8</a> Who is the King of glory?
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh strong and mighty,
</dd>
<dd>
Yahweh mighty in battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V9" id="C1924V9">24:9</a> Lift up your heads, you gates;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
</dd>
<dd>
and the King of glory will come in.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1924V10" id="C1924V10">24:10</a> Who is this King of glory?
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory!
</dd>
<dt>
Selah.
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 25
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V1" id="C1925V1">25:1</a> To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my
soul.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V2" id="C1925V2">25:2</a> My Elohim, I have trusted in you.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't let me be shamed.
</dd>
<dd>
Don't let my enemies triumph over me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V3" id="C1925V3">25:3</a> Yes, no one who waits for you shall
be shamed.
</dt>
<dd>
They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V4" id="C1925V4">25:4</a> Show me your ways, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Teach me your paths.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V5" id="C1925V5">25:5</a> Guide me in your truth, and teach
me,
</dt>
<dd>
For you are the Elohim of my salvation,
</dd>
<dd>
I wait for you all day long.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V6" id="C1925V6">25:6</a> Yahweh, remember your tender mercies
and your loving kindness,
</dt>
<dd>
for they are from old times.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V7" id="C1925V7">25:7</a> Don't remember the sins of my youth,
nor my transgressions.
</dt>
<dd>
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
</dd>
<dd>
for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V8" id="C1925V8">25:8</a> Good and upright is Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V9" id="C1925V9">25:9</a> He will guide the humble in justice.
</dt>
<dd>
He will teach the humble his way.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V10" id="C1925V10">25:10</a> All the paths of Yahweh are
loving kindness and truth
</dt>
<dd>
to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V11" id="C1925V11">25:11</a> For your name's sake, Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V12" id="C1925V12">25:12</a> What man is he who fears Yahweh?
</dt>
<dd>
He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V13" id="C1925V13">25:13</a> His soul shall dwell at ease.
</dt>
<dd>
His seed shall inherit the land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V14" id="C1925V14">25:14</a> The friendship of Yahweh is with
those who fear him.
</dt>
<dd>
He will show them his covenant.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V15" id="C1925V15">25:15</a> My eyes are ever on Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V16" id="C1925V16">25:16</a> Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I am desolate and afflicted.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V17" id="C1925V17">25:17</a> The troubles of my heart are
enlarged.
</dt>
<dd>
Oh bring me out of my distresses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V18" id="C1925V18">25:18</a> Consider my affliction and my
travail.
</dt>
<dd>
Forgive all my sins.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V19" id="C1925V19">25:19</a> Consider my enemies, for they are
many.
</dt>
<dd>
They hate me with cruel hatred.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V20" id="C1925V20">25:20</a> Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
</dt>
<dd>
Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V21" id="C1925V21">25:21</a> Let integrity and uprightness
preserve me,
</dt>
<dd>
for I wait for you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1925V22" id="C1925V22">25:22</a> Redeem Yisrael, Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
out all of his troubles.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 26
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V1" id="C1926V1">26:1</a> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked
in my integrity.
</dt>
<dd>
I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V2" id="C1926V2">26:2</a> Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me.
</dt>
<dd>
Try my heart and my mind.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V3" id="C1926V3">26:3</a> For your loving kindness is before
my eyes.
</dt>
<dd>
I have walked in your truth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V4" id="C1926V4">26:4</a> I have not sat with deceitful men,
</dt>
<dd>
neither will I go in with hypocrites.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V5" id="C1926V5">26:5</a> I hate the assembly of evil-doers,
</dt>
<dd>
and will not sit with the wicked.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V6" id="C1926V6">26:6</a> I will wash my hands in innocence,
</dt>
<dd>
so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1926V7" id="C1926V7">26:7</a> that I may make the voice of
thanksgiving to be heard,
</dd>
<dd>
and tell of all your wondrous works.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V8" id="C1926V8">26:8</a> Yahweh, I love the habitation of
your house,
</dt>
<dd>
the place where your glory dwells.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V9" id="C1926V9">26:9</a> Don't gather my soul with sinners,
</dt>
<dd>
nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C1926V10" id="C1926V10">26:10</a> in whose hands is wickedness,
</dd>
<dd>
their right hand is full of bribes.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V11" id="C1926V11">26:11</a> But as for me, I will walk in my
integrity.
</dt>
<dd>
Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1926V12" id="C1926V12">26:12</a> My foot stands in an even place.
</dt>
<dd>
In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>
Psalm 27
</h2>
<p>
By David.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V1" id="C1927V1">27:1</a> Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
</dt>
<dd>
Whom shall I fear?
</dd>
<dt>
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
</dt>
<dd>
Of whom shall I be afraid?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V2" id="C1927V2">27:2</a> When evil-doers came at me to eat up
my flesh,
</dt>
<dd>
even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V3" id="C1927V3">27:3</a> Though an army should encamp against
me,
</dt>
<dd>
my heart shall not fear.
</dd>
<dt>
Though war should rise against me,
</dt>
<dd>
even then I will be confident.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V4" id="C1927V4">27:4</a> One thing I have asked of Yahweh,
that I will seek after,
</dt>
<dd>
that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
</dd>
<dd>
to see Yahweh's beauty,
</dd>
<dd>
and to inquire in his temple.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V5" id="C1927V5">27:5</a> For in the day of trouble he will
keep me secretly in his pavilion.
</dt>
<dd>
In the covert of his tent he will hide me.
</dd>
<dd>
He will lift me up on a rock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V6" id="C1927V6">27:6</a> Now my head will be lifted up above
my enemies around me.
</dt>
<dt>
I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.
</dt>
<dd>
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V7" id="C1927V7">27:7</a> Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my
voice.
</dt>
<dd>
Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V8" id="C1927V8">27:8</a> When you said, "Seek my face,"
</dt>
<dd>
my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V9" id="C1927V9">27:9</a> Don't hide your face from me.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't put your servant away in anger.
</dd>
<dt>
You have been my help.
</dt>
<dd>
Don't abandon me,
</dd>
<dd>
neither forsake me, Elohim of my salvation.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V10" id="C1927V10">27:10</a> When my father and my mother
forsake me,
</dt>
<dd>
then Yahweh will take me up.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V11" id="C1927V11">27:11</a> Teach me your way, Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V12" id="C1927V12">27:12</a> Don't deliver me over to the
desire of my adversaries,
</dt>
<dd>
for false witnesses have risen up against me,
</dd>
<dd>
such as breathe out cruelty.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V13" id="C1927V13">27:13</a> I am still confident of this:
</dt>
<dd>
I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C1927V14" id="C1927V14">27:14</a> Wait for Yahweh.
</dt>
<dd>
Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
</dd>
<dt>
Yes, wait for Yahweh.
</dt>
</dl>
Pgs. 596-609
Ch. 11-16
TARGUM OF PALESTINE
SECTION XLVII.
REEH.
MOSHEH the prophet said: Behold, I have this day set in order before you a Blessing and its contrary:[1] the Blessing, if you will be obedient to the commandments of the Lord your Elohim which I command you this day; and its contrary, if you will not obey the commandments of the Lord your Elohim, [JERUSALEM. And their contraries, if you will not hearken.] but will go astray from the path which I have taught you this day, in turning aside after the idols of the nations whom thou hast not known. And it shall be, when the Lord your Elohim will have brought you to the land into which you are going, to possess it, you shall place six tribes upon the mountain of Gerizim, and six tribes on the mountain of Ebal. They who recite the blessings shall turn their faces towards Mount Gerizim, and they who recite the curses shall turn their faces towards Mount Ebal. Are they not situated beyond Jordan by the way of the sunset, in the land of the Kenaanah, who dwell in the plain over against Gilgela by the side (of the place) of the vision of Mamre? For you are to pass over Jordan to enter and possess the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you, and you will hold and will dwell therein. Look well, therefore, that you perform all the statutes and judgments that I have set before you this day.
XII. These are the statutes and judgments which you are to observe to do in the land which the Lord Elohim of your fathers giveth you to inherit all the days that you live upon the earth. You shall utterly destroy all the places in which the people (whose land) you will possess have worshipped their idols, upon the high mountains and hills, and under every tree of beautiful form. You shall lay their altars in ruin, break down their pillars, burn their abominations with fire, and utterly destroy the images of their gods, and abolish their names from that place.
Not so may you do to blot out the inscription of the Name of the Lord your Elohim. But in the land which the Word of the Lord your Elohim will choose out of all your tribes for His Shekinah to dwell there, unto the place of His Shekinah shall you have recourse, and come thither, and bring your sacrifices and consecrated oblations, your tythes, the separation of your hands, your vows, your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks. And you shall there eat before the Lord your Elohim, and rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, in which the Lord your Elohim will have blessed you.
It will not be lawful for you to do (there) as we do here to‑day, whatever any one thinks fit for himself; for you are not yet come to the Sanctuary, to the dwelling of Peace, and to the inheritance of the land which the Lord your Elohim will give you. But when you have passed over Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your Elohim will give you to inherit, and He hath given you repose from all your enemies round about, then shall you build the house of the Sanctuary, and afterward shall dwell securely. And to the place which the Word of the Lord will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there, shall you bring all your oblations, firstlings, and tythes, which I command you; there shall you offer your sacrifices and hallowed victims, there eat your tythes and the separation of your hands, and all your goodly vows which you may have vowed before the Lord. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your Elohim, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and handmaids, and the Levite who is in your cities, for he hath no portion or inheritance with you.
Beware lest you offer your sacrifices in any place which thou mayest see; but in the Place which the Lord will choose in the inheritance of one of your tribes, there shall you offer your sacrifices and do whatever I command you. Nevertheless, after every wish of your soul, you may kill and eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your Elohim, which He will give you in all your cities; they who are unclean so as not to be able to offer holy things, and they who are clean that they may offer holy things, may eat of it alike, as the flesh of the antelope or of the hart. Only be careful to pour out the blood upon the ground like water. It will not be lawful for you to eat the tenths of your corn, or wine, or oil, or the firstlings of your herd or flock, nor any of the vows that you have vowed, or freewill offerings, or the separation of your hands in your cities; but you shall eat it before the Lord your Elohim, in the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose; you, and your sons and daughters, and your handmaids, and the Levites who are in your cities; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your Elohim, in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. Beware that thou aggrieve[2] not the Levite all your days in which you dwell in your land.
When the Lord your Elohim will have enlarged your border, as He hath said unto you; and thou sayest, I would eat flesh, because thy soul may desire to eat flesh, thou mayest eat flesh according to all thy desire. But if the place which the Lord your Elohim will have chosen that His Shekinah may dwell there be too far off, then may you eat of your herds and flocks which the Lord your Elohim shall give you, as I have com&endash;manded you, in your cities you may eat, according to all the desire of your soul: as the flesh of the antelope or hart so may you eat it; he who is unclean that he may not offer holy things, and he who is clean that he may offer them, may eat of it alike. [JERUSALEM. He who is restrained from holy things, and he who is clean for holy things, may eat alike.] Only put a strong restraint upon your desires, that you eat no blood; for the blood is the subsistence of the life. You may not, with the flesh, eat blood, in which is the subsistence of life: you shall not eat it, you shall pour it out upon the ground like water: eat it not, that it may be well with you, and with your children after you, while you do that which is right before the Lord. Nevertheless, animals which are your consecrated tenths, and your votive offerings, you shall take and bring to the place which the Lord will choose; and thou shalt do (with them) according to the rite of thy burnt offerings, (and offer) the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy Elohim: the blood of the rest of thy holy oblations shall be poured out at the altar of the Lord thy Elohim, but of the flesh it is lawful to eat.
Observe and obey all these words that I command you, that it may be well with you and with your children after you for ever, while you do that which is good and right before the Lord your Elohim. When the Lord your Elohim shall have cut off the nations among whom you go, and have expelled them from before you, and you inherit and dwell in their land, beware that you stumble not after their idols when they shall have been destroyed before you, or lest you seek after their idols, saying, How did these peoples worship their gods, that we may worship as they did? So shall you not do in serving the Lord your Elohim; for whatever is abominable and hateful to Him have they done to their idols; for even their sons and daughters they have bound and burned with fire unto their idols. Whatsoever I command you, that shall you observe to do; ye shall not add to it nor diminish from it.
XIII. When there may arise among you a false prophet or a dreamer of a profane dream, and he give you a sign or a miracle, and the sign or the miracle come to pass, (yet) because he spake with you, saying, Let us go after the gods of the peoples whom thou hast not known, and worship them, you shall not hearken to the words of that lying prophet, or his who hath dreamed that dream; for the Lord your Elohim (thereby) trieth you, to know whether you will love the Lord your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the service of the Lord your Elohim, and Him shall you fear, and keep His commandments, hearken to His word, pray before Him, and cleave unto His fear. And that prophet of lies, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be slain with the sword, because he had spoken perversity against the Lord your Elohim who brought you out from the land of the Mizraee, and redeemed you from the house of the affliction of slaves to make you to go astray from the path which the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you to walk in: so shall you bring down the doers of evil among you.
When thy brother, the son of thy mother, when even the son of thy father, or thy own son or thy daughter, or thy wife who reposeth with thee, or thy friend who is beloved as thy soul, shall give thee evil counsel, to make thee go astray, speaking out and saying, Let us go and worship the gods of the Gentiles, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; or the idols of the seven nations who are near you round about, or of the rest of the nations who are far away from you, from one end of the earth to the other; you shall not consent to them, nor hearken to him, neither shall your eye spare him or have compassion, nor shall you hide him in secret; but killing you shall kill him; your hand shall be the first upon him to slay him, and afterwards the hand of all the people; and you shall stone him that he die; because he sought to draw them away from the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, who brought you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the affliction of slaves. And all Yisrael will hear and be afraid, and never more do according to that evil thing among you. [JERUSALEM. When thy brother, the son of thy mother, thy son, thy daughter, or the wife who reposeth with thee, shall turn thee away.]
When, in one of your cities which the Lord your Elohim will give you to dwell in, you hear it said that (certain) men of pride are drawing back from the doctrine of the Lord your Elohim, or that even sages of your rabbins have gone forth and led away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and worship the gods of the nations which you have not known: then search you out, and examine with witnesses, and make good inquiry; and, behold, if the thing be true and certain that this abomination hath been really done among you, you shall smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, to destroy it utterly and whatever is therein, even its cattle, with the edge of the sword. You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of the street, and burn the city with fire, together with the whole of the spoil, before the Lord your Elohim; and it shall be a desolate heap for ever, never to be builded again: that the Lord may be turned from the fierceness of His anger, and may show His mercy upon you, and love you, and multiply you, as He hath sworn to your fathers. So be ye obedient to the Word of the Lord your Elohim, to keep all His commandments which I command you this day, that you may do what is right before the Lord your Elohim.
XIV. As beloved children before the Lord your Elohim, you shall not make lacerations in your flesh, nor make bare the crown of the hair over your foreheads on account of the soul of the dead. [JERUSALEM. You are beloved children before the Lord your Elohim; you shall not make divers wounds for strange worship, nor cause baldness above your forehead to mourn for a person who is dead.] For you are to be a holy people before the Lord your Elohim: the Lord your Elohim hath chosen you to be a people more beloved than all the peoples who are upon the face of the earth. You may not eat of any thing that for you is abominable.
These are the animals which you may eat: oxen, and lambs of the ewes, such as are not blemished (unclean), and kids of the goats unmixed with what are unclean. Harts and antelopes and fallow deer, rock goats and reems, wild oxen and pygargs;[3] and every animal that hath the divided hoof, and horns, and that cleaveth the cleft, bringing up the cud among animals, that you may eat. [JERUSALEM. Which bringeth up the cud among animals, that may you eat.] But of these you may not eat that bring up the cud, or of those who (only) have the hoof divided, the cast thing (embryo) which hath two heads or a double back, things which are not to be perpetuated in the same species (i.e. as a species); nor the camel, the hare, or the coney, because they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean to you. [JERUSALEM. Because they bring up the cud, but have not the hoof divided.] The swine, because, though he hath the hoof divided, and there is none produced that like him divideth (the hoof), and yet cheweth not the cud, is unclean to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, nor touch their dead bodies. But this you may eat, of all that are in the waters, whatever hath fins to move, as by flying, and scales upon its skin; and though (some of which) may fall away, yet if there remain on under its jaw, another under its fin, and another under its tail, that you may eat.[4] But whatever hath neither fins nor scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you. Every bird which hath a vesicle or crop which may be picked away,[5] and which (bird) is longer than a finger, and not of the rapacious kind, you may eat. But these are they which you may not eat: the eagle, the ossifrage, the osprey, the daitha (lammer geyer?) white or black, which is a bird of prey, a kind of vulture.[6] [JERUSALEM. 12. And these are they of which you may not eat; the eagle, and the sea eagle (ossifrage), and the osprey. 13. And the rook, the heron also, and the vulture after his kind.] And every raven after his kind; and the owl, and nighthawk, and the cuckoo, and the falcon after his kind; the great owl, and the sea gull (catcher of fish from the sea), and the night owl, and the cormorant[7] white or black, and the pica, and the stork white or black after its kind, and the heathcock, and the bat, [JERUSALEM. And the white daitha, and the ibis according to his kind, and the heathcock, and the bat,] and all flies (bees) and wasps, and all worms of vegetables and pulse, which come away from (materials of) food and fly as birds, are unclean to you, they may not be eaten; but any clean beast you may eat. You shall not eat of anything that is unclean through the manner of its death;[8] you may give it to the uncircumcised stranger who is in your cities to eat it, or sell it to a son of the Gentiles; for you are a holy people before the Lord your Elohim. It shall not be lawful for you to boil, much less to eat, flesh with milk when both are mixed together.
Be mindful to tythe your fruitage of whatsoever cometh forth, and which you gather in from the field year by year; not giving the fruit of one year for the fruit of another. [JERUSALEM. My people of the house of Yisrael, tything you shall tythe all the produce of your seed, of that which you sow upon the face of the field and gather in the produce of each year. Yisrael, My people, it is not lawful for you to tythe and eat the fruit of one year along with the fruit of (another) year.] And the second tythe you shall eat before the Lord your Elohim in the place which He will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there; the tenths of your corn, your vines, and your oil, and likewise the firstlings of your oxen and sheep, that you may learn to fear the Lord your Elohim all the days. And if the way be too great for you to be able to carry the tenth, because the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose for His Shekinah to dwell there is too distant from you, when the Lord thy Elohim shall have blessed thee, then thou mayest make exchange for it into silver, and bind the sum in thy band, and proceed to the place which the Lord thy Elohim shall choose, and give the silver for any thing that thy soul pleaseth, of oxen, sheep, wine new or old, or whatever thy soul desireth; and you shall eat there before the Lord your Elohim and rejoice, you and the men of your house. And the Levite who is in your cities forsake not, for he hath not a portion or a heritage with you. At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tenths of your produce for that year, and lay them up in your cities. And the Levite, because he hath no part or heritage with you, and the stranger, the orphan, and the widow who are in your cities, shall come and eat and be satisfied; that the Lord your Elohim may bless you in all the works of your hands that you do.
XV. At the end of seven years you shall make a Release. And this is the indication of the custom of the Release: Every man who is master of a loan, who lendeth to his neighbour, shall give remission. He shall not have power to coerce his neighbour in demanding his loan, nor of his brother, a son of Yisrael; because the beth din hath published the Release before the Lord. From a son of the Gentiles thou mayest exact, but the lawful right (dina) which is thine with thy brother thou shalt release with thine hand. If you will only be diligent in the precepts of the Torah, there will be no poor among you; for, blessing, the Lord will bless you in the land which the Lord your Elohim will give you for a possession to inherit; if, obeying, you will only obey the Word of the Lord your Elohim, to observe and do all these commandments which I command you this day. For the Lord your Elohim blesseth you, as He saith to you (that) you shall take from many nations, but they will not take from you; and you will have power over many nations, but they shall not have power over you. But if you be not diligent in the precepts of the Torah, and there be among you a poor man in one of thy cities of the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor hold back thy hand from thy poor brother; but thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lend to him according to the measure of his want through which he is in need. Beware lest there be a word in thy proud heart, saying: The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and your eye become evil toward your poor brother, so as to be not willing to give to him, and he cry against you to the Lord, and there be guilt upon you. Giving you shall give to him, nor shall your heart be evil when you give to him; for on account of this matter the Lord your Elohim will bless you in all your works that you put your hands unto. But forasmuch as the house of Yisrael will not rest in the commandments of the Torah, the poor will not cease in the land: therefore I command you, saying: You shall verily open your hands toward your neighbours, to the afflicted around you, and to the poor of your country. [JERUSALEM. Giving thou shalt give to him, nor let your looks be evil at the time you give to him. If Yisrael would keep the precepts of the Torah, there would be no poor among them; but if they will forsake the precepts of the Torah, the poor shall not cease from the land: therefore I command you, saying: You shall verily open your hands to your poor brethren, and to the needy who will be in your land.]
If your brother, a son of Yisrael, or if a daughter of Yisrael, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years; and when the seventh comes, thou shalt send him from you free. And when thou lettest him go away from thee at liberty, thou shalt not send him away empty. Comforting thou shalt comfort him out of your flocks, your floors, and your wine presses; as the Lord hath blessed you ye shall give to him. [JERUSALEM. Thou shalt furnish him.] And be mindful that you were servants in the land of Mizraim, and that the Lord your Elohim set you free; therefore I command you to‑day that you do this thing.
But if he say to thee, I will not go out from thee, because I love thee and the men of thy house, and because it hath been good for him to be with thee, then thou shalt take an awl, and bore (or apply) it through his ear, and that to the door of the house of judgment, and he shall be thy serving servant until the Jubilee. And for thy handmaid also thou shalt write a certificate of release, and give it to her. It must not be a hardship in thy eyes when thou sendest him away from thee; for double the hire of an hireling hath he been of service to thee six years; and on his account the Lord thy Elohim hath blessed thee in all that thou hast done.
Every firstling male that cometh of thy herd and flock thou shalt consecrate before the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not work with the firstlings of your herd, nor shear the firstlings of your flocks; you shall eat thereof before the Lord your Elohim from year to year, in the place which the Lord will choose, you and the men of your houses. But if there be any spot in it, if it be lame or blind, or have any blemish, you shall not sacrifice it before the Lord your Elohim: you may eat it in your cities; he who is unclean, (so) that he may not approach to holy things, and he who being clean may approach the holy, may alike (eat), as the flesh of the antelope or hart.[9] Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the ground like water.
XVI. Be mindful to keep the times of the festivals, with the intercalations of the year, and to observe the rotation thereof: in the month of Abiba to perform the pascha before the Lord your Elohim, because in the month of Abiba the Lord your Elohim brought you out of Mizraim; you shall eat it therefore by night. But you shall sacrifice the pascha before the Lord your Elohim between the suns; and the sheep and the bullocks on the morrow,[10] on that same day to rejoice in the feast at the place which the Lord will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there. You shall not eat leavened bread with the pascha; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread unto His Name, the unleavened bread of humiliation; for with haste you went forth from the land of Mizraim; that you may remember the day of your out going from the land of Mizraim all the days of your life. Take heed that in the beginning of the pascha there be no leaven seen among you within all your borders for seven days; and that none of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening of the first day remain till the morning. It will not be allowed you to eat the pascha in (any) one of your cities which the Lord your Elohim giveth to you; but in the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell,there shall you sacrifice the pascha; and in the evening at the going down of the sun you may eat it until the middle of the night, the time when you began to go out of Mizraim. And you shall dress and eat it in the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose, and in the early morn (if need be) thou mayest return from the feast, and go to thy cities. On the first day thou shalt offer the omer, and eat unleavened cakes of the old corn; but in the six remaining days you may begin to eat unleavened cakes of the new corn,[11] and on the seventh day you shall assemble with thanksgiving before the Lord your Elohim; no work shall you perform.
Seven weeks number to you; from the time when you begin to put the sickle to the harvest of the field after the reaping of the omer you shall begin to number the seven weeks. And you shall keep with joy the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your Elohim, after the measure of the freewill offerings of your hands, according as the Lord your Elohim shall have blessed you. And you shall rejoice with the joy of the feast before the Lord your Elohim, you and your sons, your daughters, your servants and handmaids, the Levites who are in your cities, and the stranger, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose where to make His Shekinah to dwell. Remember that you were servants in Mizraim; so shall you observe and perform these statutes.
The Feast of Tabernacles you shall make to you seven days, when you will have completed to gather in the corn from your threshing floors, and the wine from your presses. And you shall rejoice in the joy of your feasts with the clarinet and flute, you and your sons and daughters, your handmaids, the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, who are in your cities. Seven days you shall keep the feast before the Lord your Elohim in the place which the Lord will choose, because the Lord your Elohim will have blessed you in all your provision, and in all the work of your hands, and so shall you be joyful in prosperity.
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your Elohim in the place that He will choose; at the Feast of the Unleavened, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; nor must you appear before the Lord your Elohim empty of any of the requirements; every one after the measure of the gifts of his hands, according to the blessing which the Lord your Elohim hath bestowed upon you.
[1] Chiluphah, “its alternative;” root, chalaph, “to change.”
[2] Mehal, “to inquire, be false or perverse with.”
[3] Ditzin, “springers.”
[4] Fishes are clean when they have at least two scales and one fin.- Mishna, Cholin, iv.
[5] Every bird which hath a crop, and of which the internal coat of the stomach may be readiy peeled of is clean.-Ib.,iii.,6.
[6] Or, “which is an ibu, a daitha after its kind.”
[7] Query, pelican.
[8] Or, “that is corrupted in the slaughtering of it.”
[9] That is, as any of the clean animals which were not permitted to be sacrificed at the alter.
[10] Num. xxviii. 19.
[11] The consecrated harvest sheaf having been offered on the preceeding day.
SECTION XLVII.
REËH.
BEHOLD, I set before you this day blessings and curses: blessings, if you obey the precepts of the Lord your Elohim, which I command you this day; but curses, if you obey not the precepts of the Lord your Elohim, and turn aside from the way that I teach you this day, to go after the idols of the peoples whom you have not known. And it shall be, when the Lord your Elohim hath brought thee into the land which thou goest to possess, thou shalt set the blessings upon the Mount of Gerizim, and the curses upon the Mountain of Ebal. Are they not beyond Jordan, after the way of the sun-setting, in the land of the Kenaanites, which dwell in the plains over against Gilgala, by the side of the plain of Moreh?[10] For you are to pass over the Jordan to enter in to inherit the land which the Lord your Elohim will give you; and you will possess, and dwell therein. And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I have set before you this day.
XII. These are the commandments and judgments you shall observe to do in the land that the Lord the Elohim of your fathers will give to thee to inherit all the days that you subsist upon the earth. You shall destroying destroy all the places wherein the peoples (whose lands) you will inherit have served their idols, upon the high mountains, and the hills, and under every leafy tree. And you shall lay their altars in ruin, break their statues,[11] l burn their groves with fire, cut the images of their idols in pieces, and blot out their names from that place.
Not so shall you do before the Lord your Elohim; but, to the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose that His Shekinah may dwell there, unto the house of His Shekinah you shall seek, and thither come to offer there your burnt offerings, your consecrated victims, your tenths, and the separations of your hands, your vows and freewill gifts, and the firstlings of your oxen and sheep. And there shall you eat before the Lord your Elohim, and rejoice in all that you have set your hand unto, you and your households, for that the Lord thy Elohim hath blessed thee. You shall not (then) do as we are doing here this day, every man as (seemeth) proper in his own eyes; for you are not come as yet to the place of quietness, and to the inheritance which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee. But (when) you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit, and He hath given you rest from all your enemies round about, and you dwell in safety, then there will be a Place which the Lord your Elohim will choose, to make His Shekinah to dwell there; thither shall you bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings and consecrated oblations, your tenths and the separations of your hands, and all the goodly things of your vows which you may vow before the Lord. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your Elohim, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and handmaids, and the Levite who is among you, for he hath no part or inheritance with you.
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest; but in the Place which the Lord will choose out of one of thy tribes thou shalt offer thy sacrifices, and there do all that I command thee. Though in any place where thy soul may desire thou mayest kill and eat flesh, according to the blessing of the Lord thy Elohim, which He will give thee in all thy cities; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as the flesh of the gazelle and the deer. Only of blood you may not eat; thou shalt pour it upon the ground like water. It is not lawful for thee to eat in thy cities of the tythe of the produce of thy wine or oil, or the firstlings of thy bullocks or thy sheep, or of any vow which thou hast devoted, or of thy freewill offerings, or separations of thy hands; but before the Lord thy Elohim shalt thou eat it, in the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose; thou and thy son and daughter, thy servant and handmaid, and the Levite who is in thy cities; and you shall rejoice before the Lord thy Elohim in all that thou set test thy hand unto. Take heed to thee that thou forsake not the Levite all thy days upon thy land.
When the Lord thy Elohim shall have enlarged thy border, as He bath said to thee, and thou sayest, I will eat flesh, when thy soul desireth to eat flesh, of all the desire of thy soul thou mayest eat flesh. If the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose for His Shekinah to dwell there, be too far from thee, thou mayest kill of thy oxen and sheep which the Lord will give thee, as I have commanded thee, and eat in thy cities of all the desire of thy soul. As the flesh of the gazelle and the deer so shalt thou eat it, the unclean and the clean may eat it alike. Only, be steadfast in not eating the blood, for blood is life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh: thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it like water upon the ground; thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy children after thee, when thou doest that which is right before the Lord. Only thy consecrated things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take and bring to the place that the Lord will choose; and make thy burnt sacrifices, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy Elohim; and the blood of thy consecrated victims thou shalt pour out at the altar of the Lord thy Elohim, but of the flesh thou mayest eat. Observe and obey all these commandments which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is meet and right before the Lord thy Elohim.
When the Lord thy Elohim shall have destroyed the nations (of the land) whither thou art going to cast them out from before thee, and He cast them out, and thou dwell in their land, take heed to thyself that thou stumble not after them when they shall have been dispersed before thee, and that thou seek not to their idols, saying, How did these nations serve their idols? for so will I do also. Thou shalt not do so before the Lord thy Elohim; for all that is abominable before the Lord, and that He hateth, have they done to their idols. For even their sons and daughters they have burned in the fire. Every word I command you, that shall you observe to perform; you shall not add to it nor diminish from it.
XIII. If there shall arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder cometh to pass, (yet,) should he speak with thee, saying, Let us go after the gods of the Gentiles whom thou hast not known, and let us worship them; thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your Elohim is proving you, to know whether you will love the Lord your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your Elohim; Him shall ye fear, and keep His commandments, and be obedient to His Word, and serve Him, and keep close to His fear. And that prophet, or dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken perversions against the Lord your Elohim, who brought you out from the land of Mizraim, and delivered you from the house of bondage, to make you go astray from the path in which the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee to walk; and so shalt thou put away the evil doer from the midst of thee.
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy covenant,[12] or thy friend who is as thy soul, shall persuade thee in secret, saying: Let us go and worship the gods of the Gentiles whom thou hast not known, nor thy fathers, gods of the nations round about you, nigh thee, or far off, from one end of the earth to the other; thou shalt not consent to him, nor listen to his word, nor must thy eye have pity on him; thou shalt neither compassionate nor conceal him, but killing thou shalt kill him; thy hand shall be upon him the first to kill him, and afterwards the hand of all the people; and thou shalt stone him with stones that he die, because he sought to lead thee astray from the fear of the Lord thy Elohim who brought thee out of the land of Mizraim, from the house of bondage; and all Yisrael will hear and be afraid, and not add to do this evil thing among thee.
If thou hear in one of the cities which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee to dwell in, saying: Men, sons of wickedness, have gone forth from among thee, and led away the inhabitants of their city, saying: Let us go and worship the gods of the nations which you have not known; then shalt thou seek and search out, and fairly inquire; and, behold, such a thing is the truth, and this abomination is being done among thee, thou shalt smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it and all that is therein and its cattle by the edge of the sword; and thou shalt gather all the spoil of it together into the midst of its street, and burn the city and the whole spoil thereof with fire entirely before the Lord thy Elohim, and it shall be a desolate heap for ever, it shall be builded no more; and nought of the accursed thing shall cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn away His anger from thee, and show mercy upon thee, and be loving towards thee, and increase thee, as He sware unto thy fathers; when thou shalt be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, to observe all His commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right before the Lord thy Elohim.
XIV. Children are you before the Lord your Elohim. You shall not lacerate yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead; for thou art (to be) a holy people before the Lord thy Elohim, chosen to be unto Him a people more beloved than all the nations upon the face of the earth. Thou shalt not eat any thing that is abominable. These are the cattle that you may eat: oxen, lambs of the flock, and kids of the goats. The hart, and the antelope, the forest deer, and the wild goat, the pygarg, the buffalo, and the chamois; and any animal that hath the hoof cloven, and that divideth the hoof into two parts, and ruminateth the cud, among cattle, that you may eat. Nevertheless, you shall not eat of those that (only) chew the cud, or of them that (only) separate the hoof into divided parts: the camel, the hare, and the coney, for they bring up the cud, but divide not the hoof, they are unclean to you; and the swine, because it divideth the hoof, but doth not ruminate, shall be unclean to you; of their flesh you may not eat, nor touch their carcases.
Of all that are in the waters these you may eat: all that have fins and scales you may eat; but any (fish) that hath not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you. You may eat any clean bird; but of these you shall not eat: the eagle, ossifrage, osprey, gleed, vulture, and kite after his kind, and every raven after his kind; the owl, nightbird, gull, and hawk after his kind; the heron, swan, and stork, the cormorant, pelican, and owl; the bittern and ibis after his kind; the lapwing and the bat: and no reptile may you eat whose flesh is unclean to you; but you may eat any fowl (or winged thing) that is clean.
You shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it to the uncircumcised stranger who is in thy city, and he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it to the outward people; for thou art to be a holy people to the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not eat flesh with the milk.
Thou shalt tythe all the produce of thy seed, and all that thy field may bring forth from year to year; and before the Lord thy Elohim in the place which He will choose to make His Shekinah dwell there, thou shalt eat the tythe of thy corn, wine, and oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and flock, that thou mayest learn to fear before the Lord thy Elohim all days. But if the way be too great for thee, so that thou art not able to bring it, if the way be too distant from the place which the Lord thy Elohim may choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there, when the Lord thy Elohim shall have blessed thee, then thou shalt put (change) it into silver, and bind the silver in thy hand, and go to the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose, and shalt give the silver for whatever thy soul may please, for oxen, sheep, wine, new or old, or any thing thy soul may desire, and shalt eat there before the Lord thy Elohim, and rejoice, thou, the men of thy house, and the Levite who is in thy cities; thou shalt not forsake him, for he hath no portion or inheritance with thee.
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thy produce in that year, and lay it up in thy cities and the Levite, because he hath no part or inheritance with thee, and the stranger, the orphan, and the widow who are in thy cities, shall come and eat and be satisfied, that the Lord thy Elohim may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou shalt do.
XV. At the end of seven years thou shalt make the Release,[13] and this is the sentence (word) of the Release: That every man who is a creditor[14] shall give release to him who oweth to his neighbour; he shall not exact it from his neighbour or his brother, because the release is proclaimed before the Lord. From a son of the Gentiles thou mayest demand; but that which is with thy brother, thou shalt release by thy hand. Save when there shall not be the poor among thee, for the Lord in blessing will bless thee in the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee for a possession to inherit. Only if thou wilt indeed be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, and observe to do all these precepts which I command thee this day; for the Lord thy Elohim doth bless thee, as He hath said to thee: and thou shalt lend to many peoples, but thou shalt not take a loan ; and thou shalt have rule over many peoples, but they shall not have rule over thee.
If there be with thee a poor man of thy brethren, in one of the cities in the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut up thy hand from thy poor brother; but thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lend, according to the measure of his want, of that which he may need. Beware, lest there be a word with thy wicked heart, saying, The year of release draweth near, and thine eye be evil toward thy poor brother, and thou give not to him, and he cry against thee before the Lord, and there be guiltiness in thee. Giving thou shalt give to him, and thy heart shall not be evil when thou givest to him: because for this thing the Lord thy Elohim will bless thee in all thy works, and in all thou put test thy hand unto. For the poor will not cease (to be) in the midst of thy land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt verily open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted, and to thy poor in thy land.
If thy brother, a son of Yisrael, or a daughter of Yisrael, be sold to thee, and shall have served thee six years, in the seventh year let him go, a son of liberty, from thee. And when thou let test him go free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. But thou shalt separate to him from thy flock, and thy floor, and thy wine-press, and give to him of that which the Lord thy Elohim hath blessed thee. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Mizraim, and the Lord thy Elohim set thee free: therefore I command thee this thing today.
But if he say to thee, I will not go out from being with thee, because he loveth thee, and the men of thy house, (and) because it is good for me to be with thee, then thou shalt take an awl, put it through his ear, and into the door, and he shall be a ministering servant to thee evermore. And also likewise shalt thou do to thy handmaid.
It shall not be a hardship in thy eyes when thou dost send him from thee to be a son of freedom, for he hath been doubly worth a hireling, serving thee six years; and the Lord thy Elohim will bless thee in all that thou shalt do.
Every firstling male which cometh of thy cattle or thy sheep, thou shalt consecrate before the Lord thy Elohim: thou shalt not work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy Elohim from year to year in the place which the Lord will choose, thou and the men of thy house. And if there be any blemish (spot) in it, (if it be) lame, or blind, or have any evil spot, thou shalt not sacrifice it before the Lord thy Elohim: thou mayest eat it in thy cities, unclean (persons) and clean alike (may eat it), as the antelope and the hart. Only thou shalt not eat the blood, but pour it out upon the ground like water.
XVI. Observe the month of Abiba, and perform the pascha before the Lord thy Elohim; for in the month of Abiba the Lord thy Elohim brought thee out of Mizraim, and wrought signs for thee in the night. And thou shalt sacrifice the pascha before the Lord thy Elohim, with the lambs (young) of thy flock, and with consecrated victims from thy herd, in the place which the Lord will choose to make His Shekinah dwell there. Thou shalt not eat leaven with it. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of humiliation; for in haste didst thou come out of the land of Mizraim: that thou mayest remember the day of thy coming from the land of Mizraim all the days of thy life. And there shall not be leaven seen with thee within all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh of that which thou didst sacrifice in the evening of the first day remain until the morning. Thou hast not liberty to sacrifice the pascha in anyone of thy cities which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee; but in the place which the Lord thy Elohim will approve to make His Shekinah dwell, there thou shalt sacrifice the pascha, in the evening, at the going away of the sun; the time of thy coming out of Mizraim. And thou shalt dress and eat it in the place which the Lord thy Elohim shall favour, and in the morning turn and go to thy tent. Six days thou shalt eat unleavened, and on the seventh day gather together before the Lord thy Elohim: thou shalt do no work.
Seven weeks number to thee from the beginning (of the harvest); when the omer of the elevation[15] is reaped with the sickle, shalt thou begin to number the seven weeks. And thou shalt perform the festival of the weeks before the Lord thy Elohim, with a tribute of the free-will offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give as the Lord thy Elohim will have blessed thee. And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy Elohim, thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy man-servant, thy handmaid, the Levite who is in thy cities, the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Mizraim, and keep and perform these statutes.
The Feast of Tabernacles thou shalt make to thee seven days, when thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor, and from thy wine-press. And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy handmaid, the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, who are in thy cities. Seven days shalt thou hold the festival before the Lord thy Elohim in the place the Lord shall choose, because the Lord thy Elohim will have blessed thee in all thy produce, and in all the work of thy hands, and therefore shalt thou rejoice.
Three times in the year all thy males are to appear before the Lord thy Elohim in the place that He will choose; at the Feast of the Unleavened, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty; but every man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord thy Elohim which He hath given thee.
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<a href=#C661V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C662V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C663V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C664V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C665V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C666V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C667V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C668V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C669V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C6610V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C6611V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C6612V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C6613V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C6614V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C6615V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C6616V1>Chapter 16</a>
<a href=#C6617V1>Chapter 17</a>
<a href=#C6618V1>Chapter 18</a>
<a href=#C6619V1>Chapter 19</a>
<a href=#C6620V1>Chapter 20</a><br />
<a href=#C6621V1>Chapter 21</a>
<a href=#C6622V1>Chapter 22</a>
<p>
<a name="C661V1" id="C661V1">1:1</a> This is the Revelation of Yeshua Messiah,
which Elohim gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen
soon, which he sent and made known by his <a href="#N661">angel</a> to his
servant, John, <a name="C661V2" id="C661V2">1:2</a> who testified to Elohim's
word, and of the testimony of Yeshua Messiah, about everything that he saw.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V3" id="C661V3">1:3</a> Blessed is he who reads and those who
hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in
it, for the time is at hand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V4" id="C661V4">1:4</a> John, to the seven assemblies that are in
Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Elohim, who is and who was and who is to
come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; <a name="C661V5"
id="C661V5">1:5</a> and from Yeshua Messiah, the faithful witness, the
firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who
loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood; <a name="C661V6"
id="C661V6">1:6</a> and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests<sup><a href="#N662">*</a></sup>
to his Elohim and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and
ever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V7" id="C661V7">1:7</a> Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and
every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of
the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V8" id="C661V8">1:8</a> "I am the Alpha and the Omega,<sup><a
href="#N663">*</a></sup>" says the Lord <a href="#N664">Elohim,</a> "who
is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V9" id="C661V9">1:9</a> I John, your brother and partner with you
in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Messiah Yeshua, was on the isle
that is called Patmos because of Elohim's Word and the testimony of Yeshua
Messiah. <a name="C661V10" id="C661V10">1:10</a> I was in the Spirit on the
Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet <a
name="C661V11" id="C661V11">1:11</a> saying, "<sup><a href="#N665">*</a></sup>What
you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies<sup><a href="#N666">*</a></sup>:
to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to
Laodicea."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C661V12" id="C661V12">1:12</a> I turned to see the voice that spoke
with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. <a name="C661V13"
id="C661V13">1:13</a> And among the lampstands was one like a son of man,<sup><a
href="#N667">*</a></sup> clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and
with a golden sash around his chest. <a name="C661V14" id="C661V14">1:14</a>
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were
like a flame of fire. <a name="C661V15" id="C661V15">1:15</a> His feet were
like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice
was like the voice of many waters. <a name="C661V16" id="C661V16">1:16</a> He
had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp
two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. <a
name="C661V17" id="C661V17">1:17</a> When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a
dead man.
</p>
<p>
He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the
first and the last, <a name="C661V18" id="C661V18">1:18</a> and the Living
one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys
of Death and of <a href="#N668">Hades</a>. <a name="C661V19" id="C661V19">1:19</a>
Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are,
and the things which will happen hereafter; <a name="C661V20" id="C661V20">1:20</a>
the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the
seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the <a href="#N669">angels</a>
of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V1" id="C662V1">2:1</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Ephesus write:
</p>
<p>
"He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among
the seven golden lampstands says these things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V2" id="C662V2">2:2</a> "I know your works, and your toil
and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested
those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them
false. <a name="C662V3" id="C662V3">2:3</a> You have perseverance and have
endured for my name's sake, and have<sup><a href="#N6610">*</a></sup> not
grown weary. <a name="C662V4" id="C662V4">2:4</a> But I have this against you,
that you left your first love. <a name="C662V5" id="C662V5">2:5</a> Remember
therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works;
or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of
its place, unless you repent. <a name="C662V6" id="C662V6">2:6</a> But this
you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
<a name="C662V7" id="C662V7">2:7</a> He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of
the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V8" id="C662V8">2:8</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Smyrna write:
</p>
<p>
"The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says
these things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V9" id="C662V9">2:9</a> "I know your works, oppression, and
your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they
are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. <a name="C662V10"
id="C662V10">2:10</a> Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to
suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that
you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful
to death, and I will give you the crown of life. <a name="C662V11" id="C662V11">2:11</a>
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He
who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V12" id="C662V12">2:12</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Pergamum write:
</p>
<p>
"He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V13" id="C662V13">2:13</a> "I know your works and where you
dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't
deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was
killed among you, where Satan dwells. <a name="C662V14" id="C662V14">2:14</a>
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold
the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before
the children of Yisrael, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit
sexual immorality. <a name="C662V15" id="C662V15">2:15</a> So you also have
some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise<sup><a
href="#N6611">*</a></sup>. <a name="C662V16" id="C662V16">2:16</a> Repent
therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against
them with the sword of my mouth. <a name="C662V17" id="C662V17">2:17</a> He
who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To
him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden <a href="#N6612">manna,</a>
and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written,
which no one knows but he who receives it.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V18" id="C662V18">2:18</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Thyatira write:
</p>
<p>
"The Son of Elohim, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet
are like burnished brass, says these things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C662V19" id="C662V19">2:19</a> "I know your works, your love,
faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than
the first. <a name="C662V20" id="C662V20">2:20</a> But I have this against
you, that you tolerate <a href="#N6613">your</a> woman, Jezebel, who calls
herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual
immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. <a name="C662V21"
id="C662V21">2:21</a> I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent
of her sexual immorality. <a name="C662V22" id="C662V22">2:22</a> Behold, I
will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into
great oppression, unless they repent of her works. <a name="C662V23"
id="C662V23">2:23</a> I will kill her children with Death, and all the
assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I
will give to each one of you according to your deeds. <a name="C662V24"
id="C662V24">2:24</a> But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as
many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep
things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
<a name="C662V25" id="C662V25">2:25</a> Nevertheless, hold firmly that which
you have, until I come. <a name="C662V26" id="C662V26">2:26</a> He who
overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give
authority over the nations. <a name="C662V27" id="C662V27">2:27</a> He will
rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots;<sup><a
href="#N6614">*</a></sup> as I also have received of my Father: <a
name="C662V28" id="C662V28">2:28</a> and I will give him the morning star. <a
name="C662V29" id="C662V29">2:29</a> He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C663V1" id="C663V1">3:1</a> "And to the angel of the assembly in
Sardis write:
</p>
<p>
"He who has the seven Spirits of Elohim, and the seven stars says these
things:
</p>
<p>
"I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but
you are dead. <a name="C663V2" id="C663V2">3:2</a> Wake up, and keep the
things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found
no works of yours perfected before my Elohim. <a name="C663V3" id="C663V3">3:3</a>
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent.
If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know
what hour I will come upon you. <a name="C663V4" id="C663V4">3:4</a>
Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their
garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. <a
name="C663V5" id="C663V5">3:5</a> He who overcomes will be arrayed in white
garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and
I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. <a
name="C663V6" id="C663V6">3:6</a> He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C663V7" id="C663V7">3:7</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Philadelphia write:
</p>
<p>
"He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who
opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these
things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C663V8" id="C663V8">3:8</a> "I know your works (behold, I have
set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a
little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name. <a name="C663V9"
id="C663V9">3:9</a> Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who
say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to
come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. <a
name="C663V10" id="C663V10">3:10</a> Because you kept my command to endure, I
also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole
world, to test those who dwell on the earth. <a name="C663V11" id="C663V11">3:11</a>
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes
your crown. <a name="C663V12" id="C663V12">3:12</a> He who overcomes, I will
make him a pillar in the temple of my Elohim, and he will go out from there
no more. I will write on him the name of my Elohim, and the name of the city
of my Elohim, the new Yerushalayim, which comes down out of heaven from my Elohim,
and my own new name. <a name="C663V13" id="C663V13">3:13</a> He who has an
ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C663V14" id="C663V14">3:14</a> "To the angel of the assembly in
Laodicea write:
</p>
<p>
"The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of Elohim's creation,
says these things:
</p>
<p>
<a name="C663V15" id="C663V15">3:15</a> "I know your works, that you are
neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. <a name="C663V16"
id="C663V16">3:16</a> So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor
cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. <a name="C663V17" id="C663V17">3:17</a>
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of
nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor,
blind, and naked; <a name="C663V18" id="C663V18">3:18</a> I counsel you to buy
from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white
garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your
nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you
may see. <a name="C663V19" id="C663V19">3:19</a> As many as I love, I reprove
and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. <a name="C663V20" id="C663V20">3:20</a>
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens
the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with
me. <a name="C663V21" id="C663V21">3:21</a> He who overcomes, I will give to
him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down
with my Father on his throne. <a name="C663V22" id="C663V22">3:22</a> He who
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C664V1" id="C664V1">4:1</a> After these things I looked and saw a
door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet
speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you
the things which must happen after this."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C664V2" id="C664V2">4:2</a> Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold,
there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne <a
name="C664V3" id="C664V3">4:3</a> that looked like a jasper stone and a
sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look
at. <a name="C664V4" id="C664V4">4:4</a> Around the throne were twenty-four
thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white
garments, with crowns of gold on their heads. <a name="C664V5" id="C664V5">4:5</a>
Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were
seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits
of Elohim. <a name="C664V6" id="C664V6">4:6</a> Before the throne was something
like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and
around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and
behind. <a name="C664V7" id="C664V7">4:7</a> The first creature was like a
lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a
face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. <a name="C664V8"
id="C664V8">4:8</a> The four living creatures, each one of them having six
wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and
night, saying, "<a href="#N6615">Holy, holy, holy</a> is the Lord Elohim,
the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C664V9" id="C664V9">4:9</a> When the living creatures give glory,
honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever
and ever, <a name="C664V10" id="C664V10">4:10</a> the twenty-four elders fall
down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever
and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, <a name="C664V11"
id="C664V11">4:11</a> "Worthy are you, our Lord <a href="#N6616">and Elohim,
the Holy One,</a> to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you
created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were
created!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C665V1" id="C665V1">5:1</a> I saw, in the right hand of him who sat
on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven
seals. <a name="C665V2" id="C665V2">5:2</a> I saw a mighty angel proclaiming
with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its
seals?" <a name="C665V3" id="C665V3">5:3</a> No one in heaven above, or
on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in
it. <a name="C665V4" id="C665V4">5:4</a> And I wept much, because no one was
found worthy to open the book, or to look in it. <a name="C665V5" id="C665V5">5:5</a>
One of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of
the tribe of Yehudah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book
and its seven seals." <a name="C665V6" id="C665V6">5:6</a> I saw in the
midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of
the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven
horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of Elohim, sent out into
all the earth. <a name="C665V7" id="C665V7">5:7</a> Then he came, and he took
it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. <a name="C665V8"
id="C665V8">5:8</a> Now when he had taken the book, the four living
creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one
having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of
the saints. <a name="C665V9" id="C665V9">5:9</a> They sang a new song, saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"You are worthy to take the book,
</dt>
<dd>
and to open its seals:
</dd>
<dt>
for you were killed,
</dt>
<dd>
and bought us for Elohim with your blood,
</dd>
<dd>
out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C665V10" id="C665V10">5:10</a> and made us kings and priests to our
Elohim,
</dt>
<dd>
and we will reign on earth."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C665V11" id="C665V11">5:11</a> I saw, and I heard something like a
voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the
elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and
thousands of thousands; <a name="C665V12" id="C665V12">5:12</a> saying with a
loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the
power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C665V13" id="C665V13">5:13</a> I heard every created thing which is
in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in
them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the
blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! <a
href="#N6617">Amen!</a>"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C665V14" id="C665V14">5:14</a> The four living creatures said, "Amen!"
The <sup><a href="#N6618">*</a></sup>elders fell down and worshiped.<sup><a
href="#N6619">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V1" id="C666V1">6:1</a> I saw that the Lamb opened one of the
seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with
a voice of thunder, "Come and see!" <a name="C666V2" id="C666V2">6:2</a>
And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was
given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V3" id="C666V3">6:3</a> When he opened the second seal, I heard
the second living creature saying, "Come!" <a name="C666V4"
id="C666V4">6:4</a> Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it
was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill
one another. There was given to him a great sword.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V5" id="C666V5">6:5</a> When he opened the third seal, I heard
the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a
black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. <a name="C666V6"
id="C666V6">6:6</a> I heard a voice in the midst of the four living
creatures saying, "A <a href="#N6620">choenix</a> of wheat for a
denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil
and the wine!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V7" id="C666V7">6:7</a> When he opened the fourth seal, I heard
the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!" <a name="C666V8"
id="C666V8">6:8</a> And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name
was Death. <a href="#N6621">Hades</a> followed with him. Authority over one
fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and
by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V9" id="C666V9">6:9</a> When he opened the fifth seal, I saw
underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word
of Elohim, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. <a name="C666V10"
id="C666V10">6:10</a> They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long,
Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those
who dwell on the earth?" <a name="C666V11" id="C666V11">6:11</a> A long
white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest
yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their <a href="#N6622">brothers,</a>
who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C666V12" id="C666V12">6:12</a> I saw when he opened the sixth seal,
and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made
of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. <a name="C666V13" id="C666V13">6:13</a>
The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its
unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. <a name="C666V14" id="C666V14">6:14</a>
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and
island were moved out of their places. <a name="C666V15" id="C666V15">6:15</a>
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich,
the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves
and in the rocks of the mountains. <a name="C666V16" id="C666V16">6:16</a>
They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from
the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, <a
name="C666V17" id="C666V17">6:17</a> for the great day of his wrath has come;
and who is able to stand?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C667V1" id="C667V1">7:1</a> After this, I saw four angels standing at
the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so
that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. <a
name="C667V2" id="C667V2">7:2</a> I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise,
having the seal of the living Elohim. He cried with a loud voice to the four
angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, <a name="C667V3"
id="C667V3">7:3</a> saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our Elohim on their
foreheads!" <a name="C667V4" id="C667V4">7:4</a> I heard the number of
those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of
every tribe of the children of Yisrael:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C667V5" id="C667V5">7:5</a> of the tribe of Yehudah were sealed
twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C667V6" id="C667V6">7:6</a> of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C667V7" id="C667V7">7:7</a> of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C667V8" id="C667V8">7:8</a> of the tribe of Zebulun twelve
thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand,
</dt>
<dt>
of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C667V9" id="C667V9">7:9</a> After these things I looked, and behold,
a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of
all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before
the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. <a
name="C667V10" id="C667V10">7:10</a> They cried with a loud voice, saying,
"Salvation be to our Elohim, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C667V11" id="C667V11">7:11</a> All the angels were standing around
the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on
their faces before his throne, and worshiped Elohim, <a name="C667V12"
id="C667V12">7:12</a> saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom,
thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our Elohim forever and ever!
Amen."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C667V13" id="C667V13">7:13</a> One of the elders answered, saying to
me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from
where did they come?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C667V14" id="C667V14">7:14</a> I told him, "My lord, you know."
</p>
<p>
He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great
tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's
blood. <a name="C667V15" id="C667V15">7:15</a> Therefore they are before the
throne of Elohim, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on
the throne will spread his tent over them. <a name="C667V16" id="C667V16">7:16</a>
They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun
beat on them, nor any heat; <a name="C667V17" id="C667V17">7:17</a> for the
Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to
springs of waters of life. And Elohim will wipe away every tear from their
eyes."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C668V1" id="C668V1">8:1</a> When he opened the seventh seal, there
was silence in heaven for about half an hour. <a name="C668V2" id="C668V2">8:2</a>
I saw the seven angels who stand before Elohim, and seven trumpets were given
to them. <a name="C668V3" id="C668V3">8:3</a> Another angel came and stood
over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him,
that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar
which was before the throne. <a name="C668V4" id="C668V4">8:4</a> The smoke of
the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before Elohim out of the
angel's hand. <a name="C668V5" id="C668V5">8:5</a> The angel took the censer,
and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth.
There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C668V6" id="C668V6">8:6</a> The seven angels who had the seven
trumpets prepared themselves to sound. <a name="C668V7" id="C668V7">8:7</a>
The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and
they were thrown to the earth. <a href="#N6623">One third of the earth was
burnt up,</a> and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C668V8" id="C668V8">8:8</a> The second angel sounded, and something
like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the
sea became blood, <a name="C668V9" id="C668V9">8:9</a> and one third of the
living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were
destroyed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C668V10" id="C668V10">8:10</a> The third angel sounded, and a great
star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of
the rivers, and on the springs of the waters. <a name="C668V11" id="C668V11">8:11</a>
The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the
waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they
were made bitter.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C668V12" id="C668V12">8:12</a> The fourth angel sounded, and one
third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of
the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day
wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way. <a
name="C668V13" id="C668V13">8:13</a> I saw, and I heard an <a href="#N6624">eagle,</a>
flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for
those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets
of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C669V1" id="C669V1">9:1</a> The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the
abyss was given to him. <a name="C669V2" id="C669V2">9:2</a> He opened the pit
of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a<sup><a
href="#N6625">*</a></sup> burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened
because of the smoke from the pit. <a name="C669V3" id="C669V3">9:3</a> Then
out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to
them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. <a name="C669V4" id="C669V4">9:4</a>
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither
any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have
Elohim's seal on their foreheads. <a name="C669V5" id="C669V5">9:5</a> They were
given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their
torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person. <a
name="C669V6" id="C669V6">9:6</a> In those days people will seek death, and
will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from
them. <a name="C669V7" id="C669V7">9:7</a> The shapes of the locusts were like
horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns,
and their faces were like people's faces. <a name="C669V8" id="C669V8">9:8</a>
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
<a name="C669V9" id="C669V9">9:9</a> They had breastplates, like breastplates
of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of
many horses rushing to war. <a name="C669V10" id="C669V10">9:10</a> They have
tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power
to harm men for five months. <a name="C669V11" id="C669V11">9:11</a> They have
over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is <a
href="#N6626">"Abaddon,"</a> but in Greek, he has the name <a
href="#N6627">"Apollyon."</a> <a name="C669V12" id="C669V12">9:12</a>
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C669V13" id="C669V13">9:13</a> The sixth angel sounded. I heard a
voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before Elohim, <a
name="C669V14" id="C669V14">9:14</a> saying to the sixth angel who had one
trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river
Euphrates!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C669V15" id="C669V15">9:15</a> The four angels were freed who had
been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might
kill one third of mankind. <a name="C669V16" id="C669V16">9:16</a> The number
of the armies of the horsemen was <a href="#N6628">two hundred million</a>.
I heard the number of them. <a name="C669V17" id="C669V17">9:17</a> Thus I saw
the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates
of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions.
Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. <a name="C669V18"
id="C669V18">9:18</a> By these three plagues were one third of mankind
killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of
their mouths. <a name="C669V19" id="C669V19">9:19</a> For the power of the
horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like
serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm. <a name="C669V20"
id="C669V20">9:20</a> The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these
plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't
worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of
stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. <a
name="C669V21" id="C669V21">9:21</a> They didn't repent of their murders, nor
of their <a href="#N6629">sorceries,</a> nor of their sexual immorality, nor
of their thefts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6610V1" id="C6610V1">10:1</a> I saw a mighty angel coming down out
of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was
like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. <a name="C6610V2" id="C6610V2">10:2</a>
He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea,
and his left on the land. <a name="C6610V3" id="C6610V3">10:3</a> He cried
with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders
uttered their voices. <a name="C6610V4" id="C6610V4">10:4</a> When the seven
thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky
saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't
write them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6610V5" id="C6610V5">10:5</a> The angel who I saw standing on the
sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky, <a name="C6610V6"
id="C6610V6">10:6</a> and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who
created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things
that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will
no longer be delay, <a name="C6610V7" id="C6610V7">10:7</a> but in the days of
the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the
mystery of Elohim is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.
<a name="C6610V8" id="C6610V8">10:8</a> The voice which I heard from heaven,
again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the
hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6610V9" id="C6610V9">10:9</a> I went to the angel, telling him to
give me the little book.
</p>
<p>
He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach
bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6610V10" id="C6610V10">10:10</a> I took the little book out of the
angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I
had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. <a name="C6610V11" id="C6610V11">10:11</a>
They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations,
languages, and kings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6611V1" id="C6611V1">11:1</a> A reed like a rod was given to me.
Someone said, "Rise, and measure Elohim's temple, and the altar, and
those who worship in it. <a name="C6611V2" id="C6611V2">11:2</a> Leave out the
court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has
been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for
forty-two months. <a name="C6611V3" id="C6611V3">11:3</a> I will give power to
my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty
days, clothed in sackcloth." <a name="C6611V4" id="C6611V4">11:4</a>
These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the
Lord of the earth. <a name="C6611V5" id="C6611V5">11:5</a> If anyone desires
to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies.
If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. <a
name="C6611V6" id="C6611V6">11:6</a> These have the power to shut up the sky,
that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power
over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with
every plague, as often as they desire. <a name="C6611V7" id="C6611V7">11:7</a>
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of
the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. <a
name="C6611V8" id="C6611V8">11:8</a> Their dead bodies will be in the street
of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also
their Lord was crucified. <a name="C6611V9" id="C6611V9">11:9</a> From among
the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead
bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to
be laid in a tomb. <a name="C6611V10" id="C6611V10">11:10</a> Those who dwell
on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give
gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell
on the earth. <a name="C6611V11" id="C6611V11">11:11</a> After the three and a
half days, the breath of life from Elohim entered into them, and they stood
on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. <a name="C6611V12"
id="C6611V12">11:12</a> I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,
"Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their
enemies saw them. <a name="C6611V13" id="C6611V13">11:13</a> In that day there
was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand
people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and
gave glory to the Elohim of heaven. <a name="C6611V14" id="C6611V14">11:14</a>
The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6611V15" id="C6611V15">11:15</a> The seventh angel sounded, and
great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world
has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Messiah. He will reign
forever and ever!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6611V16" id="C6611V16">11:16</a> The twenty-four elders, who sit on
their thrones before Elohim's throne, fell on their faces and worshiped Elohim,
<a name="C6611V17" id="C6611V17">11:17</a> saying: "We give you thanks,
Lord Elohim, the Almighty, the one who is and who was<sup><a href="#N6630">*</a></sup>;
because you have taken your great power, and reigned. <a name="C6611V18"
id="C6611V18">11:18</a> The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did
the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the
prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your
name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the
earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6611V19" id="C6611V19">11:19</a> Elohim's temple that is in heaven was
opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple.
Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6612V1" id="C6612V1">12:1</a> A great sign was seen in heaven: a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a
crown of twelve stars. <a name="C6612V2" id="C6612V2">12:2</a> She was with
child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. <a name="C6612V3"
id="C6612V3">12:3</a> Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
<a name="C6612V4" id="C6612V4">12:4</a> His tail drew one third of the stars
of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman
who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour
her child. <a name="C6612V5" id="C6612V5">12:5</a> She gave birth to a son, a
male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child
was caught up to Elohim, and to his throne. <a name="C6612V6" id="C6612V6">12:6</a>
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim,
that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6612V7" id="C6612V7">12:7</a> There was war in the sky. Michael and
his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. <a
name="C6612V8" id="C6612V8">12:8</a> They didn't prevail, neither was a place
found for him any more in heaven. <a name="C6612V9" id="C6612V9">12:9</a> The
great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil
and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the
earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. <a name="C6612V10"
id="C6612V10">12:10</a> I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is
come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our Elohim, and the
authority of his Messiah; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown
down, who accuses them before our Elohim day and night. <a name="C6612V11"
id="C6612V11">12:11</a> They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and
because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even
to death. <a name="C6612V12" id="C6612V12">12:12</a> Therefore rejoice,
heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that
he has but a short time."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6612V13" id="C6612V13">12:13</a> When the dragon saw that he was
thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the
male child. <a name="C6612V14" id="C6612V14">12:14</a> Two wings of the great
eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to
her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half
a time, from the face of the serpent. <a name="C6612V15" id="C6612V15">12:15</a>
The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river,
that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. <a name="C6612V16"
id="C6612V16">12:16</a> The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its
mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
<a name="C6612V17" id="C6612V17">12:17</a> The dragon grew angry with the
woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep Elohim's
commandments and hold Yeshua' testimony.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6613V1" id="C6613V1">13:1</a> Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I
saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On
his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. <a
name="C6613V2" id="C6613V2">13:2</a> The beast which I saw was like a leopard,
and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a
lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. <a
name="C6613V3" id="C6613V3">13:3</a> One of his heads looked like it had been
wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled
at the beast. <a name="C6613V4" id="C6613V4">13:4</a> They worshiped the
dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the
beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with
him?" <a name="C6613V5" id="C6613V5">13:5</a> A mouth speaking great
things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two
months was given to him. <a name="C6613V6" id="C6613V6">13:6</a> He opened his
mouth for blasphemy against Elohim, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling,
those who dwell in heaven. <a name="C6613V7" id="C6613V7">13:7</a> It was
given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority
over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. <a
name="C6613V8" id="C6613V8">13:8</a> All who dwell on the earth will worship
him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the
world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. <a name="C6613V9"
id="C6613V9">13:9</a> If anyone has an ear, let him hear. <a name="C6613V10"
id="C6613V10">13:10</a> <a href="#N6631">If anyone has captivity, he will go.
If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed.</a> Here is the endurance
and the faith of the saints.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6613V11" id="C6613V11">13:11</a> I saw another beast coming up out
of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. <a
name="C6613V12" id="C6613V12">13:12</a> He exercises all the authority of the
first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it
to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. <a name="C6613V13"
id="C6613V13">13:13</a> He performs great signs, even making fire come down
out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. <a name="C6613V14"
id="C6613V14">13:14</a> He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth
because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to
those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast
who had the sword wound and lived. <a name="C6613V15" id="C6613V15">13:15</a>
It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that
the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't
worship the image of the beast to be killed. <a name="C6613V16" id="C6613V16">13:16</a>
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the
free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their
foreheads; <a name="C6613V17" id="C6613V17">13:17</a> and that no one would be
able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or
the number of his name. <a name="C6613V18" id="C6613V18">13:18</a> Here is
wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the
beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V1" id="C6614V1">14:1</a> I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing
on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand,
having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
<a name="C6614V2" id="C6614V2">14:2</a> I heard a sound from heaven, like the
sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound
which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps. <a
name="C6614V3" id="C6614V3">14:3</a> They sing a new song before the throne,
and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn
the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been
redeemed out of the earth. <a name="C6614V4" id="C6614V4">14:4</a> These are
those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are
those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Yeshua
from among men, the first fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb. <a name="C6614V5"
id="C6614V5">14:5</a> In their mouth was found no lie, for they are
blameless.<sup><a href="#N6632">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V6" id="C6614V6">14:6</a> I saw an angel flying in mid heaven,
having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, tribe, language, and people. <a name="C6614V7"
id="C6614V7">14:7</a> He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and
give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who
made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V8" id="C6614V8">14:8</a> Another, a second angel, followed,
saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations
to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V9" id="C6614V9">14:9</a> Another angel, a third, followed them,
saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his
image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, <a
name="C6614V10" id="C6614V10">14:10</a> he also will drink of the wine of the
wrath of Elohim, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will
be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and
in the presence of the Lamb. <a name="C6614V11" id="C6614V11">14:11</a> The
smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and
night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name. <a name="C6614V12" id="C6614V12">14:12</a> Here is the
patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of Elohim, and the
faith of Yeshua."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V13" id="C6614V13">14:13</a> I heard the voice from heaven
saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now
on.'"
</p>
<p>
"Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their
labors; for their works follow with them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V14" id="C6614V14">14:14</a> I looked, and behold, a white
cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man,<sup><a href="#N6633">*</a></sup>
having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. <a
name="C6614V15" id="C6614V15">14:15</a> Another angel came out from the
temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send
forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the
harvest of the earth is ripe!" <a name="C6614V16" id="C6614V16">14:16</a>
He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was
reaped.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6614V17" id="C6614V17">14:17</a> Another angel came out from the
temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. <a name="C6614V18"
id="C6614V18">14:18</a> Another angel came out from the altar, he who has
power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp
sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
<a name="C6614V19" id="C6614V19">14:19</a> The angel thrust his sickle into
the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the
great winepress of the wrath of Elohim. <a name="C6614V20" id="C6614V20">14:20</a>
The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the
winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as <a href="#N6634">one
thousand six hundred stadia.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6615V1" id="C6615V1">15:1</a> I saw another great and marvelous sign
in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them Elohim's
wrath is finished. <a name="C6615V2" id="C6615V2">15:2</a> I saw something
like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his
image,<sup><a href="#N6635">*</a></sup> and the number of his name, standing
on the sea of glass, having harps of Elohim. <a name="C6615V3" id="C6615V3">15:3</a>
They sang the song of Moshe, the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb,
saying,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Great and marvelous are your works, Lord Elohim, the Almighty!
</dt>
<dd>
Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C6615V4" id="C6615V4">15:4</a> Who wouldn't fear you, Lord,
</dt>
<dd>
and glorify your name?
</dd>
<dt>
For you only are holy.
</dt>
<dd>
For all the nations will come and worship before you.
</dd>
<dd>
For your righteous acts have been revealed."
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C6615V5" id="C6615V5">15:5</a> After these things I looked, and the
temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. <a
name="C6615V6" id="C6615V6">15:6</a> The seven angels who had the seven
plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden
sashes around their breasts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6615V7" id="C6615V7">15:7</a> One of the four living creatures gave
to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of Elohim, who lives
forever and ever. <a name="C6615V8" id="C6615V8">15:8</a> The temple was
filled with smoke from the glory of Elohim, and from his power. No one was
able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels
would be finished.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V1" id="C6616V1">16:1</a> I heard a loud voice out of the
temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls
of the wrath of Elohim on the earth!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V2" id="C6616V2">16:2</a> The first went, and poured out his
bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people
who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V3" id="C6616V3">16:3</a> The second angel poured out his bowl
into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in
the sea died.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V4" id="C6616V4">16:4</a> The third poured out his bowl into the
rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. <a name="C6616V5"
id="C6616V5">16:5</a> I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are
righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged
these things. <a name="C6616V6" id="C6616V6">16:6</a> For they poured out the
blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to
drink. They deserve this." <a name="C6616V7" id="C6616V7">16:7</a> I
heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord Elohim, the Almighty, true and
righteous are your judgments."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V8" id="C6616V8">16:8</a> The fourth poured out his bowl on the
sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. <a name="C6616V9"
id="C6616V9">16:9</a> People were scorched with great heat, and people
blasphemed the name of Elohim who has the power over these plagues. They
didn't repent and give him glory.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V10" id="C6616V10">16:10</a> The fifth poured out his bowl on
the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their
tongues because of the pain, <a name="C6616V11" id="C6616V11">16:11</a> and
they blasphemed the Elohim of heaven because of their pains and their sores.
They didn't repent of their works.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V12" id="C6616V12">16:12</a> The sixth poured out his bowl on
the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might
be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise. <a name="C6616V13"
id="C6616V13">16:13</a> I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out
of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet,
three unclean spirits, something like frogs; <a name="C6616V14" id="C6616V14">16:14</a>
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the
kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of
that great day of Elohim, the Almighty.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V15" id="C6616V15">16:15</a> "Behold, I come like a thief.
Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk
naked, and they see his shame." <a name="C6616V16" id="C6616V16">16:16</a>
He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew,
Megiddo.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6616V17" id="C6616V17">16:17</a> The seventh poured out his bowl
into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from
the throne, saying, "It is done!" <a name="C6616V18" id="C6616V18">16:18</a>
There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an
earthquake, so mighty. <a name="C6616V19" id="C6616V19">16:19</a> The great
city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.
Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of Elohim, to give to her the
cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. <a name="C6616V20"
id="C6616V20">16:20</a> Every island fled away, and the mountains were not
found. <a name="C6616V21" id="C6616V21">16:21</a> Great hailstones, about the
weight of a <a href="#N6636">talent,</a> came down out of the sky on people.
People blasphemed Elohim because of the plague of the hail, for this plague
is exceedingly severe.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6617V1" id="C6617V1">17:1</a> One of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show
you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, <a
name="C6617V2" id="C6617V2">17:2</a> with whom the kings of the earth
committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made
drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality." <a name="C6617V3"
id="C6617V3">17:3</a> He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I
saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous
names, having seven heads and ten horns. <a name="C6617V4" id="C6617V4">17:4</a>
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. <a
name="C6617V5" id="C6617V5">17:5</a> And on her forehead a name was written,
"MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." <a name="C6617V6" id="C6617V6">17:6</a> I saw
the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Yeshua. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement. <a
name="C6617V7" id="C6617V7">17:7</a> The angel said to me, "Why do you
wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. <a name="C6617V8"
id="C6617V8">17:8</a> The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about
to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on
the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from
the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was,
and is not, and <a href="#N6637">shall be present.</a> <a name="C6617V9"
id="C6617V9">17:9</a> Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are
seven mountains, on which the woman sits. <a name="C6617V10" id="C6617V10">17:10</a>
They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet
come. When he comes, he must continue a little while. <a name="C6617V11"
id="C6617V11">17:11</a> The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an
eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction. <a name="C6617V12"
id="C6617V12">17:12</a> The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have
received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the
beast, for one hour. <a name="C6617V13" id="C6617V13">17:13</a> These have one
mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast. <a
name="C6617V14" id="C6617V14">17:14</a> These will war against the Lamb, and
the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings.
They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
<a name="C6617V15" id="C6617V15">17:15</a> He said to me, "The waters
which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes,
nations, and languages. <a name="C6617V16" id="C6617V16">17:16</a> The ten
horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and
will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh,
and will burn her utterly with fire. <a name="C6617V17" id="C6617V17">17:17</a>
For Elohim has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of
one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of Elohim
should be accomplished. <a name="C6617V18" id="C6617V18">17:18</a> The woman
whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6618V1" id="C6618V1">18:1</a> After these things, I saw another
angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was
illuminated with his glory. <a name="C6618V2" id="C6618V2">18:2</a> He cried
with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great,
and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean
spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! <a name="C6618V3"
id="C6618V3">18:3</a> For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual
immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the
abundance of her luxury."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6618V4" id="C6618V4">18:4</a> I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation
in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues, <a name="C6618V5"
id="C6618V5">18:5</a> for her sins have reached to the sky, and Elohim has
remembered her iniquities. <a name="C6618V6" id="C6618V6">18:6</a> Return to
her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according
to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. <a
name="C6618V7" id="C6618V7">18:7</a> However much she glorified herself, and
grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her
heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
<a name="C6618V8" id="C6618V8">18:8</a> Therefore in one day her plagues will
come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with
fire; for the Lord Elohim who has judged her is strong. <a name="C6618V9"
id="C6618V9">18:9</a> The kings of the earth, who committed sexual
immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when
they look at the smoke of her burning, <a name="C6618V10" id="C6618V10">18:10</a>
standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the
great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one
hour.' <a name="C6618V11" id="C6618V11">18:11</a> The merchants of the earth
weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more; <a
name="C6618V12" id="C6618V12">18:12</a> merchandise of gold, silver, precious
stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood,
every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of
brass, and iron, and marble; <a name="C6618V13" id="C6618V13">18:13</a> and
cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour,
wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls. <a
name="C6618V14" id="C6618V14">18:14</a> The fruits which your soul lusted
after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous
have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all. <a
name="C6618V15" id="C6618V15">18:15</a> The merchants of these things, who
were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment,
weeping and mourning; <a name="C6618V16" id="C6618V16">18:16</a> saying, 'Woe,
woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and
scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! <a
name="C6618V17" id="C6618V17">18:17</a> For in an hour such great riches are
made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and
mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, <a
name="C6618V18" id="C6618V18">18:18</a> and cried out as they looked at the
smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?' <a
name="C6618V19" id="C6618V19">18:19</a> They cast dust on their heads, and
cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which
all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great
wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6618V20" id="C6618V20">18:20</a> "Rejoice over her, O heaven,
you saints, apostles, and prophets; for Elohim has judged your judgment on
her." <a name="C6618V21" id="C6618V21">18:21</a> A mighty angel took up a
stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus
with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be
found no more at all. <a name="C6618V22" id="C6618V22">18:22</a> The voice of
harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more
at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at
all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. <a
name="C6618V23" id="C6618V23">18:23</a> The light of a lamp will shine no more
at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard
no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth;
for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived. <a name="C6618V24"
id="C6618V24">18:24</a> In her was found the blood of prophets and of
saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V1" id="C6619V1">19:1</a> After these things I heard something
like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah!
Salvation, power, and glory belong to our Elohim: <a name="C6619V2" id="C6619V2">19:2</a>
for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great
prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V3" id="C6619V3">19:3</a> A second said, "Hallelujah! Her
smoke goes up forever and ever." <a name="C6619V4" id="C6619V4">19:4</a>
The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and
worshiped Elohim who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V5" id="C6619V5">19:5</a> A voice came forth from the throne,
saying, "Give praise to our Elohim, all you his servants, you who fear
him, the small and the great!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V6" id="C6619V6">19:6</a> I heard something like the voice of a
great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of
mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our Elohim, the
Almighty, reigns! <a name="C6619V7" id="C6619V7">19:7</a> Let us rejoice and
be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of
the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." <a
name="C6619V8" id="C6619V8">19:8</a> It was given to her that she would array
herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous
acts of the saints.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V9" id="C6619V9">19:9</a> He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed
are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He
said to me, "These are true words of Elohim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V10" id="C6619V10">19:10</a> I fell down before his feet to
worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow
bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of
Yeshua. Worship Elohim, for the testimony of Yeshua is the Spirit of Prophecy."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V11" id="C6619V11">19:11</a> I saw the heaven opened, and
behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True.
In righteousness he judges and makes war. <a name="C6619V12" id="C6619V12">19:12</a>
His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has
names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. <a
name="C6619V13" id="C6619V13">19:13</a> He is clothed in a garment sprinkled
with blood. His name is called "The Word of Elohim." <a
name="C6619V14" id="C6619V14">19:14</a> The armies which are in heaven
followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. <a
name="C6619V15" id="C6619V15">19:15</a> Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp,
double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will
rule them with an iron rod.<sup><a href="#N6638">*</a></sup> He treads the
winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Elohim, the Almighty. <a
name="C6619V16" id="C6619V16">19:16</a> He has on his garment and on his thigh
a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6619V17" id="C6619V17">19:17</a> I saw an angel standing in the sun.
He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky,
"Come! Be gathered together to the <a href="#N6639">great supper of
Elohim,</a> <a name="C6619V18" id="C6619V18">19:18</a> that you may eat the flesh
of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of
horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free
and slave, and small and great." <a name="C6619V19" id="C6619V19">19:19</a>
I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered
together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his
army. <a name="C6619V20" id="C6619V20">19:20</a> The beast was taken, and with
him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he
deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who
worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire
that burns with sulfur. <a name="C6619V21" id="C6619V21">19:21</a> The rest
were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which
came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6620V1" id="C6620V1">20:1</a> I saw an angel coming down out of
heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. <a
name="C6620V2" id="C6620V2">20:2</a> He seized the dragon, the old serpent,
which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and
bound him for a thousand years, <a name="C6620V3" id="C6620V3">20:3</a> and
cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were
finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time. <a name="C6620V4"
id="C6620V4">20:4</a> I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was
given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the
testimony of Yeshua, and for the word of Elohim, and such as didn't worship
the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and
on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Messiah for the thousand years.
<a name="C6620V5" id="C6620V5">20:5</a> The rest of the dead didn't live until
the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. <a
name="C6620V6" id="C6620V6">20:6</a> Blessed and holy is he who has part in
the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but
they will be priests of Elohim and of Messiah, and will reign with him one
thousand years.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6620V7" id="C6620V7">20:7</a> And after the thousand years, Satan
will be released from his prison, <a name="C6620V8" id="C6620V8">20:8</a> and
he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of
the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number
of whom is as the sand of the sea. <a name="C6620V9" id="C6620V9">20:9</a>
They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the
saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from Elohim, and
devoured them. <a name="C6620V10" id="C6620V10">20:10</a> The devil who
deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast
and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night
forever and ever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6620V11" id="C6620V11">20:11</a> I saw a great white throne, and him
who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There
was found no place for them. <a name="C6620V12" id="C6620V12">20:12</a> I saw
the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they
opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead
were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according
to their works. <a name="C6620V13" id="C6620V13">20:13</a> The sea gave up the
dead who were in it. Death and <a href="#N6640">Hades</a> gave up the dead
who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. <a
name="C6620V14" id="C6620V14">20:14</a> Death and <a href="#N6641">Hades</a>
were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of
fire. <a name="C6620V15" id="C6620V15">20:15</a> If anyone was not found
written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6621V1" id="C6621V1">21:1</a> I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is
no more. <a name="C6621V2" id="C6621V2">21:2</a> I saw the holy city, New
Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from Elohim, made ready like a bride
adorned for her husband. <a name="C6621V3" id="C6621V3">21:3</a> I heard a
loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, Elohim's dwelling is with
people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and Elohim
himself will be with them as their Elohim. <a name="C6621V4" id="C6621V4">21:4</a>
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no
more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The
first things have passed away."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6621V5" id="C6621V5">21:5</a> He who sits on the throne said, "Behold,
I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of
Elohim are faithful and true." <a name="C6621V6" id="C6621V6">21:6</a> He
said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning
and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of
the water of life. <a name="C6621V7" id="C6621V7">21:7</a> He who overcomes, I
will give him these things. I will be his Elohim, and he will be my son. <a
name="C6621V8" id="C6621V8">21:8</a> But for the cowardly, unbelieving,
sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, <a href="#N6642">sorcerers,</a>
idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire
and sulfur, which is the second death."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6621V9" id="C6621V9">21:9</a> One of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he
spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the
Lamb's bride." <a name="C6621V10" id="C6621V10">21:10</a> He carried me
away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy
city, Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from Elohim, <a name="C6621V11"
id="C6621V11">21:11</a> having the glory of Elohim. Her light was like a most
precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal; <a
name="C6621V12" id="C6621V12">21:12</a> having a great and high wall; having
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Yisrael. <a
name="C6621V13" id="C6621V13">21:13</a> On the east were three gates; and on
the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three
gates. <a name="C6621V14" id="C6621V14">21:14</a> The wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the
Lamb. <a name="C6621V15" id="C6621V15">21:15</a> He who spoke with me had for
a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
<a name="C6621V16" id="C6621V16">21:16</a> The city lies foursquare, and its
length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, <a
href="#N6643">Twelve thousand twelve stadia</a>. Its length, breadth, and
height are equal. <a name="C6621V17" id="C6621V17">21:17</a> Its wall is <a
href="#N6644">one hundred forty-four cubits,</a> by the measure of a man,
that is, of an angel. <a name="C6621V18" id="C6621V18">21:18</a> The
construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure
glass. <a name="C6621V19" id="C6621V19">21:19</a> The foundations of the
city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first
foundation was jasper; the second, <a href="#N6645">sapphire</a>; the third,
chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; <a name="C6621V20" id="C6621V20">21:20</a>
the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the
eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh,
jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. <a name="C6621V21" id="C6621V21">21:21</a>
The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one
pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. <a
name="C6621V22" id="C6621V22">21:22</a> I saw no temple in it, for the Lord
Elohim, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. <a name="C6621V23"
id="C6621V23">21:23</a> The city has no need for the sun, neither of the
moon, to shine, for the very glory of Elohim illuminated it, and its lamp is
the Lamb. <a name="C6621V24" id="C6621V24">21:24</a> The nations will walk in
its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations
into it. <a name="C6621V25" id="C6621V25">21:25</a> Its gates will in no way
be shut by day (for there will be no night there), <a name="C6621V26"
id="C6621V26">21:26</a> and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the
nations into it so that they may enter. <a name="C6621V27" id="C6621V27">21:27</a>
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an
abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of
life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V1" id="C6622V1">22:1</a> He showed me a<sup><a href="#N6646">*</a></sup>
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of
Elohim and of the Lamb, <a name="C6622V2" id="C6622V2">22:2</a> in the middle of
its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life,
bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves
of the tree were for the healing of the nations. <a name="C6622V3" id="C6622V3">22:3</a>
There will be no curse any more. The throne of Elohim and of the Lamb will be
in it, and his servants serve him. <a name="C6622V4" id="C6622V4">22:4</a>
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. <a
name="C6622V5" id="C6622V5">22:5</a> There will be no night, and they need no
lamp light; for the Lord Elohim will illuminate them. They will reign forever
and ever.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V6" id="C6622V6">22:6</a> He said to me, "These words are
faithful and true. The Lord Elohim of the spirits of the prophets sent his
angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V7" id="C6622V7">22:7</a> "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed
is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V8" id="C6622V8">22:8</a> Now I, John, am the one who heard and
saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the
feet of the angel who had shown me these things. <a name="C6622V9" id="C6622V9">22:9</a>
He said to me, "See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with
you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the
words of this book. Worship Elohim." <a name="C6622V10" id="C6622V10">22:10</a>
He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book,
for the time is at hand. <a name="C6622V11" id="C6622V11">22:11</a> He who
acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be
filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who
is holy, let him be holy still."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V12" id="C6622V12">22:12</a> "Behold, I come quickly. My
reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. <a
name="C6622V13" id="C6622V13">22:13</a> I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. <a name="C6622V14" id="C6622V14">22:14</a>
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to
the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. <a
name="C6622V15" id="C6622V15">22:15</a> Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers,
the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves
and practices falsehood. <a name="C6622V16" id="C6622V16">22:16</a> I, Yeshua,
have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am
the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V17" id="C6622V17">22:17</a> The Spirit and the bride say,
"Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is
thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life
freely. <a name="C6622V18" id="C6622V18">22:18</a> I testify to everyone who
hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may
Elohim add to him the plagues which are written in this book. <a name="C6622V19"
id="C6622V19">22:19</a> If anyone takes away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, may Elohim take away his part from the tree of life, and out
of the holy city, which are written in this book. <a name="C6622V20"
id="C6622V20">22:20</a> He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I
come quickly."
</p>
<p>
Amen! Yes, come, Lord Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C6622V21" id="C6622V21">22:21</a> The grace of the Lord Yeshua Messiah
be with all the saints. Amen.
</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N661" id="N661">[1]</a> <a href="#C661V1">back to 1:1</a> or, messenger
(here and wherever angel is mentioned)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N662" id="N662">[2]</a> <a href="#C661V6">back to 1:6</a> Exodus 19:6;
Isaiah 61:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N663" id="N663">[3]</a> <a href="#C661V8">back to 1:8</a> TR adds
"the Beginning and the End"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N664" id="N664">[4]</a> <a href="#C661V8">back to 1:8</a> TR omits
"Elohim"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N665" id="N665">[5]</a> <a href="#C661V11">back to 1:11</a> TR adds
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N666" id="N666">[6]</a> <a href="#C661V11">back to 1:11</a> TR adds
"which are in Asia"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N667" id="N667">[7]</a> <a href="#C661V13">back to 1:13</a> Daniel 7:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N668" id="N668">[8]</a> <a href="#C661V18">back to 1:18</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N669" id="N669">[9]</a> <a href="#C661V20">back to 1:20</a> or,
messengers (here and wherever angels are mentioned)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6610" id="N6610">[10]</a> <a href="#C662V3">back to 2:3</a> TR adds
"have labored and"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6611" id="N6611">[11]</a> <a href="#C662V15">back to 2:15</a> TR reads
"which I hate" instead of "likewise"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6612" id="N6612">[12]</a> <a href="#C662V17">back to 2:17</a> Manna is
supernatural food, named after the Hebrew for "What is it?". See
Exodus 11:7-9.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6613" id="N6613">[13]</a> <a href="#C662V20">back to 2:20</a> TR, NU
read "that" instead of "your"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6614" id="N6614">[14]</a> <a href="#C662V27">back to 2:27</a> Psalm
2:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6615" id="N6615">[15]</a> <a href="#C664V8">back to 4:8</a>
Hodges/Farstad MT reads "holy" 9 times instead of 3.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6616" id="N6616">[16]</a> <a href="#C664V11">back to 4:11</a> TR omits
"and Elohim, the Holy One,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6617" id="N6617">[17]</a> <a href="#C665V13">back to 5:13</a> TR omits
"Amen!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6618" id="N6618">[18]</a> <a href="#C665V14">back to 5:14</a> TR adds
"twenty-four"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6619" id="N6619">[19]</a> <a href="#C665V14">back to 5:14</a> TR adds
"the one living forever and ever"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6620" id="N6620">[20]</a> <a href="#C666V6">back to 6:6</a> A choenix
is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a litre (a little more
than a quart).
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6621" id="N6621">[21]</a> <a href="#C666V8">back to 6:8</a> or, Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6622" id="N6622">[22]</a> <a href="#C666V11">back to 6:11</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6623" id="N6623">[23]</a> <a href="#C668V7">back to 8:7</a> TR omits
"One third of the earth was burnt up"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6624" id="N6624">[24]</a> <a href="#C668V13">back to 8:13</a> TR reads
"angel" instead of "eagle"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6625" id="N6625">[25]</a> <a href="#C669V2">back to 9:2</a> TR adds
"great"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6626" id="N6626">[26]</a> <a href="#C669V11">back to 9:11</a> "Abaddon"
is a Hebrew word that means ruin, destruction, or the place of destruction
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6627" id="N6627">[27]</a> <a href="#C669V11">back to 9:11</a> "Apollyon"
means "Destroyer."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6628" id="N6628">[28]</a> <a href="#C669V16">back to 9:16</a>
literally, "ten thousands of ten thousands"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6629" id="N6629">[29]</a> <a href="#C669V21">back to 9:21</a> The word
for "sorceries" (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions,
poisons, and drugs
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6630" id="N6630">[30]</a> <a href="#C6611V17">back to 11:17</a> TR
adds "and who is coming"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6631" id="N6631">[31]</a> <a href="#C6613V10">back to 13:10</a> TR
reads "If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If
anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword."
instead of "If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone is with
the sword, he must be killed."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6632" id="N6632">[32]</a> <a href="#C6614V5">back to 14:5</a> TR adds
"before the throne of Elohim"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6633" id="N6633">[33]</a> <a href="#C6614V14">back to 14:14</a> Daniel
7:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6634" id="N6634">[34]</a> <a href="#C6614V20">back to 14:20</a> 1600
stadia = 296 kilometers or 184 miles
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6635" id="N6635">[35]</a> <a href="#C6615V2">back to 15:2</a> TR adds
"his mark,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6636" id="N6636">[36]</a> <a href="#C6616V21">back to 16:21</a> 1
talent is about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6637" id="N6637">[37]</a> <a href="#C6617V8">back to 17:8</a> TR reads
"yet is" instead of "shall be present"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6638" id="N6638">[38]</a> <a href="#C6619V15">back to 19:15</a> Psalm
2:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6639" id="N6639">[39]</a> <a href="#C6619V17">back to 19:17</a> TR
reads "supper of the great Elohim" instead of "great supper of
Elohim"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6640" id="N6640">[40]</a> <a href="#C6620V13">back to 20:13</a> or,
Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6641" id="N6641">[41]</a> <a href="#C6620V14">back to 20:14</a> or,
Hell
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6642" id="N6642">[42]</a> <a href="#C6621V8">back to 21:8</a> The word
for "sorcerers" here also includes users of potions and drugs.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6643" id="N6643">[43]</a> <a href="#C6621V16">back to 21:16</a> 12,012
stadia = or 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia
instead of 12,012 stadia.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6644" id="N6644">[44]</a> <a href="#C6621V17">back to 21:17</a> 144
cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6645" id="N6645">[45]</a> <a href="#C6621V19">back to 21:19</a> or,
lapis lazuli
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6646" id="N6646">[46]</a> <a href="#C6622V1">back to 22:1</a> TR adds
"pure"
</p>
</html>
<html>
<a href=#C451V1>Chapter 01</a>
<a href=#C452V1>Chapter 02</a>
<a href=#C453V1>Chapter 03</a>
<a href=#C454V1>Chapter 04</a>
<a href=#C455V1>Chapter 05</a>
<a href=#C456V1>Chapter 06</a>
<a href=#C457V1>Chapter 07</a>
<a href=#C458V1>Chapter 08</a>
<a href=#C459V1>Chapter 09</a>
<a href=#C4510V1>Chapter 10</a><br />
<a href=#C4511V1>Chapter 11</a>
<a href=#C4512V1>Chapter 12</a>
<a href=#C4513V1>Chapter 13</a>
<a href=#C4514V1>Chapter 14</a>
<a href=#C4515V1>Chapter 15</a>
<a href=#C4516V1>Chapter 16</a>
<p>
<a name="C451V1" id="C451V1">1:1</a> Paul, a servant of Yeshua Messiah, called
to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of Elohim, <a name="C451V2"
id="C451V2">1:2</a> which he promised before through his prophets in the
holy Scriptures, <a name="C451V3" id="C451V3">1:3</a> concerning his Son, who
was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, <a name="C451V4"
id="C451V4">1:4</a> who was declared to be the Son of Elohim with power,
according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,
Yeshua Messiah our Lord, <a name="C451V5" id="C451V5">1:5</a> through whom we
received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the
nations, for his name's sake; <a name="C451V6" id="C451V6">1:6</a> among whom
you are also called to belong to Yeshua Messiah; <a name="C451V7" id="C451V7">1:7</a>
to all who are in Rome, beloved of Elohim, called to be saints: Grace to you
and peace from Elohim our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C451V8" id="C451V8">1:8</a> First, I thank my Elohim through Yeshua
Messiah for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole
world. <a name="C451V9" id="C451V9">1:9</a> For Elohim is my witness, whom I
serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make
mention of you always in my prayers, <a name="C451V10" id="C451V10">1:10</a>
requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of
Elohim to come to you. <a name="C451V11" id="C451V11">1:11</a> For I long to see
you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may
be established; <a name="C451V12" id="C451V12">1:12</a> that is, that I with
you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours
and mine.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C451V13" id="C451V13">1:13</a> Now I don't desire to have you
unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered
so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the
rest of the Gentiles. <a name="C451V14" id="C451V14">1:14</a> I am debtor both
to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. <a
name="C451V15" id="C451V15">1:15</a> So, as much as is in me, I am eager to
preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. <a name="C451V16"
id="C451V16">1:16</a> For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for
it is the power of Elohim for salvation for everyone who believes; for the
Jew first, and also for the Greek. <a name="C451V17" id="C451V17">1:17</a> For
in it is revealed Elohim's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is
written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."<sup><a
href="#N451">*</a></sup> <a name="C451V18" id="C451V18">1:18</a> For the wrath
of Elohim is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, <a name="C451V19"
id="C451V19">1:19</a> because that which is known of Elohim is revealed in
them, for Elohim revealed it to them. <a name="C451V20" id="C451V20">1:20</a> For
the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his
everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. <a
name="C451V21" id="C451V21">1:21</a> Because, knowing Elohim, they didn't glorify
him as Elohim, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and
their senseless heart was darkened.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C451V22" id="C451V22">1:22</a> Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, <a name="C451V23" id="C451V23">1:23</a> and traded the glory of
the incorruptible Elohim for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and
of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. <a name="C451V24"
id="C451V24">1:24</a> Therefore Elohim also gave them up in the lusts of their
hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among
themselves, <a name="C451V25" id="C451V25">1:25</a> who exchanged the truth of
Elohim for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C451V26" id="C451V26">1:26</a> For this reason, Elohim gave them up to
vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that
which is against nature. <a name="C451V27" id="C451V27">1:27</a> Likewise also
the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust
toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and
receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. <a name="C451V28"
id="C451V28">1:28</a> Even as they refused to have Elohim in their knowledge,
Elohim gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
fitting; <a name="C451V29" id="C451V29">1:29</a> being filled with all
unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret
slanderers, <a name="C451V30" id="C451V30">1:30</a> backbiters, hateful to
Elohim, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, <a name="C451V31" id="C451V31">1:31</a> without understanding,
covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; <a
name="C451V32" id="C451V32">1:32</a> who, knowing the ordinance of Elohim, that
those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
but also approve of those who practice them.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C452V1" id="C452V1">2:1</a> Therefore you are without excuse, O man,
whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you
condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. <a
name="C452V2" id="C452V2">2:2</a> We know that the judgment of Elohim is
according to truth against those who practice such things. <a name="C452V3"
id="C452V3">2:3</a> Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice
such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of Elohim? <a
name="C452V4" id="C452V4">2:4</a> Or do you despise the riches of his
goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of Elohim
leads you to repentance? <a name="C452V5" id="C452V5">2:5</a> But according to
your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself
wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of
Elohim; <a name="C452V6" id="C452V6">2:6</a> who "will pay back to everyone
according to their works:"<sup><a href="#N452">*</a></sup> <a
name="C452V7" id="C452V7">2:7</a> to those who by patience in well-doing seek
for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; <a name="C452V8"
id="C452V8">2:8</a> but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the
truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, <a
name="C452V9" id="C452V9">2:9</a> oppression and anguish, on every soul of man
who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C452V10" id="C452V10">2:10</a> But glory, honor, and peace go to
every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. <a
name="C452V11" id="C452V11">2:11</a> For there is no partiality with Elohim. <a
name="C452V12" id="C452V12">2:12</a> For as many as have sinned without Torah
will also perish without the Torah. As many as have sinned under the Torah
will be judged by the Torah. <a name="C452V13" id="C452V13">2:13</a> For it
isn't the hearers of the Torah who are righteous before Elohim, but the doers
of the Torah will be justified <a name="C452V14" id="C452V14">2:14</a> (for when
Gentiles who don't have the Torah do by nature the things of the Torah, these,
not having the Torah, are a Torah to themselves, <a name="C452V15" id="C452V15">2:15</a>
in that they show the work of the Torah written in their hearts, their
conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves
accusing or else excusing them) <a name="C452V16" id="C452V16">2:16</a> in the
day when Elohim will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by
Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C452V17" id="C452V17">2:17</a> Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and
rest on the Torah, and glory in Elohim, <a name="C452V18" id="C452V18">2:18</a> and
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed
out of the Torah, <a name="C452V19" id="C452V19">2:19</a> and are confident that
you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in
darkness, <a name="C452V20" id="C452V20">2:20</a> a corrector of the foolish,
a teacher of babies, having in the Torah the form of knowledge and of the
truth. <a name="C452V21" id="C452V21">2:21</a> You therefore who teach
another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't
steal, do you steal? <a name="C452V22" id="C452V22">2:22</a> You who say a man
shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do
you rob temples? <a name="C452V23" id="C452V23">2:23</a> You who glory in the
Torah, through your disobedience of the Torah do you dishonor Elohim? <a
name="C452V24" id="C452V24">2:24</a> For "the name of Elohim is blasphemed
among the Gentiles because of you,"<sup><a href="#N453">*</a></sup>
just as it is written. <a name="C452V25" id="C452V25">2:25</a> For
circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the Torah, but if you are
a transgressor of the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. <a
name="C452V26" id="C452V26">2:26</a> If therefore the uncircumcised keep the
ordinances of the Torah, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as
circumcision? <a name="C452V27" id="C452V27">2:27</a> Won't the uncircumcision
which is by nature, if it fulfills the Torah, judge you, who with the letter
and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah? <a name="C452V28" id="C452V28">2:28</a>
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh; <a name="C452V29" id="C452V29">2:29</a> but he
is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in
the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C453V1" id="C453V1">3:1</a> Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or
what is the profit of circumcision? <a name="C453V2" id="C453V2">3:2</a> Much
in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles
of Elohim. <a name="C453V3" id="C453V3">3:3</a> For what if some were without
faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of Elohim? <a
name="C453V4" id="C453V4">3:4</a> May it never be! Yes, let Elohim be found true,
but every man a liar. As it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"That you might be justified in your words,
</dt>
<dd>
and might prevail when you come into judgment."<sup><a href="#N454">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C453V5" id="C453V5">3:5</a> But if our unrighteousness commends the
righteousness of Elohim, what will we say? Is Elohim unrighteous who inflicts
wrath? I speak like men do. <a name="C453V6" id="C453V6">3:6</a> May it never
be! For then how will Elohim judge the world? <a name="C453V7" id="C453V7">3:7</a>
For if the truth of Elohim through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I
also still judged as a sinner? <a name="C453V8" id="C453V8">3:8</a> Why not
(as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let
us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly
condemned. <a name="C453V9" id="C453V9">3:9</a> What then? Are we better than
they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that
they are all under sin. <a name="C453V10" id="C453V10">3:10</a> As it is
written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"There is no one righteous;
</dt>
<dd>
no, not one.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C453V11" id="C453V11">3:11</a> There is no one who understands.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no one who seeks after Elohim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C453V12" id="C453V12">3:12</a> They have all turned aside.
</dt>
<dd>
They have together become unprofitable.
</dd>
<dt>
There is no one who does good,
</dt>
<dd>
no, not, so much as one."<sup><a href="#N455">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C453V13" id="C453V13">3:13</a> "Their throat is an open tomb.
</dt>
<dd>
With their tongues they have used deceit."<sup><a href="#N456">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
"The poison of vipers is under their lips;"<sup><a href="#N457">*</a></sup>
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C453V14" id="C453V14">3:14</a> "Whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness."<sup><a href="#N458">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C453V15" id="C453V15">3:15</a> "Their feet are swift to shed
blood.
</dt>
<dd>
<a name="C453V16" id="C453V16">3:16</a> Destruction and misery are in their
ways.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C453V17" id="C453V17">3:17</a> The way of peace, they haven't
known."<sup><a href="#N459">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C453V18" id="C453V18">3:18</a> "There is no fear of Elohim before
their eyes."<sup><a href="#N4510">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C453V19" id="C453V19">3:19</a> Now we know that whatever things the
Torah says, it speaks to those who are under the Torah, that every mouth may
be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of Elohim. <a
name="C453V20" id="C453V20">3:20</a> Because by the works of the Torah, no flesh
will be justified in his sight. For through the Torah comes the knowledge of
sin. <a name="C453V21" id="C453V21">3:21</a> But now apart from the Torah, a
righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being testified by the Torah and the
prophets; <a name="C453V22" id="C453V22">3:22</a> even the righteousness of
Elohim through faith in Yeshua Messiah to all and on all those who believe. For
there is no distinction, <a name="C453V23" id="C453V23">3:23</a> for all have
sinned, and fall short of the glory of Elohim; <a name="C453V24" id="C453V24">3:24</a>
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Messiah Yeshua; <a name="C453V25" id="C453V25">3:25</a> whom Elohim set forth to be
<a href="#N4511">an atoning sacrifice</a>, through faith in his blood, for a
demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins,
in Elohim's forbearance; <a name="C453V26" id="C453V26">3:26</a> to demonstrate
his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and
the justifier of him who has faith in Yeshua.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C453V27" id="C453V27">3:27</a> Where then is the boasting? It is
excluded. By what manner of Torah? Of works? No, but by a Torah of faith. <a
name="C453V28" id="C453V28">3:28</a> We maintain therefore that a man is
justified by faith apart from the works of the Torah. <a name="C453V29"
id="C453V29">3:29</a> Or is Elohim the Elohim of Jews only? Isn't he the Elohim of
Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, <a name="C453V30" id="C453V30">3:30</a>
since indeed there is one Elohim who will justify the circumcised by faith,
and the uncircumcised through faith. <a name="C453V31" id="C453V31">3:31</a>
Do we then nullify the Torah through faith? May it never be! No, we
establish the Torah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C454V1" id="C454V1">4:1</a> What then will we say that Avraham, our
forefather, has found according to the flesh? <a name="C454V2" id="C454V2">4:2</a>
For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about,
but not toward Elohim. <a name="C454V3" id="C454V3">4:3</a> For what does the
Scripture say? "Avraham believed Elohim, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness."<sup><a href="#N4512">*</a></sup> <a name="C454V4"
id="C454V4">4:4</a> Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as
grace, but as debt. <a name="C454V5" id="C454V5">4:5</a> But to him who
doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is
accounted for righteousness. <a name="C454V6" id="C454V6">4:6</a> Even as
David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom Elohim counts righteousness
apart from works,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C454V7" id="C454V7">4:7</a> "Blessed are they whose iniquities
are forgiven,
</dt>
<dd>
whose sins are covered.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C454V8" id="C454V8">4:8</a> Blessed is the man whom the Lord will
by no means charge with sin."<sup><a href="#N4513">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C454V9" id="C454V9">4:9</a> Is this blessing then pronounced on the
circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was
accounted to Avraham for righteousness. <a name="C454V10" id="C454V10">4:10</a>
How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. <a name="C454V11"
id="C454V11">4:11</a> He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision,
that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in
uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. <a
name="C454V12" id="C454V12">4:12</a> The father of circumcision to those who
not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that
faith of our father Avraham, which he had in uncircumcision. <a
name="C454V13" id="C454V13">4:13</a> For the promise to Avraham and to his
seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the Torah, but
through the righteousness of faith. <a name="C454V14" id="C454V14">4:14</a>
For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, faith is made void, and the
promise is made of no effect. <a name="C454V15" id="C454V15">4:15</a> For the
Torah works wrath, for where there is no Torah, neither is there disobedience.
<a name="C454V16" id="C454V16">4:16</a> For this cause it is of faith, that it
may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all
the seed, not to that only which is of the Torah, but to that also which is
of the faith of Avraham, who is the father of us all. <a name="C454V17"
id="C454V17">4:17</a> As it is written, "I have made you a father of
many nations."<sup><a href="#N4514">*</a></sup> This is in the presence
of him whom he believed: Elohim, who gives life to the dead, and calls the
things that are not, as though they were. <a name="C454V18" id="C454V18">4:18</a>
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a
father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So
will your seed be."<sup><a href="#N4515">*</a></sup> <a name="C454V19"
id="C454V19">4:19</a> Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider
his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred
years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. <a name="C454V20" id="C454V20">4:20</a>
Yet, looking to the promise of Elohim, he didn't waver through unbelief, but
grew strong through faith, giving glory to Elohim, <a name="C454V21" id="C454V21">4:21</a>
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to
perform. <a name="C454V22" id="C454V22">4:22</a> Therefore it also was "reckoned
to him for righteousness."<sup><a href="#N4516">*</a></sup> <a
name="C454V23" id="C454V23">4:23</a> Now it was not written that it was
accounted to him for his sake alone, <a name="C454V24" id="C454V24">4:24</a>
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him
who raised Yeshua, our Lord, from the dead, <a name="C454V25" id="C454V25">4:25</a>
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our
justification.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C455V1" id="C455V1">5:1</a> Being therefore justified by faith, we
have peace with Elohim through our Lord Yeshua Messiah; <a name="C455V2" id="C455V2">5:2</a>
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we
stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of Elohim. <a name="C455V3" id="C455V3">5:3</a>
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering works perseverance; <a name="C455V4" id="C455V4">5:4</a> and
perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: <a name="C455V5"
id="C455V5">5:5</a> and hope doesn't disappoint us, because Elohim's love has
been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to
us. <a name="C455V6" id="C455V6">5:6</a> For while we were yet weak, at the
right time Messiah died for the ungodly. <a name="C455V7" id="C455V7">5:7</a>
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous
person someone would even dare to die. <a name="C455V8" id="C455V8">5:8</a>
But Elohim commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Messiah died for us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C455V9" id="C455V9">5:9</a> Much more then, being now justified by
his blood, we will be saved from Elohim's wrath through him. <a name="C455V10"
id="C455V10">5:10</a> For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to
Elohim through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be
saved by his life.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C455V11" id="C455V11">5:11</a> Not only so, but we also rejoice in
Elohim through our Lord Yeshua Messiah, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation. <a name="C455V12" id="C455V12">5:12</a> Therefore, as sin
entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so
death passed to all men, because all sinned. <a name="C455V13" id="C455V13">5:13</a>
For until the Torah, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there
is no Torah. <a name="C455V14" id="C455V14">5:14</a> Nevertheless death reigned
from Adam until Moshe, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's
disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. <a
name="C455V15" id="C455V15">5:15</a> But the free gift isn't like the
trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did
the grace of Elohim, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Yeshua Messiah,
abound to the many. <a name="C455V16" id="C455V16">5:16</a> The gift is not as
through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but
the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. <a name="C455V17"
id="C455V17">5:17</a> For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned
through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of
grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one,
Yeshua Messiah. <a name="C455V18" id="C455V18">5:18</a> So then as through one
trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of
righteousness, all men were justified to life. <a name="C455V19" id="C455V19">5:19</a>
For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so
through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. <a
name="C455V20" id="C455V20">5:20</a> The Torah came in besides, that the
trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more
exceedingly; <a name="C455V21" id="C455V21">5:21</a> that as sin reigned in
death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life
through Yeshua Messiah our Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C456V1" id="C456V1">6:1</a> What shall we say then? Shall we continue
in sin, that grace may abound? <a name="C456V2" id="C456V2">6:2</a> May it
never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? <a
name="C456V3" id="C456V3">6:3</a> Or don't you know that all we who were
baptized into Messiah Yeshua were baptized into his death? <a name="C456V4"
id="C456V4">6:4</a> We were buried therefore with him through baptism to
death, that just like Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of
the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. <a name="C456V5"
id="C456V5">6:5</a> For if we have become united with him in the likeness of
his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; <a name="C456V6"
id="C456V6">6:6</a> knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer
be in bondage to sin. <a name="C456V7" id="C456V7">6:7</a> For he who has died
has been freed from sin. <a name="C456V8" id="C456V8">6:8</a> But if we died
with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him; <a name="C456V9"
id="C456V9">6:9</a> knowing that Messiah, being raised from the dead, dies no
more. Death no more has dominion over him! <a name="C456V10" id="C456V10">6:10</a>
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he
lives, he lives to Elohim. <a name="C456V11" id="C456V11">6:11</a> Thus consider
yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to Elohim in Messiah Yeshua our
Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C456V12" id="C456V12">6:12</a> Therefore don't let sin reign in your
mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. <a name="C456V13"
id="C456V13">6:13</a> Neither present your members to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness, but present yourselves to Elohim, as alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness to Elohim. <a name="C456V14"
id="C456V14">6:14</a> For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are
not under Torah, but under grace. <a name="C456V15" id="C456V15">6:15</a> What
then? Shall we sin, because we are not under Torah, but under grace? May it
never be! <a name="C456V16" id="C456V16">6:16</a> Don't you know that to whom
you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom
you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? <a
name="C456V17" id="C456V17">6:17</a> But thanks be to Elohim, that, whereas you
were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form
of teaching whereunto you were delivered. <a name="C456V18" id="C456V18">6:18</a>
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C456V19" id="C456V19">6:19</a> I speak in human terms because of the
weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to
uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your
members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. <a name="C456V20"
id="C456V20">6:20</a> For when you were servants of sin, you were free in
regard to righteousness. <a name="C456V21" id="C456V21">6:21</a> What fruit
then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed?
For the end of those things is death. <a name="C456V22" id="C456V22">6:22</a>
But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of Elohim, you
have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. <a
name="C456V23" id="C456V23">6:23</a> For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of Elohim is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C457V1" id="C457V1">7:1</a> Or don't you know, <a href="#N4517">brothers</a>
(for I speak to men who know the Torah), that the Torah has dominion over a
man for as long as he lives? <a name="C457V2" id="C457V2">7:2</a> For the
woman that has a husband is bound by Torah to the husband while he lives,
but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the Torah of the husband. <a
name="C457V3" id="C457V3">7:3</a> So then if, while the husband lives, she is
joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the
husband dies, she is free from the Torah, so that she is no adulteress,
though she is joined to another man. <a name="C457V4" id="C457V4">7:4</a>
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the Torah through the
body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised
from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to Elohim. <a name="C457V5"
id="C457V5">7:5</a> For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which
were through the Torah, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
<a name="C457V6" id="C457V6">7:6</a> But now we have been discharged from the
Torah, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in
newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C457V7" id="C457V7">7:7</a> What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin?
May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the
Torah. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the Torah had said, "You
shall not covet."<sup><a href="#N4518">*</a></sup> <a name="C457V8"
id="C457V8">7:8</a> But sin, finding occasion through the commandment,
produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the Torah, sin is dead.
<a name="C457V9" id="C457V9">7:9</a> I was alive apart from the Torah once, but
when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. <a name="C457V10"
id="C457V10">7:10</a> The commandment, which was for life, this I found to
be for death; <a name="C457V11" id="C457V11">7:11</a> for sin, finding
occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
<a name="C457V12" id="C457V12">7:12</a> Therefore the Torah indeed is holy, and
the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C457V13" id="C457V13">7:13</a> Did then that which is good become
death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin,
by working death to me through that which is good; that through the
commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. <a name="C457V14" id="C457V14">7:14</a>
For we know that the Torah is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
<a name="C457V15" id="C457V15">7:15</a> For I don't know what I am doing. For
I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. <a
name="C457V16" id="C457V16">7:16</a> But if what I don't desire, that I do, I
consent to the Torah that it is good. <a name="C457V17" id="C457V17">7:17</a> So
now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. <a name="C457V18"
id="C457V18">7:18</a> For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no
good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that
which is good. <a name="C457V19" id="C457V19">7:19</a> For the good which I
desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. <a
name="C457V20" id="C457V20">7:20</a> But if what I don't desire, that I do, it
is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. <a name="C457V21"
id="C457V21">7:21</a> I find then the Torah, that, to me, while I desire to do
good, evil is present. <a name="C457V22" id="C457V22">7:22</a> For I delight
in Elohim's Torah after the inward man, <a name="C457V23" id="C457V23">7:23</a> but
I see a different Torah in my members, warring against the Torah of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity under the Torah of sin which is in my
members. <a name="C457V24" id="C457V24">7:24</a> What a wretched man I am! Who
will deliver me out of the body of this death? <a name="C457V25" id="C457V25">7:25</a>
I thank Elohim through Yeshua Messiah, our Lord! So then with the mind, I
myself serve Elohim's Torah, but with the flesh, the sin's Torah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C458V1" id="C458V1">8:1</a> There is therefore now no condemnation to
those who are in Messiah Yeshua, <a href="#N4519">who don't walk according to
the flesh, but according to the Spirit.</a> <a name="C458V2" id="C458V2">8:2</a>
For the Torah of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua made me free from the
Torah of sin and of death. <a name="C458V3" id="C458V3">8:3</a> For what the Torah
couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim did, sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in
the flesh; <a name="C458V4" id="C458V4">8:4</a> that the ordinance of the Torah
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit. <a name="C458V5" id="C458V5">8:5</a> For those who live according to
the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live
according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. <a name="C458V6" id="C458V6">8:6</a>
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and
peace; <a name="C458V7" id="C458V7">8:7</a> because the mind of the flesh is
hostile towards Elohim; for it is not subject to Elohim's Torah, neither indeed
can it be. <a name="C458V8" id="C458V8">8:8</a> Those who are in the flesh
can't please Elohim. <a name="C458V9" id="C458V9">8:9</a> But you are not in the
flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you.
But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Messiah, he is not his. <a
name="C458V10" id="C458V10">8:10</a> If Messiah is in you, the body is dead
because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. <a
name="C458V11" id="C458V11">8:11</a> But if the Spirit of him who raised up
Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Yeshua from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who
dwells in you. <a name="C458V12" id="C458V12">8:12</a> So then, brothers, we
are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. <a name="C458V13"
id="C458V13">8:13</a> For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if
by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. <a
name="C458V14" id="C458V14">8:14</a> For as many as are led by the Spirit of
Elohim, these are children of Elohim. <a name="C458V15" id="C458V15">8:15</a> For
you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received
the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "<a href="#N4520">Abba</a>!
Father!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C458V16" id="C458V16">8:16</a> The Spirit himself testifies with our
spirit that we are children of Elohim; <a name="C458V17" id="C458V17">8:17</a>
and if children, then heirs; heirs of Elohim, and joint heirs with Messiah; if
indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. <a
name="C458V18" id="C458V18">8:18</a> For I consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will
be revealed toward us. <a name="C458V19" id="C458V19">8:19</a> For the
creation waits with eager expectation for the children of Elohim to be
revealed. <a name="C458V20" id="C458V20">8:20</a> For the creation was
subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected
it, in hope <a name="C458V21" id="C458V21">8:21</a> that the creation itself
also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the
glory of the children of Elohim. <a name="C458V22" id="C458V22">8:22</a> For we
know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until
now. <a name="C458V23" id="C458V23">8:23</a> Not only so, but ourselves also,
who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. <a
name="C458V24" id="C458V24">8:24</a> For we were saved in hope, but hope that
is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? <a name="C458V25"
id="C458V25">8:25</a> But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait
for it with patience. <a name="C458V26" id="C458V26">8:26</a> In the same way,
the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we
ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings
which can't be uttered. <a name="C458V27" id="C458V27">8:27</a> He who
searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes
intercession for the saints according to Elohim.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C458V28" id="C458V28">8:28</a> We know that all things work together
for good for those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to his
purpose. <a name="C458V29" id="C458V29">8:29</a> For whom he foreknew, he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many <a href="#N4521">brothers.</a> <a name="C458V30"
id="C458V30">8:30</a> Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he
called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also
glorified.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C458V31" id="C458V31">8:31</a> What then shall we say about these
things? If Elohim is for us, who can be against us? <a name="C458V32" id="C458V32">8:32</a>
He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how
would he not also with him freely give us all things? <a name="C458V33"
id="C458V33">8:33</a> Who could bring a charge against Elohim's chosen ones? It
is Elohim who justifies. <a name="C458V34" id="C458V34">8:34</a> Who is he who
condemns? It is Messiah who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead,
who is at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C458V35" id="C458V35">8:35</a> Who shall separate us from the love of
Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? <a name="C458V36" id="C458V36">8:36</a> Even as
it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were
accounted as sheep for the slaughter."<sup><a href="#N4522">*</a></sup>
<a name="C458V37" id="C458V37">8:37</a> No, in all these things, we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. <a name="C458V38" id="C458V38">8:38</a>
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, <a
name="C458V39" id="C458V39">8:39</a> nor height, nor depth, nor any other
created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of Elohim, which is
in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C459V1" id="C459V1">9:1</a> I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not
lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, <a name="C459V2"
id="C459V2">9:2</a> that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
<a name="C459V3" id="C459V3">9:3</a> For I could wish that I myself were
accursed from Messiah for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the
flesh, <a name="C459V4" id="C459V4">9:4</a> who are Israelites; whose is the
adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Torah, the service,
and the promises; <a name="C459V5" id="C459V5">9:5</a> of whom are the
fathers, and from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all,
Elohim, blessed forever. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C459V6" id="C459V6">9:6</a> But it is not as though the word of Elohim
has come to nothing. For they are not all Yisrael, that are of Yisrael. <a
name="C459V7" id="C459V7">9:7</a> Neither, because they are Avraham's seed,
are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."<sup><a
href="#N4523">*</a></sup> <a name="C459V8" id="C459V8">9:8</a> That is, it is
not the children of the flesh who are children of Elohim, but the children of
the promise are counted as a seed. <a name="C459V9" id="C459V9">9:9</a> For
this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and
Sarah will have a son."<sup><a href="#N4524">*</a></sup> <a name="C459V10"
id="C459V10">9:10</a> Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our
father Isaac. <a name="C459V11" id="C459V11">9:11</a> For being not yet born,
neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of Elohim
according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, <a
name="C459V12" id="C459V12">9:12</a> it was said to her, "The elder will
serve the younger."<sup><a href="#N4525">*</a></sup> <a name="C459V13"
id="C459V13">9:13</a> Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I
hated."<sup><a href="#N4526">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C459V14" id="C459V14">9:14</a> What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with Elohim? May it never be! <a name="C459V15" id="C459V15">9:15</a>
For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I
will have compassion on whom I have compassion."<sup><a href="#N4527">*</a></sup>
<a name="C459V16" id="C459V16">9:16</a> So then it is not of him who wills,
nor of him who runs, but of Elohim who has mercy. <a name="C459V17" id="C459V17">9:17</a>
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused
you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name
might be proclaimed in all the earth."<sup><a href="#N4528">*</a></sup>
<a name="C459V18" id="C459V18">9:18</a> So then, he has mercy on whom he
desires, and he hardens whom he desires. <a name="C459V19" id="C459V19">9:19</a>
You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who
withstands his will?" <a name="C459V20" id="C459V20">9:20</a> But indeed,
O man, who are you to reply against Elohim? Will the thing formed ask him who
formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"<sup><a href="#N4529">*</a></sup>
<a name="C459V21" id="C459V21">9:21</a> Or hasn't the potter a right over the
clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another
for dishonor? <a name="C459V22" id="C459V22">9:22</a> What if Elohim, willing to
show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience
vessels of wrath made for destruction, <a name="C459V23" id="C459V23">9:23</a>
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy,
which he prepared beforehand for glory, <a name="C459V24" id="C459V24">9:24</a>
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the
Gentiles? <a name="C459V25" id="C459V25">9:25</a> As he says also in Hosea,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;
</dt>
<dd>
and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."<sup><a href="#N4530">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C459V26" id="C459V26">9:26</a> "It will be that in the place
where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
</dt>
<dd>
There they will be called 'children of the living Elohim.'"<sup><a
href="#N4531">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C459V27" id="C459V27">9:27</a> Isaiah cries concerning Yisrael,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"If the number of the children of Yisrael are as the sand of the
sea,
</dt>
<dd>
it is the remnant who will be saved;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C459V28" id="C459V28">9:28</a> for He will finish the work and cut
it short in righteousness,
</dt>
<dd>
because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."<sup><a
href="#N4532">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C459V29" id="C459V29">9:29</a> As Isaiah has said before,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Unless the Lord of <a href="#N4533">Armies</a> had left us a seed,
</dt>
<dd>
we would have become like Sodom,
</dd>
<dd>
and would have been made like Gomorrah."<sup><a href="#N4534">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C459V30" id="C459V30">9:30</a> What shall we say then? That the
Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; <a name="C459V31"
id="C459V31">9:31</a> but Yisrael, following after a Torah of righteousness,
didn't arrive at the Torah of righteousness. <a name="C459V32" id="C459V32">9:32</a>
Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the
Torah. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; <a name="C459V33" id="C459V33">9:33</a>
even as it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
</dt>
<dd>
and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."<sup><a
href="#N4535">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4510V1" id="C4510V1">10:1</a> Brothers, my heart's desire and my
prayer to Elohim is for Yisrael, that they may be saved. <a name="C4510V2"
id="C4510V2">10:2</a> For I testify about them that they have a zeal for
Elohim, but not according to knowledge. <a name="C4510V3" id="C4510V3">10:3</a>
For being ignorant of Elohim's righteousness, and seeking to establish their
own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of
Elohim. <a name="C4510V4" id="C4510V4">10:4</a> For Messiah is the <a href="#N4536">fulfillment</a>
of the Torah for righteousness to everyone who believes. <a name="C4510V5"
id="C4510V5">10:5</a> For Moshe writes about the righteousness of the Torah,
"The one who does them will live by them."<sup><a href="#N4537">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4510V6" id="C4510V6">10:6</a> But the righteousness which is of
faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into
heaven?'<sup><a href="#N4538">*</a></sup> (that is, to bring Messiah down);
<a name="C4510V7" id="C4510V7">10:7</a> or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'<sup><a
href="#N4539">*</a></sup> (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead.)"
<a name="C4510V8" id="C4510V8">10:8</a> But what does it say? "The word
is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;"<sup><a href="#N4540">*</a></sup>
that is, the word of faith, which we preach: <a name="C4510V9" id="C4510V9">10:9</a>
that if you will confess with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord, and believe
in your heart that Elohim raised him from the dead, you will be saved. <a
name="C4510V10" id="C4510V10">10:10</a> For with the heart, one believes unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. <a
name="C4510V11" id="C4510V11">10:11</a> For the Scripture says, "Whoever
believes in him will not be disappointed."<sup><a href="#N4541">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4510V12" id="C4510V12">10:12</a> For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who
call on him. <a name="C4510V13" id="C4510V13">10:13</a> For, "Whoever
will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."<sup><a href="#N4542">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4510V14" id="C4510V14">10:14</a> How then will they call on him in
whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have
not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? <a name="C4510V15"
id="C4510V15">10:15</a> And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it
is written:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of
peace,
</dt>
<dd>
who bring glad tidings of good things!"<sup><a href="#N4543">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4510V16" id="C4510V16">10:16</a> But they didn't all listen to the
glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"<sup><a
href="#N4544">*</a></sup> <a name="C4510V17" id="C4510V17">10:17</a> So faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim. <a name="C4510V18"
id="C4510V18">10:18</a> But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Their sound went out into all the earth,
</dt>
<dd>
their words to the ends of the world."<sup><a href="#N4545">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4510V19" id="C4510V19">10:19</a> But I ask, didn't Yisrael know?
First Moshe says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation,
</dt>
<dd>
with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."<sup><a
href="#N4546">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4510V20" id="C4510V20">10:20</a> Isaiah is very bold, and says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"I was found by those who didn't seek me.
</dt>
<dd>
I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."<sup><a href="#N4547">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4510V21" id="C4510V21">10:21</a> But as to Yisrael he says, "All
day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."<sup><a
href="#N4548">*</a></sup>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4511V1" id="C4511V1">11:1</a> I ask then, did Elohim reject his people?
May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Avraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin. <a name="C4511V2" id="C4511V2">11:2</a> Elohim didn't
reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture
says about Elijah? How he pleads with Elohim against Yisrael: <a name="C4511V3"
id="C4511V3">11:3</a> "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have
broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."<sup><a
href="#N4549">*</a></sup> <a name="C4511V4" id="C4511V4">11:4</a> But how does
Elohim answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who
have not bowed the knee to Baal."<sup><a href="#N4550">*</a></sup> <a
name="C4511V5" id="C4511V5">11:5</a> Even so then at this present time also
there is a remnant according to the election of grace. <a name="C4511V6"
id="C4511V6">11:6</a> And if by grace, then it is no longer of works;
otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer
grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4511V7" id="C4511V7">11:7</a> What then? That which Yisrael seeks
for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest
were hardened. <a name="C4511V8" id="C4511V8">11:8</a> According as it is
written, "Elohim gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not
see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."<sup><a
href="#N4551">*</a></sup> <a name="C4511V9" id="C4511V9">11:9</a> David says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
</dt>
<dd>
a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4511V10" id="C4511V10">11:10</a> Let their eyes be darkened, that
they may not see.
</dt>
<dd>
Bow down their back always."<sup><a href="#N4552">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4511V11" id="C4511V11">11:11</a> I ask then, did they stumble that
they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to
the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. <a name="C4511V12" id="C4511V12">11:12</a>
Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of
the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? <a name="C4511V13" id="C4511V13">11:13</a>
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to
Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; <a name="C4511V14" id="C4511V14">11:14</a> if
by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may
save some of them. <a name="C4511V15" id="C4511V15">11:15</a> For if the
rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their
acceptance be, but life from the dead? <a name="C4511V16" id="C4511V16">11:16</a>
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are
the branches. <a name="C4511V17" id="C4511V17">11:17</a> But if some of the
branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in
among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness
of the olive tree; <a name="C4511V18" id="C4511V18">11:18</a> don't boast over
the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but
the root supports you. <a name="C4511V19" id="C4511V19">11:19</a> You will say
then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." <a
name="C4511V20" id="C4511V20">11:20</a> True; by their unbelief they were
broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; <a
name="C4511V21" id="C4511V21">11:21</a> for if Elohim didn't spare the natural
branches, neither will he spare you. <a name="C4511V22" id="C4511V22">11:22</a>
See then the goodness and severity of Elohim. Toward those who fell,
severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness;
otherwise you also will be cut off. <a name="C4511V23" id="C4511V23">11:23</a>
They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in,
for Elohim is able to graft them in again. <a name="C4511V24" id="C4511V24">11:24</a>
For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and
were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will
these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive
tree? <a name="C4511V25" id="C4511V25">11:25</a> For I don't desire you to be
ignorant, <a href="#N4553">brothers,</a> of this mystery, so that you won't
be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to
Yisrael, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, <a name="C4511V26"
id="C4511V26">11:26</a> and so all Yisrael will be saved. Even as it is
written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4511V27" id="C4511V27">11:27</a> This is my covenant to them,
</dt>
<dd>
when I will take away their sins."<sup><a href="#N4554">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4511V28" id="C4511V28">11:28</a> Concerning the Good News, they are
enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for
the fathers' sake. <a name="C4511V29" id="C4511V29">11:29</a> For the gifts
and the calling of Elohim are irrevocable. <a name="C4511V30" id="C4511V30">11:30</a>
For as you in time past were disobedient to Elohim, but now have obtained
mercy by their disobedience, <a name="C4511V31" id="C4511V31">11:31</a> even
so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you
they may also obtain mercy. <a name="C4511V32" id="C4511V32">11:32</a> For Elohim
has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.<br /> <a
name="C4511V33" id="C4511V33">11:33</a> Oh the depth of the riches both of the
wisdom and the knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable are his judgments, and
his ways past tracing out!
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C4511V34" id="C4511V34">11:34</a> "For who has known the mind
of the Lord?
</dt>
<dd>
Or who has been his counselor?"<sup><a href="#N4555">*</a></sup>
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C4511V35" id="C4511V35">11:35</a> "Or who has first given to
him,
</dt>
<dd>
and it will be repaid to him again?"<sup><a href="#N4556">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4511V36" id="C4511V36">11:36</a> For of him, and through him, and to
him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4512V1" id="C4512V1">12:1</a> Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the
mercies of Elohim, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to Elohim, which is your spiritual service. <a name="C4512V2"
id="C4512V2">12:2</a> Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good,
well-pleasing, and perfect will of Elohim. <a name="C4512V3" id="C4512V3">12:3</a>
For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among
you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to
think reasonably, as Elohim has apportioned to each person a measure of
faith. <a name="C4512V4" id="C4512V4">12:4</a> For even as we have many
members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, <a
name="C4512V5" id="C4512V5">12:5</a> so we, who are many, are one body in
Messiah, and individually members one of another. <a name="C4512V6" id="C4512V6">12:6</a>
Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if
prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; <a
name="C4512V7" id="C4512V7">12:7</a> or service, let us give ourselves to
service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; <a name="C4512V8" id="C4512V8">12:8</a>
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with
liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with
cheerfulness.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4512V9" id="C4512V9">12:9</a> Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor
that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. <a name="C4512V10"
id="C4512V10">12:10</a> In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one
to another; in honor preferring one another; <a name="C4512V11" id="C4512V11">12:11</a>
not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; <a
name="C4512V12" id="C4512V12">12:12</a> rejoicing in hope; enduring in
troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer; <a name="C4512V13" id="C4512V13">12:13</a>
contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality. <a
name="C4512V14" id="C4512V14">12:14</a> Bless those who persecute you; bless,
and don't curse. <a name="C4512V15" id="C4512V15">12:15</a> Rejoice with those
who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. <a name="C4512V16" id="C4512V16">12:16</a>
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high
things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
<a name="C4512V17" id="C4512V17">12:17</a> Repay no one evil for evil. Respect
what is honorable in the sight of all men. <a name="C4512V18" id="C4512V18">12:18</a>
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
<a name="C4512V19" id="C4512V19">12:19</a> Don't seek revenge yourselves,
beloved, but give place to Elohim's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance
belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."<sup><a href="#N4557">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4512V20" id="C4512V20">12:20</a> Therefore
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
</dt>
<dd>
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
</dd>
<dd>
for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."<sup><a
href="#N4558">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4512V21" id="C4512V21">12:21</a> Don't be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with good.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4513V1" id="C4513V1">13:1</a> Let every soul be in subjection to the
higher authorities, for there is no authority except from Elohim, and those
who exist are ordained by Elohim. <a name="C4513V2" id="C4513V2">13:2</a>
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of Elohim;
and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment. <a
name="C4513V3" id="C4513V3">13:3</a> For rulers are not a terror to the good
work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do
that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, <a name="C4513V4"
id="C4513V4">13:4</a> for he is a servant of Elohim to you for good. But if you
do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain;
for he is a servant of Elohim, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. <a
name="C4513V5" id="C4513V5">13:5</a> Therefore you need to be in subjection,
not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake. <a
name="C4513V6" id="C4513V6">13:6</a> For this reason you also pay taxes, for
they are servants of Elohim's service, attending continually on this very
thing. <a name="C4513V7" id="C4513V7">13:7</a> Give therefore to everyone what
you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to
whom respect; honor to whom honor. <a name="C4513V8" id="C4513V8">13:8</a> Owe
no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor
has fulfilled the Torah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4513V9" id="C4513V9">13:9</a> For the commandments, "You shall
not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You
shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony,"
"You shall not covet,"<sup><a href="#N4559">*</a></sup><sup><a
href="#N4560">*</a></sup> and whatever other commandments there are, are all
summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself."<sup><a href="#N4561">*</a></sup> <a name="C4513V10" id="C4513V10">13:10</a>
Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the
Torah. <a name="C4513V11" id="C4513V11">13:11</a> Do this, knowing the time,
that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is
now nearer to us than when we first believed. <a name="C4513V12" id="C4513V12">13:12</a>
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the
works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. <a name="C4513V13"
id="C4513V13">13:13</a> Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling
and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in
strife and jealousy. <a name="C4513V14" id="C4513V14">13:14</a> But put on the
Lord Yeshua Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4514V1" id="C4514V1">14:1</a> Now accept one who is weak in faith,
but not for disputes over opinions. <a name="C4514V2" id="C4514V2">14:2</a>
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only
vegetables. <a name="C4514V3" id="C4514V3">14:3</a> Don't let him who eats
despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who
eats, for Elohim has accepted him. <a name="C4514V4" id="C4514V4">14:4</a> Who
are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls.
Yes, he will be made to stand, for Elohim has power to make him stand.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4514V5" id="C4514V5">14:5</a> One man esteems one day as more
important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured
in his own mind. <a name="C4514V6" id="C4514V6">14:6</a> He who observes the
day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the
Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives
Elohim thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives Elohim
thanks. <a name="C4514V7" id="C4514V7">14:7</a> For none of us lives to
himself, and none dies to himself. <a name="C4514V8" id="C4514V8">14:8</a> For
if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If
therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. <a name="C4514V9" id="C4514V9">14:9</a>
For to this end Messiah died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord
of both the dead and the living.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4514V10" id="C4514V10">14:10</a> But you, why do you judge your
brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all
stand before the judgment seat of Messiah. <a name="C4514V11" id="C4514V11">14:11</a>
For it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow.
</dt>
<dd>
Every tongue will confess to Elohim.'"<sup><a href="#N4562">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4514V12" id="C4514V12">14:12</a> So then each one of us will give
account of himself to Elohim. <a name="C4514V13" id="C4514V13">14:13</a>
Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather,
that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for
falling. <a name="C4514V14" id="C4514V14">14:14</a> I know, and am persuaded
in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him
who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. <a
name="C4514V15" id="C4514V15">14:15</a> Yet if because of food your brother is
grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for
whom Messiah died. <a name="C4514V16" id="C4514V16">14:16</a> Then don't let
your good be slandered, <a name="C4514V17" id="C4514V17">14:17</a> for the
Kingdom of Elohim is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and
joy in the Holy Spirit. <a name="C4514V18" id="C4514V18">14:18</a> For he who
serves Messiah in these things is acceptable to Elohim and approved by men. <a
name="C4514V19" id="C4514V19">14:19</a> So then, let us follow after things
which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. <a
name="C4514V20" id="C4514V20">14:20</a> Don't overthrow Elohim's work for food's
sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who
creates a stumbling block by eating. <a name="C4514V21" id="C4514V21">14:21</a>
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your
brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4514V22" id="C4514V22">14:22</a> Do you have faith? Have it to
yourself before Elohim. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which
he approves. <a name="C4514V23" id="C4514V23">14:23</a> But he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of
faith is sin.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4514V24" id="C4514V24">14:24</a> Now to him who is able to establish
you according to my Good News and the preaching of Yeshua Messiah, according
to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long
ages, <a name="C4514V25" id="C4514V25">14:25</a> but now is revealed, and by
the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the
eternal Elohim, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; <a
name="C4514V26" id="C4514V26">14:26</a> to the only wise Elohim, through Yeshua
Messiah, <a href="#N4563">to whom be the glory forever! Amen.</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4515V1" id="C4515V1">15:1</a> Now we who are strong ought to bear
the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. <a name="C4515V2"
id="C4515V2">15:2</a> Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which
is good, to be building him up. <a name="C4515V3" id="C4515V3">15:3</a> For
even Messiah didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The
reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."<sup><a href="#N4564">*</a></sup>
<a name="C4515V4" id="C4515V4">15:4</a> For whatever things were written
before were written for our learning, that through patience and through
encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. <a name="C4515V5"
id="C4515V5">15:5</a> Now the Elohim of patience and of encouragement grant you
to be of the same mind one with another according to Messiah Yeshua, <a
name="C4515V6" id="C4515V6">15:6</a> that with one accord you may with one
mouth glorify the Elohim and Father of our Lord Yeshua Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4515V7" id="C4515V7">15:7</a> Therefore accept one another, even as
Messiah also accepted <a href="#N4565">you,</a> to the glory of Elohim. <a
name="C4515V8" id="C4515V8">15:8</a> Now I say that Messiah has been made a
servant of the circumcision for the truth of Elohim, that he might confirm
the promises given to the fathers, <a name="C4515V9" id="C4515V9">15:9</a> and
that the Gentiles might glorify Elohim for his mercy. As it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles,
</dt>
<dd>
and sing to your name."<sup><a href="#N4566">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4515V10" id="C4515V10">15:10</a> Again he says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."<sup><a href="#N4567">*</a></sup>
</dt>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4515V11" id="C4515V11">15:11</a> Again,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
</dt>
<dd>
Let all the peoples praise him."<sup><a href="#N4568">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4515V12" id="C4515V12">15:12</a> Again, Isaiah says,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"There will be the root of Jesse,
</dt>
<dd>
he who arises to rule over the Gentiles;
</dd>
<dd>
in him the Gentiles will hope."<sup><a href="#N4569">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4515V13" id="C4515V13">15:13</a> Now may the Elohim of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the
power of the Holy Spirit. <a name="C4515V14" id="C4515V14">15:14</a> I myself
am also persuaded about you, my <a href="#N4570">brothers</a>, that you
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to
admonish others. <a name="C4515V15" id="C4515V15">15:15</a> But I write the
more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that
was given to me by Elohim, <a name="C4515V16" id="C4515V16">15:16</a> that I
should be a servant of Messiah Yeshua to the Gentiles, serving as a priest
the Good News of Elohim, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made
acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. <a name="C4515V17" id="C4515V17">15:17</a>
I have therefore my boasting in Messiah Yeshua in things pertaining to Elohim.
<a name="C4515V18" id="C4515V18">15:18</a> For I will not dare to speak of any
things except those which Messiah worked through me, for the obedience of
the Gentiles, by word and deed, <a name="C4515V19" id="C4515V19">15:19</a> in
the power of signs and wonders, in the power of Elohim's Spirit; so that from
Yerushalayim, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the
Good News of Messiah; <a name="C4515V20" id="C4515V20">15:20</a> yes, making it
my aim to preach the Good News, not where Messiah was already named, that I
might not build on another's foundation. <a name="C4515V21" id="C4515V21">15:21</a>
But, as it is written,
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
"They will see, to whom no news of him came.
</dt>
<dd>
They who haven't heard will understand."<sup><a href="#N4571">*</a></sup>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C4515V22" id="C4515V22">15:22</a> Therefore also I was hindered these
many times from coming to you, <a name="C4515V23" id="C4515V23">15:23</a> but
now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many
years a longing to come to you, <a name="C4515V24" id="C4515V24">15:24</a>
whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on
my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy
your company for a while. <a name="C4515V25" id="C4515V25">15:25</a> But now,
I say, I am going to Yerushalayim, serving the saints. <a name="C4515V26"
id="C4515V26">15:26</a> For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and
Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who
are at Yerushalayim. <a name="C4515V27" id="C4515V27">15:27</a> Yes, it has been
their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have
been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to
serve them in fleshly things. <a name="C4515V28" id="C4515V28">15:28</a> When
therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I
will go on by way of you to Spain. <a name="C4515V29" id="C4515V29">15:29</a>
I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the
blessing of the Good News of Messiah.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4515V30" id="C4515V30">15:30</a> Now I beg you, brothers, by our
Lord Yeshua Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together
with me in your prayers to Elohim for me, <a name="C4515V31" id="C4515V31">15:31</a>
that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that
my service which I have for Yerushalayim may be acceptable to the saints; <a
name="C4515V32" id="C4515V32">15:32</a> that I may come to you in joy through
the will of Elohim, and together with you, find rest. <a name="C4515V33"
id="C4515V33">15:33</a> Now the Elohim of peace be with you all. Amen.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4516V1" id="C4516V1">16:1</a> I commend to you Phoebe, our sister,
who is a <a href="#N4572">servant</a> of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
<a name="C4516V2" id="C4516V2">16:2</a> that you receive her in the Lord, in a
way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she
may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of
my own self.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4516V3" id="C4516V3">16:3</a> Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow
workers in Messiah Yeshua, <a name="C4516V4" id="C4516V4">16:4</a> who for my
life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also
all the assemblies of the Gentiles. <a name="C4516V5" id="C4516V5">16:5</a>
Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved,
who is the first fruits of Achaia to Messiah. <a name="C4516V6" id="C4516V6">16:6</a>
Greet Mary, who labored much for us. <a name="C4516V7" id="C4516V7">16:7</a>
Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are
notable among the apostles, who also were in Messiah before me. <a
name="C4516V8" id="C4516V8">16:8</a> Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. <a
name="C4516V9" id="C4516V9">16:9</a> Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in
Messiah, and Stachys, my beloved. <a name="C4516V10" id="C4516V10">16:10</a>
Greet Apelles, the approved in Messiah. Greet those who are of the
household of Aristobulus. <a name="C4516V11" id="C4516V11">16:11</a> Greet
Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in
the Lord. <a name="C4516V12" id="C4516V12">16:12</a> Greet Tryphaena and
Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored
much in the Lord. <a name="C4516V13" id="C4516V13">16:13</a> Greet Rufus, the
chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. <a name="C4516V14" id="C4516V14">16:14</a>
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the <a href="#N4573">brothers</a>
who are with them. <a name="C4516V15" id="C4516V15">16:15</a> Greet Philologus
and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are
with them. <a name="C4516V16" id="C4516V16">16:16</a> Greet one another with a
holy kiss. The assemblies of Messiah greet you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4516V17" id="C4516V17">16:17</a> Now I beg you, brothers, look out
for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling,
contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. <a
name="C4516V18" id="C4516V18">16:18</a> For those who are such don't serve our
Lord, Yeshua Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and
flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. <a
name="C4516V19" id="C4516V19">16:19</a> For your obedience has become known to
all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that
which is good, but innocent in that which is evil. <a name="C4516V20"
id="C4516V20">16:20</a> And the Elohim of peace will quickly crush Satan under
your feet. The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be with you.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C4516V21" id="C4516V21">16:21</a> Timothy, my fellow worker, greets
you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives. <a name="C4516V22"
id="C4516V22">16:22</a> I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the
Lord. <a name="C4516V23" id="C4516V23">16:23</a> Gaius, my host and host of
the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets
you, as does Quartus, the brother. <a name="C4516V24" id="C4516V24">16:24</a>
The grace of our Lord Yeshua Messiah be with you all! Amen. <a name="C4516V25"
id="C4516V25">16:25</a> <sup><a href="#N4574">*</a></sup>
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Notes:
</p>
<p>
<a name="N451" id="N451">[1]</a> <a href="#C451V17">back to 1:17</a> Habakkuk
2:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N452" id="N452">[2]</a> <a href="#C452V6">back to 2:6</a> Psalm 62:12;
Proverbs 24:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N453" id="N453">[3]</a> <a href="#C452V24">back to 2:24</a> Isaiah
52:5; Ezekiel 36:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N454" id="N454">[4]</a> <a href="#C453V4">back to 3:4</a> Psalm 51:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N455" id="N455">[5]</a> <a href="#C453V12">back to 3:12</a> Psalms
14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20
</p>
<p>
<a name="N456" id="N456">[6]</a> <a href="#C453V13">back to 3:13</a> Psalm 5:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N457" id="N457">[7]</a> <a href="#C453V13">back to 3:13</a> Psalm 140:3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N458" id="N458">[8]</a> <a href="#C453V14">back to 3:14</a> Psalm 10:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N459" id="N459">[9]</a> <a href="#C453V17">back to 3:17</a> Isaiah
59:7-8
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4510" id="N4510">[10]</a> <a href="#C453V18">back to 3:18</a> Psalm
36:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4511" id="N4511">[11]</a> <a href="#C453V25">back to 3:25</a> or, a
propitiation
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4512" id="N4512">[12]</a> <a href="#C454V3">back to 4:3</a> Genesis
15:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4513" id="N4513">[13]</a> <a href="#C454V8">back to 4:8</a> Psalm
32:1-2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4514" id="N4514">[14]</a> <a href="#C454V17">back to 4:17</a> Genesis
17:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4515" id="N4515">[15]</a> <a href="#C454V18">back to 4:18</a> Genesis
15:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4516" id="N4516">[16]</a> <a href="#C454V22">back to 4:22</a> Genesis
15:6
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4517" id="N4517">[17]</a> <a href="#C457V1">back to 7:1</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4518" id="N4518">[18]</a> <a href="#C457V7">back to 7:7</a> Exodus
20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4519" id="N4519">[19]</a> <a href="#C458V1">back to 8:1</a> NU omits
"who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4520" id="N4520">[20]</a> <a href="#C458V15">back to 8:15</a> Abba is
an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and
respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4521" id="N4521">[21]</a> <a href="#C458V29">back to 8:29</a> The word
for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4522" id="N4522">[22]</a> <a href="#C458V36">back to 8:36</a> Psalm
44:22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4523" id="N4523">[23]</a> <a href="#C459V7">back to 9:7</a> Genesis
21:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4524" id="N4524">[24]</a> <a href="#C459V9">back to 9:9</a> Genesis
18:10,14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4525" id="N4525">[25]</a> <a href="#C459V12">back to 9:12</a> Genesis
25:23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4526" id="N4526">[26]</a> <a href="#C459V13">back to 9:13</a> Malachi
1:2-3
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4527" id="N4527">[27]</a> <a href="#C459V15">back to 9:15</a> Exodus
33:19
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4528" id="N4528">[28]</a> <a href="#C459V17">back to 9:17</a> Exodus
9:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4529" id="N4529">[29]</a> <a href="#C459V20">back to 9:20</a> Isaiah
29:16; 45:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4530" id="N4530">[30]</a> <a href="#C459V25">back to 9:25</a> Hosea
2:23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4531" id="N4531">[31]</a> <a href="#C459V26">back to 9:26</a> Hosea
1:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4532" id="N4532">[32]</a> <a href="#C459V28">back to 9:28</a> Isaiah
10:22-23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4533" id="N4533">[33]</a> <a href="#C459V29">back to 9:29</a> Greek:
Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4534" id="N4534">[34]</a> <a href="#C459V29">back to 9:29</a> Isaiah
1:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4535" id="N4535">[35]</a> <a href="#C459V33">back to 9:33</a> Isaiah
8:14; 28:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4536" id="N4536">[36]</a> <a href="#C4510V4">back to 10:4</a> or,
completion, or end
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4537" id="N4537">[37]</a> <a href="#C4510V5">back to 10:5</a>
Leviticus 18:5
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4538" id="N4538">[38]</a> <a href="#C4510V6">back to 10:6</a>
Deuteronomy 30:12
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4539" id="N4539">[39]</a> <a href="#C4510V7">back to 10:7</a>
Deuteronomy 30:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4540" id="N4540">[40]</a> <a href="#C4510V8">back to 10:8</a>
Deuteronomy 30:14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4541" id="N4541">[41]</a> <a href="#C4510V11">back to 10:11</a> Isaiah
28:16
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4542" id="N4542">[42]</a> <a href="#C4510V13">back to 10:13</a> Joel
2:32
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4543" id="N4543">[43]</a> <a href="#C4510V15">back to 10:15</a> Isaiah
52:7
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4544" id="N4544">[44]</a> <a href="#C4510V16">back to 10:16</a> Isaiah
53:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4545" id="N4545">[45]</a> <a href="#C4510V18">back to 10:18</a> Psalm
19:4
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4546" id="N4546">[46]</a> <a href="#C4510V19">back to 10:19</a>
Deuteronomy 32:31
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4547" id="N4547">[47]</a> <a href="#C4510V20">back to 10:20</a> Isaiah
65:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4548" id="N4548">[48]</a> <a href="#C4510V21">back to 10:21</a> Isaiah
65:2
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4549" id="N4549">[49]</a> <a href="#C4511V3">back to 11:3</a> 1 Kings
19:10,14
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4550" id="N4550">[50]</a> <a href="#C4511V4">back to 11:4</a> 1 Kings
19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4551" id="N4551">[51]</a> <a href="#C4511V8">back to 11:8</a>
Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4552" id="N4552">[52]</a> <a href="#C4511V10">back to 11:10</a> Psalm
69:22,23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4553" id="N4553">[53]</a> <a href="#C4511V25">back to 11:25</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4554" id="N4554">[54]</a> <a href="#C4511V27">back to 11:27</a> Isaiah
59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4555" id="N4555">[55]</a> <a href="#C4511V34">back to 11:34</a> Isaiah
40:13
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4556" id="N4556">[56]</a> <a href="#C4511V35">back to 11:35</a> Job
41:11
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4557" id="N4557">[57]</a> <a href="#C4512V19">back to 12:19</a>
Deuteronomy 32:35
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4558" id="N4558">[58]</a> <a href="#C4512V20">back to 12:20</a>
Proverbs 25:21-22
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4559" id="N4559">[59]</a> <a href="#C4513V9">back to 13:9</a> TR adds
"You shall not give false testimony,"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4560" id="N4560">[60]</a> <a href="#C4513V9">back to 13:9</a> Exodus
20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4561" id="N4561">[61]</a> <a href="#C4513V9">back to 13:9</a>
Leviticus 19:18
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4562" id="N4562">[62]</a> <a href="#C4514V11">back to 14:11</a> Isaiah
45:23
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4563" id="N4563">[63]</a> <a href="#C4514V26">back to 14:26</a> TR
places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4564" id="N4564">[64]</a> <a href="#C4515V3">back to 15:3</a> Psalm
69:9
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4565" id="N4565">[65]</a> <a href="#C4515V7">back to 15:7</a> TR reads
"us" instead of "you"
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4566" id="N4566">[66]</a> <a href="#C4515V9">back to 15:9</a> 2 Samuel
22:50; Psalm 18:49
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4567" id="N4567">[67]</a> <a href="#C4515V10">back to 15:10</a>
Deuteronomy 32:43
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4568" id="N4568">[68]</a> <a href="#C4515V11">back to 15:11</a> Psalm
117:1
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4569" id="N4569">[69]</a> <a href="#C4515V12">back to 15:12</a> Isaiah
11:10
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4570" id="N4570">[70]</a> <a href="#C4515V14">back to 15:14</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4571" id="N4571">[71]</a> <a href="#C4515V21">back to 15:21</a> Isaiah
52:15
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4572" id="N4572">[72]</a> <a href="#C4516V1">back to 16:1</a> or,
deacon
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4573" id="N4573">[73]</a> <a href="#C4516V14">back to 16:14</a> The
word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
</p>
<p>
<a name="N4574" id="N4574">[74]</a> <a href="#C4516V25">back to 16:25</a> TR
places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans instead of at the end of
chapter 14, and numbers these verses 16:25-27.
</p>
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<a name="C081V1" id="C081V1">1:1</a> It happened in the days when the judges
judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem
Yehudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his
two sons. <a name="C081V2" id="C081V2">1:2</a> The name of the man was
Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons
Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Yehudah. They came into the
country of Moab, and continued there. <a name="C081V3" id="C081V3">1:3</a>
Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. <a
name="C081V4" id="C081V4">1:4</a> They took them wives of the women of Moab;
the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they
lived there about ten years. <a name="C081V5" id="C081V5">1:5</a> Mahlon and
Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and
of her husband. <a name="C081V6" id="C081V6">1:6</a> Then she arose with her
daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she
had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in
giving them bread. <a name="C081V7" id="C081V7">1:7</a> She went forth out of
the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they
went on the way to return to the land of Yehudah. <a name="C081V8" id="C081V8">1:8</a>
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her
mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the
dead, and with me. <a name="C081V9" id="C081V9">1:9</a> Yahweh grant you that
you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she
kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept. <a name="C081V10"
id="C081V10">1:10</a> They said to her, No, but we will return with you to
your people. <a name="C081V11" id="C081V11">1:11</a> Naomi said, Turn again,
my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that
they may be your husbands? <a name="C081V12" id="C081V12">1:12</a> Turn again,
my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should
say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also
bear sons; <a name="C081V13" id="C081V13">1:13</a> would you therefore wait
until they were grown? would you therefore stay from having husbands? nay,
my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of
Yahweh is gone forth against me. <a name="C081V14" id="C081V14">1:14</a> They
lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
but Ruth joined with her. <a name="C081V15" id="C081V15">1:15</a> She said,
Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god:
return you after your sister-in-law. <a name="C081V16" id="C081V16">1:16</a>
Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from
following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I
will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your Elohim my Elohim; <a
name="C081V17" id="C081V17">1:17</a> where you die, will I die, and there will
I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part
you and me." <a name="C081V18" id="C081V18">1:18</a> When she saw that
she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
<a name="C081V19" id="C081V19">1:19</a> So they two went until they came to
Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the
city was moved about them, and <i>the women</i> said, Is this Naomi? <a
name="C081V20" id="C081V20">1:20</a> She said to them, "Don't call me
Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. <a
name="C081V21" id="C081V21">1:21</a> I went out full, and Yahweh has brought
me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified
against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?" <a name="C081V22"
id="C081V22">1:22</a> So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her
daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and
they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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<p>
<a name="C082V1" id="C082V1">2:1</a> Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a
mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
<a name="C082V2" id="C082V2">2:2</a> Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me
now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose
sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter. <a name="C082V3"
id="C082V3">2:3</a> She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the
reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to
Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. <a name="C082V4" id="C082V4">2:4</a>
Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with
you. They answered him, Yahweh bless you. <a name="C082V5" id="C082V5">2:5</a>
Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young
lady is this? <a name="C082V6" id="C082V6">2:6</a> The servant who was set
over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi
out of the country of Moab: <a name="C082V7" id="C082V7">2:7</a> She said,
Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she
came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she
stayed a little in the house. <a name="C082V8" id="C082V8">2:8</a> Then said
Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another
field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens. <a
name="C082V9" id="C082V9">2:9</a> Let your eyes be on the field that they
reap, and go after them: haven't I commanded the young men not to touch
you? and when you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of that which
the young men have drawn. <a name="C082V10" id="C082V10">2:10</a> Then she
fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why
have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me,
seeing I am a foreigner? <a name="C082V11" id="C082V11">2:11</a> Boaz answered
her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your
mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your
father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a
people that you didn't know before. <a name="C082V12" id="C082V12">2:12</a>
Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the
Elohim of Yisrael, under whose wings you are come to take refuge. <a
name="C082V13" id="C082V13">2:13</a> Then she said, Let me find favor in your
sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken
kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens. <a
name="C082V14" id="C082V14">2:14</a> At meal time Boaz said to her, Come here,
and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside
the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was
sufficed, and left of it. <a name="C082V15" id="C082V15">2:15</a> When she was
risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean
even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her. <a name="C082V16" id="C082V16">2:16</a>
Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her
glean, and don't rebuke her. <a name="C082V17" id="C082V17">2:17</a> So she
gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had
gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. <a name="C082V18" id="C082V18">2:18</a>
She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she
had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left
after she was sufficed. <a name="C082V19" id="C082V19">2:19</a> Her
mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and where have
you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you. She showed her
mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom
I worked today is Boaz. <a name="C082V20" id="C082V20">2:20</a> Naomi said to
her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his
kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi said to her, The man is a
close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen. <a name="C082V21" id="C082V21">2:21</a>
Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep fast by my
young men, until they have ended all my harvest. <a name="C082V22" id="C082V22">2:22</a>
Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you
go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field. <a
name="C082V23" id="C082V23">2:23</a> So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz,
to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived
with her mother-in-law.
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<p>
<a name="C083V1" id="C083V1">3:1</a> Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My
daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? <a
name="C083V2" id="C083V2">3:2</a> Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose
maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing
floor. <a name="C083V3" id="C083V3">3:3</a> Wash yourself therefore, and
anoint you, and put your clothing on you, and get you down to the
threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall
have done eating and drinking. <a name="C083V4" id="C083V4">3:4</a> It shall
be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place where he shall lie,
and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay you down; and he will
tell you what you shall do. <a name="C083V5" id="C083V5">3:5</a> She said to
her, All that you say I will do. <a name="C083V6" id="C083V6">3:6</a> She went
down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her
mother-in-law told her. <a name="C083V7" id="C083V7">3:7</a> When Boaz had
eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end
of the heap of grain: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and
laid her down. <a name="C083V8" id="C083V8">3:8</a> It happened at midnight,
that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at
his feet. <a name="C083V9" id="C083V9">3:9</a> He said, Who are you? She
answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your
handmaid; for you are a near kinsman. <a name="C083V10" id="C083V10">3:10</a>
He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more
kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't
follow young men, whether poor or rich. <a name="C083V11" id="C083V11">3:11</a>
Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for
all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman. <a
name="C083V12" id="C083V12">3:12</a> Now it is true that I am a near kinsman;
however there is a kinsman nearer than I. <a name="C083V13" id="C083V13">3:13</a>
Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform
to you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if
he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a
kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives: lie down until the morning. <a
name="C083V14" id="C083V14">3:14</a> She lay at his feet until the morning.
She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be
known that the woman came to the threshing floor. <a name="C083V15"
id="C083V15">3:15</a> He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it;
and she held it; and he measured six <i>measures</i> of barley, and laid
it on her: and he went into the city. <a name="C083V16" id="C083V16">3:16</a>
When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter?
She told her all that the man had done to her. <a name="C083V17" id="C083V17">3:17</a>
She said, These six <i>measures</i> of barley gave he me; for he said,
"Don't go empty to your mother-in-law." <a name="C083V18"
id="C083V18">3:18</a> Then said she, "Sit still, my daughter, until you
know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has
finished the thing this day."
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<p>
<a name="C084V1" id="C084V1">4:1</a> Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him
down there: and behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to
whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside,
and sat down. <a name="C084V2" id="C084V2">4:2</a> He took ten men of the
elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down. <a
name="C084V3" id="C084V3">4:3</a> He said to the near kinsman, Naomi, who has
come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which
was our brother Elimelech's: <a name="C084V4" id="C084V4">4:4</a> I thought to
disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and before
the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will
not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem
it besides you; and I am after you. He said, I will redeem it. <a
name="C084V5" id="C084V5">4:5</a> Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field
of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife
of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance. <a
name="C084V6" id="C084V6">4:6</a> The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for
myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you;
for I can't redeem it. <a name="C084V7" id="C084V7">4:7</a> Now this was <i>the
custom</i> in former time in Yisrael concerning redeeming and concerning
exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to
his neighbor; and this was the <i>manner of</i> attestation in Yisrael. <a
name="C084V8" id="C084V8">4:8</a> So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for
yourself. He drew off his shoe. <a name="C084V9" id="C084V9">4:9</a> Boaz said
to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I
have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and
Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. <a name="C084V10" id="C084V10">4:10</a>
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my
wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name
of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of
his place: you are witnesses this day. <a name="C084V11" id="C084V11">4:11</a>
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are
witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel
and like Leah, which two built the house of Yisrael: and do you worthily in
Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem: <a name="C084V12" id="C084V12">4:12</a>
and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Yehudah,
of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman. <a
name="C084V13" id="C084V13">4:13</a> So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his
wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore
a son. <a name="C084V14" id="C084V14">4:14</a> The women said to Naomi,
Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman;
and let his name be famous in Yisrael. <a name="C084V15" id="C084V15">4:15</a>
He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age,
for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven
sons, has borne him. <a name="C084V16" id="C084V16">4:16</a> Naomi took the
child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it. <a name="C084V17"
id="C084V17">4:17</a> The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There
is a son born to Naomi; and they named him Obed: he is the father of
Jesse, the father of David. <a name="C084V18" id="C084V18">4:18</a> Now this
is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of
Hezron, <a name="C084V19" id="C084V19">4:19</a> and Hezron became the father
of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, <a name="C084V20" id="C084V20">4:20</a>
and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father
of Salmon, <a name="C084V21" id="C084V21">4:21</a> and Salmon became the
father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, <a name="C084V22"
id="C084V22">4:22</a> and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became
the father of David.
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Pgs. 380-391
Ch. 13-15
SECTION XXVII.
SHALACH.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Send thou keen‑sighted men who may explore the land of Kenaan, which I will give to the children of Yisrael; one man for each tribe of their fathers, thou shalt send from the presence of all their leaders. And Mosheh sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, according to the mouth of the Word of the Lord; all of them acute men, who had been appointed heads over the sons of Yisrael. And these are the names of the twelve men, the explorers: the messenger of the tribe of Reuben, Shamua bar Zakkur; of the tribe of Shemeon, Shaphat bar Hori; for Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephunneh; for Issakar, Yiggeal bar Joseph; for Ephraim, Hoshea bar Nun; for Benjamin, Palti bar Raphu; for Zebulon, Gadiel bar Zodi; for Menasheh, Gaddi bar Susi; for Dan, Ammiel bar Gemmalli; for Asher, Sether bar Michael; for Naphtali, Nachbi bar Vaphsi; and for Gad, Geuel bar Machi. These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to explore the land; and when Mosheh saw his humility, he called Hoshea bar Nun Jehoshua.
And Mosheh sent them to survey the land of Kenaan, and said to them, Go up on this side by the south, and ascend the mountain, and survey the country, what it is, and the people who dwell in it; whether they be strong or weak, few or many; what the land is in which they dwell, whether good or bad; what cities they inhabit, whether they live in towns that are open or walled; and what the reputation of the land, whether its productions are rich or poor, and the trees of it fruitful or not. And do valiantly, and bring back some of the fruit of the land. [JERUSALEM. And what the land is, whether the fruits of it are rich: or trees.]
And the day on which they went was the nineteenth of the month of Sivan, (about) the days of the first grapes. They went up, therefore, and explored the country, from the wilderness of Zin, unto the roads by which thou comest unto Antiochia. They went up from the side of the south and came to Hebron, where were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, sons of Anak the giant Now Hebron was built seven years before Tanis in Mizraim. They came then to the stream of the grapes (or bunches, ethkala), and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff on the shoulders of two of them, and also took they of the pomegranates and the figs. [JERUSALEM. And they came to the stream of the grape clusters, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a rod between two men; and also of the pomegranates and of the figs.] Now that place they call the stream of the cluster, from the branch which the sons of Yisrael cut down there; and wine was dropping from it like a stream.
And they returned from exploring the land on the eighth day of the month Ab, at the end of forty days. And they came to Mosheh and Aharon, and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael in the wilderness of Pharan, at Rekem, and returned them word, to them and the whole congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
And they recounted to him, and said: We went into the country to which thou didst send us; and it indeed produceth milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it. But the people who inhabit the country are strong, and the fortified cities they inhabit very great; and we saw also there the sons of Anak the giant. The Amalekites dwell in the south, the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites in the mountains; but the Kenaanites dwell by the sea, and by the bank of the Jordan.
And Kaleb stilled the people, and made them listen to Mosheh, and said: Let us go up and possess it, for we are able to take it. [JERUSALEM. And he stilled.] But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up to the people, for they are stronger than we. And they brought out an evil report about the land which they had surveyed, to the sons of Yisrael, saying, The country through which we have passed to explore it is a land that killeth its inhabitants with diseases; and all the people who are in it are giants, masters of evil ways. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the race of the giants; and we appeared to ourselves to be as locusts; and so we appeared to them.
XIV. And all the congregation lifted up and gave forth their voice, and the people wept that night: and it was confirmed (as a punishment) that they should weep on that night[1] in their generations. And all the sons of Yisrael murmured against Mosheh and Aharon, and said: Would that we had died in the land of Mizraim, or that we may die in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword of the Kenaanaah, and our wives and little ones to become a prey? Will it not be better to return into Mizraim? And one man said to his brother, Let us appoint a king over us for a chief, and return to Mizraim. [JERUSALEM. Let us set a king over us, and go round to Mizraim.]
And Mosheh and Aharon bowed upon their faces before all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael; and Jehoshua bar Nun and Kaleb bar Jephunneh of the explorers of the land rent their clothes, and spake to the congregation, saying: The land we went to see is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord hath pleasure in us, He will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land producing milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the commandments of the Lord, and you need not fear the people of the land, for they are delivered into our hands; the strength of their power hath failed from them, but the Word of the Lord will be our helper; fear them not. But all the congregation said they would stone them with stones.
And the glorious Shekinah of the Lord was revealed in bright clouds at the tabernacle. And the Lord said to Mosheh, How long will this people provoke Me to anger? How long will they disbelieve in My Word, for all the signs I have wrought among them? I will strike them with deadly plague and destroy them, and will appoint thee for a people greater and stronger than they. But Mosheh said, The children of the Mizraee, whom Thou didst drown in the sea, will hear that Thou didst bring up this people from among them by Thy power, and will say with exultation to the people of this land, who have heard that Thou art the Lord, whose Shekinah dwelleth among this people, in whose eyes, O Lord, the Glory of Thy Shekinah appeared on the mountain of Sinai, and who there received Thy Torah; Thy Cloud hath shadowed, that neither heat nor rain might hurt them; and whom in the pillar of the Cloud Thou hast led on by day, that the mountains and hills might be brought low, and the valleys lifted up, and hast guided in the pillar of Fire by night: and after all of these miracles wilt Thou kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard the fame and of Thy power will speak saying: Because there was no (more) strength with the Lord to bring this people into the land which swearing He a promised to them, He hath killed them in the wilderness! And now, I beseech Thee, magnify Thy power, O Lord, and let mercies be fulfilled upon us, and appoint me for (this) great people, as Thou hast spoken, saying: The Lord is long suffering, and nigh in mercy, forgiving sins and covering transgressions, justifying such as return to His Torah though them who turn not He will not absolve, but will visit the sins of wicked fathers upon rebellious children unto the third and fourth generation. [JERUSALEM. The Lord is long‑suffering, far from anger, near in mercy, multiplying the exercise of goodness and truth; though the Lord will not justify sinners, but will remember, in the day of judgment, the guilt of wicked fathers upon rebellious children.] Pardon now the sin of this people according to Thy great goodness, even as Thou hast forgiven them from the time that they came out from Mizraim until now. And the Lord said, I have forgiven, according to thy word. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord said, Behold, I have absolved and pardoned, according to thy word.] Nevertheless, by oath have I sworn that the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Because all the men who have beheld My glory, and My signs, which I have wrought in Mizraim and in the Desert, have tempted Me now ten times, and have not obeyed My Word: by oath have I said this, That they shall not see the land which I covenanted to their fathers; and the generation which have been provokeful before me shall not behold it. [JERUSALEM. For I have uplifted My hand with an oath.] But My servant, Kaleb, because there is in him another spirit, and he hath entirely followed (in) My fear, him will I bring into the land to which he went, and his children shall possess it. But the Amalekites and Kenaanites dwell in the valley: to‑morrow turn you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and Aharon, saying: How long (shall I bear with) this evil congregation who gather together against Me? The murmurs of the sons of Yisrael which they murmur against Me are heard before Me. Say to them, By oath I decree that according to (what) you have spoken, so will I do to you. In this wilderness your carcasses shall fall, the whole number of all who were counted from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me. By a fast oath (have I sworn) that you shall not enter into the land which I covenanted in My Word to give you to inhabit, except Kaleb bar Jephunneh and Jehoshua bar Nun. But your children, who you said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you rejected; but your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. Yet your children will have to wander in this wilderness forty years, and bear your sins until the time that your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you were exploring the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall receive for your sins, forty years, and shall know (the consequence) of your murmuring against Me. I the Lord have decreed in My Word,‑if I have not made a decree in My Word against all this evil congregation who have gathered a rebel against Me in this wilderness, that they shall be consumed and die there.
But the men whom Mosheh had sent to explore the land, and who returning had made the whole congregation murmur against him, by bringing forth an evil report of the land, (even those) men who had brought forth the evil of the report of the land died, on the seventh day of the month of Elul, with worms coming from their navels, and with worms devouring their tongues; and were buried in death from before the Lord. Only Jehoshua bar Nun and Kaleb bar Jephunneh survived of those men who had gone to explore the land.
And Mosheh spake these words with all the sons of Yisrael, and the people mourned greatly. And they arose in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain., saying: Behold, we will go up to the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned. But Mosheh said, Why will you act against the decree of the Word of the Lord? But it will not prosper with you. Go not up, for the Lord's Shekinah dwelleth not among you; and the ark, the tabernacle, and the Cloud of Glory proceed not; and be not crushed before your enemies. For the Amalekites and Kenaanites are there prepared for you, and you will fall slaughtered by the sword. For, because you have turned away from the service of the Lord, the Word of the Lord will not be your Helper. But they armed themselves in the dark before the morning to go up to the height of the mountain: but the ark, in which was the covenant of the Lord, and Mosheh, stirred not from the midst of the camp. And the Amalekites and Kenaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and slaughtered and destroyed them, and drave them hard to destruction.
XV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered into the land of your habitation which I will give you, and you may make an oblation upon the altar before the Lord, burnt offering or consecrated sacrifice for release of a vow, or by free‑will offering; or at the time of your feasts you offer what is acceptable to the Lord of the world, to be received with approval before the Lord from the herd or from the flock: let the man who offers his oblation before the Lord bring a mincha of a tenth of flour mingled with the fourth of a hina of olive oil; and wine of grapes for a libation, the fourth of a hina, to be made upon the burnt offering or hallowed sacrifice‑for one lamb. Or for a ram, let him perform a mincha of two tenths of flour mingled with the third of a hin of olive oil, and wine of grapes let him offer in a vase for the libation, the third of a hin, to be received with acceptance before the Lord. But when he maketh a bullock a burnt offering, or a sacrifice for release from a vow, or a hallowed sacrifice before the Lord, let him bring for the bullock a mincha of three tenths of flour mixed with half of a hin of olive oil, and wine of grapes half a hin, for a libation to be received with acceptance before the Lord. So let him do with each bullock, with each ram, and each lamb, whether it be from the lambs or the kids: according to the number of the bullocks or lambs or goats with which the oblation is made so shall you do, each according to their number. All who are native born in Yisrael, and not of the sons of the Gentiles, shall so make these libations in offering an oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord. And when a sojourner who sojourneth with you, or whoever is among you now, or in your generations, will bring an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord, as you do so shall he. For the whole congregation there is one statute, for you and the sojourner who sojourneth; it is an everlasting statute for your generations; as with you, so shall it be with the sojourner before the Lord. One Torah and one judgment shall be for you and for the sojourner who sojourneth with you.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When you have entered the land into which I will bring you, and you eat the bread of the produce of it, (not rice, nor millet, nor pulse,) you shall set apart a separation before the Lord. Of the first of your dough one cake of twenty‑four you shall set apart as a separation for the priest; as with the separation from the threshing floor, so shall you set it apart. Of the first of your dough you shall give a separation before the Lord in your generations. [JERUSALEM. Of the first of your dough you shall give a separation unto the Name of the Lord.]
And should you have erred, and not performed some one of all these commandments which the Lord hath spoken with Mosheh; whatsoever the Lord hath commanded you by Mosheh from the day He commanded it, and thenceforth unto your generations‑if without the knowledge of the congregation sin hath been committed through ignorance, let all the congregation make one young bullock a burnt offering to be received with acceptance before the Lord, with his mincha and libation. as are proper; and one kid of the goats without mixture for a sin offering; and let the priest make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, and it shall be forgiven them; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering before the Lord, even an offering for their sin have they presented before the Lord for their error; and all the congregation of Yisrael shall be forgiven before the Lord, and the sojourners who sojourn among them; for an error hath occurred to the people.
And if any one man sin through ignorance, let him bring one goat of the year without mixture for a sin offering, and let the priest make atonement for the man who hath erred in sinning through ignorance before the Lord to atone for him, that it may be forgiven him; as well for the native‑born of the children of Yisrael, and for the strangers who sojourn among you, there shall be one Torah for him who transgresseth through ignorance: but a man who transgresseth. with presumption, whether of the native‑born or strangers, and who turneth. not away from his sin before the Lord,‑he causeth anger, and that man shall perish from among his people; for, the primal word which the Lord commanded on Sinai he hath despised, and hath made the commandment of circumcision vain; with destruction in this world shall that man be destroyed; in the world that cometh shall he give account of his sin at the great day of judgment. [JERUSALEM. Because he hath despised the Word of the Lord, and broken His commandments, that soul shall perish, and shall bear his sin.]
And while the sons of Yisrael were dwelling in the wilderness, the decree of the Shabbat was known to them, but the punishment (for the profanation) of the Shabbat was not known. And there arose a man of the house of Joseph, and said with himself:[2] I will go and pull up wood on the Shabbat day; and witnesses saw it, and told Mosheh; and Mosheh sought instructtion from the presence of the Lord, that he might teach me judgment, and make known the discipline of all the house of Yisrael. And the witnesses of the man who pulled up and collected wood came, and, after they had monished him, and he had wounded the witnesses who had found him pulling up wood, [JERUSALEM. Stealing wood,] brought him to Mosheh and Aharon, and all the congregation. This is one of four judgments which were brought before Mosheh the prophet, which he adjudged according to the Word of the Holy. Of these judgments some related to money, and some to life. In the judgments regarding money Mosheh was prompt, but in those affecting life he was deliberate, and in each he said, I have not heard,‑to teach the princes of the future Sanhedrin to be prompt in decisions on mammon, and deliberate in those that involved life, nor to be ashamed to inquire for counsel in what may be difficult, forasmuch as Mosheh the Rabbi of Yisrael himself had need to say, I have not heard. Therefore put they him in confinement, because they had not yet heard the explanation of the judgment they should execute upon him. [JERUSALEM. This is one of four cases which are written above, on that of the blasphemer, and they who were defiled by the dead. And they put him in ward till the time when it should be plainly showed to them from before the Lord, with what judgment they were to deal with him.]
And the Lord said to Mosheh: The man shall be surely put to death; the whole congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp; and the congregation led him forth without the camp, and stoned him with stones that he died, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
And the Lord said unto Mosheh: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and bid them make for themselves fringes,[3] not of threads, nor of yarns, nor of fibres, but after a manner of their own (lesumhon) shall they make them, and shall cut off the heads of their filaments, and suspend by five ligatures, four in the midst of three,[4] upon the four corners of their garment in which they enwrap themselves, unto their generations; and they shall put upon the edge of their robes an embroidery of hyacinth (shezir de‑thikela). [JERUSALEM. And let them make to themselves fringes for the edges of their robes, throughout their generations, and put upon the fringes of their robes an embroidery of hyacinth.] And this shall be to you a precept for fringes, that you may look upon them at the time when you dress yourselves daily, and remember all My commandments to do them, and not go aside to wander after the imaginations of your heart and the sight of your eyes, after which you have gone astray. To the end that you may remember and perform all My precepts, and be holy, like the angels who minister before the Lord your Elohim. I am the Lord your Elohim who have delivered and brought you free out of the land of Mizraim, to be to you Eloha. I am the Lord your Elohim.
[1] The ninth of Ab, a day remarkable for a succession of calamities in the history of the Jews.
[1] Be memrieh, "in his word,--his inmost self, or personality."
[1] Tsitsith, either a fringe or a tassel, probably the latter. Tsits sometimes means a flower. In the similar precept, Deut. xxii. 12, the word employed is gedilim, tufts or tassels of a conical form, like a flower bud. Onkelos has keruspidin, "borderings."
[1] Arbea bego telatha. (Query.)
[1] The ninth of Ab, a day remarkable for a succession of calamities in the history of the Jews.
[2] Be memrieh, "in his word,--his inmost self, or personality."
[3] Tsitsith, either a fringe or a tassel, probably the latter. Tsits sometimes means a flower. In the similar precept, Deut. xxii. 12, the word employed is gedilim, tufts or tassels of a conical form, like a flower bud. Onkelos has keruspidin, "borderings."
[4] Arbea bego telatha. (Query.)
SECTION XXVII.
SHELACH.
XIII. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Send thou men, that they may explore the land of Kenaan, which I will give to the children of Yisrael: one man for each tribe of their fathers shall you send, each one a ruler among them. And Mosheh sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, according to the Word of the Lord. All those men were heads of the children of Yisrael; and these are their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shamua bar Zakur; for the tribe of Shemeon, Shaphat bar Hori; for the tribe of Jehudah, Kaleb bar Jephuneh; for the tribe of Issakar, Igal bar Joseph; for the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea bar Nun; for the tribe of Benyamin, Phalti bar Raphu; for the tribe of Zebu. Ion, Gediel bar Sodi; for the tribe of Joseph, the tribe of Menasheh, Gaddi bar Susi; for the tribe of Dan, Ammiel bar GemaIi; for the tribe of Asher, Sethor bar Mikael; for the tribe of Naphtali, Nachbi bar Vapsi; for the tribe of Gad, Geuel bar Machi: These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to explore the land.
And Mosheh called Hoshea bar Nun Jehoshua. And Mosheh sent them away to explore the land of Kenaan. And he said to them, Go up hither by the south, and ascend to the mountain, and see the country what it is, and the people who dwell upon it, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; and what the land is in which they dwell, whether good or bad; and what the cities they inhabit, whether open, or walled in; and whether the land is rich or poor; whether it hath trees or not: and you, be of good courage, and bring of the fruits of the land. And the days were the days of the first grapes.
And they went up, and explored the country, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rechob, to come unto Hamath. And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and there were Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, sons of the giants; (and Hebron was built seven years before Tanis of Mizraim.) And they came to the Stream of Grapes, and cut down there a branch, with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff between two; and (they took also) of the pomegranates, and of the figs. That place was called the Stream of Grapes,[1] on account of the grapes (athkela) which the sons of Yisrael cut down from thence. And they returned from the exploration of the country at the end of forty days. And they went and came to Mosheh, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael at the wilderness of Pharan, at Rekam, and returned the word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they recounted to him, and said: We came to the land whither thou didst send us, and truly it doth produce milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it. But very mighty are the people who inhabit the land, and the cities are fortified and very great; and we saw, also, the sons of the giants there. The Amalkaah dwell in the land of the south, and the Hittaah and Jebusaah and Amoraah dwell in the mountain, and the Kenaanaah dwell by the sea, and upon the bank of the Jordan.
And Kaleb quieted the people for Mosheh, and said: Going, let us go up and possess it, for we are able to (do) it: but the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. And they gave forth an evil report (name) about the land which they had explored to the children of Yisrael, saying: The country which we have passed through to search it, is a land that killeth its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of stature; and there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which are of the giants; and we looked, in our own sight, as locusts, and so were we in their eyes.
XIV. And all the congregation lifted up and gave (forth) their voice; and all the people wept that night. And all the children of Yisrael murmured against Mosheh and Aharon; and the whole congregation said to them, O that we had died in the land of Mizraim, or that we had died in this wilderness! And why is the Lord bringing us to this land, that we may fall by the sword, and our wives and our children become a prey? Would it not be better for us to return into Mizraim? And they said, a man to his brother, Let us appoint a chieftain, and go back into Mizraim.
And Mosheh and Aharon fell upon their faces before all the assembly of the sons of Yisrael. And Jehoshua bar Nun, and Kaleb bar Jephuneh, who were of the explorers of the land, rent their clothes. And they spake to all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, saying: The land, which we passed through to explore it, is a good land, most exceedingly. If the Lord hath pleasure in us, even He will bring us into this land, and give us the land which produceth milk and honey. Only be not rebellious against the Word of the Lord, nor be afraid of the people of the land, for they are delivered into our hand; their strength is departed from them, and the Word of the Lord is our helper: fear them not. But all the congregation said that they would stone them with stones.
And the Glory of the Lord was revealed at the tabernacle of ordinance, unto all the children of Yisrael. And the Lord said to Mosheh, How long will this people provoke Me, and how long will they disbelieve in My Word, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? I will smite them with the pestilence and consume them; and will make of thee a people greater and stronger than they. But Mosheh said before the Lord, And the Mizraee will hear of it; for Thou didst bring up by Thy power this people from among them,
and they will tell unto the inhabitants of this land; for they have heard that Thou, O Lord, dost dwell in Thy Shekinah among this people, whose eyes behold the glorious Shekinah of the Lord, and that Thy Cloud overshadoweth them, and that in the pillar of the Cloud Thou conductest them in the day, and in the pillar of Fire by night. Now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard the fame of Thy power will speak, saying: Because there was not strength (enough) before the Lord to bring this people into the land which He covenanted to them, He hath killed them in the desert. And now I beseech, let power be magnified from before the Lord, as Thou hast thus spoken, saying: The Lord is far from anger, and great in performing goodness and truth: forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sins, pardoning them who return unto His Torah: but acquitting not them who will not, turn, (but.) visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children unto the third and unto the fourth generation. Pardon, I beseech, the sins of this people according to the amplitude of Thy goodness, and as Thou hast forgiven[2] this people from Mizraim until now.
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word. Yet, as I live, with the glory of the Lord shall all the earth be filled. Because all these men who have seen My glory, and the signs I wrought in Mizraim and in the desert, but have tempted before Me these ten times, and have not been obedient to My Word, if they shall see the land which I covenanted to their fathers, nor shall any see it who have provoked before Me. But My servant Kaleb, for that there was in him another spirit, and that he hath wholly followed (in) My fear, him will I bring into the land whither he went, and his children shall possess it.- Now the Amalkaah and the Kenaanaah dwelt in the valley.- To-morrow, turn you and get you to the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Suph.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh and unto Aharon, saying:
How long shall this evil congregation be murmuring against Me? The murmuring of the sons of Yisrael which they murmur against Me is heard before Me. Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord, even as ye have spoken before Me, so will I do to you. In this wilderness shall your carcases fall, and all who are numbered of you, of all your numbers, from one of twenty years and upward who have murmured against me- if you shall come into the land in which I covenanted in My Word to cause you to dwell, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh, and Jehoshua bar Nun. But your children, of whom you said they were for a prey, will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have abhorred. But your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and your children shall go about in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your iniquities until your carcases be laid in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall receive for your sins, even forty years, and you shall know (the consequence of) your murmuring against me.[3] I, the Lord, have made the decree in My Word,- if I will not do unto all this evil congregation who have gathered together against Me; in this wilderness shall they find their end, and here shall they die.
And the men whom Mosheh sent to search the land, and who returned to make all the congregation murmur against him, by bringing forth an evil name upon the land; those men who brought out the evil name upon the land died by the plague before the Lord. But Jehoshua bar Nun and Kaleb bar Jephuneh lived, of those men who went to explore the land.
And Mosheh told these words to all the children of Yisrael, and the people bewailed greatly. And they arose in the morning to go up to the top of the mountain, saying: Behold, we will go up to the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned. But Mosheh said, Wherefore do you transgress against the decree of the Word of the Lord? But it will not prosper. Go not up, for the Shekinah of the Lord is not among you, and be not broken before your enemies. For the Amalkaah and the Kenaanaah are there before you, and you will fall by the sword; for, because you have turned away from the service of the Lord, the Word of the Lord will not be your helper. Yet they would commit the wickedness of going up to the summit of the mountain, though the ark of the Lord's covenant, and Mosheh, removed not from the midst of the camp. And the Amalkaah and the Kenaanaah who dwelt in the mountain came down and smote them, and pursued them unto Hormah.
XV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and say to them: When you shall (at last) have come into the land which I will give you, and you will make an oblation before the Lord, a burnt offering, or a consecrated sacrifice for the release of a vow, or in a free will offering, or in your solemnities to render an acceptable service before the Lord, from the herd or from the flock; let him who offereth his oblation before the Lord bring for a mincha a tenth of flour sprinkled with the fourth of a hina of oil. And wine for a libation the fourth of a hina shall he make upon the burnt offering, or hallowed sacrifice, for one lamb: or for a ram he shall make a mincha of two tenths of flour sprinkled with the third of a hina of oil; and wine for the libation thou shalt bring the third of a hina, to be received with acceptance before the Lord. And when thou makest a bullock a burnt offering, or a hallowed sacrifice for the release of a vow, or hallowed sacrifices before the Lord, let him bring with the bullock a mincha of three tenths of flour sprinkled with a half hina of oil; and wine shalt thou bring for the libation the half of a hina, an oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord. So shalt thou do for one bullock, or one ram, or one lamb from the lambs, or from the kids. According to the number that you perform so shall you do with each, according to their number. All native born (Hebrews) shall do these things to offer an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. And if a sojourner who sojourneth with you, or whoever among you in your generations will make an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord, as you do, so shall he do. One congregation and one rite shall be for you and for the sojourners who sojourn; it is an everlasting statute; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the Lord: one Torah and one judgment shall be for you and for the sojourners who dwell with you.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, When you have come into the land into which I will bring you, and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set apart a separation before the Lord. Of the first of your food you shall set apart a cake for a separation; as the separation of the threshing-floor, so shall you set it apart; of the first of your bread (dough) you shall give the separation before the Lord in your generations.
And should you be in ignorance, and not do all these commandments of which the Lord hath spoken with Mosheh, even all which the Lord commanded you by the hand of Mosheh from the day that the Lord commanded and thenceforward in your generations, it shall be that if anything be hid from the eyes of the congregation and you do ignorantly, then all the congregation shall make a burnt offering of one young bullock, to be received with acceptance before the Lord, with his mincha and his libation, according to the proper manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was ignorance; but they shall bring their oblation before the Lord on account of their ignorance. And it shall be forgiven to all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, and to the sojourners who sojourn among them; for all the people (were) in ignorance. And if one sin ignorantly, he shall bring a female kid of the year for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for the man who hath erred in his sin through ignorance before the Lord, to atone for him, and it shall be forgiven him. For the native born of the sons of Yisrael, and for the sojourner who sojourneth among you, one Torah shall there be for you, for him who acteth in ignorance. But the man who doeth presumptuously,[4] whether of the native born, or of the sojourners, he provoketh the Lord to anger, and that man shall perish from among his people: because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath made His commandment vain, that man shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.
And while the children of Yisrael were in the wilderness, they found a man stealing wood on the day of the Shabbat; and they who had found him stealing wood brought him to Mosheh and Aharon, and to all the congregation. And they bound him in the house of custody; for it had not been explained to them what they should do to him. And the Lord said unto Mosheh, The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him forth without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, and bid them that they make them fringes[5] upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that upon the fringes on the borders they put a ribbon of hyacinth. And they shall be to you for fringes, that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and not wander after the imagination of your heart, or after the sight of your eyes, after which you have gone astray. That you may remember and do all My precepts, and be saints before your Elohim. I am the Lord your Elohim who brought you forth from the land of Mizraim to be to you Eloha: I am the Lord your Elohim.
[1] Nachela de athkela. Heb., Nachal Eshkol.
[2] Sam. Vers., “as thou hast borne this people.”
[3] Heb. text, Eth tenuathi, “My vengeance.” Samaritan text, “Ye shall know My vengeance.” Sam. Vers., “the compensation.” Sept., “the fury of My anger.” Syriac, “You shall know what (follows) upon your murmuring before Me.”
[4] Lit., “who acteth with uncovered head.”
[5] Keruspedin. Heb., tsitsith: compare the Greek in Matt. Ix. 20
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Ch. 10-11
SECTION XXV1.
SHEMINI.
IX. On the eighth day of the anointing of Aharon and his sons, and the eighth day of that consecration, being the first day of the month of Nisan, when Mosheh had erected the tabernacle, he took it not down, neither ministered any longer at the altar; but Mosheh called Aharon and his sons, and the elders of the sanhedrin of Yisrael. And he said to Aharon, Take thou a calf, the young of a bullock, for a sin offering, that Satan may not accuse thee concerning the calf that thou madest at Horeb; and take a ram for the burnt sacrifice, that there may be a memorial for thee of the righteousness of Izhak whom his father bound as a ram on the mountain of worship, both of them shall be perfect, and bring them before the Lord. And to the children of Yisrael spoke he, saying: Take for yourselves a kid of the goats, because Satana resembles him, lest he recount against you the accusation concerning the kid of the goats, which the sons (tribes) of Jakob killed, (Gen. xxxvii. 31,) and offer him for a sin offering; and a calf, because ye worshipped the calf, (Exod. xxxii. 4,) and a lamb of the year, that there may be for you a memorial of the righteousness of Izhak, whom his father did bind as a lamb, both of them perfect, for a burnt offering; with a bullock and a lamb, for a hallowed oblation to sacrifice before the Lord, that He may be gracious to you; and a mincha mingled with oil of the olive. For this day will the glory of the Lord's Shekinah be revealed unto you.
And Aharon and his sons, and all the sons of Yisrael, hastened and took what Mosheh commanded, and presented them in front of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the whole congregation drew near, and lifted up their heart fully before the Lord. And Mosheh said, This is the thing which you must do. Put away the imagination of evil from your hearts, and there will speedily (at once) be revealed to you the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord. But when Aharon saw at the corner of the altar the form of the calf, he was afraid to approach to its side. Mosheh, therefore, said to him, Take courage, and go near to the altar, fearing not, and offer thy sin offering, and make atonement for thyseIf and for the people, and perform the oblation of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord hath commanded. And Aharon approached to the altar with resolution,[1] and slew the calf for his own sin offering. And the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood of the young bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the foundation of the altar, and sanctified it for the making of atonement upon it. And the fat, and the kidneys, with the caul of the liver of the sin offering, he burned at the altar, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. But the flesh and the skin burned he with fire without the camp.
And he killed the burnt offering, and the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about. And they brought the burnt offering to him by its divisions, and the bead, and he burned (them) upon the altar. And he washed the inwards and the fat, and burned the burnt offering, at the altar.
And they brought the oblation of the people. And he took the goat for the people's sin offering and killed it, and made atonement with the blood of the goat, as he had made atonement with the blood of the calf of the sin offering for himself, which he had offered before. And they brought the burnt offering, and he performed it after the rite of the burnt offering which he had offered for himself. And they brought the mincha, and he filled his hands therefrom, and took of it a portion for its memorial, and burned upon the altar, beside the morning sacrifice And he killed the bullock and the rain of the hallowed oblations (peace offering) of the people, and the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about: and the fat of the bullock, and of the ram, the tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the caul of the liver; and he laid the fat upon the breast, and burned the fat upon the altar. But the breast and the right shoulder Aharon uplifted, an elevation before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And Aharon stretched out his hands towards the people and blessed them, and came down from the altar with joy, after he had finished to perform the sin offering and the burnt offering and the hallowed oblation. But when, after the oblations had been performed, the Shekinah did not reveal itself, Aharon was ashamed, and said to Mosheh, It may be that the Word of the Lord hath no pleasure in the work of my hands. Then went Mosheh and Aharon into the tabernacle of ordinance, and prayed for the people of the house of Yisrael, and came forth and blessed the people, and said, May the Word of the Lord receive your oblations with favour, and remit and forgive your sins.
Then, instant, instantly the Glory of the Lord's Shekinah revealed itself to all the people: and the Fire came forth from the Presence of the Lord and consumed upon the altar the sacrifice and the fat. And all the people saw, and gave praise, and bowed in prayer upon their faces. [JERUSALEM. And bowed in prayer upon their faces.]
X. But the sons of Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer, and put fire therein, and laid sweet incense upon it, and offered before the Lord strange fire taken from (under) the hearth‑pots, which had not been commanded them. [JERUSALEM. Outside fire.] And a flame of fire came out from before the Lord (as) with anger, and divided itself into four streams, (or lines,) and penetrated their nostrils, and burned their lives (souls) without destroying their bodies; and they died before the Lord.
And Mosheh said, This is that which the Lord spake with me in Sinai, saying: In them who come near before Me I will have the tabernacle to be sacred, that, if they be not heedful in the service of the oblations, I will burn them with flaming fire from before Me, that in the sight of all the people I may be glorified. And Aharon heard, and was silent; and he received a good reward for his silence.
And Mosheh called unto Mishael and to Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the Levite, the relative of Aharon, and said to them, Take your brethren from the sanctuary, and carry them, without the camp. And they came nigh, and carried them with hooks of iron in their garments, and buried them without the camp, as Mosheh had directed.
And Mosheh said to Aharon, and to Elasar and to Ithamar, his sons, Unbare not your heads, neither rend your garments, lest you die by the burning fire, and there be wrath upon all the congregation; but be silent and justify the judgment upon you, and let all your brethren of the house of Yisrael bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled. And from the door of the tabernacle of ordinance go not forth lest you die; for the oil of the Lord's consecration is upon you. And they did according to the word of Mosheh.
And the Lord spake with Aharon, saying, Drink neither wine nor anything that maketh drunk, neither thou nor thy sons with thee at the time when ye are to enter into the tabernacle of ordinance, as thy sons did who have died by the burning of fire. It is an everlasting statute for your generations; and for the distinguishing between the sacred and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, and for teaching the children of Yisrael all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken to them by the hand of Mosheh.
And Mosheh spake with Aharon, and Elasar and Ithamar, his sons, who were left from the burning: Take the mincha that remaineth of the Lord's oblations, and eat it unleavened at the side of the altar, because it is most sacred: and you may eat it in the holy place; for it is thy portion and the portion of thy snls of the oblations of the Lord: for so have I been commanded. But the breast of the uplifting and the shoulder of the separation you may eat in (any) clean place, thou and thy sons with thee, because it is thy portion and the portion of thy sons which hath been given from the hallowed sacrifices of the children of Yisrael. The shoulder of the separation and the elevated breast with the fats of the oblations they shall bring to be uplifted an elevation before the Lord, and they shall then be thine and thy sons' with thee, by an everlasting statute, as the Lord commanded.
And on this day three goats shall be offered; the goat for the beginning of the month, (or, new moon,) the goat of the people's sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering which Nachson bar Aminadab hath brought for the dedication of the altar. And Aharon and his sons went and burned those three. (But) Mosheh came and inquired for the goat of the people's sin offering; he sought it, but, behold, it had been burned, and he was angry with Elasar and Ithamar, the sons of Aharon who were left, and said, Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place? forasmuch as it is most sacred, and hath been given to you for absolving the sin of the congregation, to make atonement for you before the Lord; and, behold, none of its blood hath been carried in within the sanctuary. Yon should have indeed eaten it in the holy place, as I have been instucted. And Aharon said to Mosheh, Behold, this day the sons of Yisrael have brought the oblation of their sin offering and their burnt sacrifice before the Lord; but a stroke hath befallen me, in those my two sons. Of the second tythe is it not commanded, Thou shalt not eat of it while mourning? How much more, then of the sin offering? If I had eaten of the sin offering this day with my two sons who are left, would it not have been all error, so that they too might have been burned by a judgment, for doing that which was not pleasing before the Lord? And Mosheh heard, and it was approvable before him, and he sent out a crier through the camp, saying, I am he from whom the rite hath been hidden, and Aharon my brother hath brought its remembrance to me.
[JERUSALEM. They have brought their sin offerings and their burnt sacrifice before the Lord; and I have been instructed that these of the sin offering are more weighty than those of the second tythes, of which it is not allowed to the mourner to eat; and to me hath been a great sorrow this day through the death of my two sons Nadab and Abihu: and consider, if, while mourning over them, I were to eat to‑day of the sin offering, I should do what would not be pleasing or right before the Lord. When Mosheh had heard, and the word was pleasing in his sight, he sent out a herald through all the camp of Yisrael, and said, I am he from whom the rite had been hidden; but Aharon my brother hath taught it unto me. And because Mosheh humbled himself, he received thereupon a great reward. For Mosheh heard, and the word was pleasing before him.]
XI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, bidding them and the sons of Aharon admonish the children of Yisrael to taste their food in purity, and to separate on account of uncleanness eighteen kinds of food to be rejected. Speak with the children of Yisrael, saying: These are the animals which are fit to you for food, of every beast which is upon the earth. Whatsoever divideth the hoof and is cloven‑footed, and that which hath horns bringing up the cud among the beasts, that you may eat. But you may not eat of the kinds that (only) bring up the cud, nor (of them which only) divide the hoof, because (they are) born of the unclean. The camel, because he bringeth up the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean to you. And the coney, because he bringeth up the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because he bringeth up the cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean to you. And the swine, because he divideth the hoof, and is cloven, footed, but cheweth not the cud, is unclean to you. Of their flesh you shall not eat, nor touch their carcase; they are abominable to you. And these you may eat, of all that are in the waters: every one that hath fins and scales in the seas and the rivers, and of anything that is in the sea that crawleth, shall be an abomination to you, and an abomination shall their jelly and their sauce be to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcase you shall have in abhorence, and from the use of them you must keep aloof.Every one that hath fins nor scales in the waters shall be an abomination to you.
And these kinds of birds must be abominated: those not a finger long, or that have no vesicle (zephaq), or whose crop (kurkeban, ingluvies) peeleth not away,[2] are not to be eaten they are abomination; the eagle, the black eagle, and the osprey, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, and every raven after his kind, and the ostrich, and the night raven, and the gull, and the hawk after his kind, and the snatcher of fish from the sea, and the ibis, and the bustard, and the cuckoo, and the woodpecker, and the white stork, and the black, after his kind and the woodcock, and the bat.
And every flying reptile that goeth upon four, the fly species, the wasp (or hornet) species, and the bee species shall be an abomination to you: nevertheless of honey of the bee you may eat. So also of these you may eat, of every flying reptile that goeth upon four; every one that hath joints above his feet to leap therewith upon the ground. Of these kinds of them you. may eat: the wingless locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, the serpent‑killer after his kind, and the karzeba, which is the palmerworm, after his kind. But all flying reptiles which have four feet are to be an abomination to you; and by them you would be defiled: whosoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until evening. Whoever carrieth any of their carcase must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. All cattle which divide the hoof, but are not cloven‑footed nor throw up the cud, are to be unclean to you any one who toucheth them shall be unclean. Every one that goeth Upon his paws of all animals that walk upon four shall be unclean to you. Whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until evening. Whoever beareth their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; unclean are they to you.
And these also to you are such as defile; the blood, the skin, and the flesh of every reptile that creepeth upon the ground: the weasel, the mouse, black, red, and white, and the toad, after his kind; and the sucking serpent, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the salamander. These eight kinds are unclean to you among all reptiles: whoever toucheth them, their skin or their blood, shall be unclean until the evening. And whatever upon which any part of their dead body may fall, as their members when separated from them, shall be unclean; every vessel of wood, or garment, or leather, or sack, anything in which work is done, in four measures of water it shall be dipped, and be unclean for use until evening, when it shall be purified. And any earthen vessel into which any of them may fall, any vessel in which they may be, shall be unclean and be broken; all food for eating upon which (such) water cometh shall be unclean, and any fluid which is used for drinking in any such vessel shall be unclean. And any thing upon which a part of their carcase may fall shall be unclean, whether ovens or pans they shall be broken, they are defiled and shall be unclean to you. [JERUSALEM. The ovens and pans shall be broken.] But fountains and cisterns, the place of the collection of running waters, shall be clean: but he who toucheth the carcase of any of those things (that may have fallen) into the water shall be unclean. And if any part of their carcase fall in the way upon seed that is to be sown, that which is sown dry shall be clean; but if the carcase of any of them fall upon water that is put upon the seed when so wetted, the seed is unclean to you. And if the limb of any clean beast that you may eat be torn and it die, whosoever toucheth its carcase shall be unclean until the evening. He who eateth of its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; and he who carrieth its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean till evening.
And every reptile that creepeth on the ground is an abomination, it shall not be eaten. And whatever goeth upon its belly, and whatever animal crawleth upon four, from the serpent unto the caterpillar which hath many feet, of any reptile that creepeth upon the ground you may not eat, for they are an abomination. [JERUSALEM. Whatsoever writhes upon its belly among all animals.] You shall not contaminate your souls by any reptile that creepeth, nor defile yourselves with them, lest by them you make yourselves unclean. For I am the Lord your Elohim; therefore sanctify yourselves, and be holy, for I am Holy, and defile not your souls by any reptile that creepeth upon the ground: for I am the Lord who have brought you up free from the land of Mizraim, that I may be a Elohim to you; and you may be holy, for I am Holy.
This is the decree of the Torah concerning beasts, and birds, and every living animal that creepeth upon the ground; for making distinction between the unclean and the clean; between the animal whose flesh may be eaten, and the animal whose flesh may not be eaten.
[1] Or, "promtitude."
[2] Every bird which hath a crop, and of which the internal coat of the stomach may be readily peeled off, is a clean species.--Mishna, Cholin, c. iii.,
SECTION XXVI.
SHEMINI.
IX. And on the eighth day Mosheh called Aharon and his sons and the elders of Yisrael. And he said unto Aharon, Take to thee a calf, a young bullock from the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering unblemished, and offer before the Lord. And with the sons of Yisrael he spake, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf, and a lamb of the year, unblemished, for a burnt offering, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a mincha of flour sprinkled with oil: for this day will the glory of the Lord be revealed to you.
And what Mosheh had commanded they brought before the tabernacle of ordinance, and all the congregation approached and stood before the Lord. And Mosheh said, This is the thing that the Lord hath commanded to be done, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed to you.
And Mosheh said to Aharon, Approach the altar, and make thy sin offering and thy burnt sacrifice, and make atonement for thyself and for the people, and perform the oblation of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded. And Aharon drew near to the altar, and slew the calf for the sin offering for himself. And the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar. But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver of the sin offering he burned at the altar, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And the flesh and the skin he burned in the fire without the camp.
And he killed the whole burnt offering; and the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about. And they brought to him the whole burnt offering by its members with the head, and he burned upon the altar. And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burned with the offering at the altar. And he brought the oblation of the people, and took
the kid for the sin offering of the people, and killed it, and made atonement with its blood, as before. And he brought the whole burnt offering, and performed in the manner proper. And he took the mincha, and filled his hand with it, and burned it upon the altar beside the morning sacrifice. And he slew the bullock and the ram for the hallowed oblations of the people; and the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled the blood round about. Also the fats of the bullock and of the ram, the tail, and the covering of the inwards, with the kidneys, and the caul of the liver; and they placed the fats upon the breast, and burned the fats at the altar. And the breast with the right shoulder Aharon uplifted, an elevation before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And Aharon lifted up his hands over (to) the people and blessed them, and cane down from performing the sin offering, and the burnt sacrifice, and the hallowed oblations. And Mosheh and Aharon entered the tabernacle of ordinance, and came forth and blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord was revealed unto all the people: and fire came forth from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt sacrifice and the fats: and all the people saw, and gave praise, and fell upon their faces.
X. But the sons of Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer and put fire in them, and put sweet incense upon it, and offered (or brought) before the Lord strange fire which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
And Mosheh said unto Aharon, This is that which the Lord spake, saying, In them who approacheth Me I will be sanctified, and in the face of all the people will I be glorified. And Aharon was silent.
And Mosheh called to Mishael and to Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, Come nigh, and carry your brethren from before the sanctuary without the camp. And they came nigh, and carried them in their vestments out of the camp, as Mosheh had spoken.
And Mosheh said to Aharon and to Elazar and to Ithamar his sons, Make not bare your heads, nor rend your garments, lest you die, and wrath be upon all the congregation; but let your brethren and all the house of Yisrael bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled; and go not forth from the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the Lord[1] is upon you. And they did according to the word of Mosheh.
And the Lord spake unto Aharon, saying: Drink not wine nor strong drink, neither thou nor thy sons with thee, when you enter into the tabernacle of ordinance, that you die not. It is an everlasting statute unto your generations, for the distinguishment between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; and that you may teach the sons of Yisrael all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken to them through Mosheh.
And Mosheh spake with Aharon and with Elazar and with Ithamar his sons who were left: Take the mincha which remaineth of the oblations of the Lord, and eat it unleavened at the side of the altar, because it is most holy. It shall be eaten in the holy place; for it is thy portion, and the portion of thy sons of the oblations of the Lord; for so have I been commanded. But the breast of the uplifting and the shoulder of the separation you may eat on (any) clean place, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee; for it is thy portion, and the portion of thy sons, which hath been given of the hallowed sacrifices of the children of Yisrael. The shoulder of the separation and the breast of the uplifting they will bring with the oblation of the fat things to uplift, an elevation before the Lord: and they shall be thine and thy sons’ with thee by an everlasting statute, as the Lord hath commanded.
But Mosheh made inquiry[2] for the goat of the sin offering; and, behold, it had been burned; and he was angry with Elazar and Ithamar the sons of Aharon who were left, saying: Why have you not eaten of the sin offering in the holy place, because it is most holy; and He hath delivered it unto you for pardoning mercy upon the sin of the congregation to make atonement for them before the Lord? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the sanctuary: eating you should have eaten it within the holy (precinct), as I had commanded. And Aharon said to Mosheh, Behold, this day they have brought their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; but such griefs as these having come upon me, if I had eaten of the sin offering to-day, would it have been right before the Lord? And Mosheh heard, and it was pleasing in his eyes.[3]
XI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying to them: Speak with the children of Yisrael, saying: These are the animals which you may eat of all the beasts which are upon the earth. Every one that parteth the sole and divideth the paw (or hoof) and that bringeth up the cud among the cattle, that you may eat. But these you shall not eat, - of them that bring up the cud or of them that divide the hoof – the camel, because he bringeth up the cud, but divideth not his hoof, he is unclean to you. And the coney, because he bringeth up the cud, but doth not divide the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because he bringeth up the cud, but the hoof divideth not, shall be unclean to you. And the swine, because he parteth the sole, and divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, he shall be unclean to you. You shall neither eat their flesh nor touch their carcases; they are unclean to you.
And these you may eat of all that are in the waters; every one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, of them you may eat. But any one that hath not (both) fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers; every (such) reptile of the waters, and every living animal in the waters, shall they be to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcases you shall abhor; whatsoever hat not (both) fins and scales in the waters is to be an abomination to you.
And these shall you hold in abomination among the birds; you shall not eat them, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the sea eagle, and the osprey, and the kite, and the vulture, after his kind; and every raven after his kind; and the ostrich, and the night bird, and the gull, and the hawk, after his kind; and the owl, and the diver for fish, and the ibis, and the swan, and the green bird, and the stork, and the pica, after his kind, and the moorcock, and the bat. Every winged thing that creepeth, (or) walketh upon four,[4] is an abomination to you. Yet these you may eat, of every creeping thing that flieth, that walketh upon four which hath joints above its feet wherewith to leap upon the ground. Of such as these you may eat, the locust after his kind, and the bald locust, and the serpent-killer after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind;[5] but every other creeping thing that flieth having four feet is to be an abomination to you. And by these you will be unclean; every one who toucheth their carcases shall be unclean until the evening. And whosoever carrieth a carcase of them, shall was his clothes and be unclean until the evening; every beast that divideth the hoof, but is not cloven-footed, and that bringeth not up the cud, is to be unclean to you; whosoever toucheth them shall be unclean. And every (animal) that goeth upon its paws, of all beast that go upon four, shall be unclean to you; whoever toucheth their carcases shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carrieth their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; to you they are unclean.
And these shall be to you unclean among the reptiles which creep upon the ground; - the weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile after his kind, and the field mouse (or ferret,) and the chameleon, and the newt, and the lizards, and the mole. These are unclean to you of all that creep; every one who toucheth them in their dead state shall be unclean until evening. And upon whatever any of them may fall in their dead state it shall be unclean; whether a vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, everything whatever in which work is doen, must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and must be purified. And whatever earthen vessel into which any of them may fall, all that is within (it) is polluted, and you shall break it. Any food for eating, upon which water (from such a vessel) is poured, shall be unclean, and all liquor which was for
drinking in any (such) vessel shall be unclean. And anything upon which a part of their dead bodies may have fallen shall be unclean; oven or cooking pan, they shall be broken, they are unclean and shall be unclean to you. Nevertheless, a fountain or a pit, the place of a collection of waters, (into which they may have fallen,) shall be clean; but he who toucheth their dead bodies shall be unclean. And if a part of their carcase fall upon any seeding seed which is to be sown, it is clean; but if water be put upon the seed, and a part of their carcase fall their fall thereupon, it is unclean to you.
And if any one of the cattle of which you eat die, whosoever toucheth its carcase shall be unclean until the evening. And he who eateth of its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And he who may carry its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And every reptile that creepeth upon the ground is abominable, it shall not be eaten. Whatsoever goeth upon its belly, and whatever goeth upon four, anything that hath many feet, and every reptile that creepeth, you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.[6] Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with your animals by any reptile that creepeth, nor make yourselves unclean, nor be polluted by them, lest by them you be made unclean. For I am the Lord your Elohim; sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am Holy; that you may not contaminate your souls with any reptile which creepeth upon the ground; for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Mizraim to be unto you a Elohim; and you shall be holy, for I am Holy.
This is the Torah of the cattle, and of the fowl, and of every living animal that moveth in the waters, and of every living thing that moveth on the ground, for making a distinction between the unclean and the clean, between the animal that may be eaten, and the animal that may not be eaten.
[1] Sam. Vers., “the oil of excellency.”
[2] “Requiring, required.”
[3] Compare the Palestinian Targum on the place.
[4] Animals with wings, having more than two feet, as insects. – MENDELSSOHN.
[5] The names in the Hebrew test are arbeh, saleam, chargol, and chagab. Onkelos renders them by goba, rashona, chargola, and chagaba. They refer probably to four of the ten species of locusts, though it seems impossible to identify them specifically. The Mishna gives four marks by which a clean locust may be known: “Of locusts, all the kinds are clean which have four feet, four wings, and four leaping legs, and whose wings cover the greatest part of the body.” – Cholin, c.3.
[6] This, the forty-second, is the middle verse of the Pentateuch. The Masorites affirm the exact middle to be the vau holem in the word gahvon, “belly.”
Etheridge's Translation
THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM
ON
THE BOOK SHEMOTH,
OF
EXODUS.
Section of the Torah XIII. Title Shemoth
I. AND these are the names of the sons of Yisrael who went into Mizraim with Jakob, each with the men of his house entered in: Reuben, Shimeon, Levi, and Jehudah; Issakar, Zebulon, and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. And the number of all the souls coming from the thigh of Jakob, seventy souls, with Joseph and his sons, who were in Mizraim.
And Joseph died, and after him died all his brethren, and all that generation. And the souls of Yisrael increased, and multiplied children, and became strong, and prevailed greatly, and the land was filled with them. And there arose a new king (other) than he who was formerly over Mizraim, who took no knowledge of Joseph, and walked not in his laws. [JERUSALEM TARGUM. And a king arose (different from him who was) formerly over Mizraim, who took no knowledge of Joseph, and walked not in his laws.] And he said to his people, Behold now, the people of the house of Yisrael are many, and are stronger than we. Come, let us take counsel against them in these matters, to diminish them that they multiply not, so as that, should war be arrayed against us, they be not added to our adversaries, and destroy us that not one of us be left, and they afterward go forth from the land. [JERUSALEM. And they kill us, and go up in peace from the land.] And they set over them work-masters to afflict them in their servitude; and they builded walled cities to become Pharoh's treasure-places, Tanis and Pilusin. [JERUSALEM. Tanis and Pilusin.] But as much as they depressed them, so much they multiplied, and so much they prevailed, and the Mizraee were troubled in their lives before the sons of Yisrael. And the Mizraee enslaved the sons of Yisrael, and made their lives bitter by hard service in clay and bricks, and all the labour of the face of the field; and in all the work which they made them do was hardness.
And Pharoh told that he, being asleep, had seen in his dream, and, behold, all the land of Mizraim was placed in one scale of a balance, and a lamb, the young of a sheep, was ill the other scale; and the scale with the lamb in it overweighed. Forthwith he sent and called all the magicians of Mizraim, and imparted to them his dream. Immediately Jannis and Jambres, the chief of the magicians, opened their mouth and answered Pharoh,?A certain child is about to be born in the congregation of Yisrael, by whose hand will be destruc-tion to all the land of Mizraim. Therefore did Pharoh, king of Mizraim, give counsel to the Jehudith midwives, the name of one of whom was Shifra, who is Jokeved, and the name of the other Puvah, who is Miriam her daughter. [JERUSALEM. And the king of Mizraim told the Hebrew midwives, the name of the first of whom was Shifra, and she was Jokeved, and the name of the second Puvah, she was Miriam.] And he said, When you attend Jehudith women, and see them bear, if it be a male child, you shall kill him; but if a daughter, you may let her live. But the midwives feared before the Lord, and would not do according to what the king of Mizraim had said to them, but they saved the children. And the king of Mizraim called the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the children ? And the mid-wives said to Pharoh, The Jehudith women are not as the Mizraite, for they are sturdy (or, courageous) and wise-minded: before the midwife cometh to them they lift up their eyes in prayer, supplicating mercy before their Father who is in heaven, who heareth the voice of their prayer, and at once they are heard, and bring forth, and are delivered in peace. [JERUSALEM. Because they are vivacious, and before the midwife cometh to them they pray before their Father who is in heaven, and He answereth them, and they bring forth.] And the Lord did good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and prevailed greatly. And forasmuch as the midwives feared before the Lord, they obtained for themselves a good name unto the ages; and the Word of the Lord up-builded for them a royal house, even the house of the high priesthood. [JERUSALEM.. Because the midwives feared before the Lord, they obtained for themselves a good name in the midst of the ages, and made unto themselves houses,?the house of the Levites and the house of the high priesthood.] But when Pharoh saw this, he commanded all his people, saying, Every male child that is born to the Jehudaee you shall cast into the river; but every daughter you may spare.
II. And Amram, a man of the tribe of Levi, went and returned to live in marriage with Jokeved his wife, whom he had put away on account of the decree of Pharoh. [JERUSALEM. And there went a man of the tribe of Levi and took Jokeved, who was beloved of him, (or, who was related to him,) to wife.] And she was the daughter of a hundred and thirty years when he returned to her; but a miracle was wrought in her, and she returned unto youth as she was, when in her minority she was called the daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived and bare a son at the end of six months; and she saw him to be a child of steadfastness, (or, of steadfast life,) and hid him three months, which made the number nine. But she could conceal him no longer, for the Mizraee had become aware of him. And she took an ark of papyrus, (tunes,) and coated it with bitumen and pitch, and placed the child within it, and laid him among the reeds on the bank of the river. And Miriam his sister stood at a distance to take knowledge of what would be done to him. And the Word of the Lord sent forth a burning sore and inflammation of the flesh upon the land of Mizraim; and the daughter of Pharoh came down to refresh herself at the river. And her handmaids, walking upon the bank of the river, saw the ark among the reeds, and put forth the arm and took it, and were immediately healed of the burning and inflammation. And she opened, and saw the child, and, behold, the babe wept; and she had compassion upon him, and said, This is one of the children of the Jehudaee. And his sister said to Pharoh's daughter, May I go and call for thee a nursing woman from the Jehudesses, to suckle the babe for thee ? And Pharoh's daughter said, Go; and the damsel went and called the child's mother. And the daughter of Pharoh said, Take this child and suckle it for me, and I will give thee thy wages And the woman took the child and suckled him. And the child grew, and was brought to Pharoh's daughter, and he was beloved by her as a son; and she called his name Mosheh, Because, said she, I drew him out of the water of the river. [JERUSALEM. I uplifted him.]
And in those days when Mosheh was grown up, he went forth to his brethren, and saw the anguish of their souls, and the greatness of their toil. And he saw a Mizraite man strike a Jewish man of his brethren; and Mosheh turned, and considered in the wisdom of his mind, and understood that in no generation would there arise a proselyte from that Mizraite man, and that none of his children's children would ever be con-verted; and he smote the Mizraite, and buried him in the sand. [JERUSALEM. And Mosheh, by the Holy Spirit, considering both the young, men, saw that, behold, no proselyte would ever spring from that Mizraite; and he killed him, and hid him in the sand.]
And he went out the second day, and looked; and, behold, Dathan and Abiram, men of the Jehudaee contended; and seeing Dathan put forth his hand against Abiram to smite him, he said to him, Wherefore dost thou smite thy companion ? And Dathan said to him, Who is he who hath appointed thee a chief man and a judge over us ? Wilt thou kill me, said he, as thou didst the Mizraite ? And Mosheh was afraid, and said, Verily, the thing has become known. And Pharoh heard this thing, and sought to kill Mosheh; and Mosheh escaped before Pharoh, to dwell in the land of Midian. And he sat by a well. And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew, and filled the watering-troughs, to give drink to the flocks of their father. But the shepherds came and drave them away. And Mosheh arose in the power of his might, and rescued them, and gave the flocks drink. And they came to Reuel, their grandfather, who said to them, How is it that you are come (so) early to-day? And they replied, A Mizraite man not only delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, but also himself drawing drew and watered the flock. And he said to his son's daughters, And where is he ? Why did you leave the man ? Call him, and let him eat bread. But when Reuel knew that Mosheh had fled from before Pharoh he cast him into a pit; but Zipporah, the daughter of his son, maintained him with food, secretly, for the time of ten years; and at the end of ten years brought him out of the pit. And Mosheh went into the bedchamber of Reuel, and gave thanks and prayed before the Lord, who by him would work miracles and mighty acts. And there was shown to him the Rod which was created between the evenings, and on which was engraven and set forth the Great and Glorious Name, with which he was to do the wonders in Mizraim, and to divide the sea of Suph, and to bring, forth water from the rock. And it was infixed in the midst of the chamber, and he stretched forth his hand at once and took it. Then, behold, Mosheh was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave Zipporah, the daughter of his son, to Mosheh. And she bare him a male child, and he called his name Gershom, Because, said he, a sojourner have I been in a strange land which is not mine.
And it was after many of those days that the king of Mizraim was struck (with disease), and he commanded to kill the firstborn of the sons of Yisrael, that he might bathe himself in their blood. And the sons of Yisrael groaned with the labour that was hard upon them; and they cried, and their cry ascended to the high heavens of the Lord. And He spake in His Word to deliver them from the travail. And their cry was heard before the Lord, and before the Lord was the covenant remembered which He had covenanted with Avraham, with Izhak, and with Jakob. And the Lord looked upon the affliction of the bondage of the sons of Yisrael; and the repentance was revealed before Him which they exercised in concealment, so as that no man knew that of his companion.
III. But Mosheh was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the rabba of Midian; and he had led the flock to a pleasant place of pasturage which is behind the desert, and had come to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, even Horeb. And Zagnugael, the angel of the Lord, appeared to him in a fame of fire in the midst of the bush. And he gazed, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, yet the bush was neither burned nor consumed with fire. [JERUSALEM. And he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, yet remained in freshness, (or, was moist), neither was it consumed.] And Mosheh said, I will turn aside now and consider this great sight, why the bush is not burned. [JERU-SALEM. I will look at this great sight, wherefore the bush is refreshed and not burned.] And when it was seen before the Lord that he turned to look, the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Mosheh, Mosheh ! And he said, Behold me. And He said, Approach not hither, take the shoe from thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is a holy place; and upon it thou art to receive the Torah, to teach it to the sons of Yisrael. And He said, I am the Elohim of thy father, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob. And Mosheh covered his face; for he was afraid to look upon the height of the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord.
And He said, The oppression of My people who are in Mizraim is verily manifest before Me, and heard before Me is their cry on account of them who hold them in bondage; for their affliction is known before Me. And I have revealed Myself to thee this day, that by My Word they may be delivered from the hand of the Mizraee, to bring them up out of the unclean land, unto a good land, and large in its boundaries, a land yielding milk and honey, unto the place where dwell the Kenaanaee, and the Hittaee, and the Amoraee, and the Pherizaee, and the Hivaee, and the Jebusaee. And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Yisrael cometh up before Me, and the bruising of the Mizraee wherewith they bruise them is also revealed before Me. And now, come, and I will send thee unto Pharoh, and thou shalt bring forth My people, the sons of Yisrael, out of Mizraim.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, Who am I, that I should go to Pharoh, and bring forth the sons of Yisrael out of Mizraim? But He said, Therefore My Word shall be for thy help; and this shall be the sign to thee that I have sent thee: when thou hast, brought the people forth from Mizraim, ye shall worship before the Lord, because ye shall have received the Torah upon this mountain.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, I will go to the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, The Lord Elohim of your fathers hath sent me to you: and they will say to me, What is His Name ? What shall I say to them ? And the Lord said unto Mosheh, He who spake, and the world was; who spake, and all things were. And He said, This thou shalt say to the sons of Yisrael, I AM HE WHO IS, AND WHO WILL BE, hath sent me unto you. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord said to Mosheh, He who spake to the world, Be, and it was; and who will speak to it, Be, and it will be. And he said, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Yisrael, EHEYEH hath sent me unto you.] And the Lord said again unto Mosheh, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Yisrael, The Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob, hath sent me unto you. This is His Name for ever, and this is His Memorial to every generation and generation.
Go, and assemble the elders of Yisrael, and say to them, The Lord Elohim of your fathers hath appeared unto me, the Elohim of Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, saying, Remembering, I have remembered you, and the injury that is done you in Mizraim; and I have said in My Word, I will bring you up out from the oppression of the Mizraee into the land of the Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Amoraee, and Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee, to the land that yieldeth milk and honey. And they will hearken to thee: and thou and the elders of Yisrael shall go to the king of Mizraim and say to him, The Lord Elohim of the Jehudaee hath called us; and now let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness, to sacrifice before the Lord our Elohim. But it is manifest before Me that the king of Mizraim will not let you go, (no,) not from fear of Him who is Mighty, until that by My Word he shall have been punished with evil plagues. And ye will be hindered there until I have sent forth the stroke of My power, and have smitten Mizraee with all My wonders, that I will do among them; and afterward he will release you. And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Mizraee; and it shall be that when ye go free from thence, ye shall not go empty. But a woman shall ask of her neighbour, and from those next to the wall of her house, [JERUSALEM. Fellow resident,] vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vestments; and you shall set them as crowns upon your sons and your daughters, and make the Mizraee empty.
IV. And Mosheh answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to me; for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared to thee. And the Lord said to him, What is that in thy hand ? And he said, The rod. And He said, Cast it on the ground; and he cast it to the ground, and it became a serpent; and Mosheh fled from before it. [JERUSALEM. And He said, Cast it on the ground; and he cast it on the ground.] And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy hand and seize (it) by its tail. [JERUSALEM. And grasp the place of its tail.] And he stretched forth his hand and grasped it, and it became the rod in his hand: ?In order that they may believe that the Lord Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob, hath revealed Himself to thee. And the Lord said to him again, Put now thy hand within thy breast (Choba); and he put it within his breast, and withdrew it, and, behold, his hand was leprous, it was white as snow. And He said, Return thy hand into thy bosom (Aitaph); and he returned his hand to his breast, and withdrew it from his breast, and it had become clean as his flesh. [JERUSALEM. Put now thy hand into thy breast, and he put his hand within his breast. And if they believe not these two signs, nor receive from thee, thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it on the ground, and the water that thou shalt take from the river shall become blood upon the ground.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, O Lord, I pray: I am not a man of words, nor ever have been before that Thou didst speak with Thy servant; for I am of a staggering mouth and staggering speech. [JERUSALEM. For of a staggering mouth and difficult speech am I.] And the Lord said, Who is he who first put the language of the mouth into the mouth of man? or who hath appointed the dumb or the deaf, the open-seeing or the blind, but I the Lord ? And now go, and I by My Word will be with the speaking of thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say.
And he said, I pray for mercy before the Lord. Send now Thy sending by the hand of Phinehas, by whom it is to be sent at the end of the days. [JERUSALEM. Send now by the hand of him by whom it is opportune to send.] And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Mosheh, and He said, Is it not manifest before Me that Aharon thy brother speaking can speak ? And, behold, also, he cometh forth to meet thee, and will see thee and rejoice in his heart. And thou shalt speak with him, and put the matter in his mouth, and My Word shall be with the word of thy mouth, and with the word of his mouth, and I will instruct you what you are to do. And he shall speak for thee with the people, and be to thee an interpreter, and thou to him the principal, seeking instruction from before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. He shall be to thee an interpreter, and thou to him one inquiring instruction from before the Lord.] And this rod take thou in thy hand to work therewith the signs.
And Mosheh went, and returned unto Jethro his father in Torah, and said, I will now go to my brethren who are in Mizraim, to see how they now live. And Jethro said to Mosheh, Go in peace. And the Lord said unto Mosheh in Midian, Go, return to Mizraim; for they have come to nought, and gone down from their possessions; behold, all the men who sought to take thy life are reckoned as the dead.
And Mosheh took his wife and his sons, and made them ride on the ass, and returned to the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh took the rod which he had brought away from the chamber of his father-in-law; and it was from the sapphire Throne of glory, in weight forty sein; and upon it was engraven and set forth the Great and Glorious Name by which the signs should be wrought before the Lord by his hand. And the Lord said to Mosheh, In going to return into Mizraim, consider all the miracles that I have put in thy hand, and do them before Pharoh: and I will make obstinate the disposition (passion) of his heart, and he will not deliver the people. And thou shalt say to Pharoh, Thus saith the Lord, Yisrael is My first-born son; and to thee I say, Let My son go free, that he may worship before Me; and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy first-born son.
But it was on the way, in the place of lodging that the angel of the Lord met him, and sought to kill him, because Gershom his son had not been circumcised, inasmuch as Jethro his father-in-law had not permitted him to circumcise him: but Eliezer had been circum-cised, by an agreement between them two. And Zipporah took a stone, and circumcised the foreskin of Gershom her son, and brought the severed part to the feet of the angel, the Destroyer, and said, The husband sought to circumcise, but the father-in-law obstructed him; and now let this blood of the circumcision atone for my husband. [JERUSALEM. And she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and brought before the feet of the Destroyer, and said, The husband could have cir-cumcised, but the father-in-law did not permit him; but now, let the blood of this circumcision atone for the fault of this husband.] And the destroying angel desisted from him, so that Zipporah gave thanks, and said, How lovely is the blood of this circumcision that bath delivered my husband from the angel of destruction! [JERUSALEM. And when the Destroyer had ceased from him, Zipporah gave thanks and said, How lovely is the blood of this circumcision which hath saved my husband from the hand of the angel of death !]
And the Lord had said to Aharon, Go and meet Mosheh in the desert. And he came and met him at the mountain where was revealed the glory of the Lord, and he embraced him. And Mosheh delivered to Aharon all these words with which he had sent him, and all the signs that he had instructed him to work. And Mosheh and Aharon went, and gathered together all the elders of the sons of Yisrael. And Aharon spake all the words which the Lord had spoken with Mosheh, and did the signs in the eyes of the peo-ple. And the people believed, and heard that the Lord had remembered the sons of Yisrael, and that their bondage was manifest before Him; and they bowed them-selves and worshipped. [JERUSALEM. And they kneeled down.]
V. And after this Mosheh and Aharon went in unto Pharoh, and said, Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of Yisrael: Release My people, that they may make unto Me a festival in the wilderness. And Pharoh said, The name of the Lord is not made known to me, that I should receive His word to release Yisrael. I have not found written in the Book of the Angels the name of the Lord. Of Him I am not afraid, neither will I release Yisrael. And they said, The Name of the Elohim of the Jehudaee is invoked by (or upon) us. We will go, then, to proceed three days into the desert, and offer the sacrifices of a festival before the Lord Elohim, that death and slaughter befall us not. And the king of Mizraim said to Mosheh and Aharon, Why do you make the people cease from their labours? Go to your work. And Pharoh said, Behold, this people of the land are many, whom you would stop from their service. And Pharoh that day commanded the officers of the people and their exactors, saying, You shall no more give straw to the people to cast bricks as heretofore; let them go and collect straw for themselves; but the (same) number of bricks which they have heretofore made ye shall lay upon them, and not diminish from it, because they are idle; therefore they clamour, saying, Let us go to offer the sacrifice of a festival before our Elohim. Make their work strenuous upon the men, that they may be occupied with it, and not be setting their hopes upon lying words. And the officers and exactors of the people went forth, and said to the people, Thus saith Pharoh, I will not give you straw; you must go and take straw wherever you can find it; for your work will not in anywise be diminished. And the people were scattered abroad in all the land of Mizraim to gather stubble for the straw. But the officers were pressing, saying, Fulfil your work day by day, as you did when the straw was given you. And the exactors whom Pharoh set over them as officers beat the sons of Yisrael, saying, Why have not you fulfilled your appointment, to cast (the same number of) bricks as heretofore, to-day as yesterday? And the foremen came, and cried before Pharoh, saying, Why hast thou dealt thus with thy ser-vents ? Thou hast not given thy servants the straw, and (yet) say they to us, Make the bricks; and, behold, they beat thy servants, and the guilty treatment of thy people is strong:?but it goeth up! But he said, You are idle, idle: therefore you are saying, Let us go and over the sacrifice of a festival before our Elohim. And now, go, work; but the straw shall not be given you, yet the number of the bricks you shall produce. And the fore-men of the sons of Yisrael saw that they were in evil, (in his) saying, Ye are not to withhold the assignment of your bricks from day to day. And they met Mosheh and Aharon, who stood before them when they came out from the presence of Pharoh, and they said to them, Our affliction is manifest before the Lord, but our punishment is from you who have made our smell offensive before Pharoh and his servants; for you have occasioned a sword to be put into their hand to kill us. And Mosheh returned before the Lord, and said, O Lord, why hast Thou done evil to this people, and wherefore hast Thou sent me? From the hour that I went in unto Pharoh to speak in Thy name, this people hath suffered evil, and delivering Thou hast not delivered them.
VI. And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Now have I seen what Pharoh hath done: for by a strong hand shall he release them, and with a strong hand drive them forth from his land.
Section XIV. Vaera.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, and said to him, I am the Lord who revealed Myself to thee in the midst of the bush, and said to thee, I am the Lord. And I was revealed unto Avraham, and to Izhak, and to Jakob, as El-Shaddai; but My Name Ye-ya, as it discovereth My Glory, was not known to them. [JERUSALEM. And the Lord was revealed in His Word unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, as the Elohim of Heaven; but the Name of the Word of the Lord was not known to them.] And I confirmed also My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kenaan, the land of their sojourning in which they were sojourners. And now cometh before Me the groaning of the sons of Yisrael, because the Mizraee do enslave them; and I remember My covenant. Therefore say to the sons of Yisrael, I am the Lord; and I will bring you forth from the oppressive bondage of the Mizraee, and will deliver you from your servitude, and save you with an uplifted arm, and by great judgments. And I will bring you nigh before Me to be a people, and I will be a Elohim unto you, and you shall know that I am the Lord your Elohim who hath led you forth from the hard service of the Mizraee. And I will bring you into the land which I covenanted by My Word to give unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; and I will give it to you for an inheritance. I Am the Lord. And Mosheh spake according to this to the sons of Yisrael; but they received not from Mosheh, through anxiety of spirit, and from the strange and hard service which was upon their hands. [JERUSALEM. From anxiety.]
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, Go in, speak with Pharoh, the king of Mizraim, that he release the children of Yisrael from his land. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, the sons of Yisrael do not hearken to me; how then will Pharoh hearken to me, and I a man difficult of speech? And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, and gave them admoni-tion for the sons of Yisrael, and sent them to Pharoh, king of Mizraim, to send forth the children of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim.
These are the heads of the house of their fathers. -The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Yisrael, Hanok and Phallu, Hezron and Karmi; these are the race of Reuben. And the sons of Shimeon, Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jakin, and Sochar, and Shaul (he is Zimri, who yielded himself unto fornication, as among the Kenaanaee); these are the race of Shimeon. And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their race: Gershon, and Kehath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi a hundred and thirty and seven years: he lived to see Mosheh and Aharon the deliverers of Yisrael. And the sons of Gershon,
Libni and Shemei, according to their generations. And the sons of Kehath, Amram, and Jitshar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kehath the saint, a hundred and thirty and three years. He lived to see Phinehas, who is Elijah, the Great Priest, who is to be sent to the captivity of Yisrael at the end of the days. And the sons of Merari, Mahali and Mushi; these are the race of Levi, according to the generations. And Amram took Jokeved his cousin to wife, and she bare him Aharon and Mosheh; and the years of Amram the saint were a hundred and thirty and seven years. He lived to see the children of Rechabia bar Gershom bar Mosheh. And the sons of Jitshar (were) Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. And the sons of Uzziel, Mishael, and Elsaphan, and Sithri. And Aharon took Elisheba, daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nachshon, unto him to wife, and she bare him Nadab and Abibu, Elasar and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah, Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the race of Korah. And Elasar bar Aharon took unto him a wife from the daughters of Jethro who is Putiel, and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites, according to their generations. These are Aharon and Mosheh, to whom the Lord said, Bring forth the sons of Yisrael free from the land ; of Mizraim, according to their hosts;?these are they who spake with Pharoh, king of Mizraim, that he should send out the sons of Yisrael from Mizraim;?it is Mosheh the prophet, and Aharon the priest.
And it was in the day when the Lord spake with Mosheh in the land of Mizraim, that Aharon gave a listening ear, and heard what He spake with him. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, and said to him, I am the Lord. Say to Pharoh, king of Mizraim, all that I tell thee. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, I am difficult in speaking; how then will Pharoh hearken to me?
VII. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Wherefore art thou fearful? Behold, I have set thee a terror to Pharoh, as if thou wast his Elohim, and Aharon thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak to Aharon that which I command thee, and Aharon thy brother shall speak to Pharoh, that he release the sons of Yisrael from his land. But I will harden the disposition of Pharoh's heart, to multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Mizraim. Nor will Pharoh hearken to you. But I will shoot among them the arrows of death, and inflict the plagues
THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS
ON
THE BOOK OF SHEMOTH,
OR
EXODUS
[In the Pentateuch the first chapter of Exodus begins the Thirteenth Section of the Torah with the initial SHEMOTH, or Names.]
I. AND these are the names of the sons of Yisrael who came into Mizraim with Jakob; (each) man with the men of his house they came in: Reuben, Shimeon, Levi and Jehudah, Issakar, Zebulon and Benyamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. And all the souls that came forth from the thigh of Jakob were seventy souls, with Joseph who was in Mizraim.
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation; but the sons of Yisrael increased and propagated, and became great and very mighty, and the land was filled with them.
But a new king arose over Mizraim who did not hold valid (or confirm) the decree of Joseph. And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Yisrael are more numerous and stronger than we: come, let us deal wisely by them, lest they multiply, and it be that should war happen to us they join themselves with our enemies, and break forth in the war against us, and go up from the land. And they appointed over them evildoing governors (shiltonin) to afflict them in their labours. And they builded cities of treasure houses for Pharoh, Pithom, and Raamsas. But by as much as they afflicted them, so they increased and waxed strong, and the Mizraee had vexation on account of the sons of Yisrael; and the Mizraee made the sons of Yisrael serve with rigour, and embittered their lives with hard labour, in clay and in brick, and in all labour of the field, -all the work which they wrought, they made them do with hardship.
And the king of Mizraim spake to the midwives of Jewesses, (Yehuditha,) of whom the name of the one was Shiphra, and the name of the second Puvah; and he said, When you do the office of the midwife among the Jewish women, and you look upon the childbirth, if it be a son, you shall kill him; but if a daughter, let her live. But the midwives feared before the Lord, and did not act as the king of Mizraim had bidden them, but preserved the sons alive. And the king of Mizraim called the midwives said to Pharoh, It is because the Jewesses are unlike the Mizraite women; they are cunning, and give birth before the midwives come to them. And the Lord did good to the midwives; and the people multiplied and became strong. And because the midwives feared before the Lord He made for them houses. But Pharoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son who is born to the Jews you shall throw into the river, and every daughter you shall keep alive.
II. And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi (to wife). And the woman conceived, and bare a son; and she saw that he was good, and concealed him three months. But not being able to hide him longer, she took an ark of reed, and covered it with bitumen and pitch, and laid the child within it, and set it in the river upon the brink of the stream.[1] And his sister stationed herself at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
And the daughter of Pharoh came down to wash at the river, and her damsels walked on the river’s bank; and she saw the ark in the flood,[2] and reached out her arm and took it. And opening, she saw the child; and, behold, the infant wept. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the children of the Jehudaee. Then spake his sister to the daughter of Pharoh, Shall I go and call a nurse-woman of the Jehudaee who will suckle the child for thee? And the daughter of Pharoh said to her, Go; and the maiden went, and called the child’s mother. And Pharoh’s daughter said to her, Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee they recompense. And the woman took the child and suckled him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharoh’s daughter, and he became to her a son, and she called his name Mosheh, saying, Because I drew him out from the water.
And it was in those days when Mosheh had grown that he went out to his brethren and beheld their servitude. And he saw a Mizraite man smite a man, a Jehudai, (one) of his brethren. And he turned this way and that, and saw that there was no man; and smote the Mizraite, and buried him in the sand. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men, Jehudaeen contended. And he said to the guilty one, Why did you strike your companion? But he said, Who set you a chief man and judge over us? Will you who speak so kill me, as you killed the Mizraya? And Mosheh was afraid, and said, Surely the thing is known. And Pharoh heard that thing, and sought to kill Mosheh; and Mosheh fled from before Pharoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian.
And he sat by a well; and the prince (rabba) of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. But the shepherds came and drave them away; and Mosheh arose and rescued them, and watered the flock.
And they came to Reuel their father; and he said, What is this, that ye have come so quickly to-day? And they said, A man, a Mizraya, delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew for us and watered the flock. And he said to his daughters, And where is he? wherefore have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread. And Mosheh was willing to dwell with the man; and he gave Zipporah his daughter unto Mosheh. And she bare a son; and he called his name Gershom; for, said he, I am a stranger in a foreign land.
And it was in many of those days: and the king of Mizraim died. And the sons of Yisrael groaned with the hard service which was upon them; and the cry rose up before the presence of the Lord, form their labour. And their appeal was heard before the Lord; and the Lord remembered His covenant with Avraham, with Izhak, and with Jakob. And the servitude of the sons of Yisrael was know before the Lord, and the Lord said in His Word, that He would deliver them.
III. And Mosheh tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the rabba of Midian, and he led the flock to the place of the best pastures of the wilderness, and came to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, unto Horeb. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a bush. And he gazed, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed. And Mosheh said, I will now turn and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned up. And the Lord saw that he turned to see, and the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, Mosheh, Mosheh! And he said, Behold me. And He said, Approach not hither;[3] loose the sandal from thy foot, for the place where thou standest is holy. And He said, I am the Elohim of thy fathers; the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob. And Mosheh bowed with his face; for he was afraid to look up to the glory of the Lord.
And the Lord said, The bondage of My people who is in Mizraim is verily disclosed before Me, and before Me is heard their cry on account of their toils;[4] for their afflictions are disclosed before me; and I have appeared to deliver them from the hand of the Mizraee, and to bring them up from that land, unto a land good and large, a land producing milk and honey, unto the place of the Kenaanaee, an the Hittaee, and the Amoraee, and the Perizaee, and the Hivaee, and the Yevusaee. And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Yisrael ascendeth before Me, and the affliction is also revealed before Me wherewith the Mizraee afflict them. And now, come, I will send thee to Pharoh, and will bring forth the sons of Yisrael form Mizraim.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharoh to bring forth the sons of Yisrael from Mizraim? And He said, Because My Word shall be thy helper: and this shall be the sign that I have sent thee: In thy leading forth of the people from Mizraim you shall do service before the Lord upon this mountain.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, when I am come to the sons of Yisrael, and say to them, The Elohim of your fathers hath sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them? And the Lord said unto Mosheh, EHEYEH ASHER EHEYEH. And he said, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Yisrael, EHEYEH hath sent me unto you.
The Lord said moreover to Mosheh, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Yisrael, The Lord, the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob, hath sent me unto you. This is My Name for ever, and this is My Memorial in every generation and generation. Go and assemble the elders of Yisrael and say to them, The Lord, the Elohim of your fathers, hath revealed Himself to me, the Elohim of Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, saying, Remembering I have remembered you, and that which hath been done to you in Mizraim; and I have said that I would bring you up from the bondage of Mizraim to the land of the Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Emoraee, and the Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee, -to a land producing milk and honey. And they will be obedient to thee,[5] and thou shalt go, thou and the elders of Yisrael, to the king of Mizraim, and say to him, The Lord, the Elohim of the Jehudaee, hath called us;[6] and now let us go, as (for) a journey of three days into the desert, that we may sacrifice before the Lord our Elohim. But it is manifest before Me that the king of Mizraim will not release you, that you may go, not even on account of Him whose power is mighty. But I will send forth the stroke of My power, and will smite the Mizraee with all My miracles which I will perform among them, and afterward they will send you away. And I will give this people to become favourites in the eyes of the Mizraee, and it shall be that when you go you shall not go empty. But you shall demand, a woman of her neighbour and the inmates of her house, articles of silve and of gold and vestments, and put them upon you sons and upon your daughters, and shall make the Mizraee empty.[7]
IV. And Mosheh answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me nor hearken to me: for they will say, The Lord hath no been revealed to thee. And the Lord said to him, What is that which is in thy hand? and he said, A rod. And He said, Cast it to the ground; and he cast it upon the ground, and it became a serpent, and Mosheh fled from before it. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy hand and seize it by its tail; and he put forth his hand and grasped it, and it became a rod in his hand. That they may believe that the Lord god of their fathers hath been revealed to thee, that Elohim of Avraham, the Elohim of Izhak, and the Elohim of Jakob. And the Lord said yet to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and drew it out; and, behold, his hand was white as snow. And He said, Return thy hand into thy bosom. And he returned his hand into his bosom, and drew it out form his bosom, and, behold, it had turned to be as his own flesh. And it shall be, if they will not believe thee nor receive the voice of the first sign, that they shall believe the voice of the latter sign. But if they will not believe either of these two signs, nor receive from thee, take of the water that is in the river, and pour it upon the ground; and the water which thou takest form the river shall become blood upon the gorund.
And Mosheh said before the Lord, In entreating, I am not a man who is (well) spoken, neither yesterday nor the day before, and from the time that thou spakest with Thy servant: for I am heavy of speech and of a deep[8] tongue. But the Lord said to him, Who hath appointed the mouth of man, and who hath appointed the mute, or the deaf, or the open-sighted, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? And now go, and My Word shall be with thy mouth, and I will teach thee what to say. And he said, I beseech the Lord to send by the hand of one who is fit to be sent. And the displeasure of the Lord was kindled against Mosheh; and He said, Is not Aharon the Levite, thy brother, known before Me as one who speaking can speak? and also, behold, he cometh forth to anticipate thee, and will see thee, and rejoice in his heart. And thou shalt speak with him, and put the words in his mouth; and My Word will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what to do. And he shall speak for thee with the people, and shall be thy interpreter, and thou shalt be to him a rab; and this staff thou shalt take in thy hand wherewith to work the signs.
And Mosheh went, and returned to Jether his father-in-law, and said to him, I will now go and return to my brethren who are in Mizraim, and see if they still live. And Jether said to Mosheh, Go in peace. And the Lord said to Mosheh in Midian, Go, return to Mizraim; for all the men who sought to kill thee are dead. And Mosheh took his wife and his sons, and made them ride upon the ass, and returned to the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh took the staff with which the miracles had been done before the Lord in his hand. And the Lord said to Mosheh, In thy going to return to Mizraim look to all the wonders that I have appointed by thy hand, and do them before the Pharoh. But I will obdurate his heart, and he will not send the people away. And thou shalt say unto Pharoh, Thus said the Lord; Yisrael is My son, My firstborn. And I say unto thee, Let My son go, that he may serve before Me; and if thou refuse to send him away, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
And it was in the way, at the place of lodging, that the Angel of the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. And Zipporah took a stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and approached before him, and said, On account of the blood of this circumcision let my husband be given (back) to me. And when he had desisted from him, she said, But for the blood of this circumcision my husband would have been condemned to die.
And the Lord said to Aharon, Go thou to meet Mosheh in the desert. And he went, and met him at the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, and he kissed him. And Mosheh showed Aharon all the words with which the Lord had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded. And Mosheh and Aharon went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Yisrael; and Aharon told all the words which the Lord had spoken with Mosheh, and did the signs in the eyes of the people. And the people believed, and understood (heard) that the Lord had remembered the sons of Yisrael, and that heir slavery was manifest before him; and they bowed, and adored.
V. And afterward Mosheh and Aharon went in, and said to Pharoh: Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of Yisrael, Let My people go, to solemnize a feast (yechagun) before Me in the desert. And Pharoh said, The name of the Lord is not know to me, that I should hearken to His word to send Yisrael away. The name of the Lord is not revealed to me, and Yisrael I shall not release. And they said, The Elohim of the Jehudaee hath revealed Himself to us; let us now go three days’ journey into the desert to sacrifice before the Lord our Elohim, lest He come upon us with death or with slaughter. And the king of Mizraim said to them, Why, Mosheh and Aharon, do you hinder the people from their works? Go to your employment. And Pharoh said, Behold now, the people of the land are many, and you make them relax from their employment. And Pharoh that day commanded the masters[9] of the people and the overseers,[10] saying, You shall not continue (add) to give straw to the people to cast bricks, as heretofore; let them go and collect straw for themselves; yet the number[11] of bricks which they have made heretofore you shall still lay upon them and not diminish; for they are idle, and therefore cry, saying, We will go and sacrifice before our Elohim. Make labour heavy upon the men: let them be occupied with it, and not with vain words. And the masters of the people and the overseers went forth and spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharoh, I will not give you straw; you shall go and gather up straw for yourselves wheresoever you can find it; though from you work there shall be mother diminished. And the people were scattered abroad over all the country of Mizraim to gather stubble for straw. And the masters were urgent, saying, Fulfil your work, the matter of a day in a day, as you did when straw was given to you. And the masters whom Pharoh set over the sons of Yisrael smote them, saying, Why do you not fulfil your requirement to cast bricks as heretofore, as yesterday, so also to-day? And the overseers of the sons of Yisrael came and complained before Pharoh, saying, Why hast thou done thus with thy servants? Thou hast not given thy servants straw, yet they say to us, Make bricks; and, behold, thy servants are beaten, and thy people sin against us. But he said, You are idle: therefore you say, We will go and sacrifice before the Lord. And now go, work: but straw I will not give you; yet the number of bricks you shall render. And the overseers of the sons of Yisrael perceived that they were in evil: for they said to them, You shall not diminish form your bricks the matter of a day, in a day.
And they met Mosheh and Aharon standing before them in their coming out from being with Pharoh. And they said to them, May the Lord manifest Himself to you and adjudge;[12] because you have made our savour evil in the eyes of Pharoh, and in the eyes of his servants, and have put a sword into their hands to kill us! An Mosheh returned before the Lord and said, O Lord, why hast Thou done evil unto this people, and wherefore didst Thou send me? and from the time that I went in to Pharoh to speak in Thy name he hath done evil to this people, but liberating Thou hast not liberated Thy people. VI. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharoh: for with a strong hand shall he send them away, and with a strong hand drive them from his land.
[1] Sam. Vers., “among the rushes.”
[2] Ibid.
[3] Sam. Vers., “suddenly,” or, “rashly.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “before the face of their taskmasters.”
[5] Al. cod., “to thy word.”
[6] Al. cod., “hath revealed Himself to us.”
[7] Sam. Vers., “strip the Mizraee.”
[8] Or, “stammering.”
[9] Sam. Vers., “the foremen.”
[10] Sam. Vers., “his scribes.”
[11] Sam. Vers., “proportion.”
[12] Sam. Vers., “interpret.”
[ p. 608] with the pascha; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread unto His Name, the unleavened bread, of humiliation; for with haste you went forth from the land of Mizraim; that you may remember the day of your outgoing from the land of Mizraim all the days of your life. Take heed that in the beginning, of the pascha there be no leaven seen among you within all your borders for seven days; and that none of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening of the first day remain till the morning. It will not be allowed you to eat the pascha in (any) one of your cities which the Lord your Elohim giveth to you; but in the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell, there shall you sacrifice the pascha; and in the evening at the going down of the sun you may eat it until the middle of the night, the time when you began to go out of Mizraim. And you shall dress and eat it in the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose, and in the early morn (if need be) thou mayest return from the feast, and go to thy cities. On the first day thou shalt offer the omer, and eat unleavened cakes of the old corn; but in the six remaining days you may begin to eat unleavened cakes of the new corn and on the seventh day you shall assemble with thanksgiving before the Lord your Elohim; no work shall you perform.
Seven weeks number to you; from the time when you begin to put the sickle to the harvest of the field after the reaping of the omer you shall begin to number the seven weeks. And you shall keep with joy the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your Elohim, after the measure of the freewill offerings of your hands, according as the Lord your Elohim shall have blessed you. And you shall rejoice with the joy of the feast before the Lord your [p. 609] Elohim, you and your sons, your daughters, your servants and handmaids, the Levites who are in your cities, and the stranger, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose where to make His Shekinah to dwell. Remember that you were servants in Mizraim; so shall you observe and perform these statutes.
The Feast of Tabernacles you shall make to you seven days, when you will have completed to gather in the corn from your threshing floors, and the wine from your presses. And you shall rejoice in the joy of your feasts with the clarinet and flute, you and your sons and daughters, your handmaids, the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, who are in your cities. Seven days you shall keep the feast before the Lord your Elohim in the place which the Lord will choose, because the Lord your Elohim will have blessed you in all your provision, and in all the work of your hands, and so shall you be joyful in prosperity.
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your Elohim in the place that He will choose; at the Feast of the Unleavened, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; nor must you appear before the Lord your Elohim empty of any of the requirements; every one after the measure of the gifts of his hands, according to the blessing, which the Lord your Elohim hath bestowed upon you.
SECTION XLVIII.
SHOPHETIM.
UPRIGHT judges and efficient administrators you shall appoint in all your cities which the Lord your Elohim [p. 610] will give you for your tribes, and thev shall judge the people with true judgment. [JERUSALEM. Judges and administrators.] You shall not set judgment aside, nor respect persons, nor take a gift, because a gift blindeth the eyes of the wise who take it; for it perverteth them to foolishness, and confuseth equitable words in the mouth of the judges in the hour of their decision [JERUSALEM. You shall not go astray in judgment., nor respect persons, nor take the wages of mammon; for a bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and depraveth their right words in the hour of their judgment.] Upright and perfect judgment in truth shalt thou follow, that you may come to inherit the land which the Lord your Elohim will give you. As it is not allowed you to plant a grove by the side of the Lord's altar, so is it not allowed you to associate in judgment a fool with a wise judge to teach that which you are to do. As it is not for you to erect a statue, so are you not to appoint to be a governor a proud man, whom the Lord your Elohim doth abhor.
XVII. You shall not sacrifice before the. Lord your Elohim a bullock or lamb which hath any blemish or evil in it, or which is torn or rent; for that is abominable before the Lord your Elohim.
If there be found among you in one of your cities that the Lord your Elohim will give you a man or woman who doth what is evil before the Lord your Elohim in transgressing His covenant, and, following after evil desire, shall serve the idols of the Gentiles, and worship them, or the sun, or the moon, or all the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded; and it be told you, and you hear and make inquiry by witnesses fairly; and, behold, if this word be true and certain, that such abomination is wrought among you, then you shall bring forth that man or woman who hath done this evil thing, [p. 611] unto the gate of your house of judgment, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them that they die. Upon the word of two witnesses or of three he shall die who is guilty of death ; they shall not be put to death on the word of one witness. The bands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterward the hands of all (any of) the people; and so shall you bring down the evil doer among you.
If there be with you an extraordinary matter for judgment between unclean and clean blood, cases of life or of money, or between a plague of leprosy or of the scall, with words of controversy in your beth din, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose; and you shall come to the priests of the tribe of Levi, and to the judge who will be in those days, and inquire of them, and they will show you the process of judgment. Then shall you do according to the word of the custom of the Torah that they will show you at the place the Lord will choose, and observe to do whatsoever they teach you. [JERUSA.LEM. When a matter is too occult for you, in setting judgment in order between the blood of murder and innocent blood, between leprosy and the scall, with words of contention in your cities, then shall you arise and go up to the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose.] According to the word of the Torah that they will teach you, and the manner of judgment they pronounce, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence they will show you, to the right or to the left. And the man who will act with presumption, and not obey the judge or the priest who standeth there to minister before the Lord your Elohim, that man shall be put to death; so shalt you put down the doer of evil from Yisrael, and all the people will hear, and be afraid, and not do wickedly again.
When you enter the land which the Lord your Elohim [p. 612] giveth you, and possess, and dwell in it, and you say, Let us appoint a king over us, like all the nations about me, you shall inquire for iustruction before the Lord and afterward appoint the king over you: but it will not be lawful to set over you a foreign man who is not of your brethren. Only let him not increase to him more than two horses, lest his princes ride upon them, and become proud, neglect the words of the Torah, and commit the sin of the captivity of Mizraim; for the Lord hath told you, By that way ye shall return no more. Neither shall he multiply to him wives above eighteen, lest they pervert his heart; nor shall he increase to him silver or gold, lest his heart be greatly lifted up, and he rebel against the Elohim of heaven. And it shall be that if he be steadfast in the commandments of the Torah he shall sit upon the throne of his kingdom in security. And let the elders write for him the section (pharasha) of this Torah in a book before the priests of the tribe of Levi ; and let it be at his side, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his Elohim, to keep all the words of this Torah, and all these statutes to perform them: that his heart may not be arrogant toward his brethren, nor decline from the precepts to the right or the left, and that his days may be prolonged over his kingdom, his and his sons' among Yisrael.
XVIII. The priests of the tribe of Levi will have no part or inheritance with their brethren: they shall eat the oblations of the Lord as their portion, but an inheritance in field or vineyard they will not have among their brethren. The twenty and four gifts of the priesthood which the Lord will give to him are his heritage; as He said to him, And this shall be the portion belonging to the priest from the people, from them who offer sacrifices, whether bullock or lamb [p. 613] they shall give to the priest the right shoulder, the lower jaw, the cheeks, and the maw; the firsts of your corn, wine, and oil, the first of the fleece of your sheep, as much as a girdle measureth shall you give to him: because the Lord thy Elohim hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sons, all the days.
And when a Levite may come from one of your cities out of all Yisrael where he hath dwelt, and come with all the obligation of his soul's desire to the place which the Lord will choose, then he shall minister in the Name of the Lord his Elohim as all his brethren the Levites who minister there before the Lord. Portion for portion equally shall they eat, besides the gifts of the oblations which the priests do eat, which Elazar and Ithamar your fathers have given them to inherit. [JERUSALEM. And the allowance of his sale which they sell to him according to the fathers.]
When you have entered the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you, ye shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. None shall be found among you to make his sons or daughters pass through the fire, nor who enchant with enchantments, or inspect serpents, nor observe divinations and auguries, or make (magical) knots and bindings of serpents and scorpions or any kind of reptile, or who consult the oba, the bones of the dead or the bone Jadua, or who inquire of the manes. [JERUSALEM. No one shall be found among you to make his son or daughter pass through the fire, to enchant with enchantments, to inspect serpents, or to observe divinations and auguries; or any who use, (magical) knots, or are binders of snakes, [p. 614] scorpions, or any kinds of reptiles, or are consulters of oba, or who bring up the manes, or seek to learn from the dead.] For every one who doeth these is an abomination before the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord driveth them out before you. Ye shall be perfect in the fear of the Lord your Elohim. For these nations which thou art about to dispossess have listened to inspectors of serpents and enchanters. [JERUSALEM. To inspectors of serpents and to users of enchantments have they hearkened.] But you are not to be like them the priests shall inquire by Urim and Thummim and a Right Prophet will the Lord your Elohim give you; a Prophet from among you of your brethren like unto me, with the Holy Spirit will.the Lord your Elohim raise up unto you; to Him shall you be obedient. According to all that you begged before the Lord your Elohim in Horeb on the day of the assembling of the tribes to receive the Torah, saying, Let us not again bear the Great Voice from before the Lord our Elohim, nor behold again that great fire, lest we die: and the Lord said to me, That which they have spoken is right; I will raise up unto them a Prophet from, among their brethren in whom shall be the Holy Spirit, as in thee; and I will put My Word of prophecy in his mouth, and he shall speak with them whatsoever I command him; and the man who will not hearken to the words of My prophecy which shall be spoken in My Name, My Word shall take vengeance upon him. But the false prophet who doeth wickedly in speaking a thing in My Name, when I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of the gods of the Gentiles., that prophet shall be slain with the sword. And if thou shalt say in your thoughts, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a [p. 615] false prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, and the thing doth not come to pass, or be not confirmed, it is a word which the Lord hath not spoken; the false prophet spake it in presumption; fear him not.
XIX. When the Lord your Elohim shall have destroyed the nations whose land the Lord your Elohim giveth you, and you possess them, and dwell in their cities and houses, three cities shall you set apart within your land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit. You shall prepare a high road, and divide your limit which the Lord your Elohim bestoweth upon you, that any manslayer may flee thither. And this is the regulation for the manslayer who fleeth thither that he may live: Whoever shall have killed his brother without intention, he not having kept enmity against him yesterday, or the day before, (as for example) if any one goeth with his neighbour into the thicket to cut wood, and he driveth his hand with the axe to cut wood, and the iron flieth apart from the haft and lighteth on his neighbour that be die, he may flee to one of those appointed cities, and. save his life. [JERUSALEM. He who may go with his neighbour into the thicket to cut wood, and exerting himself with the axe to cut the wood, the iron separate from the.handle, and fall upon his neighbour that he die, be may flee into one of those cities, and live.] Lest the avenger of blood follow after him his heart boiling within him on account of his grief, and apprehend him, if the way be long, and take his life, though he is not guilty of the judgment of death, because he had not enmity against him in time past. [JERUSALEM. Because his heart is boiling and be meeteth.] Therefore I command you to-day that you set apart for you three cities.
And if the Lord your Elohim enlarge your border, as He hath sworn to your fathers, and give you all the [p. 616] land which He Hath sworn to your fathers to give, then shall you keep all this commandment which to-day I command you to do, that thou mayest love the Lord thy Elohim, and walk in the ways which are right before Him all days; and you shall add yet three cities to those thre ; that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit, and the guilt of the judgment of death may not be upon you.
But if a man with enmity against his neighbour shall lay wait for him in secret, to destroy his life, and he die, then should he flee into one of those cities, the sages of his cities shall send and take him thence, and give him up into the band of the pursuer for blood, and he shall be put to death. Your eye shall not spare him, but you shall put away shedders of innocent blood from Yisrael, that it may be well with you.
You shall not remove the boundary mark of your neighbours which the predecessors did set for the limit in your possession of inheritance in the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit.
The testimony of one (witness) shall not be valid against a man for any crime (regarding the taking) of life, or guilt concerning money, or any sin with which one may be charged with sinning; but, by the Word of the Lord, (to insure) retribution upon secret crimes, (while) one witness may swear to deny what hath been attested against him, the sentence shall be confirmed upon the mouth of two witnesses, or of three.
When false witnesses stand up against a man to testify wrong things against him, then the two men between whom lies the subject of contention shall stand in the presence of the Lord, before the priests and judges who will be in those days: and the judges shall question the witnesses of their times fairly; and, [p. 617] behold, false testimony is in the mouth of the witnesses; they have borne false witness against their brother. And so shall you do unto them as they had devised to do against their brother, and you shall put down the doers of evil from among you. And the wicked who remain will hear and be afraid, and not add to repeat an evil thing like this among you. Your eye shall not spare; life for life, the value of an eye for an eye, the value of a tooth for a tooth, the value of a hand for a hand, the value of a foot for a foot.
XX. When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots, and peoples proud, overbearing, and stronger than you, fear them not; for all of them are accounted as a single horse and a single chariot before the Lord your Elohim, whose Word will be your Helper; for He brought you free out of the land of Mizraim. And at the time that you draw nigh to do battle, the priest shall approach and speak with the people, and say to them, Hear, Yisrael, you draw near this day to fight against your adversaries; let not your heart be moved, be not afraid, tremble not, nor be broken down before them: for the Shekinah of the Lord your Elohim goeth before you to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you.
And the officers shall speak with the people, saying: Who is the man who hath builded a new house, and hath not set fast its door-posts to complete it? let him go and return to his house, lest through sin he be slain in the battle, and another man complete it. Or, what man hath planted a vineyard, and hath not redeemed it from the priest [JERUSALEM. And hath not redeemed it] to make it common? let him go and return to his house, lest sin be the occasion of his not redeeming it, but he be slain in the battle, and another make it common. And what man hath betrothed a [p. 618] wife, but not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest sin prevent him from rejoicing with his wife and he be slain in the battle, and another take her. Yet more shall the officers speak to the people, and say, Who is the man who is afraid on account of his sin and whose heart is broken? let him go and return to his house, that his brethren be not implicated in his sins, and their heart be broken like his. And when the officers shall have finished to speak with the people, they shall appoint the captains of the host at the head of the people.
When you come nigh to a city to make war against it, then you shall send to it certain to invite it to peace; and if they answer you with words of peace, and open their gates to you, all the people whom you find therein shall be tributaries, and serve you. [JERUSALEM. And if it answer thee with words of peace, and open the gates to you, all the people whom you find.] But if they will not make peace, but war, with you, then you shall beleaguer it. And when the Lord your Elohim will have delivered it into your hand, then may you smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women, children, and cattle, and whatever is in the city, even all the spoil, you shall seize, and eat the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your Elohim giveth you. Thus shall you do to all cities that are remote from you, which are not of the cities of these seven nations; but of the cities of these peoples, which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit, ye shall not spare alive any breathing thing: for destroying ye shall destroy them, Hittites, Amorites, Kenaanites, Pherizites, Hivites, and Jebusites, as the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you; that they may not teach you to do after their abominations with which they have served their idols, and you sin before the Lord your Elohim. [p. 619]
When you beleaguer a city all the seven days to war against it, to subdue it on the Shabbat, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by bringing against them (an instrument of) iron; that you may eat its fruit, cut it not down; for a tree on the face of the field is not as a man to be hidden (put out of sight) before you in the siege. But the tree that you know to be a tree not making fruit to eat, that you may destroy and cut down. And you shall raise bulwarks against the city which maketh war with you, until you have subdued it.
XXI. If a mail be found slain upon the ground, unburied, in the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit, lying down, and not hanged on a tree in the field, nor floating on the face of the water; and it be not known who did kill him: then two of the sages shall proceed from the chief court of judgment, and three of thy judges, and shall measure to the surrounding cities which lie on the four quarters from the (spot where) the dead man (is found); and the city which is nearest to the dead man, being the suspected one, let the chief court of justice take means for absolution (or disculpation). Let the sages, the elders of that city, take an heifer from the herd, not commixed, an heifer of the year, which hath not been wrought with nor hath drawn in the yoke: and the sages of that city shall bring the heifer down into an uncultivated field, where the ground hath not been tilled by work, nor sowed; and let them there behead the heifer from behind her with an axe (or knife, dolch) in the midst of the field. And the priests the sons of Levi shall draw near; for the Lord your Elohim hath chosen them to minister to Him, and to bless Yisrael in His Name, and according to their words to resolve every judgment, and in any plague of leprosy to shut up, and pronounce concerning it; and all the elders of the city lying nearest to the dead man shall wash their
SECTION XLVIII.
SHOPHETIM.
JUDGES and officers shalt thou appoint to thee in all thy cities which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with true judgment. Thou shalt not pervert judgment, nor have respect to persons, nor receive a gift; for a gift blindeth the eyes of the wise, and depraveth right words. Thou shalt follow that which is surely true, that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove, nor any tree beside the altar of the Lord thy Elohim that thou makest thee, nor erect a statue which the Lord thy Elohim abhorreth.
XVII. Thou shalt not sacrifice before the Lord thy Elohim a bullock or ram which hath blemish in it, not anything that is evil; for that is abomination before the Lord thy Elohim.
If, in anyone of the cities which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, there be found a man or woman who hath done evil before the Lord thy Elohim in transgressing his covenant, and going to do service to the idols of the Gentiles, or to the sun, moon, or all the host of the heavens, in worshipping them, which I have not commanded; and it be told thee, and thou hast heard ; thou shalt inquire fairly, and if such word be true that this abomination hath been wrought in Yisrael, thou shalt bring forth that man or woman, and stone them with stones that they die. On the word of two witnesses or, of three shall he die who is guilty of death: he shall not die on the word of one witness. The hands of the witnesses shall be upon him first to kill him, and the hands of all the people afterward; and thou shalt put down the doer of evil from among you.
If a matter for judgment be extraordinary to thee, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, or between plague and plague, of leprosy, they being matters of divided judgment in thy cities, then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy Elohim shall choose, and come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who may be in those days, and inquire; and they will show thee the sentence of decision.
And thou shalt do according to the word of the sentence which they will show thee from the place which the Lord will choose, and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they will teach thee. Upon the word of the Torah which they teach thee, and upon the judgment they tell thee, thou shalt act; thou shalt not swerve from the word they will have shown thee, to the right or the left. And the man who doeth wickedly in not receiving from the priest who standeth there to minister before the Lord thy Elohim, or from the judge, that man shall die; and thou shalt put down the evil doer from Yisrael. And all the people will hear and be afraid, and do wickedly no more.
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, and dost possess and dwell in it, and thou mayest say, I will appoint a king over me, like the nations who are about me; thou mayest verily appoint over thee a king whom the Lord thy Elohim will choose, from among thy brethren thou shalt appoint the king over thee. Thou shalt not have power to set over thee a foreign man, who is not thy brother. Only he shall not multiply to him horses, nor cause the people to return to Mizraim for the purpose of multiplying horses; for the Lord hath said to you, Ye shall no more return by that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to him, that his heart be not turned away; nor shall he increase silver and gold for himself greatly. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, out (of that which is) before the priests, the Levites. And he shall have it with him, to read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear before the Lord his Elohim, to keep all the words of this Torah, and these statutes, to perform them: that his heart may not be lifted up from his brethren, nor swerve from the precepts of the Lord to the right or to the left, and may prolong (his days) in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Yisrael.
XVIII. For the priests and Levites, (even) all the tribe of Levi, there shall be no part or inheritance with Yisrael; they shall eat the oblations of the Lord and his inheritance, but have no heritage among their brethren, the gifts presented unto the Lord they are his heritage, as the Lord hath said to him.
And this is what shall appertain to the priests from the people, from them who offer a sacrifice, whether bullock or lamb; they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the maw. The first of thy corn, wine, and oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, thou shalt set apart for him. For the Lord thy Elohim hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the Name of the Lord, he, and his sons, all the days.
And if a Levite come from one of thy cities out of all Yisrael, where he hath dwelt, and come with all the desire of his soul, to the place which the Lord will choose, then he shall minister in the Name of the Lord his Elohim with his brethren the Levites who minister there before the Lord. Portion for portion shall they eat, beside the accustomed allotment which cometh on the Shabbat, as the fathers have appointed. When thou hast entered into the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of these peoples: No one shall be found among thee who maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, using enchantments, observing times or augury or witchcraft, nor an incantator, or a consulter at a heathen oracle, or a wizard, or an inquirer from the dead: for all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord thy Elohim driveth them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect in the fear of the Lord thy Elohim. For these nations which thou shalt possess hearkened to diviners and enchanters; not so hath the Lord given thee to do. A PROPHET from among thee, of thy brethren, like me, will the Lord thy Elohim raise up unto thee, to him shall ye hearken. According to all that thou didst ask before the Lord thy Elohim at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not again hear the voice of the Word of the Lord my Elohim, and let me not see the great fire any more, lest I die. And the Lord said to me, That which they have spoken is right: I will raise up to them a Prophet from among them like unto thee, and I will put My words of prophecy upon his lips, and he will speak to them all that I shall command him. And the man who will not hearken to My words which he will speak in My Name, My Word will require it of him.
But a prophet who shall do wickedly in speaking in My Name a word which I had not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of the gods of the Gentiles, that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, if the word come not to pass, neither be confirmed, that is a word which the Lord hath not spoken: of the prophet who hath spoken in wickedness thou shalt not be afraid.
XIX. When the Lord thy Elohim hath destroyed the nations whose land the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, and you possess it, and dwell in their cities and houses; three cities shalt thou set apart to thee within thy land, which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee to inherit. Thou shalt prepare for thee a way, and divide into three parts the boundary of thy land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee to possess, for any manslayer to escape thither. And this shall be the case of the manslayer who fleeth thither that he may live: he who shall have slain his neighbour unwittingly, he not having hated him yesterday or before. As, when a man goeth with his neighbour into the thicket to cut wood, and his hand with the iron is driven aside in cutting the wood, and the iron flieth off from the handle and striketh (findeth) his neighbour, and he be killed, he shall flee to one of these cities that he may live; lest the avenger of blood pursue him while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and destroy his life; he not being guilty of death, because he had not hated him in time past. Wherefore, I command thee, saying: Thou shalt set apart to thee three cities. And when the Lord thy Elohim shall enlarge thy border, as He sware to thy fathers, and give thee all the land which He said to thy fathers He would give, if thou wilt keep all this commandment which I command thee this day, to perform it, to love the Lord thy Elohim, and to walk in the ways that are right before Him all the days; then thou halt add yet three cities to those three, that innocent blood may not be shed within thy land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee to inherit, and that the guilt of murder may not be upon thee.
But if a man bear hatred to his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, l and rise up against him, and destroy his life, and he die, and he flee to one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and take him from thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die. Thine eye shall not have pity upon him, and thou shalt do away with the shedding of innocent blood from Yisrael, that it may be well with thee.
Thou shalt not remove the boundary of thy neighbour which he hath set for a limit in the inheritance which thou shalt possess in the land the Lord thy Elohim will give thee to inherit.
One witness shall not rise up (alone) against a man for any iniquities or sins, or any sin by which he (may have) transgressed; but upon the word of two or of three witnesses shall the case be confirmed. If a false witness stand up against a man to testify against him with perversity, then the two men to whom the cause belongeth shall stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and judges who shall be in those days; and the judges shall make inquest fairly, and, behold, he hath testified falsely, and the testimony is false that he bath witnessed against his brother, then you shall do to him as he had designed to do to his brother, and so shall you put away the evil doer from among you. And the rest shall hear and be afraid, and not do any more like this evil thing among thee.
And thine eye shall not have pity: life for life; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot.
XX. When thou goest out to war with thy adversaries, and seest horses, and chariots, and more people than thou, be not afraid of them; for thy helper is the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, who brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. And it shall be when you draw nigh to battle, that the priest shall approach, and speak with the people, and say to them, Hear, Yisrael: you come this day to do battle with your enemies: let not your heart waver, neither be afraid, or confounded, or broken before them; for the Lord your Elohim (is He) who goeth before you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. And the officers shall speak before the people, saying: What man is there who hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he be slain in the battle, and another man dedicate it. And what man who hath planted a vineyard, but hath not made it common (for use)? let him go and return to his house, lest he be slain in the battle, and another man make it common, (or partake of it). And what man hath betrothed a wife, and not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he be slain in the battle, and another man take her. And the officers shall yet speak to the people, and say: What man is there who is afraid and broken-hearted? Let him return to his house, and not make the heart of his brethren to be broken as his heart. And it shall be, when the officers have finished to speak with the people, they shall appoint captains of the host at the head of the people.
When thou drawest nigh to a city to make war against it, then proclaim to it words of peace. And if it be that it make thee an answer of peace, and open to thee, then all the people who dwell in it shall be tributaries to thee and serve thee. But if it will not make peace with thee, but will have war with thee, then thou shalt besiege it: and when the Lord thy Elohim hath delivered it into thy hand, thou mayest smite all the males thereof by the sentence of the sword; but the women, children, cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil, thou shalt make booty for thyself; and thou &halt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the Lord thy Elohim will have given thee. Thus shalt thou do to all cities which are remote from thee, but are not of the cities of these nations; for of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, thou shalt not spare alive any breathing thing, but utterly destroy them, Hittites and Amorites, Kenaanites and Pheresites, Hivites and Jebusites, as the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee; that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their idols, and you sin against the Lord your Elohim.
When thou layest siege to a city many days in making war against it to subdue it, thou shalt not destroy the trees (that are about) it, nor lift up the iron against them: for of them thou mayest eat; thou shalt not cut them down, for the tree of the field is not like a man, to come against thee in the siege. Only a tree which thou knowest is not for food, thou mayest destroy and cut down; and thou shalt build bulwarks (palisades) against the city which maketh war with thee, until thou subdue it.
When in the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee to inherit there may be found one who is slain, lying in the field, and it is not known who hath killed him, then thy elders and judges shall come forth and admeasure unto the cities that surround the dead man; and the elders of the city that is nearest to the dead man shall take an heifer of the herd which hath not been worked with, nor hath drawn on the yoke. And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to an uncultivated valley (or field) which is not tilled nor sown, and there cut off the heifer in the field. And the priests the sons of Levi shall go near, for them the Lord thy Elohim hath chosen to minister to Him, and to bless in the Name of the Lord, and on their word shall every controversy or stroke of leprosy (be adjudged); and all the elders of that city which is nearest to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer which hath been cut off in the field; and shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen. And the priests shall say, Forgive Thy people Yisrael whom Thou, O Lord, hast redeemed, and let not the guilt of innocent blood be among Thy people Yisrael. And it shall be forgiven them concerning the blood: so shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right before the Lord.
WHEN thou goest out to war against thy enemies, and the Lord thy Elohim doth deliver them into thy hand, and thou takest them captive; and thou seest among the captives a woman of fair countenance, and hast a desire for her, and wouldst take her unto thee to wife; then thou shalt bring her into thy house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails, and take off from her the dress of her captivity, and dwell in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother a month of days; and afterward thou mayest go to her and marry her, and she shall be thy wife.
But if it be that thou hast no pleasure in her, then thou mayest send her away by herself: thou shalt in no wise sell her for money, nor make merchandise of her, for thou hast afflicted her.
If a man have two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne sons, the beloved one and the hated one, and the firstborn son belong to the hated; then in the day that he maketh his sons to inherit what he hath, he shall not make the son of the beloved to be (as) the firstborn over the head (face) of the son of the hated, the (actual) firstborn. For he shall distribute to the firstborn the son of the hated by giving him two parts of all his possession; for he is the beginning of his strength, and to him pertaineth the birthright.
If a man hath a son perverse and rebellious, who will not obey the word of his father or his mother, and, though they instruct him, will not hearken to them;
then his father and mother shall lay hold of him, and bring him forth before the elders of his city at the gate of the judgment house of his place, and shall say to the elders of the city, This our son is perverse and rebellious; he will not obey our words, he is a devourer of flesh and a taker of wine; then all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die; and thou shalt put a way the evil doer from among you, and all Yisrael will hear, and be afraid. When a man guilty of the judgment of death is put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a gibbet; his body shall not remain upon the gibbet, but thou shalt surely bury him on that day: for he was hanged because he had sinned before the Lord; and thy land which the Lord thy Elohim hath given thee to inherit shall not be defiled.
XXII. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his lamb going astray, and turn thyself aside from them; thou shalt surely bring them back to thy brother. And if thy brother be not near to thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it into thy house, and it shall be with thee until thou make inquiry for thy brother, and then thou shalt restore it to him.
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and with his garment, and with any lost thing of thy brother's which thou mayest have found, it is not lawful for thee to conceal it. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen in the way, and turn thyself away from them, thou shalt surely lift them up for him.
The adorning of a man shall not be upon a woman, nor shall the apparel of a man be like the apparel of a woman; for everyone who doeth these things is abominable before the Lord thy Elohim.
If thou find the nest of a bird before thee on the way, in any tree, or upon the ground, with young ones, or eggs, and the mother lying over the young ones, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother with the offspring. Thou shalt send away the mother, and take the young ones with thee; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest prolong thy days.
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet to thy roof, that thou mayest not bring the guilt of the blood of the slain upon thy house, by the falling of anyone who may fall there-from.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with mixed (seeds), lest what cometh from the seed which thou sowest, and the produce of thy vineyard, be unclean.
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not dress with a contexture of woollen and of linen joined together. Thou shalt make thee fringes (or tassels) upon the four corners of thy garment with which thou coverest thyself.
If a man take a wife, and go unto her, and dislike her, and lay an occasion of words about her, or bring out an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman and came to her, and I have not found her to be a virgin: then shall the father and mother of the damsel bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity before the elders of the city, at the gate of the judgment house of the place; and the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hateth her; and, behold, he hath set an occasion of words, saying, I have not found the virginity of thy daughter; but these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And he shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of the city shall take that man and scourge him, and fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give to the father of the damsel, because he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of the house of Yisrael. And she shall be his wife, he hath no power to put her away all his days. But if this word be true, and the tokens of virginity are not found unto the damsel, then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of that city shall stone her with stones that she die; for she hath wrought shame in Yisrael in playing whoredom in her father's house, and thou shalt put away the evil doer from among you.
If a man be found lying with a woman, the wife of (another) man, they shall be both of them put to death, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away the evil doer from Yisrael. If a man find in the city a damsel, a virgin, who is betrothed to a man, and lie with her, then shall you bring them both out to the gate of that city, and stone them with stones that they die; the damsel because she cried not out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put away the evil doer from among you. But if a man find the betrothed damsel in the field, and prevail against her, and lie with her, then only the man who lay with her shall be put to death; but unto the damsel thou shalt not do anything; there is not with the damsel guilt of the judgment of death; for as when a man riseth up against his neighbour and killeth him, even so is this matter; he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, but there was none to deliver. If a man find a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and lay hold of her and lie with her, and they be found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he had humbled her, he shall not have power to send her away all his days. A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover the skirt of his father.
XXIII. He who is castrated or ruptured shall not be clean so as to enter into the congregation of the Lord. A bastard or mixed person (mamzer) shall not be clean, so as to enter into the congregation of the Lord; his offspring also to the tenth generation shall not be clean, so as to enter into the congregation of the Lord.
An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not be clean, so as to enter into the congregation of the Lord; neither to the tenth generation shall they be clean ever to enter the congregation of the Lord; because they met you not with bread and water in the way, when you came up from Mizraim; and because they hired Bilaam bar Beor from Pethor Aram, upon the Phrat, to curse thee. But the Lord thy Elohim would not hearken to Bileam, and the Lord thy Elohim turned the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy Elohim loved thee. Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor a Mizraite, for thou wast a sojourner in his land. The children that are begotten of them of the third generation shall be clean, so as to enter into the congregation of the Lord. When thou goest forth a host against thy enemies, then beware of every wicked thing. If there be among thee a man who is not clean, by an accident of the night, let him go forth without the camp, let him not enter into the midst of the camp, but at eventide let him wash with water, and at sunset he may come into the camp. And a place shall be appointed for thee outside of the camp, that thou mayest go thither without.
And thou shalt have a blade upon thy weapon, that when thou sit test abroad thou mayest dig with it, and cover that which cometh from thee. For the Shekinah of the Lord thy Elohim walketh amid thy camp to save thee and deliver up thy enemies before thee, and thy camp shall be sacred, that nothing that offendeth may be seen among thee, lest His Word turn away from doing thee good.
Thou shalt not deliver up a slave of the Gentiles into the hand of his master, when he hath escaped to thee from his master; he shall dwell with thee in thy midst in the place that he may choose in one of thy cities where it may be best for him; thou shalt not oppress him. No woman of the children of Yisrael may be the wife of a man who is a slave; neither shall any man of the sons of Yisrael take a bondwoman to wife. Thou shalt not bring the hire of fornication nor the price of a dog into the house of the sanctuary of the Lord thy Elohim, for any vow; for even both of them are an abomination before the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not make usury of thy brother; the usury of money, of corn, or of any thing that produceth usury. From a son of the Gentiles thou mayest take usury, but from thy brother thou shalt not take it; for the Lord thy Elohim will bless thee in all that thou put test thy hand unto in the land to which thou goest to possess it.
When thou vowest a vow before the Lord thy Elohim, thou shalt not delay to fulfil it; for the Lord thy Elohim requiring will require it of thee, and it would become sin in thee. Yet if thou shouldst forbear to vow, it will not be sin in thee. What hath gone forth from thy lips thou shalt observe and perform; as thou hast vowed before the Lord thy Elohim, (thou shalt perform) freely what thou hast spoken with thy lips.
If thou comest for hire into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes for the satisfying of thy life; but thou shalt not put (them) into thy vessel.
If thou comest into thy neighbour's ripe corn, thou mayest pluck the full ears with thy hand, but not put in the sickle upon thy neighbour's corn.
XXIV. When a man shall have taken a wife, and become her husband, and she hath not found favour in his eyes, because he hath found something wrong in her, then he may write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hand, and send her from his house. And when she hath departed from his house,
she may go and become (the wife) of another man. And if the latter husband dislike her, and write her a bill of divorce, and put it into her hand, and dismiss her from his house; or if the latter husband who had taken her to be his wife shall die, the first husband who had put her away hath no power to return to take her to be his wife, after that she hath been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee to inherit. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go forth with the army, nor shall any transaction be (laid) upon him; he shall be free in his house for a year, that he may cheer (or, may enjoy himself with) his wife whom he hath taken.
No man shall take as a pledge the millstones (either lower) or upper; for by them is made the subsistence of every living man. If a man be found stealing a person of his brethren of the sons of Yisrael, to make merchandise of him, or to sell him, that man shall be put to death, and thou shalt put away the evil doer from among thee. Take heed, in the plague of leprosy, to observe and perform entirely all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; as I have commanded them, you shall observe to do. Remember what the Lord the Elohim did unto Miriam, in the way when you came out of Mizraim.
When thou hast lent the use of anything to thy neighbour, thou shalt not enter into his house to take his pledge. Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou hast lent shall bring out the pledge to thee. And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; thou shalt return him his pledge at sunset, that he may sleep in his garment, and may bless thee, and it shall be righteousness before the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not oppress an hireling who is needy and poor, (whether he be) of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land or thy cities. In his day thou shalt give him his hire; thou shalt not let the sun go down upon it, for he is needy, and to it he delivereth his life (soul) ; that he cry not against thee before the Lord, and it be sin in thee. The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall children die for the fathers; a man shall die for his own sin. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger or the orphan, nor take the garment of the widow for a pledge; but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Mizraim, and that the Lord thy Elohim redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
When thou art harvesting thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to take it; let it be for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy Elohim may bless thee in all the work of thy hands. When thou beatest thy olive (trees), thou shalt not make search for what thou bast left behind thee; let it be for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow. When thou art gathering thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean the grapes that are left behind thee; let them be for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Mizraim; therefore have I commanded thee to do this thing.
XXV. If there be (a case for) judgment between men, let them bring it to the, judges, that they may adjudicate; and they shall justify the innocent, and condemn the guilty. And if the guilty be condemned to be scourged, the judge shall cause him to lie down, and have him scourged before him (with stripes), in number according to the measure of his guilt. Forty (times) he may smite him, not more, lest he should go on to smite him above these with many stripes, and thy brother be made vile in thy eyes. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox while he treadeth out (the corn). If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, having no son, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another man without; her husband's brother shall go to her, and take her to him to wife, and marry her for his brother. And the first-born that she beareth shall keep up the name of his deceased brother, that his name be not blotted out from Yisrael. But should the man be unwilling to take the wife of his brother, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate of the house of judgment, and say before the elders, My husband's brother refuseth to keep up a name to his brother in Yisrael; he is not willing to marry me. Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak with him; and if he rise up and say, It is not my pleasure to take her; then shall his brother's wife approach him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and answer, and say, Thus let it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother. And his name shall be called in Yisrael, The house of the loosed shoe.
XXV. If men strive together, a man and his brother, and the wife of one (of them) come nigh to save her husband from the hand of him who smiteth him, and put forth her hand and seize the place of his shame, then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity on her.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag weight and weight, great and small.
Thou shalt not have in thy house measure and measure, great and small:
perfect weights and true shalt thou have, perfect measures and true shalt thou have, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee: for everyone who doeth these things, everyone who acteth falsely, is an abomination before the Lord thy Elohim.
Remember what Amalek did to thee in the way, when thou camest up out of Mizraim; how he overtook thee in the way, and slew of thee all who were following behind thee when thou wast faint and weary; and he was not afraid before the Lord. Therefore when the Lord thy Elohim shall have given thee rest from all thy enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee for a possession to inherit, thou shalt blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens: thou shalt not be forgetful.
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<a href=#C221V1>Chapter 1</a>
<a href=#C222V1>Chapter 2</a>
<a href=#C223V1>Chapter 3</a>
<a href=#C224V1>Chapter 4</a>
<a href=#C225V1>Chapter 5</a>
<a href=#C226V1>Chapter 6</a>
<a href=#C227V1>Chapter 7</a>
<a href=#C228V1>Chapter 8</a>
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<a name="C221V1" id="C221V1">1:1</a> The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.
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Beloved
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<a name="C221V2" id="C221V2">1:2</a> Let him kiss me with the kisses of his
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for your love is better than wine.
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<a name="C221V3" id="C221V3">1:3</a> Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.
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Your name is oil poured forth,
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therefore the virgins love you.
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<a name="C221V4" id="C221V4">1:4</a> Take me away with you.
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Let us hurry.
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The king has brought me into his chambers.
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Friends
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We will be glad and rejoice in you.
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We will praise your love more than wine!
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Beloved
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They are right to love you.
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<a name="C221V5" id="C221V5">1:5</a> I am dark, but lovely,
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you daughters of Yerushalayim,
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like Kedar's tents,
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like Solomon's curtains.
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<a name="C221V6" id="C221V6">1:6</a> Don't stare at me because I am dark,
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because the sun has scorched me.
</dd>
<dt>
My mother's sons were angry with me.
</dt>
<dd>
They made me keeper of the vineyards.
</dd>
<dd>
I haven't kept my own vineyard.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C221V7" id="C221V7">1:7</a> Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
</dt>
<dd>
where you graze your flock,
</dd>
<dd>
where you rest them at noon;
</dd>
<dd>
For why should I be as one who is veiled
</dd>
<dd>
beside the flocks of your companions?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V8" id="C221V8">1:8</a> If you don't know, most beautiful among
women,
</dt>
<dd>
follow the tracks of the sheep.
</dd>
<dd>
Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V9" id="C221V9">1:9</a> I have compared you, my love,
</dt>
<dd>
to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C221V10" id="C221V10">1:10</a> Your cheeks are beautiful with
earrings,
</dt>
<dd>
your neck with strings of jewels.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C221V11" id="C221V11">1:11</a> We will make you earrings of gold,
</dt>
<dd>
with studs of silver.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V12" id="C221V12">1:12</a> While the king sat at his table,
</dt>
<dd>
my perfume spread its fragrance.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C221V13" id="C221V13">1:13</a> My beloved is to me a sachet of
myrrh,
</dt>
<dd>
that lies between my breasts.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C221V14" id="C221V14">1:14</a> My beloved is to me a cluster of
henna blossoms
</dt>
<dd>
from the vineyards of En Gedi.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V15" id="C221V15">1:15</a> Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, you are beautiful.
</dd>
<dd>
Your eyes are doves.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V16" id="C221V16">1:16</a> Behold, you are beautiful, my
beloved, yes, pleasant;
</dt>
<dd>
and our couch is verdant.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C221V17" id="C221V17">1:17</a> The beams of our house are cedars.
</dt>
<dd>
Our rafters are firs.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V1" id="C222V1">2:1</a> I am a rose of Sharon,
</dt>
<dd>
a lily of the valleys.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V2" id="C222V2">2:2</a> As a lily among thorns,
</dt>
<dd>
so is my love among the daughters.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V3" id="C222V3">2:3</a> As the apple tree among the trees of
the wood,
</dt>
<dd>
so is my beloved among the sons.
</dd>
<dt>
I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
</dt>
<dd>
his fruit was sweet to my taste.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V4" id="C222V4">2:4</a> He brought me to the banquet hall.
</dt>
<dd>
His banner over me is love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V5" id="C222V5">2:5</a> Strengthen me with raisins,
</dt>
<dd>
refresh me with apples;
</dd>
<dd>
For I am faint with love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V6" id="C222V6">2:6</a> His left hand is under my head.
</dt>
<dd>
His right hand embraces me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V7" id="C222V7">2:7</a> I adjure you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
</dd>
<dd>
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
</dd>
<dd>
until it so desires.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V8" id="C222V8">2:8</a> The voice of my beloved!
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, he comes,
</dd>
<dd>
leaping on the mountains,
</dd>
<dd>
skipping on the hills.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V9" id="C222V9">2:9</a> My beloved is like a roe or a young
hart.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, he stands behind our wall!
</dd>
<dt>
He looks in at the windows.
</dt>
<dd>
He glances through the lattice.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V10" id="C222V10">2:10</a> My beloved spoke, and said to me,
</dt>
<dd>
"Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V11" id="C222V11">2:11</a> For, behold, the winter is past.
</dt>
<dd>
The rain is over and gone.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V12" id="C222V12">2:12</a> The flowers appear on the earth.
</dt>
<dd>
The time of the singing has come,
</dd>
<dd>
and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V13" id="C222V13">2:13</a> The fig tree ripens her green figs.
</dt>
<dd>
The vines are in blossom.
</dd>
<dd>
They give forth their fragrance.
</dd>
<dt>
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
</dt>
<dd>
and come away."
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V14" id="C222V14">2:14</a> My dove in the clefts of the rock,
</dt>
<dd>
In the hiding places of the mountainside,
</dd>
<dd>
Let me see your face.
</dd>
<dd>
Let me hear your voice;
</dd>
<dd>
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V15" id="C222V15">2:15</a> Catch for us the foxes,
</dt>
<dd>
the little foxes that spoil the vineyards;
</dd>
<dd>
for our vineyards are in blossom.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C222V16" id="C222V16">2:16</a> My beloved is mine, and I am his.
</dt>
<dd>
He browses among the lilies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C222V17" id="C222V17">2:17</a> Until the day is cool, and the
shadows flee away,
</dt>
<dd>
turn, my beloved,
</dd>
<dd>
and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C223V1" id="C223V1">3:1</a> By night on my bed,
</dt>
<dd>
I sought him whom my soul loves.
</dd>
<dd>
I sought him, but I didn't find him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V2" id="C223V2">3:2</a> I will get up now, and go about the
city;
</dt>
<dd>
in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.
</dd>
<dd>
I sought him, but I didn't find him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V3" id="C223V3">3:3</a> The watchmen who go about the city
found me;
</dt>
<dd>
"Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V4" id="C223V4">3:4</a> I had scarcely passed from them,
</dt>
<dd>
when I found him whom my soul loves.
</dd>
<dt>
I held him, and would not let him go,
</dt>
<dd>
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
</dd>
<dd>
into the chamber of her who conceived me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C223V5" id="C223V5">3:5</a> I adjure you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
</dd>
<dd>
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
</dd>
<dd>
until it so desires.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C223V6" id="C223V6">3:6</a> Who is this who comes up from the
wilderness like pillars of smoke,
</dt>
<dd>
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
</dd>
<dd>
with all spices of the merchant?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V7" id="C223V7">3:7</a> Behold, it is Solomon's carriage!
</dt>
<dd>
Sixty mighty men are around it,
</dd>
<dd>
of the mighty men of Yisrael.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V8" id="C223V8">3:8</a> They all handle the sword, and are
expert in war.
</dt>
<dd>
Every man has his sword on his thigh,
</dd>
<dd>
because of fear in the night.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V9" id="C223V9">3:9</a> King Solomon made himself a carriage
</dt>
<dd>
of the wood of Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V10" id="C223V10">3:10</a> He made its pillars of silver,
</dt>
<dd>
its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
</dd>
<dd>
its midst being paved with love,
</dd>
<dd>
from the daughters of Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C223V11" id="C223V11">3:11</a> Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and
see king Solomon,
</dt>
<dd>
with the crown with which his mother has crowned him,
</dd>
<dd>
in the day of his weddings,
</dd>
<dd>
in the day of the gladness of his heart.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C224V1" id="C224V1">4:1</a> Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
</dt>
<dd>
Behold, you are beautiful.
</dd>
<dt>
Your eyes are doves behind your veil.
</dt>
<dd>
Your hair is as a flock of goats,
</dd>
<dd>
that descend from Mount Gilead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V2" id="C224V2">4:2</a> Your teeth are like a newly shorn
flock,
</dt>
<dd>
which have come up from the washing,
</dd>
<dd>
where every one of them has twins.
</dd>
<dd>
None is bereaved among them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V3" id="C224V3">4:3</a> Your lips are like scarlet thread.
</dt>
<dd>
Your mouth is lovely.
</dd>
<dd>
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V4" id="C224V4">4:4</a> Your neck is like David's tower built
for an armory,
</dt>
<dd>
whereon a thousand shields hang,
</dd>
<dd>
all the shields of the mighty men.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V5" id="C224V5">4:5</a> Your two breasts are like two fawns
</dt>
<dd>
that are twins of a roe,
</dd>
<dd>
which feed among the lilies.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C224V6" id="C224V6">4:6</a> Until the day is cool, and the shadows
flee away,
</dt>
<dd>
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
</dd>
<dd>
to the hill of frankincense.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C224V7" id="C224V7">4:7</a> You are all beautiful, my love.
</dt>
<dd>
There is no spot in you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V8" id="C224V8">4:8</a> Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
</dt>
<dd>
with me from Lebanon.
</dd>
<dd>
Look from the top of Amana,
</dd>
<dd>
from the top of Senir and Hermon,
</dd>
<dd>
from the lions' dens,
</dd>
<dd>
from the mountains of the leopards.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V9" id="C224V9">4:9</a> You have ravished my heart, my sister,
my bride.
</dt>
<dd>
You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,
</dd>
<dd>
with one chain of your neck.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V10" id="C224V10">4:10</a> How beautiful is your love, my
sister, my bride!
</dt>
<dd>
How much better is your love than wine!
</dd>
<dd>
The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V11" id="C224V11">4:11</a> Your lips, my bride, drip like the
honeycomb.
</dt>
<dd>
Honey and milk are under your tongue.
</dd>
<dd>
The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V12" id="C224V12">4:12</a> A locked up garden is my sister, my
bride;
</dt>
<dd>
a locked up spring,
</dd>
<dd>
a sealed fountain.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C224V13" id="C224V13">4:13</a> Your shoots are an orchard of
pomegranates, with precious fruits:
</dt>
<dd>
henna with spikenard plants,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C224V14" id="C224V14">4:14</a> spikenard and saffron,
</dd>
<dd>
calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
</dd>
<dd>
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C224V15" id="C224V15">4:15</a> a fountain of gardens,
</dd>
<dd>
a well of living waters,
</dd>
<dd>
flowing streams from Lebanon.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C224V16" id="C224V16">4:16</a> Awake, north wind; and come, you
south!
</dt>
<dd>
Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.
</dd>
<dt>
Let my beloved come into his garden,
</dt>
<dd>
and taste his precious fruits.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C225V1" id="C225V1">5:1</a> I have come into my garden, my sister,
my bride.
</dt>
<dd>
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
</dd>
<dd>
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
</dd>
<dd>
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
Eat, friends!
</dt>
<dd>
Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C225V2" id="C225V2">5:2</a> I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
</dt>
<dd>
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
</dd>
<dd>
"Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;
</dd>
<dd>
for my head is filled with dew,
</dd>
<dd>
and my hair with the dampness of the night."
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V3" id="C225V3">5:3</a> I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must
I put it on?
</dt>
<dd>
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V4" id="C225V4">5:4</a> My beloved thrust his hand in through
the latch opening.
</dt>
<dd>
My heart pounded for him.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V5" id="C225V5">5:5</a> I rose up to open for my beloved.
</dt>
<dd>
My hands dripped with myrrh,
</dd>
<dd>
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
</dd>
<dd>
on the handles of the lock.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V6" id="C225V6">5:6</a> I opened to my beloved;
</dt>
<dd>
but my beloved left; and had gone away.
</dd>
<dt>
My heart went out when he spoke.
</dt>
<dd>
I looked for him, but I didn't find him.
</dd>
<dd>
I called him, but he didn't answer.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V7" id="C225V7">5:7</a> The watchmen who go about the city
found me.
</dt>
<dd>
They beat me.
</dd>
<dd>
They bruised me.
</dd>
<dd>
The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V8" id="C225V8">5:8</a> I adjure you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
If you find my beloved,
</dd>
<dd>
that you tell him that I am faint with love.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C225V9" id="C225V9">5:9</a> How is your beloved better than another
beloved,
</dt>
<dd>
you fairest among women?
</dd>
<dt>
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
</dt>
<dt>
that you do so adjure us?
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C225V10" id="C225V10">5:10</a> My beloved is white and ruddy.
</dt>
<dd>
The best among ten thousand.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V11" id="C225V11">5:11</a> His head is like the purest gold.
</dt>
<dd>
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V12" id="C225V12">5:12</a> His eyes are like doves beside the
water brooks,
</dt>
<dd>
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V13" id="C225V13">5:13</a> His cheeks are like a bed of spices
with towers of perfumes.
</dt>
<dd>
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V14" id="C225V14">5:14</a> His hands are like rings of gold set
with beryl.
</dt>
<dd>
His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V15" id="C225V15">5:15</a> His legs are like pillars of marble
set on sockets of fine gold.
</dt>
<dd>
His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C225V16" id="C225V16">5:16</a> His mouth is sweetness;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, he is altogether lovely.
</dd>
<dt>
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
</dt>
<dd>
daughters of Yerushalayim.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V1" id="C226V1">6:1</a> Where has your beloved gone, you
fairest among women?
</dt>
<dd>
Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V2" id="C226V2">6:2</a> My beloved has gone down to his garden,
</dt>
<dd>
to the beds of spices,
</dd>
<dd>
to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V3" id="C226V3">6:3</a> I am my beloved's, and my beloved is
mine.
</dt>
<dd>
He browses among the lilies,
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V4" id="C226V4">6:4</a> You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
</dt>
<dd>
lovely as Yerushalayim,
</dd>
<dd>
awesome as an army with banners.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V5" id="C226V5">6:5</a> Turn away your eyes from me,
</dt>
<dd>
for they have overcome me.
</dd>
<dt>
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
</dt>
<dd>
that lie along the side of Gilead.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V6" id="C226V6">6:6</a> Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
</dt>
<dd>
which have come up from the washing;
</dd>
<dd>
of which every one has twins;
</dd>
<dd>
none is bereaved among them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V7" id="C226V7">6:7</a> Your temples are like a piece of a
pomegranate behind your veil.
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V8" id="C226V8">6:8</a> There are sixty queens, eighty
concubines,
</dt>
<dd>
and virgins without number.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V9" id="C226V9">6:9</a> My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
</dt>
<dd>
She is her mother's only daughter.
</dd>
<dd>
She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
</dd>
<dt>
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed;
</dt>
<dd>
the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V10" id="C226V10">6:10</a> Who is she who looks forth as the
morning,
</dt>
<dd>
beautiful as the moon,
</dd>
<dd>
clear as the sun,
</dd>
<dd>
and awesome as an army with banners?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V11" id="C226V11">6:11</a> I went down into the nut tree grove,
</dt>
<dd>
to see the green plants of the valley,
</dd>
<dd>
to see whether the vine budded,
</dd>
<dd>
and the pomegranates were in flower.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C226V12" id="C226V12">6:12</a> Without realizing it,
</dt>
<dd>
my desire set me with my royal people's chariots.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C226V13" id="C226V13">6:13</a> Return, return, Shulammite!
</dt>
<dd>
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
</dt>
<dd>
as at the dance of Mahanaim?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C227V1" id="C227V1">7:1</a> How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
prince's daughter!
</dt>
<dd>
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
</dd>
<dd>
the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V2" id="C227V2">7:2</a> Your body is like a round goblet,
</dt>
<dd>
no mixed wine is wanting.
</dd>
<dt>
Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
</dt>
<dd>
set about with lilies.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V3" id="C227V3">7:3</a> Your two breasts are like two fawns,
</dt>
<dd>
that are twins of a roe.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V4" id="C227V4">7:4</a> Your neck is like an ivory tower.
</dt>
<dd>
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.
</dd>
<dd>
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C227V5" id="C227V5">7:5</a> Your head on you is like Carmel.
</dd>
<dd>
The hair of your head like purple.
</dd>
<dd>
The king is held captive in its tresses.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V6" id="C227V6">7:6</a> How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
</dt>
<dd>
love, for delights!
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V7" id="C227V7">7:7</a> This, your stature, is like a palm
tree,
</dt>
<dd>
your breasts like its fruit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V8" id="C227V8">7:8</a> I said, "I will climb up into the
palm tree.
</dt>
<dd>
I will take hold of its fruit."
</dd>
<dt>
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
</dt>
<dd>
the smell of your breath like apples,
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C227V9" id="C227V9">7:9</a> Your mouth like the best wine,
</dt>
<dd>
that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
</dd>
<dd>
gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C227V10" id="C227V10">7:10</a> I am my beloved's.
</dt>
<dd>
His desire is toward me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V11" id="C227V11">7:11</a> Come, my beloved, let us go forth
into the field.
</dt>
<dd>
Let us lodge in the villages.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V12" id="C227V12">7:12</a> Let's go early up to the vineyards.
</dt>
<dd>
Let's see whether the vine has budded,
</dd>
<dd>
its blossom is open,
</dd>
<dd>
and the pomegranates are in flower.
</dd>
<dd>
There I will give you my love.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C227V13" id="C227V13">7:13</a> The mandrakes give forth fragrance.
</dt>
<dd>
At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
</dd>
<dd>
which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C228V1" id="C228V1">8:1</a> Oh that you were like my brother,
</dt>
<dd>
who sucked the breasts of my mother!
</dd>
<dt>
If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
</dt>
<dd>
yes, and no one would despise me.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C228V2" id="C228V2">8:2</a> I would lead you, bringing you into my
mother's house,
</dt>
<dd>
who would instruct me.
</dd>
<dt>
I would have you drink spiced wine,
</dt>
<dd>
of the juice of my pomegranate.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C228V3" id="C228V3">8:3</a> His left hand would be under my head.
</dt>
<dd>
His right hand would embrace me.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V4" id="C228V4">8:4</a> I adjure you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
</dt>
<dd>
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
</dd>
<dd>
until it so desires.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V5" id="C228V5">8:5</a> Who is this who comes up from the
wilderness,
</dt>
<dd>
leaning on her beloved?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Under the apple tree I aroused you.
</dt>
<dd>
There your mother conceived you.
</dd>
<dd>
There she was in labor and bore you.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V6" id="C228V6">8:6</a> Set me as a seal on your heart,
</dt>
<dd>
as a seal on your arm;
</dd>
<dd>
for love is strong as death.
</dd>
<dd>
Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.
</dd>
<dd>
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
</dd>
<dd>
a very flame of Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C228V7" id="C228V7">8:7</a> Many waters can't quench love,
</dt>
<dd>
neither can floods drown it.
</dd>
<dt>
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
</dt>
<dd>
he would be utterly scorned.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Friends
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V8" id="C228V8">8:8</a> We have a little sister.
</dt>
<dd>
She has no breasts.
</dd>
<dt>
What shall we do for our sister
</dt>
<dd>
in the day when she is to be spoken for?
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V9" id="C228V9">8:9</a> If she is a wall,
</dt>
<dd>
we will build on her a turret of silver.
</dd>
<dt>
if she is a door,
</dt>
<dd>
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V10" id="C228V10">8:10</a> I am a wall, and my breasts like
towers,
</dt>
<dd>
then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C228V11" id="C228V11">8:11</a> Solomon had a vineyard at Baal
Hamon.
</dt>
<dd>
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
</dd>
<dd>
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C228V12" id="C228V12">8:12</a> My own vineyard is before me.
</dt>
<dd>
The thousand are for you, Solomon;
</dd>
<dd>
two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Lover
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V13" id="C228V13">8:13</a> You who dwell in the gardens, with
friends in attendance,
</dt>
<dd>
let me hear your voice!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
Beloved
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C228V14" id="C228V14">8:14</a> Come away, my beloved!
</dt>
<dd>
Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
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by J. W. Etheridge, M.A.
First Published 1862
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Chapter 1
1 When the judges led there was a [severe] famine in the land of Yisrael. Ten severe famines were decreed from Heaven to be in the world from the day of the creation of the world until the time when the King Messiah shall come, to reprove through them the inhabitants of the world. The first famine was in the days of Adam. The second famine was in the days of Lamech. The third famine was in the days of Avraham. The fourth famine was in the days of Isaac. The fifth famine was in the days of Jacob. The sixth famine was in the days of Boaz, who was called Ibzan (אבצן) the Righteous, who was from Bethlehem. The seventh famine was in the days of David, the King of Yisrael. The eighth famine was in the days of Elijah the prophet. The [ninth] famine was in the days of Elisha in Shomron. And the tenth famine will be [in the future], not a famine of eating bread nor a drought of drinking water, rather of hearing the word of prophecy from before the LORD. And when that famine was severe in the land of Yisrael a great man from Bethlehem of Yehudah went out and went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. [They were Ephrathites], lords from Bethlehem of Yehudah, and they came to the country of Moab and they were governors there.
3 Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died and she was left a widow and her two sons orphans.
4 They transgressed the decree of the Memra of the LORD and they took for themselves foreign wives from the house of Moab. The name of one was Orpah and the name of the second was Ruth, the daughter of Eglon, the king of Moab. And they dwelt there for a time of about ten years.
5 And because they had transgressed the decree of the Memra of the LORD and married into foreign nations, their days were cut short. And both Mahlon and Chilion also died in the unclean land and the woman was left bereft of her two sons and widowed of her husband.
6 She arose, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the country of Moab for it was announced in the country of Moab from the mouth of the angel that the LORD had remembered his people, the House of Yisrael, to give them bread because of the merit of Ibzan the judge and his prayers which he prayed before the LORD. He was Boaz the Pious.
7 She went out from the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, going on the way to return to the land of Yehudah.
8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you as you have dealt with your dead husbands since you refused to take men after their deaths, and with me since you have fed and supported me.
9 The LORD has given you a perfect reward for the kindness which you have done and through that reward you will find rest, each one in the house of her husband.” And she kissed them and they lifted up their voices and they wept.
10 And they said to her, “No, we will not return to our people and our god, but rather we will return with you to your people to become proselytes.”
11 Naomi said, “Turn back my daughters. Why would you go with me? Do I still have children in my womb that they might become husbands for you?
12 Turn back, my daughters, from behind me. Go to your people for I am old to be married to a man. For I said, ‘If I were a young woman I would have hope, but if I married tonight to a man and even if I bore sons,
13 would you wait for them grow up, as a woman who waits for a minor brother-in-law to take as husband? Is it for their account that you would remain tied, that you would not be married to a man? Please my daughters, do not embitter my soul, for it is more bitter for me than you for the blow has gone out against me from before the LORD.”
14 They raised their voices and wept again, another time, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and went her way, but Ruth clung to her.
15 She said, “Behold! Your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods. Go back after your sister-in-law to your people and your gods.
16 Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, to go back from after you, for I desire to be a proselyte.”
Naomi said, “We are commanded to keep Shabbats and holy days such that we may not walk more than two thousand cubits.”
Ruth said, “Wherever you go, I will go.”
Naomi said, “We are commanded not to lodge with Gentiles.”
Ruth said, “Where you lodge, I will lodge.”
Naomi said, “We are commanded to keep six hundred and thirteen commandments.”
Ruth said, “What your people keep I will keep as if they were my people from before this.
Naomi said, “We are commanded not to worship foreign gods.”
Ruth said, “Your god is my god.”
17 Naomi said, “We have four death penalties for the guilty: stoning with stones, burning with fire, execution by the sword and hanging on a tree.”
Ruth said, “How you die, I shall die.”
Naomi said, “We have a cemetery [three cubits].”
Ruth said, “And there I will be buried. And do not say any more. May the LORD do thus to me and more against me if even death shall separate me from you.”
18 When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she ended the conversation with her.
19 And the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem all the inhabitants of the city were excited about them and [the women] said, “Is this Naomi?”
20 She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi, call me Bitter of Soul for for Shaddai has made me very bitter.
21 I went out full with my husband and my sons and the LORD has brought me back empty of them. Why do you call Naomi, since from before the LORD my sin has testified against me and Shaddai has brought harm to me?”
22 So Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her who returned from the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem on the eve of Passover and on that day the children of Yisrael began to harvest the Omer of the heave-offering, which was of barley.
Chapter 2
1 Now Naomi had a kinsman through her husband, a man strong [in the Torah], from the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “I will go now to the field and I will glean among the ears of grain after the one in whose eyes I will find favor.” She said to her, “Go my daughter.”
3 So she went and she arrived and gleaned in the field behind the reapers and, as chance would have it, the field belonged to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
4 Just then, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “May the Memra of the LORD be your sustenance.” And they said [to him], “The LORD bless you.”
5 Boaz said to his servant who was appointed chief over the reapers, “From which nation is this girl?”
6 The servant who was appointed chief over the reapers replied and said, “The girl is from the people of Moab who returned, and became a proselyte, with Naomi from the country of Moab.
7 She said, ‘I will pile up, now, and glean ears of grain among the sheaves that remain [upon the surface of the ground] behind the reapers.’ She came and stood and has remained here from morning until now. It is only for a short time that she has sat in the house but a little while.”
8 And Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen to me my, my daughter. Do not go to glean ears of grain in another field and do not pass from here to go to another nation, but remain here with my girls.
9 Look at the field that is being reaped go behind them. Have I not command the young men not to molest you? And at the time you are thirsty for water go to the vessels and drink from the water which the young men fill.”
10 She fell on her face and bowed to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should befriend me since I am from a foreign people, from the daughters of Moab, who are not purified to enter into the congregation of the LORD?”
11 Boaz replied and said to her, “It has surely been told to me concerning the word of the sages that when the LORD decreed concerning them he did not decree against any but the men. And it was told to me by prophecy that there will come forth from you kings and prophets because of [all] the kindness that you have done for your mother-in-law, that you have supported her after your husband died and you forsook your god and your people [and your father and mother] and the land of your birth and went to become a proselyte and to dwell among a people who were not known to you before.
12 “May the Lord repay you a good payment in this world for your good deeds and may your reward be perfect in the next world from before the LORD, the Elohim of Yisrael, to whom you have come to become a proselyte and to shelter under the shadow of his glorious Shekina. And by that merit you will be saved from the judgment of Gehenna so that your portion may be with Sarah, and Rebekah, and Rachel, and Leah.”
13 She said, “May I find favor before you, my lord, for you have comforted me by deeming me worthy to be admitted to the congregation of the LORD, and you have spoken consolation to the heart of your maidservant in that you have assured me of inheriting the next world in righteousness, when I have not merit to have a portion in the next world, even with one of your maidservants.”
14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat bread and dip your food in the broth which is cooked in vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers and he passed to her flour of parched corn. She ate, and was satisfied, and had some left over.
15 When she got up to glean ears of grain, Boaz commanded his young men saying, “Even among the sheaves let her glean, and do not embarrass her.
16 “You might even let some fall from the pitchforks for her, and leave it for her to glean. Do not rebuke her.
17 She gleaned ears of grain in the field until evening. Then she beat out the ears of grain which she had gleaned, and they amounted to about three seahs of barley.
18 She carried it, and went into the town. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and she took out of her bag, and gave to her, that food which she had left over when she was satisfied.
19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today, and where have you diligently worked? May the man who befriended you be blessed!”
She told her mother-in-law with whom she had diligently worked, and said, “The name of the great man with whom I diligently [worked] today is called Boaz.”
20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the holy mouth of the LORD, who has not failed in his kindness to the living and the dead.”
Naomi said to her, “The man is related to us, he is one of our redeemers.”
21 Ruth the Moabite said, “He also said to me ‘You shall remain with my young men, until the time when they have finished all my harvest.’”
22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his girls, so that no one will meet you in another field.”
23 So she joined Boaz’s girls in gleaning until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished, and she stayed with her mother-in-law.
Chapter 3
1 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I swear that I shall not rest until the time that I shall seek for you [a rest], that it may be well with you.
2 “Now, is there not Boaz our kinsman with whose girls you were in the field? He is winnowing at the barley threshing-floor in the night wind [until morning].
3 Wash yourself with water, anoint yourself with perfumes, put on your jewelry, and go down to the threshing-floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until the time that he has finished eating and drinking.
4 At the time when he lies down, note the place where he is lying and go and uncover his feet and lie down. You shall ask advice from him and he will tell you in his wisdom what you should do.”
5 She said to her, “All that you have said to me I will do.”
6 And she went down to the threshing-floor and did all that her mother-in-law had commanded.
7 Boaz ate and drank and his heart was merry. He blessed the name of the LORD who had accepted his prayers and removed the famine from the land of Yisrael, and he went to lie down beside the heap of grain. And Ruth came in secret, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
8 In the middle of the night the man was startled, and he trembled, and his flesh became soft like turnip from fear. He looked and lo! a woman lying at his feet. His desire grew strong, but he did not approach her, just as did Joseph the Righteous who refused to approach the Egyptian woman, the wife of his master; just as Paltiel bar Laish the Pious did, who placed a sword between himself and Michal daughter of Sha'ul, wife of David, whom he refused to approach.
9 “Who are you, my daughter?” he asked.
She said, “I am Ruth your maidservant. Let your name be called over your maidservant by taking me in marriage, for you are a redeemer.”
10 He said, “May you be blessed from before the Lord, my daughter. You have made your latter good deed better than your former one, the former being that you became a proselyte and the latter that you have made yourself as a woman who waits for a little brother-in-law until the time that he is grown up, in that you have not gone after young men to commit fornication with them, whether poor or rich.
11 “Now, my daughter, do not fear, all that you say to me I will do for you, for it is known before all who sit at the gate of the great Sanhedrin of my people that you are a righteous woman and there is in you strength to bear the yoke of the commandments of the LORD.
12 “Now, while it is true that I am a redeemer, there is also a redeemer for whom it is more fitting to act as a redeemer than I.
13 “Stay the night, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good, he is fitting to redeem you according to the Torah, behold it is good! Let him redeem with good fortune. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then I will redeem you. I say with an oath before the LORD as I have spoken to you so will I do. Lie down until the morning.”
14 She lay at his feet until the morning, and she arose at dawn before a man could recognize his companion because of the darkness, and he said to his servant, “Let it not be known to any man that the woman came to the threshing-floor.”
15 Then he said, “Bring the scarf which you are wearing and hold it.” She held it, and he measured out six seahs of barley and put them on her. Strength and power were given to her from before the LORD to carry them, and immediately it was said to her prophetically that there would descend from her six of the most righteous men of all time, each of whom would be blessed with six blessings: David, Daniel and his companions, and the king Messiah.
Then Boaz went to the town.
16 She came to her mother-in-law at dawn, and she asked, “Who are you, my daughter?” She told her all that the man had done for her; according to the prophecy which was revealed to him, he acted toward her.
17 She said, “The man gave me these six seahs of barley, for he said to me, ‘Do not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’”
18 She said, “Stay, my daughter, with me in the house until you know from the Beth-Din how it will be decreed from heaven and how the matter will be resolved for the man will not rest but he will resolve the matter for good this day.”
Chapter 4
1 Boaz went up to the gate of the Beth-Din of the Sanhedrin and sat there with the elders. Just then the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken to Ruth, passed by, he said, “Turn aside and sit down here, man whose paths are modest. He turned aside and sat down.
2 Then he took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here.” They sat down.
3 He said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the field of Moab, has sold the piece of land which belonged to our kinsman Elimelech.
4 “I thought I would warn you, and inform you, and say, “Buy!” in the presence of [those who sit] in the gate of the Beth-Din of the Sanhedrin and in the presence of the elders of my people. If it is your desire to redeem, redeem. And if it is not your wish to redeem tell me, so that I may know, for there is no one apart from you to redeem and I will be redeemer after you.”
He said, “I will redeem.”
5 Boaz said, “On the day that you buy the field from the hand of Naomi and from the hand of Ruth the Moabite, wife of the deceased, you are obliged and required to act as her brother-in-law in order to raise up the name of the deceased upon his inheritance.”
6 The redeemer said, “In that case, I am not able to redeem for myself. Because I have a wife, I have no right to marry another in addition to her lest there be contention in my house and I destroy my inheritance. You, redeem my inheritance for yourself, for you have no wife, for I am not able to redeem.”
7 This custom was observed in former times in Yisrael: when they were transacting business or redeeming or exchanging one with another before witnesses [or establishing anything.] A man took off his right-hand glove and, reaching out with it, the possession [was transferred] to his companion. Thus was the tradition in the house of Yisrael for a man to make purchases from his companion before witnesses.
8 So the redeemer said to Boaz, “Stretch out your hand for the symbol of ownership and take possession for yourself.” Boaz drew off his right-hand glove and took possession for himself.
9 Then Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “Be witnesses this day, that I have acquired all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi.
10 “And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself in marriage in order to raise up [the name] of the deceased upon his inheritance, and so that the name of the deceased may not disappear from among his kinsmen and from the gate of the Sanhedrin which is in his place. You are witnesses this day.”
11 All the people who were in the gate of the Sanhedrin and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make this woman who is coming into your house sound in luck like Rachel and Leah, the two of whom built the house of Yisrael, our father, with twelve tribes. May you prosper in Ephrath and be renowned in Bethlehem.
12 May your house be prosperous as the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Yehudah, from the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
13 Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. He went in to her and the LORD gave her conception and she bore a son.
14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the name of the LORD, who has not withheld from you a redeemer this day. May his name be called among the righteous of Yisrael.
15 May he be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age with delicacies, for your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, who was better to you in the time of your widowhood than many sons.”
16 Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and she became his nurse.
17 The neighbors gave him a name saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They called him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18 These are the descendants of Perez. Perez fathered Hezron.
19 Hezron fathered Ram, and Ram fathered Aminadab.
20 Aminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon was the head of a family of the house of Yehudah. Nahshon fathered Salma the Righteous, that is Salma from Bethlehem and Netophah, [whose sons] did away with the guardposts which Jeroboam the Wicked placed on the roads, and the deeds of the father and sons were beautiful as balm.
21 Salmon fathered Boaz, Ibzan the judge, that is Boaz the Righteous, through whose merit the people, the house of Yisrael, were freed from the hand of their enemies, and because of his prayers the famine passed from the land of Yisrael. Boaz fathered Obed, who served the Lord of the World with a perfect heart.
22 Obed fathered Jesse, who was called Nahash because no sin or fault was found in him that he should be delivered into the hand of the Angel of Death to take his life from him. He lived many days until there was remembered before the LORD the counsel which the serpent gave to Chavah, the wife of Adam, to eat of the fruit of the tree, those who eat of its fruit are made wise to know good and evil. Because of that counsel all who dwell on earth were condemned to death, and for that sin the righteous Jesse died, that is Jesse who fathered David, the king of Yisrael.
!The Aramaic Targum to Song of Songs
!!!English Translation by Jay C. Treat
!!Introduction: The Ten Songs
1:1 Songs and praises which Solomon the prophet, king of Yisrael, spoke by the Spirit of Prophecy before the Lord of all the World, YAHWEH 1.
Ten songs were spoken in this world, this song being the best of them all. The first song Adam spoke at the time his guilt was forgiven him and the Shabbat Day arrived and protected him. He opened his mouth and said, “A Psalm, a Song for the Shabbat Day” (Psalm 92).
The second song Moshe said with the children of Yisrael at the time the Master of the World divided the Reed Sea for them. All of them opened their mouths together and spoke the song, as it is written: “Then sang Moshe and the Israelites” (Exodus 15:1).
The third song the children of Yisrael spoke at the time the well of water 2 was given to them, as it is written, “Then sang Israel” (Numbers 21:17).
The fourth song Moshe, the prophet, uttered, when his time had come to depart from the world. And by it he reproved the people of the house of Yisrael, as it is written, “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak” (Deuteronomy 32:1).
The fifth song Joshua, son of Nun, spoke when he waged war in Gibeon, and the sun and moon stood for him thirty-six hours and they ceased to utter the song [of their praise]. He opened his mouth and sang the song, as it is written: “Thus sang Joshua before YAHWEH” (Joshua 10:12).
The sixth song Barak and Deborah said on the day YAHWEH delivered Sisera and his camp into the hands of the Children of Yisrael, as it is written: “Then sang Deborah and Barak, son of Abinoam” (Judges 5:1).
The seventh song Hannah said at the time she was granted a son from before YAHWEH, as it is written: “And Hannah prayed in the Spirit of prophecy and said” (1Samuel 2:1).
The eighth song David, king of Yisrael, said because of all the miracles which YAHWEH had performed for him. He opened his mouth and spoke a song, as it is written, “And David praised in prophecy before YAHWEH” (2Samuel 22:1).
The ninth song Solomon, King of Yisrael, said by the Holy Spirit, before the Master of all the World, YAHWEH (Song of Songs).
And the tenth song the children of the Exile are destined to say at the time they are redeemed from Exile, as it is written and explained by the hand of Isaiah the prophet, as it is written: “You shall have this song for joy, as on the night the feast of Passover is sanctified, and for gladness of heart, as the people who go to appear before YAHWEH three times a year with varieties of music and the sound of the drum, to come up to the mountain of YAHWEH and to worship before YAHWEH, the Strength of Israel” (Isaiah 30:29).
!!Section 1: The Wilderness
1:2 Solomon the prophet said: “Blessed be the name of YAHWEH who gave us the Torah by the hand of Moshe the great scribe, inscribed on two tablets of stone, and [gave us] six orders of the Mishnah and the Gemara by oral tradition, and conversed with us face to face (as a man who kisses his companion) out of the great love with which He cherished us, more than the seventy nations.
1:3 “At the sound of your miracle and might which you performed for the people, the House of Yisrael, all the nations who heard the report of your might and good signs trembled; and your Holy Name was heard in all the earth, and it was more choice than the oil of high office with which the heads of kings and priests were anointed. And therefore the righteous loved to follow the path of your goodness in order that they may possess this world and the world to come.”
1:4 When the people of the House of Yisrael went out from Egypt, the Presence 3 of the Lord of the World was their leader; it went before them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night. The righteous of that generation said: “Master of all the World, draw us after you and we will run after the path of your goodness. So draw us near to the base of Mount Sinai and give us your Laws from your treasure house of the Firmament. And we will rejoice and be glad with the twenty-two letters with which they are written and we will be mindful of them and will love your divinity and will remove ourselves from the idols of the nations. And all the righteous who do what is upright in your sight will revere you and love your commands.”
1:5 When the House of Yisrael made the [Golden] Calf, their faces grew dark like the children of Cush [Ethiopians] who dwell in the tents of Qedar. And when they turned in repentance and their guilt was pardoned them, the splendor of their faces’ glory increased like the angels, because they made the curtains for the Tabernacle and the Presence of YAHWEH dwelt among them. And Moshe their master went up to the Firmament and made peace 4 between them and their King.
1:6 The Assembly of Yisrael said to the nations: “Do not despise me because I am darker than you, because I have done according to your deeds and have bowed down to the sun and the moon. For false prophets caused the powerful fury of YAHWEH to be drawn down upon me. They taught me to worship your idols and walk according to your laws. But the Lord of the World, who is my Elohim, I did not serve and did not follow after His laws, nor keep His commands and His Torah.”
1:7 When the time came for Moshe the prophet to depart from the world, he said before YAHWEH: It has been revealed to me that this people will sin and be carried into Exile. Now tell me how they will sustain themselves and live among the nations whose decrees are as strong as the heat of the noonday sun at the summer solstice, and why they will be carried away among the flocks of the children of Esau and Ishmael who treat their idols as Your companions.
1:8 The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe the prophet: “If the Assembly of Yisrael (which is compared to a beautiful young woman whom my soul loves) wishes to wipe out the Exile, let her walk in the ways of the righteous, let her order her prayers by the mouth of the shepherd’s assistants 5 and the leaders of her generation; let her teach her children (which are compared to the kids of goats) to go to the Synagogue and the House of Study and by that merit, they will be sustained in the Exile until the time when I send the King, the Messiah, who will lead them in rest to their dwelling-place, the Temple that David and Solomon, the shepherds of Yisrael, will build for them.”
1:9 When Yisrael went out from Egypt, Pharaoh and his army pursued after them with chariots and horsemen, and the way was closed for them on four sides. On the right and left were wildernesses that were full of fiery serpents, behind them was the wicked Pharaoh with his armies, and in front of them was the Reed Sea. What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do? He revealed himself in the fullness of His strength at the Sea. He dried up the sea, but the mud He did not dry up. The wicked (the mixed multitude of foreigners who were among them) said, “He can dry up the waters of the Sea, but the mud He cannot dry up.” At that time, YAHWEH became very angry with them and He would have drowned them in the waters of the Sea just as Pharaoh, his armies, his chariots, his horsemen, and horses were drowned–if it had not been for Moshe the prophet, who stretched out his hands in prayer before YAHWEH and turned back the anger of YAHWEH from them. And he and the righteous of that generation opened their mouths and sang songs. And they passed in the midst of the Reed Sea on dry land by virtue of the merits of Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the beloved ones of YAHWEH.
1:10 When they went out to the wilderness, YAHWEH said to Moshe: “How fit is this people to be given the Law’s commands!–which will be like bridles between their jaws so that they do not depart from the good path, just as a horse which has a bridle between its jaws does not depart. And how fit is their neck to bear the yoke of my commands!– which will be on them like a yoke is on the neck of an ox that plows in the field and supports himself and his master.”
1:11 Thus it was said to Moshe: “Come up to the Firmament, and I will give you the two tables of stone hewn from the sapphire of My glorious throne, bright as pure gold, arranged in lines, written by My finger, upon which are inscribed the Ten Commandments, refined more than silver purified seven times seven (totalling forty-nine, the number of ways to interpret what is in them), and I will give them by your hand to the people of the House of Yisrael.”
1:12 And while Moshe their rabbi was still in the Firmament to receive the two tablets of stone, the Torah and the Ordinance, the wicked of that generation and the mixed multitude among them arose and made the golden calf, and they corrupted their deeds. And they earned a bad reputation in the world. While previously their fragrance had gone forth in the world, after this they smelled like nard, which has a terrible odor, and the plague of leprosy came down upon their flesh.
1:13 At that time YAHWEH said to Moshe: “Go; descend, for your people have done wrong. Go away from Me and I will destroy them.” Then Moshe turned and begged mercy from YAHWEH. And in their favor YAHWEH remembered the binding of Isaac, whose father bound him on the altar on Mount Moriah. And YAHWEH turned from His anger and made His Presence dwell among them as before.
1:14 Listen! Then Moshe came down with the two tablets of stone in his hands but his hands were heavy because of the sins of Israel–and the tablets fell and were broken! Then Moshe went and crushed the calf, and scattered its dust in the river and made the Children of Yisrael drink, and he killed everyone who deserved to be killed. And he ascended a second time to the Firmament and prayed before YAHWEH and made atonement for the Children of Yisrael. Then he was commanded to make the Tabernacle and the Ark. At that time Moshe hurried and made the Tabernacle, all its vessels, and the Ark, and he put in the Ark two other tablets. And he appointed the sons of Aharon the priest to offer up the sacrifice on the altar and to offer a libation of wine at the sacrifice. And where did they get the wine for libations? They were in the desert, weren’t they?–not a convenient place for agriculture; and surely no figs, vines, or pomegranates! But they went to the vineyards of En-Gedi and took bunches of grapes from there and pressed the wine from them and offered it as a libation on the altar, a quarter of a hin for each lamb.
1:15 When the Children of Yisrael did the will of their King, He praised them with His Word in the household of the holy angels. And this is what He said: “How beautiful are your deeds, My beloved daughter, Assembly of Yisrael, when you do my will, engaging in the dictates of My Torah! And how proper are your deeds and affairs!–like turtledoves, the nestlings of doves that are fit to be offered on the altar.”
1:16 The Assembly of Yisrael replied before the Lord of the World and this is what she said: “How beautiful is your Holy Presence when You dwell among us and receive our prayer with favor, when You cause love to dwell in our bed and many children to dwell on the earth, and we increase and multiply like a tree planted by a spring of water, whose foliage beautiful and whose fruit is plentiful!”
1:17 Solomon the prophet said, “How beautiful is the Temple of YAHWEH that was built by my hands from cedar! But even more beautiful will be the Temple that is destined to be built in the days of the King, the Messiah, the beams of which will be from the cedars of the Garden of Eden, and the pillars of which will be from fir, juniper, and cypress.”
2:1 The Assembly of Yisrael said, “During the time that the Lord of the World makes His Presence dwell among us, I am like the narcissus fresh from the Garden of Eden and my actions are beautiful like the rose in the valley of the Pleasure-Garden of Eden.
2:2 “But when I turn from the path which is straight before me, and He removes His Holy Presence from me, I am like the rose that blooms among thorns which pierce and tear her foliage. In the same way, I am pierced and torn by the evil decrees in the Exile among the nations.
2:3 “Just as the citron 6 is beautiful and is praised among ornamental trees and all the world acknowledges it, in the same way the Master of the World 7 was praised among the angels when He revealed Himself on Mount Sinai, at the time He gave the Torah to His people. At that time, I longed to dwell under the shadow of His Presence, and the commands of His Torah were like spice to my palate–and the reward for my observances was stored up on my behalf for the world to come.”
2:4 The Assembly of Yisrael said: “YAHWEH brought me into the House of Study at Sinai to learn the Torah from the mouth of Moshe, the great Scribe. And I received the banner of His commandments over me with love, and I said: ‘All that YAHWEH Has commanded I will do and I will obey.’
2:5 “And when I heard the voice of His Word that was speaking from within the flame of fire, I trembled and finally shook from fear. Then I approached Moshe and Aharon and I told them, ‘You receive the voice of YAHWEH’s words from within the fire. But bring me to the House of Study and sustain me with the words of the Torah, upon which the world is based. And put chains upon my neck, explaining the holy words which are sweet to my palate as apples of the Garden of Eden. And I will be occupied with them–perhaps they will heal me, since they have made me lovesick.’”
2:6 While the people of the House of Yisrael were wandering in the wilderness, four clouds of glory surrounded them from the four winds [i.e., directions] of the earth, so that the Evil Eye had no power over them. Another cloud was above them, so that neither the heat nor the sun, and neither rain nor hail would overcome them. Another was below them, and it carried them as a nursing father carries the infant in his bosom. Another ran before them three days’ journey to level mountains and raise valleys; it killed all the poisonous serpents and scorpions in the wilderness; and it would scout out for them a suitable place for them to rest, so that they could be occupied with instruction in the Torah which had been given to them by the right hand of YAHWEH.
2:7 After this, Moshe was told by a prophecy from YAHWEH to send messengers to spy out the land. When they returned from spying they brought a bad report about the land of Yisrael, and they were delayed forty years in the wilderness. Moshe opened his mouth and this is what he said, “I adjure you, O Assembly of Yisrael, by YAHWEH of Hosts, by the Mighty of the land of Yisrael, that you do not presume to go up to the land of Canaan until it is YAHWEH’s will and the whole generation of warriors in the camp finally dies out. Do not be presumptuous like your brothers the Ephraimites, who left Egypt thirty years before the end had come and fell into the hands of the Philistines living in Gath, who killed them. But wait the period of forty years and then your children will go up and take possession of it.”
2:8 Solomon the king said, “While the people of the House of Yisrael were living in Egypt, their complaint arose to heaven above. Then suddenly, the glory of YAHWEH was revealed to Moshe on Mount Horeb. And He sent him to Egypt to deliver them and to bring them out from the bitter oppression of Egypt. And he skipped to the appointed end by virtue of the merit of their patriarchs (who are compared to mountains) and skipped a hundred and ninety years of the time of slavery because of the righteousness of their matriarchs (who are compared to hills).”
2:9 The Assembly of Yisrael said, “At the time when the glory of YAHWEH was revealed in Egypt on the night of Passover and He killed every firstborn, He rode on a swift thunder-cloud and ran like a gazelle or an antelope fawn, and he shielded the houses where we were. And he stood behind our wall and looked through the window and peered through the lattice. And He saw the blood of the Passover sacrifice and the blood of the circumcision which was marked on our doors, and He hastened from heaven above and saw His people eating the sacrifice of the Passover feast, roasted by fire, along with bitter herbs and endives and unleavened bread, and He had mercy on us and did not allow the Destroying Angel to destroy us.”
2:10 And at morning time my Beloved answered and said to me, “Arise, O Assembly of Yisrael, my beloved from of old, beautiful in deeds. Depart, go forth from the slavery of the Egyptians.
2:11 ”For, behold, the time of slavery (which is like winter) is over; the years of which I spoke to Avraham in “the covenant between the parts” 8 have been cut short; the bitterness of the Egyptians (which is compared to constant rain) is over and gone–and you will never see them again.
2:12 “And Moshe and Aharon (who are likened to palm branches) have appeared to perform miracles [sounds like “blossom”] in the land of Egypt. The time has arrived for the slaying of the firstborn and for the voice of the Holy Spirit of Redemption of which I spoke to your father Avraham (You have already heard what I said to him: ‘I will judge the nation they will serve, and afterwards they will go out with many possessions.’). I wish to do now what I swore to him by My Word.”
2:13 The Assembly of Yisrael (likened to the first fruits of the figs) opened her mouth and sang the Song at the Reed Sea. Even youths and sucklings praised the Lord of the World with their tongue. Immediately, the Lord of the World said to them: “Arise, O Assembly of Yisrael, My beloved, My beautiful one, go from here to the land which I promised to your ancestors.”
2:14 And when wicked Pharaoh pursued the people of Yisrael, the Assembly of Yisrael was compared to a dove trapped in the clefts of a rock–a snake threatening it from within and a hawk threatening it from without. In the same way, the Assembly of Yisrael was trapped in all four directions: in front of them was the sea, behind them the enemy pursued, and on either side were wildernesses full of fiery serpents which wound and kill people with their sting. Then immediately the Assembly opened her mouth in prayer before YAHWEH and an echo 9 came from the heaven above and this is what it said, “You, O Assembly of Yisrael, who resemble a dove, pure and hiding in the hiding-place of the clefts of the rocks or in the hidden places of the stairs: show me your face and your worthy deeds and let me hear your voice. For your voice is sweet when it prays in the small Temple and your face is beautiful when you perform good deeds.”
2:15 After they had crossed the Sea, they grumbled about the water and wicked Amalek came upon them, he who kept a grudge against them on account of the birthright and the blessing which Jacob our father took from Esau. And he came to wage war against Yisrael because she neglected the words of the Torah. And from beneath the edges of the cloud of glory, the wicked Amalek would steal souls from the tribe of Dan to kill them, because the graven image of Micah was in their hands. At that time the House of Yisrael would have been condemned to destruction (like a vineyard about to be destroyed), if it had not been for the righteous ones of that generation (who may be compared to a sweet perfume).
2:16 At that time, they turned in repentance. And Moshe the prophet stood ready and prayed before YAHWEH. Joshua, his servant, was equipped and went forth from beneath the edges of YAHWEH’s cloud glory, and with him went righteous heroes (who in their deeds resemble the rose). They waged war against Amalek and shattered Amalek and his people under the ban of YAHWEH: death and destruction according to the Torah of the sword.
2:17 And in a few days, the Children of Yisrael made the Golden Calf and the cloud of glory which had sheltered them was lifted and they were left exposed and deprived of their weaponry on which was inscribed the great Name interpreted in seventy names. And YAHWEH would have wiped them from the world, except that He called to mind the covenant He had sworn by His Word to Avraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob who were swift in worshiping Him as a gazelle or an antelope fawn, And he called to mind that Avraham had offered his son Isaac in sacrifice on Mount Moriah and that he had previously offered his sacrifices there and divided them evenly.
3:1 When the people of the House of Yisrael saw that the clouds of glory been withdrawn from over them and that the crown of holiness which had been given them at Sinai was removed from them, they were left in darkness like the night. And they sought the crown of holiness which had been lifted from them but they did not find it.
3:2 The Children of Yisrael said to one another, “Let us rise and go and surround the Tent of the Appointed Time which Moshe spread outside the camp, and let us request instruction from YAHWEH and the Holy Presence which has been removed from us.” Then they went around in the towns, streets, and squares, but they did not find it.
3:3 The Assembly of Yisrael said, 10 “Moses and Aharon and the Levites, who keep watch over the Word of YAHWEH 11 of the Tent of the Appointed Time and who go around it, found me, and I asked them about the Glorious Presence of YAHWEH which had been removed from me. Moshe, the great Scribe of Yisrael, answered and this is what he said, ‘I will ascend to heaven on high and pray before YAHWEH. Perhaps He will forgive your guilt and make His Presence dwell among you as before.’
3:4 Then after a little time, YAHWEH turned from His fierce anger and He commanded Moshe the prophet to make the Tent of the Appointed Time and the Ark and He caused His Presence to dwell within it. And the people of the House of Yisrael would offer their sacrifices and were occupied with the words of the Torah in the chamber of the House of Study of Moshe, their rabbi, and in the classroom of Joshua, son of Nun, his assistant.
3:5 When the seven nations heard that the Children of Yisrael were about to take possession of their land, they rose at once and cut the trees, stopped up the water springs, laid waste their towns and fled. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe the prophet: “I promised the patriarchs of these people to bring up their children to take possession of a land producing milk and honey. But I am bringing their children into a wasted and barren land. I will now detain them forty years in the wilderness, and My Torah will be blended into their bodies. And meanwhile these wicked nations will build up what they have destroyed.”
Therefore Moshe said to the Children of Yisrael, “I adjure you, O Assembly of Yisrael, by YAHWEH of Hosts and by the Mighty of the Land of Yisrael, that you do not presume to go up to the land of the Canaanites until the completion of the forty years and it is the will of YAHWEH to deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands. And you will cross the Jordan and the land will be subdued before you.”
3:6 When Yisrael came up from the wilderness and crossed the Jordan with Joshua, son of Nun, the nations of the land said, “What chosen people is this coming up from the wilderness, perfumed with the incense of spices,”–supported by the merit of Avraham, who worshiped and prayed before YAHWEH on Mount Moriah–“and anointed with the oil of high office,”–with the righteousness of Isaac, who was bound for sacrifice in the location of the Temple, called the Mountain of Frankincense, “and for whom miracles are performed?”–through the piety of Jacob, with whom an angel wrestled until the break of dawn and who prevailed over him and was spared, both he and twelve tribes.
!!Section 2: The Temple
3:7 When Solomon, the king of Yisrael, built the Temple of YAHWEH in Yerushalayim, YAHWEH said through His Word, “How beautiful is this Temple, built for Me by the hands of King Solomon, son of David. And how beautiful are the priests at the time they spread their hands, standing on their dais, and bless the people of the House of Yisrael with the sixty letters which were transmitted to Moshe their rabbi. And that blessing surrounds them like a high and strong wall, and by it all the heroes of Yisrael are strengthened and prospered.”
3:8 And the priests and the Levites, and all the tribes of Yisrael, all of them are distinguished in the words of the Torah (which is compared to a sword) and they swing it and turn it among themselves, as heroes experienced in warfare; and each and every one of them has the seal of circumcision on his flesh, just as the flesh of Avraham their father was sealed, and they are strengthened by it like a hero whose sword is girded on his thigh. And on this account they are not afraid of demons or shades that prowl by night.
3:9 Solomon the King built himself a holy Temple from zingiber, box, and cedar which he brought from Lebanon, and he overlaid it with pure gold.
3:10 After he had completed it, he placed in it the Ark of the Testimony, which is the pillar of the world. Inside the ark, he placed the two tablets of stone which Moshe had hidden there in Horeb, which were more precious than refined silver, more beautiful than pure gold. And he spread out the curtain of blue and purple to cover it from above. And between the cherubim that were on the mercy-seat dwelled the Presence of YAHWEH who caused His name to dwell in Yerushalayim out of all the cities of the land of Yisrael.
3:11 When Solomon the King came to make the dedication of the Temple, the herald went forth with strength and this is what he said, “Inhabitants of the districts of the land of Yisrael and people of Zion, come and see the crown and diadem with which the people of the House of Yisrael have crowned King Solomon on the day of dedication of the Temple. And rejoice with the joy of the Feast of Booths!” For at that time King Solomon celebrated the Feast of Booths for fourteen days.
4:1 On that day King Solomon sacrificed a thousand burnt offerings on the altar and his offering was accepted with favor by YAHWEH. An echo came forth from heaven and this is what it said, “How beautiful you are, O Assembly of Yisrael, and how beautiful are those leaders of the Assembly and the sages sitting in the Sanhedrin, they who enlighten for ever and ever the people of the House of Yisrael (who resemble turtledoves, the nestlings of a dove); and even the rest of the members of your Assembly and the people of the land are righteous as the sons of Jacob who gathered stones and made a monument on Mount Gilead. 12
4:2 “How beautiful are the Priests and Levites who bring your offerings and eat the holy meat, the tithe, and the heave-offering, and are untainted by any theft or robbery, just as the flocks of Jacob’s sheep were clean at the time they were shorn and came up from the Jabbok river. For none of them was obtained by theft or robbery. All of them resembled one another, they bore twins every time, and none of them was barren or miscarried.”
4:3 And the lips of the High Priest were uttering prayers before YAHWEH on the Day of Atonement, and his words changed the sins of Yisrael (which resembled a scarlet thread) and made them white as clean wool. 13 And the king who was at their head was full of precepts like the pomegranate, not to mention the overseers and rulers who were near the king, who were righteous and in whom there was nothing evil.
4:4 And the head of the Academy, who was master to you, was as mighty in merit and great in good deeds as David the King of Yisrael, and on the word of his mouth the world was built. And the people of the House of Yisrael were confident in the teaching of the Torah with which he was occupied, and they were victorious in war as if they were holding in their hands all sorts of heroic weapons.
4:5 Your two redeemers who are destined to redeem you, Messiah Son of David and Messiah Son of Ephraim, resemble Moshe and Aharon, the sons of Jochebed (who are comparable to two young antelopes, twins of a gazelle). And by their merit they fed the people of the House of Yisrael for forty years in the wilderness on manna, plump fowl, and the water of Miriam’s well.
4:6 And all the time that the House of Yisrael held fast to the ways of their righteous fathers, the demons and night-demons and morning-demons and midday-demons 14 fled from among them, because the glorious Presence of YAHWEH dwelt in the Temple that was built on Mount Moriah, and all the demons and destroyers would flee from the smell of the spice incense.
4:7 And at the time that the people, the House of Yisrael, did the will of the Lord of the World, He would praise them in heaven above, and this is what He said: “You are all beautiful, O Assembly of Yisrael, and there is no blemish in you!”
4:8 YAHWEH said by His Word, “The Assembly of Yisrael (which resembles a chaste bride) will dwell with me, and with Me they will go up to the Temple. And the heads of the people who dwell by the river Amana and who dwell on the peak of Snow Mountain and the nations who are in Hermon will be bringing gifts to you. And those who inhabit strong cities (mighty as lions) will be bringing tribute to you–the offering from cities of the mountains (which are stronger than leopards).
4:9 “Your love is fixed upon the tablet of My heart, O My sister, Assembly of Yisrael (who are comparable to a chaste bride). Fixed upon the tablet of My heart is the love of the least of your rabbis who is righteous like one of the rabbis of the Sanhedrin and like one of the kings of the House of Yehudah, upon whose neck was placed the crown of kingship.
4:10 “How beautiful to Me is your love, My sister, Assembly of Yisrael (who are comparable to a chaste bride). How good to me is your love, more than that of the seventy nations, and the good name of your righteous ones is more fragrant than all spices.
4:11 “And when the priests pray in the court of the Sanctuary, their lips drip flowing honey. And your tongue, O chaste bride, with your utterances–their songs and praises are sweet as milk and honey. And the scent of the garments of the priests is like the scent of frankincense.
4:12 “And your women who are married to husbands are as chaste as a chaste bride and like the Garden of Eden which no man is permitted to enter except the righteous whose souls are sent into it by the hand of the angels. And your virgins are concealed and hidden in chambers and sealed in this way: like the spring of living water which issued from beneath the Tree, was divided into four river-sources, and, if it had not been sealed by the Great and Holy Name, would have come gushing out and flooded the whole world.
4:13 “And your young men are full of precepts (like pomegranates), and they love their wives and beget children righteous as themselves. And their odor is like the pleasant spices of the Garden of Eden: cypress trees with spikenard plants.
4:14 “Spikenard and saffron, fragrant calamus and cinnamon, with all the woods of frankincense, pure myrrh, eaglewood, with all types of spices.
4:15 “And the waters of Siloah flow gently with the rest of the waters that proceed from Lebanon to water the land of Yisrael for the sake of those occupied with the words of the Torah (who are likened to a well of living waters), and by the merit of the oblation of water poured on the altar of the Temple that is built in Yerushalayim (which is called Lebanon).”
4:16 And on the northern side was a table and on it were twelve loaves of show-bread; on the southern side was the candlestick to give light; and on the altar the priests offered the sacrifice and on it sent up the spice incense.
The Assembly of Yisrael said, “Let Elohim, my Beloved, enter the Temple and favorably receive the sacrifices of His people.”
5:1 Then the Holy One, blessed be He, said to His people, the House of Yisrael: “I have come into my Temple which you built for Me, O My Sister, Assembly of Yisrael, (who are comparable to a chaste bride). I have caused My Presence to dwell among you. And I have favorably received your spice incense which you performed for My name. I have sent fire from heaven and it devoured the burnt offerings and the holy sacrifices. The libations of red wine and white wine, which the priests poured out on My altar, was favorably received. Now come, O priests who love My precepts, and eat what is left of the offerings and delight yourselves with the bounty made ready for you.”
!!Section 3: Exile
5:2 After all these things, the people of the House of Yisrael sinned, and YAHWEH delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, and he led them into exile. And in the exile they resembled a man who sleeps and cannot be aroused from his sleep. And the voice of the Holy Spirit enlightened them by means of the prophets and She would awaken them from the slumber of their hearts. The Master of All the World answered and this is what He said, “Return in repentance, open your mouth, pray and praise Me, O My sister, My beloved, Assembly of Yisrael (likened to the dove in the perfection of your works), for the hair of My head is filled with your tears (like a man the hair of whose head is soaked with the dew of heaven) and the locks of My hair are filled with the drops from your eyes (like the man whose locks of hair are filled with drops of rain that fall in the night).”
5:3 The Assembly of Yisrael answered before the prophets: “Look, I have already removed the yoke of His commandments from myself and have worshipped the idols of the nations. How can I have the face to return to Him?”
The Lord of the World replied to them by the prophets, “And the same for me. Look, I have already lifted My Presence from among you. How then can I return since you have done evil things? I have cleansed my feet of your filth. How then can I let them get dirty among you 15 from your evil deeds?”
5:4 When it was made clear before YAHWEH that the people of the House of Yisrael were not willing to repent and return to Him, He stretched forth His mighty blow against the tribe of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh on the other side of the Jordan and delivered them into the hand of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and he exiled them to Lahlahand Habor, rivers of Gozan, and to the cities of Media. And he took from their hand the molten calf which sinful Jeroboam had put in Leshem Dan, which is called Pamios, in the days of Peqah, son of Remaliah. When I heard, my compassion was stirred for them.
5:5 When the mighty stroke of YAHWEH came down hard on me, I regretted my actions and the priests brought the sacrifice and offered up spice incense but it was not received favorably, because the Lord of the World had shut the doors of repentance in my face.
5:6 The Assembly of Yisrael said, “I wished to request instruction from YAHWEH but he had lifted His Presence from within me. My soul longed for the sound of His Words and I sought the Presence of His Glory, but I did not find it. I prayed before Him, but He covered the heavens with clouds and would not accept my prayer.”
5:7 The Chaldeans, who guard the roads, overtook me and battered me all around the city of Yerushalayim. Part of me they killed with the sword and part of me they carried into captivity. The people of Babylon, who battered the city and watched the walls–they took the royal crown off the neck of Zedekiah, the King of Yehudah, and they brought him to Rivlah and put out his eyes.
5:8 The Assembly of Yisrael said, “I adjure you, O prophets, by the decree of the Word of YAHWEH, what if our Beloved is revealed to you? Tell Him that I am lovesick for His love.”
5:9 The prophets answered and said to the House of Yisrael, “Which Elohim do you wish to serve, O Assembly of Yisrael, fairest of all the nations? And whom do you wish to revere that you have adjured us in this way?”
5:10 Then the Assembly of Yisrael began to speak in praise of the Lord of the World, and this is what she said, “The Elohim I desire to worship is that One Who by day is dressed in a robe as white as snow and is occupied with the twenty-four books of the Torah, the words of the Prophets, and the Writings; and Who by night is occupied with the six Orders of Mishnah and the glorious splendor of His face blazes like fire from the intense wisdom and judgment–for He innovates new traditions every day and will reveal them to His people on the Great Day. And His banner is over a myriad myriads of angels who minister before Him.
5:11 “His Torah 16 is more desirable than pure gold, and the interpretation of its Words contain heaps upon heaps of reasons and precepts. They are white as snow to those who keep them, but black as a raven’s wing to those who do not keep them.
5:12 “His eyes are looking constantly at Yerushalayim to do good to her and to bless her, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year (like doves that stand and look at the streams of water) because of the merit of those who sit in the Sanhedrin, occupied with the Torah, making justice flow down smoothly like milk, and those who sit in the House of Study and take great care in judgment until they determine to acquit or to condemn.
5:13 “The two stone tablets which He gave to His people were written in ten lines (resembling the lines of the spice garden), multiplying subtleties and reasons as the garden multiplies spices; and the lips of His sages who are occupied with the Torah distil reasons on every side and the word of their mouth is like choice myrrh.
5:14 “The twelve tribes of Jacob his servant were enrolled on the breastplate, the holy golden ornament, engraved on twelve gems, with the three fathers 17, Avraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Reuben was engraved on ruby, Simeon was engraved on carnelian, Levi was engraved on corundum, Yehudah was engraved on black marble, Issachar was engraved on emerald, Zebulun was engraved on diamond, Dan was engraved on a beryl, Naphtali was engraved on a sapphire, Elohim was engraved on topaz, Asher was engraved on turquoise, Joseph was engraved on malachite, Benjamin was engraved on jasper. They resembled the twelve constellations, shining like a lantern, glistening like ivory in their deeds, and shining like sapphires.
5:15 “And the righteous are the pillars of the world, resting on bases of pure gold, those words of the Torah with which they are occupied and instruct the people of the House of Yisrael to do His Will. Like an old scholar, He is filled with compassion for them and makes the sins of the House of Yisrael as white as the snow. And like a young warrior as strong as cedars, He stands ready to make victorious war against the nations who transgress His Will.
5:16 “The words of His palate are as sweet as honey, and all His commandments are more desirable to His sages than gold and silver. This is the praise of Elohim, my Beloved, and this is the power of the strength of my Lord, my Beloved, O prophets who prophesy in Yerushalayim.”
6:1 When they heard the praise of YAHWEH from the mouth of the Assembly of Yisrael, the prophets posed a question, and this is what they said, “For what sin was the Presence of YAHWEH withdrawn from you, whose conduct was more beautiful than that of all nations; and where has your Beloved turned when He left your sanctuary?” The Assembly of Yisrael said, “For the sins of rebellion and insurrection which were found in me.” The prophets said, “Now return in repentance, and let us rise, both you and us, and let us pray before Him and let us beg mercy together.”
!!Section 4: The Second Temple
6:2 And the Lord of the World received their prayer favorably and went down to Babylon to the Sanhedrin of sages and gave relief to His people and brought them up from their exile by means of Cyrus, Ezra, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and the Elders of the Jews. And they built the Temple, and appointed the priests over the sacrifices, and the Levites over the guardianship of the Holy Word. And He sent fire from heaven and favorably received the sacrifices and the spice incense. And as a man feeds his beloved son with delicacies, that is how He indulged them. And as a man gathers roses from the plain, so He gathered them from Babylon.
6:3 And in that day I worshiped the Lord of the World, my Beloved. And my Beloved made His holy Presence dwell within me and He fed me with delicacies.
6:4 YAHWEH said by His Word, “How beautiful you are, My Dear, when your desire is to do My Will. Beautiful is the Temple which you built for Me, like the first Temple Solomon built for me. All the nations are in awe of you, as in the day your four bannered legions marched in the wilderness.
6:5 “Your rabbis, the sages of the Great Assembly, surrounded Me completely to receive me, for they acknowledged My reign during the Exile and they established a House of Study for the instruction of My Torah. And the rest of your students and the people of the land acknowledged My justice by the word of their mouth, like the sons of Jacob who gathered stones and made a monument on Mount Gilead. 18
6:6 “And the priests and Levites ate of your sacrifices and of the holy tithe and the heave-offering, and were untainted by any theft or robbery, just as the flocks of Jacob’s sheep were clean at the time they came up from the Jabbok river. For none of them was obtained by theft or robbery. All of them resembled one another, they bore twins every time, and none of them was barren or miscarried.
6:7 “As for the reign of the Hasmonean dynasty, they were all filled with [performance of] the commandments as the pomegranate [is filled with seeds]–not to mention Mattathias the High Priest and his sons, who were more righteous than all of them 19, and who fulfilled the commandments and words of the Torah with thirsty eagerness.”
6:8 At the same time the Greeks arose and gathered sixty kings from the sons of Esau, dressed in ring mail and riding on horses, and horsemen, and eighty commanders 20 from the sons of Ishmael, riding on elephants–not to mention the rest of the nations with their innumerable languages, and they appointed Alexander 21 as chief over them, and they came to wage war against Yerushalayim.
6:9 And at that time the Assembly of Yisrael (which resembled a perfect dove) was worshipping the Lord of the World wholeheartedly and was devoted to the Torah, occupied with the words of the Torah with an undivided heart, and her merit was as pure as on the day she came out of Egypt. Look then, the Hasmoneans and Mattathias and all the people of Yisrael came out and joined battle with them, and the Lord delivered them into their hand. And when the inhabitants of the provinces saw this, they exalted them and the kings of the land and the rulers praised them.
6:10 The nations said, “The deeds of this people are like daybreak. Her youths are as beautiful as moonlight, and her merits are as bright as the sun. And all the inhabitants of earth are in awe of her, as when her four bannered legions marched in the wilderness.”
6:11 The Lord of the World said, “I have caused my Presence to dwell in the second Temple which was built by the hands of Cyrus, in order to see the good deeds of my people and to see whether perhaps the sages (who are comparable to a vine) were increasing and multiplying their blossoms full of good deeds (like pomegranates).”
6:12 And when it became clear before YAHWEH that they were 22 occupied with the Torah, YAHWEH said by His Word, “I will not humiliate them again and I will not exterminate them, but I will consider how to do good to them and to lift them on high in the company of kings, because of the merits of the righteous of the generation, which resemble Avraham their father in their actions.”
7:1 (6:13) 23, Return to Me, O Assembly of Yisrael, return to Yerushalayim, return to the House of Instruction of the Torah, return to receive prophecy from the prophets who prophesy in the Name of the Word of YAHWEH. Why do you false prophets mislead the people of Yerushalayim with your prophecies, speak rebellion against the Word of YAHWEH, and defile the camp of Yisrael and Yehudah?
7:2 (1) Solomon in the spirit of prophecy said before YAHWEH, “How beautiful are the feet of Yisrael when they go up to appear before YAHWEH three times a year in sandals 24, bringing their vow offerings and free-will offerings. And the children that come from their loins are as beautiful as the sparkling gems set in the Holy Crown 25 that Bezalel the craftsman made for Aharon the priest.
7:3 (2) “The head of your council, by whose merit the whole world is sustained (as a fetus is sustained by the navel in the womb of its mother) was as bright with [knowledge of] the Torah as the disk of the moon, when he goes forth to declare pure or impure, innocent or guilty. The words of the Torah are never lacking in his mouth, just as the water of the great river that emerged from Eden never fails. And seventy sages surrounded him like a round threshing floor. And their storehouses were full of the holy tithes, the vow offerings, and the free-will offerings that Ezra the priest, Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah and Mordecai Bilshan, the men of the Great Synagogue (who resembled roses) had fenced off for their use, in order to enable them to be occupied with the Torah day and night.
7:4 (3) “Your two redeemers who are destined to redeem you, Messiah the son of David and Messiah the son of Ephraim, are like Moshe and Aharon, sons of Jochebed, who resemble two fawns, twins of a roe.
7:5 (4) “The President of the Court who adjudicates your lawsuits has power over the people to compel them and to exact punishment from one who is sentenced by the court, as did King Solomon, who made an ivory tower, subdued the people of the House of Yisrael, and brought them back to the Lord of the World. Your Scribes are full of wisdom (like water channels), and they know how to calculate 26 intercalations and declare leap years and how to determine the beginnings of months and the beginnings of years in the gate of the House of the Great Sanhedrin. And the chief of the family of the House of Yehudah is like King David, who built the Citadel of Zion, which is called the Tower of Lebanon–anyone who stands on it can count all the towers in Damascus.
7:6 (5) “The king appointed to be head over you is as righteous as Elijah the prophet, who showed zeal for the Lord of Heaven, slew the false prophets on Mount Carmel, and restored the people of the House of Yisrael to the fear of YAHWEH Elohim. And the lowly of the people who walk with bowed head because they are poor are destined to be clothed in purple, even as Daniel was clothed in the city of Babylon and Mordecai in Susa, on account of the merit of Avraham, who long ago acknowledged the reign of the Lord of the World, through the righteousness of Isaac, whom his father bound in order to sacrifice him, and through the piety of Jacob, who peeled the rods in the watering troughs.”
7:7 (6) King Solomon said, “How beautiful you are, O Assembly of Yisrael, at the time you bear the yoke of My reign, at the time I chasten you with afflictions for your sin and you receive them with love and they seem in your sight as delights.
7:8 (7) “[How beautiful you are] at the time the priests spread their hands in prayer and recite the blessing on their siblings of the house of Yisrael, the fingers of their hands stretch out like the branches of a palm tree, their stature are like a date tree, and your congregations stand facing the priests, their faces bent to the ground like a cluster of grapes.”
7:9 (8) YAHWEH said by His Word, “I will go and test Daniel and see whether he will be able to stand this trial, as Avraham (who resembled a palm branch) stood in ten trials. And I will also test Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah 27, whether they are able to stand in their trials. Because of their merit, I will redeem the people of the House of Yisrael (who are comparable to a cluster of grapes). And the fame of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah will be heard in all the earth and their fragrance will spread like the fragrance of the apples of the Garden of Eden.”
7:10 (9) Daniel and his companions said, “We will take upon ourselves the decree of the Word of YAHWEH, as Avraham our father (who was like old wine) took it upon himself. And we will walk in paths that are proper in His sight, just as the prophets Elijah and Elisha walked, by whose merits the dead rose like a man who slumbers; or like Ezekiel, the son of Buzi the priest, by the prophecy of whose mouth the sleeping dead were awakened in the valley of Dura.”
!!Section 5: The Final Exile, Redemption, and Temple
7:11 (10) Yerushalayim said, “All the time that I walk in the way of the Lord of the World, He makes His Presence dwell in my midst and His longing is for me. But when I deviate from His way, He removes His Presence from me and carries me away among the nations, and these rule over me as a man rules over his wife.” 28
7:12 (11) When the people of the House of Yisrael sinned, YAHWEH exiled them to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. And the Assembly of Yisrael said, “I beseech You, Master of the whole World, receive my prayer which I pray before You in the cities of Exile and the districts of the nations.”
7:13 (12) The Children of Yisrael said one to the other, “Let us get up early in the morning and go to the Synagogue and to the House of Study and search in the Books of the Torah and let us see whether the time of Redemption has come for the people of the House of Yisrael (who are likened to the vine) to be redeemed from their Exile. Let us ask the sages whether the merit of the righteous (who are full of precepts like the pomegranate) is revealed before the Lord, and whether the appointed time has come to go up to Yerushalayim, in order to give praise there to the Elohim of Heaven, and to bring burnt offerings and holy oblations.”
7:14 (13) And when it will be the Lord’s will to redeem His people from Exile, the King Messiah will be told, “The term of the Exile has already been completed, and the merit of the righteous has released its fragrance before Me like the aroma of balsam, and the sages of the generations have been standing fast at the gates of Study, occupied with the words of the Scriptures and the words of the Torah. Now rise! Receive the kingdom that I have reserved for you!”
8:1 At that time when King Messiah is revealed to the Congregation of Yisrael, they will say to Him, “Come, be as a brother to us and let us go up to Yerushalayim, and let us suck with you the judgments of the Torah, just as a suckling sucks at his mother’s breast. All the time that I was taken away outside my land, as long as I was mindful of the Name of the Great Elohim and gave up my life for His Divinity, even the nations of the earth would not scorn me.
8:2 “I will lead you, O King 29, and bring you up to my Temple. And you will teach me to fear before YAHWEH and to walk in His ways. And there we will partake of the feast of Leviathan and will drink old wine preserved in its grape since the day the world was created and from the pomegranates and fruits prepared for the righteous in the Garden of Eden.”
8:3 The Assembly of Yisrael will say, “I am the chosen of all nations. I bind tefillin on my left hand and on my head and fix the mezuzah to the right side of my door a third of the height from the lintel so that no demon has power to harm me.”
8:4 King Messiah will say, “I adjure you, my people, House of Yisrael. Why are you warring against the nations of the earth to leave the Exile 30? Why are you rebelling against the forces of Gog and Magog? Wait a little longer until the nations who come up to make war against Yerushalayim are destroyed, and after that the Lord of the World will remember for you the love of the righteous, and let it be His will to redeem you.”
8:5 Solomon the prophet said, “When the dead will come to life, the Mount of Olives will be split and all the dead of Yisrael come forth from beneath it; and even the righteous who died in exile will come from under the earth by way of caverns and will come forth beneath the Mount of Olives. And the wicked who have died and been buried in the land of Yisrael will be cast up as a man throws up a stone with a stick. Then all the inhabitants of the earth will say, ‘What was the merit of this people that have come up from the earth, myriads upon myriads, 31 as on the day when they appeared beneath Mount Sinai to receive the Torah?’ At that hour Zion, mother of Yisrael, will bear her children and Yerushalayim will receive her captive children.”
8:6 The Children of Yisrael on that day will say to their Lord, “We beseech You, set us as the seal of a ring on your heart, as the seal of a ring on your arm, so that we may never again be exiled. For the love of Your Divinity is as strong as death, and the jealousy which the nations harbor against us is as powerful as Gehinnom. The enmity which they harbor against us is like the coals of the fire of Gehinnom which YAHWEH created on the second day of the Creation of the World to burn the idolators with it.”
8:7 The Lord of the World says to His people, the House of Yisrael, “Even if all the nations (like the waters of the Great Sea) were to gather themselves, they could not quench My love for you. And even if all the kings of the earth were to join together (like the waters of a river flowing with a strong current) they could not sweep you from the world. And if a man gave all the wealth of his house to buy wisdom in the exile, I would restore it to him double in the world to come. And all the spoil taken from the camp of Gog would be his.”
8:8 At that time, the angels will say to one another, “We have one people on earth and her merits are clear, but she has no kings or rulers to go forth and wage war against the camp of Gog. What will we do for our sister in the day when the nations speak of going up against her for war?”
8:9 Then Michael, the chief of Yisrael, will say, “If she is ready like a fortified wall among the nations and gives her silver to purchase [the right to uphold] the uniqueness of the Name of the Lord of the World, then you and I will be with their scribes and surround them like scaffoldings of silver, and the nations will have no power to rule over her, as the serpent has no power to rule over silver. And even if she is poor in precepts, we will implore mercy on her behalf before YAHWEH and He will remember for her the merit of the Torah that the young study, which is written upon the tablets of the heart and is ready to oppose the nations like a cedar.”
8:10 The Assembly of Yisrael answers and says, “I am as strong as a wall in the words of the Torah and my children are as sturdy as a tower.” And in that time the Assembly of Yisrael will find favor in the eyes of her Lord and earth’s inhabitants will seek her welfare.”
8:11 A people came up by lot of the Lord of the World with whom is peace. She is like to a vineyard. He settled her in Yerushalayim and delivered her to the rule of the kings of the House of David that they might guard her as a tenant guards his vineyard. And after the death of Solomon, King of Yisrael, she was left in the hand of Rehoboam, his son. Jeroboam son of Nebat came and divided the kingdom with him and led ten tribes away from him, according to the word spoken by Ahijah of Shiloh, who was a great man.
8:12 When Solomon, King of Yisrael, heard the prophecy of Ahijah of Shiloh, he wished to kill him. But Ahijah fled from Solomon and went to Egypt. At that very moment it was told to Solomon through prophecy that he would rule over the ten tribes all his days, but after his death Jeroboam son of Nebat would rule over them, and Rehoboam son of Solomon would rule over the two tribes, Yehudah and Benjamin.
8:13 At the end of his prophecy, Solomon said, “The Lord of the World is destined to say to the Assembly of Yisrael at the end of days, ‘You, O Assembly of Yisrael (like a little garden among the nations), sitting in the House of Study with the members of the Sanhedrin, and the rest of the people who listen to the voice of the head of the academy and learn from his mouth words of the Torah: make me hear the sound of your words at the time when you sit to acquit or convict and I will be agreeable to all you do.’
8:14 “In that hour the elders of the Assembly of Yisrael will say, ‘Flee, my Beloved, Lord of the world, from this polluted earth, and let your Presence dwell in heaven above. But in times of trouble, when we pray to you, be like a gazelle which sleeps with one eye closed and one eye open, or like an antelope fawn which looks behind as it runs away. Just so, look on us and regard our pain and affliction from heaven above, until the time when you will be pleased with us and redeem us and bring us up to the mountains of Yerushalayim and there the priests will burn before you the incense of spices.’ ”
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!!Notes
The Targum to Song of Songs is available in both European and Yemenite manuscripts. The Aramaic text used in this translation is that of Raphael Hai Melamed, “The Targum to Canticles According to Six Yemen Mss. Compared with the ‘Textus Receptus’ (Ed. de Lagarde),” Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, 10 (1919-20): 377-410, 11 (1920-21): 1-20, and 12 (1921-22): 57-117.
This translation began as an adaptation of the translation by Marvin H. Pope, Song of Songs: A New Translation and Commentary, The Anchor Bible 7C (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1977).
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1 (note to 1:1a). The divine name is represented in this way throughout the text. Read it “the Lord” or “the Name.”
2 (note to 1:1d). Another reading: the well of Miriam.
3 (note to 1:4). Throughout this text, the word “Presence” translates the word Shekhinah.
4 (note to 1:5). Shalom, a pun on “Solomon.”
5 (note to 1:8). This word refers to a shepherd’s assistant who gathers the scattered flock, and also to the man who calls the congregation to prayer and leads them in it.
6 (note to 2:3). ethrog.
7 (note to 2:3). Some texts add “was beautiful and” at this point.
8 (note to 2:11). The event described in Genesis 15:1-21 is known as “the covenant between the parts” because of a phrase in 15:17. Verse 13 refers to a four-hundred-year period of slavery. See Targum to 2:8.
9 (note to 2:14). In post-biblical Jewish literature, Elohim is frequently depicted as communicating to human beings by means of a Bath-Qol: a “daughter of a voice,” that is, an echo.
10 (note to 3:3). European versions read “The Assembly of Yisrael said,” here. Yemenite versions omit this clause.
11 (note to 3:3). European versions omit “of YAHWEH.”
12 (note to 4:1). Cf. Gen 31:48.
13 (note to 4:3). Cf. Isa 1:18.
14 (note to 4:6). Cf. Psalm 91:5-6.
15 (note to 5:3). Alternative reading: “among the nations.”
16 (note to 5:11). The Yemenite recension reads, “The heads [chief points] of His Torah.”
17 (note to 5:14). Some texts add “of the world.”
18 (note to 6:5). Cf. Gen 31:48. Cf. Targum to 4:1.
19 (note to 6:7). Yemenite versions read simply, “who were righteous.”
20 (note to 6:8). Yemenite versions read, “riders.”
21 (note to 6:8). Another reading: Antiochus.
22 (note to 6:12). European versions add “righteous and.”
23 (note to 7:1). The numbers in parentheses give the versification used in English translations.
24 (note to 7:2). European versions add a word meaning “of scarlet” or “of badgers” here. See Exodus 25:5; Ezekiel 16:10.
25 (note to 7:2). Exodus 39:30.
26 (note to 7:5). Heshbon can mean “calculation.”
27 (note to 7:9). R. Loewe, “The Targum to the Song of Songs,” 162, points out that Sifra on Leviticus 18:5 applies Song 7:8, “Your eyes are stately as a palm tree,” to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who stood upright like palm trees rather than bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s image (Daniel 3).
28 (note to 7:11). Cf. Gen 3:16.
29 (note to 8:2). European versions add “Messiah” here.
30 (note to 8:4). Instead of “the Exile,” Yemenite versions have “Jerusalem.”
31 (note to 8:5). European versions insert, “as on the day when they came up out of the wilderness into the land of Yisrael, and who delight themselves with the love of their Lord,” here.
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Ch. 12-13
SECTION XXVII.
TAZRIA.
XII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: When a woman hath conceived and borne a male child, she shall be unclean seven days, as the days of the removal of her uncleanness shall she be unclean. But on the eighth day she shall be loosed, and her child shall be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And thirty and three continuous days she shall have for the purification of the whole blood; but she must not touch things sacred, nor come into the sanctuary until the time when the days of her purification be completed. And if she hath borne a daughter, she shall be unclean fourteen continuous days according to (the Torah of) her separation; and on the fifteenth she shall be released; but sixty and six continuous days shall she have for the (full) purification of the blood.
And when the days of her purification are completed for the son or the daughter, she shall bring a lamb of its year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle dove for a sin offering, unto the priest at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the priest shall offer it before the Lord and make atonement for her; then shall she be purified from either source of (her) blood. This is the Torah of the purification of her who hath borne a son or a daughter.
But if she find not her hand sufficient to bring a lamb, let her bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons; one for the burnt offering, and one for the sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
XIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: If a man have in the skin of his flesh a rising tumour or a white spot, [JERUSALEM. A tumour, or sore, or white spot,] and it be in the skin of his flesh (as) the plague of leprosy, let him be brought unto Aharon the priest, or to one of the priests his sons. And the priest shall look at the plague in the skin of the flesh,--and if the hair of the stricken place be turned to whiteness, and the appearance of the plague be deeper (than the surface), and be whiter than the skin of his flesh, like snow, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest having inspected him shall make him to be unclean.
But if the bright spot be white like chalk in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance of it be not deep, with whiteness like snow rather than skin, the hair, too, not being turned to whiteness like chalk, the priest shall shut up him who is plagued seven days; and the priest shall inspect him on the seventh day, and, behold, if the plague stand as it was, and have not gone on wider in the skin, the priest shall shut him up a second seven days. And the priest shall inspect him the second seventh day; and, behold, if the plague hath become darker, and hath not gone wider in the skin, the priest shall make him to be clean; it is an obstinate sore, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
But if the inveterate sore widen in the skin after he had been shown to the priest who had pronounced him clean, let him a second time be seen by the priest. And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the widening of the inveterate sore hath gone on in the skin, the priest shall make him unclean; for it is the leprosy.
When the plague of leprosy is upon a man, let him be brought to the priest. And the priest shall observe; and, behold, if there be a white tumour rising on the skin like pure wool, and the hair be turned to whiteness as the white of an egg, and the sign of quick flesh be in the tumour, it is an inveterate leprosy in the skin of his flesh; and the priest shall adjudge and pronounce him unclean, but not shut him up, for he is (known to be) unclean. Yet if the leprosy increasing increaseth in the skin, and the leprosy covereth all the skin of his flesh, from his head even to his feet, in whatever part the eyes of the priest may look on, in deliberating between cleanness and uncleanness, the priest shall consider; and, behold, if the leprosy covereth all his flesh, the plagued man shall be (pronounced) to be clean: all of him is turned to whiteness, he is clean. But in the day that live flesh appeareth in him he is unclean. And the priest shall observe the live flesh, and make him to be unclean; on account of the live flesh in him he is unclean; it is leprosy. Or if the live flesh be turned and changed into whiteness, he shall be brought to the priest; and the priest shall observe, and, behold, the plague is turned white, and the priest shall adjudge the plague to be clean; he is clean.
And if a man have in his skin an ulcer, and it hath healed; but in the place of the ulcer there hath come a white rising tumour, or a bright fixed spot, (in colour) white mixed with red; he shall be seen by the priest. And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance of it be deeper than the skin, and it becometh white, and the hair is turned white, the priest shall make him to be unclean; for it is a plague of leprosy which increaseth in the ulcer. And if the priest look, and, behold, the hair in it is not whitened, and the whiteness (of the spot) is not in appearance deeper than the skin, and that it hath become dim, then must the priest shut him up seven days. [And the priest shall look on the seventh day;] and if it hath gone on widening in the skin, the priest shall make him to be unclean; for it is the plague of leprosy. But if the spot abideth in its place, and hath not gone on widening in the skin, but hath become fainter, it is an inflamed blotch; and the priest shall make him to be clean; it is a burning scar.
Or if there be in a man's skin a hot burning, and in the burning wound a spot of white mixed with red, or white only; the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, the hair is turned white as chalk, and its appearance is deeper than the skin becoming white as snow; it is leprosy growing in the burning spot; and the priest shall make him unclean, it is the plague of leprosy. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, the hair on the burning place be not white, and it be not deep, nor becoming whiter than the skin, though it may be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. And the priest shall see him on the seventh day; and if it hath gone on widening in the skin, the priest shall make him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, the hair on the burning place is not white, and it is not deep, nor whiter than the skin, though it may be dim; then the priest must shut him up seven days. And the priest shall see him on the seventh day; and if it hath gone on widening in the skin, the priest shall make him unclean, for it is the plague of leprosy. But if the inflamed spot abide in its place, and go not on to widen in the skin and it be dim (in appearance), it is a burning spot; and the priest shall make him to be clean, for it is a burning wound.
And if a mail or a woman have a plague upon the head, or in the beard, the priest shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the appearance is deeper and whiter than the skin, and yellow hair be in it, in sight like a thin thread of gold, the priest shall make him unclean; it is a scurvy, a leprosy in the head or the beard. But if the priest view the scurfed plague, and, behold, if the appearance of it be not deeper nor whiter than the skin, and there be no black hair in it, the priest shall shut up him who hath the scurfed plague seven days. And the priest on the seventh day shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the plague hath not gone on in breadth, and no yellow hair like gold be in it, and the appearance of the scurf is not deeper than the skin, he shall cut away the hair which surrounds the scar, but the scurfed part he must not shave; and the priest shall shut him who hath the scurf, seven days. Then shall the priest look upon the scurf on the seventh day; and, behold, if the scar hath not gone on in breadth in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper nor becoming whiter than the skin, the priest shall make him to be clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
But should the breadth of the scar go on in the skin after his purification, the priest shall inspect it: and, behold, if the breadth hath increased, the priest need not look narrowly after the yellow hair; for he is unclean. But if the scar abideth, (without widening,) and black hair hath sprung up in it, the scar hath healed; he is clean, and the priest shall make him to be clean.
And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright white spots, the priest shall look, and, behold, if the spots in the skin of their flesh are a greyish white, it is a bright freckle growing in the skin; he is clean.
And if a man's hair fall off from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. And if the hair fall away from the brow of his face, he is partly bald, but he is clean. But, if his baldness or partial baldness hath in it a white plague mixed with red, it is a leprosy growing in his baldness or partial baldness. And the priest shall look upon it, and, behold, if the spot of the plague be white mixed with red in his baldness, or partial baldness, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, he is a leprous man, he is unclean, and the priest shall verily make him to be unclean, for the plague is on his head.
And the leper in whom is the plague shall have his clothes rent, and his hair shall be taken off, going to the shearer's, and his lips shall be covered; and he shall be clothed like a mourner, and crying, as a herald, he shall say, Keep off, keep off from the unclean! All the days that the plague is in him he shall be unclean, for unclean he is; he shall dwell alone by himself, to the side of his wife he must not come nigh, and his habitation shall be without the camp.
And a garment in which is the plague of leprosy, whether a garment of wool or a garment of linen, whether in the warp or in the woof, in linen or in woollen, or in a skin, or in anything made of skin: if the plague be green or red in the garment, or in the skin, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is the plague of leprosy, and must be shown to the priest. And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shall shut it up seven days: and he shall look upon the plague on the seventh day, and if the plague hath become wider in the garment, whether in the warp or woof, or in the skin, or anything made of skin, it is a manifest plague of leprosy, it is unclean.[1] But if the priest look, and, behold, the width of the plague hath not advanced in the garment, in warp or woof, or anything of skin, let the priest direct that they wash the material which hath the plague in it, and shut it up a second seven days. And the priest shall look after they have washed the plague, and, behold, the (condition of the) plague hath not altered from what it was, and the plague hath not advanced in its size, it is unclean, thou shalt burn it in the fire, for the leprosy is deep in its bareness (or in its outward side). And if the priest observe, and, behold, the plague hath become dim, then shall he tear it out of the garment, or from the leather, or out of the warp or the woof. But if it re‑appear in the garment, or in the warp or woof, or in anything of skin, and maketh increase, thou shalt burn such material which hath the plague in it. And the garment, or the warp or woof, or anything of skin, which thou shalt wash and the plague depart from it shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.
This is the Torah for the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or of linen, or the warp or the woof, or anything of skin, to make it to be clean or to be unclean.
[1] The fifty-second verse is wanting.
SECTION XXVII.
TAZRIA.
XII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh saying: Speak with the children of Yisrael, saying: A woman, when she hath conceived and borne a male child, shall be unclean seven days; according to the days for the removal of her uncleanness, (or, her seclusion from her uncleanness,) she shall be unclean. And on the eighth day he shall be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin; and she shall continue thirty and three days in the purification of blood; no sacred thing may she touch, nor may she come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be completed. But if she bear a female child, she shall be unclean fourteen days, according to (the Torah of) her separation; and sixty and six days she will remain for the purification of the blood. And when the days of her purification are complete, for the son or for the daughter, let her bring a lamb of its year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle dove for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, unto the priest, who shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the uncleanness of her blood. This is the Torah for her who beareth male or female. But if she find not her hand sufficient for (the providing of) a lamb, let her take two turtle doves, or two young pigeons; one for the burnt offering, and the other for the sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
XIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying: A man, in the skin of whose flesh there may be an abscess, or pustule, or brightness, and it be in the skin of his flesh like a stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought unto Aharon the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. And the priest shall see the plague in the skin of the flesh, and if the hair in the affected spot be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall inspect him and make (pronounce) him to be unclean. But if a bright spot be in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance be not deeper than the skin, and the hair be not turned white, the priest shall shut up the stricken (man) seven days. And on the seventh day the priest shall inspect him, and if the plague stands as it did, if the plague hath not increases in the skin, let the priest shut him up a second seven days. And the priest shall look upon him on the second seventh day; and, behold, if the plague hath become obscure, and the plague hath not spread in the skin, the priest shall make him to be clean; it is a sore, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
But if the diseased spot increase again in the skin after having ben seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be brought a second time to the priest. And the priest inspecting, and, behold, the soreness hath increased in the skin, the priest shall make him to be unclean; it is the leprosy.
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, let him be brought to the priest. And the priest shall inspect him, and, behold, if the abscess is white in the skin, and it hath turned the hair white, and the sign of quick flesh be in the abscess, it is an old leprosy in the skin of the flesh, and the priest shall make him unclean, but shall not shut him up (to ascertain his uncleanness), for he is unclean. And if the leprosy increasing shall increase in the skin, and the leprosy cover the whole skin of the plague (struck man) from his head unto his feet, wherever the eyes of the priest may look, the priest shall observe, and, behold, (if) the leprosy covereth all his flesh, the plagued shall be (considered) clean; the whole of him is turned white, he is clean. But in the day that quick flesh appeareth in him he shall be unclean; and the priest shall observe the quick flesh, and make him to be unclean. The quick flesh is unclean, it is the leprosy. But if the quick flesh turn to be white, he shall come to the priest; and the priest shall observe, and, behold, if the plague is turned white, the priest shall make the plagued to be clean; he is clean.
And if a man have in him, in his skin, an ulcer, and it hath healed, but in the place of the ulcer there come a white abscess, or a bright spot, reddish-white, let him show it to the priest, and the priest shall inspect, and, behold, if the appearance of it be deeper than the skin, and the hair be turned white, the priest shall make him to be unclean; it is the plague of leprosy increasing in the ulcer. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, the hair is not white, nor (the depth) lower than the skin, and it hath become obscure, the priest shall seclude him seven days; and if increasing it increaseth in the skin, the priest shall make him to be unclean; it is the plague. But if the spot abideth in its place, and increaseth not, it is a description of an ulcer, and the priest shall make him clean.
Or, if a man hath in his skin a burning wound, and there be the sign of a glowing wound whitish – red or (altogether) white, the priest shall look upon it, and, behold, if the hair be white in the bright spot, and the appearance be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy increasing in the wound, and the priest shall make him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. But if the priest see it, and, behold, the hair is not white in the spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is becoming obscure, it is (only) a burning sore, and the priest shall make him to be clean, for it is the sign of an inflammation.
And if a man or a woman have a plague on the head, or in the beard, the priest shall inspect the plague, and, behold, if the appearance is deeper than the skin, and there is in it a thin reddish hair, the priest shall make him unclean; it is a scar (or scurvy), it is leprosy in the head or the beard. And if the priest observe the plague of the scurvy, and, behold, its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is not black, the priest shall seclude him who hath the plague of the scurvy seven days. And the priest shall inspect the plague on the seventh day; and, behold, if the scurf hath not increased, and there is no reddish hair in it, and the appearance of the scurf be not deeper than the skin, he must shave around the scurfed spot; but the spot itself he must not shave; and the priest shall shut him up (who hath) the scurf a second seven days. And the priest shall look upon the scurf on the seventh day, and, behold, if the scurf is not increased in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall make him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. But if the scurf increase in the skin after that he hath been (pronounced) clean, the priest shall inspect him, and, behold, if the scurf be increased in the skin, the priest need not seek for the reddish hair; he is unclean. But if the scurf abide as it was, and black hair have sprung up in it, the scurf hath healed, he is clean, and the priest shall make him to be clean.
And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright white spots, then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the spots in the skin of their flesh be dim white, it si a freckle growing in the skin; he is clean.
And if a man’s hair fall off from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. And if the hair of his head fall off toward his face, he is partly bald, but is clean. But if in the baldness or partial baldness there be a whitish red scar, it is leprosy growing in the baldness or partial baldness. Then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague spot be whitish red in the baldness or the partial baldness, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, the man is a leper, he is unclean; and the priest shall verily make him to be unclean; his plague is in his head.
And the leper in whom is the plague, - his clothes shall be rent, and his head bared; and, like the mourner, he shall be covered unto his lip, and shall cry: Be not made unclean! Be not made unclean! All the days that the plague is upon him shall he be unclean; he is unclean; he shall dwell apart, his habitation shall be without the camp.
The garment which hath the plague of leprosy in it, whether it be in a garment of woollen or of linen, whether in the warp or in the woof of linen or of woolen, or in leather, or anything made of skin: if the plague be green or red in the garment or in the skin, whether in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and must be showed to the priest. And the priest shall look at the plague, and shut it up seven days. And he shall look at the plague on the seventh day; if the plague hath increased in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin, or anything made of skin for work, it is a plague of consuming leprosy, it is unclean. And he shall burn the garment, whether it be in warp or woof, of wool, or of linen, or anything (made) of skin, which hath the plague in it; for it is a consuming leprosy; he shall burn it in fire. But if the priest look, and, behold, the plague hath not increased in the garment, whether in warp or woof, or in anything of skin; then the priest shall direct, and they shall wash that wherein is the plague, and he shall shut it up a second seven days. And the priest shall look after that they have washed the plague, and, behold, if (the state of) the plague hath not increased, it is (nevertheless) unclean; thou shalt burn it with fire, it is a fretting leprosy, whether in its smoothness or its roughness (i.e., its right or wrong side). And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague hath become obscure after they have washed it, he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or of the woof. And if it reappear in the garment, in warp or woof, or increase in any vessel of skin, thou shalt burn in fire that which hath the plague in it. And the garment, or warp, or woof, or anything of skin which hath been washed, and the plague hath gone form it, shall be dipped the second time, and shall be clean. This is the Torah for the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, in the warp or the woof, or anything of skin, to make it to be clean or unclean.
Ch. 24-27
Pgs. 527-534
SECTION XIX.
TERUMAH.
XXV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Speak unto the children of Yisrael, that they shall set apart (take) before me a Separation: of every one whose heart is willing, but not by constraint, ye shall take my separation. And this is the separation which you shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass; and hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen; and goats' skins, and skins of rams dyed red, and purpled skins, and woods of sittin, and olive oil for the light, and aromatics for the confection of the pure anointing oil, and of the fragrant incense; gems of beryl that are gems of perfection, for engraving and insertion in the ephoda and in the breastplate.
And they shall make a Sanctuary to My Name, that My Shekinah may dwell among them. According to all that I show thee, the likeness of the tabernacle and the likeness of all its vessels, so shalt thou make. And they shall make an ark of sitta wood; two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And thou shalt cover it with pure gold within and without, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. [JERUSALEM. A coronal of gold shall surround it.] And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and set them upon its four corners; two rings for one side, and two rings for the second side. And thou shalt make staves of sitta wood, and cover them with gold; and thou shalt introduce the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried upon them. The staves shall be inlaid in the rings of the ark, and not be removed from it. And thou shalt put within the ark the Testament that I will give thee.
And thou shalt make a (kaphortha) mercy‑seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length, and a cubit and a half the breadth, and its depth shall be a handbreadth (pusheka). And thou shalt make two kerubin, of pure beaten gold shalt thou make them on the two sides of the mercy‑seat. Thou shalt make one keruba on this side, and one keruba on that side of the mercy‑seat; you shall make the kerubaia on its two sides. And the kerubaia shall stretch forth their wings above, their heads over against each other, their wings overshadowing the mercy‑seat, and their faces over against each other; towards the mercy‑seat shall be the faces of the kerubaia. And thou shalt put the mercy‑seat above upon the ark, and within the ark thou shalt lay the Tables of the Testament that I will give thee. And I will appoint My Word with thee there, and will speak with thee from above the mercy‑seat, between the two kerubaia that are over the ark of the testament, concerning all that I may command thee for the sons of Yisrael.
And thou shalt make a table of sitta wood; two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make for it a rim of gold round about. And thou shalt make to it a border, a handbreadth high round about, and make a golden wreath for its border round about. [JERUSALEM. A border of a span surrounding.] And thou shalt make for it four golden rings, and set the rings in its four corners which are at its four feet. Over against the border shall the rings be, for the place of the staves, to carry the table. And thou shalt make its dishes and its spoons, its tankards and its measures, which are for the service of libation; of pure gold shalt thou make them. And upon the table thou shalt set in order the interior bread before Me continually.
And thou shalt make a Candelabrum; of pure beaten gold shalt thou make the candelabrum; its base and shaft, its cups and apples and lilies, shall be of the same. Six branches shall spread out from its sides; three branches of the candelabrum from one side, and three branches of the candelabrum on the second side. Three calyxes adorned with their figurations on one branch, with apple and lily; and three calyxes adorned with their figurations on the other branch, with apple and lily: so for the six branches that spread out from the candelabrum. And upon the candelabrum there shall be four calyxes adorned with their figurations, their apples and lilies. And there shall be an apple under two branches of it, and an apple under two branches of it, and an apple under two branches of it, for the six branches which extend from the candelabrum. Their apples and their branches shall be of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold. And thou shalt make its seven lights, and the priest who ministers shall kindle the lights, that they may shine over upon its face. And its snuffers and its shovels of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it and all these its vessels. And look thou, and make according to their forms which thou hast seen in the mount.
XXVI. And the Tabernacle thou shalt make with ten curtains of fine linen twined, and hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, with figures of kerubin; with the work of the artificer shalt thou make them. The length of one curtain twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; the measure of one shall be that of all the curtains. Five curtains shall be coupled one with another, and five other curtains coupled one with another. And thou shalt make loops of hyacinth upon the edge of one curtain at the side in the place of coupling, and so shalt thou do in the edge of the second curtain in the place of conjoinment. Fifty loops shalt thou make in one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the side of the second curtain in the place of conjoinment, so that the loops may answer one to the other. And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains one with another with the taches, and the Tabernacle shall be conjoined to be one.
And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to extend over the tabernacle: twelve curtains thou shalt make them. The length of one curtain thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; and the measure of one (shall be that of each) of the eleven (other) curtains. And thou shalt conjoin five curtains together, corresponding with the five books of the Torah; and six curtains together, corresponding with the six orders of the Mishna; and shalt fold the sixth curtain over the front of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make fifty loops upon the edge of one curtain at the side of the place of coupling; and fifty loops in the edge of the second curtain at the place of coupling. And thou shalt make taches of brass, fifty, and put the taches into the loops, and conjoin the tabernacle, that it may be one.
And the surplus which remaineth of the curtains of the Tabernacle, the half curtain which remaineth, thou shalt spread over the hinder part of the Tabernacle. [JERUSALEM. And the surplus.] And the cubit here and the cubit there, of that which remaineth in the curtains of the tabernacle, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle here and there, to cover it. And thou shalt make a covering for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of purple skins above. And thou shalt make the boards of the tabernacle of sittin woods; they shall stand up, after the manner of their plantation. [JERUSALEM. Slabs.] Ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board. Two tenons to one board, each in its side answering to the other: so shalt thou do for all the boards of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make the boards of the tabernacle, twenty boards towards the wind on the south side. And thou shalt make forty bases of silver [JERUSALEM. Bases of silver.] beneath the twenty boards; two bases beneath one board with its two tenons, and two bases under the other board with its two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle towards the north wind twenty boards, and their forty bases of silver; two bases under one, and two bases under the other board. And for the side of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. And two boards shalt thou make at the corners of the tabernacle at their ends. And they shall be conjoined beneath, and in one manner shall be conjoined at their heads, with one ring; so shall it be with them both; for the two corners shall all they be. And there shall be eight boards and their silver bases; sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board. And thou shalt make bars of sittin woods, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the side of the tabernacle at their extremity towards the west, [JERUSALEM. And five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle stretching to the west.] And the middle bar in the midst of the boards passing from end to end shall be from the tree which Avraham planted in Beara of Sheba: for when Yisrael had crossed the sea, the angels cut down the tree and cast it into the sea, and it floated on the face of the waters. And an angel proclaimed, and said, This is the tree which Avraham planted in Beara of Sheba, and prayed there in the name of the Word of the Lord. And the sons of Yisrael shall take and make thereof the middle bar, seventy cubits in length, and with it shall wondrous things be done: for when they have reared up the tabernacle, it shall go round it like a serpent among the boards of the tabernacle and when they take it down, it shall become straight as a rod. And the boards thou shalt overlay with gold, and make of gold their rings for the place of the bars, and shalt overlay the bars with gold. And thou shalt rear the tabernacle according to the manner showed thee in the mountain.
And thou shalt make a veil of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen entwined; the work of the artificer shalt thou make it, with figures of kerubin. And thou shalt range it upon four pillars of sitta, covered with gold, their hooks of gold, upon four bases of silver. [JERUSALEM. And their hooks of gold.] And thou shalt place the veil under the taches, and bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testament: and thou shalt spread the veil for you between the Holy and the Holy of Holies. And thou shalt place the mercy-seat with the kerubaia produced of beaten work for it in the Holy of Holies.
And thou shalt set the Table outside of the veil, and the Candelabrum over against the table on the southern side of the tabernacle; but the table thou shalt arrange on the northern side. And thou shalt make a curtain for the door of the tabernacle, of hyacinth, purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, the work of the embroiderer. And thou shalt make for the curtain five pillars of sitta, and cover them with gold, and their nails shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast for them five bases of brass.
XXVII. And thou shalt make the Alter of woods of sitta; five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth: square shall be the altar, and its height three cubits. And thou shalt make its horns upon its four corners: the, horns shall be of it, they shall rise upward, and thou shalt cover it with brass. And thou shalt make its pots to carry away its ashes and its shovels, and its basins, and its thuribles; all its vessels thou shalt make of brass. [JERUSALEM. And thou shalt make its pots to carry its ashes, and its scoops and basins, and its fleshhooks, and its thuribles; all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.] And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass, and upon the network four brass rings upon its four corners. [JERUSALEM. A grate.] And thou shalt place it under the surroundings of the altar, beneath, that the network may be to the middle of the altar, that, if any fragment or fiery coal fall from the altar, it may fall upon the grate, and not touch the ground, and that the priests may take it from the grate, and replace it upon the altar. And thou shalt make staves of sittin woods, and overlay them with brass; and thou shalt place the staves within the rings, and the staves shall be on the two sides of the altar in carrying the altar, hollow: (with) boards filled with dust shalt thou make it; according to what showed thee in the mountain, so shall they make.
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle. For the southern side shall be hangings of fine linen twined; a hundred cubits the length for one side. [JERUSALEM. Hangings.] And its pillars twenty, and their foundations twenty, of brass; the looks of the pillars, and their rods, of silver. And so for the northern side, for length, the hangings a hundred (cubits) long, and their pillars twenty, and their foundations twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their rods, of silver. And for the breadth of the court on the western side, the hangings shall be fifty cubits; their columns ten and their foundations ten. And for the breadth of the eastern side eastward fifty cubits; and fifteen cubits the hangings of the side, their pillars three and the their foundations three. And for the door of the court shall be a veil of ten cubits of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, of embroidered work; their pillars four, and their foundations four. All the pillars of the court round about shall be united with silver rods; their hooks of silver, and their foundations of brass. The length of the court one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty on the west and fifty on the east, and the height five cubits, of fine linen twined, and their foundations of brass. All the vessels of the tabernacle in all its service, and all the pins of the court around, of brass.
SECTION XIX.
TERUMAH.
XXV. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, Speak with the sons of Yisrael that they set apart before Me a separated portion: from every man who is willing in his heart thou shalt receive that which is set apart. And this is the separation that thou shalt take of them: gold, and silver and brass; and hyacinth, and purple and vermilion, (lit., bright colour,) and fine linen, (butz,) and hair of goats, and skins of rams made red, and skins of purple, and sittin woods; oil for the illuminators, aromatics for the anointing oil, and aromatics for the incense; burilla stones, and stones that may complete the insetting of the ephod and the breastplate. And they shall make before me A SANCTUARY in which I will dwell among them. Altogether as I show thee the pattern of the sanctuary, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so shalt thou make them.
And they shall make an ARK of sitta wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And thou shalt cover it with pure gold within and without, and thou shalt make a crown of gold upon it round about. And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and set them upon its four corners, two rings upon one side of it, and two rings upon its other side. And thou shalt make staves of sittin woods, and cover them with gold, and shalt insert the staves in the rings upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be carried upon them. In the rings of the ark shall be the staves, they shall not be removed therefrom. And thou shalt place in the ark the Testimony that I will give thee.
And thou shalt make A PROPITIATORY Of pure gold; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And thou shalt make two KERUBIN of gold, beaten (ductile) shalt thou make them, on the two sides of the propitiatory. And thou shalt make one keruba on this side and one keruba on that side of the propitiatory; thou shalt make the kerubin on its two sides. And the kerubin shall have their wings outspreading above, overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings; and their faces shall be opposite one to another, towards the propitiatory shall be the faces of the kerubin. And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the Ark over above, and within the ark shalt thou put the Testimony that I will give thee. And I will appoint My Word (Memra) with thee there; and I will speak with thee from above the Propitiatory, from between the two kerubin that are upon the Ark of the Testimony, all that I may command thee for the sons of Yisrael.
And thou shalt Make A TABLE of sittin woods, two cubits the length of it, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make for it a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt make to it a border, a handbreadth high round about, and make a crown of gold to the border of it round about. And thou shalt make for it four golden rings, and put the rings upon the four corners of its four feet. Opposite to the border shall be the rings for the place of the staves for carrying the table. And thou shalt make the staves of sittin woods, and cover them with gold, that they may carry the table upon them. And thou shalt make its dishes and its vases, its vials and its chalices with which the libations are outpoured, of pure gold shalt thou make them. And thou shalt set upon the table the PRESENCEBREAD continually before Me.
And thou shalt make A CANDELABRUM; of pure ductile gold shalt thou make the candelabrum; its base and its shaft, its cups, apples, and lilies, of the same shall they be. And six branches shall come out from its sides, three branches of the candelabrum from one side, and three branches of the candelabrum on the second side. Three cups (calyxes) figured on one branch with apple and lily, and three cups figured on one branch with apple and lily, so for the six branches that come out from the candelabrum. And upon the candelabrum shall be four cups, figurated with apples and lilies; an apple under the two branches of this, and an apple under the two branches of that, according to the six branches that come forth from the candelabrum. Their apples and their branches shall be of it, all beaten of pure gold. And thou shalt make its seven lights, and kindle its lights that they may shine towards its face. And its snuffers and shovels (shall be made) of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it and all these vessels. And look thou, and make, according to their resemblance which was displayed in the mount.
XXVI. And thou shalt make THE TABERNACLE (of) ten curtains of fine linen twined, and hyacinth, and purple, and vermilion, (and) figures of kerubin, the work of the artificer shalt thou make them. The length of one curtain twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; the measure of all the curtains shall be one. Five curtains shall be conjoined one with another, and five curtains conjoined one with another. And thou shalt make loops of hyacinth upon the edge of one curtain in the side on which it is joined, and so shalt thou do on the border of the second curtain in the side on which it is joined. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the side of the curtain which is in the place of the second coupling, that the loops, may answer one with another. And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and loop the curtains one with another with the taches, that it may be one Tabernacle. And thou shalt make curtains of goat's (hair) to stretch over the tabernacle; eleven curtains thou shalt make them. The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; of one measure shall be the eleven curtains. And thou shalt loop five curtains together, and six curtains together, and fold the sixth curtain against the front of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain where it is conjoined, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain at the place of the second conjoinment. And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and introduce the taches into the loops, and conjoin the tabernacle that it may be one. And the overplus which remaineth of the tabernacle curtains, the half curtain, (namely,) thou shalt stretch over the hinder side of the tabernacle. And the cubit on this and the cubit on that (side) which remain in the length of the curtains of the tabernacle shall be spread over the sides of the tabernacle, here and there, to cover it. And thou shalt make a covering for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of purple skins above. And thou shalt make the standing‑boards of the tabernacle of sittin woods. Ten cubits the length of one board, and a cubit and a half its breadth. Two tenons (shall there be) to each board, fastened over against one another; so shalt thou make all the boards of the tabernacle. And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the southern side. And forty bases of silver shalt thou make under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under one board for its two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the northern side, twenty boards and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another. And for the side of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. And two boards thou shalt make at the corners of the tabernacle at their extremities; and they shall be united below and likewise united at head with one ring; so shall it be with both of them for the two corners. And they shall be eight boards, and their silver bases, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under the other board. And thou shalt make bars of sittin woods, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the end side of the tabernacle toward the west. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass from end to end. And the boards thou shalt overlay with gold, and the rings make thou of gold, the place for the bars, and cover the bars with gold. And thou shalt erect the tabernacle after the manner of it which hath been showed thee on the mount.
And thou shalt make A VEIL, of hyacinth, and purple, and vermilion, and fine linen twined with the work of the artificer, it shall be made, figured with kerubin. And thou shalt set it upon four pillars of sittin covered with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold upon four bases of silver. And thou shalt put the veil under the taches, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the Ark of the Testament; and the veil shall separate to you between the Holy and the Holy of Holies. And thou shalt set the Mercy Seat upon the ark of the Testament in the Holy of Holies. And place thou the table without the veil, and the candelabrum over against the table at the south side of the tabernacle, and the table place thou at the north side. And thou shalt make a curtain for the door of the tabernacle of hyacinth, and purple, and vermilion, and fine linen twined, the work of the embroiderer; and make for the curtain five pillars of sittin, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold; and shalt set them upon five bases of brass.
XXVII. And thou shalt make THE ALTAR of sittin woods; five cubits the length and five cubits the breadth; square shall be the altar, and three cubits its height. And thou shalt make its horns upon its four corners; of the same shall be its horns, and overlay it with brass. And make its pots, to collect the ashes, and its fireshovels, and its basins, and its flesh‑hooks, and its thuribles, all its vessels make thou of brass. And make for it a grate, a work of netting of brass, and make upon the network four rings of brass upon its four sides, and place it under the surrounding of the altar beneath, that the net may (extend) to the middle of the altar. And make thou staves for the altar, staves of sittin wood, and overlay them with brass; and he shall put the staves into the rings, and the staves shall be at the two sides of the altar to carry it. Hollow (with) boards make thou it, according to what was showed thee in the mount, so do thou.
And thou shalt make THE COURT of the tabernacle on the side toward the south: curtains (shall there be) for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits in length on one side. And its pillars twenty and their bases twenty of brass, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver. And so for the north side in length (there shall be) curtains of a hundred cubits long, and their columns twenty and their bases twenty of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver. And on the side of the court toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their columns ten and their bases ten. And the breadth of the court toward the east side eastward, fifty cubits, and fifteen cubits the curtains on a side, their columns three and their bases three. And on the second side fifteen curtains, their pillars three, and their bases three. And for the door of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of hyacinth, and purple, and vermilion, and fine linen twined, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four and their bases four. All the pillars round about the court shall be (united) with rods of silver, their hooks shall be of silver and their bases of brass. The length of the court, one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, of fine linen twined, and their bases of brass. All the vessels of the tabernacle, and all its service, and all its utensils, and all the pins of the court shall be of brass.
Ch. 28-30
Pgs. 535-545
SECTION XX.
TETSAVVEH.
And thou shalt instruct the sons of Yisrael to bring the pure olive oil, beaten, for illumination, that the lamps may burn continually. In the tabernacle of the covenant, without the veil that is before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall set it in order from evening until morning before the Lord, an everlasting statute to your generations of the house of Yisrael.
XXVIII. And thou, bring near to thee Aharon thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Yisrael, to minister before Me: Aharon, Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aharon. And thou shalt make garments of holiness for Aharon thy brother, for glory and for praise. And thou shalt speak with all who are wise of heart, and whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make the vestments of Aharon to consecrate him to minister before Me. And these are the vestments they shall make: the breastplate and ephoda, and the robe, and the embroidered tunics, the mitres and girdles; and they shall make the holy garments for Aharon thy brother, and for his sons, to minister before Me. And they shall take from their treasures gold, and hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen. And they shall male the ephod of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, twined, the work of the artificer. Two shoulder (pieces) shall it have, conjoined to its two sides, and (so) it shall be united. And the ornamented girdle which is to be upon it shall be of the same work; of gold, hyacinth, purple, and crimson, and fine twined linen, shall it be. And thou shalt take two gems of onyx, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Yisrael. Six of their names shall be engraven upon one gem, and the six remaining names upon the second gem; they shall be set in the order of their nativity. The engraved gems shall be the work of the artificer, engraven, and the engraving be distinct as the engraving of a ring; thou shalt engrave the two gems according to the names of the sons of Yisrael in their work round about; inset in gold shalt thou make them. And thou shalt fix the two gems upon the shoulders of the ephod, to be set for a memorial of righteousness for the sons, of Yisrael; and Aharon shall bear the names of the sons of Yisrael upon his two shoulders for a memorial. And thou shalt make the sockets of gold. And two chains of pure gold, measured shalt thou make them, of twisted work, and insert the twisted chains in the sockets. [JERUSALEM. Chains.]
And thou shalt make the BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT, by which are made known the judgments that are hidden from the judges; and the order of the victories of their battles, and amends that are made for the judges; the work of the artificer; as the work of the ephod, thou shalt make it; of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, thou shalt make it. Square shall it be, doubled; a span its length, and a span its breadth. [JERUSALEM. A handsbreadth.] And thou shalt fill it with a fulness of precious stones: four rows of precious gems, answering to the four regions of the world. The first row, carnelian, topaz, carbuncle; and on them shall be engraven and expressed the names of the tribes Reuben, Shemeon, and Levi. [JERUSALEM. And thou shalt fill it with a filling of stones, four rows of precious stone; the first row, carnelian, and topaz, and carbuncle; written with expression upon it (shall be) the name of the three tribes, Reuben, Shemeon, Levi.] And the name of the second row, smaragd, and sapphire and chalcedony; and upon them shall be engraven and expressed the names of the three tribes, Jehuda, Dan, and Naphtali. And the name of the third row, ligure, and agate, and amethyst; and upon them shall be written and expressed the names of three tribes, Gad, and Asher, and Issakar. And the name of the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper; and upon them shall be written and expressed the names of three tribes, Zebulon, Joseph, and Benjamin. Set in gold shall they be, in their completeness. [JERUSALEM. And the second row, carbuncle, and sapphire, and amethyst; in writing expressed upon them, the name of the three tribes, Jehudah, Issakar, and Zebulon. And third row, ligure, and beryl, and smaragd; written expressly upon them (shall be) the name of the three tribes, Dan, Naphtali, and Gad. And the fourth row, chrysolite, bdellium, and margelite.[1] Written expressly upon them shall be the name of the three tribes, Asher, Joseph, and Benjamin: socketed in gold shall they be, in their completeness.] And the jewels shall be taken according to the names of the sons of Yisrael, twelve are they according to their names, engraven and set forth as the engraving of a ring; the gem of each man according to his name: (so) shall they be for the twelve tribes.
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate measured chains of twisted work of pure gold, and shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of pure gold, and put the two rings upon the two sides of the breastplate. And thou shalt put the two golden chains upon the two rings in the sides of the breastplate, and the two chains which are upon the two sides thou shalt put upon the two sockets, and set on the shoulders of the ephod against its front. And thou shalt make two golden rings, and fix them upon the two sides of the breastplate, in the border of it which is on the edge of the ephod inwardly. And thou shalt make (likewise) two golden chains, and fix them upon the two shoulders of the ephod beneath, towards its front, towards the place of its conjoinment above the girdle of the ephod; and they shall unite the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod, with twined ribbon, of hyacinth, to be joined upon the girdle of the ephod, that the breastplate may not be removed from the ephod. And Aharon shall bear the names of the sons of Yisrael upon his heart what time he entereth into the sanctuary for a good memorial before the Lord continually.
And thou shalt put upon the breastplate of judgment the Uraia, which illuminate their words, and manifest the hidden things of the house of Yisrael, and the Tumaia, which fulfil (or perfect) their work to the high priest, who seeketh instruction by them before the Lord; because in them is engraven and expressed the Great and Holy Name by which were created the three hundred and ten worlds, and which was engraven and expressed in the foundation stone wherewith the Lord of the world sealed up the mouth of the great deep at the beginning. Whosoever remembereth that holy name in the hour of necessity shall be delivered. And they shall be upon Aharon's heart in the time that he entereth before the Lord; and Aharon shall bear the judgment of the sons of Yisrael before the Lord continually.
And thou shalt make the mantle‑robe (mintar meila) of the ephod, of twined thread of hyacinth; and an orifice shall be in the middle of its upper part; a border shall be upon its opening round about its orifice, the work of the sewer; as the orifice of a coat of mail it shall be, that it may not be rent. [JERUSALEM. And an orifice shall be in the middle of its head; a border shall surround the orifice, the work of the sewer; like the opening of a coat of mail shall it be, that it be not torn.] And thou shalt make upon the hem of it pomegranates of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, upon its hem, round about, and bells of gold among them round about. A golden bell, and a pomegranate of hyacinth and crimson; a golden bell, and a pomegranate of hyacinth and crimson upon the border of the robe round about; their number, seventy and one. And it shall be a vestment upon Aharon to minister, and its voice shall be heard at the time that he hath entered the holy place before the Lord, and at the time that he cometh out, that he die not by the flaming fire.
And thou shalt make a plate (or crown) of pure gold, and engrave upon it with distinct engraving, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And thou shalt put it on a twined ribbon of hyacinth, to make amends for boldness of face; and it shall be on the mitre above the tephillin of the head in front of the mitre shall it be. And it shall be in the front of Aharon's forehead, from time to time as it comes; and Aharon shall bear the iniquity of the consecrated things which the sons of Yisrael may consecrate; even of all their sacred gifts in which they have been insincere. And it shall be upon the front continually, for their reconciliation before the Lord. And thou shalt weave the tunic of fine linen to expiate for the shedding of innocent blood; and shalt make the tiara of fine linen to expiate for the pride of their thoughts; and the girdle shalt thou make of the work of the embroiderer. And for the sons of Aharon thou shalt make tunics, and girdles, and mitres, for glory and for praise. And with them thou shalt invest Aharon thy brother, and his sons with him, and anoint them, that they may offer their oblations; and sanctify them to minister before Me. And thou shalt make for them under‑garments of fine linen to cover the flesh of their shame; from the girt of the girdle of their loins unto their thighs they shall be. [JERUSALEM. Drawers of fine linen.] And they shall be upon Aharon and upon his sons at the time when they enter the tabernacle of testimony, or when they approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary, that they may not receive the punishment of flaming fire. This is an everlasting statute for him and for his sons after him.
XXIX. And this is the thing that thou shalt do to them to sanctify them, that they may serve before Me. Take one bullock, the young of a bullock, without spot; and two rams, unblemished (perfect); and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, mingled with olive oil; and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with olive oil, and with flour of wheat shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them upon one basket, and offer them in the basket, and the bullock and the two rams they shall bring in a vehicle. And Aharon and his two sons thou shalt bring near to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and wash them, in four measures of living water. And thou shalt take the vestments, and clothe Aharon with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him (or ordain him) with the girdle of the ephod. And thou shalt set the mitre on his head, and put the diadem upon which is engraven the Name of Holiness upon the mitre. And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head and anoint him. And thou shalt bring his sons near, and dress them in the tunics, and indue (ordain) them with the girdles, Aharon and his sons, and wrap on them the mitres; and the priesthood shall be theirs by an everlasting statute.
And thou shalt offer the oblation of Aharon, and the oblation of his sons. And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tabernacle of ordinance, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock, and thou shalt kill the bullock before the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and take of the blood of the bullock, and put (it) on the horns of the altar with thy finger, and all the (remaining) blood thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar. And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and what remaineth upon the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, and set them in order upon the altar. And the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, thou shalt burn with fire without the camp; it is a sin offering. And the one ram thou shalt take, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. And thou shalt kill the ram, and take his blood and sprinkle on the altar round about. And the ram shalt thou divide according to his members (dividings), and wash his inwards and his legs, and set them in order upon his members, and upon his head. [JERUSALEM. And the ram thou shalt divide according to his divisions, and shalt cleanse his inwards and his legs, and lay them upon his divided parts, upon his head.] And thou shalt offer the whole ram upon the altar, it is a holocaust before the Lord to be accepted with favour, an oblation it is before the Lord. And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. And thou shalt kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put upon the tip[2] of Aharon's right ear, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hands, and upon the toe of their right feet, and pour the rest of the blood upon the altar round about.
And thou shalt take of the blood which is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and drop it upon Aharon, and upon his vestments, and on his sons, and on his sons' vestments with him. And thou shalt take of the ram, the fat and the tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and which remaineth upon the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, for it is the ram of the oblation; and one round of bread, and one cake of bread mingled with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord; and thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aharon and upon the hands of his sons, and shalt uplift them for an elevation before the Lord. And thou shalt take them from their hands, and set them in order upon the altar upon the burnt offering, to be received with acceptance before the Lord: it is an oblation before the Lord. And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aharon's oblation, and uplift it, an elevation before the Lord, and it shall be thy portion. [JERUSALEM. The breast.] And thou shalt consecrate the breast of the elevation and the shoulder of the separation, which have been uplifted and separated from the ram of the oblation from the hand of Aharon and from the hand of his sons. And it shall be for Aharon and for his sons by a perpetual statute for the sons of Yisrael; because it is a separation, and a separation it shall be from the sons of Yisrael from the offerings of their consecration, their separation before the Lord. And the holy vestments of Aharon shall be to his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and in them to offer their oblations. Seven days shall the priest wear them, who ariseth after him from his sons, but not from the Levites, at the time when he entereth into the tabernacle of ordinance to minister in the sanctuary.
And thou shalt take the ram of the oblation, and boil its flesh in the holy place; and Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And they shall eat those things by which atonemen, was made for them in offering their oblations to sanctify them to minister before Me: but the profane shall not eat; for they are holy. And if any of the flesh of the oblation and of the bread remain until the morning, thou shalt burn that which remaineth with fire; it shall not be eaten; for it is sacred. And thus thou shalt do to Aharon and to his sons according to all that I have prescribed to thee; seven days thou shalt offer their oblation. And a bullock for a sin offering thou shalt offer daily for atonement, and shalt anoint the altar in offering the atonement upon it; thou shalt anoint it, to consecrate it. Seven days make thou atonement upon the altar to consecrate it; and it shall be the altar of the Holy of Holies. Every one of the sons of Aharon who approacheth to the altar must be holy; to the rest of the people it is not lawful to approach, lest they be burned with the fiery flame which cometh from the holy place.
And this is the oblation which thou shalt perform upon the altar; two lambs of one year, daily, evermore. The one lamb thou shalt perform in the morning; and the second lamb thou shalt perform between the evenings. And the tenth of flour mingled with oil of olives beaten; (with) the fourth of a hina, and the libation of a fourth of a hina for the one lamb. And the second lamb thou shalt perform between the evenings: it shall be as the mincha of the morning, and as the libation thou shalt do it, to be received with acceptance, an oblation before the Lord; a perpetual holocaust for your generations at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance before the Lord; where I will appoint My Word to (meet) thee there, to speak with thee there. And there I will appoint My Word (to meet) with the sons of Yisrael, and I will be sanctified in their rulers for My glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle of ordinance and the altar; and Aharon and his sons will I sanctify to minister before Me: and My Shekinah shall dwell in the midst of the sons of Yisrael, and I will be their Elohim. And the sons of Yisrael shall know that I am their Elohim, who led them out free from the land of Mizraim to make My Shekinah dwell among them. I am the Lord their Elohim.
XXX. And thou shalt make an altar on which to burn incense of perfumes: of sitta wood shalt thou make it. A cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits its height: and its upright horns shall be of it. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its wall round about, and its horns; and make for it a border of gold round about. And two golden rings make thou for it beneath its border at the two corners, thou shalt make upon its two sides, to be the place for the staves by which it may be carried. And thou shalt make the staves of sitta wood, and cover them with gold. And thou shalt place it before the veil which is over the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee. And Aharon shall burn sweet incense upon it from morning to morning: when he ordereth the lamps, be shall burn it. And when Aharon kindleth the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn sweet incense perpetually before the Lord in your generations. Thou shalt not offer thereon the sweet incense of strange peoples, nor offer upon it burnt offerings, or minchas, nor pour libations. And Aharon shall expiate upon its horns once in the year with the blood of the sin offering for an expiation: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it on the day of atonement in your generations: it shall be most holy before the Lord.
[1] The three Chaldee Targums vary in the translation of the names of these gems. For the convenience of the student I will set them down in one view.
Hebrew Text. 1. Odem, pitedah, bareketh. 2. Nophek, sapphir, yahalon. 3. Leshem, shebo, achlama. 4. Tarshish, shoham, yashepheh.
Onkelos. 1. Samkan, jarkan, or jarktha, barkan. 2. Izmargadin, schabziz, sibhalom. 3. Kankire, tarkaja, ain-ingla. 4. Kerum-yama, burella, pantire.
Jonathan. 1. Simuktha, yarketha, barketha. 2. Izmorad, saphirinon, kadekodin. 3. Kanjerinun, arekin, ain-egel. 4. Kerum-yama-rabba, birlevath-chala, margenith-apantirin.
Yerushalayim. 1. Samketha, yarketha, barketha. 2. Kadkedana, simphuryana, ein-igla. 3. Zozin, berulin, zemargedin. 4. Kerum yama, bedolcha, margalitha. We cannot render some of these by the names of the stones with which we are familiar with absolute certainty. Much curious matter on the chapter may be found in, "Die Urim und Thummim, die altesten Gemmen. Von J.J. Bellermann." Berlin. 1824.
[2] Lit., "cartilage."
SECTION XX.
TETSAVVEH.
AND thou shalt instruct the sons of Yisrael to bring to thee the pure oil of olives, beaten, to illuminate, that the lamps may burn continually. In the tabernacle of ordinance, without the veil that is before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before the Lord; a perpetual statute for the generations of the sons of Yisrael.
XXVIII. And thou, bring to thee Aharon thy brother and his sons with him from among the sons of Yisrael, that they may minister before Me; Aharou, Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar, sons of Aharon. And thou shalt make the holy vestments for Aharon thy brother for glory and for praise. And speak thou with all the wise of heart whom I have filled with the Spirit of wisdom, that they make the vestments of Aharon to consecrate him to minister before Me. And these are the vestments which they shall make; the breastplate, and the ephoda, and the robe, and the inwrought tunic, and the mitre, and the girdle; and they shall make holy vestments for Aharon thy brother and for his sons to minister before Me. And they shall take the gold, and the hyacinth, and the vermilion, and the fine linen.
And shall make the EPHODA of gold, hyacinth, and vermilion, and fine linen twined, the work of the artificer. Two shoulder‑pieces doubled (or, conjoined) shall it have at the two sides conjoined. And the adorned girdle thereof which is upon it shall be of the same work, and be of gold, hyacinth, vermilion, and fine linen twined. And thou shalt take two stones of onyx (burilla); and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Yisrael. Six of their names upon the one stone, and the six names which remain upon the second stone, according to their nativity. By the work of the artificer in precious stone the writing shall be distinct; as the engraving of a ring, so shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Yisrael; inwrought in sockets of gold shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod, stones of the memorial of the sons of Yisrael; and Aharon shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial. And thou shalt make sockets of gold; and two chains of pure gold enwreathed shalt thou make of twisted work, and shalt set the twisted chains in the sockets.
And thou shalt make THE BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT with the work of the artificer, like the work of the ephod shalt thou make it, of gold, hyacinth, vermilion, and fine linen twined shalt thou make it. Square shall it be; doubled; a span its length and a span its breadth; and thou shalt fulfil in it the complement of stones: four rows of precious stones; the first row, the carnelian, topaz and smaragd, the first row; the second row, the carbuncle, sapphire, and onyx;[1] and the third row, the jacinth, agate, and amethyst; and the fourth row, the chrysolite, and beryl, and jasper: they shall be inset in gold in their completeness. And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Yisrael, twelve according to their names; the writing distinct as the engraving of a ring; a man according to his name shall they be, after the twelve tribes. And thou shalt make on the breastplate wreathed chains of twisted work of pure gold, and upon the breastplate two golden rings, and shalt set the two rings upon the two sides of the breastplate. And thou shalt put the two wreaths of gold into the two rings on the sides of the breastplate; and the two wreaths which are upon its two sides thou shalt set in the two sockets, and put them upon the shoulders of the ephod over against its front. And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and set them on the two sides of the breastplate at its edges on the side of the ephod within. And thou shalt make two (other) rings of gold, and put them upon the two shoulders of the ephod beneath, over against its conjoinment above the girdle of the ephod. And they shall unite the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod with ribbon of hyacinth to be above the girdle of the ephod, that the breastplate be not separated from (being) upon the ephod. And Aharon shall bear the names of the sons of Yisrael on the breastplate of judgment upon his heart in his going into the sanctuary, for a perpetual memorial before the Lord.
And thou shalt put in (or upon) the breastplate of judgment THE URAIA and THE THUMMAIA;[2] and they shall be upon Aharon's heart when he entereth before the Lord; and Aharon shall carry the judgment of the sons of Yisrael upon his heart before the Lord continually. And thou shalt make the ROBE of the ephod of hyacinth altogether. And the orifice thereof for the head shall be doubled inwardly; its opening shall be binded round about with the work of the sewer, as the opening of a coat of mail it shall be, that it be not torn. And thou shalt make on the lower part of it pomegranates of hyacinth, and purple, and vermilion upon its lower part round about, with bells of gold between them round about. A golden bell and a pomegranate; a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the lower part of the robe round about. And it shall be upon Aharon to minister, and its voice shall be heard in his entering into this sanctuary before the Lord, and in his coming out., that he shall not have died.
And thou shalt make a DIADEM (or plate) of pure gold, and engrave upon it (in) distinct writing HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and thou shalt set it upon a ribbon of hyacinth, that it may be upon the tiara; over the front of the tiara shall it be. And it shall be upon Aharon's forehead, that Aharon may bear the iniquity of the things which the sons of Yisrael may consecrate of all their consecrated gifts; and it shall be upon his forehead continually for their acceptableness before the Lord. And thou shalt weave the vesture of fine linen, and make the tiara of fine linen, and a girdle shalt thou make, the work of the embroiderer.
And for the sons of Aharon thou shalt make vestures, and make for them girdles, and mitres shalt thou make for them for honour and for praise. And thou shalt dress them, Aharon thy brother and his sons with him, and shalt anoint them and offer oblations and consecrate them, that they may minister before Me. And thou shalt make them coverings of fine linen to cover the flesh of their shame; from the loins to the thighs shall they be. And they shall be upon Aharon and upon his sons in their entering into the tabernacle of ordinance, or in approaching to the altar to minister in the sanctuary, that they contract not guilt and die. (This shall be) an everlasting statute for him and for his sons after him.
XXIX. And this is the thing which thou shalt do to them, to consecrate them to minister before Me: Take one bullock, the young of a bullock, and two rams unblemished; and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened which are anointed with oil; of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them on one basket, and bring them in the basket, and the bullock and the two rams, and Aharon and his sons thou shalt bring to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and wash them with water. And thou shalt take the vestments, and dress Aharon with the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod and the breastplate, and shalt ordain him with the girdle of the ephod. And thou shalt set the tiara on his head, and put the diadem of Holiness upon the tiara. And thou shalt take the oil of anointing, and pour upon his head to anoint him. And thou shalt bring his sons near, and dress them in the tunics and gird them with the girdles, Aharon and his sons; and thou shalt set on them the mitres, and it shall be to them a priesthood, by a perpetual statute. And thou shalt offer the oblation for Aharon and the oblation for his sons, and the bullock shalt thou offer before the tabernacle of ordinance. And Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock; and thou shalt slay the bullock before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and all the blood (that remains) thou shalt pour out at the base of the altar. And thou shalt take all the fat which covereth the inwards, and the caul that is upon the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, and sacrifice them upon the altar. And the flesh of the bullock, his skin, and his dung, burn thou with fire without the camp; it is a sin‑offering. And thou shalt take the one ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram; and thou shalt kill the ram, and take his blood, and sprinkle upon the altar round about. And the ram thou shalt divide by his members, and shalt cleanse his inwards, and his legs, and put them upon his members, and upon his head, and thou shalt sacrifice the ram at the altar; it is a holocaust before the Lord, to be accepted with favour, an oblation before the Lord. And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. And thou shalt kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it on the tip of Aharon's ear, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the toe of their right foot; and thou shalt sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. And thou shalt take of the blood which is upon the altar, and of the oil of anointing, and drop it on Aharon and on his vestments, and on his sons, and on the vestments of his sons with him, and he shall be consecrated, he and his vestments, and his sons, and the vestments of his sons with him. And thou shalt take of the ram, the fat, and the tall, and the fat which covereth the inwards, and the caul which is on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, and the right shoulder, for it is a ram for oblation; and one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread (with) oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened ones which is before the Lord: and put thou all upon the hands of Aharon and upon the hands of his sons, and uplift them for an elevation before the Lord; and take them from their hands, and offer them at the altar upon the burnt offering, that they may be received with acceptance before the Lord; it is an oblation before the Lord. And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aharon's oblations, and uplift it, an elevation before the Lord; and it shall be thy portion. And thou shalt consecrate the breast of the elevation and the shoulder of separation which is uplifted and which is separated of the oblation‑ram of Aharon and that of his sons; and it shall be for Aharon and for his sons by a perpetual statute for the sons of Yisrael, because it is a thing separated. And a separation shall be (taken) from the sons of Yisrael of their consecrated sacrifices, (even) their separation before the Lord.
And the sacred garments of Aharon shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed in them, (and) in them to offer their oblations. Seven days shall the priest wear them, who of his sons (is to be anointed) instead of him, and who shall enter into the tabernacle of ordinance to minister in the sanctuary. And the ram of the oblations thou shalt take, and boil his flesh in. the holy place. And Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is on the basket at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And they may eat those things by which propitiation is made in offering them as oblations to consecrate them; but an alien may not eat, because they are sacred. And if any (part) of the flesh of the oblations or of the bread remain until the morning, the remainder shall be burned with fire; it shall not be eaten, it is sacred. And thou shalt do (thus) to Aharon and to his sons, according to all that I have prescribed to thee: seven days shalt thou offer[3] their oblations. A bullock that is a sin-offering thou shalt perform daily for expiation, and thou shalt make purification upon the altar in making expiation upon it, and shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. Seven days must thou make expiation on the altar to sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy;[4] whosoever shall touch the altar let him be sanctified.
And this is what thou shalt perform upon the altar: Two lambs, the offspring of the year, for the day continually. The one lamb thou shalt perform in the morning, and the second lamb thou shalt perform between the evenings. And a tenth of flour, sprinkled with the fourth of a hina of beaten oil, and a libation of the fourth of a hina of wine, to one lamb. And the second lamb thou shalt perform between the evenings, as the oblation of the morning, and as its libation thou shalt perform it to be received with acceptance, an oblation before the Lord. A perpetual holocaust unto your generations at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance before the Lord, where I have appointed My Word with you, to speak with you there. And I will appoint My Word there unto the sons of Yisrael, and (with) My glory will I sanctify (it).[5] And I will sanctify the tabernacle of ordinance, and the altar, and Aharon, and his sons will I sanctify to minister before Me. And I will cause My Shekinah to dwell in the midst of the sons of Yisrael, and I will be their Elohim. And they shall know that I am the Lord their Elohim who brought them out from the land of Mizraim, that I may make My Shekinah to dwell among them. I am the Lord their Elohim.
XXX. And thou shalt make an altar upon which to burn fragrant incense, of woods of sittin shalt thou make it. A cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, four‑square shall it be, and two cubits its height. The horns of it shall be of the same. And thou shalt cover it with fine gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about, and two rings of gold shalt thou make to it under its crown, upon its top corners, at its two sides and it shall be for the places of the staves by which to carry it. And thou shalt make the staves of sittin woods, and cover them with gold. And thou shalt place it before the veil which is over the ark of the testimony before the mercy‑seat which is over the testimony, where I will appoint My Word to be with thee. And Aharon shall burn thereon fragrant incense from morning to morning, when he setteth the lamps in order he shall burn it. And when Aharon kindleth the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn fragrant incense continually before the Lord in your generations. You shall not offer upon it incense of strange perfumes, nor holocaust, nor mincha, nor pour any libation upon it.
And Aharon shall atone upon its horns once in the year with the blood of the sin offering of the atonement, once in the year shall he atone upon it, unto your generations. It is holy of holiness before the Lord.
[1] Or, “emerald.”
[2] Hebrew, Eth ha-ŭrim ve-eth ha-tummim.
[3] Sam. Vers., “thou shalt complete.”
[4] Or, “it shall be the altar of the Holy of holies.”
[5] Sam. Vers., “and I will sanctify (it) with My glory.”
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SECTION L.
THABO.
XXVI. And when you have entered into the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth you for an inheritance, and you possess and dwell in it; you shall take of the earliest first fruits which are ripe at the beginning, of all the produce of the ground which thou ingatherest from the land which the Lord your Elohim hath given you, and put them into a basket, and go unto the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose that His Shekinah may dwell there. And you shall put crowns upon the baskets, hampers, and paper cases, and bring them to the priest appointed to be the chief priest in those days, and shall say to him: We acknowledge this day before the Lord thy Elohim that we have come into the land which the Lord sware unto our fathers to give us. [JERUSALEM. And thou shalt come to the priest who will be appointed the chief priest in those days, and say to him: We give glory and thanks this day before the Lord thy Elohim, that we have come into the land which the Word of the Lord did covenant unto our fathers to give us.] And the priest shall receive the basket of early fruits from thy hand, and take, bring, uplift, and lower it, and afterward lay it down before the altar of the Lord your Elohim. And you shall respond, and say before the Lord your Elohim:
Our father Jakob went down into Aram Naharia at the beginning, and (Laban) sought to destroy him; but the Word of the Lord saved him out of his hands. And afterwards went he down into Mizraim and sojourned there, a few people; but there did he become a great people, and mighty and many. But the Mizraee evil‑treated and afflicted us, and laid heavy bondage upon us. But we prayed before the Lord our Elohim, and the Lord hearkened to our prayers, our affliction and our travail; and our oppression was manifest before Him. And the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand and uplifted arm, and with great visions, signs, and wonders, and brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land of fruits rich as milk and sweet as honey. Now, therefore, behold, I have brought the early firstlings of the fruit of the land which thou hast given me, 0 Lord.
And thou shalt lay them before the Lord thy Elohim, and worship, and rejoice in all the good which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, thou and the men of thy house, and enjoy and eat, you, the Levites and the sojourners who are among you.
When you make an end of tything all the tenths of your produce in the third year, which is the year of release, you shall give the first tenth to the Levites, the second tenth, which is the tythe of the poor, to the stranger, the orphan, and widow, that they may eat in your cities, and be satisfied. [JERUSALEM. When you finish tything all the tenths of your produce in the third year, which is the year of the tythe for the poor, you shall give the first tenth to the Levites, and the poor's tenth to the stranger, the orphan, and widow, that they may eat in your cities, and be satisfied.] But the third tenth you shall bring up, and eat before the Lord thy Elohim, and thou shalt say:
Behold, we have set apart the consecrations from the house, and have also given the first tenth to the Levites, the second tenth to the strangers, the fatherless, and the widow, according to the commandment which Thou hast commanded me. I have not transgressed one of Thy commandments, nor have I forgotten. I have not eaten of it in the days of my mourning, nor separated from it for the unclean, neither have I given of it a covering for the soul of the dead: [1] we have hearkened to the voice of the Word of the Lord; I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me. [JERUSALEM. We have not eaten thereof in (our) mourning, nor separated therefrom for the unclean, nor given of it for the defiled soul; for we have obeyed the voice of the Word of the Lord our Elohim; we have done according to all that Thou hast commanded us.] Look down from heaven, from the habitation of the glory of Thy holiness, and bless Thy people Yisrael, and the land which Thou hast given to us, as Thou didst swear unto our fathers, a land of fruits rich as milk and sweet as honey. [JERUSALEM. Look down, we beseech Thee, from the heavens, the habitation of Thy glory and Thy holiness, and bless Thy people Yisrael, and the land which Thou hast given us, as Thou didst swear unto our fathers (to give us a land) producing good fruits, pure as milk, sweet and delicious as honey.]
This day doth the Lord our Elohim command you to perform these statutes and judgments, which you shall observe and do with all your heart and with all your soul. The Lord have you confessed with one confession in the world this day; for so it is written, Hear, O Yisrael: The Lord our Elohim is one Lord; that He may be thy Elohim, and that thou mayest walk in the ways that are right before Him, and keep His statutes, commandments, and judgments, and be obedient unto His Word. And the Word of the Lord doth acknowledge (or honour) you with one acknowledgment in the world this day; as it is written, Who is as Thy people Yisrael, a peculiar people upon the earth, to be to Him a people beloved, as He hath said unto you, and that you may obey all His commandments? [JERUSALEM. You have chosen the Word of the Lord to be King over you this day, that He may be your Elohim. But the Word of the Lord becometh the King over you for His Name's sake, as over a people beloved as a treasure, as He hath spoken to you, that you may obey all His commandments.] And He will set you on high, and exalt you above all the peoples He hath made in greatness, and with a name of glory and splendour, that you may be a holy people before the Lord your Elohim, as He hath spoken.
XXVII. And Mosheh and the elders of Yisrael instructed the people, saying: Observe all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day that you pass over the Jordana into the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you, that you shall erect for you great stones, and plaster them with lime; and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this Torah, when you go over to enter the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you, a land whose fruits are rich as milk and producing honey, as the Lord Elohim of your fathers hath said to you. When you pass over Jordana, you shall erect the stones that I command you on the mountain of Ebal, and plaster them with lime; and you shall build there an altar before the Lord your Elohim, an altar of stone, not lifting up iron upon it. With perfect stones ye shall build an altar to the Lord your Elohim, and offer sacrifices upon it before the Lord your Elohim. And you shall immolate the consecrated victims, and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your Elohim. And upon the stones you shall write all the words of this Torah with writing deeply (engraven) and distinct, which shall be read in one language, but shall be interpreted in seventy languages. [JERUSALEM. And you shall write upon the stones all the glorious words of this Torah in writing deep and plain, to be well read, and to be interpreted in seventy tongues.]
And Mosheh and the priests, the sons of Levi, spake with all the people, saying: Listen, O Yisrael, and hear: This day are you chosen to be a people before the Lord your Elohim. Hearken, therefore, to the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and perform His commandments which I command you to‑day. And Mosheh instructed the people that day, saying: These tribes shall stand to bless the people on the mountain of Gerezim when you have passed the Jordan,‑Shemeon, Levi, Jehudah, Issakar, Joseph, and Benjamin; and these tribes shall stand (to pronounce) the curses on the mountain of Ebal,‑Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulon, Dan, and Naphtali. And the Levites proclaimed and said to every man of Yisrael with a high voice: Six tribes shall stand on Mount Gerezim, and six on Mount Ebal; and the ark, the priests, and Levites in the midst. In blessing they shall turn their faces towards Mount Gerezim, and say:
Blessed shall be the man who maketh not an image or form, or any similitude which is an abomination before the Lord, the work of the craftsman's hand, and who placeth not such in concealment. In cursing, they shall turn their faces toward Mount Ebal, and say: Accursed be the man who maketh an image, figure, or any similitude which is an abomination before the Lord, the work of the craftsman's hand, or who placeth such in concealment. And all of them shall respond together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who contemneth the honour of his father or his mother. And all of them shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who shall transfer the boundary of his neighbour. And all of them shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who causeth the pilgrim, who is like the blind, to wander from the way. And all of them shall answer together, and say, Amen. [JERUSALEM. Six tribes of them shall stand on Mount Gerezim, and six tribes on Mount Ebal. And the ark, with the priests and Levites in the midst. And all Yisrael, here and there, turning their faces towards Mount Gerezim, shall open their mouth in benediction: Blessed be the man who hath not made an image, or a figure, or any similitude which the Lord hateth, and which is an abomination before Him, (being) the work of man's band, and who bath not hidden such. But in pronouncing the curses let them turn their faces toward Mount Ebal, and say: Accursed be the man who shall make an image, or figure, or any similitude which the Lord hateth and which is an abomination to Him, the work of man's hands; or the man who hath concealed such. And all the people shall answer them, and say, Amen. Accursed be the man who changeth the bound mark. Accursed be the man who maketh the wayfarer, who is like the blind, to wander from the way. And all the people shall answer, and say, Amen.] Accursed be he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the widow, and the fatherless. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who lieth with his father's wife, because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is be who lieth with a beast. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father or mother. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who shall lie with his mother‑in‑Torah. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. [JERUSALEM. Accursed is he who lieth with his mother‑in‑Torah. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen.] Accursed is he who attacketh his neighbour with slander in secret. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen. Accursed is he who receiveth hire to kill and to shed innocent blood. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen.
The twelve tribes, each and every, shall pronounce the blessings altogether, and the curses altogether. In blessing, they shall turn their faces (in pronouncing) word by word towards Mount Gerezim, and shall say: Blessed is the man who confirmeth the words of this Torah to perform them. In cursing, they shall turn their faces towards Mount Ebal, and say: Accursed is the man who confirmeth not the words of this Torah to perform them. And all shall answer together, and say, Amen.
These words were spoken at Sinai, and repeated in the tabernacle of ordinance, and (again) the third time on the plains of Moab, in twelve sentences (words), as the word of every tribe; and each several commandment (was thus) ratified by thirty and six adjurations.
XXVIII. And it shall be, if you will diligently hearken to the Word of the Lord your Elohim, to observe and perform all the commandments which I command you this day, that the Lord your Elohim will set you on high, and exalt you above all the nations of the earth; and all these blessings shall come upon you, and abide with you, for that you will have hearkened to the Lord your Elohim.
Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. Blessed shall be the offspring of your womb, the fruits of your ground, the oxen of your herd, and the flocks of your sheep. Blessed shall be the basket of your first fruits, and the first cakes of your flour. Blessed shall you be in your coming in to your houses of instruction, and blessed shall you be when you go out to your affairs. [JERUSALEM. Blessed shall you be in the baskets of your first fruits, and in your wheaten cakes. Blessed shall you be when you go in to your houses of instruction, and blessed when you go out of them.] The Word of the Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to hurt you, to be broken before you. By one way they will come out to fight against you, but seven ways they shall be dispersed, I fleeing before you. The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your treasuries, and on all that you put your hands unto, and will bless you in the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you. The Word of the Lord will establish you to be a holy people before Him, as He hath said unto you, when you keep the commandments of the Lord your Elohim, and walk in the ways that are right before Him. And all the nations of the earth will see that the Name is written by (His own) appointment on the tephillin that are upon thee, and will be afraid of thee. And the Word of the Lord will make thee to abound in good, in the offspring of thy womb, and the increase of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord hath promised to thy fathers.-- Four keys are in the hand of the Lord of all the world, which He hath not delivered into the hands of any secondary power:[2] the key of life, and of the tombs, and of food, and of rain; and thus did Mosheh the prophet speak:-- The Lord will open to you His good treasure which is with Him in the heavens, and will give you the rain of your land in its season; the early in Marchesvan, and the latter in Nisan; and will bless you in all the works of your hands; and you will lend to many peoples, but shall have no need to borrow. And the Word of the Lord will appoint you to be kings and not subjects,[3] and to be ennobled and not abased, when you have hearkened to the commandments of the Lord your Elohim which I command you this day to keep and perform. Decline not from any of these words that I teach you to‑day either to the right or the left, in walking after the idols of the Gentiles to serve them.
When Mosheh the prophet began to pronounce the words of threatening the earth trembled, the heavens were moved, the sun and moon were darkened, the stars withdrew their beams, the fathers of the world cried from their sepulchres, while all creatures were silent, the very trees waved not their branches. The fathers of the world answered and said, Woe to our children should they sin, and bring these maledictions upon them; for how will they bear them? lest destruction be executed on them, and no merit of ours protect, and there be no man to stand and intercede on their behalf! Then fell the Bath‑kol from the high heavens, and said, Fear not, ye fathers of the world; if the merit of all generations should fail, yours shall not; and the covenant which I have confirmed with you shall not be annulled, but will (still) overshadow them.
Mosheh the prophet answered and said, Whomsoever I threaten I threaten conditionally, saying, If you hearken not to the Word of the Lord your Elohim in neither observing nor doing all my commandments and statutes which I command you this day, then shall all these maledictions come upon and cleave unto you.
Accursed shall you be in the city and in the field. Accursed shall be the basket of your first fruits, and the first cakes of your flour. Accursed the children of your wombs, the fruits of your ground, the oxen of your herds, and the sheep of your flocks. Accursed shall you be in your going into the houses of your theatres, and the places of your public shows, to make void the words of the Torah; and accursed shall you be in your coming out to your worldly affairs. The Word of the Lord will send forth curses among you to curse your wealth, and confusion to confound your prosperity, and vexation with all that you put your hands to do, until He hath undone you, and you perish soon on account of the wickedness of your doings when you have forsaken My worship. The Word of the Lord will make the pestilence to cleave to you, to consume you from off the land which you are going to inherit. The Word of the Lord will smite you with abscess and inflammation, and fire in the bones that will burn up the marrow, and with fearful imaginations in the thoughts of the heart; and with the naked sword, and with blasting, and the jaundice of Macedonia, which shall follow you to your beds, until you are destroyed.
And the heavens above you shall be as brass which sweateth,[4] but that will not yield you any dew or rain; and the ground under you be as iron which sweateth not. nor maketh green the trees, nor yieldeth spiceries, fruits, nor herbs. After the rain which cometh down on the earth, the Lord will send a wind that shall drive dust and ashes upon the herbage of your fields; and calamity will fall upon you from the heavens, until you are consumed.
The Word of the Lord will cause you to be broken before your enemies: by one way you will go out to battle, but by seven ways shall you flee confounded before them, to become an execration in all the kingdoms of the earth. And your carcases will be cast out to be meat for all the fowls of the sky, and for the beasts of the earth, and no one will scare them away from your corpses. [JERUSALEM. And no one shall drive them away.] And the Word of the Lord will smite you with the ulcers with which the Mizraee were smitten, and with haemorrhoids that blind the sight, and with blotches, and with erysipelas,[5] from which you will not be able to be healed. [JERUSALEM. The Word of the Lord will smite you with the ulcer of Mizraim, and with haemorrhoids, and with the blotch, and with scurvy, which cannot be healed.] The Word of the Lord will smite you with fearfulness which bewildereth the brain, and with blindness and stupor of heart. And you will seek good counsel for enlargement from your adversities, but there will be none among you to show the truth, so that you will grope in darkness like the blind who have none passing by the road to see how to direct them in the way; nor shall you prosper in your ways, but be oppressed and afflicted all the days, without any to deliver.
Thou wilt betroth a wife, but another man will have her; thou wilt build a house, but not dwell in it; thou wilt plant a vineyard, but not make it common. Your oxen will be killed, you looking on, but without eating of them; your asses will be taken away from before you, but they will not be returned; your sheep will be delivered over to your enemies, and there will for you be no deliverance; your sons and daughters will be given up to another people, and your eyes see it, and grow dim because of them from day to day; and in your hand will be no good work by which you may prevail in prayer before the Lord your Father who is in heaven, that He may save you. [JERUSALEM. Your sons and daughters shall be delivered unto another people, while your eyes behold and fail on account of them all the day; nor will you have the good works to give satisfaction unto Elohim, that He might redeem you.] The fruitage of your ground, and of all your labour, will a people whom thou hast not known devour, and thou shalt be oppressed and trodden down all the days. And you will be maddened by the vengeance, and shaken by the sight of your eyes that you will see. The Word of the Lord will smite you with a sore ulcer in the knees, because you bent (them) in the matter of the transgression; and in the legs, by which you ran into it; for if you be not converted to the Torah you cannot be saved, but will be beaten by it from the sole of your feet unto the crown of your bead.
The Lord will make you and your king whom you may set over you to go away among a people that neither you nor your fathers have known; and you will carry tribute to peoples who worship idols of wood and stone. And if the thought of your heart be to worship their idols, you shall be for astonishment, for proverbs and tales, among the sons of the Gentiles where the Lord will have scattered you.
You will carry much seed into the field, but gather in little, for the locust shall eat it. [JERUSALEM. You will carry out, but collect little, for the locust will devour it.] You will plant vineyards and till them, but will not drink the wine nor press out the vintage, because the worm will have consumed it. You will have olive trees in all your borders, but will not be anointed with oil, for your olive trees will fail. [JERUSALEM. But with oil you will not be anointed, for the bloom of your olive trees shall be destroyed.] You will beget sons and daughters, but they will yield you no advantage, for they shall go into captivity. All the trees and fruits of your land the locusts will destroy. [JERUSALEM. Robbers shall take possession of the trees and the fruits of your land.] The uncircumcised who dwelleth among you will rise above you with ascension upon ascension, but you will go downwards by descent after descent. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the master, and you the servant.
And all of these curses will come upon you, and will follow and cleave to you until you have perished, because you would not hearken to the Word of the Lord your Elohim, to observe His commandments and statutes which He had commanded you. And they will be upon you for signs and portents, and upon your children for ever; for that you would not serve before the Lord your Elohim cheerfully, with rightness of heart for the abundance of all good. But you will serve your enemies whom the Word of the Lord will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and the want of every good; and they will put an iron yoke upon your necks until it hath worn you away. The Word of the Lord will cause a people to fly upon you from afar, from the ends of the earth, swift as an eagle flieth; a people whose language thou wilt not understand; a people hard in visage, who will not respect the old nor have pity on the young. [JERUSALEM. A people hard in visage, who will not respect the aged nor have mercy on the children.] And they will consume the increase of your cattle and the fruit of your ground till you are wasted away; for they will leave you neither corn, oil, wine, herds, nor flocks, until the time that they have destroyed you. And they will shut you up in your cities until they have demolished your high walls whereby you trusted to be saved in all your land; for they shall besiege you in all your cities, in the whole land which the Lord your Elohim gave you. And the children of your wombs shall be consumed; for you will eat them in the famine, even the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your Elohim did give you, by reason of the anguish and oppression wherewith your enemies shall oppress you. The man who is gentle and refined among you will look with evil eyes upon his brother, and the wife who reposeth on his bosom, and upon the rest of his children who remain. He will not give to one of them of the flesh of his children which he eateth, because nothing remaineth to him in the anguish and straitness with which I will straiten you in all your cities. She who is delicate and luxurious among you, who hath not ventured to put the sole of her foot upon the ground from tenderness and delicacy, will look with evil eyes upon the husband of her bosom, upon her son and her daughter, and the offspring she hath borne; for she will eat them in secret, through the want of all things, by reason of the anguish and oppression with which your enemies shall oppress you in your cities. [JERUSALEM. The man who is gentle and most tender among you will look with evil eyes upon his brother, and on the wife of his youth, and on the rest of his children who remain. She who is tender and delicate among you, who hath not attempted to walk with her feet upon the ground from delicacy and tenderness, will look with evil eyes on the husband of her youth, and on her son and her daughter.]
If you observe not to perform all the commands of this Torah written in this book, to reverence this glorious and fearful Name, The Lord your Elohim, the Word of the Lord will hide the Holy Spirit from you, when the plagues come upon you and your children, great and continuous plagues which will not leave you, and grievous and continual evils that will grow old upon your bodies; and will turn upon you all the woes which were sent upon the Mizraee before which thou wast afraid, and they shall cleave to you; and evils also that are not written in the book of this Torah will the Word of the Lord stir up against you until you are consumed. And you who were as the stars of heaven for multitude will be left a few people, because you hearkened not to the Word of the Lord your Elohim. And as the Word of the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will He rejoice (in sending) against you strange nations to destroy and make you desolate, and you shall be uprooted from the land which you are going to possess. And the Lord will disperse you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and you shall be tributaries to the worshippers of idols of wood and stone which neither thou nor thy fathers have known. And if your mind be divided to worship their idols, He will send (that) between you and those nations that you shall have no repose or rest for the sole of your feet, and will give you there a fearful heart which darkens the eyes and wears out the soul. And your life will be in suspense; you will be in dread day and night, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you will say, O that it were evening! for afflictions will make the hours of the day longer before you; and at evening you will say, O that it were morning! for afflictions will make the hours of the night longer before you, because of the terror of your heart; for you will be in stupor by a vision of your eyes, which you will see for punishment, and be terrified.
And the Word of the Lord will bring you captive to Mizraim in ships through the Sea of Suph, by the way you passed over, of which I said to you, No more shall you see it. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord will cause you to return into Mizraim in galleys,[6] by the way of which I said to you, Ye shall see it no more.] And there will you be sold to your enemies, at the beginning for a dear price, as artificers, and afterward at a cheap price, as servants and handmaids, until you be worthless and (be consigned) to unpriced labour, and there be none who will take you.[7]
XXIX. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Mosheh to ratify with the children of Yisrael in the land of Moab, besides that covenant which He ratified with them at Horeb.
And Mosheh called to all Yisrael, and said to them: You have seen all the plagues which the Word of the Lord wrought in the land of Mizraim on Pharoh and all his servants, and all the inhabitants of that land; those great temptations, signs, and wonders which you saw with your eyes. And the Word of the Lord hath given you a heart not to forget, but to understand; eyes, not to blink, but to see; ears, not to be stopped, but to listen with: yet you have forgotten the Torah with your heart, and have blinked with your eyes, and have stopped your ears, unto the time of this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments have not become old upon your bodies, nor your shoes worn away from your feet. You have not eaten leavened bread, nor drunk wine new or old; and My Torah hath been diligently delivered in your schools, that you might be occupied therein, and you might know that I am the Lord your Elohim. And you came to this place; and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Mathnan came out to meet us in battle array, and we smote them, and subdued their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the tribe of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh. Keep, therefore, the words of this covenant and perform it, that you may have prosperity in all that you do. [JERUSALEM. And you shall keep the words of this covenant and perform them, that you may prosper in all that you do.]
[1] Vide Addenda.
[2] Tiphsera, "a victory."
[3] Hedistin, "plebeians."
[4] Mezia, root, zua, sudavit, but also contremuit, precussus -est. (Query.)
[5] Or, "prurigo."
[6] Be-libranaia.
[7] Or, "and there be none to bring in."
SECTION L.
THABO.
XXVI. And when thou hast entered into the land which the Lord thy Elohim will give thee for possession, and thou inherit and dwell in it, thou shalt take of the first of all the produce of the earth which thou shalt bring up from the land the Lord thy Elohim will give thee, and put it into a basket, and go to the place which the Lord thy Elohim will choose to make His Shekinah to dwell there. And thou shalt come unto the priest who will be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy Elohim, that I have come into the land which the Lord did covenant to our fathers to give them. And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and lay it down before the altar of the Lord thy Elohim; and thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy Elohim:
Laban the Aramite sought to destroy my father, I and he went down to Mizraim, and dwelt there with a few people, but became there a people great and strong. But the Mizraee maltreated and afflicted us, and laid hard labour upon us.
And we prayed before the Lord, the Elohim of our fathers; and the Lord heard our prayer, and our travail, weariness, and oppression were manifest before Him; and the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand and uplifted arm, with great visions, signs, and wonders, and brought us to this place, and gave us this land, a land producing milk and honey. And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land which Thou, O Lord, hast given me.
And thou shalt set it down before the Lord thy Elohim, and worship before the Lord thy Elohim. And thou shalt rejoice in all the good which the Lord thy Elohim hath given thee, with the men of thy house, the Levite and the stranger who is among you.
When thou hast made an end of tything all the tythe of thy produce in the third year, the year of the tythes, and hast given it to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, that they may eat within thy cities and be satisfied, then thou shalt say before the Lord thy Elohim:
I have set apart the consecrated tenth from my house, and have given also to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Thy commandment which Thou hast commanded me. I have not transgressed Thy commandment, nor been forgetful. I have not eaten of it in my mourning, nor exchanged ally of it for what is unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have been obedient to the Word of the Lord my Elohim, and have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me. Look down from the heavens, the habitation of Thy holiness, and bless Thy people Yisrael, and the land which Thou hast given us, as Thou didst swear to our fathers, a land producing milk and honey.
This day doth the Lord thy Elohim command thee to do these statutes and judgments, and to keep and perform them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
This day hast thou declared (or avouched) the Lord to be thy Elohim, and to walk in the ways that are right before Him, and Ito keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and to be obedient to His word. And the Lord hath declared thee this day to be His beloved people, as He hath said unto thee, that thou mayest observe all His commandments, and that He may set thee above all the nations whom He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in greatness, and that thou mayest be a holy people before the Lord thy Elohim, as He hath spoken.
XXVII. And Mosheh and the elders of Yisrael instructed the people, saying: Observe all the commandments which I command you this day. In the day that you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, thou shalt set thee up great stones, and cover them with plaster (or lime), and write upon them all the words of this Torah, when thou hast passed over to go into the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, a land producing milk and honey, as the Lord Elohim of thy fathers hath said to thee. When you have passed the Jordan, you shall set up those stones which I command you this day, on the mountain of Ebal, and plaster them with lime; and thou shalt build an altar before the Lord thy Elohim, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up iron upon it. With perfected stones shalt thou build the altar of the Lord thy Elohim, and offer sacrifices thereon before the Lord thy Elohim. And thou shalt sacrifice consecrated victims, and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy Elohim; and thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this Torah, distinctly and beautifully.
And Mosheh, and the priests, the Levites, spake to all Yisrael: Listen and hear, O Yisrael: Today art thou a people before the Lord thy Elohim and thou shalt hearken to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day. And Mosheh charged the people on that day, saying: These shall stand to bless the people on the mountain of Gerizim, when you have passed the Jordan; Shemeon and Levi, Jehudah, Issakar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these shall stand to accurse upon the mountain of Ebal; Reuben and Asher, Zebulon, Dan, and Naphtali. And the Levites shall answer and say to all the men of Yisrael, with a high voice:
Accursed be the man who shall make an image or molten (one), an abomination before the Lord, the work of an artificer's hand, and place it in secret. And all the people shall respond and say, Amen. Accursed be he who contemneth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Accursed he who changeth the boundary of his neighbour. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed he who maketh the blind wander in the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed he who lieth with his father's wife: he uncovereth the skirt of his father. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed is he who lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed is he who lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Accursed is he who lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed is he who smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed is he who receiveth hire to kill the life, and (shed the) blood of the innocent. And all the people shall say, Amen. Accursed is he who confirmeth not the words of this Torah to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
XXVIII. And if thou wilt indeed be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, the Lord thy Elohim will set thee on high above all the peoples of the earth;
and all these blessings shall come upon thee and keep with thee, if thou wilt be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim. Blessed (shalt) thou (be) in the city, and blessed in the field. Blessed shall be the offspring of thy womb, and the produce of thy land, the increase of thy cattle, the oxen of thy herd, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed in thy going out. The Lord shall cause thy adversaries that rise up against thee to be shattered before thee; they will come out to thee in one way, but in seven ways shall they flee from before thee. The Lord will command blessing upon thee in all thy storehouses, and on all that thou set test thy hand unto, and will bless thee in the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth to thee. The Lord shall confirm thee for Himself to be a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, if thou wilt keep the commandments of the Lord thy Elohim, and walk in the ways which are right before Him. And all the nations of the earth shall see that the Name of the Lord is invoked upon thee, and they will be afraid of thee. And the Lord will make thee to abound in good, in the offspring of thy womb, and of thy cattle, and in the produce of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give thee. The Lord will open for thee His good treasure, the heavens, to give rain to thy land in its season, and to bless all the works of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but not borrow; and the Lord will make thee strong and not weak, and thou shalt evermore be upper and not under, if thou wilt obey the commandments of the Lord thy Elohim which I command thee this day to keep and to perform. And you shall not go astray from any of the things I command you this day, right or left, to walk after the gods of the Gentiles to serve them.
But if thou wilt not obey the Word of the Lord thy Elohim to observe and do all His commandments, and His statutes which I command you this day, all these curses shall come upon thee and cleave to thee. Accursed shalt thou be in the city, and accursed in the field; accursed thy basket and thy store; accursed the generation of thy womb, the produce of thy ground, the oxen of thy herd, and the folds of thy sheep. Accursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and accursed in thy going out. The Lord shall send upon thee malediction and trouble and rebuke (or menace) in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou art consumed and perish quickly, on account of the wickedness of thy works, when thou hast forgotten to fear Me (or, whereby thou hast forgotten My fear). The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave to thee, until He have destroyed thee from off the land into which thou art going to possess it.
The Lord will smite thee with wasting, with fever, with inflammation, with dryness, and with the sword, and with jaundice (or mildew?). And they shall follow thee till thou art destroyed. And the heavens over thy head will be obdurate as brass in withholding rain, and the ground under thee obstinate as iron in producing no fruit. The Lord will give thee ashes for the rain of thy land; and dust will come down from the heavens upon thee, until thou be consumed.
The Lord will deliver thee up to be broken before thy enemies; thou wilt go out to them by one way, but by seven ways shalt thou flee before them, and thou shalt be dispersed in all the kingdoms of the earth. And thy carcase shall be cast out for food for all the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to drive (them) away. And the Lord will smite thee with the ulcer of the Mizraee, with emerods, soreness, and the dry scurvy, from which thou canst not be healed. And the Lord will smite thee with distraction, and blindness, and with bewilderment of heart; and thou shalt grope in the noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou shalt not prosper in thy way, but be only oppressed and despoiled always, and no man will be able to save.
Thou wilt betroth a wife, but another man shall have her; thou wilt build a house, but not dwell in it, and plant a vineyard, but have no use thereof. Thy ox will all be killed in thy sight; but thou shalt not eat of it; thy ass shall be taken away from thee, and not be returned to thee; thy sheep will be delivered to thy enemies, and thou wilt have no one to rescue them; thy sons and daughters will be given up to another people, and thy eyes look and fail (with longing) for them all the day, and there shall be no power in thy hand. The produce of thy land and all thy labours a people whom thou knowest not shall devour, and thou wilt only be oppressed and crushed all the days. And thou wilt be mad through the sight of thy eyes which thou seest. The Lord will smite thee with an evil ulcer upon thy knees and thy thighs, from which thou wilt not be able to be healed from the sole of thy foot unto thy brain.
The Lord will make thee and thy king whom thou mayest have set over thee to be captive to a people whom thou and thy fathers have not known; and there shalt thou serve a people, worshippers of idols of wood and stone;
and thou wilt become a ruin, a proverb, and a history, among all nations whither the Lord shall make thee go.
Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, but little shalt thou gather in, for the locust will consume it; thou wilt plant and till vineyards, but wilt not drink the wine, nor gather in, for the worm shall eat it; thou wilt have olive trees in all thy borders, but with the oil thou wilt not anoint, for thy olive trees shall waste;
thou wilt beget sons and daughters, but wilt not have them (with thee), for they shall go into captivity. The locust will consume all the fruitage and the trees of thy land. The uncircumcised stranger who is among thee will rise up high above thee, but thou shalt be brought down very low: he shall lend to thee, but thou wilt not lend to him; he will be strong, and thou wilt be weak. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and follow thee, and cleave to thee till thou art consumed, because thou wast not obedient to the Word of the Lord thy Elohim, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He hath commanded thee. And they will be upon thee for a sign and a wonder, and upon thy children for ever; because thou wouldst not worship before the Lord thy Elohim with cheerfulness and comeliness of heart for the abundance of all (His benefits): but thou shalt serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send against thee, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and want of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until He hath destroyed thee. And the Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, like the flying eagle, a people whose language thou wilt not understand, a people of mighty presence, who will not regard the old man, nor have mercy on the infant. And he will eat up the increase of thy cattle, and the fruitage of thy ground, until he hath consumed thee; for he will not leave thee corn, wine, nor oil, the oxen of thy herd, nor the sheep of thy flock, until he hath brought thee to ruin. And he will shut thee up in all thy cities, till he hath brought down thy high and fenced walls, wherein thou didst confide to be saved by them throughout all thy land; and he will besiege thee in all thy cities in all thy land which the Lord thy Elohim did give thee. And thou wilt eat the offspring of thy womb, the flesh of thy sons and daughters whom the Lord thy Elohim had given thee, in the siege and straitness with which thy enemies shall straiten thee. The man who is gentle among you, and very delicate, will look with an evil eye upon his brother, and upon the wife of his covenant, and upon the remnant of his children whom he will leave; he will not give to one of them of the flesh of his children which he shall eat, for that nothing remaineth to him of all, in the siege and the straitness with which thy enemies shall straiten thee in all thy cities.
She who is tender among you, and delicate, who had not (been used to) put the sole of her foot upon the ground under her, from delicateness and tenderness, will look with an evil eye upon the husband of her covenant, and upon her son and her daughter, and against her little children who have been brought forth of her, and against her children whom she hath borne; for she will eat them in secret, in the want of all things, in the siege and the straitness with which thy enemies shall straiten thee in thy cities: if thou wilt not observe to perform all the words of this Torah which are written in this book, to reverence this glorious and fearful Name, THE LORD THY GOD. And the Lord will make thy plagues to be manifest (distinguished), and the plagues of thy children) great plagues and continuous, afflictions evil and abiding. And He will lay upon thee all the strokes of Mizraim of which thou wast afraid, and they shall cleave to thee. All the diseases also and all the plagues that are not written in the book of this Torah, will the Lord lay upon thee till He hath destroyed thee. And you, who had been as the stars of heaven for multitude, will be left a small people, because you would not be obedient to the Word of the Lord your Elohim. And as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to destroy and consume you, and to carry you away from off the land which you are entering to possess it. And the Lord will scatter thee among all nations unto the ends of the earth; and thou shalt there serve peoples who worship idols of wood and stone, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known. But among those nations thou wilt have no repose, nor will the sole of thy foot have rest, but the Lord will give thee there a timorous heart, darkness of eyes, and feebleness of mind; and thou wilt hold thy life in suspense, and be afraid by night and day, for thou wilt be never sure of thy life. In the morning thou wilt say, O that it were evening I but in the evening thou wilt say, O that it were morning! from the fearfulness of thy heart with which thou wilt fear, and the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see. And the Lord will cause thee to return to Mizraim, in ships, by the way of which I spake with thee, thou shalt see it no more: and there shall you be offered for sale for bondmen and bondwomen, but none shall buy.
These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Mosheh to ratify with the children of Yisrael in the land of Moab; besides the covenant which He ratified with them at Horeb.
XXIX. And Mosheh called unto all Yisrael, and said to them: You have seen all that the Lord wrought before your eyes in the land of Mizraim on Pharoh, and all his servants, and on all his land; the great temptations, the signs and grand portents which thy eyes beheld; yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, nor eyes to discern, nor ears to hear, unto this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your raiment hath not become old upon you, and thy shoes have not worn away from off thy feet; you have not eaten bread, nor drunk wine, either new or old, that you may know that I am the Lord your Elohim.
And you came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Mathnan came out to meet us, to wage battle; and we smote them, and subdued their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the tribe of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Menasheh. Keep ye the words of this covenant, and perform them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Filters are used in TiddlyWiki to choose tiddlers by specifying simple match criteria.
! Examples
The mechanism is easiest to understand by first presenting some example filter strings:
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|!Filter |!Results |
|`HelloThere` |The single tiddler titled `HelloThere` (if it exists) |
|`[[A Title With Several Words]]` |The single tiddler titled `A Title With Several Words` (if it exists) |
|`[title[MyTiddler]]` |The single tiddler titled `MyTiddler` (if it exists) |
|`HelloThere Introduction` |The tiddlers titled `HelloThere` and `Introduction` (if they exist) |
|`[tag[important]]` |All tiddlers with the tag `important` |
|`[tag[important]tag[secret]]` |All tiddlers with both the tag `important` and the tag `secret` |
|`[tag[important]!tag[secret]]` |All tiddlers with the tag `important` but not the tag `secret` |
|`[!tag[important]]` |All tiddlers not with the tag `important` |
|`[tag[important]sort[title]]` |All tiddlers with the tag `important` sorted by title |
|`[tag[important]!sort[title]]` |All tiddlers with the tag `important` reverse sorted by title |
|`[[one]] [[two]] [[three]] +[tag[tom]]` |Any of the tiddlers called `one`, `two` or `three` that exist and are tagged with `tom` |
|`[[one]] [[two]] [[three]] [tag[tom]]` |Any of the tiddlers called `one`, `two` or `three` that exist, along with all of the source tiddlers that are tagged with `tom` |
|`[tag[tom]] [tag[harry]] -[[one][two][three]]` |All tiddlers tagged either `tom` or `harry`, but excluding `one`, `two` and `three` |
|`[[MyTiddler]tags[]]` |All tiddlers being used as tags on the tiddler `MyTiddler` |
|`[[MyTiddler]tagging[]]` |All tiddlers being tagged with `MyTiddler` |
|`[list[MyList]]` |All tiddlers listed in `MyList` |
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! Operators
A filter string consists of one or more runs of filter operators that each look like `[operator[operand]]`, where `operator` is one of:
* ''title'': selects the tiddler with the title given in the operand
* ''is'': tests whether a tiddler is a member of the system defined set named in the operand (see below)
* ''has'': tests whether a tiddler has the field specified in the operand
* ''sort'': sorts the tiddlers by the field specified in the operand
* ''sortcs'': a case sensitive sort of the current tiddlers by the field specified in the operand
* ''nsort'': sorts the tiddlers numerically by the field specified in the operand
* ''nsortcs'': a case sensitive (for the non-numerical elements) numerical sort of the current tiddlers by the field specified in the operand
* ''prefix'': tests whether a tiddlers title starts with the prefix specified in the operand
* ''limit'': limits the number of subresults to the integer specified in the operand
* ''tag'': tests whether a given tag is (`[tag[mytag]]`) or is not (`[!tag[mytag]]`) present on the tiddler
* ''field:{field}'': or
* ''{field}'': tests whether a tiddler field has a specified value (`[modifier[Jeremy]]` or `[field:modifier[Jeremy]]`) or not (`[!modifier[Jeremy]]`)
* ''tags'': selects the tags on the currently selected tiddlers
* ''tagging'': selects the tiddlers tagged with the currently selected tiddlers
* ''untagged'': selects the any of the selected tiddlers that do not have at least one tag
* ''links'': selects the outgoing links on the currently selected tiddlers
* ''backlinks'': selects the tiddlers that link to the currently selected tiddlers
* ''list'': selects the tiddlers listed in a specified [[TiddlerList|TiddlerLists]]
* ''next'': selects the next item in a TiddlerList after the current tiddler
* ''previous'': selects the previous item in a TiddlerList before the current tiddler
* ''listed'': selects the TiddlerLists that include the current tiddler
* ''each'': selects one tiddler for each discrete value of the specified field
* ''eachday'': selects one tiddler for each discrete day in the specified date field
* ''sameday'': selects all the tiddlers falling into the same day as the provided date in the specified date field
* ''fields'': returns the names of the fields present on the selected tiddlers
* ''search'': returns all tiddlers that contain the specified text
An operator can be negated with by preceding it with `!`, for example `[!tag[Tommy]]` selects the tiddlers that are not tagged with `Tommy`.
The operator defaults to `title` if omitted, so `[[HelloThere]]` is equivalent to `[title[HelloThere]]`. If there are no spaces in the title, then the double square brackets can also be omitted: `HelloThere`.
The operands available with the `is` operator are:
* ''tiddler'': selects all tiddlers excluding shadows, whether or not they are SystemTiddlers
* ''system'': selects all SystemTiddlers
* ''shadow'': selects all ShadowTiddlers
* ''current'': selects the CurrentTiddler
* ''missing'': selects all MissingTiddlers
* ''orphan'': selects all OrphanTiddlers
! Indirect Operands
If a filter operator is written with curly brackets around the operand then it is taken to be a TextReference to the actual value. For example:
''[search{$:/temp/search}]'': selects all tiddlers containing the string contained in the tiddler titled ''$:/temp/search''.
! Regular Expression Filters
The field-filter also accepts regular expressions in the form `/regexp/(modifier)`. Please refer to you favourite JavaScript documentation to learn more about regular expressions and modifiers.
In the easiest form, regular expressions allow you do do a search on substrings for every field:
* `field:title/example/`: searches for all tiddlers having "example" in its title.
* `field:title:/example$/`: `$` is an "anchor" for the end of the text. So "example" has to be the end of the title.
* `field:text/jeremy|ruston/(i)`: Searches for tiddlers containing Jeremy's first or last name, ignoring the case.
! Runs
Operators are combined into runs that function as logically ANDed expressions by bashing them together and merging the square brackets:
```
[tag[one]] [tag[two]] ---> [tag[one]tag[two]]
```
Runs can be preceded with `-` to negate their action, removing the selected tiddlers from the results. For example, `[tag[Tommy]] -HelloThere -[[Another One]]` selects all tiddlers tagged with `Tommy` except those titled `HelloThere` or `Another One`.
Runs can be preceded with `+` in order to make them apply to all of the accumulated results, rather than the original source. For example, `[tag[Jeremy]] [tag[Tommy]] +[sort[title]]` selects the tiddlers tagged `Tommy` or `Jeremy`, and sorts them by the `title` field.
! Processing model
Filters are processed with the following elements:
* a sequence of runs of filter operations
* the incoming source tiddlers, typically all the tiddlers available in the wiki
* the overall result stack
* the subresult stack of the tiddlers selected by the current run
[p. 620] hands over the heifer which hath been cut off in the field, and shall answer and say: It is manifest before the Lord that this hath not come by our hands, nor have we absolved him who shed this blood, nor have our eyes beheld. [JERUSALEM. Nor have our eyes seen who it is who hath shed it.] And the priests shall say: Let there be expiation for thy people Yisrael, whom Thou, O Lord, hast redeemed, and lay not the guilt of innocent blood upon Thy people Yisrael; but let him who hath done the murder be revealed. And they shall be expiated concerning the blood; but straightway there will come forth a swarm of worms from the excrement of the heifer, and spread abroad, and move to. the place where the murderer is, and crawl over him: and the magistrates shall take him, and judge him. So shall you, O house of Yisrael, put away from among you whosoever sheddeth innocent blood, that you may do what is right before the Lord.
SECTION XLIX.
TITSE.
WHEN you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your Elohim shall deliver them into your hands, and you take some of them captive: if you see in the captivity a woman of fair countenance, and you approve of her, and would take her to you to wife; then thou shalt take her into thy house, and let her cut off the hair of her head, pare her nails, and put off the dress of her captivity, and, dipping herself, become a proselyte in thy house, and weep on account of the idols of the house of her father and mother. And thou shalt [p. 621] wait three months to know whether she be with child; and afterwards thou mayest go to her, endow her, and make her thy wife.
But if thou hast no pleasure in her, then thou mayest send her away, only with a writing of divorce: but thou shalt in no wise sell her for money, nor make merchandise of her, after thou hast had intercourse with her. [JERUSALEM. If thou hast no pleasure in her, thou mayest send her away with power over herself; but thou shalt in no wise sell her for money, nor make merchandise of her; because thy power over her is given up.]
If a man have two wives, and one is beloved and the other hated, and they bear him sons, both the beloved and the hated (wife), and the first-born son be of the hated, it shall be in the day that he deviseth to his sons the inheritance of the wealth that may be his, he shall not be allowed to give the birthright portion to the son of the beloved, over the head of the son of the hated wife, to whom the birthright belongs; but (let him acknowledge) the birthright of the son of her who is disliked, and all that belongeth to it, to give him the double portion of all that may be found with him, because he is the beginning of his strength, and to him pertaineth the birthright.
If a man hath a son depraved and rebellious, who will not obey the word of his father or of his mother, and who, when they reprove him, will not receive admonition from them; his father and mother shall take him, and bring him before the sages of the city at the door of the court of justice in that place, and say to the sages of the city, We had transgressed the decree of the Word of the Lord; therefore was born to us this son, who is presumptuous and disorderly; he will not hear our word, but is a glutton and a drunkard. And it [p. 622] shall be that if he brought to fear and receive instruction, and beg that his life may be spared, you shall let him live; but if he refuse and continue rebellious, then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die; and so shall you put away the evil doer from among you, and all Yisrael will hear, and be afraid.
When a man hath become guilty of the judgment of death, and is condemned to be stoned, and they afterwards hang him on a beam, [JERUSALEM. And you hang him on a beam,] his dead body shall not remain upon the beam, but he shall be certainly buried on the same day; for it is execrable before Elohim to hang a man, but that his guilt gave occasion for it; and because he was made in the image of Elohim, you shall bury him at the going down of the sun, lest wild beasts abuse him, and lest you overspread your land, which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to possess, with the dead bodies of criminals.
XXII. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his lamb going astray, and estrange thy knowledge from them; thou shalt certainly restore them to him. But if knowledge of thy brother is not thine, if thou knowest him not, thou shalt bring it into thy house, and it shall be supported by thee till the time that thou hast sought out thy brother, and thou shalt restore it to him. So shalt thou do with his ass, with his garment, and with any lost thing of thy brother's. If thou find, it is not lawful for thee to hide it from him; thou shalt cry it, and restore it. [JERUSALEM. And so shalt thou do with his ass, and with his robe.] Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass nor his ox thrown on the way, and turn thy eyes from them; thou shalt verily lift it up for him. [JERUSALEM. Thou shalt forgive what may be in thy heart against him, thou shalt deliver and lead it.]
Neither fringed robes nor tephillin which are the ornaments of a man shall be upon a woman; neither [p. 623] shall a man shave himself so as to appear like a woman; for every one who doeth so is an abomination before the Lord thy Elohim.
If thou find the nest of a clean bird before thee in the way, in a tree, or upon the ground, in which there are young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young ones or eggs, thou shalt be sure to send the mother away, but thou mayest take the young for thyself that it may be well with thee in this world, and that thou mayest prolong tby days in the world to come.
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a surrounding fence to thy roof, that it may not be the occasion of blood guilt by the loss of life at thy house, by any one through heedlessness falling therefrom. [JERUSALEM. Then thou shalt make a parapet to thy roof, that the guilt of innocent blood shedding may not be set upon thy house.]
You shall not sow your vineyard with seeds of dif ferent kinds, lest thou be chargeable with burning the mixed seed that you have sown and the produce of the vine. You shall not plough with an ox and an ass nor with any animals of two species bound together. You shall not clothe nor warm yourselves with a garment combed (carded) or netted, or interwoven with woollen and linen mixed together. Ncvertheless on a robe of linen thread you may be permitted to make fringes of woollen upon the four extremities of your vestments with which you dress in the day. [JERUSALEM. Fringes of threads shall you make upon the four edges of your vestments with which you dress.]
If a man take a wife or virgin and go unto her, but afterwards dislike her, and bring upon her words of calumny in an evil report against her, and say, I took this woman, and lay with her, but found not the witnesses for her; then the father and mother of the [p. 624]
damsel may have licence from the court of judgment to produce the linen with the witnesses of her virginity, before the sages of the city, at the door of the beth din. And the father of the damsel shall say to the sages, I wedded my daughter to this man to be his wife; but after lying with her he hath hated her; and, behold, he hath thrown upon her occasion of words, saying: I have not found the witnesses of thy daughter's (virginity) but these are my daughter's witnesses; and they shall spread the linen before the sages of the city; and the sages shall take that man, scourge him, and fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give to the father of the damsel, because he had brought out an evil report against an upright virgin of Yisrael; and she shall be his wife, nor shall he have power to put her away all his days. But if that word be true, and the witnesses of virginity were not found with the damsel then shall they bring her forth to the door of her father's house, and the men of that city shall stone her with stones that she die; for she bad wrought dishonour in Yisrael in bringing the ill fame of whoredom against her father's house; and so shall they put away the evil doer from Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. But if this word be true, and the damsel's witnesses are not found, they shall bring that damsel from the door of her father's house, and the people shall stone her.]
If a man be found lying with another's wife, both of them shall be put to death; the mail who hath lain with the woman, and the woman. Even if she be with child, they shall not wait till she is delivered, but in the same hour they shall put them to death by strangulation with the napkin, and cast away the evil doer from Yisrael.
If a damsel a virgin is betrothed to a man, and another man find her in the city, and lie with her, they [p. 625] shall bring forth both of them to the door of the beth din of that city, and stone them with stones that they die; the damsel because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he lay with his neighbour's wife; and you shall put away the evil doer from among you. But if a man find a damsel in the wilderness, and do violence to her and lie with her, the man only shall die who lay with her, for the damsel is not guilty of death; but her husband may put her away from him by a bill of divorcement; for as when a man lieth in wait for his neighbour and taketh his life, so is this matter: he found her upon the face of the field ; the betrothed damsel cried out for help, but there was no one to deliver her.
If a man find a damsel who is not betrothed, and seize and lie with her, and they be found, then the man who lay with her shall give to her father, as a fine for her dishonour, fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be hiswife, because he humbled her, nor shall be have power to put her away by divorcement all his days.
XXIII. A man should not take a wife who is bowed down (or violated), or who hath had intercourse with his father, much less his father's wife, nor disclose the skirt that covereth his father. He who is castrated is not fit to take a wife from the congregation of the Lord's people. He who is born of fornication, or who hath upon him the evil mark which is set upon the unclean Gentiles, is not fit to take an upright wife from the congregation of the people of the Lord; nor unto the tenth generation shall it be fit for him to enter into the congregation of the Lord. Neither an Ammonite nor a Moabite man is fit to take a wife from the congregation of the Lord's people, nor unto the tenth generation shall they take a wife from the congregation of the people of the Lord, because they met you not with bread and water in the way when you came from Mizraim, but [p. 626] hired against you Bileam bar Beor from Petho Chelmaya, which is built in the land of Aram upon the Phrat, to curse you; but the Lord your Elohim would not hearken unto Bileam, but turned in his mouth curses into blessings, because the Lord your Elohim loveth you. Ye shall not seek their peace or, their prosperity all your days, because, if even they become proselytes, they will entertain enmity in their hearts for ever. You shall not abhor an Edomite when he cometh to be a proselyte, for he is your brother; nor shall you abhor a Mizraite, because you were dwellers in their land. The children who are born to them in the third generation shalt be fit to take wives from thepeople of the congregation of the Lord.
When you go forth in hosts against your enemies, beware of every evil thing, of strange worship, the, exposure of the shame, and the shedding of innocent blood. Should there be a man among you who is unclean from accidents of the night, let him go without the camp, and come not among the tents. But at evening time let him wash with water, and on the going down of the sun he may come within the camp. [JERUSALEM. And at evening let him bathe with water.] Let a place be prepared for thee without the camp where thou mayest shed the water of thy feet, and insert a blade with your weapon in the place oil which you bind your swords, and in thy sitting without thou shalt dig with it, and do what thou needest there, and turn and cover it. For the Shekinah of the Lord thy Elohim walketh in the midst of thy camp to save you, and to deliver your enemies into your hands ; therefore shall the place of your camps be holy, and nothing impure be seen in it, that His Shekinah go not up from you.
Thou shalt not deliver up a stranger into the hand of [p. 627] the worshipper of idols; (the sojourner) who hath escaped to be among you shall be under the protection of My Shekinah ; for therefore he hath fled from,his idolatry. Let him dwell with you, and observe the commandments among you; teach him the Torah, and put him in a school in the place that he chooseth in one of your cities: employ (or, have business. with) him, that he may do well, and trouble him not by words.
You shall not profane your daughters to make them harlots; nor shall any man of Yisrael debase himself by fornication. You shall not bring a gift of the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog to offer it in the sanctuary of the Lord your Elohim for any vow, much less as any of the oblations; for they are abominable, both of them, before the Lord your Elohim. [JERUSALEM. There shall not be a harlot among the daughters of the house of Yisrael, nor a whoremonger among the sons of Yisrael. You shall not bring the hire of an harlot, nor the price of a dog.]
Thou shalt not make usury of that which is thine from thy neighbour upon the loan which thou lendest, either of money, or food, or any thing by which thou mayest make usury. To a son of the Gentiles thou mayest lend for usury, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend for usury; that the Lord thy Elohim may bless thee in all that thou puttest thine hand un to, in the land into which thou art entering to possess it.
When you vow a vow before the Lord your Elohim, delay not to fulfil it in (one of) the three festivals; for the Lord your Elohim requiring will require it. And in the oblation there shall not be any fault or blemish, for in the prescription of the Lord of the world it is so ordained. And thou shalt not be guilty of keeping back (delaying) thy vow: though, if you refrain from vowing, it will not be sin in you, the oath which goeth from [p. 628] your lips you shall confirm. The precepts of integrity you shall verily perform, but that which is not right to do ye shall not do; and according as you have vowed shall you fulfil; sin offerings, trespass offerings, burnt sacrifices, and consecrated victims shall you present before the Lord your Elohim, and bring the libations and the gifts of the sanctuary of which you have spoken (in promises), and alms for the poor which your lips have declared. When thou hast come for hire into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat there as thou wilt, till thou art satisfied; but thou mayest not put any into thy basket. When you go to work for hire in the field of thy neighbour, thou mayest gather with thy hands, but thou art nolt to put forth the sickle upon thy neighbour's corn (for thyself).
XXIV. When a man hath taken a wife and gone unto her, if she hath not favour in his eyes because he findeth the thing that is wrong in her, then he may write her a bill of divorce before the court of justice, and put it into her power, and send her away from his house. And departing from his house she may go and marry another man. But should they proclaim from the heavens about her that the latter husband shall dislike her, and write her a bill of divorce, and put it into her power to go from his house; or should they proclaim about him that lie the latter husband shall die: it shall not be in the power of the first husband who dismissed her at the beginning to return and take her to be with him as his wife, after that she hath been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord: for the children whom she might bear should not be made abominable, or the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit become obnoxious to the plague. [p. 629]
When a man hath taken a new wife a virgin lie shall not go forth with the army, lest anything evil befall him; he shall be at leisure in his house one year, and rejoice with his wife whom he hath taken.
A man shall not take the millstones, lower or upper, as a pledge; for they are necessary in making food for every one. [JERUSALEM. You shall not take the upper and lower millstones for a pledge; for the pledge is a necessary of life.] Neither shall a man join bridegrooms and brides by magical incantations ; for what would be born of such would perish. [JERUSALEM. Nor shall there be unlawful conjoinments of bridegrooms and brides; for what such produce is denied the life of the world to come.]
Then a man is found stealing a person of his brethren of the sons of Yisrael, making merchandise of him, and selling him, that man shall die by strangulation with the napkin; and you shall put away the evil doer from among thee.
Take heed that you cut not into flesh in which there is an ulcer; but make careful distinction between the plague of leprosy and ulceration; between the unclean and clean, according to all that the priests of the tribe of Levi shall teach you: whatever, they prescribe to you be observant to perform. Be mindful that no one contemn his neighbour, lest he be smitten: remember that which the Lord your Elohim did to Miriam, who contemned Mosheh for that which was not in him, when she was smitten with leprosy, and you were delayed in the way when coming out of Mizraim.
When a man hath lent any thing to his neighbour upon a pledge, he shall not enter into his house to take his pledge; he shall stand in the street, and the man to [p. 630] whom thou hast made the loan shall bring out the pledge to thee into the street. If the man be poor, thou shalt not have his pledge all night with thee; as the sun goeth down, thou shalt return the pledge, that he may lie in his garment and may bless thee; and to thee it shall be righteousness, for the sun shall bear the witness of thee before the Lord thy Elohim. [JERUSALEM. Thou shalt certainly return the pledge to him as the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and may bless thee and to thee it shall be righteousness before the Lord thy Elohim.]
You shall not be hard upon your neighbours, or shift (or decrease) the wages of the needy and poor hireling of thy brethren, or of the strangers who sojourn in your land, in your cities. In his day thou shalt pay him his hire. Nor let the sun go down upon it; because he is poor, and he hopes (for that hire) to sustain his life: lest he appeal against thee before the Lord, and it be guilt in thee. [JERUSALEM. You shall not wilfully keep back the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren. In his day thou shalt pay his wages, nor let the sun go down upon them; for he is poor, and by means of his hire he sustaineth his life: that he may not cry against thee before the Lord: so beware that it become not guilt in you.]
Fathers shall not die either by the testimony or for the sin of the children, and children shall not die either by the testimony or for the sin of the fathers: every one shall die, by proper witnesses, for his own sin. Thou shalt not warp the judgment of the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, nor shall any one of you take the garment of the widow for a pledge, that evil neighbours rise not and bring out a bad report against her when you return her pledge unto her. And remember that [p. 631] you were bondservants in the land of Mizraim, and that the Word of the Lord your Elohim delivered you from thence; therefore have I commanded you to observe this thing.
When you have reaped your harvests in your fields, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to take it; let it be for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, that the Word of the Lord your Elohim may bless you in all the works of your hands. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not search them after (you have done it); for the stranger, the orphan, and widow, let it be. [JERUSALEM. When you beat your olive trees, search them not afterward; let them be for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow.] When you gather in your vineyard, you shall not glean the branches after you; they shall be for the stranger, the orphan, and widow. [JERUSALEM. When you gather vour vines, search not their branches afterwards let them be for the stranger and the widow.] So remember that you were bondservants in the land of Mizraim; therefore I command you to do this thing.
XXV. If there be a controversy, between two men, then they shall come to the judges, and they shall judge them, and give the decision (or outweighing of) righteousness to the innocent, and of condemnation to the guilty. And if the wicked deserve stripes, the judge shall make him lie down, and they shall scourge him in his presence by his judgment, according to the measure of his guilt. [JERUSALEM. And if it be needful to scourge the guilty, the judge shall make him lie down, and they shall smite him in his presence, according to the measure of his guilt, by number.] Forty (stripes) may be laid upon him, but with one less shall he be beaten, (the full number) shall not be completed, lest he should add to smite him beyond those thirty and [p. 632] nine, exorbitantly, and he be in danger ; and that thy brother may not be made despicable in thy sight.
You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox in the time of his treading out; [JERUSALEM. Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not muzzle the ox in the hour of his treading;] nor the wife of the (deceased) brother, who would be mated with one smitten with an ulcer, and who is poorly related, shalt thou tie up with him.
When brethren from the (same) father inhabit this world at the same time, and have the same inheritance, the wife of one of them, who may have died, shall not go forth into the street to marry a stranger; her brother-in-law shall go to her, and take her to wife, and become her husband. And the first-born whom she beareth shall stand in the inheritance in the name of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Yisrael. But if the man be not willing, to take his sister-in-law, then shall his sister-in-law go up to the gate of the beth din before five of the sages, three of whom shall be judges and two of them witnesses, and let her say before them in the holy language: My husband's brother refuseth to keep up the name of his brother in Yisrael, he not being willing to marry me. And the elders of his city shall call him and speak with him, with true counsel; and he may rise up in the house of justice, and say in the holy tongue, I am not willing to take her. Then shall his sister-in-law come to him before the sages, and there shall be a shoe upon the foot of the brother-in-law, a heeled sandal whose lachets are tied, the latchets at the opening of the sandal being fastened; and he shall stamp on the ground with his foot; and the woman shall arise and untie the latchet, and draw off the sandal from his foot, and afterward spit before him, as much spittle as may be seen [p. 633] by the sages, and shall answer and say, So is it fit to be done to the man who would not build up the house of his brother. And all who are standing there shall exclaim against him, and call his name in Yisrael the House of the Unshod. [JERUSALEM. And his name in Yisrael shall be called the House of him whose shoe was loosed, and who made void the Torah of Yeboom. ]
While men are striving together, if the wife of one of them approach to rescue her husband from the hand uf him who smiteth him, and putting forth her hand layeth hold of the place of his shame, you shall cut off her hand; your eyes shall not pity. [JERUSALEM. If she put forth her hand, and lay hold by the place of his shame.]
You shall not have in your bag weights that are deceitful; great weights to buy with, and less weights to sell with. Nor shall you have in your houses measures that deceive; great measures to buy with, and less measures to sell with. [JERUSALEM. You shall not have in your houses measures and measures; great .ones for buying with, and small ones to sell with.] Perfect weights, and true balances shalt thou have, perfect measures and scales that are true shall be yours, that your days may be multiplied on the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you. For whosoever committeth these frauds, every one who acteth falsely in trade, is an abomination before the Lord.
Keep in mind what the house of Amalek did unto you in the way, on your coming up out of Mizraim; how they overtook you in the way, and slew every one of those among you who were thinking to go aside from My Word; the men of the tribe of the house of Dan, in whose hands were idols (or things. of strange worship), and the clouds overcast them, and they of the [p. 634] house of Amalek took them and mutilated them, and they were cast up: but you, O house of Yisrael, were faint and weary from great servitude of the Mizraee, and the terrors of the waves of the sea through the midst of which you had passed. Nor were the house of Amalek afraid before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. Who overtook you in the way, and slew among you those who were thinking to desist from My Word, the cloud overcast him, and they of the house of Amalek took him and slew him. But you, people of the sons of Yisrael, were weary and faint; nor were they of the house of Amalek afraid before the Lord.] Therefore, when the Lord hath given you rest from all your enemies round about in the land that the Lord Your Elohim giveth you to inherit for a possession, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens; but of the days of the King Meshiha you shall not be unmindful.
SECTION L.
THABO.
XXVI. AND when you have entered into the land, which the Lord thy Elohim giveth you for an inheritance, and you possess and dwell in it; you shall take of the earliest first fruits which are ripe at the beginning of all the produce of the ground which thou ingatherest from the land which the Lord your Elohim hath given you, and put them into a basket, and go unto the place which the Lord your Elohim will choose that His Shekinah may dwell there. And you shall put crowns upon the baskets, hampers, and paper cases, and bring them to the priest appointed to be the chief priest in those days, and shall say to him : We acknowledge this day before the Lord thy Elohim that we have come into
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<a name="C561V1" id="C561V1">1:1</a> Paul, a servant of Elohim, and an apostle of
Yeshua Messiah, according to the faith of Elohim's chosen ones, and the
knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, <a name="C561V2"
id="C561V2">1:2</a> in hope of eternal life, which Elohim, who can't lie,
promised before time began; <a name="C561V3" id="C561V3">1:3</a> but in his
own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted
according to the commandment of Elohim our Savior; <a name="C561V4" id="C561V4">1:4</a>
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and
peace from Elohim the Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah our Savior.
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<a name="C561V5" id="C561V5">1:5</a> I left you in Crete for this reason, that
you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in
every city, as I directed you; <a name="C561V6" id="C561V6">1:6</a> if anyone
is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who
are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. <a name="C561V7" id="C561V7">1:7</a>
For the overseer must be blameless, as Elohim's steward; not self-pleasing,
not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for
dishonest gain; <a name="C561V8" id="C561V8">1:8</a> but given to hospitality,
as a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled; <a
name="C561V9" id="C561V9">1:9</a> holding to the faithful word which is
according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound
doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. <a name="C561V10"
id="C561V10">1:10</a> For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and
deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, <a name="C561V11" id="C561V11">1:11</a>
whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching
things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake. <a name="C561V12"
id="C561V12">1:12</a> One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans
are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons." <a name="C561V13"
id="C561V13">1:13</a> This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them
sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, <a name="C561V14" id="C561V14">1:14</a>
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn
away from the truth. <a name="C561V15" id="C561V15">1:15</a> To the pure, all
things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is
pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. <a name="C561V16"
id="C561V16">1:16</a> They profess that they know Elohim, but by their works
they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
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<a name="C562V1" id="C562V1">2:1</a> But say the things which fit sound
doctrine, <a name="C562V2" id="C562V2">2:2</a> that older men should be
temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in
patience: <a name="C562V3" id="C562V3">2:3</a> and that older women likewise
be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine,
teachers of that which is good; <a name="C562V4" id="C562V4">2:4</a> that they
may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
<a name="C562V5" id="C562V5">2:5</a> to be sober minded, chaste, workers at
home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that Elohim's word may
not be blasphemed. <a name="C562V6" id="C562V6">2:6</a> Likewise, exhort the
younger men to be sober minded; <a name="C562V7" id="C562V7">2:7</a> in all
things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing
integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, <a name="C562V8" id="C562V8">2:8</a>
and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you
may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. <a name="C562V9"
id="C562V9">2:9</a> Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own
masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; <a
name="C562V10" id="C562V10">2:10</a> not stealing, but showing all good
fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of Elohim, our Savior, in all
things. <a name="C562V11" id="C562V11">2:11</a> For the grace of Elohim has
appeared, bringing salvation to all men, <a name="C562V12" id="C562V12">2:12</a>
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; <a
name="C562V13" id="C562V13">2:13</a> looking for the blessed hope and
appearing of the glory of our great Elohim and Savior, Yeshua Messiah; <a
name="C562V14" id="C562V14">2:14</a> who gave himself for us, that he might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own
possession, zealous for good works. <a name="C562V15" id="C562V15">2:15</a>
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man
despise you.
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<p>
<a name="C563V1" id="C563V1">3:1</a> Remind them to be in subjection to rulers
and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, <a
name="C563V2" id="C563V2">3:2</a> to speak evil of no one, not to be
contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. <a
name="C563V3" id="C563V3">3:3</a> For we were also once foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another. <a name="C563V4" id="C563V4">3:4</a> But when
the kindness of Elohim our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, <a
name="C563V5" id="C563V5">3:5</a> not by works of righteousness, which we did
ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, <a name="C563V6" id="C563V6">3:6</a>
whom he poured out on us richly, through Yeshua Messiah our Savior; <a
name="C563V7" id="C563V7">3:7</a> that, being justified by his grace, we might
be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. <a name="C563V8"
id="C563V8">3:8</a> This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I
desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed Elohim
may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and
profitable to men; <a name="C563V9" id="C563V9">3:9</a> but shun foolish
questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the Torah; for they
are unprofitable and vain. <a name="C563V10" id="C563V10">3:10</a> Avoid a
factious man after a first and second warning; <a name="C563V11" id="C563V11">3:11</a>
knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.
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<p>
<a name="C563V12" id="C563V12">3:12</a> When I send Artemas to you, or
Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to
winter there. <a name="C563V13" id="C563V13">3:13</a> Send Zenas, the lawyer,
and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for
them. <a name="C563V14" id="C563V14">3:14</a> Let our people also learn to
maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C563V15" id="C563V15">3:15</a> All who are with me greet you. Greet
those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
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SECTION VI.
TOLEDOTH.
These are the generations of Izhak bar Avraham. And because the appearance of Izhak resembled the appearance of Avraham, the sons of men said, In truth Avraham begat Izhak. And Izhak was the son of forty years when he took Rivekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite, who was of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramite, unto him for a wife. And Izhak went to the mountain of worship, the place where his father had bound him. And Izhak in his prayer turned the attention of the Holy One, blessed be He! from that which He had decreed concerning him who had been childless. And he was enlarged, and Rivekah his wife was with child. And the children pressed in her womb as men doing battle. And she said, If this is the anguish of a mother, what then are children to me? And she went into the school of Shem Rabba to supplicate mercy before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. And the children pressed in her womb, and she said, If such be the anguish of a mother, what now is life, that children are to be mine? And she went to supplicate mercy before the Lord in the beth midrash of Shem Rabba.] And the Lord said to her, Two peoples are in thy womb, and two kingdoms from thy womb shall be separated; and one kingdom shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger, if the children of the younger will keep the commandments of the Torah.
And the two hundred and seventy days of her being with child were completed to bring forth; and, behold, twins were in her womb. And the first came forth wholly red, as a garment of hair: and they called his name Esau, because he was born altogether complete, with the hair of the head, and the beard, and teeth, and grinders. [JERUSALEM. And the first came forth wholly red, as a garment of hair: and they called his name Esau.] Afterward came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on the heel of Esau. And they called his name Jakob (Yaakov). And Izhak was a son of sixty years when he beget them.
And the lads grew; and Esau was a man of idleness to catch birds and beasts, a man going forth into the field to kill lives, as Nimrod had killed, and Hanok his son. But Jakob was a man peaceful in his words, a minister of the instruction-house of Eber, seeking instruction before the Lord. And Izhak loved Esau, for words of deceit were in his mouth; but Rivekah loved Jakob.
On the day that Avraham died, Jakob dressed pottage of lentiles, and was going to comfort his father. And Esau came from the wilderness, exhausted; for in that day he had committed five transgressions: he had worshipped with strange worship, he had shed innocent blood, he had gone in unto a betrothed damsel, he had denied the life of the world to come, and had despised the birthright. And Esau said to Jakob, Let me now taste that red pottage, for I am faint,--therefore he called his name Edom. And Jakob said, Sell to-day, as (on this very) day, what thou wouldst hereafter appropriate, thy birthright, unto me. And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and in another world I shall have no life; and what then to me is the birthright, or the portion in the world of which thou speakest? And Jakob said, Swear to me to-day that so it shall be. And he sware to him, and sold his birthright to Jakob. And Jakob gave to Esau bread and pottage fo lentiles. And he ate and drank, and arose and went. And Esau scorned the birthright, and the portion of the world that commeth. [JERUSALEM. And he arose, and went. And Esau despised the birthright, and vilified the portion in the world that cometh, and denied the resurrection of the dead.]
XXVI. And there was a mighty famine in the land of Kenaan, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Avraham; and Izhak went to Abimelek king of the Philistaee at Gerar. It had been in Izhak's heart to go down to Mizraim; but the Lord appeared to him, and said, Go not down to Mizraim; dwell in the land as I have told thee; sojourn in the land, and My Word shall be for thy help, and I will bless thee; for to the end to thy sons will I give all these lands, and I will establish the covenant which I have covenanted with Avraham thy father. And I will multiply thy sons as the stars of the heavens, and will give to thy sons all these lands, and through thy sons shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; on account that Avraham obeyed My word, and kept the keeping of My word, My statutes, My covenants, and My laws. And Izhak dwelt in Gerar. And the man of the place inquired concerning his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he reasoned in his heart, Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rivekah, because she was of beautiful appearance. And it was when days had increased to him in abiding there, that Abimelek the king of the Philistaee looked from a window, and beheld, and Izhak was disporting with Rivekah his wife. [JERUSALEM. And he looked.] And Abimelek called Izhak, and said, Nevertheless she is thy wife; and why hast thou said, She is my sister? And Izhak answered him, Because I said in my heart, Lest they kill me on her account. And Abimelek said, Why hast thou done this to us? It might have been that the king, who is the principal of the people, had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us. [JERUSALEM. And Abimelek said to him, What is this that thou hast done to us? Very possibly might one of the young men have lain with thy wife, and there would have been great guilt brought upon us.]
And Abimelek instructed all the people, Whoever shall go near to injure this man or his wife, shall verily be put to death. And Izhak sowed unto righteousness in that land, and found in that year a hundred for one, according to his measure. And the Lord blessed him, and the man increased, and went forward increasing until he was very great. And he had flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and great cultivation; and the Philistaee envied him. And all the wells which the servants of his father had digged in the days of Avraham his father, the Philistaee stopped up and filled with earth.
And Abimelek said to Izhak, Go from us; for thou art stronger than we in riches very much. And Izhak went thence, and sojourned in the vale of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Izhak digged again the wells of water which the servants of his father had digged in the days of Avraham his father, and which the Philistaee had stopped after Avraham was dead; and he called them by the names his father had called them. And the servants of Izhak digged in the border of the vale, and found there a well of flowing water. And the shepherds of Gerar contended with Izhak's shepherds, saying, The water is ours. And it was the will of Heaven, and it dried. But when they returned to Izhak, it flowed. And he called the name of the well (Esek) Contention, because (etheseku) they had quarrelled with him on account of it. And they digged another well; and they contended for it also; and it dried, and did not flow again. And he called the name of it (Sitnah) Accusation. And he removed from thence and digged another well, and for that they did not contend as formerly, and he called the name of it (Ravchatha) Spaciousness; for he said, Now hath the Lord given us space to spread us abroad in the land. And he went up from thence unto Beersheba. And the Lord appeared to him that night, and said, I am the Elohim of Avraham thy father: fear not; for My Word is for thy help, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy sons for the righteousness' sake of Avraham My servant. And he builded there an altar, and prayed in the name of the Lord. And he spread his tabernacle there, and the servants of Izhak digged there a well. And when Izhak went forth from Gerar the wells dried up, and the trees made no fruit; and they felt that it was because they had driven him away, all these things had befallen them. And Abimelek went to him from Gerar, and took his friends to go with him, and Phikol the chief of his host. And Izhak said to them, Why come you to me that I should pray for you, when you have hated me, and driven me from you? And they answered, Seeing, we have seen, that the Word of the Lord is for thy help, and for thy righteousness' sake all good hath been to us; but when thou wentest forth from our land the wells dried up, and our trees made no fruit; then we said, We will cause him to return to us. And now let there be an oath established between us, and kindness between us and thee, and we will enter into a covenant with thee, lest thou do us evil. Forasmuch as we have not come nigh thee for evil, and as we have acted with thee only for good, and have indeed sent thee away in peace; thou art now blessed of the Lord. And they arose in the morning, each man with his brother; and he broke off from the bridle of his ass, and gave one part to them for a testimony. And Izhak prayed for them, and they were enlarged. And Izhak accompanied them, and they went from him in peace.
And on that day the servants of Izhak came and told him concerning the well they had digged, and said to him, We have found water; and he called it Sheba (the Swearing); therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
And Esau was the son of forty years; and he took to wife Yehudith daughter of Beari the Hittah, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittah. And they bowed in strange worship, and set themselves to rebel in their evil conduct against Izhak and against Rivekah. [JERUSALEM. And they were refractory, swelling in spirit with strange worship, and would not receive instruction either from Izhak or Rivekah.]
XXVII. And it was when Izhak was old and his eyes were darkened from seeing,--because when his father was binding him he had seen the Throne of Glory, and from that time his eyes had begun to darken,--that he called Esau his elder son, on the fourteenth of Nisan, and said to him, My son, behold, this night they on high praise the Lord of the world, and the treasures of the dew are opened in it. And he said, Behold, I am.
And he said, Behold, now I am old; I know not the day of my death: but now take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow; and go forth into the field, and take me venison, and make me food such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat, that my sould may bless thee ere I die.
And Rivekah heard by the Holy Spirit as Izhak spake with Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to take venison to bring it. And Rivekah spake to Jakob her son, saying, Behold, this night those on high praise the Lord of the world, and the treasures of the dew are opened in it; and I have heard thy father speaking with Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me food, and I will bless thee in the presence of the Lord before I die. And now my son receive from me what I command thee: Go now to the house of the flock, and take me from thence two fat kids of the goats; one for the pascha, and one for the oblation of the feast; and I will make of them food for thy father such as he loveth. And thou shalt carry to thy father, and he will eat, that he may bless thee before his death.
And because Jakob was afraid to sin, fearing lest his father might curse him, he said, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be in his eyes like one who derideth him, and bring upon me a curse and not a blessing.
And she said, If with blessings he bless thee, they shall be upon thee and upon thy sons; and if with curses he should curse thee, they shall be upon me and upon my soul: therefore receive from me, and go and take for me.
And he went and took, and brought to his mother; and his mother made food such as his father loved. And Rivekah took the pleasant vestments of Esau her elder son which had formerly been Adam's; but which that day Esau had not worn, but they remained with her in the house, and (with them) she dressed Jakob her younger son. And the skins of the kids she laid upon his hands and the smooth parts of his nect. And the food and the bread she had made she set in the hand of Jakob her son.
And he entered unto his father, and said, My father. And he said, Behold me: who art thou, my son? And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou spakest with me. Arise now, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Izhak said to his son, What is this that thou hast found so soon, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy Elohim had prepared it before me. And Izhak said to Jakob, Come near now, and I will feel thee, my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not. And Jakob drew near to Izhak his father, who touched him, and said, This voice is the voice of Jakob, nevertheless the feeling of the hands is as the feeling of the hands of Esau. But he recognised him not, because his hands were hairy as the hands of Esau his brother, and he blessed him. And he said, But art thou my son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, Draw near, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he approached him, and he ate; and he had no wine; but an angel prepared it for him, from the wine which had been kept in its grapes from the days of the beginning of the world; and he gave it into Jakob's hand, and Jakob brought it to his father, and he drank. And Izhak his father said, Draw near now, and kiss me, my son; and Jakob drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his vestments, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of the fragrant incense which is to be offered on the mountain of the house of the sanctuary, which shall be called a field which the Lord hath blessed, and that He hath chosen, that therein His Shekinah might dwell.
Therefore the Word of the Lord give thee of the good dews which descend from the heavens, and of the good fountains that spring up, and make the herbage of the earth to grow from beneath, and plenty of provision and wine. Let peoples be subject to thee, all the sons of Esau, and kingdoms bend before thee, all the sons of Keturah; a chief and a ruler be thou over thy brethren, and let the sons of thy mother salute thee. Let them who curse thee, my son, be accursed as Bileam bar Beor; and them who bless thee be blessed as Mosheh the prophet, the scribe of Yisrael. [JERUSALEM. Let peoples serve before thee, all the sons of Esau: all kings be subject to thee, all the sons of Ishmael: be thou a chief and a ruler over the sons of Keturah: all the sons of Laban the brother of thy mother shall come before thee and salute thee. Whoso curseth thee, Jakob, my son, shall be accursed as Bileam ben Beor; and whoso blesseth thee shall be blessed as Mosheh the prophet and scribe of Yisrael.]
And it was when Izhak had finished blessing Jakob, and Jakob had only gone out about two handbreadths from Izhak his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. And the Word of the Lord had impeded him from taking clean venison; but he had found a certain dog, and killed him, and made food of him, and brought to his father, and said to his father, Arise, my father, and eat of my venison,that thy soul may bless me.
And Izhak his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy firstborn, Esau. And Izhak was moved with great agitation when he heard the voice of Esau, and the smell of his food rose in his nostrils as the smell of the burning of Gehennam; and he said, Who is he who hath got venison, and come to me, and I have eaten of all which he brought me before thou camest, and I have blessed him, and he shall, too, be blessed?
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a cry exceeding great and bitter, and said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father! And he said, Thy brother hath come with subtilty, and hath received from me thy blessing. And he said, His name is truly called Jakob; for he hath dealt treacherously with me these two times: my birthright he took, and, behold, now he hath received my blessing! And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? And Izhak answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have appointed him a ruler over thee, and all his brethren have I made to be his servants, and with provision and wine have I sustained him: and now go, leave me; for what can I do for thee, my son? And Esau answered his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
And Izhak answered and said to Esau, Behold, among the good fruits of the earth shall be thy habitation, and with the dews of the heavens from above. And upon thy sword shalt thou depend, entering at every place: yet thou shalt be supple and credulous, and be in subjection to thy brother; but it will be that when his sons become evil, and fall from keeping the commandments of the Torah, thou shalt break his yoke of servitude from off thy neck. [JERUSALEM. And by thy weapons thou shalt live, and before thy brother be subject. And it shall be when the sons of Jakob labour in the Torah, and keep the commandments, they will set the yoke of subjection on thy neck; but when the sons of Jakob withdraw themselves and study not the Torah, nor keep the commandments, behold, then shalt thou break their yoke of subjection from off thy neck.]
And Esau kept hatred in his heart against Jakob his brother, on account of the order of blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, I will not do as Kain did, who slew Habel in the life (time) of his father, for which his father begat Sheth, but will wait till the time when the days of mourning for the death of my father come, and then will I kill Jakob my brother, and will be found the killer and the heir.
And the words of Esau her elder son, who thought in his heart to kill Jakob, were shown by the Holy Spirit to Rivekah, and she sent, and called Jakob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, Esau thy brother lieth in wait for thee, and plotteth against thee to kill thee. And now, my son, hearken to me: arise, escape for thy life, and go unto Laban my brother, at Haran, and dwell with him a few days, until the wrath of thy brother be abated, until thy brother's anger have quieted from thee, and he have forgotten what thou hast done to him; and I will send and take thee from thence. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day: thou being slain, and he driven forth, as Hava was bereaved of Habel, whom Kain slew, and both were removed from before Adam and Hava all the days of the life of Adam and Hava? [JERUSALEM. Until the time when the bitterness of thy brother shall be turned away from thee.]
And Rivekah said to Izhak, I am afflicted in my life on account of the indignity of the daughters of Heth. If Jakob take a wicked wife from the daughters of Heth, such as these of the daughters of the people of the land, what will life be to me?
XXVIII. And Izhak called Jakob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of the Kenaanaee. Arise, go to Padan of Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee from thence a wife from the daughters of Laban mother's brother. And El Shadai will bless thee with many possessions, and increase thee and multiply thee into twelve tribes, and thou shalt be worthy of the congregation of the sons of the Sanhedrin, the sum of which is seventy, according to the number of the nations. And He will give the blessing of Avraham to thee, and to thy sons with thee, and cause thee to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which he gave unto Avraham. And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he went to Padan Aram unto Laban bar Bethuel the Armaite, the brother of Rivekah the mother of Jakob and Esau.
And Esau considered that Izhak had blessed Jakob, and had sent him to Padan Aram to take to him from thence a wife, when he blessed him, and commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Kenaanites; and that Jakob obeyed the word of his father, and the word of his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram: and Esau considered that the daughters of Kenaan were evil before Izhak his father, and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took to wife Mahalath, who is Besemath the daughter of Ishmael bar Avraham, the sister of Nebaioth from his mother, besides his other wives.
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SECTION VI.
TOLEDOTH.
AND these are the generations of Izhak bar Avraham. Avraham begat Izhak; and Izhak was a son of forty years when he took Revekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramite, to be his wife. And Izhak. prayed before the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord hearkened to his prayer, and Revekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled in her womb; and she said, If thus, why have I conceived? And she went to seek instruction before the Lord: and the Lord said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two kingdoms from thy womb shall be divided, and (one) kingdom (shall be) stronger than (the other) kingdom, and the greater shall be subject to the less. And her days were fulfilled to give birth. And, behold, twins were in her womb. And the first came forth red, all of him as a garment (covering) of hair; and they called his name Esau. And afterwards came forth his brother, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, and they called his name Jakob.[1] And Izhak was sixty years old when he begat them. And the youths grew; and Esau was a man of idleness, a man going out into the field; and Jakob was a man of peace, a minister of the house of instruction. And Izhak loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting, and Rivekah loved Jakob. And Jakob dressed pottage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jakob, Let me taste now of that red, that red! for I am faint: (therefore he called his name Edom:[2]) and Jakob said, Sell this day thy birthright to me. And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what is this birthright to me?[3] And Jakob said, Swear to me to‑day; and he sware to him and he sold his birthright to Jakob. And Jakob gave to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles. And he ate and drank, and arose, and went: and Esau despised the birthright.
XXVI. And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Avraham; and Izhak went to Abimelek, king of the Philistaee, to Gerar.[4] And the Lord appeared to him and said, Go not down into Mizraim,[5] remain in the land as I have told thee; dwell in this land, and My Word shall be to thee for a helper; and I will bless thee. For to thee and to thy son will I give all these lands; and I will confirm the oath that I have sworn to Avraham thy father; and I will multiply thy son as the stars of heaven, and will give thy son all these lands, and through thy son shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed, because Avraham obeyed My word, and kept the keeping of My word, My commandments, My covenant, and My Torah. And Izhak dwelt at Gerar; and the men of the place asked respecting his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, My wife, lest the men of the place should kill him on account of Revekah; for she was of beautiful aspect. And it was when be had been there many days that Abimelek the king of the Philistaee looked from a window, and, behold, Izhak was sporting with Revekah his wife. And Abimelek called Izhak and said, Nevertheless, behold,
she is thy wife: why then hast thou said, She is my sister? And Izhak said to him, Because I said, Lest I be killed on account of her. And Abimelek said, What is this that thou hast done to us? It might have been that some one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought upon us the guilt. And Abimelek commanded all the people saying, Whoever injureth this man shall surely be put to death. And Izhak sowed in the land, and found in that year a hundred fold on that which he had expended, (or estimated,) and the Lord blessed him; and the man increased, and went on multiplying and increasing, until he had increased greatly. And he had flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and many servants; and the Philistaee were envious of him. And all the wells that the servants of his father had digged in the days of Abraham the Philistaee stopped up, and filled with dust. And Abimelek said to Izhak, Go from us; for thou art much stronger than we. And Izhak went thence, and sojourned in the vale of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Izhak returned, and digged the well of water which they had digged in the days of Avraham his father, and which the Philistaee had stopped after the death of Avraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And the servants of Izhak digged in the valley, and found there a well of flowing[6] waters. And the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Izhak, saying, The water is ours; and he called the name of the well Contention, because they had contended with him. And they digged another well, and they strove also on account of it, and he called the name of it Hatred. And he went up from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Spaciousness. For he said, Because now hath the Lord enlarged us, and we shall spread abroad in the land. And he went up from thence to Beershava; and the Lord appeared to him in the night, and said, I am the Elohim of Avraham thy father; fear not: for in thy help is My Word; and I will bless thee, and will multiply thy sons for the sake of Avraham My servant. And he builded there an altar, and prayed in the name of the Lord. And he spread there his tabernacle; and the servants of Izhak digged there a well. And Abimelek came to him from Gerar, and a company of his friends, and Phikol[7] the chief of his host. And Izhak said to him, Why have you come to me, when you have hated me, and sent me from you? And they said, Seeing we have seen that the Word of the Lord is for thy help; and we have said, Let the oath which was between our fathers be now confirmed between us and thee, and let us enter into a covenant with thee, that thou do us no evil, as we have not injured thee, and as we have done thee only good, and we will leave thee in peace; thou art now blessed of the Lord. And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. And they arose in the morning and covenanted, each man with his brother; and Izhak dismissed them, and they went from him in peace. And it was in that day that the servants of Izhak came and showed him concerning the well that they had digged. And they said to him, We have found water. And he called it Sheva, (the swearing). Wherefore the name of the city is Beer‑sheva unto this day.
And Esau was the son of forty years, and he took to wife Jehudith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they were rebels and irritators against the word of Izhak and Revekah.
XXVII. And it was, when Izhak was old, and his eyes were darkened from seeing, that he called Esau, his eldest son, and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Behold, I am. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day that I shall die: and now take thy weapons, thy knife and thy bow, and go out into the field, and hunt me venison, and make me food[8] I such as I like, and bring it to me, and I will eat, and my soul shall bless thee before I die. And Revekah listened as Izhak was speaking with his son Esau. And Esau went into the field to hunt venison to bring it. And Revekah spake to Jakob, her son, saying, Behold, I have heard thy father speaking with Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me now venison, and make me food, and I will eat and bless thee in the presence of the Lord before I die. And now, my son, obey me in what I command thee. Go now to the flock, and take thee from thence two good goat‑kids, and make them into food for thy father such as he loves, and carry in to thy father, that he may eat, and bless thee before he die. And Jakob said to Revekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. It may be that my father will feel me, and I shall be in his eyes as a deceiver, and shall bring upon me curses, and not blessings. And his mother said to him, Unto me it hath been said in prophecy, that there shall be no curses upon thee, my son; only obey me, and go, and take for me. And he went, and took, and brought to his mother, and his mother made food such as his father loved. And Revekah took the vestments of Esau her elder son, (which were) clean, and were with her in the house, and clothed Jakob her younger son. And with the skins of the kids she covered his hands, and upon the smoothness of his neck. And she gave the food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jakob her son. And he went in to his father, and said, Father! And he said, Behold me. Who art thou, my son? And Jakob said to his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou hast told me. Arise now, turn thyseIf, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Izhak said to his son, What is this, thou hast so quickly found, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy Elohim prepared it before me. And Izhak said to Jakob, Draw near now, and I will feel thee, my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not. And Jakob drew near to Izhak his father, and he felt him, and said, The voice is the voice of Jakob; but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he could not be known, because his hands were hairy, like the hands of Esau his brother; and he blessed him. And he said, But art thou my son Esau? And he said, I am! And he said, Bring before me, and I will eat of my sons venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he offered to him, and he did eat; and he brought him wine, and he drank. And Izhak his father said to him, Approach now, and kiss me, my son. And he approached, and kissed him, and he smelled the fragrance of his vestments, and blessed him, and said, Lo, the smell of my son is as the fragrance of a field which the Lord hath blessed. And the Lord shall give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the goodness of the earth, and abundance of corn and of wine. Let the peoples serve thee, and kingdoms be subservient to thee: be thou chief of thy brethren, and let the sons of thy mother worship thee: cursed shall they be who curse thee, and blessed shall they be who bless thee!
And it was when Izhak had completed to bless Jakob, and Jakob had, going, only gone out from Izhak his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. And he had also made food, and he brought it to his father, and said to his father, Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Izhak his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau. And Izhak was wonderstruck with exceeding great wonder, and said, Who was he who prepared venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and I have blessed him? and blessed shall he be. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried a cry, great and bitter exceedingly. And he said to his father, Bless me, also, me, father! And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath received thy blessing. And he said, Rightly is his name called Jakob, he hath dealt subtilly with me these two times; my birthright he took, and, behold, now he hath received my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not left me a blessing? And Izhak answered, and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him a chief over thee, and all his brethren I have given to him for servants, and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and for thee now what can I do, my son? And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. And Izhak his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy habitation shall be of the best of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thy brother obey; and it will be that when his sons shall have transgressed the words of the Torah, thou wilt cast his yoke from off thy neck. And Esau kept enmity towards Jakob for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for father draw near and I wilt kill Jakob my brother. And the words of Esau her eldest son were shown to Revekah, and she sent and called Jakob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, Esau thy brother plotteth against thee to kill thee. And now, my son, receive from me, and arise and go to Laban my brother at Haran, and dwell with him a few days, until thy brother's wrath turn away, until the anger of thy brother turn from thee, and what thou hast done to him be forgotten; and I will send and bring thee thence. Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day? And Revekah said to Izhak, I am grieved in my life at the sight of the daughters of Hittah. If Jakob take a wife of the daughters of Hittah, like these of the daughters of the land, what to me is life?
XXVIII. And Izhak called Jakob and blessed him. And he commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan; arise, go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thee from thence a wife of the daughters of Laban, the brother of thy mother. And the All‑sufficient Elohim bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply, and become an assemblage of tribes; and give the blessing of Avraham to thee and thy sons with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy habitation which the Lord gave to Avraham. And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he went to Padan Aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the Aramite, the brother of Revekah, the mother of Jakob and Esau. And Esau, when he saw that Izhak had blessed Jakob, and sent him to Padan Aram to take from thence a wife, and, as he blessed him, commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan, and that Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram, Esau, considering that the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes of Izhak his father, went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael bar Avraham, the sister of Nebaioth, over his wives, unto him to wife.
[1] Ya-a-kov.
[1] "Red."
[1] Sam. Vers. "and what is my business with the birthright?"
[1] Sam. Vers. "at Askelon."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Nophig."
[1] Sam. Vers. "sweet."
[1] Here the Sam. Vers. metaphrases the name into "Mimarkol," with the same import as "Pumkol" in chap. xxi.
[1] Tavshelin, "stewed meats."
[1] Ya-a-kov.
[2] "Red."
[3] Sam. Vers. "and what is my business with the birthright?"
[4] Sam. Vers. "at Askelon."
[5] Sam. Vers. "Nophig."
[6] Sam. Vers. "sweet."
[7] Here the Sam. Vers. metaphrases the name into "Mimarkol," with the same import as "Pumkol" in chap. xxi.
[8] Tavshelin, "stewed meats."
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Ch. 6-9
SECTION VAERA.
AND the Lord spake with Mosheh, and said to him, I am the Lord who revealed Myself to thee in the midst of the bush, and said to thee, I am the Lord. And I was revealed unto Avraham, and to Izhak, and to Jakob, as EI‑Shaddai; but My Name Ye‑ya, as it discovereth My Glory,[1] was not known to them. [JERUSALEM. And the Lord was revealed in His Word unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, as the Elohim of Heaven; but the Name of the Word of the Lord was not known. to them.] And I confirmed also My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kenaan, the land of their sojourning in which they were sojourners. And now cometh before Me the groaning of the sons of Yisrael, because the Mizraee do enslave them; and I remember My covenant. Therefore say to the sons of Yisrael, I am the Lord; and I will bring you forth from the oppressive bondage of the Mizraee, and will deliver you from your servitude, and save you with an uplifted arm, and by great judgments. And I will bring you nigh before Me to be a people, and I will be a Elohim unto you, and you shall know that I am the Lord your Elohim who hath led you forth from the hard service of the Mizraee. And I will bring you into the land which I covenanted by My Word to give unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; and I will give it to you for an inheritance. I Am the Lord. And Mosheh spake according to this to the sons of Yisrael; but they received not from Mosheh, through anxiety of spirit, and from the strange and hard service which was upon their hands. [JERUSALEM. From anxiety.]
And the Lord spake to Mosheh saying, Go in, speak with Pharoh, the king of Mizraim, that he release the children of Yisrael from his land. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, the sons of Yisrael do not hearken to me; how then will Pharoh hearken to me, and I a man difficult of speech? And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, and gave them admonition for the sons of Yisrael, and sent them to Pharoh, king of Mizraim, to send forth the children of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim.
These are the heads of the house of their fathers. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Yisrael, Hanok and Phallu, Hezron and Karmi; these are the race of Reuben. And the sons of Shimeon, Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jakin, and Sochar, and Shaul (he is Zimri, who yielded himself unto fornication, as among the Kenaanaee); these are the race of Shimeon. And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their race: Gershon, and Kehath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi a hundred and thirty and seven years: he lived to see Mosheh and Aharon the deliverers of Yisrael. And the sons of Gershon, Libni and Shemei, according to their generations. And the sons of Kehath, Amram, and Jitshar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kehath the saint, a hundred and thirty and three years. He lived to see Phinehas, who is Elijah, the Great Priest, who is to be sent to the captivity of Yisrael at the end of the days. And the sons of Merari, Mahali and Mushi; these are the race of Levi according to the generations. And Amram took Jokeved his cousin to wife, and she bare him Aharon and Mosheh; and the years of Amram the saint were a hundred and thirty and seven years. He lived to see the children of Rechabia bar Gershom bar Mosheh. And the sons of Jitshar (were) Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. And the sons of Uzziel, Mishael, and Elsaphan, and Sithri. And Aharon took Elisheba, daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nachshon, Unto him to wife, and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Elasar and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah, Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the race of Korah. And Elasar bar Aharon took unto him a wife from the daughters of Jethro who is Putiel, and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites, according to their generations. These are Aharon and Mosheh, to whom the Lord said, Bring forth the sons of Yisrael free from the land of Mizraim, according to their hosts;‑these are they who spake with Pharoh, king of Mizraim, that he should send out the sons of Yisrael from Mizraim; it is Mosheh the prophet, and Aharon the priest.
And it was in the day when the Lord spake with Mosheh in the land of Mizraim, that Aharon gave a listening ear, and heard what He spake with him. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, and said to him, I am the Lord. Say to Pharoh, king of Mizraim all that I tell thee. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, I am difficult in speaking; how then will Pharoh hearken to me?
VII. But the Lord said to Mosheh, Wherefore art thou fearful? Behold, I have set thee a terror to Pharoh, as if thou wast his Elohim, and Aharon thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak to Aharon that which I command thee, and Aharon thy brother shall speak to Pharoh, that he release the sons of Yisrael from his land. But I will harden the disposition of Pharoh's heart to multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Mizraim. Nor will Pharoh hearken to you. But I will shoot among them the arrows of death, and inflict the plagues of My mighty band upon Mizraim, and will bring out the sons of Yisrael free from among them. And Mosheh and Aharon did as the Lord commanded them, even so did they. And Mosheh was the son of eighty years, and Aharon the son of eighty and three years, at their speaking with Pharoh. And the Lord spake to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying, When Pharoh talketh with you, saying, Give us a miracle, thou shalt say to Aharon, Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharoh, and it shall become a basilisk‑serpent;[2] for all the inhabiters of the earth shall hear the voice of the shriek of Mizraim when I shatter them, as all the creatures heard the shriek of the serpent when made naked at the beginning. [JERUSALEM. And throw down before Pharoh.]
And Mosheh and Aharon went in unto Pharoh, and did as the Lord had commanded. And Aharon threw down the rod before the sight of Pharoh, and before the sight of his servants, and it became a basilisk. But Pharoh called the hachems and magicians; and they also, Janis and Jamberes, magicians of Mizraim, did the same by their burnings of divination. They threw down each man his rod, and they became basilisks;[3] but were forthwith changed to be what they were at first; and the rod of Aharon swallowed up their rods. And the disposition[4] of Pharoh's heart was hardened, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, The disposition of Pharoh's heart is obdurated in refusing to release the people. Go unto Pharoh in the morning: behold, he cometh forth to observe divinations at the water as a magician; so shalt thou prepare thee to meet him on the bank of the river, and Aharon's rod that was changed to be a serpent thou shalt take in thy hand. [JERUSALEM. To refresh himself at the river.] And thou shalt say to him, The Lord Elohim of the Jehudaee hath sent me unto thee, saying Release My people, that they may serve Me in the desert; and, behold, as yet thou bast not hearkened. Thus saith the Lord: By this sign thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Behold, with the rod that is in my hand, I will smite the waters of the river, and they shall be changed into blood. And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river become foul, and the Mizraee shall desist from drinking water from the river.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Tell Aharon, Take thy rod and stretch forth thy hand over the waters of the Mizraee over their rivers, Over their trenches, over their canals, and over every place for collecting their waters, and they will become blood; and there shall be blood in all the land of Mizraim, and in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone. [JERUSALEM. In vases.] And Mosheh and Aharon did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters of the river in the sight of Pharoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters of the river were turned into blood; and the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Mizraee could not drink of the waters, of the river and the plague of blood was in all the land of Mizraim. But so (also) did the astrologers of Mizraim by their burnings, and turned the waters of Goshen into blood. And the design of Pharoh's heart was strengthened, and he would not hearken. to them, as the Lord had said. And Pharoh did what was needful to him, and went unto his house, nor did he set his heart upon this plague. And the Mizraee digged about the river for water to drink, but could not find them pure; for they were not able to drink of the water from the river.
And seven days were completed after the Lord bad smitten the river, and the Word of the Lord had afterward healed the river. And the Lord spoke to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Emancipate My people, that they may serve before Me. But if thou refuse to set them free, behold, I will plague all thy borders with frogs. And the river shall multiply frogs, and they shall ascend and come up into thy house, and into the bedchamber where thou sleepest, and upon thy couch; and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into the ovens, and into thy baking‑troughs, and upon thy body, and upon the bodies' of thy people, and upon all thy servants, shall the frogs have power.
VIII. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Lift up thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the trenches, and over the canals, [JERUSALEM. Pools,] and I will bring up the frogs upon the land of Mizraim. And Aharon uplifted his hand over the waters of Mizraim, and the plague of frogs came up and covered the land of Mizraim. But Mosheh (himself) did not smite the waters, either with the blood or with the frogs because through them (the waters of the Nile) he had (found) safety the time that his mother laid him in the river. And the astrologers did likewise by their burnings, and brought up frogs upon the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh called to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying, Pray before the Lord, that He may remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will release the people to offer the sacrifices of a feast before the Lord. And Mosheh said to Pharoh, Glorify thyself on account of me. At what time dost thou request that I should pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be destroyed from thee and from thy house, and be left only in the river? And he said, To‑morrow. And he said, According to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like the Lord our Elohim. [JERUSALEM. Give a sign, and keep at a distance, till I shall have prayed for thee.] And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy people; and those only that are in the river shall remain. And Mosheh and Aharon went out from Pharoh, and Mosheh prayed before the Lord respecting the frogs, as he had proposed to Pharoh. And the Lord did according to the word of Mosheh; and the frogs died from the houses and from the courts and from the field, and they collected them in heaps and heaps, [JERUSALEM. Heaps, heaps,] and the land was corrupted. And Pharoh saw that he was refreshed from his molestation, but hardened his heart, and would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Speak unto Aharon, Lift up thy rod and smite the dust of the earth, and it shall become venomous insects[5] in all the land of Mizraim. But it shall not be by thee that the ground shall be smitten, because therein for thee was (the means of) safety when thou hadst slain the Mizraite and it received him. And they did so, and Aharon lifted up his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the ground, and it became a plague of venomous insects upon the flesh of men and of cattle; all the dust of the earth was changed to become insects, in all the land of Mizraim. And the astrologers wrought with their burnings to bring forth the insects, but were not able; and the plague of insects prevailed upon men and upon cattle. And the astrologers said to Pharoh, This is not by the power or strength of Mosheh and Aharon; but this is a plague sent from before the Lord. Yet the design of Pharoh's heart was strengthened, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharoh: behold, be goeth forth to observe divinations at the water, as a magician; and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Emancipate My people, that they may worship before Me; but if thou wilt not set My people free, behold, I will stir up among thee, and thy servants, and thy people, and thy house, a mixed multitude of wild beasts [JERUSALEM. A commixture,] and the houses of the Mizraee shall be filled with a swarm of wild beasts, and they shall be upon the land also. And I will do wonders that day in the land of Goshen where My people dwell, that there no swarms of wild beasts shall be;‑that thou mayest know that I the Lord am the Ruler in the midst of the land. And I will appoint redemption for My people, and upon thy people will I lay the plague: tomorrow this sign shall be. And the Lord did so; and sent the mixed multitude of wild beasts in strength to the house of Pharoh, and to the house of his servants and in all the land of Mizraim the inhabitants of the land were devastated from the swarm of wild beasts. And Pharoh called to Mosheh and to Aharon., saying, Go, worship with festival sacrifices before the Lord your Elohim in this land. But Mosheh said, It will not be right to do so; because we shall take sheep, which are the abomination of the Mizraee, and offer them before the Lord our Elohim. Behold if we offer the abomination of the Mizraee before them, they would stone us with stones as an act of justice. We will go three days journey into the wilderness to offer the festival sacrifices before our Elohim, as He hath bidden us. And Pharoh said, I will release you to sacrifice before the Lord your Elohim in the wilderness, only you shall not go to a greater distance. Pray, (too,) for me. And Mosheh said, I will go forth from thee, and pray before the Lord to remove the swarm of wild beasts from Pharoh, and from his servants, and from his people, to‑morrow; only let not Pharoh add to deceive, in not releasing the people to offer the festal sacrifices before the Lord. And Mosheh went out from Pharoh, and prayed before the Lord; and the Lord did according to the word of the prayer of Mosheh, and removed the swarm of wild beasts from Pharoh, and from his servants, and from his people; not one was left. Yet did Pharoh strengthen the design of his heart this time also, and released not the people.
IX. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go in to Pharoh, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of the Jehudaee, Emancipate My people, that they may worship before Me. But if thou refuse to release, and hitherto thou hast constrained them, behold, the stroke of the Lord's hand shall be as it hath not been yet, upon thy cattle that are in the field, upon the horses, and upon the asses, upon the camels, oxen, and sheep, with a very mighty death. [JERUSALEM. Great conturbation.] And the Lord will work wonders between the flocks of Yisrael and the flocks of the Mizraee, that not any of those which belong to the sons of Yisrael shall die. And the Lord set a time, saying, To‑morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing the day after, and all the cattle of the Mizraee died; but of the cattle of the sons of Yisrael died not one. And Pharoh sent certain to look; and, behold, not one of the cattle of the sons of Yisrael had died, not even one. But the disposition of Pharoh, heart was aggravated, and he would not release the people.
And the Lord said to Mosheh and to Aharon, Take with you hands‑full of fine ashes from the furnace, and let Mosheh sprinkle them towards the height of the heavens in the sight of Pharoh. And the dust shall be upon all the land of Mizraim, upon man and upon beast, for a boil, producing tumours in all the land of Mizraim [JERUSALEM. Tumours.] And they took ashes of the furnace, and arose to meet Pharoh; and Mosheh sprinkled them towards the height of the heavens; and there came a boil multiplying tumours upon man and beast. And the astrologers could not stand before Mosheh, on account of the boil; for the plague of the boil was upon the astrologers, and upon all the Mizraee. And the Lord hardened the design of Pharoh's heart, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said to Mosheh.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Arise in the morning, and place thyself before Pharoh, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of the Jehudaee, Emancipate My people, that they may worship before Me. For at this time I will send upon thee a plague from the heavens, and all My plagues Wherewith I have plagued thee thou wilt cause to return upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, (plagues) which have been sent from before Me, and not from the magic of the sons of men, that thou mayest know that there is none like Me in all the earth. Now could I send the plague of My strength by judgment (or, with justice) to strike thee and thy people with death, and destroy thee from the earth; but verily I have spared thee alive, not that I may benefit thee, but that My power may be made manifest to thee, and that My Holy Name may be made known in all the earth. Hitherto hast thou tyrannized over My people, instead of releasing them. [JERUSALEM. Relentlessly.] Behold, at this time tomorrow I will cause to come down from the treasures of the heavens a mighty hall, the like of which hath never been in Mizraim since the day when men were settled upon it until now. But now send, gather together thy flocks, and all that thou hast in the field (for) upon all men and cattle that are found in the field, and not gathered together within the house, will the hail come down, and they will die. Hiob, (Job,) who reverenced the word of the Lord, among the servants of Pharoh, gathered together his servants and his flocks within the house. But Bileam, who did not set his heart upon the word of the Lord, left his servants and his flocks in the field.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Uplift thy hand towards the height of the heavens, and there shall be hail on all the land of Mizraim, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh lifted up his rod toward the height of the heavens, and the Lord gave forth thunders and hailstones with flaming, fire upon the ground; the Lord made the hail descend upon the land of Mizraim. And there was hail, and fire darting among the hail with exceeding force: unto it had never been the like in all the land of Mizraim ever since it was a nation and a kingdom. And the hail smote in all the land of Mizraim whatsoever was in the field, of men and of cattle, and all the herbage of the field the hail smote, and every tree of the field it shattered and uprooted. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Yisrael were, there was no hail. And Pharoh sent certain to call Mosheh and Aharon; and he said to them, This time I have sinned. I know that the Lord is a righteous Elohim, and that I and my people have deserved every one of these plagues. Intercede before the Lord, that with Him it may be enough, and there may be no more maledictory thunders nor hail from the presence of the Lord; and I will release you, and no longer hinder. And Mosheh said to him, When I have gone out from thee into the city, I will outspread my hands in prayer before the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and there shall be no more hail; that you may know that the earth is the Lord's. But I know that thou and thy servants release the people, they will have to be afraid before the Lord Elohim. And the flax and the barley were beaten down, because the barley was in the ear, and the flax was making pods. [JERUSALEM. The flax was (making) pods, for it had cast its flowers.] But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten, because they are later. And Mosheh and Aharon went out from Pharoh to the suburb, and he stretched out his hands in prayer before the Lord, and the thunders of the curse were withheld, and the hail and rain that were descending came not on the earth. And Pharoh saw that the rain and hail and the thunders of the curse had ended, and he added to sin, and made strong the design of his heart, both he and his servants. And Pharoh's heart was made obstinate, and he would not release the children of Yisrael, as the Lord had said through Mosheh.
[1] Or, "in the face of My Shekinah."
[2] Chive chureman.
[3] Churemana.
[4] Yistra, "disposition," or "design."
[5] Kalma, "genus fornicae."- Castel. Heb. text, kinnim, "gnats."
SECTION XIV.
VAERA.
[VI]AND the Lord spake to Mosheh and said to him, I am the Lord; and I appeared unto Avraham and to Izhak and to Jakob by (the name) EI‑Shaddai, but by My name Jehovah[1] I was not known to them. And also I have confirmed My covenant with them to give them the land of Kenaan, the land of their sojournings in which they sojourned. And before Me hath been heard the cry of the sons of Yisrael whom the Mizraee make to labour for them; and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore, say thou to the sons of Yisrael, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the midst of the sore labour for the Mizraee, and will deliver you from their servitude, and redeem you with a lofty arm and with great judgments. And I will bring you nigh before Me to be a people, and I will be unto you a Elohim; and you shall know that I am the Lord your Elohim who bringeth you out from the sore Mizrean bondage. And I will lead you into the land which I have sworn in My Word to give to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; and to you will I give it for an inheritance; I am the Lord. And Mosheh so spake with the sons of Yisrael: but they received not from Mosheh through anguish of spirit, and from the labour which was hard upon them.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, Go in, speak with Pharoh king of Mizraim, that he send away the sons of Yisrael from his land. And Mosheh spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the sons of Yisrael have not received from me, and how then will Pharoh receive, and I (so) heavy of speech? And the Lord spake to Mosheh and Aharon, and gave them commandment to the sons of Yisrael and unto Pharoh king of Mizraim for the going forth of the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim.
These are the heads of the house of their fathers. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael, Hanuk and Phalli, Hetsron and Karmi; these are the progeny of Reuben. And the sons of Shimeon, Yemuel and Yamin and Achad and Yakin and Zochar and Shaul the son of a Kenaanitha; these are the progeny of Shimeon. And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon and Kehath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty and seven years. The sons of Gerson, Libni and Shimei, after their progenies. And the sons of Kehath., Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kehath, a hundred and thirty and three years. And the sons of Merari, Maheli and Mushi. These are the progenies of Levi, after their generations. And Amram took Yokebed the sister of his father unto him to wife, and she bare him Aharon and Mosheh. And the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years. And the sons of Izhar, Korah and Nepheg and Zikri. And the sons of Uzziel, Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. And Aharon took Elisheba the daughter of Aminadab the sister of Nachshon to him to wife; and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah, Asir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the progeny of Korah. And Elazar the son of Aharon took (one) of the daughters of Phutiel to himself to wife, and she bare him Pinhas. These are the chiefs of the fathers of the Levaee, according to their generations. It is Aharon and Mosheh, to whom the Lord had said, Bring forth the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim by their armies. These are they who spake with Pharoh king of Mizraim to let the sons of Yisrael go forth from Mizraim: it is Mosheh and Aharon.
And it was in the day when the Lord spake with Mosheh in the land of Mizraim, that the Lord spake unto Mosheh, saying, I am the Lord: Speak with Pharoh king of Mizraim all that I have said to thee. But Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, I am heavy of speech, and how will Pharoh receive from me?
[VII]But the Lord said to Mosheh, See, I have appointed thee a Master (rab) with Pharoh, and Aharon shall be thy interpreter (methurgeman). Thou shalt speak all that I have commanded thee, and Aharon thy brother shall speak with Pharoh to send away the sons of Yisrael from his land. And I will harden the heart of Pharoh, and will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Mizraim. But Pharoh will not receive from you; and I will give forth the stroke of My power upon Mizraim, and will bring out My host, My people, the sons of Yisrael, from the land of Mizraim by great judgments. And the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord when I uplift the stroke of My power upon Mizraim, and bring forth the sons of Yisrael from among them. And Mosheh and Aharon did as the Lord commanded them, so did they. And Mosheh was the son of eighty years, and Aharon the son of eighty and three years, in their speaking with Pharoh.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh and Aharon, saying, When Pharoh shall speak to you, saying, Produce a sign, thou shalt say to Aharon, Take thy rod, and throw it down before Pharoh., and it shall become a serpent (tanina, Heb., tanin, a long creature, whether serpent or crocodile. T.). And Mosheh and Aharon went in unto Pharoh, and did as the Lord had commanded them. Aharon threw down his rod before Pharoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. And Pharoh called for the wise men and the magicians; and they also, the Mizraite magicians, did so by their enchantments. They cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but the rod of Aharon swallowed up their rods. And Pharoh's heart was hardened, and be would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, The heart of Pharoh is obdurate (heavy): he is unwilling to send the people away. Go unto Pharoh in the morning; behold, he goeth forth to the waters, and stand to meet him on the bank of the river, and the rod that was turned to a serpent (chevja, Heb., nachash) take in thy hand; and say to him, The Lord Elohim of the Jehudaee hath sent me to thee, saying, Release My people, that they may serve before Me in the desert; and, behold, thou hast not yet acceded. Thus saith the Lord, By this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: Behold, with the rod that is in my hand I smite the water of the river, and it shall be turned to blood: and the fish which are in the river shall die, and the river become putrid, and the Mizraee try in vain to drink the water from the river.
[VIII]And the Lord spake to Mosheh, Say to Aharon, Take thy rod, and lift up thy hand over the waters of the Mizraee, upon their rivers, upon their canals, and upon their lakes, and upon all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood in all the land of Mizraim, and in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone. And Mosheh and Aharon did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted the rod, and struck the waters of the river, in the sight of Pharoh, and in the eyes of his servants, and all the waters of the river were turned into blood. And the fish of the river died, and the river became putrid; and the Mizraee could not drink of the water of the river, and there was blood in all the land of Mizraim. And the magicians did so with their enchantments; and Pharoh's heart was hardened, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said. And Pharoh turned and entered into his house; neither did he set his heart also unto this. And all the Mizraee digged by the bending of the river for water to drink; for the water which was in the river they could not drink.
And seven days were fulfilled after that the Lord had struck the river; and the Lord said to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh and say to him, Thus saith the Lord: Send away My people, that they may serve before me. But if thou refuse to send them away, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs, and the river shall multiply frogs; and they shall come up and enter into thy house, and into thy chamber the place of sleep, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thy ovens and thy kneading pans; and upon thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants shall the frogs come up. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Say to Aharon, Uplift thy hand with thy staff upon the streams, upon the rivulets, and upon the lakes; and the frogs shall come up on the land of Mizraim. And Aharon lifted up his hand over the waters of the Mizraee, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Mizraim. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and made frogs to come up on the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh called Mosheh and Aharon, and said, Pray before the Lord that the frogs may be removed from me and from my people; and I will release the people, that they may sacrifice before the Lord. And Mosheh said to Pharoh, Demand for thyself a miracle, and appoint me a time[2] when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants and thy people, that the frogs may be finished from thee and from thy house, and remain only in the river. And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, According to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none as the Lord our Elohim. And the frogs shall be removed from thee and from thy house and thy servants and thy people; in the river only shall they remain. And Mosheh and Aharon went out from Pharoh; and Mosheh prayed before the Lord concerning the frogs which he had appointed unto Pharoh. And the Lord did according to the words of Mosheh; and the frogs died from the houses, and from the courts, and from the fields. And they gathered them in heaps (upon) heaps, and they corrupted upon the ground. And Pharoh saw that there was relief; and hardened his heart, and would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord spake to Mosheh, Say unto Aharon, Lift up thy rod and smite the dust of the earth, and it shall become, insects,[3] in all the land of Mizraim. And they did so. And Aharon lifted up his hand with the rod and smote the dust of the earth, and it became insects on man and on cattle; all the dust of the earth became insects in all the land of Mizraim. And the magicians wrought so with their enchantments to produce the insects, but were not able; and there were insects on man and on beast. And the magicians said to Pharoh, This is a plague from before the Lord. Yet Pharoh's heart was hardened, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Arise in the morning and stand before Pharoh; behold, he goeth out to the waters; and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send My people away, that they may serve before Me. For if thou wilt not send My people away, behold, I will send on thee, and on thy servants, and on thy people, and upon thy houses, the aroba;[4] I and they shall fill the houses of the Mizraee with the aroba; and also the ground on which they are. But I will make a distinction in that day with the land of Goshen where My people dwell, that the aroba shall not be there; so that thou mayest know that I the Lord do rule in the midst of the earth. And I will ordain redemption to My people, but upon thy people shall be the plague. Tomorrow shall this sign be. And the Lord did so; and the aroba came with strength into the house of Pharoh, and into the house of his servants, and into all the land of Mizraim; and the land was destroyed before the aroba.
And Pharoh called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, Go, sacrifice before your Elohim in the land. But Mosheh said, It will not be fitting to do so; because the animals which the Mizraee worship we shall take to sacrifice before the Lord our Elohim. Behold, should we immolate the animal which the Mizraee worship, would they not stone us when they saw it? A journey of three days will we go into the desert, and sacrifice before the Lord our Elohim, as He hath told us. And Pharoh said, I will send you away, that you may sacrifice before the Lord your Elohim in the desert; only you shall not go farther and farther: pray also for me. And Mosheh said, Behold I will go out from being with thee, and will pray before the Lord, and He will remove the aroba from Pharoh, and from his servants, and his people, tomorrow; only let Pharoh no more be false[5] in not sending away the people to sacrifice unto the Lord. And Mosheh went out from before Pharoh, and prayed before the Lord. And the Lord did according to the word of Mosheh, and removed the aroba from. Pharoh and his servants, and his people; not one remained. But Pharoh hardened his heart this time also, and would not dismiss the people.
[IX]And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go in unto Pharoh and say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of the Jehudaee; Send My people away, that they may serve before Me: for if thou refuse to send them away, ‑and thou hast kept them until now, ‑behold, a plague from before the Lord shall be upon thy cattle which are in the field; upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep, a very great death. But the Lord will make distinction between the cattle of Yisrael and the cattle of the
Mizraee; and of all that the children of Yisrael possess not one shall die. And the Lord set a time,[6] saying, To‑morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing on the following day, and all the cattle of the Mizraee died; but of the cattle of the sons of Yisrael died not one.
And Pharoh sent, and, behold, not one of the cattle of the sons of Yisrael had died. And Pharoh's heart was hardened, and he would not send the people away.
And the Lord said to Mosheh and Aharon, Take you handfuls of dust of the furnace, and let Mosheh scatter it towards the heavens in the presence of Pharoh; and it will be like fine powder upon all the land of Mizraim, and it shall be upon man and beast an inflammation growing into ulcers in all the land of Mizraim. And they took the dust of the furnace and stood before Pharoh; and Mosheh scattered it towards the heavens, and it became an inflammation of ulcers multiplying on man and beast. And the magicians could not stand before Mosheh, on account of the disease; for the disease was upon the magicians and upon all the Mizraee. And the Lord obdurated the heart of Pharoh, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said to Mosheh.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Rise up in the morning and stand before Pharoh, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, the Elohim of the Jehudaee Send My people away, that they may serve before Me: for at this time I will send all My plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants and thy people, that thou mayest know that there is no one like Me, the Ruler in all the earth. For now it is nigh before Me to send indeed My strong plagues, and smite thee and thy people with death, and cut thee off from the earth. For therefore have I raised thee up, that I may show thee My power, and that they may acknowledge the might of My name in all the earth. Until now hast thou kept My people down,[7] that thou mayest not release them. Behold, I will cause to come down, as at this time tomorrow, hail most mighty, the like of which hath never been in Mizraim from the day that it was founded until now. And now, send, gather in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast that may be found in the field not gathered into the house the hail will fall, and they shall die. Who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharoh collected his servants and his cattle unto the houses; but he who did not set his heart upon the word of the Lord, left his servants and his cattle in the field.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Uplift thy hand towards the heavens, and there shall be hail in all the land of Mizraim upon man, and beast, and every herb of the field throughout the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh lifted up the rod towards the heavens, and the Lord sent thunders, (voices,) and hail, and fire going upon the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Mizraim, and there was hail, and fire flaming among the hail, very mighty, such as the like of had not been in all the land of Mizraim since the time it had been for a people. And the hail smote in all the land of Mizraim all that was in the field from man to cattle, and every herb of the field the hail struck, and every tree of the field it brake. Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Yisrael were, there was no hail.
And Pharoh sent and called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said to them, I have sinned this time; the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are guilty. Pray before the Lord that relief may be multiplied before Him, so that there may be upon us no more thunders of malediction like these before the Lord, nor hail; and I will send you away, and will not continue to detain you. And Mosheh said to him, When I shall have gone out of the city, I will spread forth my hands in prayer before the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and there shall be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the Lord's. But (as for) thee and thy servants, I know that as yet ye are not humbled before the Lord Elohim. And the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was earing and the flax was in flower: but the wheat and the spelt were not smitten, for they were later. And Mosheh went out of the city from Pharoh, and spread forth his hands in prayer before the Lord, and the thunders ceased, and the hail and the rain which had descended came not (more) upon the earth. And Pharoh saw that the rain had ceased, and the hail and the thunders, and he added yet to sin, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharoh was hardened, and he would not send away the sons of Yisrael, as the Lord had spoken by the hand of Mosheh.
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[1] Onkelos, Yeyd.
[2] Sam. Vers., ÒDecide for me,Ó or, Òover me.Ó
[3] ÒPoisonous flies.Ó Kalmetha, ONK. Ciniphes, Skniphes, LXX.
[4] Heb., Arob; probably beetles, - blatta ®gyptica, a formidable and voracious insect.
[5] ÒAdd to lie.Ó So also the Sam. Vers.
[6] Sam. Vers., Òappointed a testimony.Ó
[7] Sam. Vers., Òhast dealt deceitfully with.Ó
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SECTION XLV.
VAETHCHANAN.
And I sought mercy at that time from before the Lord, saying: I supplicate compassion before Thee, 0 Lord Elohim: Thou hast begun to show unto Thy servant Thy greatness and the power of Thy mighty hand; for Thou art Elohim, and there is none beside Thee; for Thy glory dwelleth in the heavens on high, and Thou rulest upon the earth; there is none who can work according to Thy working or Thy power. [JERUSALEM. And I prayed and sought mercy in that hour, said Mosheh, saying: I supplicate compassion before Thee, 0 Lord Elohim; Thou hast begun.] Let me, I pray, pass over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain on which is builded the city of Yerushalayim, and Mount Lebanon, where the Shekinah will dwell. But the Lord was displeased with me on your account, and received not my prayer; but the Lord said to me: Let it be enough for thee; speak not before Me again of this matter: go up to the head of the mountain, and lift up thine eyes to the west, to the north, to the south, and to the east, and behold with thy eyes, for thou shalt not pass over this Jordan. But instruct Jehoshua, strengthen and confirm him; for he shall go over before this people, and give them the inheritance of the land which thou seest. And we dwelt in the valley, weeping for our sins, because we bad been joined with the worshippers of the idol of Peor. [JERUSALEM. And we dwelt in the valley weeping for our guilt, and confessing our sins, for that we had been joined with the worshippers of the idol of Baal Peor.]
IV. And now, Yisrael, hear the statutes and judgments which I teach you to do, that you may live, and go in and inherit the land the Lord Elohim of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add to the words that I teach you nor diminish them, but keep the commandments of the Lord your Elohim which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the Word of the Lord hath done to the worshippers of the idol Peor: for all the men who went astray after the idol Peor, the Lord thy Elohim hath destroyed from among you; but you who have cleaved to the worship of the Lord your Elohim are alive all of you this day. See, I teach you statutes and judgments, as the Lord Elohim hath taught me, that you may so do in the land which you are entering to possess it. So shall you observe and perform the Torah; for it it is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes, and will say: How wise and intelligent is this great people! For what people so great, to whom the Lord is so high in the Name of the Word of the Lord? But the custom of (other) nations is to carry their gods upon their shoulders, that they may seem to be nigh them; but they cannot hear with their ears, (be they nigh or) be they afar off; but the Word of the Lord sitteth upon His throne high and lifted up, and heareth our prayer what time we pray before Him and make our petitions. [JERUSALEM. For what people is so great, who hath Elohim so nigh to it as the Lord our Elohim is, in every hour that we cry unto Him, and He answereth us?] And what people have statutes and right judgments according to all this Torah which I order before you this day? Only take heed to yourselves and diligently keep your souls, lest you forget the things which you beheld with your eyes at Sinai, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life, and you may teach them to your children, and to your childrens children; and that you may make yourselves pure in your transactions thereby, as in the day when you stood before the Lord your Elohim at Horeb, at the time when the Lord said to me: Gather the people before Me, that they may hear My words, by which they shall learn to fear before Me all the days that they remain upon the earth, and may teach their children. And you drew near, and stood at the lower part of the mount, and the mountain burned with fire, and its flame went up to the height of the heavens, with darkness, clouds, and shadows. And the Lord spake with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the word, but you saw no likeness, but only a voice speaking. And He proclaimed to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform; Ten Words which He wrote upon sapphire tablets.
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and judgments, that you may do them in the land which you pass over to possess. Keep then your souls diligently; for you saw no likeness on the day when the Lord spake with you in Horeb from the midst of the fire. Be admonished, lest you corrupt your works, and make to you an image or likeness of any idol, the likeness either male or female of any beast of the earth, of any winged bird that flieth in the air in the expanse of heaven, of any reptile on the ground, or of any fish in the waters under the earth. [JERUSALEM. The likeness of any fishes which are in the waters under the earth.] And lest, when you lift up your eyes to the height of the heavens, and gaze at the sun, or the moon, and the principal stars of all the hosts of the heavens, you go astray, and adore and serve them; for the Lord your Elohim hath by them distributed (or divided) the knowledge of all the peoples that are under the whole heavens.[1] For you hath the Word of the Lord taken for His portion, and hath brought you out from the iron furnace of Mizraim to be unto Him a people of inheritance as at this day. [JERUSALEM. To be a people beloved as a treasure in this day.]
But against me was displeasure before the Lord on account of your words, because you had murmured for the water; and He sware that I should not pass the Jordan, nor go into the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit. But I must die in this land; I am not to pass over Jordan; but you will pass over and possess the inheritance of that good land. Beware, then, that you forget not the covenant of the Lord your Elohim which He hath confirmed with you, or make to you an image, the likeness of any thing of which the Lord your Elohim hath commanded that you should not make it. For the Word of the Lord your Elohim is a consuming fire; the jealous Elohim is a fire, and He avengeth Himself in jealousy. [JERUSALEM. For the Lord your Elohim is a consuming fire; the jealous Elohim is a fire, and He avengeth Himself in jealousy.]
If, when thou wilt have begotten children and children's children, and wilt have grown old in the land, you corrupt your works, and make to you an image or any likeness, and do that which is evil before the Lord to provoke Him; I attest against you this day the sworn witnesses of the heavens and the earth, that perishing you will perish swiftly from the land to possess which you pass the Jordan: you will not lengthen out days upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. And the Lord will scatter you among the Gentiles, and you will remain as a little people with the nations among whom the Lord will disperse you in captivity. And there will you be constrained to serve the worshippers of idols, the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if there you seek to return to the fear of the Lord your Elohim, you shall find mercy, when you seek before Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you suffer oppression, and all these things come upon you in the end of the days, and you be converted to the fear of the Lord your Elohim, and obey His Word; for the Lord our Elohim is a merciful Elohim; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He sware unto them.
For ask now the generations which have been from the days of the beginning, which have been before thee from the day when the Lord created man upon the earth, from one end of the heavens to the other, whether so great a thing as this hath been, or any like to it hath been heard? Hath it ever been that a people should hear the voice of the Word of the Lord, the Living Elohim, speaking from the midst of fire, as you heard, and remained alive? Or, as the wonder which the Lord hath wrought, revealing Himself to separate a people to Himself from among another people, by signs, by miracles, by portents, by the victories of ordered battles, by an uplifted arm, and by great visions, like all that the Lord our Elohim hath done for us in Mizraim, and your eyes beholding? [JERUSALEM. Or what is the people or kingdom that hath heard?. . . . . Or the signs which the Word of the Lord hath wrought, coming to announce (that He would separate) to Himself a people from among a people ?] Unto thee have these wonders been shown, that thou mayest know that the Lord is Elohim, and there is none beside Him. He made you hear the voice of His Word from the heavens on high, to give you discipline by His doctrine, and showed thee upon earth His great fire, and made thee hear His words from the midst of the flame. And because He loved thy fathers Avraham and Izhak, therefore hath He pleasure in the children of Jakob after him, and hath brought you in His lovingkindness and power from Mizraim, to drive out nations greater and stronger than you from before you, and give you their land to inherit as at this day. Know therefore to‑day, and set your heart upon it, that the Lord is Elohim, whose Shekinah dwelleth in the heavens above, and reigneth on the earth beneath, neither is there any other beside Him. Therefore observe His covenant, and the commandments which I command you this day, that He may do good to you and to your children after you, and that you may have continuance upon the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you for all days.
And now, behold, Mosheh set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the manslayer who had killed his neighbour without intention, not having hated him yesterday or before, may flee, and escape into one of those cities, and be spared alive. [JERUSALEM. Who had slain his neighbour unawares,[2] but had not entertained enmity toward him yesterday or before.] Kevatirin the wilderness, in the plain country, for the tribe of Reuben, and Ramatha in Gilead for the tribe of Gad, and Dabera in Mathnan for the tribe of Menasheh. This is the declaration of the Torah which Mosheh set in order before the sons of Yisrael [JERUSALEM. This is the declaration of the Torah which Mosheh set before the sons of Yisrael,] and the statutes and judgments which Mosheh spake with the sons of Yisrael at the time when they had come out of Mizraim. And Mosheh delivered them beyond Jordan over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amoraee, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Mosheb and the sons of Yisrael smote when the had come out of Mizraim. And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, king of Mathnan, the two kings of the Amoraee, who were beyond the Jordan, eastward, from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon to the mountain of Saion, which is the Snowy Mount; [JERUSALEM. From Lechaiath, on the side of the river Arnona, unto the mountain whose fruits are delivered, which is the Snowy Mount;] and all the plain beyond Jordan, eastward, unto the sea that is in the plain under the spring of the heights.
V. And Mosheh called all Yisrael, and said to them: Hear, Yisrael, the statutes and judgments that I speak before you this day, to learn them, and observe to perform them. The Lord our Elohim confirmed a covenant with us in Horeb: not with our fathers did the Lord confirm this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here this day alive and abiding. Word to word did the Lord speak with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire. I stood between the Word of the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the Word of the Lord, because you were afraid before the voice of the Word of the Lord, which you heard from the midst of the fire; neither did you go up to the mountain while He said : Sons of Yisrael, My people, I am the Lord your Elohim, who made and led you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the bondage of slaves. Sons of Yisrael, My people, no other god shall you have beside Me. You shall not make to you an image or the likeness of anything which is in the heavens above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not worship them or do service before them; for I am the Lord your Elohim, a jealous and avenging Elohim, taking vengeance in jealousy; remembering the sins of wicked fathers upon rebellious children to the third generation and to the fourth of them that hate Me, when the children complete to sin after their fathers; but keeping mercy and bounty for a thousand generations of the righteous who love Me and keep My mandates and My laws. Sons of Yisrael, My people, no one of you shall swear by the Name of the Word of the Lord your Elohim in vain: for the Lord, in the day of the great judgment, will not acquit any one who shall swear by His Name in vain. Soils of Yisrael, My people, observe the day of Shabbat, to sanctify it according to all that the Lord your Elohim hath commanded. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day (shall be for) rest and quiet before the Lord your Elohim; ye shall do no work, neither you, nor your sons, nor your daughters, nor your servants, nor your handmaids, nor your oxen, your asses, nor any of your cattle, nor your sojourners who are among you; that your servants and handmaids may have repose as well as you. And remember that you were servants in the land of Mizraim, and that the Lord your Elohim delivered and led you out with a strong hand and uplifted arm; therefore the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee to keep the Shabbat day. Sons of Yisrael, My people, be every one mindful of the honour of his father and his mother, as the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you, that your days may be proIonged, and it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you. Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not murder, nor be companions or participators with those who do murder, nor shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael (those who have part) with murderers; that your children may not arise after you, and teach their own to have part with murderers; for because of the guilt of murder the sword cometh forth upon the world.
Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not be adulterers, nor companions of, or have part with, adulterers; neither shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael (those who have part) with adulterers, and that your children may not arise after you, and teach theirs also to be with adulterers; for through the guilt of adulteries the plague cometh forth upon the world. Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not be thieves, nor be companions nor have fellowship with thieves, nor shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael (those who have part)with theives; for because of the guilt of robberies famine cometh forth on the world. Sons of Isreal, My people, you shall not bear false witness, nor be companions or have fellowship with the bearers of false testimony;neither shall there be seen in the congregations of Isreal those who (have part) with false witnesses; for because of the guilt of false witnesses the clouds arise, but the rain does not come down, and dearth cometh on the world. Sons of Yisrael, My people, you shall not be covetous, nor be companions or have fellowship with the covetous; neither shall there be seen in the congregations of Yisrael any who (have part) with the covetous; that your children may not arise after you, and teach their own to be with the covetous. Nor let any one of you desire his neighbour's wife, nor his field, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that belongeth to his neighbour; for because of the guilt of covetousness the government (malkutha) seizeth upon men's property to take it away, and bondage cometh on the world.
These words spake the Lord with all your congregation at the mount, from the midst of the fiery cloud and tempest, with a great voice which was not limited; and the voice of the Word was written upon two tables of marble, and He gave them unto me. But when you had heard the voice of the Word from the midst of the darkness, the mountain burning with fire, the chiefs of your tribes and your sages drew nigh to me, and said, Behold, the Word of the Lord our Elohim hath showed us His glorious Shekinah, and the greatness of His excellency, (tushbachteih, His magnificence,) and the voice of His Word have we heard out of the midst of the fire. This day have we seen that the Lord speaketh with a man in whom is the Holy Spirit, and he remaineth alive. But now why should we die? For this great fire will devour us; if we again hear the voice of the Word of the Lord our Elohim, we shall die. For who, of all the offspring of flesh, hath heard the voice of the Word of the Living Elohim speaking from amid the fire as we, and hath lived? Go thou nigh, and hear all that the Lord our Elohim shall say, and speak thou with us all that the Lord our Elohim will say to thee, and we will hearken and will do. And the voice of your words was heard before the Lord when you spake with me, and the Lord said to me, All the words of this people which they have spoken with thee are heard before Me; all that they have said is good. O that the disposition of their heart were perfect as this willingness is to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all days, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever! [JERUSALEM. O that they may have this good heart!] Now therefore be separate from thy wife, that with the orders above thou mayest stand before Me, and I will speak with thee the commandments, statutes, and judgments, which thou shalt teach them to perform in the land that I give you to inherit. And now observe to do as the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you; decline not to the right hand or to the left. Walk in all the way which the Lord your Elohim commandeth you, that you may live and do well, and lengthen out days in the land you shall inherit.
VI. And this is the declaration of the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord your Elohim hath commanded (me) to teach you to perform in the land to which you pass over to inherit; that thou mayest fear the Lord thy Elohim, and keep all His statutes and precepts which I command thee; thou, thy son, and the son of thy son, all the days of thy life; and that thou mayest prolong thy days. Hearken then, Yisrael, to keep and to do, that it may be well with thee, and you may increase greatly, as the Lord Elohim of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, (that) He will give thee a land whose fruits are rich as milk, and sweet as honey. [JERUSALEM. A land producing good fruits, pure as milk, sweet and tasty as honey.]
It was, when the time came that our father Jakob should be gathered out of the world, he was anxious lest there might be an idolater among his sons. He called them, and questioned them, Is there such perversity in your hearts? They answered, all of them together, and said to him: HEAR, ISRAEL OUR FATHER: THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD! Jakob made response, and said, Blessed be His Glorious Name for ever and ever. [JERUSALEM. When the end had come to our father Jakob, that he should be taken up from the world, he called the twelve tribes, his sons, and gathered them round his couch. Then Jakob our father rose up, and said to them., Do you worship any idol that Terah the father of Avraham worshipped? do you worship any idol that Laban (the brother of his mother) worshipped? or worship you the Elohim of Jakob? The twelve tribes answered together, with fulness of heart, and said, Hear now, Yisrael our father: The Lord our Elohim is one Lord. Jakob responded and said, May His Great Name be blessed for ever!]
Mosheh the prophet said to the people of the house of Yisrael, Follow after the true worship of your fathers, that you may love the Lord your Elohim with each disposition of your hearts, and also that He may accept your souls, and the (dedicated) service of all your wealth; and let these words which I command you this day be written upon the tables of your hearts. And thou shalt unfold them to thy children, and meditate upon them when thou art sitting in your houses, at the time when you are occupied in secret chambers, or in journeying by the way; at evening when you lie down, and at morn when you arise. And you shall bind them as written signs upon thy left hand, and they shall be for tephillin upon thy forehead over thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the pillars, and affix them in three places, against the cupboard[3], upon the posts of thy house, and on the right hand of thy gate, in thy going out.
And when the Lord thy Elohim hath brought thee into the land which he promised to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, thy fathers, to give thee cities great and goodly which thou didst not toil in building, houses also, filled with all good, which thou wast not occupied in filling, and hewn cisterns in hewing which thou didst not labour, vineyards and olives with planting which thou wast not wearied; and when thou hast eaten. and art satisfied, beware lest you forget the fear of the Lord your Elohim, who delivered and led you out free from the land of Mizraim, from the house of the affliction of slaves; but fear the Lord your Elohim, and worship before Him, and swear by the Name of the Word of the Lord in truth. You shall not go after the idols of the Gentiles, the idols of the peoples who are round about you: for the Lord our Elohim is a jealous Elohim, and an Avenger, whose Shekinah dwelleth in the midst of you; lest the anger of the Lord your Elohim be kindled against you, and He quickly destroy you from the face of the earth. Sons of Yisrael, my people, be warned not to tempt the Lord your Elohim as you tempted Him in the ten temptations; keeping keep the commandments of the Lord your Elohim, and His testimonies and statutes which He hath commanded you; and do what is good and right before the Lord, that it may be well with you, and ye may go in, and possess by inheritance the good land which the Lord covenanted to your fathers; that He may drive out all thy enemies before thee, as the Lord hath said.
When thy son, in time to come, shall ask thee, saying, What are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments which the Lord our Elohim hath commanded you? then shall you say to your sons, We were servants to Pharoh in Mizraim, and the Word of the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand; and the Word of the Lord wrought signs, great wonders, and sore plagues on Mizraim and on Pharoh and all the men of his house, which our eyes beheld; but us He led forth free to bring us in and give us the land which He sware to our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to perform all these statutes, that we may fear the Lord our Elohim for good to us in all days, that He may preserve us alive as at the time of this day; and (the reward of ) righteousness will be reserved for us in the world to come, if we keep all these commandments to perform them before the Lord our Elohim, as He hath commanded us.
VII. When the Lord thy Elohim shall bring thee into the land to which thou wilt come to possess it, and He will make many peoples to go out from before thee, the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Kenaanites, Perizites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and strong than thou., and the Lord your Elohim will deliver them up before you, then shall you blot them out and utterly consume them by the curse of the Lord. You shall strike no covenant with them, nor have pity upon them. You shall not intermarry with them; your daughters you shall not give to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons; for whosoever marrieth with them is as if he made marriage with their idols. [JERUSALEM. You shall not be commixed with them.] For their daughters will lead your sons away from My worship to serve the idols of the Gentiles; so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and He will destroy you suddenly. But this shall you do to them : you shall destroy their altars, break their statues in pieces, cut down their groves for worship, and burn the images of their idols with fire. For you shall be a holy people before the Lord your Elohim, as the Lord your Elohim hath taken pleasure in you, that you may be a people more beloved before Him than all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Not because You were more excellent than all other peoples hath the Lord had pleasure in you and chosen you, but because you were poor in spirit, and more humble than all the nations. Therefore, because the Lord had mercy on you, and would keep the covenant He had sworn with your fathers, He led you out free with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of the affliction of slaves, from the hand of Pharoh king of Mizraim. Know therefore that the Lord your Elohim is a Judge, strong and faithful, keeping covenant and mercy with them who love Him and keep His commandments unto a thousand generations, and who repayeth to them who hate Him the reward of their good works in this world, to destroy them (for their evil works) in the world to come; neither delayeth He (to reward) His enemies, but while they are alive in this world He payeth them their recompense. [JERUSALEM. And he repayeth them who hate Him for their little deeds of good which are in their hands in this world, to destroy them in the world to come; nor doth He delay to render to them that hate Him the reward of the slight works that are in their hands in this world.] Observe therefore the mandates, the statutes, and judgments which I command you, to perform them.
[1] That is, according to some Jewish commentators, He has revealed Himself to the Gentiles mediately, by the display of His works, but to Isreal immediately by His word. Compare the next clause.
[2] Beketuph, “by, or over, the shoulder.”
[3]Or, “repository,” tekey, i.e. theca.
SECTION XLV.
VAETHCHANNAN.
AND I prayed before the Lord at that time, saying: O Lord Elohim, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy mighty hand; for Thou art Elohim, whose Shekinah is in the heavens above, and Thou rulest in the earth, and none can do according to Thy greatness or Thy might. Let me, I pray, go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and the place of the sanctuary. But there was displeasure with the Lord against me on your account, and He heard me not; but said to me, It is enough for, thee; add not to speak again before Me of this thing: go up to the summit of the height, and lift up thy eyes to the west, the north, the south, and the east, and see with thy eyes; for thou shalt not pass over this Jordan. But instruct Jehoshua, and fortify, and make him strong; for he shall go over before this people, and put them in possession of the land which thou wilt see. And we dwelt in the valley over against Beth Peor.
IV. And now, Yisrael, hear the statutes and the judgments which I am to teach you to do, that you may live, and go in to inherit the land which the Lord Elohim of your fathers hath given you. Ye shall not add to the word that I command you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your Elohim which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord hath done with the worshippers of Baala Peor; for all the men who went after Baala Peor the Lord thy Elohim hath destroyed from among you. But you who have cleaved to the fear of the Lord your Elohim, are alive all of you this day. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the Lord my Elohim commanded me, that you may so do in the land to which you go to possess it. And observe, and perform; for this is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations who will hear all these statutes, and say, Most surely this great people is a wise and understanding people. For what people so great who hath Elohim so nigh unto it to hearken to their prayer in the time of their tribulation, as the Lord our Elohim (is to us) in every time that we pray before Him? Or what people so great which hath statutes and judgments so true as all this Torah which I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself, and diligently keep thy soul, all the days of thy life, lest thou forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and they pass away from thy heart. But make them known to thy children, and to thy children's children, (as was said) on the day when thou stoodest before the Lord thy Elohim at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, Gather the people together before Me, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days which they live on the earth, and may teach their children. And you came near, and stood at the lower parts of the mountain, and the mount burned with fire to the height of the heavens, in darkness, clouds, and shadow. And the Lord spake with you from the midst of the fire; you heard a voice of words, but you beheld no similitude; (there was) only the Voice. And He proclaimed to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, (even) the Ten Words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments for you to perform in the land whither you pass over to possess it. But take heed to your souls; for you saw no likeness in the day that the Lord spake with you from the midst of the fire; lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you an image, or the likeness of any form, the likeness of male or female, of any beast on the ground, or of any bird which flieth in the air of the expanse of the skies, of any reptile of the earth, or any fish of the waters, under the earth; and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and behold the sun, or moon and stars, all the host of the heavens, and go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy Elohim hath not appointed for any of the nations that are under the whole heavens. But you hath the Lord drawn nigh unto His service, and brought you out from the iron furnace, (even) from Mizraim, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as at this day. But towards me the Lord had displeasure, on account of your words, and He sware that I should not go over Jordan, nor enter the good land which the Lord your Elohim giveth you to inherit. For I must die in this land; I am not to pass over the Jordan; but you are to pass over, and inherit that good land. Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your Elohim, which He hath concluded with you, and you make an image for you, the likeness of anything about which the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee. For the Word of the Lord thy Elohim is a consuming fire: He is a jealous Elohim.
When thou shalt have begotten sons and daughters, and have grown old in the land, and thou become corrupt, and make an image, the likeness of anything, or do what is evil before the Lord thy Elohim, to cause displeasure before Him; I call, this day, the heavens and earth to witness that you will surely perish from off the land whither you go over the Jordan to possess it: you will not prolong days upon it, for with destruction you will be destroyed. And the Lord will scatter you among the nations, and you will remain a numbered people[1] among the nations whither the Lord shall lead you. And there will you serve the peoples who are worshippers of idols, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Yet if from thence thou seek the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, thou shalt find, if thou seek for Him with thy heart, and with all thy soul. When thou wilt be in trouble, and all these words will have found thee, in the end of the days, and thou wilt turn unto the fear of the Lord thy Elohim, and be obedient to His Word, because the Lord thy Elohim is a merciful Elohim; He will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He sware unto them. For ask now of the ancient days that have been before thee, from the day that the Lord created man upon the earth, and (ask) from one end of the heavens to the other, if there hath been so great a thing as this, or any heard like it, whether a people have heard the voice of the Word of the Lord speaking from the midst of the fire as thou didst hear, and have lived. Or (if any have seen) like miracles which the Lord hath wrought, in being revealed to redeem to Himself a people from among a people, by miracles, signs, and wonders, and with war, and by a mighty hand and uplifted arm, and by grand visions, according to all that the Lord your Elohim hath done for you in Mizraim before your eyes. Unto thee hath it been shown, that thou mayest know that the Lord He is Elohim, there is none beside Him. From the heavens thou didst hear the voice of His Word, that He might teach thee, and upon earth He showed thee His great fire, and thou heardest His words from the midst of the fire. And because He loved thy fathers, and had pleasure in their children after them, He brought thee out by His Word, by His mighty power, from Mizraim, to drive out nations greater and stronger than thou from before thee, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as at this day.
Know then, this day, and revolve it in thy heart, that the Lord He is Elohim, whose glory is in the heavens above, and who ruleth upon the earth beneath, (and that) there is none but He; and keep His statutes and His commandments that I teach thee this day, that it may be well with thee, and thy sons after thee, and thou mayest prolong days on the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth thee, all the days.
Then Mosheh separated three cities on the other side of the Jordan (toward) the sunrise, that the slayer may escape thither who may kill his neighbour unawares, not having hated him yesterday, or before it; and that, escaping to one of those cities, he may live: Bezer, in the wilderness, in the plain land of the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth, in Gilead, of the tribe Gad; and Golan, in Mathnan, of the tribe of Menasheh.
And this is the Torah which Mosheh set in order before the children of Yisrael: these are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments, which Mosheh spake to the children of Yisrael, on their coming forth from Mizraim; on the other side of Jordan, in the vale over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amoraah, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Mosheh and the children of Yisrael smote when they had come out of Mizraim. And they took possession of his land, and the land of Og king of Mathnan, two kings of the Amoraah, who were beyond Jordan, toward the sunrise; from Aroer, upon the bank of the river Arnon to the mountain of Siaon, which is Hermon; and all the plain beyond Jordan eastward unto the sea of the plain at the declivity of the heights.
V. And Mosheh called all Yisrael, and said to them: Listen, Yisrael, to the statutes and judgments which I speak before you this day, and learn them, and keep them to do them. The Lord our Elohim confirmed a covenant with us at Horeb. The Lord confirmed not this covenant with our fathers, but with us who are here all of us living this day: word with word hath the Lord spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire, (I stood between the Word of the Lord and you, to announce to you at that time the word of the Lord; for you were afraid in presence of the fire, and went not up to the mountain,) saying: I am the Lord thy Elohim, who hath brought thee out of the land of Mizraim, from the house of bondage; there shall not be with thee another god beside Me. Thou shalt not make to thee an image or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth; thou shalt not worship them or serve them: for I, the Lord thy Elohim, am a jealous Elohim, visiting the guilt of fathers upon rebellious children, upon the third generation and upon the fourth of them that hate Me, when the children complete the sins of their fathers; but doing good unto (thousands of) generations of those who love Me, and keep My commandments. Thou shalt not swear by the Name of the Lord thy Elohim in vain; for the Lord will not acquit him who shall swear by His Name falsely. Keep the day of Shabbatha to sanctify it, as the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt work, and do all thy labour; but the seventh day is the Shabbat before the Lord thy Elohim: thou shalt not perform any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant, thy handmaid, thy ox, thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is in thy gates; that thy servant and handmaid may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Mizraim, and that the Lord brought thee out from thence with a mighty hand and uplifted arm; therefore the Lord thy Elohim hath commanded thee to observe the Shabbat day. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord hath commanded, that thou mayest prolong thy days, and it may be well with thee in the land which the Lord thy Elohim shall give thee. Thou shalt not kill life, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness against thy neighbour. Nor shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, nor covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his servant, or his handmaid, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
These words spake the Lord with all your congregation at the mount, from the midst of the fire, the clouds and the darkness, with a great voice, and hath not ceased.[2] And He wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me. But it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire and darkness, the mount burning with fire, all the chiefs of your tribes and your elders drew near to me; and you said, Behold, the Lord our Elohim hath showed to us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard the voice of His Word out of the midst of the fire; this day have we seen that the Lord speaketh with a man,[3] and he liveth. But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we go on to hear the voice of the Word of the Lord our Elohim, we shall die. For who is there of all flesh who can hear the voice of the Word of the Living Elohim speaking from the midst of fire (in the manner) that we have, and can live? Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our Elohim shall say, and speak thou with us all that the Lord our Elohim shall speak with thee, and we will hearken and will do. And the voice of your words was heard before the Lord when you spake with me, and the Lord said to me, The voice of the words of this people which they have spoken with thee is heard before Me; all (the words) they have spoken are right. O that they may have such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments all days, that it may be well with them and their children for ever. Go, and say to them, Return to your tents. But thou, stand here before Me, and I will tell thee all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land that I will give them to possess it.
And you shall observe to do as the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you, nor decline to the right hand or to the left. In all the way which the Lord your Elohim hath commanded you shall ye walk, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and you may lengthen out your days in the land which you are to inherit.
VI. And this is the commandment, (these are) the statutes and the judgments, which the Lord your Elohim hath commanded (me) to teach you to perform in the land to which you go over to possess it, that thou mayest fear before the Lord thy Elohim, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command thee; thou, thy sons, and thy sons' son, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. And thou, Yisrael, shalt receive, and keep, and perform, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest increase greatly, as the Lord Elohim of thy fathers bath said to thee, (in) the land which produceth milk and honey.
HEAR, ISRAEL;[4] THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: and thou shalt love the Lord thy Elohim with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy substance. And these words that command thee this day shall be upon thy heart.
And thou shalt deliver them to thy children, and talk of them when thou art sitting in thy house, and when thou goest in the way, and in thy lying down, and thy rising up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for tephillin[5] between thine eyes; and thou shalt write them upon the doorposts, and affix them to the lintels[6] of thy house, and upon thy gates.
And it shall be, when the Lord thy Elohim will have brought thee into the land which He covenanted to thy fathers, to Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not, and houses full of goods that thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive trees which thou didst not plant, and thou have eaten and be full; beware, lest thou forget the fear of the Lord who brought thee out from the land of Mizraim, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy Elohim, and serve before Him, and swear by His Name. You shall not go after the idols of the Gentiles, the idols of the peoples who surround you (for the Lord thy Elohim is a jealous Elohim, His Shekinah dwelleth in the midst of thee,) lest the anger of the Lord thy Elohim be kindled against thee, and He destroy thee from off the face of the earth. You shall not tempt the Lord your Elohim as you tempted Him in the temptation: keeping you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your Elohim, His testimonies, and His statutes He hath commanded thee, and do what is right and well ordered before the Lord, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest enter ill and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to break all thy enemies before thee, as He hath said.
When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, (mehar, to-morrow,) saying, What are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments, which the Lord our Elohim hath commanded you? then thou shalt say, We were servants to Pharoh in Mizraim; and the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand, and put forth miracles great and sore upon Pharoh, and all the men of his house, before our eyes; and He brought us out from thence, to bring us in, to give us the land which He sware to our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to perform all these statutes, to fear the Lord our Elohim, that all days it may be well with us, (and) that He may preserve us alive as at this day. And it shall be our righteousness to observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our Elohim, as He hath commanded us.
VII. When the Lord thy Elohim shall bring thee into the land into which thou goest to possess it, and cast out many peoples from before thee, the Hittites Girgashites, Amorites, Kenaanites, Pherizites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations, greater and mightier than thou, and shall deliver them up before thee; then thou shalt smite and utterly consume them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy upon them. Neither shalt thou intermarry with them; thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son. For they will cause thy son to go astray from serving Me, and they will worship the idols of the Gentiles, and the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will destroy thee speedily. But thus shall you do to them: you shall pull down their altars, break their statues in pieces, cut down their (sacred) groves and burn their images with fire. For thou art a people consecrated before the Lord thy Elohim, thee hath the Lord thy Elohim chosen to be to Him a people more beloved than all peoples upon the face of the earth. Not because you were greater than any of the peoples, bath the Lord chosen and befriended you, for you were smaller than any of the peoples; but because the Lord had mercy on you, and that He would keep the covenant He sware to your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharoh, the king of Mizraim. Know, then, that the Lord thy Elohim, He is Elohim, a faithful Elohim, keeping covenant and mercy for them who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations, but repaying them who hate Him the good which they have done before Him in their lives, to destroy them (in the life to come ?). He delayeth not to do good to His enemies for the good they may have wrought before Him in their lives, to repay them. Thou shalt therefore observe the commandments, statutes, and judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
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SECTION XXII.
VAIYAKHEL.
And Mosheh gathered together all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, and said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done. Six days thou shalt do work, and on the seventh day there shall be to you the holy Shabbat of repose before the Lord. Whoever doeth work on the Shabbat day, dying he shall die by the casting of stones. My people of the sons of Yisrael, ye shall not kindle a fire in any place of your habitations on the day of the Shabbat. [JERUSALEM. Ye shall not kindle a fire in any place of the house of your dwelling on the Shabbat day.]
And Mosheh spake to all the assembly of the children of Yisrael, saying, This is the word which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Take of you a separation before the Lord: whosoever is moved in his heart, let him present the separation for the Lord; gold, or silver, or brass, or hyacinth, or purple, or scarlet, or fine linen, or goats' hair, or rams' skins dyed red, or skins of seals, (purple skins), and woods of sitta; or oil for the lights, aromatics for the anointing oil, and sweet incense; the onyx stones, and stones for completing the enchasement of the ephoda and the breastplate. And let all the wise‑hearted among you give and make all that the Lord hath commanded: The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its hasps, and its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases. [JERUSALEM. The tabernacle, and its tent, and its covering, its hasps, and boards, and its bars, its pillars, and its bases.] The ark, with its staves, and the mercy seat, and the veil for the covering; and the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the bread for the Presence; and the candelabrum for illumination, with the lamps, and the oil for the light; and the altar of sweet incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the curtain for the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; the altar of burnt offering, and its brasen grate, with its staves, and its vessels, and the laver, with its base; and the curtains of the court, with its pillars, and bases, and the hanging for the gate of the court, and the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; the vestments of ministration, for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy vestments for Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons for ministering. And all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael went out from before Mosheh
And every man whose heart moved him, and every one who was filled with the Spirit of prophecy, came, and brought what he had for a separation before the Lord for the work of the tabernacle of ordinance, and for all its service, and for the holy vestments. And with the men came the women, every one whose heart was moved, and brought chains, and necklaces, rings, bracelets, and every ornament of gold; every one offering up the offering of gold before the Lord. And every one with whom was found hyacinth, or purple, or crimson, or fine linen, goats' hair, or purple skins, brought the separation before the Lord; and all with whom were found woods of sitta for all the work of the service brought. And every woman whose heart was wise spun with her hands, and brought the spun work of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen. And all the women whose hearts were moved in wisdom spun goats' hair (while) upon their bodies, and sheared them, being alive. And the clouds of heaven went to the Phison, and drew up from thence onyx stones, and stones for infilling, to enchase the ephod and the breastplate, and spread them upon the face of the wilderness; and the princes of Yisrael went, and brought them for the need of the work. And the clouds of heaven returned, and went to the garden of Eden, and took from thence choice aromatics, and oil of olives for the light, and pure balsam for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. Every man, a son of Yisrael, and (every) woman, a daughter of Yisrael, who was moved in heart, brought for all the work which the Lord by Mosheh had commanded to be made; so brought the children of Yisrael the votive gift before the Lord.
And Mosheh said to the sons of Yisrael, See, the Lord hath ordained with a good name Bezalel bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, and hath filled him with the Spirit of prophecy from before the Lord, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all handicraft; and to instruct artificers to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of precious stones, to perfect by them the work, and in the fabrication of wood, to work in all the work of artificers. [JERUSALEM. And in the cutting of precious stones for completion, and the workmanship of wood, to work in all the work of the artificer.] And to teach art‑work to the rest of the artificers he imparted skill to his heart, and to (that of) Ahaliab bar Achisamak, of the tribe of Dan. He filled them with wisdom of heart to make all the work of the carpenter and the embroiderer, in hyacinth, and in purple, and in crimson, and in fine linen; and of the sewer, to fashion all the work, and to teach the workmen.
XXXVI. And Bezalel and Ahaliab wrought, and every man wise in heart, to whom the Lord had given wisdom and intelligence to understand and to make all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded. And Mosheh called Bezalel and Ahaliab, and every man wise in heart, to whose heart the Lord had given wisdom, every one whose heart was moved, to draw near, and do the work itself. And they took from before Mosheh all the separation that the children of Yisrael had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought to him the voluntary gift, morning after morning from their possessions. [JERUSALEM.The gift.] And all the wise men who did all the work of the sanctuary came, each man from the work which he had done; and they said to Mosheh, The people abound in bringing (more) than is enough for the service of the work, which the Lord hath ordained. And
Mosheh commanded, and they made proclamation through the camp, saying, Neither man nor woman may make any more work for the holy separation: and the people ceased from bringing. For what had been done was according to the sufficiency of all the work; and they did it, and had more than enough.
And all the wise in heart made the TABERNACLE; ten curtains of fine linen, and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet, figured with kerubin, the work of the embroiderer, he made them. The length of one curtain twenty and eight cubits, the sum of one curtain ; the measure was one for all the curtains. And he conjoined five curtains one with another, and (the other) five curtains conjoined he one with another. And he made loops of hyacinth upon the edge of one curtain, at the place of conjunction in the side; so made he in the side at the place of conjunction in the other curtain. [JERUSALEM. In the jointure.] Fifty loops he made in one curtain, and fifty loops made he at the place of juncture of the edge of the second curtain; the loops were arranged one over against the other. [JERUSALEM. Answering to each other.] And he made fifty taches of gold, and conjoined one curtain with another with the taches, and there was one tabernacle. And he made curtains of goats' hair to spread upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. The length of one curtain thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains. And he joined five curtains together, corresponding with the five books of the Torah; and six curtains together, corresponding with the six orders of the Mishna. And he made fifty loops in the border of the curtain at the place of conjuncture, and fifty loops made he upon the border of the curtain at the second place of conjuncture. And he made taches of brass to compact the tabernacle, that
it might become one. And he made a covering for the tabernacle of rams' skins reddened, and of purple skins to protect it above. And he made the boards of the tabernacle of sitta wood, standing up, after the way of their plantation; ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half of a cubit the breadth of one board. Each board had two tenons arranged, one side for the midst of the other side; and so did he for all the boards of the tabernacle. And he made the boards of the the tabernacle twenty boards, on the side of the south wind; and forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets beneath one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north he made twenty boards, and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets beneath one board, and two sockets beneath another board. And to the border of the tabernacle westwar he made six boards, and two boards made he at the corners of the tabernacle at their extremes. [JERUSALEM. At the declivities.] And they were conjoined below, and joined together were they at their tops with one ring; so made he both of them at the two corners. [JERUSALEM. And they were twins.] And eight boards there were, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets, and two sockets under one board. And be made bars of sitta wood; five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the ends westward. And be made the middle bar to mortise in the midst of the boards from end to end,‑of the tree which our father Avraham planted in Beira of Sheba, praying there in the Name of the Word of the Lord, the everlasting, Elohim. [JERUSALEM. And he, made the middle board to go along among the boards.] And the boards he overlaid with gold, and the rings be made of gold, as the place for the bars; and he covered the bars with gold.
And he made the VEIL of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined, the work of the artificer; figured with kerubin he made it. And he made for it four pillars of sitta wood, and covered them with gold, and their hooks of gold, and cast for them four sockets of silver. And he made a curtain for the door of the tabernacle, of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson., and fine linen twined, the work of the embroiderer, and its five pillars, and their five hooks; and be covered their capitals and their joinings with gold, and their five bases with brass.
XXXVII. And Bezalel made the ARK of sitta wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and half its breadth, and a cubit and half its height. And he covered it with pure gold within and without, and made for it a crown of gold round about. And he cast for it four golden rings upon its four corners; two rings upon one side of it, and two rings upon its second side. And he made the staves of it of sitta wood, and covered them with gold, and put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.
And he made the MERCY SEAT of pure gold; two cubits and a half the length, and a cubit and half its breadth; but its thickness was a span. And be made two kerubin of pure gold, beaten made be them, on the two sides of the mercy seat. One keruba on this side, and one keruba on that side, of beaten work; and the kerubin were face to face. They were not separated from the mercy seat; but by the wisdom of the Spirit of prophecy, he made the kerubin on its two sides. And the kerubaia spread forth their wings, with their heads upward, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces were toward each other, over against the mercy seat were the faces of the kerubaia.
And he made the TABLE of sitta wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and half its height. And he covered it with pure gold, and made for it a golden crown round about. And he made a border for it, its height a span round about. [JERUSALEM. A border, a span around, and he made a coronal of gold for the surrounding border.] And he made a crown of gold for the border round about. And he cast for it four golden rings, and set the rings upon the four corners of its four feet. Over agaagainst the border were the rings, the place for the staves in carrying the table. And he made the staves of sitta wood, and covered them with gold, for carrying the table. And he made the vessels to be upon the table, its dishes, and its bowls, and its measures, and its cups for the lavings[1] of pure gold.
And he made the CANDELABRUM of pure gold, beaten made he the candelabrum; its base and its shaft, its cups, its apples, and its lilies were of the same. And six branches came forth from its sides; three branches of the candelabrum on one side, and three branches of the candelabrum on the second side. Three embossed cups with their figurations on one branch, with the apple and lily, and three embossed cups with their figurations on the other branch, with the apple and lily; so the six branches which proceeded from the candelabrum. And upon the candelabrum, four embossed cups with their figurations of apples and lilies. And an apple (was) under two branches of the same, and an apple under two branches of the same, and an apple under two branches of the same, for the six branches that proceeded from it. Their apples and their branches were of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold: of a talent of pure gold made he it and all its vessels.
And he made the ALTAR OF SWEET INCENSE of sitta wood, a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, foursquare, and two cubits was its height; its two upright horns were of the same. And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns; and he made for it a golden crown round about. And two golden rings he made for it under its crown, at its two corners, upon its two sides, to be the place of the staves by which to carry it. And the staves be made of sitta wood, and overlaid them with gold. And he made the sacred oil of anointing, and the pure sweet incense, the work of the perfumer.
XXXVIII. And he made the ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING of Sitta wood; five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, four‑square, and three cubits its height. And he made horns upon its four corners; of the same were its horns stretching upward; and he covered it with brass. And he made all the vessels of the altar; the pots, and the cleaners, and the basins, and the fleshhooks, and the pans, all its vessels made he of brass. And he made the grate of the altar, of brasen network under the border beneath, reaching to the middle of it, to receive the cinders and bones that fell from the altar. And he cast four rings, for the four corners of the grate, of brass, (to be) places for the staves. And he made the staves of sitta wood, and coated them with brass. And he put the staves into the rings, upon the sides of the altar, to carry it by them: hollow with boards, and filled with earth made he it.
And he made the brasen Laver, and its foundation of brass, from the brasen mirrors of the pious women, who, at the season, came to pray at the door of the tabernacle of appointment, standing with their oblations, giving thanks and confession, and returning to their husbands, the mothers of righteous children, who had been purified from the uncleanness of their blood. [JERUSALEM. And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, with, the mirrors of the pious women who were devout at the gate of the tabernacle of appointment.] And he made the court; on the southern side, the curtains of the court (made he) with fine linen, a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver. And on the north side, a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver. And the curtains of the western side, fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their rods, were of silver. And on the east side, eastward, fifty cubits. And the curtains were fifteen cubits on a side; their pillars three, and their bases three. And for the second side of the door of the court, here and there, at the gate of the court, curtains fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their bases three. All the curtains of the court round about were of fine linen twined. And the bases of the pillars were of brass, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals silver, and the rods silver; so were made all the pillars of the court. And the hanging for the gate of the court was made of embroidered work in hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen twined; and twenty cubits (was) the length, and the height on its breadth five cubits, corresponding with the curtains of the court. And their pillars four, and their bases four, of brass; their hoks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their rods, silver. But all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
[1] Castel, col 1332
SECTION LII.
VAIYELECH
XXXI. AND Mosheh went and spake these words with all Yisrael.
And he said to them, I am the son of a hundred and twenty years this day. I am no more able to go out and to come in; and the Lord hath said to me, Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan. The Lord thy Elohim, He goeth over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt inherit them. Jehoshua, he goeth over before thee, as the Lord hath said.
And the Lord will do to them as He did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the lands of them whom He destroyed. The Lord will deliver them up, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments that I have commanded you. Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be broken before them; for the Word of the Lord thy Elohim will be the leader before thee, He will not forsake thee, nor be far off from thee.
And Mosheh called Jehoshua, and said to him before the eyes of all Yisrael, Be strong and of good courage; for thou art to go in with this people to the land which the Lord hath sworn to their fathers to give it to them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit. But the Lord, He is the leader before thee; His Word shall be thy helper, for He will not forsake thee, nor be far from thee; fear not, nor be dismayed.
And Mosheh wrote this Torah, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Yisrael.
And Mosheh commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years, at the time of the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Yisrael cometh to appear before the Lord thy Elohim, in the place that He will choose, thou shalt read this Torah before all Yisrael, and make them hear. Gather the people together, the men, the women, and children, and thy sojourners who are in thy cities, that they may hear, and learn, and fear before the Lord your Elohim, and observe and perform all the words of this Torah, and that their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear before the Lord all the days that you abide upon the land to which you pass over the Jordan to possess it.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, the days are drawing near for thee to die: call Jehoshua, and let him stand in the tabernacle of ordinance, and I will give him commandment. And Mosheh and Jehoshua went and stood in the tabernacle of ordinance. And the Lord was revealed at the tabernacle in the pillar of the cloud, and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, thou art to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up and go astray after the idols of the peoples of the land among whom they are going, and will forsake My fear, and remove (or change) from My covenant which I have made with them. And my anger will be kindled against them at that time, and I will drive them afar off, and remove My Shekinah from them to consume them, and many evils and troubles shall befall them. And they will say in that day, Is it not because the Shekinah of my Elohim is not among me, that these evils have befallen me? But I will remove My Shekinah from them at that time on account of the evils they had done; for they will have turned away after the idols of the nations.
And now, write for you this hymn, and teach it to the children of Yisrael; put it upon their lips, that this hymn may be a witness for Me against the children of Yisrael. For when they will have entered into the land which I promised to their fathers, (a land) producing milk and honey, and they have eaten and been satisfied, and have become luxurious, they will turn away after the idols of the nations, and serve them, and provoke to anger before Me, and change from My covenant. And when many evils and troubles have fallen on them, this song shall answer against them, for it will not be forgotten from the mouth of their children, because their imagination which they will do is manifest before Me this day, while (as yet) I have not brought them into the land which I have promised.
And Mosheh wrote this hymn on that day, and taught it to the children of Yisrael. And he commanded Jehoshua bar Nun, and said, Be strong, and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the sons of Yisrael into the land which I have promised to them, and His Word shall be thy helper. And it was, when Mosheh had finished to write the words of this Torah upon a book until they were completed,
that Mosheh commanded the Levites who bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the Torah, and put it in the side of the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and it shall be there for a witness against thee. For I know thy rebelliousness, and the stiffness of thy neck: behold, while I am alive with you this day, you have rebelled against the Lord; but (how much) also after that I am dead? Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, and I will speak these words before you, and will call the heavens and earth to witness:
for I know that after I am dead you will corrupt yourselves, and decline from the way which I have commanded you, and that evil will befall you at the end of the days; for you will do evil before the Lord to provoke Him to anger by the works of your hands. And Mosheh spake before all the congregation of Yisrael the words of this hymn, until he had finished it.
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ch. 31-32
SECTION LII.
VAIYELEK.
XXXI. AND Mosheh went into the tabernacle of the house of instruction,[1] and spake these words unto all Yisrael, and said to them: I am the son of a hundred and twenty years this day. I am no more able to go out and come in, and the Word of the Lord hath said to me: Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. The Lord your Elohim, and His Shekinah, will go over before you. He will destroy those nations, and you shall possess them. Jehoshua also will go before you, as the Lord hath said. And the Lord will execute judgment on them, as He did on Sihon and Og kings of the Amoraee, and the people of their land, whom He destroyed. And the Word of the Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment that I have commanded you. Be strong, then, and of good courage, fear not, nor be dismayed before them; for the Shekinah of the Lord your Elohim will be the Leader of you, He will not forsake nor be far from you.
And Mosheh called Jehoshua from among the people, and said to him: Be thou strong, and of good courage; for thou art appointed to go with this people to the land which the Word of the Lord sware to your fathers to give them, and thou art to divide it among them. And the Shekinah of the Word of the Lord will go before thee, and His Word will be thy helper; He will not forsake nor be far from thee; fear not, nor be dismayed.
And Mosheh wrote this Torah, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bare the ark of the Lord's covenant, and to all the sages of Yisrael. And Mosheh commanded them, saying: At the end of seven years in the time of the year of remission at the feast of Tabernacles, when all Yisrael cometh to appear before the Lord your Elohim, in the place that He will choose, you shall read this Torah before all Yisrael while they listen. Assemble the people, the men, that they may learn, the women, that they may hear instruction, the children, that they may partake the benefit (reward) of those who bring them, and your sojourners who are in your cities, that they may behold the majesty of the Torah, and be reverent all of them before the Word of the Lord your Elohim, and observe to do all the words of this Torah. Let their children also, who know not, hear, and learn to fear the Lord your Elohim all the days that you live in the land to inherit which you pass over Jordan.
Unto three of the just was it told that the time of their death was drawing nigh, and that they should not attain to the days of their fathers; and each of them had been appointed a prince in his days; Jakob our father, David the king, and Mosheh the prophet; for thus it is written: And the Lord said unto Mosheh, Behold, thy day approacheth when thou must die. Call Jehoshua, and stand both of you in the tabernacle of ordinance, that I may give him charge. And Mosheh and Jehoshua went, and stood in the tabernacle of ordinance. And the glorious Shekinah of the Lord revealed itself at the tabernacle in the pillar of the Cloud, and the pillar of the Cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle, and Mosheh and Jehoshua stood without. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, thou wilt lie down in the dust with thy fathers, and thy soul shall be treasured in the treasury of eternal life with thy fathers: but this wicked people will rise up and go astray after the idols of the nations among whom they come, and will forsake My worship, and change My covenant which I have made with them. [JERUSALEM. They will forsake, and will profane the statutes I have confirmed with them.] Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I shall abhor them, and remove My Shekinah from them, and they will become a prey, and many evils and troubles shall befall them. And they will say at that time, with adjuration, Is it not because the Shekinah of my Elohim dwelleth not among me, that all these evils have befallen me? But I will indeed remove My Shekinah from them at that time, until they have dwindled away, to receive the punishment of their sins for all the evil they have wrought, because they turned themselves after the idols of the nations. And now, write you this hymn, and teach the children of Yisrael; put it upon their lips, that this hymn may be before them, for a witness against the children of Yisrael. For I will bring them into the land which I promised to their fathers, (a land) producing milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied: but (after that they have) waxen fat they will turn away to the idols of the Gentiles and worship them; so will they provoke Me to anger, and abolish My covenant. And when these many evils and troubles shall come upon them, then will this hymn bear witness to them for a testimony; for it is revealed before Me that it will not be forgotten on the lips of their children: for their evil disposition to which they are yielding to‑day, even before I bring you into the promised land, is known to Me.
And Mosheh wrote this hymn, and taught the children of Yisrael. And He commanded Jehoshua bar Nun, saying: Be strong and of good courage; for thou art to bring the sons of Yisrael into the land I have promised to them, and My Word shall be thy Helper. And when Mosheh had finished to write the words of this Torah upon parchment[2] to complete them, [JERUSALEM. When Mosheh had completed to write the glorious words of this Torah until they were finished,] he commanded the Levites who bare the ark of the Lord's covenant, saying: Take the book of this Torah, and put it into a chest on the right side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your Elohim, that it may be for a testament to you. For your rebellion is revealed before me, and the obduracy of your neck. Behold, while I am yet alive among you to‑day ye are rebellious before the Lord; but how much more when I am dead! [JERUSALEM. How much more when I am dead!] Gather together to me all the sages of your tribes and your officers, and I will speak all these words in their hearing, and will call heaven and earth to bear witness against them. For I know that after my death corrupting you will corrupt your works, and go astray from the way I have commanded you, and that evil will befall you in the end, because you will do what is wrong before the Lord in provoking Him to anger. And Mosheh spake in the hearing of all the congregation of Yisrael the words of this hymn until they were ended.
[1] Beth ulphana.
[2] Gevila, which signifies also "freestone."
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Ch. 18-22
SECTION IV.
VAIYERA.
XVIII. AND the Lord was revealed to him in the Vale of Mamre; and he sat in the door of the tent while the day was hot. And lie lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood towards him; and he saw, and ran from the door of the tent to meet them, and worshipped upon the earth. And he said, Lord, if now I have found favour in Thine eyes, pass not, I pray, from Thy servant. Accept now a little water, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree, and take a mouthful of bread, and strengthen your hearts, afterward you shall pass on; because for this you have come over unto your servant. And He said, So do as thou hast spoken. And Avraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said, Make haste with three seyin of the flour of meal, mix and make cakes. And to the herd ran Avraham, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave to a young man, and he hastened to dress him. And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set before them, and he waited upon them under the tree, and they ate. And He said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And He said, Returning I will return to thee, according to the time that you shall revive, and, behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the door of the tent, and it was behind Him. And Avraham and Sarah were old and advanced in days, and with Sarah had ceased to be the way of women. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After that I am old shall I have a child, and my lord (being also) old? And the Lord said to Avraham, Wherefore laughed Sarah, saying, Can it be in truth that I shall bring forth, and I being old? What word is hidden from before the Lord? At the time I will return to thee, according to the time that you shall revive, and Sarah shall have a son. And Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraid. And He said, No, but thou didst laugh . . . . And the men arose thence, and looked towards the face of Sedom; and Avraham went with them to accompany them. And the Lord said, Shall I conceal from Avraham what I am doing? And Avraham shall be indeed a people many and strong, and in him shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed; because it is manifest before me that he will instruct his children, and the men of his house after him, to keep the ways which are right before the Lord, to do righteousness and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Avraham that which He hath spoken concerning him. And the Lord said, The cry[1] of Sedom and Amorah [is heard before Me] because it is great, and the guilt of them is very mighty: I will now see, and will judge, whether they do according to the report of them which hath ascended before me. I will deal with them thoroughly unless they convert; but if they convert, I will not punish. And the men turned away from thence, and went toward Sedom. And Avraham yet ministered in prayer before the Lord. And Avraham approached, and said, Wilt Thou, in anger, destroy the righteous with the guilty ? If perhaps there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou in anger destroy and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous who are within it? More true are Thy judgments than that Thou shouldst do a thing like that, to destroy the just with the guilty, and that the just should be as the guilty! Thy judgments are true! Can the Judge of all the earth but do justice? And the Lord said, If I find in Sedom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, I will spare all the place for their sake.[2] And Avraham answered and said, Behold, I have done a great thing, to speak before the Lord, and I dust and ashes! Perhaps of the fifty righteous there may be wanting five: shall all the city perish through five? And He said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and five. And he added yet to speak before Him, and said, Perhaps forty may be found there. And He said, I will not make the end on account of the forty. And he said, Let not the anger of the Lord now kindle, and I will speak. Perhaps thirty shall be found there. And He said, I will not make the end if I find there thirty. And he said, Behold, I have done a great thing to speak before the Lord: perhaps twenty shall be found there. And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of twenty. And he said, Let not now the anger of the Lord kindle, and I will speak only this time: perhaps ten may be found there. And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of the ten! And the Glory of the Lord ascended when He had ceased to speak with Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.
XIX. And two angels entered into Sedom in the evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. And Lot saw, and arose to present himself before them, and he bowed with his face to the earth. And he said, I pray my lords (ribboni) to turn aside unto the house of your servant and lodge, and wash your feet; and rising early you shall go on your way. And they said, Not so, but in the wide place will we lodge. And he was greatly in earnest with them, and they turned aside with him, and entered into his house: and he made them a supper, and dressed unleavened cakes for them, and they ate. As yet they had not slept; and the men of the city, the men of Sedom, gathered against the house, from the youth unto the old man, all the people from the extremes; and they cried to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to thee to‑night? Bring them forth to us, and we will know them. And Lot went out to them to the gate, and the door he shut after him. And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not (so) wickedly. Behold, now, I have two daughters, who have not known man, I would bring them to you, and you should do to them what pleases in your eyes; only to these men do nothing, because they have entered under the shadow of my dwelling.[3] And they said, Go in, however! And they said, One came to sojourn, and, behold, he judgeth judgment! Now will we do worse to thee than to them; and they prevailed against the man, against Lot, greatly, and came nigh to shatter the door. And the men put forth their hands, and brought in Lot to be with them in the house, and shut the door. And the men who were at the gate of the house they smote with blindness,[4] from the little to the great, and they were wearied to find the gate. And the men said to Lot, Whomsoever thou hast yet here, thy son-in‑Torah, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all that thou hast in the city, lead out from the place: for we will destroy this place, because their cry is great before the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went forth, and spake with his sons‑in‑Torah, the takers of his daughters, and said, Arise, come forth from this place; for the Lord will destroy the city. And he was as a trifler in the eyes of his sons‑in‑Torah. And it was as the morning rose that the angels were urgent upon Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are found faithful with thee, lest thou be smitten with the punishment of the city. But he delayed; and the men laid hold of his hands, and of the hand of his wife, and of the hand of his two daughters; for the Lord had mercy upon him; and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it was when he had brought them without, he said, Be merciful on thy life, look not behind thee, and stand not in all the plain, escape to the mountain for deliverance, lest thou perish. And Lot said to them, Be entreated, O Lord; behold now, Thy servant hath found mercy before Thee, and Thou hast magnified Thy goodness which Thou hast shown me in saving my life, and I cannot take refuge in the mountain, lest evil befall me, and I die. Behold now, this city is nigh, to flee there; and it is (but) small; let me now escape thither. Is it not small? and my life shall be sustained. And He said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee[5] in this thing also, in that I will not overthrow the city for which thou hast prayed. Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou be come thither. Therefore be called the name of the city Zoar.[6] The sun had come forth upon the earth, and Lot entered Zoar. And the Lord rained upon Sedom and upon Amorah sulphur and fire from before the Lord from the heavens, and destroyed those cities and all the plain, and all the dwellers in the cities and the herbage of the earth. And his wife looked behind her, and she became a statue of salt. And Avraham ascended in the morning[7] to the place where he had ministered in prayer before the Lord; and he looked toward Sedom and Amorah, and upon all the place of the plain land, and saw, and, behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it was when the Lord destroyed the cities of the plain, that the Lord remembered Avraham, and sent Lot from the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him: for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cavern, he and his two daughters. And the elder said to the younger, Our father is aged, and there is no man in the earth to go in unto us according to the way of all the earth. Come, we will pour father wine, and will lie with him, and raise up sons[8] from our father. And they poured their father wine in that night; and the elder went in and lay with her father; and he knew not, in her lying down nor in her rising up. And it was in the day which followed that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I lay yesterday with the father: let us give wine also in the night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we will raise up sons from our father. And they gave that night also wine to their father, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he knew not, in her lying down nor in her rising up. And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father; and the elder brought forth a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabaee unto this day. And the younger also brought forth a son, and she called his name Bar Ammi: he is the father of the B'ni Ammon unto this day.
XX. And Avraham migrated from thence to the southern land, and dwelt between Rekam and Hagra;[9] and he sojourned in Gerar.[10] And Avraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelek, king of Gerar,[11] sent and took Sarah. And the word came from the presence of the Lord to Abimelek in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou diest, on account of the woman whom thou hast taken, and she a man's wife. But Abimelek had not come nigh her. And he said, Lord, wilt Thou also kill the innocent people? Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she also said, He is my brother. In the rectitude of my heart, and the cleanness of my bands, have I done this. And the Lord said to him in a dream, It is also manifest to Me that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I have also restrained thee from sinning before Me;[12] therefore I have not permitted thee to approach to her. And now return the mares wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, and thou shalt live. But if thou wilt not return (her), know that dying thou shalt die,[13] thou, and ail who are thine. And Abimelek arose in the morning, and called all his servants, and spake all these words before them; and the men feared greatly. And Abimelek called Avraham, and said to him, What hast thou done to us, and in what have I sinned against thee, that thou shouldst have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin?[14] Works which are not worthy to be done hast thou done with me. And Abimelek said to Avraham, What sawest thou, that thou didst this thing? And Avraham spake, Because I said, Perhaps the fear of the Lord is not in this place, and they will kill me on account of my wife. Nevertheless, in truth she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And it was, when the people erred after the works of their hands, the Lord did bring me near to the fear of Himself, from (among) the house[15] of my father. And I said to her, This is thy favour which thou canst do for me; in every place through which we pass, say of me, He is my brother. And Abimelek took sheep, and oxen, and servants, and handmaidens, and gave to Avraham, and returned to him Sarah his wife. And Abimelek said, Behold, my land is before thee: where it is pleasant in thine eyes, dwell. And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a thousand seleen of silver to thy brother; behold, that is to thee a veil[16] of honour, for my having sent to take thee, and to see thee, and all that is with thee; and concerning all whatever thou hast spoken thou art reproved. And Avraham prayed before the Lord, and the Lord healed Abimelek, and his wife, and his handmaids, and they were revived: for the Lord had shut all the wombs of the house of Abimelek, on account of Sarah, the wife of Avraham.
XXI. And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said; and the Lord did unto Sarah according as He had spoken. And Sarah conceived and bare unto Avraham a son in his old age, in the time of which the Lord had told him. And Avraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Izhak. And Avraham circumcised Izhak his son (when) the son of eight days, as the Lord had commanded him. And Avraham was the son of a hundred years when Izhak his son was born to him. And Sarah said, The Lord hath made me to have gladness; every one who heareth will give me joy. And she said, Faithful is He who spake unto Avraham, and certified that Sarah should suckle children; for she hath born a son in his old age. And the child grew, and was weaned; and Avraham made a great feast in the day when Izhak was weaned.[17] And Sarah observed the son of Hagar the Mizritha, whom she bare to Avraham, deriding. And she said, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with my son, with Izhak. And the word was evil exceedingly in the eyes of Avraham, on account of his son. And the Lord said to Avraham, Let it not be evil in thine eyes concerning the youth and concerning thine handmaid. All that Sarah saith to thee receive from her, because in Izhak shall thy sons be called to thee. And also the son of the handmaid will I set for a people, because he is thy son. And Avraham rose up in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave to Hagar, setting upon her shoulder, and the youth,[18] and dismissed her. And she went, and wandered in the desert of the well of Shava (Beara de Shava). And the water was finished from the skin; and she laid the youth under one of the trees, and went and sat over against, as far off as a bow flight: for she said, I cannot see the death of the child . . . . And she sat over against, and lifted up her voice and wept. And the voice of the youth was heard before the Lord; and the Angel of the Lord called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What to thee, Hagar? Fear not, for the voice of the youth is heard before the Lord in the place where he is. Arise, take up the youth and strengthen thine hand in him,[19] because for a great people have I appointed him. And the Lord opened[20] her eyes, and she saw the well of waters, and went and filled the skin with water, and gave the youth to drink. And the Word of the Lord was the Helper of the youth, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a master of the bow. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took for him a wife from the land of Mizraim.
And it was in that time that Abimelek and Phikol, chief of his host, spake to Avraham, saying, The Word of the Lord is thy Helper in everything thou doest; and now swear to me here, by the Word of the Lord, that thou wilt not be false with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son; and that according to the good which I have done to thee thou wilt do with me and with the land in which thou art a sojourner. And Avraham said, I will swear. And Avraham reproved Abimelek, on account of the well of waters which the servants of Abimelek had taken by force.[21] And Abimelek said, I knew not if this thing had been done, and thou also hadst not shown me, nor have I heard, but this day. And Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelek, and they struck both of them a covenant. And Avraham made seven lambs stand apart; and Abimelek said to Avraham, What are these seven lambs which thou hast made to stand apart? And he said, That thou mayest take the seven lambs seven lambs from my hand, to testify for me that I have digged that well. Therefore he called that place Beer Shava, because there they sware together. And they struck a covenant at Beer Shava. And Abimelek and Phikol,[22] the chief of his host, arose, and returned to the land of the Phelishtaee. And he planted a tree[23] in Beer Shava, and prayed there in the name of the Lord, the Most High Elohim.[24] And Avraham sojourned in the land of the Phelislitaee many days.
XXII. And it was after these things that the Lord tempted Avraham; and He said to him, Avraham! And he said, Behold, I am. And He said, Take now thy son, thy only, whom thou lovest, Izhak, and go into the land of worship, and offer him before Me there, a burnt offering, upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee. And Avraham arose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Izhak his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which the Lord had spoken to him. And in the third day Avraham lifted, up his eyes, and saw the place from afar. And Avraham said to his young men, Wait you here with the ass, and I and the young man will ascend yonder and worship, and return to you. And Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid on Izhak his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they went both of them as one. And Izhak spake to Avraham his father, and said, Father! And he said, Behold, I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And Avraham said, The lamb for the burnt offering is revealed before the Lord, my son. And they went, both of them, as one. And they came to the place of which the Lord had told him. And Avraham builded there the altar, and set in order the woods, and bound Izhak his son, and laid him upon the altar above the woods. And Avraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to cut off his son. And the Angel of the Lord called to him from the heavens, and said, Avraham, Avraham! And he said, Behold, I am. And he said to him, Stretch not out thy hand upon the youth, neither do any thing to him: for now I know that thou fearest the Lord, and that thou hast not spared thy only son[25] for Me. And Avraham lifted up his eyes after these (words), and saw, and behold, one ram, holden in the bush by his horns. And Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Avraham worshipped and prayed there in that place, and said before the Lord, Here shall generations worship: wherefore it shall be paid in that day, In this mountain Avraham worshipped before the Lord.[26] And the Angel of the Lord called to Avraham the second time from the heavens, and said, By my Word have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only son, therefore, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy sons as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and thy sons shall inherit the cities of their enemies. And all the peoples of the earth shall be blessed through thy son: forasmuch as thou hast received My word. And Avraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together unto Beer Shava, and Avraham dwelt in Beer Shava.
And it was after these things it was shown to Avraham, saying, Behold, Milcha, also, hath born sons to Nachor, thy brother: Uts his first‑born, and Booz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, and Kesed, and Chazu, and Phildash, and Yedlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Revekah. These eight bare Milcha to Nahor, brother of Avraham. And his concubine, whose name was Reuma, she also bare Tebach, and Gacham, and Tachash, and Maaka.
[1] Kebelath.
[1] Sam. Vers. "I will tolerate all the place."
[1] "Under the shadow of my family." --Sam. Vers.
[1] Or, "with diziziness of the eyes." Shabriria, which Castel defines, "Scotomata, subita oculum tenebra cum vertigine."
[1] "Accepted thy face."
[1] Little.
[1] Sam. Vers. beshelu shoker, "in the stillness of the morning."
[1] Sam. Vers. "and we shall live in the sons of our father."
[1] Heb. "between Kadesh and Shur."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Askelon."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Shultan of Askelon."
[1] Sam. Vers. "from becoming unclean berfore Me."
[1] Sam. Vers. "perishing thou shalt perish."
[1] Sam. Vers. "a great pollution."
[1] Sam. Vers. "tabernacle."
[1] Or, "covering of the eyes."
[1] Sam. Vers. "in the day of the (pelututh ) liberation of his son."
[1] Rabia, "a growing child."
[1] Or, "on him;" "hold him firmly." So the Latin Apprenhende manu tua eum. The Samaritan Version has, "Take the youth, and fortify thy hand in him."
[1] Or, "illuminated."
[1] Sam. Vers. "had taken fraudulently."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Pumkol," a name meaning as the Hebrew form.
[1] Sam. Vers. "a paradise."
[1] Sam. Vers. "vision."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the son of thy heart."
[1] Sam. Vers. "In the mountain the Lord will see, will multiply."
[1] Kebelath.
[2] Sam. Vers. "I will tolerate all the place."
[3] "Under the shadow of my family." --Sam. Vers.
[4] Or, "with diziziness of the eyes." Shabriria, which Castel defines, "Scotomata, subita oculum tenebra cum vertigine."
[5] "Accepted thy face."
[6] Little.
[7] Sam. Vers. beshelu shoker, "in the stillness of the morning."
[8] Sam. Vers. "and we shall live in the sons of our father."
[9] Heb. "between Kadesh and Shur."
[10] Sam. Vers. "Askelon."
[11] Sam. Vers. "Shultan of Askelon."
[12] Sam. Vers. "from becoming unclean berfore Me."
[13] Sam. Vers. "perishing thou shalt perish."
[14] Sam. Vers. "a great pollution."
[15] Sam. Vers. "tabernacle."
[16] Or, "covering of the eyes."
[17] Sam. Vers. "in the day of the (pelututh ) liberation of his son."
[18] Rabia, "a growing child."
[19] Or, "on him;" "hold him firmly." So the Latin Apprenhende manu tua eum. The Samaritan Version has, "Take the youth, and fortify thy hand in him."
[20] Or, "illuminated."
[21] Sam. Vers. "had taken fraudulently."
[22] Sam. Vers. "Pumkol," a name meaning as the Hebrew form.
[23] Sam. Vers. "a paradise."
[24] Sam. Vers. "vision."
[25] Sam. Vers. "the son of thy heart."
[26] Sam. Vers. "In the mountain the Lord will see, will multiply."
THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS
ON
THE BOOK VAIYIKRA
OR
LEVITICUS.
SECTION OF THE LAW XXIV.
VAIYIKRA
I. And the Lord called unto Mosheh, and the Lord spake with him from the tabernacle of ordinance, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: When one of you will bring an offering before the Lord of the cattle, of oxen or of sheep, you shall offer your oblations. If his oblation be a burnt offering of the oxen, (it shall be) a male, unblemished; he shall offer him at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; he shall offer him for acceptance before the Lord. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, that it may be acceptable for him to propitiate on his behalf. And he shall sacrifice the young bullock before the Lord; and the sons of Aharon the priest shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar which is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And he shall take away (the skin) of the burnt offering, and divide it, by its members. And the sons of Aharon the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire. And the priests, the sons of Aharon, shall arrange the limbs and the head and the fat on the wood upon the fire which is on the altar. But his inwards and his legs he shall wash with water; and the priest shall burn the whole upon the altar an entire burnt offering, an oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord.
And if his oblation be from the flock, of the sheep or the young of the goats for a burnt offering, he shall bring a perfect male. And he shall sacrifice him at the north side of the altar before the Lord; and the priests the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. And he shall divide him by his members, and his head and his feet; and the priest shall lay them upon the wood which is on the fire upon the altar. But the inwards and the legs he shall wash with water, and the priest shall bring the whole and burn (it) upon the altar: it is a whole burnt offering, an oblation to be received with acceptance before the Lord.
But if the burnt offering of his oblation before the Lord be from fowl, he shall bring his oblation from the turtles or the young of a pigeon. And the priest shall offer it upon the altar, and pour its blood by the side of the altar: and he shall remove its crop with its food, and throw it on the east side of the altar, at the place where they empty the ashes. And he shall cleave it through its wings, (but) divide (it) not; and the priest shall burn it at the altar upon the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt offering, an oblation that shall be received with acceptance before the Lord.
II. But if a man bring an oblation of a mincha[1] before the Lord, his oblation shall be of meal, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon, and bring it to the priests the sons of Aharon; and the priest shall take from it his handful of the meal with its oil, and all its frankincense, and burn the memorial of it at the altar; an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. And that which remaineth of the mincha shall be Aharon’s and his sons’; it is most holy among the oblations of the Lord. And when thou bringest the oblation of a minch baked in the oven, it shall be of meal cake unleavened, mingled with oil, with unleavened wafers anointed with oil. And if the mincha be (prepared) in a pan, thy oblation shall be of meal mingled with oil; unleavened shall it be. And thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a mincha. But if thy oblation be a mincha from the gridiron, thou shalt make it of meal with oil. And the mincha which is made of these thou shalt bring before the Lord, and present it to the priest, and he will offer it at the altar. And the priest shall separate its memorial from the mincha, and burn upon the altar an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. And that which remaineth of the mincha shall be Aharon’s and his sons’: it is most holy among the oblations of the Lord. No mincha which you offer before the Lord may be made with leaven; for no leaven or honey shall you burn with any oblation before the Lord. In the oblation of first fruits you may offer them before the Lord, but not burn them at the altar, that they may be accepted with favour. And every offering of thy mincha thou shalt salt with salt; and thou mayest not withhold the slat of the covenant of thy Elohim from upon thy mincha; upon every oblation thou shalt offer salt. And when thou offerest the mincha of first fruits before the Lord, green ears[2] dried with fire, broken and soft, shalt thou offer as the mincha of thy first fruits. And thou shalt put oil on it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a mincha; and the priest shall burn its memorial of its broken grain and of its oil with all frankincense, an oblation before the Lord.
III. And if his oblation be a victim of the sanctified things;[3] if from oxen, whether male or female, he shall offer it perfect before the Lord. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; and the priests the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar. And the oblation of the sacred victim the fat that covereth the inwards, even all the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them on the sides, and the caul that is upon the liver with the kidneys, he shall remove. And the sons of Aharon shall burn it at the altar, with the burnt offering which is on the wood upon the fire, an oblation[4] to be received with grace before the Lord. But if his oblation of a consecrated victim before the Lord be from the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it perfect. If his oblation be a lamb, he shall present it before the Lord, and lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and slay it before the tabernacle of ordinance; and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about. And of his oblation of the consecrated victim before the Lord, its fat, the entire tail close by the backbone, he shall remove; the fat which covereth the inwards, even all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys and the fat which is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them upon the sides, and the caul that is over the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away; and the priest shall burn it at the altar; it is the meat (lechem, breand) of an oblation before the Lord.
But if his oblation be from the young goats, he shall present it before the Lord, and lay his hand upon its head, and slay it before the tabernacle of ordinance; and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about. And of his oblation he shall offer as an oblation before the Lord the fat which covereth the inwards, and all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them on the sides; but the caul that is over the liver with the kidneys he shall take away. And the priest shall burn them at the altar: it is the meat of an oblation to be received with acceptance; all the fat (shall be offered) before the Lord. It is an everlasting statute unto your generations, and in all your dwellings, that neither the fat nor the blood shall be eaten.
IV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: When a man sinneth through ignorance of any of the precepts of the Lord, as to that which should not be done, and acteth contrary to one of them: if the high priest sin after the manner of the people’s sin, let him bring before the Lord for the sin that he hath sinned a young bullock without blemish for his sin. And he shall bring the bullock to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance before the Lord, and lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and slay the bullock before the Lord. And the high priest shall take of the blood of the bullock and carry it into the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle (some) of the blood seven times in the presence of the Lord before the veil of the sanctuary. And th priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord in the tabernacle of ordinance, and all the (remaining) blood of the bullock he shall pour out at the foundation of the altar of burnt sacrifice which is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And all the fat of the bullock of the sin offering he shall separate from it; the fat which covereth the inwards, and all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them that is by the flanks; and the caul that is upon the liver, together with the kidneys, he shall remove, as it was separated from the bullock of the consecrated victims, and the priest shall offer it upon the altar of burnt sacrifice. But the skin of the bullock and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his food, he shall carry forth,[5] even the whole bullock, without the camp unto a clean place, to a place for the pouring out of ashes, and burn him upon wood in the fire; at the place for the pouring out of ashes shall he be burned.
And if the whole congregation (kenishta) of Yisrael shall mistake, and the thing be hid form the eyes of the assembly, (kehala), and they shall have done (somewhat against) one of all the commandments of the Lord which it is not right to do, and have become guilty; when the sin that they have sinned is known, the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin offering, and bring him before the tabernacle of ordinance. And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock in the presence of the Lord, and kill the bullock before the Lord. And the high priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock into the tabernacle of ordinance; and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle seven times in the presence of the Lord before the veil. And some of the blood he shall put upon the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the tabernacle of ordinance, and all (the rest of the) blood he shall pour out at the foundation of the altar of burnt sacrifice which is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And all the fat he shall separate from him, and sacrifice at the altar. And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock of the sin offering, so shall he do with him; and the priest shall atone for them, and it shall be forgiven them. And he shall carry forth[6] the bullock without the camp, and brn him as he burned the former bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
Should a ruler sin and do (contrary to) any of the commandments of the Lord his Elohim what is not right to do, through ignorance, and be guilty; when his sin becomes known to him in what he hath transgressed, he shall bring his oblation, a kid of the goats, a male, unblemished; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill him at the place where the burnt sacrifice is slain before the Lord; it is a sin offering. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and pour out the blood at the foundation of the altar of burnt sacrifice. And he shall burn all the fat at the altar, as the fat of the sanctified oblation (is burned); and the priest shall atone on his behalf for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
And if one of the people of the land inadvertently sin in doing contrary to any of the commandments of the Lord what is not right to do, and become guilty; when his sin is known to him, in what he hath sinned, he shall bring his oblation, a female kid of the goats, unblemished, for the sin that he hath sinned. And he shall lay his hand on the lead of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering at the place of burnt sacrifice; and the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out all the blood at the foundation of the altar. And he shall remove all the fat, as he took away the fat from the consecrated offerings, and
the priest shall burn it at the altar, to be received with acceptance before the Lord; and the priest shall atone for him, and it shall be forgiven him. But if he present a lamb for his sin offering, he shall bring a female unblemished, and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering at the place where the burnt sacrifice is killed. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and pour out all the blood at the foundation of the altar. And he shall remove all the fat, as he removed the fat of the lamb of the sanctified oblations, and the priest shall burn it at the altar with the oblations of the Lord; and the priest shall atone for him, for the sin that he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
V. And if a man sin, and (one) hear the voice (which demands) swearing that he is a witness, or that he hath seen or known, if he will not show it, he shall bear his sin. Or if a man shall have touched anything unclean, whether the carcase of an unclean beast, or the carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean reptile, and it be hidden from him, he shall be defiled and guilty. Or if he shall touch the uncleanness of a man, any uncleanness which defileth him, and it be hidden from him; but (afterwards) becometh aware of it and is guilty; - or if a man swear, declaring with his lips, for evil or for good, according to whatever the man shall declare by oath, and (the truth) be hidden from him, and he (afterwards) have knowledge thereof, he is guilty of one of these. And it shall be that when (he knoweth that) he is guilty in one of these (things) he shall confess that he hath sinned thereby; and shall bring his sin offering before the Lord for the sin that he hath sinned; a she-lamb from the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall atone for him and for his sin. But if his hands be not sufficient to offer a lamb, let him bring for the sin that he hath sinned two turtle doves, or two young pigeons before the Lord, one for the sin offering, and one for the burnt sacrifice. And he shall bring them to the priest, and he shall offer the sin offering first, and wring off its head near to the spine, but he shall not divide (the bird). And he shall sprinkle the blood of the sin offering upon the side (wall) of the altar, and pour out the remainder of the blood at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. And the second he shall make a burnt sacrifice, according to the proper (rite); and the priest shall make atonement for the sin that he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. But if (neither) two turtle doves nor a pair of young pigeons pertain to him, he shall bring, as his oblation for the sin that he hath sinned, the tenth of three sein of flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil upon it, nor put frankincense upon it, for it is a sin offering. And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as the memorial thereof, and burn it at the altar with the oblations of the Lord: it is a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for the sin that he hath sinned in ay one of these (things), and it shall be forgiven him: and to the priest it shall be, as the mincha.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: When a man hath indeed falsified, but hath sinned inadvertently concerning things consecrated to the Lord, he shall bring for his trespass offering before the Lord a ram without blemish from the flock by its value in silver shekels, in the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. And that which he had defaulted of the holy thing he shall make good, and add a fifth thereupon, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
And if a man sin and do against any of the commandments of the Lord that which is not right to do, and know not, and sin, he shall bear his sin. But he shall bring a lamb unblemished form the flock according to the estimation for a trespass offering (or according to the estimation of the trespass) unto the priest; and the priest shall atone for his error which he hath committed unwittingly, and it shall be forgiven him. It is a trepass offering for the sin that he hath sinned; he shall offer the trespass offering before the Lord.
VI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: If a man sin and falsify with falsehood[7] before the Lord, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a thing deposited, or in fellowship of hands, or by rapine or violence against his neighbour; or if he have found that which had been lost and deny it, and swear falsely, by any one of all these which a man doeth and sinneth therein; it shall be that when he hath (so) transgressed and become guilty, he shall return what he hath robbed by robbery, or taken away by violence, or the deposit which was deposited with im, or the lost thing that he had found: or all that about which he had sworn falsely, he shall make it good in the capital, and add one fifth thereon; unto him to whom it belongeth shall he give it on the day of his (offering for) guilt. And the trespass offering that he shall bring before the Lord (must be) a ram unblemished form the flock according to the estimation of the trespass, unto the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him for any one of all (these) in which he may have acted to be guilty thereby.[8]
[1] Mincha, a bloodless oblation.
[2] Samaritan Vers., “without the husk.”
[3] Kedeshaia, the Chaldee term for the Hebrew shelamim, rendered in the English Bible, “peace offerings.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “a sweet-smelling oblation.”
[5] Heb. Text, vehotsi, “he shall cause to be carried forth.”
[6] See note on p. 82
[7] Sam. Vers., “defraud with falsehood.”
[8] May have injured with guilt.
Pgs. 161-170
Ch. 6-9
SECTION XXV.
VAIYIKRA TSAV.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying Instruct Aharon and his sons, saying, This is the Torah of the burnt offering which is brought to make atonement for the thoughts (errors) of the heart: it is a burnt offering, which is made in (the manner of) the burnt offering at Mount Sinai, and abideth upon the place of burning on the altar all the night until the morning: for the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. And the priest shall dress himself in vestments of linen, and put drawers of linen upon his flesh; [JERUSALEM. Drawers;] and shall separate the ashes which the fire (maketh) in consuming the burnt offering upon the altar, and shall place them at the side of the altar. And he shall take off his vestments and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp into a clean place. But the fire upon the altar shall burn upon it unextinguished, and the priest shall lay wood upon it from morning to morning, at four hours of the day, and shall set in order the burnt offering upon it, and burn upon it the fat of the sanctified oblations. The fire shall be ever burning upon the altar; it shall never be extinguished.
And this is the Torah of the Mincha, which the priests, the sons of Aharon, shall offer in the presence of the Lord before the altar. And he shall separate his handful of the flour of the mincha, of the best thereof, with all the frankincense which is upon the mincha, and burn it at the altar to be received with favour, as a memorial of praise before the Lord. And that which remaineth of it shall Aharon and his sons eat; unleavened shall they eat it in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of ordinance shall they eat it. Their portion of the residue of the mincha of My oblations given to them shall not be baked with leaven; it is most sacred, as the sin offering and as the trespass offering. Every man of the sons of Aharon may eat of it. This is an everlasting statute for your generations concerning the oblations of the Lord: every one who toucheth them must be sanctified.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: This is the oblation of Aharon and of his sons, which they are to offer before the Lord on the day that they anoint him, that he may possess the inheritance of the high priesthood. A tenth of three seahs of fine flour for a mincha, one half in the morning and a half at eventide. Thou shalt make it upon a pan, mixed with olive oil shalt thou offer it; in divided pieces shalt thou offer the mincha, to be received with acceptance before the Lord, [JERUSALEM. Fried shalt thou offer it; broken in pieces shalt thou offer the mincha, a sweet savour of acceptableness unto the Name of the Lord.] And the high priest who is anointed with oil, (and also when (any one) of his sons who are constituted priests (is consecrated) in his place) shall perform this: it is an everlasting statute before the Lord: the whole shall be set in order and burned. For every mincha of the priest shall be wholly set in order and consumed: it shall not be eaten.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, saying: This is the Torah of the sin offering which is to be killed in the place where the burnt offering is killed; it shall be slain as a sin offering before the Lord; it is most sacred. The priest who maketh atonement with blood may eat of it in the holy place; it shall be eaten in the court of the tabernacle of ordinance; whosoever toucheth the flesh of it must be sanctified. And if any one let some of its blood fall upon a garment, (the garment so) bedropped shall be washed in the holy place. And every earthen vessel in which (the flesh of it) is boiled shall be broken, lest that which is common be boiled in it; or if it be boiled in a vessel of brass, it shall be scoured with potter's earth and washed in waters. Every man of the priests may eat thereof; it is most sacred. But no sin offering whose blood is carried into the tabernacle of ordinance to make atonement in the sanctuary may be eaten; it must be burned with fire.
VII. And this is the Torah of the Trespass Offering; it is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt sacrifice they shall kill the trespass offering, and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle upon the altar round about. And he shall offer all the fat thereof, and the tail, and the fat which covereth the inwards; and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, and upon the inwards. And the caul that is upon the liver upon the kidneys shall he take away; and the priest shall burn them at the altar, an oblation before the Lord: it is a trespass offering. Every man of the priests may eat of it, in the holy place shall it be eaten it is most sacred. As the rite of the sin offering, so is the rite of the trespass; there is one Torah for them: the priest who maketh atonement with its blood shall have it. And when the priest offereth another man's burnt sacrifice, the skin of the burnt sacrifice which he offereth shall be the priest's. And every mincha which is baked in the oven, and every one that is made in a pot, or in a frying pan, or upon a dish, the priest who offereth it shall have it for his own. And every mincha mixed with oil, or which is dry, shall be for any of the sons of Aharon, a man as his brother.
And this is the Torah of the Sanctified Victims which they may offer before the Lord. If he offer it for a thanksgiving let him offer with the oblation of thanks unleavened cakes mingled with olive oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with olive oil, and flour fried with a mixture of olive oil. [JERUSALEM. One rule.] Upon the cakes he shall offer his oblation of leavened bread with the hallowed sacrifice of thanksgiving. And of it he shall present one as a seperation before the Lord; the priest who sprinkleth the blood of the hallowed sacrifice shall have it. And the flesh of his hallowed sacrifice of thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day when it is offered; none of it may be laid up (or covered up) until the morning.
But if his hallowed sacrifice be a vow or a free‑will gift, the sacrifice may be (partly) eaten on the day when it is offered, and the remainder may be eaten on the day following at evening. And what remaineth of the flesh of the hallowed sacrifice on the third day shall be burned in fire. If, eating, he will eat of the flesh of his hallowed sacrifice on the third day, it shall not be accepted of him who offered it, nor reckoned to him for righteousness; it will be a profane thing, [JERUSALEM. It will be a profane thing,] and the man who eateth of it shall bear his sin. And if the flesh of things hallowed touch any uncleanness, it must not be eaten, but be burned in fire; but (as to) flesh that is consecrated, every one who is clean by sanctification may eat the hallowed flesh. But the man who eateth of the flesh of the hallowed sacrifice that is offered before the Lord with his uncleanness upon him, that man. shall be destroyed from among his people. The man also who toucheth any unclean thing, whether the uncleanness of man, or of unclean beasts, or any unclean reptile, and eateth of the flesh of the hallowed sacrifices offered before the Lord, that man shall be cut off from his people.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: You may not eat any fat of oxen, or sheep, or goats; but the fat of an animal which corrupteth in the hour of sacrifice, or which dieth a dead thing by death, or the fat of a beast that is torn, may be used in any work; but the fat of an animal that is in a right (condition) shall be burned upon the altar, and shall in no wise be eaten. For he who eateth (the fat) of an animal that is fit to be offered as an oblation before the Lord, that man who eateth the fat shall be cut off from his people. In none of your dwellings shall you eat the blood whether of bird or of beast. Every man who eateth the blood of any living thing, that man shall be cut off from his people.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Aharon, saying: Whosoever presenteth his hallowed sacrifice before the Lord, shall himself bring the oblation of his hallowed sacrifice unto the presence of the Lord. His hands shall bring the oblations of the Lord which he would set apart as his hallowed sacrifice, the fat, the fatness that is upon the breast, and the breast cut out with two ribs here and two ribs there at the top, shall be bring to be uplifted, an elevation before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. His own hands shall bring in the oblation of the Lord: the fat which is upon the breast he shall give it, and the breast, to wave it a wave offering before the Lord.] And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be for Aharon and for his sons. [JERUSALEM. The breast.] And the right shoulder of your hallowed sacrifice from the side unto the extremity (deroa, arm) you shall give as a separation unto the priest. He of the sons of Aharon who offereth the blood and the fat of the hallowed sacrifice shall have the right shoulder as his portion. For the uplifted breast and the shoulder of separation have I taken of your hallowed sacrifice, and given them to Aharon the priest and to his sons by an everlasting statute, from the children of Yisrael. This pertaineth to the consecration of Aharon a to the consecration of his sons over all the Levites their brethren, that they may eat of the Lord's oblations in the day that they present them to minister before the Lord; which the Lord commanded to be given them in the day of their consecration from among the sons of Yisrael, by an everlasting statute to your generations.
This is the Torah of the burnt offering which is brought to atone for the thoughts of the heart; of the mincha, of the sin offering, of the trespass offering, and of the peace offering, or the hallowed sacrifices which the Lord commanded Mosheh in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the sons of Yisrael to offer their oblations before the Lord in the tabernacle that he made unto him in the wilderness of Sinai.
VIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring near Aharon who is afar off on account of the work of the calf; and take the vestments that I commanded thee, and the oil of consecration, and the bullock, and the two rams, with the basket of unleavened cakes. And let all the congregation gather together at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance.
And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded, and the congregation assembled on the twenty and third of the days of the month of Adar, at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Mosheh said to the congregation: This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to be done. And Mosheh took Aharon and his sons, and washed them with water. And he set in order upon him the vestment, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the mantle robe, and put upon him the ephod, and bound him with the band of the ephod, and ordained him therewith. And he set the breast plate upon him, and ordered in the breastplate the uraia and the tummaia. And, he put the mitre upon his head, and set upon the mitre over his forehead the plate of gold, the diadem of holiness, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And Mosheh took the oil of consecration, and anointed the tabernacle, and sanctified it. And he sprinkled upon the altar seven times, and sanctified the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its foundation to sanctify them. And he poured of the oil of consecration upon Aharon's head, and anointed him after he had invested him, to sanctify him.
And Mosheh brought near Aharon and his sons, and clothed them with vestments, and girded them with girdles, and decked them with mitres, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he brought the bullock for the sin offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their right hands upon the head of the bullock, for their sin offering. And Mosheh killed the bullock: and Mosheh took the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and anointed the altar (to expiate it) from all double‑mindedness, constraint, and force, from the thoughts of his heart, should any one of the princes of the sons of Yisrael have taken his separation from his brethren by violence, and brought it for the work of the tabernaele,[1] or lest any one was found among the children of Yisrael who had it not in his heart to bring for the work, but heard the voice of the crier, and was constrained, and brought without willingness; therefore cleansed he it with the blood of the bullock, and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar, and sanctified it to make atonement thereon. And he took all the fat that was on the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Mosheh burned them at the altar. But the bullock, and the skin, and his flesh, and his offal, he burned in fire without the camp, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And he took the ram for the burnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their right hand upon the head of the ram. And he killed the ram; and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he divided the ram after its parts, and Mosheh burned the head and the parts and the fat. And the inwards and the feet he washed with water; and Mosheh burned the ram at the altar, a burnt sacrifice to be received with acceptance, an oblation before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he brought the second ram, the ram of completion which completed all; and Aharon and his sons laid their hand upon the head of the ram. And he killed the ram, and Mosheh took of its blood, and put it upon the etremity of Aharon's ear, the middle cartilage of the right ear, and upon the middle joint[2] of his right foot. And he brought the sons of Aharon, and Mosheh put of the blood upon the middle cartilage of their right ears, and upon the middle joint of their right feet, and Mosheh poured out all the remaining blood upon the altar round about. And he took the fat, and the tail, and all the fat which was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder; and from the basket of unleavened cakes which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake of bread mixed with oil, and one wafer, and put it upon the fat and upon the right shoulder, and laid the whole in order upon Aharon's hands, and upon the bands of his sons, and be lifted them up, an elevation before the Lord. And Mosheh took them from off their hands, and burned (them) upon the altar with the burnt sacrifice; a completing offering were they to complete all, to be received with acceptance before the Lord. And he took the breast, and uplifted it, an elevation before the Lord: of the oblation‑ram that was the separated portion of Mosheh, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.
And Mosheh took the consecrating oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled upon Aharon, and upon his vestments, and on his sons, and on their vestments with him; and sanctified Aharon and his vestments, and his sons and their vestments with him.
And Mosheh said to Aharon and to his sons, Boil the flesh of the oblations in pots at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and there shall you eat it with the bread which is in the basket of oblation, according to the precept which was spoken; Aharon and his sons shall eat it. And what remaineth of the flesh, and of the bread, you shall burn with fire. And from the door of the tabernacle you shall not go forth seven days, until the day that your consecration be completed, (because in seven days is the tabernacle set up and taken in pieces,) and your oblation be offered. (So did he, and ordained the order of the oblations on that day.) Likewise the Lord hath commanded to be done by you after the days of consecration, to make atonement for you. And at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance you shall reside day and night seven days, and watch the vigils of the Word of the Lord, that you may not die, for thus it hath been commanded. And Aharon and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Mosheh.
[1] Exod. xxv. Numbers vii.
[2] Or, "member," pirka.
SECTION XXV.
VAIYIKRA TSAV.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Instruct Aharon and his sons, saying: This is the Torah of the Burnt Offering. It is burnt offering, because burned upon the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. And the priest shall dress himself with the vestments of linen, and wear drawers of linen upon his flesh; and he shall separate the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering upon the altar, and set them beside the altar. And he shall take off his vestments, and dress himself with other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. But the fire upon the altar shall be burning on it, and never be extinguished; and the priest shall burn wood on it from morning to morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and burn upon it the fat of the sanctified oblations. The fire shall be ever burning on the altar, it shall not be extinguished.
And this is the Torah of the Mincha which the sons of Aharon shall offer in the presence of the Lord before the altar. And he shall separate therefrom his handful lof the flour of the mincha and of its oil, and all the frankincense that is upon the mincha, and burn it at the altar as its memorial to be accepted with favour before the Lord. And the remainder of it may Aharon and his sons eat, unleavened shall it be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of ordinance shall they eat it. It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my oblations; it is most sacred, as the sin offering and as the trespass offering. All the males of the children of Aharon may eat it. (This) is an everlasting statute[1] for your generations concerning the oblations of the Lord: every one who toucheth them shall be holy.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying, This is the oblation of Aharon and his sons which they shall present before the Lord on the day when they anoint him. The tenth of three seahs of flour for a mincha perpetually, a half in the morning, and a half at eventide. It shall be made in a pan with oil; while soft it shall be brought a baken mincha offered in pieces[2] to be accepted with favour before the Lord. And of his sons, the priest who shall be anointed in his stead shall perform it. (This is) an everlasting statute before the Lord: it shall be burned entirely, and every mincha of the priest shall be entirely (burned); it is not to be eaten.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with Aharon and with his sons, saying, This is the Torah of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed, there shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is most sacred. The priest who maketh atonement with its blood shall eat it; in the holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of ordinance. Every one who toucheth the flesth thereof must be holy. And if he drop some of its blood upon a vestment, that which is bedropped shall be purified in the holy place. But the earthen vessel in which it was sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a vessel of brass, (that) shall be scoured and washed in water. Any man of the priests may eat thereof: it is most sacred. But no sin offering whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of ordinance to make atonement in the sanctuary may be eaten, but shall be burned with fire.
VII. And this is the Torah of the Trespass Offering; it is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt offering, there shall they kill the trespass offering and sprinkle its blood round about; and all the fat of it shall be offered, with the tail and the fat which covereth the inwards. And the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them, upon the inwards, and the caul that is upon the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away. And the priest shall burn them at the altar, an oblation before the Lord; it is a trespass offering. Every man of the priests may eat thereof in the holy place; it is most sacred. As the sin offering, so the trespass offering; they have one Torah; to the priest who maketh atonement therewith shall it be. And when the priest offereth a man’s burnt sacrifice, the skin of the sacrifice that he priest offereth shall be his. And every mincha that is baken in the oven, or made in the pan, or upon the baking pan, to the priest who offereth it shall it belong. And every mincha sprinkled with oil, and that which is not sprinkled, shall belong to all the sons of Aharon, to the one man as to his brother.
And this is the Torah of the Sanctified Oblations[3] which he shall offer before the Lord. If he present it as a thanksgiving, he shall offer as the sacrifice of the thanksgiving unleavened cakes sprinkled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and baken biscuits of flour sprinkled with oil. With the cakes he may offer his oblation of leavened bread for his sanctified oblation of thanksgiving. And of it he shall offer one of all the separated oblatons before the Lord: (the remainder) shall belong to the priest who sprinkleth the blood of the sanctified oblations. And the flesh of his consecrated thank offering shall be eaten on the day that it is offered, none of it shall be covered over till the morning. But if the offering of his oblation be a vow, or a voluntary gift, it may be eaten (partly) on the day that his sacrifice is offered, and that which remaineth of it may be eaten on the day after it, but what remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. If the flesh of his consecrated sacrifice be indeed eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted form him who offered it, neither shall it be reckoned to him; it is an abomination,[4] and the man who ate of it shall bear his sin. And if flesh that is consecrated touch any thing unclean, it shall not be eaten, but he burned with fire. Every one who is clean by sanctification to eat the consecrated flesh may eat the flesh that is consecrated. But the man who eateth of the flesh of sacrifices consecrated before the Lord with his uncleanness upon him, that man shall be destroyed from his people. And the man who toucheth any thing unclean, whether the uncleanness of man or the uncleanness of beast, or of any unclean reptile, and eateth of the flesh of sacrifices consecrated before the Lord, that man shall perish form his people.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: You may not eat the fat of the ox or sheep or goat. But the fat of a dead carcase and the fat of an animal torn by a wild beast may be used in any manner of work, but of it you shall not eat. For whosoever eateth the fat of an animal that they offer as an oblation before the Lord, the man who eateth shall perish from his people. Nor in any of your habitations may you eat the blood of fowl or of beast: every man who eateth any kind of blood, that man shall be destroyed[5] from his people.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: Whosoever offereth his sanctified victim before the Lord, let him bring the oblation of his sanctified victim (himself) before the Lord, his own hands shall bring the oblations of the Lord: let him bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be lifted up an uplifting before the Lord. And the priest shall burn the fat at the altar; but the breast shall be fore Aharon and his sons. And the right shoulder (also) of your sanctified victims you shall give for a separation unto the priest. He of Aharon’s sons who offereth the blood and the fat of the sanctified victims shall have the right shoulder for a portion. For the uplifted breast and the shoulder of separation of the sacrifices of the Beni Yisrael I have given to Aharon the priest and to his sons by and everlasting statue[6] form the sons of Yisrael.
This is the anointing of Aharon, and the anointing of his sons and of the Lord’s oblations, in the day that they that they present them to minister before the Lord, which the Lord commanded to give them in the day that they consecrate them from the sons of Yisrael, an everlasting statute unto your generations. This is the Torah of the burnt offering, of the mincha, nad of the sin-offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the oblation of the sanctified victims which the Lord commanded the sons of Yisrael to offer their oblations before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
VIII. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Bring Aharon near, and his sons with him, with the vestments, and the oil of consecration, and the bullock for the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened (cakes); and let all the congregation gather together at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Mosheh did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was gathered together at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And Mosheh said to the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to be done.
And Mosheh brought Aharon and his sons near, and washed them with water; and he put upon him the vestment, and girded him with the girdle, and dressed him with the robe, and set upon him the ephod, and bound him with the band of the ephod, and ordained him therewith; and set upon him the breast plate, and put in the breast plate the uraia an the thummaia. And he set the mitre upon his head, and place on the mitre, on the forehead of his face, the plate of gold, the diadem of Holiness, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh.
And Mosheh took the consecrating oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. And he sprinkled of it upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them. And he poured the oil of consecration upon Aharon’s head, and anointed him to consecrate him.
And Mosheh brought the sons of Aharon near, and dressed them in vestments, and girded them with girdles, and appointed them with mitres, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he brought the bullock near for the sin offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock which was the sin offering. And Mosheh took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about, with his finger, and purified the altar, and the blood he poured out at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make atonement upon it. And he took all the fat which was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat; and Mosheh burned them at the altar. But the bullock, with his skin, and his flesh, and his food, he burned with fire without the camp, as the Lord commanded Mosheh. And he brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram, and he killed it, and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And the ram he divided by his members; and Mosheh burned the head and the members with the fat. And the inwards and the legs he washed with water: and Mosheh burned all the ram at the altar: it was a whole burnt offering before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And he brought the second ram of the oblations;[7] and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and he killed it; and Mosheh took of its blood, and put it upon the tip of Aharon’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the toe of his right foot; and Mosheh sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he took the fat and the tail, and all the fat which is upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right shoulder: and from the basket of unleavened cakes that was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread (anointed with) oil, and one wafer, and set them upon the fat and upon the right shoulder, and put the whole upon Aharon’s hands and upon the hands of his sons, and uplifted them, an elevation before the Lord. And Mosheh took them form off their hands, and burned (them) at the altar upon the burnt offering: they were offerings to be received with acceptance, an oblation before the Lord. And Mosheh took the breast, and uplifted it, an elevation before the Lord: of the ram of the oblations it was the portion of Mosheh, as the Lord had commanded Mosheh. And Mosheh took of the oil of consecration, and of the blood that was upon the altar, and sprinkled upon Aharon, upon his vestments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ vestments with him, [and sanctified Aharon and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.][8]
And Mosheh spake to Aharon and to his sons: Boil the flesh at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance, and eat it there with the bread which is in the basket of oblations, as I was commanded, saying, Aharon and his sons shall eat it. And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread, you shall burn in the fire. And form the door of the tabernacle of ordinance ye shall not go forth (for) seven days, until the day that the days of your oblation be completed; for seven days shall your oblations be offered, as hath been done this day, (as) the Lord commanded to be done to make atonement for you. And at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance ye shall dwell seven days and nights, and watch the watches of the Word of the Lord, that you die not; for so am I commanded. And Aharon and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Mosheh.
[1] Sam. Vers., “It is an everlasting portion.”
[2] Sam. Vers., “thou shalt divide it in pieces.”
[3] Peace Offerings.
[4] Sam. Vers., “a rejected thing.”
[5] Or, “shall cease from.” Sam. Vers., “shall be rooted out.” Heb. Text, “be cut off from,” “be excommunicated.”
[6] Sam. Vers., “for a perpetual portion.”
[7] Sam. Vers., “of the completion.”
[8] The clause in brackets is not found in some copies.
SECTION XXII.
VAYAKEHEL.
XXXV. AND Mosheli assembled all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, and said to them, These are the things which the Lord hath commanded you to do. Six days thou shalt do work, but the seventh day (is) a holy rest, the Shabbat[1] before the Lord: every one who doeth work thereon shall be put to death. You may not kindle a fire in all your dwellings on the day of the Shabbat. And Mosheh spake to all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, saying, Take from you a separation (aphrashutha) before the Lord of every one whose heart may be willing; let him bring the separation before the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass, and hyacinth, and crimson, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goat’s hair, and ram’s skin dyed red, and purple skins, and sittin woods; and oil for the illuminator, and aromatics for the anointing oil, and for the sweet perfumes; and onyx stones and complete stones for insetting in the ephod and in the breastplate. And all the wisehearted among you shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded: the tabernacle, its tent and its coverings, its hasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases. The ark, and its staves, the mercy-seat, and the veil that shall be spread; the table, and its staves, and all its vessels; and the bread of the Presence, and the candelabrum for light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for illumination. And the altar of sweet incense, and its staves, and the oil of anointing, and the incense of perfumes, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle. The altar of burntoffering, and its brasen grate, its staves, and all its vessels; the laver and its base. The curtains of the court, and its pillars, and its bases, and the hanging of the gate of the court. The nails of the tabernacle, and the nails of the court and their cordings. The vestments of ministration for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy vestments of Aharon the priest, and the vestments of his sons for ministration.
And all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael went forth from before Mosheh. And they came, every man who was led by his heart, and every one whose spirit was ample, and brought their separation before the Lord, for the work of the tabernacle of ordinance, and for all its service, and for the holy vestments. And they came, the men with the women, every one who was willing of heart, and brought chains, and bracelets, and rings, and bands, all of gold. And every man who uplifted an offering of gold before the Lord, and every man with whom was found hyacinth, or purple, or crimson, or fine linen, or goats’ skins, or rams’ skins dyed red, or purpled skins, brought. Every one who would offer silver or brass, brought the separation before the Lord; and every one with whom was found woods of sittin for any work of the service, brought. And every woman wise in heart spun with her hands, and brought what was spun, the hyacinth, the purple, the crimson, and the fine linen. And all the women with whom was willingness of heart with wisdom spun goat’s hair. And the princes brought onyx stones and complete stones for the insetting of the ephod and the breastplate; and the perfume, and oil for the light and for the oil of anointing, and incense of perfumes. Every man and woman whose heart led them to bring for all the work which the Lord had commanded to make by Mosheh, did the children of Yisrael bring willingly before the Lord.
And Mosheh said to the sons of Yisrael, See, the Lord hath ordained by mane Bezalel bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, and hath filled him with the spirit of prophecy[2] from before the Lord, with wisdom, with intelligence, and with knowledge, for all handicraft, and to teach the arts of working in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and the skilful work of precious stones for enchasing, and the workmanship of wood to work in all the work of the artificer. And be hath ingiven. in his heart to teach also Ahaliab bar Achisamak, of the tribe of Dan, and hath filled them with wisdom of heart to make all the work of the carpenter, and artificer, and embroiderer, in hyacinth, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen, and the weaver, of (such as) do any work, and who teach the arts.
XXXVI. And Bezalel and Ahaliab, with every man wise in heart, to whom the Lord had given wisdom and intelligence to know how to make each work for the service of the sanctuary, wrought (according) to all that the Lord had commanded. And Mosheh called Bezalel and Ahaliab, and every man wise in heart, to whose heart the Lord had given wisdom, every one whose heart was led to draw near and do the work itself. And they took from Mosheh all the separation which the children of Yisrael had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary to make it. And they still brought to him votive offerings from morning to morning. And all the wise men who wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, each man from his work which they had wrought. And they spake with Mosheh, saying, The people abound in bringing more than is needed for the work which the Lord hath commanded to make. And Mosheh ordered, and they made publication in the camp, saying, Let no man or woman make any more work of the separation for the sanctuary: and the people ceased to bring. For what had been done was sufficient for all the work to be wrought, and more than enough. And all the wise‑hearted of them who did the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine linen, and hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, (with) forms of kerubin[3] the work of the embroiderer he made them. The length of one curtain twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of the curtain four cubits; there was one measure for all the curtains. And he conjoined five curtains one with another, and five curtains conjoined he one with another. And he made loopings of hyacinth upon the border of one curtain at the edge of the place of conjunction; so made he upon the border of the other curtain at the edge of the second place of conjunction. Fifty loopings he made on one curtain, and fifty loopings he made on the border of the second curtain at the place of conjunction: the loopings were arranged the one to correspond with the other. And he made fifty taches of gold, and conjoined the curtains one with another by the taches, and the tabernacle became one.
And he made curtains of goat's hair to spread over the tabernacle: eleven curtains made he them. The length of one curtain thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain; one measure had the eleven curtains. And he conjoined five curtains together, and six curtains together. And he made fifty loops upon the border of the curtain on the side of the conjunction, and fifty loops made be upon the side of the second curtain at the place of conjuncture. Arid he made fifty taches of brass to conjoin the tabernacle, that it might be one. And be made the covering of the tabernacle of rams' skins reddened, and a covering of purple skins above. And he made the boards of the tabernacle of sittin wood, standing. Ten cubits the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board. Two tenons for one board corresponding one with the other; so made he for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And be made the boards of the tabernacle twenty boards on the side towards the south. And forty sockets of silver made he under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under one board for its two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle toward the north he made twenty boards, and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under one board. And for the side of the tabernacle westward he made six boards; and two boards made he at the corners of the tabernacle at their extremities. And they were compacted in the lower part together, and compacted in their upper part by one ring; thus did he at both of the two corners. And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two and two, under each board. And he made bars of sittin wood; five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the extremity of the tabernacle, westward. And he made a middle bar to pass through, in the midst of the boards from end to end. And the boards he overlaid with gold, and their rings made he of gold (to be) places for the bars, and be covered the bars with gold.
And he made the VEIL of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen; of the work of the embroiderer he made it, with forms of kerubin. And he made for it four pillars of sittin, and covered (them) with gold, and their books of gold, and cast for them four sockets of silver. And he made a curtain for the door of the tabernacle, of hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, the work of the embroiderer. And its five pillars and their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals, and covered them and their joining rods with gold, and their five bases (made he) of brass.
XXXVII. And Bezalel made the ARK of sittin woods two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And he covered it with pure gold within and without, and made for it a wreath of gold round about. And he cast for it four rings of gold upon its four corners, two rings on one of it, and two rings on the second side. And he made staves of sittin wood, and covered them with gold. And he introduced the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying the ark.
And he made the MERCY SEAT of pure gold; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And he made two kerubim, of beaten gold he made them, at the two sides of the mercy seat. One keruba on this side, and one keruba on that side of the mercy seat; he made the kerubaia from its two sides. And the kerubaia spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings; and their faces were one towards the other, over against the mercy seat were the faces of the kerubaia.
And he made the TABLE of sittin woods; two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And he covered it with pure gold, and made for it a golden crown round about, and made for it a rim[4] its height a span, round about; and he made a crown of gold for its rim round about. And he cast for it four golden rings, and set the rings upon the four corners of its four feet. Over against the rim were the rings to be the place of the staves for carrying the table. And he made the vessels which were to be upon the table; its dishes, and its vases, and its measures, and the cups with which (the libations) are outpoured, of pure gold.
And he made the CANDELABRUM of pure gold, beaten made he the candelabrum, its rest, its shaft, its cups, its apples,[5] and its lilies were of the same. And six branchlets proceeded from its sides; three branchlets of the candelabrum on one side, and three branchlets of the candelabrum on the second side. Three cups figurated on one branchlet, an apple, and a lily: so the six branchlets which proceeded from the candelabrum. And on the candelabrum four cups figurated, its apples and its lilies. An apple under two branchlets of the same, and an apple under two branchlets of the same, and an apple under two branchlets of the same, for the six branchlets that proceeded from it. Their apples and their branches were of the same, all of one beaten work of pure gold. And he made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its receivers of pure gold ; of a talent of pure gold made he, it, and all its vessels.
And he made the ALTAR OF SWEET INCENSE of sittin wood ; its length a cubit, and a cubit its breadth, foursquare., and two cubits the height of it; of the same were its horns. And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about, and its horns: and he made for it a golden crown round about. And two rings of gold made he for it under its crown, upon its two sides, the place for the staves by which to carry it. And he made the staves of sittin wood, and overlaid them with gold. And he made the oil for holy anointment, and the pure sweet incense, the work of the perfumer.
XXXVIII. And be made the ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING of sittin wood; five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, four‑square, and three cubits its height. And he made its horns upon its four corners, of the same were its horns, and he coated it with brass. And he made all the vessels of the altar, the caldrons, and the cleaners., and the basins, and the fleshhooks, and the receivers; all its vessels made he of brass. And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network, under its border beneath, (reaching) unto its middle. And he cast four rings for the four corners of the brasen grate, the place for the staves. And he made the staves of sittin wood, and overlaid them with brass. And he put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the altar by which to carry it; hollow with boards he made it.
And be made the LAVER of brass, and its base of brass, of the mirrors of the women who come to pray at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And he made the court, the southern side of which was of hangings for the court, of fine linen twined, of a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks, pillars, and their uniting rods of silver. And for the northern side (hangings) of a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their uniting rods of silver. And for the western side, curtains, fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their uniting rods of silver. And on the eastern side, eastward, fifty cubits. The hangings fifteen cubits on (one) side (of the gate), their pillars three, and their bases three. And on the second side of the gate of the court, here and there, hangings, fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three. All the hangings of the court round about were of fine linen twined. And the bases of the pillars were of brass, the hooks, pillars, and their uniting rods of silver, and the overlaying of their heads was of silver, and there were uniting rods of silver for all the pillars of the court. And the veil for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen; and twenty cubits was its length, and the height, in the breadth five cubits, according (to the height of) the curtains of the court. And their pillars four, and their bases four, of brass, and their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their head and their uniting rods, silver. And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
[1] Shabbatha
[2] Some copies omit “of prophecy.”
[3] Sam. Vers., “pictures of kerubin.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “a wreath.”
[5] Or, “sphericles.”
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Ch 47-50
SECTION XII.
VAYECHI.
And Jakob lived in the land of Mizraim seventeen years. And the sum of the days of Jakob, of the days of his life, was a hundred and forty and seven years. And the days of Yisrael drew near to die. And he called to his son, to Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour before thee, put thy hand on the place of my circumcision, and deal with me in goodness and truth, That thou wilt not bury me in Mizraim, that I may sleep with my fathers, and thou mayest carry me from Mizraim, and bury me in their sepulchre. But because he was his son he did not (so) put his hand; but said, I will do according to thy word. And he said, Swear tome: and he sware to him. And immediately the Glory of the Shekina of the Lord was revealed to him, and Yisrael worshipped upon the pillow[1] of the bed. [JERUSALEM. And Yisrael praised upon the head of the couch.]
XLVIII. And after these things it was told Joseph, Behold, thy father is lying ill. And he took his two sons with him., Menasheh and Ephraim. And it was announced to Jakob, saying, Behold, thy son Joseph hath come to thee: and Yisrael strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
And Jakob said to Joseph: El Shadai revealed Himself to me at Luz, in the land of Kenaan, and blessed me. And He said to me, Behold, I will increase thee and multiply thee, and make thee an assemblage of tribes, and will give this land to thy sons after thee for an everlasting inheritance. And now, thy two sons who have been born to thee in the land of Mizraim before I came to thee into Mizraim are mine; Ephraim and Menasheh as Reuben and Shimeon shall be reckoned unto me. And thy children whom thou mayest beget after them shall be thine; by the name of their brethren shall they be called in their inheritance. And I beseech thee to bury me with my fathers. Rahel died by me suddenly in the land of Kenaan, while there was yet much ground to come to Ephrath; nor could I carry her to bury her in the Double Cave, but I buried her there, in the way of Ephrath which is Bethlechem.
And Yisrael looked at the sons of Joseph and said, From whom are these born to thee? And Joseph answered his father, They are my sons which the Word of the Lord gave me according to this writing, according to which I took Asenath the daughter of Dinah thy daughter to be my wife.
And he said, Bring them now near to me, and I will bless them. But Yisrael's eyes were heavy from age, and he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. And Yisrael said to Joseph, To see thy face I had not reckoned, but, behold, the Lord hath also showed me thy sons. And Joseph brought them out from (between) his knees, and worshipped on his face upon the ground. And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right side, which was Yisrael's left, and Menasheh on his left side, which was Yisrael's right, and brought them to him.
And Yisrael stretched out his right hand and laid it upon the head of Ephraim, though be was the younger; and his left hand upon the head of Menasheh, altering his hands, for Menasheh was the firstborn. [JERUSALEM. He altered his hands.] And he blessed Joseph, and said:
The Lord, before whom my fathers Avraham and Izhak, did serve; the Lord who hath fed me since I have been unto this day, be pleased that the angel whom thou didst ordain for me, to redeem me from all evil, may bless the children; and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abrabam and Izhak. And as the fishes of the sea in multiplying are multiplied in the sea, so may the children of Joseph be multiplied abundantly in the midst of the earth.
And Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand upon Ephraim's head; and it was evil before him, and he uplifted his father's hand to remove it from off the head of Ephraim, that it might rest on the head of Menasheh. And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn; lay thy right hand on his head. But his father was not willing, and said, I know, my son, I know that he is the firstborn, and also that he will be a great people, and will also be multiplied; yet will his younger brother be greater than he, and his sons be greater among the nations. And he blessed them in that day, saying, In thee, Joseph my son, shall the house of Yisrael bless their infants in the day of their circumcision, saying, The Lord set thee as Ephraim and as Menasheh. And in the numbering of the tribes the prince of Ephraim shall be numbered before the prince of Menasheh. And he appointed that Ephraim should be before Menasheh.
And Yisrael said to Joseph, Behold, my end cometh to die. But the Word of the Lord shall be your Helper, and restore you to the land of your fathers; and I, behold, I have given to thee the city of Shekem, one portion for a gift above thy brethren, which I took from the hand of the Amoraee at the time that you went into the midst of it, and I arose and helped you with my sword and with my bow. [Yerushalayim. And I, behold, I have given thee one portion. above thy brethren, the robe of the first Adam. Avraham the father of my father took it from the hands of Nimrod the Wicked, and gave it to Izhak my father; and Izhak my father gave it to Esau, and I took it from the hands of Esau my brother, not with my sword nor with my bow, but through my righteousness and my good works.]
XLIX. And Jakob called his sons and said to them, Purify yourselves from uncleanness, and I will show you the hidden mysteries, the ends concealed, the recompense of reward for the righteous, the retribution of the wicked, and the bower of Eden, what it is. And the twelve tribes of Yisrael gathered themselves together around the golden bed whereon he reclined, and where was revealed to him the Shekina of the Lord, (though) the end for which the king Meshiha is to come had been concealed from him. Then said he, Come, and I will declare to you what shall befall you at the end of the days. Gather yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jakob, and receive instruction from Yisrael your father.
Reuben thou art my firstborn, the beginning of the strength of my generation, and the chief event of my thoughts To thee belonged the birthright, and the high priesthood, and the kingdom: but because thou hast sinned, my son, the birthright is given to Joseph, and the, kingdom to Jehuda, and the priesthood to Levi. I will liken thee to a little garden in the midst of which there enter torrents swift and strong, which it cannot bear, but is overwhelmed. Be repentant then, Reuben my son, for thou hast sinned, and add not; that wherein thou hast sinned it may be forgiven thee; for it is reckoned to thee as if thou wentest in to have to do with the wife of thy father at the time that thou didst confound my bed upon which thou wentest up.
Shimeon and Levi are brothers of the womb;[2] their thoughts are of sharp weapons for rapine. In their counsel my soul bath not had pleasure, and in their gathering against Shekem. to destroy it mine honour was not united; for in their anger they slew the prince and his ruler, and in their ill will they demolished the wall[3] of their adversary. And Jakob said, Accursed was the town of Shekem. when they entered within it to destroy it in their violent wrath; and their hatred against Joseph, for it was relentless. If, said Jakob, they dwell together, no king nor ruler may stand before them. Therefore will I divide the inheritance of the sons of Shimeon into two portions; one part shall come to them out of the inheritance of the sons of Jehuda, and one part from among the rest of the tribes of Jakob; and the tribe of Levi I will disperse among all the tribes of Yisrael.
Jehuda, thou didst make confession in the matter of Tamar: therefore shall thy brethren confess[4] thee, and shall be called Jehudain from thy name. Thy hand shall avenge thee of thy adversaries, in throwing arrows upon them when they turn their backs before thee; and the sons of thy fathers shall come before thee with salutations. I will liken thee, my son Jehuda, to a whelp, the young of a lion; for from the killing of Joseph my son thou didst uplift thy soul, and from the judgment of Tamar thou wast free. He dwelleth quietly and in strength, as a lion; and as an old lion when he reposeth, who may stir him up? Kings shall not cease, nor rulers, from the house of Jehuda, nor sapherim teaching the Torah from his seed, till the time that the King the Meshiha, shall come, the youngest of his sons; and on account of him shall the peoples flow together How beauteous is the King, the Meshiha who will arise from the house of Jehuda! He hath girded his loins, and descended, and arrayed the battle against his adversaries, Slaying kings with their rulers; neither is there any king or ruler who shall stand before him. The mountains become red with the blood of their slain; his garments, dipped in blood, are like the outpressed juice of grapes. How beautiful are the eyes of the king Meshiha, as the pure wine! He cannot look upon what is unclean, nor on the shedding of the blood of the innocent; and his teeth, purer than milk, cannot eat that which is stolen or torn; and therefore his mountains are red with wine, and his hills white with corn, and with the cotes of flocks.
Zebulon shall dwell upon the banks of the sea, and have dominion over the havens he will surmount the breakers of the sea with ships and his border extend unto Zidon.
Issakar is an ass in the Torah; a strong tribe, knowing the order,[5] of the times; and he lieth down between the, limits of his brethren. And he saw the rest of the world to come that it is good, and the portion of the land of Yisrael that it is pleasant; therefore bowed he his shoulders to labour in the Torah, and unto him shall come his brethren bearing presents.
From the house of Dan there is to arise a man who will judge his people with the judgment of truth. All the tribes of Yisrael will hearken to him together. A chosen man shall arise from the house of Dan, like the basilisk which lieth at the dividing of the way, and the serpent's head which lurketh by the way, that biteth the horse in his heel, and the master from his terror is thrown backward. Even thus will Shimshon bar Manovach slay all the heroes of Philistia, the horsemen and the foot; he will hamstring their horses and hurl their riders backwards.
When Jakob saw Gideon bar Joash and Shimshon bar Manovach, who were established to be deliverers, he said, I expect not the salvation of Gideon, nor look I for the salvation of Shimshon; for their salvation will be the salvation of an hour; but for Thy salvation have I waited, and will look for, 0 Lord; for Thy salvation is the salvation of eternity.
The tribe of Gad with the rest of the tribes will, armed, pass over the streams of Arnona and subdue before them the pillars of the earth, and armed will they return into their limits with much substance and dwell in peace beyond the passage of Jardena; for so will they choose, and it shall be to them to receive their inheritance.
Happy is Asher whose fruitage is plenteous, and whose land aboundeth in balsams and costly perfumes.
Naphatalis a swift messenger, like a hind that runneth on the tops of the mountains, bringing good tidings: he it was who announced that Joseph was living; he it was who hasteneth to go into Mizraim, and bring the contract of the double field in which Esau had no portion;[6] and when he shall open his mouth in the congregation of Yisrael to give praise, he shall be the chosen of all tongues. Joseph, my son, thou bast become great; Joseph, my son, thou hast become great and mighty; the end (determined) on thee was (that thou shouldst) be mighty, because thou didst subdue thy inclination in the matter of thy mistress, and in the work of thy brethren. Thee will I liken to a vine planted by fountains of water, which sendeth forth her roots, and overrunneth the ridges of stone, and covereth by her branches all unfruitful trees; even so didst thou my son Joseph subject by thy wisdom and thy good works all the magicians of Mizraim; and when, celebrating thy praises, the daughters of princes walking on the high places cast before thee bracelets and chains of gold, that thou shouldst lift up thine eyes upon them, thine eyes thou wouldst not lift up on one of them, to become guilty in the great day of judgment. And all the magicians of Mizraim were bitter and angry against him, and brought accusations against him before Pharoh, expecting to bring him down from his honour They spake against him with the slanderous tongue[7] which is severe as arrows. But he returned to abide in his early strength, and would not yield himself unto sin, and subdued his inclinations by the strong discipline he had received from Jakob, and thence became worthy of being a ruler, and of being joined in the engraving of the names upon the stones of Yisrael. From the Word of the Lord shall be thy help; and He who is called the All‑Sufficient shall bless thee with the blessings which descend with the dew of heaven from above, and with the good blessing of the fountains of the deep which ascend and clothe the herbage from beneath. The breasts are blessed at which thou wast suckled, and the womb in which thou didst lie, The blessings of thy father be added to the blessings wherewith my fathers Avraham and Izhak have blessed me, and which the princes of the world Ishmael and Esau and all the sons of Keturah have desired: let all these blessings be united, and form a diadem of majesty for the head of Joseph, and for the brow of the man who became chief and ruler in Mizraim, and the brightness of the glory of his brethren.
Benjamin is a strong tribe, (like) the wolf (with) his prey. In his land will dwell the Shekina of the Lord of the world, and the house of the sanctuary be builded in his inheritance. In the morning will the priests offer the lamb continually until the fourth hour, and between the evenings the second lamb, and at eventide will they divide the residue remaining of the offering, and eat, every man, his portion.
[Yerushalayim Targum. And our father Jakob called his sons, and said to them, Gather together, and I will teach yon the concealed end, the secret mysteries, the recompense of reward for the just, and the punishment of the wicked, and the blessedness of Eden, what it is. And the twelve tribes of Jakob assembled and surrounded the golden bed whereon our father Jakob lay, desiring that he should teach them (at the) end in benediction and consolation. Then was revealed to him the secret that had been hidden from him, and then was opened the door which had been shut to him. Our father Jakob turned therefore and blessed his sons, every man according to his good did he bless him.
[When the twelve tribes of Jakob were assembled, and surrounded the golden bed whereon our father Jakob lay, they expected that he would make known to them the order of blessing and consolation: but they were hidden from him. Our father Jakob answered and said to them: From Avraham my father's father arose the profane Ishmael and all the sons of Keturah; and from Izhak my father arose the profane Esau, my brother; and I am afraid lest there should be among you a man whose heart is separated from his brethren to go and worship before strange idols. The twelve tribes of Jakob answered all together, and said, Hear us, Yisrael our father! The Lord our Elohim is one Lord! And Jakob our father answered, and said, May His Great Name be blessed for ever and ever!
[REUBEN,my firstborn art thou, my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow. To thee my son Reuben would it have pertained to receive three portions above thy brethren, birthright, priesthood, kingdom: but because thou hast sinned, Reuben, my son, the birthright is given unto Joseph, the kingdom to Jehuda, and the high priesthood to the tribe of Levi. I will liken thee, my son Reuben, to a little garden into the midst of which there enter rapid torrents, which it cannot bear, but is carried away before them. Be repentant then, my son Reuben, with good works, for thou hast sinned; and sin no more, that that which thou hast sinned may be forgiven thee.
[5. Shimeon and Levi are brothers of the womb, men who are masters of sharp weapons; they made war from their youth; in the land of their adversary they wrought out the triumphs of war. In their counsels my soul found no pleasure; and in their gathering together at the city of Shekem to destroy it, they were not favourable to my honour; for in their anger they slew kings with princes, and in their wilfulness they sold Joseph their brother, who is compared to the ox. Accursed was the town of shekem when Shimeon and Levi entered to destroy it in their wrath, for it was strong, and in their anger, for it was cruel. And Jakob our father said, If these remain together, no people or kingdom can stand before them. I will divide the tribe of Shimeon, that they may become preachers and teachers of the Torah in the congregation of Jakob; and I will disperse the tribe of Levi in the houses of instruction for the sons of Yisrael
[8. JEHUDA, thee shall all thy brethren praise, and from thy name shall all be called Jehudaee; thy hand shall avenge thee of thy adversaries; all the sons of thy father shall come before thee with salutation. I will liken thee, my son Jehuda, to a whelp the son of a lion: from the slaying of Joseph thou wast free, from the judgment of Tamar thou, my son, wast acquitted. He remaineth tranquil in the midst of war, as the lion and as the lioness; nor is there people or kingdom that can stand against thee. Kings shall not cease from the house of Jehuda, nor sapherim teaching the Torah from his children's children, until the time that the King Meshiha shall come, whose is the kingdom, and to whom all the kingdoms of the earth shall be obedient. How beauteous is the King Meshiha, who is to arise from the house of Jehuda!
[Binding his loins, and going forth to war against them that hate him, he will slay kings with princes, and make the rivers red with the blood of their slain, and his hills white with the fat of their mighty ones; his garments will be dipped in blood, and he himself be like the juice of the winepress. More beautiful are the eyes of the king Meshiha to behold than pure wine; they will not look upon that which is unclean, or the shedding of the blood of the innocent. His teeth are employed according to the precept rather than in eating the things of violence and rapine; his mountains shall be red with vines, and his presses with his wine, and his hills be white with much corn and with flocks of sheep.
[14. ISSAKAR is a strong tribe, and his limits shall be in the midst between two boundaries. And he saw the house of the sanctuary, which is called Quietness,[8] that it is good, and the land that its fruits are rich; and bared his shoulders to labour in the Torah, and to him shall be all his brethren bringing tribute.
[17. (Of DAN) He will be the deliverer who is to arise, strong will he be and elevated above all kingdoms. And be will be like the serpent that lieth in the way, and the basilisk which lurketh at the dividing of the road, which striketh the horse in his heel, and thinketh by the terror of him to throw his rider backward. He is Shimshon bar Manovach, who will be a terror upon his adversaries, and a fear upon them that hate him, and who will slay kings with princes. Our father Jakob said, My soul hath not waited for the redemption of Gideon bar Joash which is for an hour, nor for the redemption of Shimshon which is a creature redemption, but for the Redemption which Thou hast said in Thy Word shall come for Thy people the sons of Yisrael, for this Thy Redemption my soul hath waited.
[19. From the house of GAD will go forth hosts arrayed in arms. They will bring Yisrael over Jardena put them in possession of the land of Kenaan, and afterwards return in peace to their tabernacles.
[Of happy Asher how fertile is the land! His land shall satisfy with dainties the kings of the sons of Yisrael.
[Naphtali is a swift messenger declaring good tidings. He first declared to our father Jakob that Joseph was yet in life, and he went down to Mizraim in a little time, and brought the contract of the Double Field from the palace of Joseph. And when he openeth his mouth in the congregation of Jakob, his tongue is sweet as honey.
[22. My son who hast become great, JOSEPH, my son, who hast become great, and waxed mighty, that thou wouldst become mighty was foreseen. Thee, Joseph, my son, will I liken to a vine planted by fountains of water, which sendeth her roots into the depth and striketh the ridges of the rocks, uplifting herself on high and surmounting all the trees. So hast thou, 0 Joseph my son, risen by thy wisdom above all magicians of Mizraim, and all the wise men who were there, what time thou didst ride in the second chariot of Pharoh, and they proclaimed before thee and said, This is the father of the king, Long live the, father of the king Great in wisdom, though few in years. And the daughters of kings and of princes danced before thee at the windows, and beheld thee from the balconies, and scattered before thee bracelets rings collars, necklaces, and all ornaments of gold, in hope thou wouldst uplift thine eyes and regard one of them. But thou my son Joseph wast far from lifting thine eyes on any one of them, though the daughters of kings and of princes
spake one to another, This is the holy man Joseph, who walks not after the sight of his eyes nor after the imagination of his heart; because the sight of the eyes and the imagination of his heart make the son of woman to perish from the world. Therefore will arise from thee the two tribes Menasheh and Ephraim, who shall receive portion and inheritance with their brethren in the dividing of the land. The magicians of Mizraim and all the wise men spake against him, but could not prevail over him; they spake evil of him before his lord, they accused him before Pharoh king of Mizraim, to bring him down from his dignity; they spake against him in the palace of Pharoh with a slanderous tongue severe as arrows. But the strength of his confidence[9] remained in both his hands and his arms, and he sought mercy from the strength of his father Jakob, under the arms of whose power the tribes of Yisrael are led, and do come. Blessed are the breasts that suckled thee, and the womb in which thou didst lie. The blessing of thy father be added upon thee, upon the blessings wherewith thy fathers Avraham and Izhak who are like mountains blessed thee, and upon the blessing of the four mothers' Sarah, Rivekah, Rahel, and Leah, who are like hills; let all these blessings come, and make a diadem of majesty upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the man who became a chief and ruler in the land of Mizraim, and the brightness of the glory of his brethren.
[17. (Of BENJAMIN) I will liken him to a ravening wolf. In his limits will the sanctuary be builded, and in his inheritance the glory of the Shekina of the Lord will dwell. In the morning will the priests offer the continual lamb and its oblations, and at the going down of the sun will the priests offer the continual lamb and its oblations, and at evening divide the offerings of the sons of Yisrael.]
All these Tribes of Yisrael are twelve: they are all righteous together, and this it is which their father spake to them, and blessed them; according to his blessing blessed be each man. And be commanded them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cavern which is in the field of Ephron the Hitah, in the cave that is in the Double Field over against Mamre in the land of Kenaan; for Avraham bought the field of Ephron the Hitah for an inheritance of burial. There they buried Avraham, and Sarah his wife; there they buried Izhak , and Rivekah his wife; and there I buried Leah: the purchase of the field, and the cave that it is in, of the sons of Hitah
And Jakob ceased to command his sons. And he gathered up his feet into the midst of the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people
L. And Joseph laid his father upon a couch of ivory which was framed with pure gold, and inlaid with precious stones, and secured with cords of byssus. There they poured out fervid wines, and there burned they most costly perfumes: there stood the chiefs of the house of Esau and the chiefs of the house of Ishmael; there stood the Lion of Jehuda, the strength of his brethren. He answered and said to his brethren, Come, and let as raise up to our father a tall cedar whose head shall reach to the top of heaven, and its branches overshadow all the inhabitants of the earth, and its roots extend to the depths of the abyss: from it have arisen the twelve tribes, and from it will arise kings, princes, and priests in their divisions, to offer oblations, and from it the Levites in their appointments for singing. Then, behold, Joseph bowed himself upon his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
[Yerushalayim. And Joseph laid him on a couch of ivory which was covered with pure gold, and inset with pearls, and spread with clothes of byssos and purple. There they poured out wine with choice perfumes, there they burned aromatic gums; there stood the chiefs of the house of Esau; there stood the princes of the house of Ishmael there stood the Lion Jehuda, the strength of his brethren. And Jehuda answered and said to his brethren, Come, let us raise up to our father a tall cedar, whose head shall reach to heaven, but whose branches unto the inhabitants of the world. From it have arisen the twelve tribes, from it the priests with their trumpets and the Levites with their harps. And they wept, and Joseph bowed himself on the face of his father, and wept over him and kissed him.]
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisrael. And the forty days of embalming were completed to him; for so fulfil they the days of embalming; and the Mizraee lamented him seventy days; saying one to another, Come, let us lament over Jakob the Holy, whose righteousness turned away the famine from the land of Mizraim. For it had been decreed that there should be forty and two years of famine, but through the righteousness of Jakob forty years are withheld from Mizraim, and there came famine but for two years only.[10] And the days of his mourning passed. And Joseph spake with the lords of the house of Pharoh, saying If I may find favour in your eyes, speak now in the hearing of Pharoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die, in the sepulchre which I have prepared for me in the land of Kenaan there shalt thou bury me. And now let me go up and bury my father, and I will return. And Pharoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mizraim, went up with him. And all the men of Joseph's house, and his brethren, and his father's household: only their children, and their sheep and oxen, left they in the land of Goshen.
And there went up with him chariots and horsemen and a very great host. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jardena, and there they lamented with a great and mighty lamentation. And he made there a mourning for his father seven days. And the inhabitants Of the land of Kenaan beheld the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they loosed the girdles of their loins in honour of Jakob, and spread forth their hands, and said, This is a mighty mourning of the Mizraee. Therefore he called the name of the, place Abel Mizraim, which is on the other side of Jardena. And his sons did for him as he had commanded them.
But when his sons had brought him into the land of Kenaan, and the thing was heard by Esau the Wicked, he journeyed from the mountain of Gebala with many legions, and came to Hebron, and would not suffer Joseph to bury his father in the Double Cave. Then forthwith went Naphtali and ran, and went down to Mizraim, and came in that day, and brought the Instrument that Esau had written for Jakob his brother in the controversy of the Double Cave. And immediately he beckoned to Hushim the son of Dan, who unsheathed the sword and struck off the head of the Wicked Esau, and the head of Esau rolled into the midst of the cave, and rested upon the bosom of Izhak his father; and the sons of Esau buried his body in the double field, and afterward the sons of Jakob buried him in the cave of the double field; in the field which Avraham bought for an inheritance‑sepulchre, of Ephron the Hitah, over against Mamre.
And Joseph returned to Mizraim, he and his brethren, and all who went up with him to bury his father, after they had buried his father.
And Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, and that he (Joseph) did not return to eat together with them, and they said, Perhaps Joseph ill bring upon us all retaineth enmity against us, and will bring upon us all the evil that we did him. And they instructed Bilhah to say to Joseph, Thy father commanded before his death to speak to thee, Thus shall you say to Joseph, Forgive now the guilt of thy brethren and their sin, for They committed evil against thee; but forgive, I beseech thee, the guilt of the servants of the Elohim of thy father. [JERUSALEM. And they instructed the tribe of Bilhah the handmaid of Rahel to say, Thy father before he was gathered commanded, saying.]
And Joseph wept when they spake with him. And his brethren came also, and bowed themselves before him, and said, Behold, we are thy servants. And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I will not do you evil, but good; for I fear and humble myself before the Lord. [Yerushalayim. And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for the evil that you did me Hath ended. Are not the thoughts of the sons of men before the Lord?] You indeed imagined against me evil thoughts, that when I did not recline with you to eat it was because I retained enmity against you. But the Word of the Lord thought on me for good; for my father hath caused me to sit at the head, and on account of his honour I received; but now not for the sake of my (own) righteousness or merit was it given me to work out for you deliverance this day for the preservation of much people of the house of Jakob, And now fear not; I will sustain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake consolation to their heart.
And Joseph dwelt in Mizraim, he and his father's house. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; also the sons of Makir the son of Menasheh, when they were born, were circumcised by Joseph.
And Joseph said to his Brethren Behold, I die the Lord remembering will remember you and will bring you up from this land, into the land Which He sware to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob. And Joseph adjured the sons of Yisrael to say to their sons Behold, you will be brought into servitude in Mizraim ; but you shall not presume to go up out of Mizraim until the time that two Deliverers shall come, and say to you, Remembering, remember ye the Lord. And at the time when ye go up ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
And Joseph died, the son of a hundred and ten years. And they embalmed him with perfumes, and laid him in an ark, and submerged him in the midst of the Nilos of Mizraim. [Yerushalayim. And they embalmed him, and laid him in an ark in the land of Mizraim.[11]
END OF THE TARGUM OF PALESTINE
ON THE SEPHER BERESHITH.
[1] Or, “head”
[2] Achin telamin, “fratres uterini.”- Castel,3903
[3] Or, “destroyed the oxen.”
[4] Or, “praise.”
[5] Or, “intention.”
[6] See the next chapter
[7] “With triple tongue.” Compare the Targum on Psalm ci. 5; Psalm exl. 11; Eccles. x. 11; and our introduction pg.12
[8] Menucha
[9] Or, “fidelity.”
[10] Fiction
[11] The Yerushalayim Talmud records the tradition that “the Egyptians enclosed the body of Joseph in a metal coffin, and buried it in the Nile, that thereby the waters of the river might be blessed;” and that at the Exodus the coffin was recovered. --Sotah, 10
Pgs. 148- 156
Ch. 47-50
SECTION XII.
VAYECHI.
AND Jakob lived in the land of Mizraim seventeen years. And the days of the years of the life of Jakob were a hundred and forty and seven years. And the days of Yisrael drew near to die. And he called to his son, to Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, put, I beseech thee, thine hand under my thigh, and deal with me in goodness and truth; nor bury me, I beseech thee, in Mizraim; but I will sleep with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me from Mizraim, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. And he said, Swear to me; and he sware to him. And Yisrael worshipped upon the pillow[1] of the bed.
XLVIII. And it was after these words that it was said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is ill. And he took his two sons with him, Menashe and Ephraim. And it was shown to Jakob, and told (him,) Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And Yisrael was strengthened,[2] and he sat upon the bed. And Jakob said to Joseph, El Shadai revealed Himself to me in Luz, in the land of Kenaan, and blessed me; and He said to me, Behold, I will multiply thee, and make thee great, and will set thee for an assembly of tribes, and will give this land to thy sons after thee for an everlasting inheritance. And now thy two sons which were born to thee in the land of Mizraim, before my coming to thee into Mizraim, are mine; Ephraim and Menashe shall be as Reuben and Shimeon before me. And the children whom thou mayest beget after them, who shall be thine, after the name of their brethren they shall be called in their inheritance.[3] And I, in my coming from Padan, Rahel died by me in the land of Kenaan, in the way, while as yet there was a space of ground to come unto Ephrath. And I buried her there, by the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And Yisrael saw the sons of Joseph, and said, Who are these? And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons whom the Lord hath given me here. And he said, Bring them now near to me, that I may bless them. But the eyes of Yisrael were heavy from age, and he could not discern. And he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Yisrael said to Joseph, I had not hoped[4] to see thy face, and, behold, the Lord hath showed me thy sons also. And Joseph led them from before him, and worshipped with his face on the earth. And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim in his right hand, on the left of Yisrael, and Menashe in his left hand, on the right of Yisrael, and brought them to him. And Yisrael stretched out his right hand, and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Menashe, using his hands designingly; (or, instructing his hands;) for Menashe was the first‑born. And he blessed Joseph, and said, The Lord, before whom my fathers Avraham and Izhak did serve; the Lord, who fed me from my coming[5] unto this day; the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the youths; and let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Izhak; and as the fish of the sea may they multiply[6] among the children of men upon the earth! And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim; and it was evil in his eyes. And he uplifted his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head, that it might rest on the head of Menashe. And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first‑born: lay thy right hand on his head. But his father willed not, and said, I know, my son, I know: he also shall be for a people, and he also shall be great; yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his sons shall have dominion among the nations. And he blessed them in that day, saying, By thee shall Yisrael bless, saying, The Lord set thee as Ephraim and as Menashe. And he set Ephraim before Menashe. And Yisrael said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but the Word of the Lord will be your Helper, and restore you to the land of your fathers. And I will give thee one portion more than thy brethren, which I took from the band of the Amoraah by my prayer and by my deprecation.
XLIX. And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather together, and I will show you what will befall you in the end of the days; assemble, and hearken, O sons of Jakob, and receive instruction from Yisrael your father. Reuben, thou art my first‑born, my strength, and the beginning of my power.[7] Thine should it have been taking to take the three portions,‑the birthright, the priesthood, and the kingdom: but because thou hast proceeded perversely,[8] behold, as water outpoured thou wilt not prosper, neither wilt thou receive the excellent portion; because thou wentest up to thy father's place of sleep: then, my son, didst thou become profane, when thou wentest up to my bed.
Shimeon and Levi are brothers; mighty men in the land of their sojourning, they did mightily.[9] My soul was not in their secret; into their company to come I would not have descended from mine honour. For in their anger they slew a slaughter, and in their wilfulness they razed the wall of their enemy. Accursed[10] was their anger, for it was strong, and their wrath, for it was relentless. I will divide them in Jakob, and I will scatter them in Yisrael.
Jehuda, thou art praise and not shame; thy brethren shall praise thee;[11] thy hand shall prevail against thine adversaries, thine enemies shall be dispersed; they will be turned backward before thee, and the sons of thy father will come before thee with salutations. The dominion shall be (thine) in the beginning, and in the end the kingdom shall be increased from the house of Jehuda, because from the judgment of death, my son, hast thou withdrawn.[12] He shall repose, and abide in strength as a lion, and as a lioness, there shall be no king that may cut him off. He who exerciseth dominion shall not pass away from the house of Jehuda, nor the saphra from his children's children for ever, until the Meshiha come, whose is the kingdom, and unto whom shall be the obedience of the nations (or, whom the peoples shall obey). Yisrael shall pass round about in his cities; the people shall build his temple, they will be righteous round about him, and be doers of the Torah through his doctrine. Of goodly purple will be his raiment, and his vesture of crimson wool with colours.[13] His mountains shall be red with his vineyards, and his hills be dropping with wine; his valleys shall be white with corn, and with flocks of sheep.
Zebulon will dwell nigh the haven of the sea; he will subdue provinces with ships, and will eat the good of the sea, and his boundary shall come unto Sidon.
Issakar,[14] rich in substance, will have his heritage between the boundaries; and he, seeing his portion that it is good, and the land that it is fruit‑bearing,[15] will subdue the provinces of the people, and disperse their inhabitants, and they who remain of them will become servants to him and bringers of tribute.
From the house of Dan will be chosen and will arise a man in whose days his people shall be delivered, and in whose years the tribes of Yisrael have rest together. A chosen man will arise from the house of Dan, the terror of whom shall fall upon the peoples; (a man) who will smite the Philistines’ with strength, as the serpent, the deadly serpent,[16] lurking[17] by the way, be will slay the mighty of the Philistines host, the horsemen with the foot; he will weaken (loosen) the horses and chariots, and throw their riders backward. For thy salvation have I waited, O Lord!
From the house of Gad will armed hosts go over the Jardena before their brethren to the battle ; and with much substance will they return unto their land.
The land of Asher will be good; and he shall be nourished with the dainties of kings.
In a good land will the lot of Naphtali be cast, and his inheritance be fruitful; over them will they give praise and benediction.[18]
Joseph is my son who shall increase, my son who shall be blessed, as a vine planted by a fountain of waters. Two tribes will come forth from his sons, and they shall receive a portion and inheritance. The mighty men, the men of division, were bitter against him; they afflicted him and sorely grieved him and his prophecy shall be fulfilled in them, because he was faithful to the Torah in secret, and set his confidence firmly. Therefore was gold laid upon his arm, and the kingdom was strengthened and confirmed. This was to him from the mighty Elohim of Jacob, who by His Word pastureth the fathers and the children of the seed of Yisrael. The Word of the Elohim of thy father shall be thy Helper, and the All‑Sufficient shall bless thee, with the blessings of the dew that descends from the heavens above, with the blessings that spring from the depths of the earth beneath, with the blessings of thy father and of thy mother. The blessing of thy father shall be added upon the blessing with which my fathers blessed me; which the princes who are of the world have desired: all of them shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the man who was separated from his brethren.
Benjamin: in his land will dwell the Shekina, and in his possession will the sanctuary be builded. In the morning and evening[19] will the priests offer the oblation, and at eventime divide the remaining portions of the residue of the sacred things.
All these the tribes of Yisrael are twelve; and this it is which their father spake to them, and blessed them; according to the blessing of each man, blessed he them. And he commanded them, and said to them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cavern which is in the field of Ephron the Hitaah; in the cavern which is in the double field over against Mamre, in the land of Kenaan, which field Avraham bought of Ephron the Hitaah for an inheritancesepulchre. There buried they Avraham and Sarah his wife; there buried they Izhak and Revekah his wife; and there buried I Leah. The field, and the cavern that is in it, purchased of the sons of Hitaah. And Jakob ceased to instruct his sons, and drew his feet together in the bed, and died, and was gathered unto his people.
L. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisrael. And forty days were completed to him; for so are completed the days of the embalmed; and the Mizraee mourned for him seventy days. And the days of his mourning passed: and Joseph spake with the house of Pharoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray, before Pharoh, saying My father adjured me, saying, Behold, I die; in my sepulchre which I have prepared for me in the land of Kenaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now let me go up, I pray, and I will bury my father and return. And Pharoh said, Go up and bury thy father, as he adjured thee. And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mizraim, went up with him; and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father: only the children, and the flocks, and the cattle, they left in the land of Goshen. And with him went up, also, chariots and horsemen;[20] and there was a very great host. And they came to the threshing‑floor[21] of Atad, which is beyond Jardena, and lamented there with lamentations great and very strong. And he made a mourning for his father seven days. And the inhabitants of the land of Kenaan saw the mourning at the threshing‑floor of Atad, and said, This is a mighty mourning of the Mizraee; therefore its name is called Abel Mizraim; which is beyond Jardena. And his sons did as he had commanded them. And his sons carried him into the land of Kenaan, and buried him in the cavern of the Double Field, which Avraham bought for an inheritancesepulchre of Ephron the Hitaah, before Mamre. And Joseph returned into Mizraim, he and his brethren, and all who went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. And the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead; and they said, Perhaps Joseph will retain enmity against us, and requiting will requite us all the evil which we did him. And they made visitation to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying, Thus shall you speak to Joseph, I pray you to forgive the guilt of thy brethren and their sin wherewith they did evil against thee. And now forgive, I beseech thee, the guilt of the servants of the Elohim of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake with him. And his brethren came and fell before him, and said, Behold, we are thy servants. And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I fear the Lord. When you thought evil against me, before the Lord it was intended for good, to be done, as at this day, for the preservation of much people. And now do not fear; I will sustain you and your children. And he consoled them, and spake consolation to their heart.
And Joseph dwelt in Mizraim, he and his father's house. And Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw of Ephraim three sons; also the sons of Makir, the son of Menashe, were born, whom Joseph brought up.
And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; but the Lord remembering will remember you, and bring you up from, this land to the land of which He sware to Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob. And Joseph adjured the sons of Yisrael, saying, The Lord remembering will remember you, and you shall carry my bones up from hence. And Joseph died, the son of a hundred and ten years, and they embalmed him, and laid him in an ark in Mizraim.
END OF ONKELOS ON BERESHITH.
[1] Al rish harsa, 'upon the head of the bed."
[1] Sam. Vers. "strengthened himself."
[1] Sam. Vers. "in their divisions."
[1] Sam. Vers. "prayed."
[1] Sam. Vers. "from the house of my nativity."
[1] Sam. Vers. "be spread abroad."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the beginning of my time."
[1] Or, "proceeded deceitfully." Azalta lakabel appeka.
[1] Sam. Vers. "they accomplished the fraud of their covenant."
[1] Sam, Vers. "proud."
[1] Sam. Vers. "love thee."
[1] Or, "gone up."
[1] Or, "wool dyed bright with colours."
[1] Sam. Vers. 'Issakar, an ass sojourning, lying down between two burdens."
[1] Sam. Vers. "fat."
[1] Churman: "species serpentis as cujus morsum nulla est medicina." --Castel. Root, charem, "to devote to destruction."
[1] Sam. Vers. "erecting itself."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Naphatali is a hind sent forth, giving words of freedom."
[1] Pania. Conf. the Ethiopic in Castel, under panu, col. 3021.
[1] Sam. Vers. "footmen."
[1] :The house of barns,"
[1] Al rish harsa, 'upon the head of the bed."
[2] Sam. Vers. "strengthened himself."
[3] Sam. Vers. "in their divisions."
[4] Sam. Vers. "prayed."
[5] Sam. Vers. "from the house of my nativity."
[6] Sam. Vers. "be spread abroad."
[7] Sam. Vers. "the beginning of my time."
[8] Or, "proceeded deceitfully." Azalta lakabel appeka.
[9] Sam. Vers. "they accomplished the fraud of their covenant."
[10] Sam, Vers. "proud."
[11] Sam. Vers. "love thee."
[12] Or, "gone up."
[13] Or, "wool dyed bright with colours."
[14] Sam. Vers. 'Issakar, an ass sojourning, lying down between two burdens."
[15] Sam. Vers. "fat."
[16] Churman: "species serpentis as cujus morsum nulla est medicina." --Castel. Root, charem, "to devote to destruction."
[17] Sam. Vers. "erecting itself."
[18] Sam. Vers. "Naphatali is a hind sent forth, giving words of freedom."
[19] Pania. Conf. the Ethiopic in Castel, under panu, col. 3021.
[20] Sam. Vers. "footmen."
[21] :The house of barns,"
Pgs. 128-139
Ch. 41-44
SECTION X.
VAYEHI MEKETS.
AND it was at the end of two years that Pharoh dreamed, and, behold, he stood by the River. And, behold, there came up from the River seven oxen, goodly in appearance, and fat‑fleshed; and they grazed in the meadow.[1] And, behold, seven other oxen came up from the river after them, evil in appearance, and leanfleshed; and they stood beside them by the bank of the the river. And the evil‑looking and lean‑fleshed oxen ate up the seven well‑looking and fat ones: and Pharoh awoke. And he slept, and dreamed a second (time); and, behold, seven ears rose up from one stalk, large and good, and, behold, seven ears, thin, and blighted (with the) east (wind), sprang up after them. And the seven wasted ears devoured the seven large and full ears. And Pharoh awoke, and, behold, a dream. And when it was morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians[2] of Mizraim, and all the wise men;[3] and Pharoh related the dreams to them, but they could not interpret them to Pharoh. And the chief of the cupbearers spake to Pharoh, saying, My faults I do remember this day. Pharoh was displeased with his servants, and gave me into custody at the house of the chief executioner, and the chief baker with me. And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, we dreamed. And with us there was a Hebrew youth, a servant of the chief executioner; and we recounted to him, and he explained to us our dreams, to each man according to his dream be explained; and according as he had explained to us, so it was: me he restored to my service, and him he hanged. And Pharoh sent, and called Joseph, and made him hasten from the prison; and he dressed his hair,[4] and changed his garments, and came unto Pharoh. And Pharoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. And I have heard of thee, saying, that thou hearest a dream, and dost interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharoh, saying, Not from my wisdom, but from before the Lord, will there be an answer of peace unto Pharoh. And Pharoh spake with Joseph, saying, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the River; and, behold, from the River rose up seven oxen, fat‑fleshed and goodly in appearance, and they grazed in the meadow.[5] And, behold, seven other oxen came up after them, lean and most evil in appearance, so wanting in flesh, that their like I have not seen in all the land of Mizraim for badness. And the lean oxen and evil ones ate up the seven first fat oxen. And they entered into their stomachs; but it could not be known that they had entered into their stomachs, for their appearance was bad as before; and I awoke. I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears of corn arose on one stalk, full and good. And, behold, seven (other) ears, hard, thin, and blasted (with the) east (wind), sprang up after them. And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could show it to me. And Joseph answered Pharoh, The dream of Pharoh is one. That which the Lord is about to do He hath showed to Pharoh. The seven good oxen are seven years; and the seven good ears of corn are seven years; the dream is one. And the seven lean and evil oxen which came up after them are seven years; and the seven ears, thin, and blasted with the east wind, are seven years of famine. This is the word which I have spoken to Pharoh. What the Lord is about to do, He hath showed to Pharoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty in all the land of Mizraim. And after them will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty in the land of Mizraim will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the people of the land. And plenty will not be known in the land for that famine which will be afterward; for it will be very mighty. And forasmuch as the dream was repeated to Pharoh twice, it is a confirmed thing before the Lord, and the Lord will hasten to do it. And now let Pharoh look out a prudent and wise man, and appoint him over the land of Mizraim. Let Pharoh do this, and appoint officers (lit., faithful men) over the land, and let them sow the land of Mizraim in the seven years of plenty, and collect all the produce of those good years that come, and lay up provision under the hand of Pharoh's officers, and preserve it in the cities: and it will be provision for the people of the land in the seven years of famine that are coming in the land of Mizraim, that the people of the land may not be consumed by the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharoh said to his servants, Can we find a man like this, in whom is the spirit of prophecy from the Lord? And Pharoh said to Joseph, Since the Lord hath made all this known to thee, there is none more prudent or wise than thou; thou shalt be appointed over my house, and by thy word shall all my people be governed;[6] only in the throne of this kingdom will I be more honourable than thou. And Pharoh said to Joseph, See, I have appointed thee over all the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh took off his ring from his hand, and set it upon Joseph's hand, and clothed him in a robe of lawn,[7] and put a chain of gold upon his neck. And he made him ride in his own second chariot,[8] and they proclaimed before him, This is the father of the king;[9] and he appointed him over all the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh said to Joseph, I am Pharoh; and without thy word shall no man lift up his hand to hold a weapon, nor his foot to mount a horse, in all the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh called the name of Joseph, The man to whom mysteries are revealed.[10] And he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti Phera,[11] prince of On, to be his wife; and Joseph went forth ruling over the land of Mizraim. And Joseph was a son of thirty years when he stood before Pharoh, king of Mizraim. And Joseph went out from before Pharoh, and passed through all the land of Mizraim.
And the inhabitants of the land collected in the seven years of plenty the provision into granaries. And he collected all the provision of the seven years which was in the land of Mizraim, and laid up the provision in cities, in the midst of each city the provision of the land surrounding it. And Joseph gathered provision as the sand of the sea, exceeding much, until he ceased to number, for it was without number. And unto Joseph were born two sons, (before the year of famine came,) which Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, prince of On, bare to him. And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Menasheh;[12] because the Lord hath made me to forget all my labour and all my father's house. And the name of the second he called Eph‑ra‑im;[13] because the Lord hath made me to increase in the land of my servitude. And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mizraim were completed. And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said; and the famine was in all the lands, but in all the land of Mizraim there was bread. Yet all the land of Mizraim was famished, and the people cried before Pharoh for bread: and Pharoh said to all the Mizraee, Go unto Joseph, and what he shall say to you, do. And the famine was over all the face of the land; and Joseph opened all the granaries in which was the corn, and sold to the Mizraee, and the famine became mighty in the land of Mizraim. And all the inhabitants of the earth came into Mizraim to buy corn of Joseph, because the famine was mighty in all the earth.
XLIII. And Jakob saw that corn was sold in Mizraim, and Jakob said to his sons, Whylook you (on each other)?[14] And he said, Behold, I have heard that corn is sold in Mizraim: go down thither, and buy us from thence, and we shall live, and not die. And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy corn from Mizraim; but Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, Jakob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest death should befall him. And the sons of Yisrael came to buy corn among them who came; for the famine was in the land of Kenaan. And Joseph, who was ruler over the land, was he who sold the corn to all the people of the earth. And the brothers of Joseph came, and bowed before him with their faces upon the ground. And Joseph saw his brothers, and knew them, and considered what he should say to them. And he spake with them severely, and said to them, Whence come you? And they said, From the land of Kenaan, to buy corn. And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of them; and he said to them, You are spies; to see the ruin[15] of the land are you come. And they said, No, my lord, (ribboni,) thy servants are come to buy corn. We are all the sons of one man. Right (men) are we; thy servants are not spies. But he said to them, No, but you are come to see the ruin of the land. And they said, Thy servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man, in the land of Kenaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father to‑day, and one is not! And Joseph said to them, That is what I have told you, saying, You are spies; by this you shall be proved: by the life of Pharoh you shall not go hence, until your youngest brother be come hither. Send one of you, and bring your brother; but you shall be bound, and your words shall be proved, whether you have spoken the truth; if not, by the life of Pharoh, you are spies. And he put them in the house of custody three days. And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear before the Lord. If you be true, let one of your brethren be bound in the prison ; and go you, carry the provision which is needed in your house, and bring your youngest brother to me, and your words will be verified, and you shall not die. And they did so. And they said, a man to his brother, We are verily guilty concerning our brother; that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he implored us, and we would not hearken to him: therefore is this distress come upon us. And Reuben answered them, saying, Did not I tell you, saying, Do not sin against the youth? but you, would not hearken. Thus, behold, his blood is required. But they knew not that Joseph heard; for there was an interpreter between them. And he turned himself away from them, and wept. And he returned and spake to them, and took Shemeon from them, and bound him before their eyes. And Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and return their money (that of each) man in his sack, and give them food in the way. And he did so by them. And they laid their corn upon their asses, and went thence. And one opened his sack to give provender to his ass at the house of lodging,[16] and saw his money, and, behold, it was in the mouth of his package; and he said to his brothers, My money is returned, and, behold, it is in my package. And the knowledge of their hearts failed, and they were each of them confounded, saying, What is this which the Lord hath done to us? And they came to Jakob their father in the land of Kenaan, and showed him all that had happened to them, saying, The man, the lord of the country, spoke hardly with us, and dealt with us as spies of the land. And we told him, We are true men, not spies: we are twelve brothers, sons of one father: one is not, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Kenaan. And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this I shall know that you are true men. Leave one of your brethren with me, and take the corn which is needed in your house, and go, and bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know that you are not spies: and when you (will be proved to) be true men, I will give up your brother to you., and you shall trade in the land. And it was, as they emptied their sacks, behold, each man's money was bound up in his sack; and when they and their father saw the envelopes of their money, they were afraid. And Jakob their father said to them, Me have you made desolate; Joseph is not, and Shemeon is not (here), and Benjamin you would take away; upon me are all these! And Reuben spake with his father, saying, Thou shalt put my two children to death if I do not bring him back to thee. Deliver him into my hand, and I will return him to thee. But he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone remains; and if death should befall him in the way in which you will go, you will bring down my grey hairs with mourning unto Sheol.
XLIII. But the famine prevailed in the land. And it was when they had ended to eat the corn which they had brought from Mizraim, that their father said to them, Return, and buy for us a little corn. And Jehuda spake to him, saying, The man attesting attested to us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee corn; but if thou wilt not send, we will not go down: for the man told us, You shall not see my face unless your brother be with you. And Yisrael said, Why did you do me this evil, in showing the man that you have a brother? And they said, The man asking asked us concerning our family,[17] saying, Is your father yet alive ? Have you a brother? And we showed him according to the word of these things: knowing could we know that be would say, Bring your brother to me? And Jehuda said to Yisrael his father, Send the youth with me, and let us arise and go, that we may live and not die, we, and thou, and our little ones. I will be the pledge for him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I do not bring him back to thee, and set him before thee, let mine be the sin with thee all the days. For except we had delayed in this, we might now have returned twice. And Yisrael their father said to them, If then it is to be, do this: take of what is praiseworthy[18] in the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man an offering; a little gum, and a little honey, storax and ladanum, nuts and almonds; and silver, two for one take in your hands, even the. silver which was returned in the mouth of your bags take back in your hands; perhaps it was an oversight. And take your brother, and arise, return to the man; and Elohim the Almighty give you favour before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And I, when desolated, shall be desolate! And the men took that offering, and the money two for one took they in their hands; and they took Benjamin, and arose, and went down into Mizraim, and stood before Joseph. And Joseph saw Benjamin with them; and he said to him who was appointed over his house, Bring the men into the house, and kill a killing[19] and prepare; for the men shall eat with me at dinner. And the man did as Joseph had said; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. And the men were afraid because they were brought into the, house of Joseph; and said, It is on account of the money that was returned in our baggage at first, that we are brought in, that he might domineer over us,[20] and find occasion against us, and take possession of us as slaves, and seize upon our asses. And they drew near the man who was set over Joseph's house, and spake with him at the gate of the house, and said, We entreat my lord (to hear us). Descending we came down at first to buy corn. And it was while we were at the resting‑place, we opened our baggage, and, behold, a man's silver was in the mouth of the bag; the silver in its weight. But we have returned it in our hand. And other silver have we brought in our hand to buy corn. We knew not who put the silver in our baggage. And he said, Peace be to you: fear not; your Elohim, and the Elohim of your father, gave you treasure in, your bags; your money came to me. And he brought out Shemeon to them. And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender for their asses. And they made ready the offering against the entrance of Joseph to dinner: for they had heard that there they were to eat bread. And Joseph entered the house, and they brought to him the offering which was in their hands into the house; and they bowed to him upon the ground. And he saluted them,[21] and said, Is your father well, the old man you spake of? Is he yet alive? And they said, It is well with thy servant our father, he is yet alive; and they bowed and worshipped. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother; and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you spake to me? And he said, Mercy from the Lord be upon thee, my son.[22] And Joseph made haste, for his bowels were commoved over his brother, and he sought (where) to weep; and he entered into the chamber, the place of sleeping, and wept there. And he washed his face, and came out, and was comforted, and said, Put on bread; and they set for him alone, and for them alone, and for the Mizraee who ate with him, alone. For the Mizraee might not eat bread with the Hivraee, because the animals that the Mizraee worshipped the Hivraee did eat. And they reclined before him, the chief according to his chiefship, and the less according to his minority; and the men wondered, each man at his companion. And portions were brought from him, and set before them, and greater was Benjamin's portion than the portions of them all five portions. And they drank and were merry with him.[23]
XLIV. And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's bags with corn as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his baggage. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the youngest one's baggage, and his purchase‑money. And he did according to Joseph's word which he spake. The morning lightened, and the men were sent away, they and their asses. They had not gone far from the city, when Joseph said to him who was set over his house, Arise, follow after the men, and overtake them, and say to them, Why have you rendered evil for good? Is it not this from which my lord drinketh, and, behold, by which inquiring he inquireth?[24] You have done the thing that is evil. And he overtook them, and spake with them these words. And they said, Why does my lord speak these words? Be it far from thy servants to do according to this thing! Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our baggages we brought to thee again from the land of Kenaan; how then should we steal from the house of thy lord vessels of silver, or vessels of gold? With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die; and we also will be servants to my lord. And he said, According to your words, so let it be. With whomsoever it is found, he shall be my servant, but you will be acquitted. And they made haste, and brought down every man his baggage to the ground; and every man opened his baggage. And he searched, beginning with the greatest and finishing with the least; and the chalice was found in the baggage of Benjamin. And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. And Jehuda entered and his brothers into Joseph's house, for he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said to them, What work is this which you have done? Did you not know that a man like me divining can divine? And Jehuda said to him, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? How shall we be justified? Before the lord there is sin found in thy servants. Behold, we are the servants of my lord; we also and he in whose hand the chalice hath been found. But he said, Far be it from me to do so: the man in whose hand the chalice has been found shall be my servant; but go you up in peace to your father.
[1] Or, "sedge."
[1] Harashee.
[1] Hakimaha.
[1] Vesafir-attonsus est.
[1] Or, "sedge."
[1] Sam. Vers. "be fed."
[1] Butz byssus.
[1] Sam. Vers. "double chariot."
[1] Deen aba lemalka.
[1] Sam Vers. Temirithi gala, "The Revealer of mysteries."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the daughter of the Kohen Potiphera."
[1] From nashah, "to forget."
[1] From pharah, "to be fruitful."
[1] Lama tithchazun.
[1] Sam. Vers. "the shame of the land."
[1] Beth mebatha.
[1] "Our generation."
[1] Medimshabach. Sam Vers. "celebrated."
[1] Or, "a victim," niksatha.
[1] Sam. Vers. "lord it over us."
[1] Lit. "asked for their peace."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Elohim be propitious to thee, my son."
[1] Lit. "were drunken." Sam Vers. "were heavy."
[1] Badaqa mebadiq.
[1] Or, "sedge."
[2] Harashee.
[3] Hakimaha.
[4] Vesafir-attonsus est.
[5] Or, "sedge."
[6] Sam. Vers. "be fed."
[7] Butz byssus.
[8] Sam. Vers. "double chariot."
[9] Deen aba lemalka.
[10] Sam Vers. Temirithi gala, "The Revealer of mysteries."
[11] Sam. Vers. "the daughter of the Kohen Potiphera."
[12] From nashah, "to forget."
[13] From pharah, "to be fruitful."
[14] Lama tithchazun.
[15] Sam. Vers. "the shame of the land."
[16] Beth mebatha.
[17] "Our generation."
[18] Medimshabach. Sam Vers. "celebrated."
[19] Or, "a victim," niksatha.
[20] Sam. Vers. "lord it over us."
[21] Lit. "asked for their peace."
[22] Sam. Vers. "Elohim be propitious to thee, my son."
[23] Lit. "were drunken." Sam Vers. "were heavy."
[24] Badaqa mebadiq.
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Ch. 41-44
SECTION X.
VAYEHI MEKETS.
It was at the end of two years, that the remembrance of Joseph came before the Word of the Lord. And Pharoh dreamed, and, behold, he stood by the river, and, behold, from the river came up seven oxen goodjlooking and fatjfleshed; and they grazed in the midst of the sedges.[1] [JERUSALEM. Grazing in the midst of the sedges] And, behold, seven other oxen came up from the river, eviljlooking and lean in their flesh, and stood by the side of tile oxen on the bank of the river. And the eviljlooking and leanjfleshed oxen devoured the seven goodjlooking and fat. And Pharoh awoke from his sleep.
And he slept, and saw a second dream; and, behold, seven ears arose on one stalk, full and good; and, behold, seven ears, thin and blighted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven fat and full. And Pharoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians of Mizraim and all the wise men; and Pharoh told them the dreams; but no man was able to interpret it; for it was occasioned[2] by the Lord, because the time had come that Joseph should come forth from the house of the bound.
And the chief of the cupjbearers spake before Pharoh, saying, My faults do I remember this day. It was occasioned from the Lord that Pharoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in ward in the house of the chief executioner, me and the chief baker. And we dreamed a dream in one night I and he; each man his (own) dream, and the interpretation of his companion's dream we dreamed. And there was with us a Hebrew youth, a servant of the chief executioner; and we recounted to him, and he explained the dream to us, to each man be explained the interpretation of his dream. And even as he interpreted to us so it was; me he restored in his sentence to the order of my service, and him he hanged.
And Pharoh sent and called Joseph, and hastened him from the prison; and he dressed his hair[3], and changed his garments, and went unto Pharoh. And Pharoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it; and I have heard of thee, saying, that if thou hear a dream thou canst explain it. And Joseph answered Pharoh, saying, (It is) without me; it is not man who interprets dreams: but from before the Lord shall be an answer of peace unto Pharoh.
And Pharoh spake with Joseph, saying, I saw in my dream, and, behold, I stood on the bank of the river. And, behold, from the river came up seven oxen, fat-fleshed and goodjlooking, and they grazed in the midst of the sedges. And behold seven other oxen came up after them, wasted, and very eviljlooking, and lean in their flesh. I have not seen the like of them in all the land of Mizraim for badness. And the wasted and evil oxen devoured the first seven fat oxen. And they entered into their stomach, but it could not be known that they had entered into their stomach, for their appearance was evil as before; and I awoke.
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears arose on one stalk, full and good; and, behold, seven ears withered, thin,[4] blighted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told the magicians, but there is no one who can teach me.
And Joseph said to Pharoh, The dream of Pharoh is one. That which the Lord is about to do He showeth to Pharoh. The seven good oxen announce seven years; and the seven good ears announce also those seven years: the dream is one. And the seven wasted and evil oxen which arose after them announce seven other years; and the seven ears thin and blighted with the east wind likewise make known that there will be seven years of famine. This is the word that I speak to Pharoh: what the Lord is about to do He showeth Pharoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty in all the land of Mizraim. And after them will arise seven years of famine, which will make all the plenty that was in the land of Mizraim to be forgotten; and the famine will consume the inhabitants of the land; neither will the plenty which had been in the land be known, for the famine that will be afterward, because it will be exceeding strong. And forasmuch as the dream was repeated to Pharoh twice, therefore is the thing confirmed before the Lord, and the Lord hasteneth to do it.
But now let Pharoh look out a man prudent and wise, and appoint him over the land of Mizraim. Let Pharoh make superintendents over the land, and let them take out one part in five of all the produce of the land of Mizraim in the seven years of plenty. [JERUSALEM. Let Pharoh make and appoint him a superintendent over the land; and let him set apart one in five throughout the land of Mizraim in the seven years of plenty.] And let them collect all the produce of those good years that are coming, and gather together the produce under the hand of Pharoh's superintendents, and set the produce in the cities to be kept; and there will be provision laid up (as) in a cavern in the earth, that therefrom they may take in the years of famine which come upon the land of Mizraim, that the people of the land perish not through the famine.
And the word was good before Pharoh, and before all his servants. And Pharoh said to his servants, Can we find a man like this, in whom is the spirit of prophecy from the Lord? And Pharoh said to Joseph, Since the Lord Hath made known all this to thee, there is no one so prudent and wise as thou art. Thou shalt be superintendent over my house, and by the decree of thy mouth shall all my people be armed only in the throne of the kingdom will I be greater than thou. And Pharoh said to Joseph, See, I have appointed thee prince[5] over the land of Mizraim.
And Pharoh took off his ring from his hand, and set it on Joseph's hand; and he clothed him in vestments of fine linen, and set a collar of gold upon his neck, and made him ride in the second chariot of Pharoh; and they chanted before him, This is the Father of the king; Great in wisdom, few[6] in years. And he appointed him prince over all the land of Mizraim. [Yerushalayim And they chanted before him, and said, Live the Father of the king, Great in wisdom and few in years.] And Pharoh said to Joseph, I am Pharoh the king, and thou art viceregent,[7] and without thy word a man shall not lift up his hand to gird on arms, or his foot to mount a horse in all the land of Mizraim. And Pharoh called the name of Joseph, The man who revealeth mysteries. And he gave him Asenath, whom Dinah had borne to Shekem, and the wife of Potiphera prince (Rabba) of Tanis had brought up, to be his wife. And Joseph went forth ruler over the land of Mizraim. And Joseph was a son of thirty years when he stood before Pharoh, king of Mizraim. And Joseph went out from Pharoh, and passed, a prince and a ruler, through all ,the land of Mizraim.
And the earth (so) brought forth, that every blade made two handsfull in the seven years of plenty, until all the granaries were full. And they gathered all the produce of the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mizraim, and he laid up the produce in the cities; the produce of the fields which were round about a city he laid up therein.
And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine arose, which Asenath who had been brought up in the house of Potipliera prince of Tanis bare to him. And Joseph called the name of his firstjborn Menasheh; because, the Lord hath made me forget all my weariness and all the house of my father. And the name of the second he called Ephraim; for he said, The Lord hath made me mighty in the land of my affliction, as he will make the house of my father mighty here in their afflictions.
And the seven years of plenty were completed which were to come in the land of Mizraim; and the seven years of famine began to be, as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Mizraim there was bread. And all the land of Mizraim had dearth; because the seed wheat bare no fruit, and the people cried before Pharoh for bread. And Pharoh said to all the Mizraee, Go to Joseph, and what he shall tell you do. And the famine was upon all the face of the land; and Joseph opened all the treasures and sold to the Mizraee. And the famine waxed mighty in the land of Mizraim; and all the inhabitants of the earth came into Mizraim to buy provision of Joseph; for the famine was mighty in all the earth.
XLII. And Jakob saw that provisions might be bought and that they brought corn from Mizraim; and Jakob said to his sons, Why are you afraid to go down to Mizraim? And he said, Behold, I have heard that corn is sold in Mizraim: go down thither and buy for us from thence, that we may live and not die. And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy corn from Mizraim. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jakob sent not down with his brethren; for he said, Behold, he is a youth, and I fear lest death should befall him.
And the sons of Yisrael went every one by one door, lest the evil eye should have sway over them, as they went together to buy among the Kenaanites who went also to buy; because the famine was in the land of Kenaan.
And Joseph was ruler over the land; and he knew that his brethren had come to buy; for he had appointed notaries at the gates of the city to register daily, of every one who came, his name and the name of his father; and he it was who sold corn to all the people of the land.
And the brethren of Joseph came. And they looked through all the streets, and public places, and hospices, but could not find Him. And they came unto his house, and worshipped him with their faces to the ground.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and recognised them; but he made himself as a stranger in their eyes, and spake hard words to them, and said to them, Whence come yon? And they said, From the land of Kenaan, to buy corn. Now Joseph recognised his brethren, because, when separated from them, they had the token of the beard; but they did not recognise him, because (at that time) he had not the token of the beard, and at this hour he had it. And Joseph remembered the dreams be had dreamed of them. And he said to them, You are spies: to see the nakedness of the shame of the land are you come. And they answered him, No, my lord, thy servants are come to buy corn: we are all the sons of one man; we are true; thy servants are not spies. But he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the shame of the land are you come. They answered, Thy servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man, in the land of Kenaan; and, behold, the youngest is tojday with our father, and one went from us, and we know not what hath been in his end! And Joseph said to them, This is what I have spoken to you, saying, You are spies. By that word you shall be proved. (By) the life of Pharoh you shall not go hence unless your youngest brother be brought hither. Send one of you, and bring your brother; but you shall be bound, and your words be proved if the truth is with you: and if not, (by) the life of Pharoh you are spies. And he kept them together in the house of confinement three days.
And Joseph said to them on the third day, This do, that you may live; for I fear the Lord. If you are true, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your confinement and go you, carry the corn, that you may buy for the hunger of your house, and bring your youngest brother to me, that your words may be verified, and you may not die. And they did so.
And they said, a man to his brother, In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, when we saw the distress of his soul, when be entreated us, and we would not hearken to him; therefore hath this affliction come upon us. And Reuben answered them and said, Did I not tell you, saying, Do not sin against the youth? But you would not listen to me; and thus, behold, his blood is required of us. But they knew not that Joseph understood (heard) the holy language; for Menasheh was interpreter[8] between them. [Yerushalayim. But they knew not that Joseph heard in the holy language; for as an interpeter Menasheh stood between them.] And he withdrew from them and wept, and returned and, spake with them. And from them he took Shimeon, who had counselled them to kill him, and bound him before them.
And Joseph commanded his servant to fill their vehicles with corn, and to return each man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the way. And he did so for them. And they laid their corn upon their asses and went thence.
Levi, who bad been left without Shimeon his companion, opened his sack to give food to his ass at the place of lodging, and saw his money: behold, it was in the mouth of his pannier. And he said to his brothers, My money is returned, behold, it is in my pannier. And knowledge failed from their hearts, and each wondered with his brother, saying, What is this which the Lord hath done, and not for sin of ours ?
And they came to Jakob their father in the land of Kenaan, and related to him all that had befallen them, saying, The man the lord of the land spake with us harshly, and treated us as spies of the country: but we said to him, We are faithful men, not spies. We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; of one, we know not what was his end, and the youngest is tojday with our father in the land of Kenaan. And the man, the lord of the land said to us, By this I shall know that you are true. Leave me one of your brothers with me, and what is needed by the hunger of your houses take, and go, and bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know that you are not spies, but faithful. I will (then) restore your brother to you, and you shall transact business in the land.
And it was as they emptied their baggages, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his baggage; and they and their father saw the bundles of money, and they were afraid on account of Shimeon whom they had left there. And Jakob their father said to them, Me have you bereaved! Of Joseph you said, An evil beast hath devoured him; of Shimeon you have said, The king of the land hath bound him; and Benjamin you seek to take away: upon me is the anguish of all of them. [JERUSALEM. And Jakob their father said to them Me have you bereaved of Joseph. From the hour that I sent him to you I have not known what was his end; and Benjamin you are seeking to take. Yet by me are to arise the twelve tribes.] And Reuben spake to his father, saying Slay my two sons with a curse[9] if I do not bring him to thee. Give him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee. But be said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone remains of his mother; and if death should befall him in the way that you go, you will bring down my age with mourning to the grave. But the famine was strong in the land. [JERUSALEM. Death.]
XLIII. And it was when they had finished eating the corn they had brought from Mizraim, their father said to them, Return and buy us a little corn. And Jehuda spake to him, saying, The man attesting attested to us saying, You shall not see the sight of my face unless your youngest brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy corn for thee; but if thou wilt not send (him), we will not go down; for the man told us, You shall not see the sight of my face unless your brother be with you. And Yisrael said, Why did you do me evil in showing the man that you had yet a brother? And they said, The man demanding demanded (to know) about us, and about our family, saying Is your father yet living? Have you a brother? And we informed him according to the word of these things. Could we know that be would say, Bring your brother down? And Jehuda said to Yisrael his father, Send the youth with me, that we may arise and go; and that we may live and not die, both we, and you, and our little ones. I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee again, and set him before thee, the guilt be upon me before thee all days. [JERUSALEM. I will be afar off from the salutation of my father all days.] For unless we had thus delayed, we should already have returned these two times.
And Yisrael their father said to them, If it must be so, do this: Take of the praiseworthy things of the land, and put them in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little gum[10] and a little honey, wax and ladanum,[11] the oil of nuts, and the oil of almonds, and money two upon one [JERUSALEM. Double] take in your hands, even the money that was returned in the mouth of your baggage, take back in your hands; perhaps it was done in error. And take Benjamin your brother, and arise, return to the man, and Elohim the Almighty give you mercies before the man, that he may release to you your other brother, and Benjamin: and I, behold, I am now certified by the Holy Spirit that if I am bereaved of Joseph, I shall also be bereaved of Shimeon and of Benjamin. [Yerushalayim And I, behold, if I be not bereaved of my son Joseph, so shall I not add to be bereaved of Shimeon and of Benjamin.]
The men took the present, and the money two for one in their hands, and they took Benjamin, and went down to Mizraim, and stood before Joseph. And Joseph saw Benjamin with them: and he said to Menasheh whom he had made superintendent over his house, Bring the men into the house, and unloose the house of slaughter, and take out the sinew that shrank, and prepare meat before them; for the man shall eat with me at the time of the noonjday meal. And the man did as Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
The men feared when they were brought into Joseph's house, and said, For the money that was returned in our sacks at the first are we brought in, that be may find occasion against us and condemn us, and sell us for slaves, and take our asses. And they drew near the man who bad been appointed intendant over Joseph's house, and spake with him at the gate of the house. And they said, We entreat you, my lord: we indeed came down at first to buy corn. But it was when we had come to our place of lodging, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, the money of a man was in the mouth of his sack: but we have brought it back in our hand. And other money have we brought down in hand to buy corn. We know not who put the money in our sacks. And he said, Peace to you; be not afraid of my lord. Your Elohim and the Elohim of your fathers gave you treasure in your sacks: your money came to me. And he brought out Shimeon to them.
The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave them provender for their asses. And they made read the present against the entrance of Joseph at the noonjday feast; for they had heard from him that they were to eat bread there.
And Joseph entered the house, and they offered to him the present which was in their hands for the house; and bowed before him upon the ground. And Joseph saluted them, and said, Is it well with your father, the old man of whom you told me? Is be still alive? They answered, It is well with thy servant our father; he is yet alive. And they bowed and made obeisance. And he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you told me? And he said, Mercy from the Lord be upon thee, my son!
And Joseph made haste, for his compassions were moved upon his brother, and he sought to weep, and he went into the chamber [JERUSALEM. Into the chamber] the house of sleep, and wept there. And he washed [JERUSALEM. And he washed] his face from tears, and came forth, and hastened and said, Set bread. And they set for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Mizraee who ate with him by themselves; for it was not proper for the Mizraee to eat bread with the Yehudaee, because the animals which the Mizraee worshipped the Yehudaee ate. And they sat around him, the greatest according to his majority, and the less according to his minority. For he had taken the silver cup in his hand, and, sounding[12] as if divining he had set in order the sons of Leah on one side, and the sons of Zilpha on the other side, and the sons of Bilhah on another side, and Benjamin the son of Rahel he ordered by the side of himself. And the men wondered each at the other. And he sent portions from his table, and they set them forth from him before them. But Benjamin's portion was larger than the portions of any of them; five portions: one was his own portion one portion from himself, one from his wife, and two portions from his two sons. And they drank and were drunken with him; for from the day when they were separated from him they had not drunk wine, neither he nor they, until that day.
XLIV. And he commanded Menasheh whom he bad appointed intendant of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with corn, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his bag. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his purchase money. And he did according to the word which Joseph had spoken The morning lightened, and the men were sent away, they and their asses. They had not gone far from city, when Joseph said to Measheh whom he had appointed the intendant of his house, Arise, follow after the men, overtake them and say to them, Why have ye returned evil for good ? Is it not that from which my lord drinketh, and by which divining he divineth? That which you have done is evil. [Yerushalayim By which divining he divineth] And he overtook them, and spake with them all these words.
They said to him, Why does my lord speak words like these ? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing. Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought to thee again from the land of Kenaan; how then should we steal from thy lord's house vessels of silver, or vessels of gold ? With whomsoever of thy servants it shall be found, let him be guilty of death, and we also will be slaves of thy lord. And he said, According to your words let it be. With whomsoever it is found he shall be my slave, but you shall be innocent.
And they made haste, and brought down each man his sack upon the ground, and every man opened his sack. And he searched beginning with Reuben, and ending with Benjamin. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. And they rent their clothes; but the strength of fortitude was given to them ; and they laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
And Jehuda and his brethren entered into Joseph's house. He was yet there ; and they fell before him on the ground.
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done ? Could you not know that a man like me divining can divine? And Jehuda said to him What shall we say to my lord concerning the former
money, and what concerning the latter money ? and how shall we be acquitted concerning the cup ? From before the Lord there is sin found upon thy servants. Behold, we are my lord's servants, and he in whose hand the chalice hath been found. But he said, Far be it from me to do thus; the man in whose hand the chalice hath been found shall be my slave; but you, go up in peace to your father.
[1] Gomaya papyri.”
[2] Istakaph
[3] Shaphar, totondit.”
[4] Or, stricken.”
[5] Sarkan
[6] Or tender”
[7] Alkaphta
[8] Meturgeman
[9] Be-schalmatha
[10] Seraph Ketaph, liquid gum.” Lachrymea arborum, sive herbarum
[11] Letom, Arab., Landanon, gum of the cistus.”
[12] Tinkling” or ringing.”
SECTION IV.
VAYERA.
AND the glory of the Lord was revealed to him in the valley of Mamre; and he, being ill from the pain of circumcision, sat at the door of the tabernacle in the fervour (or strength) of the day. And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three angels in the resemblance of men were standing before him; (angels) who had been sent from the necessity of three things;--because it is not possible for a ministering angel to be sent for more than one purpose at a time;--one, then, had come to make known to him that Sarah should bear a man-child; one had come to deliver Lot; and one to overthrow Sedom and Amorah. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of the tent, and bowed himself on the earth.
[JERUSALEM. Three angels were sent to our father Avraham; and the three were sent for three things;--because it is not possible that one of the high angels should be sent for more things than one. The first angel was sent to announce to our father Avraham, that, behold, Sarah would bear Izhak; the second angel was sent to deliver Lot from the midst of the overthrow; the third angel was sent to overthrow Sedom and Amorah, Admah and Zeboim. Therefore was there a word of prophecy from before the Lord unto Avraham the Just, and the Word of the Lord was revealed to him in the valley of vision; and he sat in the door of the tabernacle, comforting himself from his circumcision in the fervour (or strength) of the day.]
And he said, I beseech, by the mercies (that are) before Thee, O Lord, if now I have found favour before Thee, that the glory of Thy shekina may not now ascend from Thy servant, until I have set forth provisions under the tree. And I will bring food of bread, that you may strengthen your hearts, and give thanks in the Name of the Word of the Lord, and afterwards pass on. For therefore at the time of repast are you come, and have turned aside to your servant to take food. And they said, Thou hast spoken well; do according to thy word. And Avraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said to her, Hasten three measures of flour-meal, mix and make cakes. And unto the flock ran Avraham, and took a calf, tender and fat, and gave to a young man, and hastened to make prepared meats; and he took rich cream and milk and the calf which the young man had made into prepared meats, and set them before them, according to the way and conduct (hilkath) of the creatures of the world; and he served before them, and they sat under the tree; and he quieted himself (to see) whether they would eat.
And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, she is in the tent. And ONE of them said, Returning I will return to thee in the coming year; and you shall be revived, and, behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was hearkening at the door of the tent, and Ishmael stood behind her, and marked what the Angel said.
[JERUSALEM. And He said, Returning I will return to thee at that time, to revive you, and, behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a male child. And Sarah was hearkening at the door of the tent, and Ishmael stood behind her.]
But Avraham and Sarah were old, they had mounted (alu) in days, and with Sarah the way of women had ceased. And Sarah wondered in her heart, saying After that I am old shall I have conceptions, and my lord Avraham is old? [JERUSALEM. And Sarah derided in her heart, saying, After that I am old, is it possible to return to the days of my youth, for me to have conception, and Avraham old?] And the Lord said to Avraham, Why hath Sarah so laughed, saying, Can it be in truth that I shall bear, being old? Is it possible to hide anything from before the Lord? At the gracious time I will return to thee, in the time when you shall be revived, and Sarah shall have a son. And Sarah denied and said, I wondered not; for she was afraid. And the Angel said, Fear not: yet in truth thou didst laugh.
And the angels, who had the likeness of men, arose from thence, and the one who had made known the tidings to Sarah ascended to the high heavens; and two of them looked toward Sedom; and Avraham went with them. [JERUSALEM. And they looked towards.] And the Lord said, with His Word, I cannot hide from Avraham that which I am about to do; and it is right that before I do it, I should make it known to him. For Avraham is to be a great and mighty people, and through him shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed. [JERUSALEM. And the Lord with His Word said, Shall I hide from Avraham, My friend, that which I am about to do? Forasmuch as the town of Sedom is among the gifts that I have given to him, it is just that I should not overthrow it, till I have made it known to him.] Because his holiness (piety, chasidutha) is manifest before Me, (and) that he will instruct his sons, and the men of his house after him, to keep the ways that are right before the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Avraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.
And the Lord said to the ministering angels, The cry of Sedom and Amorah, because they oppress the poor, and decree that whosoever giveth a morsel to the needy shall be burned with fire, is therefore great, and their guilt exceedingly weighty. I will now appear, and see whether, as the cry of a damsel torn away, which ascendeth before Me, they have made completion of their sins; (or, whether they have made an end of their sins;) and if they have wrought repentance, shall they not be as (if) innocent before Me? and as if not knowing, I will not punish. [JERUSALEM. Now will I appear and see, according as the cry of the people of Sedom and Amorah hath ascended before Me, whether they have made a complete end. It may be, that some among these sinners do not know that their works of evil are manifest before Me. And if they seek to work repentance, behold, they shall be considered before Me as if those works had not been known.]
And the angels who had the likeness of men, turned thence and went towards Sedom. And Avraham now supplicated mercy for Lot, and ministered in prayer before the Lord. And Avraham prayed and said, Wilt Thou destroy in Thy displeasure the innocent with the guilty? Perhaps there are fifty innocent persons within the city, who pray before Thee,--ten for every city, of all the five cities of Sedom, Amorah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar. Wilt Thou in Thy displeasure destroy and not forgive the country, on account of the fifty innocent ones who are in it? Unholy would it be before Thee to do according to this word, to slay the innocent with the guilty, and to make the innocent to be as the guilty! That be unholy with Thee. It cannot be that One who is the Judge of all the earth should not do justice. And the Lord said, If I find in Sedom fifty innocent in the midst of the city who pray before Me, I will forgive all the land on their account. And Avraham responded, and said, I pray for mercy. Behold, now, I have begun to speak before the Lord; I, who am as dust and ashes. Perhaps of the fifty innocent persons, five may be wanting. On account of the five who may be wanting to Zoar, wilt Thou destroy the whole city? And He said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. And he added yet to speak before Him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there; ten for each city of the four cities, and Zoar, whose guilt is lighter, forgive thou for Thy mercy's sake. And he said, I will not make an end for the sake of the forty innocent ones. And he said, Let not the displeasure of the Lord, the Lord of all the world, wax strong against me, and I will speak. Perhaps thirty who pray may be found there, ten for each of the three cities, and Zeboim and Zoar forgive them for Thy mercy's sake. And He said, I will not make an end if I find thirty there. And he said, Imploring mercy, I have now begun to speak before the Lord, the Lord of all the world. Perhaps twenty who pray may be found; ten in each of the two cities, and the three forgive Thou for Thy mercy's sake! And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of the twenty innocent. And he said, I implore mercy before Thee! Let not the anger of the Lord,the Lord of all the world, grow strong, and I will speak only this time. Perhaps ten may be found there; and I and they will pray for mercy upon all the land, and Thou wilt forgive them. And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of the ten who may be innocent. And the majesty of the Lord went up when He had ceased to speak with Avraham; and Avraham returned to his place.
XIX. Two angels came to Sedom at the evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. And Lot saw, and rose up to meet them from the gate of the tabernacle. And he bowed his face to the ground, and said, I beg now, my lords, turn now hither, and enter the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet; and you will arise and proceed on your way. And they said to him, No; for in the street we will lodge. [JERUSALEM. And Lot sat in the gate of Sedom, and he saw them, and ran and saluted them, and bowed with his face to the ground……2. And wash your feet, and wash you in the morning, and go to your tents in peace. And they said to him, No; for in the open place of the city we will lodge.] And he persuaded them earnestly, and they turned aside to be with him; and they entered his house, and he made a repast for the, and prepared unleavened cakes. And it seemed to him as if they did eat. [JERUSALEM. And it appeared as if they ate and drank.]
They had not yet lain down, when the wicked men of the city, the men of Sedom, came round upon the house, from the youth to the old man, all the people throughout. And they cried to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who entered with thee to-night? Bring them out to us, and we will lie with them. And Lot went out to them to the gate, and shut the door after him. And he said, I pray, my breathren, do not thus wickedly. Behold, now, I have two daughters who have had no dealing with a man; I would now bring even them out to you to do to them as is meet before you, rather than you should do evil to these men, because they have entered in to lodge under the shadow of my roof. [JERUSALEM. 7. And Lot said to them, Wait here a little, till we have besought mercy before the Lord. 8. Who have not known dealing with man.]
And they said, Give up this. And they said, Did not this come alone to sojourn among us? and, behold, he is making himself a judge, and judging the whole of us. But now we will do worse to thee than to them. And they prevailed against the man, against Lot, greatly, and came near, to shatter the door. And the Men stretched forth their hands, and brought Lot unto them in the house, and shut the door. But the men who were at the gate of the house they struck with a suffusion of the eyes, from the young to the old, and they waried themselves to find the gate. [JERUSALEM. With blindness.] And the Men said to Lot, Hast thou yet in this city kinsman or brother? Thy sons-in-law, thy sons and thy daughters, take forth from the place; for the cry of it before the Lord is great, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went forth, and spake with his sons-in-law who had taken his daughters, and said, Arise, come forth from this place; for the Lord destroyeth the city. But the word was as a wonder, (and he) as a man ranting, in the eyes of his sons-in-law. And at the time that the morning was about to uprise, the angels were urgent upon Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are with you, lest you perish in the condemnation of the inhabitants of the city. But he delayed: and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, for mercy from the Lord was upon them. And they brought them forth, and set them without the city. And it was that as they led them without, one of them returned into Sedom, to destroy it; and one remained with Lot, and said to him, Be merciful to your life; look not behind you, and stand not in all the plain; to the mountain escape, or you perish. And Lot said to him, I beseech of thee endure with me a little hour, until I have prayed for mercy from before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. 15. And it was at the time of the upcoming of the column of the morning……18. Be steadfast here a little with us until I have besought mercy before the Lord.] Behold, now, thy servant hath found mercy before Thee, and Thou hast multiplied the kindness Thou hast done me in saving my life, and I am not able to escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. Behold, now, I pray, this city, it is a near habitation, and convenient (for us) to escape thither; and it is small, and the guilt thereof light. I will flee thither, then. Is it not a little one? and my life shall be preserved. And He said, Behold, I have accepted thee in this matter also, that I will not overthrow the city for which thou hast spoken, to destroy it, that thou mayest escape to it. Hasten and flee thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou have entered there. Therefore he called the name of the city Zoar.
The sun had passed the sea, and come forth upon the earth, at the end of three hours, and Lot entered into Zoar.
And the Word of the Lord had caused showers of favour to descend upon Sedom and Amorah, to the intent that they might work repentance, but they did it not: so that they said, Wickedness is not manifest before the Lord. Behold, then, there are now sent down upon them sulphur and fire from before the Word of the Lord from Heaven. [JERUSALEM. 24. And the Word of the Lord Himself had made to descend upon the people of Sedom and Amorah showers of favour, that they might work repentance from their wicked works. But when they saw the showers of favour, they said, So, our wicked works are not manifest before Him. He turned (then), and caused to descend upon them bitumen and fire from before the Lord from the heavens.] And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the herbage of the earth.
And his wife looked after the angel, to know what would be in the end of her father's house, for she was of the daughters of the Sedomaee; and because she sinned by salt (bemilcha) she was manifestly punished; behold, she was made a statue of salt. [JERUSALEM. And because the wife of Lot was of the children of the people of Sedom, she looked behind her, to see what would be the end of her father's house: and, behold, she was made to stand a statue of salt, until the time of the resurrection shall come, when the dead shall arise.]
And Avraham arose in the morning (and went) to the place where he had ministered in prayer before the Lord. And he looked towards Sedom and Amorah, and all the land of the plain, and saw, and, behold, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it was when the Lord destroyed the cities of the plain, that He remembered the righteousness of Avraham, and sent forth Lot from the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities wherein Lot had dwelt.
And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; because he feared to reside in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cavern, he and his two daughters. And the elder said to the less, Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come to us after the way of the whole earth: [JERUSALEM. And there is not a man in the land who may come with us after the Torah of all the earth:] come, let us make our father drink wine, and when he is drunken we will lie with him, and raise up sons from our father. And they made their father drink wine that night, and he was drunk. And the elder arose, and lay with her father, nor did he know when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it was the day following, and the elder said to the less, Behold, now, I lay my evening with the father; let us make him drink wine this night also, that he may be drunk; and go thou and lie with him, that we may raise up sons from our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also, and he was drunk, and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not in her lying down nor in her rising up. And the two daughters of Lot became with child by their father. And the elder brought forth a son, and she called his name Moab, because from her father she had conceived. He is the father of the Moabaee unto this day. And the younger also brought forth a son, and she called his name Bar-Ammi, because he was the son of her father. He is the father of the Ammonite people unto this day.
XX. And Avraham went on from thence to the land of the south, and dwelt between Rekam and Chagra, and had his habitation in Gerar. And Avraham said concerning Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelek, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah. [JERUSALEM. King of Arad.] And a word came from before the Lord unto Abimelek, in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou diest, because of the woman whom thou hast carried away, and she a man's wife. But Abimelek had not come nigh to defile her; and he said, Lord, shall the son of a people who hath not sinned, and whom it is right to absolve in the judgment, be killed? Did he not tell me, She is my sister? and did not she also say, He is my brother? In the truthfulness of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. And the Word of the Lord said to him in a dream, Before Me also it is manifest that in the truthfulness of thy heart thou didst this, and so restrained I thee from sinning before Me; therefore I would not permit thee to come near her. And now let the wife of the man return; for he is a prophet; he will pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not let her return, know that dying thou shalt die, thou and all who are thine. And Abimelek arose in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these words before them; and the men feared greatly. And Abimelek called Avraham, and said, What hast thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee? For thou hadst brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin. Thou hast wrought with me works that are not right. And Abimelek said to Avraham, What hast thou seen, that thou didst this thing? And Avraham said, Because I said in my heart, The fear of the Lord is not in this place, and they will kill me for the sake of my wife. But in truth she is my sister, the daughter of my father's brother, but not of the kindred of my mother; and she became my wife. And it was when they sought to turn me aside to the worship of idols, and I went forth from my father's house, that I said to her, This is the kindness thou shalt do me: in every place to which we come, say concerning me, He is my brother. And Abimelek took sheep, and restored Sarah his wife to him. And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a thousand sileen of silver to thy brother; behold, they are to thee a veil of the eyes, inasmuch as thou wast hidden from thine husband one night, and I would have seen thee: for were I to give all that I have it would not suffice (or be proportionate). And the words were debated. And Avraham knew that Abimelek had not come near Sarah his wife. [JERUSALEM. And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a thousand sileen of silver to thy brother; behold, that silver is given to thee as a present, because thou wast hidden from the eyes of Avraham thy husband one night: and of all that I have,--for on behalf of all I am corrected,--behold, were I to give all whatever I have, it would not suffice. Let the words be approved, and may Avraham the Just learn that I have not known thee.] And Avraham prayed before the Lord: and the Lord healed Abimelek and his wife and his concubines, and they were set at large. For the Word of the Lord shutting had shut in displeasure the wombs of all the women of Abimelek's house on account of Sarah the wife of Avraham. [JERUSALEM. closing had closed.]
XXI. And the Lord remembered Sarah according to that which He had said to her; and the Lord wrought a miracle for Sarah like to that for which Avraham had spoken in prayer for Abimelek. [JERUSALEM. And the Lord wrought miracles for Sarah, as He had spoken.] And she conceived, and Sarah bare to Avraham a son, who was like to himself in his age, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to him. And Avraham called the name of his son whom Sarah had borne him Izhak. And Avraham circumcised Izhak his son, when the son of eight days, as the Lord had commanded him. And Avraham was the son of an hundred years when Izhak his son was born to him. And Sarah said, The Lord hath done wondrously for me; all who hear will wonder at me. And she said, How faithful was the messenger who announced to Avraham, and said, Sarah will nurse children, for she shall bring forth a son in her old age! [JERUSALEM. And she said, What was the announcement which announced to my lord Avraham at the beginning, and said, It will be that she will give suck, because she shall bring forth a son in her old age?] And the child grew and was weaned. And Avraham made a great feast on the day when Izhak was weaned. And Sarah observed the son of Hagar the Mizreitha, whom she bare to Avraham, mocking with a strange worship, and bowing to the Lord. [JERUSALEM. And Sarah observed the son of Hagar the Mizreitha, whom she bare to Avraham, doing evil works which are not fitting to be done, mocking in a strange worship.] And she said to Avraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son: for it is not possible for the son of this handmaid to inherit with my son; and he to make war with Izhak. And the thing was very evil in Avraham's eyes, on account of Ishmael his son, who would practise a strange worship. And the Lord said to Avraham, Let it not be evil in thine eyes on account of the youth who goeth forth from thy nurturning, and of thy handmail whom thou sendest away. Hearken unto all that Sarah saith to thee, because she is a prophetess; for in Izhak shall sons be called unto thee; and this son of the handmaid shall not be genealogized after thee. But the son of the handmaid have I set for a predatory people (le-am leistim), because he is thy son. And Avraham rose up in the morning, and took bread and a cruse of water, and gave to Hagar to bear upon her shoulder, and bound it to her loins, to signify that she was a servant, and the child, and dismissed her with a letter of divorce (be-gitta). And she went, and wandered from the way into the desert which was hard by Beersheba. And it was when they came to the entrance of the desert, they remembered to wander after strange worship; and Ishmael was seized with a burning thirst, and drank of the water till all the water was consumed from the cruse. And he was dried up, and withered in his flesh; and she carried him, and was exhausted, and she cried unto the Fear of his father, and He answered her not; and she laid the youth down at once under one of the trees. [JERUSALEM. And the water was consumed from the cruse, and she took up the youth.] And she went and sat on one side, and cast away the idol (or the strange worship), and removed from her son, as the distance of an arrow from the bow; for she said, I am not able to see the death of the child. And she sat over against her son, and lifted up her voice and wept. And the voice of the youth was heard before the Lord for the righteousness' sake of Avraham; and the Angel of the Lord called to Hagar from heaven, and said, What to thee, Hagar? Faint not, for the voice of the youth is heard before the Lord; neither shall judgment be according to the evil which he will do, but according to the righteousness of Avraham is mercy upon him in the place where he is. Arise, support the child, and strengthen thine hand in him: for I have set him for a great people. And the Lord opened her eyes, and showed her a well of water, and she went and filled the cruse with water, and gave the youth to drink. And the Word of the Lord was the helper of the youth, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a skilful master of the bow. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and took for a wife Adisha, but put her away. And his mother took for him Phatima to wife, from the land of Mizraim.
And it was at that time that Abimelek and Phikol, chief of his host, spake to Avraham, saying, The Word of the Lord is in thine aid in all whatsoever thou doest. And now, swear to me here, by the Word of the Lord, that thou wilt not be false with me, nor with my son, nor with the son of my son: according to the kindness which I have done with thee, thou shalt do with me, and with the land in which thou dwellest. And Avraham said to him, I swear. And Avraham remonstrated with Abimelek concerning the well of water of which the servants of Abimelek had deprived him. And Abimelek said, I knew not who did this thing; neither hast thou shown it to me; nor have I heard it from others, till to-day from thyself. And Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave to Abimelek; and they both made a covenant. And Avraham set seven lambs apart and separated them from the oxen. And Abimelek said to Avraham, What are these seven lambs which thou hast set apart? And he said, That thou mayest take the seven lambs from my hand, to be a testimony for me that I have digged this well. Therefore he called that well the Well of the Seven Lambs; because there they two did swear. And they struck a covenant at the Well of the Seven Lambs. And Abimelek and Phikol the Chief of his host arose and returned to the land of the Philistaee. And he planted a garden, (lit., "a paradise,") at the Well of the Seven Lambs, and prepared in the midst of it food and drink for them who passed by and who returned; and he preached to them there, Confess ye, and believe in the Name of the Word of the Lord, the everlasting Elohim.
[JERUSALEM. And Avraham planted a paradise in Beer Sheba, and prepared in the midst of it food and drink for those who arrived at the border; and they ate and drank, and sought to give him the price of what they had eaten and drunk, but he willed not to receive it from them; but our father Avraham discoursed to them of that which he had said, that the world was by His word. Pray before your Father who is in heaven, from whose bounty ye have eaten and drunk. And they stirred not from their place until the time when he had made them proselytes, and had taught them the way everlasting. And Avraham praised and prayed there in the name of the word of the Lord, the Elohim of Eternity.]
XXII. And it was after these things that Izhak and Ishmael contended; and Ishmael said, It is right that I should inherit what is the father's because I am his firstborn son. And Izhak said, It is right that I should inherit what is the father's, because I am the son of Sarah his wife, and thou art the son of Hagar the handmaid of my mother. Ishmael answered and said, I am more righteous than thou, because I was circumcised at thirteen years; and if it had been my will to hinder, they should not have delivered me to be circumcised; but thou wast circumcised a child eight days; if thou hadst had knowledge, perhaps they chould not have delivered thee to be circumcised. Izhak responded and said, Behold now, to-day I am thirty and six years old; and if the Holy One, blessed be He, were to require all my members, I would not delay. These words were heard before the Lord of the world, and the Word of the Lord at once tried Avraham, and said to him, Avraham! And he said, Behold me. [JERUSALEM. And it was after these things that the Lord tried Avraham with the tenth trial, and said to him, Avraham! And he said, Behold me.] And He said, Take now thy son, thy only one whom thou lovest, Izhak, and go into the land of worship, and offer him there, a whole burnt offering, upon one of the mountains that I will tell thee. [JERUSALEM. At Mount Moriah.] And Avraham rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two young men with him, Eliezer and Ishmael, and Izhak his son, and cut the small wood and the figs and the palm, which are provided for the whole burnt offering, and arose and went to the land of which the Lord had told him.
On the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes and beheld the cloud of glory fuming on the mount, and it was discerned by him afar off. And Avraham said to his young men, Wait you here with the ass, and I and the young man will proceed yonder, to prove if that which was promised shall be established:--So shall be thy sons:--and we will worship the Lord of the world, and return to you. And Avraham took the wood of the offering and laid it upon Izhak his son, and in his hand he took the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.
And Izhak spake to Avraham his father and said, My Father! And he said, I am. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: where is the lamb for the offering? And Avraham said, The Lord will choose for Himself a lamb for the offering. And they went both of them in heart entirely as one. [JERUSALEM. And Avraham said, The Word of the Lord will prepare for me a lamb; and if not, then thou art the offering, my son! And they went both of them together with a contrite heart.]
And they came to the place of which the Lord had told him. And Avraham builded there the altar which Adam had built, which had been destroyed by the waters of the deluge, which Noah has again builded, and which had been destroyed in the age of divisions; and he set the wood in order upon it, and bound Izhak his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Avraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And Izhak answered and said to his father, Bind me properly (aright), lest I tremble from the affliction of my soul, and be cast into the pit of destruction, and there be found profaneness in thy offering. (Now) the eyes of Avraham looked on the eyes of Izhak; but the eyes of Izhak looked towards the angels on high, (and) Izhak beheld them, but Abrahm saw them not. And the angels answered on high, Come, behold how these solitary ones who are in the world kill the one the other; he who slayeth delays not; he who is to be slain reacheth forth his neck.
[JERUSALEM. And Avraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay Izhak his son. Izhak answered and said to Avraham his father, My father, bind my hands rightly, lest in the hour of my affliction I tremble and confuse thee, and thy offering be found profane, and I be cast into the pit of destruction in the world to come. (Now) the eyes of Avraham reached unto the eyes of Izhak; but the eyes of Izhak reaching to the angels on high. And Izhak beheld them, but Avraham saw them not. In that hour came forth the angels on high, and said, these to these, Come, behold two righteous ones alone in the midst of the world: the one slayeth, the other is slain. He who slayeth deferreth not, and he who is to be slain stretcheth out his neck.]
And the Angel of the Lord called to him from the heavens, and said to him, Avraham! Avraham! And he said, Behold me. [JERUSALEM. And He said, Avraham! Avraham! And Avraham answered in the language of the sanctuary, and said, Behold me.] And He said, Stretch not out thy hand upon the young man, neither do him any evil; for now it is manifest before Me that thou fearest the Lord; neither hast thou withheld thy son the only begotten from Me.
And Avraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and, behold, a certain ram which had been created between the evenings of the foundation of the world, was held in the entanglement of a tree by his horns. And Avraham went and took him, and offered him an offering instead of his son. And Avraham gave thanks and prayed there, in that place, and said, I pray through the mercies that are before Thee, O Lord, before whom it is manifest that it was not in the depth of my heart to turn away from doing Thy decree with joy, that when the children of Izhak my son shall offer in the hour of affliction, this may be a memorial for them; and Thou mayest hear them and deliver them, and that all generations to come may say, In this mountain Avraham bound Izhak his son, and there theShekina of the Lord was revealed unto him.
[JERUSALEM. And Abrahm prayed in the name of the Word of the Lord, and said, Thou art the Lord who seest, and art not seen. I pray for mercy before Thee, O Lord. It is wholly manifest and known before Thee that in my heart there was no dividing, in the time that Thou didst command me to offer Izhak my son, and to make him dust and ashes before Thee; but that forthwith I arose in the morning and performed Thy word with joy, and I have fulfilled Thy word. And now I pray for mercies before Thee, O Lord Elohim, that when the children of Izhak offer in the hour of need, the binding of Izhak their father Thou mayest remember on their behalf, and remit and forgive their sins, and deliver them out of all need. That the generations who are to arise after him may say, In the mountain of the house of the sanctuary of the Lord did Avraham offer Izhak his son, and in this mountain of the house of the sanctuary was revealed unto him the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord.]
And the Angel of the Lord called to Avraham the second time from the heavens, and said, By My Word have I sworn, saith the Lord, forasmuch as thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thy only begotten, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy sons as the stars of the heavens, and they shall be as the sand which is upon the shore of the sea, and thy sons shall inherit the cities before their enemies. And all the peoples of the earth shall be blessed through the righteousness of thy son, because thou hast obeyed My word.
And the angels on high took Izhak and brought him into the school (medresha) of Shem the Great; and he was there three years. And in the same day Avraham returned to his young men; and they arose and went together to the Well of the Seven, and Avraham dwelt at Beira-desheva.
And it was after these things, after Avraham had bound Izhak, that Satana came and told unto Sarah that Avraham had killed Izhak. And Sarah arose, and cried out, and was strangled, and died from agony. But Avraham had come, and was resting in the way. And it was told Avraham, saying, Behold, Milcha also hath borne; she hath enlargement, through the righteousness of her sister, for bring forth sons unto Nachor thy brother: Uts, his firstborn, and Booz, his brother, and Kemuel, master of the Aramean magicians, and Keshed, and Chazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rivekeh. These eight bare Milcha to Nacor the brother of Avraham. And his concubine, whose name was Rëuma, she also bare Tebach, and Gacham, and Tachash, and Maacha. [JERUSALEM. And his concumbine…and her name…]
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt'>Pgs. 285-300</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt'> SECTION
IX.</p>
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VAYESHEV.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> And Jakob
dwelt in peace in the land of the sojourning of his fathers, in the land of
Kenaan. These are the generations of Jakob. Joseph was a son of seventeen
years. He had come forth from the school, and was a youth brought up with the
sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpha his fathers wives. And Joseph brought
their evil report; for he had seen them eat the flesh that had been torn by
wild beasts, the ears and the tails; and he came and told it to his father. And
Yisrael loved Joseph more than all his sons, because the likeness of Joseph
resembled his own, and he made him a figured robe. [JERUSALEM. A figured robe.]
And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,
and they cherished enmity against him, and were unwilling to speak peacefully
with him.</p>
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13.0pt'>And Joseph dreamed a dream, and declared it to his brethren, and they
added yet to keep enmity against him. And he said to them, Hear now this dream
which I have dreamed. Behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the
field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
surrounded and bowed to my sheaf. [JERUSALEM. Were binding sheaves.] And his
brothers said to him, Art thou thinking to reign over us, or dost thou expect
to have rule over us? And they added yet to keep enmity against him, for his
dream and for his words.</p>
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13.0pt'>And he dreamed again another dream, and told it to his brothers, and
said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream, and lo, the sun, and the moon, and
eleven stars, bowed to me. And he related it to his father and to his brethren:
but his father rebuked him, and said to him, What dream is this that thou hast
dreamed? Shall I, and thy mother, and thy brethren, really come and bow before
thee to the ground? And his brothers envied him; yet his father kept the saying
in his heart.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-indent:-1.0pt'> And his
brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shekem. And it was at the time of
days that Yisrael said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed in Shekem? But I am
afraid lest the Hivaee come and smite them,because they smote Hamor and Shekem
and the inhabitants of the city. Come now; and I will send thee to them<span
style='font-family:Geneva'> </span>And he said, Behold me. And he said, Go, see
the welfare of Your brethren, and the welfare of the flock, and return me word
to the deep Counsel. But he sent him according to the deep counsel which was
spoken to Avraham in Hebron; for on that day began the cativity of Mizraim.</p>
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And Joseph arose, and came to Shekem. And Gabriel in the likeness of a man
found him wandering field. And the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
And he said, I seek my brothers; show me, pray, where they feed. And the man
said, They have journeyed hence: for I heard beyond the Veil, that behold from
to‑day would begin the servitude to the Mizraee; and it was said to them
in prophecy, Hivaee would seek to set battle in array against them. Therefore
said they, we will go unto Dothan.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. And
they saw him from afar, before he had come nigh to them, and plotted against
him to kill him. And Shimeon and Levi, who were brothers in counsel, said each
man to his brother, Behold, this master of dreams cometh. And now come let us
kill him and throw him into one of the pits and say that an evil beast bath
devoured him; arid we shall see what will be the interpretation of his dreams.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> And Reuben heard, and delivered him from their hands, and said, We
will not kill him nor become guilty of his blood. And Reuben said, Let us not
shed innocent blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but the hand of
the slayer stretch not forth against him; because he would deliver him from
their hand, and restore him to his father.</p>
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And when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his garment, the
figured garment that was on him, and took and threw him into the pit; but the
pit was empty, no water was therein, but serpents and scorpions were in it. And
they sat around to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and
behold a band of Arabians [JERUSALEM. A band of Saracens] were coming from
Gilead with their camels, carrying wax, resin, balsam and stacte, proceeding to
go into Mizraim. And Jehuda said to his brethren, What profit of mammon should
we have if we killed our brother, and covered his blood? Come, let us sell him
to the Arabians, and our hands shall not be upon him to kill him; for our
brother is our own flesh. And his brethren agreed. And the Midianite men,
masters of business, passed by; and they drew and brought up Joseph out of the
pit, and sold Joseph to the Arabians for twenty mahin of silver; and they
bought sandals of them. And they brought Joseph to Mizraim.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> And Reuben
returned to the pit; for he had not been with them to assist when they sold
him, because he had sat fasting on account that he had confounded the couch of
his father; and he had gone and sat among the hills, that he might return to
the pit and bring him up for his father, if haply he might avert his anger. But
when he had returned, and looked, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit, he
rent his clothes, and returned to his brethren, and said, The youth is not; and
I,whither shall I go, and how shall I see the look of my father's face? But
they took the garment of Joseph, and killed a kid of the goats, because his
blood is like the blood of a man, and they dabbled the garment in the blood.
And they sent it by the hand of the sons of Zilpha and of the sons of Bilhah
the figured garment; and they brought it to their father, and said, This have
we found; know now, whether it be thy son's garment, or not. And he recognised
it and said, It is my son's garment: a beast of the wilderness hath not
devoured him, neither hath he been slain by the hand of man; but I see by the
Holy Spirit, that an evil woman standeth against him. [JERUSALEM. And he
discerned it and said, It is my son's garment: yet a wild beast hath not
devoured him, neither is my son Joseph slain ; but I see by the Spirit of the
sanctuary, that an evil woman standeth against him. And Jakob rent his clothes,
and wrapped sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all
his sons and all the men of his house arose and went to console him; but he
refused to receive consolation, and said, For I will go down to my son mourning
to the house of the grave. And Izhak his father also wept for him. But the
Midianites sold him in Mizraim to Potipliar a captain of Pharoh, a captain of
the guards.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[1]</span></a>[JERUSALEM. To Potiphar an officer of
Pharoh, a captain of the guards.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[2]</span></a>]</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt'> XXXVIII. It was at that time
that Jehuda bad gone down from his property, and separated himself from his
brethren, and had inclined to a man an Adullemite whose name was Hira, that
Jelluda saw there the daughter of a merchant man whose name was Shuva, and he
proselyted her, and entered with her. And she conceived and bare a son, and
called his name Er<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[3]</span></a>, because he was to die without a
child. And she conceived again, and bare a son, and called his name Onan<a
href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[4]</span></a>,
because his father would have to mourn for him. And she added, and bare a son,
and called his name Shela, because her husband had forgotten her<a href="#_ftn5"
name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[5]</span></a> <i> </i><span
style='font-style:normal'>and was in cessation when she bare him.
[JERUSALEM.And it was that she ceased.] </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> And Jehuda
took a wife for Er his firstborn, a daughter of Shem the great, whose name was
Tamar. But Er the firstborn of Jehuda was evil before the Lord because he had
not given his seed unto his wife, and the anger of the Lord prevailed against
him, and the Lord slew him. And Jehuda said unto Onan, Enter thou to thy
brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed unto the name of thy brother.
And Onan knew that they would not call the children after his name, and it was,
when he entered to the wife of his brother, that he corrupted his work upon the
earth, that he might not raise up children to his brother's name. And what he
did was evil before the Lord and he cut off his days also. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> And Jehuda
said to Tamar his daughter‑in‑Torah, Remain a widow in thy father's
house, till Shela my son be grown up. For he said, Lest he also die as his
brethren<i> </i><span style='font-style:normal'>Tamar went and remained in her
father's house. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:11.0pt 137.0pt right 6.5in'>
And days multiplied and the daughter of Shuva, Jehuda's wife, had died, and
Jehuda was comforted. And Jehuda went up to the shearing of his flock, he and
Hira his friend the Adullemite, to Timnath. And it was told to Tamar, saying,
Behold, thy father‑in‑Torah cometh up to Timnath to shear his flock.
And she put the dress of her widowhood from her, and covered herself with a
veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the dividing of the road where all eyes
see, upon the way of Timnath. For she knew that Shela was grown up, yet she had
not been given to him to be his wife. And Jehuda saw her; but she seemed in his
face as an harlot,<a href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[6]</span></a> because she had provoked him to anger
in his house, and Jehuda did not love her.[JERUSALEM. For she had enwrapped her
face.] And he inclined to her in the way and said, Let me now go in with thee:
for he knew not that she was his daughter‑in‑Torah. And she said What
wilt thou give me to go in with me? And he said, I will send thee a kid of the
goats from the flock. And she said, If thou wilt give me a pledge until thou
shalt have sent. And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she answered,
Thy seal, and thy mantle, and thy staff which is in thy hand. And he gave
(them) to her, and went in with her; and she conceived by him. And she arose
and went, and put her veil from her, and put on the dress of her widowhood And
Hehuda sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullemite, to
bring back the pledge from the hand of the woman; but he found her not. And he
asked the men of the place, saying, Where is the harlot who was in the sight of
the eyes by the way ? And they said, There is no harlot here. And he returned
to Jehuda and said, I could not find her: and the men of the place also said
that no harlot was there. And Jehuda said, Lest she should have taken the
pledge, lest we become a laughing stock, behold, I have sent this goat, and
thou canst not find her. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:11.0pt 137.0pt right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:11.0pt 137.0pt right 6.5in'>
And it was at the time of three months, that she was known to be with
child: and it was told to Jehuda, saying Tamar thy daughter‑in‑Torah
hath committed fornication and, behold, she is with child by fornication. And
Jehuda said, Is she not the daughter of a priest. Let her be brought forth and
burned. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:11.0pt 137.0pt right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:11.0pt 137.0pt right 6.5in'>
Tamar was brought forth to be burned, and she searched for the three
pledges, but found them not. Uplifiting her eyes to the heavens above, she thus
said, Mercy I implore from Thee, 0 Lord: answer Thou me in this hour of need,
and enlighten mine eyes to find</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'>the
three witnesses; and I will dedicate unto Thee from my loins three saints <span
style='font-family:Geneva'> </span>who shall sanctify Thy name, and descend to
the furnace of fire in the plain of Dura.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'>
In that hour the Holy One, blessed be He, signed to Michael, who
enlightened her eyes, that she found (the witnesses) and took and cast them
before the, feet of the judges, and said, The man to whom these pledges belong
is he by whom I am with child. Yet though I may be burned I do not make him manifest:
nevertheless the Lord of the world will cause him in his heart to acknowledged
them, and will deliver me from this great judgment. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'>
Now when Jehuda saw them, he recognised them, and said in his heart, It is
better for me to be ashamed in this world that passeth away, than be ashamed in
the faces of my righteous fathers in the world to come. It is better that I
burn in this world by a fire that is extinguished, than burn in the world to
come with fire devouring fire. For measure is set against measure.<a
href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[7]</span></a>
This is according to that which I said to Jakob my father, Know now the robe of
thy son; so am I now constrained to hear at the place of judgment, Whose are
this seal and mantle and staff ? </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:14.0pt 228.0pt right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:right 6.5in'> And
Jehuda, acknowledged and said, Tamar is innocent; she is with child by me. And
the Bath kol fell from heaven, and said, From before Me was this thing done,
and let both be delivered from judgment. And Jehuda said, Because I gave her
not to Shela my son, hath this happened to me. But he added not to know her
again.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'>
[JERUSALEM. 19. Her veil. 25. Tamar was brought forth to be burned with
fire; and she sought the three witnesses but found them not. She lifted up her
eyes on high and said For mercy I pray before the Lord. Thou art He, 0 Lord
Elohim, who answerest the afflicted in the hour of their affliction ; answer me in
this the hour of my affliction, and I will dedicate to thee three saints in the
valley of Dura, Hananva, Mishael, and Azarya. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'>
</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'>
[In <span style='font-family:Geneva'> </span>that hour the Word of the Lord
heard the voice of her supplication and said to Mikael Descend, and let her
eyes have light....When she saw them, she took them, and cast them before the
feet of the judges, saying By the man to whom these belong I am with child. But
though I may be burned I declare him not, but confide in the Ruler of all the
world the Lord who is witness between me and him, that He will give to the
heart of the man to whom these belong, to ac­knowledge whose are these his
ring, and mantle, and staff. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'>
[And Jehuda recognised the three witnesses, and arose upon his feet and
said, I pray you, my brethren, and ye men of the house of my fathers, to hear
me. With the measure that a man measureth shall it be measured to him; whether
good measure or evil; and blessed is every man who confesseth his works.
Because I took the coat of Joseph my brother and dipped it into the blood of a
goat, and brought it before the feet of my father and said to him, Know now
whether this be thy son's coat or not, the measure is according to the measure,
and the rule to the rule. Better is it for me blush in this world than to blush
in the world to come; better to burn with a fire that goes out, than to burn in
the fire devouring fire. Let Tamar my daughterin‑Torah be spared. She hath
not conceived a child by fornication, but because I did not give to her Shela
my son.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.7pt'>
[The Bath kol came forth from heaven, and said, Both of you are acquitted
in the judgment. The thing was from the Lord. And he added not to know her.]</p>
<p class=MsoNormal> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'>But it was in the time of her giving birth, that, behold, twins were in
her womb. And it was in being born that the child stretched forth his hand; and
the midwife took it, and bound it with a scarlet thread, saying, This came the
first. And after the child had withdrawn his hand, behold, his brother came
forth, and she said, With what great power hast thou prevailed, and for thee
will it be to prevail; for thou wilt possess the kingdom. And she called his
name Pharets. And afterward came forth his brother, upon whose hand was bound
the scarlet thread, and she called his name Zarach.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> XXXIX. But Joseph was brought down into Mizraim; and Potiphar,<a
href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[8]</span></a>
. . . a man of Mizraim, a chief of Pharoh, a chief of the executioners,
bought him with the pledge<a href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[9]</span></a> of the Arabians who had brought him
down thither. And the Word of the Lord was Joseph's Helper, and he became a
prosperous man in the house of his Mizraite master. And his master saw that the
Word of the Lord was his Helper, and that the Lord prospered in his hand all
that he did; and Joseph found favour in his eyes, and he served him, and he
appointed him superintendent over his house, and all that he had he delivered
in his hands. [JERUSALEM. And he delivered in his hands and appointedhim
superintendent.] </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'>And it was from the time he appointed him superintendent over his
house, and over all that he had, the Lord prospered the house of the Mizraite
for the sake of the righteousness of Joseph, and the blessing of the Lord was
on all that he had in the house and in the field. And he left all that he had
in Joseph's hand, and took no knowledge of anything of his, except his wife
with whom he lay.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:right 6.5in'> And
Joseph was of goodly form and beautiful aspect. And it was after these things
that the wife of his master lifted up her eyes to Joseph, and said, Lie with
me. But he refused to come near her, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my
master taketh no knowledge of what is with me in the house, and all he hath he
delivereth into my hand; there is none in the house greater than I nor hath he
restricted me from anything but thyself, because thou art his wife: and how can
I do this great wickedness, and become guilty before the Lord ? And it was when
she spake with Joseph this day and the next, and be hearkened not to her to lie
with her, lest with her be should be condemned in the day of the great judgment
of the world to come; it was on a certain day that he entered the house to
examine the tablets of his accounts, and there was no man of the house within;
that she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his
garment in her hand, and went forth into the street. And when she saw that he
had left his garment in her hand, and had gone forth into the street, that she
called the men of the house and said, See this, which the Hebrew man hath done
whom your master hath brought to mock us. He came in to lie with me, and I
cried with a high voice. And when he heard that I lifted up my voice, he left
his garment with me, and went forth into the street. And she let the garment
remain until his master came into his house; and she spake to him according to
these words, saying The Hebrew servant whom thou broughtest to us came in to me
to mock me. [JERUSALEM<b>. </b><span style='font-weight:normal'>And it was when
I thundered with my voice.] </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:right 6.5in'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> And when
his master heard the words which his wife spake with him, saying, According to
these things did thy servant to me, his wrath became strong. And Joseph's
master took counsel of the priests, who put him not to<b> </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>death, but delivered him into the house of the
bound, where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the house of
the bound. [JERUSALEM. In the prison house.] And the Word of the Lord was
Joseph's Helper, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of
the captain of the prison. And the captain of the prison confided all the
prisoners who were in the house to Joseph's hands, and whatsoever was done
there he commanded to be done. It was not needful for the captain of the prison
to watch Joseph, after the custom of all prisoners, because be saw that there was
no fault in his hands; for the Word of the Lord was his Helper, and that which
he did the Lord made it to prosper.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'>XL. And after these things it was shown, saying The chief of the
butlers of the king of Mizraim, and the chief of the bakers, have offended;
having taken counsel to throw the poison of death into his food, and into his
drink, to kill their master the king of Mizraim. And Pharoh was angry when he
heard concerning his two servants, the chief cup‑bearer and the chief
baker. And he gave them in ward in the house of the chief executioner, the
prison house where Joseph was confined. And the chief executioner intrusted
Joseph with them, and he served them, and they were certain days in the house
of custody.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
13.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'>And they
dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man his
own dream, and the interpretation of his companion's dream, the butler and the
baker of the king of Mizraim who were confined in the prison. And Joseph came
to them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were troubled. And
Joseph asked the chiefs of Pharoh who were with him in the custody of his
master's house, saying, Why is the look of your faces more evil to‑day
than all the other days that you have been here? And they said to him, We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it. And Joseph answered, Are
not the interpretations of dreams from tile Lord? Tell it now to me. And the
chief of the butlers related his dream to Joseph, and said to him, I saw in my
dream, and, behold, a vine was before me. And in the vine were three branches;
and as it sprouted it brought forth buds, an immediately they ripened into
clusters, and became grapes. And I gave the cup of Pharoh into my hand, and I
took the grapes, and expressed them into Pharoh's cup, and gave the cup into
Pharoh's hand.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;tab-stops:9.0pt 202.0pt right 6.5in'>
</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> And Joseph said to him, This is the end of the interpretations of
the dream. The three branches are the three Fathers of the world, Avraham,
Izhak, and Jakob, the children of whose sons are to be enslaved in Mizraim in
clay and brick (work,) and in all labour of the face of the field: but
afterwards shall the be delivered by the the hand of three shepherds. As thou
hast said, I took the grapes and expressed them into Pharoh's cup, and gave the
cup Into Pharoh's band: It is the vial of wrath which Paroh (himself) is to
drink at the last. But thou, the chief butler shalt receive a good reward
concerning the good dream which thou hast dreamed; and the interpretation of
it, to thyself, is this: The three branches are three days until thy
liberation. At the end of three days the memory of thee will come before Pharoh
and he will lift up thy head with honour, and restore thee to thy service, and
thou wilt give the cup of Pharoh into his hand, according to thy former custom
in pouring out<a href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[10]</span></a> for him. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> [JERUSALEM.<b> </b><span style='font-weight:normal'>And Joseph
said, This is the interpretations of the dream : The three branches are the
three Fathers of the world, Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob the children of whose
sons will be enslaved in the land of Mizriam and will be delivered by the band
of three faithful pastors,<a href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[11]</span></a> </span><span style='font-family:
Geneva'> </span>who may be likened to the clusters. And whereas thou hast said,
I took the grapes and expressed them into the cup of Pharoh and gave the cup
into Pharoh's hand: It is the cup of retribution which Pharoh is to drink at
the last. As to thyself, the chief of the butlers, thou wilt not lose thy
reward; for this dream which thou hast dreamed is good. Nevertheless the
interpretation of the dream (as relating to himself) Joseph had not told him; but
afterwards he explained it, when it pleased him. And Joseph said to him, The
three branches are three days.] </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> Joseph, leaving his higher trust<a href="#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12"
title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[12]</span></a> and retaining
confidence in a man, said to the chief butler, But be thou mindful of me when
it shall be well with thee, and act kindly by me, and remember me before
Paharoh and obtain my deliverance from this prison house. For I was verily
carried away dishonestly from the land of the Hivraee and here also I have
done nothing evil, that they should put me in prison. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> And the chief baker, when he understood the interpretation of his
companion's dream, seeing that he had interpreted well, began to speak with an
impatient tongue, and said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and, behold,
three baskets of fine cakes were upon my bead; [JERUSALEM. And, behold, three
baskets of hot loaves were upon my bead ;] and in the upper basket of all
delicious meat for Pharoh made by the confectioner and the birds ate them from
the basket upon my head. </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.0pt'> Joseph answered and said, This is its interpretation. The three
baskets are the three enslavements with which the house of Yisrael are to be
enslaved. But thou, the chief of the bakers, wilt receive an evil award, by the
dream which thou hast dreamed. And Joseph explained it, as it was proper in his
eyes and said to him: This is its interpretation to thyself. The three baskets
are three days until thy death. At the end of three days, Pharoh with the sword
will take away thy head from thy body, and will hang thee upon a gibbet, and
the birds will cut thy flesh from thee. [JERUSALEM And he said to him, The
three baskets are the three heavy enslavements which are to happen to the house
of Yisrael in the land of Mizriam in clay and in bricks, and in all work on the
face of the field. It will be that Pharoh kin, of Mizriam will decree evil
decrees against Yisrael and throw their children into the river. Neverthless
Pharoh will perish, and his host be destroyed, but the sons of Yisrael will go
forth redeemed with uncovered head. And thou, the chief of the bakers wilt
receive punishment; for this dream which thou bast dreamed is evil. But the
interpretation of the dream Joseph did not (at once) make known to him; but
afterwards Joseph expounded it, When it pleased him. And Joseph said to him,
This is the interpretation of the dream. The three baskets are three days.]</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
8.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
8.0pt'> And it was on the third day, the nativity of Pharoh that he made a
feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the bead of the chief butler, and
the bead of the chief baker, in the midst of his servants. And be restored the
chief butler to his butlership, because he found he had not been in that
counsel. And he gave the cup into Pharoh's hand. But the chief baker he hanged,
because he had taken counsel to kill him, even as Joseph had expounded to them.
</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
8.0pt'> </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0pt;text-align:justify'> But
because, Joseph had withdrawn from<a href="#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[13]</span></a> the mercy that is above, and had put
his confidence in the chief butler, he waited on the flesh. Therefore the chief
butler did not remember Joseph, but forgat him, until from the Lord came the
time of the end that he should be released. [JERUSALEM. Joseph left the mercy
above, and the mercy beneath, and the mercy which accompanied him from his
father's house, and put his confidence in the chief butler: he trusted in the flesh,
and the flesh be tasted of, even the cup of death. Neither did he remember the
scripture where it is written expressly, Cursed shall be the man who trusteth
in the flesh, and setteth the flesh as his confidence. Blessed shall be the man
who trusteth in the Name of the Word of the Lord, and whose confidence is the
Word of the Lord. Therefore the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but
forgat him, until the time of the end came that he should be released.]</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:right 614.0pt'><i> </i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:right 614.0pt'><i> </i></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Shalita</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> “ruler.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Sapuklatoria</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “spiculators, javelin men.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><i> Er</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> “naked,destitue.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Onan</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “sorrow,” or “iniquity.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> The
Chaldee verb <i>shelah</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> is either “<i>cessavit</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>,” “<i>destitue</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>,”
or “<i>reject,vel oblitus est</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Ke-naphkath
bara</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “as an outcast.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Mekela
kebel mekela</i></span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> I
have omitted two clauses in this chapter</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Quando
servos vendbebantur emporti dare sponsionem quod illos furati sint</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>.--Castel, fol. 2889</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Or,
“commingling.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Or,
“rulers.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Rochetsana</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “confident.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>[1]</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <i>Shabak</i></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>, “had foresaken.”</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> </p>
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<hr align=left size=1 width="33%">
<div id=ftn1>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[1]</span></a> <i>Shalita</i><span style='font-style:
normal'> “ruler.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn2>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[2]</span></a> <i>Sapuklatoria</i><span
style='font-style:normal'>, “spiculators, javelin men.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn3>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[3]</span></a><i> Er</i><span style='font-style:
normal'> “naked,destitue.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn4>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[4]</span></a> <i>Onan</i><span style='font-style:
normal'>, “sorrow,” or “iniquity.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn5>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[5]</span></a> The Chaldee verb <i>shelah</i><span
style='font-style:normal'> is either “</span><i>cessavit</i><span
style='font-style:normal'>,” “</span><i>destitue</i><span style='font-style:
normal'>,” or “</span><i>reject,vel oblitus est</i><span style='font-style:
normal'>.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn6>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[6]</span></a> <i>Ke-naphkath bara</i><span
style='font-style:normal'>, “as an outcast.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn7>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[7]</span></a> <i>Mekela kebel mekela</i></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn8>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[8]</span></a> I have omitted two clauses in this
chapter</p>
</div>
<div id=ftn9>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[9]</span></a> <i>Quando servos vendbebantur emporti
dare sponsionem quod illos furati sint</i><span style='font-style:normal'>.--Castel,
fol. 2889</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn10>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[10]</span></a> Or, “commingling.”</p>
</div>
<div id=ftn11>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[11]</span></a> Or, “rulers.”</p>
</div>
<div id=ftn12>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[12]</span></a> <i>Rochetsana</i><span
style='font-style:normal'>, “confident.”</span></p>
</div>
<div id=ftn13>
<p class=MsoFootnoteText><a href="#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span
class=MsoFootnoteReference>[13]</span></a> <i>Shabak</i><span style='font-style:
normal'>, “had foresaken.”</span></p>
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Pgs. 119-128
Ch. 37-40
SECTION IX.
VAYESHEV.
XXXVII. AND Jakob dwelt in the land of the habitation of his father, in the land of Kenaan. These are the generations of Jakob. Joseph was a son of seventeen years; he kept the flock with his brothers; and he had been brought up with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpha, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought their evil report to his father. But Yisrael loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he had in him a wise son, and he made him a variegated robe.[1] And his brothers saw that their father loved him better than all his brethren, and they hated him, and were not willing to speak with him peaceably. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and showed it to his brothers, and they hated him the more.[2] And he said to them, Hear now this dream which I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and lo! my sheaf arose and became upright, and, behold, your sheaves stood around and worshipped my sheaf. And his brothers said to him, Is it thy fancy reigning to reign over us? or a shultan, dost thou think to govern us? And they added yet to hate him for his dreams and for his words. And he dreamed yet another dream, and described it to his brothers, saying, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again; and lo, the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipped me. And he described it to his father and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him[3] and said to him, What dream is this that thou hast dreamed? Am I and thy mother and thy brothers to come and worship thee on the earth? And his brothers envied him; but his father kept the word. And his brothers went to tend the flock of their father in Shekem. And Yisrael said to Joseph, Do not thy brothers tend the flock in Shekem? Come, I will send thee to them. And he said. Behold me. And he said to him, Go now, and see the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and return me word. And he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shekem. And a man found him, and, behold, he wandered in the field. And the man inquired of him, saying, Whom seekest thou? And he said, I look for my brothers: show me, I beseech thee, where they feed. And the man said, They have gone hence; for I heard them say, We will go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And they saw him from afar; and before he came nigh, they devised against him to kill him. And they said, a man to his brother, Behold, this master of dreams cometh. And now, come, we will kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and will say an evil beast hath devoured him, and we shall see what will be the end of his dreams. And Reuben heard, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not slay his life. And Reuben said, Do not shed blood; cast him into this pit in the wilderness, but stretch not forth a hand against him,‑that he might deliver him from their hands to bring him back to his father. And it was when Joseph had come to his brethren that they took off his robe, the variegated robe which was upon him, and they took him and cast him into the pit; but the pit was empty, no water was in it. And they reclined to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a band of Arabaee[4] were coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices,[5] and resin,[6] and myrrh,[7] to go down to Mizraim. And Jehuda said to his brethren, What gain[8] should we have by killing our brother and covering his blood? Come, and we will sell him to the Arabaee, and our hand shall not be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened to him. And there passed by Midianite men, (gabree Mid‑ya‑naee,) merchants, and they drew and lifted up Joseph from the pit, and sold Joseph to the Arabaee for twenty of silver; and they brought Joseph into Mizraim. And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he rent his clothes, and returned to his brethren, and said, The youth is not; and I, whither shall I go? But they took Joseph's robe, and killed a kid of the goats, and dabbled the robe in the blood. And they sent the variegated robe, and they brought to their father, and said, This have we found; know now whether it is the robe of thy son, or not. And he knew it, and said, It is my son's robe; an evil beast hath devoured him: slain, slain is Joseph! And Jakob rent his clothes, and wrapped sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons, and all his house, arose to comfort him; but he refused to take comfort, and said, For I will go down unto my son, mourning into Sheol. And his father wept for him. And the Midianites sold him in Mizraim to Potiphar, a prince of Pharoh, chief of the killers.
XXXVIII. And it was at that time that Jehuda went down from his brethren, and turned aside to an Adulamite man whose name was Hira. And Jehuda saw there the daughter of a merchant man whose name was Shuva, and he took her and went in with her; and she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Her; and she conceived again, and bare a son, and called his name Onan. And she added again, and bare a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was in Kezib when she bare him. And Jehuda took a wife for Her his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. And Her the firstborn of Jehuda was evil before the Lord, and the Lord caused him to die. And Jehuda said to Onan, Go in with the wife of thy brother, and associate with her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that after his name the seed would not be called; and it was that when he went in with the wife of his brother, he corrupted his way upon the earth that he might not raise up seed unto his brother; and what he did was evil before the Lord, and he caused him also to die. And Jehuda said to Tamar his daughter‑in‑Torah, Remain a widow in thy father's house until Shelah my son be grown up. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers: and Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. And after many days the daughter of Shuva, Jehuda's wife, died: and Jehuda was comforted; and he went up to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hira the Adulamite his friend unto Timnath. And it was shown to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father‑in‑Torah cometh to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she laid aside the dress of her widowhood, and covered herself with a mantle (or a large veil), and adorned herself,[9] and sat in the dividing of Aynin[10] which is in the way to Timnath. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him for a wife. And Jehuda saw her, and thought that she was an outcast, because she had covered her face. And he declined to her by the way, and said, Give me now to go in unto thee; for he did not know that she was his daughter‑in‑Torah. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come to me? And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, If thou wilt give me a pledge until thou send. And he said, What is the pledge that I shall give thee? And she said, Thy seal‑ring, and thy scarf,[11] and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. And she arose, and went, and put off the veil from her, and dressed herself in the dress of her widowhood. And Jehuda sent the kid of the goats, by the hand of his friend the Adulamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman; but he could not find her. And he inquired of the men of the place, saying, Where is the harlot who was in Aynin upon the way? And they said to him, There is no harlot here. And he returned to Jehuda, and said, I could not find her; the men of the place also said there is no harlot there. And Jehuda said, Let her take it to her, lest we be in contempt: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. And it was three months, and it was showed to Jehuda, saying, Tamar thy daughter‑in‑Torah hath committed fornication, and, behold, she is with child by fornication. And Jehuda said, Bring her out, and let her be burned. And she was brought out. And she sent to her father‑in‑Torah, saying, By the man to whom these belong I am with child. And she said, Acknowledge now, whose are these, the seal, the scarf, and the staff? And Jehuda acknowledged and said, She is justified in having conceived from me, because I have not given her Shelah my son. And he added not again to know her. And it was the time of her giving birth, and, behold, twins were in her womb. And it was in giving birth that one of them put forth a hand; and the midwife took and tied scarlet upon his hand, saying, This came the first. And it was when he had drawn back his hand that his brother came forth: and she said, How much greater strength is with thee, that thou hast prevailed! And she called his name Pharets. And afterwards came forth his brother who had the crimson on his hand, and she called his name Zarah.
XXXIX. But Joseph was brought down into Mizraim, and Potiphar, a chief of Pharoh, a chief of the killers, a Mizraite man, bought him from the hand of the Arabaee who had brought him down thither. And the Word of the Lord was the helper of Joseph, and he became a prosperous man, and was in the house of his Mizraite master. And his master saw that the Word of the Lord was his helper, and that all that he did the Lord prospered in his hand. And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and he served him. And he appointed him over his house, and all that he had he delivered into his hand. And it was from the time that he appointed him over his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the house of the Mizraite for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field. And he left all that belonged to him in the hand of Joseph; and he knew of nothing that was with him, except the bread whcih he ate. Now Joseph was of goodly appearance, beautiful in aspect. And it was after these things that the wife of his master lifted up her eyes to Joseph, and said, Lie with me. But be refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath delivered unto my hand; there is no one in this housegreater than I, and be hath not prohibited anything from me but thyself, because thou art his wife: and how can I do this great wickedness and become guilty before the Lord? And it was when she spake with Joseph daily that he would not hearken to her to lie with her, or be with her. And it was about this day that he came into the house to examine the writings of his affairs, and no man of the men of the house was there in the house. And she laid hold of his garments, saying, Lie with me. But he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and went forth into the street. And she called to the men of her house, and spake to them, saying, See, he brought us a Hebrew man to mock at us. He came in to me to lie with me; and I cried with a high voice. And it was when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his robe with me, and fled and went forth into the street. And she let his robe remain with her until his master came into his house. And she spake with him these words, saying, The Hebrew servant whom thou broughtest us came in to me to mock at me. And it was when I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his robe with me and fled into the street. And when his master heard the words of his wife which she spake with him, saying, According to these things hath thy servant done to me, his anger waxed strong, and his master took Joseph, and delivered him to the house of the bound, where the prisoners of the king were bound; and he was there in the house of the bound. But the Word of the Lord was the helper of Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the eyes of the captain of the prison. And the captain of the prison gave into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were in the house of the bound, and all that they did there was done according to his word. The captain of the prison saw no fault in his hand, because the Word of the Lord was his helper, and that which he did the Lord made to prosper.
XL. And after these things the cup‑bearer and the baker of the king of Mizraim offended their master, the king of Mizraim. And Pharoh was angry with two of his chiefs, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers. And he gave them into ward in the house of the captain of the executioners (killers) in the house of the prison, the place where Joseph was confined. And the captain of the executioners appointed Joseph with them, and he ministered to them, and they were certain days in ward. And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Mizraim, who were confined in the house of the bound. And Joseph came to them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were melancholy. And he asked the chiefs of Pharoh who were with him in ward, in his master's house, saying, Why are your faces evil to‑day? And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Are not interpretations from before the Lord? Relate it now to me. And the chief of the cupbearers related his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me, and in the vine were three branches: and it was, as it sprouted, it produced buds, and, having flowered, ripened clusters of grapes. And the cup of Pharoh was in my hand; and I took grapes and expressed them into Pharohs cup, and gave the cup into Pharoh's hand. And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation: the three branches are three days. At the end of three days, Pharoh will remember thee[12] and restore thee to thy service, and thou wilt give the cup into Pharoh's hand, according to thy former custom when thou wast cupbearer to him. But let remembrance of me be with thee when it shall be well with thee, and do me favour, I beseech thee, and remember me before Pharoh, and deliver me from this prison. For I was verily taken by fraud from the land of the Hivraee, and here have I done nothing evil that I should be imprisoned. And when the master of the bakers saw that he had interpreted pleasantly, he said to Joseph, I also (was) in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of confectionery[13] were upon my head, and in the upper basket were all (sorts of) food for Pharoh, the work of the baker; and the birds ate them from the basket that was on my head. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days; at the end of three days will Pharoh remove thy head from off thee, and will hang thee upon a gibbet, and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee. And it was on the third day, the day of the nativity of Pharoh, that he made a feast for all his servants and he took the, head[14] of the chief cupbearer and the head[15] of the chief of the bakers in the midst of his servants. And he restored the cupbearer to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharoh's hand. And the chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had interpreted to them. Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgat him,
[1] Or, (Kitona da-passei,) "a robe of pieces," i.e. coloured ones. Hebrew, Ketonath passim. In the treatise Negaim xi. 7, we have pispesin, "small pieces." Castel defined the Chaldee root pesa, "to expand," and the Hebrew noun pisyona, "extension." Hence, some would render Kitona da-passei, "a long robe;" or, as Gesenius does the Hebrew, "a garment reaching down to the extremities." Compare Jonathan and the Yerushalayim Targum on the verse. The Samaritan reads as the Hebrew. The Peschito has Kutino da pedyotha, "a fringed garment;" the LXX. "a various robe."
[1] "Added to hate him."
[1] Sam. Vers. "was angry with him."
[1] Heb and Sam. "Ishmaelites."
[1] Sheaph, "balsam." Heb. and Sam. nekoth, "spicery." LXX. "perfumery." Aquila, storax.
[1] Quetaph, "gum." Heb. tsere, probably opobalsamum.
[1] Letom. Heb. lot, "the gum of the cistus." LXX. stacte.
[1] Lit. "What mammon?"
[1] Sam. Vers. "changed herself."
[1] B'pharashoth Aynin, "in a conspicuous (?) branching of the road." The Sam. Vers. has "in the gate of Chasbim."
[1] Shosheph, "a handerchief," sudarium.
[1] Sam. Vers. "will take up thy reckoning, or account."
[1] Cheiru, (Heb. chori,) "white bread."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the account."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the account."
[1] Or, (Kitona da-passei,) "a robe of pieces," i.e. coloured ones. Hebrew, Ketonath passim. In the treatise Negaim xi. 7, we have pispesin, "small pieces." Castel defined the Chaldee root pesa, "to expand," and the Hebrew noun pisyona, "extension." Hence, some would render Kitona da-passei, "a long robe;" or, as Gesenius does the Hebrew, "a garment reaching down to the extremities." Compare Jonathan and the Yerushalayim Targum on the verse. The Samaritan reads as the Hebrew. The Peschito has Kutino da pedyotha, "a fringed garment;" the LXX. "a various robe."
[2] "Added to hate him."
[3] Sam. Vers. "was angry with him."
[4] Heb and Sam. "Ishmaelites."
[5] Sheaph, "balsam." Heb. and Sam. nekoth, "spicery." LXX. "perfumery." Aquila, storax.
[6] Quetaph, "gum." Heb. tsere, probably opobalsamum.
[7] Letom. Heb. lot, "the gum of the cistus." LXX. stacte.
[8] Lit. "What mammon?"
[9] Sam. Vers. "changed herself."
[10] B'pharashoth Aynin, "in a conspicuous (?) branching of the road." The Sam. Vers. has "in the gate of Chasbim."
[11] Shosheph, "a handerchief," sudarium.
[12] Sam. Vers. "will take up thy reckoning, or account."
[13] Cheiru, (Heb. chori,) "white bread."
[14] Sam. Vers. "the account."
[15] Sam. Vers. "the account."
Section VII
Vayetse
Pgs. 252-269
[XXVIII.] Five miracles were wrought for our father Jakob at the time that he went forth from Beersheba. The first sign: the hours of the day were shortened, and the sun went down before his time, forasmuch as the Word had desired to speak with him. The second sign: the four stones which Jakob had set for his pillow he found in the morning, had become one stone. Sign the third: the Stone which, when all the flocks were assembled, they rolled from the mouth of the well, he rolled away with one of his arms. The fourth sign: the well overflowed, and the water rose to the edge of it, and continued to overflow all the days that he was in Haran. The fifth sign: the country was shortened before him, so that in one day he went forth and came to Haran.
And he prayed in the place of the house of the sanctuary, and lodged there, because the sun had gone down. And he took four stones of the holy place, and set his pillow, and slept in that place. And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder was fixed in the ground, and the top of it reached to the height of heaven. And, behold, the two angels who went unto Sedom, and who had been expelled from the midst of them, because they had revealed the secrets of the Lord of the world; and being cast forth they had walked till the time that Jakob went out from the house of his father, and had accompanied him with kindliness unto Bethel, in that day had ascended to the high heavens, and said, Come, see Jakob the pious, whose likeness is inlaid in the throne of glory, and whom you have so greatly desired to behold. Then the rest of the angels of the holy Lord descended to look upon him.
[JERUSALEM. Five signs were wrought for our father Jakob at the time he went forth from Beersheba to go unto Haran. The first sign: the hours of the day were shortened for him, and the sun was hidden from him before its time, because His Word had desired to speak with him. The second sign: after our father Jakob had lifted up his feet from Beersheba, the country was shortened before him, and be found himself sitting in Haran. The third sign: the stones which Jakob our father had taken in the evening, and set as the resting-place of his head, when he had risen in the morning be found had all become one stone; and that is the stone which he set up in the first covenant, pouring oil upon the top of it. The fourth sign : when all the shepherds had gathered together at the stone to roll it from the mouth of the well, and could not, then came our father Jakob and lifted it with one hand, and watered the flock, of Laban his mother's brother. The fifth sign: after our father Jakob had lifted the stone from the mouth of the well, the well overflowed, and was overflowing twenty years; all the days that our father Jakob dwelt in Haran. These five signs were wrought for our father Jakob in the time when he departed from Beersheba to go to Charan.
[12. And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder was fixed in the earth, and the summit of it reached to the height of heaven. And, behold, the angels who had accompanied him from the house of his father, ascended to make known to the angels on high, saying, Come, see Jakob the pious, whose likeness is in the throne of glory, and whom you have been desirous to see! And, behold, the holy angels from before the Lord ascended and descended, and looked upon him.]
And, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above him, and He said to him, I am the Lord the Elohim of Avraham thy father, and the Elohim of Izhak, The land on which thou art lying I will give to thee and to thy sons. And thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth, and shall become strong on the west and on the east, on the north and on the south: and all the kindreds of the earth shall through thy rightneousness and the righteousness of thy sons be blessed. And, behold, My Word is for thy help, and will keep thee in every place where thou shalt go, and will bring thee (again) to this land; for I will not leave thee until the time when I have performed all that I have told thee.
And Jakob awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory of the Lord's Shekinah dwelleth in this place, and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful and glorious is this place! This place is not common, but the sanctuary of the Name of the Lord, the proper spot for prayer, set forth before the gate of heaven and founded beneath the throne of glory.
And Jakob arose in the morning, and took the stone which he had placed for his pillow, and set it standing, and poured oil on the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth El; but Luz was the name of the city at the first. And Jakob vowed a vow, saying, If the Word of the Lord will be my Helper, and will keep me from shedding innocent blood, and from strange worship, and from impure converse, in this way that I am going; and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to wear, and will bring me back in peace to my father's house; the Lord shall be my Elohim: 'and this stone which I have set (for) a pillar shall be ordained for the house of the sanctuary of the Lord, and upon it shall generations worship the Name of the Lord; and of all that Thou mayest give me, the tenth will I separate before Thee.
XXIX. And Jakob lifted up his feet lightly to proceed, and he came to the land of the children of the cast. And he looked and saw, and behold (there was) a well in a field, and behold there three flocks of sheep lying near it; because from that well they watered the flocks; and a great stone was laid upon the mouth of the well. And they gathered the flocks there, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and set the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.
And Jakob said to them, My brethren, whence are you ? And they said, From Haran are we. And he said to them, Know you Laban bar Nachor? And they said, We know. And he said, Hath he peace? And they said, Peace; and, behold, Rahel his daughter cometh with the sheep. And he said, Behold, the time of the day is great; it is not time to gather home the cattle; water the sheep, and let them go (again) to pasture. [JERUSALEM It is not time to gather.] And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and we roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep.
While they were speaking with him, Rahel came with her father's sheep; for she was a shepherdess at that time, because there had been a plague from the Lord among the sheep of Laban, and but few of them were left, and he had dismissed his shepherds, and had put the remaining (flock) before Rahel his daughter. And it was when Jakob saw Rahel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother that Jakob went nigh, and rolled the stone with one of his arms from the mouth of the Well; and the well uprose, and the waters ascended to the top of it; and he watered the sheep of Laban his mothor's brother; and it uprose for twenty years.
And Jakob kissed Rahel, and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jakob told unto Rahel, that he was come to be with her father to take one of his daughters. And Rahel answered him Thou canst not dwell with him, for he is a man of cunning. And Jakob said to her, I am more cunning and wiser than he; nor can he do me evil, because the Word of the Lord is my Helper. And when she knew that he was the son of Rivekah, she ran and made it known to her father. And it was when Laban heard the account of the strength and piety of Jakob the son of his sister; how he had taken the birthright and the order of blessing from the hand of his brother, and how the Lord had revealed Himself to him at Bethel; how the stone had been removed, and how the well had upflowed and risen to the brink; he ran to meet him and embrace him, and kissed him and led him into his house; and he related to Laban all these things. And Laban said to him, Truly thou art my near one and my blood; and he dwelt with him a month of days.
And Laban said to Jakob, Though thou art reputed my brother, shouldst thou serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall be thy wages? And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger Rahel. And the eyes of Leah were moist, (or dropping, running, ) from weeping and praying before the Lord that he would not destine her for Esau the wicked; and Rahel was beautiful in appearance, and of a fair countenance. [JERUSALEM. And the eyes of Leah were tender, for she had wept and prayed that she might not be brought up in the lot of Esau; and Rahel was beautiful in appearance, and of fair coun-tenance.] And Jakob loved Rahel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rahel thy Younger daughter. And Laban said with deceit, It is better that I give her to thee, than to another man abide with me. And Jakob served for Rahel seven years; and they seemed in his eyes as a few days, because he loved her.
And Jakob said to Laban, Give me my wife: for the days of my service are completed, and I will go in with her. And Laban gathered all the men of the place, and made them a feast. Answering he said to them, Behold, seven years since Jakob came to us the wells have not failed and the watered places are multiplied: and now come, let us counsel against him cunning counsel, that he may remain with us. And they gave him cunning counsel that he should take Leah to him instead of Rahel.
[JERUSALEM. And Laban gathered all the people of the place, and made a feast. And Laban answered and said to them, Behold seven years are from the coming of this just man to us; our waterings have not failed, and our springs are many: and now come, give me counsel how we may settle (or subject) him among us yet seven years. And they gave him cunning counsel to take Leah to him instead of Rahel.]
And it was in the evening that he brought Leah his daughter, and introduced her to him, and he went in with her. And Laban gave to him Zilpha his daughter, whom his concubine had borne to him, and he delivered her to Leah his daughter to be her handmaid. And it
was the time of the morning and he saw her, and behold, she was Leah, whom all the night he had thought to be Rahel; because Rahel had delivered to her all the things with which Jakob had presented her. But when he saw this, he said to Laban, what is this that thou hast done to me? Was it not for Rahel that I served with thee? Why hast thou deceived me?
And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the elder. Fulfil now the seven days of the feast of this, and I will give thee also that for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. [JERUSALEM. Fulfil the seven days of this feast of Leah, and I will give.] And Jakob did so, and fulfilled the seven days of the feast of Leah, and he gave him Rahel his daughter to wife. And Laban gave to Rahel his daughter Bilhah, whom his concubine bare him, and he delivered her unto her to be her handmaid. And he went in also unto Rahel; and he loved Rahel also more than Leah. And he served with him for her yet seven other years. And it was revealed before the Lord that Leah was not loved in the sight of Jakob; and He said in His Word that sons should be given her, and that Rahel should be barren. And Leah conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben: for she said, My affliction was manifest before the Lord, therefore now will my husband love me; for my affliction hath been manifested before the Lord as will be the affliction of my children before the Lord when they shall be enslaved in the land of the Mizraee. And she conceived again, and bare a son. And she said, Because it was heard before the Lord that I was hated, and He gave me this also: and so will be heard before Him the voice of my children when they shall be enslaved in Mizraim. And she called his name Shimeon. And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said, This time will my husband be united to me, because I have borne him three sons; and thus will it be that my children shall be united to serve before the Lord: therefore she called his name Levi. And she conceived again, and bare a son, and said, This time will I give praise before the Lord; for from this my son kings shall come forth, and from him shall spring Davids the king, who shall offer praise before the Lord; therefore she called his name Jehudah. And she ceased to bear.
XXX. And Rahel saw that she bare not to Jakob, and Rahel was envious of her sister, and said to Jakob, Pray before the Lord that He give me children; and if not, my life I shall reckon as the dead. And the anger of Jakob was stong against Rahel, and he said, Why do you ask of me? Ask before the Lord, from before whom are children, and who hath restrained from thee the fruit of the womb. And she said, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, enter with her, that she may bear, and I may increase and may be builded up from her. And she made her handmaid Bilhah free, and delivered her to him, and Jakob entered with her. And Bilhah conceived, and bare a son to Jakob. And Rahel said, The Lord hath judged me in His good mercies; He hath also heard the voice of my prayer, and given me a son; and so it is to be that He shall judge by the hand of Shimshon bar Manovach, who shall be of his seed; and hath he not delivered into his hand the people of the Philistaee? Therefore she called his name Dan. And Bilhah the handmaid of Leah conceived again and bare a second son to Jakob. And Rahel said, With affliction afflicted was I before the Lord in prayer; therefore He hath received my request that I might have a son as my sister, and hath given me two. Even so are my children to be redeemed from the hand of their enemies when they shall afflict themselves in prayer before the Lord; and she called his name Naphtali.
And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing, and she made Zilpha her handmaid free, and gave her unto Jakob to wife. And Zilpha the handmaid of Leah conceived, and bare Jakob a son; and Leah said, Good fortune cometh; his children shall surely inherit their habitation on the east bide of Jardena: and she called his name Gad. [JERUSALEM. And Leah said, Good success Cometh; for the feastings of the Gentiles are to be cut off: and she called.] And Zilpha the handmaid of Leah bare a second son to Jakob. And Leah said, Praise shall be mine: for the daughters of Yisrael will praise me, as his children will be praised before the Lord for the goodness of the fruit of his land; and she called his name Asher.
And Reuben went in the days of Sivan, in the time of wheat harvest, and found (Yaveruchin) mandrakes in the field; and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rahel said to Leah, Give me now of thy son's mandrakes. And she said to her, Is it a little thing that thou hast taken my husband, and thou seekest to take also my son's mandrakes ? And Rahel said, Therefore shall he lie with thee this night for thy son's mandrakes. [JERUSALEM. For a week he shall consort with thee.] And Jakob came from the field at evening. And Leah heard the voice of the braying of the ass, and knew that Jakob had come, and Leah went forth to meet him, and said, Thou wilt enter with me, because hiring I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes from Rahel my sister. And he lay with her that night. And the Lord heard the prayer of Leah, and she conceived, and bare to Jakob a fifth son. And Leah said, The Lord hath given me my reward, for that I gave my handmaid to my husband; even so shall his children receive a good reward, because they will occupy themselves with the Torah. And she called his name Issakar.
And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jakob; and said, The Lord hath endowed me with a good dowry by children. This time will the habitation of my husband be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and thus shall his children receive a good portion. And she called his name Zebulun. And afterward she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah; for she said, Judgement is from before the Lord, that there shall be from me a half of the tribes; but from Rahel my sister shall go forth two tribes, even as they shall proceed (in like manner) from each of the handmaids. And the prayer of Leah was heard before the Lord; and the infants were changed In their wombs; and Joseph was given to the womb of Rahel, and Dinah to the womb of Leah. And the remembrance of Rahel came before the Lord, and the voice of her prayer was heard before Him; and He said in his Word that He would give her sons.
[JERUSALEM. Four keys are held in the hand of the Lord of all the world, even the Lord, and He will not deliver them either to angel or to saraph; the key of the rain, the key of the provender, the key of the sepulchre, the key of barrenness. The key of rain : for thus the Scripture expoundeth, The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, &c. The key of provender: for thus the Scripture expoundeth, Thou openest thine hand, &c. The key of the sepulchre : for thus the Scripture expoundeth, When I shall open your sepulchre, &c. The key of barrenness Scripture expoundeth, And Elohim remebered Rahel, &c. And the Word of the Lord remebered Rahel in His good compassions,and the Word of the Lord heard the voice of her prayer, and He said in His Word that He would give her children.]
And she conceived and, bare a son, and said, The Lord hath gathered off my reproach, even as Jehoshua the son of Joseph will gather off the reproach of Mizraim from the sons of Yisrael, and will circumcise them beyond Jardena. And she called his name Joseph, saying, The Lord will add me yet another son to this one. And it was when Rahel had borne Joseph, Jakob said by the Holy Spirit concerning the house of Joseph, They are to be as a flame to consume the house of Esau; and he said, Therefore will I not be afraid of Esau and his legions. And he, said unto Laban, Send me away, and I will go to my place and to my country. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I will go; for thou knowest my service with which I have served thee. But Laban said to him, If now I have found grace in thy eyes, [JERUSALEM. I have observed.] I have observed by divination that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint thy wages with me, and I will give thee.
And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have been kept by me: for the little flock which thou hadst before me hath increased greatly, and the Lord hath blessed thee at my foot, that I have been profitable to thee from (the time of) my coming into thy house. And now when shall I do the work for which I am bound, to nourish the men of my house. And he said, What shall I give thee ? And Jakob said, Thou shalt not give me anything else, (but) do me this thing, and I will return and pasture thy flock, and keep them. I will pass through thy whole flock to-day, and will set apart every lamb streaked and spotted, and every black lamb among the lambs, and spotted and streaked among the goats, and they shall be my wages. [JERUSALEM. Every lamb spotted and streaked, and every black lamb among the lambs, and the spotted and streaked among the goats.] And my righteousness shall testify for me tomorrow, when my wages shall be brought before thee. Every one which is not streaked or spotted among the goats, or black among the lambs, shall be as if it had been a theft of mine.
And Laban said to him, Well, let it be according to thy word. And he separated that day the goats which were marked in their feet, and the spotted, and all the goats streaked or spotted, every one which had a white place in him, and every black one among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set a journey of three days between his flocks and (those of) Jakob. And Jakob tended the flock of Laban, the old and the feeble which were left.
And Jakob took to him a rod of flowering poplar, and of almond, and of the plane tree, and peeled in them white peelings to disclose the white which was in the rods. And the rods which he had peeled, he fixed in the canals, in the troughs of water; at the place to which they brought the flocks to water, there placed he them over against the flock that they might conceive when they came to drink. [JERUSALEM. In the canals.] And the sheep conceived over against the rods, and the sheep produced such as were marked in their feet, and spotted and white in their backs. And the lambs did Jakob set apart, and place in front of the flocks; all the various coloured and the black among Laban's sheep be set for himself a flock apart, and did not mix them with the sheep of Laban. And it was that whenever the early (prime) sheep conceived, Jakob set the rods in the canals before the eyes of the sheep, that they might conceive before the rods. But with the late sheep be did not set them ; and the late sheep were Laban's and the early ones Jakob's. And the man increased greatly, and had a multitude of flocks, and handmaids and servants, and camels, and asses.
XXXI. But he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jakob hath taken all that was our father's; and from that which was our father's he hath made himself all the glory of these riches. And Jakob observed the looks of Laban and, behold, they were not peaceful toward him as yesterday and as before it. And the Lord said to Jakob, Return to the land of thy fathers, and to thy native place; and My Word shall be for thy help. And Jakob sent Naphtali, who was a swift mes-senger, and he called Rahel and Leah, and they came into the field unto his flock. And he said to them, I consider the looks of your father, and, behold, they are not peaceful with me as yesterday and as before it; but the Elohim of my father hath been to my aid. And you know that with all my strength I have served your father, but your father hath deceived me, and hath changed [JERUSALEM. Hath commuted.] my wages ten portions; yet the Lord hath not given him power to do me evil. lf now he said, The streaked shall be thy wages, all the sheep bare streaked; and if now he said, The spotted-footed shall be thy wages, all the sheep bare those which were spotted in their feet: and the Lord hath taken away the flock of your father, and hath given (it) to me. [JERUSALEM. And the Word of the Lord hath taken away.] And it was at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and, behold, the goats which rose upon the flock were spotted in their feet, or streaked or white in their backs. And the Angel of the Lord said to me, in a dream, Jakob. And I said, Behold me. [JERUSALEM. Jakob answered in the holy tongue, and said, Behold me.] And He said, Lift up now thine eyes and see: all the goats that rise upon the flock are spotted in their feet, or streaked or white in their backs : because all the injury that Laban hath done thee is manifest before me. I am Eloba who did reveal Myself to thee at Beth El where thou didst anoint the pillar, and swear the oath before Me. Arise now, go forth from this land, and return to the land of my birth.
And Rahel answered with the consent of Leah, and said to him, Can there now be yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house; are we not considered by him as strangers For he hath sold us, and eating he hath eaten our money. Therefore all the wealth that the Lord hath taken from our father is ours and our children's. And now, all that the Lord hath said to thee, do. [JERUSALEM. Are we not considered strangers to him? for he hath sold us and, behold he is not willing to give us our dowry. ]
And Jakob arose, and set his children and his wives upon camels. And he led all his herds and his substance which he had obtained in Padan Aram to go unto Izhak his father in the land of Kenaan. [JERUSALEM. His treasure.]
And Laban had gone to shear his flock; and Rahel stole the images. For they had slain a man, a firstborn, and had cut off his head; they salted it with salt and balsams, and wrote incantations on a plate of gold, and put it under his tongue, and set it up in the wall, and it spake with them; and unto such their father bowed himself. And Jakob stole the knowledge of Laban the Aramite, in that he did not show him when he went. And he went, he with all that he had. And he arose and crossed the Pherat, and set his face to ascend toward the mountain of Gilead; because he saw by the Holy Spirit that from thence would be deliverance for his sons, in the days of Jephtach, who was of Gilead.
But after Jakob had gone, the shepherds went to the well, but found no water; and they waited three days, if that it might (again) overflow; but it overflowed not ; and then came they to Laban on the third day, and he knew that Jakob had fled; because through his righteousness it had flowed twenty years. [JERUSALEM. And it was, when the shepherds were gathered together, they sought to water the flock, but were not able; and they waited two and three days, if that the well might overflow; but it overflowed not; and then came they to Laban in the third day, because Jakob had fled.]
And he took his kinsmen with him, and pursued after him, going seven days, and overtook him, while sojourning in Mount Gilead offering praise and praying before his Elohim. And there came an angel with a word from before the Lord; and he drew the sword against Laban the deceitful in a dream of the night, and said to him, Beware lest thou speak with Jakob from good to evil.
And Laban came upon Jakob. And Jakob had spread his tent in the mountain, and Laban made his brethren abide in the mount of Gilead. And Laban said to Jakob, What hast thou done? Thou hast stolen my knowledge, and led away my daughters like captives of the sword. Why didst thou hide from me that thou wouldst go, and steal my knowledge, and not tell me? For if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with hymns, and with tambourines, and with harps. Neither hast thou suffered me to kiss the sons of my daughters, nor my daughters. Now hast thou been foolish in what thou hast done. There is sufficiency in my hand to do evil with thee; [JERUSALEM. There are strength and ability.] but the Elohim of thy father spake with me in the evening, saying, Be careful of speaking with Jakob from good to evil now going thou wilt go; because desiring thou hast desired the house of thy father: (but) why hast thou stolen the images of my idols?
And Jakob answered and said to Laban, Because I feared, and said, Lest thou violently take away thy daughters from me. With whomsoever thou shalt find the images of thy idols, let him die before his time. Before all our brethren take knowledge of what with me is thine, and take it. But Jakob knew not that Rahel had stolen them. And Laban went into the tent of Jakob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two concubines, but found not. And he went out from the tent of Leah, and entered the tent of Rahel. But Rahel had taken the images, and laid them in the paniers of the camels, and sat upon them. And he searched all the tent, but found not. And she said, Let it not be displeasing in my lord's eyes that I am not able to arise before thee, because I have the way of women. And he searched, but found not the images.
And the anger of Jakob took fire, and he contended with Laban. And Jakob answered and said to Laban, What is my sin, and what my transgression, that thou hast so eagerly come after me? Having, therefore, searched all my vessels, what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? Lay now the matter before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide the truth between us two. These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and the price of the rams of the flock I have not eaten.That torn by wild beasts I have not brought to thee; for had I sinned, from my hand thou wouldst have required it. What was stolen in the day by men, that have I made good; and what was stolen in the night by wild beasts was made good also.
[JERUSALEM.The dead I have not brought to thee; every one which had fled from the number, I have made that good; of my hands thou hast required it: and what thieves stole by day or wild beasts devoured by night I have made good.] I have been in the field; by day the heat hath devoured me, and the cold by night, and sleep hath been parted from me. These twenty years have I been in thy house, serving thee; fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou hast changed my wages ten parts. Unless the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Avraham, and He whom Izhak feareth had been in my help, even now hadst thou sent me away empty: but my affliction and the travail of my hands are manifest before the Lord, and therefore He admonished thee in the evening.
And Laban answered and said to Jakob, The children whom thou hast received of thy wives are my children, and the children whom they may bear will be reputed as mine, and the sheep are my sheep and all that thou seest is mine. And for my daughters what can I do this day, and for the soils which they have borne? And now come, let us strike a covenant, I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee. And Jakob took a stone and set it up for a pillar. And Jakob said to his sons, whom he called his brethren, Collect stones. And they collected stones, and made a mound, and they ate upon the mound. And Laban called it Ogar Sahid but Jakob called it in the holy tongue, Gal-ed. And The Observatory also it was called because he said The Lord shall observe between me and thee when we are hidden each man from his neighbour If thou shalt afflict my daughters, doing them injury, and if thou take upon my daughters, there is no man to judge us, the Word of the Lord seeing is the witness between me and thee. And Laban said to Jakob, Behold this mound, and behold the pillar which thou hast reared between me and thee. This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I may not pass beyond this mound to thee, and that thou mayest not pass beyond this mound and this pillar to do harm. The Elohim of Avraham and the Elohim of Nachor shall judge between us, the Elohim of their fathers. But Jakob sware by the Elohim whom his father Izhak feared. And Jakob slew sacrifices in the mount, and invited his kinsmen who came with Laban to help themselves to bread, (or strengthen themselves with bread,) and they helped themselves to bread, and lodged in the mount. And Laban arose in the morning, and kissed the sons of Jakob and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.
XXXII. And Jakob went on his way, and the angels of the Lord met him. And Jakob said when he saw them, These are not the host of Esau who are coming to meet me, nor the host of Laban, who have returned from pursuing me; but they are the host of the holy angels who are sent from before the Lord. Therefore the name of that place he called, in the language of the sanctuary, Machaniam [JERUSALEM. And Jakob, when he beheld them, said, Perhaps they are a host from Laban, the brother of my mother, coming to set against me the array of battle to slay me; or (rather) they are a host of the holy angels from before the Lord, who are come to save me from their hands. And he called the name of that place Machanaim.
Beth Mikdash, "The holy house"
Or, "with agility"
Tsiraan, "trifaugig." -- Desaur
Lit., "in the planet of Esau," i.e. "be destined to be his wife."
or, "negotiate."
"The day after."
Kethubathan.
Tsalmanaia.
"The mound of the Testimony."
Sekutha.
Yisteki Yeya.
Pgs. 96- 108
Ch.28-31
SECTION VII.
VAYETSE YAAKOV.
AND Jakob went forth from Beersheva, and went to Haran; and he arrived at a place, and lodged there, because the sun had gone. And he took of the stones of the place, and set his pillow, and lay down in that place. And he dreamed: and, behold, a ladder was planted in the earth, and the head of it reached unto the height of heaven; and, behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended upon it; and, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the Elohim of Avraham thy father, and the Elohim of Izhak. The land where thou sleepest, unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons. And thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth, and shall prevail to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and through thee shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed, and through thy sons. And, behold, My Word shall be for thy help, and I will keep thee in every place whither thou goest, and I will bring thee again to this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I say to thee. And Jakob awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory of the Lord dwelleth in this place, and I knew it not. And he feared and said, How awful is this place! This place is not common (ground), but a place where there is pleasantness before the Lord; and this is nigh the gate of heaven. And Jakob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had set for his pillow, and set it up, a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place The House of Elohim (Beth‑el). But Luz was the name of the city at the first. And Jakob vowed a vow, saying, If the Word of the Lord will be my help, and will keep me in that way in which I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to wear, and bring me again in peace to the Lord shall be my Elohim. And at this stone which I have set up (as) a pillar, will I worship before the Lord; and of all that Thou shalt give me, the tenth will I separate before Thee.
XXIX. And Jakob lifted up his feet, and came to the land of the children of the East. And he looked, and saw a well in a field; and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying near it, because from that well they watered the flocks; and a great stone was upon the mouth of the well. And thither all the flocks were gathered together; and they withdrew the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock, and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well unto its place. And Jakob said to them, My brethren, whence are you? And they said, We are from Haran. And Jakob said to them, Know you Laban bar Nachor? And they said, We know. And he said, Hath he peace? And they said, Peace; and, behold, Rahel his daughter cometh with the flock. And he said, Behold, the day is yet great, it is not time to gather the cattle; water the sheep, and go to the pasture. And they said, We cannot till all the flocks are gathered, and we remove the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flock. While he spake with them, Rahel came, with the flock of her father; for she was a shepherdess. And it was, when Jakob saw Rahel the daughter of Laban, the brother of his mother, and the flock of Laban the brother of his mother, that Jakob went near, and withdrew the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban, his mother's brother. And Jakob kissed Rahel, and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jakob showed Rahel that he was the son of her father's sister, and that he was the son of Revekah. And she ran and showed to her father. And it was when Laban heard the hearing of Jakob the son of his sister, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him into his house; and he narrated to Laban all these words. And Laban said to him, Thou art, however, my near (kinsman), and thou art my flesh. And he abode with him a month of days. And Laban said to Jakob, Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall be thy wages? And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger Rahel. And the eyes of Leah were beautiful;[1] but Rahel was admirable in form, and beautiful in aspect. And Jakob loved Rahel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rahel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee than give her to another man; reside with me. And Jakob served for Rahel seven years; and they were in his eyes as a few days, inasmuch as he loved her. And Jakob said to Laban, Give me my wife; for the days of my service are fulfilled, and I will go to her. And Laban assembled all the men of the place, and made a feast. And it was in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and introduced her to him, and he entered to her. And Laban gave her Zilpha his handmaid unto Leah his daughter, to attend on her. And it was in the morning, and, behold, she was Leah! And he said to Laban, What is this that thou hast done to me? Was it not for Rahel that I served thee? and why hast thou been false with me? And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the elder. Fulfil this week, and I will give thee also that, for the service that thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jakob did so, and fulfilled the week of this; and he gave him Rahel his daughter to be his wife. And Laban gave to Rahel his daughter Bilhah her handmaid to wait upon her. And he went in also to Rahel, and he loved Rahel more than Leah. And he served yet with him seven other years. And the Lord saw that Leah was hated, and He gave her to conceive, but Rahel was barren. And Leah conceived and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben;[2] for she said, Because my affiiction was manifest before the Lord; for now will my husband love me. And she conceived again and bare a son, and she said, Because it was heard before the Lord that I had hatred, and He gave me this also; and she called his name Shemeon.[3] And she conceived again and bare a son: and she said, This time will my husband adhere to me; for I have born him three sons: therefore she called his name Levi.[4] And she conceived again and bare a son; and she said, This time will I give praise before the Lord: therefore she called his name Jehudah.[5] And she ceased (stood) from bearing.
XXX. And Rahel saw that she did not bear unto Jakob; and Rahel envied her sister, and she said to Jakob, Give me children; and if not, I die. And the anger of Jakob was incensed against Rahel, and he said, Why ask of me? Is it not before the Lord that thou shouldest ask, who hath denied thee the generation of the womb? And she said, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she shall bear, and I also shall nourish (children), and be builded up from her. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jakob went in unto her, and Bilhah conceived, and bare to Jakob a son. And Rahel said, The Lord hath judged me, and hath also received my prayer, and given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan.[6] And Bilhah the handmaid of Rahel conceived again, and bare a second son to Jakob. And Rahel said, The Lord hath received my request: when I entreated in my prayer, I desired that I might have offspring as my sister, and also it is given me. And she called his name Naphtali.[7] And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing, and she took Zilpha her handmaid, and gave her to Jakob to wife. And Zilpha the handmaid of Leah bare a son to Jakob, and Leah said, There cometh prosperity; and she called his name Gad.[8] And Zilpha the handmaid of Leah bare a second son to Jakob; and Leah said, Praise shall be mine; now will women praise me; and she called his name Asher.[9] And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes[10] in the field, and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rahel said to Leah, Give me now of thy son's mandrakes. And she said to her, Is it a little that thou hast taken my husband, and thou wilt take also my son's mandrakes? And Rahel said, Therefore shall he lie with thee at night for thy son's mandrakes. And Jakob came in from the field at evening, and Leah went out to anticipate him, and said, With me thou wilt go in, because with hire have I hired thee, with the mandrakes of my son; and he lay with her that night. And the Lord received the prayer of Leah, and she conceived, and bare to Jakob a fifth son. And Leah said, The Lord hath given me my reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issakar.[11] And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jakob. And Leah said, The Lord hath given me a good portion.[12] This time will the habitation of my husband be with me, because I have born him six sons: therefore she called his name Zebulon.[13] And afterward she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.[14] And the remembrance of Rahel came before the Lord, and the Lord received her prayer, and gave her to conceive. And she conceived and bare a son, and she said, The Lord hath taken up[15] my reproach. And she called his name Joseph,[16] saying, The Lord shall add to me another son.
And it was when Rahel had born Joseph, that Jakob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place, and to my land. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may go: for thou knowest the service with which I have served thee. And Laban said to him, If now I have found grace in thine eyes, I have proved that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Certify[17] thy wages with me, and I will give. And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy flocks have been with me; for thou hadst few before me, and they have increased into a multitude: and the Lord hath blessed thee for my sake.[18] But now, what shall I do also for my (own) house? And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything; but if thou wilt do with me this matter, I will return, and, pasturing thy flocks, will keep (them). I will pass through all thy flocks to‑day, and set apart from them every lamb streaked and speckled, and every black lamb among the lambs, and the streaked and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages. And my righteousness shall be testified in the day following, when thou wilt come upon my reward that shall be before thee: every one which is not streaked or speckled among the goats, and black among the lambs, that shall be (as if) stolen by me. And Laban said, Let it be according to thy word. And he set apart that day the he‑goats of various colour, and all the goats which were speckled or spotted, every one which had (some) white in him, and all that were black among the lambs: and he gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set a walk of three days between them and Jakob; and Jakob pastured the flock of Laban which remained. And Jakob took to him rods of white poplars, and of almond, (or hazel,) and of plane tree, and peeled in them white peelings, (so that, where) peeled, the white which was in the rods appeared. And he fixed the rods that he had peeled in the canals, in the place of the watering of waters, the place to which they brought the flocks to drink, to be over against the flocks, that they might be incited when they came to drink. And the sheep were incited before the rods, and the sheep brought forth with chequered feet and streaked. And Jakob separated the lambs, and set before the sheep which were various‑coloured and all that were black among the sheep of Laban; and placed them for himself a flock apart, not mixing them with the sheep of Laban. And it was that whenever the early (prime) sheep conceived, Jakob placed the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the canals, that they might conceive before the rods: but before the late sheep he did not place them. And (so) the late ones were Laban's, and the prime ones Jacob's. And the man increased very greatly, and had a multitude of flocks, and handmaids, and servants, and camels, and asses.
XXXI. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's he hath gotten all these possessions. And Jakob saw the looks of Laban,[19] and, behold, they were not with him as yesterday, and the time before. And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to thy country and to thy native (place): and My Word shall be for thy help. And Jacob sent and called Rahel and Leah to the field with his flocks: and he said to them, I see the looks of your father, that they are not with me as yesterday and the time before; and the Elohim of my father hath been to my help. And you know that with all my strength I have served your father; but your father hath lied to me, and hath changed my wages ten times; but the Lord hath not permitted him to hurt me. If now he said, The streaked shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare streaked: and if now he said, The chequered shall be thy wages; all the flock bare chequered. And the Lord hath separated them from the cattle of your father, and hath given (them) to me. And it was at the time when the flocks conceived, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the flock were chequered, streaked, and speckled. And the angel of the Lord said to me in a dream, Jacob. And I said, Behold, I am. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the flock are chequered, streaked, and speckled: because all that Laban hath done to thee is manifest before Me. I am Eloha,[20] who appeared to thee at Bethel, where thou didst anoint the pillar, and where before Me thou didst swear the oath: arise now, go from this land, and return to the land of thy birth. And Rahel and Leah answered and said to him, Have we yet a portion or inheritance in our father's house? Are we not accounted as strangers by him? for he hath sold us, and hath devoured our money also. Therefore, all the wealth that the Lord hath separated from our father is ours and our children's: and now all that the Lord hath said to thee, do. And Jakob arose, and lifted up his sons and his wives upon camels; and led all his herds and all his substance which he had obtained, his herds and his substance which he had obtained in Padan Aram, to go unto Izhak his father in the land of Kenaan. And Laban had gone to shear his flock: and Rahel took the images[21] that were her father's. And Jakob concealed from Laban the Aramite, and showed him not that he went. And he went, he and all that were his; and he arose and passed the Phrat, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. And it was shown to Laban on the third day that Jakob had gone. And he took his brethren with him, and Pursued after him; going seven days; and he overtook him in the Mountain of Gilead. And a word came from before the Lord to Laban the Aramite in a dream of the night, and He said to him, Beware, lest thou speak with Jakob from good to evil. And Laban overtook Jakob; and Jakob had spread his tent in the mountain; and Laban made his brethren abide in the mountain of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob; What hast thou done, that thou hast hidden from me, and taken away my daughters, as captives of the sword? Why didst thou conceal thy going, (or conceal thyseIf to go,) and didst hide it from me, and not show me, that I might then have sent thee away with mirth, and with hymns,[22] and with tambourines, and with harps? Nor didst thou suffer me[23] to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now hast thou done foolishly. It is in the power of my bands to do evil with thee: but the Elohim of thy father spake to me in the evening, saying, Beware lest thou speak to Jakob from good to evil. And now, (though) going thou wouldest go, because desiring thou bast desired the house of thy father, why hast thou taken my religion?[24] And Jakob answered and said to Laban, Because I feared; for I said, Lest thou shouldst take away thy daughters from me. The place where thou shalt find thy religious things shall not abide: before our brethren ascertain thou what of thine is with me, and take to thee. But Jakob knew not that Rahel had carried them away. And Laban entered into the tent of Leah,[25] and into the tent of the two concubines, but found not; and he went forth from the tent of Leah, and entered the tent of Rahel. But Rahel had taken the images, and laid them in the panniers[26] of the camels, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found not. And she said to her father, Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord, that I am not able to rise before thee; for the way of women is upon me. And he scrutinized, but found not the images. And Jakob was angry, and contended with Laban. And Jakob answered and said to Laban, What is my guilt my crime, that thou hast pursued after me? Now that thou hast searched all my things,[27] what hast thou found, of all the things of thy house? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, and they shall decide between us both. These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten. The wounded I have not brought to thee; what was deficient in number, from my hand hast thou required it. I have watched by day, and I have watched by night. (Thus) have I been; in the day the heat devoured me, and the frost came down upon me at night, and sleep passed away from my eyes. These twenty years have I served in thy house; fourteen years for thy two daughters; and six years for thy sheep; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Unless the Elohim of my fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, and He whom Izhak hath feared,[28] had been my helper, even now thou hadst sent me away empty: but my labour, and the travail of my hands, have been manifest before the Lord, and He rebuked thee in the evening. And Laban answered and said to Jakob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the sheep are my sheep, and all whatsoever thou seest is mine; and to these, my daughters, what can I do this day, or unto their children which they have born? And now come, let us enter into a covenant, I and thou, and it shall be for a witness between me and thee. And Jakob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar. And Jakob said to his brethren, Collect stones; and they took stones, and made a mound,[29] and ate there upon the mound. And Laban called it Yegar Sahadutha,[30] but Jakob called it Gal-Ed.[31] And Laban said, This mound testifieth between me and thee to‑day. Therefore he called the name of it The Heap of Witness, and The Observatory;[32] for he said, The Word of the Lord will observe between me and thee, when we are hidden (each) man from his neighbour. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take wives over my daughters, no man is with us; see, the Word of the Lord is witness between me and thee. And Laban said to Jakob, Behold this mound and this pillar, which thou bast erected between me and thee. This mound and pillar are a witness, that I will not pass over this mound to thee; and that thou shalt not pass over this mound and this pillar, to do me evil. The Elohim of Avraham and the Elohim of Nachor shall judge between us, the Elohim of their fathers.[33] And Jakob sware by Him whom Izhak his father feared.[34] And Jakob sacrificed victims in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they ate bread, and tabernacled in the mountain. And Laban arose in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them, and went; and Laban returned to his place. And Jakob went on his way, and the angels of the Lord met him. And when Jakob saw them, he said, This is a host[35] from before the Lord; and he called the name of the place Mahanaim.
[1] Comp. Song i. 15.
[1] "Manifestation."
[1] "Hearing."
[1] "Union."
[1] "Praise."
[1] "Judgement."
[1] "Wrestled for."
[1] "Fortune, prosperity." In Chaldee, "a fortunate star."
[1] "Happiness."
[1] Yavruchin. Hebrew, dudaim. Septuagint, "apples of mandrakes" ("atropa mandragira," Linnaeus). The Samaritan expression is as the Hebrew, and the Peschito as the Targum.
[1] "Wages."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Elohim hath helped me with good help."
[1] "Habitation."
[1] "Judgement."
[1] Or, "cleansed away." See Castel, voce Kenash.
[1] "Addition."
[1] Or, "distinguish."
[1] Sam. Vers. "through my help."
[1] Or, "the aspect of the looks of Laban."
[1] Sam. Vers. "I am the Most Mighty."
[1] Tsilmanaia. The word in the Hebrew text (teraphim) is probably from the Aramaic teraph, "to inquire."
[1] Sam. Vers. "with chief or great things" (rabbonim).
[1] Sam. Vers. "nor didst thou expect (or wait) that I might kiss."
[1] Dachatli.
[1] Sam. Vers. "and diligently searched."
[1] The Hebrew kar answers to the Arabic kuron, "a pannier, cradle, or chair, placed on each side the camel."
[1] Or, "vessels."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the redeemer of Izhak."
[1] Degura, "a cumulus or mound;" from deger, Heb. dagar, "to collect, pile up."
[1] "The Heap of Whitness." The olddest specimen of Aramaic extent.
[1] Hebrew, "The heap of Witness."
[1] Sakutha. Chald. from Seka, aspexit, contemplatus est. The Hebrew Mizpeh.
[1] Sam. Vers. "the Elohim of Avraham."
[1] Sam. Vers. "by the Redeemer of his father Izhak."
[1] Or, "camp."
[1] Comp. Song i. 15.
[2] "Manifestation."
[3] "Hearing."
[4] "Union."
[5] "Praise."
[6] "Judgement."
[7] "Wrestled for."
[8] "Fortune, prosperity." In Chaldee, "a fortunate star."
[9] "Happiness."
[10] Yavruchin. Hebrew, dudaim. Septuagint, "apples of mandrakes" ("atropa mandragira," Linnaeus). The Samaritan expression is as the Hebrew, and the Peschito as the Targum.
[11] "Wages."
[12] Sam. Vers. "Elohim hath helped me with good help."
[13] "Habitation."
[14] "Judgement."
[15] Or, "cleansed away." See Castel, voce Kenash.
[16] "Addition."
[17] Or, "distinguish."
[18] Sam. Vers. "through my help."
[19] Or, "the aspect of the looks of Laban."
[20] Sam. Vers. "I am the Most Mighty."
[21] Tsilmanaia. The word in the Hebrew text (teraphim) is probably from the Aramaic teraph, "to inquire."
[22] Sam. Vers. "with chief or great things" (rabbonim).
[23] Sam. Vers. "nor didst thou expect (or wait) that I might kiss."
[24] Dachatli.
[25] Sam. Vers. "and diligently searched."
[26] The Hebrew kar answers to the Arabic kuron, "a pannier, cradle, or chair, placed on each side the camel."
[27] Or, "vessels."
[28] Sam. Vers. "the redeemer of Izhak."
[29] Degura, "a cumulus or mound;" from deger, Heb. dagar, "to collect, pile up."
[30] "The Heap of Whitness." The olddest specimen of Aramaic extent.
[31] Hebrew, "The heap of Witness."
[32] Sakutha. Chald. from Seka, aspexit, contemplatus est. The Hebrew Mizpeh.
[33] Sam. Vers. "the Elohim of Avraham."
[34] Sam. Vers. "by the Redeemer of his father Izhak."
[35] Or, "camp."
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Ch. 44-47
SECTION XI
VAYIGGASH.
And Jehuda came near to him and said, In implor&endash;ing my lord, let thy servant, I implore, speak a word in the hearing of my lord, and let not thy anger grow strong against thy servant; for at the hour that we came to thee thou didst say to us, I fear before the Lord; and now thy judgments are rendered like (the judgments) of a prince of Pharoh. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
[JERUSALEM. And Jehuda came near him, and said, In beseeching thee, my lord, let thy servant now speak a word in the hearing of my lord, and let not thy anger be strong against thy servant; for at the first time we came down to thee into Mizraim didst thou not tell us, I fear before the Lord? And now thy judgments are returned like the judgments of Pharoh thy lord, by whom thou adjurest. Yet I am honourable as thou art, and my father is honourable as Pharoh thy lord is, by whom thou dost adjure. Can I not swear by the life of the head of my father, and not lie? For if I draw my sword from within its sheath, I would not return it till I had filled all the land of Mizraim with the slain; to its sheath I would not return it, till I had made all Mizraim desolate of inhabitants, beginning with thyself, and ending with Pharoh thy lord, were it not against the will of my father. Or, hath it not been heard by thee, or not told thee, what my two brothers Shimeon and Levi did, who went up against the town of Shekem, while they were dwelling in security, and killed every male by the edge of the sword, because they bad corrupted Dinah our sister, who hath not been numbered in the tribes, nor hath portion or inheritance with us in the dividing of the land? By how much more then (shall it be done) for Benjamin our brother, who is numbered with us among the tribes, and who hath portion and inheritance with us in the dividing of the land ? And in force is more unyielding than theirs, because I have become the sponsor for the youth at the hands of my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, I will be guilty with thee and be removed from thy salutation all the days. Hast thou not beard, or hath it not been told thee, that in the land of Kenaan we are kings and princes, as thou art ?
[19. When Joseph, the beloved and honourable, saw that the strength of Jehuda his brother bad risen up, and that the thoughts of his heart came forth, and that they rent their garments, in that hour beckoned Joseph to Menasheh his first‑born, and stamped with his shoe; and all Joseph's palace trembled. In that hour Jehuda said, If it bad not been on the side of the house of my father, it would not have been done so. Then began Jehuda to be milder in his words, and he said, My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother ?]
And we told my lord, We have an aged father, and a son of his old age, a little one, whose brother is dead, and he only remains of his mother; and his father on that account loveth him. And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me, and I will set mine eyes on him for good. [Yerushalayim Mine eyes shall be gracious upon him.] But we told my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: for if he leave his father, he will die. Yet thou saidst to thy servants, If you bring not your youngest brother down, you shall not again see my face. And it was when we went up to thy servant our father, we related to him my lord's words. And our father said to us, Return, and buy us a little corn. But we told him, We cannot go down if our youngest brother be not with us when we go down, for we shall not be able to see the man's face, unless our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant our father said to us, You know that my wife bare me two sons. One went forth from me, and I said, Surely he is dead, and I have not beheld him since; and you will now take this other from before me; and if death happen to him, you will bring down mine age with mourning to the house of the grave. Therefore thy servant became surety for the youth with my father, saying, If I restore him not to thee, let me be guilty before my father all the days. And now let thy servant remain, I beseech thee, as the slave of my lord, instead of the young man; and let the young man go up with his brothers. For how can I go up to my father, and the young man be not with us lest I behold the evil that will strike my father through!
XLV. And Joseph could not endure not to (be able to) weep, on account of all who stood before him. And he said, Let every man go out from me: and no one stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
And he lifted up his voice with weeping; and the Mizraee heard, and a man of the house of Pharoh heard.
And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph ! Is my father yet alive ?
But his brothers could not answer him a word; for they were troubled before him.
And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near, I pray, and examine me. And they came near. And he said to them, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Mizraim. Now, therefore, be not grieved, nor consider it a hard thing[1] that you sold me hither; for the Lord sent me hither before you to preserve you. For these two years hath the famine been in the midst of the land, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest. But the Lord sent me before you to set you a remnant in the land, and to preserve you by a great deliverance.
And now, it was not you who sent me hither, but it was from before the Lord that the thing was occasioned, that He might set me for a prince unto Pharoh, a chief over his house, and a ruler in all the land of Mizraim. Make haste, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, The Lord hath set me for a chief over all the Mizraee; come down to me, delay not, and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' children, thy sheep, thy oxen, and all that thou hast. And I will sustain you there, for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou and the men of thy house, and all that thou hast be wasted away. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that my mouth speaketh with you in the language of the house of holiness. And you must show my father all the honour I have in Mizraim, and all my greatness which you see, and hasten my father hither.
And he bowed himself upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; because it would be that the house of holiness should be builded in the portion of Benjamin, and be twice destroyed: and Benjamin wept upon Joseph's neck, because he saw that the tabernacle of Shiloh would be in the portion of Joseph and be destroyed. And he kissed all his brethren, and wept over them, because he saw that the sons of his people would be brought into bondage. And afterward his brethren discoursed with him.
And a voice was heard in the royal house of Pharoh, saying, The brothers of Joseph are come. And the thing was pleasing in the eyes of Pharoh, and in the eyes of his servants. And he said to Joseph, Tell thy brethren, Do this. Lade your beasts, and go, carry into the land of Kenaan; and take your father and the men of your house, and come to me, and I will give you the best of what is desirable in the land of Mizraim, and you shall eat the fat of the land. And thou Joseph shalt appoint for the honour of thy father: therefore tell thy brethren, Do this. Take with you from the land of Mizraim waggons drawn by oxen, in which to carry your children and your wives, and bring your father, and come. And your eyes must not look wistfully on your utensils: for the best of what is desirable in all the land of Mizraim is yours.
And the sons of Yisrael did so. And Joseph gave them waggons according to the word of Pharoh, and he furnished them with provision for the way. And to each of them he gave vestments and apparel; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver, and five vestments for apparel. And these presents he sent to his father; ten asses laden with wine and the good things of Mizraim, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread, and provisions for his father's journey. And he dismissed his brothers to go, and said to them, Do not contend about my having been sold, lest you quarrel in passing along the way.
And they went up from Mizraim, and came to the land of Kenaan unto Jakob their father. And they declared to him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and is ruler over all the land of Mizraim. But his heart was divided, because he did not believe them. [JERUSALEM. And his heart was divided.] And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had spoken to them. And when he saw the waggons which Joseph had sent to bring him, the Spirit of Prophecy which had gone up from him at the time that Joseph was sold, returning, rested upon Jakob their father. And Yisrael said, Many benefits hath the Lord wrought for me; He delivered me from the hand of Esau and from the hand of Laban, and from the hands of the Kenaanites who pursued me; and many consolations have I seen and have expected to see; but this I had not expected, that Joseph my son should yet be alive. I will go now, and behold him before I die. [JERUSALEM. And Yisrael said, Many benefits and consolations I had hoped to see; but this I had not expected, that, behold, Joseph my son should be yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.]
XLVI. And Yisrael journeyed with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father Izhak. And the Lord spake to Yisrael in a prophecy of the night, and said, Jakob! and he said, Behold me. And He said, I am Elohim, the Elohim of thy father; fear not to go down into Mizraim on account of the servitude I have decreed with Avraham: for a great people will I make thee there. I am He who in My Word will go down with thee into Mizraim; I will regard the affliction of thy children, and My Word shall bring thee up from thence, and cause thy children to come up; but Joseph shall lay his hand upon thine eyes.
And Jakob arose from Beer de Sheba; and the sons of Yisrael journeyed, with Jakob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharoh had sent to carry him. They took their possessions and the substance which they had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and came into Mizraim, Jakob and all his sons with him, his sons and his sons' children with him, his daughters, and the daughters of his sons; and all his seed came with him to Mizraim.
These are the names of the sons of Yisrael who came into Mizraim. Jakob and his sons. The firstborn of Jakob, Reuben. And the sons of Reuben, Hanok and Phallu Hetsron and Karmi. The sons of Shimeon, Jemuel and Jamin, Ochad, Jakin, Sochar and Shaul: he is Zimri, who made the work of the Kenaanites in Shittim. And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kehath and Merari. The sons of Jehuda, Er, Onan, Shelah, Pherets, and Zarach. But Er and Onan died, on account of their evil work in the land of Kenaan; and Shelah and Zarach had no children in the land of Kenaan; but the sons of Pherets who went down to Mizraim were Hetsron and Chamul. The sons of Issakar, sages, and masters of reasoning, their names were Tola, Phua, Job, and Shimron The sons of Zebulon, merchants, masters of commerce nourishing their brethren, the sons of Issakar, and receiving a reward like theirs; and their names were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jakob in. Padan Aram, with Dinah his daughter; all the souls of his sons and his daughter; thirty and three. And the children of Gad, Sephon, Haggi, Suni Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. The children of Asher, Yimna, Yishvah, Yishvi, Beriah and Serach their sister, who was carried away while alive into the Garden (of Eden), because she had announced to Jakob that Joseph still lived. It was she who saved the inhabitants of (the city) Abel from the judgment of death, in the days of Joab. The sons of Beriah who went down into Mizraim were Heber and Malkiel. These are the children of Zilpha, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob; sixteen souls. The sons of Rahel, wife of Jakob, Joseph and Benjamin. And to Joseph were born two sons in the land of Mizraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Dinah, educated in the house of Potiphera prince of Tanis, bare, Menasheh and Ephraim. The sons of Benjamin, ten; and their names, according to the interpretation of Joseph his brother: Bela,[2] who was swallowed up from him; Beker, who was the chosen of his mother; Eshbal, who went into captivity; Gera, who became a sojourner in a foreign land; Naaman, who was pleasant and honourable; Achi, who had a (twin) brother, the son of his mother; Rosh, who was a chief in his father's house; Muppim, who was sold into Muph; Chuppim, because at the time that he was separated from him he was the son of eighteen years and was eligible for marriage (Chupha, thalamus nuptialis) ; and Ared, who descended into Mizraim. These are the children of Rahel who were born unto Jakob, all the souls fourteen. The sons of Dan, able men (or armed) and merchants, of whose numbers there is no end (or sum). And the sons of Naphtali, Jakzeel, Guni, Jetser, and Shillem. These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rahel his daughter; and she bare them unto Jakob, all the souls seven. All the souls which went into Mizraim with Jakob which had come forth from his thigh; besides the wives of Jakob's sons, all the souls were sixty and six. But the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Mizraim were two souls; and Joseph who was in Mizraim, and Jokebed the daughter of Levi, who was born among the hills in their journey to Mizraim, the sum of all the souls of the house of Jakob who came into Mizraim, seventy.
And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph to indicate the way before him, to subdue the pillars of the earth, and to provide him a house of dwelling in Goshena. And they came to the land of Goshen. [JERUSALEM. To prepare him a place of habitation in Goshena.]
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisrael his father in Goshen; and his father, before he recognised him, worshipped him, and thus became liable to be shortened (or cut off) in his years. And he wondered, and beheld him, and fell upon his neck, and wept still upon his neck, because he had worshipped him. And Yisrael said to Joseph, If at this time I die, I am Comforted: for with the death that the righteous die shall I die, after seeing thy face, because thou art yet alive.
And Joseph said to his brethren and his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharoh, and say to him, My brethren and my father's house from the land of Kenaan have come to me. The men are pastors of sheep; for they are men, the masters of flocks; and their sheep and oxen and all which they have, they have brought. And it must be, when Pharoh calleth you, and saith, Tell me, what is your work? you must say, Thy servants have been masters of flocks from our youth until now: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; because the Mizraee reject[3] all shepherds.
XLVII. And Joseph came and informed Pharoh, and said, My father and my brethren, with their sheep all oxen and all that they have, are come from the land of Kenaan, and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And from the extreme of his brethren he took five men, Zebulon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, and resented them before Pharoh. And Pharoh said to Joseph's brethren, What is your work? And they said to Pharoh, Thy servants are pastors of sheep, both we and our fathers. And they said to Pharoh, To dwell in the land are we come, because there is no place of pasture for thy servants' sheep, for the famine hath prevailed in the land of Kenaan; let thy servants therefore now dwell in the land of Goshen.
And Pharoh spake to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren have come to thee. The land of Mizraim is before thee. In the fairest part of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell: let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if thou know any among them men of ability, appoint them masters over my flocks.
And Joseph brought Jakob his father, and presented him before Pharoh. And Jakob blessed Pharoh, and said, May it please the Almighty that the waters of Nilos may be replenished, and may the famine pass away from the world in thy days! And Pharoh said to Jakob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jakob answered Pharoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life; for in my youth I fled before Esau my brother, and sojourned in a land not my own; and now in the time of my old age have I come down to sojourn here. And my days have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jakob blessed Pharoh, and went out from before Pharoh.
And Joseph brought his father and brethren to dwell, and gave them a possession in the land of Mizraim, in a goodly part of the country, in the country of Pilusin, as Pharoh had commanded. [JERUSALEM. Pelusim.] And Joseph sustained his father and his brethren and all his father's house with bread, according to the need of their families. But there was no bread (grown) in all the land, because the famine prevailed greatly, and the inhabitants of the land of Mizraim failed, and the dwellers in the land of Kenaan, in presence of the famine. And Joseph collected all the money which was found in the land of Mizraim, and in the land of Kenaan, for the corn which he sold to them; and Joseph brought the money into the treasure‑house of Pharoh. And the money was finished from the land of Mizraim, and from the land of Kenaan; and the Mizraee came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread; why should we die before thee? for all our money is finished. [JERUSALEM. And hath failed.] And Joseph said, Give your flocks, and for your flocks I will give you provisions, if the money be consumed. And they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for their horses, and for the flocks of sheep, the oxen, and the asses; and he sustained them with bread for all their flocks for that year And that year being ended, all the Mizraee came to him, in the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that the money is finished and my lord hath the flocks of cattle: there is nothing left us before my lord except our bodies, and our land. Why should we die and thine eye seeing (it), both we and our land also? Buy us, and our land, for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharoh, and give the seed of corn, that we may live and not die, and the land be not desolated. And Joseph bought all the land of Mizraim for Pharoh; for the Mizraee sold every man his portion, because the famine prevailed over them, and the land became the property of Pharoh. And the people of a province be removed to a city, and the people of the city he removed to a province, for the sake of the brethren of Joseph, that they might not be called wanderers: therefore he made them migrate from one end of Mizraim to the other. [JERUSALEM. And the people who were dwelling in the province he removed into the city; and the people who dwelt in the city he removed into the province, that they might not deride the sons of Jakob, and call them Galilean (wandering) guests.] Only the land of the priests he bought not because they had considered him innocent at the time when his master was seeking to put him to death, and they had delivered him from the judgment of death: and besides he had said that a portion should be given them from Pharoh. So they ate the portion which Pharoh gave them, and sold not their land.
And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharoh: behold, (I give) you seed corn to sow the land; and at the time of the ingathering of your produce you shall give the fifth part to Pharoh, and four parts shall be yours, for the seeding of your land, and for food and for provision for your houses and little ones. And they said, Thou hast preserved us: let us find favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharoh's servants. And Joseph established it a Torah unto this day over the land of Mizraim to take to Pharoh a fifth part of the produce, except only the land of the priests which was not Pharoh's.
And Yisrael dwelt in the land of Mizraim, and they built there schools and mansions in the land of Goshen, and inherited therein fields and vineyards; and they increased and multiplied greatly.
[1] “let it not be hard in your eyes.”
[2] The roots of these names have the meanings here assigned. P 5
[3] Or, “keeping at a distance from.”
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Ch. 44-47
SECTION XI.
VAYIGGASH ALAIF YEHUDAH.
AND Jehuda came near to him and said, We beseech my lord, let thy servant speak a word before my lord, and let not thine anger be great with thy servant; for as Pharoh so art thou. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother? And we told my lord, We have an aged father, and the youngest (son) is the son of his old age; his brother is dead; and he only remains of his mother, and his father loves him. And thou saidst to thy servants, Bring him down to me, and let me set mine eyes upon him. And we told my lord, His father cannot part with the youth; for if our father should part with him, he would die. And thou saidst to thy servants, If your youngest brother come not down with you, you shall not see my face again. And it was when we had gone up to our father, we told him these words of my lord. And our father said to us, Return, and buy us a little corn. And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man's face unless our youngest brother go down with us. And thy servant our father said to us, You know that my wife bare me two (sons). One went forth from me, and I have said, Dying he is dead; and I have not beheld him since. And if you take this one also from me, and death happen to him, you will bring down my age with evil unto sheol. And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the youth be not with us, and his soul loveth him as his (own) soul; when he seeth that the youth is not with us, he will die; and thy servant will have brought down the age of thy servant our father with mourning unto Sheol. For thy servant was surety for the youth with our father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, let my father hold me guilty all the days. And now let thy servant remain instead of the youth, as the servant of my lord, and let the youth go up with his brothers. For how can I go up to my father, and the youth be not with me?‑lest I should see the evil that will come upon my father!
XLV. And Joseph was not able to sustain all that was being upon him; and he cried, Let every man go out from me; and no man stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brethren. And he gave forth his voice with weeping; and the Mizraee heard, and a man of Pharoh's house heard. And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father yet living? And his brethren were not able to answer him a word, for they were confounded before him. And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near now to me. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Mizraim. And now do not be troubled,[1] and let it not be afflictive in your eyes that you sold me hither; for to sustain life did the Lord send me before you. For these two years hath famine been in the land, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither seed nor harvest. And the Lord sent me before you to set a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. And now, it was not you who sent me hither, but (it was) from before the Lord, who hath set me to be a father[2] unto Pharoh, and to rule all the men of his house, holding power over all the land of Mizraim. Hasten, (then,) and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, The Lord hath set me ruler over the Mizraim: come down to me, delay[3] not, and thous halt dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' children, and thy sheep and thy oxen, and all that thou hast. And I will nourish thee[4] there; for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou, and the men of thy house, and all that thou hast, be wasted away. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that in your language I speak with you. And you will show my father all my glory in Mizraim, and all that you see; and make haste, and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon the neck of Benjamin his brother, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers, and wept over them; and afterward his brothers discoursed with him. And a voice was heard in the house of Pharoh, saying, The brothers of Joseph are come. And it was pleasing in the eyes of Pharoh, and in the eyes of his servants. And Pharoh said to Joseph, Tell my brethren, Do this; lade your beasts and go; carry into the land of Kenaan; and take your father and the men of your house and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Mizraim, and you shall eat the good of the land. And (now) thou art commanded, this do. Take to you out of the land of Mizraim waggons for your children, and your wives; and bring your father, and come. And let not your eye look wistfully upon your furniture; for the good of all the land of Mizraim is your own. And the sons of Yisrael did so; and Joseph gave them waggons, according to the word of Pharoh, and he gave them provisions for the way. And he gave to every one of them vestments for wearing; and to Benjamin gave he three hundred shekels of silver, and five vestments for wearing. And to his father he sent ten asses laden with the good things of Mizraim , and ten she‑asses laden with corn, and bread and provisions for the way. And he dismissed his brethren, and they went, and he said to them, Do not contend by the way. And they went up from Mizraim and came into the land of Kenaan, unto Jakob their father. And they showed him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he ruleth over all the land of Mizraim! And these words were uncertain[5] upon his heart, because he did not believe them. And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had spoken with them; and he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent to fetch him; and the Holy Spirit rested upon Jakob their father. And Yisrael said, Great to me is the joy! Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go, and behold him before I die.
XLVI. And Yisrael journeyed, and all that he had, and came to Beershava; and he offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father Izhak. And the Lord spake to Yisrael in a vision of the night, and said, Jakob, Jakob. And he said, Behold, I am. And He said, I am Elohim, the Elohim of thy father: fear not to go down into Mizraim; for a great people will I make thee there. I will go down with thee into Mizraim, and will surely bring thee up; but Joseph shall lay his hand upon thine eyes. And Jakob arose from Beershava. And the sons of Yisrael carried Jakob their father, and their children, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharoh had sent to fetch them. And they took their flocks and their substance which they had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and came to Mizraim, Jakob and all his sons with him. His sons, and his son's sons with him, his daughters, and the daughters of his sons, and all his seed, he brought with him into Mizraim.
And these are the names of the sons of Yisrael which came into Mizraim, Jakob and his sons. The firstborn of Jakob, Reuben. And the sons of Reuben., Hanuk and Phallu, Hesron and Karmi. And the sons of Sheemon, Jemuel, and Janin, and Ahad, and Jakin, and Zochar, and Shaul, the son of a Kenaanitha. And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kehath, and Merari. And the sons of Jehuda, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharets, and Zarach. But Er and Onan had died in the land of Kenaan. And the sons of Pharets, Heshron and Chamul. And the sons of Issakar, Tola, and Pheua, and Job, and Semeron. And the sons of Zabulon, Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. These are the sons of Leah, which she bare to Jakob in Padan Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the souls, his sons and his daughters, thirty and three. And the children of Gad, Sephyon and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. And the sons of Asher, Jemna, and Jesva, and Jesvi, and Beriah, and Serach, their sister. And the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel. These are the sons of Zilpha, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bare these unto Jakob, sixteen souls. The sons of Rahel, the wife of Jakob, Joseph and Benjamin. And to Joseph were born in the land of Mizraim Menashe and Ephraim, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, prince of On, bare unto him. And the sons of Benjamin, Bela, and Bekor, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Achi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huphim, and Arede. These are the sons of Rahel which were born to Jakob; all the souls fourteen. And the sons of Dan, Hushim: and the sons of Naphtali, Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shilem. These are the children of Billah, whom Laban gave to Rahel his daughter, and she bare them to Jakob; all the souls seven. All the souls which went with Jakob into Mizraim, which came forth from his loins, besides the wives of Jakob's sons, all the souls, sixty and six. And the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Mizraim, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jakob which went into Mizraim were seventy.
And he sent Jehuda before him to Joseph, to make the way clear before him at Goshen, and he came to the land of Goshen. And Joseph arrayed his chariot, and went up to meet Yisrael his father in Goshen. And he saw him, and fell upon his neck, and wept. And he wept still upon his neck! And Yisrael said to Joseph, I could‑die at this time! I have consolation now that I have seen thy face; for thou art yet alive. And Joseph said to his brothers, and to the house of his father, I will go up and show Pharoh, and will tell him, My brethren and the house of my father, who were in the land of Kenaan, have come to me. But the men are shepherds of sheep: for the men are masters of flocks, and their sheep and oxen and all that they have they have brought. And it shall be when Pharoh calleth you, and shall ask you, What is your employment? you will say, Thy servants have been men, the masters of flocks from our youth until now; both we and our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; because the Mizraee keep at a distance all shepherds of flocks.
XLVII. And Joseph came and showed Pharoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep and their oxen, and all that they have, are come from the land of Kenaan, and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And of the extreme[6] of his brethren he took five men, and made them stand before Pharoh. And Pharoh said to his brethren, What are your employments? And they said to Pharoh, thy servants are shepherds; both we and our fathers. And they said to Pharoh, To dwell in the land are we come for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine prevails in the land of Kenaan, and we pray thee let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharoh spake to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee; the land of Mizraim is before thee in the best of it let thy father and thy brethren dwell, (even) in the land of Goshen: and if thou know any of them to be men of ability, appoint them to be chiefs over my flocks. And Joseph brought Jakob his father, and presented him before Pharoh: and Jakob blessed Pharoh. And Pharoh said to Jakob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jakob said to Pharoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jakob blessed Pharoh, and went out from before Pharoh. And Joseph made his father and his brethren to dwell, and gave them a possession in the land of Mizraim, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramesis, as Pharoh had commanded. And Joseph sustained[7] his father and his brethren, and all the house of his father, with bread, according to the mouth of the family (of each). And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine prevailed greatly, and the people of the land of Mizraim and the people of the land of Kenaan failed before the famine. And Joseph collected all the money which was found in the land of Mizraim and in the land of Kenaan, for the corn which they bought. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharoh. And the money was finished from the land of Mizraim and from the land of Kenaan; and all the Mizraee came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread: for why should we die before thee? for the money is finished. And Joseph said, Bring your cattle, and I will give you provision, if your money is finished. And they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for their horses, and for their flocks of sheep, and for their herds of oxen, and for their asses, and for all their cattle; he fed[8] them with bread for that year. And that year was completed; and they came to him in the second year, and said to him, We will not conceal it from our lord, but the money is ended, and (we have delivered up) our cattle to our lord, and there is nothing left before our lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we perish before thee, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharoh, and give us seed corn, that we may live and not die, and the land may not be desolate. And Joseph acquired all the land of Mizraim for Pharoh; for the Mizraee sold every man his portion, because the famine prevailed over them, and the land became Pharoh's. And the people he made him[9] to pass from city to city, from one end of the limit of Mizraim to the other. Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for a portion (was given) by Pharoh to the priests: and they ate their portion which Pharoh gave them; therefore they sold not their land. And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharoh. Behold, (I give) you seed corn, that you may sow the land. And it shall be, when it bringeth forth produce, that you shall give one in five to Pharoh, and four parts shall be yours, of the corn of the field, that you and the men of your house may eat, and your little ones have food. And they said, Thou hast preserved us; may we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and we will be the servants of Pharoh. And Joseph made it a statute unto this day over the land of Mizraim, that one of five should be given to Pharoh; only the land of the priests alone was not Pharoh's. And Yisrael dwelt in the land of Mizraim in the land of Goshen, and possessed it: and they increased and multiplied greatly.
[1] Sam. Vers. "be not afflicted."
[1] Sam. Vers. "a friend."
[1] Sam. Vers. "stand not."
[1] Sam. Vers. "I will give thee sufficiency."
[1] Or. "faint."
[1] Of the entire number comprised between the first and last?
[1] Sam. Vers. "sufficiently fed."
[1] Sam. Vers. "he allotted them bread."
[1] Thus literally following the Hebrew.
[1] Sam. Vers. "be not afflicted."
[2] Sam. Vers. "a friend."
[3] Sam. Vers. "stand not."
[4] Sam. Vers. "I will give thee sufficiency."
[5] Or. "faint."
[6] Of the entire number comprised between the first and last?
[7] Sam. Vers. "sufficiently fed."
[8] Sam. Vers. "he allotted them bread."
[9] Thus literally following the Hebrew.
Pgs. 149-161
Ch. 1-6
THE TARGUM OF PALESTINE
THE TARGUM OF JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL,
BOOK OF LEVITICUS
SECTION OF THE TORAH XXIV.
I. And it was when Mosheh had completed to erect the tabernacle that Mosheh reasoned and judged in his heart, and said: To Mount Sinai, whose excellency is the excellence only of an hour and its holiness the holiness but of three days, I could not ascend till the time that the word was spoken to me; but the excellence of this the tabernacle of ordinance is an eternal excellency, and its holiness an everlasting holiness; therefore is it right that I should not enter within it until the time that I am spoken with from before the Lord. Then did the word[1] of the Lord call unto Mosheh and the Word[2] of the Lord spake with him from the tabernacle of ordinance saying:
[JERUSALEM TARGUM. And it was when Mosheh had completed to erect the tabernacle to anoint it, and sanctify it, and all its vessels, that Mosheh reasoned in his heart, and said: Within Mount Sinai, whose majesty was the majesty of an hour, and its holiness the holiness of an hour, I might not ascend till the time which was bidden me from before the Lord; nor into the tabernacle of ordinance, whose majesty is an eternal majesty, and its holiness an everlasting holiness, is it right for me to enter till the time that I am bidden from before the Lord. And the Word of the Lord called to Mosheh; for the Word of the Lord was altogether with him, from the tabernacle of ordinance, saying:]
Speak with the sons of Yisrael, and say to them: If a man of you,‑but not of the rebellious worshippers of idols,‑bring an oblation before the Lord, (it must be) from the clean cattle, from the oxen or from the sheep; but not from the wild beasts may you offer your oblations. If his oblation be a burnt offering of oxen, he shall bring a male unblemished to the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and offer him to be accepted for himself before the Lord. And he shall lay his right hand with firmness upon the head of the sacrifice, that it may be acceptable from him to propitiate on his behalf. And the slayer shall kill the ox at the place of slaughter before the Lord, and the sons of Aharon the priest shall bring the blood in vessels, and sprinkle the blood which is in the basins round about the altar that is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And he shall take away the skin from the sacrifice, and divide him according to his members. [JERUSALEM. And he shall skin the holocaust, and divide him by his members.] And the sons of Aharon the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire; and the priests the sons of Aharon shall lay the members in order and the heart and the covering of the fat upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar. And he shall wash the inwards and his legs with water; and the priest shall offer the whole upon the altar of burnt offering an oblation to be accepted with grace before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. And he shall wash.] And if his oblation be of the flock, whether of the lambs or of the young goats, he shall bring a male unblemished. And the slayer shall kill it at the foot of the altar on the north side, before the Lord, and the priests the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle the blood that is in the basins upon the altar round about. And he shall divide it by its members, its bead and lit's body, and the priest shall set them in order on the wood which is upon the fire on the altar. And the inwards and his legs he shall wash with water, and the priest shall offer the whole and burn it at the altar of burnt sacrifice; it is an offering to be received with grace before the Lord.
And if his oblation before the Lord be of birds he shall bring his oblation from the turtle doves or the young Of pigeons; but of the turtle doves he shall bring the largest, and of the pigeons the young ones. And the priest shall offer it upon the altar, and shall wring off its head, and burn upon the altar, and press out its blood at the side of the altar. And he shall remove its gullet and the contents thereof, and throw it by the eastern side of the altar in the place where they burn the cinders. [JERUSALEM. And the priest shall bring it to the side of the altar, and twist off its head, and lay it in order upon the altar, and press out its blood at the bottom of the altar. And he shall remove its ventricle with the dung, and throw it by, on the east of the altar at the place where the cinders are emptied.] And he shall cut it between its wings, but not to sever the wings from it; and the priest shall burn it at the altar upon the wood which is on the fire: it is a sacrifice, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. [JERUSALEM. And he shall cut it through its wings, but not to dissever; and the priest shall lay it in order upon the, altar, on the wood that is upon the fire.]
II. But when a man will offer the oblation of mincha before the Lord, his oblation shall be of flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put incense thereon, and bring it to the priests the sons of Aharon; and he shall take from thence his band full of the meal and of the best of the oil, with all the frankincense; and the priest shall burn the goodly memorial at the altar, an oblation to be accepted with grace before the Lord. And what remaineth of the mincha shall be Aharon's and his sons, most holy among the oblations of the Lord. And when thou wilt offer the oblation of a mincha of that which is baked in the oven, it shall be cakes of flour, unleavened and mixed with oil, and wafers unleavened, which are anointed with oil. [JERUSALEM. And wafers unleavened.] And if thy oblation of a mincha be from the pan, it shall be of flour mingled with oil, unleavened shall it be. He shall break it in pieces, and pour oil thereupon. It is a mincha. [JERUSALEM. And he shall break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon.] And if thy oblation be a mincha from the gridiron, it shall be made of flour broiled with oil. And the mincha which bath been made with the flour and the oil thou shalt bring in before the Lord, and the man who bringeth it shall present it to the priest, and the priest shall take it to the altar. And the priest shall separate from the mincha a memorial of praise, and burn it at the altar, an oblation to be accepted with grace before the Lord. And what remaineth of the mincha shall be for Aharon and his sons, it is most holy among the oblations of the Lord. But no mincha which thou offerest to the Lord shalt thou make with leaven; for neither leaven nor honey mayest thou offer as an oblation before the Lord.
When thou offerest an oblation of first fruits before the Lord, the bread of the first fruits thou mayest bring leavened, and the dates in the season of first fruits, and the fruit with its honey thou mayest bring, and the priest may eat them; but they shall not burn them at the altar as an oblation to be received with favour. And every oblation of thy mincha thou shalt salt with salt; thou shalt not withhold the salt of the covenant of thy Elohim from thy mincha, because the twenty and four gifts of the priests are appointed with a covenant of salt; therefore salt shalt thou offer with all thy oblations. And if thou wilt present a mincha of first fruits before the Lord, (ears of wheat) roasted by fire, roasted flour and meal of barley shalt thou offer as a mincha of thy first fruits. And thou shalt put olive oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a mincha. And the priest shall burn its memorial of praise from the meal and from the best of the oil, with all the frankincense, an oblation before the Lord.
III. And if his oblation be of the sanctified victims,[3] if from thy cattle he offer, whether male or female, he shall offer it perfect. And he shall lay his right hand firmly on the head of his oblation, and the slayer shall kill it at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, and the priests the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. And of the sanctified victim, his oblation before the Lord, he shall offer the covering of fat which covereth the inwards, even all the fat which is upon the inwards. And the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, that is, upon the folding and the caul that is upon the liver with the kidneys, he shall remove. And the sons of Aharon shall offer it on the altar with the sacrifice that is on the wood which is upon the fire, an oblation to be received with favour before the Lord. And if his oblation of a consecrated offering before the Lord be from the flock, whether male or female, his oblation shall be perfect. If he present a lamb for his oblation, he shall bring it before the Lord; and lay his right hand firmly on the head of his oblation, and the slayer shall kill it before the tabernacle of ordinance, and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about. And of the offering of his consecrated oblation he shall offer the best of its fat,, and remove the whole of the tail, close to the spine, the covering of fat which covereth the inwards, even all the fat that is upon the inwards. [JERUSALEM. And the fat and the entire breast to the chine he shall remove, and the fat which covereth the inwards.] And the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them, upon the foldings, and the caul that is over the liver, together with the kidneys, he shall take away. And the priest shall sacrifice it at the altar, the meat of an oblation before the Lord.
And if his oblation be from the young goats, he shall bring it before the Lord, and lay his right hand upon its head, and the slayer shall kill it before the tabernacle of ordinance, and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its, blood upon the altar round about. And of his oblation before the Lord he shall offer the covering of fat which covereth the inwards, even all the fat that is upon the inwards. And the two kidneys and the fat which is upon them (and) on the foldings, and the caul which is over the liver, along with the kidneys, he shall take away. And the priest shall sacrifice them at the altar, the meat of an oblation to be received with favour. All the fat (shall be offered) before the Lord. It is an everlasting statute unto all your generations, that neither the fat nor the blood shall be eaten in any of your dwellings, but upon the back of the altar it shall be sacrificed unto the Name of the Lord.
IV. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with the sons of Yisrael, saying: When a man hath sinned inadvertently against any of the commandments of the Lord (in doing) what ought not to be done, and he hath done it against any one of them: if the high priest who is consecrated with oil hath sinned,‑as when he hath offered a sin offering for the people not according to the rite, he shall bring for his sin a young bullock unblemished before the Lord for a sin offering. He shall bring in the bullock to the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance, to the presence of the Lord, and lay his right hand upon the head of the bullock, and the slayer shall kill the bullock before the Lord. And the high priest who is anointed with oil shall take of the blood of the bullock, and carry it into the tabernacle of ordinance; and the priest shall dip his fingers in the blood, and sprinkle the blood seven times in the presence of the Lord before the veil of the sanctuary. [JERUSALEM. And the priest shall dip his fingers, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times.] And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense that is before the Lord in the tabernacle of ordinance, and all the rest of the blood of the bullock he shall pour out at the foundation of the altar of burnt sacrifice which is at the gate of the tabernacle of ordinance. And all the fat of the bullock of the sin offering he shall separate from him, the covering of fat which covereth the inwards, even all the fat which is upon the inwards. And the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, upon the folding, and the caul that is upon the liver, with the kidneys, he shall remove. As it was separated from the bullock of the consecrated sacrifice, so shall (these things) be separated from the lambs and from the goats, and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering. And all the skin of the bullock, and his flesh with his head and with his legs, and his inward parts and his dung, the whole of the bullock he shall carry forth into a clean place without the camp, to a place where the cinders are poured out, and shall burn him with wood in the fire, at the place where cinders are poured out shall be be burned.
And if the whole congregation of Yisrael have erred, and the thing hath been hidden from the sight of the congregation in doing inadvertently against one of the commandments of the Lord what was not right to be done, and (thus) have sinned; and the sin which they have sinned be made known to them; the congregation shall offer a young bullock as a sin offering, and shall bring him before the tabernacle of ordinance. And twelve of the elders of the congregation, the counsellors (amarkelin) appointed over the twelve tribes, shall lay their hands firmly upon the head of the bullock, and the slayer shall kill the bullock before the Lord. And the high priest shall carry some of the blood of the bullock into the tabernacle of ordinance. And the priest shall dip his finger into the blood, and sprinkle some thereof seven times in the presence of the Lord before the veil; and he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar that is before the Lord within the tabernacle of ordinance, and all the (residue of the) blood he shall pour out at the foundation of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And all the fat he shall separate from him, and burn at the altar. And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for the sin of the high priest, so shall he do with him. And the priest shall atone for them, and it shall be forgiven them. And the bullock shall be carried forth without the camp and be burned, as the former bullock of the high priest was burned, that through it the sin of Yisrael may be forgiven. It is a sin offering for the congregation.
At what time the ruler of his people shall have sinned, and done against any of the commandments of the Lord his Elohim that which ought not to have been done, and he hath sinned through ignorance; if his sin that he hath sinned be made known to him, he shall bring for his oblation a kid of the goats, a male, unblemished; and he shall lay his right band firmly upon the bead of the goat, and the slayer shall kill him at the place of the sacrifice of the burnt offering before the Lord. It is a sin offering. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering upon his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and be shall pour out the blood at the foundation of the altar of burnt sacrifice. And all the fat he shall burn at the altar, as was the fat of the sanctified oblations; and the priest shall atone for him on account of his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
And if a man of the people of the land sin through ignorance in doing (against) one of the commandments of the Lord what was not right to do, and he hath sinned; if his sin that he hath sinned be made known to him, he shall bring for his oblation an unblemished female of the goats for the sin that he hath sinned; and he shall lay his right hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering at the place of burnt sacrifice; and the priest shall take of the blood with his fingers and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and pour out all the blood at the foundation of the altar. And he shall remove all her fat, as the fat of the consecrated sacrifices was taken off, and the priest shall burn it at the altar, to be received with acceptance before the Lord; and the priest shall atone for him, and he shall be forgiven.
But if he bring a lamb as his offering for sin, he shall bring a female, unblemished; and lay his right hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it as an oblation for sin, at the place of burnt sacrifice. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and pour out all the blood at the foundation of the altar. And all the fat he shall remove, as the fat of the lamb of the sanctified victims was removed, and the priest shall burn it at the altar with the oblations of the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for him on account of the sin that he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
V. When a man shall have sinned, and heard the voice of the oath of execration, or have been himself a witness, or shall have seen that cue of the world hath transgressed against the words of an oath, or shall have known that his companion hath sworn or imprecated vainly, if he show it not, he shall bear his sin. Or if a man touch anything, unclean, whether the carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean reptile, and it be hidden from him, and he, being unclean, shall touch any consecrated thing, he is guilty. Or if he touch the uncleanness of a man, even whatever uncleanness that defileth him, and it be hidden from him, and he touch anything consecrated, after that it is discovered by him, and he knoweth that he is defiled and not clean, he shall be guilty. Or if a man shall swear to make declaration with his lips to do evil or good [JERUSALEM. To do evil or good] upon any matter upon which a man may affirm, whether of the present or the future, that he can make declaration by oath, and he falsify therein, and it be hidden from him, but afterward it be discovered to him and he know that he hath falsified, and he repent not; though he hath become guilty in any one of these, if he shall have (thus) sinned in any one of these four things, but afterwards repent, he shall make confession of the sin by which be hath sinned. And he shall bring the oblation of his trespass offering to the Presence of the Lord for the sin that he hath sinned, a female lamb of the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall atone for him (that he may be absolved) from his sin. But if his hand find not sufficiency to bring a lamb, let him bring, as an offering for the trespass that he hath committed, two large turtle doves or two young pigeons before the Lord; one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt sacrifice. And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which he may choose for the sin offering first: and lie shall wring its head near to the spine, but not separate its head from the neck; and he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon the side of the altar, and pour out the remainder of the blood at the foot of the altar: it is a sin offering. And of the second bird he shall make a burnt sacrifice, according to the rite with the bird which he bad chosen for the sin offering, and not according to the rite for the bullock, or the lamb, or the young goat. And the priest shall expiate him from the sin that he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. But if his hand find not sufficiency to bring two large turtle doves or two young pigeons, let him bring as an oblation for sin a tenth part of three sein of flour for a sin offering; but let him not put oil thereon nor frankincense, for it is a sin offering. And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful for a commendable memorial thereof, and burn it at the altar with the oblations of the Lord: it is a sin offering. And the priest shall atone for his sin that he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. And the remainder shall be a mincha to the priest.
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: When a man falsifieth with falsity and sinneth, though with inadvertence, in making misuse of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring the oblation for his trespass to the presence of the Lord, an unblemished ram from the flock, with an estimation in silver according to the value of the holy thing which hath been misappropriated, in shekels, after the shekels of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. And the misuse of the holy thing by which he sinned, (the perversion of what was) sanctified, he shall make good, and shall add the fifth of its value unto it, and bring it to the priest who shall atone for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
If a man sin, and do against any one of all the commandments of the Lord that which is not right to do, though he knew it not, he hath sinned, and shall bear his guilt; but (when he hath discovered it), let him bring a ram unblemished from the flock according to his estimation for a trespass offering unto the priest; and the priest shall atone for him for the ignorance with which he erred ignorantly and sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. It is an oblation for trespass. Whosoever hath become guilty, a trespass oblation let him bring, an oblation for trespass unto the Name of the Lord, for the sin that he hath sinned.
VI. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: When a man sinneth and falsifieth with falsehoods unto the Name of the Word of the Lord, or denieth to his neighbour the deposit which hath been deposited with him, whether in partnership of hands, or by rapine, or reckless dealing with his neighbour; [JERUSALEM. Or shall be contumacious (or slanderous) with his neighbour;] or if he find a thing that hath been lost and denieth it, and sweareth falsely about any one of all these by which a mail in doing them shall become guilty, he who shall thus transgress, and sin, and swear, shall restore what he hath robbed with robbery or injured by injury, or the deposit that was deposited with him, or the lost thing which he had found, or whatsoever about which he had sworn with falsehood, he shall make good in the capital, and shall add a fifth of its value thereto, and deliver it to its owner on the day that he maketh penance for his sin. And he shall bring an oblation for his trespass to the presence of the Lord; a male unblemished from the flock, according to its estimation for the trespass, (shall he bring) unto the priest. And the priest shall atone for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him concerning any one of all these which he may have done and become guilty.
[1] Dibbura, "oracle".
[2] Memra.
[3] Peace offerings. See Glossary.
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SECTION VIII.
Vayishlach
And Jakob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Gabla the territory of the Edomites, and instructed them to say, Thus shall you speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jakob, With Laban have I dwelt, and have tarried until now. And of all that in which my father blessed me there is nothing in my hand; but I have a few oxen and asses, sheep, and servants and handmaids; and I have sent to tell my lord that that blessing hath not profited me; that I may find mercy in thine eyes and that thou mayest not maintain (enmity) against me on account thereof.
And the messengers returned to Jakob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau, and he also cometh to meet thee, and four hundred chief‑warriors[1] with him. [Yerushalayim. And four hundred men, warlike leaders with him.] And Jakob was greatly afraid, because for twenty years he had not been mindful of the glory of his father: and he had anxiety; and he divided the people who were with him, the sheep, and oxen, and camels, into three troops, for a portion. to Leah, and a portion to Rahel. And he said, If Esau come to the one troop of them and smite it, the remaining troop may escape. And Jakob said, Elohim of my father Avraham, Thou, the Elohim of my father Izhak, the Lord, who saidst to me, Return to thy country and to thy kindred, and I wilt do thee good: I am altogether less than any of the (acts of) goodness and truth which Thou hast exercised towards Thy servant: for with my staff, alone, I passed this Jardena, and now I am become two bands.
Deliver me I pray, from the hand of my elder brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him: for he hath been mindful of the glory of his father; lest he come and smite the mother with the children. But Thou hast promised, I Will surely do thee good, and will make thy sons many as the sand of the sea be numbered for that cannot be numbered for Multitude.
And he abode there that night; and he took what was ready at his hand a present for Esau his brother: she‑goats two hundred, and he‑goats twenty; ewes two hundred and rams twenty: milch camels with their young ones thirty; cows forty, and bulls ten, small colts ten..[Yerushalayim. Arid small colts ten.] And he made them ready by the hand of his servants in flocks apart, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put much (room) between flock and flock. And he instructed the first, Saying, When Esau my brother shall meet thee, and ask of thee, saying, Whose art thou, and whither art thou journeying and whose are these before thee? Thou halt and sayth it is a gift of thy servant Jakob, which he sends to my lord Esau, and, behold, he also cometh after us. And so he instructed the second, and the third, and all them who followed the flock, saying According to these words You must speak with Esau when you find him, and say, And, behold, thy servant Jakob also cometh after us. For he said, I will make his countenance friendly by the gift which goeth before me, and afterward will see his face: peradventure he may accept me. And the present passed over before him, and he abode that night in camp And the night in the camp. And he arose in the night and took his two wives, and his two concubines, and eleven children, and went over the ford Jubeka. And taking them he made them pass over the torrent, and all that he had went over.
And Jakob remained alone beyond the Jubeka; and an Angel contended with him in the likeness of a man. And he said, Hast thou not promised to give the tenth of all that is thine? And, behold, thou hast ten sons and one daughter: nevertheless thou hast not tithed them. Immediately he set apart the four firstborn of the four mothers, and there remained eight. And he began to number from Shimeon, and Levi came up for the tenth.
Michael answered and said, Lord of the world is Thy lot. And on account of these things he (Michael) remained from Elohim at the torrent till the column of the morning was ascending. And he saw that he had not power to hurt him, and he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jakob's thigh was distorted in his contending with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the column of the morning ascendeth; and the hour cometh when the angels on high offer praise to the Lord of the world: and I am one of the angels of praise, but from the day that the world was created my time to praise hath not come until now.
And he said, I will not let thee go, until thou bless me. [JERUSALEM. And the hollow of Jakob's thigh was displaced in contending with him. And he said, Send me away, for the column of the dawn ariseth, and, behold, the hour cometh for the angels to praise. And he said, I will not release thee until thou bless me.]
And he said, What is thy name? He answered, Jakob. And he said, Thy name shall be no more called Jakob but Yisrael, because thou art magnified with the angels of the Lord and with the mighty, and thou hast prevailed with them. And Jakob asked and said, Show me now thy name. And he said, Why dost thou ask for my name? And he blessed Jakob there.
And Jakob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, I have seen the Angels of the Lord face to face, and my soul is saved. And the sun rose upon him before his time, (the sun) which on his account had set before his time, on his going out from Beersheba, as he crossed over Peniel. And he began to journey, and was lame upon his thigh. Therefore the sons of Yisrael eat not the sinew which shrank, which is in the hollow of the thigh of cattle and of wild animals, until this day; because the Angel touched and laid hold of the hollow of the right thigh of Jakob, in the place of the sinew which shrank.
XXXIII. And Jakob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men of war. And be divided the children unto Leah, and to Rahel, and to the two concubines, and placed the concubines and their sons foremost; for he said, If Esau come to destroy the children and abuse the women, he will do it with them, and meantime we will arise and encounter him in fight; and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph after them. And he himself went over before them, praying and asking mercy before the Lord; and he bowed upon the earth seven times, until he met with his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept. Esau wept on account of the pain of his teeth which were shaken; but Jakob wept because of the pain of his neck. [JERUSALEM. And Esau ran to meet him, and hugged him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him. Esau wept for the crushing of his teeth, and Jakob wept for the tenderness of his neck.[2]
And he lifted up his eyes and saw the wives and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, They are the souls which have been given to me through mercy from before the Lord upon thy servant. And the concubines came near, they and their children, and bowed themselves; and Leah also approached, and her children, and bowed; and afterward Joseph came near and stood before Rahel, and hid her by his stature, and they bowed. And he said, What to thee is all this troop that I have met? And he said, It is a present I have sent to find mercy in the eyes of my lord. And Esau said, I have much substance, my brother; let what thou hast be confirmed to thee. And Jakob said, Say not so, I beseech thee. If now I have found favor in thy eyes, accept my present from my hand; because I have seen the look of thy face, and it is to me as the vision of the face of thy angel; for, lo, thou art propitious to me. Receive now the present which is brought to thee, because it hath been given me through mercy from before the Lord, and because I have much substance. And he urged upon him, and he received.
And he said, Let us journey and proceed, and I will go along with thee, till thou come to the house of thy habitation. And he said to him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and kine giving milk are with me; and if I overdrive them one day, all the flock may die. Let me beseech my lord to pass over and journey before thy servant, and I will lead oil quietly alone, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and according to the foot of the instruction of the children; until the time that I come to my lord at Gabla. [JERUSALEM. That the children are tender.]
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the soldiers who are with me. But he said, Why this? Let me find favour before thee, my lord. And a miracle was wrought for Jakob, and that day Esau returned on his way to Gabla.
And Jakob journeyed to Succoth, and sojourned there the twelve months of the year; and he builded in it a midrasha,[3] and for his flocks he made booths; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
Then came Jakob in peace with all that he had to the city of Shekem, in the land of Kenaan, in his Coming from Padan Aram; and he dwelt near the city, and bought the possession of a field where lie spread his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor father of Shekem, for a hundred pearls.[4] And he raised there an altar, and there he gave the tithes which he had set apart of all that he had before Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael.
XXXIV. And Dinah the daughter of Leah whom she bare to Jakob, went forth to see the manners of the daughters of the people of the land And Shekem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her, and took her by force, and lay with her and afflicted her. And his soul delighted in Dinah the daughter of Jakob; and he loved the girl, and spake kindly to the heart of the girl. And Shekem spake to Hamor his father, saying, Take for me this damsel to wife. But Jakob had heard that he had polluted Dinah his daughter, And his sons were with the flocks in the field, and Jakob was silent until they came.
And Hamor the father of Shekem came forth to Jakob to speak with him. And the sons of Jakob had come up from the field when they heard. And the men were indignant, and very violently moved, because Shekem had wrought dishonour in Yisrael in lying with the daughter of Jakob; for so it was not right to have been done.
And Hamor spake with them, saying, The soul of Shekem my son delighteth in your daughter: give her, I pray, to him to wife; and conjoin yourselves by marriage with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you; and dwell with us, and the land shall be before you, to dwell where you please and do business in it and possess it. And Shekem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find grace[5] in your sight, and what you shall tell me I will give. Multiply upon me greatly dowry and gift, and I will give as you shall tell me; only give me the damsel to wife. [JERUSALEM. Dotation and marriage portion.] But the sons of Jakob answered Shekem. and Hamor his father with subtilty, and so spake, because he had polluted Dinah their sister, and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, because that would be a disgrace to us. But in this we will accede to you, if you will be as we are by circumcising every male. And we will give our daughters to you, and will take your daughters to us, and dwell with you, and be one people. But if you will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter by force and will go. And their words were pleasing in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shekem, the son of Hamor. And the young man delayed not to do the thing; because he wished for the daughter of Jakob; and he was more honourable than all his father's house.
And Hamor and Shekem his son came to the gate of their city, and spake with the men of the gate of their city, saying, These men are friendly with us; and they may dwell in the land and do business in it; and the land, behold, it is broad (in) limits before them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and give our daughters to them. But in this only will the men accede to us, to dwell with us, and to be one people, by every male of us being circumcised as they are. Their flocks, and their substance, and all their cattle, will they not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. And all they who came out of the gate of his city received from Hamor and from Shekem, his son; and they circumcised every male, all who came out of the gate of the city.
And it was on the third day, when they were weak from the pain of their circumcision, two of the sons of Jakob, Shimeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took each man his sword, and came upon the city, which was dwelling securely and killed every male. And Hamor and Shekem his son they killed with the edge of the sword; and they took Dinah from the house of Shekem, and went forth. And the rest of the sons of Jakob came to the spoil of the slain, and they sacked the city because they had polluted their sister in the midst of it. Their flocks, and oxen, and asses, and whatever was in the city or in the field they spoiled; and all their wealth and all their little ones they took and spoiled, and all that was in the houses.
And Jakob said to Shimeon and Levi, You have made my name to go forth as evil among the inhabitants of the land, among the Kenaanites and Phezerites. And I am a people of (small) number, and they will gather together against me, and destroy me and the men of my house. And Shimeon and Levi answered, It would not have been fit to be said in the congregations of Yisrael that the uncircumcised polluted the virgin, and the worshippers of idols debased the daughter of Jakob: but it is fit that it should be said, The uncircumcised were slain on account of the virgin, and the worshippers of idols on account of the daughter of Jakob. Shekem bar Hamor will not (now) deride us with his words; for as a whorish woman and an outcast who hath no avenger would he have made our sister, if we had not done this thing.
[JERUSALEM. The two sons of Jakob answered together, and said to Yisrael their father, It would not be fit to be said in the congregations of Yisrael, in their house of instruction, that the uncircumcised polluted the virgin, and the worshippers of idols the daughter of Jakob; but it is fit that it be said in the congregations of Yisrael and in their house of instruction, that the uncircumcised were put to death for the sake of the virgin, and the worshippers of idols because they had defiled Dinah the daughter of Jakob. And Shekem bar Hamor will not boast in his heart and say, As a woman who hath no man to avenge her injury, so hath Dinah the daughter of Jakob been made. And they said, As an impure woman and an outcast would he have accounted our sister.]
XXXV. And the Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make there an altar unto Eloha, who revealed Himself to thee in thy flight from before Esau thy brother. And Jakob said to the men of his house, and to all who were with him, Put away the idols of the peoples which are among you which you took from the temple[6] of Shekem, and purify you from the uncleannesses of the slain whom you have and change your raiment. And we will arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar unto Eloha, who heard my prayer in the day when I was afflicted, and whose Word was my helper in the way that I went.
And they delivered into Jakob's hand all the idols of the people which were in their hands which they had taken from the temple of Shekem, and the jewels that had been in the ears of the inhabitants of the city of Shekem, in which was portrayed the likeness of their images; and Jakob hid them under the terebinth that was near to the city of Shekem.
And they journeyed from thence, offering praise and prayer before the Lord. And there was a tremor from before the Lord upon the people of the cities round about them, and they pursued not after the sons of Jakob. And Jakob came to Luz in the land of Kenaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people who were with him. And he builded there an altar, and named that place, To Elohim, who made His Shekinah to dwell in Bethel, because there had been revealed to him the angels of the Lord, in his flight from before Esau his brother.
And Deborah, the nurse of Rivekah, died, and was buried below Bethel, in the field of the plain. And there it was told Jakob concerning the death of Rivekah his mother; and he called the name of it, The other weeping.[7]
And the Lord revealed Himself to Jakob again on his return from Padan of Aram, and the Lord blessed him by the name of His Word, after the death of his mother. And the Lord said to him, Heretofore was thy name Jakob: thy name shall be no more called Jakob, but Yisrael shall be thy name. And the Lord said to him, I am El Shadai: spread forth and multiply; a holy people, and a congregation of prophets and priests, shall be from thy sons whom thou hast begotten, and two kings shall yet from thee go forth. And the land which I gave to Avraham and to Izhak will I give unto thee, and to thy son, after thee will I give the land.
[JERUSALEM. And Deborah the nurse of Rivekah died, and was buried below Beth El under an oak:[8] and he called the name of it, The Oak of Weeping.[9] The Elohim of eternity, whose name be Blessed for ever and ever, hath taught us precepts which are beautiful and statutes that are comely: He hath taught us the blessing of matrimony from Adam and his bride, as the scripture expoundeth And the Word of the Lord blessed them, and the Word of the Lord said to them, Be strong and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it. He hath taught us to visit the afflicted, from our father Avraham the Righteous, when He revealed Himself to him in the plain of Vision, and gave him the precept of circumcision, and made him to sit in the door of his tent in the heat of the day; as the scripture expoundeth and saith, And the Word of the Lord revealed Himself to him in the plain of Vision. And again He hath taught us to bless those who mourn, from our father Jakob the Righteous: for He revealed Himself to him on his coming from Padan of Aram, when the way of the world had happened to Deborah, the nurse of Rivekah his mother, and Rahel died by him in the way, and Jakob our father sat weeping and bewailing her, and mourning and crying. Then wast Thou, 0 Lord of all worlds, in the perfection of Thy free mercies revealed to him, and didst comfort him, and blessing the mourners didst bless him concerning his mother, even as the scripture expoundeth and saith, The Word of the Lord revealed Himself unto Jakob the second time on his coming from Padan Aram, and blessed him.]
And the Shekinah of the Lord ascended from him in the place where He had spoken
with him And Jakob erected there a pillar of stone in the place where He had spoken
with him, a pillar of stone; and he outpoured upon it a libation of wine, and a libation of
water, because thus it was to be done at the feast of Tabernacles; and he poured oil of olives thereupon. And Jakob called the name of the place where the Lord bad spoken with him Beth El.
And they proceeded from Beth El; and there was yet much space of provision land in the coming to Ephrath and Rahel travailed, and had hard labour in her birth. And it was in the hardness of her travail that the midwife said to her, Fear not, for this also is to thee a male child. And it was in the going forth of her soul, for death came upon her, that she called his name The son of my woe: but his father called him Benjamin [JERUSALEM. And there was a space, as much ground, to come unto Ephrath; and Rahel travailed, and had hard labour in her birth . . . But his father called him in the language of the sanctuary, Benjamin.]
And Rahel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And Jakob erected a pillar over the house of burying:[10] which is the pillar of the tomb of Rahel unto this day.
And Jakob proceeded and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder, the place from whence, it is to be, the King Meshiha will be revealed at the end of the days.
And it was while Yisrael dwelt in this land that Reuben went and confounded[11] the bed of Bilhah the concubine of his father, which had been ordained along with the bed of Leah his mother; and this is reputed with regard to him, as if he had lain with her. And Yisrael heard it, and it afflicted him, and he said, Alas, that one should have come forth from me so profane, even as Ishmael came forth from Avraham, and Esau from my father! The Spirit of Holiness answered and thus spake to him: fear not, for all are righteous and none of them is profane!
So, after Benjamin was born, the sons of Jakob were twelve. The sons of Leah, the first‑born of Jakob, Reuben, and Shimeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar, and Zabulon. The sons of Rahel, Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rahel, Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpha, the handmaid of Leah, Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jakob who were born to him in Padan Aram.
And Jakob came to Izhak his father, at Mamre the city of Arba, which is Hebron, for there Avraham and Izhak had dwelt. And the days of Izhak were an hundred and eighty years. And Izhak expired and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days, and Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.
XXXVI. These are the genealogies of Esau, who is called Edom. Esau took wives of the daughters of Kenaan, Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittah, and Ahalibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sibeon the Hiva, and Basemath the daughter of Ishmael whom Nebaioth her brother gave to him. And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz, and Basemath bare Reuel. And Ahalibama, bare to Esau Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Kenaan. And Esau had taken his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his flocks and his cattle, and all the substance which he had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and had gone into another land; for there fell upon him a fear of Jakob his brother: for their possessions would be too great for them to dwell together, neither would the land of their sojourning maintain them, on account of their flocks. And Esau dwelt in the mountain of Gabal. He is Esau the prince of the Edomites.
And these are the kindreds of Esau the prince of the Edomites, the place of whose dwelling was in the mountain. of Gabal. These are the names of the sons of Esau, Eliphaz bar Adah, wife of Esau; Reuel bar Basemath, wife of Esau. And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman Omar, Zephu, and Gaatam, and Kenaz, and Timna. And Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz bar Esau, and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek. He is Eliphaz the companion of Job. These are the sons of Adah wife of Esau. And these are the sons of Reuel, Nachath and Zerach, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath wife of Esau. And these are the sons of Ahalibama the daughter of Anah the daughter of Sebeon wife of Esau; and she bare to Esau, Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach.
These are the chieftains of the sons of Esau; the sons of Eliphaz, the first‑born of Esau, Rabba Teman, Rabba Omar, Rabba Zephu, Rabba Kenaz, Rabba Korach, Rabba Gaatam, Rabba Amalek: these are the chieftains of Eliphaz, whose habitation was in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.
And these are the sons of Reuel bar Esau; Rabba Nachath, Rabba Zerach, Rabba Shammah, Rabba Mizzah; these are the chieftains of Reuel, whose habitation was in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath wife of Esau.
And these are the sons of Ahalibama wife of Esau; Rabba Jeush, Rabba Jaalam, Rabba Korach; these are the chieftains of Ahalibama, daughter of Adah wife of Esau. These are the sons of Esau, and these their chieftains. He is the father of the Edomites.
These are the sons of Gebal, the generations who before that had dwelt in that land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Sebeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Etser, and Dishon. These are the chieftains of the generations of the sons of Gebal, whose habitation was of old in the land of the Edomites. And the sons of Lotan were the Chori and Heman; and the sister of Lotan was Timna. And these are the sons of Shobal, Alvan, and Manachoth, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. And these are the sons of Sebeon, Aja and Anah: he is Anah who coupled the onagers with the she‑asses, and after a time found mules which had come forth from them, when he was tending the asses of Sebeon his father. And these are the children of Anah: Dishon; and Ahalibama was the daughter of Anah. And these are the sons of Dishon, Hemdan, and Jisban, and Jithran, and Keran. These are the sons of Etser, Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. These are the sons of Dishan, Hutz and Aram. These are the chieftains of the families: Rabba Lotan, Rabba Shobal, Rabba Sebeon, Rabba Anah, Rabba Dishon, Rabba Etser, Rabba Dishan: these are the chieftains of the families, according to their principalities, whose habitation was of old in the land of Gabla.
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Yisrael. In Edom reigned Bileam. the son of Behor, and the name of the city of the house of his kingdom was Dinhaba. And Bela died, and in his stead reigned Jobab the son of Zerach of Botsra. And Jobab died, and in his stead reigned Husham of the South country; and Husham died, and in his stead reigned Hadad the son of Bedad, who slew the Midianites when he arrayed war with them in the fields of Moab, and the name of the city of the house of his kingdom was Avith. And Hadad died, and in his stead reigned Simlah of Masrekah. And Simlah died, and instead of him reigned Shaul, who was of Rohoboth on the Pherat. And Shaul died, and in his stead reigned Baal Hanan bar Akbor. And Baal Hanan bar Akbor died, and instead of him reigned Hadar; and the name of the city of the house of his kingdom was Pahu; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred. He was the man who laboured with perseverance and vigilance, and who, after he had become wealthy and had gotten riches, turned to become more lofty in his heart, saying What is silver and what is g old? [JERUSALEM. And after him reigned Hadar; and the name of his city was Pahu, andthe daughter of Matred, the daughter of the changer of gold: the man who perseverance all the days of his life; but who, after he had eaten and was satisfied, converted and said, What is gold, and what is silver?]
And these are the names of the chieftains of Esau after their kindreds, after the place of their habitation,with their names Rabba Timna, Rabba Alva, Rabba Jetheth, Rabba Aholibama, Rabba Elah, Rabba Phinon, Rabba Kenaz, Rabba Teman, Rabba Mibzar, Rabba Magdiel, he was called Magdiel from the name of his city whose (migdol ) tower was strong, Rabba Hiram. These are the chieftains of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possessions. He is Esau the father of the Edomites.
[1] Polimarkeen
[1] See the remarks in the Introduction, pg. 13.l
[1] “ A school.”
[1] Margaleen
[1] Or “mercies.”
[1] Or “the house of idols”
[1] Aocharan Bakutha
[1] Beluta, query, “chestnut”
[1] Belut Bakutha
[1] Beth Keburtha
[1] Bilbal
[1] Polimarkeen
[2] See the remarks in the Introduction, pg. 13
[3] “ A school.”
[4] Margaleen.
[5] Or “mercies.”
[6] Or “the house of idols.”
[7] Aocharan Bakutha.
[8] Beluta, query, “chestnut.”
[9] Belut Bakutha.
[10] Beth Keburtha.
[11] Bilbal.
Pgs. 108-119
Ch. 32-36
SECTION VIII.
VAYISHLACH.
AND Jakob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir,[1] in the region of Edom; and he instructed them, saying, So shall you tell to my lord, to Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jakob, With Laban I have dwelt, and have tarried, until now. And I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and servants, and handmaids, and have sent to show my lord, to find grace in thine eyes. And the messengers returned to Jakob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he cometh also to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. And Jakob feared greatly, and it distressed him. And he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep, and oxen, and camels, into two hosts, and said, If Esau come to the one host and smite it, the host that is left may escape. And Jakob said, Elohim of my father Avraham, and Elohim of my father Izhak, the Lord, who didst say to me, Return to thy country and to thy native place, and I will do thee good; less are my righteousnesses than all the mercies and all the benefits which Thou hast performed unto Thy servant: for alone I passed this Yardena, and now I have become two bands. Deliver me now from the hand of my brother, from the band of Esau; for I am afraid of him, lest he come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And Thou hast said, In doing good I will do good with thee, and will make thy sons many as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for number. And he housed there that night, and took of that which came to his hand, an offering for Esau his brother; goats two hundred, rams twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty, camels giving milk and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bulls ten, she‑asses twenty, and colts ten. And he gave them into the hand of his servants, herd by herd separately, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd. And he commanded the foremost, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and, Whither goest thou? and, Whose are these that are before thee? thou shalt say, They are an offering of thy servant Jakob, which he hath sent to my lord, to Esau; and, behold, he also cometh after us. And he instructed also the second and the third, and all of them who followed the herds, saying, According to this word you shall speak with Esau, when you find him; and say also, Behold, thy servant Jakob cometh after. For he said, I will quiet his anger by the offering that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me. And the offering went over before his face, and he himself lodged that night in the camp. And he arose in the night, and took his two wives, and his two concubines, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jubeka; and he took them and made them pass over the torrent, and made what was his to pass over.
And Jakob remained alone; and a Man wrestled with him till the morning ascended. And he saw that he prevailed not with him, and he touched the hollow[2] of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was dislocated[3] in wrestling with him. And he said, Let me go;[4] for the morning ascendeth. And he said, I will not let Thee go, unless Thou bless me. And He said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jakob. And He said, Thy name shall be no longer Jakob, but Yisrael; for a prince art thou before the Lord, and with men, and thou hast prevailed. And Jakob asked Him, and said, Show me now Thy Name! And He said, Why dost thou ask My Name? And He blessed him there. And Jakob called the name of the place Peniel: because I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face, and my soul hath been saved! And the sun arose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he went lame upon his thigh. Therefore the sons of Yisrael do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day, because He touched the hollow of Jakob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
XXXIII. And Jakob lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men; and he divided the children with Leah, and with Rahel, and with the two concubines. And he set the concubines and their children first, and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph after them. And he passed over before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came nigh to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him,[5] and embraced him, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children whom the Lord hath given to thy servant. And the concubines approached, they and their children, and bowed. And Leah also approached and her children, and bowed; and afterward Joseph and Rahel approached, and bowed. And he said, What to thee is all this troop which I have met? And he said, To find mercy in the eyes of my lord. And Esau said, I have much, my brother; let what is thine own profit thee.[6] And Jakob said, I pray thee, if I have now found mercy in thine eyes, that thou wouldst accept the present from my hand, because I have now seen thy face as the vision of the face of the Great, and thou art pleased with me. Receive, I pray, my offering which is brought to thee, because the Lord hath been merciful to me, and because I have all. And he was urgent on him, and he took it. And he said, Let us journey and go, and I will go along with thee. And he said, My lord knoweth that the little ones are tender, and the sheep and kine giving milk are with me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flock may die. Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on quietly, according to the foot of the little ones, according to the foot of the work that is before me, and according to the foot of the sucklings, until I come to my lord at Seir.[7] And Esau said, Let me leave with thee of the people who are with me. And he said, Why should this be? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord. And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. And Jakob journeyed to Succoth, and builded him an house, and made tabernacles for his cattle; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.[8]
And Jakob came in peace to the city of Shekem, which is in the land of Kenaan, in his coming from Padan Aram, and he abode near the face of the city. And he bought the possession of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shekem, for a hundred lambs. And he raised there an altar, and offered service upon it before Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael.
XXXIV. And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bare to Jakob, went forth to see the daughters of the land. And Shekem bar Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. And his soul took pleasure in Dinah the daughter of Jakob, and he loved the damsel, and spake to the heart of the damsel. And Shekem spake to Hamor his father, saying, Take to me this damsel for a wife. And Jakob heard that he had polluted Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his flocks in the field; and Jakob was silent until they were come. And Hamor the father of Shekem came forth to Jakob to speak with him. And the sons of Jakob came up from the field when they heard. And the men were indignant and very angry, because shame had been wrought in Yisrael by his lying with the daughter of Jacob; for so it should not have been done. Hamor spake with them, saying, The soul of Shekem my son hath pleasure in your daughter; give her now to him to wife. And marry with us, and take our daughters to you; and the land shall be before you; inhabit and do business in it, and possess it. And Shekem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favour in your eyes, and what you shall tell me I will give. Multiply upon me dowry and present, and I will give as you may tell me; but give me the damsel to wife. And the sons of Jakob answered Shekem and Hamor his father, and with subtlety they spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man uncircumcised; for that (would be) a reproach to us. Nevertheless in this we will agree with you, if you will be as we are, by circumcising every male among you, and we will give our daughters to you, and your daughters will we take to us, and will dwell with you and be one people. But if you will not consent to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and go. And their words were pleasing in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shekem the son of Hamor. And the young man delayed not to do the thing, because he delighted in the daughter of Jakob, and he was more honourable than all his father's house. And Hamor came, and Shekem his son, to the gate of the city, and spake to the men of the city, saying, These men are friendly[9] with us, and they may dwell in the land, and do business in it,[10] and the land, behold, it is wide (on both) hands before them; their daughters we will take to us for wives, and our daughters we will give to them. Only in this will the men agree with us to dwell with us, to be one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised. Their flocks, and their possessions, and all their cattle, will they not be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. And every one who went out of the gate of his city received of Hamor and of Shekem his son, and they were circumcised, every male, every one who went out of the gate of his city. And it was on the third day, when their pains were strong upon them,[11] that the two sons of Jakob, Shemeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, took each man his sword, and came upon the city, which dwelt in security, and slew every male, and Hamor and Shekem his son they killed with the edge of the sword. And they brought Dinah out of the house of Shekem, and went. And the sons of Jakob came up to the spoil of the slain, and sacked the town, because they had defiled their sister. Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and all that was in the city and the field, they took. And all their substance, and all their little ones, and their wives, they captured and spoiled, and all which was in the house. And Jakob said to Shemeon and Levi, You have troubled me, in putting strife between me and the inhabitants of the land, the Kenaanites and the Perrezites, and I a people (few) for number; and they will gather against me, and smite me, and I shall perish, I and the men of my house. And they said, As with an outcast should he deal with our sister?
XXXV. And the Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto Eloha,[12] who appeared to thee when in thy flight from before Esau thy brother. And Jakob said to the men of his house, and to all who were with him, Put away the gentile idols[13] that are among you, and purify; and change your raiment; and we will arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar unto Eloha, who heard my prayer in the day of my distress, and whose Word was my helper in the way that I went. And they gave Jakob all the gentile idols that were in their hands, and the jewels that were in their ears, and Jakob hid them under the terebinth which was near Shekem. And they journeyed; and fear from before the Lord was upon the peoples in the cities surrounding them; and they followed not after the sons of Jakob. And Jakob came to Luz, which is in the land of Kenaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people who were with him. And he builded there an altar, and called the place El Bethel, because the Angel of the Lord had appeared to him there when he fled from before his brother. And Deborah, the nurse of Revekah, died, and was buried below Bethel, in the declivity of the vale;[14] and he called the name of it, The vale of weeping.[15]
And the Lord appeared unto Jakob again when he had come from Padan Aram, and blessed him. And the Lord said to Jakob, Thy name shall be no more Jakob, but Yisrael shall be thy name; and he called his name Yisrael. And the Lord said to him, I am El Shadai; increase and multiply; a people and an assemblage of tribes shall be from thee, and kings who shall reign over the peoples shall come forth from thee. And the land that I gave to Avraham and to Izhak I will give unto thee, and to thy sons after thee, will I give the land. And the glory of the Lord ascended above him, in the place where He had spoken with him. And Jakob erected a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and outpoured libations upon it, and poured oil thereon. And Jakob called the name of the place where the Lord bad spoken with him Bethel. And they journeyed from Bethel, and there was yet a space of land[16] to come unto Ephrath; and Rahel travailed, and had hard (pain) in her birth-labour. And as she travailed in her labour, the midwife said to her, Fear not, for also this to thee is a son. And it was in the going forth of her soul, for she died, that she called his name The son of my woe;[17] but his father called him Benjamin.[18] And Rahel died, and was buried in the way of Ephrath, which is Beth‑Lechem. And Jakob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of the tomb of Rahel unto this day. And Yisrael proceeded and spread his tabernacle beyond the tower of Adar. And it was while Yisrael dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father. And Yisrael heard it.
And the sons of Jakob were twelve. The sons of Leah, the firstborn of Jakob, Reuben, and Shemeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar, and Zebulon. The sons of Rahel, Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Bilhah, the handmaid of Rahel, Dan and Naphtali; and the sons of Zilpha, the handmaid of Leah, Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jakob, who were born to him in Padan Aram. And Jakob came unto Izhak his father, unto Mamre, the city of Arba, which is Hebron; for Avraham and Izhak had dwelt there. And the days of Izhak were an hundred and eighty years. And Izhak expired and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and content with days; and Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.
XXXVI. And these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. Esau took his wives from the daughters of Kenaan: Ada, daughter of Helon the Hittite, and Ahalivama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sibeon the Hivite, and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth. And Ada bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare Reuel; and Ahalivama bare Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Kenaan. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his flocks, and all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and went into another land from before Jakob his brother; because their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their habitation could not sustain them with regard to their cattle. And Esau dwelt in the mountain of Seir.[19] Esau is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomai, in the mountain of Seir, these are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Ada, the wife of Esau; Reuel, son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And the sons of Eliphaz were Theman, Omar, Zepho, and Gaetam, and Kenaz. And Thimna was the concubine of Eliphaz bar Esau, and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau. And these are the sons of Reuel, Nahath and Zara, Shamma and Meza. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And these are the sons of Ahalivama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Zebeon, the wife of Esau; and she bare unto Esau Jehus, and Jaalam, and Korach. These are the chiefs[20] of the sons of Esau. Of the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau, Rabba Theman, Rabba Omar, Rabba Zepho, Rabba Kenaz, Rabba Korach, Rabba Gaetam, Rabba Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Ada. And these are the sons of Reuel bar Esau: Rabba Nachath, Rabba Zarach, Rabba Shamma, Rabba Meza. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. And these are the sons of Ahalivama, the wife of Esau: Rabba Jehus, Rabba Jaalam, Rabba Korach. These are the chiefs of Ahalivama, the daughter of Ana the wife of Esau. These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chieftains. He is Edom.
These are the sons of Seir, the Chorites,[21] the inhabitants of the land, Lothan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Ana, and Dishon, and Etser, and Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Choraai, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom. And the sons of Loti were Hori and Hemaim, and the sister of Lotan was Timna. And these are the Beni Shobal, Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And these are the sons of Zebeon, Aya and Ana; he is Ana who found the giants[22] in the desert while he tended the asses of his father Zibeon. And these are the children of Ana, Dishon, and Ahalivania the daughter of Ana. And these are the sons of Dishan: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Jethran, and Keran. These are the sons of Etser: Bilan, and Zaavan, and Akan. These are the sons of Dishan: Huts and Aran. These are the chieftains of the Choraai: Rabba Lotan, Rabba Shobal, Rabba Zebeon, Rabba Ana, Rabba Dishon, Rabba Etser, Rabba Dishan. These are the chieftains of the Choraai, according to their principalities in the land of Seir.
And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before that kings reigned among the sons of Yisrael: Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhava. And Bela died, and instead of him reigned Yobab the son of Zerah of Botsra. And Yobab died, and instead of him reigned Husham, of the land of the south. And Husham, died, and instead of him reigned Hadad, the son of Bedad, who slew the Medianae in the fields of Moab; and the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died, and in his stead reigned Simlah of Masereka. And Simlah died, and in his stead reigned Shaul of Rechovoth,[23] which is on the Ph'rat. And Shaul died, and in his stead reigned Baal‑Chanan bar Akbor. And Baal‑Chanan bar Akbor died, and in his stead reigned Hadar, and the name of his city was, Pau; and the name of his wife Mehetavel, the daughter of Matered, the daughter of a changer of gold.[24] And these are the names of the chieftains of Esau, after their kindreds, by their places, with their names: Rabba Timna, Rabba Alvah, Rabba Jetheth, Rabba Ahalivama, Rabba Elah, Rabba Phinon, Rabba Kenez, Rabba Teman, Rabba Mabzar, Rabba Magdiel, Rabba Iram: these are the chieftains of Edom, after their habitations in the land of their possessions. He is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
[1] Sam. Vers. gabla, (gebel,) "the mountain."
[1] Or, "the palm."
[1] Or, "moved."
[1] "Send me away."
[1] Or, "to prevent him."
[1] Or, "propser with thine own."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."
[1] 'Tabernacles."
[1] Shalemin.
[1] Yabedun ba sechorta.
[1] Sam. Vers. "when they were wounded."
[1] Sam. Vers. "the Most Mighty One."
[1] "The idols of the peoples."
[1] Shephuli misera.
[1] Misar bekitha.
[1] Literally, kerub araah, "an acre of ground." Some think that kerub araah means as much land as can be ploughed in a day; a tract of ground.
[1] Bar de-wai.
[1] "Son of my right hand."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."
[1] Ravrevee.
[1] Chor, "a cavern in a mountain."
[1] Ith gibbaraia. Hebrew, ha yemim, "the mules." The Sam. Vers. has am aimai, "the Emim people."
[1] Sam. Vers. "Pathe."
[1] Bath Metsareph dahaba.
[1] Sam. Vers. gabla, (gebel,) "the mountain."
[2] Or, "the palm."
[3] Or, "moved."
[4] "Send me away."
[5] Or, "to prevent him."
[6] Or, "propser with thine own."
[7] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."
[8] 'Tabernacles."
[9] Shalemin.
[10] Yabedun ba sechorta.
[11] Sam. Vers. "when they were wounded."
[12] Sam. Vers. "the Most Mighty One."
[13] "The idols of the peoples."
[14] Shephuli misera.
[15] Misar bekitha.
[16] Literally, kerub araah, "an acre of ground." Some think that kerub araah means as much land as can be ploughed in a day; a tract of ground.
[17] Bar de-wai.
[18] "Son of my right hand."
[19] Sam. Vers. "Gabla."
[20] Ravrevee.
[21] Chor, "a cavern in a mountain."
[22] Ith gibbaraia. Hebrew, ha yemim, "the mules." The Sam. Vers. has am aimai, "the Emim people."
[23] Sam. Vers. "Pathe."
[24] Bath Metsareph dahaba.
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Ch. 33-34
SECTION LIV.
VEZOTH HABBERAKAH.
XXXIII. AND this is the order of the Benedictions wherewith Mosheh the Prophet blessed the children of Yisrael before he died. And he said:
The Lord was revealed at Sinai to give the Torah unto His people of Beth Yisrael, and the splendour of the glory of His Shekinah arose from Gebal to give itself to the sons of Esau: but they received it not. It shined forth in majesty and glory from mount Pharan, to give itself to the sons of Ishmael; but they received it not. It returned and revealed itself in holiness unto His people of Beth Yisrael, and with Him ten thousand times ten thousand holy angels. He wrote with His own right hand, and gave them His Torah and His commandments, out of the flaming fire. [JERUSALEM. This is the Benediction wherewith Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the children of Yisrael before be should be gathered, and he said: The Lord was revealed from Sinai to give the Torah unto His people of Beth Yisrael. He arose in His glory upon the mountain of Seir to give the Torah to the sons of Esau; but after they found that it was written therein, Thou shalt do no murder, they would not receive it. He revealed Himself in His glory oil the mountain of Gebala, to give the Torah to the sons of Ishmael; but when they found that it was written therein, Ye shall not be thieves, they would not receive it. Again did He reveal Himself upon Mount Sinai, and with Him ten thousands of holy angels; and the children of Yisrael said, All that the Word of the Lord hath spoken will we perform and obey. And He stretched forth His hand from the midst of the flaming fire, and gave the Torah to His people.]
And whatever hath befallen to the nations (hath been done) because He loved His people of Beth Yisrael, and all of them He hath called to be saints, to stand in the place of His sanctuary. And when they observed the precepts of the Torah, they were conducted at the foot of Thy glorious Cloud, they rested and encamped according to the dictate of the Word. The sons of Yisrael said, Mosheh commanded us the Torah, and gave it for an heritage to the tribes of Jakob. And he was king in Yisrael: when the chiefs of the people were gathered together, the tribes of Yisrael were obedient to him. [JER. Is it not all manifest and known before Him, that neither the sons of Esau nor of Ishmael would receive the Torah? Nevertheless, because He loved His people of Beth Yisrael as myriads of the holy angels, though He brought upon them many corrections, they rested not, nor desisted from the doctrine of the Torah; and, behold, they were conducted and brought on at the foot of His Cloud, and went forward and encamped according to His Word. The sons of Yisrael said, Mosheh commanded us the Torah: he gave it for an inheritance and possession to the congregation of the house of Jakob. And a king shall arise from the house of Jakob, when the heads of the people are gathered together: unto Him shall the tribes of Yisrael be obedient.]
Let Reuben live in this world, nor die the second death which the wicked die in the world to come; and let his youths be numbered with the young men of his brethren of Beth Yisrael. [JER. Let Reuben live in this world, nor die the second death which the wicked the in the world to come; and let his youths be with the men in number.]
And this is the benediction of the tribe of Jehudah, conjoined with the portion and benediction of his brother Shemeon; and thus he spake: Receive, O Lord, the prayer of Jehudah when he goeth forth unto war, and bring Thou him back from war unto his people in peace. Let his hand take vengeance on his enemies, and be Thou his help and support against his foes. [JER. And this is the benediction with which Mosheh the prophet blessed the tribe of Jehudah, and he said: May the Word of the Lord hearken to the prayer of Jehudah, and bring him back to his people from battle. May his hand avenge him upon his enemies, and be Thou a help and a support against his foes.]
And Mosheh the prophet blessed the tribe of Levi and said, With Perfections and Lights hast Thou robed Aharon, the man whom Thou didst find devout before Thee, whom Thou didst try in the temptation, and he was sincere, and didst prove at the Contention Waters in Rekem, and he was found faithful. The tribe of Levi go forth to the service of the tabernacle, and separate themselves from their dwellings, saying of their fathers and mothers, I have not regarded them and of their brethren, Since we were of thirty years we have not known them or their children, for that they abide twenty years in their charge according to Thy Word, and keep the service of the holy covenant. Apt are they in teaching the orders of Thy judgments to them of Beth Jakob, and Thy Torah to them of Beth Yisrael. Their brethren the priests put incense on the censers to restrain the plague in the day of Thy wrath, and offer up the burnt sacrifice with acceptance at Thy altar. Bless Lord, the sacrifice of the house of Levi, who give the tenth of the tenth; and the oblation of the hand of Elijah the priest, which he will offer on Mount Karmela, receive Thou with acceptance: break the lons of Achab his enemy, and the neck of the false prophets who rise up against him, that the ene. mies of Johanan the high priest[1] may not have a foot to stand. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet blessed the tribe of Levi, and said: With the Uraia and Tummaia hast thou clothed Aharon the saint, whom Thou didst try, and he was steadfast in the temptation, and whom Thou didst prove at the Waters of Contention in Rekem, and he was found faithful. For of the tribe of Levi it may be said, He respected not the face of his own father and mother in the judgment of Tamar, and knew not his brother in the matter of the (golden) calf, nor towards his own children was he moved with mercy, in the work of Zimri; for they have kept the word of Thy mouth, and have been ready (to fulfil) the decree of Thy Torah. Apt are they to teach the orders of Thy judgments to them of Beth Jakob, and the decree of Thy Torah to the congregation of the tribes of Yisrael. They put the goodly aromatic incense (on the censer) to restrain Thy anger, and offer the perfect sacrifice with acceptance at Thy altar. Bless, Lord, the substance of the tribe of Levi, and receive with favour the oblation of his hand; break Thou the loins of his enemies, that his adversaries may fall, and rise nomore.]
Mosheh the prophet blessed the tribe of Benjamin, and said: The beloved of the Lord shall abide in safety with Him, He will protect him all the days, and His Shekinah will dwell within his borders. [JER. Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Benjamin, and said: The beloved of the Lord shall abide with confidence by Him, He will protect him all the days, and within his borders will dwell the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord.]
And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Joseph, and said: The land of Joseph shall be blessed from before the Lord. From the bounty of the heavens shall it have goodly fruit, from the dew and the rain that come down from above, and from the bounty of the founts of the deep which rise up and flow and with good fruitage to water the herbage from beneath, age and produce that the earth maketh perfect by the aid (bringing out) of the sun, and with the bounty of the firstfruits of the trees which the ground yieldeth in the beginning of month after month, and with the good through the birthright ordained ness of the mountain tops, him at the beginning by the benediction of the fathers who resemble the mountains, and with the goodness of the hills whose produce faileth not, which was given him in heritage by the benedictions of the mothers of old, Who resemble the hills; and with the goodness of the excellent fruits of the earth and its fulness and the favour towards him of Eloah who revealed Himself to Mosheh at the bush in the glory of His Shekinah: let all these blessings be combined, and be made a diadem of grandeur for the head of Joseph, and for the brow of the man who was chief and ruler in the land of Mizraim, and was the glory and honour of his brethren. The birthright had belonged to Reuben, but was taken from him and given to Joseph at the beginning; from thence comes the splendour of his glory and praise. For as it may not be that a man should work the ground with the firstling of his herd, so are not the children of Joseph to be reduced to servitude among the kingdoms; and as the reema pusheth with his horns the beasts of the wilderness, so will the sons of Joseph predominate together among the peoples in all the ends of the earth. Myriads will be slain in Gulgela by Hoshea bar Nun who hath arisen from the house of Ephraim, and thousands of the Midyance by Gideon bar Yoash who will be of the tribe of Menasheh. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Joseph, and said: Blessed be the laud of Joseph, before the Lord, with the blessing of the dew and the rain that come down from the heavens above, with the blessings of the fountains of the deep which well up from the earth beneath. Bounteous produce will it yield from the good provision of the sun; and will ripen its first fruits at the beginning of month and month. It aboundeth in fruitfulness for the righteousness sake of Avraham, Izhak, and Jakob, the holy fathers who are like the mountains, and for the merit of Sarah, Revekah, Rahel, and Leah, the four mothers who are like the hills. It bringeth forth richly from the excellence of the earth and its fulness, and by the good will of Him who caused the glory of His Shekinah to dwell in the bush. Let all these blessings come and be a crown upon the head of Joseph, and upon the brow of the man who ruled in the land of Mizraim, and was the brightness of his brothers glory. The birthright, kingdom, and honour are Joseph's: for as it may not be that one should work with the firstling among cattle, nor bring the horns of the reema into servitude; but as the ox and the reema push with their horns, so this people, the sons of the tribe of Joseph, going out to battle against their enemies, will slaughter kings and princes. Myriads of the Amoraah will be slain by Jehoshua bar Nun, who is of the tribe of the Beni Ephraim; thou sands of the Midyanee will be slain by Gideon bar Yoash, who is of the tribe of the Beni Menasheh.]
And Mosheh the prophet blessed the tribe of Zebulon, and said: Rejoice, O house of Zebulon, in your going forth for your commerce, and you, O house of Issakar, in the tabernacles of your schools. Many peoples shall pray at the mountain of the sanctuary, thither will they bring their oblations of truth: for they dwell by the side of the great sea, they are nourished with (its) dainties; and they take the shell‑fish and dye with its blood in purple the threads of their vestments; and from the sands make mirrors and vessels of glass; for the treasures of their coasts are discovered to them. [JER. Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Zebulon, and said: Rejoice, O ye of the house of Zebulon, when you go out upon your commerce; and ye of the house of Issakar, rejoice, when you come in unto your houses of learning. Behold, this people of the house of Zebulon will come up together to the mountain of the sanctuary to offer true oblations; for they eat the revenue of the seas, and the treasures hidden in the sands are disclosed unto them.]
Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Gad, and said: Blessed be He who hath made wide the border of Gad. He reposeth as a lion in his habitation; but when he goeth out to battle against his adversaries, he slayeth kings and rulers, and his slaughtered ones are known from all the slain, for he striketh off the arm with the crown (of the head). And he saw that the land was good, and took his portion among the first; for there was a place strown with precious stones and pearls; for there is the place where Mosheh the prophet is hidden, who, as he went in and out at the head of the people in this world, will go in and out in the world that cometh; because he wrought righteousness before the Lord, and taught the orders of the judgments to the house of Yisrael his people. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Gad, and said: Blessed is he who hath made wide the border of Gad. He reposeth and inhabiteth as a lion and a lioness; nor will there be any kingdom or people who can stand before him; and when he goeth forth in war against his enemies his slaughtered are known among the slain by the head being cut away unto the arm. And he saw at the beginning that a place had been prepared there for a sepulchre, a place strown with precious stones and pearls, where Mosheh the prophet, the scribe of Yisrael, was to be hidden, (who,) as he went in and out at the head of the people in this world, so will he go in and oat in the world to come; because he wrought righteousness before the Lord, and taught the orders of the judgments to the sons of Yisrael.]
And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Dan, and said: The tribe of Dan is like a lion's whelp, his land is watered by the streams that flow from Mathnan, and his border cometh unto Batania. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Dan, and said: The tribe of Dan is like a lion's whelp, and his land is watered from Batanea.]
And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Naphtali, and said: Naphtali is satisfied with favour, and hath delight in the fishes of the sea which falleth within his portion; and he will be replete with blessings in the fruits of the vale of Genesareth which hath been given him from the Lord; he shall inherit the water of Sopheni, and the sea of Tebaria. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Naphtali, and said: Naphtali shall be satisfied with favour, and be filled with blessings from the Lord; he will have possession to the west of the sea of Genesareth, and to the south.]
And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Asher, and said: Blessed is Asher of the sons of Jakob. He will be acceptable to his brethren, and will supply them with provender in the years of release: his border will produce many olives yielding oil, enough for him to bathe in it even his feet. The tribe of Asher be sound[2] as iron, and their feet‑strong as brass in walking on the stony rocks; and as the days of their youth so shall they be strong in their age. [JER. And Mosheh the prophet of the Lord blessed the tribe of Asher, and said: Asher will be blessed of the children; he will be acceptable to his brethren, in the release of the land, for his ground shall produce oil like water. Behold, this people of Beth Asher are sound as iron and strong as brass; as the days of their youth so will be the days of their age.]
There is no Elohim like the Elohim of Yisrael, whose Shekinah and Chariot dwell in the heavens. He will be your helper. He sitteth on His glorious throne in His majesty, in the expanse of the heavens above. The habitation of Eloha is from eternity; by the arm of His power beneath the world is upborne. He will scatter your adversaries before you, and will say by His Word, Destroy them. And Isreal shall dwell safely as of old according to the benediction with which Jakob their father did bless them, for whose righteousness sake He will cause them to inherit the good land that yieldeth corn and wine; the heavens also above them will drop with the dews of blessing, and the rains of lovingkindness. Happy are you, 0 Yisrael: who of all the nations are like you, a people saved in the Name of the Word of the Lord? He is the shield of your help, and His sword, the strength of your excellency. And your enemies shall be found liars against you from terror, and you shall tread upon the necks of their kings. [JER. There is none like the Elohim of Yisrael, whose glorious Shekinah dwelleth in the heavens, and His magnificence in the high expanse. In His abode hath His Shekinah dwelt before they were, and under His power He bringeth[3] the world; and He driveth out your enemies before you, and saith in His word, Let them be destroyed. But Yisrael shall dwell safely by themselves according to the benediction with which Jakob did bless them, in the land yielding wine and oil, The heavens also above you are bidden to send down upon you the dew and the rain. O Yisrael, happy are you! Who is as you, a people saved before the Lord, the shield of your help, the guardian of your armies, and the trusty sword of your pre‑eminence? Your enemies are to be scattered before you; but you, O Beth Yisrael, while you give diligence in the Torah, and keep the commandments, shall tread upon the necks of their kings.]
XXXIV. And Mosheh went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the summit of the height which is over against Jericho; and the Word of the Lord showed him all the strong ones of the land, and the mighty acts which would be done by Jeptha of Gilead, and the victories of Shimeon bar Manoah of tribe of Dan; and the thousand princes of Beth Naphtali who would gather with Barak, and the kings who would be slain by Jehoshua bar Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, and the deeds of strength to be wrought by Gideon bar Yoash of the tribe of Menasheh, and all the kings of Yisrael, and of the kingdom of Beth Jehudah, who would have dominion in the land until the latter sanctuary should be destroyed. And the king of the south who will combine with the king of the north to destroy the inhabitants of the land and the Ammonites and Moabites, the dwellers in the plain, who will oppress Yisrael, and the captives of Elijah's disciples who will be dispersed from the plain of Jericho, and the captives of Elisha's disciples who will be dispersed from the city of palm trees by the hand of their brethren of Beth Yisrael, two hundred thousand men; and the affliction of generation after generation, and the punishment of Armalgos the wicked,[4] and the battle of Gog, when in the time of that great tribulation Michael will rise up to deliver by his arm.[5] [JER. And Mosheh went up from the plain of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the summit. of the height which is over against Jericho; and the Lord showed him the whole land of Gilead unto Dan of Kesavan, and the whole land of Naphtali and Ephraim and Manasheh, and all the land of Jehudah to. the outer sea, and the south, and the plain of the vale of Jericho, the city which cultivateth palms, which is Zeir.]
And the Lord said to him, This is the end of the word concerning the land,[6] and this is the land which I covenanted unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it unto your children. I grant thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not pass over to it.
Mosheh, the Rabban of Yisrael, was born on the seventh day of the month Adar, and on the seventh day of Adar he was gathered from the world. A voice fell from heaven, and thus spake: Come, all ye who have entered into the world, and behold the grief of Mosheh, the Rabban of Yisrael, who hath laboured, but not to please himself, and who is ennobled with four goodly crowns: the crown of the Torah is his, because he brought it from the heavens above, when there was revealed to him the Glory of the Lord's Shekinah, with two thousand myriads of angels, and forty and two thousand chariots of fire. The crown of the Priesthood bath been his in the seven days of the peace offerings. The crown of the kingdom they gave him in possession from heaven: he drew not the sword, nor prepared the war horse, nor gathered he the host. The crown of a good name he possesseth by good works and by his humility. Therefore is Mosheh, the servant of the Lord, gathered in the land of Moab, by the kiss of the Word of the Lord.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord of the world, who hath taught us His righteous way. He hath taught us to clothe the naked, as He clothed Adam and Hava; He hath taught us to unite the bridegroom and the bride in marriage, as He united Hava to Adam. He bath taught us to visit the sick, as He revealed Himself to Avraham when he was ill, from being circumcised; He hath taught us to console the mourners, as He revealed Himself again to Jakob when returning from Padan, in the place where his mother had died. He hath taught us to feed the poor, as He sent Yisrael bread from heaven; He hath taught us to bury the dead by (what He did for) Mosheh; for He revealed Himself in His Word, and with Him the companies of ministering angels. Michael and Gabriel spread forth the golden bed, fastened with chrysolites, gems, and beryls, adorned with hangings of purple silk, and satin, and white linens. Metatron, Jophiel, and Uriel, and Jephephya, the wise sages, laid him upon it, and by His Word He conducted him four miles, and buried him in the valley opposite Beth Peor; that Yisrael, as oft as they look up to Peor, may have the memory of their sin; and at sight of the burying place of Mosheh may be humbled: but no man knoweth his sepulchre unto this day.
[JER. Spake Mosheh the prophet: The Word of the Lord said unto me, This is the land which I have sworn unto Avraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, saying, Unto the children of thy children will I give it. Behold it with thine eyes, but thou, shalt not pass over unto it. And Mosheh, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of the Moabaee, according to the mouth of the decree of the Word of the Lord. And He buried him in a valley in the land of the Moabaee, opposite to the idol Peor; nor knoweth any one his sepulchre unto this day.] Mosheh was a son of a hundred and twenty years when be died; the orbs of his eyes were not darkened, nor had his teeth passed away. [JER. Mosheh was the son of a hundred and twenty years in the time that he died; his eyes were not darkened, nor had the brightness of his face faded away.]
And the children of Yisrael wept for Mosheh in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping in the mourning for Mosheh were completed on the eighth of the month of Nisan. And on the ninth of Nisan the people of Beth Yisrael prepared their vessels and set their cattle in order, and passed over the Jordan on the tenth of Nisan. And the manna ceased for them on the sixteenth of Nisan. They found manna to eat thirty-seven days after the death of Mosheh, for the sake of his righteousness. [JER. And the children of Yisrael wept for Mosheh in the plains of Moab thirty days; and so were fulfilled the days of weeping in mourning for Mosheh.]
But Jehoshua bar Nun was filled with the Spirit of wisdom; for Mosheh had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Yisrael received instruction from him, and did as the Lord had commanded (by) Mosheh.
But no prophet hath again risen in Yisrael like unto Mosheh, because the Word of the Lord had known him to speak with him word for word, in all the signs, and wonders, and manifestations which the Word of the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Mizraim upon Pharoh, and all his servants, and all the people of his land; and in all the strength of the Mighty Hand by which he bare the rod whose weight was forty savin and that divided the sea, and smote the rock; and in all the solemn things which Mosheh did when he received the two tables of sapphire stone, whose weight was forty savin, and carried both of them in his bands in the sight of all Yisrael. [JER. And Jehoshua bar Nun was filled with the Spirit of Wisdom: for Mosheh had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Yisrael hearkened unto him, and did as the Word of the Lord had commanded Mosheh. But no prophet hath arisen yet in Yisrael as Mosheh, whom the Word of the Lord knew, (speaking with him word for word,) in all the miracles, and wonders, and distinguishing signs which the Word of the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Mizraim, on Pharoh, and all his servants, and all his land; and in all the Mighty Hand, and all the great manifestations which Mosheh did in the sight of all Yisrael.
END OF THE TARGUM OF PALESTINE ON THE TORAH.
BLESSED BE THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, FOR EVER AND EVER, AND LET THE WHOLE EARTH BE FILLED WITH HIS GLORY.
[1] According to Seder Olam, high priest in the region of Jehooshaphat.
[2] Or, "cleat, unalloyed."
[3] Or, "conducteth."
[4] Armillos, i.e., Antichrist. Vide the Midrash, Sepher Zerubabel.
[5] Ezek. xxxviii.; Dan. xii
[6] Sepha de miltha be arah.
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<p>
The following words used in the World English Bible (WEB) are not very
common, either because they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money,
or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.
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CONTENTS
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<p>
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</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="#Abaddon">Abaddon</a><br /> <a href="#Abba">Abba</a><br /> <a
href="#adultery">adultery</a><br /> <a href="#alpha">alpha</a><br />
<a href="#amen">amen</a><br /> <a href="#angel">angel</a><br /> <a
href="#Apollyon">Apollyon</a><br /> <a href="#apostle">apostle</a><br />
<a href="#Armageddon">Armageddon</a> <br />
<a href="#assarion">assarion</a><br /> <a href="#aureus">aureus</a><br />
<a href="#baptize">baptize</a><br /> <a href="#bath">bath</a><br /> <a
href="#batos">batos</a><br /> <a href="#Beersheba">Beersheba</a><br />
<a href="#behold">behold</a><br /> <a href="#cherub">cherub</a><br />
<a href="#cherubim">cherubim</a><br /> <a href="#choenix">choenix</a><br />
<a href="#concubine">concubine</a><br /> <a href="#cor">cor</a><br />
<a href="#corban">corban</a><br />
</td>
<td>
<a href="#crucify">crucify</a><br /> <a href="#cubit">cubit</a><br />
<a href="#cummin">cummin</a><br /> <a href="#darnel">darnel</a><br />
<a href="#denarii">denarii</a><br /> <a href="#denarius">denarius</a><br />
<a href="#devil">devil</a><br /> <a href="#didrachma">didrachma</a><br />
<a href="#distaff">distaff</a><br /> <a href="#drachma">drachma</a><br />
<a href="#El_Elohe_Yisrael">El-Elohe-Yisrael</a> <br />
<a href="#ephah">ephah</a><br /> <a href="#Gehenna">Gehenna</a><br />
<a href="#gittith">gittith</a><br /> <a href="#goad">goad</a><br /> <a
href="#gospel">gospel</a><br /> <a href="#Hades">Hades</a><br /> <a
href="#Har_magedon">Har-magedon</a><br /> <a href="#hin">hin</a><br />
<a href="#homer">homer</a><br /> <a href="#hypocrite">hypocrite</a><br />
<a href="#Ishmael">Ishmael</a><br />
</td>
<td>
<a href="#Jehovah">Jehovah</a><br /> <a href="#Yeshua">Yeshua</a><br />
<a href="#kodrantes">kodrantes</a><br /> <a href="#lepta">lepta</a><br />
<a href="#Leviathan">Leviathan</a><br /> <a href="#Mahalath">Mahalath</a><br />
<a href="#manna">manna</a><br /> <a href="#Maschil">Maschil</a><br />
<a href="#michtam">michtam</a><br /> <a href="#mina">mina</a><br /> <a
href="#myrrh">myrrh</a><br /> <a href="#Nicolaitans">Nicolaitans</a> <br />
<a href="#omega">omega</a><br /> <a href="#Peniel">Peniel</a><br /> <a
href="#phylactery">phylactery</a><br /> <a href="#Praetorium">Praetorium</a><br />
<a href="#quadrans">quadrans</a><br /> <a href="#rabbi">rabbi</a><br />
<a href="#Rahab">Rahab</a><br /> <a href="#Rhabboni">Rhabboni</a><br />
<a href="#Shabbat">Shabbat</a><br /> <a href="#saints">saints</a><br />
</td>
<td>
<a href="#Samaritan">Samaritan</a><br /> <a href="#sata">sata</a><br />
<a href="#Satan">Satan</a><br /> <a href="#scribe">scribe</a><br /> <a
href="#selah">selah</a><br /> <a href="#sexual_immorality">sexual
immorality</a><br /> <a href="#shekel">shekel</a><br /> <a
href="#Sheol">Sheol</a><br /> <a href="#Shibah">Shibah</a><br /> <a
href="#shigionoth">shigionoth</a><br /> <a href="#soul">soul</a><br />
<a href="#span">span</a><br /> <a href="#spirit">spirit</a><br /> <a
href="#stadia">stadia</a><br /> <a href="#stater">stater</a><br /> <a
href="#talent">talent</a><br /> <a href="#Tartarus">Tartarus</a><br />
<a href="#teraphim">teraphim</a><br /> <a href="#Yah">Yah</a><br /> <a
href="#Yahweh">Yahweh</a><br /> <br /><br />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
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</p>
<h2>
<a name="Abaddon" id="Abaddon">Abaddon</a>
</h2>
<p>
Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Abba" id="Abba">Abba</a>
</h2>
<p>
Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a respectful, affectionate, and
familiar way, like papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to refer to
our Father in Heaven.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="adultery" id="adultery">adultery</a>
</h2>
<p>
Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone besides your own
husband or wife. In the Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is
between a man and a woman who are married to each other.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="alpha" id="alpha">alpha</a>
</h2>
<p>
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to
mean the beginning or the first.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="amen" id="amen">amen</a>
</h2>
<p>
Amen means "so be it" or "it is certainly so."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="angel" id="angel">angel</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Angel" literally means "messenger" or "envoy," and is usually used to
refer to spiritual beings who normally are invisible to us, but can also
appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as humans.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Apollyon" id="Apollyon">Apollyon</a>
</h2>
<p>
Apollyon is Greek for destroyer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="apostle" id="apostle">apostle</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Apostle" means a delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders. This
term is applied in the New Testament in both a general sense connected
with a ministry of establishing and strengthening church fellowships, as
well as in a specific sense to "The 12 Apostles of the Lamb" (Revelation
21:14). The former category applies to a specific ministry that continues
in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13) and which includes many more than 12
people, while the latter refers to the apostles named in Matthew 10:2-4,
except with Judas Iscariot replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Armageddon" id="Armageddon">Armageddon</a>
</h2>
<p>
See Har-magedon.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="assarion" id="assarion">assarion</a>
</h2>
<p>
An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth one tenth of a drachma, or
about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="aureus" id="aureus">aureus</a>
</h2>
<p>
An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii. An aureus weighed
from 115 to 126.3 grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="baptize" id="baptize">baptize</a>
</h2>
<p>
Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something, usually water.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit, fire, the Body of Messiah, and suffering are
also mentioned in the New Testament, along with baptism in water. Baptism
is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward
spiritual cleansing and commitment. Baptism is a sign of repentance, as
practiced by John the Baptizer, and of faith in Yeshua Messiah, as practiced
by Yeshua' disciples.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="bath" id="bath">bath</a>
</h2>
<p>
A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8
imperial gallons.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="batos" id="batos">batos</a>
</h2>
<p>
A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters, 10.4 U. S. gallons, or
8.7 imperial gallons.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Beersheba" id="Beersheba">Beersheba</a>
</h2>
<p>
Beersheba is Hebrew for "well of the oath" or "well of the seven." A city
in Yisrael.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="behold" id="behold">behold</a>
</h2>
<p>
Look! See! Wow! Notice this! Lo!
</p>
<h2>
<a name="cherub" id="cherub">cherub</a>
</h2>
<p>
A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands that is associated with
the throne room of Elohim and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="cherubim" id="cherubim">cherubim</a>
</h2>
<p>
Cherubim means more than one cherub or a mighty cherub.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="choenix" id="choenix">choenix</a>
</h2>
<p>
A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter
(which is a little more than a quart). A choenix was the daily ration of
grain for a soldier in some armies.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="concubine" id="concubine">concubine</a>
</h2>
<p>
a woman who is united to a man for the purpose of providing him with
sexual pleasure and children, but not being honored as a full partner in
marriage; a second-class wife. In Old Testament times (and in some places
now), it was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs, and wealthy men
to mary multiple wives and concubines, but Elohim commanded the Kings of
Yisrael not to do so (Deuteronomy 17:17) and Yeshua encouraged people to
either remain single or marry as Elohim originally intended: one man married
to one woman (Matthew 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-13).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="cor" id="cor">cor</a>
</h2>
<p>
A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U. S. gallons, or 86
imperial gallons.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="corban" id="corban">corban</a>
</h2>
<p>
Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to Elohim.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="crucify" id="crucify">crucify</a>
</h2>
<p>
Crucify means to execute someone by nailing them to a cross with metal
spikes. Their hands are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes driven
through their wrists or hands. Their feet or ankles are attached to a
cross with a metal spike. The weight of the victim's body tends to force
the air out of his lungs. To raise up to breathe, the victim has to put
weight on the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The victim is nailed to
the cross while the cross is on the ground, then the cross is raised up
and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the wounds. Before crucifiction, the
victim was usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine tails, which had bits
of glass and metal tied to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to be
removed and open wounds to be placed against the raw wood of the cross.
The victim was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of his cross from the
place of judgment to the place of crucifixion, but often was physically
unable after the scourging, so another person would be pressed into
involuntary service to carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was
generally done totally naked to maximize both shame and discomfort.
Eventually, the pain, weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the muscles
needed to breathe make breathing impossible, and the victim suffocates.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="cubit" id="cubit">cubit</a>
</h2>
<p>
A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the
longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or
18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the
measurement. There is also a "long" cubit that is longer than a regular
cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)
</p>
<h2>
<a name="cummin" id="cummin">cummin</a>
</h2>
<p>
Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in
flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="darnel" id="darnel">darnel</a>
</h2>
<p>
Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or Lolium temulentum) that
looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds reveal a
great difference. Darnel seeds aren't good for much except as chicken feed
or to burn to prevent the spread of this weed.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="denarii" id="denarii">denarii</a>
</h2>
<p>
denarii: plural form of denarius, a silver Roman coin worth about a days
wages for a laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="denarius" id="denarius">denarius</a>
</h2>
<p>
A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about a day's wages for an
agricultural laborer. A denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="devil" id="devil">devil</a>
</h2>
<p>
The word "devil" comes from the Greek "diabolos," which means "one prone
to slander; a liar." "Devil" is used to refer to a fallen angel, also
called "Satan," who works to steal, kill, destroy, and do evil. The
devil's doom is certain, and it is only a matter of time before he is
thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="didrachma" id="didrachma">didrachma</a>
</h2>
<p>
A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2
Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the
half-shekel temple tax.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="distaff" id="distaff">distaff</a>
</h2>
<p>
part of a spinning wheel used for twisting threads.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="drachma" id="drachma">drachma</a>
</h2>
<p>
A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one Roman denarius, or about
a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="El_Elohe_Yisrael" id="El_Elohe_Yisrael">El-Elohe-Yisrael</a>
</h2>
<p>
El-Elohe-Yisrael means "Elohim, the Elohim of Yisrael" or "The Elohim of Yisrael is
mighty."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="ephah" id="ephah">ephah</a>
</h2>
<p>
An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8
imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Gehenna" id="Gehenna">Gehenna</a>
</h2>
<p>
Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom,
literally "valley of Hinnom." This word originated as the name for a place
south of the old city of Yerushalayim where the city's rubbish was burned. At
one time, live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of
the idol, Moloch, to die there. This place was so despised by the people
after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice that it
was made into a garbage heap. Bodies of diseased animals and executed
criminals were thrown there and burned.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="gittith" id="gittith">gittith</a>
</h2>
<p>
Gittith is a musical term possibly meaning "an instrument of Gath."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="goad" id="goad">goad</a>
</h2>
<p>
a sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate reluctant animals (such
as oxen and mules) to move in the right direction.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="gospel" id="gospel">gospel</a>
</h2>
<p>
Gospel means "good news" or "glad tidings," specifically the Good News of
Yeshua' life, death, and resurrection for our salvation, healing, and
provision; and the hope of eternal life that Yeshua made available to us by
Elohim's grace.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Hades" id="Hades">Hades</a>
</h2>
<p>
Hades: The nether realm of the disembodied spirits.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Har_magedon" id="Har_magedon">Har-magedon</a>
</h2>
<p>
Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most likely a reference to hill
("har") of Megiddo, near the Carmel Range in Yisrael. This area has a large
valley plain with plenty of room for armies to maneuver.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="hin" id="hin">hin</a>
</h2>
<p>
A hin was about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="homer" id="homer">homer</a>
</h2>
<p>
One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels, 6.1 imperial bushels, 58
U. S. gallons, or 48.4 imperial gallons.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="hypocrite" id="hypocrite">hypocrite</a>
</h2>
<p>
a stage actor; someone who pretends to be someone other than who they
really are; a pretender; a dissembler
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Ishmael" id="Ishmael">Ishmael</a>
</h2>
<p>
Ishmael is the son of Avraham and Hagar. Ishmael literally means, "Elohim
hears."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Jehovah" id="Jehovah">Jehovah</a>
</h2>
<p>
See "Yahweh."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Yeshua" id="Yeshua">Yeshua</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Yeshua" is Greek for the Hebrew name "Yeshua," which is a short version of
"Yehoshua," which comes from "Yoshia," which means "He will save."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="kodrantes" id="kodrantes">kodrantes</a>
</h2>
<p>
A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two
lepta. It is worth less than 2% of a day's wages for an agricultural
laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="lepta" id="lepta">lepta</a>
</h2>
<p>
Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth half a Roman quadrans
each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth
less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Leviathan" id="Leviathan">Leviathan</a>
</h2>
<p>
Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic creature, posssibly a
crocodile or a dinosaur.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Mahalath" id="Mahalath">Mahalath</a>
</h2>
<p>
Mahalath is the name of a tune or a musical term.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="manna" id="manna">manna</a>
</h2>
<p>
Name for the food that Elohim miraculously provided to the Israelites while
they were wandering in the wilderness between Egypt and the promised land.
From Hebrew man-hu (What is that?) or manan (to allot). See Exodus
16:14-35.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Maschil" id="Maschil">Maschil</a>
</h2>
<p>
Maschil is a musical and literary term for "contemplation" or "meditative
psalm."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="michtam" id="michtam">michtam</a>
</h2>
<p>
A michtam is a poem.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="mina" id="mina">mina</a>
</h2>
<p>
A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas (or 100 Roman denarii), or
about 100 day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="myrrh" id="myrrh">myrrh</a>
</h2>
<p>
Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches
of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to
the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to the
ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown resin. Myrrh was highly
valued as a perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and ceremonial
ointments.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Nicolaitans" id="Nicolaitans">Nicolaitans</a>
</h2>
<p>
Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught the detestable lie that
the material and physical realms were entirely separate and that
immorality in the physical realm wouldn't harm your spiritual health.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="omega" id="omega">omega</a>
</h2>
<p>
Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is sometimes used to
mean the last or the end.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Peniel" id="Peniel">Peniel</a>
</h2>
<p>
Peniel is Hebrew for "face of Elohim."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="phylactery" id="phylactery">phylactery</a>
</h2>
<p>
a leather container for holding a small scroll containing important
Scripture passages that is worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These
phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used by orthodox Jewish men.
See Deuteronomy 6:8.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Praetorium" id="Praetorium">Praetorium</a>
</h2>
<p>
Praetorium: the Roman governor's residence and office building, and those
who work there.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="quadrans" id="quadrans">quadrans</a>
</h2>
<p>
A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is
about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="rabbi" id="rabbi">rabbi</a>
</h2>
<p>
Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "my teacher," used as a
title of respect for Jewish teachers.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Rahab" id="Rahab">Rahab</a>
</h2>
<p>
Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid Joshua's 2 spies in Jericho
(Joshua 2,6) and later became an ancestor of Yeshua (Matthew 1:5) and an
example of faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25). (2) Literally, "pride" or
"arrogance" -- possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature (Job 9:13;
26:12; Isaiah 51:9) or symbolically referring to Egypt (Psalm 87:4; 89:10;
Isaiah 30:7).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Rhabboni" id="Rhabboni">Rhabboni</a>
</h2>
<p>
Rhabboni: a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Shabbat" id="Shabbat">Shabbat</a>
</h2>
<p>
The seventh day of the week, set aside by Elohim for man to rest.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="saints" id="saints">saints</a>
</h2>
<p>
The Greek word for "saints" literally means "holy ones." Saints are people
set apart for service to Elohim as holy and separate, living in
righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Messiahians and to all of
those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Samaritan" id="Samaritan">Samaritan</a>
</h2>
<p>
A Samaritan is a resident of Shomron. The Samaritans and the Jews
generally detested each other during the time that Yeshua walked the Earth.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="sata" id="sata">sata</a>
</h2>
<p>
A sata is: a dry measure of capacity approximately equal to 13 liters or
1.5 pecks.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Satan" id="Satan">Satan</a>
</h2>
<p>
Satan means "accuser." This is one name for the devil, an enemy of Elohim and
Elohim's people.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="scribe" id="scribe">scribe</a>
</h2>
<p>
A scribe is one who copies Elohim's Torah. They were often respected as
teachers and authorities on Elohim's Torah.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="selah" id="selah">selah</a>
</h2>
<p>
Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or instrumental interlude for
reflection.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="sexual_immorality" id="sexual_immorality">sexual immorality</a>
</h2>
<p>
The term "sexual immorality" in the New Testament comes from the Greek
"porneia," which refers to any sexual activity besides that between a
husband and his wife. In other words, prostitution (male or female),
bestiality, homosexual activity, any sexual intercourse outside of
marriage, and the production and consumption of pornography all are
included in this term.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="shekel" id="shekel">shekel</a>
</h2>
<p>
A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight in gold, silver, or
brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half an
ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Sheol" id="Sheol">Sheol</a>
</h2>
<p>
Sheol is the place of the dead.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Shibah" id="Shibah">Shibah</a>
</h2>
<p>
Shibah is Hebrew for "oath" or "seven." See Beersheba.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="shigionoth" id="shigionoth">shigionoth</a>
</h2>
<p>
Victorious music.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="soul" id="soul">soul</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Soul" refers to the emotions and intellect of a living person, as well as
that person's very life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a person's
spirit and body. (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12)
</p>
<h2>
<a name="span" id="span">span</a>
</h2>
<p>
The length from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when
the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="spirit" id="spirit">spirit</a>
</h2>
<p>
Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same Hebrew and Greek words.
A person's spirit is the very essence of that person's life, which comes
from Elohim, who is a Spirit being (John 4:24, Genesis 1:2; 2:7). The Bible
distinguishes between a person's spirit, soul, and body (1 Thessalonians
5:23, Hebrews 4:12). Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily
having a visible body, such as angels and demons (Luke 9:39, 1 John
4:1-3).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="stadia" id="stadia">stadia</a>
</h2>
<p>
stadia: plural for "stadion," a linear measure of about 184.9 meters or
606.6 feet (the length of the race course at Olympia).
</p>
<h2>
<a name="stater" id="stater">stater</a>
</h2>
<p>
A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two
Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the
half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="talent" id="talent">talent</a>
</h2>
<p>
A measure of weight or mass of 3000 shekels.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Tartarus" id="Tartarus">Tartarus</a>
</h2>
<p>
Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for the wicked dead; another
name for Gehenna or Hell.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="teraphim" id="teraphim">teraphim</a>
</h2>
<p>
Teraphim are household idols that may have been associated with
inheritance rights to the household property.
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Yah" id="Yah">Yah</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Yah" is a shortened form of "Yahweh," which is Elohim's proper name. This
form is used occasionally in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms. See
"Yahweh."
</p>
<h2>
<a name="Yahweh" id="Yahweh">Yahweh</a>
</h2>
<p>
"Yahweh" is Elohim's proper name. In Hebrew, the four consonants roughly
equivalent to YHWH were considered too holy to pronounce, so the Hebrew
word for "Lord" (Adonai) was substituted when reading it aloud. When vowel
points were added to the Hebrew Old Testament, the vowel points for
"Adonai" were mixed with the consonants for "Yahweh," which if you
pronounced it literally as written, would be pronounced "Yehovah" or
"Jehovah." When the Old Testament was translated to Greek, the tradition
of substituting "Lord" for Elohim's proper name continued in the translation
of Elohim's name to "Lord" (Kurios). Some English Bibles translate Elohim's
proper name to "LORD" or "GOD" (usually with small capital letters), based
on that same tradition. This can get really confusing, since two other
words ("Adonai" and "Elohim") translate to "Lord" and "Elohim," and they are
sometimes used together. The ASV of 1901 (and some other translations)
render YHWH as "Jehovah." The most probable pronunciation of Elohim's proper
name is "Yahweh." In Hebrew, the name "Yahweh" is related to the active
declaration "I AM." See Exodus 3:13-14. Since Hebrew has no tenses, the
declaration "I AM" also implies "I WAS" and "I WILL BE." Compare
Revelation 1:8.
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XVIII. AND Jethro, the rabba of Midian, the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh, had heard of all that the Lord had done for Mosheh and for Yisrael His people, and that the Lord had brought Yisrael out of Mizraim. And Jethro, Mosheh's father‑in‑Torah, took Zipporah the wife of Mosheh, after he had let her go, and his two sons, the name of the one Gershom; For, he said, I have been a sojourner in a strange land; and the name of the other Eliezer; For (said he) the Elohim of my fathers hath been my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharoh. And Jethro the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh came, and his sons, and his wife, to Mosheh in the desert where he had encamped at the mountain upon which was revealed the glory of the lord. And he had told Mosheh, I, thy father‑in‑Torah Jethro, come to thee with thy wife, and her two sons with her. And Mosheh went forth to meet his father‑in‑Torah, and bowed, and kissed him, and each saluted the other with peace; and they entered the tabernacle. And Mosheh recounted to his father‑in‑Torah all that the Lord had done to Pharoh and to Mizraim for Yisrael's sake; and all the tribulation that they had found upon the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. And Jethro was glad over all the good which the Lord, who had saved him from the hand of Mizraim, had wrought for Yisrael. And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Mizraee, and out of the hand of Pharoh, and hath delivered the people from under the domination of the Mizraee. Now know I that the Lord is great, and that there is no Elohim but He for by the thing by which the Mizraee had thought to punish (judge) Yisrael, they themselves are punished. And Jethro the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh offered a burnt offering and sacrificed holy things before the Lord. And Aharon came, with all the elders of Yisrael, to eat bread with the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh before the Lord.
And on the day after, Mosheh sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Mosheh from morn till evening; and the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh observed all that he did to the people. And he said, What thing is this that thou art doing to the people? Why dost thou sit alone, with all the people standing about thee from morn till evening? And Mosheh said to his father‑in‑Torah, Because the people‑come to me to ask instruction from before the Lord. When they have (a matter) for judgment they come to me, and I adjudicate between a man and his neighbour, and make them to know the statutes of the Lord, and His laws. But the father‑in‑Torah of Mosheh said to him, The thing thou art doing is not right; with weariness thou wilt be weary, thou and also this people who are with thee; for the thing is too weighty for thee, thou art not able to do it by thyself. Now hearken to me, I will give thee counsel, and the Word of the Lord shall be thy helper. Be thou for the people the seeker of instruction from the presence of the Lord, to bring the matters before the Lord: and thou shalt admonish them in the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which to walk, and the work that must be done. And thou, look out from the whole people men of ability who fear the Lord, men of truth who abhor to take mammon; and superappoint them chiefs of thousands, and chiefs of hundreds, and chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens. And they shall judge the people at any time, and every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small thing they shall judge; and they will lighten it from thee, and bear it with thee. If thou wilt do this, and the Lord teach thee, thou wilt be able to endure, and (of) all this people (every one) will go to his place in peace. And Mosheh hearkened to his father‑in‑Torah, and did all that he had said. And Mosheh chose men of ability from all Yisrael, and appointed them heads over the people; chiefs[1] of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens; and they judged the people at all times; a weighty thing they brought to Mosheh, and every minor thing they judged themselves. And Mosheh sent his father‑in‑Torah away, and he went unto his land.
XIX. In the third month[2] of the outgoing of the sons of Yisrael from the land of Mizraim, on that day came they to the desert of Sinai. And they journeyed from Rephidim, and came to the desert of Sinai, and dwelt there by the side of the mountain. And Mosheh ascended before the Lord. And the Lord called to him from the mount, saying, As thus thou shalt speak to the house of Jakob, and show to the sons of Yisrael: You have seen what I did to the Mizraee, and how I bare you as on eagles' wings, and brought you nigh to serve Me: and now, if hearkening you will hearken to My Word, and will keep My covenant, you, before Me, shall be more beloved than all peoples; for all the earth is Mine. And you, before Me, shall be kings (and) priests, a holy people. These are the words which thou shalt speak with the sons of Yisrael. And Mosheh came, and called the elders[3] of the people, and set all these words in order before them, as the Lord had instructed him. And all the people responded together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Mosheh brought back the words of the people before the Lord. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, I will be revealed to thee in the darkness of the cloud, that the people may hear, in My speaking with thee, and also that they may confide in thee for ever. And Mosheh showed the words of the people before the Lord. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go unto the people and prepare them, to‑day and to‑morrow, and let them purify[4] their clothing; and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the Lord will be revealed in the eyes of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set a limit for the people round about, saying, Beware you of going up on the mountain, or of approaching the border of it. Whoever approaches the mountain, slain he shall be slain. No hand shall touch him; for stoned he shall be stoned, or pierced he shall be pierced; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet is prolonged they shall be allowed to go forward to the mount. And Mosheh came down from the mountain unto the people, and prepared the people, and they made white their clothes. And he said to the people, Be ready on the third day, approach not to a woman. And it was the third day[5] at morning; and there were voices, and lightnings, and mighty clouds upon the mountain, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people trembled who were in the camp. And Mosheh led forth the people out of the camp to meet the Word of the Lord; and they stood at the lower parts of the mount. And the mountain of Sinai was altogether fuming from before the revelation of the Lord upon it in fire; and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly. But when the voice of the trumpet went forth and became exceedingly strong, Mosheh spake, and from the presence of the Lord he was answered by a voice. And the Lord was revealed upon mount Sinai, on the head of the mountain; and the Lord called Mosheh unto the head of the mount; and Mosheh went up. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall. And let the priests also, who are to minister before the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord slay them. And Mosheh spake before the Lord, The people are not able to come up to mount Sinai; for Thou hast warned us, saying, Set a boundary to the mountain, and sanctify it. But the Lord said to him, Go, descend, and come up, thou and Aharon with thee; but let not the priests nor the people break through to come up before the Lord, lest He slay them. And Mosheh went down to the people, and spake with them.
XX. And the Lord spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy Elohim, who have brought thee out of the land of Mizraim, out of the house of servitude. Thou shalt have no other Elohim beside Me. Thou shalt not make to thee image nor likeness of any thing that is in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not worship them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy Elohim am a jealous Elohim; visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children, unto the third generation and to the fourth generation of those who hate Me; while the children continue (or complete) to sin after their fathers; but doing good to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. Thou shalt not swear in the name of the Lord thy Elohim vainly; for the Lord will not acquit him who sweareth in His Name with falsity. Remember the day of Shabbatha to sanctify it. Six days shalt thou do service and do all thy work; but the seventh day is Shabbath before the Lord thy Elohim. Thou shalt not do every work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is in thy city.[6] For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the day of Shabbatha, and sanctified it. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy Elohim giveth to thee. Thou shalt not kill life. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour a testimony of falsehood. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.
And all the people saw the thunders, and the flames, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and the people saw, and trembled, and stood afar off. And they said to Mosheh, Speak thou with us, and we will hearken; but let it not be spoken to us from before the Lord, lest we die. And Mosheh said to the people, Fear not; for that He may prove you He hath revealed to you the glory of the Lord, and that His fear may be before your face, that you may not sin. And the people stood afar off, but Mosheh drew nigh to the darkness where was the glory of the Lord.
And the Lord said to Mosheh, Thus shalt thou speak to the children of Yisrael; You have seen that I have spoken to you from the heavens. You shall not make before Me idols of silver, neither idols of gold shall you make to you. An altar of earth shalt thou make before Me, and shalt sacrifice upon it thy burnt offerings and thy sanctified victims, thy sheep and thy oxen. In every place where I may cause My Shekinah to dwell, thither will I send My blessing, and will bless thee. And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone before Me, thou shalt not build it with hewn stones lest thou lift up thy cutting-tool[7] upon it and profane it. And thou shalt not ascend by steps to My altar, that thy nakedness may not be discerned upon it.
[1] Sam. Vers., “scribes.”
[2] Sivan
[3] Sam. Vers., “wise men.”
[4] Sam. Vers., “make white.”
[5] Sixth of Sivan.
[6] Sam. Vers., “thy cities.”
[7] Lit., “thy sword.”
| !Zechariah |>|>|>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Zechariah01]] | [[Chapter 2|Zechariah02]] | [[Chapter 3|Zechariah03]] | [[Chapter 4|Zechariah04]] | [[Chapter 5|Zechariah05]] |
| [[Chapter 6|Zechariah06]] | [[Chapter 7|Zechariah07]] | [[Chapter 8|Zechariah08]] | [[Chapter 9|Zechariah09]] | [[Chapter 10|Zechariah10]] |
| [[Chapter 11|Zechariah11]] | [[Chapter 12|Zechariah12]] | [[Chapter 13|Zechariah13]] | [[Chapter 14|Zechariah14]] | |
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<a name="C381V1" id="C381V1">1:1</a> In the eighth month, in the second year
of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the
son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, <a name="C381V2" id="C381V2">1:2</a> "Yahweh
was very displeased with your fathers. <a name="C381V3" id="C381V3">1:3</a>
Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says
Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies. <a
name="C381V4" id="C381V4">1:4</a> Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the
former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return
now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not
hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh. <a name="C381V5" id="C381V5">1:5</a> Your
fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? <a
name="C381V6" id="C381V6">1:6</a> But my words and my decrees, which I
commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers?
</p>
<p>
"Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to
do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has
dealt with us.'" <a name="C381V7" id="C381V7">1:7</a> On the
twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the
second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, <a name="C381V8" id="C381V8">1:8</a>
"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red
horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and
behind him there were red, brown, and white horses. <a name="C381V9"
id="C381V9">1:9</a> Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'"
</p>
<p>
The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these
are."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V10" id="C381V10">1:10</a> The man who stood among the myrtle
trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and
forth through the earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V11" id="C381V11">1:11</a> They reported to the angel of Yahweh
who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and
forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in
peace."<br /> <a name="C381V12" id="C381V12">1:12</a> Then the angel of
Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy
on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehudah, against which you have had
indignation these seventy years?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V13" id="C381V13">1:13</a> Yahweh answered the angel who talked
with me with kind and comforting words. <a name="C381V14" id="C381V14">1:14</a>
So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus
says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Yerushalayim and for Zion with
a great jealousy. <a name="C381V15" id="C381V15">1:15</a> I am very angry with
the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they
added to the calamity." <a name="C381V16" id="C381V16">1:16</a> Therefore
thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Yerushalayim with mercy. My house
shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies, "and a line shall
be stretched forth over Yerushalayim."'
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V17" id="C381V17">1:17</a> "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus
says Yahweh of Armies: "My cities will again overflow with
prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose
Yerushalayim."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V18" id="C381V18">1:18</a> I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and
behold, four horns. <a name="C381V19" id="C381V19">1:19</a> I asked the angel
who talked with me, "What are these?"
</p>
<p>
He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Yehudah,
Yisrael, and Yerushalayim."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C381V20" id="C381V20">1:20</a> Yahweh showed me four craftsmen. <a
name="C381V21" id="C381V21">1:21</a> Then I asked, "What are these coming
to do?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "These are the horns which scattered Yehudah, so that no man
lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the
horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Yehudah
to scatter it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C382V1" id="C382V1">2:1</a> I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
a man with a measuring line in his hand. <a name="C382V2" id="C382V2">2:2</a>
Then I asked, "Where are you going?"
</p>
<p>
He said to me, "To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is its breadth and
what is its length."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C382V3" id="C382V3">2:3</a> Behold, the angel who talked with me went
forth, and another angel went out to meet him, <a name="C382V4" id="C382V4">2:4</a>
and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Yerushalayim
will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of
men and livestock in it. <a name="C382V5" id="C382V5">2:5</a> For I,' says
Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory
in the midst of her. <a name="C382V6" id="C382V6">2:6</a> Come! Come! Flee
from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as
the four winds of the sky,' says Yahweh. <a name="C382V7" id="C382V7">2:7</a>
'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' <a
name="C382V8" id="C382V8">2:8</a> For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor
he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you
touches the apple of his eye. <a name="C382V9" id="C382V9">2:9</a> For,
behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those
who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me. <a
name="C382V10" id="C382V10">2:10</a> Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for,
behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. <a
name="C382V11" id="C382V11">2:11</a> Many nations shall join themselves to
Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst
of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. <a
name="C382V12" id="C382V12">2:12</a> Yahweh will inherit Yehudah as his portion
in the holy land, and will again choose Yerushalayim. <a name="C382V13"
id="C382V13">2:13</a> Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused
himself from his holy habitation!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C383V1" id="C383V1">3:1</a> He showed me Joshua the high priest
standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand
to be his adversary. <a name="C383V2" id="C383V2">3:2</a> Yahweh said to
Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen
Yerushalayim rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C383V3" id="C383V3">3:3</a> Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments, and was standing before the angel. <a name="C383V4" id="C383V4">3:4</a>
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take
the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have
caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich
clothing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C383V5" id="C383V5">3:5</a> I said, "Let them set a clean turban
on his head."
</p>
<p>
So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of
Yahweh was standing by. <a name="C383V6" id="C383V6">3:6</a> The angel of
Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying, <a name="C383V7" id="C383V7">3:7</a>
"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you
will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall
also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who
stand by. <a name="C383V8" id="C383V8">3:8</a> Hear now, Joshua the high
priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are
a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch. <a
name="C383V9" id="C383V9">3:9</a> For, behold, the stone that I have set
before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its
engraving,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that
land in one day. <a name="C383V10" id="C383V10">3:10</a> In that day,' says
Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine
and under the fig tree.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V1" id="C384V1">4:1</a> The angel who talked with me came again,
and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. <a name="C384V2"
id="C384V2">4:2</a> He said to me, "What do you see?"
</p>
<p>
I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its
bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes
to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; <a name="C384V3" id="C384V3">4:3</a>
and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the
other on the left side of it."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V4" id="C384V4">4:4</a> I answered and spoke to the angel who
talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V5" id="C384V5">4:5</a> Then the angel who talked with me
answered me, "Don't you know what these are?"
</p>
<p>
I said, "No, my lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V6" id="C384V6">4:6</a> Then he answered and spoke to me, saying,
"This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor
by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C384V7"
id="C384V7">4:7</a> Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a
plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to
it!'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V8" id="C384V8">4:8</a> Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, <a name="C384V9" id="C384V9">4:9</a> "The hands of Zerubbabel
have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it;
and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. <a name="C384V10"
id="C384V10">4:10</a> Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For
these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of
Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through
the whole earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V11" id="C384V11">4:11</a> Then I asked him, "What are these
two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of
it?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V12" id="C384V12">4:12</a> I asked him the second time, "What
are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that
pour the golden oil out of themselves?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V13" id="C384V13">4:13</a> He answered me, "Don't you know
what these are?"
</p>
<p>
I said, "No, my lord."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C384V14" id="C384V14">4:14</a> Then he said, "These are the two
anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V1" id="C385V1">5:1</a> Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw,
and behold, a flying scroll. <a name="C385V2" id="C385V2">5:2</a> He said to
me, "What do you see?"
</p>
<p>
I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and
its breadth ten cubits."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V3" id="C385V3">5:3</a> Then he said to me, "This is the
curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who
steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who
swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. <a
name="C385V4" id="C385V4">5:4</a> I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh
of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into
the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the
midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V5" id="C385V5">5:5</a> Then the angel who talked with me came
forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this
that is appearing."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V6" id="C385V6">5:6</a> I said, "What is it?"
</p>
<p>
He said, "This is the <a href="#N381">ephah</a> basket that is
appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all
the land <a name="C385V7" id="C385V7">5:7</a> (and behold, a <a href="#N382">talent</a>
of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the
ephah basket." <a name="C385V8" id="C385V8">5:8</a> He said, "This
is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah
basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V9" id="C385V9">5:9</a> Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and
behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they
had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket
between earth and the sky. <a name="C385V10" id="C385V10">5:10</a> Then said I
to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah
basket?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C385V11" id="C385V11">5:11</a> He said to me, "To build her a
house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in
her own place."
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N381" id="N381">[1]</a> <a href="#C385V6">back to 5:6</a> An ephah is a
measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial
gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
</p>
<p>
<a name="N382" id="N382">[2]</a> <a href="#C385V7">back to 5:7</a> A talent is a
weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C386V1" id="C386V1">6:1</a> Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and
behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the
mountains were mountains of brass. <a name="C386V2" id="C386V2">6:2</a> In the
first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses; <a
name="C386V3" id="C386V3">6:3</a> in the third chariot white horses; and in
the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. <a name="C386V4"
id="C386V4">6:4</a> Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What
are these, my lord?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C386V5" id="C386V5">6:5</a> The angel answered me, "These are
the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of
all the earth. <a name="C386V6" id="C386V6">6:6</a> The one with the black
horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after
them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country." <a
name="C386V7" id="C386V7">6:7</a> The strong went out, and sought to go that
they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go
around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through
the earth.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C386V8" id="C386V8">6:8</a> Then he called to me, and spoke to me,
saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted
my spirit in the north country."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C386V9" id="C386V9">6:9</a> The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, <a
name="C386V10" id="C386V10">6:10</a> "Take of them of the captivity, even
of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from
Babylon. <a name="C386V11" id="C386V11">6:11</a> Yes, take silver and gold,
and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak,
the high priest; <a name="C386V12" id="C386V12">6:12</a> and speak to him,
saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold, the man whose name is
the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the
temple of Yahweh; <a name="C386V13" id="C386V13">6:13</a> even he shall build
the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule
on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both. <a name="C386V14" id="C386V14">6:14</a> The
crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the
son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh. <a name="C386V15"
id="C386V15">6:15</a> Those who are far off shall come and build in the
temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to
you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh
your Elohim."'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C387V1" id="C387V1">7:1</a> It happened in the fourth year of king
Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the
ninth month, the month of Chislev. <a name="C387V2" id="C387V2">7:2</a> The
people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat
Yahweh's favor, <a name="C387V3" id="C387V3">7:3</a> and to speak to the
priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying,
"Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done
these so many years?"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C387V4" id="C387V4">7:4</a> Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to
me, saying, <a name="C387V5" id="C387V5">7:5</a> "Speak to all the people
of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in
the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all
fast to me, really to me? <a name="C387V6" id="C387V6">7:6</a> When you eat,
and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? <a name="C387V7" id="C387V7">7:7</a> Aren't these the words which
Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and
in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland
were inhabited?'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C387V8" id="C387V8">7:8</a> The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah,
saying, <a name="C387V9" id="C387V9">7:9</a> "Thus has Yahweh of Armies
spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion
every man to his brother. <a name="C387V10" id="C387V10">7:10</a> Don't
oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and
let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.' <a
name="C387V11" id="C387V11">7:11</a> But they refused to listen, and turned
their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. <a
name="C387V12" id="C387V12">7:12</a> Yes, they made their hearts as hard as
flint, lest they might hear the Torah, and the words which Yahweh of Armies
had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came
from Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C387V13" id="C387V13">7:13</a> It has come to
pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call,
and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies; <a name="C387V14"
id="C387V14">7:14</a> "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among
all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate
after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the
pleasant land desolate."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V1" id="C388V1">8:1</a> The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
<a name="C388V2" id="C388V2">8:2</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am
jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great
wrath."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V3" id="C388V3">8:3</a> Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned
to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim shall be
called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The
Holy Mountain.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V4" id="C388V4">8:4</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men
and old women will again dwell in the streets of Yerushalayim, every man with
his staff in his hand for very age. <a name="C388V5" id="C388V5">8:5</a> The
streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V6" id="C388V6">8:6</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "If it
is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days,
should it also be marvelous in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Armies.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V7" id="C388V7">8:7</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Behold,
I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; <a
name="C388V8" id="C388V8">8:8</a> and I will bring them, and they will dwell
in the midst of Yerushalayim; and they will be my people, and I will be their
Elohim, in truth and in righteousness."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V9" id="C388V9">8:9</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let
your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the
mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house
of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. <a
name="C388V10" id="C388V10">8:10</a> For before those days there was no wages
for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him
who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men
everyone against his neighbor. <a name="C388V11" id="C388V11">8:11</a> But now
I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,"
says Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C388V12" id="C388V12">8:12</a> "For the
seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give
its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the
remnant of this people to inherit all these things. <a name="C388V13"
id="C388V13">8:13</a> It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among
the nations, house of Yehudah and house of Yisrael, so will I save you, and
you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V14" id="C388V14">8:14</a> For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As
I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,"
says Yahweh of Armies, "and I didn't repent; <a name="C388V15"
id="C388V15">8:15</a> so again have I thought in these days to do good to
Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehudah. Don't be afraid. <a name="C388V16"
id="C388V16">8:16</a> These are the things that you shall do: speak every
man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace
in your gates, <a name="C388V17" id="C388V17">8:17</a> and let none of you
devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath:
for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V18" id="C388V18">8:18</a> The word of Yahweh of Armies came to
me. <a name="C388V19" id="C388V19">8:19</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The
fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the
house of Yehudah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth
and peace."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C388V20" id="C388V20">8:20</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many
peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; <a name="C388V21"
id="C388V21">8:21</a> and the inhabitants of one shall go to another,
saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek
Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.' <a name="C388V22" id="C388V22">8:22</a>
Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in
Yerushalayim, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh." <a name="C388V23"
id="C388V23">8:23</a> Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten
men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will
take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you,
for we have heard that Elohim is with you.'"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C389V1" id="C389V1">9:1</a> An oracle.
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach,
</dt>
<dd>
and will rest upon Damascus;
</dd>
<dt>
for the eye of man
</dt>
<dd>
and of all the tribes of Yisrael is toward Yahweh;
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V2" id="C389V2">9:2</a> and Hamath, also, which borders on it;
</dt>
<dd>
Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V3" id="C389V3">9:3</a> Tyre built herself a stronghold,
</dt>
<dd>
and heaped up silver like the dust,
</dd>
<dd>
and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V4" id="C389V4">9:4</a> Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
</dt>
<dd>
and he will strike her power in the sea;
</dd>
<dd>
and she will be devoured with fire.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V5" id="C389V5">9:5</a> Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
</dt>
<dd>
Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
</dd>
<dd>
as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
</dd>
<dd>
and the king will perish from Gaza,
</dd>
<dd>
and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V6" id="C389V6">9:6</a> Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V7" id="C389V7">9:7</a> I will take away his blood out of his
mouth,
</dt>
<dd>
and his abominations from between his teeth;
</dd>
<dt>
and he also will be a remnant for our Elohim;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will be as a chieftain in Yehudah,
</dd>
<dd>
and Ekron as a Jebusite.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V8" id="C389V8">9:8</a> I will encamp around my house against
the army,
</dt>
<dd>
that none pass through or return;
</dd>
<dd>
and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
</dd>
<dd>
for now I have seen with my eyes.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V9" id="C389V9">9:9</a> Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
</dt>
<dd>
Shout, daughter of Yerushalayim!
</dd>
<dt>
Behold, your king comes to you!
</dt>
<dd>
He is righteous, and having salvation;
</dd>
<dd>
lowly, and riding on a donkey,
</dd>
<dd>
even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V10" id="C389V10">9:10</a> I will cut off the chariot from
Ephraim,
</dt>
<dd>
and the horse from Yerushalayim;
</dd>
<dt>
and the battle bow will be cut off;
</dt>
<dd>
and he will speak peace to the nations:
</dd>
<dd>
and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V11" id="C389V11">9:11</a> As for you also,
</dt>
<dd>
because of the blood of your covenant,
</dd>
<dd>
I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V12" id="C389V12">9:12</a> Turn to the stronghold, you
prisoners of hope!
</dt>
<dd>
Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V13" id="C389V13">9:13</a> For indeed I bend Yehudah as a bow for
me.
</dt>
<dd>
I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
</dt>
<dd>
against your sons, Greece,
</dd>
<dd>
and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V14" id="C389V14">9:14</a> Yahweh will be seen over them;
</dt>
<dd>
and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
</dd>
<dd>
and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
</dd>
<dd>
and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V15" id="C389V15">9:15</a> Yahweh of Armies will defend them;
</dt>
<dd>
and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will drink, and roar as through wine;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will be filled like bowls,
</dd>
<dd>
like the corners of the altar.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V16" id="C389V16">9:16</a> Yahweh their Elohim will save them in
that day as the flock of his people;
</dt>
<dd>
for they are like the jewels of a crown,
</dd>
<dd>
lifted on high over his land.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C389V17" id="C389V17">9:17</a> For how great is his goodness,
</dt>
<dd>
and how great is his beauty!
</dd>
<dt>
Grain will make the young men flourish,
</dt>
<dd>
and new wine the virgins.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V1" id="C3810V1">10:1</a> Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring
time,
</dt>
<dd>
Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
</dd>
<dd>
and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V2" id="C3810V2">10:2</a> For the teraphim have spoken vanity,
</dt>
<dd>
and the diviners have seen a lie;
</dd>
<dd>
and they have told false dreams.
</dd>
<dt>
They comfort in vain.
</dt>
<dd>
Therefore they go their way like sheep.
</dd>
<dd>
They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V3" id="C3810V3">10:3</a> My anger is kindled against the
shepherds,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will punish the male goats;
</dd>
<dd>
For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Yehudah,
</dd>
<dd>
and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V4" id="C3810V4">10:4</a> From him will come forth the
cornerstone,
</dt>
<dd>
from him the nail,
</dd>
<dd>
from him the battle bow,
</dd>
<dd>
from him every ruler together.
</dd>
<dd>
<a name="C3810V5" id="C3810V5">10:5</a> They shall be as mighty men,
</dd>
<dd>
treading down muddy streets in the battle;
</dd>
<dd>
and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
</dd>
<dd>
and the riders on horses will be confounded.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V6" id="C3810V6">10:6</a> "I will strengthen the house of
Yehudah,
</dt>
<dd>
and I will save the house of Joseph,
</dd>
<dd>
and I will bring them back;
</dd>
<dd>
for I have mercy on them;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
</dd>
<dd>
for I am Yahweh their Elohim, and I will hear them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V7" id="C3810V7">10:7</a> Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
</dt>
<dd>
and their heart will rejoice as through wine;
</dd>
<dd>
yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
</dd>
<dd>
Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V8" id="C3810V8">10:8</a> I will signal for them, and gather
them;
</dt>
<dd>
for I have redeemed them;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will increase as they have increased.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V9" id="C3810V9">10:9</a> I will sow them among the peoples;
</dt>
<dd>
and they will remember me in far countries;
</dd>
<dd>
and they will live with their children, and will return.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V10" id="C3810V10">10:10</a> I will bring them again also out
of the land of Egypt,
</dt>
<dd>
and gather them out of Assyria;
</dd>
<dt>
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
</dt>
<dd>
and there won't be room enough for them.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V11" id="C3810V11">10:11</a> He will pass through the sea of
affliction,
</dt>
<dd>
and will strike the waves in the sea,
</dd>
<dd>
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
</dd>
<dd>
and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
</dd>
<dd>
and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3810V12" id="C3810V12">10:12</a> I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
</dt>
<dd>
and they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh.
</dd>
<dt>
</dt>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>
<a name="C3811V1" id="C3811V1">11:1</a> Open your doors, Lebanon,
</dt>
<dd>
that the fire may devour your cedars.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3811V2" id="C3811V2">11:2</a> Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has
fallen,
</dt>
<dd>
because the stately ones are destroyed.
</dd>
<dt>
Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
</dt>
<dd>
for the strong forest has come down.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3811V3" id="C3811V3">11:3</a> A voice of the wailing of the
shepherds!
</dt>
<dd>
For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
</dd>
<dd>
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C3811V4" id="C3811V4">11:4</a> Thus says Yahweh my Elohim: "Feed
the flock of slaughter. <a name="C3811V5" id="C3811V5">11:5</a> Their buyers
slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be
Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them. <a
name="C3811V6" id="C3811V6">11:6</a> For I will no more pity the inhabitants
of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men
everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They
will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3811V7" id="C3811V7">11:7</a> So I fed the flock of slaughter,
especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The
one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union,"
and I fed the flock. <a name="C3811V8" id="C3811V8">11:8</a> I cut off the
three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their
soul also loathed me. <a name="C3811V9" id="C3811V9">11:9</a> Then I said,
"I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is
to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each
other's flesh." <a name="C3811V10" id="C3811V10">11:10</a> I took my
staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had
made with all the peoples. <a name="C3811V11" id="C3811V11">11:11</a> It was
broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me
knew that it was the word of Yahweh. <a name="C3811V12" id="C3811V12">11:12</a>
I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not,
keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. <a
name="C3811V13" id="C3811V13">11:13</a> Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to
the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took
the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of
Yahweh. <a name="C3811V14" id="C3811V14">11:14</a> Then I cut apart my other
staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Yehudah and
Yisrael.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3811V15" id="C3811V15">11:15</a> Yahweh said to me, "Take for
yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. <a name="C3811V16"
id="C3811V16">11:16</a> For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,
who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are
scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound;
but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in
pieces. <a name="C3811V17" id="C3811V17">11:17</a> Woe to the worthless
shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his
right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be
totally blinded!"
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3812V1" id="C3812V1">12:1</a> An oracle. The word of Yahweh
concerning Yisrael. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the
foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: <a
name="C3812V2" id="C3812V2">12:2</a> "Behold, I will make Yerushalayim a cup
of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Yehudah also will it be in
the siege against Yerushalayim. <a name="C3812V3" id="C3812V3">12:3</a> It will
happen in that day, that I will make Yerushalayim a burdensome stone for all
the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded,
and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. <a
name="C3812V4" id="C3812V4">12:4</a> In that day," says Yahweh, "I
will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I
will open my eyes on the house of Yehudah, and will strike every horse of
the peoples with blindness. <a name="C3812V5" id="C3812V5">12:5</a> The
chieftains of Yehudah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Yerushalayim
are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their Elohim.' <a name="C3812V6" id="C3812V6">12:6</a>
In that day I will make the chieftains of Yehudah like a pan of fire among
wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the
surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Yerushalayim will
yet again dwell in their own place, even in Yerushalayim. <a name="C3812V7"
id="C3812V7">12:7</a> Yahweh also will save the tents of Yehudah first, that
the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim not be magnified above Yehudah. <a name="C3812V8" id="C3812V8">12:8</a>
In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. He who is
feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David
will be like Elohim, like the angel of Yahweh before them. <a name="C3812V9"
id="C3812V9">12:9</a> It will happen in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalayim. <a name="C3812V10"
id="C3812V10">12:10</a> I will pour on the house of David, and on the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and
they will look to <a href="#N383">me</a> whom they have pierced; and they
shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve
bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. <a name="C3812V11"
id="C3812V11">12:11</a> In that day there will be a great mourning in
Yerushalayim, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. <a
name="C3812V12" id="C3812V12">12:12</a> The land will mourn, every family
apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the
family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; <a
name="C3812V13" id="C3812V13">12:13</a> the family of the house of Levi apart,
and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives
apart; <a name="C3812V14" id="C3812V14">12:14</a> all the families who remain,
every family apart, and their wives apart.
</p>
----
<p>
<a name="N383" id="N383">[3]</a> <a href="#C3812V10">back to 12:10</a> After
"me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the
first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a
grammatical marker.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3813V1" id="C3813V1">13:1</a> "In that day there will be a
spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim,
for sin and for uncleanness. <a name="C3813V2" id="C3813V2">13:2</a> It will
come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the
names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I
will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the
land. <a name="C3813V3" id="C3813V3">13:3</a> It will happen that, when anyone
still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell
him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his
father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. <a
name="C3813V4" id="C3813V4">13:4</a> It will happen in that day, that the
prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither
will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: <a name="C3813V5" id="C3813V5">13:5</a>
but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have
been made a bondservant from my youth.' <a name="C3813V6" id="C3813V6">13:6</a>
One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he
will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
</p>
<dl>
<dt>
</dt>
<dt>
<a name="C3813V7" id="C3813V7">13:7</a> "Awake, sword, against my
shepherd,
</dt>
<dd>
and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies.
</dd>
<dt>
"Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
</dt>
<dd>
and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3813V8" id="C3813V8">13:8</a> It shall happen that in all the
land," says Yahweh,
</dt>
<dd>
"two parts in it will be cut off and die;
</dd>
<dd>
but the third will be left in it.
</dd>
<dt>
<a name="C3813V9" id="C3813V9">13:9</a> I will bring the third part into the
fire,
</dt>
<dd>
and will refine them as silver is refined,
</dd>
<dd>
and will test them like gold is tested.
</dd>
<dt>
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
</dt>
<dd>
I will say, 'It is my people;'
</dd>
<dd>
and they will say, 'Yahweh is my Elohim.'"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
<a name="C3814V1" id="C3814V1">14:1</a> Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when
your spoil will be divided in your midst. <a name="C3814V2" id="C3814V2">14:2</a>
For I will gather all nations against Yerushalayim to battle; and the city
will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city
will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off
from the city. <a name="C3814V3" id="C3814V3">14:3</a> Then Yahweh will go out
and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
<a name="C3814V4" id="C3814V4">14:4</a> His feet will stand in that day on the
Mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east; and the Mount of
Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great
valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it
toward the south. <a name="C3814V5" id="C3814V5">14:5</a> You shall flee by
the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to
Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake
in the days of Uzziah king of Yehudah. Yahweh my Elohim will come, and all the
holy ones with you. <a name="C3814V6" id="C3814V6">14:6</a> It will happen in
that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. <a name="C3814V7"
id="C3814V7">14:7</a> It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not
day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there
will be light.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3814V8" id="C3814V8">14:8</a> It will happen in that day, that
living waters will go out from Yerushalayim; half of them toward the eastern
sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will
it be.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3814V9" id="C3814V9">14:9</a> Yahweh will be King over all the
earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one. <a name="C3814V10"
id="C3814V10">14:10</a> All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba
to Rimmon south of Yerushalayim; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in
her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the
corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. <a
name="C3814V11" id="C3814V11">14:11</a> Men will dwell therein, and there will
be no more curse; but Yerushalayim will dwell safely. <a name="C3814V12"
id="C3814V12">14:12</a> This will be the plague with which Yahweh will
strike all the peoples who have warred against Yerushalayim: their flesh will
consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume
away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
<a name="C3814V13" id="C3814V13">14:13</a> It will happen in that day, that a
great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold
everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against
the hand of his neighbor. <a name="C3814V14" id="C3814V14">14:14</a> Yehudah
also will fight at Yerushalayim; and the wealth of all the surrounding
nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in
great abundance.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C3814V15" id="C3814V15">14:15</a> So will be the plague of the horse,
of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that
will be in those camps, as that plague. <a name="C3814V16" id="C3814V16">14:16</a>
It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came
against Yerushalayim will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh
of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents. <a name="C3814V17" id="C3814V17">14:17</a>
It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to
Yerushalayim to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no
rain. <a name="C3814V18" id="C3814V18">14:18</a> If the family of Egypt
doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will
be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up
to keep the feast of tents. <a name="C3814V19" id="C3814V19">14:19</a> This
will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations
that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. <a name="C3814V20" id="C3814V20">14:20</a>
In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO
YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before
the altar. <a name="C3814V21" id="C3814V21">14:21</a> Yes, every pot in
Yerushalayim and in Yehudah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who
sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there
will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
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| !Zephaniah |>|>|>|
| [[Chapter 1|Zephaniah01]] | [[Chapter 2|Zephaniah02]] | [[Chapter 3|Zephaniah03]] |
| [[Hebrew Text|Zephaniah.vow.pdf]] |>|>|>|
<p>
<a name="C361V1" id="C361V1">1:1</a> The word of Yahweh which came to
Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the
son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Yehudah. <a
name="C361V2" id="C361V2">1:2</a> I will utterly sweep away everything off of
the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. <a name="C361V3" id="C361V3">1:3</a> I
will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky,
the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut
off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh. <a name="C361V4"
id="C361V4">1:4</a> I will stretch out my hand against Yehudah, and against
all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from
this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, <a name="C361V5"
id="C361V5">1:5</a> those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops,
those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, <a
name="C361V6" id="C361V6">1:6</a> those who have turned back from following
Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him. <a
name="C361V7" id="C361V7">1:7</a> Be silent at the presence of the Lord
Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a
sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests. <a name="C361V8" id="C361V8">1:8</a>
It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the
princes, the king's sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign
clothing. <a name="C361V9" id="C361V9">1:9</a> In that day, I will punish all
those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with
violence and deceit. <a name="C361V10" id="C361V10">1:10</a> In that day, says
Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing
from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. <a
name="C361V11" id="C361V11">1:11</a> Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all
the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are
cut off. <a name="C361V12" id="C361V12">1:12</a> It will happen at that time,
that I will search Yerushalayim with lamps, and I will punish the men who are
settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do
good, neither will he do evil." <a name="C361V13" id="C361V13">1:13</a>
Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they
will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but
won't drink their wine. <a name="C361V14" id="C361V14">1:14</a> The great day
of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day
of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly. <a name="C361V15" id="C361V15">1:15</a>
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of
trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and
blackness, <a name="C361V16" id="C361V16">1:16</a> a day of the trumpet and
alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements. <a
name="C361V17" id="C361V17">1:17</a> I will bring distress on men, that they
will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and
their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. <a
name="C361V18" id="C361V18">1:18</a> Neither their silver nor their gold will
be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land
will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end,
yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C362V1" id="C362V1">2:1</a> Gather yourselves together, yes, gather
together, you nation that has no shame, <a name="C362V2" id="C362V2">2:2</a>
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the
fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger
comes on you. <a name="C362V3" id="C362V3">2:3</a> Seek Yahweh, all you humble
of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek
humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.
<a name="C362V4" id="C362V4">2:4</a> For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a
desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be
rooted up. <a name="C362V5" id="C362V5">2:5</a> Woe to the inhabitants of the
sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against
you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there
will be no inhabitant. <a name="C362V6" id="C362V6">2:6</a> The sea coast will
be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. <a
name="C362V7" id="C362V7">2:7</a> The coast will be for the remnant of the
house of Yehudah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they
will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their Elohim, will visit them, and
restore them. <a name="C362V8" id="C362V8">2:8</a> I have heard the reproach
of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have
reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. <a
name="C362V9" id="C362V9">2:9</a> Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies,
the Elohim of Yisrael, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon
as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual
desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors
of my nation will inherit them. <a name="C362V10" id="C362V10">2:10</a> This
they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified
themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. <a name="C362V11"
id="C362V11">2:11</a> Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all
the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even
all the shores of the nations. <a name="C362V12" id="C362V12">2:12</a> You
Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword. <a name="C362V13" id="C362V13">2:13</a>
He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will
make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness. <a name="C362V14"
id="C362V14">2:14</a> Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the
animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in
its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will
be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. <a name="C362V15"
id="C362V15">2:15</a> This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that
said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she
has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who
passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
</p>
<p>
<a name="C363V1" id="C363V1">3:1</a> Woe to her who is rebellious and
polluted, the oppressing city! <a name="C363V2" id="C363V2">3:2</a> She didn't
obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh.
She didn't draw near to her Elohim. <a name="C363V3" id="C363V3">3:3</a> Her
princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening
wolves. They leave nothing until the next day. <a name="C363V4" id="C363V4">3:4</a>
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have
profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the Torah. <a name="C363V5"
id="C363V5">3:5</a> Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no
wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but
the unjust know no shame. <a name="C363V6" id="C363V6">3:6</a> I have cut off
nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste,
so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no
man, so that there is no inhabitant. <a name="C363V7" id="C363V7">3:7</a> I
said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't
be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her."
But they rose early and corrupted all their doings. <a name="C363V8"
id="C363V8">3:8</a> "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until
the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the
nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation,
even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire
of my jealousy. <a name="C363V9" id="C363V9">3:9</a> For then I will purify
the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to
serve him shoulder to shoulder. <a name="C363V10" id="C363V10">3:10</a> From
beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my
dispersed people, will bring my offering. <a name="C363V11" id="C363V11">3:11</a>
In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you
have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst
of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my
holy mountain. <a name="C363V12" id="C363V12">3:12</a> But I will leave in the
midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in
the name of Yahweh. <a name="C363V13" id="C363V13">3:13</a> The remnant of
Yisrael will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful
tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no
one will make them afraid."
</p>
<p>
<a name="C363V14" id="C363V14">3:14</a> Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Yisrael!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Yerushalayim. <a
name="C363V15" id="C363V15">3:15</a> Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He
has thrown out your enemy. The King of Yisrael, Yahweh, is in the midst of
you. You will not be afraid of evil any more. <a name="C363V16" id="C363V16">3:16</a>
In that day, it will be said to Yerushalayim, "Don't be afraid, Zion.
Don't let your hands be slack." <a name="C363V17" id="C363V17">3:17</a>
Yahweh, your Elohim, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He
will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will rejoice
over you with singing. <a name="C363V18" id="C363V18">3:18</a> Those who are
sad for the appointed feasts, I will remove from you. They are a burden
and a reproach to you. <a name="C363V19" id="C363V19">3:19</a> Behold, at that
time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who
are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise
and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth. <a name="C363V20"
id="C363V20">3:20</a> At that time will I bring you in, and at that time
will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the
peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes,
says Yahweh.
</p>